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MSI-1436 stimulates regeneration of heart and multiple other tissues - nirmalc https://www.nature.com/articles/s41536-017-0008-1 ====== jz_ The latest news on the compound is from April 2019: [https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/nb- nba041019...](https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/nb- nba04101...
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Warriors 'wearable' weapon? Devices to monitor players while on the court - kelukelugames http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/25203846/warriors-wearable-weapon-devices-to-monitor-players-while-on-the-court ====== kelukelugames Really cool article. Talks about how wearables allowed a team to go from most i...
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Google Play Services 5.0 has a new Networking API - codeitup http://www.quillandcode.com/2014/06/25/google-play-services-5-0/ ====== briandh It seems premature to be "freaking out a little bit" before knowing the details. This specific component might be open source and/or the same API with a different package name....
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Show HN: A Web App for Casual Video Surveillance with Webcam - davl https://videosurveillance.webcam/ ====== davl Any feedbacks would be very welcome, thank you!
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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body - howard941 https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-health-effects-of-loneliness.html ====== HNLurker2 "Blissful is solitude for whom knows the true dharma" \- Buddha Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitu...
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When the Compiler Bites - ingve http://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/01/ ====== userbinator _The unit test issues in my real program, which was a bit more sophisticated than what was presented here, gave me artificial intelligence vibes. It’s that situation where a computer algorithm did something really clever and I f...
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Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets - Toshio http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120830PD211.html ====== brudgers The article fails to mention that HP and Dell haven't exactly been setting the world on fire with sales of Android tablets nor has anyone else other than Amazon. HP lost their shirt o...
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No one wants yearly Android releases - AdmiralAsshat http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-one-wants-yearly-android-releases/ ====== wccrawford Maybe they haven't been to any Android forums recently? Users are _massively_ excited about new Android releases, often going to great lengths to attempt to obtain it before their c...
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Rule to Require Employers to Disclose Use of Anti-Union Consultants - pavornyoh http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/business/economy/union-labor-regulation-consultant-relationships.html?ref=business&_r=0 ====== resc1440 The article says this is repairing a loophole: > The 1959 law on which the regulations are based alr...
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PyPy 5.1 released - sandGorgon https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/04/pypy-51-released.html ====== BuckRogers Wow. Just wow. Congrats to the PyPy team. It never stops. I stopped calling myself a Python programmer sometime ago and started saying I'm a PyPy programmer because this is the future of Python. The underlying...
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A Virginia hacker catches the attention of federal law enforcement - Sami_Lehtinen http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/a-virginia-hacker-catches-the-attention-of-federal-law-enforcement/2014/09/27/51251eee-1405-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html ====== fphhotchips This guy is an idiot. Maybe he's very good techni...
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Astrocyte molecular signatures in Huntington’s disease - bookofjoe https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/514/eaaw8546 ====== dmix Astrocytes on Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocyte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocyte) They are glial cells in the brain and spinal cord.
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Ask HN: Does listening to music keep you focused? - adambenayoun I've read an article about the new trend in the Olympic games is that swimmers are walking out to the pool wearing headphones - and keeping them on right up until the last seconds before they climb onto the blocks.<p>It seems that music keep them conce...
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MS-DOS security bug bounty - morphics https://hackerone.com/msdos ====== michiel3 "Introducing a bounty program for the most secure open source project on the planet, 0 CVEs in its 30+ year history! [http://hackerone.com/msdos"](http://hackerone.com/msdos") \- [https://twitter.com/Hacker0x01/status/45078752149703475...
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Show HN: Create an Olympic 2014 Men's hockey roster & compare w/ friends - aren55555 http://myteam2014.com/ ====== Jeremy1026 You have a bug in your registration code I believe. As it said both of my emails were already taken. ~~~ aren55555 Fixed! Sorry...
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Apple Approved Malware: malicious code now notarized? - lapcatsoftware https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x4E.html ====== bkdbkd Notarization is moving the problem to a different place, but not fixing the problem. Imagine we take our city - Anycity, USA, where only good, trustworthy, and honest folk live, and we si...
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DevOps for a Commodore 64 - taspeotis https://operation8bit.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/devops-for-a-commodore-64/ ====== gregmac DevOps as in "Azure DevOps", the product formally known as TFS and/or VSTS, not the practices/culture surrounding the movement. Basically, this walks through building a CI pipeline that build...
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Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013) - kick https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NeWSWasAMistake ====== nibbula Although I admire and frequently agree with this blog, I think this article exhibits some common misconceptions about NeWS. NeWS had what amounted to uploa...
