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Vermont will pay people $10,000 to move there and work remotely - rexbee https://amp.cnn.com/money/2018/05/31/pf/jobs/vermont-pay-remote-workers/index.html ====== nanis Before you start packing your bags, note: Eligible workers can get up to $5,000 a year, not to exceed $10,000 over two ...
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Bizarre Star Could Host a Neutron Star in Its Core - deeths http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bizarre-star-could-host-a-neutron-star-in-its-core ====== ChuckMcM original paper: [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989ApJ...346..277E](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989ApJ...346..277E) discussing the conce...
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Going forward, Ind.ie has just one product - avree https://ind.ie/blog/focus/ ====== akerl_ Does the intro feel weird to anybody else? The segue from talking about the current tragedy in France to talking about a company's product line choices feels like an attempt to capitalize on the current fervor, and it feels w...
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Httpstat: Simple CURL Stats - mikeshaw https://github.com/reorx/httpstat ====== brudgers Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572396](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572396) ------ brudgers Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572396](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
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The New York Times’ China Propaganda Crisis - taobility https://www.bilibili.com/video/av41271535 ====== taobility Youtube version: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWvjkomS18&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWvjkomS18&feature=youtu.be) if you don't like the bullet comments
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Multiplication using just one AND gate - TriinT http://www.pentodepress.com/receiving/stochastic-computing.html ====== jacquesm The output would be a pulse train though, not a discrete value. You could average that out with a capacitor (which would introduce some latency), then sample the input of the capacitor and...
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Bye Bye Bluetooth - mayank25may http://techdusts.com/2009/10/15/wifi-direct-in-2020-will-replace-bluetooth-wifi-alliance/ Come 2010 and no longer would you be using Bluetooth for short range file transfer. Apple, Intel, Cisco (and other major players) along with WiFi Alliance have together come with a set of standard...
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Show HN: AnyAPI – Documentation and Test Consoles for Over 150 Public APIs - bbrennan http://any-api.com/ ====== teh_klev Could add the Stack Exchange public API? [https://api.stackexchange.com/](https://api.stackexchange.com/) ~~~ bbrennan We use API Definitions like Swagger, WADL, I/O Docs, API Blueprint etc. to g...
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Joyable App Helps User with Social Anxiety and Depression - dpflan https://joyable.com/ ====== dpflan News: [http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/18/joyable- raises-2m-launches...](http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/18/joyable- raises-2m-launches-app-to-help-people-get-over-their-social-anxiety/) ------ onion2k Why $99/month...
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Google+ on HackerNews - ColinWright I'm wondering how many items will be submitted about Google+ here on HN. There will be dozens of articles written about it, and many, perhaps most, will be submitted here.<p>As an experiment, would people find it useful to collect the links and discussions in a single place?<p>Ho...
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Google's quest for semantic intent - lurien http://halyardconsulting.com/podcast-missing-big-picture/ ====== lutusp > ... we’re certainly getting a lot of laughs from Goggle’s [sic] new > announcement. Not as many laughs as we're getting from your unwillingness to proofread. ( long pause ... ) On reading the rema...
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Facebook to Set I.P.O. Price Range at $28 to $35 - sew http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/facebook-to-set-target-after-market-close/?hp&pagewanted=all ====== tobias3 That would be approx. $94 per active user. I know there have been social networks which went over the counter at that price before, but looking at ...
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C++ State Machines - qznc http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/cpp_state_machines.html ====== mike4921 Simulink, and specifically stateflow, is commonly used in the aerospace industry to graphically create state machines that can be autocoded into high performance C or C++ code. I use simulink and stateflow everyday to create flig...
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Ask HN: Legality of a Jan 18 SOPA blackout on Google? - goodweeds I heard some people at a coffee shop today discussing the possibility of convincing facebook and google to shut down all of their services for a day because of SOPA, including google apps. While the anarchist in me was momentarily giddy at the whole i...
