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Drilling Down on Depth Sensing and Deep Learning - jonbaer https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2018/10/23/depth-sensing/ ====== stefan_ Why are structured light sensors not used instead of color camera images? Because in sunlight it becomes impossible to see your own projected IR light. So they stop working. And projectin...
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Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse - charlief http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/why-groupon-is-poised-for-collapse/ ====== cletus This is one of the best and most damning analyses of Groupon I've seen yet, which is kinda surprising coming from TC but I guess it is a guest post. The biggest parts of this are the accoun...
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Australia could become the next California - resdirector http://www.economist.com/node/18744197 ====== adamtait I appreciate that The Economist takes a hard line on the reality of Australia's position, as clearly a comparison to California is wild. Last I checked California's population was roughly double the entire...
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Wireless neutrino network could pass through the center of the Earth - SkippyZA http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122535-wireless-neutrino-network-could-pass-through-the-center-of-the-earth ====== archgoon Well, it's nice to see that I'm not completely crazy ;). I'm happy to see, however, that the article pretty much...
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Ask HN: Is Google Nose an April Fool Joke? - RohitS5 Has any one tried Google nose http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/help.html? to me it looks like an April Fool Joke, What is your take? ====== evan_ Are you serious? You think there's a chance it's real? ~~~ benjy1 But the women on the homepage is really s...
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Garbage Collection, Without the Noise or the Smell (2015) - vezycash https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/nyregion/garbage-collection-without-the-noise-or-the-smell.html ====== furgooswft13 Indeed, the noise of panicking managers and engineers when our companies badly designed Java apps seize up due to excessive GC indu...
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6 Ways Law Enforcement Can Track Terrorists in an Encrypted World - kawera http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543896/6-ways-law-enforcement-can-track-terrorists-in-an-encrypted-world/ ====== tired_man The article seems to forget that encryption isn't a requirement to perform evil actions. Code words/phrases and var...
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Ask HN: What daily habits help you to stay productive? - entelechy For me it is going to the gym. What is yours? ====== sillysaurus3 What's your gym routine? Does anyone happen to know one that you can do with just a floor mat? Consistent productivity is really hard. Especially when it's so easy to become addicted to...
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SPRINT declaring war on Adderall - tmrtn https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sprint-declaring-war-on-adderall ====== b1twise So because they studied CS they're qualified to design drugs? I didn't see any testing/trials in their plans. I also think the drug they're fighting is probably Modafinil--not Adderall. And I d...
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Show HN: MentSpot – Connecting mentors and mentees - tekkertje https://www.mentspot.com ====== tekkertje Hi Maurice here, I built this webapp. The idea is that instead of searching for hours via LinkedIn, Facebook or IRL to find a suitable mentor, this app makes it easier to connect with a potential mentor in just a ...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty (2010) - aminok http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/308134/?single_page=true ====== poof131 Seems like we’ve entered some sort of post-modern neocolonialism. How do we “fix” the broken countries of the w...
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Show HN: SayHi – iOS App to see what your friend type while they're typing[Beta] - iSayHi http://sayhi.io ====== shreyashirday doesn't the other user have to download this app for it to work?
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Cloud hosting is wickedly profitable - VonGuard http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/05/11/At-last-the-truth-about-cloud-hosting.aspx OpSource CEO lets the cat out of the bag: the cloud hosting business is waaaay more profitable than traditional hosting. ====== ryanelkins "We've all heard the story of the nightmare ...
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Peewee, a lightweight python ORM - coleifer http://charlesleifer.com/blog/peewee-a-lightweight-python-orm/ ====== julian37 I haven't used Django ORM before but it would be interesting to see how Peewee compares to SQLAlchemy: <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/> I love SQLAlchemy: it is easy to use, rock solid, well docume...
