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The Case for an AOL Renaissance - dabent http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/the-case-for-an-aol-renaissance/ ====== xsmasher Seems unlikely. Kudos to AOL for managing the transition from closed network to dial-up internet service; after that they went off the rails. The transition from dial-up to broadband rendered them ...
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Speculative Technology Pop-Up Event in the Bay Area - kailen https://www.altr3.io ====== kailen I spent the past month working with a group on a speculative technology research experience, and will be hosting a pop-up exhibition in SF, focused around the more secretive tech entities in Silicon Valley. If you are inter...
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How to design perfect software products (2013) - bdon http://hintjens.com/blog:19 ====== gfodor One problem with the meme that building products is about "solving problems" is that the biggest successes often come from recognizing very vague "problems" others don't, in the form of seeing fundamentally better ways of d...
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Show HN: HTTP Prompt – An interactive HTTP command-line client - eliangcs http://http-prompt.com ====== droog From [http://docs.http-prompt.com/en/latest/contributor- guide.html](http://docs.http-prompt.com/en/latest/contributor-guide.html): > Fork is a term invented by GitHub. No, it is not. Also, do I get royalti...
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Rational AI: Demystifying Machine Intelligence in the Enterprise - vimarshk https://medium.com/acing-ai/rational-ai-demystifying-machine-intelligence-in-the-enterprise-b5962ea281a0 ====== vimarshk Happy to answer any questions on this one.
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Linus Torvalds: Long Filenames (1992) - shawndumas https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.minix/0rgZpprg_Eo/NBSyZkYKRYsJ ====== salient If Microsoft has been collecting billions in revenue with an invalid patent for years, could the court (or EU Commission?) force them to reimburse that money? ~~~ drakaal No. Basica...
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PHP Creator Asks, Is Facebook's HipHop Just a 'Nifty Trick'? - skennedy http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/02/03/03readwriteweb-php-creator-asks-is-facebooks-hiphop-just-a-90057.html ====== thaumaturgy Rasmus made a bunch of reasonable comments and the Times article cut and spliced them to try to sti...
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How did WebKit lose out to electron ? - noloblo chrome and electron-based applications really heat the Mac, get the fan running all the time and bringing it to a halt.<p>Are there projects to build native cocoa apps on top of eth&#x2F;btc much like aquamacs for emacs<p>Are there technical reasons why electron won...
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BMW’s full-color HUD: distraction, minimizer of distractions, or costly gadget? - evo_9 http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124847-bmws-full-color-hud-distraction-minimizer-of-distractions-or-costly-tech-gadget ====== davidu My Audi has a HUD and it's great. It just becomes a part of driving and I find myself never loo...
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Ask HN: How to get started with distributed systems? - chef_zero I have been working in software development for a few years, but, unfortunately, I didn&#x27;t get enough exposure to problems that require true scalability and high availability. I know there is a wealth of great reading material on these topics, but it...
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Toward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta - cpu_ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/toward-trusted-sensing-for-the-cloud-introducing-project-freta/ ====== Pick-A-Hill2019 Could I suggest altering the title to "Toward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta"
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Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night" - Swizec https://leanpub.com/nightowls ====== forensic Since this book will likely be unscientific conjecture backed up by an amateur conception of psychology and physiology, I hope you will detail as many case studies as possible to allow readers access to the ...
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Factoring Could Be Easy - bdr http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/factoring-could-be-easy/ ====== dmolnar I like the approach of showing the assumption that "factoring is hard" implies a statement that at first blush has nothing to do with computational difficulty. That is, the number of solutions for a particu...
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The Art of SEO - DanielBMarkham http://www.hn-books.com/Books/The-Art-Of-SEO.htm ====== ivankirigin "So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor" <http://twitter.com/#!/drelabre/status/24646925328326657> ------ bauchidgw OMFG - this is the worst ...
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Tabbed Console starts here - shdon https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/04/13/tabbed-console-starts-here/ ====== coldacid Nice use of the upcoming sets feature, but I think I'd still rather use ConEmu for tabbed consoles just as I use Groupy for tabbing windows together for non- UWP apps.
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Ask HN: Service/API for Payouts in Europe - mytailorisrich Hello HN,<p>I am looking for a service that provides an API for payouts (to bank accounts or cards) in UK&#x2F;Europe.<p>I have been looking around a bit. There are tons of payments services, but it&#x27;s difficult to find payouts services (especially simple ...
