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Drawing parallels between an ex-girlfriend and an ex-domain name - foxhop http://russell.ballestrini.net/drawing-parallels-between-an-ex-girlfriend-and-an-ex-domain-name/ ====== foxhop Has the latter (friend registers expired domain name) ever happened to anyone?
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The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings - 0cool http://www.wired.com/2014/09/r0-ebola/ ====== ChuckMcM Going 'meta' for a moment, this is a tragedy of huge proportions, the question I have been considering is whether or not it is even _possible_ to avoid? Updates from MSF which highlight the level of mistrust...
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The largest Git repo - ethomson https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/ ====== js2 _Windows, because of the size of the team and the nature of the work, often has VERY large merges across branches (10,000’s of changes with 1,000’s of conflicts)._ At a former startup, our...
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Potential Goldmine: Branded Artist Apps Could Make Money and Please Fans - geoffsanders http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/branded-artist-apps/ ====== geoffsanders I actually applied to this summers YC batch with an idea regarding just this thing! I'm the co-founder of Fangible (<http://www.fangible.com>) and we...
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Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Venture Capitalists - mollylynn http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngreathouse/2012/05/02/entrepreneurs-shouldnt-pitch-their-ideas-to-venture-capitalists/ ====== evincarofautumn Shouldn’t these things be obvious? Work hard, be persistent, have a clear vision, treat money care...
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Be well prepared to limit/reduce legal fees - pedalpete http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/07/eyodf-part-two-the-l-word.html ====== grellas An idealized case is described here: knowledgeable entrepreneur works with cooperative investor to pre-negotiate all the business terms, with the attorneys brought in essenti...
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The Ghost Protocol – Digital Identity for Immortals - ThomPete http://000fff.org/the-ghost-protocol-digital-identity-for-immortals/ ====== CapitalistCartr His initial statement, "It takes seven years for each and every atom in your body to be replaced by another." sounds like an urban myth, and he provides zero docume...
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React: Or, #NoBackbone2018 - mmozuras http://engineering.vinted.com/2017/05/04/react/ ====== MatekCopatek While I'm happy for them, I feel this makes us JS devs look pretty bad. Don't get me wrong, I like to use the latest library as much as the next guy, but every ecosystem has a bunch of legacy libraries/frameworks/...
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Open Source Codebase for project SixthSense by Pranav Mistry - nikhildaga https://github.com/sixthsense/sixthsense ====== aggarwalachal This has been open source for quite some time now. This is probably what inspired the latest Microsoft Research demo <http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/?id=160684> For thos...
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Ask HN: How to evaluate job offers? - job-dilemma I&#x27;m a computer programmer and I&#x27;ve found myself in the enviable position of having to choose between 2 nice job offers. It&#x27;s a classic dilemma of high risk v. high reward or corporate work for higher pay (~15%).<p>I am married with a child and my wife d...
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Show HN: My startup, Compilr, an online IDE & compiler. Has over 30,000 users - phankinson http://www.compilr.com/ ====== famousactress Random suggestion: I think it would be awesome if your landing page let me write code.. Knowing how it 'feels' to write (and run!) a Hello World without registering, etc. would be a...
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Show HN: Mr. Chatbot, a one-click e-commerce chatbot - zirkonit http://www.mrchatbot.com ====== zirkonit Hey all, very happy to open doors to something we've been working on for quite some time. Mr. Chatbot's goal is for any e-commerce shop owner to have a Messenger (and other platforms down the road) bot which is mo...
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Why I'm not hiring - cwan http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704017904575409733776372738-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwODEwNDgyWj.html ====== jsz0 I believe state & federal taxes existed 3-4 years ago when unemployment was at 5% so I'm not sure how it's relevant to the current unemployment situation. Also as a rul...
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Selling App Startup Feedback - azcoaster http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blastur.launchrock.com&#x2F; I wanted to gather some feedback about a startup idea I&#x27;ve had. The premise is that if you want to sell a used book or rollerblades, to find a buyer, you may have to wait months to connect with the right buyer or, you have to m...
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Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web - llambda http://blog.instagram.com/post/42363074191/instagramfeed ====== bluetidepro > " _We do not offer the ability to upload from the web as Instagram is about > producing photos on the go, in the real world, in realtime. On the other > hand, Instagram for the web is focu...
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Why BrightRoll's Engineering Team Chose CanJS - phamilton http://blog.brightroll.com/2015/02/23/why-brightrolls-engineering-team-chose-canjs/ ====== lukeknep Partial to Angular, but she provides good reasons for choosing CanJS (being faster with large datasets, being less opinionated). ------ moschel well written a...
