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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015) - ascertain https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653 ====== mjlee Michael Crichton observed this and called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. I think he said publicly that the name was to ride on the coat tails of Gell- Mann's public success: >>> “Br...
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Ask HN: Review my Pivot - Peer Coaching web app for entrepreneurs - aymeric Link: http://beta.coachfire.com<p>I am currently working on a tool to help entrepreneurs form small groups online to bounce ideas off and get feedback on what they are doing.<p>(This is a pivot from the original version that was focusing on ...
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Intel Bets Heavily on Chip Stacking for the Future of Compute - rbanffy https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/13/intel-bets-heavily-on-chip-stacking-for-the-future-of-compute/ ====== boznz interesting but someone should sort out the auto-correction errors.
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Dan Dennet - Power of meme's - socratees http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes.html ====== StrawberryFrog The power of something belonging to meme? That doesn't make sense.
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Moment of Silence - gbog This is titled "a National Moment of silence".<p>I am very sad for the families and for humanity that such a thing happened, but I am not born member of the US "Nation", and feel excluded by this wording. ====== duck I really dislike how people take a moment of silence and/or a time for pray...
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Ask HN: Good documentaries about finance? - zepearl I have always more or less hated accounting, but recently I had to admit that it can be as well very interesting =&gt; therefore yesterday I watched:<p>- &quot;Enron - The smartest guys in the room&quot; (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt1016268&#x2F;...
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Fix the license of Apple Swift - r0muald https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/17 ====== r0muald This seems next-level trolling (it was closed and locked 3 hours ago). Perhaps GitHub needs more effective ways of punishing those users who actively waste other people's time?
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Much Ado About IE6 - Nycto http://blog.digg.com/?p=878 ====== jballanc While I appreciate that Digg actually took the time to do a survey of reasons why people are still using IE6, I don't think the results are really that surprising to most web developers. However, just because users are not empowered to switch aw...
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Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree - simonebrunozzi https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-higher-education-certificate-project-management-data-analyst.html ====== codingdave I think short-term vocational training is great. The days of getting a degree in order to ...
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The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project - Adamantcheese http://temporary.directory/blog/10-23-2018.html ====== hlandau The Blu-Ray video format is pretty cancerous in terms of DRM; there's not really any salvaging it. One of the most nauseating restrictions of all is that replication plants aren't even allowed to fabricate B...
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How to make a DIY home alarm system with a raspberry pi and a webcam - Stronico https://medium.com/p/2d5a2d61da3d ====== dpio Awesome, I've got a similar setup, I use BitTorrent sync though to send the files. The problem with that is I need one local computer to be on in order for it to sync, then I connect that loc...
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General Electric Dropped from the Dow After More Than a Century - aphextron https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/business/dealbook/general-electric-dow-jones.html ====== kennxfl This will be a common topic this century. A lot of consolidation is happening especially with FAANG innovating vertically and horizontally. A l...
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The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever - robertbruce https://twitter.com/markjaquith/status/582956249123319808 ====== danso No. The official best shortcuts (for OS X): 1\. Cmd-Tab to switch between open apps 2\. Cmd-Up to move up to the parent directory when in Finder 3\. Cmd-L in Chrome/Safari/Firefox to highlight-...
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How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels - walterbell https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture-exploration/2018/09/south-asia-america-motels-immigration/ ====== stephengillie This model has led to success for other immigrant groups in other industries. > _Many followed his advice. “They would give e...
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Show HN: Made this today, RankMyPlaylist.com - physcab http://www.rankmyplaylist.com ====== dmact You gotta let me see something before I have to sign up for an account. Top lists, maybe? ------ pedalpete What makes the 'best' playlist?? You need to explain more about what the site does. I have no idea how it is s...
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Men and women explore the visual world differently - Libertatea http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8981.html ====== adrianhoward Anybody got access to the original paper? I'd be interested for how they controlled for this (e.g. they talked about threat assessment in the OP - is that down to biological gender differen...
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My war on SQL - adamo https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001207.html ====== jacquesm Screw the _war on anything_ , it is not a war. If you don't want to use SQL fine, don't. And if you run a site called 'financialcryptography.com' on a secure server make sure your certificates are up-to-date.
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SpaceX has (gasp) expended its fifth Falcon 9 in a row - rbanffy https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/spacex-is-gasp-going-to-expend-its-fifth-falcon-9-in-a-row/ ====== perilunar Looking forward to the block 5 launches. The recent launches without landings are getting a bit dull, especially after the excitement of ...
