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KeePassXC 2.4.3 - louib https://keepassxc.org/blog/2019-06-11-2.4.3-released/ ====== Jonnax I was only aware of Keepass itself. What are the differences between KeypassXC, KeepassX and Keepass? ~~~ mrrsm KeePass is the original project. It is an open source dotnet application. The source code, as of the last time I c...
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An IRC chat about XP SP2 support in Firefox - yuhong http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/developers/20140421#l-1393 ====== yuhong BTW, XP SP3 requiring Genuine Advantage is a myth.
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Airships for the 21st Century - mhb http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/airships-for-the-21st-century/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100710 ====== bediger Airships: like flying cars, jetpacks and hydrogen fusion reactors, they're always Just 10 Years Away! And They're So Gee Whiz I can h...
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A presentation about optical networking [pdf] - aflam https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Steenbergen.Everything_You_Need.pdf ====== crispyambulance Having worked in that industry 8 years, I can say that's an excellent practical introduction of key topics of the physical layer in optical transport. Most reading...
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NYC real estate prices visualized - JumpCrisscross https://medium.com/re-form/nycs-housing-cost-myth-9dce6052c139 ====== rmxt Pretty cool visualizations, but I would take the accuracy of the data with a grain of salt until I saw the source data. There's no universal map of neighborhoods in NYC, and I think that ever...
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Prepaid carrier Cricket is getting a pricier iPhone - fpgeek http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57444300-94/apple-iphone-enters-prepaid-world-with-cricket/ ====== andyakb this (and the article) is a loaded title. the 16gb iphone is a full $150 cheaper than the no contract version at ATT. in an absolute sense it is sti...
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Ask HN: Anyone use a stand up desk? - croucho I’ve been struggling with weight loss for years. I find that every time I try and start a regime I get really hardcore for 2 weeks or a month and then fall off the wagon. I either get sick or busy working crunch and don’t have the discipline to stay at it.<p>I’ve been...
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Ask HN: Is there an open-source clone of Metafilter.com? - xoxa Basically, a site that allows multiple authors to log in and make posts, and other users to comment on the same.<p>No karma system necessary.<p>I am especially interested in Django-based projects that come close to Metafilter.com ====== arkitaip Not rea...
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Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Startups - thatcherclay http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/business/dealbook/dizzying-ride-may-be-ending-for-start-ups.html ====== hvs For those of you too young to remember, there were numerous articles written about the bubble bursting before it finally did in 2000-01. It wasn't a surp...
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Find a Great Domain Name (Beta code is YCOMBINATOR) - bradpineau http://www.domainhole.com ====== magic5227 Its funny cause, domainhole is a terrible name ~~~ sebkomianos I quite like the name to be honest. And I sure like the design as well. ~~~ ksolanki I too quite liked the name. It incites a strong reaction, ...
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Disqus redesigned - Smotko http://smotko.si/disqus-redesigned/ ====== Swizec Actually ... all I really want from Disqus is to see the comments that fly in through social media. After posting I will often get tweets on the line of "Hey @Swizec, your last blog really sucks because of <X>" ... I'd like those to appear...
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Ask HN: Is auctions.godaddy.com a scam? - kull Looking for your startup name with a good domain is hard. I found few nice options, 4 letter domain names with Buy Now option on auctions.godaddy.com. Those were domain names with words you can find in an English dictionary. So, I wanted to purchase them both, well, I can...
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Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector - newman8r https://www.theindy.us/crypto-success-is-driving-innovation-in-the-financial-sector/ ====== henrikschroder There's absolutely zero evidence for the headline in the actual bulk of the article. SWIFT launched a new service last year, that is now ha...
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Flagged/shadow banned on GitHub for praising s/w? - altCensored they emailed me back 10 days after my first request for info:<p>&quot;Your account was flagged following reports that you are posting unproductive comments in other users&#x27; repositories, specifically for unsolicited advertising.&quot;<p>i praise the s...
