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Andrew Ng – What is the most important problem the AI community should work on? - lukeplato https://blog.deeplearning.ai/blog/the-batch-apples-ai-strategy-retail-surveillance-clothes-that-fight-face-recognition-suboptimal-optimizers ====== rvz > Explainable and ethical AI This IS the most important problem in AI and ...
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Legal Support for Substack Writers - sethbannon https://on.substack.com/p/legal-support-for-substack-writers ====== kylestewart Good for Substack! Drawing a line in the sand like this makes me want to support their cause. I get excited when I read stories about companies or groups standing up against patent trolls. R...
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Show HN: Coachella live stream + chat using Meteor - stephenhandley http://coachella.hello10.com/ ====== kappaknight This is just <http://www.youtube.com/coachella> ? ~~~ stephenhandley yeah its their player. i was originally hoping to have better access to the individual channels/stages over the gdata api.. but th...
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Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis - edward https://africafeeds.com/2020/02/27/malawi-legalises-the-growing-selling-and-export-of-cannabis/ ====== cies Finally. I've got the impression that many drugs were politically criminalized in order make sure non-western countries would not get wealthy...
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Ask HN: How do you handle billing by the day? - rquantz Several prominent members of the HN community advocate billing <i>at least</i> by the day for freelancers/consultants. This is extremely appealing to me, and I've begun discussing changing to this billing structure with some of my existing clients.<p>That being...
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Mail carriers accuse USPS of faking Amazon delivery records - molecule http://www.cbs46.com/story/36856477/mail-carriers-usps-warns-amazon-customers-will-get-free-stuff-if-mail-is-delivered-late ====== wskinner It feels good to be vindicated about this. As a San Francisco and Berkeley resident, this has happened to me...
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Cool progress bars - zacinbusiness So there&#x27;s the new hotness in webdesign that seems to be crafting cool looking progress bars. I think, though, that the new hotness should instead be crafting websites that don&#x27;t require progress bars. Because, you know, it&#x27;s not 1999. ====== leoplct In 1999 there wa...
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$6,000+ of app design ebook sales today - rob41 http://nathanbarry.com/learned-selling-6000-ebook-today/ ====== bdunn Nathan - congrats buddy! There are a few key takeaways _anyone_ who has a product, or wants to create a product, should take note of. * Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market...
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How to write if you cannot concentrate - aycangulez http://www.noshortageofwork.com/pages/4078 ====== dublinclontarf Down, cached version here [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bltq7_q...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bltq7_qcBCEJ:www.noshortageofwork.com/pages/4078+&cd=1...
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The Conundrum of Lucien Freud's Portraits - apollinaire https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/12/the-lives-of-lucian-freud-explores-a-theory-of-portraiture/601471/ ====== voldacar After reading this, I'm still not exactly certain what the "conundrum" is. To me the conundrum is how one can write so ma...
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Ask HN: What is the difference between a junior and senior developer? - nchuhoai I&#x27;m about to graduate from college and have been contemplating about this question a lot lately, especially in regards to specific languages&#x2F;frameworks (ruby&#x2F;rails in my case)<p>I know that I&#x27;m not that most raw-engine...
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X# - XML Oriented programming language - axod http://www.xsharp.org/samples/ ====== codeglide My name is Mark Giuliani and I am one of the developers behind X#. I do agree that the language is verbose at the moment, originally it was designed to be programmed visually but we kept extending it to the level where it is...
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Sales engagement startup Apollo says its massive contacts database was stolen - iamben https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/apollo-contacts-data-breach/ ====== gk1 The article talks about notifications and risks to _customers_ of Apollo, but it's not the _customers '_ data that was stolen... It was that of 200 MILLION pe...
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Show HN: Inference GUIs for 12 SoTA ML models - aliabd http://gradiohub.com ====== indit It's great OP. Maybe you can expand into other SoTAs like in [https://paperswithcode.com/sota](https://paperswithcode.com/sota) ------ aliabd Some of the models we put up have thousands of stars on GitHub and yet still no interfa...
