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Mashups Are Breaking the Mold at Microsoft - bootload http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/business/10slipstream.html?_r=1&ex=1360386000&en=60296335da445fc7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin ====== altano I tried to play with Popfly. It wouldn't work in Safari so I downloaded Firefox. Then I had to register an...
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Lunar entrepreneurs: privately funded SpaceX orbits Earth. - FrancofileL http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/technology/090720/space-commercialization-private-firms-rocket-launch ====== JunkDNA I love what SpaceX is doing and I really, really hope they succeed. I'm not sure if it's founded or not, but I fear we're at...
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Nassim Taleb discusses uncertainty; more technical than his other talks (2009) - kubrickslair http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/Flash/9112b33e-4480-41b5-91a6-d90f93750b99/viewer.html ====== kubrickslair Get's most interesting (statistics and real-world wise) from 13:00 onwards.
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Ask HN: How to get hired by GitHub? - trumbitta2 Hey, for the last few years I&#x27;ve had the self-imposed goal of landing a job at GitHub as a UX Engineer.<p>Any advice, maybe from someone who&#x27;s actually made it?<p>This is what I tried, so far:<p>I&#x27;m constantly refining my LinkedIn profile and CV&#x2F;Resu...
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My experience as a solo founder applying to YCF with just an idea on HackerNews - abhi3 https://medium.com/@ApplyHN/my-experience-as-a-solo-founder-applying-to-yc-fellowship-with-just-an-idea-on-hacker-news-and-d04d3f44cf77#.54z9hwahi ====== minimaxir Copy/Pasting my response from Reddit: > They did polarize opinion ...
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Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security strategy - toocool Hi<p>After the latest events, I thought I&#x27;d share with HN what I do to protect myself from identity theft, and ask for suggestions. I&#x27;ll try to be brief. The goal is to be in a sweet spot between convenience and security:<p>- Froze my cr...
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The Fading Dream to Liberate Africa’s Last Colony - pmcpinto https://newrepublic.com/article/133561/fading-dream-liberate-africas-last-colony ====== AtlasLion People really need to read up about the alternative, The polisario Militia is not exactly a step forward for the Saharan population. Mohamed Abdelaziz their Se...
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The Biggest Problem with Google Glass - jsoverson http://jarrodoverson.com/blog/the-one-biggest-problem-with-google-glass/ ====== dm2 This "problem" can pretty easily be fixed with a more flexible frame and a slim carrying case. It's prototype hardware that you are critiquing. Google Glass is more than just the har...
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Bot that translates tweets from lemondefr to Schtroumpf(Smurf) language - SelrahcD https://twitter.com/leschtroumpffr ====== Kiteklate #Troll shtroumpfer
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Show HN: DiscoverDev.io – Handpicked developer blogs via RSS and email - deepakkarki https://www.discoverdev.io/ ====== deepakkarki I'm posting this because my comment on another post ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17004898](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17004898)) got some traction. Thought I'd post it...
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Ask HN: what do you use for hep documentation in your web app? - racerrick A cms? Blog software? Hardcore? ====== racerrick That was supposed to say "hardcode". Thank you autofill.
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Why Wall Street's Layoffs Are More Serious Than You Think - a5seo http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2011/11/16/why-wall-streets-layoffs-are-more-serious-than-you-think/ ====== jfb It is deeply uncharitable of me to say so, but: cry me a goddamned river.
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Ask HN: How do I know where my mobile downloads are coming from? - peterstark Hi everyone,<p>Last month, my company launched its first mobile app. The team has been promoting the app all over the place (FB, Twitter, forums, email, Ads, PR, etc). As a result, we have grown to a few thousand users, which is awesome.<p...
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7 Reasons Why The New iPad Is Named “The New iPad” - ding_dong777 http://appchronicles.com/03/7-reasons-why-the-new-ipad-is-named-the-new-ipad/ ====== callil It's pretty simple, Apple usually uses a one name paradigm for their devices and does not distinguish version numbers, the MacBook has always been a Macbook bu...
