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Demant Gamified Fundraising Process - awwstn https://medium.com/@demant/demant-gamified-fundraising-process-60ff9b19fc6a ====== aspec00 Every founder should follow this advice if you want to improve your chances at a successful raise.
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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things - skellertor https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-types/ ====== the_duke I'm very happy to see the WebIDL proposal replaced with something generalized. The article brings up an interesting point: Webassembly really could enable seamless...
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Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language - sea6ear http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Programming+a+Problem- Oriented+Lan...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Programming+a+Problem- Oriented+Language#!/story/forever/0/Programming%20a%20Problem- Oriented%20Language)
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Ask HN: Where’s July’s “Who‘s Hiring” Post? - acdanger ====== detaro Those are posted on the first _weekday_ of the month. ~~~ conanbatt Dang, it should really be automated away.
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From Two Guys Building Their own Browser - dominik-space https://medium.com/spacebrowser/from-two-guys-building-their-own-browser-3aa56787982f ====== gwbas1c IMO: Get to the point early! establish what's different / special / unique about your browser. All you need is 1-2 paragraphs early in your story. I made it to ...
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Ask HN: what happened to LastPass? - yuvadam http://lastpass.com yields:<p><pre><code> An error occurred during a connection to lastpass.com. Peer's Certificate has been revoked. (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)</code></pre> ====== mike-cardwell Their certificate has been revoked. Will be inter...
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Burn Rate vs Runway: StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod - buckpost http://www.startupcfo.ca/2012/02/burn-rate-vs-runway/ ====== casca Summary: Should you spend more and have a shorter runway to potentially get to market quicker? Answer: "it depends"
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Weekly group calls to discuss business ideas - joalavedra I am thinking of creating weekly calls with whoever would be interested in discussing business ideas or side-projects. The call will only happen once per week and anyone can hop on. Interested? ====== joalavedra Have some ideas on communities and communication ...
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IT and security professionals think normal people are just the worst - howard941 https://www.zdnet.com/article/it-professionals-think-normal-people-are-stupid/ ====== hexadec Considering nearly a third of incidents [0] were from insiders, this seems about right regarding internal threats. They also include security fo...
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What is the difference between Cloud Computing and Clown Computing? - franze http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Cloud-Computing-and-Clown-Computing ====== tudorizer _Giggling_ You forgot to mention anything about scalability.
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Police fine pedestrian for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face - mlmartin https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7036141/Police-fine-pedestrian-90-facial-recognition-camera-row.html ====== StavrosK > The force had put out a statement saying “anyone who declines to be scanned > will not necessarily ...
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The right way to start a company - bootload https://medium.com/@gerstenzang/the-right-way-to-start-a-company-8fe4932b59d0#.1gogp5oyi ====== brianstorms Hmm. My takeaway from this article is that the author simply doesn't have a burning passion to change something in the world or build something that should be in the w...
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Do you think browsers should show data downloaded per tab? - hoodoof I read an article saying that some websites download vast amounts of data.<p>I wonder if this information could be surfaced to the user level in a way that makes sense and is not pointlessly &quot;techy&quot;. ====== draw_down They do. ~~~ hoodoof W...
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Are You Ever Too Young To Start A Business? - haidut http://www.usnews.com/blogs/risky-business/2008/12/11/are-you-ever-too-young-to-start-a-business.html ====== jmonegro That's good news for me :) I'd also add that bootstrapping is easier because of the lower cost of living for the younger generations, as required ...
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What’s Attacking the Web? A Security Camera in a Colorado Laundromat - gist https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-attacking-the-web-a-security-camera-in-a-colorado-laundromat-1490002202 ====== gist I had a system installed at the office a few years ago. After I saw how the installer (aka 'the guy who really knows and doe...
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Ycombinator application questions - ccurtis I notice that the ycombinator application has changed a bit since the first one. Even some of the questions used in the yc &quot;how to apply&quot; guidelines section are no longer on the current application. Can anyone comment on this or are there some articles already wr...
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Urbanisation in Minecraft - rcfox http://crafthub.net/2011/07/22/urbanisation-in-minecraft/ ====== larrik All I could think of while reading was the old "limited life experience + over-generalization = advice" even though there's no actual advice here. But I mean, "The more intelligent of you reading this article h...
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Ask HN: Are there any RSS readers like HN or Reddit but for own feeds? - PixZxZxA I am looking for an RSS reader that I can use for feeds I subscribe to, but that only show me the links, and take me to the website instead of some in-line article view (basically like Hacker News or Reddit). ====== detaro I don't know a...
