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GPU-Accelerated Video Playback with NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi - fcambus http://www.cambus.net/gpu-accelerated-video-playback-with-netbsd-on-the-raspberry-pi/ ====== 101914 "I'm ... passionate about text-mode in general." ~~~ tobik Have you read the article he links to? [http://www.cambus.net/textmode](http://www.c...
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Show HN: cash flow for freelancers and small businesses [retry] - thibaut_barrere https://www.wisecashhq.com/ ====== kfk _WiseCash helps you getting a better idea of what you can do with your extra money._ How? And at what interest rates? I find this to be a very, very, annoying thing to do. You end up piling money...
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Application deployment issues - cvrajeesh http://i.imgur.com/H7thlRM.png ====== cvrajeesh Why big companies like Microsoft doesn't follow some standards when deploying application or services, at least they could have redirected to nice page instead of showing classic asp.net YSOD(Yello Screen Of Death) page
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Handling Human Error in the Datacenter - slackerIII http://www.spiteful.com/2008/08/11/handling-human-error-in-the-datacenter/ ====== lsc a problem everywhere I've worked, especially in places where the rack is 'organically grown' is power cables getting accidentally pulled when other servers are added or removed. ...
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Ask HN: Best way to track usage of js widgets and buttons? - brandnewlow My social news site has a widget and external voting buttons a la Digg and Reddit.<p>What's the best methods to track usage? I want to know what sites they're appearing on and how many impressions they're getting there. The number of referral...
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2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes - mattvot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM&feature=youtu.be ====== ColinWright The discussion has ended up here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574> ------ ColinWright Same video, very few comments or upvotes yet: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748783>...
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Ask HN: How to file a patent alone? - 218390180938120 I&#x27;ve just started my own company&#x2F;start up. I&#x27;ve got enough funds to work on the idea for a year or so by myself, so I&#x27;ve got some time and a nominal amount of money at my disposal. I&#x27;m also pretty sure that my idea is patentable!<p>How do I...
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Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP - newscasta https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1773169 ====== ColinWright Discussed at considerable length a month ago: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895474> At that time I said this: It feels to me that all he's done is show t...
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Is Twitter Strangling its Famous API? - sant0sk1 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_twitter_strangling_its_api.php ====== jrnkntl "SocialToo complains that Twitter should let it pay for heavy access to the API if it won't allow it for free, but Twitter apparently isn't interested.", this is at least interesting. ...
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Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare website design - 001sky http://washingtonexaminer.com/feds-reviewed-only-one-bid-for-obamacare-website-design/article/2537194 ====== tssva The reporter is wrong in his characterization of IDIQ's. They are not some little used or known loophole of government procurement. IDIQ'...
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Ask HN: Is now a good time to launch a Facebook alternative? - feelin_googley Is now a good time to launch a Facebook alternative (that can perform <i>some</i> of the functinality of Facebbok)<p>Like Google users, Facebook user can export all their data.<p>See https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;30279609...
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Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers - drewg123 https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/18/google-reverses-its-digital-death-sentence-for-pixel-phone-resellers/ ====== captainmuon I would understand it if they kicked the customers out of their webstores for physical products. Or if they forbad...
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France has banned judicial analytics to analyze the courts - Anon84 https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/france-has-banned-judicial-analytics-to-analyze-the-courts.html ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092458](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092458)
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Ask HN: Rescuing a book collection? - ig1 In early 2001 there was a major piece of digitization work scanning and putting online the Hockliffe Collection (a collection of about 1000 early childrens books from 1685-1900), sometime in the mid-2000s they seemed to have lost their funding. Their website is now broken, t...
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Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification - seek3r https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X2C9IySpXDv ====== daly So many people have asked me about this paper that I put together a quick response, below. There are so many reasons why this 'report' is wrong. Beginning with the abstra...
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Ask HN: What 5 languages would you teach someone new to CS? - kenning Curious what 5 languages or technologies (hadoop?) you would tell someone relatively new to CS to learn. The goal would be to give them the ability to do many things in an easy and modern way, or alternatively, to have access to lots of job possibil...
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Publications at the crossroads of NLP, data mining, Search, and the Semantic Web - merijn481 http://turing.cs.washington.edu/publications.htm ====== carbocation It's down for me. Google cache results: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:W2nsZG_...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cac...
