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Pfizer and US Govt Set up Fake Subsidiary to take Lawsuit - alanthonyc http://techdirt.com/articles/20100402/1844298860.shtml ====== bd_at_rivenhill _Pfizer was deemed "too big to fail" like that. Why? I have no idea. If the company really did have to close down, it seems likely that others would have picked up the ...
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Breaking Hacker News's CSRF Protections - heynk http://hankstoever.com/posts/9-Breaking-Hacker-Newss-CSRF-Protections ====== charliesome CSRF protection is _not_ about preventing bots from interacting with your site - it's about protecting your site from _other_ sites (hence the name - cross site request forgery). ...
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Lunar Laser Ranging: a continuing legacy of the Apollo program (1994) [pdf] - robin_reala https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LRRR-94-0193.pdf ====== Taniwha Of course anyone can use these laser reflectors, they're still there, get the "it was all done on a sound stage in New Mexico" crowd to explain that ~~~ gus_massa If y...
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DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests - generalpass https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543201#c4 ====== DyslexicAtheist I don't see a benefit of the built in DoH in firefox since it is shifting the trust from my existing DNS provider to cloudflare[1] (based in the US). ...
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Gunnar Carlsson on the Shape of Data (2012) [video] - espeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kctyag2Xi8o ====== xtacy I find the topic intriguing, but can someone who is well versed with _both_ topology and machine learning comment on what is the key innovation here? On first glance, the methods here seem a lot like ...
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Ask HN: Where to code in Houston? - abgoosht Just wondering if there are any places in Houston indoor/outdoor where you enjoy coding. Any places to share ideas/projects? ====== S_A_P What part of town are you? Houston is pretty spread out, so it may be better to specify a region. Outdoors is pretty tough, since the...
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New 3DS Emulator - bane http://gbatemp.net/threads/new-3ds-emulator.365154/ ====== rquirk What are the demos that this is running? Is it possible for anyone to write 3DS code, compile it with GCC + friends, and run it on an off-the-shelf 3DS? I was under the impression that Nintendo had got security right this time ...
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Leaving my job & starting my own thing - dan_sim http://macournoyer.com/blog/2009/09/29/leaving-and-starting/ ====== tonystubblebine I don't understand what improvement this app is bringing. All he says is that he's disappointed in Campfire. There are more people in the comments here saying Campfire needs to be supe...
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Saying Goodbye to Apple - philfreo http://benjaminthomas.org/2010-03-14/saying-goodbye-to-apple.html ====== stuntmouse This is something I'm struggling with right now. Setting aside iPad and iPhone for a second... _Counterpoint in favor of Apple_ : Contributions to an open web: Open source development of Webkit and...
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Silver Bullet -- Time Travelling Debugger [Google Tech Talk] - Tarks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpfmKIxusZY Though I think using the term "Silver Bullet" is a bit cheeky, I'll admit I'm curious, this seems like a pretty impressive leap forward. ====== Tarks Though I think using the term "Silver Bullet" is a bit c...
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ASUS settles FTC charges over insecure home routers and cloud services - acdha https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/02/asus-settles-ftc-charges-insecure-home-routers-cloud-services-put ====== acdha Title edited to fit 80 character limit The part which I found most interesting: > The proposed consent o...
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Jetabroad (Bangkok, Thailand) – Senior Software Engineers| Onsite – Full-Time | - sireetorn Airfares are hard, we tackle the hardest part, multi-city up to 10 legs long. Think exponential search space, fuzzy constraints, and constantly changing variables. We're looking for both front-end and back-end developers t...
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Is it time to quit your day job? (by Ali Davar) - dennykmiu http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2010/01/13/is-it-time-to-quit-your-day-job/ ====== dennykmiu Excellent article, a good read for anyone who is thinking of starting. My own experience is that succeeding in startups took more than just quiting my day job, ...