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WD Announces PiDrive for Pi Day - bifrost http://www.wdc.com/en/company/pressroom/releases/?release=22d07183-95f4-44de-a170-5c79659e9ddb ====== mchahn OK, this is just silly. They clearly had to throw away some of the capacity to get that number. Or am I am being duped? ~~~ trebor I think you're right. But I also th...
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MUI – Lightweight Web/Email CSS Framework - andres https://www.muicss.com/?a=1 ====== Geee What's up with the Material design? Am I the only one who thinks it's just horrible in looks and behavior? ~~~ ARussell Personally I think it's a huge improvement over flat design. Do you have any specific criticisms, or is i...
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Dropbox/djinni - daniel_levine https://github.com/dropbox/djinni ====== rodgort [http://xkcd.com/927/](http://xkcd.com/927/)
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Show & Tell HN: Client Contact Made Simple with Stay In Touch - kendaniels Hello!<p>Was hoping you could try out my new contact management application and provide feedback on the user experience and concept.<p>www.stayintouchapp.com<p>Signing up for the free trial will only take a few seconds.<p>Appreciate any feedb...
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Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral - maheshone http://searchengineland.com/google-scraper-tweet-185684 ====== izzydata I don't see how this can be considered "Massively Viral". Not even viral, it isn't even interesting or note worthy. ~~~ lolwutf At the time of this reply, it is at ~14.7k r...
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How to be a genius - jgamman http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125691.300-how-to-be-a-genius.html?full=true ====== xiaoma > _Pete Sampras didn't possess more talent than Andre Agassi, but he won 14 > grand slams to Agassi's eight because he worked harder and more steadily._ And how many hard-working tennis pl...
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Ask HN: Best resources for learning Java 8? Too many - gamechangr Twenty friends are learning Java together with no background in development (for the most part).<p>We do have three full time Java developers, all good friends, who will be each volunteering two hours a week, so we have a two hour class three times a ...
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What I've learned about selling (as a developer) - rgrieselhuber For me, learning how to sell was simply a matter of survival.<p>Twelve months ago is about when I started my company, and I now alternate between coding and selling. I consider "selling" anything related to marketing (I know there is a distinction), lead...
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Fun with AngularJS - rohshall http://devgirl.org/2013/03/21/fun-with-angularjs/ ====== robmcm It's great to see an example that actually produces a full running app. There are lots of little things involved in making an app that get missed if you just talk about directives and scope. Will be interesting to see how ...
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming - Anon84 http://norvig.com/paip.html ====== silentbicycle Norvig himself instead recommends people read AI: A Modern Approach (<http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/>), though PAIP is supposed to be rather good as a Common Lisp book. ~~~ jimbokun I much prefer PAIP. For example...
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A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-25/a-fight-against-amazon-becomes-a-state-matter-in-quebec ====== TulliusCicero This seems kind of doomed to fail. Amazon is appealing because it provides a good customer experience: good prices, fast sh...
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The problem with open source - imwhimsical http://blog.arsalanbashir.com/2013/05/01/OSS.html ====== aw3c2 Seems like a flamebait post, skip it and you won't miss anything. I will join the others in pointing out some of its bullshit. I did not fully read it, this caught my eye: _If you’re a part of the core “desig...
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'It's not ours': Government denies knowledge of strange UFO over Japanese city - hhs https://www.livescience.com/japanese-ufo-weather-balloon-shenanigans.html ====== h2odragon Sometime in 1990, a group of young persons launched a "signal balloon" (smaller than a weather balloon) filled with helium and tied to a 2 mile...
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Go vs C++: Ray tracer (part 3) - kid0m4n https://kidoman.com/programming/go-getter-part-3.html ====== eliasmacpherson [https://kidoman.com/images/go-vs-cpp-after-both- optimized.pn...](https://kidoman.com/images/go-vs-cpp-after-both- optimized.png) In this picture - am I right in interpreting it at 2048x2048 and 8 ...
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Spotify Introduces a New Podcast API - nonoesp https://podcasters.spotify.com/blog/spotify-introduces-new-podcast-api ====== nonoesp Here are the endpoints they released. [https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2020/03/20/intr...](https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2020/03/20/introducing- podcasts-api...
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Ask HN: How do we reduce the gender gap at our tech events - thehodge Hey HN, I've been running tech events (barcamps, conferences, hackdays) for about five years now and I've seen the gender gap at our events fluctuate, it's a lot higher than other events I've seen (as we really push to make sure the event is welco...
