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Do you use CVS with your web project? How exactly? - mojuba ====== e1ven We use a build machine. ;) Really, it's the best way to deal with releases. People develop in their own branches of the code, and them when features are ready, we merge back into the Trunk. We have a machine (actually a VM) check the code for ...
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2048 for stars - newbrict http://newbrict.github.io/Fe26/ ====== gus_massa 24Magnesium is a dead end. It'd be a good idea to use a different font color to mark it. (What happens with the 24Magnesium in the real stars?) Edit: From a comment in another thread by ISL [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607397](htt...
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The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor - brianwillis http://hypercritical.co/2013/03/08/the-case-for-a-true-mac-pro-successor ====== tolmasky I am an owner of the "latest" Mac Pro, and I had the liquid cooled PowerMac G5 before that. I don't really know what to feel when it comes to the Mac Pro anymore. I used to compi...
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Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more - joshuareed http://k1ss.org ====== danielscrubs I loved the idea (git everything!) until I read this: "How do I remove a package and all of its dependencies? [...] The package manager does not do recursive dependency removal on removal of a package. This error...
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Amazon’s holiday success and UPS’ holiday fail - manojkr http://gigaom.com/2013/12/26/amazons-holiday-success-and-ups-holiday-fail-highlight-the-internet-economys-problems/ ====== potatolicious Author is really reaching here. UPS is not the stodgy, antiquated fossil it's being portrayed as. UPS has been quick to embra...
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What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015) - iamjeff https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/04/09/what-like-poor-ivy-league-school/xPtql5uzDb6r9AUFER8R0O/story.html ====== sethammons I can relate. I did not go to an Ivy League (though, maybe I should have at least applied). I grew up poor and outsid...
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OpenSSL Security Advisory - tlo https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150108.txt ====== tptacek The optics of this advisory are bad, of course, but these are probably not operationally important bugs for most people: * DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record ( _only impacts people who use DTLS, and is a null po...
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Please read the paper before you comment - azhenley https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/please-read-the-paper-before-you-comment/ ====== cgrealy Some years ago, Ars Technica ran a story on guns. [https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/04/guns-in-the-home- lot...](https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/04/guns-in-...
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Bypassing CSP using polyglot JPEGs - inian http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/12/bypassing-csp-using-polyglot-jpegs.html ====== ubernostrum While this is a neat technical trick, it does appear to require that an attacker also be able to inject a script tag with a specific source of the attacker's choice. Which feels lik...
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The Moral Choice of Whether to Buy Essay or Not - PopArtsss http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-moral-choice-of-whether-to-buy-essay-or-not_us_583c0a60e4b0a79f7433b873 ====== sharemywin Maybe it's changed but when I went to office hours there usually was very few students there.
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Is it possible to track an IP address that is using a VPN? - hduandme I was reached out to by an internet scammer via instagram to "invest" into their bitcoin mining scheme. Very obvious this person was using fake pictures and was trying to scam me. I got them to click on a grabify link and got their IP add...
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Windows 95 Defrag Simulator (makes noise) - maxpert http://hultbergs.org/defrag/ ====== mdip Am I the only one that found it peaceful to watch a drive being defragged? I used to start a job and just ... watch it ... pretty funny to think about now with everything I own either being SSD based or doing defrags on a sch...
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Twitter Bans Own CEO Jack Dorsey from Twitter - xeniak http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/23/twitter_jack_dorsey_ban/ ====== JimmyAustin "just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake)" \- @jack [https://twitter.com/jack/status/801270269184647168](https://twitter.com/jack/status/8012702...
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Demo of Jeff Raskin's Zoom World user interface [links to video] - musiciangames http://rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Demos#The_Zooming_User_Interface_Demo ====== ejs Feels like using AutoCAD to me.
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Google introduces 'Customer Match' – target web ads to email addresses - TomAnthony http://adwords.blogspot.com/2015/09/Google-brings-you-closer-to-your-customers.html ====== baconner Get ready for ads to start addressing you directly by name and doing other like things to get your attention. Google isn't usually _too...
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Pure-Ruby solution for a highly scalable Redis-backed social activity feeds - kigster http://kig.re/2017/02/19/feeding-frenzy-with-simple-feed-activity-feed-ruby-gem.html ====== kigster Github URL is here: [https://github.com/kigster/simple- feed](https://github.com/kigster/simple-feed) and the ruby gem is here: [http...