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Since SVN revision r4027 source code is personally insulting me (2008) - 6581 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454 ====== gregmac Consider the amount of effort collectively spent by people in that thread trying to justify not spending the time to modify a single line of code, where the fix is just ...
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Fluid Injection's Role in Man-Made Earthquakes Revealed - jrs235 http://www.caltech.edu/news/fluid-injections-role-man-made-earthquakes-revealed-46986?rp ====== beloch "The experiment revealed that fluid injection itself did not directly provoke an earthquake. Instead, the aseismic slip likely built up stress at the...
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Handy, a hot startup for home cleaning, has a big mess of its own - prostoalex http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/07/handy_a_hot_startup_for_home_cleaning_has_a_big_mess_of_its_own.single.html ====== shalmanese This blog post from a job seeker matches the experiences listed in the article well: [http...
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Arimaa – Intuitively simple, intellectually challenging - jonbaer http://arimaa.com/arimaa/ ====== oscilloscope The ultimate intuitively simple and intellectually challenging game is Go. Go's rules are far simpler than Arimaa's, and it's just as challenging for computers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)](http...
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How to start a company, for programmers - soundsop http://codehope.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-start-company-for-programmers.html ====== marketer After reading his previous entry, "Linus is Darth Vader, and IBM stole Linux", it's hard to assign credibililty to this one.
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Ask YC: Who's launching something soon? - robmnl I'd like to get to know some more of the startups you people are launching. When's your launch date?<p>What are you launching? ====== jmitchell Just launched <http://markmail.org/> Mailing list search for open-source communities is the first thing out of the gate. --...
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Need a Job? Learn Linux - ukdm http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/14/need-a-job-learn-linux/ ====== ecaron A big kudos to Dice.com for getting such traction out of this non-story. The actual content of their infographic - [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/dice_lf_linu...](http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites...
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Don't leave anything out. - xyclos http://drex.svbtle.com/dont-leave-anything-out ====== timrosenblatt Good post. This is why I like screencasts. Writeups are a version of reality. Unfortunately writeups are faster to produce. Trade offs!!
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Inside Lucasfilm's Data Center - taylorbuley http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110325/lucasfilms-data-center-and-an-encounter-with-the-real-death-star-video/ ====== phlux Heh. I designed that facility. Back then, it was for Raleigh Mann, who is now head of net ops (director?) at google. The original design of th...
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3 things that weren't leaked before the Google Nexus announcement - stevep2007 http://www.networkworld.com/article/2987667/android/google-nexus-smartphones-announcement-chromecast-tv-audio.html?nsdr=true ====== stevep2007 This announcement was packed with details about products for consumers - and just one for both co...
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Increase Conversions with Call-to-Action Buttons - blakeperdue http://pixify.com/blog/increase-conversions-with-call-to-action-buttons/ ====== metachris Beautiful themes: \- [http://pixify.com/blog/increase-conversions-with-call-to- act...](http://pixify.com/blog/increase-conversions-with-call-to-action- buttons/#d...
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Bringing Forward Collision Warnings to our open source self-driving car - pd0wm https://medium.com/@comma_ai/bringing-forward-collision-warnings-to-our-open-source-self-driving-car-7545b6e398cd ====== cyrux004 I am assuming this needs a supported car since you use radar/ACC for detecting lead cars. When will this come...
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The Hilbert Hotel - appfactories http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/the-hilbert-hotel ====== btilly I am amused that only one interpretation of the facts is considered, and not its bizarre consequences. At the end it is mentioned that the real numbers from 0 to 1 are not enumerable. Therefore there exi...
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Multi-threaded emulation for QEMU - webaholic https://lwn.net/Articles/697265/ ====== bonzini Here is a paper from last month's CGO2017 conference, explaining the techniques more in detail: [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cota/pubs/cota_cgo17.pdf](http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cota/pubs/cota_cgo17.pdf) ------ 0xcde4c3db F...