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Google and the Customer Service Myth - bayleo I think this deserves its own discussion as it isn't _directly_ related to the Google reorg.<p>As far as I can tell Google never received any complaints on their _customer service_ until the release of the Nexus One. It seems like tech journalists everywhere immediately ...
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Ghost Rockets – A crowd sourced UFO investigation - peterstark72 http://www.ghostrockets.se/ ====== ansible I used to be fascinated by UFO stories and such when I was a kid. Part of my interest in SF in general. As I grew up, I started to appreciate just how vast space really is, and how much energy it takes to hop...
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Why Always Docker? - Fizzadar http://pointlessramblings.com/posts/Why_Always_Docker/ ====== melted To understand scenarios under which Docker/Kubernetes/LXC are useful, you need to understand the environment in which Linux containers originated. They were born in Google data centers, where engineers may routinely need...
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Personal CRM for friendships/colleagues/etc - handpickednames http://simplerm.co/ ====== detaro Screenshots/demo account/anything to show what to expect inside? Esp since only social media log-in is pretty much a no-no for me (although nowadays good to have as an option, since others feel the opposite) Firefox shows...
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Final Fantasy XV: The Kotaku Review - chang2301 http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xv-the-kotaku-review-1789400066 ====== namaemuta > One of the first things you see in Final Fantasy XV is a group of four > beautifully coiffed men pushing a broken-down car down the road What I saw was a J-Pop group totally misplaced in ...
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How a Chairman at McKinsey Made Millions of Dollars Off His Maid - tokenadult http://www.thenation.com/article/the-strange-true-story-of-how-a-chairman-at-mckinsey-made-millions-of-dollars-off-his-maid/ ====== pavornyoh >After a pause, she said, “will you bring me a picture? The next time you come?” “A picture of what...
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Richard Stallman's Bank Account - JoelJacobson Anyone knows if he even has one? If so, in what bank? What bank is 100% open source? Like his laptop and its BIOS.<p>Maybe its time to start an open source bank... ====== systemtrigger "Since I object to general surveillance, I use cash for ordinary retail purchases. I ...
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The Two-Liner – The Elevator Pitch of #StartupPR - shanellem http://www.onboardly.com/startup-pr/the-two-liner-the-elevator-pitch-of-startuppr/ ====== pedalpete Unfortunately, I find their two liner really weak. "What do we do? We offer content marketing and PR strategy for startups. How do we do it? We offer a sta...
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Show HN: Pocket Guide for Bootstrap 4 - iatek http://bootstrap4.guide ====== axelut Congrats for the launch, there are a lot of resources there, gonna check them soon. I have one question about the build of the community, I see this in the footer "powered by Airstack" and this link to Github [https://github.com/Themes...
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Why aren't (embedded) developers interested in Ada? (2009) - kqr https://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4008214/Why-aren-t-developers-interested-in-Ada- ====== orionblastar Ada is used in Crystal Reports scripting language which it was why it was hard to learn for Visual Basic developers. GNAT is fre...
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner says the biggest skills gap in the US is not coding - eksemplar https://qz.com/work/1423267/linkedin-ceo-jeff-weiner-the-main-us-skills-gap-is-not-coding/ ====== rorykoehler You can't lead with soft skills as your lead offering. It's always hard skills +.
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Hands On With The New And Improved Screenhero (YC W13) - jsherwani http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/screenhero-demo-redesign-video/ ====== davidjgraph Being following for a while, looks very interesting. Key thing is what the pricing structure is will be. We've had the Enterprise Teamviewer for some time, I like it,...
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Sony Smartwatch now open-sourced - prajjwal http://www.linuxandlife.com/2013/06/sony-smartwatch-now-open-sourced.html ====== csense I would never trust Sony's release of hardware with official open-source software support, after they removed the official Linux support for old-model PlayStation 3's [1]. (The support wa...
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Ask HN: Are there any projects or compilers which convert JavaScript to Java? - ggonweb ====== philippnagel There is Rhino from Mozilla: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Rh...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Rhino/JavaScript_Compiler) ------ smt88 Why would anyone...
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If the World Was Created by a Programmer - syrusakbary https://blog.toggl.com/world-created-programmer/ ====== gorekee I have no experience mit mongoDB. Can somebody please explain the last joke? ------ drtillberg The comic strip was created by a programmer via AI. Recursively humorous. ------ King-Aaron I actually ...