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You Can’t Do Squat About Spotify’s Eerie New Privacy Policy - j_hanbanan http://www.wired.com/2015/08/cant-squat-spotifys-eerie-new-privacy-policy/ ====== bashinator I can absolutely avoid being affected in any way by Spotify's privacy policy. I can not use Spotify, and in fact I don't. No audio CD, nor the files I...
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Biogrid’s GPU-accelerated world simulation - dmit https://medium.com/@haversine02/simulated-worlds-are-like-onions-dfa18cab3d85 ====== Enginerrrd This is not a very descriptive title, and I almost skipped over what was a really cool article as a result. ~~~ Finnucane Apparently "makes your eyes water when you cut the...
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I Hate 3D Printing - ricberw http://richardberwick.com/i-hate-3d-printing/ ====== ChuckMcM That was funny, an advertisement for a 3D printing service where the call to action is "this is going to suck so don't buy it." Well it wasn't really that exactly, the argument is the same though, and the conclusion is inescapab...
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Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!) - graffitishark http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=635469588001 ====== codex Yikes, what a death trap. This monstrosity combines the unreliability of a car with the dangers of a small aircraft. Cars are not as reliable as aircraft because they're not maintained as well,...
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Ask HN: How do brands work? - diminium How does branding work? Especially for us mathematically minded folks.<p>What do normal everyday people see in brands? What is brand loyalty and how does that work? Are brands basically a way to let people be lazy by outsourcing their thinking? ====== pedalpete I don't belie...
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Trello/Asana-Killer: Stop Killing TIME, Because TIME Will Kill You - xemyleex Hello,<p>I have developed a simple tool for myself to manage all my time and all my projects ( while working, studying or anything else ). I have used it for more than 2 years and it helped me to boost my productivity, focus and motivation.<...
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Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees - shawndumas https://medium.com/positiveslope/dont-get-trampled-the-puzzle-for-unicorn-employees-8f00f33c784f#.lsjhyushk ====== dbg31415 This is a dupe. Original - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305066](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305066) Bes...
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Show HN: API Mockery – Generate Custom Http Response to Mock APIs - kadirayk http://apimockery.com/ ====== kadirayk I have been planing to learn reactjs as a backend guy, so I developed this over the weekend. Although I spent most of my time configuring the server stuff (I am new to all of these), it was a fun journey...
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Whois++ - mindcrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS%2B%2B ====== codebje Whois++ largely failed. Custodians of resources weren't great at keeping their services operational. Hence Whois remains the primary access protocol today. RDAP has more legs to replace Whois than Whois++ did, but it solves a different set o...
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When You Are Depressed, Make Something - ohjeez https://byrslf.co/when-you-are-depressed-make-something-49467edd1933#.yg26duthw ====== sixo When you are depressed, see if there's a serious problem in your life that is causing you to be depressed and devote as much time and energy as you can muster towards exploring so...
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Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy - andreamichi https://deepmind.com/blog/machine-learning-can-boost-value-wind-energy/ ====== dmichulke I have been working in the same field, quite a few years in my own forecasting company and then later on as a side project. Not wanting to steal the thunder of Dee...
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Insight into CD Baby's Customer Support - An Interview with Derek Sivers - nithyad http://blog.supportbee.com/2011/06/14/cd-baby-customer-support-an-interview-with-derek-sivers/ ====== Shenglong CS experience really differs. I worked at a company that had its Sales department outsourced to Canada, and its CS depart...
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Anti-vax parents aren’t stupid, love their kids, and aren't disregarding yours - thanatosmin http://www.thespectroscope.com/read/anti-vaccine-parents-arent-stupid-they-do-love-their-kids-and-by-lenny-teytelman-287 ====== bikamonki Jhonny's parents 'believe' vax are unnecessary so he skips the needle. A few years lat...
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Ask HN: Is independent consulting a sustainable tech career path in 2017? - drogonmead Planning my next career move...<p>I&#x27;m an experienced lead software engineer (streaming, big data, analytics), having worked for large tech companies as well as successful startups. I enjoy engineering as well as business strate...
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The coolest thing from JavaOne 2008 - nreece http://blogs.sun.com/drapeau/entry/the_coolest_thing_i_saw ====== nickb I have something similar... it's called Paperium (<http://paperium.com/>) and it's very similar to Livescribe. It uses the same type of paper (probably not the exact pattern) and I think all these pens ...
