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Microfunds as a way to gain early insight into promising startups - chat https://www.theinformation.com/articles/marc-andreessens-secret-weapon-for-finding-startup-investments?pu=hackernews6zx36c&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock ====== michaelbuckbee The micro funds as listed in this article seem more like a re...
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Show HN: Linguaquote – Professional Translation Management - luxpir https://www.linguaquote.com ====== luxpir I'm on hand over the weekend to discuss any of the details, stack, market fit or strategy. Basically an against-all-the-odds single founder, bootstrapped startup needing not very many paid accounts to be profi...
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Static Analysis of Open Source .NET Projects - aespinoza http://www.codingblocks.net/programming/static-analysis-of-open-source-net-projects/ ====== _random_ Hopefully with the Roslyn release static analysis will gain even more ground. Producing hundreds of unit tests shouldn't be the only strategy.
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How Hard Could it Be?: Adventures in Office Space - terpua http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080601/how-hard-could-it-be-adventures-in-office-space.html?partner=fogcreek ====== ambition Rent was 15% of revenue, now it's 2%. Conclusion: Fog creek revenues have increased around 7.5x since they moved into their current space...
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Progress Bar Badge for GitHub README Files - fka https://github.com/fehmicansaglam/progressed.io ====== kator Why a service? Seems the images are static coded from 0 to 100 and could easily just be a CDN reference rather then burning a service on every hit? URL/progress/1.png .. 100.png done.. :) ~~~ lukeholder I a...
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Tim Ferriss's Speed Reading Method, in a Chrome Extension - ntoscano http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speedreader/jigjffjnfiikefbmfcnffbinngepkaik ====== Nadya Tim Ferriss's method focuses a lot on eye movement. I question the decision of lines/keeping lines over making the words move instead of your eyes. On ...
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Off the Rails: GOP Opens Reign By Killing Jobs - jeremybythesea http://redgreenandblue.org/2010/11/05/off-the-rails-gop-opens-reign-by-killing-jobs/ ====== variety You know, there are often hidden fallacies embedded within these "massive spending == job creation" arguments. Chief among these being, all of the regio...
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Shrimp Are Testing Positive for Cocaine and Scientists Don’t Know Why - okket https://www.newsweek.com/shrimp-are-testing-positive-cocaine-and-scientists-dont-know-why-1412562 ====== okket See also discussion from 3 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800321](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800321...
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The Lamborghini Aventador: A case study in poor dashboard design - robbiehudson http://blog.geckoboard.com/the-lamborghini-aventador-a-case-study-in-poo ====== angdis The author fails to realize that except for a few thrilling seconds a year (if that) the typical Lambo owner drives no faster than any other car. "Sup...
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Microsoft Courier on iPad - simplezeal http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57405317-75/the-ipad-app-that-will-remind-you-of-microsofts-old-courier-project/ ====== simplezeal Video went too fast for me, but the concepts looks good - ability to drop maps, contacts in notes, annotate documents? Ability to take handwritte...
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~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion - mathias https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx?os-x-10.8 ====== oacgnol As with any dotfile repo, I wouldn't recommend installing the entire thing at once. Instead, try and take the time to read through it and select settings that y...
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Purple Cow Redux - immad http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/purple_cow_redu.html ====== immad Fascinating story. Really liking interesting marketing / distribution strategies now days.
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Show HN: Simple YouTube Downloader - 3xblah test $# -gt 0||exec echo usage: echo youtube-url\|$0 fmt \[saveas\];b=$(exec sed 's/http:/https:/; s/m.youtube/www.youtube/;s/youtu.be./www.youtube.com\/watch?v=/;s/hooktube.com/youtube.com/;s/embed.&...
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Time Line for Diaspora - chegra http://chegra.posterous.com/time-line-for-diaspora ====== bradleyland I bootstrapped my start-up using a three step process: 1) Spent less than I made at my "job" so I could save up a few months of a cash-buffer 2) Start my own simple business with a bulletproof business plan (ultra...