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A little-known US-Canada border dispute - tomohawk http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191215-the-little-known-us-canada-border-war ====== nailer This article would be far better with a map, particularly for those outside the US and Canada. Here's the area anyway: Dixon Entrance [https://maps.app.goo.gl/F3AnJf6yKKJJxhi...
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Apple opens up lossless audio codec - kiriappeee http://techstopmuse.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-opens-up-lossless-audio-codec.html ====== kiriappeee Direct link to project page: <http://alac.macosforge.org/>
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Ask HN: Laptop for Software Engineering student? - hsxd Hi HN! I bought a MacBook Pro the summer of 2017, the Skylake version and figured I&#x27;d be able to use it for a long time, since that had been my experience with their laptops. Unfortunately I&#x27;m not satisfied with the computer and I&#x27;m looking at gett...
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How to Speed Up Code Review Process with Code Review Time - shvetsovdm This is a chapter from an upcoming book Team Lead 101: Manage and Grow Engineering Teams in Small Startups. Check it out here https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;team-lead-101 (clickable link in comments)<p>===========<p>Good decisions are th...
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Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech - mcspecter https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/google-has-spent-over-11-billion-on-selfdriving-tech ====== tuna-piano I think by most accounts - 1) Google / Waymo is by far the furthest ahead in self-driving tech. 2) Self-driving is ...
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Bitcoin heading towards $200, new bubble forming - paps http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/mtgox/btcusd ====== pearjuice \- _Bitcoin? Sounds interesting but I am not going to waste CPU cycles on it. This will never be of any real value!_ \- _Bitcoin seems to be steadily growing. Well, as soon as they realize it is wort...
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Python gevent suddenly switches from libevent to libev - jedsmith https://bitbucket.org/denis/gevent/changeset/7c503dc16209 ====== wladimir From the libev page: "A full-featured and high-performance (see benchmark) event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs." What limit...
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Senator Al Franken's petition to overturn Citizens United - foobarian http://action.alfranken.com/page/s/e1307cue ====== japaget On the linked to website I was hoping to see the text of the proposed amendment and whether it was going to be submitted to Congress or to a Constitutional Convention. Unfortunately, I saw...
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Joining A Startup: 1,000 Terrors, 9,000 Delights - jkresner https://keen.io/blog/79899208386/joining-a-startup-1-000-terrors-9-000-delights ====== mysteriousllama Working at non-vaporware startups is hard. Very hard. Bootstrapping one is even harder. Long hours, little time for family. After a big push I'll be entire...
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Ask HN: Don't signup, Just review the Startup product - kylecsteele Would love to get feedback on our new startup. Launching MVP soon. Good, bad, brutal or whatever, just comment.<p>www.doccaster.com ====== LarryMade I had to strip of the www for it to work, need to fix your url or your webserver settings. I like t...
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Ted Linden, 1938 - 2009 - shutter http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-father-ted-linden-1938-2009.html ====== davi "All of this from a man who was the son of a millwright, only in America." I wondered, What exactly is a millwright? It's one of those older words that everyone once knew the definition of. Apparent...
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Whats Public about you? - ifyouwillit http://whatspublic.me ====== Indyan The atrocious design almost forced me to close the tab even before the results were completely loaded. ------ ifyouwillit changed color scheme... tightened up the design... can you tell me your specific issues with the design?
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Programming for the masses requires a programming language for the masses - sicxu http://starscript.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/programming-for-the-masses/ ====== sicxu This post is quite relavent to the recent discussion on whether regular people should learn programming. I take it as a challenge and ask: do we have a...
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Ask HN: Do I have to sell to my cofounder? What can I expect? - olebrown Our company ran low on funds about 4 months ago. We decided it would be best If I took on an advisory role and went to work elsewhere to cover my personal expenses. I have vested shares in a large portion of the company. We had raised a modest ...
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Proposal: Darpan – People Directory for companies - ankit84 https://github.com/ankitjaininfo/Darpan ====== ankit84 Startups/companies (50+ ppl): What problems are you facing in people management?
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Show HN: Ripple button effects for the web - holloway http://holloway.github.io/ripple/ ====== Mr_P For reference, here's a demo of google's buttons implemented in polymer: [http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper- elements/dem...](http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper- elements/demo.html#paper-but...
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Loopback-next – Build modern applications that require complex integrations - guifortaine https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next ====== Solkaz If you haven't already, you should read the article on writing v4 and why it is happening: [https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Crafting- LoopBack-4.html](https://loopback.io/d...
