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Snowden decries Russian surveillance bill as dangerous, urges Putin not to sign - j1vms http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/25/edward-snowden-decries-russian-surveillance-bill-d/ ====== Pica_soO There is a man, standing for his ideals, even if it would cost him the last save harbor he had. Now lets belittle ...
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Learn about Startups with YC at Carnegie Mellon University today (Apr 5th, 6pm) - dwynings http://ycombinator.posterous.com/learn-about-startups-with-yc-at-carnegie-mell ====== akshaykarthik Dang, I'm going for a CMU college visit today morning but I have to be out of there in the afternoon. I really wish I could st...
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UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side - mpweiher https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/12/uis-are-not-pure-functions-of-model.html ====== acemarke This was discussed over on Reddit as well, and Dan Abramov pointed out several issues with the author's writeup and conclusions: [https://ww...
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? - Herald_MJ I always find these hiring threads interesting, but haven't seen one in a while. As it happens, this time around I <i>am</i> actually considering changing jobs, and am based in London. But in the interests of being community-spirited, it's great hearing from any interesting companies ...
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Ask HN: What are some good back end website ideas? - maceurt I have to program a final project for my ap computer science class and I have programmed some websites before, front and backend, but I don&#x27;t really have any ideas.<p>I have looked around online, but most often the suggestion is something boring like a ...
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Ask HN: What's your dream work schedule and why? - galfarragem Mine is:<p>From 6:15am to 9:00am, work alone at home.<p>Get ready and 15 minutes walk&#x2F;cycle to an office.<p>From 9:30am to 12:45pm, team work.<p>Wednesday and Friday work from home only. 6h&#x2F;day (3h on Friday), 27h&#x2F;week.<p>Why? I&#x27;m only ...
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Show HN: Cove. Your memory box. - fananta http://cove.im ====== bramm I signed up, but there's no explanation after signup either. It doesn't seem private since I keep seeing other people's random posts, despite this being MY memory box. ------ fananta We made Cove to help remember experiences and tell stories. Int...
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Counting people with WiFi - vinchuco http://phys.org/news/2015-06-people-wifi.html ====== acd A bit similar to WiSee that controlling devices with Wifi using your hands, though not counting people [http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/](http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/) ------ sehugg I noticed this effect when I was worki...
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Skype Now Supports The Open Source VP8 Video Codec - dkd903 http://digitizor.com/2011/08/04/skype-vp8/ ====== jamesbritt Discussion already underway here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843162>
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What's Holding OpenOffice Back? - markbao http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63684.html ====== tdoggette The short answer: It's not better. It's basically a clone of MS Office pre-2007, which is what everyone is using anyway. When the time comes to change, it'll be to the next version of Office, which will, by that t...
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Linux Kernel coding style [pdf] - smartinspereira https://slurm.schedmd.com/coding_style.pdf ====== smartinspereira This is still pure gold. To the point and full of sarcasm.
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Docker News – Newsletter for Docker Developers - kristianc http://offers.getcrane.com/docker-news-weekly-newsletter-for-docker ====== smt88 Docker itself already provides a very long and thorough newsletter. How does this differ?
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How 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate - bhousel http://nymag.com/news/features/67966/ ====== teye Just saw this last night in SF courtesy of the Commonwealth Club. Highly recommended. You're shown that getting results is straightforward: get rid of poor teachers and reward good ones. One...
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Man tells devastating story of his dad's death at an Airbnb - zeeshanm http://mashable.com/2015/11/08/airbnb-death/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-pete-link#5ox8xASfGZqV ====== clavalle That's terrible but it seems to me that you accept a certain amount of risk using airbnb. How could any set of regulations cover things like swi...
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Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy - kevingessner http://blog.fogcreek.com/responsive-html-emails-a-different-strategy/ ====== blowski At TechHub more than half our emails are opened on mobile (and mostly on iPhones, although there is some selective bias in there because of default image display settings). S...
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MIT website makes you decide who a self-driving car should kill in an accident - cocktailpeanuts http://www.businessinsider.com/mit-research-crowdsource-moral-decision-making-self-driving-cars-2016-9 ====== cocktailpeanuts I've seen this nonsense keep being shared on Twitter and now even MIT thinks this is a huge dile...