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A Trusted Web Activity for Android - twapi https://blog.chromium.org/2019/02/introducing-trusted-web-activity-for.html ====== ajvs What I don't get is why they are making Chrome mandatory. What happened to web standards? It's not like other Chromium-based browsers or Firefox can't already use Chrome Custom Tabs and ru...
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Ask HN: Where do you freelancers find your clients/work? - shahed I know a lot of freelancers find their clients in different ways. I want to see what advice you have for someone looking to land their first few clients (ex. referral, specific websites, etc.)<p>I'm a UI/UX Designer, mobile designer, front-end develop...
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Amazon to resurrect kozmo.com's idea with 1-hr delivery in NYC - redgrange http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/08/us-amazon-com-delivery-idUSKBN0JM2EU20141208 ====== redgrange Here's the eDreams documentary on kozmo on youtube if you're interested: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY8WoDKUKP8](https://www.youtube...
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Show HN: I made a site that highlights makers who build with Django - rasulkireev https://builtwithdjango.com ====== tataD I do really like your idea to make a Django base, it may be very useful for someone who just started to work with this platform, and I’ve found it’s really pretty how you’ve designed the page, bec...
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Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? - mohsen I feel it's these types of questions that get us closer to an eternal September here, but forgive me I must ask.<p>I have a pretty simple question, what is the lightest, fastest browser i could use.<p>my request is that<p>1) it allows for tabs<p>2) it has a decent set ...
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Anita Sarkeesian, 'gaming's feminist advocate,' makes the Time 100 - evo_9 http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/16/8428461/anita-sarkeesian-time-100 ====== angersock According to the article, the people previously celebrated in the industry would be folks like Notch, Jens Bergensten, and Miyamoto. People that created _Minecr...
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Advanced R programming - iamtechaddict http://adv-r.had.co.nz ====== danso > _Although R has its quirks, I truly believe that at its heart it is an > elegant and beautiful language. While R is a fairly mature language, we are > still learning how to craft elegant R code: much code seen in the wild is > written in hast...
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AOL and Huffington Post sued by unpaid bloggers - bconway http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-huffington-lawsuit-idUSTRE73B5JT20110412 ====== johngalt "The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance com...
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How can a teenager get a programming job over the summer? - codeforfood I am a high school senior who is very talented at programming (at least if I say so myself). In my junior year I was a USACO finalist, so I know my way around algorithms. I know how to program in Java, Python, C++. I have successfully wrote a webs...
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It's Real Hard Making an Indie Game in Cuba - dragonbonheur http://kotaku.com/its-real-hard-making-an-indie-game-in-cuba-1788713142 ====== The_suffocated Looks cool. The hand-drawn graphics give the game a unique style which I find very attractive.
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NYU terrorism class asks students to plot terrorist attack - joshfraser http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyu_homework_plot_terror_attack_71g6BRG0GVqJfBCgVHXWIL ====== joshfraser I think about physical security the same way I think about virtual security. The way to find holes in your system is to put yourself in the...
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How I lost access to my Google account today - ehsanakhgari http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2012-04-14/how-i-lost-access-my-google-account-today ====== overgard Somewhat of a sidenote, but this is why I refuse to use google+: my gmail account is too important to me to risk of linking it to another google service. Especia...
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Is he a record-setting marathon runner, or a cheater? - ilamont https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-marathon-cheating-allegations-frank-meza-20190621-story.html ====== nradov 100% cheater [https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2019/06/frank-meza- add...](https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2019/06/frank-meza-addit...
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Apple allows analytics data collection, but not for Google - danh http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/08/apple-modifies-ios-developer-terms-to-allow-limited-analytics-data-collection/ ====== ryandvm I'm not sure how Apple gets a free pass for this kind of stuff. Sure, they get a blog post or two written about them, but i...
