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QEMU for iOS - funkaster https://github.com/utmapp/UTM ====== osy Hi, author here. I’m here to answer any questions but also I want to advertise the fact that it would be really really awesome if interested devs can join the project. Currently it’s just me doing this on my spare time for the past year. Specifically I’...
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The NCSC's first 'UK cyber survey' published alongside global password risk list - gcthomas https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/most-hacked-passwords-revealed-as-uk-cyber-survey-exposes-gaps-in-online-security ====== gcthomas Their.txt list of the top 100,000 passwords to avoid can be found here: [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/bl...
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The Redditor - community-created, unofficial Reddit magazine - maqr http://www.theredditor.com/ ====== spindritf It's really good, both the design/composition and the content selection. It doesn't have the kind of quality articles Hacker Monthly offers but feels a lot like a real magazine, great for some light readi...
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Pindify: Helping Artist Earn Money - ievgen1989 https://rubygarage.org/blog/pindify-helping-creators-earn-money ====== tsukikage cf. [https://www.patreon.com/](https://www.patreon.com/)
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Quantum Machine Learning: An Overview - rbanffy https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/01/quantum-machine-learning-overview.html?utm_content=buffercca0b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== ignoranceprior On the other hand, see "Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms: Read the Fine Print" by Scott ...
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Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests - soundsop http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/02/27/lesson-from-madlibs-signup-fad-do-your-own-tests/ ====== jrockway Doing your own tests is good, but I think the username/password is too simple to benefit from the madlibs style. I also thought the wording was unusual, "...
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Combining online and offline tests to improve Facebook’s News Feed ranking - moneil971 https://ai.facebook.com/blog/online-and-offline-tests-to-improve-news-feed-ranking/ ====== moneil971 Relevant piece on Gaussian process: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19561179](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19561179) ...
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Solving Sudoku with Prolog (2016) - hjek https://www.metalevel.at/sudoku/ ====== triska Thank you very much for the publicity, I greatly appreciate your interest! Prolog is extremely well-suited for solving combinatorial tasks like Sudoku puzzles, and also for tough practical challenges such such as timetabling, sche...
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Rick Dickinson, Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum Case Designer, Has Died - sohkamyung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dickinson ====== sohkamyung Notice of his death posted at [1] [1] [http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2423&sid=0c176...](http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2423&sid=0c176ad1bf745...
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American Airlines loses $3.3 million a day - aneesh http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/28/magazines/fortune/gimbel_american.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008043011 ====== redorb this combined with the housing crisis; makes me believe a deep recession is coming. (everyone hold on tight) ;) see you on the flip side ------...
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A group is its own worst enemy... - fiaz http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html ====== pibefision There is a great quote about a talk with Stewart Butterfield (Flickr) in a pre-flickr world :) "I was talking to Stewart Butterfield about the chat application they're trying here. I said "Hey, how's that going?" ...
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The overblown frequency vs. cost efficiency trade-off - luu http://yosefk.com/blog/the-overblown-frequency-vs-cost-efficiency-trade-off.html ====== bsder The problem with higher frequency is the portion of time you spend doing non- work things. The amount of time you spend on things like clock skew and setting up pip...
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Godaddy SUCKS, ASP.NET and Discount ASP. - spoiledtechie http://www.spoiledtechie.com/post/GoDaddy-ASPNET-and-Discount-ASP.aspx ====== eli I have no personal experience with it, but doing .NET on a shared host just sounds like a world of hurt. ~~~ icey I do have experience with it, and it is _painful_. If you're g...
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Don’t Mess With The GOOG - iProject http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/02/dont-mess-with-the-goog/ ====== skipper86 mmm.. interesting!
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Ask HN: Do you search for podcasts episodes based on a topic? - mlejva I wonder whether there are more people like me that want to listen to different podcast episodes based on the topic?<p>I often don&#x27;t care so much whether is it a podcast show I listen to if it&#x27;s a topic I&#x27;m interested in. For example...
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Progress M-27M Re-entry Updates - hopeless http://www.spaceflight101.com/progress-m-27m-re-entry.html ====== hopeless It's definitely coming down in the next few hours and current predictions include Southern Africa and Asia as possible impact sites
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William Byrd on ”The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written” (2017) [video] - lelf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc ====== keithnz Alan Kay said :- (SF) If nothing else, Lisp was carefully defined in terms of Lisp. (AK) Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in gr...