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CarWoo (YC S09): Dispelling 3 myths about Y Combinator - tommy_mcclung http://carwoo.com/blog/dispelling-3-myths-about-y-combinator/ ====== seldo The irony of a 32-year-old considering himself "old" and claiming that therefore ageism doesn't exist at YC is great. I'm not saying YC is at all ageist, but the fact that...
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Goldman Vs. Apple: Who Generates the Highest Economic Return? - tortilla http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/01/goldman-apple-economic-return.html ====== neworbit Article seems to complain that Apple pays its employees less but makes more profit. I'm just baffled. Yes, they make more profit BECAUSE ...
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Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement - shaufler http://haufler.org/2014/01/19/i-hope-i-dont-get-kicked-out-of-yale-for-this/ ====== lionhearted When I first left America, I disliked and felt disillusioned with the country. I've now spent more of my adult life outside the St...
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FreeNAS Corral is being relegated to “technology preview” status - tachion https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/important-announcement-regarding-freenas-corral.53502/ ====== myrandomcomment So I have a FreeNAS mini. I upgraded and it did not go well. I was worked with someone from iXsystems to get things worki...
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Clever Cloud PaaS new pricings : cheaper and more finesse in your app config. - regisfoucault http://www.clever-cloud.com/en/pricing.html ====== regisfoucault More information on this news here : [http://us1.campaign- archive2.com/?u=0928a3dc4855008ad5808ca4...](http://us1.campaign- archive2.com/?u=0928a3dc4855008ad...
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NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Quantum Computers - ca98am79 http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/ion_trap_computers080609.html ====== sh1mmer Can someone who knows more about this stuff than me summarise? ~~~ pjonesdotca One clue is here: "Previously, scientists at NIST and elsewhere have...
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John Gruber: Apple will announce its ‘wrist wearable thing’ next month - abdophoto http://thetechblock.com/apple-may-announce-wrist-wearable-thing-next-month/ ====== DerekL Gruber's obviously kidding about Apple's wearable device. He doesn't know if that's true or false, but his jibe against the Moto 360 sounds bett...
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Big Android Makers Will Now Push Monthly Security Updates - nsgi http://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-samsung-lg-roll-regular-android-security-updates/ ====== hew Monthly. My, how nimble! Maybe one day they can aspire to Patch Tuesday heights.
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Vetting a startup (or two): The systematic birth of WPEngine - revorad http://blog.asmartbear.com/vetting-startup-ideas.html ====== patio11 I feel you on that story about pricing analytics. People ask me why I don't productize A/Bingo and pitch it to my blog readers. This is a big reason why: "A/B testing made you tho...
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OnePlus 3 vs. iPhone 6S customer reviews - adibalcan https://feedcheck.co/blog/oneplus-3-vs-iphone-6s-customer-reviews/ ====== adibalcan If you have another product battle suggestion please tell us
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Show HN: LeadsDaily – Handpicked project leads, delivered to your inbox daily - campingalert https://www.leads-daily.com ====== jo_choih Heya campingalert, I went here: [https://www.leads-daily.com/about](https://www.leads- daily.com/about) \-- to find more information. I got a 404. Womp womp. I'd definitely like to...
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8tracks blocks non US/Canada based users - dbrgn http://blog.8tracks.com/2016/02/12/a-change-in-our-international-streaming/ ====== dbrgn On a related note, if you live in the US or in Canada and would like to continue the development of a command line based client for 8tracks: [https://github.com/dbrgn/orochi/issues/...
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015) - dustinmoris https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 ====== notacoward Since this is Hacker News, I'll point out a way that this applies to programming: code standards and reviews. T...
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How You Can Help Save Upcoming.org, Posterous, and More - neilk http://waxy.org/2013/04/how_you_can_save_upcoming/ ====== evanmoran "While companies like Yahoo work to destroy as much human history as possible, Archive Team is the only group actively trying to save it." What kind of article is this? It is cool they...
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Grow Trees by Flying an Airplane - dvejvan Hello, I would like to introduce our travel project. We are a group of friends who are building up a very complex traveler’s porta.It is the first flight search engine where you plant a tree by buying tickets. For each ticket, you can see the number of trees you plant. We coo...
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Final Removal of Trust in WoSign and StartCom Certificates - selectnull https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/net-dev/FKXe-76GO8Y ====== jbergstroem Speaking of removing trust bits; the ever-delayed Symantec saga continues with no clear decision. What concerns me is: \- the lack of public communicat...