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Who Does Skype Let Spy? - mikegerwitz http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/who_does_skype.html ====== gesman Do not expect any privacy by using any commercial communication platform or solution. Consider yourself entering fullbody see-through scanner every time you conveniently send email, chat or do video c...
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Monorail, Chromium's open-source issue tracker - eMerzh https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/infra-dev/OotYpVzgnBw/fAfheRp9BQAJ ====== brudgers Repository: [https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/master/appen...](https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/master/appengine/monorail)
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Lucy in the sky with doctors - anythingnonidin http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/10/14/lucy-sky-with-doctors/On92CQWm0YCQNeHL9tGJBM/story.html ====== anythingnonidin If you’re looking for things to support, MAPS and Heffter are great, and for a smaller project with less funding needed, the MDMA movie is may be an ...
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My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016) - testb https://www.salon.com/2016/09/17/hacker-house-blues-my-life-with-12-programmers-2-rooms-and-one-21st-century-dream/ ====== themoat I know the author wised up and moved on, but I would rather work construction for the rest of my life than be...
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Ask HN: From freelancer to salary? - mkelley So basically I've been doing some combination of contracting and consulting work for short to mid-length contracts for the past 10 years or so. Anyways, I've made a decent living so far going this route. But there have been some ups and downs. So now I'm thinking I want t...
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The One-Man, $1.2B ETF Shop - qCOVET http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-26/how-a-one-man-etf-shop-attracted-1-4-billion-in-just-8-months?cmpid=twtr1 ====== hkmurakami Here were the takeaways from a discussion I had with a friend about this. Initial setup is likely cumbersome but straightfo...
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The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance - graeme https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-29/hollywood-stars-didn-t-pay-90-percent-tax-they-created-loopholes ====== WalterBright Left unsaid by the article is that the tax shelters the wealthy invested their money in, were less productive investments. When R...
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SC Police Chief: DrugWar WrongThink Creates Reasonable Suspicion To "Find You" - DanBC http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/01/columbia-sc-police-chief-drugwar-wrongthink-creates-reasonable-suspicion-to-find-you/ ====== DanBC I'm posting this here for 2 reasons: 1) The idiocy of employees posting really stupid things to so...
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FirstSearch – Tactical advice in tech - faramarz https://search.firstround.com ====== CalChris I've subscribed to their excellent _First Round Review_ and this seems like a collation and organization of that. [http://firstround.com/review/](http://firstround.com/review/) And I guess that over time, they've accumulat...
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Vultr Launches $2.50/mo VM - leesalminen https://www.vultr.com/news/The-Vultr-Cloud-Is-More-Powerful-Than-Ever/ ====== leesalminen \- $2.50/mo VM \- Double RAM on nearly all instance types \- Reduced bandwidth overage charges ($0.01/GB) \- Firewall service
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Show HN: Created an Easy to Use PHP Page Scrapper - mahadazad https://github.com/mahadazad/page-scrapper ====== izolate You should rename it to its correct spelling: scraper. ~~~ mahadazad Thanks alot I just fixed it
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Show HN: NuScenes – largest open-source self-driving dataset ever - ayw https://www.nuscenes.org/#hn ====== yodon It looks like this is the third time in two days @ayw has posted this link, each time with a different #hash at the end (to fool HN's anti-duplicate- posting code?). Genuine question here, is that kind of...
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RudeVC: Asking one VC for a referral to another - romain_g http://www.rudebaguette.com/2014/04/29/rudevc-vc-referrals/ ====== jacquesm This happens all the time, be careful though, if you don't approach them individually you might be 'burned' to a whole group of VCs if one of them does not like you. Also, some VCs ar...
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A galactic visualization of the prime factors of the first million numbers - fanf2 https://twitter.com/jhnhw/status/1031829726757900288 ====== Southclaws Looks familiar... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#/media/Fil...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#/media/File:Observable_universe...
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Ask HN: What is the best Covid-19 dashboard? - r0f1 I found some online, but many of them lack some important numbers? Do you know any dashboards that 1) are regulary updated, 2) show the numbers over time, 3) show the rate per 100.000 inhabitants, 4) show the number of people tested? ====== rladd I like [https://covi...