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Snapvine.com: Thanks for the memories - cryptnoob http://snapvine.com/ ====== cryptnoob I'd love to know what happened. $20M is a lot to pay, to then shut the doors. ~~~ truebosko Talent acquisition? [Not cited, just a guess.]
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PIMPD - Perl Interface for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) - trapd00r http://code.google.com/p/pimpd/ ====== jrockway People are still using MPD instead of XMMS2? Why? ~~~ chronomex I haven't actually used XMMS2, but I really like not having the music stop if I have to log out. Also, having it play when I'm not even ...
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Audiophiles - jaybol http://xkcd.com/841/ ====== Umalu I was an audiophile until I realized I couldn't upgrade the key component in my system: my ears.
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Show HN: Hollow, an interactive documentary - arxpoetica http://www.hollowdocumentary.com/ ====== mutant You know.. There is a reason people despise IE, and one of those reason is "Must be viewed in IE." This isn't a web page, it's a chrome app, go put it on the chrome store. ------ malandrew If anyone here is int...
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Camerata: The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming (2018) - pugio https://blog.atomist.com/the-origins-of-opera-and-the-future-of-programming/ ====== pugio The notion of a "camerata" (organized serendipitous space of people working towards a similar idea) is especially relevant right now, when everyone is co...
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Ask HN: Is it still doable to make money in the App Store? - cronjobma With people downloading fewer apps, I'm wondering if it's still doable to make $5k+ a month from an app in the store? Has anyone had recent success? ====== WheelsAtLarge The answer is yes but it's no longer a just post and hope it catches...
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ZyLAB - zylab https://www.zylab.com/ ====== zylab ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery uses Artificial Intelligence and Data Science tools to facilitate fact-finding missions through large or small electronic datasets related to the business-critical projects of governmental agencies, law firms, and companies of any size.
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Internet companies should not be monitoring terrorists or anyone else - primitive http://techfruit.com/2014/11/26/internet-companies-not-monitoring-terrorists-anyone-else/ ====== rwmj It's also impossible. "I'm going to kill some soldiers when I get back" might refer to my super secret terror plot, or my PlayStation-r...
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UC Davis pepper spray cop gets $38G worker's compensation settlement - lukashed http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/24/uc-davis-pepper-spray-cop-gets-38g-worker-compensation-settlement/ ====== bonemachine He certainly didn't deserve any death threats. But I wonder how much compensation the students got for being mace...
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When a New Cell Phone Almost Ruins Your Relationship - ikeboy https://features.wearemel.com/when-a-new-cell-phone-almost-ruins-your-relationship-c4f876ecd43d ====== AdmiralAsshat Dear god, no! They had to communicate through _standard SMS_!!! The horror!
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Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users - unwantedLetters http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13829690 ====== smhinsey These data breaches are getting to the point where I am expecting politicians to start getting involved. ~~~ dmix These vague assertions comes up in every single thread about hacking. Ho...
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Clever bike lock scales light posts - yread http://www.dothegreenthing.com/blog/a_clever_bike_lock ====== unwind Conrad is a catalog-based mail order company for electronics, tools and so on. From the final image of the video, I think this is a commercial for the Conrad company, showing the cool things you can build...
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Make Firebug's JavaScript debugger break inside dynamic JavaScript - archon810 http://beerpla.net/2009/12/17/how-to-make-firebugs-javascript-debugger-break-inside-dynamic-javascript-using-the-debugger-keyword-ie-chrome-too/ ====== archon810 As a side note, this works with IE and Chrome too. ------ nym I kept thinki...
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Jenna Abrams, Russia’s Clown Troll Princess, Duped the Mainstream Media and World - iamben https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-abrams-russias-clown-troll-princess-duped-the-mainstream-media-and-the-world ====== Sangermaine It's stories like these that make me so glad I never used Twitter.
