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Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Hammered - jacinda http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/upshot/why-workers-without-much-education-are-being-hammered.html ====== blfr The article doesn't mention immigration even in passing. Sure, there's globalization and improvements in technology but there are also...
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'We are all Thomas More’s children’ – 500 years of Utopia - Hooke https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/04/thomas-more-utopia-500-years-china-mieville-ursula-le-guin ====== IslaDeEncanta Utopian socialism's failures are the reason Marxism came about as a structured, disciplined critique of class society. Idealism...
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AWDwR3 Beta 7 - davidw http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2008/12/26/AWDwR3-Beta-7 ====== davidw I thought this was interesting because it shows how quickly Rails hurtles forward.
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Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight - raju http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10034365-92.html ====== icey I guess the author's spell check doesn't work for JIT-ed (the article kept saying "jittered")
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New Star Trek Series Makes Massive Science Blunder - wslh https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/10/30/new-star-trek-series-makes-massive-science-blunder/#5372b7881b37 ====== DrScump [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585924](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585924) ------ flukus We need to stop ...
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Pownce vs Digg: Who Will Kevin Rose Back? - nickb http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/24/pownce-vs-digg-who-will-kevin-rose-back/ ====== stillmotion I felt like Kevin's role into Pownce was a little superficial. Understanding that he has no programming skills, and Leah developed the concept herself, it is almost like Ke...
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Show HN: Test refactored code in python easily - nerandell https://github.com/nerandell/seamus ====== cjhanks As long as your function is idempotent, I suppose.
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BitCoin and International Crime - canweriotnow http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-bitcoin-20131125,0,3265347.story ====== lukeqsee "Stop Bitcoin. Save the children (and rhinos, too, while you're at it)!" When will we learn that money and systems (especially X new technology) aren't the issue (or th...
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Monzo Launches Monzo Plus - rvz https://monzo.com/i/monzo-plus ====== mytailorisrich Virtual cards might a useful feature (or not) but is it worth £5 a month?
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I wonder if China managed to steal Google's ssl certificates? - blackswan http://friendfeed.com/paul/cae98f58/i-wonder-if-china-managed-to-steal-google-ssl ====== rit No, they couldn't decrypt anything. They'd need the private keys. And the passwords for the private keys.
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Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email - randomname2 https://www.thefire.org/yale-students-demand-resignations-from-faculty-members-over-halloween-email/ ====== eximius Some telling quotes: "...one student who, in a Yale Herald piece published today, criticized the invitation and ...
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Linux-insides: System calls in the Linux kernel, Part 2 - 0xAX https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SysCall/syscall-2.md ====== amluto I'm in the process of rewriting basically all of the 32-bit syscall code and a decent amount of the 64-bit code. Enjoy! ~~~ Someone 1\. Why? 2\. (How) will you keep th...
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Dropbox is my publish button, too. (Nginx + Dropbox = easy publishing) - inportb http://dl.inportb.com/dropbox/ ====== sixtofour I can be convinced otherwise, but this doesn't seem to be within the spirit of my free agreement with Dropbox. It's as if I took my host's invitation to "make myself at home" literally, an...
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how should I chain function call in coffeescript - hbbio http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10204281/how-should-i-chain-function-call-in-coffeescript ====== sil3ntmac I like coffeescript. Lots of web devs that write ruby all day like coffeescript. tbh I think coffeescript is worth it just to never have to write "fun...
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Show HN: Bitdeli, a scripting platform for real-time data - juriga Hi fellow HNers,<p>We just opened up Bitdeli for free public beta at<p>https://bitdeli.com<p>Bitdeli allows you to process real-time data with plain Python scripts and access the results over a friendly HTTP API.<p>You can use it to create live visua...
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A linguistics tool to help you simplify your writing - kamran20 https://foxtype.com/concise ====== kerkeslager In theory this is a great idea, but not a single implementation I've seen fits my needs. I'm not going to use a writing tool that requires me to change my entire workflow. This (and every other tool I've see...
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Cyborg Beetles with Remote Control - nkurz http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22111 ====== nkurz Ethically and scientifically, this seems stunning: a radio receiver is attached to a live beetle, with probes inserted capable of flight instruction. And these are inserted in a pupal phase, so as to not be visi...
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Show HN: JSON pretty print with modern user interface and ssl - yadakhov https://jsonprettyprint.org? ====== stephenr So this is basically `python -m json.tool` via a browser right? Still not sure I understand the purpose of all these single use sites that replicate functionality already present on most developer mac...
