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The 'Tootsie Pop' Model for Unsafe Rust Code - GolDDranks http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/05/27/the-tootsie-pop-model-for-unsafe-code/ ====== GolDDranks There has been a lot of discussion (and critique, and confusion) about using "unsafe" in the comments of HN threads concerning Rust. One should reme...
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A Visit to the R&D Dept of the New York Times - keltecp11 http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/03/a-visit-to-the-rd-deparmtent-o.php ====== bkudria This is the same exact coverage of the R&D lab we hear about every time - the large collection of gadgets (look at us! we can spend money!), the living room of the "future...
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Ask HN: Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code - throwawaysource We are a small 5-person enterprise software startup, operating in the data analytics/ML space. We are working on starting a proof-of-concept with a huge potential customer ($50+bn in revenue). We recently identified our first use case...
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AI winter – update - lwhsiao https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/10/29/ai-winter-update/ ====== kankroc I think the author makes a point but also misses (or voluntarily glosses over) important counter points. 1) Machine learning (which includes deep learning) still hasn't been applied to a lot of field that would draw...
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Ask HN: Why doesn't HN use tags? - itchyjunk Are tags bad or counterproductive? I mean tags like "computer security", "law", "biology" etc. I ask because I am sometimes in the mood to read specific topic rather than just front page. Was curious if this would help new posts get more eyes a...
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The magic of HTML5 and S3 - jessaustin http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/march/somethingTechiesWillAppreciate ====== nodata I thought S3 wasn't suitable because it doesn't return http status codes that browsers expect? Anyone know? ~~~ mbell One problem is that S3's object availability is only 99.99%, which sounds...
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Seth Roberts has died - martharotter http://blog.sethroberts.net/2014/04/27/seth/ ====== geuis For those of us who don't know who Seth Roberts is, who is Seth Roberts? ~~~ influx [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Roberts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Roberts) He was well known for self experimentation and writ...
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Scientist who won Nobel Prize for discovering HIV says SARS COV2 created in lab - rpiguy https://www.pourquoidocteur.fr/Articles/Question-d-actu/32184-EXCLUSIF-Pour-Pr-Montagnier-SARS-CoV-2-serait-virus-manipule-Chinois-l-ADN-de-VIH-podcast ====== Ghjklov It's amusing how some people are like "trust the science" and t...
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The secret truth about holiday travel, a letter to the traveling public - jaf12duke http://blog.flightcaster.com/the-secret-truth-about-holiday-travel-a-lette ====== alex_c I must confess I don't get this post. The argument seems to boil down to "things could be worse, so stop complaining". ~~~ diego_moita There's ...
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Why doesn't FB to implement restriction/ACL for accessing uploaded photo? - hrasyid Facebook claims to allow restrict sharing to friends, certain network, or even custom when I upload photos.<p>http://i.stack.imgur.com/673Bu.jpg<p>But it appears that this security is only in effect for the...
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Amazon’s colorful new towers will put a bold stamp on Seattle’s skyline - eccobay http://www.geekwire.com/2012/images-amazons-colorful-towers-put-stamp-seattles-skyline/ ====== ineedtosleep For an article that's just repeating words from the official document[1], very little is said. tl;dr: Amazon's planning on bui...
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Courage - duck https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/ ====== BatFastard The last sentence summed it up. "It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a business plan." Apple has a habit of killing tech they can't control. Headphone jack is eliminated so they can license and control what talks to the phone. Safari is int...
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Why does everyone want to build a bill-splitting app? - manggit https://medium.com/@useledger/why-ledger-is-excited-about-bill-splitting-54dd440209a8 ====== HarryHirsch _Bill-splitting is exciting!_ Helloplease?
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Hey HN: I made something to add Help to your startups. Thoughts? - markchristian http://helpbubble.com ====== Tichy Couldn't you provide a demo without me having to change the source code of my web site? Not sure what it is yet, but I don't think I would open up my site to external JavaScript just for popup bubbles...
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How can SOPA or Protect IP hurt a small social networking site? - ivanbernat ====== nextparadigms If one or more users link to some infringing content, the rightholders can demand the seizure of the domain if they feel the users' actions are damaging enough to them.
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AMD needs 1000 Developers with Linux Skills - Newky http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/amd_ramps_up_hiring_for ====== bx_lr Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My cu...
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Ask HN: How to expand in China? - tstegart We've just launched our iOS app (an iPad travel magazine) and I've started to think about how to expand in china and other east Asian countries, like Japan and South Korea (the biggest App Store markets in the region). Does anyone have experience doing this? I would love to...