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Show HN: Steemwhale – 60ft lifesize whale on blockchain – send crypto for spout - roelandp https://steemwhale.io ====== roelandp I'm the maker, and listening to any of your questions here! ~~~ almostdigital Awesome project! Why does it shoot water from the nose though, shouldn't it be shooting from the back? ~~~ eos...
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Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All - haltingproblem https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/ ====== pravda Offline shopping works the same way! The price you pay at Home Depot is influenced by how far away the nearest Lowes is. And don't get me sta...
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11 Companies launched tonight at Atlanta Startup Weekend - ajaimk http://blog.weatherby.net/2009/11/atlanta-startup-weekend-3-projects.html ====== rjurney Social map of the #asw3 hashtag: <http://seadragon.com/view/fvf>
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Ask HN: 10k+ node _windows_ cluster in AWS? - leakybucket For testing purposes, I'd like to know if anyone has successfully created, controlled, and torn down clusters of 10,000 nodes or more of Windows instances in AWS? Or in other cloud providers?<p>I'm looking to setup a large scale QA test that will drive Windo...
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Porting Quake to the iPod Classic - Ivoah https://www.fwei.tk/blog/adieu-quake.html ====== theunamedguy Author here. This is actually a fairly old project of mine by now, but I just recently submitted it to Hackaday, which is probably why it's surfaced here. The original video demo has been taken down by the author (...
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AMA TIME – For blockchain gaming the most exciting thing is interoperability - jungong https://www.dapp.com/article/dapp-com-ama-episode-8-vladimir-from-blockchain-cuties-kokushi-from-my-crypto-heroes ====== NicolasSierro Nice action and indeed interoperability is important for blockchain in gaming. They were several ...
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International Backup Awareness Day - twampss http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001315.html ====== webology Services like Amazon's S3 and Rackspace's Cloud Files are well worth the $0.15 to $0.30 a month that it takes to keep a backup of most websites. Better yet, keep a copy in each service and avoid problems ...
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Rackspace acquire Slicehost - maryrosecook http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/10/22/big-news-today ====== benkant The great thing about Slicehost was the size. They were big enough to be reliable but small enough to give a shit when you had a question on #slicehost on freenode. PickledOnion's posts on the Sliceho...
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Let's enable AppArmor by default (why not?) - boramalper https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/msg00090.html ====== esaym If people rant and rave about how hard pulse audio is to configure, then I can only imagine how much kick back there will be about having to configuring apparmor etc. Just saying. Personal...
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The Register accidentally emails 46,524 user details to 3,521 of them - ethereal http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/email_blunder/ ====== tejaswiy Not that it fixes things, but their response came off as being surprisingly honest. Good on them. ~~~ rflrob The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you...
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Object-Oriented Programming is Bad - Fr0styMatt88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM ====== chillacy The starting 2 minutes were so grandiose and sales-ey that I didn't bother watching the rest, but the author does have a blogpost explaining his viewpoints, which goes by a lot quicker than the video: [https:...
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See which user accounts hackers try to access on your server the most - renownedmedia http://thomashunter.name/blog/see-which-user-accounts-hackers-try-to-access-on-your-server-the-most/ ====== hardwaresofton Also wanted to add that fail2ban ([http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page](http://www.fail2ban.org...
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Vivaldi browser releases Sync in Snapshot build for public testing - jonmccull https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/help-test-sync/ ====== jonmccull This feature has been the reason many users have held out on making the switch to Vivaldi as a daily drive. Will be interesting to see the results of the testing and how qu...
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Show HN: Lo – Ask and answer “Where you at?” with one tap - as1193 https://lo-yo.co ====== bluetidepro Love the idea and project, but I have to admit, you missed an amazing opportunity to call it "Yo-Lo" and parody off that awful (popular) phrase used in pop culture... Haha :) Keep it up. Downloaded the app, and am ...
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The Dark Art of Negotiation - jordancooper http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/the-dark-art-of-negotiation/ ====== kgrin My experience may be atypical, but most of the _serious_ negotiations I've been involved in have taken place on paper/email and over days/weeks, not a single face-off. Human psychology st...
