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The superstar effect - tortilla http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/the-superstar-effect/ ====== chrisduesing Does this imply hiring a rock star programmer brings down the productivity of the team?
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[CVE-2016-2098] Possible remote code execution vulnerability in Action Pack - jdleesmiller https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/ly-IH-fxr_Q ====== hderms Wrote a simple proof of concept to illustrate the vulnerability in action: [https://github.com/hderms/dh-CVE_2016_2098](https://github.com/hd...
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Four Years of Initial Coin Offerings, Visualized in One Graphic - brakmic https://elementus.io/token-sales-history ====== elsen Thanks for sharing, I'm curious to see these circles lighten depending on project activity (releases, conferences, etc). ------ Kazamai Looks very bubbly. Would be interesting to see what bu...
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Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours - donohoe http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/technology/26night.html?_r=1&src=twr ====== zkarcher I suddenly feel less alone in the world. Does anyone know if such a group exists in Portland, Oregon? If not, I might have to start one. I do all of my creative hacking betwe...
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Tech Bubble 2.0? I don't think so - dtyleryork http://davidtyleryork.tumblr.com/post/4420599941/there-is-no-bubble ====== kovar 1) "But as you already know, I am here to argue that this is not in fact a bubble." So get on with it. Dump the first two paragraphs. 2) "First of all, most of the overheating is going on...
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Old people are an increasing burden. Must our young be the ones to shoulder it? - howard941 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/27/ageing-retirement-work-taxation-social-care ====== jimrhods23 These sorts of articles seem to be primers for a socialist government and a scary reminder that there is no utopian f...
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Waving Our Tentacles -- A demo of Tentacles, a Github API library - Rayne http://blog.raynes.me/blog/2011/12/02/waving-our-tentacles/ ====== zmanji After browsing the source, I am amazed at how wonderfully simple it is. Clojure really made writing this simple.
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Ask HN: How to get started with AngularJS - robbiet480 I asked this previously for Backbone [1], now I&#x27;m asking it for AngularJS. Send me your best resources!<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4434553 ====== clockwork_189 These two are really useful: [http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/arch...
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Tonido is your personal cloud, providing live streaming access to all your data - tteam http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/tonido-is-your-personal-cloud-providing-live-streaming-access-to-all-your-data-and-media-everywhere/ ====== LandoCalrissian This is a good idea. Is there anything similar to this that I could com...
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Show HN: Potato Pirates – learn coding without computers - adityabatura http://www.potatopirates.game ====== adityabatura Potato Pirates is a swashbuckling card game that envelopes 10 hours of programming in 30 minutes - all without any computers. Raising close to $200K on Kickstarter with 48 hours to go!
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System Internals of Windows; OS X; Linux; ARM - SE_Student https://github.com/rmusser01/Infosec_Reference/blob/master/Draft/sysinternals.md ====== mayankkaizen Looks like a good resource. Can someone more knowledgeable comment on the quality of it? ~~~ rolph it is a draft work in progress. its really great that there...
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The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud? - nreece http://www.computernerds.co.uk/blog/?p=3205 ====== jacquesm copy of a /. article, if you want the article it's here: [http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/1739239/The- Pira...](http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/1739239/The-Pirate-Bay- to-...
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Show HN: Mentat, webapp that helps jobseekers reach out to companies (YC S16) - fy822 https://thementat.com/?utm_source=HN&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=614 ====== fy822 Hi Hackers, We built this service after realizing the best way to land a job is to network through personalized emails. Our platform links job postin...
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Apache considered harmful - jm3 http://www.futurealoof.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful.html ====== ncw33 I have to say, without knowing any people involved with Apache, hindering projects from moving to git for any reason is hard to fathom. Why _wouldn't_ a new project use git? In the old days of subversion, any...
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Apple may replace Touch ID with 3D face scanning on the next iPhone - jonbaer http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/16/14641990/apple-iphone-rumor-touch-id-3d-face-scanning ====== mtgx Terrible, terrible idea.
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Website has unemployed profs writing students' essays - edtechdev http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/we-make-your-papers-go-away-website-has-unemployed-profs-writing-students-essays ====== ddebernardy > It just seems to hinder the academic process. The focus should be on > acquiring skills, not trying to get an ...
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How to Generate Secure Random Numbers in Various Programming Languages - CiPHPerCoder https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/how-generate-secure-random-numbers-in-various-programming-languages ====== sjclemmy A few years ago I worked for a gift card manufacturer and I was tasked with creating random PAN numbers for a gift...
