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Ask HN: Why don't you plant a Giant Sequoia today? - lowdose One giant sequoia can store a lifetime of carbon emissions. For $7 at amazon you can order a live tree seedling and plant it today.<p>The General Sherman removed 1438.892 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air. Divided by the American yearly CO2 footprin...
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Show HN: Wololo Unity Builds for Windows, iOS, Android and macOS with 1 Click - jjdelannoy https://www.wololoci.com ====== jjdelannoy Hello HN we like to share the new milestone of our product, right now you can connect your Unity project select target platforms ( Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, WebGL, and Linux) and st...
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Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999) - severine https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars ====== pasabagi A very interesting essay - but it works better if you substitute 'arabic nations' with 'dictatorships'. Most of what he's talking about has far more to do with the mechanics of maintaining a dictatorship than arabic c...
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PageRank for shipping - prakash http://www.tompinckney.com/2010/02/pagerank-for-shipping.html ====== Anon84 Instead of looking at a supplier to decide how they should rank, Panjiva looks at the people buying from those suppliers. The network amongst suppliers and buyers gives a...
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How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video] - sabas123 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hs451PfFzQ ====== abetusk This was surprisingly awesome. There's a "battleship" like game in Zelda that is "required" (I guess) to be won three times in quick succession for a complete speedrun. Trying to get three...
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Mass email hoax causes closures across the US and Canada - vezycash https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/a-tsunami-of-emailed-bomb-hoaxes-prompts-evacuations-across-the-us-and-canada/ ====== vezycash Summary: Emails threaten explosions unless people pay $20,000 in Bitcoin.
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How I saved over $4000 on software? - nreece http://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/10/24/how-i-saved-over-4000-on-software/ ====== Goladus What he has listed SQL Server aren't equivalent products, and I'm pretty sure not open source, much less the "free as in freedom" standard of GNU software. VMware server is free...
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The iTunes Expanding Album Effect in HTML/CSS/JS - thomaspark http://thomaspark.me/project/expandingalbums/ ====== thomaspark The text and background colors are generated from the album artwork (like in yesterday's Panic post) using a modified version of the Color Thief library. More info about the demo here: [http:...
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Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015) - BeautifulData http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/ ====== minimaxir Huh. Of all my old blog posts, this is the last one I expected to randomly resurface at the top of Hacker News. There were a lot of other articles made using this 10M Password data...
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Cisco Systems to lay off about 14,000 employees: report - doener http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/cisco-systems-to-lay-off-about-14000-employees-report/article31440950/?cmpid=rss1&click=sf_globe ====== sctb Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12302216](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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(Response to 'YC is a Cult') A Note on Cults & Productivity - demandred http://www.socialbias.com/a-note-on-cults-productivity/ ====== abiek During your startup lifestyle, how many hours of productive work do you get accomplished per day? ~~~ parker I'd guess around 12-14 hours of actual thinking and working time. ...
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How To Hire An Intern - travisro http://travisrobertson.com/human-resources/how-to-hire-an-intern/ ====== _pi It still disgusts me how people think it's perfectly okay to flaunt labor laws with internships. This attitude of it being "free labor" is absolutely absurd. Do your other entry level positions that may need...
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Taleb: The future will not be cool - mck- http://www.salon.com/2012/12/01/nassim_nicholas_taleb_the_future_will_not_be_cool/ ====== astine I was going to say something to the effect of "Who is this guy and why do we care what he thinks? He seems like an idiot." But it turns out that he's actually a respected thinker a...
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A Statistician Reviews “The Book of Why” by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie - joe_the_user https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/08/book-pearl-mackenzie/#comment-947061 ====== joe_the_user My cruder understanding of how the question of how casualty relates to probability: In a simple, deterministic world, cha...
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Show HN: Reading list of popular Hacker News users - QueensGambit https://www.collectoral.com/group/hacker-news ====== jasode A friendy FYI that you want to review _section 5 of the Amazon Associates Agreement_ [0] and put a disclosure somewhere on your website. [0] [https://affiliate- program.amazon.com/help/operati...
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The DAO Hub is now live - jhildings https://daohub.org/ ====== th0br0 So many buzzwords. What is a DAO? ~~~ extra88 Eventually I found on the page "decentralized autonomous organization." Cryptocurrency seems important somehow ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ ~~~ cjbprime A business whose by-laws are encoded in an algorithm that runs aut...