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Intel NUC 10 First Impressions - ingve https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/231146/intel-nuc-10-first-impressions ====== BubRoss The biggest priority with small computers like this is thermal throttling. This doesn't talk about that at all, but whether you are buying a tiny case that barely fits a mITX motherbo...
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What Really Drove 23andMe And The FDA Apart - jerryhuang100 http://www.fastcompany.com/3022891/innovation-agents/exclusive-what-really-drove-23andme-and-the-fda-apart ====== macspoofing 23andMe is incredibly naive. >The FDA has been asking 23andMe for specific studies on the reliability and efficacy of its DNA test...
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Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground - peterkelly http://www.space.com/22553-moon-water-mystery-source.html ====== coolnow With the presence of (liquid) water, is there a high chance of simple alien life on the moon? I mean, i can't think of any place in the sea that's downright hostile to l...
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The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed from History - Melchizedek https://quillette.com/2019/03/10/the-french-genocide-that-has-been-air-brushed-from-history/ ====== astine This article is about the massacre in Vendee, which was a particularly nasty chapter in the already nasty French Revolution. I feel that 'g...
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The Make-Believe Analyst and the Six Costs of Testing With Cucumber - jackkinsella http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/26/why-bother-with-cucumber-testing.html ====== btaitelb I don't think the example story in this post is good for several reasons: 1\. it was written by developers instead of the product owner -- goo...
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Woz says there's an acceleration problem with his Toyota Prius - siculars http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10445564-64.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0 ====== AngryParsley I've driven a Prius a couple of times, and I concur that they have an acceleration problem. I step on the gas pedal and the car has problems a...
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How would you invest $500k at 30? - dawhizkid I want to more aggressively invest some cash but unsure where to put it. ====== nutcracker46 Do some serious homework on the markets before putting that 500k on the line. Some, but not all, and probably not half of the stocks in the S&P 500 will continue to gain this year....
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Ask HN: Serial job rejects - touristonroad I'm a graduate student with 2.5 years industry experience as data scientist at SAP, I moved to US to pursue masters. I applied for summer internships at Github,Google,Schneider in machine learning. All the technical rounds went fine. The interviewer would say be all the ...
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How to know you've been coding too long in .Net - plurby https://lachlanbarclay.net/2015/04/coding-too-long-in-dot-net ====== jacob9706 #22 got me "Have you ever tried to use the xaml designer for... like... anything? Yeah I thought you'd enjoy that one."
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Ask HN: Do you think the web is really dying? - dbosch Apps have won the mobile platform. Can we expect the web to rise again? ====== claudiulodro I think the web is the _only_ viable platform for new things. If you look at the data[1], the most usage is on apps but nobody is downloading new apps. Everybody is using ...
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Show HN: GetScreenshots.io: Screenshots for continuous integration - juanpabloaj http://getscreenshots.io/ ====== mazmanr Any plans to open-source this? Looks like a useful service. ~~~ juanpabloaj thanks mazmanr. not yet, maybe we'll opensourcing part of the code. ------ ganessh Just wondering to find a usecase f...
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Ask HN: Grants for personal development/engineering projects? - pharaohgeek I was looking for a way to keep my kids' minds engaged this summer (instead of letting them watch TV for 30 hours per day), and decided that a family summer project would be a great way of having fun as well as learning some new things (f...
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Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack. - cfontes http://vodpod.com/watch/799407-hacked-floppy-disk-plays-star-wars-music-as-awesome-as-it- ====== extension Maybe this is the right time to pimp my "Super Mario Bro's theme for laser engraver": <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4VLwLFXaE> I'm very interested i...
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Native Client (NaCl) on ARM - nealabq http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-nacl/ ====== nealabq Related link: [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/01/native-client-support-on- ar...](http://blog.chromium.org/2013/01/native-client-support-on-arm.html)
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Fake news and false rumors reach more people than truth - yegor256a https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/?single_page=true ====== tlb "By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false ru...
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Q: How is software created at Microsoft? A: Very slowly (from the horse's mouth) - henning http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/07/15/how-do-we-write-software-at-microsoft-a-pm-intern-s-perspective-1.aspx ====== joseakle I guess this is why they have been unable to understand the internet, they live in an era w...
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Terrorism is not about terror - Artistry121 http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror ====== nabla9 Biggest problem with analyzing terrorism is in the definition. Classifying both Hezbollah and al-Qaeda as terrorist groups means that you have spread the definition for any group that may have bombed c...