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Big Med (2012) - tptacek http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med ====== grownseed Talking from a slightly different perspective - the public health sector (so not the US) - I can also confirm that a number of the major problems in healthcare stem from entrenched cultural values. Most healthcare staff I ...
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How to determine which commands failed/succeeded in your Bash_History file? - bashit I have a python application I use for taking notes in markdown. It automates several tasks for me and one of those tasks is parsing my command history and logging certain commands to a markdown file.<p>Parsing out the command and even...
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Ad-blocker counter-detection: State of the art and new approaches (2017) [pdf] - zealcharm https://bitbucket.org/joanbrugueram/content-filter-policy/downloads/initialrelease-thesis.pdf ====== zealcharm This was my undergraduate thesis. In short, apart from the long sections where I explain the state of online ad-block...
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Roll your own toy Unix clone OS (2008) - jdmoreira http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/ ====== brudgers Related: [http://wiki.osdev.org/James_Molloy's_Tutorial_Known_Bugs](http://wiki.osdev.org/James_Molloy's_Tutorial_Known_Bugs) This is not a criticism. The wiki states that Molloy's tutorial is one of the bes...
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The First American Restaurants’ Culinary Concoctions - samclemens https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-american-restaurants-culinary-concoctions ====== simonsarris I love looking at old menus. The New York Public Library actually has a collection of 17,000 scans of them, organized by decade, going back to the 1850's: [ht...
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SoftBank Plans a New $200B Fund - jkuria https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-softbank-plans-a-second-giant-technology-fund-1508502097?mg=prod/accounts-wsj ====== goseeastarwar There's already been lots written about this, but it's astounding how much these SoftBank funds will effect the startup ecosystem for years to ...
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Some thoughts after (almost) a year of real Xamarin use - xngzng http://www.estaun.net/blog/some-thoughts-after-almost-a-year-of-real-xamarin-use/ ====== ParanoidShroom I've been using Xamarin forms a lot now. They are miles from being as good as native development. Soooo many bugs in xamarin itself. When using Xamari...
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HAMNET — A large scale high speed radio network [pdf] - Gupie https://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2014-TheEuropeanHAMNET-DG8NGN.pdf ====== therealidiot The regulations surrounding amateur radio just seem antiquated. It's a shame, because radio is really interesting, but a lot (yes, not all) of amateur stuff feels as though i...
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MLflow v0.8.0 Features Improved Experiment UI and Deployment Tools - dmatrix https://databricks.com/blog/2018/11/21/mlflow-v0-8-0-features-improved-experiment-ui-and-deployment-tools.html ====== mlthoughts2018 As an ML engineer, I’ve found MLFlow to be really a disastrously bad way to look at the problem. It’s somethi...
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Qwili.com: search for wine, tea or coffee - kno http://www.qwili.com/search/index.aspx?q=White%20Wine ====== kno We built qwili.com as an easy way to search and get educated about wine, tea or coffee. We found out a lot of wine lovers knew very little about wine; how to get a bottle that best matches what you want t...
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Snapchat will let users replay snaps as it tries to generate more revenue - pavornyoh http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/connectedworld/snapchat-will-let-users-pay-to-replay-snaps/ar-AAekZ9u?ocid=spartandhp ====== warewolf I like this model but my version to monetize would be a credit or point system. If you watch the disc...
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Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/climate/coronavirus-usa-traffic.html ====== ciconia Despite the loss of human life, and the economic suffering of a great chunk of our species, a lot of good may come of the present pandemic. I believe thi...
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DigitalOcean to Linode to GCP: The Evolution of Healthchecks.io Hosting Setup - cuu508 https://medium.com/@healthchecks/the-evolution-of-healthchecks-io-hosting-setup-4fa0d249a35a ====== magacloud Great Tips and Experience from DO, Linode and GCP. Instead of native Loadbalancers, Have you considered running on HAProxy...
