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Anyone been to netscape.com in awhile? - zotz http://netscape.com ====== sporkologist Yes I've been to Yahoo, why do you ask?
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death of the blockbuster drug (maybe the blockbuster software too?) - far33d http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/30/death_of_the_bl.html ====== far33d What I mean is: could these same market forces apply to software? Are we at the end of the era of domination on the order of Microsoft Office?
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How Much Money To Raise - tilt http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/07/how-much-money-to-raise.html ====== jayzee A lot of discussion around dilution ignores the important aspect of the number of founders. If you are a single founder, you might want to raise more money to hire a larger team and you would be fine with great...
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Corona Statistics by Country - kamban http://corona.myquicksite.com/ ====== kamban Data is refreshed on a daily basis.
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Commute Maps Reveal We All Live in Mega-Regions, Not Cities - seycombi https://www.wired.com/2016/12/mesmerizing-commute-maps-reveal-live-mega-regions-not-cities/ ====== JakDrako 325 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega Region One. ...
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Ask HN: Advice on Southern tech cities - sputknick I'm looking for advice on Southern cities for tech jobs. How accurate is my assessment of the below cities, and are there any good Southern tech cities I missed? I would ideally like to be in an area where I can work on emerging technologies: blockchain, AI, clou...
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Executives are selling off their company's stock at a record pace - spking https://www.cbsnews.com/news/insider-stock-sales-by-company-executives-soar-to-a-record-pace/ ====== everybodyknows Buybacks require additional cash, which comes either from reducing liquid assets e.g. cash in the bank, or new borrowing. Articl...
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Kroger agrees to acquire Harris Teeter for $2.5B - memset http://www.wral.com/kroger-agrees-to-acquire-harris-teeter-for-2-5b/12640045/ ====== Eclyps This... doesn't seem to be something that I would expect to find front-page of HN. Did I miss something about Kroger and technology?
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The creators of This is Spinal Tap have been paid almost nothing - Terretta https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-20/this-is-spinal-tap-s-400-million-lawsuit ====== fdej Talk about method acting. The creators truly immersed themselves in the role, taking on the standard industry practice of getting screwed o...
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Tips from 37signals' book Rework - grantgrant http://2above.com/entrepreneurship/1-principle-3-memorable-tips-from-37signals-book-rework/ ====== adriand One problem with this book is that much of it does not make sense for companies who are not already like 37Signals, either in terms of success or business model. F...
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Is the world running out of food? - prostoalex http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/06/economist-explains-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/istheworldrunningoutoffood ====== athompson1951 No, I don't think it is running out of food. The Politian want us to believe there are to many ppl, and not enough food.the...
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“Why I'm not at CCCamp 2019” - rkraaijenhagen https://annejan.com/cccamp2019 ====== vertex-four Hacking is political. Always has been. And for many, hacking is a way of putting our politics in action quite directly - among other things, ensuring our privacy because nobody will do it for us, and building new systems th...
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Google Launches Credit Cards for Small Businesses - Mistone http://mashable.com/2012/10/08/google-credit-cards/ ====== dangrossman This is a strange offering. If you wanted to pay for AdWords on credit, why wouldn't you be doing so already? I assume most businesses are already using a credit or charge card. And getti...
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Unreal Engine 4.11 Released - stesch https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-11-released ====== stesch HN's dupe check failed. The later post [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410811](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410811) has more comments right now. Please go there for Unreal Engine 4.11 disc...
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Ask HN: What are the best courses you've taken? - pyeu ====== mlwhiz Machine Learning by Andrew ng for sure and by far the best.
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New Canon 5D and 1980s Japanophobia - soundsop http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/12/06/new-canon-5d-and-1980s-japanophobia/ ====== noonespecial There are plenty of American examples like Apple and DeWalt that disprove this premise. Choosing just one product is not a big enough sample space. I'm sure there's plen...
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Is Silicon Valley Driving Teachers Out? - llamataboot http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/silicon-valley-housing-tough-on-teachers/399071/?single_page=true ====== germinalphrase SV could find ways to increase teacher salaries beyond what the property tax funding ceiling will allow, but this would re...
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Show HN: Overview of countries where you can party legally during Corona - gobeercrawl https://wherecanweparty.com ====== lemonlizzie this makes me mad. why the f do you need to party right now. get your shit together and actually care about something other than yourself. pathetic.
