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iOS 6 fixes bug that sent iMessages to stolen iPhones - markshepard http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/ios-6-fixes-bug-that-sent-imessages-to-stolen-iphones/ ====== s_henry_paulson From the comments: _Is it me or is it slightly worrying that they seem to have implemented these changes at a client level, meaning ...
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Ask HN: SF vs. NYC? - warewolf My team is currently discussing a relocation to either San Fransisco or New York City in the next 2 months our so. We are a social network startup currently based out of Atlanta. ATL is a young growing city and we believe the media connections and partners here are great. However our rea...
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Swing Education (Imagine K12 F15) Interview with Clojure.org - miketeng https://clojure.org/stories/swing ====== miketeng Our CTO recently did an interview with clojure.org. We're an edtech business helping schools find and schedule substitute teachers. I'm the CEO and co- founder Mike Teng. Happy to answer any questi...
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California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants - petethomas https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-high-speed-rail-consultants-20190426-story.html ====== redwood I experienced this in my first job... A regulatory decision around approval of a new power line in California.....
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If IoT Security Is Everything, Why Don’t We All Drive Volvos? - tdrnd http://www.bbotx.com/if-iot-security-is-everything-why-dont-we-all-drive-volvos/ ====== iot_security No one drove Volvos in the early years of cars (1920-1950s) either. Today, consumers don't yet understand the safety and privacy problems IoT dev...
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Show HN: Startup docu teaser #02: Steve Huffman (Reddit / Hipmunk) - e_w http://startup-dna.tumblr.com/post/37056286367/startup-dna-docu-teaser-02-steve-huffman-reddit ====== e_w This is material from a 2h interview with Steve Huffman, <http://www.hipmunk.com/> It consists of scenes that I probably won't use in the ...
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TypeScript 2.4 RC - rpeden https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/06/12/announcing-typescript-2-4-rc/ ====== josteink String Enums look nice. I'm also looking forward to the improved type-checking for promises and callbacks. All in all looks like a solid release, although breaking changes means I'll be a li...
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Ask HN: Reasonable approach to outsourcing MVP app? - fratlas Just wondering if anyone here has outsourced their app development: where to, and how much should I expect to pay? ====== 147 Fratlas, What would success look like for you with this project? Since you mentioned that you're trying to create an MVP, success ...
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The Google Monopoly Needs To Be Broken Up - chailatte http://www.michaelcropper.co.uk/2011/06/the-google-monopoly-needs-to-be-broken-up/ ====== thecabinet This article is wrong about six different ways. Hell, he didn't even make it through the first sentence correctly: "... Google... are heading in a completely diff...
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MBAs as CEOs - allengeorge http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/mbas-as-ceos ====== alphonsegaston I think it's more useful to think of MBAs as ordination into something like the Jesuits of American Corporatism. Late Capitalism in the US has evolved in such an obviously unequal and environmentally dangerous way that the onl...
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World's First Live-Video Augmented-Reality Mustache App For The iPhone - iancharnas After months of optimizing I was finally able to get face detection to run in under 100ms on the iPhone 4.<p>http://livestache.com<p>I thought I would share some details on how this was possible. Using the Time Profiler in Apple's "...
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Unlimited Graphic Design for $199/mo - GoDesignerGo https://godesignergo.com ====== GoDesignerGo Hey HackerNews! We created GoDesignerGo after being frustrated by the amount of red tape needed required by design agencies in order to get small jobs done like Facebook cover photos and one-off banner ads. We knew of si...
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Pandemic-Proofing the Planet - bookofjoe https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/06/25/pandemic-proofing-the-planet ====== bookofjoe [https://archive.vn/Muf5l](https://archive.vn/Muf5l)
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Distributed Log Search Using GNU Parallel - anand-s http://blog.codehate.com/post/134320079974/distributed-log-search-using-gnu-parallel ====== sam_lowry_ I prefer [https://github.com/cheusov/paexec](https://github.com/cheusov/paexec) for that matter. The author is a dickhead, compiling paexec from source is quite dif...
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Many SSD Benchmark Reviews Contain Flaws - mrb http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=29 ====== alabut What would've been great is if instead of just pointing out the flaws in testing methodologies, the OP picked out a few publications that do run the tests accurately. That way we could judge how seriously to take some of the c...
