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Obama Drops Syria Training Plan, Shifts to Equipping Fighters - cryoshon http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-09/obama-revamping-syria-rebel-strategy-amid-challenge-from-russia ====== cryoshon "General Lloyd Austin, the head of U.S. Central Command, told a Senate hearing last month that only “four or five” o...
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Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React? - TaizWeb Considering boarding the Vue hype train but I'm left wondering: will it be worth it, or am I just wasting my time? React already has a firm hold in the industry it seems, and I'm just not sure if Vue would be able to top it. I'm curious if anyone ...
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Sprint Using Screenshots from Apple.com - jonkratz https://www.sprint.com/landings/iphone/?INTCID=AB:HERO:091412:iPhone5:LearnMore:960x320 ====== jaysonjphillips This is probably directed by Apple, seeing as how verizon[1] and att[2] appear to do the same. [1] <http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/iphone.jsp> ...
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Harvard Professor Matt Welsh: Working for Google - rxin http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/06/working-for-google.html ====== chadaustin [academia : toy boats in bathtubs :: industry : aircraft carriers] is the most memorable distinction between academia and industry I've heard. In the end, your slice of the pie wil...
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US computer science grads outperforming those in other key nations - furcyd https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/us-computer-science-grads-outperforming-those-in-other-key-nations/ ====== detaro duplicate, please check before submitting: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19430880](https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Mao Kun Map - Thevet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Kun_map ====== peteretep > Of interest is the inclusion of what are interpreted as Paracel Islands, > Macclesfield Bank or Spratly Islands – the names Shitang (石塘), Wansheng > Shitangyu (萬生石塘嶼), and Shixing Shitang (石星石塘) are noted on the map, although > identific...
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Show HN: InvoiceAtOnce – Easy Invoice Creation - NubeDeArroz http://invoiceatonce.com ====== sabalaba If you would rather do this using json and a command line tool: [https://github.com/lambdal/envois](https://github.com/lambdal/envois) That's a FOSS utility I've been working on for the past two years. I use it for...
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Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List - mtgx http://torrentfreak.com/google-adds-pirate-bay-domains-to-censorship-list-120910/ ====== AlexCP I think censorship is a bit of a strong word.
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Arduino team presents genuino starter kit - kevinaloys https://blog.arduino.cc/2015/10/07/arduino-team-presents-genuino-starter-kit/ ====== lsaferite So, are these the good Arduino guys or the bad Arduino guys? I can never keep them straight. ~~~ quesera Yes, it's a nightmare. Arduino LLC and arduino.cc are the orig...
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When journalists try to take down startups - williswee https://www.techinasia.com/journalists-startups ====== duxup >with skepticism that’s usually fed by anonymously sourced information Most of the time, or the vast majority, when I see skepticism directed at start up it is: "Where is the profit going to come from?...
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Ask HN: Questions to ask during a phone interview - anonitopo This morning I had a call with a recruiter for a senior position at apple, after we talk he said to send him the CV and he then talked with the manager that is hiring at apple. He said that this manager wants to have an introductory interview at the phone t...
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How much is a gold medal really worth? - mirz http://blog.swagsy.com/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/ ====== patrickmclaren Was all-caps really necessary for the title? ~~~ mirz Sorry, I copied from the blog template.
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How to pitch reporters via email - pdenya http://blog.pressfriendly.com/ ====== andy_campanella this is good advice, but I'd also include a "teaser deck" as an attachment. I've had great luck with ours - it basically boils your entire company down to a story that you convey with no more than 5 slides. Each slide has...
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Did StumbleUpon just pass Facebook for social media traffic? - barredo http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/01/03/did-stumbleupon-just-pass-facebook-for-social-media-traffic/ ====== joshklein It's easy to understand both the reason this could be true, and the reason not to care. When someone visits your website from...