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Show HN: Microsounds - Random short sounds from Soundcloud - klemola http://microsounds.tumblr.com/ ====== klemola Hi! This is a weekend project kind of application. The goal was to combine HTML5 audio and Soundcloud's streaming capabilities. Vinepeek is obviously an influence, and that's why I wanted to add a pict...
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Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House - benbreen http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/pm652-art-hi.html ====== seltzered_ I get really intrigued by these designs (went through a folding obsession phase) then try to judge how usable/learnable the design choices are. FWIW, I constantly find myself comparing...
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Spray-on nanofiber 'skin' may revolutionize wound care - walterbell https://www.fastcompany.com/90365782/this-spray-on-nanofiber-skin-may-revolutionize-burn-and-wound-care ====== Ice_cream_suit I love it ! There are some great scams in the wound healing market. [https://www.polarityte.com/products/skinTE- providers]...
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Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when - dctrwatson http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/heartbleed-disclosure-timeline-who-knew-what-and-when-20140414-zqurk.html ====== mindstab I still like how these timelines are all about the big tech companies and not about governments, services and banks etc....
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Ask HN: Tools to evaluate scientific claims? - pgt What statistical knowledge and training do I need to evaluate the legitimacy of scientific papers, esp. in the medical field?<p>Whenever I read about any scientific claims, I ignore the press and go straight to the original paper cited (if there is one, often it is mi...
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List of non-tech books that have influenced HNers the most - wowsig http://shelfjoy.com/sia_steel/non-technology-books-that-have-influenced-hn-readers-the-most ====== wowsig Based on this thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13967350](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13967350) and this is why I have done...
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Here be Fusion – A Visit to General Fusion - curtis http://wavewatching.net/2013/12/30/here-be-fusion/?1 ====== DaniFong Would love to be pointed towards any kind of mathematical analysis of this at all. There's a really big problem -- you need high ion temperatures to achieve fusion, but it's electron pressure that's...
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Show HN: Single Platform to Convert MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB to RESTful API - ardian_b https://apisentris.com ====== dang Getting friends to do promotional votes and comments isn't ok on HN. This is in the FAQ: [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). We ban sites an...
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What We Can and Can’t Learn from Copenhagen - simonebrunozzi https://gehlinstitute.org/dialogue/can-cant-learn-copenhagen/ ====== IceDane It's worth mentioning that most of the cities in Denmark are similar. Nearly every town that isn't tiny has pedestrian/bike only streets, and the trend seems to be to expand these a...
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What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More - matm http://data.heapanalytics.com/what-unsustainable-growth-looks-like-herbalife-groupon/ ====== tapp "One of the most important characteristics of a successful business is that it's growing." I hope this doesn't come across as nitpicking, but the ...
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Five bugs in a single line of JavaScript - jgrahamc http://blog.jgc.org/2009/01/single-line-assignment-filled-with-epic.html ====== js2 _In the UNIX world execute permission on a directory means that you can CD into it; with it removed the directory cannot be accessed (i.e. you can't get a list of the files in the d...
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Three decades of the Commodore 64 - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/three-decades-of-the-commodore-64/ ====== aswanson The commodore christmas...memories...was it 12/84 or 12/85...i forget. How could a mass-market computing product explode like that when it booted up into a BASIC interpreter? Could y...
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An Obscure Competitor is Giving Away My Product - kellyreid I'm working on a product for the company at which I'm a cofounder. So is some other guy. The products will be functionally identical once both are deployed and out of beta. In comparison:<p>ME: 6 months with PHP and mySQL HIM: Professional developer<p>US...
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Correlation or Causation? - ot http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html# ====== jawns As the creator of Correlated.org, I couldn't help but submit this one!
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Are Software Patents Evil? [2006] - czr80 http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html/? ====== mtgx Link redirects to home page.
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The Genius Hack DHL Used to Build a Billion Dollar Business - rmason https://medium.com/@typesfast/the-genius-hack-dhl-used-to-build-a-billion-dollar-business-3bdbf0b1a89f ====== masonic This is written as an excruciating series of tweets.
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Raise your prices to sell more - pytrin http://www.binpress.com/blog/2013/02/06/raise-your-prices-to-sell-more/ ====== 3stripe Back in the real world of things, I ran an experiment recently with t-shirts, and created a 'Premium' design to sit alongside my existing design which I renamed 'Classic'. The new tees were...