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“SpiderOak just revoked my Unlimited Storage account for using too much data” - ValentineC https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/a7sqkd/spideroak_just_revoked_my_unlimited_storage/ ====== simonblack Never put your data (or any other valuables, for that matter) in danger by entrusting it to some 3rd-party organ...
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Go Doesn't Need Generics - Insanity https://medium.com/@meeusdylan/go-doesnt-need-generics-6cb9cf0da9c ====== setr I've never understood the argument that someone can use a feature to add complexity The problem with C++ is the various features can interplay poorly, leading to the "subset" language issue. Presumably, ...
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A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology - lobo_tuerto https://www.eff.org/sls ====== confounded It’s saddening but not surprising how much of this technology was developed for killing people abroad, and is now being used against US citizens. Deploying Predator drones that can detect a face at 25kft from Afghanis...
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"Great Algorithms" course taught by Richard Karp - amichail http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~karp/greatalgo/ ====== ivanstojic I find it quite sad how many supposedly CS colleges fail to educate "the next generation" on these classics. The situation is really funny here in Croatia, where there is basically only one "CS ...
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Essential Applications for Phd students - codemechanic http://tangibletips.blogspot.com/2010/09/essential-applications-for-erudite.html ====== alatkins Meh. You don't need too many fancy tools. The ones that got me through my PhD were: \- LyX (<http://www.lyx.org>) for my thesis/conference papers etc. It's the gr...
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Logic Production Systems runtime implemented in JavaScript - hkma14 https://github.com/mauris/lps.js ====== hamlet86 rules system in JS I guess? ~~~ bonata2 looks like it
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Find non-linked directories and files on a domain - thefox https://github.com/TheFox/httpdiscover ====== elliottcarlson By brute-forcing a full dictionary attack on a site? Seems a little too invasive, can be seen as a hack attempt (especially since your dictionary contains admin type folders etc) and/or a denial of...
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Optimizing a php application in 5 minutes - edw519 http://giorgiosironi.blogspot.com/2009/10/optimizing-php-application-in-5-minutes.html ====== jacquesm while you're optimizing your PHP application anyway, if you have another 5 (or maybe 10) minutes to spare have a look at: <http://xcache.lighttpd.net/>
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Ask HN: What is the smartest career path to take? - bigJavaLava I&#x27;m mid-twenties working as a Software Engineer. I&#x27;m still working at my first job out of college and making just about $80k. Not FAANG salary but supports my cost of living as of right now.<p>Currently, my job is very easy (mostly spikes and re...
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It Took Me 3 E.R. Visits to Get a Coronavirus Test in New York - vo2maxer https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/coronavirus-testing-new-york.html ====== ponsin So don't go to the ER when you think that you have a disease. That is not the purpose of the ER. Not only will it make it harder for people in emergency s...
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BlurryPeople.com/#hn - talk to awesome fellow HN'ers - sssparkkk http://www.blurrypeople.com/#hn ====== sssparkkk Had a great conversation with a fellow entrepreneur a few days ago; so I figured it might be nice to have a 'channel' on BlurryPeople that allows you to talk to fellow HN'ers. Let me know what you think...
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Was this Google Executive deeply misinformed or lying in the New York Times? - DyslexicAtheist https://www.fast.ai/2019/05/28/google-nyt-mohan/ ====== DannyBee For someone so pissed off about what they perceive as misinformation, there are simple facts here that are just false. "As background, Mohan first began worki...
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US bars friends over Twitter joke - ColinWright http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html ====== corin_ Have no more fear, your country is safe from all terrorists who tweet about their plans. Truthfully, I wouldn't have expected this from America, they're t...
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Watch Atlantis rendevous with Hubble Live - geuis http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html# ====== dan_the_welder I went down to Cape Canaveral to watch the Atlantis launch on Monday. It was the greatest thing I have ever seen. I have never felt that much emotion about an event in my whole life. Only 7 la...