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Email Is Not Broken - thereyougo https://kevq.uk/email-is-not-broken/ ====== Nasreddin_Hodja > Spam is by far the biggest problem It's not. The biggest problem is big email providers such like Gmail. ~~~ ysleepy It is related. You can't easily run your own mail server because the hurdles you have to overcome to not...
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Sound can be excessive police force, federal court rules - johnshades https://www.fastcompany.com/40585221/piercing-sound-can-be-excessive-police-force-federal-court-rules ====== opwieurposiu What citizens need is a bill protecting the natural right of proportional response. If the cops use a deafening or blinding dev...
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History of Online Advertising - atulagarwal http://www.adpushup.com/blog/the-history-of-online-advertising/ ====== Simple1234 Wow. I've been doing internet marketing for 12 years! Where does the time go?
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New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom - gorbachev https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom ====== pjc50 Finally a named source, but still no photos and the alleged hacked board is still not in the hands of a public sec...
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Yahoo rapped by China partner - alecco http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e17cfd68-0398-11df-a601-00144feabdc0.html ====== mahmud Did the Financial Times just use "rape" in a metaphorical, gamer-dude manner? ~~~ andrewcooke no. the word is "rap", as in "rap on the knuckles" - a physical strike used in punishment (mainly ar...
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Can Google’s Larry Page Make Flying Cars a Reality? - Aelinsaar http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/we-were-promised-flying-cars-and-larry-page-wants-to-deliver/ ====== new_hackers This is a completely futile waste of money that goes against any real progress of the human race. It takes VASTLY more energy to keep a m...
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Working the System at a BigCo - jasonkester http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/working-the-system.html ====== ben1040 At a prior employer of mine, you accrued 12 sick days per year, up to a maximum of 120 in your bucket at any given time. If you were ill, you were permitted to use as many of your accrued sick days...
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“Open Source” Ventilator Project by University of Florida - ck2 https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventilator-project/ ====== blhack The spirit of all of this inspiring, however: I worry that a lot of these efforts are actually going to be detrimental to their intended causes. We're ...
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A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 - uggedal http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html ====== jellicle > Of course, it’s highly illegal to use trojans to rob retail investors and > game the stock market, so this story is not particularly realistic. But in fact that entire scenario he just describe...
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Federal appeals court upholds ban on gay marriage - pyrophane http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-court-same-sex-ban-20141106-story.html ====== pyrophane Here's a PDF of the actual court opinion: [http://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate- courts/ca6/14-5818...](http://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate- courts/ca6/...
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Why Google Play Search Results Suck - intuvio http://blog.intuvio.com/?p=195 ====== liufei can't agree more, how can a search giant provide such irrelevant search results in its app search...
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Show HN: Hackathon Rails starter kit - kurenn88 https://github.com/IcaliaLabs/furatto-rails-start-kit ====== storm_kid Dope. ~~~ kurenn88 Did you find it useful?
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Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request - HectorRamos https://github.com/msporny/dna/pull/1 ====== po You know... what would be interesting is if he convinced his parents to submit their data and then he had his data as a merge commit. ~~~ wallflower git blame ------ cubicle67 th...
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A collection of ReactVR experiments - nik-graf https://github.com/nikgraf/webvr-experiments ====== FezVrasta I can see a bright future for JavaScript ~~~ mxstbr Especially for React. The decision to decouple the component layer from the rendering layer makes it amazingly easy to create new renderers! I reckon in 201...
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Recession Tales - The Workplace Is Changing Forever - jamesbressi http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/11/04/recession-tales-the-workplace-is-changing-forever/ ====== Ixiaus Gloom and doomers keep glooming and dooming because they can't see outside of their valuing system. Change is the only constant in the Universe....