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London's Tulip tower 'could confuse air traffic control systems' - AnatMl2 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/28/london-tulip-tower-norman-foster-air-traffic-control-systems ====== zimpenfish The sad thing is that with London's urban planning committees having apparently taken all leave of their aesthet...
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How do you manage programming burnout? - madhadron I went to a colleague today and asked, pointing at my head, "What do you do when you've got the singed feeling?" He knew exactly what I meant, but neither of us had ever talked about it before. I don't know anyone who has written about it. Am I missing a whole field o...
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‘We have a fire in the cockpit!’: the Apollo 1 disaster 50 years later - Hooke https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/26/50-years-ago-three-astronauts-died-in-the-apollo-1-fire/ ====== SmellyGeekBoy I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Ars Technica story that was on the front page a coupl...
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Hitch: Scalable TLS termination proxy - jjoe https://hitch-tls.org ====== mwpmaybe I'm definitely interested in this if for no other reason than Varnish is a particular nice piece of software. I would like to see a detailed feature and performance comparison between Hitch and HAproxy but I can't seem to find one. If o...
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Open for discussion: PDF as HTML-replacement - albertzeyer While browsing with Chrome and displaying a few random PDFs with its very fast and nice built-in PDF-viewer, I had these thoughts:<p>* It looks so much cleaner and better than many HTML pages.<p>* It looks consistent and everywhere the same.<p>* It loads fas...
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DuckDuckGo ups content farm banning by promoting wikiHow in 0-click - epi0Bauqu http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2011/02/04/duckduckgo-follows-content-farm-banning-with-promoting-wikihow-content ====== jdp23 DuckDuckGo continues to impress. And sometimes editorial decisions are better than algorithms: since most us...
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Coinlab (Y Combinator funded) sues MtGox - dcc1 http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1dl6uz/coinlab_sues_mtgox/ Coinlab (Ycombinator funded) sues MtGox ====== ewoodrich My understanding is that Coinlab (in the best case) was only able to handle a very limited number of number of daily transactions. This was presu...
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Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? - edw519 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_a_perfect_storm_forming_for_distributed_social_networking.php ====== anigbrowl Quite likely, though not for the exact reasons the author thinks. I have this theory that while some sites trade on content (th...
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InstallMonetizer (YC W12) is officially closed - tainstallmon http://www.installmonetizer.com/ ====== josh_carterPDX Can you discuss what happen? Why did you chose to close down?
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Agate: A Data Analysis Library for Journalists - benderbending https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-agate/ ====== minimaxir It's worth noting that for journalists, analyzing data is only half the battle. Sites like FiveThirtyEight and The Economist usually have separate graphics departments who use ...
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A space elevator to the moon could be doable – and surprisingly cheap - RickJWagner https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/space-elevator-moon-could-be-doable-surprisingly-cheap-ncna1051496 ====== rwmj I think a better link might be the paper: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.09339.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.09339.pdf) ...
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Lessons from Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Aids Disinformation Campaign - anarbadalov https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/operation-denver-kgb-aids-disinformation-campaign/ ====== brandmeyer Title nit: "Aids" should be "AIDS" ~~~ anarbadalov it was! no idea how it got changed to "Aids" ~~~ 8ytecoder Aids is not wrong...
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Diy.js JavaScript library - Touche http://diy.lab.io/ ====== poopy_pants JavaScript without jQuery is a thing. We get it. ------ patricklorio I love it.
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China's Social Credit System seeks to assign scores, engineer social behaviour - clouddrover http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-punishes-untrustworthy-citizens/9596204 ====== danzig13 Terrifying. As much as anything, because I could see how it could be justified. How awesome would it be ...
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iPads &lt; teachers - bootload https://medium.com/bright/ipads-teachers-e51896af3930 ====== jvickers In my experience, the quality variance with teachers is much higher than with iPads. iPads have never had the attitude problems that some teachers have had (except some Siri edge cases perhaps). ------ sjwright The he...
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Tesla tells Germany that 98% of drivers don't find 'autopilot' misleading - sndean http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-germany/ ====== midgetjones As long as you're not on the autobahn with one of the 2%, you'll be fine! ------ mhd They surveyed existing car owners. _After_ the news stories?
