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Why do browsers not allow non-readable javascript? - IanMechura As more processing moves to the client side, would it not helpful to allow site admins to protect the source code in their Javascript?<p>Perhaps by encrypting the Javascript files and providing a mechanism for them to be decrypted by the browser interna...
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How To Tell A Story - bootload http://seantells.net/2009/03/22/how-to-tell-a-story/ ====== bootload Haven't seen many links on pitching or creating a story. The best story is demonstrating. But at some point before a product you have to tell a story of what you want to build.
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The Pernicious Myth that You Don't Need College to Be an Entrepreneur - tokenadult http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/09/the-pernicious-myth-that-you-d.html ====== tokenizer >""He tells the story of a high school teacher whose students confronted him with the same question: "Why do we need to learn this?"...
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Ask HN: Why has nobody pushed for a consumer side CC processing solution? - mntwiddler I live in the Midwest and will readily admit that I am WAY out of the loop of the valley but...<p>I LOVE buying things online. In fact I love it so much that I do it probably 1-2 times a week. I buy books, clothes, random gadge...
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Does anyone know when Stripe will be in the UK? - alopes Thanks. ====== alinajaf It is. Bug them on twitter and they'll invite you to the beta. ~~~ mooism2 Follow-up question: when is Stripe going to be out of beta in the UK?
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The Fastest Way to Connect to an API with JavaScript - fehguy http://developers-blog.helloreverb.com/the-fastest-way-to-connect-to-an-api-with-javascript/ ====== fehguy swagger-js uses the shred library ([https://github.com/automatthew/shred](https://github.com/automatthew/shred)) under the hood so HTTP connections ...
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A Stanford professor claims to have invented a better Bitcoin-like system - elmar http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536641/a-new-competitor-for-bitcoin-aims-to-be-faster-and-safer/ ====== cozzyd Not quite as seminal as one of his previous papers [0], but based only on taking his operating systems class, I have h...
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Petition: Obama, Stand Up for Strong Security No Secret Backdoors in Our Tech - ycitera https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff ====== Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 This is one of the stupidest proposals I've ever seen. 1\. The president has made it plenty clear with his actions that he's in favor of strengthening the current programs, not ...
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Show HN: Let AI write your first draft on any article topic - ptrenko Writing an article when you start from a blank sheet is incredibly difficult.<p>Quillfore uses AI to write multiple views for a topic. Just copy and edit the text to match your vision. Also the content is completely unique!<p>Video Demo: https:&#x2F...
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Ask HN: How do you concentrate? - bgray Recently, I've found my concentration is becoming increasingly bad. I blame this mainly on co-workers and the internet keeping me from things that I need to get done (it's hard to program when I can only keep focus for about 10 minutes at a time).<p>What are tips/tricks you use...
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The Things We Carry - jpm_sd http://www.hillarypredko.com/kipple/1-the-things-we-carry/ ====== rhn_mk1 I share the author's concern about kipple, although I came to the same conclusion from a different starting point. It's very difficult to jump off the train of kipple. On one hand, it's hard to make unwanted items u...
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Universal copy/paste in Linux - burrows http://burrows.svbtle.com/universal-copy-paste-in-linux ====== sandGorgon @burrows - thank you for this ! Copy paste has been so much a pain that it is the single biggest reason for me to consider a Mac. I am envious of the mac people who copy paste effortlessly from a gvim sess...
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Ask HN: How important is university ranking to CS PhD graduate opportunities? - anon_phd If you were hiring for a post-doc or commercial research position, would you consider a candidate with a PhD from a lower ranked program/university if they were otherwise a strong candidate?<p>In other words, would a Stanford (1...
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Facebook funds institute “to advance ethical research on new technology” - mindgam3 https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/stung-by-criticism-facebooks-sandberg-outlines-new-plans-to-tackle-misinformation/ ====== mindgam3 Unfortunately, this is actual news, not an Onion article. “The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Int...