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Will the real Silicon Valley North please stand up? - techvibes http://www.techvibes.com/blog/will-the-real-silicon-valley-north-please-stand-up-2011-03-04 ====== rdrimmie If you accept that Waterloo is part of the Golden Horseshoe (a possible point of contention, but born and raised here I've always thought it was)...
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Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear - cmrivers http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/10/12/dallas-health-care-worker-who-treated-thomas-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/?hpid=z1 ====== kyro More people should understand that hospitals are messy. Real...
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YouTube networks drop thousands of creators as YouTube policy shifts - PuffinBlue https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/23/17268436/fullscreen-socialblade-youtube-mcn-multi-channel-network-creators-monetization ====== Eridrus > “[It] in effect forces MCNs to either watch every video uploaded by their > partners, or at least ...
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Resources for understanding pointers? - zupancik I&#x27;m looking for any resources that will introduce pointers to me (in C), preferably with many examples, and in increasing difficulty.<p>I have experience with Java + Python ====== arh68 If I ever get confused, I'd check one of these two: the Spiral Rule: [http:/...
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I was a $200K VC, now I’m a $0 entrepreneur – first thoughts - nycmbacoder http://tryingtohackit.tumblr.com/ ====== alexcabrera Leaving a $200K position where you developed a network of people who's business it is to fund companies in two of the biggest tech environments in the country is hardly starting from the bott...
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Ask HN: What should you do or avoid when pivoting a startup? - aliabd Stories welcome ====== chriscatoya It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking a pivot is a failure and therefore bad. What’s important is that by killing an idea, you’re giving yourself a new opportunity rather than chasing after sunk costs. Fear ...
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Pay With A Tweet - chaosmachine http://www.paywithatweet.com/ ====== swombat So, advertising/spam on Twitter. I'm sure Twitter's not going to be implementing anything like that in the near future. ~~~ Tyrannosaurs I thought that they'd pretty much announced that they were doing it? Effectively placing adverts in th...
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EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists - EdwardQ http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/02/eu-data-protection-proposed-amendments-written-by-us-lobbyists/index.htm ====== netcan There are layers upon layers of problems here. 1\. EU democracy and governance is not great. Very fe...
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Show HN: SoftwareBitBang, Data communication over human body [video] - gioscarab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWlhKD5lz5w ====== gioscarab More info here: www.pjon.org
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C++ is the most WTF language - tulsidas https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=wtf&type=Code&ref=searchresults ====== egwynn This claim may be true, but I doubt it’s true simply because of the graph on the left. The data needs to be normalized based on the quantity of code written in each language. What we’re look...
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Job openings surge to a record high - adventured http://www.businessinsider.com/job-openings-and-labor-turnover-survey-september-9-2015-9 ====== gay_genocide But they neglected to mention there are a record 93 million working age adults in the US not working. That's 29% of of the population. Cheerleading the race to t...
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Remembering My Cousin, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977) - pmatrix http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1977aug-00020 ====== lukeasrodgers The episode with the poker-assisted demonstration of the "simplicity of matter" could probably be interpreted as an expression of Wittgenstein's belief that metaphysics (which presumably a di...
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Why Lisk is inferior to Ethereum - cryptoctopus https://steemit.com/lisk/@dan/why-lisk-is-inferior-to-ethereum ====== bagholding1 I agree but Lisk can be great in theory if it can simplify these issues.
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: “working in waves” - joelg87 http://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves ====== TimLangley Good post Joel ;-) I'm generally in agreement with working in "waves" (it's an approach I've used for past 10 years) A couple of other thoughts that might be worth considering: 1\. Once you d...
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Show HN: Quaderno.io – Invoicing for Stripe - polimorfico http://quaderno.io ====== zaroth Is there an easy way to see some sample invoices/receipts? I didn't notice it. You should let prospects enter their email and get some fake invoices sent along to see how it looks. Sounds like a good incentive for me to give you...
