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Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads - dredmorbius https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/sci-hub-users-cost-asa-journals-hundreds-of-thousands-of-downloads-and-thats-ok/ ====== covertlibrarian For those who support sci-hub's mission and would like to help ensure it can never be taken away...
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Graceful Upgrade of Internet Services - helwr http://fare.livejournal.com/156037.html ====== chrisbolt Some alternatives: Throw nginx (for HTTP) or HAProxy in front of your services, or use LinuxVirtualServer.
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Can a machine surprise you? We believe so. (SoundCloud) - snickmy https://developer.soundcloud.com/blog/tracks ====== JoshPersy I'm actually finding some pretty good new tracks, I wish I had not to subscribe to get the full Go catalog though! ------ landolando Finally, this was long waited, and it works really well
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Versioning platform Abstract raises $30M - speter https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/20/abstract-a-versioning-platform-that-helps-designers-work-like-developers-raises-30m/ ====== MordodeMaru Damn!! Far from criticising that Abstract has raised the money because they sure deserve it, it fills me with frustration that my o...
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Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry - nkurz http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/23/jpl-jack-parsons/viewall ====== JoshTriplett There are two different forms of scientific history. The history of science as used for future scientific development lives in academic papers, journals, conferences, a...
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The fallacies of a coffee-drinking programmer - asfkrs http://asfkrs.tumblr.com/post/11733537320/fallacies ====== nvictor dude, fix your disqus comments area. ~~~ asfkrs Will do, thanks mate!
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When in doubt – SSL - dsr12 http://pilif.github.io/2013/09/when-in-doubt-ssl/ ====== 2bluesc s/SSL/TLS/
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Dan Gilbert confirms he’s trying to get Amazon to build its second HQ in Detroit - janober https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/dan-gilbert-confirms-hes-trying-to-get-amazon-to-build-its-second-hq-in-detroit ====== grizzles I hope Detroit gets it. Metro Detroit would be just perfect for it. It's on the East Coast. It has...
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NoSQL – Explained in Layman's Terms - animeshg https://medium.com/@animeshgaitonde/no-sql-databases-an-introduction-eb9706fbe3 ====== degosuke I have this feeling that the article focuses on the positives, and also doesn't help with the question "which one you should choose". It would be very helpful if someone could ...
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Will Spotify go public without an IPO? - Heffay626 https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/07/will-spotify-go-public-without-an-ipo/ ====== WhitneyLand This is the future. The value added by investment banks does not justify 10's or 100's of millions in fees. It's one of the biggest remaining inefficiencies in company growth t...
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Inception Movie explained using the C language - gaiusparx https://github.com/karthick18/inception ====== trevelyan Can I submit a bug report? The code says: > the ending is still a state of limbo Limbo is a world which allegorically represents the mortal world (Matthew 7.24). The ending is a heaven sequence. Cobb d...
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Ask HN: Please review our website: furlango.com - ajj Please give your feedback on our site www.furlango.com<p>It is a website that lets you find events and things to do around you - concerts, shows, sporting events, devcamps, etc.<p>Along with your comments, we would be interested in knowing about:<p>- Do you see a...
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Ask HN: What backup strategy do you use for your websites and databases? - pankratiev ====== agj For backups, I use rdiff-backup across 60G+ of user data, nightly. rdiff- backup uses librsync to transfer files, but also handles incremental backups and seems to be fairly efficient at storing increments. Nightly, may...
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Apple Crushes Clone Maker in Court - jamesbritt http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/11/apple_crushes_c.html ====== jrockway How long until _your_ startup is crushed by someone with money that doesn't like what you're doing? ~~~ makecheck If I were Apple, I'd do the same thing. There's a l...
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Uber passenger rating hack is back online - aaln https://medium.com/@aaln/how-to-find-your-uber-passenger-rating-4aa1d9cc927f ====== Aaronneyer Looks like they might have blocked this one now as well, I'm getting undefined passenger rating.
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Ask HN: The fraudulent login detection system for the SaaS providers. - JarekS Every SaaS provider has one major problem – security concerns of its userbase.<p>People are worried about their data, transmission and that anyone can “guess” their password and log in to their accounts.<p>What I’m describing here is a pr...
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Ask HN: How to find the best idea for making money? - Nichooo ====== tmaly I think you could find something with a simple process: 1\. Pick area that you have some familiarity with, 2\. Go out and do a whole bunch of customer development interviews 3\. Analyze the responses to look for common patterns 4\. Iterate till...
