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Hamagen - Israel releases an app for tracking exposures to Covid-19 - mderazon
https://medium.com/@oleiba/hamagen-fight-coronavirus-and-preserve-privacy-b1631693bb46
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funerr
Here is the source code: [https://github.com/MohGovIL/hamagen-react-
native](https://github.com/MohGovIL/hamagen-react-native)
Maybe it co... | {
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America's First Banned Book - Thevet
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/americas-first-banned-book
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wyxuan
Title is slightly misleading. This is during the time when America wasn't very
united, and couldn't even be called a country. A better title would be New
England's first banned book.
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andredz
To cons... | {
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A $5000 Chair - kentonwhite
http://battlehardened.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/a-5000-chair/
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dsr_
It wasn't the chair that cost $5K. It was the lack of the most basic possible
written employment agreement.
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josefresco
Who was going to write that agreement ... The lawyer they were hiring? Please,
their biggest m... | {
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What is the best tool to test your business idea? - rafa_th
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a_lifters_life
Your voice.
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FBI warns US companies about backdoors in Chinese tax software - LinuxBender
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-us-companies-about-backdoors-in-chinese-tax-software/
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t0mmyb0y
Groups running companies never learn...isolate sensitive stuff and take a few
minutes to do things safely.
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The Google Way of Science - The Growing Importance of Data - nickb
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php
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sah
This whole idea strikes me as extremely confused. Data mining is just
observation. Any extrapolation from data is a theory. Anderson and this author
seem to be surprised tha... | {
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Google's My Activity reveals just how much it knows about you - betolink
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/29/google-reveals-information-it-knows-about-you-my-activity
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betolink
Now add all the other sites we use on a daily basis. The scary thing is that
most of us don't care, we are happy giving u... | {
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Controlling vehicle features of Nissan LEAFs remotely via vulnerable APIs - marklubi
http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/02/controlling-vehicle-features-of-nissan.html
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mikestew
Anyone who has been cursed with using anything related to CarWings might not
be surprised by this. I swear their backend is running on some in... | {
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Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number - davidajackson
Robocalls and unwanted calls are one of the biggest hassles these days. Over 50% of phone traffic is spam.<p>I'm the founder of CallStop: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop/id1455892856" rel="nofollow">... | {
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iOS (iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS) Spec Chart page has been updated notably - blakespot
https://blakespot.com/ios_device_specifications_grid.html?v=6
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blakespot
Look at the insane cache jump on the latest SoC, the A13. 28MB SRAM cache!!!
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Disciplined monthly equity investing - deepGem
Do any of you commit a regularly monthly amount to investment in equity instruments such as Vanguard total index fund VTSMX? This is supposed to be the most failproof method to create long term wealth. If so, I'd be curious to know how difficult or easy this process ... | {
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Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire Consultants - danadams
http://mrdanadams.com/2012/why-your-startup-shouldnt-hire-consultants/#.UONJOeJQKmw.hackernews
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damm
I think most people who say you should hire full time, or you shouldn't hire
consultants (or vise versa) are doing you a disservice.
It's hard enough to fin... | {
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Looking for CTO partner for startup - dotmatrix
I am looking for technical co-founder in the Bay Area to partner up with for my startup called digizal.com, an e-commerce platform for a disruptive industry.<p>If you consider yourself a guru in PHP, Javascript, Ajax, HTML, CSS, MYSQL and other languages and just love ... | {
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Reserverr.com - Make reservations and appointments anywhere for free online - austinschwab
http://reserverr.com/
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brackin
I'd love to see a video demo rather than having to signup and set it all up to
test the service.
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Java: Custom SWT List Box - cghersi
http://www.snip2code.com/Snippet/11489/Custom-SWT-List-Box
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born2kill
This seems to be pretty interesting as there's no native support for such
control natively in SWT
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zioj
That is a very good trick to overcome a hole in swt widgets. Thank you very
much!!
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bmx... | {
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Perception trumps knowledge: optical illusion - RiderOfGiraffes
http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html
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nazgulnarsil
WAY more dramatic for me: the blue and green spirals are the same color.
[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/th...](http://blogs.discovermaga... | {
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Aviate joins Yahoo - moswald
http://blog.getaviate.com/post/72586543194/aviates-going-to-get-better-faster-with-yahoo
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MojoJolo
This might be out of context, but a question though. How this companies get
bought? Of course, building a great product is part of it. But are they
shopping around, emailing / visitin... | {
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Inkscape 1.0 - dragonsh
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.0#Inkscape_1.0
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merricksb
Other recent discussions:
Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate –
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855357](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855357)
(710 points, 23 days ago, 157 comments)
Inks... | {
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Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya - gmatty
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-09-10/kenya-water-aquifer-found-in-lotikipi/
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JabavuAdams
Fantastic!
