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Facebook's 21-Year-Old Wunderkind Sayman Leaves for Google - nissimk https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/facebook-s-21-year-old-wunderkind-sayman-leaves-for-google ====== nissimk Did this guy have to solve algorithm puzzles on a whiteboard? ~~~ noonespecial We know the answer to that. The more interes...
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Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll - chezmo http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html ====== rdl This is awesome. "Don't negotiate with terrorists", or "Millions for defense, sir, but not one cent for tribute!" ~~~ chezmo loved it as well!
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Show HN: Caliban, dead-easy Dockerized research workflows locally and on Cloud - sritchie https://github.com/google/caliban ====== sritchie Hey all, Caliban author here. Caliban is a tool that helps ML researchers launch and track their numerical experiments in an isolated, reproducible computing environment. We built...
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'The Social Network': reviewed by Lawrence Lessig - eugenejen http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/78081/sorkin-zuckerberg-the-social-network ====== waterlesscloud This is not a "review" so much as it is Lessig explaining why the internet is different, and why it is important, and why it matters to you. Especiall...
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Manufacturers from China are now stealing Kickstarter ideas - tracymorgan8520 https://freshasfuck.net/2016/10/19/manufacturers-from-china-are-now-stealing-kickstarter-ideas-and-launching-them-faster/ ====== Namrog84 Title is a little clickbaity as they only provide 1 instance of this happening. And the Kickstarter was...
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Facebook connect site requires email, posting permissions to verify age. - te_chris http://www.lolturtle.com/v/1623378563 ====== te_chris OP here: I thought this "verification" process was a particularly scummy/duplicitous use of getting people to use one's app and deserving of a bit of sunlight.
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Stop hazing your potential hires: Hiring at Spreedly - jusben1369 http://engineering.spreedly.com/blog/stop-hazing-your-potential-hires.html ====== a_small_island Not sure what's so revolutionary here. Seems the process is this: 1) Call with "CTO", who answers any questions about the company. Sounds like a standard ...
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Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations - evilpie https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/gap-between-asm-js-and-native-performance-gets-even-narrower-with-float32-optimizations/ ====== AndrewDucker The original blog post is well worth reading: [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/gap-between-a...
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Not so great news for the future of the channel - DanBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrJsgizanWk ====== DanBC This is the original title for the video. Sorry. The video is about someone who created a critique video about Rick and Morty. The video was blocked by the rights-holders before they watched the video, lik...
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Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps - guiambros https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/marriott-data-breach-response-risk-phishing/ ====== TeMPOraL Could someone explain to me what's up with the "monitoring services"? I recently read a book on infosec risk, and they keep mentionin...
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How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather - wkjagt https://gist.github.com/wkjagt/814b3f62ea03c7b1a765 ====== lesterbuck My father is age 92, and in 2001 he lost his central vision to macular degeneration. He wrote long documents on his PC before, but afterward he never had much dedication to fi...
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Setback in cancer fight - ahuja_s https://www.ft.com/content/24441526-ede0-11e6-ba01-119a44939bb6?desktop=true ====== jsnfwlr [https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9Zm6y5...](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9Zm6y5q6zyoJ:https://www.ft.com/content/24441526-ede0-11e6-ba01-119a44939...
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Crunchgate - ojbyrne http://www.1938media.com/crunchgate/ ====== byrneseyeview _Maybe Daniel’s possibly paid-for-posts of meaningless companies like ipodrip and divvyshot aren’t the issue here._ Has that been disclosed? divvyshot, at least, seems like it would merit coverage--after all, they've covered it before: ...
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TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming - zeveb https://tic.computer/ ====== hungariantoast Maybe this is a good time to plug PICO-8 which describes itself as a "fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs." [https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php](https://www.lexalof...
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Node.js v0.8 around the corner - nodejs-news http://www.nodejs-news.com/news/Nodejs-v0.8 ====== pooriaazimi The text is copied _verbatim_ without attribution from Node's wiki; I think they should at least link back to it: "API changes between v0.6 and v0.8" : [https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes- between-...
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Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One - PeterWales Jonathan DeCollibus is releasing a book called Unlimited Influence, I found out about it because I was forwarded a copy by accident. The main designer sent me the whole thing, I can provide a bootleg version if you guys want? ====== braunshizzle Would be c...
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Show HN: Go On Go Out – An event aggregation and discovery platform - gogosi https://goongoout.com/uk/hampshire/portsmouth/ ====== phoey Nice looking website, but when a user clicks on 'where is my city?' it's probably worth taking them directly to the answer to that question rather than to the general FAQ page. Jus...