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Did We Overvalue Music? - michaelperalta http://www.varely.com/posts/59 ====== engtech two paragraphs followed by a "sign up to read more". Content in that format is not going to do well on any social media site. Even with a Vanilla Ice picture.
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2 Mount Everest climbers die of altitude sickness, 2 others missing - SCAQTony http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2016/05/mount_everest_deaths_missing_t.html ====== PeterisP This is a somewhat ironical tragedy - the two dead climbers went on to Everest because, quoting them, "she and her husband wanted to dispel t...
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Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today - carlosgg https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/science/falcon-heavy-spacex-launch.html ====== Klathmon I can't put into words how excited I am for this launch today. I remember back in 2012 where spacex was still a laughingstock. The idea of landing a rocket from a pri...
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Uber: London drivers must use hybrid or fully electric cars from 2020 - sua_3000 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/08/uber-london-hybrid-fully-electric-cars-2020-vehicles ====== sua_3000 Good to see Uber executing on its vision and getting some positive publicity along the way
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Ask HN: Successful marketing channels/forms for your startup/side project? - ericthegoodking For those who have successful startups what has been the most effective form of marketing? ====== JacobAldridge If you haven't already, I can recommend reading the book Traction - [http://tractionbook.com](http://tractionboo...
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Google Play cut payments to developers in Argentina - pmtarantino http://www.celularis.com/google/pagos-de-google-play-en-argentina/ ====== fmariluis "Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell paid applications. We're working hard to add more countries, but we're u...
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Phil Schiller Is A Man On A Mission: To Save The App Store - peter123 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/15/phil-schiller-is-a-man-on-a-mission-to-save-the-app-store/ ====== TomOfTTB Let me say up front that none of this is a criticism of Phil Schiller. Just the opposite in fact. But the bottom line is Mr. Schiller is...
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Read color hex codes - cpeterso https://www.dotconferences.com/2018/11/david-desandro-read-color-hex-codes ====== neatcoder I can read color hex codes just fine. In fact, while writing my CSS, I often have a shade of color in mine and I just go ahead and type out its hex code by guesswork and then fine tune it by chan...
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Stanford and ESA host competition for AI algorithms for space-debris cleanup - sumantsharma http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/AI_challenged_to_pinpoint_state_of_drifting_satellites ====== sumantsharma Link to the dataset and exact challenge here: [https://kelvins.esa.int/satellite-pose-est...
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CA Labor Commission Has Just Killed Uber - acheron http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2015/06/ca-labor-commission-has-just-killed-uber-though-it-may-take-years-to-bleed-out.html ====== stephengillie [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9731963](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9731963) ~~~ blisterpeanuts Yes,...
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Could BitTorrent create the first popular distributed social network? - jarin http://blog.martinemde.com/2011/05/bittorrent-distributed-social-network.html ====== DennisP broken link...
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Twitpay.me Launches - sanjayparekh http://twitpay.me ====== tsally Sorry if I am off base on this one, but not being able to cash out via PayPal would make me just want to use TipJoy instead. Even if I do ultimately donate my money to charity, I'd still like to have the option. The FAQ indicates that you can put mon...
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Snowden, Chomsky, and Greenwald: A Conversation on Privacy, Tonight 8 PM EST - cryoshon https://theintercept.com/a-conversation-about-privacy/ ====== rumcajz That's going to be interesting. Chomsky doesn't seem to be extra concerned about the Internet. His position, AFAIU, is that all the current problems are just a n...
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“Security problems are primarily just bugs” - peterhunt http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/11/why-linus-is-right-as-usual.html#.WhKEqnXytCU ====== pjmlp > Also, since most security people aren't developers, they are also a bit > clueless how things actually work. Bounds-checking, which they define as > purely a security f...
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Ask HN: What is your qualitative perception of hashtags? - roryreiff ====== 27182818284 They've evolved into a better way of expressing certain emotions and such. For example I've seen things like "I'm sorry you're leaving! #dumb" which helps convey that the person is laughingly sad that the other coworker is leav...
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Circuit Breaker Design Pattern - kushti http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/common/circuitbreaker.html ====== jdmichal While it matches that of a physical circuit breaker, I think the choice of naming is a bit unfortunate. Closed means the operation is open to new requests, while open means the operation is closed t...
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Ask HN: What setup do you use to get stuff done? - nextos What software and hardware setup do you use to get stuff done? ====== mindcrime Nothing fancy... Fedora 16 (yeah, yeah, I know... I've been too busy to update lately) on a relatively low-end Toshiba Satellite laptop. KDE for desktop environment, with lots of ...