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If you're bored check out my new game Trickochet (and rate it for me!) - benologist http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/533914 ====== barmstrong Nice work dude...the hidden blocks that fade in/out got a little annoying after a while (felt like a "fake" challenge that didn't quite fit the theme). But overall great ...
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Rewriting the Buildbox Agent in Go - keithpitt https://buildbox.io/blog/rewriting-the-buildbox-agent ====== gecko I'm not familiar with the Ruby ecosystem anymore, so this is a genuine question: does the memory usage improvement here indicate a typical Ruby workload; if so, is this optimal, or are there profiling to...
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I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users - muriithi http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001063.html ====== daniel-cussen I draw the line between feedback and advice. Advice is worthless, feedback is priceless. Advice is a user saying, "Holy sneakers, I just thought of the biggest idea for how you can make a soci...
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How does Nokia or OnePlus 'mistakenly' collect user data and ship it to China? - walterbell https://www.androidcentral.com/how-does-company-nokia-or-oneplus-mistakenly-collect-user-data-and-ship-it-server-china ====== nutcracker46 It is a showing of poor attitude to say, "oh, mistakes happen" when missing such an impo...
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Show HN: Kisana – A modern to-do list that deals with procrastination - sebastiancrossa http://kisana.co ====== xTamales Can't wait to try it
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HR Antipatterns at Startups - jxf http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/hr-antipatterns-at-startups ====== rdl Of all the organizations I've ever observed close up, only two have had good HR practices: 1) Startups where a founder takes a deep interest in recruiting and HR -- specifically the "keep the team as producti...
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Show HN: We Shipped – Post an update when you finish that release, motivate devs - proletarian https://www.weshipped.com ====== goodoldboys I really don't want to sound like a jerk here, but I'm confused as to why anyone would need extra motivation to do their job. Isn't the satisfaction of shipping a feature already ...
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Founder Institute's Blacklist of Unsavory Characters - cristinacordova http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/29/founder-institute-blacklist/ ====== joshfraser Anyone with access want to publish the full list? ------ mkramlich Having law firms in his blacklist is bound to have some blowback in the form of legal battles. IAN...
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Entanglement: addicting js puzzle game - Tenchi http://entanglement.gopherwoodstudios.com/ ====== CodeMage I'm using FF 3.0.19. For me, it puts up the "Loading" screen, plays music and just sits there. Anything special required? ~~~ Tenchi Any webkit based works perfectly. Opera and Firefox 4 beta works too ~~~ ak...
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Cambridge researchers create a touchscreen you don't have to touch - vinnyglennon https://www.slashgear.com/cambridge-researchers-create-a-touchscreen-you-dont-have-to-touch-24630475/ ====== melling The touchless screens would be great at kiosks, ATM’s, etc. One less way to transmit disease. Google has a similar tech...
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Notes from the Jeff Bezos Talk - joshwa http://joshwand.backpackit.com/pub/1452859 ====== sanj Perhaps someone can ask it at Startup School? PG -- is Jeff doing Q&A? ------ dangoldin Thanks for taking the notes - I enjoyed reading them. ------ pmjordan Those are pretty interesting, thanks joshwa!
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We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It? - gvasilei https://medium.com/the-mission/were-f-cked-it-s-over-or-is-it-5abe1432471d#.dx6055kel ====== dleslie Let me save you some time: In the end they ditched their "sharing" economy model of food production and delivery, rented a kitchen and hired staff, and became a delivery s...
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Tell HN: I will build your grue-free MVP/POC for web, mobile, desktop or dungeon - gruebait http://eatenbygrues.com/hire ====== gruebait james@eatenbygrues.com [https://github.com/gruebait](https://github.com/gruebait) All projects include complimentary grue-delousing and a one-year supply of torches. ------ eate...
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How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names - epi0Bauqu http://www.cio.com/special/slideshows/famous_tech_names/index#slideshow ====== SingAlong Wow! I didn't know about RedHat. All this while I was under the notion that it was just a pun of words. The biggest in the list should have read "Google - spelling mis...