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Let’s retire RSS when they retire Google Reader - hoov http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/29/lets-retire-rss-when-they-retire-google-reader-2/ ====== dalke "More important, pushing all these RSS readers back to websites will enable publishers to create more revenue." That's ... boring. Not everyone demands that people w...
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IPredict: Speed of light actually exceeded by 2015 - PythonDeveloper Okay all you theoretical zealots, save your anger and your rage for someone else. You won't get my goat on this one.<p>It's widely accepted that c0, the speed of light in a vacuum, which has a refractive index of 1.0, is 299,792,458 meters per sec...
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JustType - simple text editor, inspired from DarkCopy - Veera http://veerasundar.com/app/justtype/ ====== shaunxcode seems to have issues when you are at the bottom of the doc and press enter and continue typing i.e it is not "auto" scrolling to the bottom of the text area so you can't see what you are typing. (ffox...
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Average Conversion Rates by Industry and Expert Recommendations - growlix https://unbounce.com/conversion-rate-optimization/unbounce-conversion-benchmark-report/ ====== growlix Direct link to PDF: [http://unbounce.com/docs/The-Unbounce-Conversion- Benchmark-R...](http://unbounce.com/docs/The-Unbounce-Conversion-Benchm...
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Senators demand answers over Chinese 'spy chip' - anon49124 https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/10/senators-demand-answers-for-china-spy-chip-claims/ ====== craftyguy When is the last time that someone answering "senators' demands for answers" has resulted in anything remotely punitive or (socially) productive? It seems ...
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Image Showing The Surface Area Required To Power The World With Solar Panels - Freebytes http://imgur.com/j9wrB.jpg ====== onreact-com You don't need additional space for solar panels. You can add them to existing buildings or even above parking spaces. So you actually need zero space. ~~~ darien Just imagine how m...
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Readable Hacker News Chrome Extension - jarquesp https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jnnojalnifmaekkfknejbppafnaiepjl?hl=en ====== idle_processor Aesthetic changes like this seem better suited to being Stylish[1] layouts or Greasemonkey[2] scripts, rather than full-blown extensions. A quick userscripts.org se...
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The Final Pivot: A Funeral for Failed Startups - microtherion http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/final-pivot-a-funeral-for-failed-start-ups.html ====== dreadsword That sounds like a great event to learn at.
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A Walk Through Druid Heights (2018) - Thevet https://medium.com/@savedruidheights/a-first-visit-to-druid-heights-5956d613110c ====== EdwardDiego What is it being saved from?
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Ask HN: Best Technical Book Publishers - WoodenChair In your opinion, which companies are the best and most reputable publishers of general interest technical books? I&#x27;m largely interested in your opinion on programming books with a fairly broad audience. In other words, when you see a book by this publisher, you...
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What content management system allows to serve private content via unique url? - bitcuration ====== feralmoan bipio ([https://bip.io](https://bip.io)) kind of does it, its an ephemeral web hook engine which can obfuscate content sources, with auth/ssl and temporary lifespan etc. I could help you out with it if you ...
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Ask HN: Books for writing a data-intensive Python webapp using CouchDB? - tdoggette What are the go-to books for gaining comprehension of Python web frameworks (like Django), modern web (and web app) design, and dealing with large amounts of data and analytics, possibly using CouchDB as the database?&#60;p&#62;It's ...
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He was a crook (1994) - antman http://m.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm?single_page=true ====== lmg643 I will confess - I've never read a complete Hunter S Thompson piece before. I could see how this appeals to younger people - very edgy and casts everything in a nice black-and-white frame with good vs...
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Avoiding Programming burnout: lessons learned from a 19th century philosopher - fagnerbrack https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/09/27/avoiding-burnout/ ====== yesenadam The article refers to John Stuart Mill's _Autobiography_. Mill talks about his amazing early education at the very beginning of the book, starting with...