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Google Latitude comes to the iTunes Store - dholowiski http://www.macrumors.com/2010/12/13/google-latitude-comes-to-the-app-store/ ====== DupDetector Previous submissions, same story, different source: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000127> \- apple.com <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000320> \- engad...
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What's the future of Push Notifications SaaS like https://pushassist.com - HN_PRO Frankly speaking, i am interested in Push Notification space, just wondering what&#x27;s the real future of Push Notification SaaS vendors.<p>Anyone can share an insight on this business? ====== HN_PRO Am i pursuing the right product?
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Why we need to spy on the Germans - rrggrr http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/09/why-we-need-to-spy-on-the-germans.html ====== Tomte This article is an incredible string of bullshit. While there are aspects that are interesting and would have deserved some deeper treatment than just a throwaway sentence ...
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City Birds Are Smarter Than Rural Birds - unitedacademics http://www.united-academics.org/earth-environment/city-birds-are-smarter-than-rural-birds/ ====== andrewclunn Before somebody starts trying to smugly draw some parallel with urban and rural humans, the finches have natural selection weeding out the weak (or in ...
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Art of conducting, or how to create a great software - kodisha https://bajcic.com/blog/102/art-of-conducting-or-how-to-create-great-software ====== noemit I hate blog post titles in this format. ~~~ kodisha In hindsight, I could have invested more time and figure out better one.
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The Silicon Valley Elite Need A Culture Of Duty - jobowoo http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/20/the-silicon-valley-elite-need-a-culture-of-duty/ ====== jivatmanx People are aware of what Palantir does, right? And what we found out about them from their involvement with HBgary Federal, correct? I'm not sure everyone has ...
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Python Package Command Line Scripts - jmilloy http://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-line-scripts.html ====== gjvc I put together [https://github.com/gjvc/PY- TEMPLATE](https://github.com/gjvc/PY-TEMPLATE) which is similar in purpose.
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Hacker News BigQuery Dataset - svdr https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news ====== fhoffa Hi, Felipe Hoffa at Google here. We're aware the dataset hasn't been updated since a month ago, and we are working to fix it. You can track the issue here: \- [https://issuetracker.google.c...
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Ask HN: Okay okay, I'll learn to program...now what? - DarrenMills Nearly a year of daily hn visits (spent reading the stories I understood) I've come to a realization: Knowing a programming language seriously reduces the barriers to entry for a tech startup.<p>So the big Q: Where do I start? Do you have any resources...
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Racing at 127mph under a tunnel in LA [video] - awiesenhofer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMedyfcpvQ ====== ryandvm I do think these high-capacity, self-driving-only tunnels are a great idea in dense areas, but the tunnels and the self-driving bits are the easy part. The hard part is going to be the "vehicular mu...
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A Categorical Manifesto (1991) [pdf] - pmoriarty http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13.362&rep=rep1&type=pdf ====== cousin_it The paper argues that category theory is useful for computer science. Okay, which areas of computer science? I've studied quite a lot of algorithms, computational complexi...
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Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking - huntermeyer https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1344199 ====== jlebar I implemented the history.pushState API in Firefox many moons ago. Dunno why I didn't add this protection then, other than, it was a simpler time. It was around then that we added t...
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Mercurial over Git - jchonphoenix http://jonchu.posterous.com/16445171 ====== icefox "Need to make a new branch? Try git branch--er... I mean 4 seemingly random Git commands that don't include the word branch. " 'git branch <branchname> [start-point]' creates a new branch.... Maybe he is referring to the fact that...
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Ask HN: “Why shouldn't I hire you?” - micah_chatt The CEO at my company asks this question in every interview he is in on. What is your best answer to this question? ====== foobar000001 "Because my salary requirements just went up fivefold. I call it the jackass fee"
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Life is wasting my time - daemonl http://blog.daemonl.com/2013/03/life-is-wasting-my-time.html ====== alexhaefner Maybe I misunderstood this because of what books I have been reading lately, but I really enjoyed reading this piece as a piece of irony. Apparently the word irony, pre-14th century had more to do with an ...
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IAmA venture capitalist.AMA - muriithi http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e99b0/iama_venture_capitalist_ive_had_4_companies_file/ ====== wvl I am highly skeptical that this is a legit posting. Of course, the poster has not answered much of anything anyway, so it doesn't matter too much anyway. ~~~ ig1 Agreed, I ...
