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President Obama on Patents - tarekayna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ4Zo0XyNsw ====== jamesmiller5 I believe that is Limor Fried from Adafruit (a Raspberry Pi manufacturer) who asks the question, unless I am mistaken.
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Yes, You Can Name a Website “Fucknazis.us” - jlrubin https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/yes-you-can-name-website-fucknazisus ====== rurcliped Is there a citation for EFF's claim that "Originally used only for government websites, .US is now open to anyone with a connection to the U.S."? RFC 1386 section 1.3 says "I...
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Tomorrow is the 25th Anniversary of the Robert T. Morris Worm - citizenkeys http://www.intelfreepress.com/news/lessons-from-the-first-computer-virus-the-morris-worm/7223 ====== btilly It is worth noting that Morris "started some companies" means that with his friend Paul Graham he cofounded ViaWeb, and then YC.
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Show HN: A Photo of Everything Project - sheraz http://www.photoof.co ====== sheraz Just a weekend side-project in a geeky effort to collect a photo of everything, even the mundane. Thought HN might enjoy :-) Feedback is welcome. Here are the specs: * Postgresql * PHP * Zurb Foundation ...
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My Life as a Forth Interpreter (1986) [pdf] - waffle_ss http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1986-04-Hayes-Forth.pdf ====== etfb For context: the Computer Language magazine in the 1980s had a tradition of April Fools editions. This is from one of them, before they got too serious, changed ...
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My 2 Bucks on Pricing - kes http://chrisashworth.org/blog/2010/06/09/my-2-bucks-on-pricing/ ====== biggitybones This is one of the best (and easiest to read) articles on pricing I've ever come across. No formulas, no complexities explaining A/B tests and other scientific research, just a story of a guy who made some s...
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Ask HN: Laptop and OS setup for total web development coverage? - drunner As a web developer I was handed a MacBook a couple years ago. Its &#x27;ok&#x27;. The keyboard is jank and not being able to span windows over multiple monitors is one of my many minor annoyances with MacOS.<p>However, I was recently given the...
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International Domain Names Are Coming In 2010 - kloncks http://mashable.com/2009/10/30/international-domain-names/kcd.com/ ====== kloncks Really not sure what to think about this, I have been following this news for a while now and I don't know how to feel about it. On one hand, yes, I agree wholeheartedly that the...
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The Tennis Racket - jsvine http://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket ====== jnsaff2 A few years ago a friend of mine wrote a paper on a related issue in tennis: [http://www.playthegame.org/fileadmin/image/knowledgebank/Ten...](http://www.playthegame.org/fileadmin/image/knowledgebank/Tennisdraws_Katarina_Pij...
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Twitter’s Misguided Quest to Become a Forum for Everything - raleighm https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/magazine/twitters-misguided-quest-to-become-a-forum-for-everything.html ====== Tycho The establishment press is panicking because they can no longer effectively perform the role of narrative gatekeepers. Informatio...
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End of the World, a ten second game - jmduke http://auntiepixelante.com/endoftheworld/ ====== jwise0 Interactive fiction has become an incredibly interesting medium, I think catalyzed by Twine (an IF authoring tool that seems to be part of what's backing this story). With more technologies available to add 'spice' t...
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Ask HN: Why is Facebook on the rack for questionable practices but not LinkedIn? - hoodoof ====== tmnvix Partly because of Cambridge Analytica and The Guardian's interest in that organisation (an interest somewhat motivated by CA's role in promoting brexit). Basically politics. n.b. don't misread this as me claiming ...
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JPMorgan Tells Staff: Make It Clear Taiwan Is Part of China - baylearn https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-11/jpmorgan-tells-staff-make-it-clear-taiwan-is-part-of-china ====== anfilt Sigh, I hate seeing companies capitulate to china. The communist rebellion/revolution in mainland failed to defeat the rema...
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Perl on Rails - theoneill http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.shtml ====== DarrenStuart I wonder if they are going to open source it? and if not why not, I pay my TV license so I expect it too ;p ------ jamongkad Wouldn't this be the Perl framework Catalyst?
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Rich desktop app for HTML/CSS authoring - joshsere http://www.pingendo.com ====== jrwoodruff I've only spent a few minutes with this, but so far it looks very promising. I work in an enterprise envrionment where we have varying levels of design/programming skill. One of our needs is for our designers or business anal...