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A simple explanation of how the 2 through sqrt of n prime number test works - essofluffy http://hardforkit.com/2016/01/14/How-The-Two-Through-Square-Root-Of-N-Prime-Number-Test-Works.html ====== vpalan2 Here's how I would think about it: If a number N is composite, then it is a product of two numbers smaller than N. ...
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A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf] - todd8 http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf ====== lighthawk "RQ1. Are some languages more defect prone than others" is misleading. It shows TypeScript having an coef of −0.43, Clojure of -0.29, Scala at -0.28, and Haskell at -0.23...
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Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years - rbanffy https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/man-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-still-in-prison-after-two-years/ ====== lenkite So the police no longer need to plant drugs. They can just plant encrypted hard drives to which you have 'f...
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10 (or so) of the worst passwords exposed by the LinkedIn hack - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/10-or-so-of-the-worst-passwords-exposed-by-the-linkedin-hack/ ====== tomfakes Since LinkedIn didn't lock my account yesterday, I assumed my password was not leaked. However, LeakedIn has my password mark...
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Processing the Page Turn - sohkamyung http://www.cpushack.com/2017/09/30/processing-the-page-turn/ ====== rwmj The BBC's "Computer Originated World" is another sophisticated example of this. One of them came up for sale a few years ago. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Originated_World](https://en.wikipedia.org...
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The Literature of Laughing Gas - mr_golyadkin http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/17/extreme-extreme/ ====== user249 I logged in here with a throwaway account just to caution people that for a small percentage of users it is highly addictive. Some call it 'hippie crack' with good reason. After using it off and ...
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The Contortionist's Handbook - yonibot http://wandererstraining.com/tchb/ ====== oseph Interesting find.
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Coinbase Debuts the First Bitcoin Debit Card in the US - sankha93 http://www.wired.com/2015/11/coinbase-unveils-countrys-first-bitcoin-debit-card/ ====== maxerickson Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601154](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601154) ------ mrb Wired's headline is wrong. ...
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SwiftUI with Support for WebAssembly - yannikyeo https://github.com/carson-katri/SwiftWebUI ====== sudoit Glad to see this is still in development
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Linux guy tries out a Mac for a weekend for the first time - scumola http://badcheese.com/?q=node/112 ====== jsz0 OSX has definitely won me over. My background is primarily in Linux. About 5 or 6 years of exclusive Linux use on my personal machines. Most of my needs are mostly online or a terminal window so I can ad...
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Quora's Notification Settings - OoTheNigerian http://oothenigerian.com/quoras-notification-settings?ref=nf ====== yuvadam Facebook has exactly the same interface (<http://i.imgur.com/EwrHR.png>) only much longer (~60 checkboxes not including one for each external app). Horrible. If that's not a middle finger to all...
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MacOS 10.13, thoroughly reviewed - hellcow https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/ ====== sago > "I just wish ... what’s here felt even half as adventurous as what’s > happening on the iPad." I don't. I don't want my desktop to feel adventurous, not even half-adventur...
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TSA eliminates all invasive X-ray machines - jamesbritt http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-eliminates-all-invasive-x-ray-machines-6C10138818 ====== chrisbennet "..all US airports scanners equipped with the ability to produce the penetrating images will now only show a generic outline of a passenger to the operator. " ...
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Brouwer–Hilbert controversy - drnewman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_controversy ====== ocfnash For a long time, I used to dismiss intuitionism but more recently I've come to find it an attractive standpoint. For one thing, you really only gain by trying to be constructive. If, in some logical...
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Ask HN: Good app ideas to learn a new platform - davidbalbert So I wanted to start learning iPhone development last night and I didn't really know what to build. I thought it would be nice to have a list of little projects in order of increasing difficulty for learning mobile development, web development, game devel...
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Good Login Auth system in CodeIgniter? - Dascrilla Building a website that I hope to have a lot of users on eventually. Need a good user login authentication system that uses email not captcha. Can anyone recommend a library? ====== danielrosca I am using iAuth library and is quite powerful those days. You may chec...
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Would you use code-review-as-a-service? - derwiki http://www.paidcodereview.com/ ====== redmaverick I most definitely would. I was searching for this kind of service in the past. The closest is [http://codereview.stackexchange.com/](http://codereview.stackexchange.com/) but the problem is that we cannot make freque...
