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3D Robotics Failure to Launch and Unicorn Dreams - lasr21 http://www.droneflyers.com/2016/03/3d-robotics-failure-to-launch-and-unicorn-dreams/ ====== therobot24 >> Marketing dollars and grandiose statements cannot replace pedal-to-the- metal hard work and proper engineering. Can't really fault them for marketing/gran...
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Ask HN: Should there be a cap on an individual's net worth? - bizdiz ====== vezycash Sounds nice but unfair & would destroy the economy. Unfair - Who takes the extra wealth? Politicians? Because they are honest and aren't wasting public funds. Wasting another person's money is the easiest thing in the world. If you'r...
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Ask HN: Tool that learns table structure and produces summary? - dkural Hi Folks,<p>What tools do you know of out there that can &quot;learn&quot; what&#x27;s in a CSV &#x2F; TSV file, make some smart guesses about the columns, and provide some sensible metrics &#x2F; summary &#x2F; plots of the data?<p>I know Goog...
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Guy who made his own iPhone brings 3.5mm jack back - bluebknight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA ====== detay this is just amazing.
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Ask HN: Developers in SE Asia - tixocloud Hi,<p>I&#x27;m looking to outsource development work and wanted to know more about the quality of software development work in SE Asia. I was born in Malaysia so if you&#x27;re Malaysian - brownie points for you as I&#x27;m also keen to learn more about the tech landscape in M...
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Show HN: We built a site to help you find the best neighborhoods to stay at - fozzieBoston http://www.villy.co/ ====== fozzieBoston Hi HN! we just launched Villy and I wanted to post it here to get your feedback on it. For context - we are a team of two working out of the Harvard Innovation Lab, and bootstrapped the...
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Show HN: How much developers earn? - mkalygin http://tehcookies.com/devsalaries/vis.html ====== keyboardhitter Re: "Oops! Something went wrong on the server. Please try again." form.js:225 Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: Permission denied at firebase-database.js:28 at z (firebase-databas...
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Facebook using Content Security Policy headers for Webkit. - jdavid It looks like Facebook is using the experimental CSP headers today. I am kinda amused by some of the whitelisted domains and apps.<p>I have provided here for your amusement.<p><pre><code> x-webkit-csp:default-src *; script-src https://*.fac...
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Progress and research in cybersecurity: report from the Royal Society [pdf] - sjmurdoch https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/cybersecurity-research/cybersecurity-research-report.pdf ====== sjmurdoch My comments on some of the key findings of the report are here: [https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/07/13/cyb...
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Non tech founder looking to create a straight forward code test. - Truman11 I need to hire programmers for my startup and I'm not sure how to tell if the people I interview are any good at it. I would like to create a 20 question test with 5 questions in each of these languages. PHP, JAVASCRIPT, AJAX, and MYSQL. C...
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Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing - aespinoza http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/michael_hayden.html ====== jpdoctor > _But it takes a special kind of arrogance for this young man to believe that > his moral judgment on the dilemma suddenly trumps that of two (incredibly > differen...
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New capabilities and entrepreneurialism are making space exciting again - martincmartin http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/space-2016 ====== vanattab I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the article. It contains a number of interesting details I had not heard before and I follow the indus...
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The drive to UI simplicity deters kids from learning about how computers work - RyanMcGreal http://quandyfactory.com/blog/100/ ====== angersock (After reading this over, this is a little more misanthropic than I'd intended... I'll post it regardless though.) The drive to turn general-purpose computation devices into ...
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Five resources to use (together) when learning to read and write Chinese - chriswhizz http://whizzlearning.com/2013/10/01/five-resources-try-learning-chinese/ Are there any other resources I am missing? It feels like a combination of them is important.<p>We are building an app that will be another tool in that toolbo...
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When is it Too Early to Start Looking? - ultimatedelman http://blog.mightyspring.com/post/67070284620/when-is-it-too-early-to-start-looking ====== lumens The mental energy drain of "always looking" is definitely the hardest part. Good tools to make this easier would enhance market efficiency and make all the differe...