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force.com: The Perils of Platform As A Service - terpua http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/2421/force-com-The-Perils-of-Platform-As-A-Service.aspx ====== edw519 Same reasoning in the physical world, where McDonald's was always reluctant to locate inside malls (still is). Who wants to be a hostage unless you hav...
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An Introduction to Angular for Backbone developers - Lazare https://koglerjs.com/verbiage/angular ====== kilemensi I couldn't agree more with this article. For all the Angular.JS beauty and promises, I can't get past their decision of 'extend' a document mark-up language (HTML) into a 'full' programming language wi...
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Cryptocurrency Analysis with Python – Log Returns - HIP_HOP https://romanorac.github.io/cryptocurrency/analysis/2017/12/29/cryptocurrency-analysis-with-python-part3.html ====== ultrafilter Nice overall; my only complaint is that you raised the question "Are LTC log returns normally distributed?" but only gave an unint...
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Impact of Data Science and AI on tech deliveries and how to mitigate complexity - moonpool https://datalanguage.com/features/current-impacts-of-ai-on-technology-delivery ====== mattshearer Nice mitigation strategies. Domain modelling is essential imho
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IGoogle to be retired by November 2013 - timack http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197 ====== madelfio Very unhappy about this... I've been using iGoogle as my start page for years. I use iGoogle to see several custom Google News searches (for news about my current project, old compa...
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Jack in the Box CEO: Swapping cashiers for robots 'makes sense' as wage increase - kimsk112 http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/01/10/jack-in-box-ceo-swapping-cashiers-for-robots-makes-sense-due-to-minimum-wage-increase.html ====== seangrant As soon as those computers are cheaper than human labor, of course it make...
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Is your stuff falling apart? Thank Walmart. - cawel http://grist.org/business-technology/2011-11-11-is-your-stuff-falling-apart-thank-walmart/ ====== noonespecial Its a bit of a two edged sword. Walmart-ism democratized _stuff_. Just before my grandfather died he gave me a circular saw he got in the late 50's. It c...
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CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (PragProg book, now in beta) - TrevorBurnham http://pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript/ ====== TrevorBurnham I'm the author. Earlier discussion at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498438>, but I felt it as appropriate to post it again now that the book is...
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Ask HN: Should I focus on my strengths or compensate for my weaknesses? - biznerd We all have a limited amount of time and willpower to spend. I remember reading here (can&#x27;t find the post) that the really successful people focus on their strengths than compensate for their weaknesses.<p>I was talking to a found...
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Show HN: A fast lines-of-code counter written in Rust - cgag https://github.com/cgag/loc ====== devy Just cloned and cargo built it. Took a test repo and ran both loc and cloc to do a side by side comparison. Surprisingly there are HUGE discrepancies reported. Also loc took 2-3 seconds to finish whereas cloc took almo...
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Ask HN: Have you defined your vision and mission? - Roedou My company is currently talking internally about defining our 'mission' and 'vision'.<p>Are there any startups or more established companies here that successfully went through this process?<p>Some specific questions: How did you get there? (Was the mission/...
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CDN performance: Downloading jQuery from Google, Microsoft, and Edgecast CDNs - hamstersoup http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/05/11/cdn-performance-downloading-jquery-from-google-microsoft-and-edgecast-cdns ====== PanMan While interesting (and different results than I expected), I would say uptime here is even more impo...
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HERA – Caling Database Access for 100s of Billions of Queries per Day PayPal - el_duderino https://medium.com/paypal-engineering/scaling-database-access-for-100s-of-billions-of-queries-per-day-paypal-introducing-hera-e192adacda54 ====== nishantvyas I posted it here, yesterday, [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205...
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I'ma Set It Straight, This Watergate - dwynings http://daringfireball.net/2012/01/ima_set_it_straight_this_watergate ====== rickmb I don't like Apple's proprietary tactics (not any proprietary format for ebooks for that matter), but greed and incompetence on the side of the publishers killed the viability of ePub as a...
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Evil: A site that displays the phone numbers of random Facebook users - ssclafani http://www.tomscott.com/evil/ ====== bradleyland Once upon a time, there used to be these books that contained everyone's phone number. They called them the "White Pages". Oh the humanity! ~~~ marcusbooster And it didn't have pictures...