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Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps - elsewhen https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/18/clubhouse-app-chat-rooms/ ====== TomMarius The article gives me trouble understanding if this is Clubhouse.io or not
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1and1.com and Collection agency - soho33 We were hosting 2 dedicated servers with 1and1 for a few years paying around $600 a month for both. however in the past two months due to some increase traffic between the two servers tehmselves (web server &#38; databse server) the bandwidth spiked so they billed us $7500 ea...
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Starting a real business - alexkon https://stripe.com/atlas/guide ====== markdog12 Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13180312](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13180312) ------ astraelraen This is a really bad idea from a tax and legal perspective. As a CPA, I don't deal with silicon vall...
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IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 GA: Java 8 and ES6, Debugger and UI improvements, more - andrey_cheptsov https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/11/intellij-idea-2016-3-ga-java-8-and-es6-debugger-and-ui-improvements-and-a-ton-more/ ====== lars_francke One thing that IntelliJ does not support is working on multiple branches of a pro...
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Does self promotion cause heart disease? - nate http://blog.inklingmarkets.com/2010/04/does-self-promotion-cause-heart-disease.html ====== secretasiandan Like most Gladwell related information, there's an anecdotal relationship between a town that doesn't have much heart disease and a subjective observation about it...
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Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits - wslh https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-fails-to-perform-promised-audits-instead-they-have-a-shareholder-tell-everyone-its-all-965ae7037b5d ====== tlrobinson USDT/USD dipping below $1.00 for the first time in awhile: [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/#charts]...
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Show HN: GitHub Code Review with Emacs - lc2817 https://blog.laurentcharignon.com/post/code-review-in-emacs/ ====== snazz Thank you! I couldn’t manage to do GitHub stuff within eww too effectively (and eww is at best a hack). ------ lkurusa Awesome! Plugins like this make me want to make the switch to emacs from vim ...
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Munch On Me (YC S11) Is A Groupon For Food, Done Right - jwang815 http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/27/munch-on-me-is-a-groupon-for-food-done-right/ ====== yid Interesting, but I wonder how merchants will put up with strong, Groupon-like demand for a single item. Also, this stood out for me: _"Banking on the fact that r...
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Hologram Tupac Was Inevitable - llambda http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/hologram-tupac-was-inevitable/255990/ ====== loso I don't know what to think of this article. It reads as if it was written by someone who may have heard of Tupac but definitely wasn't a fan. I can't say that a fan of hip ...
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Cross-Platform Web Development with ASP.NET Core, Node.js and Webpack - koistya https://twitter.com/koistya/status/738322129591095296 ====== koistya [https://github.com/kriasoft/aspnet-starter- kit](https://github.com/kriasoft/aspnet-starter-kit) — ASP.NET Core Starter Kit
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Stanford Facebook Class Produces Impressive Results - shayan http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/12/stanford-facebook-class-produces-impressive-results/ ====== aston _"If you could teach a class on building "Web 2.0 sites" and produce the same type of results, you could charge any price for the class."_ Facebook is not...
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SYNQ: Upload, Store, Transcode and Deliver Videos with Simple API Calls - indescions_2017 https://www.synq.fm/ ====== ericcholis Slightly unrelated, but is there a service that offers RTMP streaming, transcoding and automatic uploads to platforms like Youtube? I know Ustream offers this as a feature for their main str...
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Getting a startup idea: Part 1, Choosing a topic - cturitzin https://medium.com/@turitzin/how-i-chose-healthcare-66f5ed82feed ====== krambs This is a great (the only?) way to start. One thing I think is also really important is to be a domain expert in the field of your idea, or be ready to find co-founders who are....
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Forcing a subscription model resulted in 2500 1-star reviews in 2 weeks - andrei_says_ Flexibits, the makers of Fantastical announced a new version and a subscription plan on January 29.<p>At the time of this change they had thousands of mostly 5-star reviews on the App store.<p>Two weeks later, they have over 2500 1-...