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Linqit – forget about python lists - bluehat1 https://github.com/avilum/linqit ====== geoalchimista For the example teenagers = people.where(lambda p: 20 >= p.age >= 13) I prefer the good ol' Pythonic way teenagers = filter(lambda p: 13 <= p.age <= 20, people) because ...
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Leaving it behind - joakin http://chimeces.com/post/leaving-it-behind/ ====== joakin Hi, this is my article. I am not really sure if it is allowed/correct to self submit the writing, but I wanted to try. I tackled the human side of leaving a long time job, without talking about the reasons or my future projects. Be...
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Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts - rishabhd http://www.smh.com.au/world/fury-in-cambodia-as-us-asks-to-be-paid-back-hundreds-of-millions-in-war-debts-20170311-guvxyp.html ====== danyim It's a shame that America (and possibly other first world countries) punish developing co...
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Online Shoppers Are Rooting for the Little Guy - Not Amazon - liuwei6 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/business/some-shoppers-rebel-against-giant-web-retailers.html ====== res0nat0r Unfortunately I think this will only always be a small percentage of shoppers. The lowest overall price + convenience trumps all for m...
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Angular 2: “5 min quickstart” - medvednikov https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/quickstart.html ====== InfiniteGraviti For what?
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Show HN: I made an app that listens for a rapper's songs and raps along in sync - skattyadz http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/02/05/tinie-tempahs-new-app-helps-lip-sync-along-latest-album/#!us2Xz ====== JustResign Do you know that many (terrestrial) radio stations do not play songs at their exact recorded speed? Most...
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Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 is out -- major improvements for Mac users - dons http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/?2011.2.0.1 ====== lepht I've been tooling around with Haskell for a few months now, and since the beginning I've been impressed with the incredible amount of polish that goes into the official distribut...
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Wells Fargo double charged everyone on their bill pays today - Leustad Happened everyone today. If you have a bill payment which paid yesterday, processed today and will be sent tomorrow, I&#x27;d say go check your account. Mine and my wife&#x27;s account along with a lot of people got double charged today. We&#x27;ve...
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How scientists taught monkeys the concept of money - sidwyn http://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/ ====== sharkbot The name Marc Hauser piqued my interest. He has been accused of scientific misconduct [1], and his rese...
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Indentation-Based Racket Syntax with Macros and Infix Operators - tonyg https://github.com/tonyg/racket-something ====== tonyg It's experimental, but supports things like the interactive shell I mentioned in this comment: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16879995](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16879995) E...
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Who killed Nokia? Nokia did - chmars http://alumnimagazine.insead.edu/who-killed-nokia-nokia-did/ ====== trm42 Nokia had long term plan which looked promising: They bought first Trolltech for QT and after that started doing Meego* (albeit too slowly) but the idea was to have one development platform for all their new ...
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Hulu Profitable? Please - jmorin007 http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/hulu-profitable-please ====== run4yourlives _> Gross profit does not include the costs of selling advertising (10% of sales), marketing, product development (Hulu's platform), or management or administration salaries_ Sorry, what? Is this some ne...
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Show HN: ML data annotations and tagging made easy - mohi13 https://dataturks.com/datalicious.php ====== syllogism What's your policy on data ownership once the data (and annotations) have been sent to you? Do you reserve the right to keep and use the data that's sent to you? Your privacy policy page only talks about ...
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Ask HN: What has been your experience with InfluxDB in production? - rd22 I am looking for a timeseries DB for IoT data and InfluxDB seems to have a lot of chatter. However, when I did deeper I see that the OSS version is not distributed. So, I am looking for experiences from people how are you scaling Influx clusters...
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The Future Isn't What It Used to Be ... So Change It - urbangangster http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140204211441-2293140-the-future-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be-so-change-it ====== getglue Good article
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Save Bistro Elan - revorad http://paulgraham.com/saveelan.html ====== thaumaturgy ...wait, you mean cool startups that are getting lots of help & attention & funding actually need a place to eat? Gee, it's a shame nobody's as interested in providing support to _those_ businesses (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Clojure 2015 Year in Review - andrioni http://stuartsierra.com/2015/12/31/clojure-2015-year-in-review ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821493](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821493).
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Is It Immoral to Not Block Ads? - ingve http://oleb.net/blog/2015/08/is-it-immoral-to-not-block-ads/ ====== aburan28 "But, the argument goes, isn’t ad blocking the new stealing? " No. No. No. Advertisers are the real thieves stealing your data and personal information all for the sole purpose of targeted advertising...
