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Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar? - meesterdude Curious what attributes people feel represents such a person. Also, do rockstars equal 10x'ers? ====== rubiquity A programmer that is also a member of a really successful rock band. No person possessing both of these attributes walks the earth, yet. It i...
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Thoughts from the designer of Farmville - hkyeti http://iteratingfun.com/post/26029257877/5-thoughts-from-the-designer-of-farmville ====== hkyeti Interesting add on - despite Farmville's success he didn't feel it was creatively that interesting a game to him personally, and he moved on shortly thereafter...
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What Snowden and Manning Don't Understand About Secrecy - samsolomon http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/bowden-manning-snowden/278973/ ====== dictum > These are young people at war with the concept of secrecy itself, which is > just foolish. There are many legitimate reasons for governments to keep ...
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Technophilia - dangoldin http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/06/technophilia.php ====== omouse Marshall Mcluhan devotes a whole chapter to this topic in his book _Understanding Media_ : [http://books.google.com/books?id=R2bqSaC5TlkC&printsec=f...](http://books.google.com/books?id=R2bqSaC5TlkC&printsec=frontc...
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If 'semantic web' annoys you, read on... - bensummers http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2010/03/if-semantic-web-annoys-you-read-on.html ====== cschneid Did this article just open with "Semantic web makes most people shut down" then follow with "Here's a basic overview of Semantic Web"? That doesn't make any se...
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Ask HN: How to Self Study Physics? - hsikka Hey HN, I&#x27;m a CS graduate student, and I do a lot of Deep Learning Research. I&#x27;ve always wanted to get a strong foundation in Physics, and while on lockdown because of COVID, I thought it would be a great opportunity.<p>I&#x27;ve run across this incredible guide h...
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Y Combinator to give people varied amounts of cash in latest basic income trial - SirLJ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/silicon-valley-giant-y-combinator-to-branch-out-basic-income-trial.html ====== beepboopbeep I'm curious, wouldn't states like Alaska, that have a portion of oil revenues paid out to the population, b...
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New responsive website for Paris - Spone http://www.paris.fr ====== bfluzin Thanks gov.uk for the gds blog and the inspiration. Hope you'll like it. ------ bfluzin [http://m.imgur.com/bWL5UZd](http://m.imgur.com/bWL5UZd) Hai from the launch party ! ------ Spone Front-end lead dev here, I would be happy to answer...
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undocumented “ultravisor” mode in POWER9 CPUs raises security concerns - justinjlynn https://twitter.com/justinrwlynn/status/953157546977591296 ====== justinjlynn This is pending official confirmation from IBM that the feature is enabled and accessible to openPOWER chips.
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Ask HN: Should we (the community) build an HN alternative? - albertogh There are tons of interesting feature requests as well as incredibly needed bug fixes listed in the "features you'd like" thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363. IMHO and with all due respect, by now it's pretty clear that PG is not w...
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Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Data Structures - nafizh https://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2019/08/programming-algorithms-data-structures.html ====== tom_mellior Everything about this is bizarre. It spends a lot of time explaining what a pair is, but then just assumes that computational complexity and O-notation are ...
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Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid - lnguyen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/bacteria-microbes-electricity.html ====== novacole For some reason this makes me think these bacteria or the mechanism behind them are the biological precursors to neurons. ~~~ carapace You want Micheal Levin's work: E.g. "W...
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Tips for marketing a Kickstarter campaign? - jkuria https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1106/tips-for-marketing-a-kickstarter-campaign.html ====== lingzb My key takeaway: "The video is the most important part of your marketing strategy." That's definitely the only thing I look at when I check out a Kickstarter cam...
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Show HN: AZN Asian Snack Store for iOS - callmeed https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/azn-asian-snacks-nicknacks/id1136398870?mt=8 ====== callmeed Hey HN. My team and I built this ecommerce app both as a demo and to fulfill some needs (One of my co-workers felt it was often hard to find some of his favorite snacks that he...
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Twitter sentiment surrounding the Osama Bin Laden events - robhawkes http://rawkes.com/blog/2011/05/03/twitter-sentiment-surrounding-the-obl-events ====== orijing It's not clear to me how you defined "happiness" on the vertical axis. Can you elaborate more on that? ~~~ robhawkes Hi orijing, I cover this in more det...
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I'm a Hazmat-Trained Hospital Worker: What No One Is Telling You About Ebola - fraXis http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abby-norman/im-a-hazmat-trained-hospi_b_5998486.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 ====== zimpenfish Thing is - if no-one ever uses the hazmat suits in anger (I suspect the US is infrequently exposed to th...