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The US startup is disappearing - bhuga https://qz.com/1309824/the-us-startup-company-is-disappearing-and-thats-bad-for-the-economy/ ====== moorhosj Very interesting chart in this article that shows more educated people (masters, bachelor's, some college) are less entrepreneurial than they were 25 years ago. On the fli...
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BBC - Music - Developers - iamelgringo http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/developers ====== metade /music and /programmes are implemented in Pinwheel, a Perl MVC framework strongly inspired by Rails. More details are available here: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.s...](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/r...
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What3Words – three words identify each location on Earth - erehweb https://map.what3words.com/ ====== HoopleHead For fuck's sake give up on this pointless crap. Every few weeks it raises its ugly head on HN. I'm sick of seeing it
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Is it acceptable to write C in C++? - AlexeyBrin https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/5fhve7/is_it_acceptable_to_write_c_in_c/ ====== rahelzer Acceptable? The whole point of a programming language is that you can do whatever you want to with it. Anything "Acceptable" has to be something which follows a pat...
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How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources - vharuck https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/ ====== ilamont Indie publisher here. Nice job - it came out quite well, judging by the images. Curious if the editor and proofreader were working with the same software, or it had to be export...
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Why HTTPS for Everything? - maxt https://https.cio.gov/everything/ ====== maxt Here's a Mashable article about adopting HTTPS served via plain old HTTP: [http://mashable.com/2011/05/31/https-web- security/](http://mashable.com/2011/05/31/https-web-security/) It worries me that major websites like this have still not...
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DI Containers Are Code Polluters - yegor256a http://www.yegor256.com/2014/10/03/di-containers-are-evil.html?2014-39 ====== SchizoDuckie Call me oldskool, but I wholeheartedly agree. Dependency injection via settings files leads to 'magic' code that's a mess to debug if you're new to a platform/stack (I'm looking at y...
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Scribd Streamlines Embedded Docs With iPaper 2 - trip http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/scribd-streamlines-embedded-docs-with-ipaper-2/ ====== mattjaynes Congrats JR! I know that many folks on HN much prefer raw pdf's to a flash viewer, but JR (sole programmer for iPaper) has done an amazing job single-handedly ...
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At $3 Million, New Award Gives Medical Researchers a Dose of Celebrity - zt http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/science/new-3-million-prizes-awarded-to-11-in-life-sciences.html?hp ====== amirmc I'm impressed and anything that promotes and furthers fundamental science gets a thumbs-up from me. However, I do find the p...
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Staple Food Vending Machines Serve Those Living on $4 a Day - ca98am79 http://www.psfk.com/2015/03/algramo-vending-machines-food-staples-feeds-the-poor.html#.VRVuVCCfTVo.twitter ====== jsilence In Germany the small beverage company "Premium" does not offer discounts on larger orders. Instead they offer "Antimengenraba...
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Show HN: Golang automation for mining cryptocurrencies on the Spot Market - alexellisuk https://github.com/alexellis/spotminer ====== jlgaddis Be careful with this kind of stuff. Someone posted a link [0] to a GitHub repo here a few days ago that would fire up a miner on some AWS GPU instances... except that they har...
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Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf] - pp19dd http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/journey-to-mars-next-steps-20151008_508.pdf ====== hackuser If you have any interest, I highly recommend reading this. It's not marketing fluff; it has a creative and (seemingly) complete visi...
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China's stock market crash: A red flag - anigbrowl http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/chinas-stockmarket-crash ====== Pyxl101 Limitations on short selling always concern and perplex me. Why is that a good idea? Isn't that preventing the market from properly adjusting to whatever circumstances have occ...
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Concrete Steps To Combat Sexism At Tech Conferences - chrisyeh http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2013/03/2-concrete-steps-to-combat-sexism-at.html ====== gregjor I think this is a slippery slope. No one has a right to _not be offended._ And everyone has the right to say stupid things or act like a jerk. Hate speech and ...