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Should drivers licenses use negative points instead? - churnek http://followingtherules.com/why-drivers-licenses-should-have-negative-points/ ====== drucken Administrative outweighs psychological in this instance, I imagine. The convenience of easily being able to set different thresholds and zero points always mean...
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Show HN: Command Line Tool to Sort CSV and TSV Files by Multiple Headings in Go - johnweldon https://github.com/johnweldon/sortcsv ====== z1mm32m4n I’m a huge fan of csvkit, which includes a similar utility along with lots more: [http://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.2/scripts/csvsort.html](http://csvkit.readthedocs.io...
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Empirical: A platform for computational experiments - strin http://empiricalci.com/ ====== dummyai Experiment framework seems a big need in research community. However, focusing on scalability rather than reproduciblilty might be a better strategy. Reproduciblilty often comes naturally with scalability.
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To SQL (relational) or not to SQL (NoSQL) that is the question - joedevon http://chuckjohnson.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/to-sql-relational-or-not-to-sql-nosql-that-is-the-question/ ====== electrichead I thought it was generally accepted that NOSQL actually meant "not only SQL" as in use the tool that is best for the t...
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A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating - smollett https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/business/ai-investing-humans-dominating.html ====== leggomylibro Everything is always painted in such an adversarial light, it makes you despair sometimes. I think that The Atlantic's recent article on this topic ...
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Ask HN - How to research a stem cell doctor - jmatthews A good friend of mine has a child that was born with ONH. As a result he is blind. The family traveled to China a couple of years ago for stem cell treatment and the result were measurable, but didn&#x27;t really change his quality of life.<p>They&#x27;re now c...
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Connecting the dots on ebays local shopping strategu - jgreenough http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/15/connecting-the-dots-on-ebays-local-shopping-strategy/ ====== jgreenough Google enables all things adSense, e-Bay enables all things PayPal. There is one more major item that I think is still on their list. Any guesses?...
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Show HN: Corral Rides - All your SF transportation options in one place - hellonoam http://www.getcorral.com ====== ajju Hey guys. You need to add InstantCab on here. Email me: aj@instantcab.com ~~~ snir Sure thing. Just dropped you a line. ------ bkad Where did you get these glasses: <http://www.getcorral.com/about...
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Why is there only one Elon Musk? Why is there so much low-hanging fruit? - yarapavan https://guzey.com/why-is-there-only-one-elon-musk/ ====== vikramkr Even with the disclaimer that the variables are all probably correlated, I think the author is vastly vastly underestimating how strongly correlated these variables ar...
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Next Housing Recession in 2020, Predicts Zillow - t23 https://www.investopedia.com/investing/next-housing-recession-2020-predicts-zillow/ ====== mrosett This article is based on a survey of experts that was conducted in May 2018 [0]. Many of those experts cited monetary policy, and the Fed did indeed raise rates three...
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A binary coder for Swift - chmaynard https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2017-07-28-a-binary-coder-for-swift.html ====== userbinator _the numbers are byte-swapped to be endian agnostic_ Regardless of how fast it is, it seems wasteful to do all this byte-swapping when the vast majority of systems today, outside o...
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Behavioral Immune System - 80mph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_immune_system ====== stared I suggest looking at trypophobia here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia) (PLEASE DON'T GOOGLE THAT BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT'S THAT). Only in the last decade it was iden...
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Bridging the design resource gap for early-staged startups - jasonli https://medium.com/tomyum/bridging-the-design-resource-gap-for-early-staged-startups-2f9990873f57 ====== jasonli Hey everyone. We're experimenting with Startup Packages, where we offer our design services at a bundled discount for early-staged compan...
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Startup idea: Collaborative payment for open-source dev - billboebel http://startup-ideas.posterous.com/collaborative-payment-for-open-source-dev ====== pella another idea - "OpenCompany" <http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany> <http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Open_company>
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Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election but No One Admits It - nhoven https://www.theroot.com/evidence-shows-hackers-changed-votes-in-the-2016-electi-1827871206 ====== travmatt Even stronger evidence shows the Republican Party worked with Russian intelligence to obtain the voter rolls that they used ...
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Swift Blog - sferik https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ ====== clayallsopp Wow, this is an interesting/refreshing development from Apple. I can't recall them ever having a public blog to communicate with their developer community. Until now, it's mostly been through their developer forums, private support, and i...
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Ask HN: Developers vs. machines, how long will it last? - montbonnot I believe developers will soon be replaced by machines. Product people or even marketing folks will generate apps&#x2F;software in one click. What would you do if you were to lose your job and become obsolete? ====== cfelix The day a machine capable ...