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Daily Routines: How interesting people organize their day. - azharcs http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/ ====== sevib You can't underestimate the value of routine if you want to progress with the things you do. The more you do, the tighter your routine has to be. It's something I am constantly fighting with: trying to e...
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Programmers slam Google for Chrome's 'insane password security' - tankenmate http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/programmers-slam-google-for-chromes-insane-password-security-8750471.html ====== ColinWright The same story has been submitted multiple times, from several sources. For example: ...
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Google search results getting worse - userbinator https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/jdI4HV81Ugk ====== ohiovr It is kind of annoying that pi.hole blocks access to google ads in search results now that there are more ads than organic results. I'm not giving up pi.hole though.
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What I’ve Learned After Three Months of Coding (Almost) Daily - rbanffy https://dev.to/shnsbrn/what-ive-learned-after-three-months-of-coding-almost-daily ====== Koshkin The post is about coding as a social activity.
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Ask HN: No more than 3 articles on a topic on homepage - jusben1369 Is it fair to ask moderators to keep it to say 3 or 4 articles at the most on the home page about a single topic? I feel like when a major event happens HN becomes overwhelmed on a single topic to the detriment of representing a broader array of cur...
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New Online Java Compiler, Launcher and Publisher - dremmen http://www.browxy.com New online compiler and launcher for java console applications and applets. Users can save the code and also get a public link to paste it on forums. After you have your program compiled you can publish it to a public URL so it can be us...
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Ask HN: Has Y Combinator ever accepted sibling founders? - chirau ====== subie Stripe Irish entrepreneurs John and Patrick Collison founded Stripe in 2010 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_\(company\)) ------ mitchellst Homejoy. Adora and Aaron Cheung.
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Where else can you show new products other than HN and Product Hunt? - duckwithmuscles ====== mtmail I've seen lists like [https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup](https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup) but I wonder if those pages aren't frequented by other startup founders, thus not necessarily...
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Too many files: Reiser FS vs hashed paths - nickb http://ygingras.net/b/2007/12/too-many-files:-reiser-fs-vs-hashed-paths ====== bayareaguy FreeDup (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89078>) can work better than either of these when you have lots of small files which are rarely updated.
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Nuclear Effects Calculator - caf http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/02/03/presenting-nukemap/ ====== simonsarris Very sobering. This reminds me of a story back from 2003 called "Villages in Germany are three kilotons apart." It puts an even more sobering perspective on the bombs. [http://everything2.com/title/Villa...
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Projects: hijack (Hijacking the iPhone earphone jack) - dholowiski http://eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/ ====== nihilocrat Pheh, they forgot the best application ever: iPhone-controlled vibrator: <http://www.ohmibod.com/bodyheat/> I was at a presentation by the app's creator, apparently the hardware was alr...
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Inspire Yourself: 58 Creative Logos - dawie http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/13/inspire-yourself-58-creative-logos/ ====== pg Creative? The striking thing to me is how similar they all seem. Except Jamglue of course... ~~~ danielha Most of these are clean, but I'm curious to know what some were thinking when c...
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Book Review: The Lomborg Deception - sleepingbot http://www.newsweek.com/id/233942? ====== Luyt And Lomborg's response, debunking Howard Friel’s claims in return, is here: [http://www.lomborg.com/dyn/files/basic_items/118-file/BL%20r...](http://www.lomborg.com/dyn/files/basic_items/118-file/BL%20reply%20to%20Howard%...
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Ask HN: What Mailing lists, Google Groups, IRC Channels etc. do you frequent? - thesash ====== teja1990 For IRC channels <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3126728>
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Ask HN: Would you like to be part of a “new DMOZ”? - sebst As AOL is closing DMOZ, some people would like to create a new version - open, independent and more adapted to the internet of today.<p>To combine effort, I would like to bring together those people.<p>Would you be interested in helping making a &quot;new DMOZ...