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Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux - joshwcomeau https://tello.tv ====== joshwcomeau Author here! I created this during my vacation because I wanted it to exist. The joy of being a web developer is being able to create the stuff you wish existed! The repo is here, and the README...
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DigitalOcean will donate to tech non-profits for community content - aleyan https://blog.digitalocean.com/write-for-donations/ ====== olympic_coin Well done DigitalOcean! I wish more companies follow their example.
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Robust Interprocess Locks - squadrick https://squadrick.github.io/journal/ipc-locks.html ====== wahern > It keeps track of PID of the last process that acquired it, and if another > process can’t acquire it, it can check if the PID is still alive using stat, > if it’s dead it will unlock the mutex and reset the field ...
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Multicore programming in Haskell : Simon Marlow of GHC fame at QCon - dons http://www.scribd.com/doc/28336206/Multicore-programming-in-Haskell ====== dons PDF file: [http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/multicore-haskell-marlow- qc...](http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/multicore-haskell-marlow-qcon2010.pdf)
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Head asleep, body awake - linux2647 https://alvinalexander.com/misc/head-awake-body-asleep-hear-myself-snoring/ ====== whatl3y Not exactly the same, but I've gone through sleep paralysis 4 or 5 times in the last 10 years and it remains one of the most terrifying things I've experienced. It happened upon waking up from...
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How Trump Happened - peterjliu http://graphics.wsj.com/elections/2016/how-trump-happened/ ====== nness Fascinating and beautifully presented infographic. I just wish sites wouldn't interrupt scrolling and use it for navigation. Its counter intuitive and if you scroll up and down quickly you can completely break the tr...
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Ask HN: Better Search For Wiki? - avner I am looking for a better search solution for a wiki-based knowledgebase I manage.<p>In a nutshell, I am looking for something along the lines of google custom search but I need to be able to restrict access to the search results to my users only (kerebros).<p>Any suggestions?...
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How to Securely Run Your DevOps in Slack - jacksonpollock https://cto.ai/blog/how-to-securely-run-your-devops-in-slack/ ====== utf_8x How to Securely Run Your DevOps in Slack? Don't. Hmm, yes, let's use a typewriter to screw in a nail...
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Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We’re Not Special - creade http://phoenixandolivebranch.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/open-letter-from-a-millennial-quit-telling-us-were-not-special/ ====== toomuchcoffee Am I the only one who, midway through that rant, couldn't help but to sing it along to an extended versi...
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Ketamine helps with severe depression 'when nothing else works', doctors say - DanBC http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/ketamine-depression-treatment-cure-nothing-else-works-oxford-university-rupert-mcshane-a7668441.html ====== itchyjunk I heard about this a few years back talking to a pharmacist who was part of...
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Ask HN: Angular, Backbone, React. Help Me Choose - peterchon As I get more serious in building web applications, I can&#x27;t seem to decide between Angular, backbone, and React. What&#x27;s your experience?<p>edit: specifically for someone who&#x27;s hasn&#x27;t done a whole lot of MVC dev work. ====== sjs382 I onl...
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Meyrin: CERN Terminal Font - bpierre http://optional.is/required/2014/03/26/meyrin-cern-terminal-font/ ====== sdkmvx For those who don't know (apparently including the authors), this is the standard 3270/IBM terminal font. It is available all over the web in various formats, notably in bitmap format with [http://x3270...
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Illusion of girl painted on street to make drivers slow down. - noonespecial http://laughingsquid.com/3d-optical-illusion-painted-on-street-to-make-drivers-slow-down/ ====== noonespecial So will the google car be more or less affected by this than humans? My first order guess is the google car will not be affected ...
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One On One With A Hacker - Multics http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/special-one-one-hacker/ ====== flanbiscuit Very good interview, I'm glad he did it. I wonder how well trained in fraud detection are the people who handle the calls/requests at hosts are. Also, why aren't hosts implementing something like 2-factor ...