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Ask HN: What concepts, if popularly understood, would most improve the world? - marviel A personal list would start with an understanding of cognitive biases -- how they can be formed, how to recognize them, and how to work with and around them. ====== FrozenVoid That your thoughts are not generated by your own will a...
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The difference between geeks and nerds, settled by a geeky infographic - Libertatea http://io9.com/the-difference-between-geeks-and-nerds-settled-by-a-ge-590379134 ====== pwg Original posting here: [http://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek- versus-ner...](http://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek-vers...
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Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? - marcopolis http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947452/why-is-printing-b-dramatically-slower-than-printing ====== codereflection This post highlights the issue with overly zealous mods on SO who marked the question as off topic. Nothing about this is off top...
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Dockerfileview – a public Dockerfile viewer - remore https://github.com/remore/dockerfileview ====== tedyoung Ironically, the tool is not provided as a Docker image (or at least none is mentioned). ~~~ remore Oh thanks. I have added docker image support. Following command works now. $docker run remore/dockerfilevi...
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Show HN: Subscription Box for Gourmet Ingredients - eorge_g http://secretingredientbox.com ====== eorge_g Hi HN! We're building a subscription box that shares great specialty products (some you may have heard of and wanted to try and others may be new) to your door. I'm really interested in bringing secret knowledge...
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Glyphs are the hidden heroes of the typography world - Amorymeltzer http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-secret-history-of-the-hashtag-slash-and-interrobang/ ====== mwfunk In typography, a glyph is a visual representation of any character- the Wired article makes it sound like the term specifically refers to punctuation, ...
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Coolest Robots of 2009 - abennett http://www.itworld.com/tech-amp-society/73137/coolest-robots-2009 ====== metachris omfg - it's running windows! ------ sound2man Original article is [http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/042009-robot- bus...](http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/042009-robot- business.h...
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Visibility and Monitoring for Machine Learning Models - heitortsergent http://blog.launchdarkly.com/visibility-and-monitoring-for-machine-learning-models/ ====== mav3r1ck _“The tricky thing, though, is in order to get good at machine learning, you need to be able to do deploys as fast as humanly possible and repeatedl...
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Ask HN: Do you use the money you have made to market yourself? - brockf I&#x27;ve 27 and been an entrepreneur for over a decade, bootstrapping several companies that have been acquired for increasingly large amounts. My intuition is that this history is one of my best assets and good reason for people to hire me.<p>Bu...
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When you need a CT scan ask for this - Mitt http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2012/03/12/computing-power-speeds-safer-ct-scans ====== bh42222 _The answer to the question Baker posed lay in a set of mathematical rules called an algorithm._ I never cease to be amazed just how low the math level is in our...
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ScratchABit 1.0 – Interactive disassembler with IDAPython-compatible plugin API - pfalcon https://github.com/pfalcon/ScratchABit/releases/tag/v1.0 ====== pfalcon Major changes in last 2 releases: switch to YAML-based database format, allowing for git-backed collaborative reverse engineering projects, and switch to a b...
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After killing Reader, Google shuts down free GMail - mariusandreiana http://googleblog.herokuapp.com/ ====== petercooper A good April Fool as it is, sadly, quite believable.
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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) - joaojeronimo http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html ====== infinity0 David A. Wheeler’s Page on Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers [http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/](http://www.dwheel...
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Netflix Open Sources Media Caching HW, SW - BryantD https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect ====== BryantD Possibly "open sources" should be in quotes; there's no actual code there and not a lot of detail on the software. The hardware spec has a bill of goods which includes a custom chassis and no info on how that wa...
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American Maglev - coglethorpe http://www.academicvc.com/2009/03/american-maglev.html ====== Barnabas The article doesn't link to the company's website, which is here: <http://american-maglev.com/index.php>. Sadly, neither the article or the company website indicate how fast the train will go, or any details about wh...
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Show HN: Available two-letter domains - ahreflink https://ahreflink.com/domains/two-letter ====== Mon15Oct There was a Show HN for colorblind accessibility no later than a few hours ago. As someone who is red-green deficient, while I can see the difference, the list is barely readable. I would suggest using the whole ...
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Comparing Java GC Collectors - ingve http://eivindw.github.io/2016/01/08/comparing-gc-collectors.html ====== hyperpape I know that profiling using VisualVM (or most other profilers) can substantially change the garbage collection behavior of an application ([http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-escape-of-arrayl...
