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Who's Propping Up the U.S. Treasury Market? - rmm http://www.thestreet.com/story/11595827/1/whos-propping-up-the-us-treasury-market.html ====== nhaehnle This is a terrible article by somebody who obviously has no clue about the function of the treasury market and how it is managed in cooperation of the Fed and the Tre...
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Teaching Civility: Two Daring Assignments - nkzednan http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/teaching-civility-two-daring-assignments/2014/10/30/6c71682e-4b3c-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html ====== fiatmoney Why has "community engagement" broken down? The author phrases it in terms of "omg kids and their ce...
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Yandex co-founder Llya Segalovich dies suddenly at 48 - pawrvx http://www.tweaktown.com/news/31937/yandex-co-founder-llya-segalovich-dies-suddenly-at-48/index.html ====== ColinWright [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6101294](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6101294)
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Why Fan-Made Movie Trailers Are Often Better Than the Real Thing - ireadqrcodes http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/06/fan-trailers/?cid=9068234#comment-937893484 ====== csense I think it's selection bias. If there are ~100 fans who make trailers for every major movie that comes out, a lot of them will probably be ...
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Business plan is fairytale - d3v3r0 http://alexsblog.org/2014/04/20/businessplan-is-fairytale/ ====== tibu Business plan is useful for yourself too.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015) - whoishiring Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally ar...
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PenTile OLED Screens - mcrittenden http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/05/09/pentile_oled_screens/ ====== devindotcom Yeah, I had this exact issue with the Galaxy series (not Galaxy II, which as martythemaniak mentions, fixes it) and mentioned it in my review. Some people simply don't see it, though, it really amazes...
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Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline - killwhitey https://otherside.site/ ====== killwhitey Author here: In developing this I discovered that Twitter _really_ doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about lists is minor. Also, if anyone fro...
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Tricked my wife talking to a neural bot trained on our messages on Facebook - kootenpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXt471bXmA ====== kootenpv I'm happy to share with you the result of this project, it certainly has been a lot of fun! First of all it was shocking how many messages we had over such a long time (mo...
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​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 - ohjeez http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/ ====== cyphar If Microsoft implemented the POSIX standard properly, you could just compile all of the GNU tools for Windows. It wouldn't make sense, since ...
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Facebook Has Been Hacked. What Will You Do? - DocFeind http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook-has-been-hacked-what-will-you-do.php ====== s_henry_paulson Looks like some guy trying to drum up traffic about something he knows nothing about, and can provide no information about.
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Dripcap is a modern packet analyzer based on Electron - okket https://dripcap.org/ ====== brudgers Recently: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569930](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569930) ~~~ okket Thanks.
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Ask HN: Review this website I built to track my weight daily - rmanocha http://bajar-de-peso.appspot.com/ ====== rmanocha As the homepage says, it's a clone of Jeremy Zawodny's Excel Spreadsheet (<http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006851.html>) I've been using to help me lose weight. I built it mostly to learn ...
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Silicon Valley Guru Blasts Y Combinator Hype - k2xl http://preview.inc.com/john-mcdermott/silion-valley-guru-blasts-y-combinator-hype.html ====== pg "Having such high valuations at such an early stage can repel VCs from investing in a start-up, he said." Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. ~~~ FredBrach I...
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Valgrind is much more than a leak checking tool - mallyvai http://maintainablecode.logdown.com/posts/245425-valgrind-is-not-a-leak-checker ====== nkurz That's a great article! As the article says, "Valgrind should be your tool of _first_ resort". Running clean under Valgrind (as well as without warnings under -Wall -W...
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Britain's GDP falls 20.4% in April as economy is paralysed by lockdown - BerislavLopac https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/12/britains-gdp-falls-204-in-april-as-economy-is-paralysed-by-lockdown ====== zeristor I just wonder how quickly the economies can rebound afterwards. I imagine the longer the lockdown,...
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Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs - kgwgk https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/michael-burry-explains-why-index-funds-are-like-subprime-cdos ====== markbnj Not knowledgeable on these matters, so my money is in index funds. Obviously a lot of other people are in the same category as myself. The artic...
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Software Is Eating Real Estate - prostoalex http://pawel.posthaven.com/software-is-eating-real-estate ====== trootech Maybe it's not eating, overuse is taking over!