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US bullying dozens of countries into following the DMCA model - gasull http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/1925230&from=rss ====== gamble The US propaganda has been particularly obnoxious here in Canada. There have been several attempts to enact a DMCA-style intellectual property law, but all of them ha...
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From Sentiment Analysis to Emotion Recognition: A NLP Story - apotatopot https://medium.com/neuronio/from-sentiment-analysis-to-emotion-recognition-a-nlp-story-bcc9d6ff61ae ====== unhappy_taste The expectations that we had 15 years ago, about the leaps and bounds in research and progress in this area, has not happened...
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Bad news: KeyWe Smart Lock is easily bypassed and can't be fixed - based2 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/11/f_secure_keywe/ ====== rasz "device [MAC] address. It's from this address the common key is generated." [https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15...](https://www.usenix.org/system/fil...
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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017) - peter_d_sherman https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/ ====== cwyers I have worked with database code that was meant to only work with the database it was running on, and database code that was meant to be ag...
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Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research - MikeTaylor http://access2research.org/ ====== MikeTaylor Theres more background on this petition at [http://svpow.com/2012/05/21/help- the-usa-into-the-21st-centu...](http://svpow.com/2012/05/21/help-the-usa-into- the-21st-century-even-i...
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From Microsoft to Apple, and Back Again - allenleein http://www.akitaonrails.com/2017/11/21/from-microsoft-to-apple-and-back-again ====== scarface74 The state of the Mac is just sad right now. Laptops - the Air is overpriced with horrible specs - a 1400x900 screen is something you expect to see on a bargain basement ...
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What are some good online tech communities for non-hackers? - futuretro For a non-hacker (no computer science degree) who is interested in tech, and learning simple coding (starting off with html, css), what community or forum would you recommend I join? I&#x27;m looking to find a place where I can learn, ask question...
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Inside the Weird and Wild Crusade for Clean Pot - scrumper https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-crusaders-clean-pot-w517264 ====== scrumper Slightly annoying title but this is actually interesting, about an unlikely alliance of outlaw and MBA type to set up a guaranteed-clean marijuana distributor business i...
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yGuard – An open-source Java obfuscation tool - Tomatenquark https://github.com/yWorks/yGuard ====== Tomatenquark Recently here at yWorks we have refactored yGuard to be distributed under MIT licensed. As a goodie for new year, we'll share it with you! ~~~ marios Not going to use yGuard anywhere, but thanks for opens...
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Ask HN: What makes you loose credibility on a web resource? - WolfOliver What makes you close a site immediately (like a GitHub project, a landing page, a HN posts, a blog post)? ====== sandov Modal window asking me to subscribe. Low contrast between text and background, bonus points if the font is really thin. High...
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40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft - admp http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2010/10/21/40-hour-work-week-at-microsoft.aspx ====== droz I'm surprised by the number of people in msdn comments rejecting the author's proposal. I agree with the author, you can't produce a better project by trying to cram more work that ha...
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The world of threats to the US is an illusion - adventured http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/04/11/have-seen-enemies-and-they-weak/Cho9J5Bf9jxIkHKIZvnVTJ/story.html ====== mark_l_watson I wish that everyone in my country (the USA) would read this article. War is big business and throughout history wa...
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Radical Opacity - twampss http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25997/ ====== api OMGWTFBBQ THIS is making headlines about Internet innovation? Is the net over?
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Technology interaction and ethics - latch http://boingboing.net/2012/02/15/technology-interaction-and-eth.html ====== serbrech This is how I want all my tools. I had lots of ideas for better tools popping up in my head while watching this video. The kind of paradigms that he talks about are applicable to most of the...
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Ask HN: Google Discover shows YouTube Ads (despite paid ad-free user) - albeec13 Recently Google updated what used to be known as Google Now &#x2F; Google Feed, (now called Google Discover) on Android. For some things like recaps of sports teams I follow, it has now started playing YouTube videos in-line, instead of ...