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The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning - ChrisRackauckas http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/the-essential-tools-of-scientific-machine-learning-scientific-ml/ ====== jofer This is an aside to the main point of the article, but I have to take issue with a couple of quotes: > For a long time scientific compu...
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Ask HN: How do I present my prototype to you? - dschmidt11 I'm the run of the mill wantrepreneur with a vision and a first draft business plan. (Hypothetically speaking) I get the funds raised to get the prototype built. What context should I present to you (the programmer) for what I want built? Eg. Powerpoint? Ske...
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Tarot for Hackers - zephyrfalcon https://christine.website/blog/tarot-for-hackers-2019-07-24 ====== juped The use of tarot decks for divination dates back only to the 18th century, well after magic stopped being useful (because all the skilled or talented magicians rebranded to "scientists" or "naturalists"), so I'm s...
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Java Deployment Toolkit Performs Insufficient Validation of Parameters - fogus http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Apr/119 ====== drowsydream This is covered in InformationWeek Article 'Serious Java Flaw Surfaces'[ [http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/04/se...](http://www.informationweek.com/blo...
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Cohorts: a simple, purely Javascript split test framework - jamesjyu http://github.com/jamesyu/cohorts ====== sync This looks great for folks using heroku and taking advantage of the provided Varnish full-page caching. Other solutions (like A/Bingo) require you to have a dynamic part of the page. ~~~ patio11 A/Bin...
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A dataset of 1M programming solutions with state changes - FraserGreenlee https://fraser-greenlee.github.io/2020/06/25/A-dataset-of-ran-code.html ====== sharemywin Pretty cool.
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How YouPorn Tries To Hide That It's Spying On Your Browsing History - arturadib http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/21535012065/how-youporn-tries-to-hide-that-its-spying-your-browsing-history.shtml ====== fab13n the shifting-by-one is probably not intended to throw off people, but search engine indexers. They pr...
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The Slime Mole Is As Good an Economic Model as Any - chrismealy https://medium.com/@katierosepipkin/the-slime-mold-is-as-good-an-economic-model-as-any-ebec4062acd7 ====== kseistrup Somebody, please correct the title from “slime mole” to “slime mold”.
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Why you need a degree to work at Bigco - byrneseyeview http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/07/why-you-need-degree-to-work-for-bigco.html ====== Alex3917 There's two types of jobs. Those where what you do creates value for people within the company, and those where what you do creates value for people outside the company....
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Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck - Baustin http://blog.smartbear.com/devops/a-taste-of-salt-like-puppet-except-it-doesnt-suck/ ====== SandB0x I'm not a web developer but I have a side-project that runs on a cobbled together EC2 instance. The server state is in theory documented in a set of of shell scripts an...
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Show HN: Deal alerts for products you want, curated from around the web - jodi http://stingycoin.com ====== kyu The products I want will never go on sale... ~~~ jodi What kind of products?
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Ask HN: What's your preferred authentication method as an end-user? - horizontech-dev To be clear, looking to hear whats your preferred authentication method as an end-user (not as a developer).<p>Example:<p>Phone Number Gmail Social (fb, linkedin, github etc)<p>Sorry, if there is already a discussion around this. Fee...
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Air Gaps - bostik https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html ====== wikiburner Is there an effective way to "mostly" airgap, if you need Internet connectivity for your work? This is a comment I posted on a similar thread a few weeks ago. ========================================= Just curious, how w...
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InfiniteUSB-C - neverminder https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668098663/infiniteusb-one-usb-port-unlimited-devices/description ====== unwind This is a quite nice design. Obviously (?) this is a 2-port hub in the connector housing, with one port going to the extension cable, and the other to the through-port. Th...
