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You may finally use JSHint for evil - catacombs http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/jshint-watching-the-ship-sink/ ====== ricardobeat The project has been "rewritten from scratch" [1] in order to sidestep the legal requirement of preserving the original license (from JSLint, which it was forked from), against both the or...
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How Aging Research Is Changing Our Lives - dnetesn http://aging.nautil.us/feature/226/how-aging-research-is-changing-our-lives ====== dahart Great article, this is the first one on aging I've read in a while that has it's head on straight and isn't trying to make weasel arguments that suggest aging cures are just arou...
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Tech shades of blue side-by-side incl new Win 8 logo (Can you guess correctly) - e0m http://kuler.adobe.com/#themeID/1771385 ====== e0m <http://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php> <https://twitter.com/about/resources/logos> [http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive...](http://windowsteam...
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Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process, CPUs Could Be TSMC 3nm - rbanffy https://wccftech.com/intel-ponte-vecchio-gpu-tsmc-6nm/ ====== websg-x Sorry, but that fake news. The news is for manipulation of Taiwan stock market. TSMC dominated the Taiex index. We are having a fun day on PTT. A popular Tai...
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Grappling with Go - dcu https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/02/07/grappling-with-go.html ====== pjmlp > It’s unprecedented for a language to be both garbage-collected and as > squarely aimed at systems programming as Go is, because systems programmers > have trouble tolerating the stop-the-world pauses that happen when the G...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with task/job scheduling? - jennoo How do you handle recurring and time-based events in your software stack. Would you choose for a self hosted solution (i.e. Celery) or choose a hosted solution? ====== freehunter My job scheduling needs are mostly based around Rails, and in that stack I've nev...
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Ask HN: What are the best ways to hire a data scientist? - adamgamble We&#x27;re sitting on mounds of data and we need someone to help us analyze and make this data useful.<p>We aren&#x27;t even sure where to start when describing the qualifications of a great data scientist. What are the common tools used? Is data sc...
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A Model Railway Journey - Thevet http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/kofman.php ====== ColinCochrane _In 2013, the Wunderland donated one square meter to each of the six major political parties in Germany, asking them to envision what the nation would look like if their party were in power. Top politicians and th...
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Ask San Franciscans: Is it worth taking a 2 week holiday to SF? - newsisan Sorry for the brief title.<p>I live in Australia and am considering Uni in the SF region.<p>Currently trying to decide if it is worth taking a 2 week trip to SF to help my decisions regarding university.<p>If I go, what should I do? Can I get...
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Mark Zuckerberg: Platform Policing Should Be Limited to Avoiding “Imminent Harm” - aspenmayer https://deadline.com/2020/05/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-avoid-harm-censorship-1202944403/ ====== aspenmayer Original title was too long. It was: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Says Platform Policing Should Be Limited To Avoidi...
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Ask HN: What will you do when you're 40 and still unsuccessful? - bodegajed It was my second visit to the doctor this year due to stress-related illness (skin allergy before now ulcer)<p>I turned 31 this year and I have been thinking what will I do when I turn 40 and my business is still nowhere? What would I do when ...
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AMA with Zach Sims, Codecademy CEO - cbee17 http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/38ks3q/im_zach_sims_ceo_of_codecademy_we_teach_people/ ====== terlingua86 Saving this one - interested to see what their plans for future language incorporations and future courses are! If anyone is on reddit, feel free to ...
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What you can do with a rice-cooker - How a simple tool has been adapted in many ways - amrithk http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/dining/01rice.html?pagewanted=1&em ====== kqr2 Here's a good book on how to cook things besides steamed rice with your rice cooker. I bought it for my sister and she really enjoys it. [h...
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Google Street View explores post-tsunami Japan - tpatke http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16157549 ====== entropie <http://www.miraikioku.com/streetview/en/after>
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Elisp library for communicating with Google services - rwl http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lisp/g-client/ ====== rwl I was pleasantly surprised to discover this library. I didn't really expect Google to have put effort into accessing their services from anything other than a browser -- much less from Emacs...
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Google Science Fair 2015 - blisterpeanuts http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/google-science-fair-2015-what-will-you.html ====== blisterpeanuts This is Google at its finest. This caught my eye because my 10-year-old is doing her third elementary school science fair next month. It's an amazing experience, watching...
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It's a long, tiring haul for Silicon Valley bus drivers - prostoalex http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/08/13/facebook-shuttle-bus-drivers/13478347/ ====== walterbell Cleaning staff are also hired via contractors. Are cafeteria staff hired directly?
