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Timestripe - kaivi https://timestripe.com/ ====== yladiz Using a service that requires Google or Facebook login, without other options, is a no-go for me. This service does seem interesting, or something I'd at least like to see what it does, but if I can't, ideally, demo, or at least login with an email, then I'm not...
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Show HN: Ploi.io – Stop the hassle. Start deploi'ing - Cannonb4ll https://ploi.io/ ====== Cannonb4ll Hello everyone! I recently started developing [https://ploi.io](https://ploi.io), my intentions when I started it was pure for private use. But colleague developers noticed it and we're very enthusiastic about the pro...
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Ask HN: Agencies, how do you host multiple client websites? - codegeek If you serve multiple clients and help them setup their own website but you provide the hosting, how do you usually do it ? Do you get one big dedicated server with big specs OR you get individual VPS for each client ? The cost is one factor but th...
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Google announces ban on "multi-purpose" Chrome extensions - cpeterso http://www.zdnet.com/google-announces-ban-on-multi-purpose-chrome-extensions-7000024566/ ====== OzzyOzbour The Ban Calendar July 20, 2012 - First step to ban plugins. NPAPI plug-ins in Windows 8 Metro mode October 31, 2012 - 2nd step to ban plugins...
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Chrome's HTTP/2 GREASE experiment results - pimterry https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2020JulSep/0202.html ====== pimterry For the unfamiliar, GREASE is a technique originally developed for TLS, to ensure that clients & servers correctly handle unexpected & unusual (but valid) inputs, and thereby that...
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West Virginia’s Supreme Court Impeachment Crisis - smacktoward https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/west-virginia-supreme-court-impeachment-constitutional-crisis.html ====== ConceitedCode This was much easier for me to follow / less politically divisive. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning- mix/wp/201...
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Show HN: Focusd – A Calm RSS Reader - turn your feeds into a daily digest - BrunoBernardino https://focusd.co ====== BrunoBernardino For over a year I've been reading articles from RSS feeds once a day, and now I'm making it possible and easy for anyone to do that as well. Here's a bit more info about why I built it:...
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4.2 Kiloyear Event - smacktoward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2_kiloyear_event ====== flixic Naming things is hard. Current name is relative to current date because it talks about an event 4200 years ago. Any literature discussing this will be stuck with this relative name and eventually will become incorrect. I ...
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Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat - mikehotel https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-vote-sovereign/swiss-vote-on-whether-to-introduce-real-money-plan-idUSKBN1J60C0 ====== codeflo I wonder about the translation, is "real money" an accepted economic term for this concept? Because "Voll" as a prefix...
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Verizon sends invitation, 'Net flies into iPhone flurry - cosgroveb http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/verizon-sends-event-invitation-net-flies-into-verizon-iphone-flurry.ars ====== ajg1977 Attendees with existing iPhone's may wish to rely on other means of being woken in time. ------ ilmare Announcing CDMA ...
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Ask HN: Is there academic research on the effectiveness of estimation in scrum? - fjahr It would be especially interesting to see results about improvement of accuracy over time. ====== blcArmadillo Not specific to scrum but I am reminded of a part from Peopleware: "The most surprising part of the 1985 Jeffery-Lawren...
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Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs - userbinator https://borncity.com/win/2019/04/21/microsoft-restores-deleted-technet-and-msdn-blogs/ ====== jiggawatts Now if they could just clean up the widespread "duplicate comments" issue so I won't get Deja Vu every time I read one of their blogs, that would be g...
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Ask HN: Any love for a math website? - nobody271 I started this site a year ago (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;regressionbuddy.com). I am not particularly good at math but I found a guy who is and have him check my work.<p>The idea is it&#x27;s a site with math practice problems. It&#x27;s more for if you already know the math an...