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Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights - conductor http://www.digitalbond.com/blog/2013/10/22/call-yourself-a-hacker-lose-your-4th-amendment-rights ====== tptacek The Digital Bond blog, which covers the computer security subfield of SCADA assessments, is spinning this story pretty hard, which I think...
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Document 17 Declassified – 9/11 attackers may have had links to Saudi Arabia [pdf] - agjmills https://28pagesdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/document-17.pdf ====== dfsegoat We should not be surprised. The Kingdom of Saud is rooted in wahhabism - an ultraconservative branch of Islam that also happens to be the prima...
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CDC director says there are ‘no banned words’ at the agency - non_sequitur https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cdc-director-says-there-are-no-banned-words-at-the-agency ====== non_sequitur "A group of the agency’s policy analysts said senior officials at the CDC informed them about the banned words on Thursday, acco...
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Remind HN: Get something nice for your significant other today - kevinburke I say this only because I didn't actually know this when I was dating this girl in high school and it cost me. It should be obvious to most people, but if it's not obvious, it's possible that no one ever told you. If you don't know what to g...
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Why smiling in your passport photo is forbidden - nsaparanoid http://travel.stackexchange.com/q/11534/101 ====== Nanzikambe The reasoning is dumb, and the concept easily subject to abuse. If you're good at contorting your face for an extended period of time, including whilst you speak, do so for your passport photogr...
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Ask HN: SQL Help - murilogustineli I work for a company where a new feature will be launched. Let&#x27;s call the existing feature A and the new feature B. We want to track the adoption of new users for the new feature B. Using SQL, how can I get the new account ids for the new feature B that have no usage on existing...
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Ask HN: What features do you want for a forum? - jadeydi ====== krapp 1) Anonymity by default, and something like indieauth[0] to validate identities for non-anonymous posting, without having to store user account data on the server. 2) Ephemerality by default. Automatically delete old or non-productive threads, and g...
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Do We Need a Theory of Everything? - COGlory http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/07/do-we-need-theory-of-everything.html ====== knzhou I'm glad that Sabine correctly describes Wolfram, Weinstein, and Lisi's theories as what they really are. I'm disappointed that she trots out the tired old "zero sum game" rhetoric....
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Project MK Ultra - mindcrime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra ====== mindcrime Since we're talking COINTELPRO[1], might as well pull MK ULTRA into the mix. For the younger folks among us, or those who aren't history buffs, this stuff explains exactly why so many people are distrustful of the US governmen...
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Yahoo hack steals 400,000 passwords. Is yours on the list? - curthopkins http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0712/Yahoo-hack-steals-400-000-passwords.-Is-yours-on-the-list ====== Zenst This story already been covered I thought. People pick silly passwords, people pick great passwords. Hosts use expoitabl...
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Vagrant, Docker and Ansible. WTF? - hunvreus http://devo.ps/blog/2013/09/25/vagrant-docker-and-ansible-wtf.html ====== bryanlarsen As far as I can tell, Docker & Ansible don't work well together. If you provision your app using a Dockerfile, you get a bunch of cool stuff because it knows what's been applied and wha...
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Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014) - mastax https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/may/21/everyone-is-totally-just-winging-it ====== davnicwil I'm always really impressed by young people, early in their careers or without any career experience at all, who intuit this and are...
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Starbucks founder Schultz resigns or runs for president in 2020 - BloggerEnt https://www.bloggerent.com/40/Starbucks-founder-Schultz-resigns-or-runs-for-president-in-2020 ====== bart42_0 Could be refreshing
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Use Nginx access_log to save user input - montymole https://github.com/montymole/nginx-access-loggin ====== detaro Interesting idea to just quickly collect data from a simple form, although I'd worry about things like encodings for more complex cases.
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Bash FAQ - signa11 https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/ ====== 0xdeadb00f While you're at it, for a similar resource check out: [https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash- bible](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible) and [https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh- bible](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible)...
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Overview of JPEG XT (2016) - Sami_Lehtinen https://jpeg.org/jpegxt/ ====== mkl XT, XR, XL, XS. I wish the names were more meaningful. I can never remember which one is which or what they're good for, or even which order they came in (and the jpeg.org pages don't even list years). JPEG XL is the one currently in devel...
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How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election - tomohawk http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548.html?ml=m_t1_2h#.VdVGpXPLqvM ====== tired_man But why? Have they bought a candidate, too?
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Ask HN: How old is the company/workplace you are working at now? - askthrowaway ====== matchmike1313 It's about 4 years old.