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Show HN: CloudBoost.io: Search, Store, Sync Data with One Simple SDK - nawazdhandala https://www.cloudboost.io ====== nawazdhandala Founder here : Value Props : #1 - We have one API, that automatically detects how you query your data, and how you store and depending on it, We store your data into Redis, mongo, ela...
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Ask HN: Which method/algorithm do you use to securely hash password in PHP? - startupflix ====== thaumaturgy Since PHP 5.5, the answer has been: $hash = password_hash($password, PASSWORD_BCRYPT) and password_verify($password, $hash) These are a part of the PHP standard ...
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The Crazy Security Behind the Birth of Zcash, the Inside Story - sangfroid http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-crazy-security-behind-the-birth-of-zcash ====== nickparker Zcash's more technical blogpost on the process can be found here: [https://z.cash/blog/snark-parameters.html](https://z.cash/b...
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A Doctor Went to His Own Employer for a Covid-19 Antibody Test. It Cost $10,984 - rbanffy https://www.propublica.org/article/a-doctor-went-to-his-own-employer-for-a-covid-19-antibody-test-it-cost-10-984 ====== aussieguy1234 This is why the virus is spreading like wildfire in countries without universal healthcare, lik...
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An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds - anarbadalov https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/12/michael-laufer-drug-prices/ ====== leggomylibro That seems both super dangerous, and super awesome. It's not something that we should have to consider. But this is the world we live in, now; ...
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Google not Amazon. Make fantastic savings in a server-less world - vgt https://in.3wks.com.au/google-not-amazon-make-fantastic-savings-in-a-serverless-world-b6d37710839c ====== aclsid Excuse me for being so stubborn, but this article reads like a paid for piece by Google. There is not enough information about who Andr...
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Why you need a proper and fundamental education to be successful in life [2007] - raganwald http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/why-you-need-proper-and-fundamental.html ====== te_platt Especially interesting for those who remember this story: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303780> ------ charlesju My take i...
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Ask HN: $5K-15K “innovation facilitation” purchases my enterprisy corp can make? - bayonetz Have some funds that need to be spent so any ideas for tools or tech in the $5K-$15K range?<p>Think stuff like language processing, social media analysis, &quot;big data&quot; tools, software development quality or productivi...
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Scaleway slashes IaaS prices by 70% - edouardb https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ ====== kdeldycke Old prices for reference: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150712171608/https://www.scale...](https://web.archive.org/web/20150712171608/https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/) ------ shouze +1 guys you crazy!
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Reflections from smartphone transmissions enable gesture control - pietrofmaggi http://www.microwave-eetimes.com/en/reflections-from-smartphone-transmissions-enable-gesture-control.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222905355 ====== poseid interesting - just got a pointer to this gesture arduino shield this morning [https://www....
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Don’t use @import - mcxx http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/09/dont-use-import/ ====== scorxn Or more succinctly: "In IE @import behaves the same as using <link> at the bottom of the page, so it's best not to use it." Know and love <http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html> ------ nihilocrat I wasn't e...
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Blockchain-Based QA: The End of Fake Products in E-Commerce? - AlibabaTech https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/blockchain-based-qa-the-end-of-fake-products-in-e-commerce-6f9b28a75735 ====== hapnin This is an ambitious venture. I'm curious to see the results. Good luck during the rollout!
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Goto in C - ashitlerferad http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/goto-in-c.html ====== shortsightedsid The actual paper ([http://www.se.rit.edu/~mei//publications/publications/FSE201...](http://www.se.rit.edu/~mei//publications/publications/FSE2015-Nagappan.pdf)) is far more interesting that the linked post. The conc...
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Copy machines, a data security risk? - imsaar http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n ====== imsaar Amazing how easy it is for anybody to get hold of sensitive data. I am not sure what is the purpose of a hard disk in a copy machine. They should not have these. The copy machine wants extra money for deleting...
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Alex Payne — Settling Down Without Settling - fogus http://al3x.net/2010/10/07/house.html ====== petercooper _we locked in a 4.5% fixed interest rate on a 30-year mortgage_ Here in the UK, I'd seriously give up one of my gonads for a deal like that. There are almost no fixed deals over 10 years and the only 30 year o...
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Why Are There No Mosquitoes at Disney World? (2018) - arto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_30jPKzWdN0 ====== arto > You see rather than blindly spraying insecticides over the entirety of the > property, which is twice the size of Manhattan, Disney instead uses various > methods to carefully track where and when to sp...