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Twitter working on “edit” feature for tweets - adidash http://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/2013/12/16/exclusive-twitter-working-on-edit-feature-for-tweets/ ====== byoung2 _To solve this problem, Twitter is looking at a few things, including limitations on how many characters or words a user would be allowed to insert or de...
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Ask HN: Feedback on SwarmIQ, a new Social RSS Reading Experience - swarmiq Immediate access to our Invite-only Beta : http://www.swarmiq.com/register/ASKHN<p>Hi Guys, We just released v1.0 of the new SwarmIQ Social RSS Reader. Would love to get some feedback. What's your wishlist for a great reading experience...
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Self-driving shuttle in Las Vegas got into an accident on first day of service - tempestn https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16626224/las-vegas-self-driving-shuttle-crash-accident-first-day?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter ====== basicplus2 TLDR Truck pulls out from side i...
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Ask HN: Do you think Mobile Web Apps is the way to go than Native Apps? - ashitvora Some of the reasons I came up with are. 1. One app works on all devices (except some layout and css issues). Write once, run everywhere. 2. Easier to maintain. 3. Don't have to deal with App Approval process. ====== warwick If you're...
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Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code - ytNumbers http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18365844 ====== haberman As someone who doesn't keep up with the crypto/security communities, one thing that has surprised me is how the cutting-edge news on this Flame story has been coming from antivirus vendors like Kaspersky La...
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SoftBank is asking for the WeWork IPO to be put on hold - tempsy https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-pressured-by-softbank-to-shelve-ipo-report-2019-9 ====== james-mcelwain My favorite WeWork anecdote is the company paying the CEO 6 million dollars for the trademark "We" (which he later returned under pressure). S...
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How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime - mahmoudimus http://blog.balancedpayments.com/payments-infrastructure-suspending-traffic-zero-downtime-migrations ====== sigil You mean you didn't have to "build a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python's Tornado and Redis" ...
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Vista Kicks Ass - drm237 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=275 Matt's take on Vista. ====== pg _I haven't had to reinstall once, and with XP I typically would have 3 times by now._ I had no idea MS OSes were so bad. Reinstalling the OS is actually a routine thing? ~~~ rms The MS OSes are terrible. Reinstalling the OS is act...
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Chinese government is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel cars - mikeash https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push ====== orf A common talking point from the right during the withdrawal from the Paris accord is that "It's just talk,...
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LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections - mcone https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html ====== killjoywashere What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList- like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don't merit my co...
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The Future of Business? - Aeiper I seems that many big companies are buying smaller companies (which are also pretty big!). With Facebook buying Instagram, Yahoo buying Tumblr, and Yahoo attempting to buy another company, it seems that the future of starting a business is going to be selling to the "big guys". Soone...
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The Real Story Behind Why Flappy Bird Was Deleted - friscofoodie https://medium.com/p/637115e0813a ====== georgemcbay Title: "The Real Story Behind Why Flappy Bird Was Deleted" In the article text: "In what surely is one of the strangest stories in years we are unlikely to ever really know what happened." Well, ok...
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Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time - jasim https://scholar.googleblog.com/2017/06/classic-papers-articles-that-have-stood.html ====== drfuchs They completely missed, with 1800+ citations, the winner of the “Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2016 _Test of Time award_ ”: “Calibrating Noise t...
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Is WPA2 security broken due to Defcon MS-CHAPv2 cracking? - alter8 http://revolutionwifi.blogspot.com/2012/07/is-wpa2-security-broken-due-to-defcon.html ====== moxie It's also probably worth acknowledging that many organizations do use MS- CHAPv2 for their inner authentication credentials, precisely because they wan...
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Mechanics of a Small Acquisition - jhchen http://quotidianventures.com/post/28411675934/mechanics-of-a-small-acquisition ====== therealarmen _Believing that the finish line is just yards away and finding that it is actually miles is not going to be good for your company’s morale._ I've learned this lesson the hard ...