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Blockshell – A minimal blockchain learning CLI - daxeelsoni https://github.com/daxeel/blockshell ====== akerro If you want to learn how to build blockchain in Go, this set of posts explains it really well [https://jeiwan.cc/posts/building-blockchain-in-go- part-1/](https://jeiwan.cc/posts/building-blockchain-in-go-par...
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To Hold Women Back, Keep Treating Them Like Men - riqbal https://hbr.org/2015/07/to-hold-women-back-keep-treating-them-like-men ====== dudul Probably the most sensible article about sex (and not gender) differences that I have read in a long time. The way school treats little boys is especially frightening to me as...
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Gobenchdb: Tracking Go Benchmark Data - emcox http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/introducing-gobenchdb.html ====== emcox We needed a way to organize the data generated by go test -bench and write it to a database to track system performance over time. For this reason, we created the command line tool, gobenchdb.
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Show HN: Taskmod – To-Do List Management Tool For Windows - Hasaranga http://www.taskmod.com ====== dailen That's a hefty price tag for such a simple application
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Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died - fogus https://plus.google.com/u/2/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en ====== steveb There are several billion people using many billions of devices every day. From the code in your microwave to massive computing clusters, virtually all of our software can trace its ancest...
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Billionaire Bunkers: Inside the World's Largest Planned Doomsday Escape - eplanit http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/06/12/billionaire-bunkers-exclusive-look-inside-the-worlds-largest-planned-doomsday-escape/ ====== unclebucknasty > _has planned doomsday retreats in the past including private bunkers for > res...
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Why aren't more books written like this? - char_pointer http://www.onderstekop.nl/articles/120/ ====== silentbicycle L: Why aren't more books written like this? R: Because the style can be _really annoying_. L: Congratulations. Now go make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! [ ...
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All your favorite brands, from BSTOEM to ZGGCD - got-any-grapes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-copyright.html ====== nneonneo Back in the 90s, it was common to see t-shirts and other apparel festooned with nonsensical strings of English letters in China, an attempt to be “cool” by appropriat...
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Initial findings of artificial impact on asteroid Ryugu - dnetesn https://phys.org/news/2020-03-artificial-impact-asteroid-ryugu.html ====== unwind How did the probe accelerate that 2-kg lump of copper to 7,200 km/h (2 km/s)? Just asking if someone happens to know, didn't see it mentioned. ~~~ Sharlin The impactor d...
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We build DROPBOX for business cards. We have some questions. Could you help us? - mrholek http://nessfile.com/feedback ====== bconway Best of luck, it's an uphill battle: [http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/hashable-the-app-that- aimed...](http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/hashable-the-app-that-aimed-to- replace-busin...
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California’s ‘Fair Pay’ Act Harms Women, Men, and Businesses (but Not Lawyers) - Bostonian http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425260/california-fair-pay-act ====== hwstar I have to disagree. While we are at it, let's hope that Governor Brown also signs AB 1017 preventing employers from asking for salary history, a...
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With Donald Trump’s surprising victory, Silicon Valley is having a meltdown - daegloe http://www.recode.net/2016/11/9/13574396/donald-trump-victory-silicon-valley-meltdown ====== MrZongle2 _" On the conference’s main stage, 500 Startups founder Dave McClure went berserk over the results with an expletive-laden rant ab...
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There’s still time to stop the TPP - walterbell https://blog.creativecommons.org/2016/02/12/theres-still-time-to-stop-the-tpp/ ====== tim333 But it there much hope of doing so? See this graph from "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" (via GMOs letter) [http://imgur.c...
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Most Americans are gender fundamentalists - mcbeast https://qz.com/1148554/most-americans-are-gender-fundamentalists/ ====== sharemywin they forgot the one that pisses my wife off the most calorie burning. hehehe...
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Ask HN: ROI of Online Data Science Certificate vs. In Person - jklein11 Hi HN!<p>I entered the workforce about a year ago and am considering some options for getting additional education. I am considering a certificate in Data Science&#x2F; Business Analytics but I&#x27;m not sure about their value. I am considering...
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One man, 145 degrees. Necessary? - chirau http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/09/06/this-chennai-professor-has-over-145-educational-degrees/ ====== babygoat That's way too hot.
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Homeland Security Department Budget - powertower http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R41982.pdf ====== djKianoosh Probably better described as appropriations by the federal government for 'homeland security', which is mostly DHS, but also several other Departments and agencies. ------ come2gether its alot
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China wants an orderly exit from Bitcoin mining - svenfaw https://qz.com/1174091/china-wants-an-orderly-exit-from-bitcoin-mining/ ====== joe_the_user _As to mining farms owned by smaller players, especially those in the mountainous areas of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, simply locating the miners is a near impossible ...