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The History of Clarus the Dogcow - dennisnedry http://www.512pixels.net/dogcow ====== buserror Good old days when apple was cool. I was a mac dev since I turned 15 (1985) until about 2007, when it started to be all trendy. Before that time, there were few people, so it was 'easy' if you were good to be the tree standi...
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Hiring Managers what are your favorite websites/apps for finding people to hire? - dwgetjwehg What new apps are out there?<p>What do you use now? Is it any good?<p>What would you want to see in the future? ====== perseusprime11 Hired.com is really awesome. Check it out. ~~~ dwgetjwehg What if I need to find a candida...
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Ask HN: Something weird with accessing through a node.js proxy? - tonyarkles I'm experimenting with the nodejitsu node-http-proxy (https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy), and my super simple proxy seems to be working well. I've just tried surfing around to a bunch of sites I normally visit, and they've loaded...
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Ask HN: Apartment in SF w/o a Job - Azuldolphin My cofounder and I (YC W11 rejects) are moving to San Francisco in January to work full time on our start-up. We're leaving our jobs with enough savings to reasonably get by for a year.<p>Does anyone hav advice regarding finding an apartment without an income? Will hav...
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Pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript - mbrubeck http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/ ====== onedognight This is currently on the front page as <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657684> . ------ bambax According to the example, it seems to render PDFs pages as canvas images; wouldn't it be more inte...
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All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984) - janandonly https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php ====== disgruntledphd2 I adore that apparently Steve Jobs and Wozniak wrote Breakout while they were at Atari. I absolutely adored that game as a child. As an asi...
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Tesla driver found asleep at wheel of self-driving car doing 150km/h - pseudolus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/17/canada-tesla-driver-alberta-highway-speeding ====== ecpottinger More fools it seems. ------ knaq 93 MPH 137 FPS 42 m/s 81 knot
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What is the best statistics text for experimental physicists? - physics_s I am an experimental physicist and don&#x27;t have much idea about statistics. At some point, I feel the need to learn it. Would like to hold reading group and learn it together with other group members. Could you help me with finding a good sta...
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Magdeburg Water Bridge - tosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge ====== mhb Well, here's the photo that should be in the article: [https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-05-13/magdeburg- wate...](https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-05-13/magdeburg-water-bridge- maphead-ken-jennings) ~~~ ralfd O...
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Non-web startups, anyone is doing these? - apr Is seems that most of the people talking about startups imply a web app. Which makes me wonder if anyone is considering an embedded or more traditional desktop/server software product? ====== quizbiz Or what about something more brick and mortar, a physical product or a s...
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Some California beaches have been off-limits, but public outrage is changing - petethomas https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-hollister-ranch-settlement-20181228-story.html ====== trishmapow2 Wow that title was hard to parse - two sentences as in the article would be much clearer - or maybe just reword it. ...
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Show HN: numpy re-implemented in Golang - praveen9920 https://praveenpenumaka.github.io/posts/numpygo ====== praveen9920 TL;DR I re-implemented numpy partially for implementing ML algos. Here is the [code]([https://github.com/praveenpenumaka/numpygo](https://github.com/praveenpenumaka/numpygo))
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Stripe is down - the_common_man https://stripe.com/ ====== edwinwee The site stripe.com is experiencing issues loading for some -- the API is unaffected. We're working to bring the site back up now. ~~~ edwinwee The site is loading now, and we're continuing to monitor. It had trouble loading for some between 17:31–18...
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Ask HN: How do GPUs help in databases - eyer2016 From what I&#x27;ve read, the problem with big Data is io not computation. Am I wrong here? Are GPU based databases simply being faster in a subset of problems where the data fits in memory? ====== wizzerking FRom a series of Google searches and webcrawls i maintain for...
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Show HN: Gel – N64-like software renderer in C - glouwbug https://github.com/glouw/gel ====== favorited Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138583](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138583) ------ thrillgore That's cool but using Nintendo's IP in your git repo? A DMCA is on the horizon. ...
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Stunning Examples of Data Visualization - edw519 http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/15-stunning-examples-of-data-visualization ====== commiebob these are very pretty charts and graphs but none of them seem to actually convey the intended information very well. ~~~ jwecker I, also, was expecting to see visualiza...
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Ask HN: Where do you buy and sell side projects? - dsaavy ====== davidsojevic Depending on the type of project you're looking to buy and the amount you're willing to invest, here's a handful of marketplaces and brokers for online assets for small/mid-sized projects (with some larger scale ones): [https://www.sideproje...