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What language would you use to teach a beginner to program? - Androsynth http://jclinton.posterous.com/what-language-would-you-use-to-teach-a-beginn ====== DanBC I'd be interested to see the results of giving students something like "Learn Python the hard way" in a classroom situation. The tutor would try to avoid g...
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Paper-thin printed solar cells could provide power for 1.3B - prostoalex http://inhabitat.com/paper-thin-printed-solar-cells-could-provide-power-for-1-3-billion/ ====== OneOneOneOne Do these contain lead? I wonder if this is good for export. Additionally, this looks like a plastic film. Don't most plastics break down...
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Reid Hoffman: My Rule of Three for Investing - terpua http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/19/reid-hoffman-my-rule-of-three-for-investing/ ====== zenlinux If you liked this article you'll probably also enjoy this interview with Reid on the VentureVoice podcast: [http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/11/vv_show_40_reid_hoffman...
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Thinking Parallel, Part I: Collision Detection on the GPU (2012) - setra https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/thinking-parallel-part-i-collision-detection-gpu/ ====== Animats Coarse collision detection is only expensive if done from a cold start every time. In practice, there's a startup cost of ordering the bou...
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Profanity Helps One Tolerate Physical Pain Better - fiaz http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=profanity-bleeps-physical-pain-09-07-13 ====== gjm11 The note at the start says "This is an exact transcript of this podcast". The actual content is full of "@$#%!" and suchlike. So does the speaker in t...
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The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock (2012) - twic http://www.fastcompany.com/27333/trillion-dollar-vision-dee-hock ====== th-ai Dee Hock wanted to extend ownership, defined as 'nontransferable right of participation', to merchants and cardholders, but that was too much for the mental models in 1970, and even challe...
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Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed? - ColinWright http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/27/who-wouldve-thought-it-figures/ ====== _delirium This hides a significant range of issues: _And, even on niche sites, the number of salable page impressions required to even break even is ...
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Warp Speed Engine Designed - iamelgringo http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/28/warp-speed-engine.html ====== ajross Hacker News seems to be going down hill if a link to a mass media explanation of a clever gedankenexperiment suddenly becomes a design (!) for a "warp engine". ~~~ d0mine It is an interesting idea f...
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Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression? - joshbaptiste http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172303/is-there-a-regular-expression-to-detect-a-valid-regular-expression ====== andrewaylett See, this is one thing that annoys me about so-called 'regular' expression engines: they're not actually ...
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Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture - Roxxik http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp-part-2 ====== slashdotdash Gary Bernhardt describes a similar architecture using a "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" in his Boundaries talk[1]. "Purely functional code makes some things easier to understand: because ...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Technical Details: What's New - mariana http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/ ====== chuhnk There are some extremely impressive changes being made within redhat 6. This distro I assume will be what represents redhat for the next 4-5 years. ------ nailer Btrfs is in there as a tech be...
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Ask HN: Does season affect Y Combinator results? - malanj The summer versus winter batches makes for an interesting experiment in seasonal effects.<p>I would think that longer days mean more distractions, but perhaps also more energy. Personally I find that I&#x27;m somewhat more productive when I have longer days.<p>...
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Ask HN: Service to remind me to ping people? - aiurtourist Does anyone use a service to remind them to contact people?<p>I have lots of contacts that I&#x27;d like to keep in contact with at different frequencies. I&#x27;d like to have a service where I can fill out a name and a frequency (every 2 weeks, every 45 da...
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UK to science publishers: don't follow recording industry down the tubes - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/uk-to-science-publishers-dont-follow-recording-industry-down-the-tubes.ars ====== ivan_ah The original speech° is very well worded. The science publishing industry is definitely going to see som...
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Ask HN: My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails... - zz1senk I recently joined a startup in San Francisco about 3 months ago. We launched our product and it has been a great success (many customers, a lot of buzz, tons of traffic).<p>Before the launch, I was working until midnight everyday, 6 days a week. After the l...