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Loom prototype available – fibers and delimited continuations for the JVM - spullara http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/loom-dev/2018-July/000061.html ====== chrisseaton Here's a couple of early studies of using it: [https://aardvark179.github.io/blog/fibers.html/](https://aardvark179.github.io/blog/fibers.html/)...
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Introducing FOSS Factory — a Bounty System for GNU Hurd Work - Tsiolkovsky http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2011-05-02-foss_factory.html ====== slapshot Be wary that in many cases, paying money actually _reduces_ effort, especially when the money is small. I'd hate to see a FOSS project slowed down because peop...
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VMware Photon: Minimal Linux Container Host - aaroneast1 https://github.com/vmware/photon ====== nailer If vmware (the company) like money: just let me run containers on bare metal using your management tools. People don't want containers on VMs. They just want containers. There are many reasons for that. ~~~ step...
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Unlocking the Motorola Bootloader with a TrustZone Exploit - laginimaineb http://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/02/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html ====== daveloyall Today I learned that headset manufacturers could simply NOT blow the "engineering" QFuse and their devices would suddenly be FOSS compatible hardware. ...
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A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? - johnwheeler https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/business/robot-food-cost-jobs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=wide-thumb&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below ====== vortico Why is the UI on these things so atrocio...
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Imgur confirms email addresses, passwords stolen in 2014 hack - el_duderino http://www.zdnet.com/article/imgur-reveals-hackers-stole-login-data/ ====== hareeshreddy Another day, another confirmation of data leak. Privacy is protected, as they say. Hareesh [https://dltutuapp.com/](https://dltutuapp.com/)
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Apple silently tweaking iPhone 5 body? - tmslnz http://noplay.org/post/33971939158/ ====== zaroth Apple explained this already. They have high resolution / high speed cameras analyzing each phone as it goes down the assembly line and automatically selecting the 'best' bezel out of something like 64 possible bins. ~...
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Everything you need to know about the internet - vault_ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/20/internet-everything-need-to-know ====== blasdel _“As an analytical framework, economics can come unstuck when dealing with the net. Because while economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources, the ...
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Downtime Averted: Inside the offices of SF startup PagerDuty - nlow http://www.themuse.com/companies/pagerduty ====== bowietrousers This is like SF startup bingo. And I think I just won. ------ adsenseclient Somehow posts like this make me think this SF web media bubble will soon explode. I just do not quite unders...
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If You Just Changed Your Company’s Name, Don’t Forget This One Crucial Step - bickov http://cli.re/6aX7rv ====== noja Why the redirect? ~~~ eappleby They are tracking the clicks on the link. You can see it here: [http://www.capsulink.com/6aX7rv+](http://www.capsulink.com/6aX7rv+)
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Pathod: A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software - cesther http://cortesi.github.com/pathod/ ====== cortesi Drat - this story is just a tad premature. A brand new release of pathod will be out next week, including a publicly accessible pathod instance, pathoc (pathod's evil client-side eq...
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Home buyers/owners, how do you feel about inspections? - Flavyo https://forms.gle/oBd6i4P8mgSy3KB39 ====== Flavyo I'm collecting data to validate my hypothesis on home inspections. If you have a minute, please fill out the 3 question survey. I have some responses, but looking for a few more. Thanks!
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Get the Android Kitkat before anyone else - showwebgl https://sketchfab.com/show/6707442786854d969290fa7015f3aa46 ====== chaitanyak cool headline :)
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Ask HN: What is the best city for a Technical Support operation in the US? - support Based on the following parameters:<p>1. Low cost of living 2. Lots of experienced staff technical support agents ====== elviejo In cringely.com a couple of years ago he posted about this company: Maverick Software [1] That is provi...
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Ask HN: What was the 3rd party library that was used to hack HipChat? - joshdance https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.hipchat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;24&#x2F;hipchat-security-notice&#x2F;<p>They don&#x27;t disclose what library it was. They may be waiting until that library can be patched etc.<p>Anyone have ideas on what it was...
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An anonymous response to dangerous FOSS Codes of Conduct - lingben https://4fa6134ddde55ae0092b69e1eb287d2840301d0a.googledrive.com/host/0B6kjFNJtv3yzUjY4M21QenJzdGc/ ====== Mz Eh, I am not for the CoCs and I agree with some of the points made here. But it also comes across as rather insensitive and blind to the very ...
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Is reality a computer simulation? Does it matter? - RV86 http://aeon.co/magazine/science/can-we-tell-if-reality-is-a-computer-simulation/ ====== skywhopper These ideas may be fun to think about, but ultimately they're meaningless. It's certainly not a new idea that some being on another plane of existence brought our ...