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Smart Phone is a Smarter Wallet? - quismal http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048325,00.html ====== thinkcomp "For instance, what's to stop a sophisticated thief with a concealed payment terminal from digitally pickpocketing you [with NFC]?" Using a barcode instead, with a face of the customer downl...
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What happens when people in Pakistan start taking MIT classes - capex http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/what-happens-when-people-in-pakistan-start-taking-mit-classes/277580/ ====== angersock I'm pleased to see the English language spreading again as a universal language of learning and engineeri...
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Cringely's Problems Contacting Startups - Do You Know Who Your CEO Is? - rfreytag http://www.cringely.com/2010/05/question-time/ ====== drallison It's not only startups that don't have phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and identifiable persons of authority. It's big companies too.
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Ask HN: Who is Co-founding? (December 2013) - boggzPit ====== MediaSquirrel I created Buttr, a p2p grocery shopping service. We pair people with dedicated buyers who choose their groceries and deliver them to their door. Unlike Instacart, Buttr shoppers decide which items to buy and charge a flat fee, no markups. ...
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SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists - panarky https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/neo-nazi-swatters-target-dozens-of-journalists/ ====== donatj The heart of the problem is that SWAT-ing is possible. You shouldn't be able to make an anonymous phone call and have the police bust down someone else's door guns drawn. ...
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Second Analysis of Ferguson’s Model - Khaine https://lockdownsceptics.org/second-analysis-of-fergusons-model/ ====== captainredbeard Wow, that’s some terrible code (even just from a “state flow” perspective, let alone stylistic choices).
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IE10 Countdown - ssclafani http://ie10countdown.com/ ====== tobylane I don't get it, does it do something different based on user agent? Personally I'd hope IE10 is a browser we don't have to care about/follow beta and launch, we just make html5 websites and it works.
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How I ended up with Mac - gebe http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html ====== Wilya I'm always amused by these posts praising how everything just works on the Mac, and how it's so nice not having to worry about [annoying linux/windows stuff #351]. Am I really the only one blind to this effect ? I've used a...
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Silk Road successors - SimplyUseless http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/05/daily-chart-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/silkroadsuccessors ====== hackercurious ROSS ULBRICHT has been sentenced to life in jail for his role in the Silk Road. This article shows what a waste of resources this trail was. Online mark...
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Ask HN: Is there an extension where you can follow specific user's comments? - otisfunkmeyer I would love an alternate view of HN where my favorite users&#x27; most recent comments appear. I&#x27;m often more interested in the perspective of a few commenters than all of the links or comment threads.<p>I also think thi...
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Fruity Maps – Apple Maps in Your Browser - OberstKrueger http://fruitymaps.com ====== stephenr I wonder if it'll become public like CloudKit. For independent projects I'd still use/recommend OSM (using something like leaflet.js) but if you have Mac/iOS/web apps this would be a good solution for showing maps
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The 446 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: - Eurongreyjoy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html ====== kirRoyale 'member when NYTimes wrote news articles?
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Driverless mining haul trucks - hhandoko http://vimeo.com/73911554 ====== hhandoko Following up on the Medium article[1], as there seemed to be a bit of interest on these autonomous trucks. [1] - [https://medium.com/war-is-boring/bed4b2b5a70a](https://medium.com/war- is-boring/bed4b2b5a70a)
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Robin Dreeke – Sizing People Up – DEF CON 27 (2019) - yesenadam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XR4QrJyxA ====== yesenadam A must-watch for everyone. This has to be one of the most amazing talks I've seen, super-impressive and useful. Life-changing. It's about how to improve all your relationships, interactions, you...
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Raw: the missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics - co_pl_te http://raw.densitydesign.org ====== gfosco I suggest making the landing page a bit more clear... I sat there looking at the single sentence thinking, "What?" It's not so much a missing link between anything, as it is a way to create visualizat...
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Business Insider Turns A $2,127 Profit On $4.8 Million In Revenue - pclark http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/07/business-insider-4-8-million-profit/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter ====== randall The original post is much more insightful. [http://www.businessinsider.com/business-insider-the-full- mon...](http:/...
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Harry Shearer: Why My 'Spinal Tap' Lawsuit Affects All Creators - 6stringmerc http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/harry-shearer-why-my-spinal-tap-lawsuit-affects-all-creators-w474441 ====== probably_wrong I knew this would be about Hollywood accounting. For those that are not familiar with the practice, a leaked ...