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Ask HN: Autoposting script? - bkrausz So as some of you may have noticed, the last 5 or so xkcd's posted have been by me. I wrote up a little autoposting script at some ungodly hour and set it up in a cron to post new comics. I am not doing this for the karma, since anyone looking at my submission history (which I...
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JavaScript Loop Performance - blorenz http://jsperf.com/while-vs-for-queue ====== Millennium What exactly is this trying to test? This headline seems to imply that it's testing the performance of the different sorts of loops in JavaScript, but it's not a valid test for that, because the for loop does considerably le...
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All-renewable energy in California? Sorry, land-use calculations show otherwise - jseliger http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bryce-renewables-california-20180821-story.html ====== Gibbon1 > Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the producer > of the forthcoming documentary “Juice: How...
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Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 - Da5hes https://www.twistlock.com/2017/12/27/escaping-docker-container-using-waitid-cve-2017-5123/ ====== hacknat This exploit is interesting, but if you are doing container security correctly it’s actually not a big deal. In particular if you are setting per-c...
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More complicated than you think - maalyex http://www.economist.com/node/17358573 ====== _delirium Here's the article: <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/15/1007615107> Paywalled, but even just the abstract gives a little additional detail, and the appendix with data tables/figures is open access: [http://ww...
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Mitigating the HTTPoxy Vulnerability with Nginx - kgogolek https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-the-httpoxy-vulnerability-with-nginx/ ====== rahkiin > The vulnerability was mentioned on the NGINX mailing list in July, 2013, by > Jonathan Matthews. Wow, that is long ago. Why isn't this mitigated earlier? The attack i...
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Obama calls Steve Jobs' success prime example of American wealth - J3L2404 http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/23/obama_calls_steve_jobs_success_a_prime_example_of_american_wealth.html ====== jganetsk This scares me. While I have nothing against the wealth of Steve Jobs and his revolutionary products, what Amer...
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Ask HN: Good examples of user notifications in a client-side application? - icey I'm reworking an application right now, and one of the things that's really been bugging me is how notifications are being handled.<p>Validation errors and exceptions are being reported to the user by pop-up windows, and I think there's...
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On Linux's Random Number Generation - raesene9 https://research.nccgroup.com/2019/12/19/on-linuxs-random-number-generation/ ====== tytso There are a number of things that the blog post gets wrong. First of all, it was not Jason A. Donenfeld, the author of Wiregard, which added the ChaCha20-based cryptographic random n...
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Mythbusting: Organic Farming - jessekeys http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/07/18/mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/ ====== bh42222 _Myth #1: Organic Farms Don’t Use Pesticides_ tl;dr: They do... well OK, only natural ones - but ONE of them is as bad as any other pesticide...
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Mushrooms may 'reduce the risk of mild brain decline' - osrec https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47554966 ====== blahzebob I seriously clicked on this thinking it was going to discuss shrooms and not the cuisine variety. Maybe I’m in mild brain decline, but kudos to BBC for writing a non-clickbait clickbait headline. ...
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Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw - DoreenMichele https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-dap120618.php ====== pathsjs Well, how this compares to the [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp) ? ~~~ aesh2Xa1 The authors mention...
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Peter Thiel vs Warren Buffet - hardik http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/02/16/warren-buffett-peter-thiel-and-the-return-to-zero-sum-economics/ ====== gamechangr This is just name dropping. Warren Buffet's "opinion" was not opposing Thiel or specific
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Y Combinator vs. TechStars Application - oldgregg I thought this was interesting:<p>"protip: 2 dudes talking is not a pitch video. show me, don't tell me." @davidcohen 5:16 PM Mar 17th<p>vs.<p>"In the video please introduce yourselves, explain what you're doing and why, and tell us anything else you want to about th...