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Security Flaw in common keycard locks exploited in hotel room break ins - ghshephard http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/26/security-flaw-in-common-keycard-locks-exploited-in-string-of-hotel-room-break-ins/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/26/security-flaw-in-common-keycard-locks-exploi...
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Email Transparency at Khan Academy - tghw http://bjk5.com/post/71887196490/email-transparency-at-khan-academy ====== chany2 * Not sure if my response was posted on your site. Repeated here: It seems like what you and your team really need is 'like' a Sharepoint / Dropbox for Emails where anyone (if permissions are se...
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Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences - Panoramix http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ClearConciseSentences.html ====== grellas The principles listed here are sound and helpful. If you follow them, your writing style will undoubtedly improve. But do not adhere to them as rigid rules or you will suffer in your ability to exp...
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0 degrees fahrenheit + 0 degrees fahrenheit - ajaimk http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=0+degrees+fahrenheit+%2B+0+degrees+fahrenheit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 ====== RiderOfGiraffes The same question with celsius ... <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610354> ... and much discussion.
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How’s the development environment on the Surface Laptops? - uyuioi I have had a hell of a time with Apple lately and quite honestly I don’t think they deserve the thousands of dollars I give them for the MacBook Pro 15”. I’ve had the power brick die on a one month old device. Catalina is one of the most buggy operatin...
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Asynchronous, Event-Driven Web Servers for the JVM - rschildmeijer http://www.infoq.com/articles/deft-loft ====== willvarfar elegant!
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The XMPP Improvement Project - flevo https://gist.github.com/ValdikSS/30f866602413c036e4e6924c1895b838 ====== flevo So many years XMPP has been a protocol not suited for modern mobile devices with unstable network connection. Messages could be easily lost (and you had to ask for receiving acknowledgment yourself in an...
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Show HN: We built Helprace, feedback portal and helpdesk. Do people need it? - Helprace http://helprace.com ====== Helprace Hey there, we're a small team trying to make it big in the customer service software market. You probably know software such as Zendesk and UserVoice, which are designed to address customer ser...
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California Opens Investigation into Tesla Workplace Conditions - danso https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/california-opens-investigation-into-tesla-workplace-conditions ====== usaphp > It was difficult to find employees to go on the record. Like a lot of tech > companies in Silicon Valley, workers sign...
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Edward Snowden’s Escape from Hong Kong [audio] - doener https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8416-the_untold_story_of_edward_snowden_s_escape_from_hong_kong ====== thesumofall The links to donate: \- [https://www.gofundme.com/snowdenguardians](https://www.gofundme.com/snowdenguardians) \- [https://fundrazr.com/snowdensguardi...
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Show HN: JavascriptU, workshops on modern JavaScript patterns & libraries - mediamaker http://www.javascriptu.org/ You're invited to learn with us. From the basics to the advanced, from jQuery to backbone, from the DOM to whatever you choose. Anything is fair game and you call the shots. The course topics alter based...
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KeystoneJS – an open source Node.js cms / web app platform built on express - jed_watson http://keystonejs.com ====== boriciojones It's a bit surprising that there aren't that many good CMSs for node given how itd adoption is going. KeystoneJS is really cool. Pros: really easy to get started (yeoman generator), boo...
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How to land a great developer job in London - DavidSch http://www.meetup.com/Find-A-tech-Job-In-London/events/69728542/ ====== DavidSch Join now, we have a fantastic event tomorrow evening you wont want to miss.
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California Assembly OKs bill to tax online retailers - olegious http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/31/state/n143717D26.DTL&tsp=1 ====== olegious Two things: 1\. how will this impact Californian affiliates? 2\. this is baffling- do our politicians not take Econ 101- higher taxes will not bring...
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Haskell on Android - psibi http://keera.co.uk/blog/2014/08/13/most-inspiring-green-screen-you-will-ever-see/ ====== ErikRogneby "...that Java was calling Haskell as C via it’s Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which in turn was executing correctly (including its Runtime System), and calling SDL’s C API also via the ...
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Face Recognition with Python, in under 25 lines of code – Real Python - mjhea0 http://realpython.com/blog/python/face-recognition-with-python#.U7yDJGHTgRQ.hackernews ====== minimaxir You've submitted this 3 times in the past few days with impressively blatant attempts at avoiding the dupe detector. There's no need to ...