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The Reality of the Wavefunction - dnetesn http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2569 ====== mathgenius This is beautiful: """ All we know is the past. All we are is the present. All we know is form/information. All we are is energy. Energy is conserved, thus it is always present. Conversely, energy is only presen...
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Are you there, God? It’s me, science. - ilamont http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-why-science-does-not-disprove-god-by-amir-d-aczel/2014/04/10/4ee476ec-a49e-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html?hpid=z4 ====== ada1981 It's incredible how many people still don't know what a myth is, or how to read one. G...
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My mother’s vegetarian diet contributed to her early death - sridca https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/my-mothers-vegetarian-diet-contributed-to-her-early-death-we-should-all-learn-from-it/ ====== sridca I think the title is misleading. The article mentions ultra-processed foods and high sugar consumption. Even then,...
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Zooko's Triangle - dedalus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle ====== whatwhatwhat And what if PGP were modded to use combinations of words out of the dictionary (human readable) as public keys? I have no idea how that would even be possible, but it seems to be theoretically possible, and that would sati...
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Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant - john_brown_body https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant ====== sarcasmatwork Coming from the same company that also listens to your conversations in your h...
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Towns in Massachusetts Are Building Their Own Gigabit Fiber Network - adamnemecek http://motherboard.vice.com/read/22-towns-in-massachusetts-are-building-their-own-gigabit-fiber-network ====== chockablock Great quote from a resident (in a press release linked from the OP): “Our family has lived in Goshen for almost 3...
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Ask HN: I built a proof of concept and now I am lost. Help? - x0ner I love food related shows and wanted a way to find restaurants featured on various shows I saw on my favorite networks. I thought this would have been done, but to my surprise no one had did it. I worked with a buddy and we pumped out famousfoodfind...
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Show HN: QuickSite - anujkk http://getquicksite.com/ ====== pallandt If I remember correctly Quicksite is a TM of web hosting company, also offering template(s). You might want to reconsider the name. ~~~ anujkk Oh! I wasn't aware of that. I will take care of that.
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My first project Real-time news for your favorite NBA team - AmmarKarim http://squadstream.com ====== AmmarKarim I hope you guys find it useful. you can leave it open in your browser and it'll send you notifications about any breaking news. www.SquadStream.com If anyone is interested in how it works or is interested ...
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NOVA Meteor Strike - sosuke http://video.pbs.org/video/2358778286 ====== ColinWright It says: We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions. Right underneath that it says: Did you know? Viewers like you are our larges...
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Ask HN: First time managing an internal team, how can I be a successful “boss”? - wlfsbrg I&#x27;m going to be joining a fairly large company (3k+ people) within the next few weeks at the director level and managing a handful of people for the first time.<p>I&#x27;ve spent the last decade managing vendors but never di...
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FBI Turns 18-Year-Old with an IQ of 51 into a Terrorist - DiabloD3 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151229/14333133193/fbi-turns-18-year-old-with-iq-51-into-terrorist-dumps-case-into-laps-local-prosecutors.shtml ====== Someone1234 Maybe we should just toss "terrorists" into the nearest river, if they float they're ...
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Dolphin Progress May 2019 - pplonski86 https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/06/02/dolphin-progress-report-may-2019/ ====== sweden The debugging of "5.0-10379 - VideoCommon: Constrain the array_base registers by booto" is just insane. Props to the person ("booto") who managed to go through this, you are an example for an...
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Macintosh Programmer's Switch - Aloha http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2012/08/22/programmers-switch/ ====== rman666 I used to sell Macintosh computers in 1984 and I clearly remember the Programmers Switch. I haven't thought about that for many years (nearly 30 years ago). Thanks for reminding me how far we've c...
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Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell - dukerutledge http://tech.frontrowed.com/2017/11/01/rhetoric-of-clojure-and-haskell/ ====== bpolverini The dueling rhetoric is the same rhetoric that has been around for decades: Some people really feel type systems add value; others, feel it's a ball and chain. So which is it?...
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Why teach math? - ColinWright http://davidwees.com/comment/22516 ====== pfortuny We teach math (I do) to instill on Engineers the concepts of derivative and integral. That is all there is to "math" for an Engineer. The fact that we teach "vector calculus" and "differential equations" is just taking the above to the...