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"Text editors should take a lesson from video games." - silentbicycle http://ozmm.org/posts/learning_your_editor.html ====== 12ren An editor is more like a "toy" than a "game" (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407816>), because it lacks goals. _This “toy” should be the core mechanic of the game minus any goals...
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Differentiable Programming for Image Processing and Deep Learning in Halide [pdf] - kevlar1818 https://people.csail.mit.edu/tzumao/gradient_halide/gradient_halide.pdf ====== vanderZwan Very glad to see that Halide keeps being developed, despite remaining a bit of a niche language (for now). Anything that makes squeez...
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Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet - Ologn http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/us/politics/documents-show-liberals-in-irs-dragnet.html ====== hga A relevant clarification from an earlier version of the list; the article includes it so you can judge for yourself: [http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351930/look...
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The Micronesian island of Yap has stone money too heavy to move - MiriamWeiner http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180502-the-tiny-island-with-human-sized-money ====== code_duck I don’t think currency is a good explanation for the use of these stones - they seem more like assets, such as real estate or gems. “The value...
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Ask HN: Subreddits like HN - HNLurker2 What are other subreddits: high signal to noise ratio, expertise people who write them, also being sensitive to reposts (just like the function of searching past).<p>Surprisingly there isn&#x27;t any good community on the subject of: Logic (Philosophy of mathematics) expect HN th...
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Cloudflare Workers Sites: Static Sites on the Edge - jgrahamc https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-sites/?a ====== ffritz This sounds awesome. I am already using Netlify for all my sites (all Vue based) and it’s super fast, but I will definitely check this out, especially how the performance compares. For my applicati...
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Quora Security Update - dotmanish https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?read=true&amp;share=1 ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18594564](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18594564).
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Estonia e-residency application now online - sytze http://apply.e-estonia.com/ ====== Katre Hi everyone, this is Katre from the communications team in the e-Residency program. Thank you so much for your interest! We are proud to launch the first government-backed digital identity in the world. Here in Estonia, we view...
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From iPhone to Android - justinl http://carpeaqua.com/2010/05/26/from-iphone-to-android/ ====== ZeroGravitas He's not kidding when he says he's sweating the little things: "Why is the browser called Browser rather than Chrome?" That's not an _annoyance_ , it's barely an observation.
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Let's Take a Trip Inside a Power Strip - loser777 http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/661-power-strip-bar-surge-protection.html ====== IvyMike A few years ago, I decided I wanted to get a good power strip. At the end of a few hours research, I concluded that there wasn't any trustworthy third party actually doi...
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'Tinder for Elites' hosting $3K cruise in France, a rising trend in dating apps - ss2003 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-league-dating-app-cruise-in-france-2018-6 ====== cphoover This Groucho Marx quote comes to mind: ``` I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. ```
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Multi-threaded Emacs discussion - apgwoz http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg01067.html ====== spydez About time. Emacs is one of the few OSes that's still single core... ~~~ PieSquared * cue editor war * ~~~ raamdev * plants bomb and runs to the vi side _
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Scientists Prove That Designer Knockoffs Turn You Into a Lying, Cheating Mess - aresant http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662166/scientists-say-designer-knockoffs-make-you-into-a-lying-cheating-hot-mess ====== dman This submission on HN links to a blog post which links to the story in Scientific American about the study ...
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MacOS 10.14 deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL - JoshTriplett https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new#deprecationofopenglandopencl ====== shurcooL This thread seems similar to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231593](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231593), which was closed an hour ago as “dupe”. Main dis...
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Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun - tlrobinson https://disaster.radio/ ====== TimTheTinker Ham radio (or amateur radio) operators have historically filled this role - providing essential communications in the event of a disaster. I wonder whether this project (if it's succ...
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What is the coolest IoT product, concept, or news story you've seen recently? - iomt Hello Reddit Fam! Every week I work to compile a list of the most interesting Internet of Things news I can find. As I finalize this week&#x27;s list, wanted to know if any of you have recomendations of cool IoT related things you hav...
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Information Retrieval, Intelligence, Integrated Optimization and Marketing - fogus http://www.miislita.com/ ====== russell Recommended. I used this site a few years ago to educate my self in the algorithms needed for a collaborative filtering project. The project was a success because the clients that deployed it got ...
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Stop Being So Afraid Of Offending Someone - timeline http://pentagram.me/stop-being-so-afraid-of-offending-someone/ ====== roguecoder This could better be phrased, "if people weren't such jerks, we wouldn't have to go out of our way to avoid talking to them." Offending someone causes them pain. Causing them to become...