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Facebook will sink under the weight of socially obligated "friendships" (2007) - _pius http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/26/facebook-will-sink-u.html ====== budu3 Facebook needs a way for you to form groups of friends that mimic real life social groupings so that you can share info with the appropriate group(s) with t...
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Show HN: Best Programming Language for Me in 2016 - weitingliu http://www.bestprogramminglanguagefor.me ====== kdamken I liked this site, it asks some good questions you should think about before picking a language to start studying, and offers some easy to understand explanations on why you'd want to pick them. Desi...
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Ask HN: Who is going to the O'Reilly E-Tech Conference? - alexjmann I'm coming to the Bay Area March 7th - 14th to attend the O'Reilly E-Tech Conference. I'm an east coast guy, graduating from Penn State in May, and I'm looking to begin building my network out west. I'm working on a startup up in the social media ...
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How do you “produce pulses of light as short as a femtosecond”? - javajosh The Wikipedia article on &quot;Laser&quot; states: &quot;Temporal coherence can be used to produce pulses of light as short as a femtosecond.&quot; There is no reference. Is this true and if so what is the physical method used to switch this fa...
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The Hatpin Peril (2014) - danbolt https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/ ====== deeblering4 Reminds me of a comedian who said “if I have $1000 dollars in my pocket while walking home at night, I have something that another man wants to take f...
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Bain:The financially sustainable university - rbcgerard http://www.bain.com/sustainable-university/interactive.asp ====== PaulHoule There are some tired old canards here. The main job of the technology transfer office seems to be, in a lot of places, preventing graduate students walking out the door with their invent...
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The US Ban on Huawei Is Creating a Multipolar World - peterwei87 https://palladiummag.com/2019/06/21/the-us-ban-on-huawei-is-creating-a-multipolar-world/ ====== tomohawk The US Ban is just revealing what is there. The CCP uses all levers at its disposal, including Huawei, to get what it wants. And from past and presen...
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Jerry Lawson helped lay the groundwork for all modern gaming consoles - bane http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/02/you-wouldnt-be-able-to-pause-your-video-games-today-without-jerry-lawson/ ====== jefurii A few highlights: Black engineer in Silicon Valley. In 1970. _Demolition Derby_ released months after _Pong_. Fairc...
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil - DTrejo http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html ====== DTrejo Comments from previous submission, if you're interested: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794116> ~~~ btilly Comments from yesterday's submission of the same article: <http://news.ycom...
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Show HN: New Starcraft 2 Builds Website - Reltair http://www.sc2builds.com/ ====== kken Nice, but it's rather rudimentary right now. I think you should work more on visualization. * how about generating graphs for resource availability vs. time? (minerals, gas, units) That would help greatly in verifying the correc...
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Wes Bos made six figures from his JavaScript beginner course today - Pete-Codes https://twitter.com/petecodes/status/1200175689435144196 ====== vogt Wes' content is much more engaging to me than the average MOOC, Udemy, treehouse, Udacity, etc course. I find him approachable and fun without appearing incompetent or la...
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Yaft – Yet another framebuffer terminal - mcbuilder https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft ====== new299 Yay! This is cool. I wrote something like this myself a while back: [http://41j.com/hterm/](http://41j.com/hterm/) I recommend checking out libvterm ([http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/](http://www.leonerd.or...
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The Central Park Five - wellokthen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/arts/television/when-they-see-us.html ====== 40acres I really resented my parents growing up because they would never let me play outside. I was raised in Central Brooklyn in the 90s and stories like The Central Park Five and Abner Louima were cauti...
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Consumer-Driven Contract – from Introduction to Automation - pmalkow Last articles from a series, about building consumer CI&#x2F;CD pipelines with GitLab and Pactflow:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solidstudio.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;consumer-driven-contract-ci-cd.html<p>Two previous ones in comments. ====== pmalkow [https://solidst...
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Free domain - alex_g There've been quite a few free domain threads here on HN, and I have one to add. Unfortunately there's only 15 days left, but if you have a use for it and want to renew it, I'm happy to pass it along.<p>The domain is MacAppsDaily.com<p>It's a couple years old and it used to be a blog I ran, so t...
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Good programmers are good sysadmins are good programmers - ltratt http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/good_programmers_are_good_sysadmins_are_good_programmers ====== ZeroGravitas I agree with the headline but didn't find much in the article to back it up. For my part I look at Perl (or Ruby) and see an e...