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Measuring What Matters: Diversity at Uber - Aqua_Geek https://newsroom.uber.com/diversity-report/ ====== nscalf Does anyone else find the trend to push diversity into everything disturbing? The incentives around programs like these seem misaligned. No company discusses why there are clear gender divides in jobs, i.e. ...
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Ask HN: Best way to learn spanish - neeleshs I tried learning spanish using duolingo and other such apps. I&#x27;ve come to the conclusion that this experience is not for me. I&#x27;m more of learn the alphabet, grammar, write, read and then speak kind of person. Any suggestions&#x2F;books&#x2F;material on this mode ...
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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example" - rw140 http://www.ericsink.com/entries/vcbe_print_edition_free.html ====== wmat What a great idea. Will future updates be available as well? Perhaps in a DVCS for easy access? I'd be a happy man if ALL tech books lived in a DVCS. Users could fork it, push updates, ...
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U.S. could face second recession next year - dreamz http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5308HW20090402 ====== tjic Personally, I expect that the current recession will not end before then. Wall Street is up a bit (and by "up a bit" I mean "it's still way way down, but from time to time it's up a few point...
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Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards" - whyleym http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/youre-welcome-you-bastards/ ====== nopal This sounds like someone at Fortune trying to do something industrious and then getting smacked by the higher-ups. I wonder how many good ideas are quashed simply because of policy. ~~~ bi...
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US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab - drocer88 https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/us-intelligence-virus-started-chinese-lab/index.html ====== sahin-boydas Misinformation of course. (I want to believe that this will be not be true) China will never do that. And this is real virus from ...
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Docker Hub Is Down - l0b0 https://www.dockerheart.com ====== bifrost Interesting, they're 404'ing. They're going through Cloudflare which pops up a "this is why this site is down" message usually. Maybe they fell victim to some faulty CD?
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Ask HN:What Learning Management System or Policy Acknowledgment SaaS do you use? - Looter I'm looking for an LMS (Learning Management System) and Policy Acknowledgement tracking SaaS or software. Can you recommend any? ====== Looter Not a big response. Bump, cough..
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Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press - aram https://github.com/elsehow/aaronson-oracle ====== sctb Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824164](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824164) ------ throwaway2016a For me it is pretty consistently 50% +/\- 5 even after a minute. ...
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Founder came back after 8 years to rewrite Flash photo editor in Canvas/WebGL - poniko http://pixlr.com/e ====== poniko The service was grown to over 60 million users back in ~2012 and got aquired by Autodesk. After some years most, if not all people working with the product was reassigned and or left. Still with mill...
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Ask HN: Why is code documentation such a painful process? - Kesava1312 ====== cborenstein In my experience, code documentation is painful because people often try to maintain perfectly comprehensive formal docs and the expectation is too high. Aiming for perfection instead of iterative improvements can feel intimidatin...
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The Hidden Costs of Apple’s Push Notification Service - sant0sk1 http://www.mobileorchard.com/the-hidden-costs-of-apples-push-notification-service/ ====== flashgordon Damn. This also means back end for iphone apps running on google appengine will have a much much harder time... Sure you could have a cron job that tri...
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Git Large File Storage (LFS) or Rsync for Media Files - AJAlabs Now that Git Large File Storage (LFS) has been announced. What is the general opinion on large file storage syncing best practices? Do you use Git LFS or sync with rsync?<p>Reference: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1986-announcing-git-large...
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Show HN: Prototyp – FramerJS based free prototyping - chinchang http://prototyp.in/ ====== nstart On the output side for the demo, this is all I see <body><script src="../framer.js"></script><script>var imageLayer; imageLayer = new Layer({ x: 0, y: 0, width: 128, height: 128, backgroundColor: 'lightgreen' }); ima...
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New article series at catonmat: Detailed Summary of MIT's Linear Algebra - pkrumins http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-linear-algebra-part-one/ ====== amichail Why do you care that this introductory course is taught at MIT? For a course at that level, the professor's teaching skills matter more than his/her research ...