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Ask HN: How many vetted users does Hacker News have now? - kempbellt I&#x27;m curious how many users are on here now, that are above the karma threshold. Similarly, are there metrics posted anywhere with HN stats? ====== grugagag Some users have posted in 2,3 to 7-8 years. Does this count? Do you mean to ask active us...
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Asynctasks – introduce vscode's build/task system to vim - skywind3000 As vim 8.0 released in 2017, we have got many wonderful plugins like: LSP, DAP and asynchronous linters. Even things like vimspector which could only been imagined in emacs in the past, now become reality in vim.<p>But vim is still lack of an eleg...
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How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress - beriboy https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-software-to-recognize-members-of-congress-29b46dd426c7 ====== davidkuhta The example made me lol: "Mitch McConnell (red, almost certainly - confidence = 100.0) On that note, they could ...
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Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix - Merad https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/12556-google-says-spectre-and-meltdown-are-too-difficult-to-fix.html ====== guiambros The conclusion is beautifully scary: _" Computer systems have become massively complex in pursuit of the seemingly nu...
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Ask HN: Are you happy with product search? - ComNik While trying to buy a new phone online, I suddenly realized how much I dislike product search.<p>I'll get autocomplete and recommendations, and I'll most certainly end up with a nice list of products to choose from, but I find it very hard to make a final decision ...
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Brexit multiplied the number of Finnish travelers to London - velmu http://metropolitan.fi/entry/brexit-multiplied-the-number-of-finnish-travelers-to-london ====== aspratley It was also the week that a lot of Finns start their summer holidays so presumably a seasonal expectation as well. I'm sure a weak pound plays a ...
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U.S. Losing the World's Biggest Manufacturing Race: Electric Vehicles - jseliger https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulbledsoe/2019/04/08/america-is-losing-the-worlds-biggest-manufacturing-and-climate-race-electric-vehicles/#3d9a2da111e1 ====== woodandsteel This article has it exactly right. The EV revolution is about to h...
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Ask HN: How often you overtime over weekends? - groomed ====== detaro Extremely seldom, and only out of my own choice (e.g. because I know I want to work less hours the next week) ------ rorykoehler I did it once in the last 3 years and it was worth ~$1m to my company. ~~~ groomed You caused a downtime :)? ------ ro...
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Stop Asking Me Math Puzzles to Figure Out If I Can Code (2013) - juancampa https://countaleph.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/ ====== combatentropy I agree. I've coded for more than a dozen years, and the most advanced math I ever had to use was modular arithmetic --- which is actually quite simple. I call it advanced becaus...
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Ask HN: Where to find resources on population simulation? - windsurfer I'd like to try my hand on making a world population game similar to Pandemic[1], but with more realism and a much nicer interface using more modern web technologies. My background is more focused on the interface side of things, but I'm not afra...
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New Gel Coatings May Lead to Better Catheters and Condoms - QAPereo http://news.mit.edu/2017/new-gel-coatings-better-catheters-condoms-0718 ====== dekhn this groups releases a press release every few years touting their product, and saying it's going to be in everything. So far, I don't think there are any products th...
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Researchers propose a way to build the first space-time crystal - Zenst http://phys.org/news/2012-09-clock-space-time-crystal.html ====== kibwen Very interesting, I didn't realize if was possible for _anything_ to survive the heat death of the universe. The answer to my immediate question: _"'While a space-time cr...
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Can you tell how many sections are inside a citrus without cutting it open? - nickb http://www.krampf.com/experiments/Science_Experiment4.html ====== ubudesign how to tell how much javascript errors are in a page without seeing the source code? type javascirpt: in your browsers address :)
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Apple has a gajillion dollars. Devs still have to pay $100. - BryanLunduke http://lunduke.com/?p=2301 ====== bluedevil2k There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store, most of which are terrible. Imagine how many would be in there if there was no $100 fee. ~~~ vibrunazo Shouldn't better search or discovery...
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Everyone Wants Facebook's Libra to Be Regulated. But How? - rblion https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-wants-facebooks-libra-regulated-but-how/ ====== whenchamenia Its not that we want regulation, we just don't want ZuckBucks. At all.
