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Show HN: Tweed – An OO JavaScript VDOM UI Library - emilniklas https://medium.com/@emilniklas/tweed-an-oo-js-ui-library-e1a818bb314f ====== brudgers Repository: [https://github.com/tweedjs/tweed](https://github.com/tweedjs/tweed)
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Scientific Concepts We All Ought to Know - betolink https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/03/scientific-concepts-know/ ====== nercht12 The idea of "entropy" always seemed to me as a misrepresentation of the actual underlying principle, given a half-dozen other names in scientific literature. Everything reaches the low...
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Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub - BerislavLopac https://kallithea-scm.org/ ====== sam_goody Since there are so many threads already, here is a recap of the competition: Self Hosted (in order of anecdotal popularity) \- Gitlab \- Gitea (fork of Gogs) \- Gogs \- Phabricator \- GitBucket \- Rhodecode \- K...
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Ask HN: Did HN's SSL certificate just change? - newman314 Certificate Patrol just threw up an alert that HN's cert is now from PositiveSSL. Anyone else see this? ====== kogir CloudFlare was taking too long to produce their own certificate, so I provided them with an extra we had for other uses: ...
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The Martians - pavelegorkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) ====== pavelegorkin Why are this lot came from this small country?
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Android’s Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure? - qhoxie http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/12/androids-login-is-cool-but-is-it-secure/ ====== rcoder Right, 'cause Arrington definitely knows security theory better than Google engineers do. In short: there are far more than 10000 possible patterns (the max for a 4-digit n...
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How to write a better weblog (2002) - henning http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writebetter/ ====== petervandijck I hope blogging won't disappear. It was really good for a while, when we still had blogrolls. Now it's all walled gardens, that make it even easier to share and comment. I kind of think it's time for th...
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Hacker taps into baby monitor, shouts at sleeping infant - timr http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2014/04/29/hacker-taps-into-baby-monitor-shouts-at-sleeping-infant/ ====== ipsin [http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/bug-exposes-ip-cameras- ba...](http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/bug-exposes-ip-cameras-baby- monitors/) "...
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Our Approach to PC Gaming - facorreia https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/05/30/microsoft-approach-to-pc-gaming/ ====== henntipular Subverting expectations once again, Gaben must be choking on his tongue somewhere..
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Joseph Brodsky’s Reading List For Having an Intelligent Conversation - gruseom http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/joseph-brodskys-reading-list-for-having-an-intelligent-conversation.html ====== auctiontheory The real secret to having an intelligent (and good) conversation is being interested in the other person, and r...
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Panama Papers: The Power Players - Turukawa https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/ ====== greenyoda Extensive discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416928](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416928) ------ kevando It's interesting to watch how different authors write about this. With ...
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Netflix is down 37% - Zakuzaa http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NFLX ====== demoo Sales up by 50%, subscribers down by 3%. Not a bad deal, reputation damage aside.
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US, European police take down highly elusive botnet known as Beebone - ghosh http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/us-european-police-take-down-highly-elusive-botnet-known-as-beebone/ ====== ch "Authorities are in the process of contacting Internet service providers and computer emergency response teams around the w...
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Show HN: Historical tick-by-tick crypto market data API(trade, order book data) - tardis_thad https://tardis.dev ====== tardis_thad Hi, founder of [https://tardis.dev](https://tardis.dev) here. I've created it to scratch my own itch as couldn't find anything on the web that would give me historical high resolution dat...
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While Their Kids Were Asleep, These parents Pull Of This Amazing Stunt... - yeukhon http://www.picddit.com/p/3vq38y ====== codex This kind of education is priceless. Once the kids figure out what's been happening, they'll never listen to Creationists, or any other religious dogma, in the same way again. ------ ryan...
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Lucas Film - filmmaking scenes get rendered out in real time - leonvonblut http://www.thatvideosite.com/v/11118/lucasfilm-shows-off-the-future-of-filmmaking-scenes-get-rendered-out-in-real-time-removing-the-need-for-post-production ====== trumbitta2 Cosplay to the masses in 15 years
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Nintendo president on risk, innovation, and reducing business instability - flafla2 https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-president-on-risk-innovation-and-reducing-instability/ ====== flafla2 Particularly interesting comment: > Q: Have you ever run into an “innovation dilemma” – where the company’s past > successes...
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GSM encryption broken - tfincannon http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/technology/29hack.html ====== tptacek It's nice to see people still follow the old security PR playbook: [http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/4/1/how-to- hidehhha...](http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/4/1/how-to-hidehhhandle- security-...