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Arkansas' largest newspaper giving away iPads to keep subscribers - rmason https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/25/arkansas-newspaper-ipads/39515823/ ====== NotSammyHagar Local and probably even statewide newspapers are mostly going to be gone. I don't know how we'll be able to have knowledge of and d...
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Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction - Red_Tarsius http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Japan-s-nuclear-technology-faces-extinction?page=1 ====== itchyjunk Although not the best comparison, oil industry has had some bad spills and other negative incidents. But oil is treated as too crucial of a resource to pu...
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Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd [video] - octosphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AeWu1fZ7bY ====== nickik This is actually a very smart video about systemd and the BSD community. Its not a typical anti-systemd rant.
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Ask HN: What for do you use Bitcoin block explorers ? - etiennebch I am considering building a bitcoin block explorer as a side project and I would like the opinion from HN, as there are already many explorers out there.<p>1- What for do you use them generally if at all ?<p>2- How often ?<p>3- What is your background ...
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Do you have a problem? Write a compiler - lelf http://oleg.fi/gists/posts/2019-09-26-write-a-compiler.html ====== TeMPOraL To people saying that writing a compiler is almost always an overkill - that's because you and author mean different things by the word "compiler". Or, in other words, that's because your intuitio...
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Deciphering Glyph: The Emacs Test - falava http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/12/emacs-test.html ====== jackowayed I think the extensibility is huge for emacs. It's very easy to do and very powerful. But here's the really cool thing: I barely know any Lisp. The most I've extended emacs is adding key bindings. But I ...
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Yes, There Have Been Aliens - mcgwiz http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/opinion/sunday/yes-there-have-been-aliens.html ====== jameskilton This article basically states that the chance of there being intelligent life outside of Earth is > 0% so obviously the chance of aliens is 100%. It doesn't provide any proof so the ...
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Bernie Tax Calculator - keehun http://Bernietax.com ====== bsbechtel It's not just about how much in taxes you would pay; it's about the risk of you actually getting quality care for what you are forced to pay in taxes. The risk of that care not being adequate is significant...consider that Bernie Sanders is Chairman ...
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How to create a game bot and publish your HTML5 games on Telegram - karliky https://blog.ludei.com/how-to-create-a-game-bot-and-publish-your-html5-games-on-telegram/ ====== hugecannon Text-only cached version: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0AfAyP...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/sear...
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I rode in a 3D-printed car (and I kind of liked it) - Varcht http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/13/7539341/3d-printed-car-local-motors-strati-naias-2015 ====== BatFastard Interesting idea, this is the first time I have seen something this large being 3D-printed. I like the concept of this type of manufacturing in a micr...
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Interview with the Creator of Max/MSP and Pure Data - stevekrouse https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/047.html ====== jcelerier Had the chance to meet Miller as he was part of my phd jury, as most of the time for persons of this caliber and with such a large impact, he was super nice and humble. Regarding > There’s ...
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Why I told my friends to stop using WhatsApp and Telegram - artsandsci https://medium.freecodecamp.com/why-i-asked-my-friends-to-stop-using-whatsapp-and-telegram-e93346b3c1f0#.skmm3v1fc ====== cordite Telegram is frequently updated, friendly to developers, and has a good track record of user experience. The same cann...
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New study yields instructive results on how mindset affects learning - dean http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/february7/dweck-020707.html?view=print ====== gwenhwyfaer > "One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working > because they're praised so often that it's what they want to l...
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Angels fund factories not social media startups - wkneepkens http://blog.favour.it/post/31791630023/angels-fund-factories-not-social-media-startups ====== rdalens Interesting concept
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A Course on Automata Theory - brudgers https://www.coursera.org/course/automata ====== gnuvince When I was an undergrad at Université de Montréal, the theory of computation class which dealt with automata was called "Informatique Théorique"; literally, "theoretical computer science". "Why do theoretical computer scien...
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Bike accident visualization in Vancouver on Stackato - Kroem3r http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/01/bentframe-developed-komodo-deployed-stackato ====== Kroem3r The visualization itself is sort of interesting, but the good part is the story of developing it: A bug via code-reuse; performance issues in Ruby; and fa...
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Coronavirus outbreak makes lobsters so cheap that sellers face a fatal blow - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-05/virus-makes-luxe-lobsters-so-cheap-that-sellers-face-fatal-blow ====== nostromo I'm honestly more worried about the economic toll than I am the health impacts. So many people...
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Introducing QUIC support for HTTPS load balancing - Sami_Lehtinen https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/06/Introducing-QUIC-support-for-HTTPS-load-balancing.html ====== proyb2 Quicly is another interesting repo which is developed by the same author who built H2O HTTP server now at Fastly ([https://github.com/h2o/h...