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Converting an ILS Localiser Simulator from 1980’s Turbo Basic to Java - martinfjohansen https://www.progsbase.com/blog/industrial-case-converting-an-ils-localiser-simulator-from-1980s-turbo-basic-to-java/ ====== ptx Sound neat. But I wonder about those "quality assured computations that have been used and tested throu...
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Quotes from Warren Buffett - Anon84 http://investing-school.com/history/52-must-read-quotes-from-legendary-investor-warren-buffett/ ====== Anon84 A couple of my favorites... _If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. Bu...
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Bootstrap is revolutionary because it's DaaS [Design as a Service] and it's free - spolu well... I spent 4h protyping a website with Twitter Bootstrap, and it looked like a 1yr old startup's website with substantial funding and a full time designer. ====== mirceagoia Yes, I tried that too and it's quite cool.
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The real cost of South Africa's most expensive website ($15m) - _djo_ http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/03/05/the-real-cost-of-sas-most-expensive-website ====== _djo_ It turns out that the amount allocated to 'Development and Creation', 'Testing' and 'Implementation' was $191 436, a fairly small proportion of ...
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Python 3 in Science: the great migration has begun - ngoldbaum http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/2015-survey-results/ ====== krychu > The main reason for Python 2 users to not switch to Python 3 is the lack of > motivation/killer features. We need to therefore be more proactive in > encouraging people to sw...
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Smart locks opened with nothing more than a Mac address - sizzle https://www.zdnet.com/article/smart-locks-opened-with-nothing-more-than-a-mac-address/ ====== rbanffy Ouch!
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U.S. Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate - walterbell http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/us-will-track-secret-buyers-of-luxury-real-estate.html?_r=0 ====== pmorici "Under the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Treasury is already authorized to require real estate companies to scrutinize real estate buyers, but the d...
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Ask HN: What are your contracting pain points? - zrail What are the things that you wish you knew when you started? I've only done a little freelancing in the past so I don't have a complete picture but even with that I experienced a few:<p>- Figuring out how to do payments. They wanted to use PayPal and I really di...
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Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview - Roonerelli http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/10/job-hunting-big-data-interview-algorithms-employees ====== ddebernardy Best quote from the entire article imho: > The data suggested that the success of teams had much less to do wit...
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Firebug as dev model - bootload http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/2007/05/09/job-at-yahoo/ ====== bootload I noticed that a reference to parakey ~ <http://www.parakey.com> popped up today ( <http://www.parakey.com/jobs/summer.html> ) and looking at the intern requirements and development model ... _'... Parakey is both ...
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'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp - humantiy https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/30/five-eyes-backdoor-access-whatsapp-encryption ====== deogeo > Dealing with the challenge faced by increasingly effective encryption They weren't able to spy in bulk when communication was primarily offli...
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Become A Builder - charlieirish http://becomeabuilder.com/ ====== mtgx So you're just assuming everyone must have an Apple product? That's a pretty bold assumption. Not for me then.
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Internationally operating SMS gateways - kartikrustagi I am looking for a SMS gateway through which I can send SMSes in multiple countries (and multiple operators in a country). This is a requirement for a webapp I am working on. Please suggests some good (read reliable and economical) SMS gateways which you have us...
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On Being Smart (2009) [pdf] - jonnybgood http://sma.epfl.ch/~moustafa/General/onbeingsmart.pdf ====== rdlecler1 I had the good fortune of having dyslexia and ADD before they tested these kinds of things, and eventually went on to become a high school dropout. Ultimately I went to university, got five degrees including...
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Awesome up your design with Ambient Backgrounds - luccastera http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/awesome-up-your-design-with-ab ====== pius Sweet little tutorial, nice find.
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U.S. Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due Covid 19 - 75dvtwin https://www.scribd.com/document/455607875/US-HHS-Document-to-Doctors-on-How-to-Certify-COVID-19-Deaths-including-Related-Deaths ====== 75dvtwin I am reading the below paragraph from the guidance, and thinking that it would, necessarely, cause 'over reporting'...
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Show HN: I learned basic data mining over christmas and build a news aggregator - donebizkit http://newsplusplus.com/ ====== yitchelle Nice work! I particularly like the tags. How did you decide which news source will be use to generate the headline? ~~~ donebizkit Thanks. Once the articles are clustered and sorte...