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Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface - florianguenther http://sketchub.com/ ====== A1kmm The front ends seem to get desynchronised when two incompatible concurrent edits happen; this is a difficult issue to resolve, but one solution would be to change the data flow so local edits are ...
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Ask HN: Except cookies which parameter is sent in every HTTP request? - dedalus ====== BjoernKW Even cookies aren't required (see [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616) and [https://serverfault.com/questions/163511/what-is-the- mandato...](https://serverfault.com/questions/163511/wha...
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Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech - phonon https://sarahadowney.substack.com/p/this-politically-correct-witch-hunt ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719559](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719559) ------ ajkjk Whether others' behavior is 'right' or not is one moral questio...
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Why Cloud Storage Use Could Be Limited in Enterprises - edw519 http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3843151 ====== kakooljay "There are two reasons for this: bandwidth limitations and the data integrity issues posed by the commodity drives that are typically used in cloud services." ...
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Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP - techvibe2 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/php-based-blogging-software-inspired-by-ghost/x/6230841 Here is a working demo http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ospari.org&#x2F; Please spread the news and support us to make this a reality. ====== shadowmint > Currently we are working on the ad...
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Feedly Pro - watermel0n http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4589764/feedly-pro-premium-subscription-article-search-evernote ====== watermel0n The saddest part is that they are offering HTTPS only for Pro accounts.
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Dwolla – Free micropayments - datashovel https://www.dwolla.com/micropayments ====== datashovel Why aren't more people using this for micropayments? Instead of paying an arm and a leg in transaction fees to credit card companies? ~~~ loceng Because platforms generally make money from transaction fees, so they're re...
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How to Solve the Ventilator Shortage - ForrestN https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/health/ventilator-shortage-coronavirus-solution.html ====== pauloppenheim FTA: > Here, too, we can all drop our job descriptions to solve this problem. Big > tech needs to rapidly build and scale a cloud-based national ventilat...
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Scientifically accurate 3D animation of DNA replication in a living cell - wwalker3 http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/08/how_dna_is_replicated_in_a_liv.php ====== wwalker3 The original seems to be from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research at <http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehi-tv/>. I...
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Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize - nathan_f77 https://formapi.io/blog/posts/2018-bitcoin-programming-challenge/ ====== eat_veggies It's possible to complete the first challenge without writing any CSS -- just deactivate break points to bypass the anti-debugger loop, and then use...
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How designers can create interactive prototypes with Illustrator - tomger http://tomgermeau.com/2014/02/how-designers-can-create-interactive-prototypes-with-illustrator/ ====== oulipo Nice tutorial! You can also check the one I wrote about creating interactive prototypes using Sketch and d3.js here: [http://snips.n...
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Ask HN: Why do we allow news blogs to be such garbage? - benologist Salon's article today about how they used to spew out high volume, low quality fluff highlights how bad news blogs really are:<p>- http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2012/02/03/hit_record and<p>- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3562861<p...
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Free Speech in the Age of Algorithmic Megaphones - rafaelc https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-domestic-disinformation-algorithmic-megaphones/ ====== core-questions > The only way to avoid politicized battles and conspiracies around moderation > is transparency. As domestic accounts begin to be caught up in terms of ...
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Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's hurting AWS - forrestbrazeal https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/07/24/cloud-irregular-amazon-wont-spin-off-aws-and-thats-too-bad-for-aws/ ====== noirbot The folks talking about the JEDI/WaPo issues are missing the bigger concern, which is other retailers pushing down to their SaaS partne...
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Ask HN: How does the technology that marks spam as dead on HN work? - jason_shah It seems to work reasonably well. But I don't imagine a lot of resources are dedicated to it.<p>So how does PG have it set up? How has it changed over time? ====== mooism2 If it's anything more than ordinary users flagging spam when the...
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Try Haxe - clemos http://try.haxe.org ====== rufugee Haxe sounds too good to be true. Why would anyone use any of the other game engines out there which are targeted towards the mobile world if they could use Haxe? I see many half-donejavascript frameworks and fully-baked lua frameworks...what do they provide that Ha...
