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Race on to build world's first space elevator - ryanwaggoner http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24662622-5014239,00.html ====== mkn I've always wondered why, if you have a material sufficiently strong to build a space elevator, you don't just use it to wind composite fuel tanks for conventional rockets? ...
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Nginx Source code repository switched to Mercurial - dancric http://nginx.org/#2013-04-25 ====== kbenson Looks like the install page[1] needs to be updated to mention that. It still refers to Subversion and svn.nginx.org. [1]: <http://wiki.nginx.org/Install>
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What is soundness in static analysis? (2017) - rntz http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2017/10/23/what-is-soundness-in-static-analysis/ ====== balddenimhero While "soundness" and "completeness" are well-defined properties of deductive systems, using such formal methods for analysis of real-world systems requires their forma...
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Shipping Oilpan - afsina https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/rEtCxuZ78eU ====== progers7 For the curious, Oilpan is a tracing garbage collector inside Chromium. The original design docs are at [1]. [1] [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7_0ni0E_kxvrah- QtnreMlz...](https://docs.googl...
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FBI can turn on your webcam without you even knowing - brt http://www.dailydot.com/news/fbi-webcam-indicator-light-surveillance/ ====== jaachan And here I thought I was being paranoid when I was happy that my laptop came with a plastic switch to cover the webcam with O.o ~~~ brt What is the model? I was thinking of...
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Let's Get Going with Org-Mode - luu https://beorg.app/orgmode/letsgetgoing/ ====== midgetjones This looks really good! I used to use org mode as part of my daily workflow, but now that I don't have to submit timesheets I've got out of the habit. At the time, though, it was wonderful. Once I'd spent some time getting ...
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How VCs Make Money - zigzaggy https://vcstarterkit.substack.com/p/how-vcs-make-money ====== H8crilA One thing that you have to keep in mind is that the 20% part is effectively a European call option on the fund's portfolio, with strike equal to the fund's initial value (so ATM - At The Money - when the fund starts) an...
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Twitter: 1 Billion Items Delivered A Day Is Nice, Google+. We Do 350 Billion. - sahillavingia http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/15/twitter-350-billion/ ====== freshrap6 I wonder how long it took twitter to get to a billion. ------ dillon Google+ delivers 1 billion items a day as closed software, it's not even open to the...
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Australia's high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste - lelf https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/05/too-good-to-be-true-australias-high-speed-rail-dream-leaves-a-bitter-taste ====== discordance Sydney <-> Melbourne (705km) is the second busiest domestic air route in the world, with 9 million passenge...
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Voter Registration Fraud - heartsucker https://www.heartsucker.com/blog/voter-registration-fraud ====== pink_dinner We were told that this never happens. This is why ID isn't required. Right?
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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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On Boredom (1975) - samclemens https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/08/07/on-boredom/ ====== andyidsinga having been bored out of my skull all day; about mid-way through the piece I started to think this was a brilliant bit of reverse-psychology: snip snip: > It is agony to think of the groping of the species—all t...
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Why you and I will never have a 15 hour work week - jtwaleson http://blog.waleson.com/2015/06/why-you-and-i-will-never-have-15-hour.html ====== dgreensp The productivity benefits of technology don't go to the workers. I'm not an economist, so I may have missed something, but isn't that obvious? If your job is to op...
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Android architecture built on RxJava - panagios https://github.com/tehmou/rx-android-architecture ====== akbar501 Thanks for creating this project. I'm working through RxJava on Android currently, so this project provides an excellent learning resource.
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Laws of simplicity - jamongkad http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10933 ====== Goladus That looks interesting, but be sure to check out Joel Spolsky's "User Interface Design for Programmers." <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html> I'm skeptical of a ruleset that includes "...
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How It’s Made Series: Beats by Dre - aaronbrethorst https://medium.com/bolt-blog/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre-154aae384b36 ====== ljk previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742794](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742794)
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Tokio: Runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust - based2 https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio ====== carllerche Hi! Tokio maintainer here. I'm surprised (in a good way) to see this posted to HN today. Nothing big is happening this week. That said, I'm always happy to answer questions. ~~~ onei O...