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Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave - redial https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/12/11/apple-turns-its-back-on-customers-and-nvidia-with-macos-mojave/ ====== zimpenfish Headline blaming Apple and then, in the 8th paragraph, > At this point, it’s somewhat unclear exactly as to ...
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Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to 'mini ice age' levels - aethertap http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709092955.htm ====== tim333 Seems pretty dubious, at least the mini ice age bit
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Coal plants emit more radioactive waste than nuclear plants (2007) - ChuckMcM https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ ====== ChuckMcM And as has been pointed out to me offline the article compares 'radioactivity release' of an operating nuclear plant to an operating ...
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Ask HN: How people get Ethereum - kureikain Hi all,<p>I don&#x27;t know how do people get Etherum at first place. I aware of CoinBase but all google just says bad thing about them. Recently CoinBase eat $5,000 of some guy[0] on Hacker News.<p>So I would like to know how do people get into Ethereum<p>---<p>[0] https:&#...
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NY Times recommends ad blockers after CEO mulls ad-block ban - BWStearns http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/02/ny-times-recommends-ad-blockers-after-ceo-mulls-banning-readers/ ====== BWStearns Whatever else it shows is that the editorial and business obligations are extremely well segregated at the NYT, so bravo on ...
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30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video] - rafaelc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ ====== TeMPOraL This, and the recent timelapse video of Earth's atmosphere from GOES-16[0], made me realize just how a dynamic phenomenon clouds are. They look so much different at this timescale than when watching them real-time. \...
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What Opera is about to Unveil? - techdog http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/06/heres-what-opera-is-about-to-unveil.html ====== lucumo Hmmmm... This fellow's suggestion may sound far-fetched, but if you look at the source code of the page by Opera: <!-- We start our little story with the inv...
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Freelancer is cheating on you - martadella Hello, sometime ago I participated in a contest on freelancer. The contest ended without choosing the winner so the payment was supposed to be automatically shared between the top entries. As I was the only one person who had the top entries the guaranteed price of 429 dollar...
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Major Release of OpenSource Content Management System Nodebeats, v1.0 - nodebeats The Nodebeats Team is very pleased to present you a Major release version v1.0 of Nodebeats, the Content Management System built using MEAN Framework. This release includes the angular-cli implemenation to make building angular code extr...
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Google Begins Soft Censorship Of Arbitrary Piracy-Related Queries - solipsist http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/google-begins-soft-censorship-of-arbitrary-piracy-related-queries/ ====== r3demon It's obviously worsening user experience with Google search. Why would Google need it?
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Hack Your Speaking Skills - ziadbc http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i4_yaffe.html ====== jmtame Tips for hacking your speaking skills: 1) Most importantly, practice it out loud. Do it about 20 times and you'll be comfortable enough to deliver it with only glances at note cards. 90% of being nervous comes from...
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - Herring http://cato.org/pubs/pas/pa594.pdf ====== thomaspaine [http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies- Polici...](http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies- Policies/dp/0691138737/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222...
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MergeSort Example using Python Multiprocessing - pajju http://devopslog.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/mergesort-example-using-python-multiprocessing/ ====== SEJeff Now _this_ is the kind of thing I'd call devops. Thanks for the post
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Electric current to the brain 'boosts maths ability' - mayutana http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11692799 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Cross-references: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870798> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869772>
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Does Apple want to buy Facebook? - kylelibra http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/19/does-apple-want-to-buy-facebook/ ====== jsz0 _Facebook is something that Apple couldn't compete against even if it wanted_ They can't compete against Boeing either but I don't think anyone expects Apple to buy them. Seriously though I think...
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I still don't know how to share a story on Hacker News Homepage. Please help - KangLi ====== pitzahoy Submit a title. And then the URL. That's it ~~~ KangLi under which tab from the top? ~~~ pwg The one labeled "submit". ~~~ KangLi Yeah but it goes to "new" tab, and not the Y Homepage... ~~~ grzm Submissions are ra...
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Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY - Nimi http://blog.chromium.org/2015/02/hello-http2-goodbye-spdy-http-is_9.html ====== drderidder I got a copy of Paul-Henning Kamp's critique "HTTP/2.0 - The IETF is Phoning It In" off the ACM website before the link went dead. Here's a bit of what he said about it: "Some will expect a maj...
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Ask HN: How to get a job at a Big Company? - freework For the past 5 years I&#x27;ve been working primarily at startup companies. The one I&#x27;m at now is in the process of imploding. I am YET AGAIN having to go on the job hunt. I just turned 30 and am getting tired of this. I&#x27;m at the point where I just want...