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IOTA blockchain security - cfarm https://github.com/mit-dci/tangled-curl/blob/master/vuln-iota.md ====== cfarm Glad this got flagged, but I wonder how many other blockchains get tested before they do their ICOs..
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My Startup has 30 Days to Live - hidingmyname http://mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com ====== greghinch I'm going to say this knowing that I may get down voted to heck. And I don't mean it as a "told you so" to the OP, but rather hopefully some cautionary advice for would-be founders. I have come to the opinion tha...
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The secret in my blood - DanBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_secret_in_my_blood ====== zvrba … and no scientists tried to find out why he is seemingly resistant to the virus?? That is the _real_ secret in his blood. ~~~ dm319 I'm not sure he necessarily is resistant to the virus. It has a long and v...
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The LLVM Foundation - protomyth http://blog.llvm.org/2014/04/the-llvm-foundation.html ====== Nzen tldr: LLVM establishes a nonprofit to handle its current & future scale. Currently selecting a board of directors and an overseeing administrator. details to follow. ------ lholden It would be nice if the title had more ...
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All This Over a Dongle? - peterwwillis http://jerichoattrition.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/all-this-over-a-dongle/ ====== gtr32x I can't help but going on a rant here. Honestly, people can't face themselves. I understand that her past wasn't exactly a glorious one and I'm grateful for her that she has made it through. ...
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Facebook underwriters holding the price with green shoe - alecco http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/05/18/1007071/with-facebook-give-thanks-for-greenshoes/ ====== alecco <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenshoe#Risk_to_Investors> The SEC currently does not require that underwriters publicly report ...
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Ask HN: Frontpage showing 25 instead of 30 stories? - zheng Am I going crazy, or did the HN frontpage just change from showing 30 stories to only showing 25? Any reason(s) for such a change? ====== zheng And looks like it's back to 30. Probably had to do with the downtime. ------ MaysonL Looks like it just happend...
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SBCL SuperBallistic Common Lisp BlueGene P supercomputer port announcement - MaysonL http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel/14869 ====== Ixiaus I love reading about hobby hacking projects such as this. Awesomeness!
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Immigration Bill Could Challenge Tech’s Ongoing Fight for Skilled Worker Visas - hawthornedev http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/immigration-bill-could-challenge-techs-ongoing-fight-for-skilled-worker-visas/ ====== DrScump here's the bill: [https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate- bill/226...](https://www.co...
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Perl and Java in the Enterprise - skorks http://robonperl.blogspot.com/2010/02/perl-and-java-in-enterprise.html ====== mstjohn the post has some merit, but you imho you can't really compare the work of 3-5 developers , to 30 java programmers without looking at the skill sets and basic coding habits of each party. Bo...
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What Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub means for the future of open source - john58 https://www.techworld.com/developers/what-microsofts-acquisition-of-github-means-for-future-of-open-source-3680120/ ====== wiz21c open source here, open source there... Well maybe, but I think that the problem is not the source code an...
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Ask HN: How would you validate an idea for SaaS product? - vsolanki19 I&#x27;ve heard of many SaaS companies building the products first and then try to sell it only to fail later due to lack of demand and customers. My question is how would you validate an idea for SaaS is worth pursuing with enough demand and intere...
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India to install CCTV cameras at the homes all the ministers - stfu http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2221097/Akhilesh-use-CCTV-surveillance-cabinet.html ====== nodata DR; DM (didn't read, daily mail) Need a better source.
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Atiyah to present a proof of Riemann Hypothesis - laurentoget https://twitter.com/Quasilocal/status/1042359040305704960 ====== laurentoget [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah) Michael Atiyah is a legend of Mathematics. He is also 89 years old.
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Pyract: a new way of writing Gtk+ applications - fmoralesc https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/a-new-way-of-writing-gtk+-applications/ ====== wallacoloo So this recreates the _entire_ scene graph whenever the UI needs to be re- rendered? What happens when you use this in a complex application with lots of different nod...
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Electron 9.0 - timothy-quinn https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v9.0.0 ====== fermienrico I can instantly tell, not by the looks or aesthetics, but by the way an Electron app behaves that it's not a native app. It has got that "browser"-like feel to it. VSCode/Slack/etc have a different "feel" to the UI...
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XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet - infinity https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet ====== vog This is a nice summary, but even with a small font this is way too verbose to qualify even remotely as "cheat sheet". It seems to me that the title "... Cheat Sheet" is simply link bait ...