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We should help this guy - MrBra https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q ====== MrBra For ref. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViG0Q4lTeA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViG0Q4lTeA) [http://www.templeos.org/](http://www.templeos.org/) original discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts - olibaw https://ai.facebook.com/blog/fastmri-leverages-adversarial-learning-to-remove-image-artifacts/ ====== DataDrivenMD A physician's $0.02 - The clinical relevance of FB's work is clearly stated in the blog post: "While state-of-the-art facilities t...
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First Particle Beam to Shoot Through the Large Hadron Collider Tomorrow - nickb http://io9.com/5034820/first-particle-beam-to-shoot-through-the-large-hadron-collider-tomorrow ====== stcredzero Tell everyone who doesn't know that particles with even greater energy have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. So ...
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Ross Ulbricht's arrest: How the FBI handled evidence and destroyed the laptop - mich_op This is new information the FreeRoss team released yesterday. Everything is backed up with a source.<p>For anyone interested in knowing how the evidence used against Ulbricht was produced and handled by the FBI, read or watch at ht...
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Show HN: The missing Oculus Home user reviews site - jorjordandan http://riftvr.review ====== jorjordandan Oculus Home has no user reviews, so people getting their rifts have no way to see what other customers think of the available games and experiences. I built this so that the VR community can share their opinions....
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LLVM on Windows Now Supports PDB Debug Info - zmodem http://blog.llvm.org/2017/08/llvm-on-windows-now-supports-pdb-debug.html ====== ezoe So MSVC use PDB format which is undocumented. LLVM want to implement PDB. LLVM asks MS for help MS disclose the portion of the MSVC code which deal with PDB MS GitHub even says...
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The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers - elorant https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab ====== Abishek_Muthian I feel sad that we need to educate and demand 'The Right to Repair'. Yesterday, I accidentally no...
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Learn Python - mannjani http://www.learnstreet.com/lessons/study/python ====== gergles > Right now we only support social logins. That's too bad; I was interested in moving beyond the first page. This is about as far from a social site as you can get. You don't have any need for my social graph. Please stop doing thi...
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Debunking the pseudoscience behind the "3D can't work" myth - kldavis4 http://www.slate.com/id/2282376/ ====== michael_dorfman Setting aside the ocular arguments, I think the Slate post overstates things here: _Take Toy Story 3: I've gone on record with my admiration for the scene at Daisy's window, where Lotso fi...
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Bitbargain (UK) suspends withdrawals - KiwiCoder http://blog.bitbargain.com/post/76337403346/bitcoin-malleability-issue ====== edlea tldr: Don't use bitcoind's "accounts" functionality This is the first article I've read that actually details what the issue is and why it doesn't just effect custom Bitcoin clients.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) - joubert http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman-book-review.html?pagewanted=all ====== CountBayesie For anyone interested in Bayesian Statistics it is worth noting that ET Jaynes (imho the arch-Bayesian) disagrees with Kahneman's idea ...
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BBC iPlayer - Wait Till Your Teacher Gets Home - mazi http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vl3zc/Wait_Till_Your_Teacher_Gets_Home!/# ====== da5e I got a message that I couldn't play the video in my area. I'm in the United States. ~~~ mooism2 Iplayer is UK only.
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Corporate stereotypes, and why Microsoft could kill your startup career - kaelswanson http://mattswanson.org/corporate-stereotypes-and-why-microsoft-could-kill-your-startup-career/ ====== pgroves Full text from google cache: Corporate stereotypes, and why Microsoft could kill your startup career Note: This post is...
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StdLib Sourcecode: Share Node.js “Serverless” Code with Developers Worldwide - petercooper https://medium.com/stdlibhq/introducing-stdlib-sourcecode-share-your-node-js-serverless-code-with-developers-worldwide-b8fd5714e430 ====== prbunny Does this work with AWS or?
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Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube - ashraful http://www.youfm.org/ ====== cjstewart88 Neat, I made <http://www.tubalr.com> about 2 years ago and have been working on it every since. It made its way onto Mashable, Techcrunch, and several other blogs this past Dec/Jan. Something to keep in mind, ...
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Federal Rules of Evidence - jstalin http://www.rulesofevidence.org ====== berberous Why is this here? I'm not one of those people who complain about off-topic posts, I'm just genuinely perplexed as to what people find interesting about this. ~~~ rayiner How about this: [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract...