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Ask HN: Found cofounder, cant' find idea. What to do? - a_lifters_life Has anyone been in this situation? How did you proceed? ====== pavornyoh What do you mean "can't find idea"? If you didn't have an idea, why look for a co-founder? I hope you are not looking to start a startup just because you want to do one. ~~~ ...
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Do we even need men? - mdrzn https://lithub.com/do-we-even-need-men/ ====== zunzun Once female stem cells can be made into spermatozoa cells - research that is now underway - men will be physically unnecessary for reproduction as women could in theory use technology to fertilize each other's egg cells. This would not ...
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Show HN: DeepElonMusk, a LSTM Neural Network Trained on Elon Musk Transcripts - berpj https://twitter.com/DeepElonMusk ====== berpj Here is the dataset I used: [https://github.com/berpj/elon-musk- dataset](https://github.com/berpj/elon-musk-dataset)
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Is fat killing you, or is sugar? - pablobaz http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/is-fat-killing-you-or-is-sugar ====== LyndsySimon I moved to a ketogenic diet on January 9th of this year. I weighed 318 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 282 pounds. That's 36 pounds lost - 11.3% of my body mass - in 77 days, an...
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A regular expression to test for divisibility by 7 - eru http://slexy.org/view/s2QFWeNxZo ====== btilly The link is not loading for me. So I can only guess how it was done. But here is how _I_ would do it. First as you proceed through the digits of a number, you know that after each digit you will have some remainder...
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How to build a social entertainment website - jmonegro http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ev2zb/i_run_thathighcom_and_it_pays_my_rent_in_san/c1b6ql9 ====== raptrex He also started <https://www.djangy.com/> [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ev2zb/i_run_thathighco...](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ev2z...
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Free and Open Source: Touch4j, Titanium4, Flash4j, Air4j and more. - quidavoto http://www.dzone.com/links/free_and_open_source_touch4j_titanium4j_flash4j_a.html ====== quidavoto Get it while it is hot. All packages can be downloaded right now.
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How to build cross-platform mobile apps with JSON - quincyla https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-build-cross-platform-mobile-apps-using-nothing-more-than-a-json-markup-f493abec1873#.318bp8pum ====== gambler JSON is the new XML. Except XML was actually designed to have semantics, while similar attempts in JSON are j...
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One impact of the dropping of Python 2 from Linux distributions - gerikson https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/Python2DroppingImpact ====== mindcrime You can always fork and maintain the Python2 runtime yourself. Or pay somebody to do it. Or wait and see if a community fork of a maintained Python 2 emerges...
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GitHub is not your new résumé - thinkingserious http://www.brandonmwest.com/development/2013/08/22/github-is-not-your-new-resume.html ====== hackula1 The one beef I have with the "my github page is my resume" meme is that many developers work in spaces where they do not have the ability to work with open source much...
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Idea: an open platform for generating custom legal contracts - guptaneil http://openideas.ideon.co/2011/cure-for-jurisdyslexia-discovered? ====== nyellin I suggested this to a lawyer I respect once and he suggested I write a program to do my programming. We discussed the concept in depth, and it might be more complex...
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NASA proposes new propulsion to cut Mars voyage to 3 days - leecarraher http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-02/22/laser-propulsion-system-mars-in-3-days ====== rubidium back-of-envelope: conservation of momentum: 2 _(num photons)_ h/lambda = (100 kg)*(c/3), so 5.9×10^36 photons needed to propel a 100 kg object t...
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Web apps, credit cards, merchant accounts and PayPal - adamcharnock http://playnice.ly/blog/2011/03/23/web-apps-credit-cards-merchant-accounts-and-paypal/ ====== rexreed I'm surprised it took this long and cost that much to get the merchant account and recurring billing setup. We have an Authorize.Net merchant accoun...
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Enterprise Cloudworks: One Platform, No Code, Any Application - Goatmouth http://enterprisecloudworks.com/ ====== karmajunkie Efforts have been made at graphical programming for decades now, to no avail. I see those as a far lesser threat than better frameworks and infrastructure automation that allow fewer programm...