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Show HN: CryptoCurrencies Market, Poloniex. Supports Streaming, and REST API - a904guy https://github.com/a904guy/poloniex-python3/ ======
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Ask HN: How to build a remote tech company? - dennisy The world is moving towards remote working, but how does one build cutting edge tech without having the core team whiteboard solutions daily? ====== verdverm They don't as effectively as teams that colocate. Maybe the trend is more of a fad, like open work spaces? ...
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Ask HN: Career move and ageism? - flabbergasted66 Throwaway account here. I am a 31 year old designer working closely with developers at a small agency. Looking over their shoulders led me to want to switch careers and become an engineer. I even learned some Javascript to make an informed decision about switching ro...
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Photos of Demo Day on FanChatter - pg http://demoday.fanchatter.com/ ====== pg The reason some of the pictures have robots in them is that YC shares a building with Anybots, Trevor's robot company, and the robot part of the building becomes "back stage" on dday. Notice Slava with the graph of RethinkDB's astounding...
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory - iamjeff https://longreads.com/2017/02/08/what-its-like-to-lose-your-short-term-memory/ ====== du_bing Actually, it's exciting, pretty much like getting a new life after death. This really changes my attitude towards my life. In the past 8 years, I have 2-4 grand mal epi...
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How the Digital Economy bill is trying to kill open Wi-Fi networks - envitar http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/30/open-wi-fi-digital-economy-bill-government ====== cstross There are other problems with the Digital Economy Bill that haven't made the papers yet. For example, it's going to force mandatory ...
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Ask YC: Is a laptop enough for development, or do you need a desktop? - asdf333 Imagine: You are about to get a new computer for development.<p>You'd like to have a comfortable dev environment at home - dual screen.<p>However, laptops have come down in price alot. Is it enough to buy a laptop, or do you go w/ a trus...
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Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt - bookofjoe https://pulitzerarts.org/exhibition/striking-power/ ====== bookofjoe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm)
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Of Lisp Macros and Washing Machines (2011) - brudgers http://www.loper-os.org/?p=401 ====== GhotiFish "But no thank you Microsoft. No thank you spreadshi^Heets. No thank you Unix. No thank you C++. No thank you unmodifiable syntax. No thank you von Neumann architectures. No thank you un...
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Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016) - SuperNinKenDo https://gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/ ====== jessaustin _What the hell? I can’t believe I spent time for this. It’s just elevator music. It is played in the hotel corridors around the elevators. Oh well, at least I can listen to it from my...
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Dating a developer - FloorD http://datingadeveloper.tumblr.com/ ====== logical42 'Living la vita lolcat' Haha ------ Roboprog Brogrammer?
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Search "askew" on Google - eeirinberg http://www.google.com/search?q=askew&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari ====== manuscreationis "tilt" as well
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Amazing: Tupper's self-referential formula - _giu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formula ====== RiderOfGiraffes Broken link - try this: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self- referential_for...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self- referential_formula) ~~~ _giu the submitte...
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Hannah Is a Girl. Doctors Finally Treat Her Like One - snowmaker https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/hannah-is-a-girl-doctors-finally-treat-her-like-one.html ====== angersock I'm admittedly a bit skeptical about declaring transgender status before puberty has actually occurred--especially given the fact ...
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Show HN: Prime number sieve in 31 lines of Python - arthurcolle https://github.com/stochastic-thread/nn/blob/master/testbed/sieve.py ====== xrisk This is an exceptionally slow implementation. It took 1 hour and 29 minutes to generate all primes under 1 million. (I forgot I had left it running). In contrast, a C++ imp...
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Show HN: SmartyPlants – my first iOS app, written entirely in React Native - jsh7 https://www.smartyplantsapp.com ====== jsh7 Happy to answer any questions. I really enjoyed working with React Native and I can't wait to start my next RN app. I was also able to open source a couple libraries I wrote while building this...
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Why IT Managers are Hiring Based on Experience - nsoonhui http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-it-managers-are-hiring-based-on.html ====== quoderat No one ever got fired for hiring based on experience. It's a low-risk proposition from a culpability-for-failure standpoint. ~~~ nsoonhui So true. And...
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Jira Cloud for Mac Releases Dark Mode - CDentbythebay https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/jira-cloud-app-for-mac ====== payamrajabi Why is the desktop app allowing me to Edit and Delete other people's comments? (I'm not an admin) [https://www.dropbox.com/s/zssmkzqelbuoy6b/Screenshot%202019-...](https://www.d...