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Calling all student founders: $20K, office, and mentorship from Highland Capital - yodac http://summer.hcp.com/ ====== glesica The alumni page reads as such: Harvard, Harvard, MIT, Harvard, Harvard, CalTech. So, question, is there any point in applying to something like this if you didn't go to Harvard, MIT, or anothe...
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Pricks - empressplay http://pricks.com ====== blakeross For context, this is a TV show I wrote as a Theranos parody. Didn't realize someone would submit it standalone (but thanks empressplay!)
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Jony Ive is retaking control of Apple’s design team after two years hands-off - rbanffy https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/8/16753794/apple-jony-ive-design-management-role-change ====== eriksssss Good, now get rid of that touch bar, and give me back my SD Card reader and MagSafe power. ~~~ MarkMc And a keyboard that do...
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This connection is untrusted - chrisdotcode https://www.whitehouse.gov/ ====== techjuice The site is being served over Akamai and the certificate for www.whitehouse.gov is being served by Akamai but appears the certificate does not have www.whitehouse.gov for the issued domains. Secure actions are redirected to peti...
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CNET Reporter Quits Over Editorial Meddling by CBS - davewiner http://adage.com/article/media/cnet-reporter-quits-editorial-meddling-cbs/239165/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge/LatestNews+%28Advertising+Age+-+Latest+News%29 ====== w1ntermute There's an exclusive piece from The V...
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Apple Expected to Consume 25% of All DRAM in 2015 - Doubleguitars http://hothardware.com/m/News/Apple-Expected-To-Consume-25-Of-All-DRAM-In-2015-Impact-Industry-Trends/default.aspx ====== philiphodgen Wait. Something doesn't make sense. 1\. Apple consumes 25% of all DRAM -- more than any other vendor. That's what t...
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Microsoft Defender Comes to the Mac - kaboro https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/21/microsoft-defender-comes-to-the-mac/ ====== saagarjha Mac users cringe worldwide as they anticipate overzealous IT departments mandating that they install this on their computers. Serious, though: why does this exist? What does it protect M...
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California: lose your wage claim and pay your employer's attorneys' fees - grellas http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=196677172&message_id=1075315&user_id=Venable&group_id=323884#page=1 ====== JangoSteve If a lot of people were abusing the system to get undue money from employers, k...
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On Testosterone: Driving a Porsche vs. Camry - ed http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/more-on-testosterone-levels-driving-a-porsche-vs-toyota-camry.html ====== GavinB It would be great to know whether this is effect continues after driving the same car for a month or two. It could be somewhat of a novelty...
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Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly - Shivetya http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around-chernobyl-arent-decaying-properly-180950075/ ====== bostik I saw a documentary about the Chernobyl exclusion zone a couple of years back. One of the more interesting facts was that while the radioat...
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Build versus Buy - sciurus https://lethain.com/build-vs-buy/ ====== jedberg My preference in these situations is always to start with buy, and then try to justify build. Unless it's a core competency to your own business, which it almost always isn't, it makes sense to let someone else do it better. Their profit marg...
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My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeks - wporr https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-visitors ====== tyrust Link to the HN thread referenced in the article: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817) Pour one out for the bottom commen...
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On Switching from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Pixelbook - zdw http://www.speirs.org/blog/2018/11/30/on-switching-from-an-ipad-pro-and-a-macbook-to-a-pixelbook ====== willbank How does Chrome (browser) perform for your needs on iOS?
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AskHN: Looking for a collaborator to do something cool with neural networks - inlineint I want to do something cool and open source it on github, that would be interesting to many people and help me practice with neural networks. I mean that I&#x27;m not going to develop some new method, but just apply something that ...
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Material icons - madmax108 http://www.google.com/design/icons/ ====== dvh Lol, I'm blocking google font delivery domains and this is what I see: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SCh06PKpVtZ2p2Ym1FV285NUU...](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SCh06PKpVtZ2p2Ym1FV285NUU/view?usp=sharing)
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Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year - EL_Loco https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/americans-may-be-ingesting-thousands-microplastics-every-year-180972370/ ====== dahfizz Do we know much about the impact this has on our bodies? This is certainly something to be concerned about, but w...
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Ask HN - what interesting books did you read this year (including non tech)? - vijayr ====== caw "Predictable Irrationality" - This is a pretty good book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" - Similar to Predictable Irrationality, they overlap somewhat but they're different enough "How to Master the Art of S...
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Earthcomber Cries Patent Infringement Against Loopt - qhoxie http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/earthcomber-cries-patent-infringement-against-loopt/ ====== 99Frogs “a system and method for locating and notifying a user of a person, place or thing having attributes matching the user’s stated preferences.” This is ...