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Perennial philosophy - benbreen https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-learn-from-the-perennial-philosophy-of-aldous-huxley ====== dr_dshiv The key point in the perennial philosophy is the idea of Oneness -- that there is an ultimate oneness that is the source of all and the basis of the good. Oneness is perennial becaus...
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Thermonuclear Art – The Sun in Ultra-HD (4K) - franzb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0 ====== JoeAltmaier Terrifying
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Can A 250-Year-Old Mathematical Theorem Find A Missing Plane? - clebio http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/25/294390476/can-a-250-year-old-mathematical-theorem-find-a-missing-plane ====== arrc In applicability lies the possibility. Any theorem / formula on its own cannot solve such complex problem.
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Cache tables - atesti https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/cache-tables/ ====== antirez I use this technique often and I love the simplicity it has. If you want to see a real-world usage, there is one in [https://github.com/antirez/dump1090](https://github.com/antirez/dump1090): /* Add the speci...
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59% of America’s “tuna” isn’t actually tuna - petrel http://qz.com/55629/china-has-a-spectacularly-silly-new-plan-to-fix-its-pollution-problem/ ====== nodata What is it? Seahorse?
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The iPhone Nano Rumor Reborn: 1/3rd Smaller, Older Components, $200 No Contract - kiubo http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/iphone-nano/ ====== us There are several problems with this hypothesis. Apple has said it before that they're getting more iPhone orders than they can manage to build in many cases. At $625 per iP...
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Google Glass 2.0 - nefitty http://www.wsj.com/video/google-glass-20-first-look/7D225564-0A67-41D7-97A9-CF4C19CF3A4C.html ====== nefitty I doubt this will satisfy the luddites, but we can hope...
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Twilio CEO's open letter to AT&T about net neutrality - crabasa https://medium.com/@jeffiel/dear-randall-5ca4c16fa5a9 ====== danjoc Isn't Twilio a large source of spam from long numbers? I think this is less cut and dry than Twilio makes it out to be. Hopping on the Net Neutrality bandwagon when this doesn't have anyt...
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Ask HN: Will I lose my data when GDPR takes effect? - miguelrochefort I have not taken any step to give explicit consent regarding GDRP to services I use. Does that mean they will delete all my data when GDPR takes effect tomorrow? That would be tragic... ====== foobarbazetc No.
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Show HN: A website to help support NYC restaurtants impacted by Covid-19 - rileyt https://saverestaurants.nyc/ ====== rileyt I built a website that makes it easy for New Yorkers to find their favorite restaurants and see how they can support them. If you live in NYC, please consider supporting restaurants. If you are...
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Pyinfra – automate infrastructure super fast at scale - drcongo https://pyinfra.com ====== Fizzadar I wrote pyinfra! If anyone has questions/suggestions/issues I'm more than happy to answer :) ~~~ BiteCode_dev I'm looking for an alternative to ansible and fabric 2, some kind of middleground, and pyinfra looks like so...
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Ask HN: Was the free 1st episode of Silicon Valley an elaborate Googlebomb? - BWStearns I was looking for a way to watch ep2+ of Silicon Valley and I realized that most searches I would normally use to find places to watch it led to an interminable amount of blog posts and news stories about SV episode 1 being avail...
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Million Song Dataset - commons-tragedy http://millionsongdataset.com/ ====== devinplatt I did my master's thesis (2017) using this dataset. I trained a neural network to predict musical features from the raw audio of the songs. Unfortunately the 7digital ids were out-of-date, so in order to get access to the audio (3...
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Please Don't Lie - weinzierl https://jacquesmattheij.com/please-do-not-lie/ ====== pritovido The magic that was going to protect Europe from the virus was the same magic that protected Europe from SARS: The good weather. If you delay it enough, whatever virus affects North of Asia in Winter does not affect Europe in ...
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Ask HN What Web App Would You Like to See/Need? - bbommarito I have this hankering to get started on a web app (Not really for YCombinator, but more because I have the time and really want to spend a chunk of time coding).<p>My problem is I have yet to find a web app that's lacking for my own needs. Tons of news sit...
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Changing Your Address - naish http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/05/05/Changing-Your-Address ====== dmnd I thought of this last time I moved. It took hours to change my address in all the various organisations that need to know it. Obviously the problem with getting it off the ground. Who is big enough to st...