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Say hello to men who hate NSA spying but blame women for being spied on - ot http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/1/6092769/creeps ====== x1798DE I don't know how right it is to blame anyone in particular for this specific security flaw (I don't even know enough details to start to analyze that), but I don't think this is...
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Show HN: Ssh – WhatsApp Incognito Mode (with Backstory) - espinchi http://tryshh.com/?s=hn ====== junycrespo Impressed about how fast these guys have developed this app. It works perfectly. But, let's see which is the next Whatsapp move... (I'm talking about this news [http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141110/technolog...
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Valve: Handbook For New Employees - dpmehta02 http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf ====== hacknat This thing always comes up every few months and it's interesting to see how it evolves, because it does change. I live in Seattle and know people that work there and it really is an amazing place to work,...
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Newsweek's Statement on the Bitcoin Story - uptown http://www.newsweek.com/newsweeks-statement-bitcoin-story-231242 ====== DennisP So Newsweek "encourages all to be respectful of the privacy and rights of the individuals involved." It might have been nice to consider that before publishing a legible photo of Nakamot...
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My Journey into Data Science - RosebudAnwuri https://towardsdatascience.com/my-journey-into-data-science-39e9bbbbf452 ====== RosebudAnwuri Hey Everyone! Remember me with my post on "Data Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire"? I just published how I got into Data Science from Chemical Engineering. Hope you...
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How I welcomed an immigrant family with a Linux laptop - pshapiro99 https://opensource.com/life/16/6/linux-laptop-haitian-family ====== jnmandal I really appreciate the sentiment here but why not just point him to duolingo English for French speakers? As a foreign language nerd, I feel the whole audio book read along ...
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Your developers aren’t slow - davidkellis https://sprint.ly/blog/your-developers-arent-slow/ ====== edw519 Nice start, OP (especially with unclear specs, my personal pet peeve), but you've only hit upon the tip of the iceberg. Just a few other things I call "work prevention" that make good developers appear to be slo...
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Otto joins Uber - ktta https://blog.ot.to/our-next-chapter-otto-joins-uber-307ee347a5bf# ====== kristianc What's the story behind Otto? There are exactly two blog posts on the Otto blog- Otto launches and Otto sells to Uber. The line 'When we started Otto we committed to rethinking transportation' \- what, three mont...
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Modern Web Application Development Workflow - sbegaudeau https://speakerdeck.com/sbegaudeau/modern-web-application-development-workflow ====== taylorlapeyre * for javascript only websites without databases
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Patient sues dentist over gag order, gets Medical Justice to backtrack - binarybits http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/patient-sues-dentist-over-gag-order-causing-medical-justice-to-drop-it.ars ====== Newgy This guy Lee, who fought back, is a hero to me. Everyone benefits when someone takes on systemic ...
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Calorie-counting works: investigation into the iPad's weight - aaronbrethorst http://www.marco.org/524984926 ====== ryanpetrich They could have made it smaller. An inch or so less diagonal for the display and a slightly thinner bezel would be ideal for my purposes.
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Gmail banned in Indian government offices - uiiooooo http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Gmail-banned-in-government-offices/articleshow/46407967.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=TOI ====== greenyoda _" The e-mail services provided by other service providers shall not be used...
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On personal data and privacy violation: The Science Behind Tabi - probst https://medium.com/@francis_49362/the-science-behind-tabi-adc0541b5caf ====== probst A lighthearted discussion about what personal data is, and what constitutes a privacy violation. Going along with it (or rather the other way around) is also thi...
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Dunning–Kruger Effect - based2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect ====== based2 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=164&v=f89WVeqWe-...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=164&v=f89WVeqWe-M&feature=emb_logo) L'ultracrépidarianisme, l'art de parler de ce qu'on ne connaît pas
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Ask HN: Could we build a long-life probe like Voyager today? - gumby Voyagers 1 &amp; 2 were launched more than 40 years ago and next year will be <i>operating</i> 40 years beyond their mission schedule.<p>Given the technology of the early 70s (very large feature size, very low level of integration, wide traces, proba...