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Ask HN: What kitchen/cooking hacks that have been really effective for you? - maxpblum Anything goes! ====== davidgould Be able to sharpen a knife and always have at least one really sharp knife. Learn how to cut/chop efficiently. Pixian Douban Jiang - This is the flavor you were looking for: [https://blog.themalam...
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Cannot delete mawlare - Kunen Want to smash my computer. I couldn&#x27;t watch videos today and was prompted to update some sort of extension. I then click on download Adobe. Immediately, things turned ugly and I see several pop-ups by something named unisale on the website. The tricky part is that I have it removed...
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Getting Some Closure with JavaScript Closures - yourcousinbilly https://jorge.modulo.blog/getting-some-closure-with-javascript-closures-3f3aa88ecf8c ====== nilaymodi123 Awesome!
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Ask HN: Is drop shipping still a viable business? - Mojah Tim Ferris popularized the idea with this 4 Hour Work Week, but I wonder if today - in 2020 and with a rising pandemic - it&#x27;s still a thing?<p>Has the market saturated by now? Is there an opportunity left? Who&#x27;s doing this successfully and who has fai...
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Giggle; Laughable Security - DyslexicAtheist https://research.digitalinterruption.com/2020/09/10/giggle-laughable-security/ ====== p410n3 With vulnerabilities like these, there is a big problem in my opinion. Who actually ever reports these? The thing with vulnerabilities like describes in the post is that they are S...
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Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One - bobm_kite9 https://github.com/risk-first/website/wiki/One-Size-Fits-No-One ====== olooney Here is a (tongue-in-cheek) model I've developed. It's based on the observation that teams who were basically competent and had an overabundance of hard technical skills reliably d...
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Show HN - Showing users what is trending locally. Looking for feedback. - spycrowd http://www.spycrowd.com We have just launched in Princeton, NJ, Kalamazoo, MI and Grand Rapids, MI and just looking to get some thoughts from the hacker news community about what we are doing.<p>We show users what is trending locally b...
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Reddit Enters Live Streaming with the Reddit Public Access Network - hardwaresofton https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-livestreaming-rpan/ ====== yagodragon I don't know how this is going to end up. Reddit has always been content-first (like hn) and not people-first (like twitter/Instagram). I don't usually follow peo...
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Hackers: DO write crypto code, DON'T use it in production - sarciszewski http://www.cryptofails.com/post/75204435608/write-crypto-code-dont-publish-it ====== sarciszewski This is written for developers who are trying to get their feet wet with crypto and are frustrated by all of the industry experts saying "don't ro...
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Tesla Unveils New Finance Product - antr http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-unveils-revolutionary-new-finance-product ====== therealarmen This product is designed to take advantage of the federal tax credit for electric vehicles (I work in the EV industry) while still maintaining all of the benefits...
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Eight big problems with the “case” against Assange - mgunes http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/02/eight-big-problems-with-the-case-against-assange-must-read-by-naomi-wolf/ ====== damian2000 Wow - compelling points here, hard to refute.
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Intro to Haskell for Erlangers - waffle_ss http://bob.ippoli.to/haskell-for-erlangers-2014/ ====== jerf This is how I came to Haskell. If you're a polyglot sort and you eventually want to get to Haskell, but Erlang also looks interesting, it's not a bad path. Erlang can get you over the basics of working with immutabl...
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Clipboard Hijacking with HTML5 in Chrome - tbranyen http://tbranyen.com/post/clipboard-hijacking-with-html5 ====== userbinator This needs to be a thing (global, and also per-site): [ ] Allow reading clipboard content [ ] Allow writing clipboard content I much prefer the "if there's a...
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LibreDWG drama: the end or the new beginning? (2012) - codehero http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/libredwg-drama-the-end-or-the-new-beginning ====== tbirdz A couple of objections: 1) I don't see how it is the GPL's fault that the Open CASCADA license is GPL incompatible. The Open CASCADA license was created wa...
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The Clever Hans Effect - delano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans ====== delano "Due to the large amount of public interest, the German board of education appointed a commission to investigate von Osten's scientific claims. ... This commission consisted of a veterinarian, a circus manager, a Cavalry officer, ...
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Google Patents Needle-Free Blood Draw - e15ctr0n http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?PageNum=0&docid=20150342509&IDKey=9B7DC623905A&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fappft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPG01%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s...