Let's concoct some overly optimistic growth statistics for how this will
stimulate the Kenyan economy. Let's say 19% for the first 10 years, then 15%
for 10 more, the... | {
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It's called “Ship” not “Shit” - pantonepicker
http://blog.heyimcat.com/its-called-ship-not-shit/
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derefr
The one thing people seem to forget: MVPs are supposed to be _experiments_.
You do an MVP to figure out whether it's worth your time to build a product
for a particular market (i.e. whether there is "product-... | {
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Simple Charters: Instant Private Flights - charlesdenault
http://www.simplecharters.com/
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prawn
Would be good to see anonymised examples of real flight charters so it's
possible to get a feel for what a private flight might cost. Might save on
tyre-kickers or encourage those who would've guessed it out of thei... | {
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Reddit Blocked in China - tptptptptptp
http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/features/Blogs-Beijing_News/165760/Reddit-blocked-in-China.html
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Cheyana
Now the question is...will Reddit self-censor in order to get back in?
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Startups Rival Craigslist for Online Classifieds Market Share - erin_bury
http://betakit.com/2012/07/14/startups-rival-craigslist-for-online-classifieds-market-share
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sixQuarks
In order to have a chance at fighting Craigslist, these services need to start
hyperlocal first. There's nothing worse than going to one... | {
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Random Darknet Shopper - janfoeh
https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/
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wpietri
This is a play on Darius Kazemi's Amazon Random Shopper:
[http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-...](http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-
consumerism)
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aaron695
[http://xkcd.co... | {
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Panic Grips World Credit Markets - gibsonf1
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8058d308-84d3-11dd-b148-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
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tptacek
ctkrohn, ready for you to come back and tell us it's all fine. Any time now,
would be great. Thanks! =)
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Time Investment - wglb
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-investment.html
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rubidium
I wonder: was his working-like-a-dog to self-promote was necessary so that he
could be successful with ebooks? He clearly started to establish a name for
himself before his massive success with digital sales. Note that h... | {
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Show HN: A gem to log when code gets run - heynk
https://github.com/hstove/aqui
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heynk
I remember a thread on HN some time ago where people discussed the various log
messages they'd write when debugging to see if code was executing properly. I
usually just write things like `puts "here"` and it sounded like a ... | {
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“0.5% of women stated they were virgins and reported virgin births” (2013) - bookofjoe
https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102#alternate
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DoreenMichele
_Conclusions Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as
virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin
births. E... | {
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Health insurance startup Oscar to announce $30 million fundraising round - kirtijthorat
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/08/health-insurance-startup-oscar-to-announce-30-million-fundraising-round/
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Mz
From this very short piece: _Serving New York City as well as a few other
counties in New York state..._
It is possi... | {
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Do your social profiles affect your job prospects? - pumasource
http://pumasocial.wordpress.com/
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pumasource
Great blog!
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The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer - apawloski
http://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Eelb/folklore/mel.html
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jstanley
Fantastic story. One I re-read occasionally just to make sure I don't forget
it :)
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vgyjh
I wonder if there's a follow-up?
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Redis Labs Modules License Changes - shade83
https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-labs-modules-license-changes/
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Sir_Cmpwn
As an outspoken critic of the original change, I applaud this move. I still
wish it were open source, but this solves a lot of the confusing nomenclature
I took offense with. Kudos.
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How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists (2000) [pdf] - lelf
http://www.foundationwebsite.org/Guitar.pdf
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jng
I have been a software developer for 35 years (started learning in 1985, I've
accomplished several pretty successful things in this time), and it's also
taken me over three decade... | {
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Alt-right attitudes present large statistical differences from control groups - anigbrowl
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/15/16144070/psychology-alt-right
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observation
Oddly enough anonymously polled edgelords from 4chan aren't centrists.
This is a terrible way to conduct research.
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SAS - The Future of Healthcare? - jacoblyles
http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2010/01/21/the-best-place-work-ever
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jacoblyles
I'm just wondering if the health market in America has gotten so dysfunctional
that firms building their own primary care clinics might be more cost-
effective than purchasing he... | {
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SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Favors Jury Nullification - miles
http://fija.org/2016/02/09/scotus-justice-sotomayor-favors-jury-nullification/
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mordant
Jury nullification is a powerful tool for reining in prosecutorial overreach,
and for correcting perceived injustice in corner-cases (pun intended).
