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Redis+VM Considered Harmful - supporting https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/ZTSm-1w-6AQ ====== samstokes While I've experienced some of the same issues as the author, and came to the same conclusion (that we couldn't use Redis in VM mode in production), the subject line is unfairly alarmist. We are us...
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Star-Mapping Algorithm for Hubble Helps Researchers Keep Tabs on Rare Animals - hownottowrite http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/tech_life_animals.html ====== jcr Here's the original paper: "A pattern-matching algorithm for two-dimensional coordinate lists" by E. J. Groth, 1986 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986...
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A ‘Bright Light,’ Dimmed in the Shadows of Homelessness - dankohn1 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/nyregion/nyc-homeless-nakesha-mental-illness.html ====== dankohn1 'Ms. Dickinson, now a social worker, said that every day she walked by people “who are going through trauma and adversity.” “You never know — you neve...
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Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw - Buttons840 http://www.tulsatoday.com/2019/04/11/tulsa-teacher-discovers-flaw-in-calculus/ ====== gmiller123456 Unfortunately the article is kind of idiotic, the actual paper [1] has nothing to do with discovering a newly discovered flaw. As the paper's author even says, many stu...
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Have U.S. Automakers Built the Wrong Cars at the Wrong Time — Again? - ideas101 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2012 ====== mechanical_fish It's tempting to blame the U.S. automakers for being shortsighted... but, really, when gas prices in the USA were (and _still are_ , believe it or not) ...
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Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available - agotterer http://aws.amazon.com/ibm/ ====== ShabbyDoo This is a great signal to Amazon AWS customers that EC2 is endorsed for large enterprise use. I'm not saying that it is ready or that it's actually endorsed. However, that's what Blue shops will think. I wonder if existing ...
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A better way to decide “Where for lunch?” with Sujjest - SujjestJeff https://medium.com/@sujjest/a-better-way-to-decide-where-for-lunch-5e4bd157a0a4 ====== dustinmoris Soon we are going to have an app for everything. 1\. First we will be using an app to find friends. 2\. Then another app to message friends. 3\. The...
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Looks like an attack against DNS Root Servers, yesterday morning - suixo https://atlas.ripe.net/dnsmon/?dnsmon.session.color_range_pls=0-10-10-75-100&dnsmon.session.exclude-errors=true&dnsmon.type=zone-servers&dnsmon.zone=root&dnsmon.startTime=1448858400&dnsmon.endTime=1448876400&dnsmon.ipVersion=both ====== dest Give...
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Scientists Discover Potent Antibiotic - ghosh http://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-discover-new-antibiotic-a-potential-weapon-against-a-range-of-diseases-1420654892#b01g14t20w15 ====== mrob Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487)
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AudioKit V3 Swift Audio Framework Has Awesome Xcode Playgrounds - aure http://audiokit.io/playgrounds/ ====== marvel_boy Great! AudioKit for Objective-C was awesome. And now for Swift, with playgrounds, eager to test ! ------ discohead Where are the playgrounds? ~~~ discohead nevermind, found 'em... [https://github....
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Use Linux to fix a dead computer - abennett http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/95275/use-linux-fix-a-dead-computer ====== cylinder714 My current favorite Linux LiveCD is Grml (<http://grml.org/>), a Debian-based distro. It's like Knoppix without KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org, et cetera (but with X Windows), and wit...
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Tech Protester in Kiev Badly Beaten, Journalist Killed, As ‘IT Tent’ Is Burned - swohns http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/tech-protester-in-kiev-badly-beaten-journalist-killed-as-it-tent-is-burned-by-police/ ====== bayesianhorse What I don't fully understand and what is missing from media coverage so far is how the Ukr...
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How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts (2014) - Kortaggio http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/upshot/how-the-recession-reshaped-the-economy-in-255-charts.html ====== smackay A very interesting set of graphs but it takes quite a bit of time to digest the information presented. The most interest...
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An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems - mad44 http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/01/paper-review-empirical-study-on-crash.html ====== nickpsecurity "Almost all (97%) of crash recovery bugs involve no more than four nodes. This finding indicates that we can detect crash recover...
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Cache Organization in Intel CPUs (2009) - jxub http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/intel-cpu-caches/ ====== etep I had wondered, why are the L1 caches not growing, while L2 and L3 capacities continue to grow: a significant limitation on L1 cache size is actually the fixed tradeoff between associativity, page size (i....