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Usability Cookie - Did Hamilton lose the F1 Championship because of bad user interaction? - leovernazza http://www.himalia.net/blogs/leovernazza/2007/10/usability-cookie-did-hamilton-lose-f1.html ====== karzeem I'd say that F1 teams have too much money riding on wins to allow that sort of shoddy design, but that doe...
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Haroon Moqtazarda: Experience Founding - immigrationhelp http://www.heekya.com/blog/?p=5 ====== brlewis _Simpler, easier, faster always wins out._ Man, do I hope that's true. ------ helveticaman _Don't be afraid to ask for...raw measures of intelligence, [like SAT scores]._ [loosely paraphased] Interesting.
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"This Article Is A Must Read" (Dumbest article in TC history) - rblion http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/19/this-article-is-a-must-read/ ====== trotsky I think you're selling them short, I've seen features with far lower useful content posted on that website. ------ rouli unless it will be followed with an article that...
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Crowdfunding Open Source, one issue at a time - tonylampada http://www.freedomsponsors.org/ ====== tonylampada After two months of development, I think FreedomSponsors is ready for its very own link here on HN :-) ------ lorenzfx I always thought there should be a crowdfunding platform for oss feature requests. Onl...
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New features in C# 4.0 - snprbob86 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=csharpfuture&DownloadId=3550 ====== snprbob86 Sorry about the doc link. Seeing as C# and Python are my two favorite languages, I'm glad to see C# gaining some of my favorite Python features. The varianc...
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How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets - lnguyen https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html ====== bluetwo This is huge. I'm very curious why there is not a larger discussion around this.
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Say Media Raises $27 Million and Gets Ready to Start Shopping - kjhughes http://allthingsd.com/20120719/say-media-raises-27-million-and-gets-ready-to-start-shopping/ ====== a5seo Internet Brands 2.0
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Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours - smaili https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/alibaba-singles-day.html ====== djaychela I've only bought a few things from Alibaba over the years, but most of them have turned out to be either faulty or a typical case of 'chinese manufacturer disappoi...
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Bay Area professionals indicted for H-1B visa fraud - prostoalex http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executives-indicted-for-h-1b-visa-fraud/ ====== FesterCluck I've personally witnessed the hiring of a contractor from India at a small development company simply to save on funds. There were plenty of s...
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Let’s Save Blogging - nvr219 https://tedium.co/2019/01/01/2019-independent-blogging-trends/ ====== diaktifkan The real trick isn't just to start a blog it's too keep one running so you may use it for years to come. IMHO that's where most blogging systems fail. WordPress got us close but revealed even push-button upgr...
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Show HN: Anonymous chat app where every message reveals more of your picture - patricklorio https://blur25.com ====== wingerlang Almost literally a blank page and a login with Facebook. I am intrigued by the idea and I am not one to go on and on about sharing. But I won't even try this out because of the landing page....
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Samsung Galaxy S8 - chirau http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-s8/ ====== enzoavigo Iris scanning :0
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Aubrey de Grey to debate Colin Blakemore in Oxford, April 25th - biofox http://www.sens.org/node/2714 ====== will_phipps they should get francesco zappa in to do the soundtrack! <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHO92S1Yw8>
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CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies - dedalus https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew ====== paulddraper Recently on a cruise ship I found my SSH access blocked. _And_ HTTP proxies were blocked too. So I used a WebSocket proxy and that worked great. I highly recommend wstunnel. [https://github.c...
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Zillow Launches Home-Flipping Program in Phoenix and Las Vegas - twohanded https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/zillow-launches-home-flipping-program-in-phoenix-and-las-vegas ====== calcsam This is copying the Opendoor business model. Keith Rabois, an Opendoor founder / investor, claims this is vaporware...
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How I use email for marketing - craigkerstiens http://nathanbarry.com/email-marketing/ ====== petercooper Not that I have anything to add but I'm surprised this didn't take off here. It touches on so many things that frequently provoke interesting conversations on HN. ~~~ bdunn Likewise. It's one of the best posts I'...
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Relational lattices: From databases to universal algebra (2015) [pdf] - espeed http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~szabolcs/rellat-jlamp-second-submission-2.pdf ====== Kinnard Can anyone express why this is important before I dive into this paper? ~~~ xelxebar I just skimmed, pulling on whatever related math I know and it look...