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Show HN: Wotop – Web on Top of Protocol - nishit_nm https://github.com/nishitm/wotop ====== jesiiewal Well done!
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Visualize high frequency trading of ticker:JNJ (via Nanex) - jweir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5jJuMP84E ====== snaky geek porn FTW
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DARPA red balloon viral sharing technique finds new uses for startup - ph0rque http://talkto.com/win/1/?u1=e07M3ua ====== SnootyMonkey Here's the challenge by DARPA Network Challenge (Red Balloon Challenge) from 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge> The challenge was to find 10 red weather b...
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Buying Failed Startups 5 to 50k USD - Clicklabs Hey guys, we&#x27;re looking to buy failed SAAS startups. We&#x27;re a marketing company and often times the failure is due to lack of marketing. Let me know if you&#x27;d be interested in discussing this. We&#x27;d do an audit of the code (with NDA if you prefer). We&...
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Nominum Domain Correlation - pjf https://www.nominum.com/tech-blog/domain-correlation-just-let-malware-beat/ ====== lolc Unfortunately the piece is light on the technical details. ~~~ minsight If you're anywhere near France, and free in December, there's [https://www.botconf.eu/2017/math-gpu-dns-cracking-locky- seed....
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Uplink OS - etiam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZy_sBW7jz0 ====== etiam Possibly the post should point directly to [http://www.moddb.com/mods/uplink- os](http://www.moddb.com/mods/uplink-os) but it's linked from the video description in a way that's reasonably easy to find and I do think including the original dev...
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All the things I hate about Python - wslh https://medium.com/@natemurthy/all-the-things-i-hate-about-python-5c5ff5fda95e ====== lvh This starts off with a misunderstanding of what "strongly typed" means. Python is strongly, but dynamically typed. Static typing means you know the type of something at compile time. Dyn...
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Is there a startup school recording anywhere? - Ian999 ====== vinhnx I find one here, <http://www.youtube.com/user/mshelengelena>
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Ask HN: Why are social networks all moving to “what you missed” feeds? - spike021 I use Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. All three have stopped using (for the most part) chronological feeds in favor of a &quot;what you&#x27;ve missed&#x2F;what you&#x27;ll find most interesting in the past few days&quot; feed.<p>The p...
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Termtris: A Game Like Tetris in Ten Functions - tylerneylon https://github.com/tylerneylon/termtris ====== adamesque Whoa! Love the idea of a hybrid lua/markdown file; I didn't realize that the readme for the Github project WAS the source code till I noticed it was just a symlink to the .lua file. Very cool. ~~~ e...
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Re: Aol Exposed. You’re actually indicting Google. - jeremymims http://ownlocal.com/newspaper-support-group/re-aol-exposed-youre-actually-indicting-google/ ====== mooism2 404. ~~~ jeremymims Oops. Pesky apostrophe. Fixed.
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Show HN: Monadd – Automated Address Admin - svechinskyy https://www.monadd.io/ ====== svechinskyy Hi Yoni from Monadd here, Sharing a product with been working on for the last couple of months. We believe tech empowers individuals to gain control over their time. We make address updating simple, help individuals save...
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Why did Google choose Python? - desushil http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/why-did-google-choose-python/ ====== dillon Actually, I believe JRuby is comparable to the normal Ruby, some even consider JRuby to be better than Ruby in some cases. Not disagreeing with any of your points I believe you're de...
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UN to pursue further inquiry into death of Dag Hammarskjöld - kafkaesq https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/03/un-to-pursue-further-inquiry-into-death-of-dag-hammarskjold ====== anigbrowl Numerous countries that were part of the 'western' bloc are turning fascist, Russia is developing a taste for military advent...
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Rubberduckzilla - cool augmented reality game - ujeezy http://www.rubberduckzilla.com/ ====== ujeezy The controls are rough, but it's a very cool concept.