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Prospecting for High Profile Consultants or Agencies - frankv This question is to the leads or owners of high volume consulting or digital agencies. My consulting business is about 1 year and a half old and I still feel like we haven&#x27;t developed a working prospecting or sales generation method.<p>Considering the ...
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Startup School 2014 Recap and Videos - katm http://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-2014-recap-and-videos ====== kevin Thanks to Nick Sivo for turning these around so fast. I think it takes YouTube awhile to add automated closed captions to the videos (couple of days if I remember last time). Because they're not ...
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Ask HN: Searching old post: make startup prototype in 9K$. Anyone bookmarked it? - techaddict009 Few days back someone had posted that they will make startup protoype for 9k USD. I am searching that post. Can anyone help me in finding that? ====== ColinWright OK, I found this: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10...
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Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks - hlfw0rd http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/05/scaling-convnets/ ====== deepnet John Resig used a Convnet to upscale japanese prints, waifu2x [http://ejohn.org/blog/using-waifu2x-to-upscale-japanese- prin...](http://ejohn.org/blog/using-waifu2x-to-upscale-j...
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Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours - mrzool https://www.c82.net/werner/ ====== tveita The descriptions are nice but unfortunately the sRGB gamut won't do a book like this justice. Hopefully monitors will improve - I'm sure if you got used to a full gamut screen, it would be as hard to go back as it is to go back to a 6...
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Being Bold - dariusmonsef http://bubs.co/being-bold ====== jpadvo Marketplace as a Service? If that's what this is, and it sounds like it, that would be fantastic. For the last year or two we've thought that a marketplace would be a great potential fit for our app, but simply don't have the resources to build and ma...
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Flightaware live view of unresponsive plane (possible hypoxia) - snupples http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N900KN/history/20140905/1215Z/KROC/KAPF ====== snupples Short background blurb: [http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unresponsive- aircraft-tw...](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unresponsive-aircraft- tw...
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Ask HN: Whats stopping Crypto widespread adoption? - eternalcode What are the concerns related to the adoption? security? stability? infancy? ====== UncleMeat Surely it is applications. When I think about my tech friends and family I can think of few applications of cryptocurrencies that appeal to their needs. When I ...
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Let's Play Half-Life Upside Down [video] - Zirro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VTWEQdVhA ====== Zirro Games are not the usual fare on Hacker News, but with this creative twist I believe it would qualify as something hackers (and nostalgic Half-Life fans) find interesting. Part two and three are located here: [...
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X264's abstraction layer for cross-platform x86 assembly: now free to use - DarkShikari http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=191 ====== jacquesm That's really neat Jason, what with all the 'assembly is dead' stuff that gets bandied around it's nice to see people keeping the art alive and collaborating at this level. ~~~...
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Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in 8th Century' - arethuza http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21082617 ====== arethuza The Wikipedia page on the 774-774 C14 spike even mentions that there _might_ be an eye-witness account of a "red cross" in the sky: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_radiation_burst...
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Blogspot banned in Turkey - Uncle_Sam http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12639279 ====== makmanalp This is absurd. As a Turkish citizen, I find the actions of my government regarding matters of the internet horrifying. As it stands, the process is as follows: 1) Receive complaint. 2) Shut down website. Usually thr...
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64 High-Ranked Blogs for Developers - mrshoe http://help.dottoro.com/blog/64-high-ranked-blogs-for-developers/ ====== bcl This list is useless to me. I don't have the time to check out each one of them to see if it is interesting enough to add to my list of RSS feeds. What would be more useful is a short paragraph a...
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Idris: Type safe printf [video] - kenhty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBck2Zngjo ====== bronty You can check format strings in Java at compile-time using the Checker Framework: [http://types.cs.washington.edu/checker- framework/current/che...](http://types.cs.washington.edu/checker- framework/current/checker-fra...
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Ask HN:have moore's law slowed innovation in chip manufacturing? - hershel There&#x27;s this contrarian conversation in reddit about the possibility that moore&#x27;s law has greatly slowed innovation in the chip manufacturing industry[1].<p>What does HN think about this ?<p>[1]http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r...
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Dungeons and Dragons somehow became more popular than ever - petethomas https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/how-dungeons-and-dragons-somehow-became-more-popular-than-ever/2019/04/18/fc226f56-5f8f-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html ====== s_m_t I think the best explanation for the rise in popularity of dnd in t...