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The Exile of the Bohemians - yirgacheffe http://read.maintainradiosilence.com/radiosilence#issue/6190/article/~xz9 ====== amateurpolymath "There is no room to expand without replacing something that’s already there. Since few of the Victorian residences that give the city its character are taller than three stories, h...
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Ask HN: Just moved to SF, what's the best way to discover local startup scene? - nnd Hi there,<p>I&#x27;m a hacker, who just moved to SF (The Mission) after traveling around the world for a year. Currently, I work remotely building iOS apps and hack some side projects in my spare time (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x...
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Ruling Unsealed: National Security Letters Upheld as Constitutional - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/press/releases/ruling-unsealed-national-security-letters-upheld-constitutional ====== umanwizard I only had time to skim the ruling, but it seems like the petitioners only raised First Amendment concerns. Can someone wit...
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Wait, the brain is a Bloom filter? - tocomment https://www.numenta.com/blog/wait-the-brain-is-a-bloom-filter-petrillic.html ====== PaulHoule It's been known for a long time that the Hippocampus works that way, helping memory generalize by extracting patterns.
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Ask HN: What is the best IDE for python notebooks? - jakobov I really don&#x27;t like the web interface for Jupyter. It is missing many essential features of an IDE.<p>What alternatives are there to the jupyter web interface? ====== gry [https://www.spyder-ide.org/](https://www.spyder-ide.org/) It's worth watching de...
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Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes - Osiris30 http://thewirecutter.com/2016/05/lets-talk-about-amazon-reviews/ ====== jonstokes I actually know people whose job it is to write these things, and to create and maintain sock puppet personas on forums for the purpose of subtly promoting clients' products and disparagin...
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Ask HN: Reasonable Java editor for heavily CLI-oriented UNIX types who hate bloat? - abalashov Hi everyone --<p>Let me give some background to properly contextualise this question:<p>I am the type of programmer that has been doing UNIX (generally Linux, also some commercial varieties) since 5th grade or so, and conseq...
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Little UI Details - yusufp https://twitter.com/i/moments/880688233641848832 ====== shazow Great list, but Twitter is really not the best platform for this kind of content. Some of the screenshots have such bad compression artifacts that it's difficult to make out the before/after changes. For example: [https://pbs.twi...
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Superfish CEO admits to installing root certificate to show ads on secure sites - phpdeveloper_ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/21/superfish-admits-installing-root-certificate-authority-show-ads-secure-sites/ ====== kjs3 He should be hunted for sport. ------ tzakrajs Clown town in Superfish HQ.
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Ask HN: What is your perfect job? - shanelja Simply describe your perfect job, at this moment in time.<p>~<p>Title: PHP Web developer<p>Description: I would like a job where I am able to work autonomously and allowed to handle projects from start to finish. I would like to have flexible hours and be allowed to wor...
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Twitter Isn’t Raising the Character Limit. It’s Becoming a Walled Garden - bootload http://mashable.com/2016/01/05/paper-screen-oree-stylograph/ ====== hackuser The link points to the wrong Mashable story.
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Reality Check: Have Leave campaigners changed their minds? - ifdefdebug http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36641390 ====== lordnacho I can say the vitriol after the result has been crazy. My FB has dozens and dozens of posts from Remoaners decrying the idiots, racists, and old people who dared to vote a...
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Gos: Armed Golang - 475783185 https://github.com/storyicon/gos ====== gus_massa Comets of the author in the duplicate submission: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969644](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969644) > _gos is compatible with all go commands and has go mod /get equipped with > smart `GOPROXY`...
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How I Used Upcall to Generate $6k with a $450 Budget (In One Day) - leahcim ====== ClassyJacket This appears to be a link back to this comments page.
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The Social Life of Routers - makimaki http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21782/?a=f ====== Anon84 The paper(s) mentioned in the article: [http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~mbogunya/home_files/0709.0303v2%28...](http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~mbogunya/home_files/0709.0303v2%282%29.pdf) [http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~mbogunya/home_...
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Know Your Neurons (2012) - ioab http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/know-your-neurons-classifying-the-many-types-of-cells-in-the-neuron-forest/ ====== idrios This is a really cool post and I love seeing posts about human neurons on Hacker news. Especially this one talking about the different glial cells, as...
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Mac OS 7.5.5 running on Apple Watch [video] - erickhill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1xJxS_kr-M ====== Sephiroth87 I didn't make a video but I did something similar ^^ [https://twitter.com/Sephiroth87/status/608460838467420162](https://twitter.com/Sephiroth87/status/608460838467420162) ------ k_brother I knew the...
