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Show off your JS-Fu, make me feel dumb(er). - Xichekolas
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216718
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Xichekolas
Just an update to this. I have the problem fixed now, so thanks all that
looked at it. (And thaumaturgy, I owe you a beer.)
New version is on the userscripts page for anyone that wants it:
<http://u... | {
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Tiny Little Elevator Simulator (Qt) - aminbandali
http://aminbandali.com/elevator-simulator-version-one/
I coded this about 9 months ago. A lot has changed. I've learned a lot more. The code might look ridiculous to you, but I thought someone might find it useful! ^_^
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ntumlin
Just looking at elevator.cpp ... | {
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial - ehsan_akbari
https://www.railstutorial.org/book
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forgingahead
Highly recommended, this tutorial got many people (myself included) started on
Rails. The parent link is to the free-online version, but I do suggest folks
who have benefitted from this give back to Michael by spending on the ... | {
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IE 6 mobile standards compliance tests - danw
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/ie-6-mobile-standards-compliance-tests/
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TheBosch
The really unfortunate part of this is that it's going to probably come with
Windows Mobile 6.5. I'd never use it, but most people use whatever default
browser they're given. After Fi... | {
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Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men? - acak
http://www.whitehouse.gov/equal-pay
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sp332
_the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which made it illegal for employers to pay unequal
wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work._
How does this work? Do you go to every woman in the company and t... | {
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Show HN: Glance – All-in-One Quick Look Plugin for macOS - baleb
https://github.com/samuelmeuli/glance
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baleb
Very excited to share my latest Mac app, Glance!
Quick Look is a very handy and time-saving feature for Mac power users. By
pressing the Space bar, it allows you to peek into files without opening them.... | {
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100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest building - kensai
https://www.nzaht.org/pages/100-year-old-fruit-cake-found-in-antarcticas-oldest-building
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leephillips
Amusing that the cake was in excellent condition, while the metal box it was
stored in was partly decomposed. Once again, reality has one-up... | {
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Ask HN: Feedback for justpay.io - rhapsodhy
I just started this side project with a friend, and we'd like to ask for some feedback! We know that getting paid on time as a freelancer is not easy, and we think we can crack this problem. To cover our startup costs, we're planning to start an indiegogo campaign,... | {
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Sinatra clone in PHP - flapjack
http://github.com/brucespang/Frank.php
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codeguy
Looks promising! I've actually been developing my own Sinatra clone in PHP5.
I've called it "Slim". It has RESTful GET, POST, PUT, DELETE routing. It has
before and after callbacks. It has Page Not Found handling, halting, helpers
... | {
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7 Traits That Distinguish Super Successful People From Ordinary Ones - Decals
http://www.inc.com/lewis-schiff/super-successful-wealth-building-traits.html?cid=readmore
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sharemywin
I would have liked to see some traits that are common to billionaire's. for
every billionaire theres thousands or millions followin... | {
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Hosting Files on Parse Server - davidbarker
http://blog.parse.com/announcements/hosting-files-on-parse-server/
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parseopensource
+1
Cheers, Parse Open Source Community in Slack bit.ly/1SxTVIi
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Urbit: a personal server built from scratch - bpierre
https://urbit.org/
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agravier
Very exotic. How can I contribute if I wanted to write code for Urbit?
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Show HN: Bubbles – A minimalist visualization of what's new on Twitter - amtmz
http://bubbles.amizrahi.com/
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gravity13
Hm. I hope this comes across as constructive criticism, but I'm not sure the
visualization type matches well with the data you are presenting.
The movement of the bubbles doesn't seem to conv... | {
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tabIndent.js - A JavaScript Library For Tab-Enabled TextAreas - Hirvesh
http://julianlam.github.com/tabIndent.js/
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fratis
This is awesome. I'd love if the developer would add (even if it were
optional) Command+[ / Command+] functionality to indent multiple lines at a
time.