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Ask HN: Degree in Computer Science vs Business? - dsthysd Which is more useful, higher paying, and better to have in general? ====== nostrademons CS by far. Business degrees don't actually teach you business, nor do they qualify you for business management jobs. It would probably behoove you to learn about business...
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Ask HN: Recommendations for free, easy in browser video meeting rooms? - fireinsnow I&#x27;m in France in quarantine, as are a lot of friends. I&#x27;d love to have a space where we can pop in and out of a video meeting – ideally a URL that&#x27;s always available, where we can drop in and see who&#x27;s online. It&#x...
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Ask HN: Website Obesity Crisis - tmaly I have read a few articles over the past week about sites using too many large frameworks and files etc. Simple content is delivered as a 1MB+ page.<p>What smaller framework would you use for a responsive site in 2016? ====== interfacesketch Take a look at Pocket Grid. It's not ...
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Show HN: Articulo for Slack. Your reading lists, improved. - eric_cartman https://articulo.xyz ====== eric_cartman Hi I'm Drazen, developer of the Slack app "articulo". I made articulo to address the problem I've had for quite some time. If your team shares a ton of useful links in Slack it gets hard to track and rem...
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RuboCop – A Ruby static code analyzer - matugm http://batsov.com/rubocop/ ====== hmsimha Rubocop is an absolute pleasure to work with, but it also helps that the ruby community seems to have a more widely-agreed upon style guide than other communities (Javascript comes to mind). There are similar tools for Javascript,...
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State of Clojure 2020 Survey - simonpure https://clojure.org/news/2020/01/07/clojure-2020-survey ====== harperlee Please everyone complete the survey so the language evolves as quickly as possible!
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Stop Getting F'ed by Technical Recruiters - tacomondays https://scottturman.com/stop-getting-fcked-by-technical-recruiters/ ====== scawf > Get notified when we publish! How ? ~~~ tacomondays When I click it there is a place to enter your email at the top. ~~~ scawf Not click-able on firefox 76.0
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Startup Quote: Jim Collins, author, Good To Great - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/2196958242 ====== raychancc If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any. \- Jim Collins <http://startupquote.com/post/2196958242>
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Unsplash 4.0 - anguswithgusto https://medium.com/swlh/announcing-unsplash-4-0-3421b47d8f88 ====== masonhipp Congrats guys this is pretty exciting. We've used unsplash in a lot of our projects (some pretty heavily) and it's always nice to see that the biggest source for original cc0 photos is alive and growing strongly...
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Show HN: Online video editor for mashing Vine with SoundCloud, YouTube and GIFs - oliverluk http://weavly.com ====== lucahammer I mixed some 69 vines yesterday and am quite happy with the result: <http://weavly.com/watch/k1bhGlloSwb> One problem I have: With a slow connection it doesn't play smoothly but stops afte...
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The Networked battlefield from a grunt's point of view - Chris8535 http://thestandard.com/news/2008/06/25/it-vs-initiative-internet-age-comes-battlefield On a late summer night of 2004 in al Anbar province, Iraq, just south of Abu Ghraib, an observation post of four Marines was shot at briefly from the shadows... ===...
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Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa - Zaheer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4/ref=ods_gw_fnn_xpl_dt_atf_shov_zr_en_0925?pf_rd_p=d1850fba-bf7a-4b5c-8952-f505fad79e33&pf_rd_r=CE25W7EX405HCV5BKXA5 ====== Someone1234 What's the value proposition relative to the alternatives? It is adding weight, complexity, and limit...
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DigitalHax – Allows you to recover data from "Destroyed" Digital Ocean VM - gregimba https://github.com/gregimba/DigitalHax ====== zagi Hi, Ben from DigitalOcean here - just to give you guys an update. This method will no longer work on a newly created droplet. We've now default scrub_data to ON for both web interfac...
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What have been some of the dumbest things you did? - ubudesign I guess mine was when I formated the wrong drive partition. And another time I blocked my self behind firewall and had to drive all the way to the dataceter to unblock. I'm sure i've done other dumb things but it would be funny and maybe educational to...
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Virtual Reality Users Watch Helplessly as Another User Has In-Game Seizure - DanAndersen https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne4myg/vrchat-seizure ====== VectorLock Since VRchat lets users create arbitrary avatars its only a matter of time before somebody creates a flickering avatar (like the Pokemon cartoon ep...