This is about th... | {
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Node.JS and Eclipse Support with eBay VJET Engine - zengr
http://jonathan-whywecanthavenicethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/war-of-worlds.html?spref=tw
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dmmalam
what are people currently using for node dev. At quillu we are big fans of
sublime, a terminal window and node inspector
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An Angled Plug Just Fixed Everything Wrong with Apple's MacBook Power Adapter - pbhowmic
http://gizmodo.com/a-simple-angled-plug-just-fixed-everything-wrong-with-a-1764108021?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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chmaynard
Not a bad product idea, but the head... | {
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How “group velocities” can exceed speed of light without carrying info (2000) - keyi
http://www.gregegan.net/APPLETS/20/20.html
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nabla9
Science magazines like New Scientist have roughly once per year sensational
faster than light scam article that uses group velocities as excuse to make
headlines. First half of ... | {
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Show HN: (blowdb) Simple django extension for cleaning database and migrations - iogf
https://github.com/iogf/django-blowdb
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helb
Some mostly random notes/questions:
1\. Seems to support SQLite only, is that right?
2\. It deletes even migrations from Django's default apps (auth, staticfiles,
…) in virtualenv/s... | {
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On Premature Optimization - cramforce
http://www.nonblocking.io/2011/02/on-premature-optimization.html
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chipsy
I think the "root of all evil" comes from _discussions_ of premature
optimization in public forums, not the act itself. Optimization discussions
tend to take these archetypes:
* Existing performance ... | {
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HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use - wcfields
https://hamwan.org/
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wmf
Since the site isn't that clear, the protocol is narrow-channel 802.11n on the
amateur 5.9 GHz band. I wonder if the net throughput or range are any better
than using the unlicensed 5.8 GHz band.
... | {
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Show HN: what - bandwidth monitoring terminal dashboard written in rust - imsnif
https://github.com/imsnif/what
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smolder
This is cool and very similar to something I started working on. Does it show
anything useful for NAT'd connections when using linux as a router?
| {
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Ask HN: Time to drop a client? - togasystems
I have a client who I first picked up over four years ago. As it was one of my first consulting gigs, the hourly was low, $25 an hour. Since then I have gained many higher paying customers. I brought up the idea of raising the price and it was quietly swept under the rug.... | {
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Binary Puzzle - mabynogy
http://binarypuzzle.com/
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grumph
It's "Unruly" in Simon Tatham's puzzle collection[1]. There is also an android
version [2].
In the manual: "This puzzle type was invented by Adolfo Zanellati, under the
name ‘Tohu wa Vohu’."
[1]
[https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/](ht... | {
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Ask HN: Is instagram.com broken or is it just me? - cellis
I see this: (index):215 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'call' of undefined
at t ((index):215)
at Object.<anonymous> (f05bbe87f13a.js:1)
at t ((index):215)
at Object.880 (ff3a5fc73987.js:1)
at t ((index):215)
at... | {
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U.N. Admits Role in Cholera Epidemic in Haiti - davidf18
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/americas/united-nations-haiti-cholera.html
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davidf18
Officially, 10,000 died, but the numbers could be far higher.
Very tragic and makes for an interesting read about how safety protocols were
not followed.
| {
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Ask HN: High School VR Lab - gorgoiler
I’m a high school CS teacher. I have been told if I apply for funding for a VR lab I am highly likely to receive it. There are a few reasons for this I don’t need to go in to. Apparently it <i>has been decided</i> that this would be good for the school!<p>Given that this (and ... | {
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Adblock Plus and Flattr’s new project will let users automatically donate money - smonff
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/03/adblock-plus-and-flattrs-new-project-will-let-users-automatically-donate-money-to-websites/
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smonff
> Flattr Plus will “eventually” be integrated into Adblock Plus
> Once Flattr Plus goes t... | {
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Contest: Write a satellite phone pathfinding algorithm - siruelise
https://reaktor.com/orbital-challenge/
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mokoma24
My solution visualized:
[http://orbital.kristianlindroos.com/](http://orbital.kristianlindroos.com/)
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Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years - pseudolus
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48821797
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Grue3
Faroe Islands and Norway catch more whales than Japan [1] but for some reason
don't receive nearly the same level of outrage.