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arcatek
Windows/Emacs user here.... | {
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Planet Money reports on Wells Fargo's shady practices - teslacar
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story
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joezydeco
Since that link goes nowhere, here are the two (and a half) recent episodes
that NPR/Planet Money did on Wells.
#728: "The Wells Fargo Hustle"
[http://www.npr.org/sections/mo... | {
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Car industry 'buried report revealing US car safety flaws over fears for TTIP' - the-dude
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/new-ttip-scandal-car-industry-buried-report-revealing-us-car-safety-flaws-10514716.html
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petewailes
At the risk of sounding cynical and jaded, is anyone remotely surprised by
... | {
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Who remembers this one? - aj7
https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/olivetti-programma-101-at-the-origins-of-the-personal-computer/
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aj7
The Olivetti Programma 101 might have been the first good programmable
calculator. And NYC’s Stuyvesant High School had one in 1968.
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The agricultural revolution that wasn't - ascertain
http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-agricultural-revolution-that-wasnt.html
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slurry
And...three posts down on the author's homepage we get to race and IQ, then a
little further down a cross-post deal with Unz Review. HBD-curious at best. I
take his musi... | {
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Show HN: Enter Name, Become Domain - riverg
https://river.codes/domainify/
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riverg
This exists because John Romero has a cool domain
([https://rome.ro/](https://rome.ro/)) and I was j̶e̶a̶l̶o̶u̶s̶ intrigued.
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Buy your own video startup - drm237
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150191948403&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
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tlrobinson
My laptop, being 4.5 years old, turns out to be a pretty good benchmark of all
these Flash based video sites. The good ones aren't choppy, the bad ones are
unbearably ch... | {
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Show HN: nada – mobile first, up to 10 boxes temporary email - oron
https://getnada.com
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oron
I have submitted before, but got no love :-(
What's different? it supports attachments, works great on mobiles. Has local
storage for keeping up to 10 inboxes and supports socket.io for instant msg
retrieval. Written i... | {
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The Day They Came for the Governor - com2kid
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2018/The-Day-They-Came-for-Rod-Blagojevich/
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BeetleB
When it comes to Illinois, saying "The governor" is not enough. Which
governor?
3 of the last 7 governors spent time in prison.
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Nasrudith
Brings to mind the ... | {
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Snowden a prize for Russians until they have his secrets - wj
http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-snowden-russia-intel-value-20130625,0,257512.story
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btipling
Wikileaks says nothing of the sort has happened, someone from Wikileaks is
with Snowden:
[https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/34978794... | {
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Steve Jobs' grinning turd - jasoncartwright
http://john-smith.appspot.com/steve-jobs--grinning-turd
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glhaynes
These are just the glyphs for emoji: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji>
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Chicken chaos as KFC closes 750 outlets - rusanu
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43110910
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rusanu
KFC has closed 750 of its 900 UK outlets after delivery problems meant they
ran out of chicken.
Last week, the fried chicken chain switched its delivery contract to DHL,
which blamed "operational issues" for the s... | {
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Ask HN: Coworking spaces in the Peninsula and South Bay? - vchien
Besides HackerDojo and Techshop? Just curious...
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clayturk
nextspace rocks, but they are in santa cruz and the city.....
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NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework - theBashShell
https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css
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schappim
This was previously posted here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557861](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557861)
~~~
minimaxir
Legit impressed it lasted that long without a Nintendo C&D.
~~~
scro... | {
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Show HN: Mercurio, the deployment black box - a_alfredo
http://madewithbytes.com/writting/mercurio-the-deployment-black-box/
I built mercurio the deployment black box. It is meant to be easy to assemble, reusable between projects and fun!
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borplk
Love it. Great job!
I can imagine you coding furiously and quick... | {
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Show HN: AI Made Trump Speak Korean and Kim Jung Un Speak English - cyplus1
https://icepick.ai/demo
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cyplus1
We had video call and wait for the invitation.