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Ask HN: What would you do if you knew you could not fail? - sturza Popular question to ask. I’d start a startup to measure bias in speech&#x2F;text. ====== muzani Probably a startup based around productivity. Many types of productivity - energy, anti-corruption, health, healthier food, or a crutch for the downsides of...
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The end of the road for the live concert business? - grellas http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703636404575353351111409566.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_LeadStoryNA ====== ilamont So the Eagles' billion-dollar, 40-year run is starting to falter? Cry me a river. Ditto for the Limp Bizkit reunion tour, and Liz Phai...
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Durian blender movie got released today - ergo14 Here is the page to see the movie: http://www.sintel.org/<p>It doesn't use fancy renderers like yafaray (otherwise it would look even better). But what I saw from movie is that blender gives us set of tools that are suitable to make great advertisments and presentatio...
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So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck - qhoxie http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/05/need-a-job-resume/ ====== blurry Does anyone else find the post incredibly disrespectful? So to merely have a chance at $12/hour one should include a customized video _and_ pay a professional editor to go over the cover letter (presumab...
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The Decision: Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis? - josep2 https://www.jowanza.com/blog/2017/6/19/the-decision-apache-kafka-or-amazon-kinesis ====== oskari Kafka is a great piece of software, but running and managing it can be quite tedious. If you can run your workloads in a public cloud my recommendation would be to go ...
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Why Your Desktop Won't Be Running Mir/Wayland Anytime Soon - munchor http://shnatsel.blogspot.ru/2013/03/why-your-desktop-wont-be-running.html ====== green7ea This post seems to be slightly misinformed about Wayland. I can't say much about Mir as I'm not as familiar with it. 1\. You can use OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Softwar...
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Show HN: Html templating using string tags - projectant https://github.com/dosyago-coder-0/dosyhil/blob/master/def.js ====== projectant For example see [https://github.com/dosyago- coder-0/dosyhil/blob/master/test....](https://github.com/dosyago- coder-0/dosyhil/blob/master/test.js) And more diverse at [https://githu...
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Asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers - Peteris http://badassjs.com/post/43420901994/asm-js-a-low-level-highly-optimizable-subset-of ====== haberman As someone who's been a vigorous proponent of (P)NaCl for a long time, I have to say that I'm excited to see this. If it can truly ...
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H Is for Hawk - samclemens http://lithub.com/h-is-for-hawk/ ====== mbubb Heard about this on "Brain Pickings" and it is on its way. A good read for boys at bedtime? 9 and 11yrs. ~~~ dvdplm No, I don't recommend it. It's definitely a book for adults. I personally found it had many long boring parts mixed with very int...
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OLPC XO-2 to be open source hardware - RK http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/126646 Here's the link to the X0-2 page:<p>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-2 ====== duskwuff Negroponte must be on crack if he think they can build these for $75 each. They still haven't gotten their current hardware below $100... how ...
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Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws - shahryc http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/05/us/ap-us-black-hat.html ====== shahryc sad, but probably true to a degree. After a given innovation, there's usually a lag time for the government to respond with laws because prior to it, th...
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Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70 - mmckelvy https://blog.bookandledger.com/topics/business-formation/form-a-california-llc ====== will_brown Maybe I’m biased but, this is one of those times where the advice is just enough to get you into trouble. No mention of single member vs multi-member LLC, and lack of...
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Back-up failures led to Dutch emergency phone line breakdown - hellofunk https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/06/back-up-failures-led-to-emergency-112-phone-line-breakdown/ ====== ziddoap > _The initial analyses show that something went wrong in the back-ups,’ > Grapperhaus said. KPN is now trying to establish what happ...
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Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses - sahin-boydas https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-tech/apple-buys-startup-focused-on-lenses-for-ar-glasses-idUSKCN1LE2VS ====== doublerebel It looks like the acquired startup, Akonia, uses waveguides like Hololens but uses photopolymer in place of the diffracti...
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Despite Everything, America Remains a Nation of Hot Dogs - pseudolus https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/07/hot-dog-eating-contest-july-4th-usa-bbq-photos/593305/ ====== tyingq Schonland's hot dogs (the kind you see in cartoons that link together) on New England hot dog rolls (square, stand up, white on the sides, butte...
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Interview with Founder of RentHop (YC S09) - anson http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2901-NY-Business-Strategies-Examiner~y2009m7d27-An-interview-with-Lee-Lin-cofounder-of-RentHop ====== zaidf I love reading stories of people dealing with complex backend stuff and translating that experience into an easy-to-use con...