[1]
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whales_Nordic.png](https://co... | {
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Migrating from EC2 to Rackspace - anthony_barker
http://www.conigliaro.org/2011/07/20/initial-thoughts-on-migrating-from-amazon-ec2-to-rackspace-cloud/
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jread
I wrote about this topic on Quora a while back: [http://www.quora.com/How-
does-Amazon-EC2-compare-with-Racksp...](http://www.quora.com/How-does-Amazon-... | {
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“hash_salt=” : Salts public on Github - newsignup
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22hash_salt%3D%22&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults
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raullen
[https://github.com/search?q=%22hash_salt%3D%22&ref=searchres...](https://github.com/search?q=%22hash_salt%3D%22&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93)... | {
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I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is Rural America - lingben
http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america
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nunez
I think it's fair to call the rural parts of America "real America;" they make
up most of our country and probably will... | {
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts - conesus
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html?src=twr&_r=1
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arethuza
It's perhaps interesting to note that sea levels have varied hugely even
within the timescales of h... | {
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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? (2016) - evo_9
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/
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behnamoh
If it turns out that we're in fact in a simulation, does that make you any
less real than you think you are? Does that make you want to break the law?
Does that make... | {
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Benchmarking Apache Samza: 1.2M messages per second on a single node - fintler
https://engineering.linkedin.com/performance/benchmarking-apache-samza-12-million-messages-second-single-node
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kodablah
I am getting lost between Flink, Samza, and Spark Streaming. The only one I
have used in production is Spark str... | {
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One-character domains available at Namecheap - ted0
https://blog.namecheap.com/40-one-letter-domains-available-for-under-600/
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soared
They have more single letter domains available then they list on that page. I
thought about buying b.school, so clicked on it and came to a page that also
listed b.rock and a few ... | {
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Warning, Chrome bug, can't clear cache. - gcb0
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/tDHFfE_IIeE
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gcb0
I was going crazy here for an hour. Chrome would always get the older version.
`wget` was fine. debugged half the network before I killed the messager
| {
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Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers - geerlingguy
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/keybase-moves-to-deal-with-crypto-chat-spam-as-users-face-scammer-onslaught/
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geerlingguy
I thought it might just be me, but the amount of messages I've been getting
through the Keybase app has reache... | {
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Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth” in a post-truth world - kiyanwang
https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90#.hy68p11y2
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Twirrim
This still fundamentally misses a key point:
AWS operates on a _huge_ scale. Mindbogglingly hu... | {
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GitHub welcomes all CI tools - sidcool
https://github.com/blog/2463-github-welcomes-all-ci-tools
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atonse
Is this a response to Gitlab’s attempt to build an end to end CI/CD system?
I still use GitHub and haven’t switched mostly because gitlab was slow two
years ago. I know they’ve made huge strides since, but t... | {
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The HTTP 500 Solution - vog
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-27-the-HTTP-500-solution.html
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jagger27
This seems like a good use case for a 400 Bad Request.
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Things Android has that iOS Needs - showngo
http://brooksreview.net/2010/12/android-helping-ios/?isalt=0
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Pewpewarrows
>Oh man are notifications bad in iOS. What is really bad though are the
meaningless icon badges that apps use. Gee thanks Twitter, but does that mean
I have 2 new mentions, tweets, or DMs to rea... | {
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Ask HN: How do you get good domain names? - rukshn
I'm just curious to know how do HN folks get their domain names for their apps/products/hacks?<p>Do you guys look for a domain name and choose the brand name? or go for the brand name and purchase a good domain name?<p>What if a .com domain name is not ... | {
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Theranos: How to destroy $9B in valuation in 6 Months - Geekette
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/theranos-blow-9-billion-6-123500740.html
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dharmon
I feel like the Theranos fiasco has been discussed on HN ad nauseam, so I'll
comment on an interesting quote by Holmes:
> “The minute you have a back-up plan, you've a... | {
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Ask HN: Remote Working from rural Alaska? - igolden
Just wondering if anyone on here works full time remote from Alaska (specifically outside of anchorage). I've been researching a possible relocation and the biggest issue for me seems to be internet.<p>I rely on video chat throughout the day, and I'm worrie... | {
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The Lowly Button Gets an Upgrade - mhb
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/the-lowly-button-gets-a-brilliant-upgrade/
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beloch
This is an interesting idea. Some problems:
1\. I have a dozen sets of earphones and I don't think there are even two of
them with identical cables. How would these buttons deal with dif... | {
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Why We Still Believe in Private Offices - alexlmiller
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-private-offices/
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magsafe
Am I the only one that considers lunch to be a sacred, personal time that I
don't want to spend on small talk with coworkers? I need my lunch break to
recover from the day... | {
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Looking back: 1 year in banking vs. 1 year at a startup - jrlevine
http://blog.jakerlevine.com/post/1124505184/banking-on-a-startup-life
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chuhnk
Its interesting, because having worked at a startup for 3-4 years as my first
job I'm looking to move into banking or a larger company where I can continue
learning. ... | {
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Altman says Loopt to be profitable in 2009 - cominatchu
http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/ceo.html
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eugenejen
I believe they really can make it.