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Ask HN: The experts told us soft-launch == app death. Does it? - urb We have worked long and hard developing our mobile app. We think that it&#x27;s great and has true value for users. We had planned to soft-launch and make it better as we learn from users. But every single app expert we had talked to has told us ou...
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Coursera Operations Project - An Introduction to Operations Management returns - anoncow https://www.coursera.org/course/operations ====== anoncow I took the course last year and liked it.
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How does Starbucks knows how to grab my MAC Address? - larrywallace To all hacker out there, how in the world can a website grab your mac address from the browser http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oi61.tinypic.com&#x2F;s263ib.jpg. I&#x27;ve heard responses from &quot;it is not possible&quot; to &quot;they use flash&quot;. But this...
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A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 2 - iffyio http://ifeanyi.co/posts/linux-namespaces-part-2/ ====== rkv Enjoyed the user namespace section. Looking forward to the `mount` and `net` namespace sections and how they are used in docker. ------ panpanna I feel a lot of namespace stuff make sense only if you simulta...
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CloudFlare is still doing IPv6 automatically - hepha1979 https://blog.cloudflare.com/four-years-later-and-cloudflare-is-still-doing-ipv6-automatically/ ====== eknkc I lost my hope on ipv6, don't think it will ever catch on. We might end up with something else but not ipv6. Anyone else feels the same about it? ~~~ s...
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Ask HN: When multiple users share username, can it be a good UX design? - kilemensi I'm in a middle of designing an application to be used by two parties in such a way the involvement of the second party is more of a guide to the first party e.g. children &#38; the parents, addicts &#38; their sponsors, etc. It is e...
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Cuban Embassy Attacks and the Microwave Auditory Effect - smokielad https://hackaday.com/2017/09/25/cuban-embassy-attacks-and-the-microwave-auditory-effect/ ====== patcheudor Part of me is now wondering if this was even nefarious as I'm picturing over zealous Cuban pest control specialists, without strong regulation o...
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State of the NYDFS BitLicense: An Update - ntomaino https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/05/01/state-of-the-nydfs-bitlicense-an-update/ ====== ntomaino The NYDFS could be pretty stifling to financial services innovation in the state of New York.
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TrueCrypt issues - phct after i update TrueCrypt 7.1a to 7.2 the encrypted partition&#x2F;volume after mount it became impossible to browse it because partition&#x2F;volume became RAW and windows explorer does not read RAM partitions,ive tried to use other tools such as VeraCrypt to try to mount with no success,then i...
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Ask HN: How do you personally measure your financial growth? - shostack I keep track of my monthly budgets, cashflow and net worth in Mint. I use my individual investment sites (Vanguard, Fidelity, etc.) for investment performance reporting because Mint has some weird glitch with my data.<p>For an annual &quot;year in...
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Intellectual Conformity Is Adaptive - 100011 https://fakenous.net/?p=574 ====== 100011 "Let’s keep up the inaccessible, jargony works that no one reads. Higher education is not teaching much to students or anyone else. But at least it keeps intellectuals off the streets."
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The Complete and Most Excellent MicroManual for Hosting Static Sites on AWS - tobyhede http://micromanuals.xyz/static-sites.html ====== milkywayz It's very simple to move html/css/js files over to S3, and make them public. Set up cname record in Route 53 to your bucket.
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Freenet Project's Statement on the recent Freedom Hosting bust - Sami_Lehtinen https://freenetproject.org/news.html#2013-tor-bust ====== bcoates I'm a fan of Freenet, but it has some core (and extremely longstanding!) usability issues that Tor has proven are unforced errors. The restrictions on JavaScript is the bigg...
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Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace - jasonlbaptiste http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/16/foodzie-raises-1-million-for-its-specialty-food-marketplace/ ====== pwim 12 Chocolate Chip Cookie for $18.95. I'm amazed people would pay so much. I wonder how many sales she gets. ~~~ mwerty Clearly you...
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Changing Your LinkedIn Password Still May Not Have Kept Your Account Safe - superjk http://www.mobileideafactory.com/2012/06/13/why-changing-your-linkedin-password-still-may-not-have-kept-your-linkedin-account-safe-from-hackers/ ====== zaroth If the requirement is "access tokens become invalid when the password is c...
