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Can We Build a Sun Screen to Combat Global Climate Change? - theprop https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/05/26/ask-ethan-can-we-build-a-sun-screen-to-combat-global-climate-change/ ====== thrwaway69 Can we genetically engineer ourselves to combat climate change? Increase melanin, estrogen and growth horm...
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Software Design is Human Relationships: Waiters, Changers, and Sufficiency - KentBeck https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-relationships-part-2-of-3-waiters-changers-and-sufficiency-4c0bb9a08d23 ====== JamesBarney Strange naming. > Even though both groups’ incentives are ultimately the same, the...
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Running your JS code in Python - sheetjs http://blog.sheetjs.com/post/71326534924/running-your-js-code-in-python ====== kanzure > I suspect it would be possible to build up a wrapper that emulates the > entire NodeJS javascript API in PyV8 [http://pyv8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/node.py](http://pyv8.googlecode....
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Apple will soon kill off iTunes - AdmiralAsshat ====== shadowAuror Source plz... ~~~ mtmail [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/itunes-is-dead- long-...](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/itunes-is-dead-long-live- apple-music-apple-podcasts-and-apple-tv/)
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Tampon now lets you buffer tweets with pictures - julien_c http://tamponapp.com/ ====== jgrahamc This really is a terrible name. And putting "tampon means buffer in French" at the bottom while having a logo that looks like a tampon with a string isn't fooling anyone. I like the app idea, but am not going to use some...
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Soufflé – Logic Defined Static Analysis - tom_mellior http://souffle-lang.org/ ====== purpleidea Based on the license this is under (Oracle's UPL) I'd recommend passing over this project until it's relicensed to one of the big 5, like the GPL, or MIT. ------ abecedarius Several pages on that site refer to an 'EDB' an...
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Google Chrome to block heavy ads that use too many system resources - cpeterso https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-to-block-heavy-ads-that-use-too-many-system-resources/ ====== ksaj I hope this makes it into chromium-browser. A lot of sites push so much background tracking nonsense that it is easy to crash the...
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How Google Stole Christmas from Extension & App Developers and Users - MGT http://dl.dropbox.com/u/82592588/O/G.htm ====== pettycash lol
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Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform - HermanMartinus https://bearblog.dev ====== CydeWeys Small suggestion -- it seems like you're using the wrong units (or maybe abbreviations) for your displayed average page sizes. You're using lower-case b to indicate bits, but I suspect you mean upper-case B to indicate byte...
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Recent Train Times - annapowellsmith http://recenttraintimes.co.uk/ ====== buro9 Anna, is this one of yours? It's very impressive (and confirms most commutes I or friends are doing are screwed during rush hour). We're wondering what "RT" stands for on the tables when the trains are on time, "Regular Time"? Just di...
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The SEC created its own scammy ICO to teach investors a lesson - wglb https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/5/16/17361750/sec-cryptocurrency-ico-investors ====== greenyoda Extensive discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17085232](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17085232) ------ whataretensors Tax dollar...
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When Is It Time to Hire a Recruiter? - ohjeez https://shift.newco.co/when-is-it-time-to-hire-a-recruiter-590220a28c8e#.orxw8bqco ====== dbg31415 Answer: When you have money to burn, just want bodies in the door by a certain date, and don't really care about quality or fit of candidates you hire. Longer Answer: Recr...
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Announcing https://GitHub.com/RedHatProductSecurity/Certificates-Shipped/ - e12e http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/374 ====== e12e Whole text (but this is just the start of the thread, click through to read a handful of replies on the OSS-SEC list): Announcing https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurit...
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Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance - 001sky http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/17/us/nsa-changes-graphic.html?hp ====== ck2 None. There are no changes. He is reviewing a transition to changes. And remember, these are only executive changes, which means if the next president is worse, well then the cha...
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Windows 8 Metro UI can only launch IE (not chrome, Firefox, etc) - giberson From the Windows 8 Developer forum thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappsuidesign/thread/e74cce2d-9a1f-4bf9-a5f2-733c15e4f297<p><i>Metro IE is a special app. You cannot invoke an executable from Metro style apps.</i><...
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Feeble Retention - regulartoaster I read tons of articles every day through Hacker News, Psychologytoday, etc., but I have trouble remembering it to actually apply what I learn. How can I improve my retention? ====== devmonk Some ideas: \- Blog the summaries. \- Write one or more books with all of the information ...