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Extravagant Results of Nature’s Arms Race - tokenadult http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/science/24armo.html ====== fleaflicker Worth reading: _Sexual selection was Darwin’s solution to a problem posed by the cumbersome weapons sported by many species, and the baroque ornaments developed by others. They seemed pos...
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Proxino (YC S11): Automated Error Reporting For Your Client-Side JavaScript - schlichtm http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/yc-funded-proxino-automated-error-reporting-for-your-client-side-javascript/ ====== arnorhs Seems to be an interesting product, but.. There seem to be a lot of questions in the thread regarding how...
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Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died - mech4bg https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102063979260811 ====== mech4bg Dave was an excellent CEO and the nicest guy - everyone at SurveyMonkey liked him and liked working for him. This is just devastating news. I saw someone say on Twitter "Dave defined the word 'm...
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Ask HN: How to know if hard disk failure is imminent on a Mac? - amichail I've started getting beeping from my Mac Mini, which apparently means that the hard disk is about to fail.<p>Is there a way to get a rough estimate on how much longer it will last? ====== minsight You can also try running hardware diagnostics...
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Elon Accepts Nico Rosberg’s Offer to Drive Model S on the ‘Ring - garyclarke27 https://www.motor1.com/news/369477/nico-rosberg-model-s-nurburgring/ ====== GhostVII For Elon, I don't think a tweet implies an acceptance. He frequently goes back on things he says on Twitter.
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Ask HN: What are some good paid technical security/programming magazines? - nmuntz ====== jtchang Pretty rare for me to read magazines these days. Most of the time I read the newsgroups. ~~~ nmuntz can you recommend a few?
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Can an organisation request DCMA takedown of a shortened url? - sauravt Given the contents of the url is just encrypted text.<p>Is it possible ?<p>has it been done before ? ====== gus_massa All (most?) the URL shorteners don't encrypt/hash the URL, because the encrypted/hashed version would be too long and they may ...
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About backdoors in crypto messengers - larma http://blogs.fsfe.org/larma/2017/signal-backdoors/ ====== dbalan Some observations, 1\. At this point its extremely hard to use XMPP - there are too many competing standards that implements encryption (of which a subset has forward secrecy), and if sender server doesn't imp...
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How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq - xorrbit https://blog.skullsecurity.org/2015/how-i-nearly-almost-saved-the-internet-starring-afl-fuzz-and-dnsmasq ====== joosters The crossed out '2025' in the timeline is bizarre. Have I missed some joke here, or does the author not like to use th...
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Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again: The Story of Flowtown - benwyrosdick http://maplebutter.com/down-the-rabbit-hole-and-back-again-the-story-of-flowtown ====== petewailes For me, the exciting thing here is not so much the story of what these guys went through (though it's amazing and totally an inspiration!), but ...
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Do We All See the Man Holding an iPhone in This 1937 Painting? - kafkaesq https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xww5xd/do-we-all-see-the-man-holding-an-iphone-in-this-1937-painting ====== warrenm Not all of us
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Greg Mankiw's Blog: Educating Oligarchs - Anon84 http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/11/educating-oligarchs.html ====== jellicle > [Education] does not guarantee that a person will end up in the top 1 > percent, but it increases the likelihood. Only very slightly, which is the point that Krugman et al. are making. Th...
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Google Faces E.U. Antitrust Charges Over Android Apps - axg http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/technology/google-android-eu-antitrust.html ====== DiabloD3 They aren't going to make it very far with this. Phones are now required to bundle these services, and Samsung ships phones that uses S replacements for everything (...
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See a week of Amtrak trips on this animated map - ENOTTY https://ggwash.org/view/75340/see-a-week-of-amtrak-trips-on-this-animated-map ====== 91iejrj20310 Surprising to see how few trains there are. Compare with Flightradar24 at any time. Europe's network could have the potential to compete with flights, if the opera...