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GoalStacker now in Beta (Task Manager) - alexwolfe http://www.goalstacker.com ====== sudonim With so many different options out there for task management, it makes me wonder "Is task management a solvable problem?" It seems that every situation requires some variation of task management. Every person works in a diff...
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Show HN: Hacker News Launcher for Android - SkyTreasure https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fxpi.hnlauncher&ref=producthunt ====== SkyTreasure Hacker News Launcher is an android launcher with one primary goal to help people know what’s trending in Hacker News in the easiest and fastest way possible witho...
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My Rapist Apologized - whack https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/abortion-legislation-rape.html ====== DoreenMichele The title is vacuous click bait. The subtitle is _I still needed an abortion._ I don't know what would be a good title, but this is super bad for a long list of reasons. At a minimum, adding the...
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Here’s how badly the USA is getting ripped off by its mobile phone providers - AndrewDucker http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/heres-how-badly-were-getting-ripped-off-by-our-mobile-phone-providers/ ====== PebblesHD I'm not sure how Australia compres to the U.S. and U.K. but I must say I fear our mobile phone pl...
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Why I quit my cushy corporate job to join a startup - rmason http://danclay.posterous.com/why-i-quit-my-cushy-corporate-job-to-join-a-s ====== stuartcw "Do I continue down the path of steady, stable employment in a field I don't hate but am not passionate about, or do I make the jump into a field that I love but doe...
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A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana - Slide Show - jbrun http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html?ref=global-home ====== ebun The last slide says it best: "The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, agreed to in 1989...
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Best laptop for linux (probably Ubuntu)? - wheresvic1 I'm looking for a new laptop for programming (Java, JavaScript, CSS, MongoDB, etc.) and would love to have some input! ====== mspaulding06 If you want something with good hardware support for Linux Lenovo is always my first choice. I have a Thinkpad x220 that ...
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LinkedIn’s iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text - Kenan http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/06/linkedins-ios-app-collects-and-sends-names-emails-and-meeting-notes-from-your-calendar-back-in-plain-text/ ====== rjsamson This is off topic, but the next web really needs to make an effort to...
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WeWork Looks to Sell Private Jet, 3 Side Businesses - alephnan https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-26/wework-looks-to-sell-private-jet-3-side-businesses ====== alephnan I was desperately looking for a short-term furnished apartment / long-term hotel in Manhattan and spent ~$4k month for a studio at WeLive....
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Java Closures after all? - fogus http://puredanger.com/tech/2009/11/18/closures-after-all/ ====== fadmmatt Don't forget that Java already has anonymous classes, which can be used to mimic closures. I taught my advanced compilers class how to compile Scheme directly to Java by using them to implement lambda: <http://...
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Lego makeover for WRT54GL - elpuri http://tfvlrue.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/lego-router-wrt54gl/ ====== ratsbane There's a piece of original Google hardware in a display case in the basement of the Gates CS building at Stanford - a disk array or somesuch - constructed largely of Legos. It makes a lot of sense as a s...
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How we migrated our database to Amazon Aurora with zero downtime - elwatto https://www.revenuecat.com/2019/06/19/aurora-migration-zero-downtime ====== adanhn My favorite bit of knowledge here is that you can migrate before you must, which means that you can choose the timing, the process, and spend time doing as much ...
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Chrome just popped an ad on me. This is inexcusable. - The_Sponge http://i.imgur.com/hB09p.png ====== Hrundi What is the context in which this appeared? Happened inside a website or at the browser's home screen? Edit: alright, seems it happens on the home screen: [http://superuser.com/questions/359931/get-rid-of...
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New Job, Mandatory Overtime? What Would You Do? - corallis I was recently (December 2018) hired as a full-time software at a fairly large and well-known company. Things were going quite well at first, shortly after I joined we lost two key development resources - one senior developer was fired, and the other gave his ...
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Beware of the social ideas - joelg87 http://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas ====== CoffeeDregs Nice article. AFAICT, "social" is a bit like TNT. If you don't know how to handle social/TNT and you're handling social/TNT, you're in deep shit. If you mention social/TNT, you better have a strong argumen...
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Coding the Matrix – Linear Algebra using Python 3 from Brown (2014) - carlosgg https://cs.brown.edu/video/channels/coding-matrix-fall-2014/?page=2 ====== carlosgg Starts on Page 2 at the bottom and moves up. Half of this course was taught on Coursera in 2013. Book on Amazon, Kindle version $3: [https://www.amazon.com...