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Lisp in Small Pieces: Table of Contents and Code - _qc3o http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html ====== caisah "This is an excellent book on Lisp implementation. You'll get a lot out of it, whether you are interested in writing compilers and interpreters (for Lisp or any language) or whether...
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An Open Letter to the Developer(s) of Conficker - mrcharles http://www.bluh.org/?p=58 ====== mahmud So much potential in the title and the opening paragraphs, such underwhelming conclusion. Summary: "Conficker authors, please destroy Facebook, MySpace and World of Warcraft so I can hangout with my friends face to f...
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Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad Targeting - cctt23 https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/facebook-will-cut-off-access-to-third-party-data-for-ad-targeting/ ====== bogomipz I think the last paragraph is the most important one: >"Facebook clarified that it will still work with companies like Experia...
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Stocks Will Collapse by 50% in 2014 - wslh http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNewsIntl/Stock-market-recession-alert/2014/02/10/id/551985?promo_code=166D4-1 ====== lutusp The linked article is a thinly disguised advertisement for a worthless miracle "secrets of the winners" scam, one that correctly predicts anything the sto...
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Which Cryptocurrencies Will Survive? - kishansagathiya https://kishansagathiya.github.io/blog.html#crypto1 ====== verdverm Probably the ones that exhibit the opposite features the author purports will make a crypto survive. I'm not sure any exist that have those features
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ASK HN: Review our new product: WordPress Module: Security, Auditing and Backup - sucuri2 http://sucuri.net/wordpress-security-monitoring ====== sucuri2 I would love some feedback on a new product we just released to the public. It is a security plugin that will add some things that are missing on WordPress. Includ...
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The Old New Thing : Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize - Anon84 http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.aspx ====== gruseom This is a good post about error handling and exceptions. I think the title should be changed to reflect that, as I almost didn't bother reading it. I've slowly bu...
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Company fined $300,000 for posting fake reviews online - vaksel http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/technology/internet/15lift.html ====== ckinnan Three cheers for the NY Attorney General. Fake commercial posts and non- disclosed pay-to-posts are clearly deceptive false advertising. ~~~ Elessar Indeed. It's a good day ...
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No TV for children under 2, urge doctors - anigbrowl http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html ====== dolinsky My son is 21 months and we have never sat him down in front of a TV with the express purpose being education (so no Baby Einstein DVDs...what a joke) nor babysitting (passive viewing of a cartoon...
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HTML5 Game Dev Competition for Students - sponsored by Mozilla, GitHub - austinhallock http://clay.io/competition ====== kayoone Cool, but i cant shake the feeling theyd like to boost the games portfolio of their gaming site on the cheap with this. So this is not to be seen negative per se, but USD 1500 for the win...
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Building a Literal Library of Building Blocks - sulami https://sulami.github.io/posts/building-a-literal-library-of-building-blocks/ ====== andrewflnr The idea that code needs to be distributed in libraries rather than functions is limiting, especially for these little independent functions. I've always liked this pro...
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Python's GIL implemented in pure Python - etrevino https://rushter.com/blog/python-gil-thread-scheduling/ ====== ponco Reading the headline I couldn’t help but think “But why?”. Actually quite interesting and valuable implementation info if you’re ever doing threading with CPython. ~~~ StavrosK > Reading the headline...
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An Analysis of fear-based enriched extortion attacks - dsr_ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-my-victim-analysis-fear-based-enriched-extortion-zach-cissp ====== howard941 I've been pushing the one a day I receive of these onto the reporting database at [https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/](https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/) . ...
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Recent Services Interruptions - philfreo https://github.com/blog/767-recent-services-interruptions ====== tomjen3 Ways three days with shaky service? Does anyone know a good alternative to github? ~~~ vamsee There's bitbucket.org. But they're not so hot on reliability either. You can also try Unfuddle, if you don't c...
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Show HN: AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers - phillmv https://appcanary.com/hey_hn ====== jaryd You may want to rethink the pricing. I have several server variants that I effectively clone in different datacenters across my deployment. Since the base images are static I would really only need to run...
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Which python framework are you using for your projects? - eposts ====== jward I use Django. For the most part it does the heavy lifting and then gets out of my way and lets me code. Another large factor I really like is the peace of mind knowing that it actually works in production environments and isn't impossible t...
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Ask HN: What do you use for your TODO, how much HN material you actually read? - warriorkitty I&#x27;ve seen many, MANY times a lot of amazing articles and links here in HN. The problem is that I read only 20% of things I would like to read because of &quot;not today, I&#x27;m too busy&quot;.<p>I would like to start s...
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