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Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight - edw519 http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=9445547199 ====== ComputerGuru As previous news articles state, Facebook has some implementation of XMPP going on. XMPP was designed from the ground-up to deal with _exactly_ the issues that he highlights, ...
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Court interprets Creative Commons licence terms in copyright lawsuit - walterbell http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?id=196%3Acourt-interprets-creative-commons-licence-terms-in-copyright-lawsuit&option=com_k2&view=item ====== voaie So that poor guy just chose the wrong license. It should be CC BY-NC-ND-SA, not CC BY...
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Show HN: Apijack – API of All Trades - pinehqcom http://apijack.com/docs/ ====== pinehqcom Maybe you are like us, tired of spending hours on complicated APIs with incomprehensible documentation. We decided it was time to fix this. We are trying to make it easier to be a developer in 2020 and beyond, by making function...
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LibreOffice Beta Available for Android - samtuke https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/libreoffice-for-android-released/ ====== krylon Call me old-fashioned. Maybe it's just that both my smartphone and my tablet really suck (in terms of having a small display and a _really_ slow CPU), but I don't really see myself ...
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An experiment on working exclusively in the cloud - controlgroup http://blog.controlgroup.com/2012/04/16/google-chromebook-my-workstation-in-the-cloud/ ====== dustin I saw a talk about node.js by Mike Amundsen the other day - he did all his work using <http://c9.io/> etc The IDE seemed a bit flaky, but quite powerfu...
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The Original Microsoft Windows 1.0 Press Release - Garbage http://mashable.com/2010/10/15/the-original-microsoft-windows-1-0-press-kit/ ====== maguay Windows Write and Windows Paint were included as part of an introductory special offer? Wonder if that makes their modern incarnations, WordPad and Paint, the longest ...
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Google Prediction API Waitlist Sign Up - geez https://spreadsheets6.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZoZk03MkVUYU1yZTRLRFc4LU5sM3c6MA ====== oomkiller Isn't this the same form that's been up since it was announced, or is this somehow different? ~~~ pplante same form i used a few weeks ago. ------ antichaos...
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Host your own app or have it hosted remotely? - jamongkad ====== timg I started off hosting remotely, but my extremely cheep hosting plan limited my CPU time excessively. Since I was behind a NAT, I had to do some proxying tricks through my provider to serve from my home computer: <http://programming.reddit.com/info...
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"I've Been Seeing Someone Else" - mkrecny http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/ive-been-seeing-someone-else ====== ColinWright Didn't you post this just a couple of days ago?
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Where do Startups start up? - cblock811 http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/zillabyte-startup-fundings/ ====== jakequist Have you thought of doing a map of the whole nation and seeing what other cities are showing tech growth? Might see some interesting cities pop up that way.
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Comparing Google Maps 3D with Singapore’s OneMap3D - cow9 https://tongwing.woon.sg/blog/comparing-google-maps-3d-with-singapores-onemap3d/ ====== asutekku This is how Google Maps (or earth, to be precise) used to have 3D models in it. Everyhting was handcrafted. Modeling was partly outsourced for anyone willing to do...
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Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need to disable it - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/intels-management-engine-security-hazard-and-users-need-way-disable-it ====== tgragnato In the first place, it should never have existed. Now, it's just another reason to avoid x86 and migrate...
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Would you use this to gather feedback for small projects? - megafunk http://feedbackster.myinstapage.com ====== zaroth I'm sorry I honestly have no idea what the product is... I mean, are you trying to sell <form>? I'll try to give feedback on what you do have on the page; 1) The colored circles (are they bubbles...
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Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife - diggan http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/einsteins-demands.html# ====== jacquesm Lots of judgments in this thread. Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. And keep in mind that we're looking at all this from almost a century later ...
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Command line made easy: five simple recipes for grep - j_baker http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/command-line-made-easy-five-simple-recipes-for-grep.ars ====== pkulak grep -c "^<segph\\(ault\|one\\)>" channel.log Anyone know why all the syntax is escaped there? ~~~ RiderOfGiraffes Yes. If not escaped...
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Ask HN: Self improvement programs - Murkin I have been looking lately at the various "self improvement programs" available out there. And I am tempted to give it a try.<p>Now, there are quite a few different types: * short daily exercises * full-time one-week and targets: * happier life * success * money (and more)...