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Google is DOS-ing itself - petervandijck Google has a link to &quot;helpouts&quot; on it&#x27;s homepage that&#x27;s showing a 500 error<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpouts.google.com&#x2F;home?utm_source=google_com&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=20131112 ====== Gepser The link works for me
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Notify.me closing shop - Oct 4th - dongsheng http://blog.notify.me/post/10800212423/notify-me-closing-shop-oct-4th ====== dongsheng I have been using notify.me for year, it notifies me new hackernews items, what a pity to say farewell to it...
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Interface design at its best - Swype - themichael http://www.designgeist.org/2008/09/interface-design-at-its-best---swype.html ====== pedalpete cool concept with the swyping, but isn't it time for something better than the qwerty layout for this? though my fingers have learned where to press on the keyboard, I don'...
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Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now - iProject http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/10/global_warming_undermined_by_study_of_climate_change/ ====== ramblerman I'm not versed in climatology or environmental science, and frankly neither are most people. As such the issue of global warming really confus...
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Show HN: Nordgigs – Freelance Projects for Developers in the Nordics - ahmaman https://nordgigs.com ====== ahmaman Hello! Today I am launching my new project Nordgigs. Idea: A projects match-making service for freelance IT professionals in the Nordics. I would love to hear your feedback! If you are a freelancer, I ...
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Amazon Q3 earnings - gshakir https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/amazon-earnings-q3-2017.html ====== gshakir Press release here: [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol- new...](http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol- newsArticle&ID=2311817)
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Which Android phone would you buy and why? - sibilsalim Planning to buy an android phone, Which one would you recommend? ====== stevoo Well as pierrefar said it all comes to personal preferences. I wanted a keyboard as well as my previous phone ( blackberry ) made my life a lot easier as i come from a virtual keybo...
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The Dark Side of Sleep Hygiene - nwignall https://nickwignall.com/the-problem-with-sleep-hygiene/ ====== blastbeat > By turning sleep into a life goal, we’ve paradoxically made it harder to > simply fall asleep. This is not my experience. My sleep improved tremendous since I started optimizing for it. Sleep hygiene t...
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Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability - pjf https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full ====== Vinnl Unfortunately, the main reason these journals get used is not because they are better at selecting reliability, but because they provide authors with the credent...
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Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India - rahulshiv https://stripe.com/blog/india-private-beta ====== git-pull By the way, stripe has a cool new project, "stripe-mock": [https://github.com/stripe/stripe-mock](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-mock) It lets you run a local stripe API on your machine. I've got high h...
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Show HN: Butternotes – site for exploring music theory - dizzystar https://www.butternotes.com/ ====== dizzystar Hi; This is a site I've been working on over the past 2 weeks or so. I have a lot of work to do on it still, but wanted to get some feedback on what I have so far. I plan to add about every scale I can fin...
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An analysis of results from 23andme - bbgm http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/23andme-yes-me-part-3/ ====== carbocation The use of GWAS data to infer global ancestry is quite entertaining, and I'm glad that the author shared so much about 23andme's results with us. Still, I have the urge to mention this ever...
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Culture Clash - cwan http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/19/culture-clash/ ====== googoobaby She of course is "putting more emphasis on colleges, grades and testing for hires". Because that makes so much difference.
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Is Lightroom still best for processing raws? - stealthmodeclan Can open source community beat Adobe on processing raws? What alternatives exist which outshine lightroom? ====== hayitsbacon I'm a fan of Darktable[1] for processing RAW files. It seems to have more granular catagories for sorting images, and more image c...
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Teamsters Tell UPS: No Drones or Driverless Trucks - poster123 https://www.wsj.com/articles/teamsters-tell-ups-no-drones-or-driverless-trucks-1516795200 ====== natosaichek Buggy whip makers tell buggy mfgs "No motors, no batteries, no gasoline" Seriously, do the teamsters not realize that if they cripple UPS's abilit...
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Ask HN: Did anyone notice GitHub removed project search from index page? - dragonsh It was strange today when went to GitHub, found they removed project search from home page. Now the front page wants you to register. To go to search need to go to explicit url. Is it only me or others also have the same feeling that G...