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Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping - mikece https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/senators-prod-fcc-to-act-on-sim-swapping/ ====== mrandish This seems like it's already a serious and growing problem. It might be best to take a two-pronged approach of quickly implementing process requirements that make such swaps ...
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Facebook to Microsoft: P3P is outdated, what else ya got? - Slimy http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-to-microsoft-p3p-is-outdated-what-else-ya-got/9332 ====== rlpb It seems crazy to me for my browser to trust what a site declares about its practices anyway. I don't mind having a whitelist. Expecting sites to ...
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Ask HN: Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet? - agotterer I have been thinking about confirmation emails today and cant think of a single reason to actually send them. They are annoying and must have a user drop off rate. I know I personally don't return to some low priority sites if I'm to lazy to load m...
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Sharing images on Twitter - davewiner http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/09/sharingImagesOnTwitter.html ====== jsavimbi Looks good, yes, and not safe for work.
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Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Harsh Response to Unrest - chmaynard https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/trump-republicans-protesters.html ====== chmaynard From the article: Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, commended Mr. Trump, saying, “I’m glad the president led by going to St. John’s Church.” It was the pro...
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Ask HN: Could rapid development of the JVM help it beat the CLR? - z3phyr Oracle, after being barmy for some time, has turned into a good mentor of the Java Platform...<p>It has started working for the improvement of now fully open sourced OpenJDK, by implimenting the research prototype of the Da Vinci Machine, in t...
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Bad News for Aspiring Gurus? - shawndumas http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/bad-news-for-aspiring-gurus/69156/ ====== beoba "In 2003 he published a paper arguing that when people study success stories exclusively--as many avid devourers of business self-help books do--they come away with a vastly ove...
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Higher Ed's Event Horizon: How Universities Will Collapse Under Their Own Weight - MLMorley https://medium.com/@MLMorley/higher-education-s-event-horizon-9b150898a59d ====== taylodl Statements from the article like "how much value are universities contributing to students and is it worth the societal cost?" are crin...
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Getting a Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor - luu http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/04/there_are_no_academic_jobs_and_getting_a_ph_d_will_make_you_into_a_horrible.html ====== Anon84 literature PhD
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Do you think we are stupid? - pius http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/01/if-theres-a-pos.html ====== jawngee Yes, I think you are stupid. Not because you use rails or ruby, but because you even care about such trivial bullshit. I use PHP everyday, but do you see me crying about the insane amount of whipping i...
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Google Blacklists bit.ly - avinassh http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/10/bit-ly-blacklisted-by-google-safe-browsing.html ====== andygambles This is why it is a good idea to use your own custom domain with bit.ly ~~~ avinassh Yes, here's the official tutorial link for the lazy: [http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/arti...
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Show HN: Building a web app in 24hrs - jcnotchrist http://blog.blackballsoftware.com/2011/04/03/from-conception-to-customers-in-24-hours-how-we-built-a-successful-startup-overnight/ ====== vyrotek Nice work. +1 for .Net! _This allows my web layer to have no project reference to my data layer, and forces my develop...
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Ask HN: Does anyone have experience with ICANN deletions? - Mononokay I&#x27;ve been checking up on a domain every once in a while I&#x27;ve wanted that&#x27;s been squatted on, and noticed this week that it&#x27;s been put into &quot;pendingDelete&quot; and &quot;redemptionPeriod&quot; status.<p>Is there any way to c...
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DDoS Attack Against Default DNS System v2 - hboon http://status.namecheap.com/archives/17727 ====== matthewrussell This is a pretty big and complex attack. We have a ton of DDoS mitigation in place but it has taken some time for the filtering to become effective. We are mitigating this as fast as we possibly can. I...
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Ask HN: How do I get Gmail to display 2 different accounts on one page? - keltex I have two different gmail accounts. One is @gmail.com and the other is a google apps email account. Anybody know how to get both accounts displayed on the same page? (I thought of creating a frame page but I was hoping for something mo...
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Ask HN: What privacy respecting (non-targeted) ad exchanges are there? - bobo123 Google AdSense, Amazon, Media.net etc. all seem to run targeted ads, ones that set web beacons or cookies to follow users around and target advertising based on their browsing habits.<p>Is there an ad exchange that displays non-targeted b...
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Microsoft throws its weight behind Web Open Font format - dbEsq http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/microsoft-throws-its-weight-behind-web-open-font-format.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss ====== bullseye One of the comments on that the story summed up my first impressions quite well- _...