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Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers - wagnerpatriota https://qz.com/1832988/covid-19-results-in-new-jersey-desperately-needing-cobol-coders/ ====== detaro [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782097](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782097)
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An Open Discussion Of My Personal Business Strategy - zackattack http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/08/an-open-discussion-of-my-personal-business-strategy/ ====== Mc_Big_G I appreciate your candor. I struggle with some of the same issues, especially when it comes to finding new customers. I imagine a lot of other devs ha...
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Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world - ahalan http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprinciples.pdf ====== MrMan Making financial subjects into moral parables is not an effective way to deal with complexity. Simplicity will fall naturally out of the process of refining derivatives markets. Insurance is a deriva...
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Dreamhost offers 2 years free for old GeoCities accounts - coglethorpe http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history/ ====== redrobot5050 This is still a bad deal. You're moving from one crappily-run, crowded ghetto to another crappily run, crowded ghetto that won't even let your site use 10% of a ser...
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Building a Thinking Room - fun2have http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778104576287121392285518.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter ====== roryokane The title first made me think this was an account of how someone constructed a “Chinese room” (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room>), a room which as a syst...
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30 seconds of code: Curated list of useful JavaScript snippets - azorba1987 https://github.com/Chalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code ====== koolba Besides the " _Hey I can write stuff you can 't read_" factor, what's the point of the array and scientific notation here for the UUID generator[1]? var uuid =...
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Gifted Instuctional Stategies for Homeschool - chaltom https://familyhomeschooler.com/gifted-instructional-strategies/ ====== navigator01 Geat aticle, vey informative and helpful fo paents of gifted youth
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Show HN: Brutu Timer – Stay focused or burn your money - pawsys https://brutu.app ====== pawsys One of the hardest parts of being a freelancer is not having a boss. Having a rigid external structure can be both a curse and a blessing. Daily deadlines, defined commitments and face to face meetings can be very effective...
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Ask HN: Where can I find pornography that is in the public domain? - raceconditioner It seems kind of unlikely, but is there a website where people submit pornography that is in the public domain? ====== Turing_Machine [https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain](https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain) It's compl...
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Ask HN: What are the best resources to create an LLC/Incorporate? - traviswingo I&#x27;m looking to form an LLC as a parent company for all of my side projects. What are some of the resources HNers use to do these things? Do you do it by yourself? Do you pay a service like LegalZoom? ====== tylery I recently set up a ...
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Show HN: Calculate.plus – perform every-day calculations and conversions online - CalculatePlus https://calculate.plus ====== CalculatePlus Hello HN! This is our first post on HN about [https://calculate.plus](https://calculate.plus) :D ------ MichaelBurge I usually use Wolfram Alpha or Google for this.
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Why is Rust difficult? - chewbacha https://vorner.github.io/difficult.html ====== jchw I like Rust so far, but there's a few things I think aren't true: * That Rust is only harder because it enforces 'correctness.' It certainly is harder because it enforces correctness, but it's also harder because of _how_. I'm not ...
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Murdoch Vs Google: Round 2 Begins - ruchika_mk http://www.abhishekmehta.com/apache-roller-4/blogs/entry/murdoch_vs_google_round2_begins ====== chuck_r Rupert Murdoch is modren day bully and i have no regards for his publications.
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The REAL way to make Eclipse run faster on Ubuntu - javinpaul http://www.prahladyeri.com/2014/06/real-way-make-eclipse-run-faster-ubuntu/ ====== jaxbot Easier way: sudo apt-get install vim /s Awesome writeup, thank you!
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Russia Steps Up Hacking, Spurring Rare U.S.-U.K. Warning on Risk - NN88 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-16/u-s-and-u-k-issue-joint-alert-warning-of-russian-cyber-attacks ====== saimiam Can someone answer me this? How much of hacking is actual coding of scripts, brute forcing passwords, and somehow infe...
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Selecting Text in Images – Pure SVG, No JavaScript - edent http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/08/selecting-text-in-images-pure-svg-no-javascript/ ====== edent Would love to know if people know a better way to do this.
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Ask HN: Any stocks you are following right now? - tech_crawl_ Any favorites? I&#x27;m watching LOCO, as it is releasing earnings tomorrow... ====== byoung2 I invest in dividend-paying stocks, typically a mix of "dogs of the Dow" (3-5%) and high yield REITs (10-15%). For the past 4 years I have averaged 11% returns on ...