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What caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes? - pitdesi http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2011/fall/shedding-light.shtml ====== tectonic The simulation they ran sounds really impressive: To find out exactly how these supermassive black holes came to be, Di Matteo, Croft and Carnegie Mellon post-...
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The design of government emails - robin_reala https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2014/09/04/the-design-of-government-emails/ ====== aDevilInMe It saddens me that this government design body think that using HTML emails, with headers and footers, is somehow more official looking than plain text. If they want to reassure c...
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Making It Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10 - mdturnerphys http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/10/29/making-it-easier-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/ ====== mrlyc I'm annoyed that I had to spend quite some time tracking down and removing gwx.exe as well as reconfiguring the registry and Windows Update of our Windo...
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Zigfu Dev Kit for Kinect and Unity3D - amirhirsch Zigfu (YC S11) is happy to announce the commercial launch of our ZDK for Unity3D bindings. Full information is available here:<p>http://zigfu.com/en/zdk/unity3d/<p>A trial version is available with a watermark. You can buy a dev license with your credit card through ...
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The pressure to publish pushes down quality - benbreen http://www.nature.com/news/the-pressure-to-publish-pushes-down-quality-1.19887 ====== Alex3917 Is it possible to model the rate at which human knowledge is increasing or decreasing? Given that: A) claims about reality are a lemon market, and it's often expensive ...
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Tensorflow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript - memexy https://www.tensorflow.org/js/ ====== ml_basics I recently wanted to learn how to use tf.js, so had a couple of mini-projects. The first is a minimal working example showing how to train a model in python and then load it in javascript. [https://github.com/paruby...
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Ask HN: If you were to write a script that could change the world - avallark What would it do? ====== avallark How about a script that rounds of the fractions of dollars automatically into an account setup for funding investors in developing nations? ------ Siempre Useless question.. ~~~ avallark pointless answer ...
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Will Poonam Pandey discover Frrole? - kalkat Well, she will, if she listens to this guy: https://twitter.com/#!/_iLiveLaughLove/status/141763927926251521<p>Now the first question is - what is Frrole? Frrole is a social newspaper for your city that we launched last week. Check out SF at http://frrole.com/san+franci...
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‘Zoom-Bombing’ Hijacks Online Class Meetings in Massachusetts, FBI Warns - dsr12 https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/03/30/zoom-zoombombing-hack-security-tips/ ====== mtmail related "Trolls break into meetings on Zoom" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742565](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742565)
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Distributed Continuous Integration - Keep the Mainline Clean - varsketiz http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/96937/Distributed-Continuous-Integration-Keep-the-Mainline-Clean.aspx ====== daigoba66 What this approach doesn't solve, as far as I can tell, is the problem of eventually merging together t...
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'Chinese YouTube' shut down amid censor fears - wumi http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4179103.ece ====== jpeterson This is really a pointless gesture. For every 56.com that you shut down, three more todou.com's and megavideo.com's will take its place.
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Polls seem to be broken - kingnothing Were they disabled, or did a bug crop up? ====== pg Bug; fixed; sorry. ~~~ kingnothing Interesting use of semicolons on that. :) ~~~ ph0rque Bug, fixed; sorry? ------ brk Well, considering that you can enter all the text for a new poll, but when you click the Submit button yo...
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Being deaf is: constant baseline soundmaking anxiety - blackhole http://blog.melchua.com/2014/11/27/being-deaf-is-constant-baseline-soundmaking-anxiety/ ====== veb This article hits home for me. I was born with a severe hearing loss, and I have recently got a Med-EL Opus2 / RONDO Cochlear Implant -- which changed my l...
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Why can't America have great trains? - antigizmo http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/amtrak-acela-high-speed-trains-20150417 ====== tragomaskhalos Interesting to compare these very different problems with another country with a dysfunctional rail system, the UK. Here, privatisation has led to massive cost ineffic...
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Why NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules - lirantal https://snyk.io/blog/why-npm-lockfiles-can-be-a-security-blindspot-for-injecting-malicious-modules/ ====== christopherbalz Is this something that could/should be done by the package repositories such as npmjs.com?
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If Microsoft is killing Flight Simulator, it's killing its 2nd oldest product (1980-2009) - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2009/01/23/has-microsoft-flight-simulator-been-canceled-after-29-years/ ====== amichail X-Plane is much more accurate. It's frame rate is much higher as well. Check out the X-Plane demo:...