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Dunning-Kruger and other bogus memes - Illotus https://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/ ====== alkonaut Opinion: a log like decrease in happiness vs income is basically consistent with "more money doesn't make you happier". Sketching a graph that is completely flat is misleading however. The only question is, at what point ...
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Show HN: Weekend project - Defaults Write - rawfael http://rawfael.com/defaults/ ====== cleverjake looks very promising. some sort of rss/atom link would be great ~~~ rawfael thanks, I will implement feeds soon. there are some bugs I need to fix now.
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Man Shoots Girlfriend’s Computer After Installing Windows Vista - dmix http://www.funtechtalk.com/man-shoots-girlfriends-computer-after-installing-windows-vista/ ====== jws I wonder if it was true? Flurry of blog-ish posts in July 2007. No "real" article since. This article contains a small collection of similar sh...
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Jakob Nielsen: Customization of UIs and Products - edw519 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/customization.html ====== patio11 One part of this deeply resonates with me: get users the "early success experience". I have worked on it over the years, trying to provide more and more of a glide path to people so that they suc...
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“I have toyota corola” - robin_reala https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/ ====== kpgraham Back in the days of shareware, around 1985, I wrote a program called TXT2COM. It was a simple way of turning a text file into an executable. All a user had to do was run the converted com file and the text...
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Kik Messenger App Debuts Own Digital Currency Amid Bitcoin Boom - rayuela https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-25/kik-messenger-app-debuts-own-digital-currency-amid-bitcoin-boom ====== almostApatriot1 Am I the only person who finds this kind of depressing and scary? I thought cryptocurrencies were supposed ...
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What should release v1.0 actually mean? - kirubakaran http://blog.kfish.org/2008/02/release-xsel-110.html ====== airhadoken For the purpose of commentary, let's assume that you're actually creating a product for the public. 1.0 means that this is the first point at which you're confident that the product reflects your...
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Clocks - highCs http://procyonic.org/clocks/index.html ====== agumonkey I strongly suggest to read his blog [http://dorophone.blogspot.fr/](http://dorophone.blogspot.fr/) Lots of funky emacslisp, emacslisp monads, some forth interpreters and so on. ------ bugmen0t > (N.B.: This is mostly exploratory work and as su...
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RequireJS: a JavaScript file and module loader - jamesjyu http://requirejs.org/ ====== ahemphill What makes this different/better than Head JS, LAB, et cetera? If you're familiar with the project, pitch us. ~~~ maigret Same here... Why would I use all these special (quite untested compared to GWT, Dojo) JavaScript li...
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Show HN: GitHubby, my iPhone GitHub client - escoz My new iPhone app was finally approved yesterday, and its now in the appstore:<p>http://escoz.com/githubby<p>It's a github client for the iPhone, and its free.. As i bet a lot of you guys here in HN use GitHub, I would love to receive some more feedback! Thanks guy...
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Return of the Blue Lego - yumraj http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/04/return_of_the_b.html ====== RyanMcGreal Sad commentary on the ongoing Holy War mentality of many programmers that the author felt the need to add the edit: >This post was _not_ a Flash pro/con, or Flash vs HTML5 statement. ~~~ xinsight Co...
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Continuous Deployment with BitBalloon and Travis CI - bobfunk https://www.bitballoon.com/blog/2013/10/31/continuous-deployment-with-bitballoon-and-travis-ci ====== restardo Great post! ;)
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The TSA screws up again: makes mother fill up empty bottles of breast milk - airnomad http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/the-tsa-screws-up-again-makes-mother-fill-up-empty-bottles-of-breast-milk/ ====== bond Unbelievable....
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I want to learn Lisp; any books or site to learn from? - reagancaesar I want to learn LISP any books or site to learn from? ====== davesmylie Depending on what sort of lisp you're wanting to learn, theres the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It uses scheme (a varient of lisp) and though a bit . . ...