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Show HN: SQL Teaching – Codecademy for SQL - rhc2104 http://www.sqlteaching.com/ ====== krat0sprakhar As a backend developer, I've been increasingly trying to reduce my reliance on ORMs and instead focus on writing SQL. Owing to my poor SQL chops, I spent a couple of weeks working through @danso's data journalism co...
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Ask HN: How to tell X years of experience vs. one year X times? - BossingAround ====== stevenalowe Ask what they’ve learned
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Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible (2018) - rutenspitz http://cowlark.com/2018-03-18-z80-arithmetic/index.html ====== flohofwoe I don't think the 8-bit CPU instruction sets were designed with code- generation for high-level languages in mind, but to make it easier to write assembly by hand. And each 8-bit CPU...
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Transfer Jet: 375 Mb/s wireless connection - tsally http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/transfer-jet-ready-for-its-close-up/ ====== blasdel But can the peripheral device read data from it's mediocre SD card at anywhere near that rate? ------ tsally Link to video: [http://crackle.com/c/Blogs_and_Podcasts/Trans...
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Dear future pressfriendly engineer - joelandren dear future pressfriendly engineer,<p>so it&#x27;s xmas eve and i&#x27;m lying on the couch, got my feet up and am on my third finger of scotch. my wife and i put the kids to sleep a few hours ago and wrapped some presents. i&#x27;m excited about the air hockey table, ...
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Ask HN: What's your favourite API? - dholowiski What web API do you find the most useful? Which one provides really good information or allows you to make amazing things happen? ====== pdenya Stripe and Mailgun and Twitter are some of the best documented, clearest to use APIs. The Google Maps API i can usually get co...
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When designers code: Dots - a game about connecting - paulbz http://blog.betaworks.com/post/49362721037/dots-a-game-about-connecting ====== j2kun Oh great. Another iOS only app. Would be a better article if maybe they described what you do in the game.
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Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets - coloneltcb https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/alphabet-s-waymo-sues-uber-for-stealing-self-driving-patents?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social ====== cholli...
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Oregon Blogger Isn't a Journalist, Court Imposes $2.5M Judgement - privacyguru http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/12/crystal_cox_oregon_blogger_isn.php ====== kevinalexbrown The article (which rightfully provides the original decision) ignores the subsequent paragraph: _Second, even if she were otherwis...
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Show HN: Screen Recording on Cloud - zafergurel http://getone.video ====== snowpanda This is really great! One suggestion, maybe offer an advanced option where you can input css/html elements that you want the browser to click on. ~~~ zafergurel Thank you. That would be a nice feature. I'll look into that :).
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Smuglispweeny: COBOL has Macros? - blasdel http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenny-and-firing-squad-episode-ii-cobol.html ====== Hexstream That's pretty incomprehensible. The high number of non-sequitur overshadows the main point... whatever it is. I couldn't read through to the end.
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Apple Poaching Auto Engineers to Build Battery Division - antr http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/02/18/business/18reuters-apple-autos-lawsuit.html?ref=business&_r=0 ====== tessierashpool What if the whole deal behind all of this media stuff is just that mainstream journalists have figured out that iOS requires softw...
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Show HN: Operos – hyperscaler-grade infrastructure for everyone - dddchk https://www.paxautoma.com/operos/ ====== dddchk Operos is a Linux-based operating system that brings hyperscaler-grade infrastructure automation to organizations of all sizes: scheduled containers, software defined networking, and converged stora...
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Heat Emission 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly - pwg http://news.discovery.com/space/new-evidence-fingers-heat-as-culprit-for-pioneer-anomaly-110725.html ====== ColinWright Old "news" - submitted several time in the past, the most recent being this: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2787120> Here are some...
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How Twitter Can be Corrosive to Marketing Efforts - fallentimes http://www.seobook.com/how-twitter-can-be-corrossive-marketing-efforts ====== onreact-com You have to make sure your blog and/or static website gets some exposure and Twitter is not your number one channel of spreading your message. Then Twitter works w...
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Show HN: Happierco – Employee-Centric Performance Management Solution - sorich87 https://www.happierco.com ====== sorich87 Hi HN, I’m Ulrich, co-founder of Happierco. We’re building the first employee-centric performance management solution. We help our users turn their company culture into a competitive advantage b...
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Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation - ptbello http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa ====== rfnslyr " _Before letting him go, they seized numerous possessions of his, including his laptop, his cellphone, various video game consoles, DVDs, USB sticks, and...