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Ask HN: What are shitty markets? - itry
Everybody talks about being in the right market. Investing in the right market. Markets that are big and or will encounter rapid growth.<p>So maybe there are many small, stagnant markets that are ignored by investors and entrpreneurs?<p>Any ideas what examples of those shitty ... | {
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A Cute Internet Star Flirts. All He Wants Is Your Password - jaynos
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/arts/music/hacked-by-jack-johnson.html
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cannonpr
So now that we have a pattern lending legitimacy, I guess it would be pretty
convenient for the next person that hacks a celebs account to get a lot more
milage o... | {
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Why Normalization Failed to Become the Ultimate Guide for Database Designers? - blasdel
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3762
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henrikschroder
Reaching the perfect database schema is only possible if you have static
requirements. Out here in the real world, things change, and the more
normalized your database ... | {
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The Pentagon Has a Plan to Stop the Zombie Apocalypse. Seriously. - brunooo
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/13/exclusive_the_pentagon_has_a_plan_to_stop_the_zombie_apocalypse
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daveslash
A quick google search on CONOP 8888 yields this wikipedia page. Are we sure
that this isn't just some anti-comm... | {
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How To Live Forever - reitzensteinm
http://www.dansdata.com/gz092.htm
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russell
Several decades back I read a SF story (by Fred Pohl?) where the crew of a
near lightspeed craft needed to be continually replaced by new members
teleported in, because the existing crew was being killed by radiation. For
some nominal... | {
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Show HN: ARCO – Next Level AR Robotic Toy - JosephWang
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/945994322/arco-an-augmented-reality-robotic-toy
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rayfone
That should be fun!
| {
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Ask HN: hardware startups, where to begin? - bokbar
Every once in a while I get an idea for a cool little gadget paired with a web service. I'm pretty good at web services but have no idea how to approach the task of building a hardware prototype on the cheap... Any blogs/sites you guys can recommend?
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dbro
Yo... | {
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Ask HN: Talented kid: what to do? - mudil
I am looking for ideas on what to do with my cousin's 8 year old (clearly gifted) kid. Ideas for pathways, scholarships, online courses, etc.<p>When Simon comes back from school, he entertains himself with math problems, and also creates for himself math problems and solv... | {
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Real programmers don't use Pascal (1983) - kleiba
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
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ColinWright
This article, "Real Programmers don't use Pascal", is the article that
prompted the "Story of Mel"
<http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html>
That has a Wikipedia article giving lots of additional inf... | {
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$45k ARR in 10 months: Optimizations as a company of one - jnfr
https://lunchbag.ca/company-of-one
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jnfr
Hi HN! OP here. Been working on my product, Lunch Money
([https://lunchmoney.app](https://lunchmoney.app)), full-time since I launched
it roughly 10 months ago. Sharing my learnings and thoughts along the way... | {
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Why PayPal is still the only option for bootstrapped startups: cashflow - ABS
http://marco.hubdirector.com/why-paypal-is-still-the-only-option-for-bootstrapped-startups-cashflow/
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otoburb
How about Samurai? Admittedly it's not as quick as PayPal's "immediate"
deposit, but maybe 2 days[1] is quick enough?
Disc... | {
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Popsong Piracy: Napster in the 1930s and the Story of Fakebooks (2004) - pessimizer
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/piracy-fakebooks.html
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noname123
Fakebooks still persist these days in the shape and form of PDF torrents of
songbooks. Just go on Amazon and search for your artists (e.g., Adele/Whit... | {
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Can we stop the language bashing please ? - jacquesm
http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/stop-the-language-bashing-please
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nostrademons
Things from PHP that I want in Django and Rails:
\- "Just write an HTML file" deployment. I want to be able to dump an HTML
file into a directory to get started, with none of this s... | {
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Mac OS X 10.8 restricted to App Store, signed apps by default - octopus
http://www.osnews.com/story/25619/Mac_OS_X_10_8_restricted_to_App_Store_signed_apps_by_default
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janardanyri
The headline is fairly misleading, and the article sloppily mixes actual fact
with predictions stated as fact.