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Using virtual reality to desensitize troops - CharlieHall http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/17/6994793/using-virtual-reality-to-desensitize-troops ====== srean At a certain level things like these ask the question what it is to be human, and should we tamper with it because it is perceived as an impediment to our polit...
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What college rankings really tell us - boh http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all ====== Alex3917 What this article doesn't mention is how much effort the colleges at the top put into gaming the rankings. For example, Harvard spends millions of dollars every year sending...
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Appreciating Mathematical Structure for All (2009) [pdf] - poindontcare http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ883866.pdf ====== marktangotango I typically read math or computer science papers, so reading a paper like this is very odd. The paper is about mathematics education and the authors talk about the importance o...
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Hiring using stereotypes considered harmful - yuhong http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-manager/dont-stereotype-when-it-comes-to-hiring/230 ====== yuhong Not new, but the Facebook hiring problems inspired me to submit this.
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Ask HN: Bash on my new webapp? - dholowiski http://onepix.me<p>I just reached what I like to think is MVP last night and I'd really appreciate it if you'd bash on my app for a bit and give me your feedback.<p>I'm looking specifically for a few things. First - can you figure out what it does? This has been my biggest...
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Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf] - stopachka https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ipollak/ece302/FALL09/notes/Bernoulli_1738.pdf ====== Nydhal Must Read: Peters, O. (2019). The ergodicity problem in economics. Nature Physics, 15(12), 1216-1221. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster...
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Facebook Messenger Launches a Desktop App on Mac and Windows - vthallam https://messengernews.fb.com/2020/04/02/messenger-comes-to-the-big-screen-new-desktop-app-for-group-video-calls-and-chats-to-help-people-stay-better-connected/ ====== ChrisArchitect why are we installing facebook apps on the desktop now? What is t...
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Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl? - bdclimber14 I'm curious to poll the HN community to see who is working instead of watching the Super Bowl? ====== jedberg Can't I do both? :) I'm on my laptop hacking while sitting in front of the TV. Also I'm watching my website traffic do this: ...
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Mark Pincus Loses $4 Million a Day for 7 Months - codegeek http://www.cnbc.com/id/49303924 ====== Codhisattva What bunk. Stock wealth isn't real wealth in any sense of the word. It's a potential but is rarely realizable at the spot price. Articles like this do nothing but propagate a myth about the stock market.
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Is China Using Drones with Flamethrowers to Clean Power Lines? - Osiris30 http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/17/14652556/drone-fire-garbage-powerline-china ====== sevensor This made my morning. I mean, sure, Skynet, but drones with flamethrowers! The 13-year-old kid in me rejoices.
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What Wayland Means for Developers - CrankyBear http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/241134/What-Wayland-Means-for-Developers ====== sciurus Just a few paragraphs in, and I've stopped reading. This article is terrible. The author seems to neither understand who's driving the Wayland project nor the technica...
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Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? - e1ven http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001076.html ====== abstractbill _Instead of incessantly dragging, sizing, minimizing and maximizing windows, you can do actual productive work._ I have no idea what he's talking about here. My work day st...
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C2 wiki - getdavidhiggins http://c2.com/cgi/wiki ====== greenyoda This was the original wiki created by Ward Cunningham.
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Show Hn: Daily List of Deleted Domains Newsletter. - iworkforthem I just launched my second site: NameEgo.com ( http://nameego.com/ ), a daily email newsletter for webmasters looking for deleted domains. I filter the list of deleted domains to 3, 4 , 5, 6 char lists.<p>Hopefully I can get some feedback, etc. ====== ...
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Catullus 16 - erwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 ====== timb07 I studied Latin in school, and we studied Catullus 85 and 5 (which is mentioned in 16). We discovered there was a book of English translations of Catullus in the library, which we used to "help" with our homework. I'm pretty sure it didn't co...
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Google+ on HackerNews - ColinWright I'm wondering how many items will be submitted about Google+ here on HN. There will be dozens of articles written about it, and many, perhaps most, will be submitted here.<p>As an experiment, would people find it useful to collect the links and discussions in a single place?<p>Ho...
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America's Healthy Infatuation With Entrepreneurs - edw519 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/americas-healthy-infatuation-with-entrepreneurs/247153/#.TqGm_DT18w4.twitter ====== jjmaxwell4 I think the tech/startup industry has a large affect on a lot of people's thinking, especially at a young (high-...