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Voxel Pops: Lexaloffle Show Voxatron Editor - ukdm http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/21/voxel-pops-lexaloffle-show-voxatron-editor/ ====== willvarfar I love the recent more-mainstream popularity of indie and innovatively-retro games! I'm sure there was a vibrant scene making these games in the last decade, bu...
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The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care - digital55 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-us.html ====== Bucephalus355 I wish I had a link for this, but I believe as Obamacare was being drafted / the economy was in dire straits in 2009, the Obama administration had to make...
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Please remove mitsuhiko/* - art2 https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127 ====== art2 What is staggering is that one would assume that this service was created with the aim of helping open source developers, but when the developers ask personally to make a reasonable change to how the site is functioning, t...
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My letter from the NSA - skidoo http://nilskidoo.noblogs.org/my-letter-from-the-nsa/ ====== smith_smithson What, no information retrieval charges? How are we going to pay for all the ducts?
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Accounting for Clouds: Stop Saying CapEx Vs. OpEx - delano http://gevaperry.typepad.com/main/2009/01/accounting-for-clouds-stop-saying-capex-vs-opex.html ====== moe He lost me much earlier: _In other words, let's say you're buying a server from Dell for $5,800 dollars and you expect to use that server for 3 years. Y...
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Barbarian Virtues - benbreen https://www.thenation.com/article/barbarian-virtues/ ====== jpzisme Given the choice between having to constantly fight the masses and having to sometimes fight a state that was designed to safeguard freedoms but sometimes infringes upon them, I'll take the latter. A quick look at how the...
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Flirtatious Labs - Making a game out of Flirting - VSerge http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/10/24/flirtatious-labs-making-a-game-out-of-flirting/ ====== jbfraisse Sounds like a great mix of our two majors actual needs in life : relations and fun!!! ------ lwhalen facebook required? I'll pass, thanks. ~~~ VSerge Act...
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Announcing Certbot: EFF's Client for Let's Encrypt - schoen https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/announcing-certbot-new-tls-robot ====== hackuser > Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority, co-founded by EFF, Mozilla, and > researchers from the University of Michigan I'd like to make a point about money: Institution...
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How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison - bocalogic http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-the-fbi-shawn-hogan-and-brian-dunning-2013-4 ====== celticjames Shocked to learn that Brian Dunning has done this. I've been listening to his Skeptoid podcast for years. I always pictured someone o...
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How Much Does Education Really Boost Intelligence? - mpweiher https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brainstorm/201806/how-much-does-education-really-boost-intelligence ====== davelnewton Do people claim that education boosts _intelligence_? It _can_ improve problem-solving skills (it's not a _given_ , e.g., going ...
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Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs - zdw http://www.evanjones.ca/fork-is-dangerous.html ====== caf In my opinion, it's libraries that secretly use threads under the covers (but still access state shared with the rest of the program like the malloc heap) that are what's dangerous. ~~~ chubot Yes. Lib...
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Facebook employees may face pay cut if they move to cheaper areas to remote work - pseudolus https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-employees-may-face-pay-cut-if-they-move-to-cheaper-areas-to-work-from-home-2020-05-21 ====== Fej Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261394](https://news.ycom...
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Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations - feltsense http://hackernews.betacat.io/ ====== tomatotomato37 Not to disparage your coder skills, but I think this is a good example of why the "brutalist" style of HN is superior. In exchange for a 5MB deluge of scripts that takes 20 seconds to fu...
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Advice: Just finish it - anuraggoel http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/23/advice-just-finish-it/ ====== patio11 "Just finish it" is terrible advice because software is never "finished". Bingo Card Creator, which is "pretty freaking simple" as far as software goes (v1.0 got released in 8 days after I had the idea...
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Show HN: Monochrome browser - lcnmrn http://lucianmarin.com/monochrome/ ====== strict9 This is fantastic! Just downloaded it and already love it. Solves bad design and poor readability on many of the sites I love. ~~~ lcnmrn I'm glad you find it useful.