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How Google Dominates Us by James Gleick - Anon84 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/how-google-dominates-us/?pagination=false ====== hollerith If any hacker reads this long piece, I'd welcome a one-paragraph summary.
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Markdown in HTML - llambda https://gist.github.com/1343518 ====== xytop By my opinion markdown sux.. I'd rather write in pure html. Markdown is irrational, unhandly thing. The only reason to use it in projects is to make life easier for developer and avoid using wysywyg and html sanitising.. But for me as for end ...
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Ask HN: Does Facebook really fire the bottom 10% of developers after bootcamp? - mcplusplus I'd like to talk to someone if that has happened to them. I have an offer from them and I am contemplating the move. Thanks. ====== darwindeeds I'm don't know if Facebook does it. But I personally feel that a lot of the compa...
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An Inbox that works for you - cbhl http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inbox-that-works-for-you.html ====== zippergz So, I assume this is Android only right now? The screenshots seem to imply that, but they never come out and say it. ~~~ drmohundro It's on iOS, too. I just installed it! I had to find another a...
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The xindesk blog - amikael http://www.xindesk.com/blog ====== amikael The xindesk is a webos and a widget framework.
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Apple’s approach to privacy - braythwayt http://www.apple.com/privacy/ ====== Tangokat Apple is in a good position in the market to do this, but it is just really hard to trust any US company. They say they will never give anyone access to their servers but how can they make that promise when they don't make the laws?...
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Generate MEMEs Programmtically - symisc_devel https://blog.pixlab.io/2017/07/meme-rest-api ====== JoshTriplett MEME is not an acronym.
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Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality by itch.io and 565 others - GordonS https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality ====== triptych It took me 20 mins just to scroll through all the games. This is an immense collection and 1000x worth it. ~~~ Freak_NL Wow, this bundle is huge. I hope there is a wa...
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Massive Facebook and MySpace Flash Vulnerability Exposes User Data - ed http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/05/massive-facebook-and-myspace-flash-vulnerability-exposes-user-data/ ====== simonw A good reminder to audit your crossdomain.xml files, and make sure everyone who might edit them understands the security impli...
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Centralized logging with ELK - tapan_pandita https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017/02/10/centralized-logging-at-hypertrack/ ====== dozzie > What’s out there > Grep > Paid logging services > Self hosted > Our Solution: The ELK Stack So, basically, what everybody else is doing. Nothing fancy. Also, you may discover tha...
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US politicians think companies should be allowed to 'hack back' after WannaCry - cmsefton https://www.grahamcluley.com/us-politicians-think-companies-allowed-hack-back-wannacry/ ====== irixusr Will private citizens be allowed to hack Sony next time they instal spyware on consumer computers (presumably there will be an...
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Lulzsec Hack's PBS in Response to Frontline Documentary - tyrewebdesign http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/technology/31pbs.html?_r=1&hp ====== grovulent I've supported anonymous like groups in their defence of wikileaks and other such causes. But I'm struggling to understand the rationale of this attack. If you're ...
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Dart enters top 20 on the TIOBE index - wilsynet http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html ====== MCRed Interesting, since Dart wasn't really on my radar. Does anyone know if it can be embedded easily in other things? EG: If I'm building a server side Go app, could I embed the Dart Virtual Machi...
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Show HN: Tracking Flu Outbreaks with Wikipedia - lauradhamilton I wrote a script to import Wikipedia traffic data for the Influenza page and graph it. (Updates daily)<p>Graph: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.additiveanalytics.com&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;flu_tracker<p>Inspired by this study published last week: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www...
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Show HN: IPof – no nonsense client IP address lookup for machines - vivekv I would like to present a simple API for obtaining the public IP address of the client. the API is fairly simple.<p>JSON<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipof.candralabs.com&#x2F;json<p>XML<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipof.candralabs.com&#x2F;xml<p>Plain text<p>ht...
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Saying goodbye (Mark Tarver on Qi) - edw519 http://groups.google.com/group/Qilang/browse_thread/thread/592773c562017d87 ====== superjared This is the goodbye from Mark Tarver regarding Qi. Submitter, next time please add a bit more info to the title. Thanks. _Edit_ : Thanks for the title update. ------ pbhj What'...
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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley - jonburs http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/technology/u-of-washington-a-northwest-pipeline-to-silicon-valley.html?pagewanted=all ====== tylermenezes It's funny, because it seems to me that a lot of the talent coming out of UW CSE isn't going to make it into the valley in any mea...