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Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto - throwawaymath https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2018/10/02/open-source-crypto-is-no-better-than-closed-source-crypto/ ====== throwawaymath The titular thesis of this article is that Linus' Law doesn't really apply to cryptographic security vulnerabilities...
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Windows 8 App Store Screens Leaked - Garbage http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows8-win8-app-store-download,12554.html ====== X-Istence Don't they mean the Windows Exe Store? \-- All joking aside, App has been cemented in my brain, and the brains of consumers across the globe as being distinctly Apple. I was rece...
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The genesis of the perfect programming language - steeleduncan http://slidetocode.com/2012/05/06/the-perfect-programming-language/ ====== qznc I'm pondering this perfect language myself quite often. So far, I have only published what this language should _not_ contain: <http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/proglang_mis...
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Hydraulic Rock Storage – an efficient system for large grid scale storage [pdf] - nkurz http://www.cleanenergybusinesscouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/HeindlEnergyPresentation.pdf ====== Animats From the article: requires _" Possibly compact, homogeneous rock with little tendency to fracture."_ That's rare geology. It's...
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Divorce Destroys Capital - burningion http://www.kpkaiser.com/entrepreneurship/divorce-destroys-capital/ ====== jrockway Actually, litigation and selling illiquid assets destroy capital. The divorce angle of the article is just to add some outrage to an otherwise ordinary situation. Sell your business when nobody want...
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Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives? - privong https://www.justsecurity.org/28752/keystrokes-solve-crime-press-enter/ ====== Amorymeltzer >Fourth, this kind of voluntary search by the likes of Google is not unprecedented. Google scans outgoing Gmail messages to see if there are attachments whose hashes — ...
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The median of a trillion numbers - jfaucett http://matpalm.com/median/question.html ====== damianknz If you know the range of numbers then I'd do a binary search. Get each server to count how many are higher or lower. Play the high low game. When the two totals are the same you're done. I think this covers the authors...
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Survey: The physical security of human rights defenders - secfirstmd https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRATeUm2hmzIBBYAg8LtMxcx6W6X4Fl1iYF-Lqe0FiM/viewform Security First is a mobile application that provides the user with the information on what to do in any given security situation and the tools to do it. The user-f...
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High scalability: SQL and computational complexity - coffeemug http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2010/03/high-scalability-sql-and-computational-complexity/ ====== justinsb You can't rule out queries to suit your implementation; if the data is needed and can't be computed within the constraints, then the user will just r...
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Massive study on MOOCs - sravfeyn http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/04/massive-study-on-moocs/ ====== bruceb "Across 12 courses, participants who paid for “ID-verified” certificates (with costs ranging from $50 to $250) earned certifications at a higher rate than other participants: 59 percent, on average, ...
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How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork - ericzawo https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-not-the-way-everybody-behaves-how-adam-neumanns-over-the-top-style-built-wework-11568823827?mod=rsswn ====== anonweworker Can I just point out that I called this a year ago? BTW, I quit not long after posting this. [ht...
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Startups Seamless and GrubHub to merge - obeone http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/20/news/companies/seamless-grubhub-merger/ ====== smanuel For a brief moment I read the title as "Seamless and GitHub to merge" and was trying to imagine what they could possibly deliver together.
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ArticlesBase: profitable content farm from Israel, 20M monthly visitors - adrianwaj http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/articlesbase-the-profitable-content-farm-with-20m-monthly-visitors-you-dont-know/ ====== bpotter Thanks for posting this. It's always great to read about bootstrapped startups/businesses that are prof...
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Git v2.20.0 - jjuhl http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.1/00293.html ====== avar This release incorporates "delta islands" which is code GitHub has been using since 2015-ish (or earlier?) to store repositories and their forks in the same object storage, with "islands" of objects as they diverge. See [https:...