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Monster Russian off-roaders set off on epic 10,000km Arctic expedition - a-smith https://www.rt.com/viral/384832-russian-off-road-arctic-expedition/ ====== Boothroid These machines are phenomenal.
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Build a Christmas List with Martini - babawere http://blog.gopheracademy.com/day-11-martini ====== cvburgess Does anyone have any comparisons of Martini and Flask/Bottle or Sinatra? It would be interesting to compare performance, library support, and syntax of these (seemingly similar) micro-frameworks. ~~~ neya Fr...
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How to build $100m SaaS business - maruthisandeep To build a $100m SaaS business go to market strategy is the key. Back in 2014 when we started, we never knew that there is a framework to look at Go-to-Market (GTM) strategically considering different factors like marketing, sales, product virality, etc.<p>Read the ful...
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Nvidia suggests retailers put gamers over crypto miners in graphics card craze - adrian_mrd https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/23/16921356/nvidia-graphics-cards-sold-out-cryptocurrency-miners ====== webmaven Besides gamers, there is also an impact on those building ML/DL rigs, right? [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Why software engineers get distracted at work? - azzen ====== thedevindevops All modern software engineers have a crucial affliction in this regard - they're only human. ------ probinso Because for some reason we are required to use computers.
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VMG – Vuex module generator - abdullahmara https://github.com/abdullah/vuex-module-generator ====== supermdguy I've been working on something similar that we've been using internally. It supports delayed spinners and running multiple requests concurrently, with separate state. It's not fully documented, but you can v...
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Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017) - gullyfur https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/ ====== outworlder > A “container” is just a term people use to describe a combination of Linux > namespaces and cgroups. Linux namespaces and cgroups ARE first class > objects. NOT containers. Amen. So...
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HTPC – Intel Atom Media Center Inside a CD Player [DIY] - chanux http://english.kalingasblog.com/2009/10/17/htpc-intel-atom-media-center-inside-a-cd-player/ ====== pmorici This really isn't _that_ interesting. It's a case mod using a large set top style CD player as a case, who cares.
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Ask HN: Why has Google not integrated Timely into Android? - DiabloD3 Awhile back, this company called Bitspin wrote a very popular timer called Timely, which allowed synchronization of alarms across multiple Android devices (creation, deletion, start, stop), and is pretty much the most elegant alarm app I&#x27;ve eve...
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How many Wolfenstein 3D and Shakespeares can fit into Atom editor - hudo http://thehumbleprogrammer.com/shakespeare-in-the-castle-wolfenstein/ ====== butz While using Electon to kickstart project might be a good idea, but it is failing in the long run. There are so many issues, that could be avoided by using some othe...
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Ask HN: While developing, do you run all the dependent services on your machine? - akkishore Development requires running many dependent services, like databases, caching servers, queues, other dependent (micro) services etc. Do you run them on your machine? Or you use other server infrastructure to run them while onl...
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Mask vs. Respirator: N95, FFP2, FFP3: What’s the Difference? - bookofjoe https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/ ====== labawi A good informative article, though take it with a grain of salt. It often weighs specifications and official recommendations over common sense or even evidence. The article accepts the conjectu...
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Checkout my latest dotfiles for web development for OS X machine - gokulkrishh09 https://github.com/gokulkrishh/dotfiles ====== brudgers This would make a good Show HN post. Rules: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) Show HN: [https://news.ycombinator.com/show](https:...
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Let's Be Serious: Online Display Ads Will Fall Sharply In 2009 - nickb http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/let-s-be-serious-online-display-ads-will-fall-sharply-in-2009 ====== axod Ridiculous. First the article says how startups depending on ad revenue will all fail and go out of business, then it says it predicts ad ...
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Ask HN: What if I don't have an idea? - bretthoerner Ask HN: What if I don't have an idea?<p>I have,<p><pre><code> Time: I recently left my job. (in this economy?! yup) Skill: I'm proficient in Django, system administration, a bit of scaling, but not so much front-end / design. Money: I'm not talking reti...
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Haskell: (Slow but certain) Advancing insight - smu http://stmu.co/programming/haskell/2013/10/29/advancing-insight.html ====== michn good introduction to haskell. Might be interesting to use this as an alternative to lex
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Organic Marketing using Videos - hartator http://luminate.io/ ====== hartator We are hungry for feedbacks and opinions! :)
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Pixar's Library - DanielRibeiro http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ ====== dpcan Hair rendering always blew my mind. I remember seeing Monster's Inc in the theater, and the first shot of Sully was when he was asleep in his bed breathing heavily, and you could see the individual strands of hair on his arm flowing back a...