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How many social media users are real people? - nixtaken https://gizmodo.com/how-many-social-media-users-are-real-people-1826447042 ====== thephyber It's important to understand that "bots" is a large variety of automation levels, just as "self-driving car" has 5 levels spanning from "cruise control" to "full automatio...
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How to Suck at Branding - feint http://feint.me/2010/05/how-to-suck-at-branding/ ====== ThomPete Actually most branding experts don't fall into those traps. They do however fall into the trap of thinking that you can actively brand something, just as you do with cattle. At the end of the day, your brand reflect _e...
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Benchmarking shared memory vs message passing on OS X - invalid_name http://blog.antoniofrighetto.com/ipc ====== fenollp > I have done multiple tests and then took an average, don't know how much > these results can be reliable (since to get statistics more plausible we > perhaps should have allocated much more memory...
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Amazon to remove stack ranking - brad0 http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-hunger-games-employee-review-process-change-2016-11?r=US&IR=T ====== cableshaft About time. I can't believe any tech company, which requires collaboration and cooperation amongst employees in order to make software, could implement a system th...
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Ask HN: Why won't your company hire remote workers? Why not work in an office? - JoeCortopassi This last set of "Who's Hiring?"[1] and "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancers?"[2] threads made me realize that there are two main groups that <i>can</i> help each other, but decidedly <i>won't</i>. It seems there is a large gr...
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When Goodharting Is Optimal - laurex https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/megKzKKsoecdYqwb7 ====== comex This is just a demonstration of how naively optimizing the expected value is not actually "optimal" in general. There are two fundamental strategies for the robot. One is to stay on L forever, and have a 50.1% chance o...
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PeerTube, a libre federated video streaming platform - buovjaga https://medium.com/@chocobozzz/peertube-a-federated-video-streaming-platform-fa90e6c503df ====== craftyguy Here's the website: [https://joinpeertube.org/en/home/](https://joinpeertube.org/en/home/) And project page: [https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTub...
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New Intel Supercomputer - kiddz https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-department-of-energy-aurora-first-exascale-supercomputer-2019-3 ====== kiddz Anyone know how long it takes for your general $2000 laptop to have the power of a past super computer?
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Ask HN: Easy Real Estate Investments = Oxymoron? - bmcd Have any of you purchased real estate solely for the passive income? And how did you go about it? I have a contact that sells turnkey rentals and some cash saved up but I want to get opinions&#x2F;stories before I go any further. ====== codegeek "real estate ...
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What are the best digital marketing channels? - Hashmimart ====== sharemywin wide open question? "best" cheapest? based on size of budget? best ROI? easiest to manage? current customers versus new customers? marketing goal? Direct response versus branding? what kind of product?
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Pornhub is giving away free premium membership in Italy - harrydry https://twitter.com/GoodMarketingHQ/status/1238093695011958784 ====== Fjolsvith Time to set the VPN exit to an Italian city.
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Ask HN: Good newsletters/blog to sponsor? - bryanmgreen My company is interested in the tech community and we&#x27;d like to sponsor or advertise in some good blogs&#x2F;newsletters.<p>What are your favorites that might be open to this?<p>Thanks! ====== mtmail Pretty much what [http://upstart.me/](http://upstart.me/) ...
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Differential Cryptanalysis of GOST [pdf] - tetrep http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/626.pdf ====== TheLoneWolfling TL;DR: > We obtain some 50 distinct attacks faster than brute force on the full > 32-round GOST and we provide five nearly practical attacks on two major > 128-bit variants of GOST ------ etep Usually state...
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Show HN: BackYourStack – Support your open source dependencies - znarfor https://backyourstack.com/ ====== znarfor Hi, I'm François, an engineer at Open Collective and this is one of my first projects there. When I joined Open Collective, I was excited to see so many great Open Source projects (like Babel, Webpack, e...
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Eric Schmidt exited as a technical advisor at Alphabet in February - elsewhen https://www.cnet.com/news/eric-schmidt-who-led-googles-transformation-into-a-tech-giant-has-left-the-company/ ====== lowdose Schmidt's comments about China made a tremendous u-turn a couple of years back. At that time he was already talking ...
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Facebook Starts Using a Friend Recommendations Engine - nickb http://mashable.com/2008/06/04/facebook-friend-suggestor/ ====== aneesh What's next, "suggested wall posts"? We think this is what you want to comment on this photo - click OK to make the comment. I'm fine with (and actually like) the "People we think you ...
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