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The UC Berkeley Big Data AMP Camp, August 29-30 - andyk http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-bootcamp ====== necubi Any other HN people going? There's a lot of really cool stuff in the AMP stack. I've trialed Spark a bit, and its promise of unifying batch and streaming computations under the same code base is very p...
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NASA’s $349M monument to its drift - wallflower http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/12/15/nasas-349-million-monument-to-its-drift/ ====== brudgers $349 million is a lot of money, if it is yours. For a public works project, it's construction of three medium size US high schools when the land has been donated...
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Why Our Nuclear Weapons Can Be Hacked - robertwiblin https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/opinion/why-our-nuclear-weapons-can-be-hacked.html ====== imploder One of these deficiencies involved the Minuteman silos, whose internet connections could have allowed hackers to... One of these deficienci...
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Can you tell if these faces are real or GAN-generated? - aveni http://nikola.mit.edu ====== aveni Hi HN! We are a pair of students at MIT trying to measure how well humans can differentiate between real and (current state-of-the-art) GAN-generated faces, for a class project. We're concerned with GAN images' potential ...
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[video] A Crash Course on the Go Programming Language - mssaxm http://axialcorps.com/2013/11/12/go-lyceum-video/ ====== ttunguz What are the most famous web projects built in go today?
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How Elon Musk Stole My Car - louis-paul https://www.atlantic.net/blog/how-elon-musk-ceo-of-telsa-motors-stole-my-car/ ====== 6stringmerc > _Tesla has a strange way of communicating with customers I think is best > described as customer service vaporware. That is, they spend more time > trying to create the illusion of...
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Video Lesson is not a Weather Forecast - mathmode https://medium.com/hack-education/4ccb1723bd6e ====== mathmode Not even professors' selfies.
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The Hereditarian Hypothesis and Scientific Racism - viburnum https://kevinabird.github.io/2019/12/18/The-Genetic-Hypothesis-and-Scientific-Racism.html ====== Bostonian The author does not show why Jensen et al. were wrong but merely criticizes their funding sources. Racial differences in academic achievement in the U....
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Ask HN: What are the closest programming language from logic? - Ceezy I&#x27;m looking for languages that have the most common operations in math&#x2F;logic from automata calculus to monad, homology... ====== setra Wolfram's Mathematica / Alpha has an extremely wide range of operations at your disposal. [https://ww...
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Git Immersion - tortilla http://gitimmersion.com/ ====== roel_v I've tried several times over the past couple of months to read articles or introductions to git. The one thing they seem to have in common is that it looks like they're having a contest on who can come up with the most outrageous ways of saying how bad o...
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Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data - brnstz http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/us/politics/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-data-program.html ====== tokenadult The main discussion appears to be under another thread reporting this story from _The Guardian._ [1] For readers who like to read the...
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BlinkOn3: State of Google Blink - cpeterso https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e6Aa9VRu26frCeetPerMTIeWB9ssNosFcQ4xNVLvfwg/edit#slide=id.g40fc1bcf6_00 ====== xcyu "Blink is the rendering engine used by Chromium." [http://www.chromium.org/blink](http://www.chromium.org/blink) ------ serve_yay :/ These slides aren...
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Research into the reasons for procrastination and how to stop - DiabloD3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/27/why-you-cant-help-read-this-article-about-procrastination-instead-of-doing-your-job/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits ====== drb311 2 ways to deal with procrastinati...
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Mindfuck WebGL Zorropark - tsenart http://zorropark.com ====== cleverjake I would like to thank whom ever wrote it for leaving he source unminified. Though its easy to unminify code for most developers, it was a bit overwhelming encountering it when I was new. Being able to study things like this as easily as possi...
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Journey took thatgamecompany into bankruptcy - chaostheory http://www.destructoid.com/journey-took-thatgamecompany-into-bankruptcy-244311.phtml ====== bane A beautiful game, a true work of art, even just to sit and watch. Here's a full playthrough <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KrjxD8djo>
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Graphcool is now open-source as the Graphcool Framework - kylemathews https://github.com/graphcool/framework ====== babakness +1, this is wonderful. Game changer in many ways. Can't wait to use it on some projects. My feature request would be to integrate with PostgreSQL and the ability to query database functions / ...