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Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots - sandwall https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/14/boston-dynamics-ceo-profitability-roadmap-next-robots/ ====== cobookman Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992. That was almost 30 years ago. Just me, or is it crazy they haven't had 1 year of profitabilit...
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Unblock US Netflix, absolutely free - pelim https://tvunblock.com/ ====== pmilot Is it just me or the idea of trusting a random IP as your authoritative DNS server sounds like a phenomenally bad idea in terms of security? At least, when you pay for a service like UnblockUS, there's a contract and a certain understandi...
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Hate the gym? History explains why the treadmill can feel like torture - davidy123 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-february-22-2017-1.3992510/hate-the-gym-history-explains-why-the-treadmill-can-feel-like-torture-1.3992573 ====== davidy123 The second half of this article is what makes it most interes...
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Ask HN: What's your favorite productivity app? - csbartus Since I can't add a poll I'm listing a few I've tried. Feel free to add yours.<p>I'm looking for the best to-do / gtd / project management app. As simple as Basecamp, but with repeating tasks and metrics if possible.<p>It seems none of these are meeting the r...
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Crowd Sourcing Business Development - trotter_cashion http://www.trottercashion.com/2010/10/26/crowd-sourcing-business-development.html ====== TamDenholm It'd be interesting to hear if this works out, i've tried this model before myself as i hate looking for work, unfortunately i got no where, but thats probably bec...
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How Secure Are Corporations Inside? My Story - cppguard https://buzzways.at/collection/917/ ====== aunty_helen >The DFIR lead leaned down next to my ear and whispered, "No one in Accounts Payable ever runs Powershell..." This had me chuckling and thinking back to my times in a corp environment. A good account of som...
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Show HN: Self-Made Music Video with custom LED lighting rig - lostgame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tExy65isu2k ====== lostgame Using a water-based, LED-powered music visualizer rig and an iPhone SE, my partner and I put together this music video this weekend. I'd like to post some pictures of the actual rig if th...
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EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript - jozan http://www.emailjs.com/ ====== mattkrea What value does this provide on top postageapp's api? I have to imagine most companies would (read:should) standardize on one provider. ~~~ jozan I'm not the author of EmailJS but it doesn't require any backend where as P...
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Docker user? Haven't patched Dirty COW yet? Got bad news for you - nwrk http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/01/docker_user_havent_patched_dirty_cow_yet_bad_news/ ====== gtjay As I've discused before, seccomp can block ptrace and thus this VDSO-based attack (and currently does by default in some distros). Shameless se...
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Ask HN: Does anyone actually make any money from Affiliate Advertising? - Ardit20 I have been using commission junction and link synergy for over a year to advertise products in addition to adsense, but not one sale have I experienced.<p>Am I an odditity, or is this pretty normal? ====== il When I was in college, I ...
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SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO - khartig https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-87 ====== modeless This was inevitable. As I said two years ago[1], just listen to Kik's own words: "When we looked at raising another round [of VC funding], we asked ourselves how do we answer the question ab...
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The Next Ferry You Board Might Run on Batteries - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-13/the-next-ship-you-board-might-run-on-batteries ====== airbreather Hired an electric boat suited for 8 people and took it up our river (more the upper reaches of an estuary) they other day, it was great. ...
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A Brief History of Lisp Machines - steiger http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/ ====== revorad Also worth a read: [http://www.cs.umbc.edu/331/resources/papers/Evolution-of- Lis...](http://www.cs.umbc.edu/331/resources/papers/Evolution-of-Lisp.pdf) ------ rbanffy That's one of the reasons why I want to learn ...
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Ask HN: Do YC partners reread an application? - marspark My YC application was submitted about a month before the deadline. I then updated the intro video and most of the copy right before the deadline after receiving some YC alumni&#x27;s advice.<p>So I&#x27;m just wondering do YC partners ever reread an applicatio...
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Awesome Elixir – A community driven list of useful Elixir libraries - jbernardo95 https://elixir.libhunt.com/ ====== dudul Is it just a nice UI around [https://github.com/h4cc/awesome- elixir](https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir) ? ~~~ stanislavb It has some additional metadata like popularity and activity as well...
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Great Pacific garbage patch - diziet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch ====== hackaflocka I've been reading about this for a few years... Never seen a pic of the garbage patch... Given all the cheap digital photography equipment around, it does make me wonder.