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The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173 - fpp http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=216.81.59.173 ====== qixxiq The full text of the traceroute $ traceroute -m 100 216.81.59.173 | awk '{print $2}' ... cut ... * Episode.IV A.NEW.HOPE It.is.a....
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Could perovskite solar cell be the answer to high-efficiency solar power? - urumcsi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clayton-b-cornell/perovskite-solar-cell-key_b_11069628.html ====== DiabloD3 "Furthermore, perovskite solar cells can be manufactured at much l0wer costs." Someone's leet filter switched on accidentally. ...
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Ask HN - multi engine js eval - ajuc Is there a site, where I can paste javascript, and see result of this javascript being run in each browser/javascript engine? ====== fagatini There is <http://jsfiddle.net>, but that doesn't cover node.js to my knowledge.
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The original IBM Thinkpad - ritubpant http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/10/01/the-original-ibm-thinkpad/ ====== jcw I saw these the other day and salivated a little. As a commenter over there said, you can get one of these on IBM's merch store, although they're not _exactly_ the same: <http://logogear.americanid...
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A Mathematical Theory for Why People Hallucinate - duman https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-hallucinate-20180730/ ====== MisterTea I've held this theory on my own after experiencing geometric shapes while hallucinating after smoking a lot of marijuana years back. I sat down closed my eyes and ...
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Aquila: Internet of Things, Board with Wireless Communication - im_jupazave http://www.aquila.io/en ====== vkuruthers Is this Zigbee based? If so does it need a Zigbee to Internet gateway to function? ~~~ rodmg It's based on the same standard as Zigbee (802.15.4), but uses an open communication protocol that simpli...
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Kickstarter coming to NZ and Australia - gridspy http://www.kickstarter.com/newzealand ====== gridspy I for one am very excited. We've always wanted to do a kickstarter to launch our electricity monitor to a wider market. Right now we're forced to keep our production and our team small and costs high due to one off...
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Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community - orrsella https://medium.com/@ianspalter/designing-a-new-look-for-instagram-inspired-by-the-community-84530eb355e3#.niu7wkjcg ====== essofluffy I think the old icon is very 'iconic' and to ditch that may be a mistake.
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A interesting consequence of ever faster computers: TeX =&gt; TeXmacs =&gt; back to TeX (via BaKoMa TeX Word) - amichail ====== amichail With faster computers, TeXmacs came along to give you a truely WYSIWYG TeX- like real-time typesetter. What you see while editing is exactly what you get in the output. Some clever...
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Power from wireless signals [video] - milankragujevic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qpd7WnZ4sg ====== tantalor Cool technology, but interviewer was obnoxious and rude.
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Unions Did Great Things for the Working Class - petethomas https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-13/unions-did-great-things-for-the-american-working-class ====== LarryDarrell I've noticed a begrudging realization among those that sit around and think about these things that maybe unions were not as bad as we...
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Proterra, an Electric Bus Maker, Aims to Follow the Tesla Model - avance6 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-18/proterra-an-electric-bus-maker-aims-to-follow-the-tesla-model#r=hp-ls ====== pedalpete I was thinking about this recently while at LAX, and all the shuttle buses going from the airport to the loc...
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Ask HN: Why so few front end positions? - phyller It seems like there are very few job postings for exclusive front end development positions. Many postings are for back end or full stack developers. Is the market saturated with front end developers, or do managers just not want front end developers, or am I looking i...
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Netflix threatens to flood the market if Icahn buys more stock - ohashi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20214401 ====== miles _Netflix's board said that the poison pill was "intended to protect Netflix and its stockholders from efforts to obtain control of Netflix that the board of directors determines are not in...
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IPhone users still earn more than Android users. Financial app census for 2013. - Beat-O https://toshl.com/financial-infographics/ ====== MihaMlakar Cool :D
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New York City to displace Silicon Valley - wallflower http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/01/08/new-york-to-top-silicon-valley/ ====== Skeletor The NYC tech scene has a ton of problems. One I encountered is recruiting good programmers: 1) Living in NYC is expensive and if you are struggling on a startup you will see frien...
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Swiss reject additional immigration curbs - immigg http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30267042 ====== aikah Whatever one might think about the result of this "votation",I think it's great that people can make their voices heard directly.It keeps politicians in check.Sometimes the people can take bad decisions,but at...
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NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger Resigned - fharper https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/npm-inc-announces-leadership-change-300922517.html?tc=eml_cleartime ====== asien I’m fascinated by the fact that while node has become a new standard in the industry , and the project is receiving lots of supports from all sorts of ...