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Crashing a chrome tab with a single character - z0a https://twitter.com/zainamro/status/1195868573534584832 ====== simlevesque Chrome mobile too: [https://streamable.com/mzan5](https://streamable.com/mzan5) ~~~ 2OEH8eoCRo0 Crashes Chrome mobile and Chrome desktop but doesn't seem to crash Chrome Canary on mobile (And...
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Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In - aespinoza http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html ====== nostrademons It's really funny to watch tech journalists try to write about Google infrastructure from the outside, ba...
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Show HN: Process Governor – a tool to put limits on Windows processes - lowleveldesign https://github.com/lowleveldesign/process-governor ====== luckman212 This looks interesting. Nice work! Seems similar to Process Lasso[0], albeit with fewer configuration options. Process Lasso isn't open source, but is a great tool...
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Home Affairs says encryption-busting laws now in use - DyslexicAtheist https://www.itnews.com.au/news/home-affairs-says-encryption-busting-laws-now-in-use-518612 ====== voycey And already tech companies are talking about leaving Australia. This government is completely backwards, we have idiots legislating on things t...
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MIT shortens application essays - nobody_nowhere http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/10/04/no_essay_nightmares_for_mit_applicants/ ====== brandnewlow Essays were originally instituted to give admissions staffs an excuse to keep out Jews and other minorities. [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2...
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Why Aren't Smartphones Making Us More Productive? - davidroberts http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323982704578455163211575512.html ====== ZeroGravitas "By that I mean they can't find how these mobile devices are improving worker productivity, which computers have been doing quite ruthlessly for the las...
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VIM Basics – Saving and Exiting – BrainBloomer.com - benedictchen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOOyQ_90hw&feature=youtu.be ====== clishem :x Next!
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After web development - djangowithme It&#x27;s the future, developing &#x2F; designing websites is so turnkey and any child is taught html&#x2F;css in elementary school. What field do you move to? ====== owebmaster Although it is easy less people are developing sites because they just have facebook. Software developme...
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Swirrl is live - prakash http://blog.swirrl.com/articles/2008/09/25/swirrl-is-live ====== billroberts Prakash - thanks for posting this. Yes, we 'flicked the switch' yesterday on the first release of Swirrl. It's a hosted wiki designed for collaborating around data. The data side of it is in fact an RDF database wit...
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Are tablets just a fad? - dazbradbury http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/10036540/Are-tablets-just-a-fad.html ====== JoshGlazebrook Maybe for Blackberry they are. I'm surprised that RIM is still alive. ~~~ tacoman Typing this on a PlayBook. It's a very well designed tablet and works very nicely with a BB ...
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Opening the Gates to the Tech World: A Proposal - habosa http://samuelstern.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/opening-the-gates-to-the-tech-world/ ====== anonymous Personally, my barrier to entry was not time, but access to books, someone knowledgeable, software and hardware. Once I gained those, I made the time. You make th...
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Promiscuous Django Models - philgo20 http://tech.matchfwd.com/promiscuous-django-models/ ====== lucian1900 Arguably a better approach would be to use something other than pickle for serialising. ~~~ dguaraglia I've done it myself by using a very simple JSONField class, but I'm looking into using PostgreSQL HStore ...
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Engineering - briangarcia http://engineeringdegrees101.com/ Get a very useful Online Engineering Degree Programs at engineeringdegrees101.com! Our website is dedicated to Engineering and has all the latest information you need to make informed decisions about your future. ====== billswift Unfortunately, there doesn't...
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Show HN: DocTemple – My first SaaS startup after 6 months of solo development - jeandesuis https://doctempleapp.com ====== jeandesuis Hello HN, I’m Jan, creator of DocTemple. The idea came from doing much more advanced version for one of my customers where he needed a tool to fill repetitive templates with data from...
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Steps to Anonymous and Secured Communication - grecs https://www.novainfosec.com/2012/12/03/4-steps-to-anonymous-secured-communication-aka-what-petraeus-should-have-done/ ====== rdl All he really needed was a "legitimate seeming" site which didn't keep logs at all. It is more important to not arouse suspicion throug...
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Ask HN: Do you have more ideas from running your own company? - gregpilling I was just reading this essay http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html and had a question about this quote from it:<p>"An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. If you're not allowed to implement new ideas, you stop having them. And vice versa:...
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Ask HN: How to turn a sprawling Slack nightmare into a productivity machine? - dgzl I joined a company recently that&#x27;s going through several corporate mergers and our sprawling Slack environment has pretty much zero standardization. I&#x27;ve been given reigns to a portion of the environment and I plan on turning...