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New dawn in cancer war: – 'Best chance yet' of beating the disease - Vaslo ====== gus_massa You forgot the URL?
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Cryptocurrency trading site Cryptsy in disarray - edward http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/cryptsy-in-disarray/2014/04/17 ====== Tenoke I used to call Cryptsy the MtGox of dogecoin and I'm not surprised that they are still as bad as they've been since I first used them (early December). As far as I know, none of t...
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Socialism - ideqa https://ideqa.blogspot.com/p/socialism.html ====== detaro Exactly one of the nordic countries has relevant amounts of oil money. What works there can't be 1:1 transferred to a random other country, but "OMG they have free money" is not the reason. All countries pay for "free stuff" in some way or the...
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Ask HN: Guild/Studio structure for Software Engineers? - szemy2 Hi HN,<p>I am looking for examples of companies that consist of an ensemble of mainly software engineers (could be mixed skills with hardware, graphic, architecture), that work in a guild like fashion.<p>- They work mostly on internal products, mostly on ...
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I’ll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze - mgunes http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/the-beheld/ill-be-watching-you-nsa-surveillance-and-the-male-gaze/ ====== mjfl I think there is a fundamental difference between the "male gaze" evaluating and "objectifying" females and the "Sauron's eye" of digital sur...
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Stuart Halloway talks about what led him to write a book on clojure - silkodyssey http://blip.tv/file/2537613/ ====== mahmud 1) sexy language. 2) lack of competing books. 3) growing readership. 4) unnecessary, and completely unjustified hype and a messianic devotion by uninformed and lazy masses to the New Thing....
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Mockbin: generate custom endpoints to test, mock, and track HTTP requests - robinhowlett http://mockbin.com/ ====== sinzone Hi all - happy to get feedback. Also, someone added Mockbin on Docker: [https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/tomdesinto/mockbin/](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/tomdesinto/mockbin/) ~~~ voltage...
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More than 35,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in Florida primary - fortran77 https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/09/17/more-than-35-000-mail-in-ballots-were-rejected-in-florida-primary-1317327 ====== ethagknight A couple questions/comments. 1) Why should an unsigned ballot be considered a vote? Why is...
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Insulator Changeout on H-Structure, Northwest Lineman College [video] - camtarn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wW_oDL6Cew ====== camtarn A POV video of a timed lineman training exercise: a lineman climbing an overhead power line H-structure, hoisting up a ladder, using the hoist to pull himself and the ladder out on...
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People don't understand overdiagnosis - DanBC http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/press-release/2016-04-06-public-dont-understand-overdiagnosis ====== gus_massa I don't like the method they use (ignoring that it's an online survey). They measured that most of the people don't know the meaning of the w...
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Streamlined URL shortener UI - hvm http://hvm.pw/ code here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hvm2hvm&#x2F;urldable blog post: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.voicuhodrea.com&#x2F;?p=64 ====== hvm code here: [https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable](https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable) blog post: [http://blog.voicuhodrea.com/?p=6...
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Show HN: Convert photo, image or picture into a poster - appscyborg https://postercyborg.com/ ====== FreeHugs Why do you put every filter on a different domain instead of one domain - say filtercyborg.com - where you can use all the filters? ~~~ appscyborg From past experience we know that our user will use only one ...
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Samsung Galaxy 7.. Grenade? - uaygsfdbzf https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hBVwX3VXIFTOp42vNNJNo7WsPW2QFS845qw_UEPNL9WUe-0qvSFQiFsGMXgIxiP9YJz-wImt1A=w1920-h1080-rw-no ====== jaytaylor Can't see anything on an iPhone, I've got no idea what this is.
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Google – My Location History - feross https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?authuser=0&pb ====== dang This looks like a follow-up to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050764](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050764). ------ m0dest I used to willingly enable this and enjoyed this page. But it was recently r...
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Ask HN: As a tourist in the US, what should I do if I have coronavirus symptoms? - danr4 The doctors I&#x27;ve spoken to are refusing a house call and suggested I go to the ER, which sounds like a bad idea.<p>Currently in Las Vegas but I&#x27;ve been in Los Angeles for a few weeks until 3 days ago.<p>I keep getting bo...
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Unreal Engine code issues are fixed by the third-party company - AndreyKarpov Our company develops, promotes, and sells the PVS-Studio static code analyzer for C&#x2F;C++ programmers. However, our collaboration with customers is not limited solely to selling PVS-Studio licenses. For example, we often take on contra...