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Ask HN: Which REST API framework are you using right now? (Node) - GutenYe While both sails and trails are not in active development, seems there is no great framework anymore in Javascript world. ====== dmlittle I'm pretty happy with hapi (pun intended) [http://hapijs.com/](http://hapijs.com/) I find the extension p...
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It’s eating fat that makes you fat, new mouse study suggests - YeGoblynQueenne https://theconversation.com/its-eating-fat-that-makes-you-fat-new-mouse-study-suggests-101629 ====== Filligree ...going against recent studies, and backing the otherwise-disproven science of the fifties. I quit. Don't make me look at these...
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Productivity Porn - gandalfgeek http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/28465017852/productivity-porn ====== Jun8 The danger of the idea posted here is that (i) it sounds very logical and authentic and (ii) it's _sort of_ true. The idea that "If you really deeply care about something, you will do it" is such a simplification...
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TogetherJS as a Postmodern Programming Tool - ianbicking http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2013/10/togetherjs-a-postmodern-tool.html ====== jsnk I've heard of the term postmodern being used in literature and media, but I am not sure how it's related to technology. Can someone explain how postmodern tools are different fr...
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - voctor https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/ ====== random6547545 Throwaway account. I work in location / mapping / geo. Some of us have been waiting for this to blow (which it hasn't yet). The p...
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Ask HN: What are some good, lightweight reads on computing? - johnmarinelli I know there&#x27;s plenty of quality technical books, but I&#x27;m looking for the kind of book that I can read a few pages of on the morning bus ride. The first book that comes to mind is &quot;The Universal History of Computing: From the ...
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Drinking a Blue Screen of Death in the back streets of Tokyo - jpatokal http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/19/5911437/drinking-a-blue-screen-of-death-in-the-back-streets-of-tokyo ====== jpatokal The homepage implies they do more than just serve booze: _At Hackers Bar, you can observe live application and product devel...
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Swift-style Enums in Ruby - colinta https://github.com/colinta/einstein-enum ====== colinta Just a fun "experiment in code". Enjoy!
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Helvetica: a documentary about typography and design - adambyrtek http://www.helveticafilm.com/ ====== greenyoda If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can watch this movie for free on Amazon Instant Video. It's quite interesting, for those of us who are typography geeks.
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Thatneedle: Semantic Search for retail - digital_ins http://thatneedle.com/ ====== digital_ins Posting for a guy I met on reddit (ikr!). I liked their simple interface, tho the lack of documentation makes me think they don't plan on being a biz-to-dev solution. If signing up is not your thing, here's a direct link to ...
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Cool URIs Don't Change - account42 https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI ====== rurcliped They're ignoring the truncation problem. If I tell someone to look at the [https://w3.org/something/6287297](https://w3.org/something/6287297) URL, is that really correct, or did I botch a copy/paste of the [https://w3.org/someth...
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Add age verification to any link - grandalf http://pr0n.ly/s ====== grandalf I made this URL shortener on a whim this morning. Suggestions? Thoughts? ~~~ Locke1689 Interesting, but I don't really see myself as needing to act as an age verification intermediary for links. The page serving the content should be so ...
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Twitter locks your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk - john58 https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/07/25/twitter-cryptocurrency-scam-elon-musk/ ====== 394549 Reminds me of Ancient China where no one could have the same name as the Emperor, or even use the same characters as his name. ------ dekhn W...
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Putting retargeting to work for your startup - brandnewlow http://planscope.io/blog/putting-retargeting-to-work-for-your-startup ====== rdl I kind of ignored all Internet advertising (adblock plus makes it fairly infrequent, the only exception being on mobile, which I'm working on fixing myself...), but I've been se...
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Billers, Players, and Income Inequality - davidw http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/06/billers_players_1.html ====== paddy_m Bryan Caplan was my adviser at Mason. Interesting guy. He thinks we inefficiently overeducate. ~~~ icky > He thinks we inefficiently overeducate. Maybe from a purely economic perspecti...
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward - joeshaw http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206 ====== vicaya I think I independently came up with the same idea to solve the distributed gfs master problem: use a separate bigtable/gfs1 cluster for master metadata for gfs2. I'm glad that I'm not crazy :) ~~~ seymourz Also, does...
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Ask HN: is there any way to switch off the iOS “slowdown when old” code? - hoodoof Recent news says iOS slows down devices with old batteries - clearly to force hardware upgrades.<p>Is there any way a user can turn this off? ====== LarryMade2 I think part of it is software upgrades, many of which are optimized for new...
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