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Two Factor Auth List - wglb https://twofactorauth.org/ ====== scrollaway My Hearthstone account has better security than my Paypal account. Here are some fun websites that do not support decent TOTP 2FA or U2F: - Ebay - Paypal - Most banking websites apparently because regulations *...
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MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin - clarkm http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208 ====== lsiebert "She provided information about Lewin’s interactions with her, which began when she was a learner in one of his MITx courses, as well as information about inte...
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Most of what you read was wrong: how press releases rewrote scientific history - Anon84 http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/09/most-of-what-you-read-was-wrong-how-press-releases-rewrote-scientific-history/ ====== jonathansizz Bravo to Ars for publishing this valuable corrective, but I'm afraid that the damage has alread...
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Show HN: An email reminder service for your GitHub starred repos - philbo https://githubreminder.org/signin ====== arielpts Great, but great App. Thank you a lot! PS: I just starred your repository, ha! ------ perryharlock Looks really useful. Am trying it out now :-) ------ rowanmanning Looks really useful, als...
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Waymo proposed $1B Uber settlement with public apology in car lawsuit - Osiris30 https://electrek.co/2017/10/12/waymo-proposed-uber-settlement-permanent-injunction/ ====== philiphodgen We don’t know — because we are not there — but my guess? It’s a Cal Code Civ Proc Section 988 offer. Waymo makes a settlement offer o...
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Touring the Broad Art Museum, L.A.’s Newest Architectural Wonder - adventured http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-09-13/touring-the-broad-art-museum-l-a-s-newest-architectural-wonder ====== gcb0 "Looking In A passerby on the street peers into the galleries, providing a sense of scale. " heh. even on that ...
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Facebook is selling invisible ad impressions - youssefsarhan http://blog.sefsar.com/post/28370197014/facebook-is-selling-invisible-ad-impressions ====== chewxy In Display advertising this is common. The fact that tools like Adxpose exist points that this is a common problem for advertisers. Very often the impression...
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Airbus A320 – From Cold and Dark to Ready for Taxiing [video] - camtarn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKeSO6msDk ====== _bear As an A320 family pilot, I still haven’t done cold and dark start. Maybe once day I will find an opportunity to. ~~~ hotsauceror Is this kind of thing normally done by ground crew / mechani...
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Is there a weekly summary available for top news on Hacker News? - getp The Hacker news frontpage changes almost continuously. However, I want to batch my readings as opposed to checking the site (several times) daily. Is there a way to find the top N posts by rating for a given week? (also posted to Quora: http://w...
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Uber tests self-driving car in Pittsburgh - alcio https://newsroom.uber.com/us-pennsylvania/new-wheels/ ====== eplanit The ultimate solution of the Employee vs. Contractor dilemma.
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Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You - davidedicillo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ ====== wilfra <http://i.imgur.com/hJ64u.jpg>
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Are we part of the most elitist business? - imasr Yet again, we find a post focused on drawing a line between the good programmer, and the bad one. I think we should really be thinking how to become a better person and that does not come from stepping on everybody else, just to feed the ego. I'm personally tired of ...
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Get whole year of Skype Premium for free. - rmldsky https://collaboration.skype.com/promotion/ ====== Sprint Free group video calls: [https://jitsi.org/](https://jitsi.org/) Free group screen sharing: [https://jitsi.org/](https://jitsi.org/) No advertising: [https://jitsi.org/](https://jitsi.org/) Live chat custo...
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Is it safe to sleep in the same room with a car battery? - woliveirajr https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/314855/is-it-safe-to-sleep-in-the-same-room-with-a-car-battery ====== dsfyu404ed If there was even a slight possibility it wasn't safe many boats and motor- homes wouldn't be configured in a way that ...
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Self-driving cars to be on roads of Swedish capital Gothenburg by 2017 - EdwardQ http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/self-driving-cars-hit-swedish-public-roads/ ====== pitiburi The astonishing part is the fact that in order to have self-driving cars, it seems Sweden is changing its capital city from Stockholm to Gothe...