The reality: 10.8... | {
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} |
Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems - close04
https://lightcommands.com/
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OldGuyInTheClub
I think the photoacoustic effect is at play here. Discovered by Alexander
Graham Bell has a variety of applications. It can be used to detect trace
gases in gas mixtures at the parts-per-trillion level... | {
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Netflix: Disgruntled customers rejoining service - zacharye
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57435709-93/netflix-disgruntled-customers-rejoining-service/
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reneherse
What, I rejoin last night and there's already an article about it? ;)
Seriously though, in my search for cheap/free movies what pushed me off the
f... | {
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When silence is better for white people - atticusberg
https://medium.com/@peter_berg/when-silence-is-better-for-white-people-579345cc862f
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bzb3
Written by Peter Berg.
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ecmascript
This post is quite racist. There you go, I have spoken out against racism.
~~~
atticusberg
Racism is problematic to the degree... | {
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Best Shot – Protecting ourselves from the anti-vaccine movement - vkb
http://thewalrus.ca/best-shot/
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throwavaccine
I am struggling with the anti-vaccine movement right now.
My daughter - 18 months - has had her basic vaccinations, but is late for her
MMR due to my wife's concerns.
I find it incredibly diffi... | {
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Galois Theory for Beginners (2010) [pdf] - fanf2
http://www.math.jhu.edu/~smahanta/Teaching/Spring10/Stillwell.pdf
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ktta
Galois fields are used in crypto a bit, and I recommend this lecture to
understand it in the context of crypto
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1v2tX4_dkQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1... | {
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Gov report bizarrely claims net neutrality repeal raised incomes $50B a year - belltaco
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/trump-report-bizarrely-claims-net-neutrality-repeal-raised-incomes-50b-a-year/
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dmix
It's obvious they are just making shit up and referenced something unrelated
(DSL deregulation) ... | {
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Mozilla & P2PU Seek Product Manager for School of Webcraft - johndbritton
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/mozilla-seeks-school-of-webcraft-manager-to-change-the-world/
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OpenMatt
This is a chance to really change the state of web developer training, and
make it available to people for free around the w... | {
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Emacs for Python Programmers #2: Virtualenv, IPython & Daemon Mode - mapleoin
http://jesselegg.com/archives/2010/03/14/emacs-python-programmers-2-virtualenv-ipython-daemon-mode/
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almost
One word: Rope
It gives you all sort of semantic and refactoring awesomeness for python in
emacs.
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mark_h
Thanks so m... | {
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What if you could profit from your posts in Social Media? - pdmsampaio
Hi all!<p>Me and my team are working on a web player that allows people to tag their products in photos and videos they post on social media. We're introducing a brand for the action sports market, featuring sponsored athletes that already g... | {
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China using CRISPR for Cancer on Live Humans - berdon
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/china-used-crispr-fight-cancer-real-live-human/?mbid=social_fb
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jseliger
Makes sense to me. In the U.S. we ought to have an informed "right to try,"
especially if we're already afflicted with a fatal disease:
[http://marginalrevo... | {
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MakerBot’s New 3D Printer: The Thing-O-Matic - ph0rque
http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/09/25/announcing-makerbots-new-3d-printer-the-thing-o-matic/
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mmorris
I'm so excited to see these 3D printers becoming more and more advanced. The
disruption caused by the Internet so far will be mild compared to what these
thin... | {
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In China, millions make themselves at home in caves - maqr
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-caves-20120318,0,2352472.story
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psykotic
Just yesterday I happened to watch the first episode of BBC's Wild China. The
section on caves goes into this, and among other things shows a small village... | {
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My two favourite WebKit features coming to Safari 9.0 this Autumn - stephenr
http://www.domneill.com/blog/posts/2015/07/28/my-favourite-new-features-in-webkit-and-safari/
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stephenr
Even with my web developer hat on, I've never liked those 'features' that make
a site more annoying to use - scroll hijacking, ove... | {
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Ask HN: At what point is it best to create a business entity? - aebit
I've noticed some say it's the last thing they do as r&d is worked on, while others seem to have a catch-all company entity LLC to do contract work under. I guess I'm looking at examples of the ways people decide to approach the business side ... | {