Though Loopt is not the first one to come up with the idea. But they are so
far the most visible one who create a good product that users want! I really
want to see t... | {
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} |
What 2012 Holds for Google - FluidDjango
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/01/02/what-2012-holds-for-google/
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richardburton
I wish that 2012 would hold just one thing for Google: focus.
- Focus on making the first web-based Excel-killer.
- Focus on making GMail *really, really, really fast... | {
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What are some great humorous blog posts in Computer Science / Programming? - terminaljunkid
Can someone recommend some humorous blog posts on computer science / programming / software engineering?<p>Eg: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html -- A... | {
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Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet - jackgavigan
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/10/exclusive-computer-virus-hits-drone-fleet/
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jonstokes
This article is from 2011.
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jdenning
"it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into
these sensitiv... | {
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Summer of Startups: 10 Startups to Graduate from Finland’s 1st Startup School - ramine
http://aaltoes.com/2010/08/summer-of-startups-10-startups-to-graduate-from-finland%E2%80%99s-first-ever-incubator-internship/
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ramine
Disclaimer: I'm the main coach of the program
| {
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Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd [video] - octosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AeWu1fZ7bY
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nickik
This is actually a very smart video about systemd and the BSD community. Its
not a typical anti-systemd rant.
| {
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Shedding Light on Dark Bandwidth - bob_rad
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/14/shedding-light-dark-bandwidth/
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athom
_As ARM Research architect, Jonathan Beard describes it, the way systems work
now is a lot like ordering a tiny watch battery online and having it delivered
in a box that could fit something a... | {
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} |
Protests paralyze Catalonia as marches head for Barcelona - jammygit
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/2019/10/18/new-protests-planned-as-marches-converge-in-catalonia.html
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jammygit
I know some people who almost didn’t get home from a vacation because strikes
are affecting the airports, buses, and railr... | {
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} |
Show HN: I made a tool to help older people find senior discounts - sbilstein
https://www.owlyapp.com/feed/search?placeId=ChIJA-2qKIt9hYARZ5N1NdUVtHE&address=Oakland,%20CA,%20USA
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sbilstein
My co-founder and I have been working on products to improve the lives of
seniors & make them less lonely for about a year ... | {
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} |
Easy i18n in your Angular apps - PascalPrecht
http://www.ng-newsletter.com/posts/angular-translate.html
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Doublon
Looks awesome, exactly what I need for one of my projects. Great :-)
| {
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Huge Quasar Cluster is Largest Cosmic Structure - quahada
http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/scientists-find-universes-largest-structure-130111.htm
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alex_c
The article is pretty light on details. What exactly defines this as a single
"structure"? How do we determine where one cluster ends and another beg... | {
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} |
Evolving Floorplans - hardmaru
http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html
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DEADBEEFC0FFEE
This is super interesting. I wonder if the schools tine table was also in
scope for optimising, what the floorplan would look like.
Similarly instead of opting for less travel time, a company could optimise for
more, cha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spoilt for Choice - Springboard, UK based startup incubator - ggordan
http://springboard.com/spoilt-for-choice/
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mbesto
Interesting to see some US in there! How can they legally work in the UK? UK
immigration is a mess right now [1]. I would know, I barely got in on my Tier
1 - which no longer exists [2][3].