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Nerd pyrotechnics: a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of Merriam-Webster - Vigier http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/mw-merriam-webster/ ====== deerpig I look foward to reding this. Writing dictionaries is the polar opposite of Silicon Valley startups. There is no fame (but there are heros) certainly no fort...
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Musicovery: interactive webRadio - alex_c http://musicovery.com ====== alex_c I just stumbled upon this, and I'm posting it here for 2 reasons: 1) A lot of people like to listen to music when they're coding, and this definitely does the job 2) I think it's an excellent example of something that "just works". I'm i...
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Hard Lessons For Entrepreneurs - Why We Fail - socalsamba http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/hard-lessons-for-entrepreneurs/ ====== zkinion This is a very nice article; I was surprised. Too many people out there are depending on some crazy stuff to happen. ~~~ sabat I had the opposite reaction: a negative article ma...
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Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise - abhi3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36255749 ====== elgabogringo [http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/headlines...](http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/headlines- exaggerated-climate-link-to-sinking-of-pacific-islands) "Report’...
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Tit Stare – We wish to apologise - jaredsohn https://www.facebook.com/titstare/posts/566491406741701 ====== hayksaakian So they admit that they were childish? What a stupid setback for "risque" apps and sites. The Adult industry is just as legitimate as any industry, from the point of view of a business. The best...
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Nuclear power station incident in Ontario Canada - lightwin https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/mobile/alert-about-pickering-nuclear-generating-station-sent-by-mistake-1.4763687 ====== Scoundreller False alarm. ~~~ ksaj It will be interesting to see the repercussions of this. A lot of people woke up to ~2 hours of what was pr...
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Microsoft Surface Keynote [Video] - Toph http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCmudUDv3GA ====== Toph Not quite blue screen of death but damn tablet failed during demo...
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Uber is moving its self-driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona - arikr http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/22/14062926/uber-self-driving-car-move-arizona-san-francisco-dmv ====== fabian2k Uber's almost pathological aversion to any form of regulation doesn't inspire confidence. The requirements in this case seem very r...
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Warning: Pokemon GO Is a Death Sentence If You Are a Black Man - eamann https://medium.com/mobile-lifestyle/warning-pokemon-go-is-a-death-sentence-if-you-are-a-black-man-acacb4bdae7f#.vbe27ytlo ====== smt88 There is a good point made here (that black people are unwelcome in many desirable spaces and that Pokemon GO ma...
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Samsung's Dex Turns the Galaxy S8 into a PC - kartickv http://www.techradar.com/reviews/samsung-dex ====== kartickv I think it's only a matter of time before phones replace PCs for the majority of users. The hardware is certainly powerful, with 4GB RAM and a fast processor. I remember using a Windows 3.1 machine with...
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Comic Con Tunisia: Where cosplay and conscience collide - jackgavigan http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/comic-con-cosplay-tunisia-gaming-david-mack-freedom-2011582376 ====== curiousgal It is heartwarming watching Tunisia's transition into an actual beacon of hope for the Arab world. ------ jgrahamc This ...
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Ask HN: What do you want, and why? - photon_off I'm curious as to what HN'ers want, why they want those things, and how they decided to want those things. Same goes for not want.<p>Personally, I find these questions difficult to answer and frequently occurring. ====== tryitnow Honestly, I want to stop spending so ...
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What if Zuck invented the web? - idiginous http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/05/15/whatIfZuckInventedTheWeb.html ====== samatman If Zuck had invented the web... It would look a lot like AOL. Huge, proprietary, popular with the public, overvaluated in the market, and fatally committed to platform over protocol. R...
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Show HN: Tidyfork – Cleanup old forks and starred repos - DigitalSea https://tidyfork.com/ ====== DigitalSea Hi Hn, I actually built this three years ago, but ended up not really doing anything with it and it kind of just sat there for a while. I recently decided to rewrite it with Aurelia 2 and release it again, mor...