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10 Stinky Things To Avoid In Java - NerdsCentral http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2012/03/thoughts-on-functional-bad-smells-in.html ====== carlesfe I agree with most of them, but I like to use 'break' if it avoids using a huge 'if' or an "are we finished yet?" kind of variable. Also static functions are good, espec...
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Circle opens doors to global audience - epaga https://www.circle.com/en/2014/09/29/circle-opens-doors-global-audience ====== mcherm If I can measure your priorities by viewing your site, it appears that your #1 priority is a certain look-and-feel (as dabeeeenster put it "photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach"). A...
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Automatically grading multiple choice exams from photos using Python and OpenCV - zionsrogue http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/10/03/bubble-sheet-multiple-choice-scanner-and-test-grader-using-omr-python-and-opencv/ ====== Houshalter There's an even cooler thing you can do with automatic grading. I saw this idea on ano...
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Teju Cole Reminds Us of Life Beyond Politics, and the Beauty of Art - samclemens http://lithub.com/teju-cole-reminds-us-of-life-beyond-politics-and-the-beauty-of-art/ ====== grownseed I attended an event called "We The City" in Vancouver last year where Teju Cole gave a talk. He was, in my opinion, a far more interest...
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Main is usually a function – when is it not? - b0b_d0e https://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html ====== fugyk The reason that I use C many of times is not because of its speed but because it (almost) completely reveals it inner working even when there is clear reason not to do so. (...
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The Official Curriculum for Your Degree in Startups - dcharlton http://dontrepreneur.com/2009/07/19/the-official-curriculum-for-your-degree-in-startups/ ====== Derrek Helpful collection of info. Thanks
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Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo - stopads https://twitter.com/jack/status/1199783221162053633 ====== pkamb I switched my iPhone to Duck Duck Go over the last few days simply because I hate hate HATE getting linked to Reddit AMP pages from Google. Reddit (and Stack Exchange) pages are what I use most to find honest di...
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Ask HN: I would like a new feature on Hacker news - gajju3588 Is there any way we can ask the admins for some new features. One which I would really like is to follow some particular handles. ====== rahimnathwani "One which I would really like is to follow some particular handles." If someone wants to follow your com...
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Revenge of the Nerds (2002) - tosh http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html ====== tosh "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." \- Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec
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How to Hire a Developer to build apps (requesting feedback) - shenoyroopesh http://www.sqlhorror.com/2014/12/24/hire-a-developer-to-build-apps/ ====== shenoyroopesh Hello Hackers, A lot of entrepreneurs and business guys keep asking me "how to hire a developer, how to find out if they are good, how to make sure I g...
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Startup Growth Calculator - staunch http://growth.tlb.org/ ====== absherwin YC has now funded enough companies that if it has the data (likely in a bunch of spreadsheets) to do a more accurate version of this. Expenses aren't really flat, growth isn't purely exponential and today's estimates aren't reality. A simple m...
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Fusion Garage JooJoo review (with Vid) - aresant http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/ ====== TomOfTTB Well, if you weren't going to buy it before you certainly aren't after this. Which I suspect will put an end to the Joojoo. When you're an unproven, mail order company you only get one bit...
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Ask HN: What external data do you consume in your work and what format is it in? - chirau Do you mostly use APIs or you use data dumps or databases, flat files etc?<p>Please state your industry and what sort of data you are consuming. ====== PaulHoule Almost always data dumps. The kind of analysis I do benefits from a...
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Mitre-Harvard's Nanocomputer May Point the Way to Further Miniaturization - protomyth http://www.mitre.org/news/press-releases/mitre-harvard-teams-ultra-tiny-nanocomputer-may-point-the-way-to-further ====== ntenenz Link to the abstract for the lazy: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/01/23/1323818111.abst...](h...
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Huawei Announces HarmonyOS - 07d046 https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-harmonyos-1017511/ ====== paulriddle I don't get the hate against Huawei. Not that I've seen much of it. Google are not the good guys overall, neither is Huawei. The two companies do good things and bad. I've recently watched a talk by Jonath...
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UX factors Contributing to 460 “Pilot-Error” Experiences in Aircraft (1947) - walterbell http://collections.uakron.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15960coll1/id/25524 ====== cmurf A 72 year old human interface, user interface and user experience discussion. You can see quite a bit of the recommendations in aircraft produce wi...