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The Chinese government appears to have completely blocked GitHub via DNS - chermanowicz http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/01/21/the-chinese-government-appears-to-have-completely-blocked-github-via-dns/ ====== fullreset as far as i can see -- no. they haven't. (i'm in china, obviously, and not using a VPN or other such...
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Federated Learning for Drug Discovery - Sebastian_09 https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/17/major-pharma-companies-including-novartis-and-merck-build-federated-learning-platform-for-drug-discovery/ ====== sidhantgandhi Is there an open source platform like this for us to learn from? ~~~ Sebastian_09 You can check out the...
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Ask HN: Best book or resource to REALLY grasp CSS? - ssijak What was the book or resource that really made you grasp CSS in a way that you proactively know what will happen when you change random position or display attributes on elements and that enabled you to design pages without too much trial and error?<p>Backgro...
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When Twitter Meet Facebook, Zuck has no sense of humour. - boyter http://www.news.com.au/technology/when-twitter-met-facebook-every-joke-landed-like-a-dead-fish-on-the-ground/story-e6frfro0-1226096550654 ====== jamesteow "We had to wait on this huge line for lunch," he recalled. "Evan was like 'Aren't you the boss...
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A scholar of video technology reflects on the death of an analog medium - JumpCrisscross http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/07/caetlin_benson_allott_explores_the_legacy_of_vhs_and_vcr.html ====== 32bitkid I feel a similar conflict between nostalgia and pragmatism when I think about my experienc...
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Owens Corning Unveils High-Performance Fabric for Wind Turbine Blades - sprinkle http://earthandindustry.com/2010/11/owens-corning-to-lighten-load-on-wind-industry-with-new-turbine-fabric/ ====== btsabra Lets hope the U.S. wind industry can hang on long enough to use this stuff.
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Smarterer/Pluralsight Wants Me to Cease and Desist Taughtful.com - Theaxiom Today, less than 2 months after launching the beta of my social learning platform, Taughtful (taughtful.com); I received a cease and desist letter from Pluralsight&#x2F;Smarter stating that Taughtful is too similar to Smarter and that I have w...
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'Time telescope' could boost fibre-optic communication - prat http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17867-time-telescope-could-boost-fibreoptic-communication.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news ====== prat Here is the publication [http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v3/n10/abs/nphoton.200...](http://www.nature.c...
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What would you do if a company recently rejected you contacted you for an offer? - kennethwty So a company I recently interviewed with rejected me because they chose another candidate (No automatic rejection email. Both the recruiter and the manager emailed me saying how difficult it was to decide who to hire and all ...
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Ask HN: Raw SQL vs. ORM? - CodinM What&#x27;s your opinion&#x2F;experience on using raw SQL queries vs using an ORM for interfacing with an SQL DB? ====== VeejayRampay The trade-off is that of every higher-level VS lower-level anything when it comes to computers: Higher-level: Dependent on the quality of the "bridge"...
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The 2018 Top Programming Languages - taspeotis https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages ====== gmiller123456 For an organization that's supposed to be representative of such a scientific industry, it's amazing how bad/irresponsible the IEEE is with these statistics. There is so m...
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Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address - Killswitch https://magicsignup.com ====== aresant On the plus side \- The convenience factor is compelling, like auto-complete. \- As a v1 you can see the true magic in a seamless signup. On the downside: \- It does something unusual / unex...
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Idea for HN: Training an article summary bot as a community - FailMore If there is no world class article summary bot, perhaps HN could crowd source one: if every article had a comment which was the &#x27;result&#x27; of the current bot and this result was corrected by HN readers who read the article and this correcte...
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Show HN: I've made a site that lists new cryptocurrency listings - seb_b3lair http://cryptolistings.info ====== seb_b3lair The site filters tweets from exchanges and lists tweets concerning new altcoin listings. Might be useful for some of you guys. ~~~ bitxbitxbitcoin I'll definitely be using this. Thanks!
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Building CircleCI's Front End with Om [video] - sgrove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtQPSUi1iQ ====== mshenfield It is great to see ClojureScript and tradeoffs mentioned in the same sentence. I was drawn to Clojure(Script) by the promise of clean, modular, data driven applications. But I've had a hard time findi...
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Take a photo of yourself every time you commit - navigaid https://coderwall.com/p/xlatfq/take-a-photo-of-yourself-every-time-you-commit ====== qnsi but why?