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WeWork’s Adam Neumann Sues SoftBank over Canceled Stock Deal - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-04/wework-s-adam-neumann-sues-softbank-over-canceled-stock-deal ====== duxup I know he stood to make money off this deal but I sort of assumed when he was removed that it was in his best interest to...
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Open data and hacking for social good - alfarez https://medium.com/p/57c037787ae9 ====== alfarez Would love to hear from data scientists and those actually doing work with open data on this!
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Ask HN: Scammed. Now what? - andreygrehov Hey HN,<p>My wife has just been scammed through a PayPal phishing e-mail. I&#x27;m angry as fu*k, but long story short. Here is what she did:<p><pre><code> - typed her PayPal username&#x2F;password; - provided her name, phone number and address - shared her credit card de...
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The Slow Erosion of Google Search - manchesterseo http://bokardo.com/archives/google-erosion/ ====== jhawk28 I am not a fan of Facebook, I have never used Twitter, I am sure there are lots of others like me. There has been a lot of talk about semantic search over recent years, but just that TALK. ~~~ vaksel the thing...
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Google Analytics is wildly inaccurate - archon810 https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/990014506213363712 ====== archon810 To give more context here, depending on the time period selected (2010-2018 in the first screenshot, 2014-2018 in the second), the data for the same months (say, August 2017) will be wildly different...
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Thousands face Internet loss as FBI shuts off servers - ColinWright http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18735228 ====== Chlorus The comments @ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/what- the-i...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/what-the-internet- doomsday-virus-is-and-how-to-fix- it/...
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Ask HN: How do you like to be interviewed as a developer? - samblr For innumerable times it is discussed on HN that interviewing process is broken. Hence the question. ====== arduinomancer Test the actual skills of the damn job. I feel like I need to maintain two skill sets nowdays. We drill down hard on DS&A in the ...
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When should you build your own ecommerce site? (Never) - theptrk https://theptrk.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=372&action=edit ====== mockindignant Can’t seem to visit the URL without having to login. ~~~ theptrk Oh wow sorry about that. Thx for the heads up ~~~ nanis And, still, asks me to log in. ~~~ thept...
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Inncubator Work/Live in Palo Alto (Hacker Home) Invitations Open - ddimon http://www.inncubator.net ====== DrScump Dude. _Three_ such ads in two days?
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What does the "delay" option on my user page do? - TazeTSchnitzel ====== pg It lets you delay the visibility of comments for x minutes, so you can edit/reconsider.
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China admits pollution-linked 'cancer villages' - stfu http://www.france24.com/en/20130222-china-admits-pollution-linked-cancer-villages ====== roylez As a Chinese HN reader, I have to say something. It is not surprising at all that all these happen in China. Food is poisonous, air is unbreathable, rivers are smelly. ...
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Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google - sjunlee https://www.rooftopslushie.com/request/Referral-at-Google-400 ====== rosybox Not a good first foot forward. You're willing to begin your relationship with a new employer based on dishonesty. Not a good way to start. I don't even see what people see in wanting...
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Kit - dhotson http://john.jubjubs.net/2010/03/23/kit/ ====== orangecat Good post. I've never quite figured out how "users shouldn't have to mess with their devices to get them to work" became conflated with "users shouldn't be allowed to mess with their devices". Especially when the company most responsible for that...
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The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak - Vik1ng http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/11/ebola-open-street-map ====== mediaman There are two companies that have demonstrated cures to the Ebola and Marburg viruses: Tekmira, based in Vancouver BC, and Sarepta, in Boston. Initial data shows that they have...
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Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin - trptcolin http://cursiveclojure.com/ ====== lemming Developer here - I'm happy to answer any questions folk might have! ~~~ cantelo Just having a look at Cursive now, nice work! How do I enable and use the symbolic debugger? TIA ~~~ lemming I added some instructions for ...
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Google announces deeper integration between gmail and Google+ - galactus http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2014/01/reach-people-you-know-more-easily.html?m=1 ====== rushi_agrawal The idea seems weird. Google is trying to mix emails and social networking, which never worked as history suggests. Also, does this mean my ma...
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Sean Parker: Now Is the Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley - michaelochurch http://www.businessinsider.com/sean-parker-now-is-the-most-toxic-time-ever-in-silicon-valley-2012-10 ====== atomical Sob story by a company that doesn't have a price? It seems to me that Jason Fried is talking about companies like this. ...