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Inventing the Future - astigsen https://www.oculus.com/blog/inventing-the-future/ ====== aaronaarzelbart So much corporate communication is, in the end, just recruiting advertisements. These big companies Like Facebook and Amazon need to create gigantic free universities that are incredibly appealing to attend, givin...
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FFTs and Optical Lenses - skierscott http://scottsievert.github.io/blog/2014/05/27/fourier-transforms-and-optical-lenses/ ====== mgraczyk Interesting topic, but one thing should be made clear for people without an engineering/applied mathematics background. The FFT is not the same as the fourier transform. Most of ...
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DIY on the Moon: how Buzz saved the launch back to Earth - dlnovell http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6625673.ece ====== ckinnan Cool story. I learned something else from the comments-- the Apollo missions left reflecting mirrors on the moon and we have been pinging them with lasers ever since....
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Using fabric with EthOS - degconnect https://github.com/degconnect/ethos-fabric ====== antmor70 So you can do degflasher([http://flasher.degconnect.com](http://flasher.degconnect.com)) using your fabric file too. Is it really easy to flash RX 570 4GB using it?
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FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf] - aaronbrethorst https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-568A1.pdf ====== genjipress "...the ruling is subject to the requirement that Cumulus obtain specific approval for any foreign individual, entity, or group of such individuals or entiti...
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Wal-Mart Returning To Full-Time Workers - TheLegace http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/09/25/wal-mart-returning-to-full-time-workers-obamacare-not-such-a-job-killer-after-all/1/ ====== michaelwww I was surprised to see this in Forbes but the author says _" I write from the left on politics and policy."_ and _"...
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Predicting the Future with Google Maps APIs - Oatseller http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2015/11/predicting-future-with-google-maps-apis.html ====== bambax Can someone please explain what this means: > _up to now, [traffic predictions] [were] limited to Google Maps for Work > customers only. > Today [...] we’...
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Trump Shutdown Must End - joelx https://joelx.com/trumps-shutdown-must-end/14546/ ====== taylodl We'll see what happens once the airports shut down. If not this paycheck then certainly the next - air traffic controllers are going to strike and then it's Game Over. Trump may declare the strike illegal, but the court ca...
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How we turned a hobby into a dream work - toround We are a team of creative, business people with vast array of ideas, projects and tasks. We need to intelligently manage our time. We tried many different task managers, but none of the existing solutions answered our demands. That is why we decided to create a task m...
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Time interviews Larry Page about new venture to extend human life - raldi http://business.time.com/2013/09/18/google-extend-human-life/ ====== manifold > One of the things I thought was amazing is that if you solve cancer, you’d > add about three years to people’s average life expectancy ... it’s not as > big an adv...
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13900+ of these devices have their password as “123456” - DyslexicAtheist https://twitter.com/ankit_anubhav/status/1017836336672399361 ====== fencepost I haven't tested, but this appears to be (mostly) "Unidentified" and a few LANDesk Remote Control or Remote Management. That makes me wonder if they all are, and wheth...
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Internap evacuates LGA datacenter - brokentone http://pastebin.com/9Fr2eW6U ====== KyleBrandt Stackoverflow and Stack Exchange are usually hosted in that building at peer 1, but we failed over to our secondary dc out in OR ealier in the evening. ------ lucb1e It's interesting to see how a storm can singlehandedly c...
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Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware - mparramon http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/how-i-taught-my-computer-to-write-its-own-musichttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/bank-hackers-steal-millions-via-malware.html ====== dredmorbius Page not found.
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The email, data and privacy implications of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn - zhuxuefeng1994 https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/16/the-email-data-and-privacy-implications-of-microsofts-acquisition-of-linkedin/ ====== brudgers Microsoft paid about $60 per member. That's not counting the value of Linkedin's assets or re...
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What language has the quickest payback? - biznerd I&#x27;ve tried numerous times to pick up programming in my free time. I&#x27;m not dumb (actually smart when it comes to SAT tests) but I&#x27;ve always failed.<p>Looking back, I think what hurts me is the feedback loop. To get a job in programming would take 6 months...