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How to Write a Maths Library in 2016 - ingve http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/maths-lib-2016/ ====== fao_ In regards to the section on `vectorcall`, I think that the UNIX x64 ABI specifies that any floating point/SSE parameters are passed in the XMM* registers, so it _should_ stay in the registers the whole time. OTO...
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Show HN: Improving LinkedIn endorsements using graph connections and weights - ipapikas https://ratein.io ====== dozzie Improving something that has the underlying idea broken beyond repair? What? O_o Endorsements are an idea completely useless for showing that the endorsed person really knows something. I've been en...
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Blame ‘Amazon Effect’ for proposed bump in S.F. garbage bills - coloneltcb http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Blame-Amazon-Effect-for-proposed-bump-in-11168558.php?cmpid=twitter-premium ====== QuinnyPig I'm wondering how long it will be until something replaces cardboard boxes for shipping.
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Ways You Can Help EFF - diziet https://www.eff.org/helpout ====== dottrap Don't forget The Humble Bundle :)
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Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac - forcer http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_22/b4230064852768.htm ====== atgm It really bothers me how, over the last 10-15 years, caffeine has gone from something people use to jump-start their day to some kind of... fad drug. People brag about how many cups of coffee ...
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Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law - Lightning http://torrentfreak.com/finland-writes-history-with-crowdsourced-copyright-law-130722/ ====== container There's even a diff file of the proposed changes to the law, although I'm not sure if this version is official or current anymore. Google translatio...
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Can Saccadic Eye Movements Enhance Implicit and Explicit Memory? (2018) - qrian https://sciencetrends.com/can-saccade-eye-movements-sire-effects-enhance-implicit-explicit-memory/ ====== qrian Just found out about saccade induced retrieval enhancement and wanted to share here. It's about how moving eyes for a bit enhan...
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Ask HN: How Should I Spend My Summer? - dschmidt11 My summer officially starts in 9 hours (eff you finals). I'm a business major meaning I have 0 code experience. My thoughts took a 180 degree turn when the idea for my startup hit. Being a broke college student, I would be bootstrapping this to the fullest extent. B...
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To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants - adidash http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/to-battle-yelp-google-buys-appetas-a-website-builder-for-restaurants-will-shut-it-down/ ====== rahimnathwani The title is misleading. From the Appetas blog: _To focus on our new endeavors, we’ll be shutt...
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Reviewing Zeppelin and Jupyter Notebooks - micheda https://www.stratosphere.dev/posts/2019/Mar/16/reviewing-zeppelin-and-jupyter-notebooks/ ====== PyroLagus There's also Iodide from Mozilla, which is pretty cool: [https://alpha.iodide.io/](https://alpha.iodide.io/) GitHub: [https://github.com/iodide-project/iodide](h...
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Metasploit – A Walkthrough of the Powerful Exploitation Framework - manishmshiva https://medium.com/manishmshiva/metasploit-a-walkthrough-of-the-powerful-exploitation-framework-6974c4ed0ea7 ====== greenie_beans one time i downloaded metasploit onto my computer and my anti-virus software freaked out ~~~ 0xdeadb00f As ...
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Microsoft's GitHub account hacked, private repositories stolen - aspenmayer https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-github-account-hacked-private-repositories-stolen/ ====== aspenmayer “This evening, a hacker going by the name Shiny Hunters contacted BleepingComputer to tell us they had hacked into t...
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Split Tunnel SMTP Exploit Explained - sr2 https://blog.securolytics.io/2017/05/split-tunnel-smtp-exploit-explained/ ====== soetis1 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14441025](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14441025)
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USSR Believed a Top Secret Room was at center of Pentagon - was a hot dog stand - rb2e http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=1049 ====== SagelyGuru > “They thought this was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the > entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around this hot dog stand.” I like ...
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Understanding Waiting Times Between Events in a Poisson Process - nicolewhite http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/nicolewhite/notebooks/blob/master/Poisson.ipynb ====== chejazi A similar model applies to analyzing Bitcoin blocks. The "event" in this case is a block that is at its maximum capacity: [https://www.reddit...