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Ask HN: Is it ok to label bootstrapped money as Director's Loan? - notthatone
I'm a CTO-level technologist. I've co-founded a business with an ex-VP from a unicorn company. My co-founder wanted to bootstrap the business, we agreed that I take an under-market salary and we split the equity 85/15.<p>We a... | {
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Show HN: Building a zero-latency WordPress front-end - chungleong
https://github.com/trambarhq/relaks-wordpress-example
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chatmasta
This is cool, but the end result is you are basically using WordPress as a
document store. Because you need to implement an entirely custom frontend, you
lose various wordpress templ... | {
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} |
Volatile Software (2012) - stevelosh
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/
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zmanji
This has expressed the ideas in my head far better than I could. When I first
started to work with Rails in many projects I just dumped all of the gems I
wanted to use in my Gemfile. I quickly learned that a simple ... | {
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Single-shot link discovery for terahertz wireless networks - bookofjoe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15761-4
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ChuckMcM
That is pretty clever. I agree with the authors that it will be really
challenging to build one to many tranceivers in the THz spectrum, a thousand
little masers all shooting out is... | {
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Ask HN: Vague fuel gauge in cars - rayhano
Why is it that we have this instrument cluster with so much detail, yet the key ingredient that makes everything work (and for which we pay by the litre/gallon) is measured with a vague needle or set of bars?<p>We fill a specific volume of litres/gallons, as represented by ... | {
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Ask HN: What happens if you run out of option pool? - forthispurpose
What happens if the company runs out of option pool?
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cimmanom
If you can’t hire without offering equity, then you create a new one, which
means that either someone gives up a chunk of equity or you dilute everyone’s.
Also, often eventually som... | {
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Black and Latino representation in Silicon Valley has declined, study shows - mdlincoln
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/03/silicon-valley-diversity-black-latino-women-decline-study
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sctb
All: if you're going to comment on this thread, please make sure to post
civilly and substantively, as the gui... | {
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What Were Blogs? - walterbell
https://newrepublic.com/article/136272/what-were-blogs-death-gawker-blogging
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VOYD
"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15k."
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BeatBearing - rantonse
http://www.beatbearing.co.uk/
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endgame
Interesting project, but can you please use a better title in future? When the
title is the same as the domain name, there's no indication of what is behind
the link.
Perhaps something like "BeatBearing: arrange ball bearings on a grid to create
rhyt... | {
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Ask HN: How do you organise your bookmarks and read-it-later articles? - gymshoes
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darekkay
I use Pocket for my read-it-later articles. In Chrome, I store all my daily
bookmarks and as an inbox. For all my long-term bookmarks, I use
StaticMarks[0], a tool I wrote.
[0] [https://staticmarks.com/](https://staticmar... | {
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The Tale of the Teleporting Turtle (algorithm) - RiderOfGiraffes
http://www.penzba.co.uk/Writings/TheTeleportingTurtle.html
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keefe
Certainly an interesting discussion of some algorithms here, however...
"In fact the number of checks grows quadratically with the length of your
list"
No, no this is not necessari... | {
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Darpa creates prosthetic arm that “feels” - gloober
http://qz.com/500572/this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-robot-arm-lets-you-actually-feel-what-it-touches/
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monkeyshelli
This [1] top of "Restoring Active Memory (RAM) - The end goal of RAM is to
develop and test a wireless, fully implantable neural-interface medic... | {
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Ask HN: How to look for a new job when you in a major project - DownlowOn
I really want to move on from my current job (both for salary reasons and wanting to move to a different geographical locale). However, I'm in the midst of a major website redesign, which is due to be deployed this summer.
So, two questions... | {
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AWS Key Management Service - jeffbarr
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-key-management-service/
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helper
This is cool and a lot cheaper than the HSM option. It's not entirely clear to
me what the API for using the keys will be. The white paper gives an example
of getting a plaintext key and encryption key fo... | {
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On-line Man-Computer Communication (1962) [pdf] - js7745
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a60a/b3654daeb20225ee0c9423448e48a786050d.pdf
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eesmith
FWIW, the term used by here Licklider and Clark does not mean "connected to a
network".