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Show HN: Compute similarity to wikipedia vital articles using doc2vec - amirouche https://github.com/amirouche/wikimark ====== opax Great script. The API is pretty easy to use. Could be integrate to many projects
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AppStore Developers Aren't Millionaires, But Some Are Living Life Richly - pxlpshr http://appcubby.com/blog/files/app_cubby_success.html ====== pxlpshr David of AppCubby was quoted in the Newsweek article. <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867048> I thought the post he published to his blog today reflects what a...
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A filesharing parable - indy http://zenbullets.com/blog/?p=525 ====== DanielStraight Sigh. If every music pirate spent hundreds annually on concerts and impulse- bought mp3s, maybe pirating wouldn't be a problem. I don't know a single person like Barry though. Let me tell you about real people I know, not made up on...
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The Trouble with Twitter - jkopelman http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080815_597307.htm ====== shafqat I love how Josh posts here. Redeye VC or Grassroots VC?
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Node.js Examples – How Enterprises Use Node in 2016 - hfeeri https://blog.risingstack.com/node-js-examples-how-enterprises-use-node-in-2016/ ====== daxfohl > Because of the way Node works we can attach debuggers, and set breakpoint > steps through the code. If you wanted to debug these groovy scripts in the > past, yo...
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AirBnB and Weebly interviews now online - jl http://ycombinator.posterous.com/airbnb-and-weebly-interviews-now-online ====== jayair Its kinda cool how David mentioned they use Google Spreadsheets for their team task list (if I understood correctly). We do the exact same thing at our startup. Two founders, on one spr...
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Awful AI: a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - dsr12 https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai ====== parliament32 Some of this list doesn't seem fitting... > Uber God View - Uber's "God View" let Uber employees see all of the Ubers in > a city and the silhouettes of waiting Uber users who have flagged car...
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Should I work for free? (Flowchart) - Sukotto http://shouldiworkforfree.com/ ====== ColinWright Many comments from when this was last submitted: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098332>
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Show HN: A website to analyse your NPM package and create an npmignore file - junkern https://package-analyser.herokuapp.com/ ====== junkern This is a fun-weekend project I built during the last days. What I like about such small projects is the possibility to try out new technologies or tools (and maybe use them in b...
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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End - pavel_lishin https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-puzzle-of-clever-connections-nears-a-happy-end-20170530/ ====== triplesec As soon as Ronald Graham turned up it wasn't surprisinng that this was related to Ramsey Theory, even as a non-mathematician. Graham's Number is suc...
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New York Times Experiments with Ways to Fight Ad Blocking - eplanit http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-experiments-with-ways-to-fight-ad-blocking-1457378218 ====== hackuser _“The goal is to inform users of the harm of ad blocking and to encourage the whitelisting of nytimes.com. Ad blockers do not serve the lo...
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Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s electricity needs yesterday - prostoalex http://qz.com/450737/denmarks-wind-farms-generated-140-of-the-countrys-electricity-needs-yesterday/ ====== interfixus Alas, as the wind soars, so do our energy costs. Danish electricity prices have only gone up, up, up, and t...
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"The Issues" - a Demo Realtime Application in AngularJS - embwbam https://github.com/seanhess/the-issues-angularjs-demo ====== embwbam I made this for a local user's group. It demonstrates how to do some "custom" stuff in Angular. It includes two custom directives, one of them is bound to a jQuery plugin. I also mad...
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How Andrew Warner decides who to interview - revorad http://mixergy.com/how-do-i-decide-who-to-interview/ ====== zandorg Yeah, like if he interviewed me - "My positive attitude to making profits had a downward effect on my profits". In other words, I haven't made a million, and I haven't got a success story.
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Show HN: Hnr.el – Simple Hacker News Reader for Emacs - calx https://github.com/c41x/hnr.el ====== rafaqueque Amazing. Any good options for vim?