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Why is P3P not used more? - nl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P ====== jusob "A key problem that occurs with the use of P3P is that there is a lack of enforcement." You can "promess" one thing through P3P, but do something different with the data you gather. The only time I used P3P was to get around some restricti...
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Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier - bryanh https://zapier.com/blog/2013/04/29/turn-gtalk-into-a-command-line-for-anyone/ ====== prakster Brian, whenever we bill the monthly subscription fee to our users for our saas app, we send them an email with their username and the amount. I get a copy of e...
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The Coolest Server Names - Recently undeleted - akent http://serverfault.com/questions/45734 ====== davidu The people who argue against naming machines in an automated fashion don't have hundreds or thousands to manage. We do something simple: class of machine + number . city. m1.sjc1 == generic ma...
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Japan Nuclear Plant Erupts In Fire, Two Workers Missing - jluxenberg http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/japan-nuclear-plant-flan_n_836280.html ====== phlux The news seems to have died down (or at least it seems as such) What is the severity level of this situation at this time? I haven't seen any good news, a...
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Node.js vs. Opa: Web Framework Showdown (web chat comparison) - zura http://www.developer.com/open/node.js-opa-javascript-framework.html ====== al2o3cr Two things that stood out: * handwaving away the hassle of debugging generated code is a bad sign. It sucks. Sourcemap support is not really optional anymore. * "A...
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William Shatner's Seat - vinnyglennon https://www.quora.com/I-always-see-this-small-black-triangle-on-the-inside-of-airplane-walls-What-does-it-mean-or-do?share=1 ====== jfoutz Perhaps a relevant bit of trivia. William Shatner was on the tv series. John Lithgow remade the same scene for the twilight zone movie. i was ...
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Apple Watch: Faulty Taptic Engine Slows Rollout - miiiiiike http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-faulty-taptic-engine-slows-roll-out-1430339460 ====== socceroos For what it's worth, I've voted for your particular article since you've got a title that actually communicates it's content. I like that....a lot. Edit...
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ScatterScam: Detect and track counterfeit Android applications - zxxma https://scatterscam.defensive-lab.agency/ ====== zxxma Interesting new tool for those who deploy Android apps on : ScatterScam, developed by Defensive Lab Agency, specialized in privacy and security. DLA has notably worked on the Facebook data usag...
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200 years after his birth, Chopin remains a key composer - edw519 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10055/1038012-388.stm ====== RiderOfGiraffes There are a few composers that truly sing to me. J.S.Bach (with a few exceptions) is one, some of Beethoven's work, especially his later string quartets, and sometimes Mozart,...
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How can we stop the design thieves? - danw http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/archive/2008/how-can-we-stop-the-thieves/ ====== dgabriel I honestly don't think there's any way to stop people from "stealing," designs like these. It happens to many designers, and it sucks, but the choices are: \- be angry, but flattered,...
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Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why? - ryancodes ====== paulrpotts My very first address was a BITNET address. This is pre-Internet: see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET) and my address, which I don't recall, was specified with a "bang" address:...
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Construction of 505-feet wind turbines offshore with a special-purpose ship - MikeCapone http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/renewable-energy/building-giant-505-feet-wind-turbines-offshore-no-easy-task/ ====== MikeCapone That's the Gunfleet Sands phase III wind farm off the coast of England. The turbines are 6MW ge...
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G.9 Kurzwellensender Atlantik / Soldatensender Calais Daily Transcripts - wglb https://www.psywar.org/delmer/8310/1001 ====== brohee Context: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldatensender_Calais](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldatensender_Calais) This is quite entertaining. ------ gumby I wonder if these were writ...
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Why Apache Beam? A Data Artisans Perspective - zbb http://data-artisans.com/why-apache-beam/ ====== ericand Here's the Google perspective: [https://cloud.google.com/blog/big- data/2016/05/why-apache-be...](https://cloud.google.com/blog/big- data/2016/05/why-apache-beam-a-google-perspective)
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A recursive descent parser in Forth - lizmat https://mcturra2000.wordpress.com/2020/01/19/a-recursive-descent-parser-in-forthlang-and-a-nod-to-rakulang/ ====== carapace He links to an awesome article: "A BNF PARSER IN FORTH" by Brad Rodriguez that "...first appeared in ACM SigFORTH Newsletter vol. 2 no. 2" [https://ww...
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Ask HN: Employers, experience with hiring Coding Bootcamp grads? - casper345 ====== relaunched It works really well if you find a motivated candidate and have a lead developer that is both good and capable / interested in teaching others to become better developers. However, they aren't experienced in any sense of the ...