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New Search Ad Experiences within Windows 8.1 - leeoniya http://community.bingads.microsoft.com/ads/en/bingads/b/blog/archive/2013/07/02/new-search-ad-experiences-within-windows-8-1.aspx ====== leeoniya just one more reason to use third party tools to do local filesystem searching. had to purchase FileSearchEX or use...
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Why collision avoidance is harder for an AI-based system - IndrekR https://medium.com/@rebane/could-ai-have-saved-the-cyclist-had-i-programmed-the-uber-car-6e899067fefe ====== hangonhn Hang on. That argument makes no sense. We've had subsumption architecture for a long time now( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumpt...
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This Week in Rust - cmrx64 http://cmr.github.io/blog/2014/03/15/this-week-in-rust/ ====== Gracana > Another great PR from the illustrious ktt3ja, the compiler will now give > suggestions on how to fix lifetime woes. This is an awesome usability > improvement. I'm really glad to see improvements like this. I know ho...
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Ask YC: valuating IP of old software games - andreyf Hi all,<p>How would one go about valuating the source to a game like Blizzard's StarCraft? I don't mean the brand or trademarks, but the game itself - the strategy, balance of the races, etc.<p>Is it protected under copyright law? If one were to clone the game-pla...
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Terrain Generation with Midpoint Displacement - stevelosh http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/02/midpoint-displacement/ ====== munificent I remember learning about midpoint displacement as a teen and having its recursive implementation blow my mind. At the time, I don't think I could ever implement it correctly because, li...
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Skinny People Rarely Diet - goodJobWalrus http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/02/why-skinny-people-dont-diet/463419/?single_page=true ====== stirner _many of the registrants used “non-restrictive” strategies, like listening to hunger cues, cooking at home rather than eating out, and eating quality, non- pro...
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College for Grownups - ojbyrne http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opinion/college-for-grown-ups.html ====== nlh "Adult Education" has this nagging stigma associated with it (though, thankfully, that's changing due to MOOCs and such). But still -- even when the major universities offer it, it's seen with a skewed tilt b...
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Ask HN: Learning about Venture Capital - leftnode Hi HN,<p>I'm interested in pursuing a venture capital company to try to get some funding for my business idea, but I have a few questions about VC. If you have a link or some reading material that answers my questions, I'd love to read it too.<p>1. Can you ask a VC c...
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Ruby Swarms: Visualizing Rails & Git - igrigorik http://www.igvita.com/2009/01/27/ruby-swarms-visualizing-rails-git/ ====== jballanc Wow! Talk about the explosive effect of Git and GitHub... The Rails video belongs somewhere on GitHub's home page. Hey, Ilya, here's an idea: Could you parse out tags and overlay them...
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Why Robots Might Boost Industry While Killing Jobs - adampludwig70 http://techonomy.com/2013/01/why-robots-might-boost-industry-while-killing-jobs/ ====== dfc OMG! Capital vs. labor, what a discovery. Someone alert the Nobel economic prize committee.
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Why do you use 37Signals products? Simplicity, UI, Hype? - rmalik After watching various videos and seeing the growth of 37 Signals, it makes me curious why people use their applications. They clearly have less features and I don't see that as a large issue. Since they are mostly designers you would expect the UI/UX...
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Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker? - someguy1233 I&#x27;m hearing about Docker every other day, but when I look into it, I don&#x27;t understand the purpose of it.<p>I run many websites&#x2F;applications that need isolation from each other on a single server, but I just use the pretty-standard OpenVZ contai...
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TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that speed of light is dropping - tokenadult http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/tedx-talks-completely-discredited-rupert-sheldrake-speaks-argues-that-speed-of-light-is-dropping/ ====== rpm4321 If you haven't seen them, make sure to check out The Onion's ...