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Strlen(buf) – Not as simple as you’d think - halayli https://medium.com/late-night-programming/29eb94f8441f ====== tqh Kind of similar to the one I wrote for Haiku: [http://cgit.haiku- os.org/haiku/tree/src/system/libroot/posix...](http://cgit.haiku- os.org/haiku/tree/src/system/libroot/posix/string/strlen.cpp) Make...
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The Only Design Pattern Is Small Solutions - jsankey http://programmaticallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/06/only-design-pattern-is-small-solutions.html ====== zb The TED talk he links to is definitely worth watching. [http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_sweat_the_small_stu...](http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_suthe...
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How to have your /blog hosted on a different IP - Bradosaur http://swish.com/blog/2013/02/09/how-to-have-blog-on-different-ip/ ====== lucisferre I've heard conflicting stories lately on whether on not the subdomain vs path issue still impacts SEO with Google. Can anyone with some knowledge shed some light on this. ...
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Eating Leafy Greens Each Day Tied to Sharper Memory, Slower Decline - dpflan https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/05/582715067/eating-leafy-greens-daily-may-help-keep-minds-sharp ====== conwy Nothing like chopped & steamed spring greens topped with west indian hot sauce, a little mayo and some pepper. Mmm...
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Finding a good open source component to use in your project - senko http://goodcode.io/articles/using-open-source/ ====== collyw One thing I have noticed is that the general quality of Python / Django libraries, seems way higher than JavaScript ones. Likewise with Perl in the past.
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C.E.O. Of Backpage.com, Known for Escort Ads, Is Charged with Pimping a Minor - themgt http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/carl-ferrer-backpage-ceo-is-arrested.html ====== maerF0x0 Of course they dont mention that this all could have been avoided by legalization of the industry and registration of the workers (and ma...
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The Geopolitics of American Fear - handedness https://zeihan.com/the-geopolitics-of-american-fear/ ====== axguscbklp Zeihan is an interesting counterweight to the "America is a declining empire" crowd of analysts, but IMO he goes too far in the other direction even while he makes some good points. This article doesn't...
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A Forebrain for the World Mind (W. Danny Hillis) - DaniFong http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_12.html#hillis ====== bayareaguy Of these I found Sam Harris's "True Lie Detection" essay to be the most intriguing.
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You Will Not Be The Next Silicon Valley, Please Stop Trying - mirceagoia http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/11/you-will-not-be-the-next-silicon-valley-please-stop-trying/ ====== kevs I have to say, I found this article overly negative. Newry isn't a good host to startups because 10 years ago their population was 30k and ...
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Ask HN: What is your strategy for obtaining clean drinking water? - throwawayaaa I live in an area with questionable water supply that was also recently highlighted by some news outlets as being pretty poor.<p>I am exploring what avenues I have for getting clean water and I want to know what HN does for this (if anyth...
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GCHQ head says tech firms 'in denial' on terrorism - smackay http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29891285 ====== iandanforth In other news, people use their mouths to express ideas which GCHQ objects to. Mouths said to be "in denial." ------ AlyssaRowan Privacy activists say GCHQ 'in denial' about mass surveillance. :) (Se...
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New Solar Plane Takes First Test Flight - plane http://techknownet.info/New-solar-plane-takes-first-test-flight ====== RiderOfGiraffes See also: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974963> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975205>
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Ask HN: Is ~O(1) good for a prime factorization algorithm? - poletopole I&#x27;ve been playing around with a few models of mine related the zeta function and number theory trying to prove a theorem I&#x27;ve been working on since August. A few days ago I made an unexpected breakthrough on a new model that proved my th...
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Ask HN: How do I get my team to write better code? - kamakazizuru I&#x27;m leading a team of programmers - not all of whom I had a say in choosing. They&#x27;re generally a smart lot when it comes to understanding the algorithmic &amp; functional logic - but make beginner level mistakes like hardcoding thigns, naming ...