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ICO startups band together to create $100M grant fund for Ethereum projects - sethbannon https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/ethereum-community-fund/ ====== lumberjack So much money and yet this is what they are betting on: [https://www.stateofthedapps.com/](https://www.stateofthedapps.com/). I just baffles the mind, ho...
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Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way - superasn https://asciinema.org/ ====== petepete I love asciinema, but every time I see the name I read it as 'ascii enema'.
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Amazon to Introduce Amazon Coins in May - DallaRosa https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx2KQ7KN7TXIQTU/Taking-Advantage-of-Amazon-Coins.html ====== ScottWhigham _To help promote this new currency, Amazon is going to give away tens of millions of dollars in Amazon Coins to Kindle Fire users. This money will be burning...
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Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking - KC8ZKF http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2009/04/ratio-the-simpl.html ====== frossie Well I take his point that expressing quantities in ratios may make more sense that absolute values. But aside from baking (and in particular anything involving yeast),...
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Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s electricity needs yesterday - prostoalex http://qz.com/450737/denmarks-wind-farms-generated-140-of-the-countrys-electricity-needs-yesterday/ ====== interfixus Alas, as the wind soars, so do our energy costs. Danish electricity prices have only gone up, up, up, and t...
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Show HN: Sell life insurance from your FinTech website - reiderrider http://inslock.com ====== reiderrider Comparable to Stripe for life insurance. Insert a line of JavaScript into your website's HTML to display life insurance quotes. Users can choose a carrier and apply using the first direct to consumer multi-carrie...
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Pico: Client-side JavaScript library for high-precision viewport screenshots - mmoez https://github.com/nikersify/pico ====== bilalq This is really interesting. I don't know anything about `foreignObject`, but are there possibly security implications of a tool like this? Normally, the computedStyles properties in CSS ...
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Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 3 - mildbyte https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-planning-a-morrowind-all-faction-speedrun-with-simulated-annealing-part-3-46455/ ====== mkirklions That was a lot of fun to read. I am finally getting to the point in my pro...
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John Doerr's Startup Manual (1997) - hwijaya http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/07/082doerr.html ====== smakz "In June, 1996 KPCB organized a $100 million Java Fund to back a slate of startups using Sun's Java programming language, including Active Software, Calico, Internet Security Systems, Marimba, and Netiva." ...
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Making sense of the GHC API - aesadde http://www.aesadde.xyz/posts/ghc_api.html ====== aesadde Hi all, First time posting here. I just wrote a smallish blog post on how to use the GHC API. It is my first time blogging so any comments/feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Why do links open in the same tab on Hacker News? - esalazar Why do links open in the same tab on HN? I would love to be able to just click five interesting links and have five new tabs open. ====== brudgers A user script using Greasemonkey for Firefox or TamperMonkey for Chrome/Chromium can change the behavio...
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Uses of "* is the new *" in 2005 represented graphically - david http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html ====== LaurieCheers "LOL I CAN HAS" is the new "is the new". ~~~ benhoyt Is your name "Strange Loop", or "Douglas Hofstadter", by any chance? ;-) ------ daniel-cussen Seriously clever.
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Thoughts of a sysadmin starting to get old ... - bensummers http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5785-Thoughts-of-an-admin-starting-to-get-old-....html ====== ajross I kept reading wanting this to be interesting, but it's the same tired Unix incompatibility rant we've all been reading for 20 years now. First it was Sun ...
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Poll: Americans Turn On Snowden, Majority Supports Criminal Charges - 1337biz http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-americans-turn-on-snowden-majority-supports-criminal ====== drpgq I've thought about Snowden that he did more of a service for people in other countries. I mean people should assume that big...
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The Secret Uber Data That Could Fix Your Commute - em3rgent0rdr https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ubers-coughing-data-nyc-fix-commute/ ====== tomohawk If they want the data, they should pay for it.
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Is It Nude? (SFW – Nudity Detection Bot) - doppenhe https://isitnude.com ====== jeffbax You should partner with online dating applications, and have all images sent from men to women run through this first. Sr. Dick Detection Specialist will look pretty interesting on LinkedIn. ------ ravimik "Nip Alert was a terr...
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Man receives constant pain signals from his brain - mmonihan http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2014/09/23/ambler_gazette/news/doc5421ece83a718387735601.txt?viewmode=fullstory ====== bitsweet My Father has suffered with full body RSD/CRPS like the patient in this article. Even the slightest breeze can cause him ex...