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FriendFeed Service Unavailable - yinhm https://friendfeed.com/ ====== hsdk Still down: Service Unavailable ------ alpb Up and running again. ~~~ XEKEP Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. Re...
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Awesome Github 404 page - simple but cool javascript parallax 3d effect - schwabacher https://github.com/someuser/somerepo ====== schwabacher The script for the effect is not minified or anything, so it is easy to take a look at. It is simple and works like you would think: they just move around the images based on ...
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Python or JavaScript - SStanley If you already code in python or javascript, which one is your favorite ? And why ? ====== factorialboy I use both everyday as well. Python is beautiful. Especially if you wrap it with a decent dependency manager like Pipenv. I have a high level of comfort with JavaScript as well. Whil...
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Ask HN: Anyone still use Netbeans? - jamesmp98 ====== franga2000 Our school uses Netbeans for Java. Everyone hates it, but the professor doesn't want to learn anything new (they're still teaching BufferedReaders) ------ Cozumel I do, mostly just for PHP, everything else I use Sublime.
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Greeks set to face fines if they don't spend 30% of their income electronically - ur-whale https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/greeks-set-to-face-heavy-fines-if-they-don-t-spend-30-per-cent-of-their-income-electronically-20191209-p53i14.html ====== YeGoblynQueenne >> Tax evasion has been labelled a "Greek national...
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Emergency Elisp - far33d http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html ====== duncanr Hrm... in the section "break/continue": "The symbol 'break' is arbitrary, but is probably a nice choice for YOUR readers." (emphasis mine) A typo, or evidence that perhaps Steve isn't writing all his own content? (...
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How do programmers cope with the triviality of it all? - godelshalt Let&#x27;s face it, most of us don&#x27;t work on cancer treatments, cutting edge machine learning, or NP-problems every day or even once a year.<p>Is it just me, or do others sometimes feel like they are just moving data from here to there, buttons f...
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Introducing Rekit Studio: A Real IDE for React and Redux Development - LyalinDotCom https://medium.com/@nate_wang/introducing-rekit-studio-a-real-ide-for-react-and-redux-development-baf0c99cb542 ====== Matthias247 Nice, the live demo contains the Monaco-Webpack integration code that I once posted on Github :-) Never ...
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Ask HN: Good WP (or other) templates for a personal tech blog? - omarmeky ====== njrc9 I made an HTML5 template for programmers that you could adapt into Wordpress, Jekyll, and the like: [http://stephenbenedict.com/programmatic- style/](http://stephenbenedict.com/programmatic-style/) ------ nitam [https://pages.gi...
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Show HN: ComputationalHealthcare Search aggregated stats on millions of visits - aub3bhat http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/Home ====== aub3bhat This is my PhD research, the website uses publicly available 8 million hospitalizations from Texas. However there is also a local Cornell version on 130 Million visits. ...
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That's Some Wholesome UX by Lyft - robin_reala https://twitter.com/himvais/status/1090972175660732416 ====== robin_reala Interesting to think of sign language localisation. ASL and BSL are completely different languages for example, and Swedish Sign Language another one still.
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Anatomy of a Subtle JSON Vulnerability (2008) - mck- http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/20/anatomy-of-a-subtle-json-vulnerability.aspx/ ====== rk17 How about simply adding an additional certificate - e.g. random string of specified length - held by your webapp in closure? And then configure your server to only respond...
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What do you think about my new, very minimalist and a bit stealthy landing page? - akos http://chilledlime.com/? ====== olivier1664 My 2 cents: \- I do not see what it does. \- I do not wants to register while I'm not sure I want to uses it. Even better if I can use it without identifying. \- It miss a demo part or ...
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Ask HN: Ruby or Python for a Startup? - herval Howdee fellow hackers,<p>I'm currently in the process of assembling a development team for my newly born venture, and would like to raise a question: if you were in my shoes, which would you pick as the "base" language for the team: Python or Ruby?<p>A little bit of bac...
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The Senate GOP Accidentally Killed Some of Its Donors’ Favorite Tax Breaks - cleansy http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/senate-gop-accidentally-killed-all-corporate-tax-deductions.html ====== cleansy Most interesting part: > [...] The Senate bill brings the normal corporate rate down to 20 percent — > while...
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Amimarginalized.com: Our experience with Appjet - adatta02 http://shout.setfive.com/2009/01/03/playing-with-appjet/ ====== bootload _"... Anyway, the amimarginalized.com site uses “advanced” algorithms to determine how marginalized your career is. ..."_ Mildly readable & more an advert for their company. Interestin...