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10 'superforces' of the business future (2015) - imcqueen http://www.cornell.edu/video/priceline-founder-jay-walker-10-superforces-of-business-future ====== imcqueen For anyone that doesn't want to invest 40 minutes in this: New Sensor Technology The Connector Force - mobile network The 2nd Software Revolution - bi...
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The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/the-billion_dollar-telescope-race ====== antognini One of the reasons that there wasn't much in the way of development of larger telescopes in the late 1970s and 1980s was the development of the CCD. Prior to the CCD, astronomers used photog...
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The Scientific Implausibility of Starkiller Base - wanderingjew http://hackaday.com/2015/12/22/the-scientific-implausibility-of-starkiller-base/ ====== roddds "It's real. All of it."
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Radio to match your mood (anything to avoid Spotify) - Jaderberg http://musicovery.com/ ====== wouterinho Why avoid Spotify? ------ cleverjake I am also confused as to why you want to avoid spotify - I have had nothign but great expirences with it. The bitrate on this is a rate amount lower than spotify's as well. ...
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Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? - jxub Do you have some good advice or know any useful resources to learn in a proper way how to code in C++? For the context, I know some C, but C++ seems a different kind of beast, and it&#x27;s easy to get lost in the huge variety of features and libraries it offers. ====== pjm...
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Announcing the Internet.org Platform - dombili https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/05/announcing-the-internet-org-platform/ ====== dfabulich > In addition, websites must be properly integrated with Internet.org to allow > zero rating and therefore can’t require JavaScript or SSL/TLS/HTTPS I can understand forbidding ...
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Show HN: Easy WebServer in AWS EC2 - gps526 https://github.com/stevegardiner26/aws-webservers-creation-guide ====== gps526 For anyone that is looking to make a simple LAMP stack webserver for a site or multiple sites, I wrote some documentation into a guide for anyone that needs some help. It was quite confusing havin...
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Facebook Deals: Better with Friends - kacy https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150159110592131 ====== tmugavero I'm surprised New York isn't in the launch cities. The sheer density of people, businesses, and overpriced things requiring deals makes it a no brainer. Two cities in TX? I'd understand Austin over Dal...
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The success of Go heralds that of Rust - george3d6 https://medium.com/me/stats/post/73cb2e4c0500 ====== mockindignant I stopped reading when it became clear the author just wants to hate on go. This topic has been discussed here before: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13430108](https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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Samsung files patent suits vs Apple in Korea, Japan, Germany - ssclafani http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/22/us-samsung-apple-idUSTRE73L0DG20110422 ====== YooLi There is a reason they didn't file in the US too. I don't know it though. :) Anyone? ~~~ awa The same reason Apple filed in US instead of Korea? ~~~ p...
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Two reasons why the most successful people are often very nice - rgrieselhuber It's been about a year since I've been in business and because I'm building my company in Japan, I've had to pay particularly close attention to the intricacies of building relationships. As I've had the opportunity to come into contact w...
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Make your own App Store - markchristian http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-app-store.html ====== SCdF I've never been on the App store (I had a MBP but it's been repurposed as a XBMC device), is it popular yet? I would worry that if / when the App store is popular enough that for the majority...
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Toro - a php micro-router with great examples - jasonmoo https://github.com/anandkunal/ToroPHP ====== mcfunley How is this not just a slower .htaccess implementation with OOP boilerplate? The instructions even mention editing .htaccess, so it's not like this is necessarily intended for people who don't have control ...
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A man beats up a robot because it looked at his girlfriend's breasts - leojkent http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11644/meet-robothespian-are-you-talking-to-me/ ====== _crumbs "A guy took offence because he thought the robot had looked at his girlfriend’s tits basically and tried to attack it." Finally proof that ther...
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Ask HN: What's the tech scene like in New Zealand? - moving2nz Is NZ a good place to be a software developer, all things considered? I&#x27;m curious to hear more about the tech working culture, meetup scene, any interesting startups, and popular tech choices for NZ companies and the like. I&#x27;m looking to relocate...
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Spammers Abuse GitHub by Forking Unreal Engine - Benjamin_Dobell https://github.com/HelloKitty/PokemonGoDesktop.Unity.Game/issues/1 ====== hyperion2010 As far as I can tell the issue started on July 17th with a fork made by zishenwushi, or at least that is the first email I got. [https://github.com/zishenwushi/UnrealT...
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Ask HN: What is a good phone for to write code on? - sdsdsdsdsdsds I find myself away from desktop&#x2F;table for fairly long hours (Example, at the playgorund with kids, standing on subway etc). I have to write (office) code while at such places.<p>Is there a good phone you would recommend which makes it easy to writ...