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Should a Self-Driving Car Kill Its Passengers in a “Greater Good” Scenario? - Turukawa http://www.iflscience.com/technology/should-self-driving-car-be-programmed-kill-its-passengers-greater-good-scenario ====== sharemywin Tell me which one doesn't and I'll buy that one. Sorry other hypothetical people. ------ JoeAltm...
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Microsoft launches Office 2013 software suite - thomseddon http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/ ====== thomseddon And the announcement: [http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/news/press/2013/jan13/01-29O3...](http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/news/press/2013/jan13/01-29O365PR.aspx)
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Ask HN: What products have you used regularly for years? - neilsharma Websites, apps, SaaS services, or even physical stores. What brands and companies have survived the test of time in your life? ====== neilsharma 1\. Unroll.me - Easily unsubscribes to newsletters. I currently have over 500 unsubscribed newsletters t...
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Small Startup launches Android developer challenge, gets prize sponsored by TED - ros3 http://snaptic.com/challenge/ ====== faramarz Wow, superstar judges. Here's an idea for you android developers out there. Build a scavenger-hunt type app. get people to check-in to places, city halls, museums, parks etc (educati...
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Researchers expand microchip capability with new 3D inductor technology - rbanffy https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/805644 ====== oriel This is the kind of limit-break science article that makes me come back here for news. Advancements which seem small and relativly progressive, but enable a next-level range of tech...
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Sean Parker on Steve Jobs - mlinsey https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150348392138293 ====== dmboyd Always looking to self promote ~~~ bitstream It's sad, but that's the viewpoint I came away with as well. ------ justinj he really doesn't polish up as well as old timberlake ;)
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How an entrepreneur launched a mobile chat system with 18 million users - larrykubin http://mixergy.com/mxit-herman-heunis/ ====== crxnamja In the words of Dave C. "Haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love" ------ z8000 I was hoping that this was going to be a tech-talk about scalability given the title! ------ duncan...
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Onyx 0.6.0: Going Faster - XPherior http://michaeldrogalis.github.io/jekyll/update/2015/06/08/Onyx-0.6.0:-Going-Faster.html ====== lkrubner It seems to me this will replace Storm for many uses, and it seems they knew this and they've been putting effort into taking on exactly that sort of use case: "Based on user f...
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Sooner Than You Think, We Will Connect To The Cloud Directly From Our Brains - daegloe http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027984/sooner-than-you-think-we-will-connect-to-the-cloud-directly-from-our-brains ====== tschlossmacher You know what will make me cry in the future? The current generation has trouble picking up books...
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Now Dollar Shave Club Sells Hair Gel, Too - jabo http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/25/dollar-shave-club-hair/ ====== DonCarlitos Harry's is so much better at razors & blades. Tried them both. Hated Dollar's hardware. Love Harry's razor... and their blades are superior as well.
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Prismic.io goes live - Doublon https://prismic.io/#live ====== sunir A few things. I would expect a writing application to have incredible copywriting. You have to out-write the writers! Here are some examples where the text could be improved, though really the whole page needs to be rewritten using the inverted pyra...
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Manuel Blum: Advice to a beginning graduate student - r11t http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html ====== jdp23 A classic from 2001. I was a grad student at Berkeley in the 80s in Theoretical Computer Science before heading off in a different direction, and got as far as taking my oral prelims from Manu...
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Nokia former engineers now their software runs on 1B mobile - zmir http://nordic.businessinsider.com/two-former-nokia-engineers-did-what-google-and-apple-wouldnt---now-their-software-runs-on-1-billion-mobile-devices-2017-5/ ====== finid You write about an application yet not a link to the project's website in the arti...
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Show HN: I made a bot with Dialogflow to automate LinkedIn sales - gavribirnbaum https://wcurl.io/ ====== waihtis Are people using this on their legit accounts, or creating "burners" for the use case?
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Manna by Marshall Brain - joeyespo http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm ====== CarolineW I can only repeat what I said on one of the many previous occasions this has been mentioned: Dreadful - absolutely dreadful. It starts so well, then just turns into a thinly veiled rant/diatribe/spiel abo...
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Smoke With Friends - spotman http://www.smokewithfriends.com ====== aa4hn nice, this is hilarious and awesome. people are totally gonna use this!