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Here are the 20 games shipping with the PlayStation Classic - bdcravens https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/here-are-the-20-games-shipping-with-the-playstation-classic/ ====== CM30 Disappointing, but it kind of showcases that the PS1's biggest strength was in its third party support. This then provides an issue for any ...
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Worse - shawndumas http://www.marco.org/2014/03/15/worse ====== tptacek As an aside: for me, Amazon Instant Video is _much_ better than Netflix Streaming. I pay for both (Amazon unintentionally, because I bought Prime for the shipping), watch both on a PS3, and spend 2x the amount of time in Amazon as I do in Netflix....
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Our 4th startup landing page.Looking for feedback fintech b2c product - shapiro92 https://quma.io/ ====== onuryavuz 1\. How do I spend the reward points w/o a card? 2\. Also, you should post it to Show HN. ~~~ shapiro92 the rewards will be given to you to your Quma account and then you will be able to apply them on a...
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New Jersey becomes second state to ban cashless shops and restaurants - chadmhorner https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/new-jersey-becomes-second-state-to-ban-cashless-shops-and-restaurants/ ====== jtlienwis I am having trouble finding an injured party here. ~~~ chews There are lots of humans who transact in ...
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Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible - wallflower http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/02/cars-and-robust-cities-are-fundamentally-incompatible/4651/ ====== aharner Brings to mind a quote from the mayor of Bogota, Colombia: "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's wh...
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Amazon Customer Service - metra In a word: wow. I just got off the phone with Amazon customer service. It's 10:15 PM.<p>I called about a UPS Package that couldn't be delivered because I hadn't specified the apartment number. Since the package had already shipped, the Amazon rep said it was out of Amazon's hands.<p>I...
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China's Position on the China-US Economic and Trade Consultations - ezequiel-garzon http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/02/c_138110404.htm ====== Thetawaves .doc? Is this some kind of joke? A poorly disguised hack?
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A winning solution for SimCity - gasull http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/10/magnasanti/ ====== kj12345 "The ironic thing about it is the sims in Magnasanti tolerate it" I don't think any irony or toleration is going on here, at least not more so than the players in Madden "tolerate" being forced to play football again an...
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Let's go and work remotely for couple of weeks? - raunometsa I&#x27;m living in Estonia and I really like it here. Except for the weather. Ok, we have some nice summers after every five years or so, but most of the time it&#x27;s too cold for me.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking to go and live somewhere else for a couple of ...
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Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos credit Montessori education as a major factor in their success - brlewis http://www.michaelolaf.net/google.html ====== farmer Montessori schools seem ideal. But this looks like a bogus site. There's practically no content here. He even has Larry & Sergey mixed up. ~~~ vegashacker Y...
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MI5 criticised over 'unlawful' use of data gathered - jfk13 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48597111 ====== ncmncm Ultimately, all surveillance, if used, ends up used for some form of extortion. It doesn't matter why it was collected. It's the spooks' counterpart to "information wants to be Free." ------ ironic_ali "c...
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Salton Sea Notes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California Travel Journals (1961) - Thevet http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/18/salton-sea-notes/ ====== AlexMuir I drove down to Salton City and wandered around the beach of fish bones. It's a surreal place - grids of streets but almost no houses, and electricity pol...
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Kicking the Bukkit: Anatomy of an open source meltdown - avandeursen http://www.slideshare.net/RyanMichela/kicking-the-bukkit-anatomy-of-an-open-source-meltdown ====== RKoutnik Bukkit made a lot of mistakes (don't we all), but I think that this talk tries to pin them on the wrong thing. Bukkit was in a failure state t...
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The Law of Conservation of Complexity - angrygoat http://nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Complexity_Law.html ====== cestith Having non-modal interfaces seems simpler for the user in a simple application, sure. But when I consider all the power in the classic example of vi/vim command mode I'm unconvinced. If you ...