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Amazon “automated machine” punctures bear spray can, 24 employees hospitalized - shawndumas https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/amazon-automated-machine-punctures-bear-spray-can-24-employees-hospitalized/ ====== Bucephalus355 Can’t find the article, but there was a case a few years ago where a Chine...
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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis - cityzen https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html#click=https://t.co/m0poTQLAqI ====== nrook dupe [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958)
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Date an Entrepreneur - jeffchuber http://blog.knowitapp.com/date-an-entrepreneur/ ====== davmar this made me a bit sick to my stomach. as i'm sure the original would as well.
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A Theory Of Productive Spaces - shepbook http://liberumvir.com/2012/05/13/theory-of-productive-spaces.html ====== brudgers Spaces are most productive when there is interesting meaningful work to be performed and better locations for engaging in distracting behaviors. The library doesn't work because of its configur...
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FTC issues disclosure guidelines for social media influencers [pdf] - rahidz https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/1001a-influencer-guide-508_1.pdf ====== Keverw A lot of this seems common senses but “⊲ Keep in mind that tags, likes, pins, and similar ways of showing you like a brand or product are...
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Ask HN: Favorite Languages And Frameworks And Why - danenania Be partial, be biased, wave the pom poms. What features absolutely rock about your favorite tools and make others look primitive by comparison? Bonus points for obscure choices :) ====== clyfe I do webdev. Ruby192 Rails3 CoffeeScript Backbone.js jQuery ...
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Use Multiple Google Accounts in One Browser - oliveoil http://gigaom.com/2010/07/14/finally-use-multiple-google-accounts-in-one-browser/ ====== mooism2 I found out last week that using incognito private browsing mode in Chrome (and I assume in other browsers too) I can log in to Google, Twitter, etc, without logging...
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Ask HN: What company/companies would you acquire and why? - max_ Imagine you were heading a large, successful American tech company based in san Francisco, and you wanted to make an acquisition.<p>What company&#x2F;companies would you acquire and why? ====== DiabloD3 Apple. I think with the right leadership, they co...
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100-year-old watch ring found in undisturbed 400-year-old Ming Dynasty tomb - markbao http://holy-web.blogspot.com/2008/12/archeologist-joked-saying-whoever.html ====== tjic Professionalism among time travellers has gone downhill since the Temporal Cops got unionized and stopped doing their jobs in 6700 A.D….
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The Future Of Television Isn’t About the Hardware - fcukdigg http://www.macgasm.net/2013/05/29/the-future-of-television-isnt-about-the-hardware/ ====== finalbroadcast Apple isn't going to solve this problem more than anyone else looking to change the balance of power, unless the big distribution companies get their ...
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Intermediate certificate used for issuance of Comodo certs has expired - crypt1d https://www.tbs-certificates.co.uk/FAQ/en/USER-Trust-RSA-Certification-Authority.html ====== crypt1d This is a 20-year old intermediate cert that just expired. I suspect lots of big registars like Gandi use it. We've only noticed after so...
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An actual pronunciation dictionary: words pronounced by native speakers - seesawtron https://forvo.com/ ====== bradknowles So, the top two words on the list right now are “gyro” and “gif”. The problem with trusting anyone’s pronunciation of the former is that the word actually comes to English from the Greek language...
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Graph Façade API Over Relational Data - agilevic http://www.slashdb.com/2015/08/26/graph-facade-api-over-relational-data/ ====== agilevic Read the article and tell me what you think.
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Yahoo GeoCities: 11 days to go until it closes... - jacquesm http://geocities.yahoo.com/ ====== jacquesm If you have favorite content bookmarked on there then now would be a good time to make a copy.