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The Future is not Real-Time - endtwist http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/29796275100/the-future-is-not-real-time ====== veidr I agree that the The Future is not Real-Time, but I don't really think these are new phenomena (neither real-time technologies, nor the fact that they aren't The Future). It's probably mostly j...
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Eating fast food linked to infertility - spking https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-fertility-fast-food/eating-fast-food-linked-to-infertility-idUSKBN1IA33B ====== tomhoward Which do we think is more likely? a) Choosing to eat too much junk food causes hormone imbalances that increase the chance of infertility;...
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Ask HN: How would you invest $100,000 right now? - askhnadvice If you had $100,000 in the bank right now and wanted to invest all of it, how would you do it?<p>This is open ended, up to you whether it would be a long term or short term investment, I'm just curious what you would do. ====== iuguy Rather than keeping ...
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AI-powered stethoscope can spot pneumonia by listening to how a patient breathes - known https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6673783/AI-powered-stethoscope-spot-pneumonia-listening-patient-breathes.html ====== GistNoesis Hello, a little self promotion here : We have just released Wisteria ([https://news.ycombin...
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Security researcher hacks plane mid-flight - adpreese http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/05/fbi-researcher-admitted-to-hacking-plane-in-flight-causing-it-to-climb/ ====== greenyoda Prior discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554841](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554841)
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Over-specialization is the curse of our profession - bslatkin http://www.onebigfluke.com/2012/11/over-specialization-is-curse-of-our.html ====== freditup I disagree actually. I think having a specialization (front-end vs. back-end for example) is a good thing. It allows someone to dedicate themselves to one specific a...
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AppleDoesntGiveAFuckAboutSecurity iTunes Evil Plugin Proof of Concept - mafuyu http://reverse.put.as/2014/02/15/appledoesntgiveafuckaboutsecurity-itunes-evil-plugin-proof-of-concept/ ====== pudquick People unfamiliar with the Apple ecosystem of products might not realize what a problem this is. It's not an attack in ...
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Replacing $1 Bills with $1 Coins Could Save America Billions - ggordan http://www.good.is/post/report-replacing-1-bills-with-1-coins-could-save-america-billions/ ====== petercooper And cost service workers who get dollar bills as tips. See how often people give pound coins as tips in the UK.. I'd tip a lot if we had p...
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Rethinking CSS Grids - bretthopper http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/rethinking-css-grids ====== wccrawford Is it just me, or are the examples in the middle using 'md' and 'fr' wrong? If they're not wrong, why are they so bloody confusing? Edit: It's been fixed now. The final example had 2md, 1fr, 1md ...
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Ask HN: What is the next industry to be disrupted? - ConceitedCode There's a lot of talk about what industry start ups and new technology will disrupt. I usually hear legal and medical, but I haven't seen much head way yet. What do you think the next one will be and why? ====== D_Alex I received a 3d printer last we...
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The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind - pseudolus http://nautil.us/blog/new-evidence-for-the-geometry-of-thought ====== gdubs The honeycomb lattice mentioned in the article resonated with me. I’ll go out on a limb and share a personal anecdote: In high school I took magic mushrooms with my fri...
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Dopplr turnover in 2009 only 754 euros - Ras_ http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kauppalehti.fi%2F5%2Fi%2Ftalous%2Fuutiset%2Fetusivu%2Fuutinen.jsp%3Foid%3D20100811817&sl=fi&tl=en ====== Ras_ Bonus: Dopplr's Marko Ahtisaari previewed Nokia X3 today <ht...
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Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals - bambataa https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/silicon-valley-pastor-gregory-stevens-wealth-liberals ====== bluetomcat Large SV companies have nowadays become cash-making media machines of a gargantuan scale, acquiring that cash from all ov...
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Finding Beautiful Yelp Photos Using Deep Learning - Goosey https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/11/finding-beautiful-yelp-photos-using-deep-learning.html ====== thedogeye Damn this is awesome. Does yelp offer this service through an API? I love it.