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Raw unprocessed images from Cassini's first Saturn inter-ring dive - astdb http://ciclops.org/view_event/251/Rev-271-Raw-Preview ====== elorant We take a lot of science's achievements for granted, but if you pause and think about it for a moment it's mind boggling. That thing is 1,5 bn kms away. ~~~ dougmany A few li...
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Mobile VoIP: Client side call quality - moxie http://www.whispersystems.org/blog/client-side-audio-quality/ ====== j_s Impressive! Low-level/low-latency audio on Android has been extra hassle for a long time: <https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434> I understand and respect the reasons for using GP...
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The Alternative World Drug Report - fuzzix http://www.countthecosts.org/alternative-world-drug-report ====== CharlieA The biggest barrier IMO to a legal drug economy, with regulation and legitimate corporate players, is reversing years and years of learned stigma that "drugs are evil". And the incredibly irony here ...
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Show HN: Universal Login System for websites - nooledge http://ukey.one/demo/ ====== tbirrell And this is different/better than the google/facebook universal logins how? ~~~ nooledge Thank you for your comment. Let me tell you a few pros: \- You can integrate Google and Facebook directly, or integrate Ukey1 and get ...
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Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/world/asia/singapore-brutalist-buildings.html ====== quicklime Having grown up in a working class family, I find it strange that western hipsters are so taken by industrial chic architecture. It's an environment that I grew...
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How many genetic ancestors do I have? - maxerickson http://gcbias.org/2013/11/11/how-does-your-number-of-genetic-ancestors-grow-back-over-time/ ====== DonGateley Can it be calculated how far back we need go before each of us, with high probability, is descended from everyone then living? Does the question even have ...
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SQLAlchemy vs Other ORMs - Sami_Lehtinen http://www.pythoncentral.io/sqlalchemy-vs-orms/ ====== tdicola Am I weird for preferring raw SQL over query abstractions like these ORMs expose? IMHO SQL is a perfectly fine language. I do however like letting a library do all the dirty work of turning SQL query output into obj...
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Ask HN: What's the most impactful business book you've read? - karamazov I&#x27;m looking for book recommendations that have changed the way you think about your company or your career. ====== dangrossman The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It [http://www.amazon.com/The-E-M...
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Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project (2009) - tbrownaw http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany ====== tbrownaw Looking around their site I don't see much further on this, but they did have a release this February. Does anyone know if this actually worked, or of other attempts that worked ...
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Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it) - spindritf https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/save-for-later/ ====== h2s Reasons why I bookmark pages: 1. I meant to type Ctrl+W and missed slightly 2. I meant to type Ctrl+F and missed slightly 3. I meant to...
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Humans.txt - chmars http://disqus.com/humans.txt ====== RKoutnik I was expecting something along the lines of [http://humanstxt.org/](http://humanstxt.org/) but fun little easter eggs like this are always nice! ------ samweinberg Github - [https://github.com/humans.txt](https://github.com/humans.txt) Bitbucket - [ht...
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Ask HN: A privacy-friendly, paid SaaS alternative to Google Analytics? - Rjevski Does anyone know of a paid, hosted alternative to Google Analytics?<p>I would like something similar to GA but from a company whose own business model is not about user data, so there would be no conflict of interest where they would (pre...
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Let me take you through my dream office - tckr https://blog.coderbyheart.com/office-design-by-an-office-hater ====== noir_lord Decided to change job recently, applied for two, went for an interview at the first and they offered me the job. I took it on the spot despite the other place paying more. One of the reasons...
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Precision Opportunities for Demanded Bits in LLVM - luu https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1714 ====== rwmj Nice, but I wonder if applying an SMT solver to just about every instruction in your program isn't likely to blow up sometimes. The solver is, after all, worst case NP complete. ~~~ yokaze Not really, since the i...