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Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store - perlino http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/19/evernote-mac-app-store/#comments ====== neovive It would be interesting to see how these numbers compare with apps that were not as prominently featured or not as well-known as Evernote. Clearly the numbers would ...
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Show HN: Momentum – automatic donations based on your life and interests - bettergood https://givemomentum.com ====== bettergood Hi HN! We’re building an automatic donation app, Momentum, that connects your giving to your life. For example, when you go out to eat, automatically add 10% to your bill and donate it to so...
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"Portuguese Startups List" on Google Spreadsheets - matrixownsyou i started a "Portuguese Startups List" spreadsheet on google this morning to promote our startup environment. It's rough on the edges but i'll organize it better when i have some spare time.<p>http://tinyurl.com/PortugueseStartupsList ====== olifante ...
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Using Aaron Swartz - dasht http://www.basiscraft.com/misc/2013/01/using-aaron-swartz.html ====== tptacek This is creepy enough to be a Hacker News comment. ------ imuakame This is interesting background I didn't know before.
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Crystal vs. Node.js vs. Golang vs. Julia vs. Rust vs. LuaJIT vs. C Fibonacci Benchmark - seraum http://blog.seraum.com/crystal-lang-vs-nodejs-vs-golang-vs-julia-vs-rust-vs-luajit-vs-c-fibonacci-benchmark ====== leovonl If you compile the Rust example with optimization (-O) it just throws the result away, which gives t...
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Surviving the SSHpocolypse - Kenan https://github.com/blog/1212-surviving-the-sshpocolypse ====== akira2501 Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you patch SSH instead of just using something like pam_mysql and nscd? ~~~ kijin Previous, but still inconclusive, discussion about the same matter: <https://news.y...
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Why Developers Should Not Use MacBook Pro - wyclif https://hackernoon.com/why-developers-should-not-use-macbook-pro-3b6a4aeeee64 ====== misterhtmlcss I used Linux a long time ago and issues I had were not the large cases described here, but little things that wear down my soul like: \- where did the program get instal...
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Tamei – Categorize Common Lisp forms by purity - kencausey https://github.com/cbaggers/tamei ====== kencausey See also: [https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/3mvrw4/tamei_categori...](https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/3mvrw4/tamei_categorize_cl_forms_by_purity/)
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Authentication Techniques for APIs - Sujan https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAX5ZJzluilhoYKjra-uHbMCZraaQkqIHl3RIQ8mVkM/edit#gid=0 ====== cleverfoo Not impressed, particularly with the basic-auth description. Basic auth is purely a well understood vehicle for sending a tuple (aka the credentials) for authentica...
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Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits (2012) - eridal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMXKQdc5ZM ====== rbanffy Sometimes, science fiction is not about trying to predict the future as much as trying to avoid it. ------ monroepe Such a good show. I wish there were more episodes. ~~~ eridal I just found this episode...
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My open letter to Venmo - hoverkraft http://www.twodimensionalworld.com/post/8386157046/my-letter-to-venmo ====== hoverkraft Sent this after waking up to a weekly digest email from Venmo listing all the payment activity of the people in my network.
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Best WebGL demo yet: Build LEGO things on Google Maps - hapless http://www.buildwithchrome.com ====== hapless More on the australian google blog: [http://google- au.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/build-bringing-lego...](http://google- au.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/build-bringing-lego-bricks-to-chrome.html)
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HP and other companies on the hook with banks for $200B - worldwidebank https://medium.com/@cloudstories2017/hp-and-other-companies-on-the-hook-with-banks-for-200-billion-on-benprise-tech-site-3fb381468198 ====== RoyTyrell Is this a real article? It reads like it was written by some kind of poorly- trained AI. While i...
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A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming - headalgorithm https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/ ====== painful As an American, I'm frankly sick of the US inaction on climate change. It makes me hate being an American. It almost makes me...
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An Attempt to Recreate the Blender 2.8 ToolBox in Qt5 - hellozee https://github.com/hellozee/blender-toolbox-qt ====== johnchristopher Cool. I wonder if I am getting to be that old guy but I tend to go back to styles that mimics windows XP classic style (not the blue, silver or green one) the most. To me it's the mos...
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Websites requiring a phone number is bad business and potential discrimination - teslacar Websites requiring a phone number is bad business and potential discrimination<p>Millions of Americans don&#x27;t have cell phones . Either they are too expensive or the are disabled or other reasons that prevents them for having...
