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Using JSON Web Tokens to Authenticate JavaScript Front-Ends on Rails - mirceasoaica http://zacstewart.com/2015/05/14/using-json-web-tokens-to-authenticate-javascript-front-ends-on-rails.html ====== MoOmer JSON web tokens are indeed pretty dope. The main vulnerability I worry about when I see it being used is in the...
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Show HN: Pixle.cc - mattbgates https://pixle.cc ====== mattbgates Pixle.cc is a free image/audio/video converter which converts JPG/PNG/GIF/WEBP and some Audio/Video files. ~~~ thescribbblr Thank you so much for creating, i was in search for a similar service from couple of months. Your product is definitely going to...
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For how long should we expect to live? - DavidSJ http://www.davidsj.com/post.php?id=214_0_1_0_C ====== rawr The post makes the assumption that you can't make changes midstream. I think the correct solution is to plan your life assuming you will die at 70 and then adjust your plan accordingly as the life expectancy num...
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That Amazing New Star Wars Droid 'BB-8' [video] - lisper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXaDjuU0LHM ====== joezydeco Obligatory link to the xkcd that had this figured out a while ago: [http://xkcd.com/413/](http://xkcd.com/413/)
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Tesla Is Seeking a Wide Investor Pool for Its Take-Private Plan - whatok https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/tesla-is-seeking-a-wide-investor-pool-for-its-take-private-plan ====== lechiffre10 This basically implies that Musk's "funding secured" tweet was a lie. He's going to get roasted by the SEC. ~~~...
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Bad Character: If Chinese Were Phonetic - bemmu http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/if-chinese-were-phonetic ====== sparky_z Is it just me, or does this essay seem to be missing an introduction, like someone accidentally deleted the first few paragraphs? I initially assumed I had been linked to "page 2" and w...
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Harvard CS264: Peer-to-Peer Systems (great list of papers) - Anon84 http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mema/courses/cs264/cs264.html#schedule ====== jayp Here is a list of papers from the "Advanced Distributed Systems" course at UIUC: <http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/sp09/cs525/sched.htm> Full disclosure: my advisor teaches t...
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Show HN: A Dynamic CSS Compiler for WordPress - ykadosh https://github.com/askupasoftware/wp-dynamic-css ====== andrewworsfold Wow. Based on an initial review this looks amazing. Congratulations! This could come in handy for future projects. ~~~ ykadosh Thank you! Your feedback is important. ------ tapiwa Interestin...
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The Google Guide to Infuriating Your ISP - transburgh http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/google-guide-infuriating-your-isp ====== kleevr Erm, I get protocal erros when I attempt to run the first test.
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I Forgot My Phone - danso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8 ====== hanula I tend to point fingers at people like that and laugh so they can hear it hoping they'll pick it up and understand it's bad for them. Group of friends in pub, couples at restaurants.. everyone with their noses in the screen or taking ...
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Capital One's cloud misconfiguration woes have been an industry-wide fear - feross https://thenewstack.io/capital-ones-cloud-misconfiguration-woes-have-been-an-industry-wide-fear/ ====== president Anyone who has spent enough time working in the software industry shouldn't be surprised. Most engineers I have ever worke...
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Career options out of programming? - confusedgeek Hoping the folks at HN can help me with my dilemma. I am in my late-twenties, female software engineer in the Bay Area, work for one of the &#x27;unicorn&#x27; companies. The problem? I got into Computer Science for not-so-noble reasons and am hating that choice now b...
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Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool - epiphany47 http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/14/hacked-kinect-is-now-a-3d-video-capture-tool/ ====== ElbertF Here it is on the creator's website instead of a lame blog post: <http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Kinect/> ------ melvinram I'm not in this space or...
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Obama-Endorsed VC Program Promises 6,000 New Startups - thankuz http://hothardware.com/News/Obamaendorsed-VC-program-promises-6000-new-startups-25000-jobs/ ====== watchandwait So policymakers have wrecked traditional capital markets through regulations on raising capital, interest rate distortions, twisted tax polic...