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Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect) - romland http://www.duck.com ====== rglover I get _how_ this could be confusing (after all, a lot of people access URLs by googling them first). Regardless, this isn't Google being evil but rather, taking advantage of a fortunate coincidence. They acquired a company i...
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Heroku Postgres PGX: Bigger Databases, Improved Infrastructure, Same Price - rawrmaan https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-pgx-plans ====== kareemm We switched off Heroku to AWS Aurora once Aurora came out with a production- ready Postgres offering. We haven’t looked back. On Heroku we used to run up against their CPU burs...
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Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg - tilt https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/ ====== auganov Is this season going to have a lot of "weird" stuff going on as well? I watched the first one. I enjoyed the first few episodes, seemed like it was going to be a drama about people working in InfoSec. Definitely appreciated t...
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Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta - boulos https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Node.js-on-Google-App-Engine-goes-beta.html ====== davidjgraph So many negative views of GAE, I have to add our, overwhelmingly positive, experience. We were paying $200/month for a load balanced EC2 setup in 2011, that's for...
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How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter - Cmccann7 http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/jp-morgan-twitter-chris-sacca-10-percent-secondary/ ====== jonknee It's a good time to reflect on what a coup the split from Odeo was. According to the article, Ev has more than $400m in Twitter equity plus at least $10...
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The Top 7 Technology Trends That Will Dominate 2014 - davidsmith8900 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2013/10/31/the-top-7-technology-trends-that-will-dominate-2014/ ====== a3voices They totally forgot Bitcoin. ~~~ davidsmith8900 \- True.
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Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages - lelf https://github.com/github/semantic ====== stcredzero The late 20th century, early 00's version: [http://www.program- transformation.org/Transform/CodeCrawler](http://www.program- transformation.org/Transform/CodeCrawler) (And MOOSE)...
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Paths in Google's Fuchsia are similar to Plan 9 - wtbob https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/namespaces.md ====== wtbob And a (short) discussion on reddit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/plan9/comments/6a683b/fuchsia_the_n...](https://www.reddit.com/r/plan9/comments/6a683b/fuchsia_the_new_os_from_google_has_some/) ...
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ASA Adjudication on EA Dungeon Keeper - DanBC http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2014/7/Electronic-Arts-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_258907.aspx#.U7cpMnu9LTo ====== scrollaway Nice to see sanity once in a while. When did gaming become a chore? I know it has been asked to death, but I cannot for the life of me figure this dis...
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Listen to a melody made by Wikipedia article changes - Diastro http://listen.hatnote.com/#fr,en ====== Eiriksmal This is a wonderful project. Great concept, brilliant execution. Add more languages to provide a frantic feeling, drop to only timezones where it's the middle of the night for soothing chimes. The string...
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How we sold a couple hundred million dollars of software in Japan - agavin http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2012/01/11/crash-goes-to-japan-part-1/ ====== patio11 _It roughly translated into ‘the sound of the guitar mixed with the tree imagery is too nostalgic-sounding’. I’m still scratching my head on that one._ A ...
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The Problem and Future of Education - imwhimsical http://arsalanbashir.com/blog/edu-vision ====== thumbtackthief Teachers here are required to get Master's degrees as well. I'm staring at my useless Master of Science in Teaching right now. And delay school starting? If we had decent parents at home as a rule, we wou...
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Rackspace buys cloud-server management start-up Cloudkick - abennett http://www.itworld.com/business/131029/rackspace-buys-cloud-server-management-start-cloudkick ====== brk FYI, already posted: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011750>
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Tmux for Mere Mortals - swalladge https://zserge.com/posts/tmux/ ====== asdff Spent too much time wonking a tmux config only realizing it was never going to work how I liked. You can't have it all with the mouse no matter your settings, there will always be a compromise. It also doesn't help that no one cites the vers...
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly - vesln http://klinger.io/post/77183945226/easy-but-easy-to-f-ck-up-3-rules-to-setup-analytics ====== andreasklinger Thx for submitting. Didn't really expect this to be HN content. It's part of my DRM (don't repeat myself) posts i publish. A lot ...