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Show HN: a small weekendish project - JSON Blob - tburch http://jsonblob.com/ ====== toki5 I'm a touch confused -- <http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/> Is this your site as well? ~~~ tburch It's not, but it uses that editor. The difference between the two is that with JSON Blob, you can collaboratively edit/share your...
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Class of 2019: artists and writers whose works have entered the public domain - benbreen https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2019/ ====== roenxi I was talking to a very intelligent Chinese friend of mine who was struggling to describe scenes in English. My first thought was "Gee, maybe he should memori...
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Unprotected database exposes sensitive data of over 20M Ecuadoreans - mojoraja https://cyware.com/news/unprotected-elasticsearch-database-exposes-sensitive-information-of-over-20-million-ecuador-citizens-58e5add8/ ====== phasnox If you think this is bad, there is a horrible security hole in the site of the National Tr...
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The Hole in the Rooftop Solar-Panel Craze - quaffapint http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hole-in-the-rooftop-solar-panel-craze-1431899563 ====== bronz I will save everyone some time and quote the only definitive statement in the entire article. >"Most people buy rooftop solar panels because they think it will save th...
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Ask HN: Is it standard industry practice to be awarded a patent as an employee? - antonius My brother works at Microsoft and recently one of his projects he worked on with his team got pushed (by senior management) and ultimately accepted as a patent.<p>Is this fairly common in the high-tech industry and do all big ...
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Show HN: Bit Gold and Bitcoin - satoshisearch https://medium.com/@insearchofsatoshi/bit-gold-and-bitcoin-9357176cd420 ====== satoshisearch In 2005 Nick Szabo drafted but did not publish a Bit Gold whitepaper. For a short time it was available on his website, and although he did not publish it, it is still available on...
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Ask HN: How to learn to write a compiler and interpreter? - lala_lala Greetings,<p>I am in my late 30s without a formal CS education. I write software for a living and have this itch to learn to write a compiler &#x2F; interpreter.<p>DO I have to take any courses (e.g. Discrete Maths, Automata Theory) in order to do i...
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Torrent downloader Bitport.io premium for free - MicarleNostril https://bitport.io/holiday-giveaway/ ====== MicarleNostril Follow the link. After you register, you get your premium plan automatically. It is valid until the end of this year. Enjoy.
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Japanese activist challenges secrets law with whistleblower tool - foolrush http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/us-japan-secrets-activist-idUSKBN0JX14F20141219 ====== disjointrevelry I'd put money the Japanese gov/intel just sets up a virtual TOR in their own cloud and redirect all queries to the non-authentic...
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Vjson - claims to be fastest json parser written in c++ - bigstorm http://code.google.com/p/vjson/ ====== jameskilton I'm confused. json.cpp is pure C code with custom atoi and atof implementations. block_allocator.cpp uses malloc and free with reinterpret_cast and some STL (max and swap). The other C++ is in main...
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Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster - tosh https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic ====== cdancette This is a dataset kaggle put in place to help people learn ML It's very good to try your algorithms on a simple dataset. Also, you can check the kaggle kernels that describe a lot of useful data analysis techniques : [htt...
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Ask HN: is it possible to make high quality movie really low cost? - wsieroci Hi,<p>I was wondering if it is possible to create high quality movie really low cost? I mean movie like "21 grams" or "Memento", something what does not need special effects.<p>Best regards, Wiktor ====== GHFigs It's certainly possible. As...
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An interactive tutorial on cracking Vigenère's cipher - mettamage https://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/vigenere_cracking.html ====== mettamage Note: the interactive parts starts at [1]. The link that you're referred to shows some needed context on who cracked it and a little bit how it was cracked. It was qui...
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Is free will a bias of the rich? - mgh2 https://medium.com/@marcos.g.hung/is-free-will-a-bias-of-the-rich-3f4527343508 ====== snorkasaurus No, it's the fantasy of a religion that invents an all powerful god, but still needs a way to blame people for their actions.
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Executives Of Swedish Start-Up Klarna Arrested For Kidnapping And Rape - bluemoon http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/08/klarna-execs-rape/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 ====== 4th_paradigm techcrunch had to change their headline from 'kidnapping and rape' to moles...
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An Alternative to the American Way of Innovation [video] - tosh https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S39fhrGjr4U ====== jimrhods23 I'm unsure why we should be looking at China for innovation. I can't really name anything innovative that came out of China in the last decade. Many products/technology coming out of China are b...