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Application Architecture with React: Rethinking Flux - dgellow http://dialelo.github.io/application-architecture-with-react-rethinking-flux.html ====== davedx Always good to see alternatives to "Flux classic" [1]. We have just started using Redux [2] with ImmutableJS. It's a nice way of expressing how different actio...
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Ask HN: What were your failed ideas? Here are some of mine... - jason_slack Some of the ideas, for the curious, not in correct order<p>1. I thought that I could use Trolltech QT, when the green phone was coming out, to write apps, etc. The green phone never took off and was horrible to program with.<p>2. I was writi...
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Objclibs: an index of objective-c frameworks - cvursache http://www.objclibs.com ====== holgersindbaek How is this different from cocoapods.com? ~~~ jws Having never seen either service before… objclibs shows a list of what sorts of things are available. That is huge for engaging me in your service. The author sho...
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The Ultimate Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything - ingve http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0391/ ====== ClickHelp Larger than 0 does not mean 1 :)
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What's Really In Vaccines? - givan http://www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/whats-really-in-vaccines ====== crunchy_toast What a load of rubbish. Like most ignorant ant-vaccine pieces it fails to list any reputable sources for its information; And I use the word information very loosely here. Why does it not list any?...
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The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine - berrow http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics?currentPage=all ====== patio11 I'd hesitate at calling AdWords an auction. It is a non-transparent black box process, some aspects of which are auction-like. (An...
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Online Python Editor with Live Syntax Checking - ethanchewy https://pythonbuddy.com/ ====== ethanchewy Hi everyone, I created this tool called PythonBuddy ([http://pythonbuddy.com/](http://pythonbuddy.com/)) which allows developers to directly program in python online with a live syntax checker. I made this so that f...
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Why OPEC Doesn't Mind Low Oil Prices - MikeCapone http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/08/why-opec-doesnt-mind-low-oil-prices/61557/ ====== mooism2 $60/barrel oil would have been considered absurdly expensive a decade ago. Perhaps OPEC has not forgotten that.
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No One Knows the Exact Year of the Largest Volcanic Eruption of Our Age - Thevet https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-did-thera-eruption-happen ====== jpollock Another extremely large eruption from a more recent time. As for whether or not it's larger, Wikipedia seems to indicate it would win in a trump card con...
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Any suggested links for Firefox extension development? - gregp I found a few sites via google, most of them are old and seem out of date - any suggestions?<p>Thanks ====== utnick [http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create- fire...](http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox- extens...
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Nature Inspired Computer Architecture Design - adarshpatil http://adarshpatil.in/timewarp/blog/nature-vs-computer-architecture.html ====== adarshpatil What do you think about these observations?
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Patio11 on BBC Radio discussing the Japan earthquake - revorad http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f6sbb ====== thekevan I believe that is a live link and now they are not longer speaking with Patio11 ~~~ revorad He hasn't been on yet. He probably will be in a few minutes.
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Microsoft's Plan B for Search - markbao http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2008/tc20080630_349921.htm ====== imp >> Adopting semantic search technology would require the big guys, in essence, to start from the beginning—rescanning every Web page according to the technology's fundamentally different meth...
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Commercial product but brilliant reality hack. - noonespecial http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna&L=0 ====== noonespecial Brings new meaning to "just sing the alphabet baby, we'll do the rest". Seriously with stuff like this available to the average punter, could the age of celebrity finally be over? Here'...
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Matt Maroon: Demo Day - toffer http://mattmaroon.com/?p=263 ====== Tichy Enough with the tantalizing teases: when will we finally get to know what the current YC companies are actually doing?? ~~~ rokhayakebe Seriously guys Tichy has a point here. I am a big fan of YC startups ( even though we did not make it this ...
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Clojure 1.5 - llambda https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/kzF5O0Yfdhc/discussion ====== JeanPierre There's a lot of new small improvements in this update which are great for Clojure users, but the fundamental difference between 1.4 and 1.5 is the reducer library which was implemented. It's added mostly f...
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The Norwegian Method of Tunneling (2012) - JimmyM http://www.tunneltalk.com/Discussion-Forum-Sep12-NMT-definition.php ====== dstyrb I wish there was a way to put the text in the middle of my screen.
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Show HN: json-anything - keyle https://github.com/keyle/json-anything/ ====== mooism2 Read up on <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url_encoding> \-- surely php has built in functions to handle this. Note that `#` should be encoded as `%23` and that your suggestion of encoding it as `%` results in invalid urls. Also this...