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Google shareholders lose that loving feeling - ALee http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51I69X20090219?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 ====== jacquesm Makes you wonder if they would have adjusted the strike price the other way had the stock risen, and my guess is they would not have. I think any kind of ...
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Git Tools – Signing Your Work - zatkin https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work ====== JoachimS The Cryptech project use signed commits. I in fact sign all commits in all projects I work on. I wish that Github would show signed commits though. That is, show signatures and that a commit is signed.
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The Awk State Machine Parser Pattern (2018) - Tomte https://two-wrongs.com/awk-state-machine-parser-pattern.html ====== ColinWright I do this _all_ the time ... I've even created a script to take a state machine description and turn it into an AWK script template. Very powerful technique, when it's the right thing to...
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The Rise of the 'Brogrammer' (2012) - southpawgirl http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-rise-of-the-brogrammer ====== wowaname I remember reading this article... in 2012.
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Are Girl Scout Cookies Corrupting? - gwern http://www.gwern.net/Girl%20Scouts%20and%20good%20governance.html ====== baddspellar I'm the volunteer cookie sale manager for my daughter's service unit, which consists of ~35 troops and ~400 girls. We're part of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Council, one of two...
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Why I’m Writing a Book on Cryptography - gedigi https://www.cryptologie.net/article/504/why-im-writing-a-book-on-cryptography/ ====== motohagiography So looking forward to buying a copy of this! As a writer with a bit of an atrophied crypto background, going through the online text, being able to start with _why_ we n...
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Ask HN: Ideas and the ability, but burned out working alone - SoftwareMaven So I&#x27;ve a few ideas for &quot;lifestyle&quot; businesses that could potentially grow into something more. They are eminently bootstrapable, but I&#x27;m tired of working on things alone. I start making progress, then fizzle.<p>And, while ...
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Having Lots of Ideas; Work on All or Few and How to Know? - travisjeffery I have a bunch of different ideas from web to desktop applications. But how do you know which to work on if you believe (and have consulted others) to be fairly equal in a potential future (and you're interested in each equally). And at what p...
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JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced - uptown https://blog.jetbrains.com/hub/2017/08/02/jetbrains-web-ui-components-open-sourced/ ====== adamnemecek JetBrains is kinda crushing it. I've spent the last two days looking into Kotlin. I didn't realize not only that Kotlin can compile to JS but also that you can intera...
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Cool site that lets you create your own custom blend of tea - poroopor https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/292195997/create-your-own-blend-of-custom-tea ====== DrScump Given the lack of details about grading/sources/plantations of the underlying teas, I doubt that knowledgeable tea drinkers would make use of this. ...
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Small plane pilot trifecta–Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports in a single flight - bookofjoe https://youtu.be/LgppNdSEAag ====== bookofjoe [https://archive.vn/ivLxz](https://archive.vn/ivLxz)
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Mac Pro GeekBench Score: 37,602 Single-Core, 211,105 Multi-Core - x0054 http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/248661 ====== x0054 Is that legit? Any one know. ~~~ MaysonL Well, it may call itself a Mac Pro, but Apple (as far as I know) have never sold a Mac Pro with an i7. May well be some version of hackintos...
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Why decentralized social networking never makes it - rchaudhary https://upon2020.com/blog/2018/08/why-decentralized-social-networking-never-makes-it-ever-heard-of-crossing-the-chasm/ ====== cjslep > Trending cannot be implemented at all … I don’t mean to pick on Mastodon > specifically, but it’s the latest whose growt...
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Google working on video chat for Chrome, Skype cowers in fear - Garbage http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/google-working-on-video-chat-for-chrome-skype-cowers-in-fear/ ====== mrspeaker Off topic question: HN generally frowns on "sensationalist" headlines, but here Garbage40 just took the headline from the original ...
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Lisp for web application development - aivijay I am trying to figure out to know why would Lisp make the difference in a web application development when compared to ROR, Php frameworks, Python etc. I had been trying to figure out a way along with making my mind to start using lisp completely on one of my projects. ...
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New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market - EndXA https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/new-coronavirus-spreading-between-humans-how-it-started/ ====== sdiw From what I've read it came from bats. Most probably bats being eaten.[1] Bats have been the source of at least 4 ...