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Yahoo sending mass SPAM - jruji This is only spam email from one hour:<p>2nk71wju7e@yahoo.com j5cmhjff82@yahoo.com 8uzyj41g3v@yahoo.com 31wlegqb2l@yahoo.com 19kzqg9ucm@yahoo.com jma9qaxog3@yahoo.com ====== tracker1 It's probably not yahoo proper sending the spam. Likely their account creation was either hacked, or a n...
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American Express to plough $100 million into digital start-ups - Finntastic http://www.startupsmart.com.au/funding/american-express-to-plough-$100-million-into-digital-start-ups/201111114529.html ====== tectonic That's interesting. I've been thinking about doing a fraud detection startup, which seems to fit the bill...
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Holographic universe experiment begins - saticmotion http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2013/holographic-universe-experiment-begins ====== colanderman I've never understood why proof that the universe is "holographic" (= 2+1 dimensions of information projected as 3+1) does not fall out of the Schrödinger’s...
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Best way to get a (reasonably) fast scope - rfrey http://www.eevblog.com/2010/03/31/eevblog-70-turn-your-rigol-ds1052e-oscilloscope-into-a-100mhz-ds1102e/ ====== rfrey I have this 50Mhz scope, and it's a great bargain on its own. Turning it into a 100Mhz scope for the cost of a few minutes with a terminal is an Awes...
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Musical notation disguised as the oldest programming language - f2hex Can be the musical notation considered as a first form of &quot;programming&quot; language? In the and it is like a DSL, it has a symbolic notation, it allows the reproduction of &quot;actions&quot; on a device (musical instrument)... ====== dificil...
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On Attention, Focus and Autism in the Tech Workplace - cracauer https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/on-attention-focus-and-autism-in-the-tech-workplace-8246526fbbc0 ====== cracauer This has been revised and clarified. I now use a whole bunch of terms that I find are useful to communicate personal attention patterns to...
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Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top rate of income tax - lnguyen http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-13/danes-loves-their-high-taxes ====== hedgew I'm not in Denmark but in a very similar European country. I don't want the high taxes. The current taxes and mandatory payments feel unfai...
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Host private lessons, meet interesting people and make money - vdthatte https://www.producthunt.com/posts/graam ====== vdthatte Problem: 1\. It can be pretty hard to find more experienced people to guide you when you're trying to learn something new. Online resources are great but having a mentor can REALLY help at t...
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The Wikipedia page for TopoJSON (by Mike Bostock of D3.js fame) has been deleted - pessimism https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TopoJSON&action=history ====== tantalor Cached at [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6c9OrzU...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6c9OrzUPXE0J...
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Biz's Commencement Speech at Babson - gtzi http://bostinnovation.com/2011/05/15/four-stories-four-lessons-babson-college-commencement-speech-by-biz-stone/ ====== kmccarth tl;dr 1) Opportunity Can Be Manufactured 2) Creativity is a renewable resource 3) In order to succeed spectacularly, you must be ready to fail sp...
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10 React mini-patterns - DerKobe https://hackernoon.com/10-react-mini-patterns-c1da92f068c5 ====== lioeters Previously posted: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736465](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736465) and [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743096](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743096...
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jQuery or CSS3 transitions? Speed comparison + brief empirical explanation. - richbradshaw http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/demos/speed.php ====== mbostock I did this same experiment with D3 (animating the outline-color and background-color for 1s with ease-in-out), and I got performance nearly identical to CSS. ...
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The things no one tells you about working remote - kiyanwang https://hackernoon.com/the-things-no-one-tells-you-about-working-remote-79b6bf33576e ====== acty1 The article points out things that do not happen to me. Lose motivation and find it yourself? That's a truism since motivation is internal. Maybe they meant yo...
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Stanford University requires remote access to students' iPhones - mrchkrbrty http://imgur.com/8oxYN34 All Stanford students were recently required to install this app on their phones and their Stanford accounts were blocked until they complied. ====== pope13 What do you mean by "requires?" That disclaimer is the boil...