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Shifting Gears - twic https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/08/31/shifting-gears/ ====== nrclark I love Jenkins, and use it professionally. With that said, I'd really like to see better documentation on the Jenkinsfile Pipeline format. I've tried to get started with it a few times, and haven't had tons of success. Stuff like ...
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Dignity is Deadly, Part Two - pj http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/02/dignity_is_dead.html ====== spitfire The author seems to confuse dignity with bureaucracy. If you don't have dignity, you are a joke. You'll know it, your customers will know it, your competitors will know it. Bureaucracy ...
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GitHub wins: Microsoft is shutting down CodePlex - dragthor https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/31/github-wins-microsoft-is-shutting-down-codeplex-on-december-15/ ====== erik_seaberg See also: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006734](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006734)
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Bill Gates: Inventing the Myhrvold Way - loboman http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Thinking/article.aspx?id=137 ====== threepointone Unbelievable, and rather disturbing. I never thought Gates would promote a patent troll. Either he's aware of it and ignoring it, or he's unaware and truly believes IV is a force of good. ...
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Ephemeral, a Ruby ORM for in-memory objects - Bantik https://github.com/bantik/ephemeral ====== blaines Nice, does it have a full CRUD?
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Remind HN: Your systems need to be ready for World IPv6 Day June 8th - mhansen http://worldipv6day.org/ ====== k33n This is a sensationalist title. FYI, you are not required to do anything by June 8th, so don't feel the need to drop what you're doing and implement IPv6. ~~~ mhansen You don't need to implement IPv6,...
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U.S. Navy’s Costliest Carrier Was Delivered Without Elevators to Lift Bombs - Alupis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-02/costliest-carrier-was-delivered-without-elevators-to-lift-bombs ====== tomohawk tldr: > the weapons elevator is among “the most advanced technologies being > incorporated into” the c...
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Can you break this code from Boards of Canada? - crgt http://cosecha-transmisiones.com ====== amerika Intriguing. I've asked the experts: [http://www.hou2600.org/hacking/can-you-break-this-code- from-...](http://www.hou2600.org/hacking/can-you-break-this-code-from-boards- of-canada/) I know nothing about the Board...
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The Mississippi is dying, and I want to record it. - mercuryrising Humans don't do nice things to the environment. Before we populated the Midwest, you could actually catch fish and eat them out of the Mississippi river. Now you can maybe eat one a year due to the Mercury in the water. We neglect the river, we destr...
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Intel Has a Big Problem - MilnerRoute https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it ====== 013a Intel is a hot mess even without these security disasters. Just look at their product release lifecycle: In years past, they'd get maybe one extra product release off ea...
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Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner - grellas http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120704142749867 ====== ChuckMcM The great thing about patent-a-geddon is that its really bringing the problem out front and center, both to the judiciary who are learning how the patent office failed us around the turn of...
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Coding tricks I learnt at Apple - whiskers http://blog.joemoreno.com/2011/06/tricks-i-learned-at-apple-steve-jobs.html ====== BrandonM _> These tests were run against a copy of the live database in a production environment._ This is pretty terrible from a security standpoint. A development environment is typically mu...
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Getting on cancer’s nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours - DamonHD https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631480-200-how-hitting-our-nervous-system-could-let-us-defeat-cancer/?cmpid=SOC%7cNSNS%7c2017-Echobox&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1508753394 ====== DamonHD I lost my...
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A proactive approach to more secure code - pjmlp https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-approach-to-more-secure-code/ ====== leshow They are claiming up to 70% of the vulnerabilities can be avoided in a language like rust, I think a good chunk of the other 30% can be avoided using a language with a typ...
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The Startup Foundry is giving away $6,620 worth of goods to 2 Lean Startups - g0atbutt http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/13/were-giving-away-6620-worth-of-goods-and-services-to-2-lean-startups/ ====== yannickmahe Aww, and here I was hoping no one would know about it...
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Is it a phone, is it a bank? - JumpCrisscross http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21574520-safaricom-widens-its-banking-services-payments-savings-and-loans-it ====== dobbsbob Sending money via SMS doesn't sound very secure. Lending to a phone you can just throwaway, steal or clone doesn't sound very ...
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Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia - zaiste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software) ====== jancsika Max is Max/MSP, where: * MSP is an engine for generating/synthesizing/analyzing realtime audio which the user builds as a diagram in a GUI. The backend automatically sorts the diagram ...