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Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) - cfeduke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence ====== dekhn Aubrey deGrey is just wasting time and money. He has a $5M+/year budget and his publications are crap- they are all in his house journal. I've been waiting for h...
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Ask HN: How to leave my startup after my stock vested? - throwaway2687 I&#x27;m leaving because of personal reasons, I still believe in the future of the company and would like to make my exit tidy. After 4 years, the vesting schedule is over, and I own approx 40% of the company. I only have 1 other cofounder and some...
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LAX ranked worst airport in world by Fodors - prostoalex https://abc7.com/travel/lax-ranked-worst-airport-in-world-while-burbank-airport-ranked-best/5345894/ ====== DerekL The airport is “LAX”, not “Lax”.
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Stun Belts in Court - bryanrasmussen https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/07/29/shock-treatment-in-court ====== patrickyeon > County officers authorized to use stun cuffs are required to go through > training and are only allowed to use them “to overcome active resistance” or > when “active aggression is an immedia...
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Ask HN: What's the 'Hello World' program of neural networks? - essofluffy ====== mimo777 MNIST data, which is the hand written number data. Download Tensorflow and do the examples. You will find it there. ------ wayn3 Tensorflow has a whole bunch of tutorials, but those are the "Hello World"s of tensorflow, not of neu...
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Offer HN: .com domain giveaway - mrkmcknz Hi all,<p>I'm having a domain cleanup and I realised I had some .com domains sitting free that would be better off in the hands of someone wanting to actually use them.<p>First come first serve, send me an email at m@datr.io and I will send you the transfer out code.<p>acero...
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Sqlite Database Speed Comparison - throwaway1492 https://www.sqlite.org/speed.html ====== eesmith "This document is very very old ... The numbers here have become meaningless" It uses SQLite 2.7.6, which was released around 2003.
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The MIT license (with personal exceptions) - exolymph https://github.com/jamiebuilds/license ====== wasd For context, jamebuilds is the maintainer or contributor of many javascript libraries like Lerna, Babel, and Yarn. He recently tweeted [1] that he would go to war with Palantir for collaboration with ICE. He opened...
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So, you know how I think Jira is mediocre and fails at some super basic stuff? - dhotson https://mobile.twitter.com/livlab/status/1179134097060442113 ====== pnako You can do all that stuff using Confluence, which integrates nicely with Jira. It's not perfect because Confluence is originally a wiki, and last time I us...
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Getting started with FPGA DSP designs - ionela http://dev.emcelettronica.com/getting-started-fpga-dsp-designs ====== ionela Normal computer systems use microprocessors which execute software instructions to perform a wide variety of tasks.
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Regicides on the Run - rutenspitz https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/31/charles-killers-in-america-matthew-jenkinson-review ====== LanceH This is how you tell a story. I know what it's about from the beginning, and they tell the actual story, not some crazy diversion for pages, avoiding any mention of the lead...
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2 Game Programming books - Donanza http://www.anothergames.com/book/book ====== DanAndersen Thanks for posting this -- I'm wanting to get acquainted with C++ and gamedev in general and am eager to use this resource. As someone who hasn't used Visual Studio in a long while I hope this will also remind me how to get t...
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Ask HN: Which desk do you use? Which desk Y Combinator use? - magnusgraviti Just wonder which desks do people use? And which desk Y Combinator use? ====== pg YC doesn't have desks as such. We have long dinner tables custom designed by our architect Kate Courteau that some amount of work also gets done at ([http://ww...
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Database daddy goes non-relational on NoSQL fanbois - bensummers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/25/voltdb_cloud_database_nosql/ ====== kristianp Here is the research project that VoltDB is based on: <http://db.cs.yale.edu/hstore/>
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So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it - cnlwsu http://www.hitlerhops.com I really wanted a project that I could use map reduce on and this idea came up amongst a group of friends as a joke.<p>Unfortunately the link graph was really stale when I ran it so it is not always correct. Also dates m...
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Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry. - robee http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/04/18/grooveshark-stands-up-for-its-service-makes-android-app-available-online-and-sends-out-open-letter-to-the-music-industry/ ====== nddrylliog The title is misleading. Grooveshark has nothing against the music industry...
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Show HN: Verifiable Data Structures - aeijdenberg https://www.continusec.com/ ====== aeijdenberg (founder here) I recently launched Continusec, which provides hosted Verifiable Data Structures. These are verifiable logs and verifiable maps based on the same principles as Google's Certificate Transparency logs, genera...