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Google crawler tricked into performing SQL injection attacks - coloneltcb http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/google-crawler-tricked-into-performing-sql-injection-attacks-using-decade-old-technique/ ====== Mithrandir Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676859](https://news.ycombinator.c...
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Around IT in 256 Seconds Podcast - nurkiewicz https://256.nurkiewicz.com/ ====== nurkiewicz Podcast for developers, testers, SREs… and their managers. I explain complex and convoluted technologies in a clear way, avoiding buzzwords and hype. Never longer than 4 minutes and 16 seconds. Because software development does...
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Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life - 2StepsOutOfLine https://github.com/ChrisMiuchiz/Plasma-Writeup ====== Jasper_ I've reverse engineered a number of content encryption schemes. It's always a ton of fun, and you get to see the large amount of psychological warfare at play at the higher tiers. A very co...
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Amazon Races Ahead of Microsoft in Market Value - john58 https://news.alphastreet.com/amazon-crosses-microsoft-in-market-value/ ====== jammybritton What else Amazon can't do!! Not too far away from Apple
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WeberHub - sheneni https://weberhub.io ====== sheneni Decentralized social media platform for businesses to reward users with Webercoin
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AppGratis is shutting down - SimonDawlat http://bye.appgratis.com/ ====== marvel_boy Anyone using this service? Any thoughts?
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The "I Have 250,000 Users, Now What?" guy just sold his Facebook app for $3 million - toffer http://www.insidefacebook.com/2007/08/16/biggest-facebook-app-acquisition-yet-tripadvisor-acquires-where-ive-been-for-reported-3-million/ ====== bilbo0s This young man aggregated a very valuable demographic in one place. Ove...
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When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios - stemmlerjs https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/when-to-use-typescript-guide/ ====== externalreality I agree with this article. Good stuff. One minor gripe: > if you care about the code, you need to have unit tests for it. That's not really true. Yo...
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An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox - amilr http://daringfireball.net/2010/03/ode_to_diskwarrior_superduper_dropbox ====== amock He thinks everything is fine, but unless he has some way to verify the data he copied from that failing drive there may be corrupted data that he will notice later. I really wis...
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The Essence of Peopling - ivank http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/04/08/the-essence-of-peopling/ ====== visakanv One of the most interesting things I've ever read was about this guy who was homeless and living in the forest for a really long time. [1] He talked about how for certain periods of time, he completely forgot ...
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The Woolly Mammoth's Last Stand - gwern https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/science/woolly-mammoth-extinct-genetics.html ====== Pica_soO Basically there is no adaption that works against bad circumstances that adapt to you - besides intelligence. We might wipe out all bigger life-forms where we go- but in our shadow, i...
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Docs.com - Microsoft Office + Facebook (from Microsoft FUSE Labs) - sriramk http://www.docs.com ====== lzimm um, pretty sure this is the least insightful document+facebook "mashup" possible
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From Losing Money to a Profit Margin in 5 Months - joelrunyon http://nathanbarry.com/profit/ ====== 3pt14159 From one of the linked articles: > I’ve been a fan and customer of Freshbooks for years. They were self-funded > for a very long time until recently raising a large round of funding when > they had over 200 em...
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IDE Culture vs. Unix philosophy - dozzie https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/ide-culture-vs-unix-philosophy/ ====== dozzie It was posted two years ago ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033235](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033235)), but I think it's worth reminding.
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How to find new startup ideas? The answer is in the question. - raffi http://killall.dashnine.org/2009/06/how-to-find-new-startup-ideas/ ====== mixmax There's an interesting story hiding between the lines in the post. The first two ventures, polishmywriting and kindling, seems to me to be great ideas - yet the auth...
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What are your favourite self hosted apps? - gtt ====== XCSme The only self-hosted app I use is the analytics app I built: [https://usertrack.net](https://usertrack.net) I am also looking for a self-hosted alternative to Tawk.to, but I think I will just end up using a contact form instead of a live chat widget.
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South African ISPs must have 30% ownership by black people – draft regulations - hotz https://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/339607-south-african-isps-must-have-black-owners-draft-regulations.html ====== ljf Quote: The draft regulations propose to set new BBBEE ownership requirements over and above the targets that a...
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Looking for a technical co-founder ASAP (VoIP) - samiiii looking for a technical co-founder partner has the ability to build things , to work on a secret new project I cannot mention more details any one Interesting Required -VoIP background -programming skills<p>more info &#38; reply to : wallstreet.sam@gmail...