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Sco.js - A Twitter bootstrap javascript extension - jeremyaarts http://terebentina.github.io/sco.js/ ====== jeremyaarts Not my plugin, but I came across it and it seems interesting.
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Game culture takes hold across Nigeria - carolus_magnus http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/28/nigeria-gaming.html ====== carolus_magnus Games fighting Boko Haram and Lagos rush-hour traffic would do well anywhere.
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Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more - lihaoyi https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy ====== xtraclass That's an impressive library! ~~~ lihaoyi Thanks! We put a lot into it the past few weeks
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The Coming Sharing Economy - TheAntiEgo https://www.helpwith.co/pages/coming-sharing-economy ====== tjmojo It seems clear that hybrid-business models will pave the way to the next economic foundation–sharing economy, collaborative economy, etc. We are in a period of technological innovation where the economic possibil...
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Super mario spacetime organ - usaphp http://vimeo.com/49142543 ====== scottcanoni "Code Bending" - Awesome. This can create some really interesting sound and video. Love it. ------ usaphp Don't forget to read a description to the video, very interesting. ~~~ alanfalcon This was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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Kenichi Yamamoto has died - artsandsci https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obituaries/kenichi-yamamoto-dead-father-of-mazda-rotary-engine.html ====== rdoherty Not only is he the father of Mazda's rotary engine, he also recommended as president that Mazda build the Miata, arguably the best two seater sports car ever mad...
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Ask HN: Cognitive Science vs Computer Science - ucsd_surfNerd I have been debating changing my major from Computer Science to Cog Sci with a specialization in human computer interaction.<p>I feel that the traditional computer science education stifles creativity and ignores important emerging areas such as web and m...
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Parental leave article and signal boost to contribute data - lolilo https://medium.com/@davedash/my-paternity-leave-wasn-t-a-vacation-547ee9615d ====== lolilo The data so far - [https://github.com/davedash/parental- leave/blob/master/data....](https://github.com/davedash/parental- leave/blob/master/data.csv)
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Trump Will Start Years-Long Process to Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement - Dangeranger https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html ====== briga What does Trump care about the environment? He'll be dead long before this decision has any actual consequences on the environment. Meanw...
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Show HN: Instagram in terminal - billcccheng See your Instragram feeds inside your terminal:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;billcccheng&#x2F;instagram-terminal-news-feed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;billcccheng&#x2F;instagram-terminal-news-feed</a> ====== marcelobparra I liked the fa...
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Announcing Amazon SES Management Console - TiZon https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1222 ====== TamDenholm Be interesting to see a SES vs Mailchimp vs Sendgrid vs Postmark etc comparison table. Any bloggers feel like writing that post? ~~~ ajtaylor As a new customer of SendGrid, I'd be VERY interested in...
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Tell HN: Our Upcoming Expense Tracking Service - nreece Hi all,<p>We are working on CostJar - a simple expense tracking service, that will help you organize your paper receipts and gather insight with some fundamental personal finance analytics. Your receipts will be digitized automatically and you'll be able to exp...
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Human Rights Court Says Sites Liable for User Comments - protomyth https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150616/11252831361/huge-loss-free-speech-europe-human-rights-court-says-sites-liable-user-comments.shtml ====== RexRollman I am a bit surprised that the Human Rights Court is so unenlightened. Between this and the ri...
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Restaurant Helper - A tool for Small Business Owners(Built using Data.gov) - Shan786 http://restaurants.spacenext.com ====== Maven911 it's a neat idea - now we need one for: laundromats, convenience stores, clothing shops, barber shops...
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ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] - xd http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers.html ====== lmm I sometimes try and pronounce ! as a click, since that's what it normally means in writing. # is hash and must only be hash (as a Brit, hearing others call it "pou...
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On the Move, in a Thriving Tech Sector - darrellsilver http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/nyregion/on-the-move-in-new-yorks-thriving-tech-sector.html?pagewanted=all ====== droithomme I am glad to hear that talented engineers are reconsidering careers in high finance and leaving Wall Street firms for startups that act...
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Security researchers face wrath of spy agencies - gcb0 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/22/behind_the_headlines_apt_researchers_face_wrath_of_spy_agencies/ ====== gcb0 saw on [http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/10/22/195207/security- resear...](http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/10/22/195207/security-researchers- face-...