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Dear Jim - revorad http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-jim ====== c1sc0 Maybe this time around IT committees simply won't be able to decide which tablets to buy as employees simply bring their own? Same like we use 3G to bypass stupid network filtering? ~~~ silvestrov I don't think the PlayBook, Xoom, etc are going t...
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AMD Launches Carrizo - hanifvirani http://www.anandtech.com/show/9319/amd-launches-carrizo-the-laptop-leap-of-efficiency-and-architecture-updates ====== nimos I wonder if stagnating CPU requirements might make AMD competitive again. I have a 4 year old i5 laptop that can handle 100% of general office/home use. Batter...
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PSA: You should remap your capslock key - goodside http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RemapCapsLock ====== silentbicycle While remapping CapsLock to left Ctrl is a great idea, it's also worth considering remapping left Alt to Ctrl (if you use Emacs) - that way, rather than sticking your pinky out to type while holding down Ctrl...
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PCPartPicker for Solar - nikodunk https://sunboxlabs.com/ ====== jepler previously, according to their own "as seen on HN" link: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478)
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The Invention Mob, Brought to You by Quirky - kanamekun http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/technology/quirky-tests-the-crowd-based-creative-process.html ====== shawnee_ _Still, what Quirky has done for many inventors is to make placing a product on store shelves an attainable aspiration. And that has attracted a crow...
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RedPhone is now Open Source - dpeck http://www.whispersys.com/redphone-now-open-source.html ====== rdtsc Prepare to be harassed by governments (including US) for releasing this. As soon as some activist uses this they will come after you. As soon as a criminal uses it, they will have a smear campaign ready to denoun...
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Beta Testing Community and Business Groups - zeroxsys http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/06/beta_for_community_groups_unde.html ====== zeroxsys Lint to "W3C Community Groups and Business Groups" proposal: <http://www.w3.org/2010/12/community/>
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Did BBC break the law by using a botnet to send spam? - dc2k08 http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/03/12/bbc-break-law-botnet-send-spam/ ====== dc2k08 BBC editor's response: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/03/click_botnet_e...](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/03/click_botnet_experiment.html)...
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How Startup Teraki Solves a Too-Much-Data Problem - bootload http://www.fastcompany.com/3053298/elasticity/how-this-startup-solves-our-too-much-data-problem ====== lovboat Using a server to decide what kind of data has real significance provides a mean to reduce data. For example if you are in a gym doing hard physica...
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Should you raise debt or equity? - Sam_Odio http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/debt-benefits ====== dhouston great article and discussion. lots of yc companies have gone this way -- we will probably as well. anyone have experience raising hundreds of k (in convertible debt) from multiple investors, or is it preferre...
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Toast cuts 50% of staff as coronavirus forces eateries to close - JumpCrisscross https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/toast-cuts-50percent-of-staff-as-coronavirus-forces-restaurants-to-close.html ====== rocelot This is a real bummer, Toast was crushing it in Boston this past year -- I have some friends over there, likely p...
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Low Pay, Long Commutes: The Plight of the Adjunct Professor - benbreen http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/12/17/459707022/low-pay-long-commutes-the-plight-of-the-adjunct-professor ====== pkaye My question is why are people so insistent on following the academic route with all the sacrifices it sometimes entails. I kn...
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How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks - ardy42 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-face-mask.html ====== cryoshon framing the US as the world's "richest country" is a disservice here. a few people are very rich, and many people are well off. but the institutions of this country are,...
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Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds - minimaxir http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/25/9039127/twitter-deletes-stolen-joke-dmca-takedown ====== Nomentatus It's often thought that "fair use" covers any sufficiently short selection of another's words. But this is urban legend. There is no such principle i...
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Something Rotten in the Core - jmah http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/something-rotten-in-the-core/ ====== jitl It seems like commenters here on HN are caught on the point that GDB _does_ provide a reasonable machine interface. That's not the author's point; responding specifically to that fact is missing the forest fo...
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Ask HN: How do I un-apply from YC? - shorbaji I&#x27;ve submitted an application and am having second thoughts about applying to YC. Is there a way to unapply? ====== pg I can do it manually if you want. Just let me know. ~~~ shorbaji Thanks PG. Please do. ~~~ pg Ok, I unsubmitted it. If you change your mind just ...