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Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Java/J2ME to build mobile applications? - dmix In the near future I plan on developing mobile applications (primarily for Blackberry) that are an extension of my rails applications. I am currently using mobile optimized in-browser versions of the applications but that limits the ...
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Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy - jesskah http://www.jessyoko.com/blog/2012/11/07/why-startup-founders-are-always-unhappy/ ====== diego If there is one thing I dislike more than self-help, it's self-help based on anecdotal evidence from one person with no background in psychology. Even more so when the title o...
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The Security, Usability and Multi-Device-Problem of Messaging Apps - tazjin https://www.tazj.in/en/1450354078 ====== moxie Wait, have you actually used Signal multi-device? Your thesis is that it's not usable because you have to scan a QR code once, as opposed to Telegram where you have to receive an SMS on your devic...
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A rare peek at Homeland Security's files on travelers - soundsop http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2008/12/whats_in_your_government_trave.html ====== someperson Since the Freedom of Information Act has to "to disclose records requested in writing by any person" [1], this is not a 'rare peek', it can be done by ...
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Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning - rangerranvir https://ranvir.xyz/blog/svm-support-vector-machines-in-machine-learning/ ====== rusty-rust Large parts of this blog are straight copy-paste from “An introduction to statistical learning” by Gareth James et. al. ------ astrophysician If you're ...
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U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala - georgecmu http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6903RZ20101001 ====== lawrence Any time I start to get too trusting of people / government, or too dismissive of conspiracy theorists, I read something like this. This is pretty evil. ~~~ tvon The U.S. also overthr...
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Mandated Third Party Static Analysis: Bad Public Policy, Bad Security - xenophonf https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/mandated_third_party_static_analysis ====== wyldfire Note that it's from March 11, 2014. It's relevant background for the recent post though. ~~~ xenophonf Thanks for the clarification. I...
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The Lean Startup Bundle 2012 - pdelgallego http://www.appsumo.com/lean2012/?rf=emfd ====== pdelgallego This is Appsumo $99 deal that includes : Batchbook: 6 months of the Indigo plan Chargify: $99 credit Clientbiller: 1 year of any package Crazy Egg: Lifetime account for on...
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Interview with Richard Stallman - octopus http://www.tildehash.com/?article=interview-with-richard-stallman-2011 ====== angrycoder >" Torvalds rejects the goal of freedom for software users, and when people attribute the development of GNU/Linux to him, he uses his influence to lead them to devalue their own freedom. ...
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The Todo.txt Command Line Interface (CLI) - mlLK http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ ====== jamesbritt Raise your hand if you've written you own version of this at least once. This looks quite slick (though it's sort of ironic that a non-GUI, text-based tool does not have a simple text-based description; I sk...
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Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin - jbrooksuk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33364349 ====== Ensorceled I'm amazed at how often the defence story in these cases, "He had a stellar, 15-year career with the DEA except for this one blip.", is accepted at face value. I imagine a smart, experienced,...
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Security report for Peatio Bitcoin exchange [pdf] - danso http://sakurity.com/peatio.pdf ====== dguido If anyone trusts a rails app for real money, they're an idiot. Homakov made his report today and they'll patch these bugs but did he get them all? What about new code that is written? Will he watch every commit mad...
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Red Hat to provide Linux trading platform for NYSE - dreemteem http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3272943/nyse-and-deutsche-borse-merger-chiefs-size-up-single-red-hat-linux-trading-platform/ ====== icefox Warning: link bait. Both companies already use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I worked on it, but don't ta...
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Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, with a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line - JumpCrisscross https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-targets-unprofitable-items-with-a-sharper-focus-on-the-bottom-line-11544965201 ====== cepth Here's a related development: Amazon has been pushing many of its larger Amazon FBA merchants to u...
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Go Book; a book explaining the Go language - adulau http://www.miek.nl/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gobook.git;a=summary ====== terinjokes If you're like me, and liked the style used in the book, I tracked down the blog post where he introduces it. <http://www.miek.nl/s/d7c7a15ac3/> ------ timclark Prebuilt pdfs also avai...
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Homelessness rises in U.S., driven by California housing crisis - hhs https://www.axios.com/hud-homelessness-rises-in-us-driven-by-california-f231500a-2fee-4477-813e-e838923e0288.html ====== i_am_nomad These articles keep claiming that high rents, mental illness and substance abuse are the causes of the homelessness s...