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Ask HN: What to use for a mobile based HTML app? - ma2rten What framework would you recommend to build a quick prototype for a mobile app using HTML5? In the past I have used jquery mobile. Now I was contemplating on using Angular or ember.js in combination with bootstrap. What are your experiences?<p>The most impor...
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Craig Wright registers US copyright in Bitcoin 0.1 and the Bitcoin white paper - davidgerard https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/05/21/craig-wright-registers-us-copyright-in-bitcoin-0-1-and-the-bitcoin-white-paper-what-this-means/ ====== londons_explore Unless he can sign something with the keys from the genesis...
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Was Eric Schmidt attempting to warn us of PRISM in 2009? - greendestiny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Privacy ====== snowwrestler No. It has always been true that federal law enforcement can gain access to your data at Google (or any other company) with a valid warrant. The revelation with Prism is how ...
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Show HN: lsys - realtime lsystems on canvas - benvan http://benvan.co.uk/lsys ====== karangb Absolutely stunning! ------ alexmic This is awesome!
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Intel to take stake in German mapping firm HERE in automated driving push - ramxtr https://www.yahoo.com/news/intel-seeking-indirect-stake-mapping-firm-german-cartel-104141946--finance.html?ref=gs ====== ForHackernews HERE is a great option for offline navigation on Android. ~~~ LordWinstanley ...except you can't imp...
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Automatic Keyword Extraction from Text - jisaacso http://blog.urx.com/urx-blog/2015/10/13/keyword-finder-automatic-keyword-extraction-from-text ====== timClicks The code's available too: [https://github.com/lvsh/keywordfinder](https://github.com/lvsh/keywordfinder) ------ PaulHoule If you want to make it across the "...
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A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month - lpellegr https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d ====== flipp3r Reminds me of getting Bait-and-Switch'd by Google App Engine in 2011. From 10's of euros to 1000's. > They have no phone number to contact...
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Yes, We Were Warned About Ebola - ColinWright http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/opinion/yes-we-were-warned-about-ebola.html ====== ColinWright Quoting from the article: Part of the problem is that none of these articles were co-written by a Liberian scientist. The investigators colle...
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MooTools and Sizzle - bdfh42 http://ajaxian.com/archives/mootools-and-sizzle ====== teej Valerio has always been a man to stick to his guns, so this isn't all that surprising.
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My web app died from performance bankruptcy - feross https://tonsky.me/blog/chrome-intervention/ ====== boublepop I remember back when IE was the standard, and the majority of webpages where broken messes because Microsoft didn’t care about standards and only had their own interests in mind. Then Pheonix (now firefox)...
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is the most stable mobile phone OS - Garbage http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/microsofts-windows-phone-7-is-the-most-stable-mobile-phone-os/6456 ====== glimcat _I have been using Windows Phone 7 since July 2010 and can say without a doubt that Windows Phone 7 has been the most stable...
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A short history of Zhvandun, Afghanistan's lost magazine - vidarh http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-42878241 ====== pradn I just made a wiki article for this magazine. Please add any info you might know. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhvandun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhvandun) ------ acdha If you want to ...
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The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation - stevekemp https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/caretakers-of-sealand ====== Semaphor Less detailed, but Wikipedia has a nice overview [0] of some things this only glossed over: > In August 1978, Alexander Achenbach, who describes himself as the Prime > Minis...
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The President Doesn't Like Broccoli and Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Like Privacy - nickmolnar2 http://senses.thirdi.com/posts/3422-dear-paparazzi-mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-be-your-muse/ ====== nickmolnar2 I'm 23, so I just have no idea if my freewheeling views on privacy are going to turn around to bite me in the ass lat...
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North Korea Learned from Libya War to Never Give Up Nukes - user982 https://theintercept.com/2017/07/29/dan-coats-north-korea-nukes-nuclear-libya-regime-change/ ====== arcanus And they are correct. We encouraged quddafi to give up his program, lifted sanctions, and then pushed him into a corner at the first opportunit...
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Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework - tipiirai https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html ====== jashkenas While I'd usually prefer to be nice in the mornings ... starting off with those benchmarks got my goat. So. This sort of thing is a _beautiful_ demonstration of marketing, big promis...
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Ping-API – Automated API Testing and Monitoring - somecoder https://ping-api.com/ ====== jkarneges It would be nice to know how this compares to Runscope. ------ Marat_Dukhan Wow, this is very nice! I use UptimeRobot for one of my projects, and it took me several hours to set up the tests there. And now I configured ...