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Older Developers - richeyrw http://softwarerealities.com/2013/04/24/older-developers/ ====== droz Author doesn't seem to understand why most people go into software engineering. It's because they are creators not managers. Employers need to get what motivates their employees and put people in positions that enable ...
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Two Generals and Time Machines - networked https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/two_generals_and_time_machines/ ====== pron I see this annoying mistake everywhere, but it's important to point out in the context of computer science (more so than in mathematics) because it relates to one of its core components: in the cont...
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Linux: It's being ignored - benbristow http://www.benbristow.co.uk/2013/08/linux-its-being-ignored/ ====== iends Not sure why you want an Origin client. On Windows it's terrible... ~~~ benbristow I always found Origin to be a really nice client on Windows. It's lightweight, fast, simple and the overlay has built-in...
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The Caffeinated Coder: Is Caffeine Good or Bad? - jsonmez http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/09/22/caffeinated-coder-caffeine-good-bad/ ====== Golddisk I would say the results of the "experiment" were pretty much what I expected after hearing about the research into the effects of caffeine on the news before.
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How to Find Your Brand's Voice - kdouth http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/4-steps-to-finding-your-brands-voice ====== nlow I like that there are concrete examples of companies that are doing this well.
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Show HN: Reactive Models – Making JavaScript Objects React - nerazzuri https://github.com/alamgird/reactive-models ====== nerazzuri Comments and suggestions most welcome ------ arisAlexis differentiation with mobx? ~~~ nerazzuri targets simplicity more than anything. mobx has many different components and is geared ...
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How I Used Excel to Create Abstract Album Artwork - cdr6934 https://medium.com/@cdr6934/how-i-used-excel-to-create-abstract-album-artwork-fee740d4414f ====== gus_massa Nice. The official rules ask to use the original title like you did, but in this case it would be helpful to add "Spirograph" somewhere, because I was ...
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Lean Media in the music world: From Led Zeppelin to the Deftones - ilamont http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lamont/2013/04/15/lean-media-music-led-zeppelin-deftones/ ====== richieb It's not unusual to have first takes used on jazz albums. In fact you can read about making of "Kind of Blue" ([http://books.google.com/book...
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Why Do North Koreans Hate Us? One Reason - uyoakaoma https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/why-do-north-koreans-hate-us-one-reason-they-remember-the-korean-war/ ====== djsumdog Years ago I remember watching was was supposedly leaked anti-west propaganda from the DPRK. Weather it's really made/displayed in North Korea is...
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Print Isn't Dying, Serious Journalism Is - twampss http://teddziuba.com/2009/06/print-isnt-dying-serious-journ.html ====== rw This is needed satire on the sad state of investigative journalism. > Print media isn't hurting because it's an outdated business model, print > media is hurting because it's boring. Blogs and...
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Ask HN: Please complete our Startup Weekend Project Survey - iisbum I&#x27;m currently participating in a Startup Weekend in Saratoga Spring, NY and could use a little help.<p>If you play the League of Legends video game and can spare a couple of minutes, I&#x27;d be very grateful if you could complete our short (6 ...
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The Truth About Reddit - followmylee http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/truth-reddit-unnecessary-apology/241277/ ====== zalzane >You know what? Humans, especially during times of crisis and confusion, speculate. They do it offline and, in 2013, they increasingly do it online. The fact of the matter is that one of ...
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YouTube time machine - Uncle_Sam http://yttm.tv/v/2010 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1682323>
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Show HN: Roll your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route53 - wwarren http://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-using-amazon-route53/ ====== stevekemp That was a nice read, and using bash was cute. I setup a simple service which allows dynamic dyns to be configured via curl at [http://dhcp.io/](h...
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Should elected officials be earning $250k (or more)? - wallacrw HN:<p>I've recently read in the voter info pamphlet that the mayor in SF stands to make a salary of over $250k next year, which is almost 5 times the average household income in this country.<p>This has me infuriated, because I don't think public jobs c...
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Vine seeds become gliders with 12% descent angle - pg http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8391000/8391345.stm ====== noisedom Nature is a great place to steal ideas from. Here's a fine example of seed gliding inspired design: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbuGCgc- JCM&feature=playe...](http://www.yout...
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Google misleadingly shows Clinton 350 delegates ahead in 'Delegates Won' - shkkmo https://www.google.com/search?q=2016+primary+delegates ====== shkkmo Note that so called 'superdelegates' are not included for the republican portion of this widget. While this may well be an oversight, it paints an absurdly unbalanced ...