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Is your life happy or interesting? - raju http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2010/02/16/test-is-your-life-happy-or-interesting/ ====== petercooper _Did you relocate away from family for a better job or another more interesting experience? Minus one_ Not buying it. I like my non-immediate family (as in other than my wife a...
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The viridis color palettes - minimaxir https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/intro-to-viridis.html ====== jjgreen The matplotlib palettes are available in several formats at cpt-city [http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt- city/mpl/index.html](http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt- city/mpl/i...
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Ask HN: I want to learn how to code. Can anyone tell me how to start learning? - theprotagonist Greetings,<p>I am a recent college graduate (as of this past May) and I studied chemistry and physics. I have plans to go to graduate school within a year for theoretical and computational chemical physics - that's basicall...
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Why aren't developers interested in Ada? (2009) - samuell http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4008214/Why-aren-t-developers-interested-in-Ada- ====== samuell For some up-to-date or "still relevant" Ada links, see: [https://github.com/samuell/awesome-ada](https://github.com/samuell/awesome- ada) Se...
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Rest in peace, Autumn Radtke, we'll miss you - twidlit http://www.techinasia.com/meta-ceo-autumn-radkte-commited-suicide/ ====== jargonster So sad. I met her in 2012, she had generously treated me with dinner, drinks, and time from her busy schedule. She seemed so interesting. Been a year I wanted to invite her back...
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Android is from Mars, iPhone is from Venus - ebandar http://www.drawntosimplicity.com/2010/01/19/android-is-from-mars-iphone-is-from-venus/ ====== sdurkin I wonder if the author realizes he's parroting Verizon marketing. Since Verizon realized the iPhone was more aesthetically polished, they decided to make the Droi...
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Durham police criticised over 'crude' profiling - salad77 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43428266 ====== salad77 Alternative details at [https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-media/police-use- experian...](https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-media/police-use-experian- marketing-data-for-ai-custody-decisions/) Looks ...
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Stalin’s Approval Rating Among Russians Hits 70%, Record High - onetimemanytime https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/16/stalins-approval-rating-among-russians-hits-record-high-poll-a65245 ====== DumbUser123 "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." \- George Santayana ~~~ hilbert42 Absolutel...
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Rumor: Internal Yahoo memo suggests CEO Jerry Yang may be out - ashishk http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/05/rumor-internal-yahoo-memo-suggests-ceo-jerry-yang-may-be-out/ ====== bigthboy Being bost companies have denied it already and the circumstances around it all (not to mention the fact that Microsoft and Yahoo reach...
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Why Jinja is not Django and why Django should have a look at it - snprbob86 http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2008/9/16/why-jinja-is-not-django-and-why-django-should-have-a-look-at-it ====== snprbob86 I've been using Django for a while and have two major complaints: 1) newforms sometimes takes some serious wrestling to make ...
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Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Coming This Year - vanya http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/05/mozilla-firefox-31-coming-this.html ====== Xichekolas Of course, FF3 was originally slated for over a year ago and it's just now happening, so take the timeline with a grain of salt. On the other hand, delays (within reason) ar...
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Google Introduces A New Weapon In The Fight For Net Neutrality: Measurement Labs - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/28/google-introduces-a-new-weapon-in-the-fight-for-net-neutrality-measurement-labs/ ====== johngunderman They must be getting hit hard, the servers all are busy or down for the actual servers i...
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How to build your own Carputer - profquail http://www.avbrand.com/projects/carpc/installation/ ====== timcederman What is the use case for something like this? I just can't imagine spending enough time in my car to warrant having a computer in there.
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Is there any good open source or free realtime aggregation engine? - gopalanj Is there any good open source or free realtime aggregation engine available today with possible java APIs. Looking something close to OLAP like system. ====== mgl What specific kind of aggregation do you think of? ~~~ gopalanj Oops I sho...
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Diet Culture Exists to Fight Off the Fear of Death - DiabloD3 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/eating-toward-immortality/515658/?single_page=true ====== DrScump There are twin motives underlying human behavior, according to Becker—the urge for heroism and the desire for atonement. I thin...
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Uber Considers Moving APAC HQ from Singapore to Hong Kong - samizdis https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/27/uber_apac_hq_move/ ====== Barrin92 > _" Uber is ready to move its regional headquarters to Hong Kong... but > regulatory certainty is key," Chung said. "It's time for the government to > regulate ride-sharing ...