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How to make sure your startup goes belly-up - mjshampine http://fullstart.com/knowledge/6-5-ways-make-sure-startup-goes-belly/ ====== nattaggart Points 1 and 2 seem entirely self promotional. Since when is _not_ outsourcing your development a recipe for disaster? Conventional Silicon Vally business wisdom leans in...
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Apple debuts 'Switch' - waqasaday https://www.apple.com/switch/ ====== arielm This take comparison charts to a whole new level. I wonder if this was meant for iOS users to try and persuade their friends to switch. I don't see it being so persuasive standalone.
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How To Try Spotify Immediately, No Matter Where You Live - mshafrir http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/03/how-to-try-spotify-immediately-no-matter-where-you-live/ ====== pope52 It will stop working very soon. Spotify checks your location constantly and not only when you download. It allows you to use it outside your or...
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Comic explains why your projects always fail - kiraleighleigh https://medium.com/there-is-no-design/this-comic-explains-why-your-projects-always-fail-1d12805fd03a ====== Finnucane If someone calls you and says they want to be the Uber of yogurt, do you demand to be paid in cash in advance?
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Douglas Rushkoff – We Won: Get Used to It - miiiiiike https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/we-won-get-used-to-it-3753eaf83f42 ====== belorn A few weeks ago a court in Sweden decided on a defamation case where a person had used the N word aimed at an prosecutor. The judges found that the accused was not guilty because...
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Show HN: Overlapse - easily create and share time-lapses from your smart phone - Roarster http://overlap.se/ ====== Roarster If anyone wants a direct link to the app (which is where we'd really like the feedback) then it's on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlapse&...](https://play...
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Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day - zaveri http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/silicon-valley-elite-flock-to-y-combinator-demo-day/ ====== rksprst MixPanel is amazing. I'm using it for a client; and the info and stats generated are extremely useful. It's a great compliment to Google Analytics; and ...
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Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service - ianwalter https://thenextweb.com/apps/2020/02/18/facebook-uses-its-ad-policies-to-block-apps-that-compete-with-its-dating-service/ ====== JohnFen > its policies prevent “hook up” apps from advertising on the basis that > they’re advocat...
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Twitter & Friendfeed: Understanding Referral Traffic, Arriving at a Business Model - berecruited http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2008/05/17/twitter-friendfeed-understanding-referral-traffic-arriving-at-a-business-model/ ====== berecruited What are you guys seeing (in rank) in terms of social sites referring: 1) twitter 2) ...
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Ask HN: What would you work on, if you had enough free time? - manx ====== malloreon As phrased, this is a nebulous question. If I had 'enough' free time, I'd find a way to make people pay the costs of their actions or choices, regardless of where they land in the social/economic hierarchy. Too many people who do bad...
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The SRE model at Google - kiyanwang https://medium.com/@rakyll/the-sre-model-6e19376ef986 ====== pm90 There's a book about it too: [https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/site- reliabil...](https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/site-reliability- engineering/9781491929117/) ~~~ icebraining It's availa...
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Query-Based Compiler Architectures - matt_d https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.html ====== sly010 I have some negative feelings about this trend (of increased integration in compilers), but I can't quite put my finger on the reason. Before the language server idea came along all compilers were p...
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CloudGrid.js by Pinterest - xethorn https://github.com/pinterest/cloudgrid ====== jmathai I wish there was a link to a live example. The repository comes with an example but I'd have to check out the repository to see it. Unless there's a trick to loading html files in a repo on Github to be rendered in the browser ...
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Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009) - Tomte http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549_pf.html ====== u801e Since 1998, the number of children who died of heatstroke in vehicles has been around 30 to 50 a year [1]. Before that, the number was ...
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PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer - wfunction https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/9aI5d-LDuNE ====== franciscop IMO it'd be a really smart move for Google to hire Vitaly to help with the launching of this feature and things around it. He has done a great job with PhantomJS. Even an _acquisition_ [1...
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Ninja VPN - joelpendleton Hey Guys, I&#x27;m creating a service which sells dedicated VPN servers. I have just opened it up for beta registration. It would be awesome if you could check it out. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;withninja.com&#x2F; ====== nikolay Clickable link: [https://withninja.com/](https://withninja.com/)
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Show HN: Personalize Romeo and Juliet or Pride and Prejudice - rhythmvs http://www.textusclassics.com/ ====== phaemon I think I've spotted a flaw in this cunning plan: _" For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Sam."_ Doesn't really work. Wait, clearly I've chosen the wrong name. I can fix t...