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Hand Signals in NYC fine dining - Stronico http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/20111002_Schott_Sign_Dining.html ====== jtchang While discrete hand signals may not mean much to a middle of the road dining establishment you can bet that the people who implement these protocols do so because th...
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Google Stadia launches 4K game-streaming in November - ashraymalhotra https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/google-stadia-launches-4k-game-streaming-in-november-for-9-99-mo/ ====== ashraymalhotra An advantage of having cloud gaming would be to enable gaming on Mac and Linux.
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Ask HN: How would you convince a teen to stay home during isolation - romes ====== sharemywin [https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/03/how-viruses- spr...](https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/03/how-viruses-spread-lon- md-orig.cnn) [https://www.healthline.com/health-news/50-percent-of- people-...](https://w...
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ratemycop.com: New Website Has Police Furious - iamelgringo http://cbs13.com/local/rate.a.cop.2.673410.html ====== iamelgringo Website apparently was taken down. Here's the google cache: [http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:M5rAytKxvkUJ:ratemycop....](http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:M5rAytKxvkUJ:ratemycop.com/...
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New clean Google SERP design? - amccloud http://cl.ly/1T2g1V451s3x0L2T182M<p>http://cl.ly/1Q1c0L0h0J2k3l071P2M<p>http://cl.ly/461E1x1A3e3g1f0K2J0Y ====== amccloud Clickable: <http://cl.ly/1T2g1V451s3x0L2T182M> <http://cl.ly/1Q1c0L0h0J2k3l071P2M> <http://cl.ly/461E1x1A3e3g1f0K2J0Y> ------ bceagle Are you making a...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with application logging in a web service? - acolytic I work for a large company that has an internal logging environment and I&#x27;m trying to figure out what the external equivalent is. Basically, I want to add logging statements throughout my app, I want those statements to get pushed to so...
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Show HN: gi.st – the gist of the web - stkbach http://thegi.st ====== inaseer The web is a big place. What's the strategy around seeding it with useful gists so it can gain critical mass? Have you thought about focusing on a niche (say, TED talks?) or possibly automatically summarizing pages? The latter could be tri...
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Hardware Vendor Offers Backdoor with Every Product - there http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hardware-vendor-offers-backdoor-every-product-052611 ====== drcube Why don't companies simply offer hardware "back doors"? My company has jumpers to temporarily disable password protection and/or reset to the default password ...
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Scales, Feathers and Hair Have a Common Ancestor - dnetesn http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/science/scales-feathers-hair-common-ancestor.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront ======...
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Locking Down the Instance Metadata Service: Announcing Imds-Filterd - cperciva http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-01-27-Announcing-imds-filterd.html ====== arkadiyt This is great defense in depth but if someone gets RCE on your host then I would assume that entire box is compromised. Local privilege escalation is ve...
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Ask HN: Has Meteor grown up? - theknight Early in the days, there were a number of questions regarding Meteor. Will it scale, how secure it is etc. etc. Do people think it has finally grown up and addressed some of the early issues? ====== fimdomeio Security is been addressed long time ago. When you create a new proje...
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H.P. makes $1 billion bet on open source cloud services - dfine http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/h-p-makes-1-billion-bet-on-open-cloud/ ====== mark_l_watson Probably a good strategy, selling services using OpenStack and supporting hybrid public/private cloud services. For smaller companies I think a sweet s...
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$10m for ni.ke domain - wil_wheat_on http://auction.kenic.or.ke/item/19203406/nike ====== PaulHoule $10M is cheap to get a $20M lawsuit filed against you. ~~~ wil_wheat_on It may be Nike Corporate trying to get a lock on the domain. If it isn't, the new owner must have quite the legal budget.
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How the 49ers Are Using Beacons to Help You Find Hot Dogs and Beer - turoczy http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/how-the-49ers-are-using-beacons-to-help-you-find-hot-dogs-and-beer/ ====== rmxt Can anyone with a little more knowledge about either iBeacons or WiFi MAC Address triangulation explain how active or passive o...
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Break-in at Vudu - magthor http://www.vudu.com/password_faq.html ====== claudius Why weren’t the hard drives encrypted? This should at the very least protect against a physical one-off attack such as this one.