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Google Launches White Space Database - clinton_sf http://www.dailywireless.org/2013/11/14/google-launches-white-space-database/ ====== deweerdt google's browsable map: [https://www.google.com/get/spectrumdatabase/channel/](https://www.google.com/get/spectrumdatabase/channel/)
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Ask HN: why are you staying up so late? - jw2013 What makes you staying up so late? Hacking on cool side project? Reading random tech news? I am curious what makes hackers (or you) staying up so late. ====== anthony_franco For me there's many less distractions at night. Less articles on Hacker News. Less FB posts f...
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Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System - infosecau https://thehackerblog.com/floating-domains-taking-over-20k-digitalocean-domains-via-a-lax-domain-import-system/index.html ====== flexd This doesn't help my impression of Digital Ocean at all (even if I am a paying customer currently). A few ye...
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BitCongress – Decentralized Voting Platform - kawera http://www.bitcongress.org/ ====== matthewbauer How does this prevent someone from voting more than once with different addresses? The whole bandwagon onto Bitcoin doesn't seem valid in this case. What can Bitcoin do to make online voting better? No matter what you'...
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Netflix Seeks Its Own Star Wars, Harry Potter-Esque Movie Franchise - ilamont https://www.cbr.com/netflix-looking-star-wars-harry-potter-franchise/ ====== Izkata > If you have that kind of imagination — like the Wachowskis with _The Matrix_ I'm hesitant to say "based on", but the movie _Dark City_ from 1998 (a year b...
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Happy Independence Day! - dawie Happy Independence Day! ====== glhoffman You too Dawie. ------ vizard except for people outside US. ~~~ dawie OK, I changed it to Happy Independence day.
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Python Crash Course with the Mentor - ermolushka http://mentornetwork.me ====== thwythwy Alex needs to work way harder on this if he wants 130 bucks, LOL
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Uber CEO Plays with Fire - bmahmood https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html ====== ErikAugust Buried lede here: "They spent much of their energy one-upping rivals like Lyft. Uber devoted teams to so-called competitive intelligence, purchasing data fr...
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Ask HN: What is better: artist.domain.com or domain.com/artist? - northband I'm putting together a simple web app that profiles artists. I'm curious which is better for search engines - having the artist at the beginning of the domain or after? ====== itsprofitbaron If you want to build strong domain authority and ...
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Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies - hhs https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-supply-chains-china-46d82a0f-9f52-4229-840a-936822ddef41.html ====== dumbfoundded This has happened to my company and a few others I know. We have about $15K of packaging stuck in China. If this is doing a...
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Channeling growth through user centric design - nszanto http://xs.gy/ynews ====== nszanto KptnCook has grown to over 100,000 users in only 6 months by concentrating efforts on seamless user experience and beautiful design, instead of pumping money into traditional marketing avenues. The user-centric design increases...
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Ask HN: When did you decided to start freelance/consulting or start SaaS and why - mraza007 ====== throw03172019 SaaS is harder to startup but I enjoy building a business where the we can have revenue without having to find clients / perform labor. SaaS is hard but rewarding when you hit X recurring revenue. I can trav...
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Mozilla Fennec Alpha Released for Android and Nokia N900 - mbrubeck http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/08/27/fennec-alpha-released-for-android-and-nokia-n900/ ====== 51Cards "Fennec (codename for Firefox mobile) is the first mobile browser to offer add-ons..." Ummm... Dolphin? ~~~ mbrubeck Fennec 1.0 for Maemo was re...
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Ask HN: Embed Stripe in Desktop app, will users find this shady? - truetraveller Paying with a credit card from a desktop app is certainly very unconventional. However, it will make my life much easier.<p>Do you think the average user will have a problem with this? Will they find this insecure? The last thing I need i...
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Awesome Falsehood - MarcScott https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood ====== ascotan My favorite programmer falsehood is that you can parse HTML with regexes. [https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu- way/](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/)
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Browserbite Tests Your Website Across Browsers Using Computer Vision - phreeza http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/09/20/browserbite-tests-your-website-across-browsers-using-computer-vision ====== BenjieGillam I think they might be suffering heavy load; I don't think waiting an hour is an acceptable delay for web dev - ...
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Upthere raises $77M to put a new spin on personal cloud storage - doppp https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/upthere-puts-a-new-spin-on-personal-cloud-storage/ ====== sp527 That is a tremendous amount of money relative to the market opportunity. Displacing existing providers is necessarily going to be crazy difficult. I ...
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