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The CUE Data Constraint Language - devj https://github.com/cuelang/cue ====== justicezyx Huge congrats to mpvl@ for the final release of CUE on github. mpvl@ is the main author of borgcfg and one of the two designers of BCL (borg config language). I was maintaining borgcfg 2017-2019, and naturally had occasions to ch...
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Danger of Whatsap - edmilsonlirico https://noticiaswebs.com/cu%C3%A1les-son-las-estafas-m%C3%A1s-comunes-en-whatsapp-y-c%C3%B3mo-protegerse-1528 ====== Molly555 Well of course this application is dangerous. Without a doubt, it is subject to hacker attacks, despite the claimed end-to-end encryption technology. Obviousl...
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Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause - magsafe http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp ====== Monkeyget It reminds me of the orange juice test. You organize an annual convention for hundreds of people. You tell the banquet manager of the hotel you are considering that the morning break...
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Swedish Programmer Hacks iPhone - ibsathish http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.546965/swedish-programmer-hacks-iphone ====== zimpenfish That's just sending operator SMS, it's not hacking.
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A Git user's first (and hopefully last) foray into SVN-land - ColinWright http://blog.ram.rachum.com/post/9583964892/a-git-users-first-and-hopefully-last-foray-into ====== mianos [http://svnbook.red- bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.basicmerg...](http://svnbook.red- bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html)
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Ask HN: Is there any semantic search developed on top of Algolia? - agusgun Is there any project that uses BERT to improve the search relevance of the Algolia search engine? ====== dustincoates (I'm on the team at Algolia that works on NLU and semantic search.) I don't know of any community projects using BERT atop A...
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Is your B2B startup New Enterprise or Old Enterprise? - brandonb http://brandonb.cc/is-your-b2b-startup-new-enterprise-or-old-enterprise ====== mindcrime Our products are Open Source, but I think we're still more "old enterprise" than "new enterprise" by the model presented early in the article. Yes, a single indivi...
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Planck is a ClojureScript REPL and script execution environment - jballanc http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-08-22-planck-works.html ====== rcarmo This is pretty neat, and I hope it will get networking support soon. I've also been keeping track of the NodeJS "equivalents", and am looking forward to being able to ...
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Making guns and robots from scrap metal - error http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/06/2011614133151319133.html it seems that inovation comes when need calls for it. ====== noonespecial This is the actual link that the poster was aiming at. [http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/06/2011614112...]...
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How to save money running a startup - knightinblue http://calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/ ====== mhd This list really started on a weird note. First of all, are there any small startups (in the tech sector) that immediately hire a big I.T. department? And whhich I.T....
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Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018) - metabagel https://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18990444](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18990444)
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What does it mean for light to be stopped or stored? - ColinWright http://www.askamathematician.com/2013/07/q-what-does-it-mean-for-light-to-be-stopped-or-stored/ ====== KennyCason I think that was the easiest to understand/intro to quantam information handling that I have read. I also enjoyed how they went from: Hei...
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What Exactly Am I Doing Here At Uncrunched? - sahillavingia http://uncrunched.com/2011/09/25/what-exactly-is-uncrunched/ ====== joshes >I know a lot of you don’t understand why I can’t disclose all conflicts of interest. The answer is that if I did, not that many people would want to talk to me in the direct, honest...
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Ask HN: If you were in charge of yahoo, what would you do? - niccolop Curious to hear what people would do, everyone is doubting Carol Bartz, probably rightly. What about an acquisition? Or change of CEO? ====== gasull Focus on a few successful products. And focus on adding value. A long time ago Yahoo was what now...
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Keepod: Can a $7 stick provide billions computer access? - almost http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27346567 ====== trurl42 So this time it's based on Android? That seems like a bad choice if you wanted to provide the people with access to true general purpose computing. ~~~ TazeTSchnitzel The desktop reminds me of ...
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Would someone please ask the Apple Numbers team to fix slanted headers? - niels_olson https://discussions.apple.com/message/20547908#20547908 ====== niels_olson For years people have been hacking their way to slanted headers in Numbers. This sort of works if you're a graphic artist, but completely fails if you're a ...