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New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars - anon1385 http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-website-loading-bars/ ====== wbond I implemented this on the Package Control ([https://sublime.wbond.net](https://sublime.wbond.net)) site over the past few months while developing it. To get a smooth transition fro...
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Ripped off by oDesk - cpg http://rippedoffbyodesk.com/ ====== kylecordes I've used outsourced and offshore developers quite a bit, spread over 5+ years. From this, I heartily recommend: * For projects of substantial time and complexity, pay by the hour. You might like to get a bid and a complete system on a fixed d...
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People Chose Bing Results Over Google in Blind Comparison Tests–Really? - gagan2020 http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/thedetails/archive/2012/08/06/bingchallenge.aspx?form=MFECOM&publ=NWSL&crea=EML_MFECOM ====== whelps I started using Windows 8 a couple days ago and decided to try out IE 10 and Bing for a l...
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Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July - dmitri1981 http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/125382282/ ====== udp London is do-able for me (Newcastle), but the problem with evening events like this is getting back - having to stay in a hotel somewhere on top of the train journey makes it a pretty expensive tri...
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Ask HN: Getting into the ML Field? - x0054 Recently I took a Coursera course by Andrew Ng on Machine Learning, and I have to say, I absolutely love this subject. Somehow it just clicks in my brain. I vectorized back propagation early on, even though in the course Andrew tells you not to try at first, and the speed imp...
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Is intellectual property law the new protectionism? Canada should be wary - walterbell http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/is-intellectual-property-law-the-new-protectionism-canada-should-be-wary/article27372889/ ====== scottfits Most the benefit of IP law goes to media and consumer produc...
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Any good api to scrape HN other than this? - kaushikfrnd https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI how to scrape HN other then https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karan&#x2F;HackerNewsAPI . any good premade library in python ? ====== carbocation The robots.txt from news.ycombinator.com reads as follows: ...
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Ask HN: What development processes do you use / recommend? - tvr ====== oguz If you ask for the methodology, my favorite one is BDD. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development> \- <http://www.quora.com/Behavior-Driven-Development-BDD> ------ rch That is a pretty open ended question... could you sha...
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Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents - akaptur https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/17-peter-norvig-and-eight-others-are-hacker-school-residents ====== davidbalbert Hi, I'm one of the founders of Hacker School. I'm happy to answer questions that anyone might have. ~~~ pnathan Why in NYC and not Se...
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Show HN: Palpiction - Demo of touch based image exploration - rjbullet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.palpiction.rohitjain.coco ====== vispi Apart from the intended purpose of accessibility.. it can be a cool game too!! And show the original image too which is described :) ~~~ rjbullet Thanks for t...
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Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite - aaronbrethorst http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/amazon-officially-announces-the-new-kindle-paperwhite-paperwhite-display-frontlighting-and-212-ppi/ ====== Roritharr I'm really disappointed. The hardware buttons for the page turn are the essential feature i l...
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Show HN: Blocksign, a Bitcoin service for legally signing any document - krisoft https://blocksignit.com/ ====== par I used this to send an offer to a candidate and get it signed, love this thing already. ------ eneve used it to sign my offer letter. worked like a charm! interesting concept as well.
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Ask HN: Hacker scene in New Delhi? - nodemaker I am most likely moving back home to New Delhi (yes m tired of the H1B slavery!) in a few weeks and was wondering if there were any hacker news folks out there.<p>I am an iOS app maker and would love to get together and make some cool apps.I havent been to India in a wh...
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Ask HN: If you got this assignment back, what would you do? - drewcrawford Hey HN, I just got back this homework assignment: http://bayimg.com/image/danjkaabg.jpg<p>It would have been a 150%, but the grander marked me down to a 70% because I typed it instead of writing it by hand. I showed all my work. A friend of...
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Ask HN: What is your hardware side project? - exxybebbi ====== stevekemp Building a small computer, powered by a Z80 processor. Currently I'm in the state where I have a Z80 CPU hooked up to an Arduino (mega). The software running on the Arduino fakes RAM and hardware I/O so I can write simple programs in Z80 assembly...
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Happy birthday to GNU: celebrating 34 years of the free software movement - jrepinc http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/happy-birthday-to-gnu-celebrating-34-years-of-the-free-software-movement ====== madmax108 Just crossposting from the article, but every year on this day I donate to the FSF. You can as well at: [https...