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How to Help New Employees Be Rockstars, a New Approach - knes http://luclevesque.com/post/15881999207/how-to-help-new-employees-be-rockstars-a-new-approach ====== markdown I read the entire thing and found it completely devoid of any useful information. There's no info on how to score new gigs, how to get noticed by ...
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Tagging hotels as “eco-friendly” led to drop in bookings for those hotels - prostoalex https://www.hotelmarketing.com/articles/booking-coms-eco-friendly-hotel-tagging-test-failed ====== cerberusss Booking.com also tells you that "no really, there's only one room left", undoubtedly influenced by their endless A-B testi...
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Open Source Analytics: Visualization & Predictive Modeling with R - yarapavan http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Open%20Source%20Analytics_%20Visualization%20and%20Predictive%20Modeling%20of%20Big%20Data%20with%20the%20R%20Programming%20Language%20Presentation%201.ppt OSCON presentation file (PPT) ====== pasbeso...
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Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) - signa11 https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/index.html ====== Jasper_ Author here. I stopped working on this a few years ago, so now's as good a time as any for an overly-long, rambly, unedited retrospective. When I started this, I was working on GNOME...
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The Fallout (2017) - pje https://www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/ ====== PcMojo There is a recent HBO Documentary about this landfill called Atomic Homefront [https://www.atomichomefront.film/about/](https://www.atomichomefront.film/about/) The government also sprayed (possibly radioactive) chemicals on low income ar...
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The First Step for Ruby on Rails - anto210 http://www.jamesjohnson.me/ ====== jeffclark I've been following through the online version of Michael Hartl's RoR book: <http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book> It's proven to be a GREAT way to learn the basics from the ground up while building an actua...
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Apple is locking iPhone battery replacement - bkmn https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20776965/iphone-xs-max-xr-battery-service-third-party-repair ====== intopieces They are not locking the replacement, they are refusing to guarantee the performance of parts they can’t certify are genuine. There are third party batter...
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Bruce Schneier on the recent DNS vulnerability - soundsop http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/the_dns_vulnera.html ====== jsn It's good old "worse is better" all over again. Of course we should design our protocols and our software as The Right Thing. Of course, it will take much longer to design and impleme...
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Call with David Ungar (2015) [video] - mpweiher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nfrC-YLYqc ====== DonHopkins Can somebody with a lot of money please regularly give a bunch of it to Dave Ungar, so he can keep doing what he wants to do? He has generated so much value on so many levels, that's so important and useful to...
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Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe? - robsun Hi,<p>Are US companies afraid of hiring contractors from Eastern Europe?<p>I&#x27;m a dev from Poland with 8 years of commercial experience. I worked for US companies, visited the US a couple of times. I am a skilled developer and I rarely see...
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Opera: please use bug detection, not browser detection - gaika http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-browser-sniffing-warning-the-trouble/ ====== marijn In general, I agree. Unfortunately, detecting some bugs is either a lot of work or almost impossible -- you can't, for example, generate DOM events programatically, ...
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Ask HN: Fastest way to $2500 month? - anon_hn I'm desperate. I can't reveal my real identity, as I'm too ashamed. I'm very young and NEED to make a way towards passive/"subpassive" $2500 a month which can be built within a 2-3 months.<p>I'm very good in design and rails.<p>I'd really really really appreciate your id...
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Show HN: Covid-19 Status in the United States - r_stream https://covid2019vir.us ====== skysea Linking source of data would be great since there are too much fake information about Covid-19 on internet. ~~~ r_stream Thanks! For the top graph that info is under the "details about this data" details/summary element.
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Apple's China-friendly censorship caused an iPhone-crashing bug - ValentineC https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphone-crash-emoji/ ====== willio58 It always gives me a gross feeling when I read about Apple helping countries actively censor what can be communicated between two human beings. Let Ch...
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Should have hired a tech co-founder - seanlinehan https://medium.com/on-startups/c00e3e2b2024 ====== hga That he thinks of "hiring" a "co-founder" is perhaps telling. ADDED: On the flip side, us techies shouldn't co-found a company unless we're willing to pitch in when " _[...] we found sales in other channels that...
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The 2005 email that spawned Picnik, Google's latest buy - cwan http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/looking_back_the_email_that_spawned_picnik_googles_latest_buy.html ====== dougmccune My favorite quote, given the recent debates over Flash vs Canvas: _We’re at the intersection of demand (mass use of online pho...
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Microsoft Plans to Stop Actively Developing Paint - zonotope https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/technology/microsoft-paint.html ====== towndrunk Would be nice if Microsoft open sourced it so others could learn from it or actively develop a fork. ------ ocdtrekkie This is a FUD article. Microsoft has upgraded Paint to...