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Dyson sphere - jakebian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere ====== michaelpinto Back in the day I was member of the L5 Society and SSI, and of course I'd assume that by the year 2015 i'd be living in a O'Neill cylinder: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neil...
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Ask YC: Built a great social media site, but need a recommendation engine. Any ideas? - grag I've developed a website / Firefox toolbar that allows people to surf the web by topic or within specific domains. I think it has huge potential and that I'm on to something big here, but its usefulness relies on having a po...
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Generate self-signed x509 certificates valid for multiple URLs/IPs - tiyema https://github.com/frntn/x509-san ====== diafygi This can be a one-liner in openssl: openssl req -new -sha256 -x509 -days 365 -newkey RSA:4096 -nodes -keyout domain.key -subj "/CN=example.com" -reqexts SAN -config <(cat /e...
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The ultimate iPad email client? The endless search. - yhuhytvh Why has no-one created this? I know Sparrow for iPad is on its way, and no doubt it will be pretty good. I was just wondering why the limited take up to the challenge, just in case I'd missed anything.<p>I assume the risk if Apple rejecting the app is al...
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Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work (1983) [pdf] - tonyg http://aaaipress.org/Papers/AAAI/1983/AAAI83-059.pdf ====== beagle3 Eurisko is definitely part of CS and hacker folklore - but it is not really science. It wasn't reproduced (or for that matter, produced again by Lenat) - it's not clear, out of the described Eur...
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'Why I am not canceling class tomorrow' - ramnikarora http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2013-11-21/cal-lecturers-email-students-goes-viral-why-i-am-not ====== jmduke This is incredible, and I'm happy to have read it. The whole thing is worth closing out of a few BuzzFeed tabs for, but the ending...
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Librem Mini: A mini-PC that puts freedom, privacy and security first - spking https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/ ====== hajile They need to put a Ryzen 4800h or U if they want to interest me. I've owned a couple Intel NUCs and the GPU performance just sucks too much. ------ dangus A nitpick: The Mac mini doesn’t h...
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Superlinear cities - bootload http://blog.longnow.org/2011/07/26/geoffrey-b-west-%E2%80%9Cwhy-cities-keep-on-growing-corporations-always-die-and-life-gets-faster%E2%80%9D/ ====== groby_b "Cities routinely survive even nuclear bombs" - I pretty much stopped reading at that point. They might have survived them, but re...
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I just launched a site with hardly any features - swGooF http://tumblr.swgoof.com/post/13952498570/launch-hardly-any-features ====== eggbrain No one will like a site without a few more of those features your site doesn't have. There's the old phrase "it's whats on the inside that counts", but with first impressions,...
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Raw SQL Backups on Heroku - perezd http://blog.derekperez.com/post/453472206/sql-backups-for-heroku ====== 0nly1ife Is this solution better than using RDS? ~~~ perezd Its not really the same...this is just a useful tool for backing up your locally stored database to S3. Its not a replacement database.
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Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple - zellio https://threatpost.com/stanford-researchers-find-connecting-metadata-with-user-names-is-simple/103272 ====== alexdevkar Interesting research that seems directionally true, but I wonder if this overstates the case. The sample set is people...
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Ask HN: Copy texts to clipboard via pure javascript? - coodoo It's 2013, is there a way to Copy texts to clipboard via pure javascript ? meaning without flash, targeting iOS devices, thanks. ====== mxxx There's a working draft for an html5 clipboard API but as far as I'm aware it's yet to be implemented in any brows...
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Sorry, Apple: This screen protector cuts out blue light and keeps display color - samslack http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ocushield-blue-light-reducer/ ====== briandear Screen protectors? People still use those? Serious question. I find screen protectors, no matter how good they are don't have the same tactile pr...