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US Treasury says 'Putin is corrupt' - finid http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35385445 ====== finid From the article > "We've seen him enriching his friends, his close allies, and marginalising those who he doesn't view as friends using state assets. Whether that's Russia's energy wealth, whether it's other state c...
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JS/CSS Packaging to Minimize Requests and Randomly Evil Algorithms - tghw http://bjk5.com/post/4918954974/js-css-packaging-to-minimize-requests-and-randomly-evil ====== hallmark The article addresses a few issues you may have with packaging assets into "rollup" files: 1\. If you set your JS or CSS rollup file's ver...
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Show HN: NIMP – Node-base image manipulation program - dan335 https://nimp.app ====== gitgud This is pretty cool, basically a video compositor but for images...
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Working with xdg-app application bundles - vezzy-fnord https://lwn.net/Articles/654128/ ====== 616c This seems to be a very exiting Linux development that was completely off my radar! And it appears there are attempts to integrate such notions of xdg-app into Fedora Atomic. From the presenter referenced in the arti...
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Show HN: Commify - play around hack while nReduce. - ngrichyj4 http://getcommify.com ====== zizee Is this part of the nReduce program? Is it beneficial so far? Or more of a distraction? ~~~ ngrichyj4 very beneficial; the amount of developer and support from the community if phenominal. ------ melvinmt What is it ...
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Rentork – Rent your data and get paid for ads you see online - wwwjohnrobin http://rentk.me/mK24H0 ====== wwwjohnrobin Hi Everyone, I'm John founder of Rentork, I'm thrilled to talk about our app and how now you can rent your data online and earn money everyday on your favorite websites and apps when you see ads.
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Ask HN: If I died tomorrow - who gets my Google Adsense account? - keltecp11 Any ideas? How does one put this in a 'Will' or how would one get this information from Google? Just curious... ====== wmf Legally it probably goes along with any other assets. Practically, since Google doesn't provide customer support t...
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Solving The Back Button - mengto http://blog.mengto.com/solving-the-back-button/ ====== JosephBrown Another problem I have with hard to reach UI elements is the fat at the bottom of my thumb will hit the bottom corner of the screen before I can tap what I originally wanted to touch.
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I Spent 42 Hours Last Month on the Activity Most Critical to My Success - da5e http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/05/10/lab-notes-i-spent-42-hours-last-month-on-the-activity-most-critical-to-my-success/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StudyHacks+%28Study+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher ...
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For Steve Jobs's Biological Father, the Reunion Never Came - jedwhite http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203499704576620911395191694-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email ====== 51Cards I lived most of my life estranged from my father due to issues I won't get into here. When I was 32 tho...
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German NSA Committee May Interview Snowden - tuetnsuppen https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2Fbundesgerichtshof-nsa-ausschuss-darf-edward-snowden-vorladen-a-1122370.html ====== _jomo Some background info: After the 2013 Snowden disclosures,...
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Vinod Khosla: Smart Grids Are Overhyped - cwan http://www.pehub.com/56874/vinod-khosla-smart-grids-are-overhyped/ ====== jakarta so says the guy with heavy investments in ethanol.
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Introducing DC's New Chinese Super-Man, Kenan Kong - doppp http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/04/14/naming-super-man ====== EvenThisAcronym I'm surprised the author didn't mention the connection between Kong (孔) and Confucius, as Confucius' family name was also 孔.
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The Tesla Gun - lelf http://hackerfriendly.com/the-tesla-gun/ ====== sneak More {people, projects, end results, writeups, photo galleries} like this, please. ------ biot Video: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jBjso6l6I> ------ Dove I think the most important lesson to take away from this is how very awesome you ca...
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On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted - pulisse https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/copyright-bots-and-classical-musicians-are-fighting-online-the-bots-are-winning/2020/05/20/a11e349c-98ae-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html ====== mikece Since the start of quarantine I...
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Indifference is a power - kozhevnikov http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/why-stoicism-is-one-of-the-best-mind-hacks-ever/ ====== CurtMonash Good article. When I'm on an unpleasant airplane flight, I commonly remark on how much more desirable a mode of transport it is than, for example, stagecoach, covered wagon, or...
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Testing of Coronavirus 'Cure' in Weeks, First Participant in U.S. Vaccine Trial - jedwhite https://www.newsweek.com/testing-coronavirus-cure-set-start-australia-weeks-first-participant-us-vaccine-trial-due-1492437 ====== jedwhite The articles on this seem pretty rushed. There is a dailymail post with more details whic...