"On-line" in the 1960s meant "interactive", that is, sitting at a terminal (in
... | {
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Tech’s Troubling New Trend: Diversity Is in Your Head - eevilspock
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/diversity-tech-women-silicon-valley.html
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neilwilson
"That’s right: a dozen white men"
And there was I thinking using arbitrary categorisation with stereotypical
labels was the very definition of prejud... | {
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Breaking Cryptography: the NSA's crypto breakthrough - ColinWright
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/09/breaking-cryptography?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_nsas_crypto_breakthrough
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taproot
Its official the NSA learnt Ssl strip.
| {
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Microsoft to ‘warn’ Windows 10 users not to install Chrome or Firefox - dvdhnt
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17850146/microsoft-windows-10-chrome-firefox-warning
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mrep
462 comments currently on the front paage:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17967243](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17967243)
-... | {
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The Cronologics team is joining Google - happy-go-lucky
https://www.cronologics.com
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Eridrus
[https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/](https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/)
| {
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Facebook jumps into the short URL space with fb.me - seldo
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/12/14/facebook-testing-new-url-shortener-fb-me/
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axod
"short URL space"? There's a 'space' for these now? Next it'll be called a
business sector or something.
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seldo
There a good dozen or so companies all doing th... | {
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How Glide Solves Go Vendoring - davecheney
http://technosophos.com/2014/09/22/how-glide-solves-go-vendoring.html
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rakoo
Can someone who has experienced dependencies problem in Go explain what
doesn't work with vendoring, ie copying dependency code in a special "vendor"
folder and importing it directly ?
-----... | {
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Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’ - okket
https://daringfireball.net/2018/10/bloomberg_the_big_hack
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tristanj
Regarding Apple's denial, there are other publications that corroborate the
Bloomberg story. Previously, Apple has denied security incidents even when
multiple outlets report it. For example, last year, The Inf... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS - themanr
So I've been mostly doing back end stuff for a few years. My ability to fix float issues in IE6 just isn't relevant any more. What's the best way to get an understanding of modern CSS and web design? Preferably simple approaches that don't involv... | {
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eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs - lapcatsoftware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ebay-port-scans-visitors-computers-for-remote-access-programs/
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yalogin
This site is a standard reblogger. They just regurgitate stuff that they find
on other sites or even reddit and Fa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Render Any HTML5 Video in ASCII - tzury
http://www.xanthir.com/video/demo3.html
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vog
I was hoping to see an AAlib browser plugin, but having done that in
JavaScript is very cool, too.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my browser (Firefox 3.5).
| {
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College2Startup - school is out, find a startup to join - genystartup
One of the most daunting parts of running and growing a startup is finding the right people for the roles available. Startups are different from other companies, the skills required are a peculiar set and often times, hunger and passion trounces e... | {
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MH370 search team finds second shipwreck - Cyberdog
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35302512
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tristanj
If anyone is interested on the current state of the search, the Australian
government kindly shares weekly updates on the progress. So far, the team has
throughly searched 80,000 square km of seafloor out of t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Stripe Employees Who Relocate to Get $20k Bonus and a Pay Cut - siftrics
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/stripe-employees-who-relocate-to-get-20-000-bonus-and-a-pay-cut
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notyouravgdoge
What's missing in some salary discussions on HN:
Compensation Trajectory: Sure, I can relocate from [HCOL ci... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's the most frustrating thing about Software/Web Development? - joemanaco
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n4bz0r
Having to struggle through a boredom of implementing the thing after all the
interesting challenges are solved.