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“move fast and break things” almost killed our startup on arrival - festivilia https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-move-fast-and-break-things-almost-killed-our-startup-on-arrival-9c0dec82d5 ====== sundbry It doesn't mean ship untested crap, it means don't let fear of breaking something prevent you from making progre...
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Jumpcut: macOS Clipboard Manager - xenonite https://snark.github.io/jumpcut/ ====== xenonite Jumpcut has been around for a very long time. It does what it should very reliably, is open source, and there is no feature you don't want to be there. Perfect!
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A brief note: Why Silver was tripped up on Trump - JackPoach https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/756127724389867520 ====== SixSigma Take a look at Nate Plastic's Trump headlines [http://imgur.com/ZVbDMXh.jpg](http://imgur.com/ZVbDMXh.jpg)
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Ask HN: Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup - DanielRibeiro Which ones should one make? ====== mlinsey When you join a startup, you are trading potential salary (from a big company) for equity. That means you're making an investment, and you should ask all the normal questions an investor would ask: what is th...
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Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Pt. 3 - JBiserkov http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-3 ====== ScottBurson At the beginning of part 1, the author says that this data structure provides " _practically_ O(1) runtime" (emphasis added) for the important operations of lookups, inserti...
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The Slowest Mail Delivery System Ever. - cybra http://therfidiva.com/2011/04/04/the-slowest-mail-delivery-system-ever/ ====== cybra I love that snails are actually delivering mail.
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Machine Learning Christmas Calendar - selbekk https://ml.christmas/ ====== na-zdrowie I think that "Christmas Calendar" is a bit of a misnomer. To be precise, this is a variation on the tradition of the "Advent Calendar". Advent is the time of preparation for Christmas. Clearly the authors of the Calendar understand t...
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Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers - jsoverson https://qz.com/1329961/hackers-account-for-90-of-login-attempts-at-online-retailers/ ====== jhinra I don't buy these numbers at all. 90% seems stupid high for retail. From the report, "[...] we rely on data from the Shape Network. Across the US...
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Fact: North America accounts for only 20.9% of total Internet usage - zaidf http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm ====== zaidf I know with all the hype it is easy to build stuff for your friends or people in your region because that is whom we connect best with. Yet knowing at the back of the mind that North Am...
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Calculus Learning Guide - fauria http://betterexplained.com/guides/calculus/ ====== nextos Apart from Keisler, mentioned there, I think there are 2 lovely and rigurous references especially appropriate for anyone with a CS background: * Henle & Kleinberg [1] * Hubbard & Hubbard [2] Both are breathtakingly beautiful...
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The Left Is Now the Right - mancerayder https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-left-is-now-the-right ====== auganov I've been on the "right" since my earliest political memories (going back to about 2006). I just don't see that much having changed. It sounds like this myth of Republicans/right being super evil crazy people...
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Swedes uncover Disqus user security breach - aburan28 http://www.thelocal.se/20131212/millions-of-disqus-comments-leaked-to-swedish-group ====== staticelf Worth noting is that "Researchgruppen" or "The research group" is an extremist left-wing group that exposes normal folks and have ties to people that threaten and u...
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How to manipulate standards - epsylon https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html#bernstein ====== jackweirdy Seems to be down ~~~ susmits Here's a PDF link to the slides: [http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.05.08/slides- djb-20150508-a4.pdf](http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.05.08/slides- djb-20150508-a4.pdf) ~...
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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) - strzalek http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale/ ====== vijucat I once shut down an algorithmic trading server by hastily typing (in bash): \- Ctrl-r for reverse-search through history \- typing 'ps' to find the process status utility (of cou...
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Another reason to drink wine: it could help you burn fat - happyscrappy http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/release/2015/02/another-reason-drink-wine-it-could-help-you-burn-fat-0?utm_source=vocus&utm_medium=news&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=news_release ====== forgotpasswd3x More like another reason to eat grapes. ...