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My Adwords Are Turned Off - patio11 http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/08/01/my-adwords-are-turned-off-scary-stuff/ ====== jacquesm Operating in googles ecosystem is a very scary business model. One day you're making money, the next you are begging for scraps. It's like the farmers of old that had to deal with the weathe...
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Ask HN: Small market product vs Big market product, Which should we attack? - JonathanWCurd We have a dilemma.<p>We have come up with two product ideas in the last few months. We have done research on both markets and we have had great response to both ideas. Here is where things get tricky.<p>On one hand we have a ...
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Open Source Community Building -- Barriers to Entry - blasdel http://dneary.free.fr/articles/Community_barriers_to_entry_checklist.pdf ====== blasdel "There is a down-side to IRC which should be kept in mind. Over time, the people who will be most active in IRC will tend to be people whose only contribution to your pr...
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Schools Are Deploying Digital Surveillance Systems - edtechstrats https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/05/30/schools-are-deploying-massive-digital-surveillance-systems.html ====== edtechstrats Related: "Florida Plan for a Huge Database to Stop School Shootings Hits Delays, Legal Questions" [https://www.edweek.org/e...
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Why is there no live stream of the World Series game? - ceworthington It's 2012. Why hasn't FOX found a way to make money from live streaming a sports event that they broadcast for free on TV?<p>They could load it up with ads, or charge me $10 per game. Instead, they black it out, asking me to tune into their free, ...
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Startup Ducks Immigration Law With 'Googleplex of the Sea' - ukdm http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/blueseed/ ====== Jun8 The term that is conspicuously absent from that article is "tax", most probably they will have the ship registered to Panama or some similar and will not pay any tax when doing business ...
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Ask HN: Possible to publish a paper without graduate degree? - dundercoder Forgive the naive question, as I know many of you have at least one graduate degree.<p>One of my favorite courses during undergrad was one on how to read papers and journals, and the vigor that goes through them.<p>Not that I fancy myself as be...
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Show HN: Breather – a network of private rooms unlocked with your mobile phone - evanprodromou http://breather.com/ ====== evanprodromou We've been testing for months in Montreal, but Breather just opened in the US with our first spaces in New York City. Users reserve the rooms for private use on their phones with a...
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Trailblazer: A new architecture for Rails - tombenner https://github.com/apotonick/trailblazer ====== jonahx From the sample chapter: "Some charismatic leaders in Rails core dislike encapsulation. The Fear Of The Class, the freedom of a dynamically typed programming language and the strong will to make it different t...
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Am I dreaming? - things http://chrishateswriting.com/post/75158854851/am-i-dreaming ====== archgoon I suspect what this really means is that Facebook doesn't need explicit identity markers anymore to work out who you are. That's done and trained. Now they benefit from additional metadata like "I don't want this messag...
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LiveStyle: the first bi-directional real-time edit tool for CSS, LESS and SCSS - jasonszhao http://livestyle.io ====== damaru I want my html css and js to live update. Only css and only sublime seems quite a limitation. Something like npm reload does a lot more.
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The Fisherman's Secret: A modern-day treasure hunt - imagetic https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/the-fishermans-secret/ ====== bitxbitxbitcoin That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing.
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Ask HN: What pain point did Twitter solve? - rajacombinator Entrepreneurs are often asked what pain point their product solves. (I think it is even on YC apps.) I think that&#x27;s a great question that can help clarify what a business is doing. But it got me wondering ... if you were pitching Twitter to a seed stag...
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Marvin Minsky, 1927-2016: the death of a genial skeptic - soundsop http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2016/01/25/marvin-minsky-1927-2016-the-death-of-a-skeptic/ ====== dang The main discussion is at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970867](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970867). We're (slowly) working on a ...
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Drawing and animating with music sequencers - hackermom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU4GJgwDCbQ ====== hello-trolls like
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IStockphoto to begin selling stock logos - voidpointer http://www.thedonutproject.com/2009/09/23/istockphoto-to-begin-selling-stock-logos/ ====== pasbesoin Maybe this isn't the place to ask this question, but I've been asked to help a non-profit pick out some stock photography for their new web site (not something I...
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Ask HN: Time for a beer or coffee - davismwfl I will be in Burbank ca next Tuesday and Wednesday meeting with a client. Would be interested in meeting up with anyone for a beer or coffee in the morning. I run a consultancy and am building a product business. So whether you want to pick my brain or we can share I do...