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Buddy: Powerful Git Hosting with Continuous Delivery Tools - flz https://buddy.works/ ====== tweekovsky I use Buddy for several months and it is brilliant. Git hosting + delivery + code review - so fresh so clean :) ------ sztwiorok nice
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Zipcar used Wrapify to track offline car ad “impressions” for ad campaign - dskrvk http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/zipcar-launches-new-campaign-featuring-data-tracking-technology-172527 ====== dskrvk Tl;dr > The company partnered with Wrapify, a San Diego startup that pays drivers to > cover their cars with bra...
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The Second Amendment and the Insurrection Myth - cpeterso http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/01/brin-classics-jefferson-rifle.html ====== ChuckMcM I really like this essay, but it shows its age. Some remarkably 'under armed' rag tag militias have done a lot of damage to professional soldiers in Irag and Afghanistan. ...
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Googling ourselves to death - Libertatea http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-googling-ourselves-to-death/2013/06/14/ea004bba-d532-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_story.html ====== driverdan Or you could do what I've done (and I'm guessing many other HN users) and engineer the results that come up. Search f...
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Posting On Other Blogs vs. Having Your Own Blog - acconrad http://slodive.com/web-development/posting-on-other-blogs-vs-having-your-own-blog/ ====== acconrad I think it's important to post something like this because as entrepreneurs you may focus on one and forget the other. I know some who run great blogs but are li...
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PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving - jsnell https://medium.com/@nex3/pubgrub-2fb6470504f ====== HIPisTheAnswer Nix is the right way to build an OS; declare _everything_. ------ fwip This is really cool. It was a little dense for me, not knowing much about version solvers. I'd love to see a comparison to other ...
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How do you rate the performance of engineers? - timurlenk My current job is to manage an IT engineering department at a growing international airport. Our responsibility ranges from anything like designing a simple network to building datacenters, establishing best practices and standards and architecting complicate...
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MH17 Report - nns http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-34514727 ====== nns Video Reconstruction: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiLEyT9spI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiLEyT9spI) At the 10.30 mark you can see the missile impact on the plane. ~~~ panarky News article reconstruction: [https://archive.i...
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The Anatomy Of A CEO - dkokelley http://www.ceo.com/leadership_and_management/infographic-the-anatomy-of-a-ceo/ ====== dkokelley Here's the thing with attempting to analyze data like this. You can't work backwards from the group of CEOs to show that these factors are what cause them to be in this group. There are ma...
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Ask HN: IT infrastructure on the go (like StartupBus) - imrehg The Startup Bus is all over HN and I love the project. The sysadmin in me, though, got to wonder: what kind of IT tech one would have to prepare for something like that to work?<p>- What kind of net access is reliable and high bandwidth enough for going ...
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Recommended programming books of all-time - bhalp1 https://dev.to/daolf/the-25-most-recommended-programming-books-of-all-time-5fel ====== masonic This has been spammed here multiple times by the originating Amazon affiliate account: [https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=daolf](https://news.ycombinator.com/submit...
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High-efficiency concentrating solar cells move to the rooftop - zackmorris http://www.kurzweilai.net/high-efficiency-concentrating-solar-cells-move-to-the-rooftop ====== ScottBurson I guess the idea here is that although there are still cosine losses because the panel as a whole doesn't rotate, it can be comparative...
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Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city - dzine https://useloft.com/ ====== dko Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation...
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What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside - dnetesn https://news.ycombinator.com/submit ====== dnetesn Powerfully moving video up for the Webby Award for Best Video: Science & Education [https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/general- fi...](https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/general-film/s...
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Ask HN: What is THE industry/job reminiscent of the 90s dotcom explosion - squintychino I hear a lot about how back in the late 90s anyone with basic web and coding knowledge could command high salaries and job security because of how much demand there was.<p>Is there anything going on now that, 10 years from now, w...