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Phrack Magazine #69 (May 2016) - jor-el http://www.phrack.org/issues/69/1.html ====== brudgers Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11644340](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11644340)
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IT Operations has a Cultural Problem - gabrtv http://blog.opdemand.com/ ====== gergles Let's see. Linkbait title, latest buzzword, consistent use of "bureaucracy" (I do not think that word means what you think it means - you cannot wave a magic DevOps wand and make bureaucracy go away) and insinuations that operatio...
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Uber’s New Strategy: Buy Unprofitable Companies Like Postmates, ???, Profit - elsewhen https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4pwp/ubers-new-strategy-buy-unprofitable-postmates ====== WBWBWB1010 I'm in the trucking industry and it's common knowledge Uber freight is a man behind the curtain scheme employing 1000s of peop...
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Competition - getp http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/05/competition.html ====== TrevorJ He raises a good point. I think there is a lot of internal friction that keeps bloggers form posting about competitors sometimes, but there really shouldn't be any fear of it.
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Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance - matthberg https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror ====== hmhrex I obviously haven't read through this whole thing yet, but I am very much looking forward to it. Hopefully this will be a good reference point for when people ask m...
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I urge you to refund Arizona Sunshine - andybak https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/5h2kwx/i_urge_you_to_refund_arizona_sunshine/ ====== andybak The developer recanted swiftly: [http://steamcommunity.com/games/342180/announcements/detail/...](http://steamcommunity.com/games/342180/announcements/detail/2897510740983...
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Dropbox Pitch to Sequoia 2007 - websirnik https://relayto.com/dropbox/rBWSeSFA/slides?hub=dropbox-investor-resources-5a93c45d19eb9 ====== YL123 Deep OS integration, visual feedback, doesn't change the way you work. As true then as it is now... ------ alexatrelayto It's remarkable how similar the business is 10 years ...
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Cruel way to promote a product - kachnuv_ocasek https://duck.co/topic/promoting-duckduckgo-with-htaccess ====== anonymoushn This is pretty bad. Much of the time, your page (which the user clicked on in Google, for instance) won't be near the top of DDG at all. You're essentially saying "You don't want to go to my pa...
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OpenGL Renderer Design - based2 https://nlguillemot.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/opengl-renderer-design/ ====== based2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5dvriw/opengl_...](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5dvriw/opengl_renderer_design_how_i_write_opengl_these/)
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At Amazon, the Bathroom is an Extension of the Office (2015) - dgelks https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mgbzbx/at-amazon-employees-treat-the-bathroom-as-an-extension-of-the-office ====== Twirrim For what it's worth, I was there for nearly 3 years (including when this article was written) and never saw that ki...
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Show HN: SocialVault – Decentralized and encrypted storage for Facebook data - dbrereton https://socialvault.io/ ====== noxToken What is the use case for this? If I download all of my data from Facebook, why would I want to upload it to another product or service elsewhere? If your killer feature is allowing me to br...
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PopSlate, an E ink case for your iPhone - jdoliner http://www.popslate.com/ ====== devnonymous Interesting. Tho' since I already know about yotaphone [ [http://yotaphone.com/in-en/](http://yotaphone.com/in-en/) ] this seems like a compromise. The 'second display' as a case does not seem to have the interactivity that ...
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Founder Stories: Leah Culver of Breaker (YC W17) - craigcannon https://blog.ycombinator.com/founder-stories-leah-culver-of-breaker ====== rglover Woah! Cool to see Leah Culver is still around building stuff. Remember her from the Pownce days. ~~~ rubberbandage A fellow Pownce user in the wild! Incredible to think tha...
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Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity - allenleein https://www.quantamagazine.org/troubled-times-for-alternatives-to-einsteins-theory-of-gravity-20180430/ ====== daxfohl I still think the answer will have to confront the problem of local realism. It was the issue that drove Newton nuts (that ...
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What kind of jobs do software engineers who earn $500k per year do? - ASquare http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-jobs-do-software-engineers-who-earn-500k-per-year-do ====== raynesandrew Working on some complex algo trading software..perhaps :)
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How to steal Ethers: scanning for vulnerable contracts - palkeo https://www.palkeo.com/projets/ethereum/stealing_ether.html ====== jacques_chester Here's my problem with smart contract maximalism. Suppose my ether gets "stolen". For whatever reason I am able to turn to an external legal framework -- police or a law s...
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It's All Been Done Before - ares2012 http://seanonstartups.co/2014/07/21/its-all-been-done-before/ ====== freewareuser21 comercial break -- was: "it´s all been done before" not a songtitle, from the Musicband 'Astromill' ? sry, too early in the morning ;)
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