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Why didn't the Native Americans ever advance technologically? - xvirk http://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-Native-Americans-ever-advance-technologically-over-thousands-of-years-while-Europe-and-Asia-advanced-dramatically/answer/Al-Carroll?srid=obCO&share=1 ====== dalke 1) they sure did advance technologically. Compare...
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Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets - derpenxyne http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-icloud-password-freeze/ ====== X-Istence "After Epic Hack [...]". Sorry, not that epic. Yes, multiple steps were required but the biggest issue in security once again was the human element. Epic would be...
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Built for Eternity: The Hoover Dam - andyjohnson0 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/built-for-eternity ====== cperciva _Radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel has a shelf life of hundreds of thousands of years. Maybe even more than a million, it’s not possible to precisely predict._ The fact that a journalist can w...
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Joining Pro-WikiLeaks Attacks Is as Easy as Clicking a Button - Mithrandir http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/web20-attack-anonymous/ ====== jacquesm Using javascript to 'donate' your computer to some cause was demonstrated a while ago to attempt to win the engineyard contest: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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Rule of 72 - matt1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72 ====== joshu So, a million years ago, I was the first programmer hired in the NYC offices of Montgomery Securities (long since acquired.) to build trading systems or some such. I was sitting up with the analysts in the cherrywood cube farms late one evening...
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2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record - gregcrv https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/20/its-official-2015-smashed-2014s-global-temperature-record-it-wasnt-even-close/ ====== ps4fanboy Nuclear Power, until those who care about the environment accept that the only clean at scale po...
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That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA - bentaber http://jeremybmerrill.com/blog/2016/01/flyover.html ====== jgrahamc Interesting. This guy is like my twin in New York. I too have an ambient bus tracker ([http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor- from...](http://blog.jgc.org/...
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Show HN: FormulaDesk – powertools for Excel - garethhayter https://www.formuladesk.com ====== garethhayter Hi. I'm Gareth, the creator of FormulaDesk. It's like ReSharper for Excel - adding useful features that should've been part of the product anyway. All feedback is welcome. Please let me know how it can be improv...
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Amazon Cognito - moonlighter https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/ ====== amirmc The interesting thing about all these services is that they're trying to abstract away the same types of problems that all developers come across: Identity, connectivity, sync/backup (and to some extent, deployment). A different (and more disr...
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Google Fit Closing in 30 Days - alexandernst https://fit.google.com/fit/ ====== natvert Should be re-titled to say just the website is shutting down.
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Trading Meat for Tires as Bartering Economy Grows in Greece - Mz http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/business/international/trading-meat-for-tires-as-bartering-economy-grows-in-greece.html ====== ChuckMcM This is an interesting side effect of the capital controls. It reminds people once again that currency is really jus...
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Start-up factory Y Combinator is no longer working with Peter Thiel - kelukelugames https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/peter-thiel-y-combinator-part-ways.html ====== rgbrenner yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725108](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725108)
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Homograph attack( link is not it appears,for example click on this paypal link ) - introvertmac http://www.pаypal.com ====== greenyoda Here's an explanation of the phenomenon being demonstrated by the posted link: [http://www.jefftk.com/p/is-unicode-safe](http://www.jefftk.com/p/is-unicode- safe)
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Introducing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink - stsffap http://flink.apache.org/news/2016/04/06/cep-monitoring.html ====== scott_s For those interesting in CEP in streaming systems, I invite you to read a paper by my colleague, Martin Hirzel, "Partition and Compose: Parallel Complex Event Processing": [...
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Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project - fairpx At http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fairpixels.co, we help ambitious projects look less sucky through mainly logo and brand design as well as other design services.<p>We love open source, so we launched www.logodust.com a while ago and started open sourcing our own un...
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If you develop web apps, don't do this. - sneak http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110614/please-dont-do-this/ ====== DavidMcLaughlin The real point is: don't do two-level ACL on websites. At my previous company we had these "auto-login" links in emails and they are extremely powerful. But maybe once every six months peopl...
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California Hiking Map – A map that shows all hiking trails in CA - arishi http://www.californiahikingmap.com/ ====== arishi Created by Jason Mandly, a meteorologist from Chico, CA, the map shows all the hiking trails in California on one map. This includes hiking trails, Class 1 bike paths, and fire roads closed to ve...