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Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software - rfreytag https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html ====== bjourne The point, for me at least, is to increase the total volume of freedom in the world. Here is a radical thought: Western Civilization hasn't reached "freedom peak". The freedom le...
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Ask HN: Should programming resumes be one page or two pages? - Kortaggio I&#x27;m finishing my last year of college (graduating April 2015) and I&#x27;m updating my resume and portfolio to get ready for a full-time job search in web software development. Most advice articles I see on the Internet advise graduates to...
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Wave – A private and unique messenger for iOS - marcperel https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/wave-%EF%BE%89/id1434827986?mt=8&ref=producthunt ====== hmhrex Reading through the Privacy Policy, I have some concerns. Under "Usage Information": > We may collect information about: how you communicate with those Wavers, > su...
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Ask HN: Finding a polygon given a list of random coords? - iambot Help.<p>Is there any way of finding a polygon that would contain all of a given list of points? without any intersections.<p>I'm hoping to use it in an app built on Google's Maps API v3. Any help/links would be much appreciated. ====== JoachimSchipper...
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ASCII Art from 1934 - martian http://www.squareamerica.com/blog/?p=406 ====== muck I fail to see how this is ASCII art. ASCII didn't even exist before 1934. A more appropriate title might be Typewriter Art. ~~~ mindstab Lots of forms of art don't get a genera name until after they've started ;). Just because the fi...
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Don’t blame the framework: my experience with AngularJS and ReactJS - thecherifi https://www.ckl.io/blog/dont-blame-the-framework-angularjs-and-reactjs/ ====== tfvictorino Cool review!
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Obama vs. Trump – Who's the Better Speaker? - speakscore https://www.speakscore.net/blog/trump-vs-obama-inaugural-speech-analysis-comparison.html ====== macmac Very brave of you to publish this as it is bound to violently contradict the intuition of most people. An alternative conclusion is that your analysis is meani...
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Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications - jcelerier https://www.kdab.com/using-visual-studio-code-for-qt-apps-pt-1/ ====== Alir3z4 Thanks for this, I'm sure many would give it a try and will like the idea of having the possiblity and easier selection when working with their favorite IDE or editor when working wit...
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Cask: A Scala HTTP Micro-Framework Inspired by Python's Flask - lihaoyi https://github.com/lihaoyi/cask ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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NeoCities can now handle two million web sites - kyledrake https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-can-now-handle-two-million-web-sites ====== steveklabnik As much as there has been lots of trash talking here about Neocities due to it being 'just' HTML and CSS, I teach high school kids on a semi-regular basis (teaching s...
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The tomato effect: Rejection of highly efficacious therapies (1984) - pacman83 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6368890 ====== WheelsAtLarge "The rejection of potentially effective treatments because “everyone knows it won’t work” is named for Americans’ persistent belief – from the sixteenth to the nineteenth cent...
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Reuters: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module - 0xFFC https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/08/reuters-yahoo-email-scanning-done-using-a-linux-kernel-module/ ====== 0xFFC Why they would use kernel module for such task? It is completely unrelated. No matter how much I think, I couldn't understand rational be...
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Ask HN: Client-side MD5 password hashing - antileet I'm currently writing the auth for our web application. Normally the login form would have a username and password in a form. I hooked into the submit() event using javascript to change the value of the password to it's MD5 equivalent.<p>Now on the server, I treat ...
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Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI accused of spying on defense in fraud case - ALee http://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-attorneys-office-fbi-accused-of-spying-on-defense-in-fraud-case/ ====== will_brown Notwithstanding Counsel for the Defense claiming it was both a US Attorney and FBI practice, the facts suggest...
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Robotic Band Covers "Ace of Spades" - jboggan http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3RBSkq-_St8 ====== jboggan I love their rider: [http://compressorheadband.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/10/com...](http://compressorheadband.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/10/compressorhead.pdf) "NOTE: NO MONITOR SYST...