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Is a Dolphin a Person? - prat http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/02/is-a-dolphin-a-person.html?rss=1 ====== dc2k08 _Are dolphins as smart as people? And if so, shouldn't we be treating them a bit better than we do now?_ Who decided the prerequisite for whether or not a species should treated well depends on...
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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) - federicoponzi http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html ====== majewsky > For a long time I could not bring myself to take the notion [of a free OS] > seriously. It was like hearing rumors that a group of model rocket > enthusiasts had created a completely funct...
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I made the games Chain World, Sleep is Death, and Passage. Ask me anything. - GraffitiTim http://anyasq.com/218-im-a-solo-game-developer-who-made-passage-sleep-is-death-and-chain-world ====== prayag You need to get some high profile people to get some buzz going. If you can get someone like Ashton Kutcher (it should...
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HSTS Super Cookies - Thomashuet http://www.radicalresearch.co.uk/lab/hstssupercookies/ ====== schoen This privacy risk is actually documented in the official HSTS specification, section 16.9 of [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6797.txt](https://www.rfc- editor.org/rfc/rfc6797.txt) However, the spec doesn't propose...
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Remembering the 35th Anniversary of the Mount St. Helens Eruption - mihwalski http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2015/05/18/remembering-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-mount-st-helens-eruption/ ====== MichaelCrawford My older sister was in Spokane at the time. The airport was closed - hundreds of miles from St. He...
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Studies find having kids makes people less happy - cmcginnis http://www.newsweek.com/id/143792 ====== axod Studies can show anything if you cherry pick the right statistics out. Personal experience says being a parent is one of the coolest and most enjoyable things you can do with your life. You could also say that ...
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The Linguistic Evolution of ‘Like’ - pmcpinto http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/the-evolution-of-like/507614/?single_page=true ====== triangleman The author forgot the other common usage of _like_ , that is, in storytelling: "I was like, what are you doing here?" The word prepares you for not on...
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I have a php developer interview? Any advice? - ecuanaso I&#x27;m still learning PHP, for almost 2 months. I have a good understanding of the basics. I&#x27;ve created some projects using laravel.the interview is a first round interview , any advice on what I should watch out for? Thanks. ====== frantzmiccoli As a r...
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Apple's "benign dictatorship" of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark. - tnash http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/app-store-enigma-the-patent-holder-the-developer-and-the-voiceless-child/ ====== josteink If Speak for Yourself had developed an app for Android they would have had _none_ of these problems...
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The Problem With Old People - ajkessler http://www.ajkesslerblog.com/the-problem-with-old-people/ ====== JoeAltmaier Nothing to do with old people - all my life I've known folks that hesitate to try something new. And for good reason mostly - stuff breaks, its expensive. Agree that its death to get stuck there. Its...
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GPT-3: A Hitchhiker's Guide - ydau https://lambdalabs.com/blog/gpt-3/ ====== ydau Happy to add any demos / papers to this post that you think are worth linking.
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Ask HN: Please critique my product, ThoughtMuse - an online mindmap tool - thomanil http://thoughtmuse.com ====== estherschindler The demo was very good at giving me an immediate experience. Except I never could figure out how to move items around. I wonder if you might want to include some "below the fold" stuff i...
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HiDb: A Haskell In-Memory Relational Database (2014) [pdf] - sctb http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14sp-cs240h/projects/puttagunta_debray_tu.pdf ====== wyager Related plug: Dead-simple Haskell in-memory key/value store (also using STM): [https://github.com/wyager/Neks](https://github.com/wyager/Neks) ~~~ louthy Also relat...
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Github update - no more private keys - markwillis82 https://github.com/search?q=path%3A.ssh%2Fid_rsa ====== mkhattab Well, this is a good response time from Github I guess. Unfortunately, I wanted to show my friend how ridiculous some people track their private keys in their repos and didn't make it in time :( On a ...
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Instacode - hpaavola http://instacode.linology.info ====== seliopou Really disappointed with the lack of APL[1] support. (You've probably never heard of it.) No character set support, no syntax highlighting. [1]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)> ~~~ BCM43 _(You've probably never heard of i...
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America’s Highest Minimum Wage Sparks Fight in Small California City - JumpCrisscross https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-highest-minimum-wage-sparks-fight-in-small-california-city-11563960603?mod=rsswn ====== vgoh1 Typical WSJ rubbish. Focus on anecdotes, like the guy who sacks over half of his staff because of a <...