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Tell HN: Come join HN discord chat, get to know likeminded people, make friends - rayalez Hey, everyone!<p>I love hanging out here on HN, so many awesome, smart, and creative people to talk to. But over the years, I haven&#x27;t made a single personal connection, there&#x27;s no one in this community that I know by na...
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Echoly - Unlimited File Sync with Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, etc. - echoly http://beta.echoly.com/ ====== echoly More details on how it works: Echoly is a desktop application that can sync an unlimited amount of files using your limited cloud storage provided by Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, etc....
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S-Q-L or Sequel? - uehhong https://medium.com/tableplus/how-to-pronounce-sql-properly-s-q-l-or-sequel-7203a5185676 ====== mkj "postgresickle" rolls off the tongue so nicely!
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Swoopo: Selling items for more and less than they're worth, at the same time - cwan http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/11/play_to_lose ====== portman FYI, Swoopo has already attracted 131+ competitors. Traffic stats for all of them are maintained here: <http://www.pennyauctiontraffic.com/> ~~~ hello_...
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On Lisp ebook, in one single html file - Kilimanjaro http://code.google.com/p/onlisp/ ====== Kilimanjaro Only one file in a convenient format, for your reading pleasure. Just in time for the iPad! * If a kind soul can host the ebook for everybody to see before they download it that would be great ~~~ mahmud How d...
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Adobe Creative Cloud Pay as You Go Using Disposable Cards - simbolo I have rare uses where I need Photoshop, but I don&#x27;t want to signup for a full Creative Cloud subscription.<p>Adobe only presents this as: * a full year paid upfront * a 12 month fixed &#x27;contract&#x27; * a no commitment 30 day plan with a lar...
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Interactive model of the hyperbolic plane - mathgenius https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~cheritat/AppletsDivers/Escher/ ====== mathgenius This is from mathoverflow: [https://mathoverflow.net/a/249936/39775](https://mathoverflow.net/a/249936/39775)
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The Hygienic Efficacy of Different Hand-Drying Methods: A Review of the Evidence - srathi http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(12)00393-X/fulltext ====== dalke Short version: paper towels (avoid rough ones) are the most hygienic, evidence for electric driers is mixed, and shaking the hands dry may...
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Ask HN: Any framework to manage tech debt, increase quality – for small teams - raghava Am trying to find if there any reference process framework&#x2F;guideline that small engineering teams could follow, to improve their engineering practice quality, in short, near and long term windows.<p>I have used the 12 step Joe...
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Meetups are Hard Work - ugtastic http://www.ugtastic.com/meetups-hard-work/ ====== ugtastic In response to Sean's article I wrote up "Meetups are Easy" [http://www.ugtastic.com/meetups-easy/](http://www.ugtastic.com/meetups-easy/)
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The Long Strange Trip to Java - mahmud http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html ====== mahmud This is one of the most interesting, most awe inspiring accounts of hacking war stories you will ever read. Well worth your time.
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How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches - kafkaesque http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/09/17/how-airline-reservations-are-used-to-target-illegal-searches/ ====== sbarre "DHS lawyers claimed that international travel provides, in and of itself, sufficient Constitutional basis for detention and search...
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The Unreal Engine: Building the Empire State Building with Playing Cards - sutro http://kotaku.com/5339057/carmack-ok-with-id-not-becoming-an-epic-or-valve#c14826268 ====== amitt I used to work at epic on UE3 and can say that there's a LOT of engineering and considerations that go into keeping the engine flexible an...
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Newfangled Credit Cards Cause Headaches at Stores Across America - jackgavigan http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-13/newfangled-credit-cards-cause-headaches-at-stores-across-america ====== draw_down Most places I use my card at have chip readers. The big downside is how long it takes to complete the transa...
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Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out - rglovejoy http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123896998996190775.html ====== plinkplonk A more sensible interpretation is that marriage and courtship rituals ("courtship" extended to include "casual" relationships) have a heavy culture specific component to them...
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The extinction burst - aburan28 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/3/12/938466/- ====== DrScump (March 2011)
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The United States Postal Service Will Now Email You Your Mail - esalazar http://qz.com/566668/the-united-states-postal-service-will-now-email-you-your-mail/ ====== jlgaddis I would pay for this, at times. All of my mail is delivered to my box at a post office about 15 minutes from my home. I normally only check it onc...
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Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board - zonotope https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/us/california-marijuana-growers.html ====== the_evacuator Article doesn't really highlight the environmental hooliganism practiced by these guys. They rip up a meadow in a national forest, or on BLM land, an...
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