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I give you permission to no longer ask for permission to code - joshuakemp1 http://joshuakemp.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-give-you-permission-to-no-longer-ask.html?m=1 I give you permission to no longer ask for permission to learn to code ====== calcsam As a fellow programmer who just learned to code, I also find the lac...
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I Almost Dropped Out Of School - seangransee http://blog.seangransee.com/post/57089507068/i-almost-dropped-out-of-school ====== akulbe Let me speak to you as someone with some hindsight on this issue. I'm going to be 40 in November. I am in my final weeks of my final class of a Business Management track. On August 1...
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Mastercard to Join Ethereum Enterprise Alliance - computerwizard https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AgY1hZBqltmcJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fentethalliance.org%2Fmember%2Fpeter-kopp-mastercard%2F%20&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ====== moh_maya Mastercard has expressed interest. They haven't joined yet. From the l...
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Driving BB-8 with Brainwaves - Dim25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f8hCrl9VYI ====== Dim25 Tried today, this device works great with pain, audio and taste stimulus. Paper behind this: [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40548-3_3...](http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40548-3_34)
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ARM Releases Machine Readable Architecture Specification - matt_d https://alastairreid.github.io/alastairreid.github.io/ARM-v8a-xml-release/ ====== belovedeagle Yes, yes, but have they finally given a _human_ -understandable definition for BFM and related instructions? Because there's a really straightforward one poss...
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An Open Letter to Clojure - tosh https://outline.com/9Btvud ====== elamje I have to agree that Clojure is enlightening:-)
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APLcart – Find Your Way in APL - lelf https://aplcart.info/ ====== imglorp APL aside, I really like this general presentation and ux of a cheat sheet. Dump out a table of a few thousand items, at most, and then narrow to relevant as the search box is filled. This would also work for APIs and CLI options, for example....
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A new, more user-friendly language for programming supercomputers - kick https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/new-more-user-friendly-language-programming-supercomputers ====== Bostonian '“We wanted to create a programming environment that doesn’t require every researcher to be a computer scientist,”' For...
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Things you can’t do in Rust: destructure function arguments in declaration - andrew-lucker https://medium.com/@andrew_subarctic/things-you-cant-do-in-rust-destructure-function-arguments-in-declaration-51f631aa3f3e ====== arh68 > shorthand for a function with only a pattern as its body. Only an _expression_ as its bod...
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Spotify to Introduce Free Mobile Music Service - rkudeshi http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304096104579240432005003354-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwNTEwNDUyWj ====== lbearl Its good Spotify is finally going to get to do this (to bad licensing negotiations took an entire year to iron out though). I'll be look...
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Ask HN: Why do ppl surround words with underscores? - alistproducer2 I&#x27;ve tried Googling but I haven&#x27;t been able to figure it out. I&#x27;ve seen it used exclusively by hacker-types and have always wondered what it was about. ====== corysama I'm typing words in a comment. I want to underline one of them, but...
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Gitblit - open-source stack for managing, viewing, and serving Git repos - Dekku http://www.gitblit.com/ ====== steveb I've been using gitblit for a few months, and have been very pleased with how easy it is to set up and manage. It's great to set up http sharing of git repositories inside an organization. It has nic...
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Go is Not Python - blacksmythe http://www.seanhelvey.com/go-is-not-python ====== optimusclimb I'm not sure what the title has to do with the article at all. It's just pointing out a language gotcha/subtlety. The title might as well have been "Go is Not Javascript", "Go is not QBasic", etc. ~~~ andrewstuart2 This is t...
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Pathfinding for Tower Defense - signa11 http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/tower-defense/ ====== munificent > It’s a relatively simple algorithm, and useful for all > sorts of things, including AI. There are three main ways I use it: > > * Mark all reachable nodes. This is usef...
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Yahoo shuts down six products - shill http://ycorpblog.com/2013/04/19/355356/ ====== soupboy What I find even more interesting that these shutdowns is that an entry from the Yahoo corp blog has made it to the front page of Hacker News. This may be a sign that people are starting to find Yahoo related news interesting ...
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AmigaOS 3.1.4 - cedel2k1 http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php/where-to-buy/direct-downloads/188-amigaos-314 ====== aaronharder Previously on HN: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109930](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109930) ~~~ sctb Thanks! ------ ekianjo Great to see updates! I wonder how Hyp...
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