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Whom should self-driving cars protect in an accident? - jkuria https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/27/whom-should-self-driving-cars-protect-in-an-accident ====== cimmanom Basically, a survey of different cultures’ responses to the trolley problem. And this doesn’t even touch on the question of pa...
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ScorSer – Search System for Musicians - pablode http://scorser.com ====== peterkos As a musician/programmer this seems like a great visualization for exploring related information about music. For searching, well, if you study music you just kinda learn the corpus as you go, so tools like this are the equivalent of br...
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Parsing the impact of Anonymous - mcantelon http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/09/parsing_the_impact_of_anonymous ====== wccrawford "As long as they don't break into other people's computers, launching DDoS should not be treated as a crime by default; " Yeah, they should. Those attacks are the same as...
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User generated search engines - josephwesley Are there any search engines being created that give users the power to vote good sites up and spam sites down? It seems like this would be a way to clear out some of the weak content that bloats up the internet. Thoughts? ====== sycren Doesn't google allow this already t...
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Microsoft confirms Windows 10x is coming to laptops - pjmlp https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/4/21246561/microsoft-windows-10x-single-screens-windows-usage-demand-coronavirus-pandemic ====== maxbaines Perhaps Windows RT all over again? I do hope not. As a Windows 10 & Windows 10 on ARM I find this confusing.
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Samsung’s bug bounty program will pay rewards of up to $200,000 – The Verge - rbanffy https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16265926/samsung-bug-bounty-program-rewards ====== doubt_me remove the facebook app from all your phones. Where is my 200k?
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Animations by a NASA Scientist Show the Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow - caseyf7 https://www.sciencealert.com/simple-animations-by-a-nasa-scientist-prove-the-speed-of-light-is-torturously-slow ====== db48x Nice, but I like this one better: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s](https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN (2013) [pdf] - godelmachine http://yuba.stanford.edu/~grg/docs/sdn-chip-sigcomm-2013.pdf ====== pkaye So this is special hardware for a Software Defined Network? I thought SDN was meant to work on COTS hardware?
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India: The Republic of Scams - known http://news.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=5140159 ====== namank Its really nothing new. Impressive fact is that corruption is finally being shown in news the way it should be have been decades ago
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Jibo, the first family robot - miket http://www.myjibo.com/ ====== Discere There must have been a lot of plugging and unplugging JIBO to create their video! It does look neat though.
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Why Not MySQL? (Tekpub) - tommi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PoFIohBSM4 ====== MojoJolo This is very timely. I'm migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL just to try different technology (DBMS). But I'm wondering, AFAIK, why universities are teaching MySQL rather than Postgres? ~~~ gnono Dude, its 2012. Use Google, g...
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Once-starving GnuPG crypto project gets a windfall. Now comes the hard part - smacktoward http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/once-starving-gnupg-crypto-project-gets-a-windfall-but-can-it-be-saved/ ====== andrewstuart2 > It's encouraging to see the GnuPG project benefitting from similar largess. > But it also ra...
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Chad Rigetti on Building Quantum Computers [video] - craigcannon http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/chad-rigetti-on-building-quantum-computers/ ====== tlb The story of how Cray and his team created the CDC 6600 is really great [0]. Cray decided they had to get away from corporate interference so he picked a bucolic ...
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Invoke God Mode in Windows 10 - onecooltip http://www.onecooltip.com/2015/08/invoke-godmode-in-windows-10.html ====== Someone1234 Please stop calling it "God Mode." It is simply called "All Tasks" in Windows and is used by Control Panel's explorer search box to provide results about various Control Panel features, it ...
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Mozilla: End of Firefox for Android Slated for 2020 as Fenix Rises - kasbah https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-end-of-firefox-for-android-slated-for-2020-as-fenix-rises/ ====== craftyguy Felix doesn't appear to have support for extensions. That would be very unfortunate if Mozilla has chosen this route. Hopefully t...
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Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC - perspective1 I&#x27;d like to branch out from MVC for my next webapp. What battle-tested alternatives are others using?<p>Here&#x27;s a post from 2014, but there aren&#x27;t any example code bases. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ircmaxell.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;alternatives-to-mvc.html ======...
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Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators - stesch http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-highlight-json-operators/ ====== jtchang Damn that is how you write a git commit message. ~~~ masklinn An other fine example — from the same history — was the commit fixing the security issue 2 weeks ag...