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Probability Theory — A Primer - nickmain http://jeremykun.com/2013/01/04/probability-theory-a-primer/ ====== rgarcia If this kind of stuff interests you, you should check out the lecture videos from Harvard's Stat 110: <http://stat110.net>. Prof. Blitzstein is hilariously nerdy but still has a very clear presentatio...
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Show HN: Recommend HN comments based on your comment history - nl I love the HN community.<p>Too many third-party sites republish links to popular HN stories, but readers of those links miss the best part: the discussion on HN.<p>http://hnrecommender.qontex.com/ attempts to find comments and stories you may find int...
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Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 - jasonlbaptiste http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/want-to-give-pinboard-a-try-youll-have-to-pay-284/ ====== jsz0 Nah I'll just use one of the many other free alternatives. Charging for something is fine but it helps to do something unique if you actually wan...
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How do you validate an idea before you build it? Sell it - n_coats I recently identified a market opportunity for a startup that I am interested in pursuing. Having made the mistake in previous ventures of building first and then realizing that no one wanted to pay for what I built, I promised myself to always valid...
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Show HN: Visual breakdown of S&P 500 companies - Omie6541 https://tijorifinance.com/us/company/AMZN ====== siddharthhegde We are extracting data from 10K’s, 10Q’s & other company filings to build out a visual representation of S&P 500 companies & their metrics. In this version we’ve tried to capture: 1\. Revenue bre...
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Ask HN: How do you find AWS management tools? - veermanhas I have been working on a project and wanted to get some feedback from the community to make sure, I am headed in the right direction.<p>CloudEgg.net<p>The whole idea is to have a repository of vendors, open-source solutions that are available for their use cas...
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Ask HN: The “New” page – bug or feature? - nsns After lurking here for several years, I&#x27;ve come to realize that there&#x27;s a basic problem with the manner in which this forum works: while posts that make it to the main page usually get up-voted according to their merit, the way they get there seems much more ra...
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Landed (YC W16) on why teacher home-ownership is central to improving schools - lebanon_tn http://blog.landed.com/teacher-homeownership-is-central-to-improving-americas-schools-3/ ====== gregatragenet3 If they focused on home ownership for educators teaching medicine they could achieve the trifecta! Markets in which g...
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Instant confirmation via Bitcoin payment protocol - HostFat https://github.com/greenaddress/bips/blob/bip-payment-request-instant-confirmations/bip-payment-request-instant-confirmations.mediawiki ====== BrokenPipe Hello :) author of the proposal here, if you have any question or comment feel free to ask! Users that...
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Enroll in the New Advanced Protection Program in an Instant - jdivo https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-advanced-protection-program-account-security-instant/ ====== sarcasmatwork And Cloudflare is pushing Galileo... [https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/](https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/)
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Talk to people pirating your products - arjunappdupe http://appdupe.com/news/piracy-embrace-work ====== arjunappdupe Please share your approach to counter someone pirating your products. We could all brainstorm on what works. Cheers! ~~~ patio11 I switched from downloadable software to SaaS. Not really much more to...
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Western US 'literally out of firefighters and equipment,' fire official says - jelliclesfarm http://katu.com/news/local/western-us-is-literally-out-of-firefighters-and-equipment-clackamas-fire-chief-says ====== jelliclesfarm Why can’t we use airships to douse fires? ~~~ jelliclesfarm To the anonymous users who are pr...
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Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards - laurex https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm ====== foxfired I started to notice that sugar content has increased in sodas. I used to work in a grocery store 12/13 ...
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Open-sourcing bioinstruments - homarp https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/open-sourcing-bioinstruments/ ====== sinab My name is Sina Booeshaghi a second year PhD student at Caltech and I built and designed the poseidon system (with the help of Eduardo Beltrame, Jase Gehring, Dylan Bannon, and Lior Pachter) in...