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Facebook Exec: Things I Hate About Working At Facebook - bmj1 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-exec-10-things-hate-142544675.html ====== misframer I still don't understand why he hates the food... > For someone like me with zero gastronomic self-control, this supposed > “benefit” or “perk” is a complete disas...
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Ask HN: What does it mean to think like a programmer? - dannygarcia As a designer turned developer I've struggled with that definition because it seems to imply that you have to be born that way.<p>Can't programming just be learned? Is that a reference geared toward mathematical theory? ====== dAnjou [http://www.pen...
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Ask HN: Where are the SoCal hackers? - iamdanellis Will SoCal ever have the culture of the bay area with good hackers building products? I think we have the talent, but most seem comfy at the movie studios, livenation, or yahoo... We need a better culture of taking chances to build great products and businesses do...
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Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico may be months without power - jonas21 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41340392 ====== Dowwie Potable water shortages presents itself as one of its most crucial challenges in the months to come.
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Productivity Hacks – The Pomodoro Technique (What, Why and How?) - joaoperibeiro http://joaoperibeiro.com/procrastination-hacks-pomodoro-technique/ ====== mamurphy This is really rough for timed tasks that take more than 25 minutes, like meetings. Is the solution to get everyone on-board (like the meeting organizers i...
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‘Age of Tech’ Is Over - 127001brewer https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/is-the-age-of-tech-over/580504/ ====== throwaway98121 The author’s thesis, to my understanding, is that because big tech isn’t trading at a huge premium that it was before, it is now dead. This is a huge stretch and clickbait garbag...
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Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More - azuajef http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/books/review/arianna-huffington-rest-alex-soojung-kim-pang.html ====== draw_down Great piece by Yasmin Nair about this book: [https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/killing-you-softly- wi...](https://www.currentaf...
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Minimum Viable Personality - robert-boehnke http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/minimum-viable-personality.html ====== paulkoer Was this meant to be funny or demonstrate a lot of personality? (as in: you will endure all this rough English because the message is so important). I am probably not getting the humor but I foun...
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The search for the killer app of unikernels - andrewstuart http://unikernel.org/blog/2017/the-search-for-the-killer-app-of-unikernels ====== andrewstuart Unikernels are not being held back by lack of a killer app. Unikernels are being held back by lack of required support from big cloud providers. Unikernels are a na...
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Ask HN: Resources for learning ARM Assembly? - jason_slack I recently bought a Parallella board which uses an Arm A9. Here is what they say:<p>The Parallella includes a low power dual core ARM A9 processor and runs several of the popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu.<p>The unique Epiphany co-processor chips c...
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BBC, Sky Have Hidden Their Interviews with UN Expert on the Torture of Assange - sschueller https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/bbc-sky-news-have-hidden-their-interviews-with-un-expert-on-the-torture-of-assange-4cb155aaf313 ====== inflatableDodo Interviewees should try and take a leaf out of Rutger Bregman's book and m...
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Butt-Head Astronomer - jaoued http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/butt-head-astronomer.html ====== nibjib If I was working at Apple at the time of this letter: 1\. Open telephone directory 2\. Find another Sagan, Carl 3\. Claim it was them all along
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Ask HN: Joomla vs Drupal (vs Magento)? - bendtheblock I am looking for opinions on which CMS is 'most appropriate' for creating reasonably sophisticated websites, sometimes with e-commerce functionality. The team creating the site is a combination of designers and developers, but the end-user could be anyone.<p>From...
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Ask HN: If HN is trust-based, why not remove the passwords? - mannicken I'm referring to PG's claim of this being a "... a community based on trust..." in thread about faking votes.<p>This is more of a witty and a bit assholish remark than anything else but how much trust exactly there is, and why trust with one thi...
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Strategy: Avoid Lots of Little Files - gk1 http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/4/strategy-avoid-lots-of-little-files.html ====== WorldMaker I think the takeaway here, as with most data problems, is be careful what you are indexing and why/how. What file systems optimize their indices for is not necessarily what yo...
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Peer to Peer (P2P) in Flash Player 10 beta - prakash http://justin.everett-church.com/index.php/2008/05/23/astrop2p/ ====== wmf This is useful mostly because it debunks some of the incorrect and unfounded speculation about the topic.
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Why the demise of companies is a good thing - fgvqdc https://www.indiehackers.com/@mschleiss/why-the-demise-of-companies-is-a-good-thing-1a502330dd ====== aurizon Sadly, few constitutions require the elimination of old laws. I think a sunset clauses is needed, perhaps also one that would start at 1900 and sweep forwar...
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