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Ask HN: Can you help me find a junior ML job? - birewlk Hello HN, I&#x27;m new around here, but from what I&#x27;ve heard, this is the place to be.<p>So long story short, I&#x27;m a bit down on my luck these days job-wise, so I thought I&#x27;d see if anyone here could help. My background is in quantum mechanics. I ...
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Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited - hereonbusiness http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-25/nintendo-set-to-plunge-after-saying-pokemon-go-s-impact-limited ====== Cookingboy So everyone understands that the short term downloads/revenue would NOT justify the crazy increase in market ...
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Writing a thesis in a Nazi concentration camp - rhezab https://www.dropbox.com/s/odhke8lblkxnl1n/Roothaan.pdf?dl=0 ====== rhezab My Life as a Physicist, by Clemens Roothaan. Incredible story about doing physics in a Nazi concentration camp, surviving said concentration camp, and his career at Chicago. A lot is left un...
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Gestimer – For little reminders during the day - daralthus http://maddin.io/gestimer/ ====== jbrooksuk I use OSX every day, but I immediately thought that this was a Ubuntu app because of the wallpaper colours and dark mode used in the screenshots and demo. Although the gesture to set the time is super cool, how pr...
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Bill Gates Deletes Facebook account - aston http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article778162.ece ====== theoneill Looks like you _can_ delete your account if you have sufficient connections. ~~~ rms I'd be surprised if he really deleted it and didn't just do the "suspend" option Facebook has.
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Show HN: The Wishler, an online wishlist - johnnycarcin https://thewishler.com/ ====== johnnycarcin Submitter/Creator here, just wanted to note that this was created to fill a void my family and I needed but I thought others might find it useful. Of course I used the opportunity to learn some new technologies and play...
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Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider? - ericb I'm starting work on the payments portion of our saas load testing app. My partner and I have been dogfooding our app for a while on our own load test consulting gigs and we're at the point where we want to roll it out. The app is wr...
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NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot - spondyl https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20791 ====== iends 2 hours after the incident was responded to by an npm employee and the status is still green: [https://status.npmjs.org/](https://status.npmjs.org/) I love fake status pages! ~~~ wxuan Overall, the system is...
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Web Apps Are the Future - bpierre http://www.sitepoint.com/long-live-web-app/ ====== bikamonki It won't happen for 3 reasons: 1\. Performance: web apps run on top of at least two additional layers. 2\. Features: OS makers will never make device features fully available to web apps in order to protect its users from ma...
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Ask HN: Does anyone use the Amazon Mechanical Turk API? - gcv I'm working on a project that relies on a human workforce to perform some simple image identification tasks. AWS Turk seemed to fit the requirements pretty well, and I have the basics working with externally-hosted tasks.<p>Does anyone here actually use Tur...
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Show HN: Short mobile LeetCode-like challenges in game-like app with leaderboard - edsioufi https://solvefaction.com/ ====== edsioufi My friend Gunar and I are building this app we call SolveFaction. As devs, we know that coding interview problems are not easy. Especially when it's been a while. There's really only o...
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The Higgins Boat: Wood, Steel, and Purpose - smacktoward http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-higgins-boat-wood-steel-and-purpose ====== rjsw The Normandy landings were not in the Bay of Biscay. ~~~ stoolpigeon It's funny because Operation Ironside - the operation to trick the Germans was intended to get the Germ...
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Virtual reality affects men and women differently - killwhitey http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/04/03/is-the-oculus-rift-sexist.html ====== GuiA An advisor for a startup where I used to work at worked heavily with VR systems in the 80s/90s. I was having coffee with her a year or so ago, when I had just r...
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Announcing d-note: A Self Destructing Notes Application - jimmcslim https://pthree.org/?p=3442 ====== jimmcslim The author is hosting the application at [https://ae7.st/d/](https://ae7.st/d/)
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Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf] - vbrendel https://www.dropbox.com/s/3v13d2g8klwer3d/AWS%20-%20RubyCentral%20-%20Feb2014.pdf ====== evanphx I thought I'd answer some of your questions, as the person that pays the bill. 1\. This can be cheaper on AWS. We've been meaning to move to reserve instances, paying a ...
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No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology - benwr http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-have-not.html ====== mbell I'm not a physicist, just an interested bystander but some of these arguments don't seem to hold water to me: > There’s a more general point to be made here. The primary...