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What is SPDY? - rshetty http://openprobe.blogspot.in/2012/05/spdy-lets-make-web-faster.html ====== dalke rshetty: posting links to your own blog - which you do often - gets old.
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Team Backed by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Locates USS Helena Wreck - erickhill https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/team-backed-by-microsoft-co-founder-locates-uss-helena-wreck/ ====== ApolloRising Working link: [http://archive.is/J5V7L](http://archive.is/J5V7L)
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Best advice to U.S. dairy farmers? 'Sell out as fast as you can' - kimsk112 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/best-advice-u-s-dairy-farmers-sell-out-fast-you-n887941?cid=eml_nbn_20180630 ====== slededit “We could buy all the gallons of milk out of the grocery store, bring them home to our bulk tank, pour it in ther...
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On user program breakage from Linux kernel changes - intel_ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106 ====== buster Puhh... Linus is known to be quite reckless and he may be right in essence, but the language... he might calm down a little and learn one or two things about social interaction.. there are a ot...
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Ask HN: What would you want in a jsFiddle/CodePen alternative? - zombio I recently wrote a tutorial on the subject and it got me thinking. So, what would you want? ====== michaelw I use <http://plnkr.co> and apart from the outrageous amounts of memory it can consume it's pretty good. Features I like about Plunker: ...
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Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists' - riffer http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908 ====== CWuestefeld But are the voters any better? _The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies is a 2007 book written by Bryan C...
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Ask HN: Suggestions for cutting down new account spam - dkokelley Hello, HN. I was just looking through the <i>New</i> page to see if there were any interesting articles. I have showdead enabled, so naturally I saw the large amount of [dead] submissions. (Out of 30 posts, 17 were killed, only one from a regular memb...
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FLUD iPad app is Flipboard Killer - PStamatiou http://www.theflud.com/ ====== smoody I have both FLUD and Pulse. They are _very_ similar and I believe Pulse came out first (correct?). I _always_ reach for Pulse and FLUD goes unused on my iPad. Just a personal preference and a different point of view. But, I believe ...
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Nuclear Fusion: the long road from dream to reality - t_fatus http://www.paristechreview.com/2015/02/23/nuclear-fusion/ ====== Nihilartikel I kind of wish that ITER and NIF would go away. In my opinion they are money pits with little clear path to practical energy generation. There are many credible, practical, sma...
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Leaky (YC S11) Relaunches with Real-Time Price Updates - jasontraff http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/26/leaky-relaunch/ ====== dangrossman The fact that I pay substantially less for my insurance than anything Leaky quotes me is actually disconcerting. I got my policy through an independent agent that came recommended ...
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Is there a meaning of life? - mihvoi http://meaningofstuff.blogspot.com/2014/06/is-there-meaning-of-life.html ====== ZenoArrow Ever tried to fall asleep when you are still trying to process your thoughts? Doesn't work does it, the two are incompatible. The only way to fall asleep is to let it happen naturally, to no...
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Rethinkdb 2.4.0 – “Night of the Living Dead” Released - aabbcc1241 https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases ====== aabbcc1241 Just noticed they have a tweet about the release: [https://twitter.com/rethinkdb/status/1207730230175191043](https://twitter.com/rethinkdb/status/1207730230175191043) ------ dang [https...
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Columnar Store for Analytics with Postgres - rdegges https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw ====== lima Have a look at ClickHouse for OLAP workloads: [https://clickhouse.yandex/](https://clickhouse.yandex/) It's a recently open sourced database by Yandex. It powers their web analytics backend. CloudFlare is already...