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Rails Without Webpacker - btables https://www.firehydrant.io/blog/rails-without-webpacker/ ====== iamjwc Yup. About to do exactly this. Thanks for being my guide.
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Eventbrite announces its new iPad app that will revolutionize ticket sales - sahillavingia http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/06/08/eventbrite-announces-its-new-ipad-app-that-will-revolutionize-ticket-sales/ ====== janesvilleseo We use eventbrite for to manage ticket sales for our seminars and it is a great product. Whil...
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The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting - walterbell https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/08/28/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040/#69796ad0253e ====== mockingbirdy Boyan Slat was 19 years old when he started this project. He raised over $2 mio. for this project and worked with his unive...
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Seattle Is Winning the War on the Car Commute - kevinyen https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/02/seattle-keeps-slashing-its-downtown-driving-rate/553280/ ====== aaronbrethorst Psst, Seattle also has a reliable, free, and open source pair of apps for knowing where you bus is and when it’ll arrive. These apps are...
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Ask HN: Bank 2.0. How would you build a better bank? - dkokelley I was thinking about consumer banking while reading this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948460<p>I came to the conclusion that consumer banks have a lot that are in need of fixing/improving. I posted a comment about how I would build Bank ...
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Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype - redman25 http://www.fast.ai/2018/07/23/auto-ml-3/ ====== minimaxir At Google Next (which happened after this post was published), Google explicitly positions their AutoML product as a _beginner_ approach to model building to get companies up-and-running with machine learning...
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What is the correct percentage of single family zoning in Seattle? - mji https://medium.com/@15kwhm2a/what-is-the-correct-percentage-of-single-family-zoning-in-seattle-7db6af731c21 ====== Findeton Zero. Don’t do zoning, just don’t regulate the market.
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Ask HN: Is our universe constantly expanding or constantly shrinking? - jmtame Just read the book Zero, does their final conclusion still hold up? They say our universe is gradually expanding, which will inevitably leave to a freeze of everything? Did anyone else read this? What did you think? ====== russell The lat...
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The Best Way to Reduce Research Bias Is Hiding in Plain View - rl3 http://nautil.us/blog/the-best-way-to-reduce-research-bias-is-hiding-in-plain-view ====== jrapdx3 For sure, blinding is an important tool for reducing bias and essential for optimum experimental validity. I'm more familiar with the medical field but...
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Google Killing Google Play Music for YouTube Music in 2020 - ceejayoz https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/05/12/google-play-music-shut-down-how-transfer-tunes-youtube-music/3112297001/ ====== jeffbee Announced just short of 2 years ago. [https://www.musicpressasia.com/2018/05/22/youtube-music- will...](https://w...
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Please review my iPhone app (icons recognition) - codesink http://itunes.apple.com/app/appsnap-snap-icon-to-get-app/id349832873?mt=8 ====== BoppreH I think it's faster than looking by the name, but you really should stop using the word "share". The 1-star review guy is a great example. Sure, for anyone that underst...
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A new way to hire: contributing to open source projects - Callicles https://medium.com/datalogue/open-source-hiring-84df05fdb357 ====== wink This sounds horrible. And I say this as someone who's been contributing to open source since.. like 15 years? What does meaningful even mean? I sometimes spend hours and days try...
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Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/upshot/alcoholics-anonymous-new-evidence.html ====== dang So far the comments have been about people's prior experiences with the topic (which is great), or prior opinions about the topic (which is ok). But...
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German patients get drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the U.S.? - Tomte https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-lower-drug-prices-germany-20190619-story.html ====== chupa-chups German patients pay around 700€/month (depending on income), every month, even if they are not patients. You can get down to 300...
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I can't believe someone built "A pure JavaScript video player" - bdfh42 http://ajaxian.com/archives/jsonvid-pure-javascript-video-player ====== mlinsey I think what some of the other comments here are missing is that this was supposed to be a "wouldn't it be cool if we could actually do this" project as opposed to a...
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Online Development Studio - CodeRun - jmonegro http://www.coderun.com/studio/ ====== deppp Cool? Yes. But is there anything besides "cool"? Probably not. Seriously, what's the reason to build web ide? The reason for some sort of web word process, i.e. google docs, is clear. But IDE? Thinking about pros of this tool ...
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The Last True Hermit - archagon http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit ====== dang It's a good article. But it has been posted here several times recently: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993).