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Latest perk on Google buses: security guards - vellum http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/01/16/us-techbuses-security-idINBREA0F1O320140116 ====== yetanotherphd Good for Google for doing this. I like this a lot better than making concessions to the thugs that threaten Google employees or Google's property.
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Show HN: Not BASIC – though strongly inspired by it - teacher_cs https://nbasic.net/ide/ ====== pmarreck This is cool! I’d love an immutable/functional version of this (I believe it can be about as simple). Also, could work better on mobile... ~~~ teacher_cs Thanks. Functional/immutable - that would not be BASIC lik...
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Show HN: Leadbox – Web Development Lead Generation Service - wprapido http://leadbox.co.nz ====== sharemywin Are you using robo-calling? ~~~ wprapido No. We don't do calls at all ~~~ sharemywin So your service goes out to the web and finds small businesses that have crappy websites so they can be offered mobile frie...
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Ask HN: In what ways do non-developers waste money not knowing how to code? - castig ====== mrfusion There are probably a lot of use cases for version control in the non programming world where people could benefit. I'm guessing people waste time copying and versioning files, and emailing updates back and forth, l...
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Investment Thesis for a University Incubator - paulorlando http://startupsunplugged.com/startup-programs/investment-thesis-university-incubator/ ====== j4pe What's the level of demand for spots in the incubator? It seems that a university-specific community would be small enough that optimizing for just one of the f...
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Carpooling Service Expands Across Europe - prostoalex http://www.wsj.com/articles/carpooling-service-expands-across-europe-1419538372 ====== personlurking Pretty good service. I very recently took it. 3 pax @ $30 (€25) each for a 5.5h trip, or 250 mi (400km). On top of it, the driver paid for gas and tolls using an a...
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Ask HN: How do you read programming books? - pvsukale3 How do you read a programming book? By programming books, I mean books which teach a language&#x2F;framework&#x2F;tool.<p>Do you read it in one go and later try examples or go through entire book by trying all examples?<p>Do you read the entire book or just the pa...
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Tell me what your company does - HappyKasper https://medium.com/@kasperkubica/for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2f0b835ab92 ====== nickstefan12 > the more expensive the service a B2B company provides, the more > incomprehensible its website > I think the big companies do it to get you on the ...
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C++ Lifetime profile v1.0 posted - nikbackm https://herbsutter.com/2018/09/20/lifetime-profile-v1-0-posted/ ====== Spartan-S63 I don’t know the real narrative driving so much investment in safe C++, but it does appear that Rust is really driving C++ in this respect. ~~~ steveklabnik This proposal and Rust's guarantee...
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Google's CEO's Mystery Visit to Pakistan - jaywalker http://www.thejaywalker.net/2012/06/googles-ceos-mystery-visit-to-pakistan.html ====== jaywalker I'm interested in knowing others viewpoint on this!
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Designing for the 99% - cemregr http://jm90403.com/2012/01/16/designing-for-the-99/ ====== enjo All of those nuances really do matter. You may not be able to appreciate them, but subconsciously those decisions contribute to your sense of happiness, joy, or excitement about any given design. As a matter of fact, I'd...
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SPI with a Blindfold On- speed up by letting go and trusting the machine - luu http://wp.josh.com/2015/09/29/bare-metal-fast-spi-on-avr/ ====== tonyarkles This reminds me of an unfortunate bug I was debugging the other day that had the same solution but a different problem on different hardware. Here's the setup: I h...
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LOLwork - reality show based on Seattle's ICanHasCheezburger.com - jheitzeb https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/lolwork-season-1/id570085113 ====== chadrs I don't think it's a "reality" show. It's more like a mockumentary style sitcom. I watched the first episode yesterday (a high school classmate of mine is one o...
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Tutorial: Create a Mobile HTML5 Farming Game with LimeJS - adambenayoun http://www.binpress.com/tutorial/create-a-farming-html5-game-for-beginners/4 ====== kevincennis It's awesome that people are writing articles on this stuff, but man -- some of the code in those examples is pretty rough. ~~~ WesleyJohnson Any sp...