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Pando (tree) - lelf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) ====== bglazer Learning about this a while back absolutely blew my mind. (So much so that I submitted it to HN, where it was roundly ignored. Oh well :-) Anyways, it's a new and strange idea to me that this organism, covering a mountainside, is really mor...
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Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users' browsing data - nns https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/google-sued-tracking-44m-uk-iphone-users-browsing-data-apple-safari ====== bitcharmer This is one of those things that make me very pessimistic about the future of our civilisation. Instea...
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Erste.js – NextGen UI Framework for Backbone-Lovers - fka https://github.com/dashersw/erste ====== nobleach Aside from having something that resembles Backbone's events hash, I didn't see anything that didn't look like a React component/VueJS component. Did I miss the part where Backbone was mentioned? ~~~ fka It doe...
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Wild gorillas compose songs that they hum during meals - Turukawa https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078781-wild-gorillas-compose-happy-songs-that-they-hum-during-meals/ ====== escherize I've always hypothesized that humming while eatting (or saying "Mmmmm") is the perfect pitch to vibrate the hummer's tounge, whic...
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Bytepath game is open source and includes a tutorial for writing the game in Lua - marzell https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH ====== marzell "This tutorial goes over the entire process of building the game step by step." This looks like a great resource for anyone with some programming experience already, and is inte...
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Gumroad Adds New Publishing Features, Says Some Authors Have Made $100K+ - nathanbarry http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/gumroad-publishing-update/ ====== rob41 Congrats to the Gumroad team!
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Ponzi Schemes, Private Yachts, and a Missing $250M in Crypto: Quadriga - SirLJ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/the-strange-tale-of-quadriga-gerald-cotten ====== NelsonMinar With this much fraud in the founders' background surely the benefit of the doubt about the disappearance of $250M and the founder shifts f...
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Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? - throwaway2951 I remember in my teens I used to love programming. After 20 years of a career, I don&#x27;t enjoy it anymore.<p>Have you rediscovered the joy of programming? Any advice? ====== matesz Great write-up on that subject is in the first chapter of "Mythical M...
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Live: NYC picks Cornell/Technion for new Campus - siculars http://on.nyc.gov/oCBLjD ====== siculars In a city full of Very Big Deals (TM), this is a Very Big Deal for NYC. Looking forward to what they are going to do.
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Ask HN: Should We Pivot or Just Move On? - rooshdi Hey HN,<p>A friend and I thought it would be neat if there was a way to share searches with other people, so we created Seekier.com. We were planning on adding more useful features, such as search result recommending, comment suggestions, and other search collaborat...
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Dear Facebook: here's how to not screw up Instagram. - technologizer http://techland.time.com/2012/04/10/dear-facebook-heres-how-to-not-screw-up-instagram/ ====== ryangilbert I definitely agree with keeping them separate and not confusing people into thinking they may/may not be connected. It's fine to maybe mesh a ...
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Nexus 7 tablets begin shipping from Google Play - muriithi http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/nexus-7-tablets-begin-shipping-from-google-play/ ====== thechut What the hell does this mean? I preordered my Nexus7 weeks ago and the charge finally finalized and hit my card today. I have not received any emails or an...
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Italy’s Bergamo finds Covid-19 leaves long-term effects for some - DyslexicAtheist https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/08/bergamo-italy-covid-longterm/ ====== the-dude [http://archive.is/5V0bu](http://archive.is/5V0bu)
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You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead - aaronbrethorst https://publicintegrity.org/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/you-elected-them-to-write-new-laws-theyre-letting-corporations-do-it-instead/ ====== tptacek I'm never clear on why I'm supposed to be upset about model legisl...
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Twitter, following Instagram, implements per-post reply restrictions - aspenmayer https://onezero.medium.com/twitter-is-testing-a-way-to-silence-reply-guys-it-might-work-too-well-6794e07d5a80 ====== aspenmayer ‘But on Wednesday, Twitter began testing a new, powerful fix for the problem. [context is @ replies/mentions ...
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