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Get an advantage over your competition by sleeping only 2 hours a day - amichail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep ====== euccastro For contrast: <http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm> <http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm> My uninformed take on this: _If_ you will be depriving yo...
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Africa's Food Security Relies on Adoption of New Technologies - tefo-mohapi http://www.iafrikan.com/2015/10/14/africas-food-security-relies-on-adoption-of-new-technologies/ ====== Chefkoochooloo Food security or nutrition should always be a top priority because food goes into our bodies. ~~~ tefo-mohapi I agree but i...
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How the FDA Could Change the Way It Approves Drugs - jessekeys http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fda-could-change-the-way-it-approves-drugs/ ====== refurb _Instead, they say, the standards should take into account the severity of the diseases that the drugs seek to address._ The FDA already does this. Tak...
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Helping a stranger, and why you should understand NP-complete - lifebeyondfife http://lifebeyondfife.com/helping/ ====== thaumasiotes > NP-complete is essentially shorthand for belonging to a class of problems > that are computationally very hard It's totally correct, but it always bothers me a little to see people t...
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MetaMate – A common, centralized API for every service - pcr910303 https://metamate.io/ ====== anentropic I read the home page a few times, still can't work out what it is/does I mean, this all looks fairly complicated and/or clever [https://metamate.io/docs/0.1/asg/](https://metamate.io/docs/0.1/asg/) but I'm not su...
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Comparing Dynamic and Static Language Approaches to Web Frameworks [pdf] - telemachos http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/nccb/rails-yesod-slides.pdf ====== mahmud Hate to be mean, but this is just waxing poetic over the basics. Author is comparing syntax, froth; no actual productive parts of web development is di...
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Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering - throwaway_7718 https://guyinatuxedo.github.io/ ====== galacticaactual The best thing one can do when setting out on the journey to learn reverse engineering is to avoid the temptation of trying to understand every line of assembly. Instead, try and ...
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Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit - stargrave https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/ ====== xoa Neat little project to needle some of the botters a bit (though I assume they'll all evolve to recognize this fairly quickly). I'd echo tyingq's comment below though: _Any tarpit has the potential to piss someone off. I 'd run it...
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Social Problems in Computer Science - timr http://jhamrick.mit.edu/2010/07/27/social-problems-in-computer-science/ ====== Towle_ "Person A: I need to reinstall this computer with Debian, but I don’t have a CD or DVD burner or any flash media. I’m not sure if I have any other options. Could you help me? Person B: I don...
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Ask HN: Where would you find a great Python/Reddit hacker? - g0atbutt A few months back I developed some mockups for a web app. I let it sit for a while, and a few days back my business partner reminded me about it and encouraged me to pursue it farther. I did some further research and I realized that Reddit (which...
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Face Depixelizer - hliyan https://github.com/tg-bomze/Face-Depixelizer ====== hliyan Some interesting results (including failures) in this thread: [https://twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274098682284163072](https://twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274098682284163072)
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The Art of Decision-Making - luckysahaf https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making ====== ergothus > Before having children, you may enjoy clubbing, skydiving, and LSD; you > might find fulfillment in careerism, travel, cooking, or CrossFit; you may > simply relish your freedom to do what...
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SpaceX Prepares For April 30 Launch To Space Station - bcl http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/03/spacex-prepares-for-april-30-launch-to-space-station/ ====== mpakes As a former engineer on the Atlas V launch vehicle program, I'm so excited to see the commercialization of spaceflight come to fruition. The latest proje...
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Evad3rs dev team releases “evasi0n” untethered jailbreak for all iOS 6 devices - derpenxyne http://9to5mac.com/2013/02/04/evad3rs-dev-team-releases-evasi0n-untethered-jailbreak-for-all-ios-6-devices/ ====== sebbean dud3, h5v1ng numb3rz in ur n4m3 is v3rry imp0rt4nt for g3tt1ng resp3ct in teh t3ch sp4ce
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Hints of tool use, culture seen in bumble bees - chriskanan http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/hints-tool-use-culture-seen-bumble-bees ====== internaut Bees are cool. There are also solitary bees who make little homes in walls. I remember watching one pull a nail out of a wall. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f...
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Zero-day DDoS attack vector leverages LDAP to amplify malicious traffic - based2 http://www.scmagazine.com/zero-day-ddos-attack-vector-leverages-ldap-to-amplify-malicious-traffic/article/568225/ ====== user5994461 > To execute the attack, a bad actor scans for servers with an open 389 port, > which supports Connection...