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Google's Better iPhone - GiraffeNecktie http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-06/googles-better-iphone/ ====== SamAtt I don't fault him for his love of openness above all else. I like open systems too! But I don't think most consumers care. I certainly don't think they obsess over the couple thousan...
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Dungeons and Dragons is booming online, but not in the way you think - smacktoward http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/20/9172559/dungeons-dragons-dnd-4th-edition-one-year-later-twitch-youtube ====== kup0 Their online tools are very painful to use. It's hard to understand why they don't go ahead and create apps or at leas...
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How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too) - deafcalculus http://www.righto.com/2016/10/inspired-by-hn-comment-four-half-star.html ====== 1wd The rationale given for including mirrored half-stars as separate codepoints is right-to-left languages. I wondered why this was needed, since Unicode already has the...
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On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs - espeed http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905 ====== GordonS Mass surveillance by the security services in both the USA and UK took a long time to revealed to the public. I'd count that as a 'large-scale conspiracy'. ~~~ andygates This is ...
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Failed Startup Post-Mortems - dtlyst http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/ ====== pud Here's a book I wrote that covers 150 failed internet startups from the late 90's. [http://amazon.com/FD-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com- Flameouts...](http://amazon.com/FD-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-com-Flameout...
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Documentation is terrible - TheCog https://medium.com/@felipe.suero19/documentation-is-terrible-part-1-18805115edef ====== marmot777 Well done!
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Ask HN: Exploring Hawaii with a sleeping bag and a camera. Ideas? - joshdance Cousin, brother and I decided to get out of town and go explore O&#x27;ahu for 10 days. What are your favorite sights, sounds, tastes, views, hikes, beaches etc?<p>We love hiking and adventure. Done a bunch of research but what are your pe...
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How Non-Profits Can Think Like Startups - salmonet http://themacro.com/articles/2016/03/advice-for-startup-nonprofits/ ====== thefastlane "new nonprofit organizations should not think all that much differently than their for-profit peers when it comes to growth. [...] Even if you are a solving a big problem, you must...
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FUCK ANDROID - peterwwillis http://opensourceandhackystuff.blogspot.com/2011/12/fuck-android.html ====== adambyrtek What a mindless and boring rant.
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Robots will soon replace human fruit pickers - simonebrunozzi http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/sri-spin-off-abundant-robotics-developing-autonomous-apple-vacuum ====== milkey_mouse Robots won't take all our jobs yet; apparently they're aiming for the low- hanging fruit. ------ MollyR Once...
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Show HN: Visualizing Postmates' first 1000 deliveries in San Francisco - bastian http://1000.postmates.com/ ====== jqueryin That is one hell of a sexy (and dynamic) infographic (and page). Congrats on launch. Pat your designer(s) and frontend devs on the back for a job well done. ~~~ badclient I felt like the numbers...
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UK "tech city" doubles number of start-ups - sebkomianos http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/368872/uk-tech-city-doubles-number-of-start-ups ====== robfitz This is such BS it's unbelievable. Beyond the obvious correlation/causation issues, tech city offers startups little direct benefit. The advantages are going t...
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ImageNet Roulette - polm23 https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/ ====== gwd I can't figure out where some of these labels are supposed to come from. I uploaded a photo and got one label, "assenter" \-- i.e., a person who assents; and another one, "psycholinquist". Does ImageNet actually have photos of human beings lab...
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Why You Should Run SSH on Another Port - danielrm26 http://danielmiessler.com/blog/putting-ssh-another-port-good-idea/ ====== opless Putting ssh on another port is just plain stupid. To say that you might avoid a 0-day exploit is just a strawman argument. The main problem with ssh is PASSWORDS not zero day exploit...
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AWS Lambda - cpenner461 http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ ====== jedberg I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential here in transforming...
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Less is Moore - sgentle https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-04-26-less-is-moore ====== jonathaneunice The problem with this kind of YAGNI thinking is that it 1. commits everyone to understanding how to do everything and 2. requires everyone to do everything afresh, every project. The fact is, I don't know the gory detail...
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Hacker who launched DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets 27 months in prison - gilad https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-who-launched-ddos-attacks-on-sony-ea-and-steam-gets-27-months-in-prison/ ====== ga-vu Good riddance
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