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Japan 'glasses ban' for women at work sparks backlash - pseudolus https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50342714 ====== PaulHoule See [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGexABMTD-A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGexABMTD-A)
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A Bit of Advice for the JavaScript Semicolon Haters - spullara http://benalman.com/news/2013/01/advice-javascript-semicolon-haters/ ====== draegtun I've never liked the aesthetics of a leading comma.... var foo = { bar: 100 , baz: 200 }; However the fact that (some)...
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Tuning a Typewriter - hardmath123 http://hardmath123.github.io/crown-typewriter.html ====== Leszek It'd also be interesting to explore other optimisation metrics, e.g. having common letters on the ends to allow the user to 'blindly' move the pointer to one end or the other without a need for precision. I'm also curio...
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Scientists successfully revive 100Million-year-old microbes from the sea - pseudolus https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/28/scientists-successfully-revived-mesozoic-era-microbes-from-the-sea ====== MindGods See recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23977234](https://news.ycombinator.com...
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The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf] - tosh https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf ====== pmoriarty For anyone to whom the name E.M.Forster does not ring a bell, he's more well known for _" A Room with a View"_ and _" A Passage to India"_.[1] He also wrote another short story which I consi...
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Layer X – container scheduling across multiple orchestration layers - ilevine https://github.com/emc-advanced-dev/layerx ====== bdcravens perhaps "container scheduling across multiple orchestration layers" instead of "new cool open source project" would make more sense for a headline? ~~~ ilevine Can you help me by l...
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I Created a 6 Figure Coaching Business That Blew Up in My Face (2012) - vincent_s https://medium.com/@cahillkicking/how-i-created-a-6-figure-coaching-business-by-accident-that-then-blew-up-in-my-face-and-so-can-7d471ffaba6c ====== gregory194 It is important to what we love to do, it gives you job satisfaction and woul...
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1500 people died in America in 2009 because not everyone gets sick leave - brohoolio http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/15/more-than-a-third-of-american-workers-dont-get-sick-leave-and-theyre-making-the-rest-of-us-ill/ ====== mtmail The title of the article is "More than a third of American work...
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53% did not delete FB or tighten their privacy settings post Cambridge Analytica - Sonnol53 https://www.besttechie.com/report-majority-did-not-delete-facebook-or-tighten-their-privacy-settings/ ====== georgebarnett A single poll on a Silicon Valley social bubble chat app is not an appropriate way to draw any conclusio...
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Is it OK to post the launch of a new startup here? - raffinyc New to these boards, just wondering if it's ok to post the launch of a new startup here... ====== nickler Ludicrous question, however I respect your appreciation for good form. If you want coverage, go get it anyway you can. Elbows up, because launching ...
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A good CMS gives you total markup freedom - niyazpk http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201009/a_good_cms_gives_you_total_markup_freedom/ ====== kls This is actually a very good rant because it is a huge problem. CMS skills are very tied to platform implementation. So if you are a Java guy you chose a Java CMS, if y...
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Water's Fourth Form - odddogmedia http://news.discovery.com/earth/new-water-super-cool-below-zero-111111.html ====== dalke Horribly misleading title and text. "Besides vapor, ice and liquid, a fourth form of water may exist." At least 15 crystalline phases of water exist, including Ice IX. I think this is the releva...
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In Hong Kong, one protester pulls off his mask and defines a movement - bkohlmann https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-hong-kong-unmasked-protester-identity-dissent-20190706-story.html ====== bkohlmann I’ve been thinking about this man all night. He, alone among his peers, took an action with foreseeable and negat...
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Better Excel charts - karamazov https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/6/4/Better_Excel_charts/ ====== dpcx Not that I'm saying Excel's graphing is excellent, but the graphs at <https://datanitro.com/blog/assets/img/chart3.PNG> are a bit of a cheat since there's very little customization done to the Excel graph. That may ...