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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery - denzil_correa http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-mathematicians-solve-age-old-spaghetti-mystery-0813 ====== deburo Odd, I saw that spaghetti phenomenon on smartereveryday just a few days ago, but it appears it was posted in 2014. Heh. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADD...
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Valve Proton: Run Windows Games on Linux Using Steam Play - ingve https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#introduction ====== detaro previously: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815892](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815892) ------ fturco Don't use it. It's proprietary software.
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I'm working on opensource iOS Bitcoin wallet. Anyone can build it and run it - Overtorment I&#x27;m working on opensource iOS Bitcoin wallet. Anyone can build it and run it (if you care typing a couple of commands on terminal). SegWit-ready; Replace-By-Fee implemented; arbitrary fees. Built with ReactNative &amp; Expo...
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Show HN: WordPress Theme Builder for Mac, Win and Linux - mattront http://pinegrow.com/wordpress-theme-builder.html ====== ereckers This is really interesting. I haven't tried it, but it's definitely a new approach to designing WordPress themes (as far as I know). Ok, I've got ask. Why isn't pinegrow.com built on W...
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Ask HN: Do you prefer a big one-time load or a tiny more delay in every click? - artpar For a work related dashboard type of app. What do you think is the &quot;upper limit&quot; of time delay in each ? ====== brudgers I don't prefer either. ~~~ artpar Will definitely aim for that. But not every time you would have t...
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Maker Faire - jlhamilton http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/science/13make.html?ex=1368417600&en=da59d125e3a97a67&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink ====== timr I submitted the same article last night, but the eds. changed the tag: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=188346>
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'Call me': Donald Trump woos tech leaders at New York meeting - reirob https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/14/donald-trump-google-facebook-amazon-microsoft ====== reirob [...] Trump opened the event by boasting of how many would-be-attendees he had turned away at the suggestion of Thiel. “I won’t tell you the...
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Fasterfox: Add-ons for Firefox - delabano https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269 ====== jaddison And for people with 3.0+: <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148> Not that I've used it.
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I see dead startups - TristanKromer http://vlaskovits.com/2011/05/i-see-dead-startups/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Vlaskovits+%28Vlaskovits%29 ====== staunch This is by far the most difficult problem in startups: Should you persevere or pivot? I think Paul Buchheit's advice is probab...
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I bought js.org and want to “give it back” to the JavaScript community - jsorg What do you think would be most useful for the JS-community? Free subdomains for open-source projects? A CDN ? Community tools like blogs, forums, chats? <i></i>*@js.org email adresses for &quot;everyone&quot;? ====== yunyeng Lets create an...
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Ask HN: Good CSS to reset styles for typography - ericn I'm looking for a good CSS file that will reset all the styles on a page to something with high readability. I know Eric Meyers' reset.css, but that basically removes all style. I would like something that applies good styles to all elements that uses better ty...
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No, Section 230 Does Not Require Platforms to Be “Neutral” - panarky https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-not-require-platforms-be-neutral ====== westurner > _It’s foolish to suggest that web platforms should lose their Section 230 > protections for failing to align their moderation policies to an...
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X-37b space plane’s microwave power beam experiment - clouddrover https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33339/x-37b-space-planes-microwave-power-beam-experiment-is-a-way-bigger-deal-than-it-seems ====== DennisP A couple years ago I read a book[1] on space solar power. It was written before SpaceX really got going, and...
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Kurt Gödel: A Contradiction in the U.S. Constitution‎ - Jebdm http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/ ====== ensignavenger The Founders warned of several ways that America could be turned into a Dictatorship. Washington warned against political parties, calling them a form of despotism, which would, if left unchecked, l...
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OpenStreetCam sign detection code and training data open sourced - mvexel https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/43942 ====== doctoboggan Very interesting, but unfortunately the one example they pulled was incorrect. If you look at the street sign is says "Exit | 45 mph", which means this is the speed limit w...
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These numbers will remind you that doing a startup is brutal - jaoued https://www.techinasia.com/numbers-remind-startup-brutal/ ====== onion2k These particular numbers don't remind me that doing a startup is brutal. They tell me that investing in a startup is quite brutal, but _doing_ a startup is about so much more...
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Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood - karlheinz_py https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/ ====== tjradcliffe A related question is: why is Perl so fast? Quite a few years ago I wrote a little Runge-Kutta solver in Perl for some simulation work. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The...
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