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Show HN: Login-With Oauth Microservice for Twitter, Facebook, GitHub - fitz2001 https://login-with.now.sh/ ====== hanselot I'm really no expert and therefore my opinion is irrelevant, but is putting all your authentication details in one place that great an idea?
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Ask HN: Why don't we use SVG instead of HTML for web applications? - thomasqbrady This has been on my mind for years, now—time to see if I&#x27;m the only one.<p>HTML is great for what it was intended for—Documents. Primarily to flow unpredictably long text, and it still does that quite well.<p>It&#x27;s not great for...
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Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban - markmassie http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_SECRET_NETWORK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT ====== chris_overseas I stayed in a casa particular in Baracoa, Cuba, a couple of years ago. The owner had an illegal Internet connection that was...
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Ask HN: What are you using for quick mathematical modelling? - Max-20 There exists an app which I use for mathematical modeling: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tydligapp.com<p>It allows you to simply drag and drop dependent variables in multiple formulas to quickly translate real world problems into actual numbers. For example: If ...
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AngularJS Style Guide - harrisonp https://gocardless.com/blog/angularjs-style-guide/ ====== MaybiusStrip I still don't understand why everyone recommends different folders at the project root for controllers, directives, services, etc... You end up with closely related code being far apart. It's a thoughtless way of...
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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost (2017) - taytus https://www.quantamagazine.org/statistician-proves-gaussian-correlation-inequality-20170328 ====== danbruc Previous discussion [1], 71 comments. [1] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554) ------ xyzzyz ...
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USN-3863-1: APT vulnerability - cf141q5325 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3863-1/ ====== cf141q5325 Max Justicz post about the vulnerability [https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt- rce.html](https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html)
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DIY Solar Panels on Nissan Leaf - Biba89 https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/23/diy-solar-leaf-project-shows-the-untapped-potential-of-solar-evs/ ====== chrisgd Disappointed that so many people criticized his project. He built an MVP and put it out there. Impressive
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'A Terrible Slaughter Is Coming' – The Atlantic - fillskills http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/a-terrible-slaughter-is-coming/381157/ ====== genwin "9,000 ISIS terrorists". Geez, I wonder how many it would take before it'd be called an army.
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Crash Spurs Interest in Real-Time Flight Data - tokenadult http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/global/22blackbox.html ====== asmithmd1 $75,000 for a satellite black box plus $3-$5/minute to send the data? Just screw one of these onto the plane: <http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=102> $170 + $99/ye...
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Don't ask to ask, just ask - chynkm https://dontasktoask.com/ ====== wonder_er I wrote a similar guide (less concise/maybe more detailed) a few years back: [https://josh.works/better-questions](https://josh.works/better-questions) In another post, I make a case for never, ever asking "are you there?" in Slack[0]. It'...
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God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - donmcc http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html?_r=0 ====== lutusp A worthwhile read. A nice, concise summary of the science/religion divide.
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How Different Cultures Understand Time - ghosh http://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-understand-time-2014-5?IR=T ====== yason I fit the multi-active category and living in Northern Europe and working with Americans makes it sometimes difficult. Now that I read the article, it put the words in my mout...
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Cyberpunk 2077 Can Come to Google Stadia - alexclara http://gamekatana.com/cyberpunk-2077-can-come-to-google-stadia/ ====== shmerl That would be good, since it can enable eventually proper desktop Linux release.
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Why you need a framework with your WebSockets - jondubois https://medium.com/@jonathangrosdubois/why-you-need-a-framework-with-your-websockets-98330827e3e ====== meritos Yeah, that is cool, also liked the Mozilla tutorial for Java devs: how to develop the WebSocket server: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/W...
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Ask HN: As a software engineer, what's the best way to push back against Trump? - jamestimmins Garry Tan recently tweeted that those who code should use their skillset to push back against a burgeoning surveillance state (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;garrytan&#x2F;status&#x2F;826120645754761216).<p>My question i...
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Dark Side of Wikipedia - randomname2 http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/dark-side-of-wikipedia ====== gus_massa The article presents a biased history. Form the article: > _And anonymous Wikipedia editors maintain a stranglehold on selected topics. > Kohs demonstrates with the case of Morgellons. The Mayo Clinic c...
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Arrow: Better dates and times for Python - amarsahinovic http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/ ====== jessedhillon Seems like it's written by someone who prefers Ruby or JavaScript -- where there exists already a culture using names which are cute first, even if they are opaque -- over Python. These method naming choices are b...