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Ask HN: What makes a blog great? - dradu I will get right to the point: what do you think is the recipe for a great blog? What makes for a great blog? What's your secret?<p>I'm sure most of the people will say: QUALITY of the blog. But what is quality without exposure. If you have exposure but no QUALITY then you're c...
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Tails 3.13.1 Is Out - Sami_Lehtinen https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog ====== octosphere Another emergency release this time mitigating a Firefox vuln & more info here: [https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...](https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-...
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Google bans ads for services that secretly track, monitor people - elorant https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/10/google-bans-ads-for-services-that-secretly-track-monitor-people.html ====== tomohawk They don't like the competition ~~~ FlyMoreRockets It seems the problem isn't the tracking, but the secrecy.
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Stop TSA Scanners - edw519 http://stoptsascanners.blogspot.com/ ====== ataggart I opted out at SFO. The incredulous TSA agent repeatedly asked me why I was opting out. I declined to provide an answer, and instead simply asked if opting out was an option and if so, then I opt out. Eventually he let me through, shout...
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BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, with Passport smartphone - ajani http://www.computerworld.com/article/2687054/blackberry-goes-for-qwerty-keyboard-again-in-passport-smartphone.html ====== jdhawk Blackberry, ditch the OS...it's holding you back. I loved my Moto Droid Pro back in the day. I got a decent ec...
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Docker image with Tor, Privoxy and a process manager under 15 MB - rdsubhas https://medium.com/@rdsubhas/docker-image-with-tor-privoxy-and-a-process-manager-under-15-mb-c9e344111b61 ====== kylequest Using Alpine Linux for Docker images is doable, of course, but, as the post admits, Ubuntu is the "cloud OS of choice". ...
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Google Determines that FIDO U2F Security Keys Improve Security - willow9886 http://www.eweek.com/security/google-determines-that-fido-u2f-security-keys-improve-security.html ====== dgacmu The FIDO/Google blog post about it: [https://fidoalliance.org/case-study- series-google-security-k...](https://fidoalliance.org/cas...
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Greatest job posting ever - thesash https://www.wealthfront.com/designerwanted ====== serichsen Yeah, well, I opened the site and it was all just a mess. There were perhaps some messages jumbled together, but in a much too big font to sensibly read. In front, there was an actually readable message in a white box with ...
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The Future of Dementia Tourism - bookofjoe https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/08/27/might-dementia-tourism-to-lower-wage-economies-become-a-trend ====== bookofjoe [https://archive.vn/WoOCx](https://archive.vn/WoOCx)
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Boston partners with Waze to improve traffic flow - dbkeohane http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/02/13/boston-partners-with-googles-waze-app-to-improve-traffic-flow-in-the-city/ ====== joekozPHL Interesting collaboration between orgs, and great use of big data. I'm curious to see if other municipalities follow this...
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Ask HN: Should I make myself into a limited company? - Ellipsis753 Hello. I am just starting out as a freelancer after finishing 6th form college. I live in the UK and this means that I&#x27;m 18 and just starting to look for work as I am not going to University.<p>I would like to appear professional and to get work...
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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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A well-engineered and open source ASP.NET MVC application? - atko I would love to hear what HN userbase considers to be a well-engineered ASP.NET MVC application. While this term is vague, I am fairly confident that majority of you here used the term &quot;well-engineered&quot; or something to that end. There is a ton...
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Gnome 3.6 Released - nuclear_eclipse http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.6/ ====== nuclear_eclipse > _For people who like easter eggs, we have added something fun. You'll need > to be quick with your mouse: test to see if you can find it._ This intrigues me the most.
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What an arbitrary file upload/execution bug looks like on WordPress - edibleEnergy http://blog.bugreplay.com/post/152117721734/demonstratingwpexploit ====== edibleEnergy Link directly to the video here: [https://app.bugreplay.com/shared/report/4d616006-57a9-40df-a...](https://app.bugreplay.com/shared/report/4d616006-5...
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Ask HN: Is net neutrality overblown? - krausejj I understand the basics around net neutrality and was disappointed to see the rollback, but I was also surprised at how vehement the reaction was from the tech community.<p>My read of the issue was that:<p>- This will be easy to fix when Trump is replaced<p>- Comcast wou...
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Why We Don't Write Tests - genericsteele https://whatdoitest.com/why-we-dont-write-tests ====== drharris He forgot two of the most important reasons people don't test: 1) We inherited this monolithic spaghetti mess of a legacy system with a class hierarchy that does not lend itself to testing without a major rewrite ...