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Tell HN: Zero to MVP in 24 hours Interview - Submit Questions - marcamillion I am recording an episode of IdeaTin shortly, with Aaron Gough from ReadMyCode.org. He went from zero to MVP in 24 hours.<p>Post all the questions you think I should ask him here.<p>P.S. This is his post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Cloudflare partners with Microsoft, Google and others to reduce bandwidth costs - jgrahamc https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/cloudflare-partners-with-microsoft-google-and-others-to-reduce-bandwidth-costs ====== partiallypro It's funny that this has just been announced, as I was doing an audit of our outgoing bandwidth...
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Airtel, an Indian ISP, penalized for blocking a torrent site - denzil_correa http://www.medianama.com/2012/08/223-consumer-forum-airtel-torrent/ ====== ankeshk Airtel was penalized by an institution similar to the small claims court. Airtel didn't contest the complaint. Most likely because it would cost them more in...
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Self Replicating Computer Programs - calhoun137 https://medium.com/@calhoun137/self-replicating-computer-programs-8136bbbacc60 ====== calhoun137 author here! very interested to find out if anyone has any comments or questions or objections. going to start writing the next article shortly ~~~ raidicy Is this at all re...
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How to Be an Indie Game Developer - hk__2 http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2012/06/12/how-to-be-an-indie-game-developer/ ====== mbenjaminsmith I'm 6 months into an independent game studio. Right now it's just me and some freelancers. I'm in the process of finalizing all of the paperwork for the business and hope to h...
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How we created a Twitter viral: the ePenis story - daveambrose http://barryborsboom.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/how-we-created-a-twitter-viral/ ====== jballanc Is it just me, or does everyone else get the feeling that there are two Twitter communities out there? Personally, I follow friends, one or two announcement strea...
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A Job Search Tool for Data Scientists in NYC - abhinovb https://jcp1016.shinyapps.io/indeedoor/ ====== racketracer This is cool! I'm wondering how did you pull the data from glassdoor btw such as company rating and reviews? I don't think they have an API and they have some pretty rough anti scraping protections. --...
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Google to Urge Congress to Help Get Self-Driving Cars on Roads - decampj4 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/03/14/technology/14reuters-google-selfdrivingcar-congress.html ====== afarrell If google gets any resistance on this, they should work with AARP. Why? 1) AARP is the most powerful lobbying organization in Ame...
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Show HN: Discover new startups through video - Ralz http://www.startvids.com/ ====== fl0w Yes, it's confusing how you are asking to login then you can't post a video and there are no instructions, help etc. ------ HNUser48573 Anyway www.videoigniter.com could help you add to the collection? Www.startup- videos.com ...
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Ask HN: Is there any work to disrupt HTTP and HTML? - jemeshsu All technology will get disrupted eventually. Is there any known work to disrupt HTTP and HTML? Is it at all possible since these are the backbone of Internet? Sorry if this is a stupid question. ====== whiterabbit <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28p...
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How to Read a Book a Week (2016) - 6ak74rfy https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-read-a-book-a-week ====== 6ak74rfy I recently stumbled upon this link and found it to be a huge eye-opener. I am curious to know how often folks here apply similar techniques while reading books. Do you do this only for non-fiction? Or maybe, ...
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The ultimate physical limits of privacy - ca98am79 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2262 ====== bcook Moving to a black hole puts a new spin on "off the grid". ------ pjungwir > galaxies that are far enough away from us (more than a few tens of billions > of light-years) will always recede from us faster than the...
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Perpetual Novice - Years of Experience vs Skill - nreece http://www.selikoff.net/blog/2009/04/12/perpetual-novice-years-of-experience-vs-skill/ ====== jlsonline I think the only people who don't value experience are those without it. Skill is almost always a result of experience. Yes, there are those who "just get it...
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My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land - adventured http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-venezuela-diary/ ====== seibelj I highly recommend reading Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng [0]. It's a factual, first-hand account of the China's Cultural Revolution and what living in a commu...
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Why Beijing’s Air Pollution Crisis Is Complicated (2014) [pdf] - wooster http://www.consiliencejournal.org/index.php/consilience/article/viewFile/360/204 ====== ChuckMcM Something I don't understand, when people start dying because of the pollution, or rain storms decimate plants down wind with acid rain, what happens...