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John Resig's ‘Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja’ has been released - simonsarris http://www.amazon.com/dp/193398869X/ ====== simonsarris I wrote "quietly" released in my original HN title (since edited by mods) because Resig neither made a blog post nor even tweeted about its availability, which seemed very odd to me, e...
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Easily host (nearly-)static sites on AppEngine. - StavrosK https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/static-appengine-hoster/ ====== StavrosK Hey everyone, I wrote this a while ago to host static sites on GAE (or on your own server, it should also work fine there). You just drop the site in the templates folder and...
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Show HN: Midibin – Turn Clojure code into MIDI music - gw https://midibin.com/ ====== math David Cope used lisp for his 'Experiments in Musical Intelligence'. Lisp is very suited to this problem, and it's through his books that I first 'got' lisp (at the time, I was trying to do something similar in Java). Anyone inte...
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Trevor is now open source! Hybrid app that brings Travis CI to your phone - ekonstantinidis https://github.com/ekonstantinidis/trevor ====== bahador i don't understand the use case for this. could somebody please explain?
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A fast Lisp interpreter in Dart - suzuki http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp-en.html ====== suzuki This article is an English translation of [http://www.oki- osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp.html](http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp.html) which was introduced at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9433114](https://news.ycombi...
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As homelessness rises across Europe, Finland’s numbers are falling - DoreenMichele https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homelessness-finland-housing-first_us_5c503844e4b0f43e410ad8b6 ====== nikonyrh "As homelessness rises across Europe, Finland’s numbers are falling." But at what cost? I'd like to quote a budget but ...
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22 Signs That Global Economic Turmoil We Have Seen So Far Is Just the Beginning - __Joker http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-signs-that-the-global-economic-turmoil-we-have-seen-so-far-in-2016-is-just-the-beginning ====== bjmarte Just wondering how much positive economic news gets reported on theeconomiccol...
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Show HN: Multi-armed bandit optimisation service - desbo https://contextshift.io/ ====== desbo Hi HN, I'm looking for help validating an idea for a product that provides multi- armed bandit optimisation over an API. The idea is that client sites will provide impression and conversion events to our API, which provides...
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Ask HN: How will the OSS vs cloud battle end? - danielblazevski More and more cloud providers like AWS and GCP seem to a threat to open source projects. AWS has managed Elasticsearch, Kafka, etc. GCP has managed Airflow, CockroachDB, etc.<p>How sustainable is it to have both (1) niche companies around a specific open...
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Is Space a Human Place? [audio] - anthrocurious https://www.sapiens.org/technology/space-colonization/ ====== arikr Has the HN placement algorithm changed? This is #19 on the homepage with 1 point. It doesn't seem to be from the second chance pool but I may be wrong there. Would be a cool change if it's something tha...
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A stackoverflow clone for User eXperience - fun2have http://uxexchange.com/ ====== marcamillion Vote me down if you like, but while I do agree that there are tons of clones - I actually find value in some of the niche sites - that bring the same UX that I am accustomed to, to a community that is knowledgeable about...
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Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf] - matt_d http://pdinda.org/Papers/ipdps18.pdf ====== mysterydip If you're like me and struggled to understand the traditional textbook floating point formula explanation, Fabien Sanglard (of doom/wolf3d black book fame) wrote a page that finally made sense for me: [h...
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Platypus – Turn shell scripts into native Mac applications - there http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus ====== makecheck I'm not sure if this is really necessary... \- With Automator (Applications folder), even a shell script that pipes input into itself can be wrapped as a standalone application and saved. \- Naming ...
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An App for maintaining a "Wanna Watch" movie list - Shrihari I'm in the process of building this social web app that lets you maintain "Wanna Watch" movie list and discover new movies via friends.<p>Kindly help me by sparing a minute to take this survey : http://polldaddy.com/s/DB8919ED6D08FEA4 ====== thetylerhayes ...
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Servers: Why Thrifty Isn't Nifty - makimaki http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/10/cio-cheap-servers-tech-cio-cx_kb_0811servers.html ====== pongle There are some interesting numbers in there, but it does seem a little like a plug for one of the author's reports. The message seems to be that when buying a server, consider t...
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Know when your marketing tags aren't firing – Raptor Tag Monitoring for GTM - andrewnada If you&#x27;ve ever setup tags in Google Tag manager, you&#x27;ll know that they are quite fragile, often breaking when your website is updated. Sometimes tags will also fail on certain devices or browsers without any warning. Onc...