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Open Source Motion Comic Done Entirely with Blender, Krita and GNU/Linux - zlatan_todoric https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pepper-and-carrot-motion-comic#/ ====== rootlocus David Revoy is an extremely talented illustrator and a long time supporter of free & open source tools. He released _" Chaos & Evolutions"_[1] a...
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Show HN: Reach your daily goal one email at a time - KevinBongart http://mydailygoal.net ====== KevinBongart This is what you get when you click the link in the daily email: [http://cl.ly/TEj7](http://cl.ly/TEj7)
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Webcam spying without turning on the LED - svenfaw https://www.grahamcluley.com/webcam-spying-without-turning-led-researchers-prove-possible/ ====== jzd131 This is from 2013, I would bet it is not possible in 2016. Anyone find anything that proves otherwise? ~~~ oxguy3 Given what I've heard about the secure enclave o...
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Programming Challenge: spreadsheets vs. code. Which is faster? - hackerews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutxDn9fQkk&feature=youtu.be ====== DougMerritt Clarification: Clicking through, I see they are talking about speed of development to create a mashup, not speed of execution.
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Simple pixel animator - indatawetrust https://github.com/indatawetrust/pixel-animator ====== indatawetrust live demo [https://jsfiddle.net/indatawetrust/2zsqmfab/7/](https://jsfiddle.net/indatawetrust/2zsqmfab/7/) ------ indatawetrust color selector added [https://github.com/indatawetrust/pixel- animator](https://git...
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Who’s Been Accessing Your Facebook Account? - knaox http://marketaire.com/2011/02/01/whos-been-accessing-your-facebook-account/ ====== kalpeshjoshi Is there a super secret feature which keeps ol Mark Zuckerberg from accessing my info?! But on the whole, good info to know about finding out other devices who may be a...
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Google to Invest $10B in India - jmsflknr https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-india/ ====== amrrs There's been a recent surge in American companies investing in India primarily through Reliance Jio (owned by Mukhesh Ambani who's got a good connect with the current ruling Government). It's ...
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Show HN: ZIP Foundation – A libcompression-based Swift framework for ZIP files - weichsel https://github.com/weichsel/ZIPFoundation ====== weichsel I wrote an accompanying blog post about the performance characteristics of the framework here: [https://thomas.zoechling.me/journal/2017/07/ZIPFoundation.ht...](https://th...
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“Python already replaced Excel in banking” - stablemap https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3002556/python-replaced-excel-banking ====== axisofpleasure Certainly seen a huge rise in Python use in private banking sector where I work. The problem is that we get people who aren't devs writing Python code against sour...
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Justworks raises $40M to build a simpler business operations suite - spac http://techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/justworks-raises-40m-to-build-a-simpler-business-operations-suite/ ====== spac I'm curious about people's experience with Justworks: does it scale effectively after a certain size? What are potential drawbacks? ...
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Why the Apple UDID had to die - taylorbuley http://corte.si/posts/security/udid-must-die/index.html ====== kennywinker <https://github.com/ylechelle/OpenUDID> Replacements are already popping up. Seems like this will only mildly fragment the issue. I think they're all based on hashing the MAC address.
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Can't resolve time.nist.gov - emin-gun-sirer The popular NTP server time.nist.gov is having DNS problems, at least from our vantage point on the US east coast. For us, this has meant that regularly scheduled security reports could not be sent, but there may be other consequences. Now is a good time to check your NTP s...
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Ask HN: What do you think about or landing page? - svirelka Hi there, we are going to update our LP. Please, advice http:&#x2F;&#x2F;to-round.com&#x2F; ====== exolymph I really like this idea, and I think the landing page is pretty darn solid. Curious though -- what's your business model? ~~~ svirelka Thank you! Now ...
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Younited - all your content 100% alive - noyesno http://www.younited.com ====== Touche I've been using a Dropbox alternative for years: [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav.html](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav.html) ~~~ carlesfe Can you please elaborate a little bit more on the key similarities...
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Ask HN: Feedback on Brand New Social Online Dating Site - SoWink SoWink brings you the next generation of social online dating, an unparalleled experience unlike any other. Sign up today and discover for yourself how SoWink will revolutionize your dating world!<p>http://sowink.com<p>Please take a moment and provide ...