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Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income - nairboon http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/11/thinking-utopian-how-about-a-universal-basic-income/ ====== zafka I think this is a topic that deserves careful study. While this story considers replacing social security and Medicare with a ba...
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Adobe Will Contribute To Google’s Blink Browser Engine - rmason http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/adobe-will-contribute-to-googles-blink-browser-engine-believes-it-will-strengthen-an-already-healthy-browser-competition/ ====== patrickskim NOOOOO they'll ruin everything with their proprietary software with $799 price ...
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Why am I Constantly Asked to Explain Microsoft's Brand? - MarlonPro http://www.devproconnections.com/article/development/microsoft-brand-identity-145000 ====== matthewinrw Representative line: "Windows RT runs only on WinRT" So abbreviating a word now changes its meaning? Abuses like this go a long way to explaining...
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Ask HN: What has your startup venture financially cost you? - sdesol I've been working on my project for over a year now, and I've reached the stage of pondering what this venture has cost me so far. When I first decided to take on this project, I was sure I would have had something presentable by Christmas time la...
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A basic forking server in Oberon-2 - eatonphil https://github.com/norayr/voc/tree/master/src/test/server ====== mizzao Any comment on what is so special about this? ~~~ nine_k If you ever wondered where Go took a lot of good ideas from, look at Modula / Oberon. ~~~ theamk In the code the link points to, I just see a...
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The Theory of Peak Advertising and The Future of the Web - abdullahkhalids http://peakads.org/ ====== csense > click fraud was responsible for $53 million dollars of wasted ad spending in > the first two quarters of 2013 alone > $37 billion dollar online advertising industry > click fraud remains a severe and gro...
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Entrepreneurialism: The Least Risky Path - Jim_Neath http://www.inc.com/lewis-schiff/2010/02/entrepreneurialism_the_least_r.html?utm_source=feedburner ====== microcentury This is resting on the rather significant assumption that you are a _successful_ entrepreneur. There are plenty of entrepreneurs out there with le...
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Ask HN: Companies using MongoDB, suggestions to deploy at scale? - jyotiska We are using MongoDB for past 1 year, but with time, the aggregation framework is getting slow with 1M+ documents in a collection, even with indexes.<p>People who are currently using MongoDB in production, what kinds of performance optimizatio...
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The Mirror Effect: The rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century - quickfox http://laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/mirror-effect ====== voidz Fun fact: we are used to seeing our own faces in the mirror image of how others see us. Thus, if you have a picture of yourself which you really dislike, mirror it and see if it ...
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SmartReactives: a .NET library that detects when an expression changes its value - steenreem https://github.com/keyboardDrummer/SmartReactives/blob/master/README.md ====== primigenus This looks similar to how Meteor's ReactiveVar package, and lower-level Tracker library, works: [https://docs.meteor.com/api/reactive- v...
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Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/researcher-shows-how-to-friend-anyone-on-facebook-within-24-hours.ars ====== anorwell There seems to a lot of confusion, both in the article and in the comments, about the "3 trusted friends" pas...
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Rockstar Worked 100 Hour Weeks to Get Red Dead Redemption 2 Done - snake117 http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/10/rockstar_worked_100_hour_weeks_to_get_red_dead_redemption_2_done ====== tonetheman Nothing to be proud of...
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A More Open Platform: The Instagram API - atularora http://instagr.am/blog/40/instagram-api ====== chapel I don't understand why companies don't make Android apps a priority right off the bat. Unless you are making an app that you plan to sell, most times you will get just as good or better traction on Android. Look ...
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The importance of true friends - deltapoint http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/opinion/14brooks.html?ex=1363233600&en=2f7f80ec4225c6e8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ====== wallflower Also reminds me of this could-happen and chilling story. Recommended: <http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm> "Live...