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Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby - duck http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-in-2010-a-retrospective-4059.html ====== ludicast Ruby really has had a great year. All us fanboys can now say "I told you so". Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 were great milestones. Also the community has flourished. We lost _why ...
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Ask HN: Who's hiring? - krmmalik Full disclosure: I've just exited from an 8yr partnership in another business. We ended up having differing visions and values, and it was decided it was best for us to separate.<p>As a result i've lost my income stream and need to find some freelance work very quick.<p>I would say I...
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For how long has as Facebook been hijacking the back-button? - CHsurfer When I followed this link https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;nick.moore.7140&#x2F;posts&#x2F;3600186133211 from another HN post, I noticed that the back-button was not active, as if I typed the URL directly, or opened the page in another tab....
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The Post-Wiki World: Hybrid etherpad/wiki beats gDocs - sas http://starburst.hackerfriendly.com/?p=1808 ====== sthatipamala Hackpad is a YC startup that provides this etherpad/wiki concept for public use. (<https://hackpad.com/>) My team has replaced our Google Docs and Trello with Hackpad. Creating a pad is quick ...
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If you have to learn just one programming language - r11t http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/if-you-have-to-learn-just-one-programming-language ====== swombat If you have to learn just one language, and you're forbidden from learning another, you'll mentally hobbled, a technical cripple, like someone who's been force...
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Coinbase is Down - philliescurt https://www.coinbase.com/ ====== blueskin_ Appears to be back.
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Ask HN: What is the most common security mistake you see? - jtraffic Mainly I&#x27;m asking about websites, but other security mistakes are welcome (e.g., IoT, apps, firmware)<p>Also acceptable: Not common but happens reasonably often and exposes large vulnerabilities. ====== nulagrithom Not even trying. Seriously, y...
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Ask HN: How would you describe yourself/your achievements in two sentences? - boggles I'm working on my online resume and having trouble with the personal statement.<p>There's a part where you have to sum yourself up in two sentences.<p>I guess this is supposed to be where you show your creativity but I can't help f...
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The Icy Mountains of Pluto - fla https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-icy-mountains-of-pluto ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893412](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893412) ~~~ fla Just wondering, why was my submission removed and replaced by an equivalent one wich now has 280+ upvotes ? ...
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Show HN: I guess just solved a first-World problem - appleraju I guess I just solved a first world problem<p>Problem: People never update all their account password after there is major password scandal leak. Most people usually never update all their account after updating any one accounts passwords.<p>Reason- on ask...
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A TinyGPS upgrade adding NMEA v3.0 and GLONASS support - florind http://blog.newsplore.com/2015/09/03/a-tinygps-upgrade-adding-nmea-v3-0-and-glonass-support ====== OrdaGarb Nice work. For reference, here's the original library which has TinyGPS and TinyGPS++: [http://arduiniana.org/libraries/TinyGPS/](http://arduinia...
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F*: A Verifying ML Compiler for Distributed Programming - primodemus http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fstar/ ====== reduxredacted Microsoft Research does some interesting stuff, though I have to take issue with their choice of naming. One wonders if they're trying to poke at search engines. The "#" in C...
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Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/revisiting-why-incompetents-think-theyre-awesome/ ====== cafard 'Rather bluntly, Dunning himself said, "The presence of the Dunning-Kruger effect, as it’s been come to be called, is that one should pause to worry abou...
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Microsoft: One Windows 7 release candidate will be enough - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2009/01/30/microsoft-one-windows-7-release-candidates-enough/ ====== quoderat They always say this, and always release at least two. We'll see, but I don't believe it.
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Website Launch Flowchart - ClintonKarr http://www.virante.com/files/website-launch-flowchart-large.jpg ====== zaidf I think the flowchart is of value more as awareness of all the elements that _could_ be involved in a successful launch. You don't actually have to get bogged down at each step like an agency doing 3rd ...
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Progress launch timelapse seen from space - jdnier https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=55&v=ouBfzCgXHgk ====== jdnier This is just breathtaking. The music makes it feel overly cinematic, but it's real—no CGI.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is digging a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland - adwi https://arstechnica.com/?p=1191419 ====== smn1234 A great efficiency of time for the future business traveler. Surely ticket price will be at a premium.
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Hello Downloader - alainbryden http://www.alphabasic.com/Please_read.html ====== babarock Honestly, I don't think the 'donate' model is a viable one. Sure you can make _some_ money off of it, but that cannot be the norm. I think. Maybe (hopefully) I'm wrong. Now don't get me wrong, I think that _selling_ music in t...
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