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What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You - RMarcus https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-to-most-of-you/ ====== reuven These stories upset me deeply. But as much as they upset me, they surprise me. And that's because until it was just recently, after 20+ years in the computer industry, th...
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How to Write your own Minesweeper AI - nostromo http://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/2125/ ====== benzor Nicely done! Side note: for those of you inclined to try this, or make use of Java's Robot class in any way, a word of warning: Robot takes over your mouse and/or keyboard entirely, so if things go wrong ...
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Onion Omega: Invention Platform for IoT - bokenator https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onion/onion-omega-invention-platform-for-the-internet-of ====== bpg_92 I guess this is what Spark needed to be. I will sure back this one up.
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Investing in Art - magda_wang http://the-easel.com/essays/for-love-or-money-the-merits-of-investing-in-art/ ====== lucas_membrane Insider trading and conflicts of interest are uncontrolled in this market. The major shows of works of an artist are scheduled long before they are publicly announced. These shows usually i...
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Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL - synchronise http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2013-July/004100.html ====== fpgeek The github issue is amazing reading: [https://github.com/rxrz/exfat- nofuse/issues/5](https://github.com/rxrz/exfat-nofuse/issues/5) Normally you expect the copyright issue...
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So you want to start a startup? Here's what you are missing - gregmuender https://medium.com/life-learning/attention-wantpreneurs-heres-the-one-thing-you-are-missing-a46539213e96 ====== jteusa Totally agree. Building up my startup solo at the moment, but on the lookout for a solid co founder.
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Street magic with functions - the video of the talk I gave at JSZurich meet-up - ivan_krechetov http://vimeo.com/21795367 ====== old_sound This video has the best analogy I've heard so far regarding why you should use Monad to encapsulate side effects. From the video: "The code that deals with side effects really s...
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Show HN: Keep your page's timestamps up to date (weekend project) - prezjordan http://prezjordan.github.io/uptodate/ ====== threedaymonk I wrote something similar a while back (in 2005, apparently). It's not quite how I'd write it now, but I'm not too embarrassed by my code from eight years ago! <http://po-ru.com/c...
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Show HN: Sandboxd – speed up your bash/zshrc by lazy-loading the slow bits - benvan https://github.com/benvan/sandboxd ====== brbsix Bash v2.04+ does something similar, in that it lazy-loads completions. As soon as you type `git ` <kbd>Tab</kbd>, it runs `_completion_loader git`, which determines what file to source, ...
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Check predicted crowd at European tourist destinations - pzs https://avoid-crowds.com/ ====== zeristor This looks so handy, I am not sure how much a cruise ship docked in London makes though
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BlowFile is private FTP with unlimited bandwidth - raneri http://www.blowfile.com/ ====== lussier Low cost unsecure FTP transfers to Italia? Ok...
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Lucidity – visual data debugger - delian66 http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd ====== stareatgoats Yea, saw this too just now, in a comment to another post here on HN by the creator. I have only been able to scan the surface but initial reaction one of utter awe. I have not seen anything similar anywhere, have I misse...
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How to Get 5 Million People to Read Your Website - Matthew Inman, Oatmeal - mattgratt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYyJZOHgpco ====== spokey That was disappointing. A nice survey of Oatmeal comics, but there was very little "how to" information in this presentation.
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Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued - obsaysditto http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100416_1_000s_of_Web_cam_images__suit_says.html ====== CWuestefeld I'm glad that somebody is still tracking this story, and it hasn't just dropped on the ground. Too often, it seem...
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The Clean Architecture in Python (2014) - Spiritus http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/slides/2014-07-pyohio/clean-architecture/ ====== Spiritus Video of the talk: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtef410XaM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtef410XaM)
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Apple iPhone 7 Teardown shows FPGA - walterbell http://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/apple-iphone-7-teardown ====== walterbell Investor commentary on the FPGA, [http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/19/1-more-surprise- win...](http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/19/1-more-surprise-winner- inside-th...
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Video Found in Belgium of Nuclear Official May Point to Bigger Plot - jstreebin http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/world/europe/belgium-nuclear-official-video-paris-attacks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss ====== pdkl95 > authorities had “concrete indications that showed that the terrorists > involved in the Paris attacks had ...
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Alu (Runic) - benbreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alu_(runic) ====== devmunchies I’ve read 3 books on the runes over the last couple of years. I find them interesting—I like symbolism. That being said, what’s the significance of Alu? Why is it posted here? Generally Curious. ~~~ Fjolsvith Would recommend the book ...
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