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Another Oil Crash Is Coming, and There May Be No Recovery - Stefan333 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/another-oil-crash-is-coming-and-there-may-be-no-recovery ====== jhugg I look at electric scooters vs gas scooters in Asia as a template. At some point in the past 5-7 years, they just took off, and s...
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HSTS Preload lists cause Chromium to think http://google/ is a valid domain - coderobe https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=698660 ====== Animats I warned about this back when all those new TLDs were being considered. Single-word TLDs are not properly supported in browsers, in DNS, or even at the glib...
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PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO - J253 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/software-maker-pagerduty-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo ====== ravedave5 Having one team on victorOps and the other on Pagerduty I can say that pagerduty has better UI and mobile app. The scheduling UI in vitorOps ...
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Ask HN: What open source projects are you contributing to? - giuscri ====== sshykes Gorm [https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm](https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm)
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Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics? - andrenth https://quillette.com/2019/04/16/why-are-women-under-represented-in-physics/ ====== neya I'm not saying this to stir up some kind of controversy. But, I think it's wrong to silence him simply because we don't agree with him. He presented data, some efforts to supp...
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Startup Australia - dtalic http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130314130000-921366-startup-australia ====== jacques_chester A lot of the VC funds that have launched in the past few years are actually seeded by government funds. Not a model that lends itself to genuine risk taking. Just imagine the headlines:...
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Why the Facebook Instagram Purchase Was Worth Every Penny - justinireland http://justinireland.com/how-facebook-could-dominate-advertising-and-why-the-instagram-purchase-was-worth-every-penny/ ====== justinireland I've been sitting on this theory for a couple of years but finally got around to writing about it. The ...
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How to Jumpstart the Economy - Tax Free Small Businesses - drm237 http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/07/28/how-to-jumpstart-the-economy-tax-free-small-businesses/ ====== moocha This will positively not work. I live in Romania. Starting 1999 (IIRC) and ending 2006, there has been some very similar legislation in effec...
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He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them - danso https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html ====== crazygringo On the one hand, I'm a big believer in the market, and that rising costs in times of scarcity prevent individuals from buying more than ...
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DeGoogle My Life - app4soft https://homehack.nl/degoogle-my-life/ ====== Jaruzel Every time I read one of these articles about cutting Google out, it becomes quickly apparent that the author uses the internet primarily as an entertainment or social platform which isn't my use case. I'm old school, I use the internet ...
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The SF Anti-Mask League of 1919 - 9nGQluzmnq3M https://mobile.twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073 ====== accountinhn If anyone is interested here is report published in 2007 by St.louis Federal Reserve about the 1918 Flu pandemic. [https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/community- deve...](https://w...
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Off the Chart - revorad http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/opinion/16douthat.html?_r=1&hp ====== revorad OT: Is that a Google Chrome _advertisement_ at the top?
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IT infrastructure strategies for startups - brunowassermann If you have a bunch of developers and designers all hacking away on their laptops, what are the different options and pros/cons for backups, shared file storage, etc? Is it better to set up your own file servers, version control servers, email servers, impl...
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Python and Flask Are Powerful - nichochar http://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/01/18/python-and-flask-are-ridiculously-powerful/ ====== freyr Python and Flask are great, but the secret ingredient here seems to be Stripe. His goal was payment processing, and Stripe made everything else nearly trivial. ~~~ lurchpop Agreed. T...
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SeaMicro builds box with 512 Atom CPUs - mckilljoy http://gigaom.com/2010/01/06/seamicros-secret-server-changes-computing-economics/ ====== pmjordan I'm not really sure what real need they're trying to fill here. A single Atom core has a TDP of around 4W, performance-wise it's at about 10% of a mid range Core2 Duo, ...
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Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances - svd4anything https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-got-ufo-patent-granted-by-warning-of-similar-chinese-tech-advances ====== Abishek_Muthian >(HAUC), which can function as a submersible craft capable of extreme underwater ...
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No/reduced alcohol leads to increased productivity - davidlbatey http://davidbatey.com/productivity-hack/2013/09/20/no-alcohol-leads-to-healthier-more-productive-lifestyle.html ====== jmduke _Now more importantly let’s look at the time saved. No code shipped on the evenings where drinking occurs (loss of 4 hours eac...