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A practical usage of ChainMap in Python - florimondmanca https://blog.florimondmanca.com/a-practical-usage-of-chainmap-in-python ====== dangom I see the example use case is exactly the same as the one given in the python documentation [1]. Any other practical use cases? [1] [https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collec...
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Ask HN: Can using OS X be simplified by removing the option to quit an app? - amichail The current approach to starting and quitting apps is very confusing even to a computer scientist!<p>It&#x27;s not clear at all when you should start&#x2F;quit an app with respect to the subsequent impact on performance and usabil...
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If Programming Languages Were Real Persons - basdog22 http://jeez.eu/2009/11/03/if-programming-languages-were-real-persons/ ====== omgsean Admit it, this was just an excuse to draw some ladies, wasn't it? ~~~ basdog22 hahahaahah no.
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Unleashing Predator: Precomputed Data Repositories - joemccall86 https://objectcomputing.com/news/2019/07/18/unleashing-predator-precomputed-data-repositories ====== zmmmmm This actually looks pretty interesting. It's not that often that a genuinely new approach comes along in this space. Mostly we just see frameworks...
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Abbott ID NOW: 5 minute point-of-care test for Covid-19 - raphlinus http://abbo.tt/IDNOW ====== raphlinus Scott Gottlieb says this is a game changer. Here some facts I found interesting: * It works on isothermal amplification [1] rather than temperature-cycling PCR, so it's much faster. * It detects the viral RNA di...
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Show HN: Play20Back, the Music released exactly 20 years ago - cutcss http://www.play20back.com/?hn ====== cutcss Hi guys. I posted before with much success before but I made several improvements since then, the main one is that I have a way more reliable (and automatable) process for picking songs and videos accura...
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Drawing Charts in HP webOS apps using HTML Canvas - unwiredben http://pdnblog.palm.com/2011/01/drawing-charts-in-webos-apps-using-html-canvas/ ====== DanielRibeiro EaselJS has a nice abstraction over canvas. Look on his charts (the source with the code to create it is very readable): <http://easeljs.com/examples/bar...
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Vim hall of honour - stratosvoukel http://www.vim.org/sponsor/hall_of_honour.php ====== SwellJoe I'm just gonna take this as a reminder that I'm probably due to drop a few more dollars in the bucket. I've contributed $250 over the 15 years I've been using vim, which puts me comfortably in the hall of honour...but that...
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Ask HN: How do you prepare for a new job? - weakfish Hey all, I&#x27;m starting my first big boy job a week from Monday (digitally) and don&#x27;t know the first thing about the 9-5 work day. I would like to be as effective and prepared as possible, and to that end wanted to hear some perspectives on how people prepar...
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AWS issues us-east-1 - alhopper I'm a long-time AWS user. Know when something is "broken" (technical term) TM. I got an error message telling me that one of my micro instances in us-east-1 was going down etc. and, at first blush, was unable to create a runnable instance from a recent smapshot. Then, 12 hours lat...
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Show HN: Automatic code review for Perl projects - vti https://kritika.io ====== lancew Spotted the site from the abstract for YAPC::EU. So gave it a go on a couple of my Perl projects. Great stuff. Looking forward to seeing the talk in Amsterdam.
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Show HN: Compare search results from fuzzy|sifter|fuzzyset|lunr|fast-fuzzy|fuse - fiatjaf https://github.com/fiatjaf/search-comparison ====== fiatjaf I had this project somewhat abandoned, but today I needed it to choose which fuzzy search library I would use for a new project, so I added 2 more libraries and made it ...
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"Unholy Rage": Eve Online bans 2% of accounts, sees 30% drop in CPU use - alex_c http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=687 ====== maxniederhofer I really like their approach of trying to solve real-money trading by PLEX (Pilot License Extensions). Essentially a PLEX buys you 30 days of game time. People ca...