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Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs - oedmarap https://slack.engineering/tracing-at-slack-thinking-in-causal-graphs/ ====== Game_Ender The real takeaway here: Honeycomb is a great tool for log and trace analysis, and by using Honeycomb's minimal data model [1] for traces you can expand tracing throughout much ...
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Reactor shutdown threatens world’s medical-isotope supply - artsandsci http://www.nature.com/news/reactor-shutdown-threatens-world-s-medical-isotope-supply-1.20577 ====== DrScump BTW, Canada’s Chalk River reactor is the technetium-99m manufacturer featured in the recent PBS miniseries "Uranium: Chasing the Dragon's Ta...
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Ask HN: Writing Remote work on your CV?? - haidrali Do we need to write our remote work on CV. I have been working remote for more than one year along side my job. Is it good to mention it or will it be negative thing<p>Please write your feedback<p>Thanks ====== sjs382 I think by "remote" you mean "freelance" or "si...
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Anyone knows what is happening with the Diaspora guys? - kinkora I was reading an article about why a particular website was moving away from the Facebook Platform (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2549468) which got me thinking about the Diaspora guys (https://joindiaspora.com/).<p>The two biggest issues for me ...
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Show HN: we open sourced our Django drip email app - bryanh https://github.com/zapier/django-drip ====== bryanh In the spirit of GetVero, Intercom.io and Mixpanel, here is our done-is- better-than-perfect take on drip campaigns. Definitely check out the docs [1] and the demo [2] for a better idea of what it does (and ...
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Show HN: Landing page test for all-you-can-print subscription photo book service - hoag http://smileboox.com ====== alephnan I’d add a CSS3 text-shadow [1] to make the text more legible against the background image. There are other UI tricks to achieve the same goal as well. Also, I think this would be one of the rare...
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R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat - uladzislau http://io9.com/5934884/rip-harry-harrison-creator-of-the-stainless-steel-rat-bill-the-galactic-hero-and-soylent-green ====== invalidOrTaken Rest In Peace indeed. I loved these. Great computer scientists aside, does _anyone_ enjoy as much acclaim...
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Qwerly API Review - apievangelist http://blog.apievangelist.com/2011/05/29/qwerly-api-review/ ====== Klonoar So this is kinda cool... I guess? Eh, I'll be honest, this is just a bit out there to me. Facebook/Twitter/etc all offer different types of data; if you _really_ see this space as maturing, you'd realize this ...
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Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells - pseudolus https://www.quantamagazine.org/rethinking-the-ancestry-of-the-eukaryotes-20190409/ ====== grayed-down Good post. I had an organic chemistry prof back in the late eighties that remarked something like, "if you think the origin of life was some sort of random...
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Netflix throttling itself isn’t a net neutrality problem, FCC chair says - sprucely http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/netflix-throttling-itself-isnt-a-net-neutrality-problem-fcc-chair-says/ ====== pink_dinner "Netflix critics acknowledge that the FCC's net neutrality or "Open Internet" rules apply only to Intern...
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More than 30 states offer online voting, but experts warn it isn’t secure - chewymouse https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/17/more-than-30-states-offer-online-voting-but-experts-warn-it-isnt-secure/ ====== tim333 You could probably do it ok if you are not too worried about privacy - log in and s...
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Ask HN: What happened to DuckDuckGo? - cryptography No results found across range of queries. DId they nuke their database? ====== eindiran I am able to run searches currently - all queries I have tried have returned results as expected. Perhaps the network outage is over. ------ teeray Appears to be down as of this ...
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Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube - minimaxir https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-to-improve.html ====== mindcrime My biggest problem with YT recommendations is that they _dramatically_ overweight recent videos when generating the recommendations. I mean, I can spend a we...
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Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chandler Airport - prostoalex http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209168169.html ====== gene-h Hydrogen offers better prospects for civil aviation than batteries do. Airbus did a study[0] that showed it would be possible to power all civil aviation use cases w...
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