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Anyone else gotten a "We regret to inform you" from techstars yet? - randallsquared ====== vlad Creating TechStars sounds like a great way for VCs to get the pulse on what the young entrepreneurs are thinking about. Even if they don't select anybody, they will have a lot of information on probably 10 to 20% of people...
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How Baby Boomers Broke America - dredmorbius http://time.com/5280446/baby-boomer-generation-america-steve-brill/ ====== Zorlag Another article trying to spread resentment between generations. Divide et impera! ------ TooBrokeToBeg America seems fragile. ~~~ toomuchtodo Democracy in general is fragile. It requires a...
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Ask HN: Small house vs. big house? - londondev45 A question, perhaps to anybody who has lived through this situation.<p>I am luckily in an economic position to do one of the following over the next 4 years.<p>a) Pay off mortgage on small house b) Sell said house and buy bigger house with mortgage that will last me ano...
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Egypt blocked Facebook Internet service over surveillance - prostoalex http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-egypt-idUSKCN0WY3JZ ====== coldcode Terrible headline, they blocked it because they were given the ability to _conduct_ surveillance. ~~~ iofj Really ? > Two sources with direct knowledge of discussions ...
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After prime proof, an “unlucky” and unlikely math star rises - digital55 https://www.quantamagazine.org/yitang-zhang-and-the-mystery-of-numbers-20150402/ ====== rurban This needs a (2015) in the title. The proof came 2013.
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Build and host a processing.js app in your browser with AppJet - aaroniba http://processing.appjet.net/ ====== misuba Now, if they added a server-side API to Processing, that might be interesting... ------ jpeterson I don't get this. It's a javascript library--you can host it wherever you like. ~~~ dgreensp AppJet...
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Ask HN: How did you promote your Kickstarter campaign? - mmanulis Looking for what worked for people launching on Kickstarter. What kind of media did you go after? How did you do that? Did you already have contacts or did you build them before launch? ====== murtza My Kickstarter campaign failed but here is what ...
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Banned C standard library functions in Git source code - susam https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h ====== alister I'm glad to see that setjmp() and longjmp() are still allowed. I'm just kidding by the way. For those C programmers who haven't encountered these before, it is a powerful way to do a "goto" in...
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Microsoft Wants 100 Companies, but to What End? - eusman http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/10/microsoft-wants.html ====== gscott Buy them, give them 6 months, then redirect them to MSN.com (Steve Balmer starts uncontrollable laughing here).
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Primary German email providers will start to encrypt all email transmissions - junto http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fdigital%2Fdatenschutz-allianz-aus-telekom-gmx-und-webde-digitaler-briefumschlag-fuer-e-mails-1.1742663 ====== junto Summary: In the wake of t...
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Debugging Node.js in Docker Using Node Inspector - djfergus https://keylocation.sg/our-tech/debugging-nodejs-in-docker-using-node-inspector ====== djfergus Nice to see a way to do this without needing to install node inspector in the same container...
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Has anyone used Angelsoft? - sanj http://www.angelsoft.net/ ====== sanj I usually cringe at the idea of paying someone to help shop an idea. But I've heard of the folks behind this and it seems interesting.
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Could Radioactive Scorpion Venom Save Ted Kennedy? - timr http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/what-are-ted-ke.html ====== chasingsparks I can't believe Wired actually posted this. Wired should not be Farkable.
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Ask HN: Who are the best user interface designers of today? - wlmsng ====== vitovito Someone else asked this four months ago and a couple people disagreed with my reply, so let me try it again. (I'm defining "user interface designer" as a visual designer plus interaction designer specializing in a particular platf...
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Vertical vs. grid product listings - a surprising AB test - westiseast http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/product-listing-ab-test-results/ ====== peng If you're going to A/B test something, you need to reduce the variables down to one. For all you know, the supposedly 'pretty' framing and box-shadow you added to the grid ...
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Ask HN: Any good case studies of companies for entrepreneurs? - hubatrix I am planning to start my first venture, and I believe it&#x27;s important to do good research before. It can in the form of books or articles or videos. Can you please comment best resources I can find case studies of companies for entrepreneurs...
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Show HN: Your Twitter mentions and DMs in an email on a schedule that suits you - benhowdle https://disconnect.today/ ====== bangda I like the idea but i think you can do better with a different revenue model. I think you should go for a yearly subscription model. That way users can pay a very small amount yearly and ...
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