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The Massive Mystery In Google's Finances - Straubiz http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2011/07/goog_analysis_p.php ====== patio11 Some combination of: 1) Panda, which redirected hundreds of millions in revenue from some content farms to other parties (including, likely, the ether) which do not show up o...
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meme2txt: A shell script to make memes right in your terminal - dmadisetti https://github.com/dmadisetti/meme2txt ====== dmadisetti ``` meme2txt distracted_boyfriend.png \ \--meme "the internet" 9 68 black \ \--meme "classic memes" 16 80 black \ \--meme "$(toilet "meme2txt" -fsmblock)" 30 40 white ``` Sure, it seems ...
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How I created passive income in a week, by over-delivering value - robwilliams88 http://letsworkshop.com/blog/how-i-created-passive-income/ ====== Jemaclus > I spend 3-5 hours every single day and come up with the best freelance jobs > of the day from all over the web. So it's not really passive income, is it? ~~~...
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Ask HN: How would you use a multipoint laser range finder? - GrantHunter Hello, We are a group working on a project for 3day startup event (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nait.3daystartup.org&#x2F;). We want to develop a cheap multipoint laser range finder. Currently laser range finders measure distance by measuring the time it t...
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Delicious acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen - stevedewald http://www.zdnet.com/blog/feeds/will-delicious-get-tastier-after-its-departure-from-yahoo/3855 ====== stevedewald I, for one, am excited to see Delicious under the control of some capable people again. I used to use it all the time.
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Java Clojure Interop: Integrating Clojure into Your Java Project - va_coder http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-clojure-interop ====== ericlavigne The article doesn't even cover gen-class? You can use Clojure to create a Java library. Then the Java (or Scala or JRuby or Jython) code that calls it doesn't even need ...
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How can I foster a "hacker culture" at my university? - wrt54g I'm in my 4th year of 5 at a state university that isn't quite known for its CS program. The internet helped me to fall in love with programming- I always have a few projects going on the side, and I feel like I've taught myself more than I've learned in...
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Notepad++ v7.8.9: Stand with Hong Kong - ngcc_hk https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v789-stand-with-hong-kong/ ====== ngcc_hk First thanks. And not like NBA and Disney I guess. Purely from the heart. Still it is a surprise. Given it is always the 2nd thing to download in windows (the first is chrome, sorry edge), I fe...
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Americans Are Experiencing Racism - elsewhen https://www.axios.com/racism-in-america-pew-research-aaa8002d-736f-4203-8139-5119da845a44.html ====== threatofrain > In only two instances were black people not the most likely to have > experienced discrimination: Asians were the most likely to say they were the > brunt of...
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The Insults of Age - diodorus https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/may/1430402400/helen-garner/insults-age ====== doki_pen It's interesting that I've had the complete opposite experience as a white man. The older I get the more respect I get in public, for no apparent reason. The painting example was so apt. No on...
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Ask HN: How do you hire people who get equity - god_bless_texas I seem to have horrible judgment in partners. I&#x27;ve now had 2 partners that I brought in and gave equity to. I thought they hung the moon and then stuff went south. One thankfully quit in a blaze of glory and forfeited any equity. The other one wa...
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Self-Checkout in France Sets Off Battle over a Day of Rest - ingve https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/business/self-checkout-automation.html ====== Nextgrid When reading this keep in mind that the job market & work culture in France is quite insane, so a cashier job there is way more important than in your typical fir...
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Ask HN: Recommendations for awesome podcasts - OafTobark Interest are startups, tech, code, and hardware hacking related. Prefer those that include technical details over weekly opinion pieces if those exists. Thanks ====== krrishd [http://DRT.fm](http://DRT.fm) is a good one.