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Rape Victim Arrested After Refusing TSA Pat-Down - merijn481 http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/409461/rape_victim_arrested_after_refusing_tsa_pat-down/ ====== pyre Following to the local news story: > Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with > Hirschkind, but the law i...
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Learning by Association in Plants (2016) - PeterWhittaker http://www.nature.com/articles/srep38427 ====== PeterWhittaker Submitter here: Leaving aside the question of whether or not this constitutes _learning_ , which may be as good a word as any, I posted this in hopes the HN collective mind would offer other explana...
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Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too - tokenadult http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html ====== pyre Personally I don't think that we should link to articles like this. The whole point of these types of articles is to generate controversy and draw page hits, by directing more traffic to the...
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Suckless conference 2015 - vezzy-fnord http://suckless.org/conference/ ====== SixSigma Hope you guys had a good time. I still miss Uriel. I hope someone stood in for him and ripped your ideas apart, particularly the C++. ------ jstimpfle I love the ideal of keeping things simple. I did my first steps in C studying dw...
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Instagram Dropping Foursquare for Facebook Places - wlindner http://williamlindner.com/2014/05/13/instagram-dropping-foursquare.html ====== rsobers The immediate result: a diminished user experience. Strategy tax in full effect. ~~~ shkkmo Don't worry. Facebook will never do something like this to the Oculus Rift. ~...
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Ask HN: What's Your Rough Net Worth and Age? - bruddamane It&#x27;s fun to do these kind of threads every once in a while because it gets people talking about personal finance, success, failure, perspective, and other topics rooted in money.<p>So what&#x27;s your general age-range&#x2F;cohort and what&#x27;s your Net ...
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Lisp Machine Manual (1984) - sillysaurus3 https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/title.xml ====== DonHopkins The cover of the Lisp Machine Manual had the title printed in all caps diagonally wrapped around the spine, so on the front you could only read "LISP CHINE NUAL". So the title was phonetically pronounced: "Lisp Sh...
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Ask HN: What are some innovative products Google has come up with? - toaltctrl Google is well known for it&#x27;s highly innovative culture. They hire the best and brightest who then create products that change our lives. Well, at least that&#x27;s what the television says.<p>I&#x27;m having a problem trying to fi...
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A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World's Densest Meet-Me Room - tlrobinson http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_one_wilshire ====== tlrobinson Higher resolution photos on the photographer's website: <http://eecue.com/a/1547/One-Wilshire-Tour.html>
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FundersClub (YC S12) advances online investing with first closed fund - borisms http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/17/fundersclub-advances-online-investing-to-next-level-with-first-closed-fund/ ====== rdl This seems really interesting for the future. This, angellist, clerky, and the great books and blogs are a big deal....
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Callback hell is a design choice. - Offler http://blog.caplin.com/2013/03/13/callback-hell-is-a-design-choice/ ====== mercurial It doesn't have the "pyramid of Doom" feeling of the "traditional NodeJS" version, but it does not make it easy to follow the flow. A better approach, IMHO, would be to use a promise librar...
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What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox - sebg http://flexbox.io/#/ ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963714](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963714) ------ vanderZwan As someone who has little direct experience with this part of webdev (other than aligning paragraphs on...
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The best patent troll-killing bill yet - beauzero https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9416 ====== davidw Oh, cool - DeFazio (one of the sponsors) is my representative. I guess that saves me from having to call him. Anyone know if they tally calls for people calling to say thanks or go...
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Goodbye, Arch Linux , SystemD took over - mariuz http://sporkbox.us/blog/?r=page/95&p=2 ====== rachelbythebay ns5.he.net is not answering authoritatively for this domain despite being listed as a primary at the .us level. This will lead to significant amounts of pain until it is resolved.
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Skype Open Source "in the nearest future" - madars http://ofaurax.free.fr/blog/index.php5/2009-10-31-00h31-0100.xml ====== mcav Looks like the skype client for _linux_ might become open source. Though I could see them keeping a closed-source API library and just having the UI be open source. ~~~ pyre It would definit...
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RBS shuts down startup accounts (Smarkets and others) - swombat http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/1360/rbs-continues-its-war-on-start-ups/ ====== DrJokepu It seems to me that RBS was very clear about the issue, they simply don't want to deal with gambling. It's a valid debate whether this is a reasonable or a...
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Price Discrimination is All Around You - ntoshev http://33bits.org/2011/06/02/price-discrimination-is-all-around-you/ ====== monkeypizza Really good article. Bargaining / making deals is all about information. The US still has laws requiring businesses to put price tags on products to prevent price discrimination.