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Tools never die ... never - justnearme http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/01/133188723/tools-never-die-waddaya-mean-never?sc=fb&cc=fp ====== Detrus Ballista, scorpio exist only in re-enactments and are far from the functionality of the originals. The originals required human hair, it was the springiest, had t...
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Streaming Video and Audio with Low Delay - mortenvp http://steinwurf.com/blog/2018-04-25-2022.html ====== urlgrey Periscope developed a Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LHLS) technique that relies on HTTP chunked transfer-encoding to stream video bytes as they are encoded at the origin. This is still subject to TCP pa...
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Show HN: Slack Lunch Club - mikestaub https://slacklunch.club ====== gitgud Cool idea, but the GitHub [1] readme looks like this project was kind of over engineered. Was this project a guide for building highly available apps? [1] [https://github.com/mikestaub/slack-lunch- club/blob/master/RE...](https://github.com/m...
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Planting Perennials Next to Potholes: Silos, bikesheds, and how to prioritize - dvaun https://bravenewgeek.com/planting-perennials-next-to-potholes/ ====== dvaun I slightly modified the title in order to convey its original meaning _and_ fit within length constraints.
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Ask HN: Anyone using Samsung DeX? - genericone I will be getting my hands on a Galaxy S9 in the near future and one of the touted features is &quot;Dex&quot;, some sort of mobile desktop. There was a big discussion about it a year ago, but I haven&#x27;t exactly heard much since then. What are hners take on Dex? Is it...
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How Quaternions encode rotations: derivation and sample code - CarolineW http://loopspace.mathforge.org/HowDidIDoThat/Codea/Quaternions/ ====== jacobolus Anyone interested in such topics should check out geometric algebra, a.k.a. Clifford algebra. Start with [http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf](ht...
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Detecting underground smuggling with low-frequency radio waves - darshan http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tm/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14072497 ====== asciilifeform Yet another freedom-suppression technology. ~~~ eru Yes. It just increases the price-differentials, until drug smuggling pays enough again. ...
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Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies. - pavs https://apps.gov/ ====== mattparcher I know that we’re in a recession, and I don’t mean to nitpick such a huge technical/political advancement, but what happened to the guys who designed whitehouse.gov? This is clearly only meant for official use, but if...
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Introducing Mycroft Core - ldlework https://mycroft.ai/introducing-mycroft-core/ ====== coldtea > _We are pleased to announce that Mycroft Core 0.6 Alpha is available for > download today. Mycroft Core is a lightweight, portable piece of software > written in Python. You can run it on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a...
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In a world of venture capital - abecedarius https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/in-a-world-of-venture-capital/ ====== datashovel IMO the technology industry should be focusing less on maintaining the status quo, where they are constantly and continuously dependent on VC to bootstrap businesses, and more on figurin...
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Ask HN: Why is content creation in the browser such a pain in 2016? - rngesus1 Creating content in the browser is IMO something that has not been solved properly in 2016. Either we get TinyMCE&#x2F;CKEditor with messy mark-up and weird x-platform quirks, Markdown that non-technical users don&#x27;t want to use, OSS li...
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Dril - octosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dril ====== tristram_shandy >The Fact Remains That Your A Guy From Reddit, And Im A Guy Who Posts On A Website Thats Somewhat More Prestigious Than Reddit Dril is the Shakespeare of our age. ------ dril God, for a Wikipedia page to dance around the identity of an autho...
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Show HN: Learn Facts. Be Smart. – SnapFact - discoversquare http://snapfact.me ====== calbear81 Interesting, I would be more interested in learning the "why" in addition to the "what". This Feynman story is instructive in that sense: [http://www.haveabit.com/feynman/2](http://www.haveabit.com/feynman/2) ~~~ discove...
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China's investment in fusion power - meric http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/chinas-bid-for-manmade-sun-20110504-1e7h4.html ====== ender7 Fusion really is the answer to the world's energy crisis, for all the reasons laid out in the article (can't melt down, ease of procuring fuel, no pollution, relative...
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