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Switching from macOS: Hardware - Mayzie http://blog.elementary.io/post/152750962276/switching-from-macos-hardware ====== JBReefer I love the idea of a more polished Linux desktop experience but this is just an ad for a few partner companies and then some guessing about what might work. ------ alanfranzoni What about ...
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Give your side-projects a home on the web - isaacsu http://www.makedock.com/ ====== Mongoose Any links to example pages? They offer little-to-no info about what the pages actually look like. Why would I use this instead of GitHub? ~~~ isaacsu I guess side-projects may not always have a coding element to it, or mayb...
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Show HN: Placebo Button for android - paweln https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.nadolski.placebobutton ====== paweln I created this app inspired by placebobutton.com website (see [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686357](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686357)). It somehow motivated me to do...
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The Noob Guide to Online Marketing - aymeric http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketing-with-giant-infographic-11928 ====== rcavezza To save time, here are the main points: Set up your pages for SEO Have a blog Use Adwords Get your name on Twitter & Facebook Submit blogposts to reddit, digg, hn, ...
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Affirmative Action - A Complicated Issue for Asian-Americans - lambtron http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/affirmative-action-a-complicated-issue-for-asian-americans.html ====== rorrr Aren't we all of African descent?
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Atlassian’s HipChat user data breached - sunnykgupta https://icodestartups.com/atlassians-hipchat-user-data-breached/ ====== tedmiston From the email: > According to our records, your HipChat account is inactive. As a precaution, > we have deleted the password for your inactive HipChat account. No action > related to...
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The enigmatic complexity of number theory - monort https://mathoverflow.net/questions/282869/the-enigmatic-complexity-of-number-theory ====== jimhefferon Is there a name for the principle that the more interesting a topic is on a Stack Exchange forum, the more likely it is to be closed? ~~~ monort And Scott Aaronson ...
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A Place To Store App Ideas - taylorkpotter https://appsto.re/us/2WcC0.i ====== natch How would I know that this app isn't siphoning off my ideas to its own server? Not that I'm saying it does. Just curious how people might do traffic sniffing ala lil' snitch on an iOS device. I guess one way is to set up your own ...
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Amazon Upgrade: a really useful idea that nobody has heard of - camtarn http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/amazon-upgrade-google ====== camtarn I've been wanting a feature like this for absolutely ages - I keep wanting to do a full-text search of books I only own in physical format. Strange to find tha...
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Ask HN: Like VR but Don't Like Game Development - throwaway29292 I am about to graduate and want to decide which field I&#x27;ll focus on in my career, and pursue post-graduation studies in. I&#x27;ve had an interest in VR since long but am not interested at all in Android&#x2F;Unity&#x2F;Game Development&#x2F;3D math...
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How to learn Flash - coliveira During the last few years I have seen more and more web sites that use Flash not just for media, but also for UI interaction -- in the same way one would use Cocoa or Win32. It looks like Flash is becoming the "low level" API for web apps, that is, whenever something is not available a...
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Ghost in the Shell FUI Design - cryo http://www.hudsandguis.com/home/2017/4/17/ghostintheshell-fui ====== d33 I couldn't easily find in the post what this FUI abbreviation stands for, so here's a reddit on it: [https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/top](https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/top) ~~~ FridgeSeal Subscribed to that so f...
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India power plant fire: Nine reported dead in major blaze in Telangana - teacupnews https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53861457 ====== enlightenedone Could also be a cyberattack,given the border tensions with country have one of the most advanced cyber military, You never know!
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Docker Says Absolutely Not to Collaboration on Standard Container Specification - Alupis https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9538#issuecomment-65967102 ====== debacle They didn't say no, they just said they wouldn't spend effort conforming to a 3 day old standard that no one was using. That just makes business ...