This doesn't necessarily apply to an entire product, could be a separate
feature or even pieces of features... | {
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} |
Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B - champagnepapi
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-25/value-of-facebook-s-instagram-estimated-to-top-100-billion
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admn2
I've long had a theory (maybe it's not that revolutionary) that part of
Instagram's success is it allowed people a free pass to b... | {
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} |
Camille Paglia assesses the state of today’s feminism - nkurz
http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/feminist-trouble/17688
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lolc
What a refreshing read. I particularly liked the closing paragraph. She knows
how to put things into perspective.
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3579052795
This interview seems to be full of ant... | {
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} |
Show HN: Journali.sm, a Newsfeed for News - jaredwiener
https://journali.sm
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morningmoon
A chronological feed without ads, how refreshing!
I have a related idea. There could be an open, machine-readable format
websites could publish updates in; and clients that could consume these
"feeds" in the way the user ch... | {
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Ask HN: Start date is set, but I got another offer. What to do? - tonym9428
So I accepted a job offer two weeks ago and am set to start next wednesday. However, a company that had flown me out to PA last week just offered me a role. Of course, it's conditional on various background checks (i'm a felon)<i></i... | {
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Education vs. Vehicle Fatalities in the U.S - corpus
http://i.imgur.com/1tSIYtm.jpg
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corpus
Source:
fatalities: [http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-
statistics/fatalit...](http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-
statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview)
educational attainment:
[https://en.wik... | {
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} |
A chrome extension to copy stylelessly - Rhonkar
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/styleless-copyer/clncpdmejgejogkcjdhcapncehgciidh
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JackC
This can also be handled by a clipboard manager, which will have the nice side
effect of making your life 1000 times better in every way. My current
favorites are Di... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cloud providers instance types, prices, etc under one API and UI - matyix
https://banzaicloud.com/productinfo
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matyix
For more information of how details are retrieved/automated and the open
source code you can read this post - [https://banzaicloud.com/blog/cloud-
provider-productinfo/](https://banzaicloud.com/b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Old English Wikipedia - verandaguy
https://ang.wikipedia.org/
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verandaguy
They also feature a page with an overview of the Old English dialect they've
chosen to use:
[https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C7%A3dia:Tutorial_on_Ol...](https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C7%A3dia:Tutorial_on_Old_English)
| {
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Source code level analysis and exploitation of recent Firefox/Tor zero-day - dsr12
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2016/12/29/a-friendly-fireside-foray-into-a-firefox-fracas
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eb0la
Interesting... and complex:
Trigger a race condition to enter into an infinite loop. Use a service worker
to... | {
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} |
Milagro: Distributed Cryptosystem for Cloud Computing - based2
http://milagro.incubator.apache.org/
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mSparks
I see a lot of talk and little substance.
"You can have 128bit security with a 4 digit pin"....
No, No you can't. A 4 digit pin is 14 bit security. Any system is only as
secure as its weakest link.
It'... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Agency vs. internal recruiters? - lscore720
In your hiring experience, which have you preferred - outside agence or internal recruiter- and why? I appreciate it.
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JSeymourATL
Outside agency, with true domain expertise.
Typically found the best work on an mixed upfront fee, with a success-fee
incentive ... | {
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} |
Robots Aren’t Destroying Enough Jobs - prostoalex
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robots-arent-destroying-enough-jobs-1494434982?emailToken=JRrycvh%2BZXiXi9YwZ8wm01cvcrJNAvWEQE%2BSIH3RJlLLpX3TrqeswaIoiNvyo2SlXgMju4FYszVjFG2L
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TheAdamAndChe
This post is very strange to me. It talks about our 3% increase in wages lik... | {
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} |
Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum - kfarr
https://bitmovin.com/caveat-troglodytarum-trolls-beware/
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redm
Good for them. Having been on the receiving end of patent trolls seven times,
it's a challenging situation. It's easy to settle, and risky to fight.
To give credit where its due, this aggressive... | {
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} |
Show HN: Get big picture with logos of your subscribers based on their emails - pplonski86
https://github.com/pplonski/subscribers-picture
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pplonski86
This is a simple python script that I have used to check who is subscribed to
my newsletter. The script is producing the picture with logos of subscribers
based o... | {
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} |
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