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Squarespace Developer Platform Beta - arc http://developers.squarespace.com/ Squarespace's developer platform is now in beta, featuring Git and SFTP access, total template code control, less.css on the server, JSON behind every URL, and more.<p>http://blog.squarespace.com/developer-platform-beta<p>Developers also get...
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Small But Important Details To Get Right On Your Website - caffeinewriter http://www.leawoodward.com/8-small-but-important-details-to-get-right-on-your-website/ ====== csense Sites that don't have human-readable URL's make me sad. Also, I'm not entirely sure that having a picture makes that much of a difference. A...
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Ask HN: How close are we, really, to general AI? - hhs I&#x27;m curious how close the research community really is to general AI. And, are there good books or courses that dig into the first principle points of general AI? ====== Communitivity I work closely with applied semantic reasoning, deep learning and other re...
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Do we need, and does the web want, a new reddit-like site? - dood I've considered making a new reddit style site, incorporating a variety of improvements (probably like many readers here). Is there strong demand for such a service? How hard would it be to replicate the strong and thoughtful community reddit initiall...
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I want to learn Lisp, but don't know where to start - jerome_55 I have never really programmed, except for some basic and html back in the day. I&#x27;m not very familiar with text editors&#x2F;compilers etc..<p>I want to learn programming and would like to start with lisp for personal reasons.<p>However, when I go...
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Ask HN: Mass SMS text message services? - catone I'm asking a question on behalf of my brother who runs a youth non-profit org in Providence, RI. He's looking for a way to send text messages, en masse, to an opt-in network of constituents (mostly teens).<p>Can any recommend any good services to handle that?<p>He's ...
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Average salary for a Software Program Manager - seshagiric 1. what is the current average salary for a software program manager?<p>2. I have around 8 yrs of exp as a Sr. Dev and now want to move to Program Management. For such cases, any idea of what the avg. salary can be? ====== blurry glassdoor.com has pretty goo...
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Industrial (durable) laptops with matte screen and without manufacturer malware? - hellbanner Lenovo thinkpad is a great laptop. But I want something without malware and just as industrial: Metal frame in the body, matte screen, drop-proof casing.<p>Where do I find this? ====== jimmies Get a thinkpad, install coreboot...
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Pentadactyl, improved vim bindings for Firefox - enduser http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ ====== evantravers I really really want to love pentadactyl, but the interfering with google app shortcuts is a major fall through. I just don't see the huge advantage, when most of my browser tasks already have short...
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My First Hackathon - pfista https://pfista.io/hacktx-2013/ ====== robitor this is tight, i see a lot of potential in this product
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What are the missing features in App Engine? - surendra_sedhai i think fulltext search is very fundamental and essential thing for a web application . i put a lot of effort to bring fulltext search to my site.<p>what are things which are essential for a web application is not present in App Engine? ====== miloco Abi...
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Ebay is 'seriously considering' accepting Bitcoin - atrudeau https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-seriously-considering-accepting-bitcoin-164410989.html ====== DrScump _eBay_ accepting Bitcoin (for fees) is different from eBay _sellers_ accepting Bitcoin for merchandise. Note that in most cases, eBay _requires_ seller...
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PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones - DocFeind http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.5982v1.pdf ====== idm The specific attack described (reconstructing a 3d environment from a collage of phone-camera images) might also be feasible using social network image data. Although the article actually discuss...
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Android is almost fully supported with Linux kernel 3.3 - DallaRosa http://www.androidcentral.com/linux-kernel-33-released-android-support-almost-complete ====== krakensden Don't be too hopeful- Binder is still a big sticking point, and nothing is going to work without it. The two schools of thought on it are: * It...
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Let it BDD: a song about testing - henning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJi1E730HA ====== dws "This video is no longer available." That didn't take long.
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Microsoft joins HTML 5 standards fray in earnest - Flemlord http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10305822-92.html ====== jamesbritt Dupe. <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749330>
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Ask HN: How to Get Good at Sales? - AndrewHart In Sam Altman&#x27;s recent blog post, &quot;How To Be Successful&quot;, he talks about &quot;Getting good at sales&quot;:<p><i>Self-belief alone is not sufficient—you also have to be able to convince other people of what you believe.</i><p><i>All great careers, to some d...
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7 Top CRM Trends for 2017 - Optimove http://www.optimove.com/blog/7-top-crm-trends-for-2017 ====== Optimove With the growing appreciation of existing customers’ role in today’s super- competitive digital markets, the CRM space is experiencing an unprecedented growth surge. CRM technologies have become an essential com...