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ARrgh: a newcomer's angry guide to R (2013) - nkurz http://tim-smith.us/arrgh/index.html ====== nkrumm I gave up on R long ago. On python, pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn and statsmodels are often enough to replace basic R functionality. In the case of needing an actual R package, I've found it's almost always wort...
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PayPal Launches Simpler, Mobile APIs And More - k-i-m http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/08/paypal-separates-developer-platform-from-x-commerce-launches-simpler-mobile-apis-and-more ====== k-i-m Other than improving their API, PayPal should really join this: <http://www.portabilitystandard.org/> but maybe they're too afr...
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Operating System Support for Persistent and Recoverable Computations (1996) [pdf] - vezzy-fnord http://www-systems.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/gh/pub/gh-15.pdf ====== nickpsecurity Interesting architecture. This structuring might fit well with clouds given that some container tricks resemble it. Adding capability controls are...
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Marketer rakes £25k Profit I'm So Jealous I'm Giving Up Developing Apps - HNer http://startupcrunch.org/online_marketer_rakes_25k_profit_in_under_3_months_selling_info_videos_im_so_jealous_im_giving_up_developing_apps ====== metachris Well, the online marketer in question does solve a real problem for _a lot_ of com...
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Metrics for Start-Up - Sato http://blog.kissmetrics.com/9-metrics/ ====== chris_dcosta This is great. Actually I think it says more than how to measure your startup. I think it says what are the important factors in your business. What you should be concentrating on doing as a startup.
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FBI announces review of 2,000 cases featuring hair samples - 1337biz http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/18/197069/fbi-announces-review-of-2000-cases.html ====== dangero How many times do things like this have to happen before we decide to stop using the death penalty in the US? ~~~ Taylorious Someone innocent being...
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Nvidia sucks and I'm sick of it - azdle https://sircmpwn.github.io/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html ====== ShakataGaNai Nvidia hates _everyone_. They force Windows users to sign up for an account and sign in to the "Geforce Experience" (and application installed on the users machine)... just to update the users own dri...
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The Forest, the Trees, and the Bag Fees - blasdel http://joe.biztravelife.com/09/042309.html ====== holdenk I could be wrong, but from looking at the authors data, and the writing, it seems as if the author is "massage" his interpretation of the data to fit his hypothesis (which could very well be valid). The autho...
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Apple's response to Spotify's complaints - j2bax http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/01/apple-spotify-app-rejection-half-truths-rumors/ ====== runesoerensen The BuzzFeed story was submitted earlier today, discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12017819](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12017819) ~~~ ...
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Donald Kennedy, Stanford's eighth president, dead at 88 from COVID - theBashShell https://news.stanford.edu/2020/04/21/donald-kennedy-stanfords-eighth-president-dead-88/ ====== drallison Stanford University has been blessed by a continuing string of outstanding presidents. Don Kennedy was an outstanding educator and p...
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Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A Startup? - nathanburke I am curious: what are your biggest PR/Marketing problems as a startup? Is it getting noticed? Getting coverage? Differentiation? What problems are startups having when it comes to marketing? ====== critke Good question. I sent emails on <...
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Fukushima Radiation Reached US West Coast Contaminating Fishes - benhomie http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/232-pat ====== adaml_623 If you google search on the very first image in that article you will find it is from a forum post in 2009 2 years prior to Fukushima[1]. If you believe an article like that then...
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Teaching kids in Mexico to code - pablasso http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2014/11/04/bismarck-lepe-mexico-diversity-coding/18465591/ ====== johnparkerg Being the CEO of a (Mexican) startup and having a daughter there is nothing I could value more than kids learning how to code as soon as possible. So m...
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Show HN: It took me 6 months to write my iOS word game app..am I still a hacker? - beeeph http://quotiac.com ====== beeeph I get so embarrassed when I see a "Show HN: My Weekend iOS App" because of how long it took me to build this simple word game, but it really is pretty full- featured app, and it has a multiplaye...
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