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Rails vs. Node.js- the comparison - mohitchawla https://thebittheories.com/rails-vs-nodejs-the-comparison-feba9081251f#.jufu0hgid ====== pmontra The premise of the post is incorrect. Rails should not be compared with Node.js but with some web framework running on Node.js. The correct comparison would be Ruby vs Node.j...
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Seeking Technical Cofounder - techxc I'm looking to hire a technical cofounder for an 'augmented reality' / location based services startup with angel backing. I have a good prototype built and a huge library of proprietary content - and I am looking for someone to put some finishing touches on it so we can launch i...
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Milton’s notes on Shakespeare appear to have been found - pepys https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/16/when-milton-met-shakespeare-poets-notes-on-bard-appear-to-have-been-found ====== bryanrasmussen I put the cam.ac.uk post on this up a couple days ago [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20969349](https://new...
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Advice for the man who is all dressed up and getting nowhere (1988) - ohjeez http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0209/fmoll.html ====== draw_down Well, I think bosses should look and act like bosses instead of pretending like they're my friend, like just another schmoe on the production line. Also notice how the ultimate p...
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Cheatsheet to LA tech incubators for LeanLA event - bootload https://twitter.com/#!/Pv/status/167050211552800769 ====== bootload _"... Cheatsheet to LA tech incubators for tonight's @LeanLA event --<http://t.co/Op3mLDED> #LeanStartup..."_ A tweet by @pv "Patrick Vlaskovits". The pdf file direct link is here ~ <http:/...
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Louis C.K.: The Man Who Loves to Hate Himself - dwynings http://jonahweiner.com/RS_Louie_CK_Jonah_Weiner.html ====== dwynings The actual interview transcript is interesting too: [http://jonahweiner.com/Louis_CK_Q&A.html](http://jonahweiner.com/Louis_CK_Q&A.html)
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Twitch temporarily bans President Trump - snake117 https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21307145/twitch-donald-trump-ban-campaign-account ====== MR4D Regardless of what people think about the current president, the banning of a sitting president on a platform will have enormous implications for the tech industry. I exp...
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CodeSchool - NodeJS : Free Pass - reji http://go.codeschool.com/Q_Jr7g I reached Level 4 for the &quot;Realtime web with NodeJS&quot; course, within 12 hrs of using CodeSchool. Here&#x27;s a two day free pass to review some of their material. ====== reji A two day pass to CodeSchool. I reached level 4 on the 'Realtim...
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Ask HN: Why do different TLD have different prices. What or who sets it? - stevefromIT ====== saaaaaam The registry sets their own prices. For the new generic TLDs it is basically the Wild West - they can charge whatever they choose, hence the fact that most new gTLD registries go for bargain basement pricing in the ho...
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Why marketing is eating the world - gmays https://elizabethyin.com/2020/06/30/why-marketing-is-eating-the-world/ ====== ycombonator No it’s not
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Bitcoin Network Growth is Finally Slowing - aosmith http://alexsmith.io/?p=155 ====== kordless A small number of individuals amassing enough hashing power is a bad thing. Crypto currencies are, at their core, about decentralization and trust. Even power split between a few entities can represent a threat to the syst...
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Why Anti-Corruption Strategies May Backfire - dnetesn http://nautil.us/blog/why-anti_corruption-strategies-may-backfire ====== smallnamespace One of my US high school history teachers once taught us that bureaucracy and endless mounds of red tape were the natural consequence of Americans valuing fairness over efficien...
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Montenegro domains available for pre-order. - crzivn http://domain.me/ ====== crzivn The landrush period has already passed it seems (doh) but there are still many good names available for preregistration at the various accredited registrars. I'm wondering what a good strategy might be to acquire a couple of names; ...
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What developers should know about Unicode and character sets in 2013 - oyvindeh http://the-pastry-box-project.net/oli-studholme/2013-october-8/ ====== jrochkind1 > Never assume that the data you’re dealing with is UTF-8 — ASCII appears > identical unless you view the hex to see if each character is taking one > byte (...
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1D Cellular Automaton Being Fed as Input to a 2D Cellular Automaton - mrrrgn https://mrrrgn.github.io/1d2d ====== ahuth This is cool. However, the blue link text on the black background is impossible to read.
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The Troll Hunters - danso http://www.technologyreview.com/photoessay/533426/the-troll-hunters/ ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=troll+hunters#!/story/forever/0/tr...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=troll+hunters#!/story/forever/0/troll%20hunters)
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