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Ask HN: Compatible with $big_vendor_product - seven Hi,<p>I am thinking about turning a customer product of mine to a saas business. The software configures other devices/programs and manages access to them.<p>My question:<p>Am I allowed to write something like '$my_product is able to configure $big_vendor_product' ...
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AppRater – Discover new web apps - andreiluca https://apprater.net ====== andreiluca I've been running this website for many years, any tips on how I can make it better? AMA Thanks!
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Ask HN: Is Lisp still relevant? - MeghdeepRay Is Lisp still relevant ? I&#x27;m trying to get into AI, I keep hearing about Lisp. Is it still relevant ? Additionally if it is, should I go for Lisp or Prolog or Scheme ? ====== dionidium I doubt there's much new to say that justifies a conversation here. Just start go...
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Data Migration Strategies Depends On Size - existbi http://existbi.blog.ca/ Informatica is the company which will differentiate the types of data according to their strategy. They will provide informatica training classes also for the starters. There are different informatica training classes provided for different p...
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Cool Startup, Bro - steeples http://www.coolstartupbro.com/ ====== minimaxir autoplay=1 ? Seriously? [http://www.coolstartupbro.com/data.js](http://www.coolstartupbro.com/data.js)
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Ask HN: Who would be up for a co-founder meeting in San Francisco? - montbonnot Hi, there&#x27;s no real solutions out there to meet a co-founder so what do you guys think about old fashion style meetups? We all get together in one place and chat.<p>How many people are looking for a co-founder here? A lot I bet. Havin...
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Show HN: CurlHub, API Traffic Inspector - cdeutsch https://curlhub.io/ ====== bgdam Not sure how this works exactly. The FAQ page mentions a proxy server. Do I have to route all API responses through the proxy server? ~~~ cdeutsch You route all API requests through the proxy server. So, say your API is `api.company....
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Hacker News Secret Menu - sixQuarks I just learned that you get to down-vote submissions once you reach 500 karma points.<p>I'm now wondering what other hidden features there are. Anyone have some good ones? ====== cdvonstinkpot Check out <http://news.ycombinator.com/lists>. When you visit these links, they show up...
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LZH Compression Algorithm to conclude development due to vulnerability - ukdm http://en.gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20100607_lzh_end/ ====== teilo "de-facto standard"? Where? I haven't seen an LZH/LHA file since I stopped using Fidonet. In Japan, maybe? Or is this more of an obscure thing that is exploite...
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Releasing Packem v0.2-pre-alpha - saddam96 https://packem.github.io/ ====== saddam96 Finally, Packem v0.2 is released! Leveraging a compiled context mechanism for bundling your source code.
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MPs call for jail sentences in data breach cases - strawberryshake http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3313856/mps-call-for-jail-sentences-in-data-breach-cases/?cmpid=sbycombinatoranguyen ====== nickolai From reading the title I thought it would be jail sentence for the blatantly incompetent people in charge ...
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Softsign - sign for documents on your mobile device - webmonkeyuk http://www.softsignltd.com/ ====== phlux You know what would be an interesting e-siganture method; QR Codes. You would have an app that would have some special info from you, a password and a pin. The app would generate a unique QR code and URL for e...
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Why Apple will buy Twitter - AlexMuir http://www.alexmuir.com/2011/08/why-apple-will-buy-twitter/ ====== michaelpinto I think if it was going to happen it would have happened by now -- the problem is that at the end of the day Steve Jobs believes in professional content over user generated content. So either you're ...
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Not Jordan Peterson - HNLurker2 https://notjordanpeterson.com/ ====== Rolivaw I NEED one of this for Richard Feynman! Every time I read something of his I try hard to imagine his accent and style.
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Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata - zbjornson http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/17/stanford-quantifies-the-privacy-stripping-power-of-metadata/ ====== jrcii An MIT project reached the same conclusion a couple years ago [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and- tech/mit...](http://www....
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What dinner time looks like across the USA - simulate http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/lois-bielefeld-photography-weeknight-dinners-usa/ ====== metalliqaz I'm disappointed that my demographic wasn't represented: standing at the kitchen sink, eating room temperature baked beans out of the can, ...
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You're free to go home - bobds http://www.johnon.com/744/try-or-stay-home.html ====== devmonk I miss racquetball. Good post!