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Is Facebook Becoming the New AOL? - buckpost http://www.markevanstech.com/2010/11/27/is-facebook-the-new-aol/ ====== jballanc I think this is a classic example of hacker (or tech-savy types in general) having a very different experience than the rest of the population. For example, do you know when more households h...
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MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy - danielmorozoff https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/17/mit-nuclear-fusion-record-marks-latest-step-towards-unlimited-clean-energy ====== arcanus Scientists are optimistic that the promise of fusion energy is only twenty years away...
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Twitter: An Open Love Letter - fields https://medium.com/@fields/twitter-an-open-love-letter-efa256044a9c ====== chmaynard > It’s too hard to find the right people to follow for your detailed > interests. I love to follow people who post creative, well-written, ironic, humorous tweets. It almost doesn't matter what...
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Ask HN: Is your Slack-based product profitable? - EtienneLem Looking at the last few days on ProductHunt, I’m seeing about 8+ products for Slack. Some of them are a sub-product of the main one with either their own pricing or used to promote the main product. Some are a full-fledged startup, some even only seem to wor...
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Uyghur woman forced to marry Han Chinese man in exchange for family's release - baylearn https://twitter.com/WBYeats1865/status/1176865152676683776 ====== baylearn Related article “China coerces Uighur women into unwanted marriages” with more context: [https://share.america.gov/china-coerces-uighur-women-into- un...]...
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Mails from Twitter | XSS - ulf "Hey there.<p>Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser: [...]"<p>Now THIS is nice...at least now they seem to realize how they...
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Ask HN: I have $1200 to spend on gadgets, what should I buy? - bhoomit ====== throwaway_yy2Di A vacation. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474454](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474454) ~~~ umrashrf I think it exceeds his budget by the fact that he will also have to spend time which he can otherwise ...
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When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis? - inostia https://www.macworld.com/article/3300182/macs/when-the-mac-mini-gets-pro-will-the-pros-get-mac-minis.html ====== ksec It is a funny situation, Apple wants most of the people to move to iPad, and leave the Mac for pro uses. That is a perfectly fine stra...
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Twitter gets its 'million dollar homepage' scheme - fromedome http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-gets-its-million-dollar-homepage-scheme-2009-3 ====== kbrower $1 per tweet is a little cheap. $1 per character would be better ~~~ fromedome Ha, yeah.
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Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (2016) - commons-tragedy https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/was-philosopher-paul-feyerabend-really-science-s-worst-enemy/ ====== osullivj His insistence that there is no scientific method is pro-science. Science’s only method is “opportunism,” he said. ...
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There's more to HTML escaping than &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, and " - jamesbritt http://wonko.com/post/html-escaping ====== nbpoole ...except when there isn't. ;-) PHP's htmlspecialchars function, which is called out specifically in this post, is actually fine for most use-cases. If you write code like this: ...
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What do you miss about your country? Food? Cosmetics? - torimo As Japanese expats abroad, we wanted to find a simpler + more cost effective way to access the products we love.<p>That&#x27;s why we launch Torimo https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torimo.io&#x2F;<p>Torimo matches shoppers searching for locally unavailable products with ...
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Ask HN: Do you use G Keep and Evernote together in your note taking workflow? - rodolphoarruda In fact, this is a problem that I have. I started using Evernote years ago for virtually everything, a true swiss knife. One day I learned about G Keep and decided to give it try. I loved it. So simple and lean, but powerful...
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VICI.tv - Just turned YouTube into TV (just for fun) - ARolek A buddy and I were playing with the YouTube chromeless player, Javascript API, and data API the last couple weeks and next thing you know we made essentially Pandora for Videos. Leveraging jQuery on the front end and a bunch of intelligent filtering, rec...
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What advertising can't fix - bdfh42 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09/what-advertisin.html ====== DabAsteroid First paragraph: _If you spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars on an ad campaign for a tech company, people will talk about it. If you give Jerry Seinfeld, the most famous comedian e...
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