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Ask HN: How do you find iOS apps? - mikefriesen Most people seem to find it difficult to discover quality apps in Apple's store. I find myself constantly downloading apps, finding out they are terrible and then delete them, rarely finding anything of quality. The best apps I find are one's that people tweet about o...
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As Cities Woo Amazon to Build Second Headquarters, Incentives Are Key - tareqak https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-honed-its-site-hunting-expertise-with-in-house-team-1508405401 ====== tareqak Techmeme summary: _[https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-honed-its-site- hunti...](https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon...
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Jonathan Schwartz says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs - taylorbuley http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57420304-94/former-sun-ceo-says-googles-android-didnt-need-license-for-java-apis/ ====== jimmyvanhalen testimony of Sun co-founder Scott McNealy essentially nullified everything said by former CEO J...
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The My BMW Remote App stinks, so I fixed it. - natelyman http://natelyman.com/the-my-bmw-remote-app-stinks-so-i-fixed-it/ ====== lobotryas Good luck, man. The app looks awesome and I hope BMW gives you their blessing to publish it. ------ matsea Sounds awesome! Hope to be able to try your app one day!
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By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test - fhinson http://longbets.org/1/ ====== karmacondon I was struck by the prescience and clarity of Mitch Kapor's writing. He correctly predicted that a computer would be able to win on Jeopardy [0], 9 years before the fact. And he understood...
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This is how East-Berlin’s district Prenzlauer Berg looked like in the 80s - chrtze http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/prenzlauer-berg-1980-2016/ ====== kafkaesq Nice, but the top foto (Kollwitz- Ecke Belforter Straße) can't possibly be a match, location-wise. The Sredzkistr lineup doesn't look quite right, either. ----...
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New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25 - blueveek https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/new-features-of-firefox-developer-tools-episode-25/ ====== conroy The blackbox support seems like a killer feature. No more debugging minified JQuery! I also can't believe that CSS auto-complete wasn't there before. I've ...
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A Docker file for Reason development - yunxing https://github.com/facebook/reason/tree/master/docker ====== jordwalke Since the original link was missing some context: Reason's goal is to make a great new "interface" to a language that is already great. Reason currently fixes the most widely cited issues with OCaml'...
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Should we colonize space to mitigate existential risk? - julianshapiro https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/17/acc-should-we-colonize-space-to-mitigate-x-risk/ ====== simonblack Sounds good in theory, but we don't have the expertise to do that. If we did, trips to Mars wouldn't be classified as 'one-way suicide' certain...
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Something Hacker News Taught Me - bane http://banehn.blogspot.com/2014/09/something-hacker-news-taught-me.html ====== Rubix117 I completely agree. Cyclists will always go on about how they have the right to use the road, how they have the right to be in the middle of traffic how they can block country roads by cycli...
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Yahoo shuts down BOSS API (powering DuckDuckGo) - vincent_s https://boss.yahoo.com/ ====== vincent_s While DDG uses a myriad of data sources, it's main search functionality is powered by Yahoo BOSS API. They should easily be able to switch over to BING API as Yahoo BOSS has delivered 100% Bing results anyway. However,...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case - wcbeard10 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-civil-asset-forfeiture.html ====== Someone1234 Civil Forfeiture is essentially "guilty until proven innocent." And I don't mean that hyperbolically, I mean literally if the state takes property or ...
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Palm Pre: Two Months In - tvon http://randomfoo.net/2009/08/25/palm-pre-two-months-in ====== tvon (via. Daring Fireball) I realize this can potentially spawn all sorts of "that's not my experience" and a point-by point counter-list of why this list may or may not be bullshit... but all the same I find things like thi...
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Show HN: What do you think about this HN Redesign? - tablet http://mdubakov.com/post/21644456227/hacker-news-redesign-v-next ====== dclaysmith I like the idea of a visual age/points indicator. Like a design from the other day, your design omits the "flag" functionality. ~~~ tablet What is "flag" functionality? ~~~...