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Reliably producing genius-level teams - sunflower55 http://liveingreatness.com/use-the-core-protocols-on-your-team/the-problem-of-problems.html ====== JerryH Real teams are formed by the members themselves opposed to self obsessed game playing business masters who think they "manage" the best out of people.
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Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims - emingo http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/3-former-nsa-employees-praise-edward-snowden-corroborate-key-claims/276964/ ====== gruseom The interview he's talking about [1] was posted here [2] and it really is extraordinary. I highly re...
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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - moog http://www.its.caltech.edu/~feynman/plenty.html ====== mixmax One of the great classics - good to read it again. This piece really shows how intellectually curious feynman was. He sets out the premise for the dream of nano-machines in a scientifically plausible way. He do...
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The Things That Mathematics Cannot Explain - kiyanwang https://medium.com/however-mathematics/the-things-that-mathematics-cannot-explain-a9e5ab3ae96a ====== ktpsns Clickbait title which only refers to two psychological phenomenal in the introduction and then is just about the golden ratio and geometric constructions -...
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The official package.json standard - juancampa https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1019364411004239872?s=19 ====== tazard Link to the actual repo: [https://github.com/jamiebuilds/std- pkg](https://github.com/jamiebuilds/std-pkg)
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Taking Up Animation as a Hobby - luu http://yosefk.com/blog/a-better-future-animated-post.html ====== ED_Radish Quarantine Time has really made me value a few extra hours a day more, I never realized how much that affected my average day to day before then. ~~~ Notorious_BLT I've found during quarantine that the elim...
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What I learned from four years working at McDonalds - greggyb http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-norquay/what-i-learned-four-years-working-at-mcdonalds_b_8682928.html?ir=Parents&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000037 ====== seangrant Working an hourly food service job is an experience I think a lot of people could benefit from ha...
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Counter-Example to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Found - jperras http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2010/93/abstr.html ====== slackenerny I spent half an hour composing meaningful description of insignificance of the work (without judging if it is indeed a result, attacked "uniqueness" is more of a technica...
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AnyPerk (YC W12) Is Now Fond - tarof https://fond.co/ ====== tmaly Why the name change? I kind of like AnyPerk name it gives you an idea about it
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Ask HN: 32 OR 64 BIT for the JVM? - antoaravinth While reading this book over here:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.safaribooksonline.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;view&#x2F;java-performance-the&#x2F;9781449363512&#x2F;ch04.html<p>I can see the following section, which says:<p>32 OR 64 BIT? If you have a 32-bit operating system, th...
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Objective-C++: Deliver Us from Swift - ingve https://medium.com/@husain.amri/objective-c-deliver-us-from-swift-3a44d3ac00e7 ====== mulle_nat Was it Stroustroup or Malmsteen who said: "I have a philosophy: More is more!" ?
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500 Startups Hires New Partners in Israel, Germany, Eastern Europe and Turkey - robinwauters http://tech.eu/news/500-startups-new-partners-europe/ ====== zabramow YC has no foreign offices to date. Any idea on why the different strategies?
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Corporations Don't Want Employees - danielrm26 https://danielmiessler.com/blog/corporations-dont-want-employees/?fb_ref=mU3EyvOazW-Hackernews ====== wrong_variable This gives far too too much credit to AGI. 1 # The biggest losers with AGI is going to be corporations, corporations and capitalism rests on a very simpl...
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Ask HN: Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? - jacquesm It seems a rethorical question, but apparently it needs asking because it seems to be that this is not clear to some.<p>Because it isn't mentioned in the guidelines this is looked upon as a 'loophole' and some people use this to b...
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A public school in Germany making MS Office mandatory - klez http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/04/public-schools-making-ms-office-mandatory/ ====== herbst fucking german are the worst. But seriously, reading this made my stomach burping. Even without hating on Microsoft monopoly in Software never was a good thing.
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UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts - ga-vu https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/30/email_signature_legally_binding_contract/ ====== mytailorisrich This was essentially already established, I believe, in relation to contracts and signatures in general in electronic communications.
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Microsoft PowerShell 5.0 RTM available - johnhattan https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50395 ====== johnhattan The download page is for Windows 2012, 7, or 8.1. If you have Windows 10, it comes with the 10586 update. This is the version that includes the Chocolatey-based package manager. Instruc...
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