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Ask HN: Does being good at TopCoder etc help you with day to day work? - Who828 Hey HN,<p>This question has lingering in my mind for quite a while now. Is being good at TopCoder, Codeforces etc (algorithms&#x2F;data structure&#x2F;problem solving) useful in day to day work?<p>I am aware that it helps you clear most ...
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Taksim Solidarity Press Release 5 June 2013 - lifeguard http://cryptome.org/2013/06/taksim-solidarity.htm ====== lifeguard "Her is some first hand report that came in on another list, source should be trusted, as the sender cooperates with EDRi " <http://cryptome.org/2013/06/turkey-situation.htm> "Soon, I know, re...
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Ask HN: Any programmers living “off the grid”? - igolden ====== black_puppydog There's a fairly big community of offgrid devs on scuttlebutt. Which makes perfect sense, given that the whole protocol/application was written for that use case :) EDIT: A _very_ noisy overview of said community (with loads of un-/subscri...
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SimplyHappyNews.com Just what it says on the URI - pclark http://simplyhappynews.com Just a quick offbeat submission that I thought readers may appreciate in their RSS feed. Enough with all the doom and gloom :) ====== petercooper Back in the 70s or 80s there was a printed newspaper dedicated to printing only "happy"...
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Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating - laurenkay https://www.datingring.com ====== goodside Please tell your employees to stop creating fake profiles on OkCupid and spamming our users. Behaving like that doesn't inspire much confidence in your service. ~~~ laurenkay Also, to clarify, whil...
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How to live without Google (2017) - deathwarmedover https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/ ====== auiya Swapping out a select few of Google's products isn't the same as "living without Google". Until you've blacklisted their entire netblock range from your usage[1], you don't realize just how many tendrils th...
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The future of VR with Jaron Lanier, and why we should we all quit social media - jcfrei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cim2xIKUF9o ====== aphextron A lot of people have positioned themselves as "VR experts" over the past 3-4 years. There's a whole industry subculture around it. None of them are any more insightful th...
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The power of Focus | Change your thoughts - edragonu http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/2009/07/28/the-power-of-focus/ ====== bkovitz I feel great encouragement upon seeing that his blog brings in $1500 a month. The writing is mediocre. "Now grab your balls and jump." But apparently it provides enough value for eno...
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Announcing the new Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform - TazeTSchnitzel http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/10/30/announcing-the-new-windows-phone-8-developer-platform.aspx ====== sambeau It wasn't totally clear to me what tools you'd get if you joined. After a bunch of clicking I found this: ...
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Android Security Bulletin - pjmlp https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html ====== verytrivial Sigh. I have a well functioning Nexus 4. According to [https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705](https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705) this device is no longer supported. I wondered why I...
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Ask HN: Never physically met your co-founder? - stevenjohns Hi all,<p>I&#x27;m about to submit a YC application but after getting a couple of people to take a look, they both found it problematic that I&#x27;ve never physically met my co-founder.<p>My co-founder and I have a healthier relationship than probably most...
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Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress - goldins http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/mike-rowe-senate-testimony.html ====== edw519 I could have written the bit about my grandfather. He passed away 36 years ago this week and I was already thinking about him quite a bit. He was the most amazin...
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DreamPie: The Python shell you've always dreamed about - niyazpk http://dreampie.sourceforge.net/ ====== pingswept "Interrupt the process or kill it - the history is preserved!" That's enough to make me try this. ~~~ f_sav He had me at "code/history" division. I really don't like the way I must usually enter functio...
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How Not to Sort by Average Rating - wallawe http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html ====== cbrauchli This was submitted four months ago. See the previous discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792627>
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The Vegetable Detective, Take Two - jdnier http://craftsmanship.net/the-vegetable-detective-take-two/ ====== jdnier The quality of the science in the original article had be criticized. Not so says this followup: "After several exchanges, Nachman came to the following conclusion: “What he has found is good science,” N...
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