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Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers - liseman https://blog.ycombinator.com/protonet-yc-w16-runs-all-your-collaboration-tools-from-a-small-orange-box ====== nostrademons Seems to be in a similar space as [https://sandstorm.io/](https://sandstorm.io/) Interesting to see this come out of Germany...Eur...
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Is Uncle Bob serious? - rbanffy https://dev.to/bosepchuk/is-uncle-bob-serious-dhi ====== magice The current state of software safety discussion resembles the state of medical safety discussion 2, 3 decades ago (yeah, software is really _really_ behind time). Back then, too, the thoughts on medical safety also were di...
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To influence people don't try to persuade them, use ‘pre-suasion’ instead - jrs235 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-cialdini-presuasion-20161023-snap-story.html ====== hammock "Pre-suasion" is another word for priming.[1] Incidentally, priming is one of the most prominent areas of social science that was onc...
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Vimb – Vim-Like Web Browser - provaz http://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ ====== wanda Uzbl: [http://www.uzbl.org](http://www.uzbl.org) surf: [http://surf.suckless.org](http://surf.suckless.org) jumanji: [https://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji](https://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji) luakit: [https://mason-larobina.github.io/lu...
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Common JavaScript Gotchas - jblotus http://www.jblotus.com/2013/01/13/common-javascript-gotchas/ PHP was my first programming language, and my initial exposure to JavaScript was through libraries like jQuery. There were things about JavaScript that always seemed to trip me up in the beginning due to how they worked d...
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From shallow to deep learning in fraud - ryan_lane https://eng.lyft.com/from-shallow-to-deep-learning-in-fraud-9dafcbcef743 ====== a008t It is not clear why they switched from GBT to ANNs. I would have thought GBTs would work better on the kind of structured data they are dealing with. ------ QML In the image compari...
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Show HN: Facebook Recipes - robschia https://www.facebook.com/recipes/ ====== jarnix I was "afraid" that they were hosting the recipes but they are linking to the original websites. Fun thing: nobody has the same definition of "world cuisine" :) ------ ruairidhwm This looks really handy!
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Attack of the SPAC - arav https://medium.com/@andyravreby/attack-of-the-spac-baafd47f6ecc ====== arav How SPACs enabled an unknown electric vehicle company with no revenue to become more valuable than Ford overnight
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Ink – Decentralized reputation and payments for p2p marketplaces - modsearch https://paywithink.com ====== modsearch Hi, I’m a co-founder at Listia. We are building Ink using our 8 years of experience with all the difficult aspects of building a marketplace. Also we think it’s time to shift the ownership of reputatio...
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Avoid Gulf stream disruption at all costs, scientists warn - thirduncle https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/13/avoid-at-all-costs-gulf-streams-record-weakening-prompts-warnings-global-warming ====== cs702 There's a great little book called "Ice Age"[a], written by a Cambridge University astrophysicist and...
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Write a Chromecast App in 3 Easy Steps - cimnine https://brainfood.xyz/post/20191215-write-a-chromecast-app/ ====== PretzelFisch I wonder if this 2015 method still works. Last week I upgraded my wifi network and could not use google home to connect to my older chromecast. Before that casting was getting to be hit or m...
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Reasons why I will not be replying to your argument - ohjeez http://katsudon.net/?p=4746 ====== ericclemmons These could've come in handy after my JavaScript Fatigue post blew up (I called it the "Abramov Effect"). Instead, I just declined to read a single response, and ignored as much Twitter noise as I could. Like...
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Ask HN: What is your favorite Alexa Skill? - stevewilhelm I just installed the Alexa Skill for my thermostat. I find it very useful. Led me to wonder what Alexa Skills HN finds useful. ====== Enthouan Alexa, turn on the [room] lights! ------ mattbillenstein Alexa, ask Lyft for a ride to X
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Using Dispatch Tables to Avoid Conditionals in JavaScript - shawndumas http://designpepper.com/blog/drips/using-dispatch-tables-to-avoid-conditionals-in-javascript ====== SoapSeller You can further improve dispatch tables in js by using bind. so something like: north: function() { movePlayer("north")...