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Court to consider whether car dealers can sue to keep Tesla out of Mass - ilamont http://www.universalhub.com/2014/court-consider-whether-car-dealers-can-sue-keep ====== chrisBob I will be watching this closely, and I am going to start writing to my state representatives in case the court sides in the dealers' favor...
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Kubernetes cluster management for AWS? - amsha Is there any service that provides automated Kubernetes cluster management for AWS the way GKS does for Google Cloud?<p>If not, does anybody else want this? ====== dougireton Have you looked at kops? [https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started- guides/kops/](https://kube...
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Ask HN: All-in-one backend solution for your apps. Feedback? - asidiali Hi there HN,<p>I&#x27;m working on building an all-in-one backend platform for developers, startups, and agencies called Modelier (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modelier.io). Our goal is to streamline and automate API development<p>I love to use Node, Mongo, ...
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Ask HN: Whats the best book on your favorite programming language or topic? - techstrategist I’ve been enjoying Fluent Python and started looking for a nice book on SQLite, which made me wonder what great books there are in other areas that could help me be a more well-rounded developer. ====== throwaway124567 The Lit...
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Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information - ig1 http://www.ushahidi.com/ ====== ig1 actual example of an app they built: <http://drc.ushahidi.com/>
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Ask HN: ECommerce SaaS with VAT and customer groups - dewey I&#x27;m looking for a SaaS provider who offers the following features:<p>- Customer Groups (Regular, Wholesale) - Custom Domain - TLS&#x2F;https - Compliant with European tax rules - Multiple languages (German and English are a must) - Payment: Credit Card...
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What if Microsoft had done Windows 8 differently? (2013) - yuhong https://hal2020.com/2013/03/07/what-if-microsoft-had-done-windows-8-differently/ ====== yuhong "Consumer upgrades of Windows 7 systems to Windows Desktop 8 would probably be a bit more robust, but that was already a fairly insignificant business for Mic...
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Visual Studio, you're doing it wrong - madgnome http://evain.net/blog/articles/2012/02/27/visual-studio-youre-doing-it-wrong ====== powertower The post seems to be confusing .NET Framework with VS.NET plug-in api/framework. VS.NET is _the_ IDE you use for .NET programming. Nothing else even compares. Saying this.....
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A Saner Windows Command Line - japaget http://futurice.com/blog/a-saner-windows-command-line-part-1 ====== diego_moita To hear bash-people to call Powershell "non-intuitive" sounds like those immigrants that go to a foreign land, refuse to learn the local language and insist on the natives to understand their immigran...
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Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015) - maggit http://magnushoff.com/minesweeper/ ====== scrooched_moose The Simon Tatham version [1] is great because the puzzle generator eliminates situations that requires random guesses. 1) [https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/](https://www.chiark.greene...
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California Adopts Strictest Privacy Law in U.S. - LinuxBender https://threatpost.com/california-adopts-strictest-privacy-law-in-u-s/151497/ ====== throawayprivacy Once again California lawmakers paying lip service to constituents while walking on eggshells around their SV donors. Like the bogus Net Neutrality law they...
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Unintended behaviors in AI systems - rahuldottech https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml ====== srikanthsrnvs The reinforcement learning ones are SO common. When I worked on autonomous tech a while ago, I remember constant...
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Textrar: Introducing Tweets search/analysis and sharing - okeumeni http://www.textrar.com/APIX/SPage.aspx?apk=f9781064-d862-4ea0-8016-c08b34e50e4e ====== okeumeni The Idea is to provide a platform where all your tweets can be data mined and regularly update for searching, trend analysis and sharing. Off course twitt...
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Show HN: Vigènere Cipher with Emojis - jolux http://benklebe.github.io/crypto/ ====== jkxyz Neat! As a note: looks like it's converting the key to lower case for encrypting but not decrypting (or vice versa), so using a key with any capital letters in it won't decrypt to the original encrypted input.
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Scrum Anti-Patterns - jetheredge https://www.simplethread.com/scrum-anti-patterns/ ====== dondenoncourt I like being agile (or having agility) agile is a verb not a noun. I like this post as it points out Scrum Anti-patterns that are all too common with the practice of not-so-nimble Agile. ------ flavio81 Good articl...
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A startup's best friend? Failure - Elfan http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401031/?postversion=2007022807 ====== Elfan When posting this I managed to create a state where the title was displayed as "A startup's best friend? FailureA startup's best friend? Failure" but if I clicked ...
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