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Furatto v2.0 Release - #trySimplicity - kurenn88 http://icalialabs.github.io/furatto/index.html ====== storm_kid Great job man, this is way much better than Bootstrap!! ~~~ kurenn88 Thanks dude, I'll keep working, tell me how it goes!
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Specialize or Generalize a firm? - cmorgan8506 I've been tossing around the idea of expanding from single contracting/freelance to a consulting firm. I'm curious what HN thinks of a firm specializing in one particular language/framework. Would that narrow the playing field too much?<p>I know specializing as a freela...
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Fractional calculus - ertug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_calculus ====== drbaskin I find it hard to believe that the article on fractional differentiation only briefly mentions the Fourier transform. For functions on R^n with vanishing integral (or periodic functions on R^n with vanishing integral), the F...
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SaaS marketing & customer acquisition - Rezal What is your experience with customer acquisition and marketing for SaaS? What are the Dos and Donts? ====== Rezal I found these links which I found being very useful: 7 Non-Obvious SaaS Startup Lessons From HubSpot [http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/13320/SaaS-101-7-Si...
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A new book on the lack of rigor in biomedical science - tmd83 https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/how-sloppy-science-creates-worthless-cures-and-wastes-billions/ ====== nonbel From this description I wouldn't buy this book. It is focusing on a bunch of minor issues rather than the main problem. Biomed researchers ...
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You Want to Know Who America Is, Pay Attention to Who She Was - Karishma1234 https://medium.com/s/story/we-are-on-repeat-america-9700f5672b05 ====== masonic "As early as the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin railed against allowing Germans into the country, calling them ignorant, lazy, and a danger to the Anglo way of b...
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China Expands Surveillance of Sewage to Police Illegal Drug Use - craftyguy https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-expands-surveillance-of-sewage-to-police-illegal-drug-use/ ====== Sami_Lehtinen Dupe, discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546979](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546979)
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MySpace: Hot or Not? - charzom http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_hot_or_not.php ====== Goladus _Next, let's take a look at random MySpace profiles to see how active they are. Personally, I find it mind boggling that people can be looking at these ugly and disorganized pages, but there is no mistaking it: ...
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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO - stellar678 https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/04/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/ ====== pvnick Really unfortunate that this happened to someone as nice and competent as Eich. His leadership would have held amazing things for Mozilla, the open web, javascript, rust, all...
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Ask HN: Can someone help with Iptables and MySQL replication? - ItsWinterHello I have two machines.<p>Machine 1: Front-end&#x2F;Webserver (Nginx), Slave DB (IP example: slavedb.1.1.1) Machine 2: Master DB (IP example: masterdb.1.1.1)<p>When iptables rules are removed, replication between master-slave (MySQL) works ...
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Can someone break my weak home-brew encryption? - cool-RR http://blog.ram.rachum.com/post/45762666705/can-someone-break-my-weak-home-brew-encryption ====== ColinWright One single, lonely piece of ciphertext is probably perfectly safe. Home-brew encryption becomes a problem when arbitrary plain-text can be enciphered...
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Ask HN: Favorite HN threads of all time - cellis Have any Hacker News threads ever truly changed your perspective on life, or technology? Post them please. ====== jacquesm This should be a good starting point: <http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html> There are boatloads of good content in there, plenty of which have t...
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Announcing The Zig Software Foundation - kristoff_it https://ziglang.org/news/announcing-zig-software-foundation.html ====== PaulDavisThe1st When I looked into starting an official non-profit around the Ardour ([https://ardour.org/](https://ardour.org/)) project, I was a little disappointed to find out how much succes...
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Show HN: LinCV – transform LinkedIn profile to printable CV in 5 seconds - calmchaos https://alternativeto.net/software/lincv/ ====== piperswe I just tried to use this extension on my LinkedIn profile and the generated CV shows my name and LinkedIn link as someone else entirely... If you'd like to debug, my LinkedIn i...
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Microsoft Bans Slack After Slack's IPO Success - TechFinder https://medium.com/futuresin/microsoft-teams-has-lost-to-slack-a02dd93e66a3 ====== writepub This is a bit of a surprise, as the new Microsoft seemed to move past prettiness, and embrace customer centricity. Curious how Microsoft Teams can rip-off Slack's fea...
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Youngsters keeping traditional trades alive - DanBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42441366 ====== chiph The homeowners in Charleston SC found that in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the craft skills weren't available to repair their historic homes. So a group got together and founded the American Colle...