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First Impressions: Swift Away from Objective-Freaking-C - bjchrist https://evoknow.com/ios/first-impressions-swift-away-objective-freaking-c/ ====== pckill > A decent web programmer can pick up the basics of Swift in a few weeks Should this imply that a decent web programmer can not pick up the basics of Objective ...
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Sex, Pizza, or Self-Esteem? - c0riander http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/choosing-self-esteem-over-sex-or-pizza/ ====== fooandbarify Is there any data behind the stated trend towards narcissism in recent generations or is it just a guess from some cranky old people? Any study performed on today's university ...
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DA: Internet mogul hit girlfriend 117 times over a half-hour period - btimil http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/attorney-for-internet-mogul-gurbaksh-chahal-call-domestic-violence-charges-overblown/Content?oid=2540544 ====== danielrpa Hitting someone with your hands and feet isn't hacker news worthy. You can let...
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Ask HN: How do you remember things without tests? - text_exch I find it hard to remember things that I&#x27;m not tested on later. For example, I&#x27;m currently reading a fascinating textbook about compilers. I would like to remember the information later on, but without a formal test and the deadline it poses I don...
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Google-AT&T-Apple fight over Net calls draws FCC interest - sgrove http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-08-20-google-internet-calls-apple_N.htm?csp=usat.me ====== sgrove _"Android does not support a full-featured version of Skype...Google's explanation would seem to suggest that T-Mobile requested the block on Sky...
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Building a USB protocol analyzer - wglb http://rdist.root.org/ ====== gus_massa permalink: [http://rdist.root.org/2010/12/27/building-a-usb-protocol- ana...](http://rdist.root.org/2010/12/27/building-a-usb-protocol-analyzer/) ------ Murkin Not sure what is so interesting about this post, the brilliant bit is the link...
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Canadian natural disaster sparked 'Big Freeze' in Europe 12,800 years ago - ojbyrne http://www.canada.com/technology/Canadian+disaster+sparked+Freeze+Europe/2225992/story.html ====== jaddison I, as a citizen of Canada, hereby apologize for the devastation caused by my geographical area of the world. Seriously thoug...
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Rule #1 for beta invites: remind me what you do - scootklein http://scottkle.in/rule-1-for-beta-invites-remind-me-what-you-do ====== andybak Not just beta invites. I often get emails along the lines of: "Annoucement! Spluttr adds 25% more foo to free plans!" or similar. Now I probably signed up to Spluttr 6 months a...
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Student Invents Bottle Made of Paper (video) - keltecp11 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/06/12/dnt.wa.paper.water.bottle.king ====== michael_dorfman Not to rain on his parade or anything, but didn't he really just invent putting water into a cardboard milk carton? ~~~ noonespecial Ahh yes, but that's got...
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What Is Microsoft So Afraid Of? MS "Not Just Scared But Fears for Its Existence" - nickb http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/Story?id=5489335&page=1 ====== bkbleikamp They are afraid of: Google, cloud computing, online office applications, Linux, OS X, and any competitor who can develop applications faster and...
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Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm - lawrenceyan https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/automotive-crisis-germanys-car-industry-faces-a-perfect-storm/24026414.html ====== edem About time. I had the "luck" of working for multiple German companies (including Volkswagen) and I'm surprised how these behemo...
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Anonymous-OS - a response from SourceForge - thenextcorner http://sourceforge.net/blog/anonymous-os-response/ ====== paulhauggis "However, as the day progressed, various security experts have had a chance to take a look at what’s really in this distribution, and verify that it is indeed a security risk, and not mere...
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Ask HN: How long do your unit tests take to run? - buildops ====== benjiweber 20 seconds for about 5000 unit tests and 5 minutes for full suite of integration/end to end tests. ~~~ topherific Exactly the same situation -- the actual unit tests are fast but when we run our integration tests it takes (relatively) fo...
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Datacoup – Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data - potench http://datacoup.com ====== the_duck I briefly considered connecting my credit and debit cards to Datacoup, but their dialog box set of warning bells. It asked for my card number and my online banking password. These are the same as my online banking credentia...
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Hey HN: I'm proud of this CSS3 CL Jobs Post, check it out - vessenes http://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/sof/1772248892.html I was browsing the typically ugly posted-by-a-recruiter Craigslist job postings, and thought to myself "I'm sure I can do better." So, I hand-coded the above. I'm interested in improvements, hit ...