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Tell HN: Don't go to pirate bay - _RPM The website seems to be distributing malware. An automatic downloads starts once you click anywhere on the page. Make sure you do not click the binary executable. ====== xzcvczx where did you click? i am unable to get the download
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Inside Industrial Light and Magic's Secret Star Wars VR Lab - petewailes http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/9131805/ilm-ilmxlab-interview-virtual-reality-star-wars-movies ====== ffk LucasArts used to be a very well known game developer studio. Many of the early star wars games were very well received and highly innov...
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Interactive computational neuroscience – part 1, spiking neurons - jterwill http://jackterwilliger.com/biological-neural-networks-part-i-spiking-neurons/ ====== taneq Thanks for this! I've been trying to find something quantitative about modeling neurons for a while now but everything seems to be either basic research...
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Worst Epidemics in History - justinzollars https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-worst-epidemics-in-history.html ====== dmix I was reading about this interesting fungal infection that primarily infects people with HIV/AIDS: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcos...
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Obsessing - nirmal http://obsessing.org/ ====== sayhello This is s'posed to be a demo of processing.js isn't it? I like the vi-like interface. If only there were the shortcut keys like <http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/> Pretty cool nonetheless ------ timcederman Doesn't work properly for me, either in Firefox 2...
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Ask HN: Proper way to generate confirmation numbers - reaperducer I&#x27;ve noticed that when I pay my bills online there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any single method of generating confirmation numbers. One credit card uses a 4-digit number. Another uses 9 letters. The electric company uses six alphanumeric characters. ...
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Heisenbug - kordless http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug ====== DiabloD3 I love the other kind of bug, where the code works until you read the source, you realize the code can't work, and then your pre-existing binaries all break.
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TomTom GPS watches you drive, sets your insurance rate accordingly - evo_9 http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/117889-tomtom-watches-you-drive-insurance-rate ====== paulhauggis I wouldn't accept this. First it will be optional. When the insurance companies (or government) sees how much they will be able to watch us, i...
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Robot Suitcase Moves Itself Around for You - saurabhpalan http://www.grishinrobotics.com/1669 ====== flexxaeon \- I travel very little, but would already want this for standing in long lines. \- I wonder what their security solution is (an alarm if it gets picked up while in "following" mode) \- Clearly needs a wi...
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Use a Design System If You Want to Speed Up Front-End Development - nilkanthjp https://www.quantcast.com/blog/unblocking-the-front-end/?utm_source=Hacker-News&utm_campaign=Unblocking-Frontend ====== nilkanthjp Author here - happy to answer any questions about our system and how it's been working for us.
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Team dynamics after pre-$eed - tedthayer 5 months ago, I joined a technology startup aiming to revolutionize mobile healthcare. The founder ran a lab and the cofounder was a doctor with impressive credentials. The vision was big and I quit my job to work for no pay without a formalized position. We converted the found...
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EPYC SAP-SD 2-tier benchmark results - BeeOnRope https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=186584&curpostid=186630 ====== techntoke Good for Linus. I'm honestly surprised that he doesn't try to get more involved in promoting more competition and openness of hardware vendors, but I do appreciate his general neutral...
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Show HN: Tools for practicing a musical instrument as single HTML files - ctrager https://ctrager.github.io/music_tools ====== ctrager I'm a retired software developer. I hadn't really coded in like four years. But with the lockdown, and my wife in the next room sewing masks, I got the urge to craft something too.
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The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change - misnamed http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/08/coffee-shops-gentrification-urban-change ====== dkopi Commenting on this post while I'm at a coffee shop myself. If I had to pick one city for having the best coffee shops, it would probabl...
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Darpa working on its own deep-learning project for NLP - suprgeek https://gigaom.com/2014/05/02/darpa-is-working-on-its-own-deep-learning-project-for-natural-language-processing/ ====== dlwh This article is basically nonsense. The "Deep" here doesn't mean "deep learning"/neural networks. They just mean non-superfi...
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Splunk No Longer for Sale in Russia - liberabaci https://www.splunk.com/blog/2019/02/18/shifting-priorities-in-our-global-strategy.html ====== bnolsen Clickhouse, a Russian product, seems to index dramatically better than splunk. Add with grafana, etc and you can build a useable and dramatically faster logging platfor...
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Ask HN: Startup founders, did you regret applying for a patent? - hkyeti ====== matt_the_bass Ianal. But I hold 4 patents with more pending. My opinion of the value of patents for a small company is: \- marketing (many naive customers believe if you have a unique and valuable product, then it should be patented. If y...
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