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Rendering an HTML link across Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud mail - dopeboy http://dopeboy.github.io/render-link-gmail-outlook-icloud/ ====== stephenr This isn't about iCloud/outlook being "picky" it's about gmail doing the wrong thing. A html href attribute without an absolute scheme (eg [http://](http://)) is meaningle...
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A Day With an E-mail Scammer - dave1619 http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/a-day-with-an-e-mail-scammer/#more-3355 ====== pavel_lishin This probably wasted maybe 20 minutes out of their day. I was hoping to see them get counter-scammed, like has happened a few times. ~~~ timmaah And wasted 3 out of mine. Why i...
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A New Look at the Little-Known Pyramids of Ancient Nubia - prismatic http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meroe-pyramids-sudan-photography ====== robk It is truly a beautiful place. So vast and empty. Here are the pics I took [https://secure.flickr.com/photos/robk/sets/72157635153819347...](https://secure.flickr.com/p...
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Opensource spreadsheet as a service - fuad http://extentech.com/index.jsp ====== jmount Why not OpenOffice?
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Navy prepares to take railgun to sea - Libertatea http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/navy-prepares-to-take-rail-gun-to-sea/ ====== bernardom How hard is it to penetrate reinforced concrete walls vs. going through a real warship?
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Getting Press for Your Startup - craigcannon http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/getting-press-for-your-startup/ ====== dtran Thanks for a great post Michael! Definitely agreed on Step four about setting up a constant cadence for company news and stories. In addition to the risk that your single, coordinated, monolit...
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Ask HN: What adblocker do you use? - fratlas Before I get &quot;support small websites&quot;, I donate to anything I think is worth donating to (i.e. Flux). I used to use ABP but recently they allowed FB ads with no option to block them, frustrating to say the least. ====== francium_ ublock origin ~~~ fratlas Didn't ...
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Why Central Banks Will Issue Digital Currency - mathiasrw https://medium.com/chain-inc/why-central-banks-will-issue-digital-currency-5fd9c1d3d8a2 ====== known You cease to exist as an Independent Nation if you can't print your own currency [http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1389](http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1389)
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Big Landlord Blocks Deliveries After Deluge of Packages - larrys http://www.wsj.com/articles/package-gate-big-landlord-blocks-deliveries-after-deluge-of-parcels-1445333401 ====== larrys It would seem that if this becomes a trend that delivery companies would need and be in their right to assess a charge to any package...
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Ask YC: Review my startup, exocloud.com - kylef14 Hi,<p>A few friends and I have been hard at work creating a set of products that help companies take advantage of cloud computing. The first of these products is a SaaS Cloud Management Console. This console allows you to quickly provision, manage, and monitor your ...
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Five Memorable Books About Programming - shawndumas http://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html# ====== RodgerTheGreat "Scientific Forth" sounds like a fun read, but looks like the only copy on Amazon is over $700. Youch. Edit: here's a review- this book sounds awesome: <http://www.rigwit.co.uk/papers/review.html>
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Show HN: Weekend Project, Clean stock charts for AAPL/GOOG/AMZN/IBM - showhndaily http://www.googlestockchart.com/ ====== showhndaily Closing out the 2012 year with a mini-project that was always on my mind. Spent some time this weekend to scratch my own itch. SITES 1\. <http://www.googlestockchart.com/> 2\. <htt...
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Powering a Google search - peter123 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-search.html ====== mseebach > Dr Wissner-Gross's study claims that two Google searches _on a desktop > computer_ produces 14g of CO2 .. it sounds a lot like NOT performing two Google searches on a desktop computer would produce...
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Steve Wozniak: ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’ - mudil http://www.siliconbeat.com/2018/01/29/steve-wozniak-dont-believe-anything-elon-musk-tesla-says/ ====== joelrunyon Clickbait - here's the original sourced article - [http://www.siliconbeat.com/2018/01/29/steve-wozniak-dont- bel...](http://www.sil...