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Neom - tosh http://discoverneom.com/ ====== ColinWright Extensive discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543404](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543404)
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Brebis, the fully automated backup checker - carlchenet http://www.brebisproject.org ====== carlchenet fsniper: Thanks for your remarks. They are really much appreciated. Below are some answers I hope can help: Extensive list of supported features: [http://brebisproject.org/projects/brebis/wiki/Extensive_list...](...
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Zynga’s Real-Money Online Casino Is Now Live In The UK - esalazar http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/zyngas-real-money-online-casino-is-now-live-in-the-uk-with-minimum-bets-starting-at-0-01/ ====== sksksk I used to work as a developer in the gambling industry in the UK so have a bit of experience in this field. The UK ...
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Nokia New Asha 305,306,311 - himanshujs http://itechnoholik.com/2012/06/06/have-a-touch-nokias-new-asha-smartphone/ ====== himanshujs Have a Touch: Nokia’s new Asha Smartphone The firm (Nokia) has unveiled the 3.5G Enable device with 1GHz powered Asha 305, dual-SIM, 2MP camera featuring Asha 306 and the Asha 311 Ph...
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Two billionaires on the university - mjn http://www.bogost.com/blog/two_billionaires_on_the_univer.shtml ====== rubidium The blog post unfairly juxtaposes two different aspects of the university (research and getting undergrads degrees): Bloomberg is focusing on research: he understands the academy, the intellectua...
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Gutter Oil - tosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil ====== hinkley Seems like a better market for biodiesel or tallow would solve a lot of this problem by raising the price of the raw materials. ------ bifrost eeeeew I know I'd heard about this but I quickly forgot. ------ wnmurphy See, this is why we have re...
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Ask HN: Why you do open source? - shintoist We're working on our bachelor's thesis and we're looking at what motivates open source developers.<p>There's only one question, please write as little or much as you can. Thank you!<p>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MtXwd4kVF6kSuC4q_4rDaUksBRckLaCfgJGP6_JKSnY/edit ====== bu...
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Ask HN: Why do checkout pages still explain CVV numbers? - chiefofgxbxl Every time I purchase things online with a credit&#x2F;debit card the checkout page asks for my CVV number. It is absolutely guaranteed that said CVV entry box has a little [?] next to it to help explain to users what this number is and where to f...
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Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for getting work done? - cjbarber I have this repo on Github, though it&#x27;s more of an all inclusive list. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cjbarber&#x2F;ToolsOfTheTrade<p>What I&#x27;m really curious about is -- what tools do you love so much that you recommend them to others ...
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David Lee From SV Angel: “Foursquare Is One Of The Most Misunderstood Companies” - swohns http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/david-lee-from-sv-angel-foursquare-is-one-of-the-most-misunderstood-companies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====...
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Review: 23andMe DNA Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry - PStamatiou http://paulstamatiou.com/review-23andme-dna-testing-for-health-disease-ancestry ====== rfreytag My first job out of college was with a startup that did health risk assessments. Part of this involved the use of new genetic markers for disease. This...
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Ask HN: Admitting this is beyond what I can understand in this lifetime - codepunker Hi,<p>I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of new things I need to learn. Today it happened again when I tried to understand what happens here (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;levskaya&#x2F;jslinux-deobfuscated&#x2F;blob&#x2F;...
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I Was Taking Pictures of My Daughters. A Stranger Thought Otherwise (2014) - indigodaddy https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-taking-pictures-of-my-daughters-but-a-stranger-thought-i-was-exploiting-them/2014/08/29/34831bb8-2c6c-11e4-994d-202962a9150c_story.html ====== hanging “I would be remiss if I didn’t as...
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Liquid-Cooled Supercomputers, to Trim the Power Bill - digital55 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/business/international/improving-energy-efficiency-in-supercomputers.html?ref=science ====== josh-wrale In my experience, RAM needs to be replaced VERY OFTEN in HPCs. I seem to remember reading somewhere that motherboa...
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Show HN: QuaggaJS, a barcode scanner written in JavaScript - serratus http://serratus.github.io/quaggaJS/ ====== chime Invariant to scale and rotation in JS on mobile? That's fantastic! I just tested the Red Laser native app on my phone and it can handle scale/rotation too. But I never thought about rotation for the R...
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Too Many Passwords and No Way to Remember Them. Until Now. - rkudeshi https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/technology/personaltech/too-many-passwords-and-no-way-to-remember-them-until-now.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&partner=socialflow ====== aroch Is this a sponsored ad for Dashlane?
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