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How is it possible for Visual Basic to be most popular .NET language? Lessons from past? Or? - edw519 http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/11/02/counting-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic.aspx ====== DougBTX The key line is "VB is the best language of the two for working with COM legacy applications," remembering tha...
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Show HN: JavaScript Warrior - antileet http://jswarrior.fusioncharts.com/ ====== MonkoftheFunk pretty good, was challenging but won. wish there was more and a way to trace
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Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed? - frits1993 Four months ago, one of my projects was ready to be posted on &quot;Show HN&quot;, and so I did. After a couple of hours it reached the frontpage and traffic was through the roof. A handful dozen of trial users signed up, and w...
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Google Code Jam 2013 - ariassp https://code.google.com/codejam/ ====== kirinan Im actually going to compete this year. Usually I sign up, get busy, then ignore the challenge, however I want to see how I match up with the rest of the world when it comes to solving hard problems in a set amount of time using good data s...
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Who brings what at your party? (made with Vue.js, Graphcool and Bulma) - lokarda https://freatle.com/ ====== mosselman We usually just message each other what we are bringing. This seems overly bureaucratic. ~~~ joeblack75 Some people like bureaucracy, when you organize an event with more than 10 people, that can hel...
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Kickstarter Project Fail 17 Months and Counting - braum http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hern/waldok-wall-plug-in-speaker-charger-for-the-ipod-n/comments ====== shawnp55 Kickstarter has plausibly deniability and hiding behind an undefined disclosure of what the creator and backer are due is unacceptable. I spent ...
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Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages - JumpCrisscross http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages/ ====== radicaldreamer It's always amusing to me how people in tech want to have very private lives where they control the...
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Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough - rbanffy https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/news/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-on-way-to-quantum-breakthrough-0 ====== notlukesky Serendipity is a critical part of progress and discovery. A limited list of inventions that occurred due to serendi...
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How does it feel to get fired (lose your job) suddenly? - yitchelle http://www.quora.com/Firing/How-does-it-feel-to-get-fired-lose-your-job-suddenly ====== markcrazyhorse I hate Quora as it forces people to sign up just to even read the content. I could just remove the DOM element in the inspector but I shouldn't have...
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Lisp Interpreter in Tandy TRS-80/100 Basic - franze https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?story_fbid=10157953582457370&id=780707369 ====== LeServal Hi... I'm the guy who ported this, which was actually not too difficult, as the original gentleman, to whom all honour belongs, left good hints. Most "issues" where really j...
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The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database - jv22222 http://justinvincent.com/page/1860/the-only-reason-my-app-worked-was-due-to-a-slow-database ====== fleitz Shouldn't the child pool simply be reduced and the queue increased which would have the same effect as the slow MySQL database? Requests should s...
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I Can’t Work Under These Conditions - Mazy http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/i-cant-work-under-these-conditions/ ====== dtf "Kick someone's ass on the first day, or become someone's bitch. After then, everything will be alright." This seems to be Michael asserting his place in the pecking order, in his own mischievous...
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Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding - dyarosla https://medium.com/@dannyyaroslavski/text-is-keeping-kids-from-coding-b70988dd7541 ====== avaer I actually don't know any great coders that learned to code through these kinds of games. They might move the programming-is-interesting gradient, but I don't think the hard part ...
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Show HN: Light and Powerful Web-Framework for C++ - lganzzzo https://oatpp.io/ ====== lganzzzo It's fully open-source. Licensed under Apache-2. Github - [https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp](https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp) ------ itm Could you please tell how it compares to Wt? ([https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt](https://www...
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For extremists only: containers, calculus, comonads and combinatorics ahoy - crntaylor http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12869097/splitting-list-into-a-list-of-possible-tuples/12872133#12872133 ====== Evbn Automatic differentiation always tickles me. Such a beatiful connection between continuous and discrete mathem...
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Ask HN: How to make TechCrunch talk about my startup? - ahmedaly Hello, I am going to launch a new startup within 2 weeks, and I need to know how to let guys at TechCrunch talk about it in their articles?<p>And can I list my startup there with a description about it?<p>I see that Tech Chrunch and other IT talks are ...
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Can a New Website End Tech Meetup Sexism in DC? - chippy http://dcinno.streetwise.co/2016/11/09/can-a-new-website-end-tech-meetup-sexism-in-dc/ ====== chippy The moratorium on political submissions on HN has been lifted. see: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251...
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