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Can the West’s economies ever escape China’s magnetic pull? - throw0101a https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-can-the-wests-economies-ever-escape-chinas-magnetic-pull-the-story/ ====== throw0101a Mirror: * [https://archive.is/E9LII](https://archive.is/E9LII)
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Podcast: POODR and Beyond with Sandi Metz Part 2 - dadwagon99 http://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/poodr-and-beyond-part-ii ====== dadwagon99 The first half of the podcast was great and this one is too. I've really become a fan of hers thanks to this podcast.
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Software development final exam answers: Part 3 - tmoertel http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-01-26-software-development-final-answers-part-3.html ====== Tekker A number of these have to do with statistics and calculus, but really isn't pertinent to overall software development. Yes, a math background helps with c...
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Justin Kan's founders guide to raising a series A - rmason https://blog.atrium.co/the-founders-guide-to-raising-a-series-a-venture-financing-1de4f5aff312 ====== rmason It's been quite a few years since I tried to raise a Series A but this account really resonates with me. Probably the best guide of its type that I've ...
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Ask HN: Red Team internship idea - adamzerner The idea: hire a bunch of interns to act as your Red Team (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Red_team). They try to outdo your business. If they do a good job, you hire them to implement those ideas for you.<p>The motivation: I was just thinking that so ma...
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God Mode Unlocked – Hardware Backdoors in Via C3 CPUs (2018) [video] - MagicPropmaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY ====== oil25 This is about ancient VIA C3 CPUs processors - not your modern Intel/AMD. This isn't to say backdoors are implausible on modern processors (vulnerabilities in Intel ME/AMD PSP ...
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Paper Towels v. Air Dryers - mhb http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/paper-towels-v-air-dryers.html ====== gnok A point often neglected in such comparisons (regardless of the actual conclusion), is that paper towels are useful for more than just drying hands. What if I'm at a restaurant and I wish to ...
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Does the news reflect what we die from? - fezz https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/05/Causes-of-death-in-USA-vs.-media-coverage.png ====== fezz [https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we- die...](https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from)
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General Electric Develops a 500GB Optical Disc - shard http://www.physorg.com/news160061435.html ====== ShabbyDoo By the time this gets to market, won't I carry a one TB thumb drive in my pocket? They apparently haven't heard the Gretsky quote about "skating to where the puck is going to be." More generally, it see...
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Unthink.com - Anti-Facebook Network Launched Today - rkalla http://unthink.com/ ====== beforebeta I don't get it! How does this network work? What value does it provide? Why would it make me move away from FB? How is this different from diaspora? ~~~ philbarr I wasted about 3 minutes of my life just now trying to w...
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Velodyne’s VLS-128 offers more resolution, smaller package, lower price - deepnotderp https://www.spar3d.com/news/lidar/velodynes-vls-128-offers-resolution-smaller-package-lower-price/ ====== tibbon Where's the "buy" link? Maybe I'm just missing it for this one in particular, but I really dislike it when companies hi...
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Renowned hacker 'tessa88' identity revealed, Hacker a Russian - akosipops https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/417500-security-firm-unveils-identity-of-renowned-database-hacker-tessa88-to-be ====== diegoperini > "All share similar social media photos that are nearly identical to a > passport photo of Maksim Donako...
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What happens to tech workers when their skills become obsolete? - seagullz https://qz.com/work/1702462/what-happens-to-tech-workers-when-their-skills-become-obsolete/ ====== codesushi42 Flash was one of the first tools I ever started programming for. Today I work in AI. This article is a thinly veiled advertisement f...
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Programming Is Not Fun - Garbage http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgrammingIsNotFun ====== wccrawford I got news for you: Yes it is. I love it. It was my hobby when I was young. So much so, that I thought working in the field would kill the fun of it, so I avoided that. Eventually, needing a career (and not just a job)...
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Quintuple: a Python 5-qubit quantum computer simulator - EvgeniyZh https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.09225 ====== adrenalinelol Source code for those interested: [https://github.com/corbett/QuantumComputing](https://github.com/corbett/QuantumComputing) ~~~ OJFord Oh great, it's a single >2k line file... ~~~ leetrout I real...
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Hovercraft ferries could be coming to Silicon Valley for your commute - nradov https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/new-ferry-south-bay-hovercraft-sf-bay-san-jose-13571389.php ====== zunzun Would these be solar powered, does anyone know? I should think a few solar cells on the roof would easily power a multi-ton loade...
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NPM module to prevent use of eval() in JavaScript - asciifaceman https://asciifaceman.github.io/noevaljs/ ====== naftulikay This is so important to JavaScript. This changes everything. This makes me weep with joy. To see a language conceived in 10 days by a bunch of caffeined- up Netscape engineers evolve into somethi...
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