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LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime - rbanffy http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lidar-mapping-environment-agency-2020-flood-defence-waste-dumping ====== saosebastiao I really wish this technology could find its way into the hands of Ruth Shady in Peru. She was the discoverer of the Norte Chico ci...
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Ask HN: Etcd or ZooKeeper? - jaytaylor What do you see as the pros and cons of each, and why do you prefer one over the other? ====== Randgalt I'm the main author of Apache Curator (a ZooKeeper JVM client/lib). My biggest concern would be availablity of reliable, well tested implementations. For example, Curator giv...
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GitLab 8.12 Released with Cycle Analytics and Global Code Search - dwaxe https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/22/gitlab-8-12-released/ ====== sytse One of the highlights in this release for me are the Review Apps and the autoscaling CI on Kubernetes. Questions are welcome.
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My Homebrew Z80 Microcomputer - XtalJ http://calculon80.j89.se ====== kqr2 _Build Your Own Z80 Computer_ by Steve Ciarcia of Byte Magazine and Circuit Cellar fame may also be useful : [https://smile.amazon.com/Build-Your- Own-Z80-Computer/dp/0070...](https://smile.amazon.com/Build-Your- Own-Z80-Computer/dp/0070109621...
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Ask HN: Best non-reCAPTCHA CAPTCHA solution? - chatmasta Does anyone have recommendations for privacy-respecting, hopefully open source, captcha solutions? I just want something low tech, usable and reasonably effective, to use on a signup form. Mostly interested in stopping dragnet spam.<p>I like the “balance the goa...
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How many of you are interested in M&A dealmaking as a growth strategy? - SSG http://www.antiventurecapital.com/billionaire9.html ====== SSG Or is this something completely off the radar for most here ?
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Universal takes on Spotify freemium model - antr http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5645cf6c-ce73-11e4-900c-00144feab7de.html ====== eridal bummer .. paywall pastebin anybody? ~~~ antr search the article title on google, read it without paywall
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Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com - trevorturk http://clickthatbutton.com/ ====== jbert I realise it's a gag. But... Have the site sponsored by different people each day, and record the number of clicks on that day. Keep an archive, make it competitive. e.g. 30th October is Obama day (just an exampl...
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28M Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections - forgot_my_pwd https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_million_mail-in_ballots_went_missing_in_last_four_elections_143033.html ====== rgrove The article's title is misleading, and it misrepresents the content and conclusions of some of its sourc...
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Rvl.io: Online authoring and hosting of reveal.js presentations - hakim http://www.rvl.io ====== prezjordan Reveal.js looks mighty cool. I spent a weekend learning node/npm to make something similar [1] (albeit FAR less feature-rich). The basic idea is that you write your content with JSON, so making slideshows is s...
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Broccoli vs. Animals - dsego http://www.vegetus.org/essay/plants.htm ====== tokenizer Yes. It's also okay to kill animals. Why? Because it's _natural_. Why is it natural? Because every single animal kills either plants or animals. And while we as a species can use our brains to resist eating animals, we can't resis...
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Microsoft open-sources Kinect code samples - ghosh http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/11/microsoft-open-sources-kinect-code/ ====== ComputerGuru Flagged as incorrect. VentureBeat apparently can't tell the difference between Kinect's code and API examples. This needs to be deleted or the title changed to "Microsoft Relea...
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Zorium v1.0.0 (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ - Zolmeister0 https://zolmeister.com/2015/05/zorium.html ====== iamdanfox Nicely comprehensive blog post, Zorium looks like it is the result of a lot of hard work! Since this looks like a serious library (rather than a personal dev exercise), I'm curious about why you decided not to go wit...
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Tetoris (the worlds largest tetris game) - game - Uncle_Sam http://gprime.net/game.php/tetoris ====== zandorg That's extremely funny!
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