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One-stop performance analysis using atop - reader_1000 http://lwn.net/Articles/387202/ ====== cthalupa I love atop - and install it everywhere that I can. The in depth metrics + historical view is excellent. That being said, I wouldn't call it a one stop tool for performance analysis. Particularly due to the word 'an...
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Ask HN: Place to sleep in San Francisco? - giologist Hi guys,<p>I&#x27;m currently in SF because I&#x27;m looking to move here. I just secured an apartment, but along with that I&#x27;ve basically paid around $5K in deposits and such, so I&#x27;m a bit strapped for cash. I&#x27;ve spent the night at the 24 hour Star...
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Bitwig Studio – Professional DAW with Linux support - kitsune_ http://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig-studio.html ====== MWil I'm used to using Native Instrument through Wine but I'm sure native Linux support would make it much easier
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Why Free Can Be a Problem on the Internet - hvo http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/opinion/sunday/why-free-can-be-a-problem-on-the-internet.html?ref=opinion ====== null000 What I want to know is: Why is this suddenly a problem now? It was already done when T-mobile made Pandora/a few other music services not count agai...
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IPhone 4S Camera Made by Sony « iFixit Blog - username3 http://www.ifixit.com/blog/blog/2011/10/14/iphone-4s-camera-made-by-sony/ ====== gigantor A surprise? A large chunk of the iPhone is made by Samsung, their most direct competitor: <http://www.economist.com/node/21525685> What would be exciting is if the lens wer...
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Visual problems besetting Android's Lollipop - edent https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/do-all-google-employees-have-perfect-eyesight/ ====== petval The contast point of the article is so true. The light gray text on white background which is so trendy nowadays is terribly uncomfortable, especially outside in brighter l...
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[2008] On The Flight to Old Text Editors - swah http://al3x.net/2008/10/22/on-flight-to-old-text-editors.html ====== forensic This reminds me of carpenters who use old hammers. Sometimes the old thing is really the best solution, and attempts to improve it are misguided and fail. Carpenters will give the newfangled...
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10 reasons to believe P != NP - arman0 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=122 ====== jaachan Article is about believing P != NP, entirely different title ~~~ zidar I was really confused before I realized that there's a "!" missing.
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Show HN: Directory for kids with allergies - leonagano http://allergiesandkids.com ====== bernardhalas First of all - thank you for putting together the site with the aim to ease the pain and avoid the risk of loosing life that allergy might cause. I look at your website for like 10 seconds and I don't understand it....
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Technical Interviews aren't merely technical - nicolodavis https://nicolodavis.com/blog/interviewing/ ====== TrackerFF I honestly enjoy take-home assignments more, because they (well, at least the proper ones) mitigate many of the risks that are listed in the post. My experience is that the interviewer can pretty muc...
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Science Denial Won’t End Sexism - andrenth https://quillette.com/2019/03/11/science-denial-wont-end-sexism/ ====== YeGoblynQueenne >> Last week, Nature, one of the top scientific journals in the world, ran a review written by Lise Eliot of Gina Rippon’s new book, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters ...
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RabbitMQ Highly Available Queues and Clustering using Amazon EC2 - karlgrz http://karlgrz.blogspot.com/2012/10/rabbitmq-highly-available-queues-and.html ====== forkproc1582 As I often have to repeat to people: don't use RabbitMQ unless you need durable messaging. That is to say, if losing a message is catastrophic, ...
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Þ - shawndumas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) ====== ColinWright Speaking to your question asked in the now dead submission about the ligature (or whatever) - these are facts, and they are facts that are unknown to the vast majority of people. It may be that you are discovering them, and you find them int...
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Ask YC: What is J-Mango? We think "Mobile friendly web goodness for the masses". How about you? - hafeez-bana http://jmango.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/what-is-j-mango-you-tell-us/ ====== hafeez-bana Hi All, I thought I would share the video of the demo we submitted to YC. We have been frustrated by mobile development...