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Should I build this? - dustball There isn&#x27;t a full podcast-in-a-box solution that I can find. Many of them are focused on recording, or hosting, but none do a Good job of combining them the way YouTube does with videos, or even Tumblr for that matter.<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;complete.audio is the landing page.<p>Look...
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Ask HN: Would you take a job that you may not want? - justinv As a soon to be (non-tech) new grad, I have one full time offer on the table from a big tech firm that expires soon. My background is working in tech in various forms and I love the tech industry.<p>However, the position doesn&#x27;t excite me and, althou...
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Perl is Free Software's COBOL, and That's Ok - hachiya http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/18/perl-cobol.html ====== cms07 This again? Perl is actively used (by choice) by a good portion of the competent developers of this world. See Dancer and Catalyst for good examples of active web development. Perl being free ...
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Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies - oblio https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-explains-why-xbox-game-pass-is-not-on-iphone-2020-8 ====== mimsee > Basically, Apple wants to be able to review every game that graces an > iPhone’s screen, even if it’s streamed from a game server somewhere in ...
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Concealing the Calculus of Higher Education - jseliger http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/your-money/concealing-the-calculus-of-higher-education.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine ====== jimrandomh This isn't mysterious. The easier it is to co...
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UK supermarket TV advert on palm oil banned for being too political - cirrus-clouds https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/09/iceland-christmas-tv-ad-banned-political-greenpeace-orangutan ====== black-tea People will tell you that consumers have the ability to cause change. They say that if we care enough we can j...
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Essence of linear algebra [video] - adamnemecek https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab ====== jasonwatkinspdx Hopefully some friendly admin can come along and fix the link. The rest of the videos from 3Blue1Brown are pretty awesome as well: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_e...
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Show HN: Sausage Cat – simple SVG animation - bamblehorse https://codepen.io/Bamblehorse/full/Qrpjwv/ ====== bamblehorse I have updated the sausage cat with repeating-linear-gradients
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Offload: Build seamless multiscreen interfaces - martinrolph http://offload.strikingly.com/ ====== beardicus "Offload is a toolkit: a set of APIs and libraries for developers to add multi-screen functionality to their apps. It enables seamless communication between apps running on smartphones, tablets and PCs using ...
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Have You Disabled Extensions? - ChrisMorrisCo http://chrismorris.co/2012/02/11/have-you-disabled-extensions-a-story-of-javascript-debugging-with-a-shocking-twist/ ====== ChrisMorrisCo I figured this may help as I had also seen a fair few results for people who couldn't figure out what was causing the issue.
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Lark Suite - um304 https://www.larksuite.com/ ====== nikisweeting Looks cool but sad to see the chat system isn't threaded/topic-based to make it more async-friendly like how Zulip or forums do. IRC/Slack-style channels make remote work on different timezones really difficult because all the convos are mixed together...
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Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs - nkurz http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/australia-cuts-110-climate-scientist-jobs/ ====== lukevdp This is part of a head count neutral reorganisation of CSIRO. The move is away from climate measurement towards "what can we do about climate change?". Here is an interv...
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Nitrogram turbocharges brands’ Instagram campaigns with powerful analytics - spolu http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/10/04/nitrogram-allows-brands-to-take-instagram-analytics-and-marketing-campaigns-to-the-next-level/ ====== sink I wonder if anymore people even pause to think, does the world need this? before t...
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Build Your Own Z80 Computer - parenthesis http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/159064314/ ====== sfphotoarts I build a kit form of the ZX-81 back in the early 80's. It was a terrific machine for me at the time. Now I think these chips are still sold into traffic lights. Who else here remembers their Z80 opcodes? I r...
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Ask HN: what is Chrome Native Client good for? - willvarfar This is a bit of a protest since I got all excited about doing some WebGL goodness with native client, but then realised that whilst 3D is the very first thing on the features list, it isn't actually supported any time soon:<p>"Run native code modules that ...