[... | {
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Funny: www.tgeltaayehxnx.com DDOSed themselves. - chrisacky
http://www.tgeltaayehxnx.com/<p>I copied the source code before the countdown struck since I didn't think I'd be able to access it on the hour.. "I told you so..." is what I just said to a friend.<p>Here's the ridiculous line.<p><pre><code> if (time... | {
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Million Dollar Blocks - pyduan
http://spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects/million-dollar-blocks
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joshu
Why is it still possible to spoof caller id?
| {
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The meek shall inherit the web - bootload
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999307
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mnemonik
Hate to rain on your parade, but this was posted a little while back:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295817>
| {
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Show HN: ReservationHop - Snap up last minute reservations to hot SF restaurants - bmmayer1
https://reservationhop.com
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alexsherrick
So let me get this straight... you take all the good reservations then you
either cancel them or sell them. Way to create something that benefits the
people of San Francisco.
| {
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VVVVjs lab - fibo
http://lab.vvvvjs.com/index.php
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joosters
+1 for having a 'what is this' page. Too many websites don't bother.
-1 for having an incomprehensible 'what is this' page, that needs you to already understand the page!
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yan
For those curious, this is inspired by vvvv[1].
[1] [http://vvvv.o... | {
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How to scale your rails app, by Scribd (a YC startup) - michelson01
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49575/Scaling-Rails-Presentation
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tx
Presentation is nice, but I would like to suggest a feature for you guys.
Instead of that terrible flashy frame, why don't you by default show documents
in HTML? Browser handles scro... | {
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} |
Tax dept. employee creates online game to vent his frustration with taxpayers - pwg
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/01/29/tax_agency_employee_creates_online_game_to_vent_his_frustration_with_taxpayers.html
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ColinWright
And gets fired: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5144419>
| {
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Ubuntu installed on my IBM BladeCenter E in my apartment - shapr
http://picasaweb.google.com/shae.erisson/UbuntuOnMyBladeCenter#
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phoxix2
There was a time when getting Linux running on a standard PC/laptop brough
much joy ...
Now its all about running Linux on beefy servers, obscure embedded devices,
cell pho... | {
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} |
Russia’s Next Invasion Won’t Be an Ex-Soviet State. It Will Be Sweden or Finland - SubiculumCode
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/15/russias-next-land-grab-wont-be-in-an-ex-soviet-state-it-will-be-in-europe-putin-saakashvili-sweden-finland-arctic-northern-sea-route-baltics-nato/
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feistypharit
That would be surr... | {
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} |
Large-Screen Kindle Won’t Mean Squat if Apple Tablet Arrives - edw519
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/kindle-vs-apple/
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ryanwaggoner
Hmmm...this sounds eerily similar to all the people who predicted that the
Kindle would be a failure because of the iPhone's existence.
Even if Apple releases a kickass t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Windows 7 vs Mac OS X side-by-side comparison - ccraigIW
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2009/01/199-the_ui_challeng-1.html
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mnemonicsloth
From the article:
_Windows 7 provides an uninstall utility for all your apps, for easy system
management (see image at left). The Mac OS has no such facility, and mos... | {
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} |
The Entrepreneur Behind a $170 Million Personal Finance App - jasonlbaptiste
http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/09/mint-qa.html
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DanHulton
Holy hell, ANNOYING auto-playing interstitial FMV advertisement.
I don't think I'm ever visiting an inc.com link again.
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gscott
I am not sure of the structure of Mint... | {
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Startups at Berkeley - ST@B - soapdev
http://www.sproutly.com/2007/10/17/startups-at-berkeley-stb/
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Jaggu
"HotOrNot was James' third startup before he finally succeeded."
Thats good to know that James didn't give up after first two failures. It must
be hard to keep that temperament.
| {
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} |
Attacking the Washington, D.C. Internet Voting System [pdf] - madmax108
https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dcvoting-fc12.pdf
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GiovanniFrigo
This attack is really accurate and well-crafted.. and scary at the same time.
Unfortunately, seems like we are not ready for Internet Voting Systems yet!
| {
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} |
Wuhan Coronavirus API - todsacerdoti
https://dev.to/pipedream/http-api-for-latest-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov-data-20jj
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Glosster
How did I not know about pipedream workflows until now...
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SBFT: A Scalable Decentralized Trust Infrastructure for Blockchains - scottlf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01626
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kang
"Permissioned" ledgers have existed and failed many times before the invention
of bitcoin. This is not decentralized. None of the BFT protocols are.
~~~
wmf
You can combine BFT with dPOS for full... | {
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} |
Show HN: Add Stripe Checkout to your website in 5 minutes (without programming) - singer
https://www.snappycheckout.com/stripecheckout
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singer
I created an easy way for people to add a Stripe Checkout payment form to
their website. It works like this:
* Connect your Stripe account via Stripe Connect
* Build ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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