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Classic WTF: Prisoner of Process (originally 2007) - billswift http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-Prisoner-of-Process.aspx ====== billswift Maybe I have been spoiled by always working at places that did real work; has anyone here seen shops that emphasized _The Book_ over actual results the way this article...
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DeLoreans Coming Back to Production - chewymouse http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/27/luxury/delorean-coming-back-to-the-future/ ====== Gustomaximus > new regulations are going into effect later this year that will allow the > production of replica cars without requiring them to meet safety guidelines > involving air bags ...
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Show HN: I made a collection of kick-ass designs - drikerf https://klart.co/pixels ====== saurabh This is awesome. Thanks! ~~~ drikerf Thanks! Glad you like it :)!
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Senate to Google: How Did You ‘Forget’ About Nest Secure Microphone? - Varcht https://www.geek.com/tech/senate-to-google-how-did-you-forget-about-nest-secure-microphone-1776530/ ====== jasonvorhe Most likely: It was put in because of mics being a rather cheap component with tremendous benefits for future use in a home...
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Sequoia's Investment Memo on YouTube (2005) - yurylifshits http://milesgrimshaw.com/sequoia-investment-memo/ ====== wslh If you want to download the PDF document (for free!), it is available here: [http://www.shadesofgraylaw.com/wp- content/uploads/2010/03/Vi...](http://www.shadesofgraylaw.com/wp- content/uploads/2010...
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LibriVox hits 100 Million downloads, looking for a PHP Dev - hughmcguire http://librivox.org/2012/04/05/100-million-dowloads-and-a-mellon-foundation-grant/ ====== jnbiche Congratulations on the landmark download. Seems like a very laudable service. With that in mind, may I make a suggestion re: your PHP position? ...
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GNU Guile v2.9.2 – an embeddable REPL for scripting your GUI - bleair https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-05/msg00030.html ====== Riverheart Anybody know what the high level overview of embedding guile into an application looks like? ~~~ armitron My team tried doing it once and we decided against it a...
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Show HN: My weekends project: Online flyers. Post something fun - ralphgoodtimes http://sites.google.com/site/ralphgoodtimes/ ====== ralphgoodtimes Phew! It took about one month and a half to complete from scratch. I'm using Perl/MySQL and HTML/Javascript. As far as I can tell, it works fine in Firefox, IE8, Safa...
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Firefox Considering Tor Integration - doublextremevil https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007533.html ====== aespinoza I couldn't find any mention of Mozilla or Firefox for that matter in the message thread. Is this just speculation about who the "vendor" is, or is there something I am miss...
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Early adopters and inverted social proof (2011) - lisa_henderson http://ideolalia.com/early-adopters-and-inverted-social-proof/index.html ====== hugh4 > But in a new social product, there is no social proof. The groups, if they > exist at all, will be sparse and ill-defined. So with no social insights to > be gained, ...
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Why OpenSUSE 11.5 Might Never Come - skbohra123 http://techrights.org/2011/04/07/future-releases-of-opensuse/ ====== bioinformatics That's a poorly written article. I'm still trying to understand it.
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Google Hangouts Browser Chat Down? - educanon https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status ====== p4lindromica My Home started acting up around this time ------ noahdesu It's down for us in Palo Alto. ------ anonacct37 It's down for me too.
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NectarJS: The first ever JavaScript compiler is launched on KickStarter - seraum https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adrien-thierry/nectarjs-compile-javascript-for-and-from-any-devic ====== chrisdouay Looks cool does it really work with WASM or asm.js ? ~~~ seraum Yes, it can compile JS to wasm, asm.js, exe, elf, ar...
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Silicon Valley’s New Pitching Competition Attracting International Competitors - axsar http://agoratek.tumblr.com/ ====== axsar Season 1 Finale Wrap Up Show and Party tonight 6-10pm at Pure in Sunnyvale. ------ MainStartupIdol The Awards ceremony tonight should be awesome!
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