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Lacking DRM, WebM May Lose Out to Flash - kqr2 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363980,00.asp ====== bediger The article rather un-critically accepts the necessity of DRM. That very necessity is quite questionable, given that almost all video uploader to YouTube don't really care about their "property rights", a...
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New MacBook every 90 days - andrewfromx Has anyone tried to get a new MacBook like every 90 days via:<p>1) buy new MacBook from apple<p>2) sell old one on http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sellyourmac.com<p>3) figure out the price you &quot;rented&quot; your new MacBook for.<p>Repeat. Any service that automates this? ====== wmf I ...
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Most Black Media Don't Have Tech Sections - UnFundedHype For the past year I've been trying to call out the fact most black media do not have tech sections or talk tech. Not bet, essence, vibe, global grind (co-founded by the same dude who was on cnn's black in america silicon valley episode), the list goes on. I'm ...
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Show HN: Japan Rent Calculator - franciscop https://japan-rent-calculator.com/ ====== franciscop I created this because renting an apartment in Japan is very complex. There are fees for everything that the renter has to shoulder, so with this tool it's easier to find out how much you are really paying per month. It st...
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Backdooring JavaScript using minifier bugs - joshsharp https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/blog/backdooring-js/ ====== yoz-y I wonder. Should one ever use minified javascript code on a server? Assuming that you are using it on your own server and not distributing the code to clients. Is there any benefit to it? ~~~ phpnode...
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Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (2013) [pdf] - rfreytag https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/Pukingmonkey/DEFCON-21-Pukingmonkey-The-Road-Less-Surreptitiously-Traveled-Updated.pdf ====== March_f6 This is a nice article that highlights some of the more important case...
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On Downloading Files - mkathuri https://maheepk.net/on-downloading-stuff.html ====== hrishios It still amazes me why this has not gotten better. I had gotten used to presuming that there was a better ecosystem of tools that connected curl, wget or aria2c to the browser that I was incapable of finding. None of the exte...
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The Consumer Web is Deflationary - byrneseyeview http://www.digital-dd.com/the-growth-of-the-internet-and-the-happy-recession/ ====== patio11 I think just about everything in this article is accurate, but that it ultimately doesn't matter, because the particular class of goods that are subject to this is rounding er...
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Ask HN: Tonidoplug / Sheevaplug colocation? - chanux Seeing tonidoplug openID entry on HN [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466465] today, I was wondering whether there are tonidoplug or sheevaplug colocatio services. Bit of googling took me to some sheevaplug colocation services but thought of asking HN for any...
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Apple Watch is encoding each frame as PNG - vzaliva http://lionet.livejournal.com/137350.html ====== mrshoe I never understand how someone can write an article about their very first foray into something and then, at the end, assert that they know more than the experts already. > In the end of the day, the watch batt...
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Google Compare Auto Insurance - jekrb https://www.google.com/compare/autoinsurance/form?p=home ====== pacala "Sorry, we don't cover your state The service isn't currently available in your state, but we'll be expanding to more locations soon. Stay tuned!" Consider publishing the list of states where this service is...
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TechAMA - tomsaj https://techama.com/ ====== tomsaj The site has lots of other channels too.
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GoDaddy bans top white supremacist and neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer - chirau https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/14/godaddy-bans-neo-nazi-site-daily-stormer-for-disparaging-woman-killed-at-charlottesville-rally/ ====== Shank > a note appeared on the Daily’s Stormer’s website claiming it had been ...
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Youtube phishing site - c4urself http://www.youyube.com ====== fredsanford FWIW, the Web Of Trust Chrome extension caught it. ------ antimora I wonder if there is a place to report such sites. ------ antimora Okay, I've reported this to security@youtube.com
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Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal - da02 http://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal.html ====== da02 Videos of "Dance Your Ph.d" 2008-2011 winners: [https://www.google.com/search?q=dance+your+ph.d&tbm=vid](https://www.google.com/search?q=dance+your+ph.d&tbm=vid)
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