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Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move from Above - coloneltcb https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/ ====== zaroth Still waiting for the blockbuster case where the all-seeing-eye saved the day? At some level this is being sold to the public. Are we getting what we paid for? This...
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The Man Who Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic - pchristensen http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_komanoff_traffic/all/1 ====== JoeAltmaier 3-year-old data? Getting stale by the minute.
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Kula Ring - Artistry121 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_ring ====== personjerry Also check out [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones)
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Node.js Is a Salad Bar: On Boilerplate, Frameworks and Usability - modernserf https://medium.com/@modernserf/node-js-is-a-salad-bar-74ec01bd4390#.s6k69x6rp ====== tomdale I think modernserf made some great points here, but didn't take the argument to its logical conclusion: just use a (non-bespoke) framework. ...
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How To Hack Facebook In 51 Seconds - jmorin007 http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/facebook_hacking_it_can_take_less_than_1_minute ====== brianr This isn't really hacking Facebook... they're hacking the Moods app, which is made by HotOrNot. ~~~ BrandonM Right, but many applications have access to information in your ...
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Loudspeakers used to make dead coral reefs sound healthy, so fish flock to them - jrs235 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/12/01/scientists-used-loudspeakers-make-dead-coral-reefs-sound-healthy-fish-flocked-them/ ====== mmjaa Doesn't this just result in more dead fish, starved to death, because t...
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AdBlock for Chrome Now Hides Facebook Ads and Blocks More Ads on More Sites - lgl https://blog.getadblock.com/adblock-for-chrome-now-hides-facebook-ads-and-blocks-more-ads-on-more-sites-f5918ebc43c6 ====== iDemonix Why anyone is still using AdBlock is beyond me, when UBlock Origin is available. If advertisers pay enou...
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Flipboard Launches on the Web - binoyxj http://inside.flipboard.com/2015/02/10/hello-world-flipboard-launches-on-the-web/ ====== X-combinator More info: [http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/10/8008905/flipboard-comes- to...](http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/10/8008905/flipboard-comes-to-the-web) [http://engineering.flipboa...
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The 2nd amendment allows gun control. Scalia didn't - dangjc http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-second-amendment-is-a-gun-control-amendment ====== masonic Gun control ends gun violence as surely an (sic) antibiotics end bacterial infections That's utterly false. There's not even a strong _c...
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How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name - andyjohnson0 http://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name ====== mikepalmer "Gone are the fundamental principles of good design: discoverability, feedback, recovery, and so on. Instead, Apple has, in striving for beauty, created fonts that are so sma...
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How to deal with hyper growth? - liverfall Hello,<p>I would like to understand some of the strategies how to deal with hyper growth? For example we need to add around 10 engineers a month, it is taking a toll in how one could hire them and onboard them. Did you encounter a situation where you said NO to new clients du...
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Ask HN: What kind of chair do you have? - massarog I'm looking to upgrade from my old crappy leather chair which offers no support and causes me to become quite uncomfortable just minutes after sitting down. I'm at the computer 10-12 hours a day so I need to invest in a good chair.<p>I've heard steelcase chairs and ...
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Show HN: Designers read hacker news too - wilsmex This isn't your fancy new javascript gizmo, but funny guy with a funny story to promote his toddler app. I'm sure you'll agree. Humor me.<p>1st let me tell you how I came upon hacker news, and why I read it everyday.&#60;p&#62;I'm not a programmer, and only half-de...
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What’s The Best Age To Be? - denzil_correa http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/best-age-friends-happiness-popularity-fake-research/ ====== kelukelugames Where can I meet these hot 70 year olds?
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Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong - mattyb http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong ====== njharman This is by far best way I've seen to learn vim [http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...](http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphica...
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