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Reltron: a GUI for exploring relational databases - rtsao https://kevinlynagh.com/reltron/ ====== SOLAR_FIELDS I really enjoyed this and would have been great to have something like this recently. Just the other day a coworker was writing some code on top of a database I had designed. He and I were discussing some of ...
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Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else? - dvrajan What would you do? ====== david927 I currently work in a good environment where I'm appreciated and paid well. Not many people in the world can say that, so I have a lot to be thankful for. Programming has done good by me. But I don't ...
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Health care law stands in U.S. - leothekim http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/live-coverage/scotus-healthcare ====== tzs Long term, we probably would have been better off if the individual mandate had been struck down but the rest left intact. That would have had a decent chance of forcing us toward a real national h...
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The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist (2012) [video] - lisper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOEoffh6WTs ====== philipov ~2:35 > "In 2002, he moved to Harvard to become full professor there, and will remain there until he joins our faculty of the institute in 2008" I don't understand; when w...
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The Future of UI design - adam1davis http://adamldavis.com/post/25846679843/the-future-of-ui-design ====== agracey I have not yet used Kinect; would it be possible to build this type of UI using the Kinect (or similar) Hardware? ------ WTPayne Love it!
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Amazon unveils shopping cart that knows what you're buying - sizzle https://apnews.com/f2e83ab1261fd6fe3935cf51e976b4a5 ====== core-questions Can't wait to see homeless people pushing these around and throwing them into creeks like normal carts
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An alternative argument for why women leave STEM - BerislavLopac https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4522 ====== thaumasiotes But this is an argument for why women leave academia, not an argument for why they leave STEM.
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Merb Tips II - nickb http://railsontherun.com/2008/4/8/merb-tips-2 ====== jgamman you spelt MERP wrong.
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Track impact on UK universities, EU funding and international collaboration - rifaqat https://wizdom.ai/dashboards/leave-or-remain-impact-on-uk-research ====== rifaqat [https://blog.colwiz.com/2016/06/23/leave-or-remain-impact- on...](https://blog.colwiz.com/2016/06/23/leave-or-remain-impact-on-uk- universities-eu-fun...
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Time-wars - onosendai http://www.gonzocircus.com/xtrpgs/incubate-special-exclusive-essay-time-wars-by-mark-fisher/ ====== Mizza Great article - wish the title was better so more people would read it here, particularly this: > No doubt this chronic shortage of time goes some way to accounting for the > stalled and i...
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Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980) [video] - shawndumas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G6RChOLrTA ====== Adaptive My parents have mentioned the story of how, at an EAA convention, they asked a couple guys with mics and field recorders what they were doing, and they said they were...
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Worst company names - sharpshoot ====== webwright I'm sorry, but I win here. I had a project that kinda accidentally turned into a company. Never did ANY name research-- just grabbed the first thing that popped into my head... "Jobby" ( <http://www.gojobby.com> ). Turns out that Jobby (in Scotland), means "poop". None...
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RadioShack Files for Bankruptcy - philip1209 http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-files-for-bankruptcy-1423175389 ====== matheweis ... and nothing of value was lost. Seriously, I went down to Radio Shack about 6 months ago looking for a decent soldering iron, and came up empty handed at both of the local stores. ...
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Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers - growlix http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/nyregion/us-is-reading-inmates-email-sent-to-lawyers.html ====== Teodolfo Bar associations should demand that lawyers allow clients encrypted email communication. The adoption problem for encrypted email (all encrypted c...
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Libretro/RetroArch – Hacker vandalised buildbot and GitHub organization - libretro https://www.libretro.com/index.php/hacker-vandalised-our-buildbot-and-github-organization/ ====== joemazerino Hate to ask but is there is an idea on attribution? Considering that the attack is called premeditated I doubt it would be mar...
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