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Looking for early feedback from Salesforce gurus. Make updates to SF from email. - vrevzin http://tascit.com/go/beta-signup ====== vrevzin One of the biggest complaints we're hearing from sales ops and sales managers is that their best reps refuse to update Salesforce consistently. Mostly, they're too busy searching...
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Wall Street Tours the Tesla Factory and Loves What It Sees - decampj4 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/wall-street-tours-the-tesla-factory-and-loves-what-it-sees ====== julie1 Wall streets tends to love what customers hate. Like proprietary stuff, impossibility to repair your product, turning solid b...
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Calling All n00bs – Learn How to Code with Code Academy - michaelmcgee0 http://tech.li/2011/12/learn-to-code-with-code-academy/ ====== p0wn3d It would be awesome if someone came up with a class that used Skype or some multi-user video/audio remote solution. ~~~ michaelmcgee0 This idea is what codelesson.com does. T...
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When do you write your best code (relative to local time)? - cyanbane I know when I am coding at my best. Usually it is 3-4pm in the afternoon (know what I want to get accomplished before I leave the office) or 9-10pm at night (know what I want to get accomplished before I go to bed). What is your best coding hour...
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269 people join class-action lawsuit against Google claiming age discrimination - IronWolve https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2017/08/nearly-300-have-joined-google-age-case.html?page=all ====== lend000 If age alone isn't a reliable factor in determining success, then why do most of the big Silicon ...
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Setup Wordpress on DotCloud - spIrr Since the old tutorial [1] has not yet been transitioned to the new docs [2], here is what i did:<p>1. Downloaded Woprdpress and unpacked it into <i>wordpressdirectory</i>.<p>2. Created dotcloud.yml in the local wordpress directory:<p><pre><code> www: type: php db: ...
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Show HN: Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet - crrashby https://www.useslate.com/ ====== EvanMiller Thanks for sharing your work. I love your approach to showing relationships inside a spreadsheet. This is definitely a feature that Excel ought to have, which is both good news and bad news for your business. The ...
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How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home - rbanffy https://hbr.org/2017/09/how-to-stay-focused-when-youre-working-from-home?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social ====== skate22 Paired programmining in a skype call is not ideal, but it keeps me on track.
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A 'Thank You' from Google - dkokelley http://www.google.com/landing/thankyou/2010/ ====== ihodes It's sure disheartening to see the majority of comments here say something to the effect of "20 mil is nothing—Google has so much more to give." Well they sure as hell do, but we wouldn't be saying anything if they'd don...
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Precariat - tejtm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat ====== PaulHoule I thought it was old people that voted for Brexit and Trump...
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Ask HN: Election Day tomorrow, what do geeks think of the Tea Party? - eduardo_f I'm from Spain but I've been living in the US for the last two years (starting up here after Master's degree). I can't vote and I don't follow politics very closely but I like to keep abreast of recent developments. I just read this on th...
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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat – Yet - softdev12 http://www.wsj.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-isnt-a-threatyet-1418328453 ====== Animats The Wall Street Journal will consider AI a threat when an AI running a hedge fund starts firing CEOs. ------ vixen99 'AI will not be a separate intelligent entity, ...
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Anonymous hacks Apple server, pastes usernames and password hashes - mef http://pastebin.com/tkmZDG9m ====== andyb Not Anonymous. Nowhere does it say it was Anonymous or any affiliate. And this article ([http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-website-hacked- coul...](http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-websit...
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Why is Stubbs BBQ sauce for sale in a Prague grocery store? - Thevet https://thinkinginpublic.org/story/why-on-earth-is-stubbs-bbq-sauce-for-sale-in-a-prague-grocery-store/ ====== johnnyletrois My wife is Swedish and her family live in Sweden, but we live in the US. Every year we ask them what they want us to bring th...
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Ask HN: I'm trying to find a demo video of a text editor on a tablet - scied I saw a demo video not that long ago (within six months?), probably on HN. Someone (the developer?) was demoing, on a tablet I am pretty sure, an interface for document editing where you could highlight quotes, drag them around, insert ann...
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SEC guide to ICOs - will_brown https://www.sec.gov/ICO ====== bitxbitxbitcoin That seems pretty clear. ~~~ will_brown Yes, seems odd to publish this with the title guidence. Should be SEC ICO recap. However, I think very shortly the sec will be publicly supporting a legal framework for using ICOs/Blockchain to raise...
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