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An Introvert’s Guide to Friendship - tysone https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/an-introverts-guide-to-friendship.html ====== qnsi Love the misleading title
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What Ray Ozzie Didn't Tell You About Microsoft Azure - twampss http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/03/dziuba_azure/ ====== kleneway "Let's say you're a business decision maker, and you got yourself on this cloud computing kick. Who would you rather buy your cloud resources from? 1\. A company whose main business i...
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Parasite: Firebug, but for GTK+ applications - ashitlerferad https://chipx86.github.io/gtkparasite/ ====== fithisux Amazing.
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Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work? - vuln I&#x27;m looking for an office chair that I can spend 6-10 hours a day in. Looking to spend under $500 if possible but I am open to suggestions. I really wish there was a service that I could test out an office chair for two weeks and return if it doesn&#x27;t not...
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San Jose State suspends online courses - ilamont http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/San-Jose-State-suspends-online-courses-4672870.php ====== jimhefferon I often read statements on this site that are like "I'm a super-motivated, highly-performing driven person and I ought to be able to take Artificial Intelligence f...
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86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins - gibsonf1 http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins ====== lupin_sansei "Evan says: Maybe it goes without saying, but I think it's reasonable to say that what people consider "basic everyday functions" have evolved eno...
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Ask HN: Any open source alternatives to intercom.io? - bossx intercom.io is excellent, but can be quite costly for a startup. Anyone know of any open source alternatives? ====== drl42 Serious question: What would you be willing to pay for Intercom? Which features would you use the most? Intercom is a cross between a ...
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Less Turbulence on Delta Flights? - jsiminoff https://thepointsguy.com/news/this-is-the-reason-you-arent-feeling-as-much-turbulence-on-delta-flights/ ====== ginkgotree General aviation pilot here. I fly a bonanza in the flight levels regularly. There are plenty more data sources than just PIREPS, even in general aviat...
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What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea - anonu http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea.html ====== timiblossom The building to convert reef to island is one of the first steps to claim the entire Southeast-Asia sea by China. It will then...
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Seattle company allows you to rent goat herds to clear brush - MikeCapone http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/rent-a-ruminant-goats-clearing-brush-photos-before-and-after.php ====== quant18 But do the goats have union cards? No seriously, that was a problem when they did this in California: [http://nl.newsbank....
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Apple Has Hundreds Working on an Electric Car Design - prateekj http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/13/apple-car/ ====== feld I'm not sure a minivan is going to capture their target audience. ------ Matheus28 And you thought Teslas were expensive, just wait for it...
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Google Should Buy Twitter Before The IPO - ssclafani http://uncrunched.com/2013/10/24/google-should-buy-twitter-before-the-ipo/ ====== adamnemecek I don't get these sorts of articles. The author did not present any sort of argument beyond the implied "because it would be cool". Does he actually think that at no point ...
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USPTO invalidates key Apple patent used against Samsung - eljaco http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57560112-37/uspto-invalidates-key-apple-patent-used-against-samsung/ ====== Bill_Dimm It's nice to see the USPTO strike down trivial patents, but it would be a whole lot nicer if it were done before millions of dollars...
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Ask HN: Teach me to think like an engineer - interpares A few years ago I often heard this advice: go to law school, because it will teach you how to think. Nowadays I keep hearing, reading or experiencing for myself that law school has been replaced with engineering, with many pundits citing someone&#x27;s backgrou...
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Google targets elderly? - evilslut82 Google increased font size on search box? Why? ====== est See [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r- sized.h...](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r-sized.html) A little (maybe) inside story here Believe it or not, I guess Google globally adjust...
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Peter Thiel Has Been Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker - dogecoinbase http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#fa8140778057 ====== bronz gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and h...
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Google Meet is free. Here’s how to master its most useful features - praveenscience https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-use-google-meet ====== Kjeldahl Requiring people to have a Google account or similar is probably the primary reason why competitors such as Zoom had any chance to begin with. They can call it a se...
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NASA will send a balloon the size of a football field to study how stars form - pseudolus https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/us/nasa-balloon-asthros-scn-trnd/index.html ====== RunningDroid NASA's press release: [https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7712](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7712)
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Ask HN: Does back end or front end bring more value to the company? - onmyway133 ====== davelnewton Depends on what the two ends are doing. For example, an ML back-end is probably more valuable than the front end, because that's the meat of the business. A portfolio site designed expressly for viewing is little more t...
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