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Intel's Python distribution turbocharges data science - stanislavb http://www.infoworld.com/article/3117239/data-science/intels-python-distribution-turbocharges-data-science.html ====== ceyhunkazel In Anaconda versions 2.5 and later, MKL is freely available by default in Anaconda any difference between Intel version? ...
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Ask HN: Does anyone here have an art degree? - iansowinski As Graphic Art&#x27;s student, I&#x27;m curious if there are any developers with art history here - what&#x27;s your stories, and how do you apply your artistic knowledge and skills to IT work? ====== spaceribs BFA student turned full stack developer here. I w...
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Smog over Singapore - balakk http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/06/smog-over-singapore ====== latch Singapore's air is much better than Hong Kong's or Shanghai's. I grew up in the great white north, surrounded by nature, and on a day to day basis, Singapore's air is fine. But this annual haze, largely caused ...
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Cloudflare's proxy violates HTTP/1.1, and they don't care - lovasoa https://community.cloudflare.com/t/incorrect-caching-of-dynamic-resources/170977 ====== ckdarby Nothing to really see in these forum posts aside from at best what I can gather is, I'm right, your wrong and you should be thanking me for pointing this o...
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Filtering stream water or fresh water is medically unnecessary - curtis https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/filtering-stream-water-or-fresh-water-is-medically-unnecessary.html ====== benjohnson Don't follow his advice: All it takes is a rotting animal carcass or infected human poop near your water source to render wa...
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Money Stuff: The Companies Are in Charge Now - chucksmash https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-17/money-stuff-the-companies-are-in-charge-now ====== chucksmash On a similar topic, there was some interesting discussion in comments yesterday about whether it was good or bad that Microsoft was setting aside...
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Show HN: Weekend Project - Browse Instagram photos by location - clark-kent http://www.locatepics.com ====== clark-kent I created this to explore places and follow events. Some of my favorites in New York: Times Square: <http://www.locatepics.com/showpics?r=times+square+ny> Central Park: <http://www.locatepics.com...
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Ask HN: Online community for solopreneurs/bootstrappers? - hmngwy Hmm.. well? ====== dylanhassinger Dynamite Circle by tropicalmba.com is the best also there is Fizzle.co and Micropreneur Academy [http://www.micropreneur.com/](http://www.micropreneur.com/) by Rob Walling ~~~ bengali3 +1 for micropreneur.com. & mi...
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Possible government demand for WhatsApp backdoor - k4jh https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/possible_govern.html ====== joesmo I'm sure they'll take a victory here over Apple any day as there is more data to be gained here, but the two cases are not that different. Each case is about building a backdoor and...
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The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem - zenburnyourface http://camdp.com/blogs/multi-armed-bandits ====== mcpherrinm Eugh, this website has custom behavior for the left-right arrow keys, which breaks the back keyboard shortcut in Firefox (alt+left arrow key). Non- standard navigation on a page that IMHO doesn't need it. ~...
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Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rockets - josephmosby http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/amazons-jeff-bezos-discovers-historic-apollo-11-rocket-engines-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea/255190/ ====== ChuckMcM There is an interesting sub-text here which should probably get more attention. Jeff Bezos funded this...
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Daylight-Saving Time Is Past Its Prime - Shivetya http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443749204578052962065551312.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ====== drallison The posted link is behind a paywall. Try: [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044374920457805...](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963...
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Interview With Awesome Female Coder, Corrinne Yu, 3D Engine Lead, XBOX HALO - jv2222 http://techzinglive.com/?p=111 ====== mwcremer Hmm, so why point out gender, especially when combined with superlatives? Kind of undercuts the effect. ~~~ jv2222 In the world of coders (where males far out-number females) I think it ...
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Ghost for Journalism - uptown https://ghost.org/journalism/ ====== fapjacks I moved my blog to Ghost a couple years ago and I've been happy with the change. It is notable for not getting in my way. I feel like Ghost enables my writing more than anything else, and it's a really quick platform. Quick to draft, quick to ...
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A hedge fund’s ‘mercenary’ strategy: Buy newspapers, slash jobs, sell buildings - Bud https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-hedge-funds-mercenary-strategy-buy-newspapers-slash-jobs-sell-the-buildings/2019/02/11/f2c0c78a-1f59-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html ====== howard941 This strategy mirrors vulture c...
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