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Show HN: CalcMaker.com – Quickly build custom forms and calculators - acoyfellow https://CalcMaker.com ====== acoyfellow CalcMaker is an online form builder, with a focus around creating results real-time in browser, (think like a custom order form, mortgage calculators, etc..). Includes touch-enabled drag and drop in...
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Simple web-focused Docker-based mini-PaaS server - akoenig http://octohost.io/ ====== instakill Hi. Let's pretend that I'm an intermediate developer with no knowledge about sysadmin or even deployments. How would you break this down and ELI5 [0]. How does Packer fit into all of this (assuming I'd use Digital Ocean...
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Men should avoid rock music when playing board games - upen http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/8680.html ====== DrScump I don't think Operation is a "board game" in the traditional sense. It relies on dexterity, not luck or strategy. ------ manojr Why only men? ~~~ DanBC The article says > Women, however, did not ...
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100M clear text passwords stolen from Russia's biggest social network - twoshedsmcginty https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/06/vk-100-million-clear-text-passwords-stolen/ ====== raverbashing Instead of idiot questions like FizzBuzz maybe recruiters should be asking about password storage best practices instead ~~~ ...
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A Lidar-Validated Trajectory for a Long Home Run - oplav https://technology.mlblogs.com/a-lidar-validated-trajectory-for-a-long-home-run-f9c716206c8b ====== hos234 This is cool. I didn't know lidar point clouds could be generated for an entire stadium. Not clear how the impact point was detected in real time (or exit...
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Mindreading Game (based on Information Theory) - paraschopra http://seed.ucsd.edu/~mindreader/ ====== paraschopra I am feeling sad at my inability to generate random numbers!
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The secret of Groupon’s success is … good writing & Email? - Cmccann7 http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/15/demo-the-secret-of-groupons-success-is-good-writing/ ====== patio11 Aggressively targeting women who have money and enjoy spending money instead of young men who don't have money and enjoy stealing the product isn'...
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A Python wrapper for the 3taps API - zeeshanm https://github.com/mkolodny/3taps ====== mjhea0 [https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api- wrappers#3t...](https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api- wrappers#3taps---data-exchange)
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Attempting to Bypass ASLR on Windows 7 to a Reverse Shell - woumn https://woumn.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/bypassing-aslr-on-windows-into-a-reverse-shell/ ====== woumn It turns out that my exploit did not work locally or remotely. I'd love feedback from you all if my understanding is flawed. I would suggest reading at ...
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Write experimental hacks with TDD - kevTheDev http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/11/tdd-and-experiments-i-was-wrong.html ====== kevTheDev This is what I have been trying to say to some of my fellow coders, but somehow could never quite express it.
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Snap CEO sets goal of profitability in 2019 - bmlevy9 https://cheddar.com/videos/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-company-memo-on-2019-strategic-goals-and-profitability ====== bmlevy9 A few key highlights: 2019: Invest in the root if you want the fruit. 2019 Strategic Priorities Deliver our Core Product Value Widen our Moat Op...
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L.A.'s Measure M Voters Fund Transit, but Don't Use It - noobermin https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/los-angeles-public-transportation-tax-measure-m-metro/580609/ ====== thescriptkiddie Public transportation works best as a dense and highly interconnected network. When you're first building out a system, ...
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Building Enterprise Software on LinkedIn's Consumer Stack - pancomplex https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/10/building-linkedin-talent-hub ====== thrower123 This headline is almost a winner at overhyped tech jargon buzzword bingo. Bonus game: take a shot every time there is mention of an internal or in-house s...
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Marijuana Industry in Colorado, Eager for Its Own Bank, Waits on the Fed - bkudria http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/business/marijuana-industry-in-colorado-eager-for-its-own-bank-waits-on-the-fed.html ====== DaveWalk I think this is exactly what credit unions are for -- a group of people feeling under-served combin...
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All my trash for a year fit into two plastic bags - sonabinu https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/29/all-my-trash-for-a-year-fit-into-two-plastic-bags-heres-how-i-did-it/?tid=hp__ ====== jacobolus Does anyone know of any good systematic studies of the waste / environmental costs of various activiti...
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Apple Brands Siri as "Beta" - maxcho http://maxcho.com/2011/10/apple-ships-a-beta/ ====== IanMikutel Overall, it may be very telling that Apple labeled Siri as "Beta" because it could very well be that most of the above could still come true in months and years to come. Apple invested $200 million to purchase Siri, ...
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