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Hound: A Fast Code Search Tool - caiobegotti http://codeascraft.com/2015/01/27/announcing-hound-a-lightning-fast-code-search-tool/ ====== spain I'd be interested in knowing how this compares to the Silver Searcher [0], I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned at all since they're similar. [0] [https://github.com/ggreer/the_...
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How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name - ca98am79 http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-someones-age-when-all-you-know-is-her-name/ ====== te_platt Not only can you get a good idea of age from a name you can generate names that match age and sex. I have a niece who recently did a science fai...
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Startup Quote: Justin Kan, co-founder, Justin.tv - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/3144888909 ====== raychancc I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out. \- Justin Kan (@justinkan) <http://startupquote.com/post/3144888909>
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Human Extinction by 2026? (Part 1 of 3) - rolph https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2019/06/23/human-extinction-by-2026-part-1-of-3/ ====== diavelguru The world will heat up and Wars will be fought for those needing to move to other areas to avoid the increasing heat. We will not go extinct directly due to the heat but ind...
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Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars - evo_9 https://electrek.co/2019/09/19/daimler-stops-developing-internal-combustion-engines-to-focus-on-electric-cars/ ====== mherrmann Sorry, but this is just wrong. The original source [0] quoted in the article says: > jetzt ist erstmal ...
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Windows 1.01 in Your Browser - eliyak http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc/machine/5160/cga/256kb/win101/ ====== azakai Nice! If you missed it, there was also a similar demo but with Windows 95 just a few days ago, [http://win95.ajf.me/](http://win95.ajf.me/) ~~~ ikeboy 93 was better [http://www.windows93.net/](http://w...
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Netflix Apologizes to Customers & Rebrands Its DVD Service - jamesbritt http://mashable.com/2011/09/19/netflix-qwikster-apology/ ====== jerrya 1\. I found value in having the instant queue and dvd queue integrated. I could pick and choose how I wanted to watch a movie very easily. With separate queues on separate webs...
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Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015) - cpeterso https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-announces-new-do-not-track-standard-web-browsing ====== NelsonMinar The decision of the Internet advertising industry to ignore the original Do Not Track setting is a landmark in the cynicism...
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Google's push from Talk to Hangouts, XMPP and workonomic - middayc http://workonomic.blogspot.com/2013/05/googles-push-from-google-talk-to-google.html ====== captn3m0 We use partychat extensively, and everyone who tried out the new hangouts faced the same issue: Our partychat bot won't even show up in the list. Mess...
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Monitoring Distributed System Health with Ruby, Splunk, and Honeybadger - jeffthespasm http://techblog.trunkclub.com/2015/08/21/health-monitoring-with-splunk.html ====== zer00eyz Splunk is an amazing tool. The amount of data I can jam into logs can give massive, real time insight into everything. When engineers sta...
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This Entrepreneur Raised $300,000 By Wearing Dad’s Wool Shirt For 100 Days - starpilot http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682002/this-24-year-old-entrepreneur-raised-300000-by-wearing-dad-s-wool-shirt-for-100-days ====== hardwaresofton Isn't this another misuse of Kickstarter?
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Ask HN: What projects are you working on? - mfalcon I&#x27;ve recently finished working on some clients projects and now I&#x27;ve got some time to work on my own projects. I&#x27;d like to know in which projects the hn people is working on for some inspiration. ====== jlhonora I'm connecting a Hedgehog to the Interne...
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The Benefits of a Quiet Ego - gull http://www.quietrev.com/the-surprising-benefits-of-a-quiet-ego/ ====== icanhackit The gold is at the bottom: _“The humble person is probably more aware and accepting of the fact that against a cosmic scale of time and space, every human being is minute.”_ If there's one thing that w...
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Nexus Security Bulletin – December 2015 - aroch https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2015-12-01.html ====== mtgx Another critical media server vulnerability? Really? Is Google at least working on an overhaul of its media library for the next version of Android?
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