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The JavaScript Alternatives - xvirk http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-javascript-alternatives/240166433 ====== sgy There has been many illogical attacks against JavaScript. Google Chrome's smooth performance is backed up by JavaScript V8 engine. Node.js is being hosted by hundreds of start-ups as well as started-ups. W...
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Show HN: Cleanse – remove zero-width characters, replace text on all websites - ztarven https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cleanse/pldjaflkihaacjhepjkfiadndghceiog ====== ztarven I know, another zero-width related extension, but it's a bit different. Cleanse notifies you when a page contains zero-width charact...
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Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies - ohjeez http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/02/08/computer_pioneer_ken_olsen_dies/ ====== tshtf _Globe Staff / February 8, 2011_ ~~~ ohjeez This went around Facebook... and in every case it took three or four people looking at the article to notice how old it was. ...
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Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all - aburan28 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all ====== sandworm101 >>> “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens woul...
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FreeCAD 0.18 released with Python 3/Qt 5 support and more - kwk1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HlYXnaxbw ====== kwk1 More than 2500 commits. More than 100 contributors. More than 11 months in the making: [https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php](https://www.freecadweb.org/downloads.php) 0.18 is not a big change ...
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Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend - jamest http://firebase.com ====== pkrein I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took 2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to production. Credit for that speed goes entirely to Firebase. TheReelBox us...
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Why the home-working boom could tumble London's skyscrapers - edward https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/27/why-the-home-working-boom-could-tumble-londons-skyscrapers ====== morelikeborelax No mention of how the UK's inner city housing is generally not suited for people to be working out of? If this change ...
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The Verge's web sucks - mbrubeck http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/ ====== insin > We keep things like Adblock Plus at arm's length for plausible deniability - > but everyone I know uses it. I wish this had been included in the main body of this post, with some metrics; everyone you know uses i...
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GraphLab: A New Framework for Parallel Machine Learning - bsaunder http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4990 ====== dman Thanks for posting this, its very relevant to what I am currently working on. ~~~ bsaunder You're welcome. I'm working on something similar as well. I haven't fully digested the paper yet, but it resonates ...
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Ask HN: Why do we not see Apple, Google or MS people discuss on HN? - Mustafabei If it doesn&#x27;t violate the company principles (though I cannot see why it would) We would really like to see the inner guys share their opinions here. ====== benologist We do get comments from employees at big companies. You can also ...
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Ask HN: Should I do industrial espionage? - jahitr Hi all..<p>I&#x27;m an engineer for a large software company.<p>Lately I was promoted to &quot;not a developer neither a team lead&quot;.<p>They hired someone else to lead the team I&#x27;m in. Someone that is clearly lagging behind me in technical aspects.<p>Now, wha...
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How a Russian Troll Fooled America - okket https://medium.com/dfrlab/how-a-russian-troll-fooled-america-80452a4806d1 ====== maltalex As heinous and improper this may be, I feel like "The Russians" are being used as a simple answer for Trump's election. Yes, it seems that they played a role, but was it a key role? Woul...
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DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed - kernelcurry https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-09-09-Tecnick.md ====== Rantenki Strangely, I agree with the original author who sent the DMCA. Imagine that you're working on some project and you find one of those forks with no GPLv3 attached (or worse, some o...
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Minimizing a sum of clipped convex functions - LolWolf https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12342v2 ====== LolWolf Hi! One of the authors here. We thought this paper might be of interest to people in data analysis or machine learning for fitting problems which have many outliers in data (in relatively simple ways). We a few ex...
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Ask HN: Can't find a non-Apple slim keyboard with standard layout and no num pad - machinesbuddy I&#x27;m looking for a slim keyboard (not mechanical preferably) that has a standard layout just without numpad. Whatever I find has these small arrow keys beside Ctrl and below Shift.<p>In other words, the slim (and proba...
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Ask HN: How to manage maintenance work vs. developing new products? - EduardMe Both is important. Maintaining current products, which are in the market and making money. And developing new products (or new major updates which take longer) to increase or secure revenue in the future.<p>Maintaining means here fixing mai...
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AI equal with human experts in medical diagnosis - spking https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/24/ai-equal-with-human-experts-in-medical-diagnosis-study-finds ====== magwa101 Yes, human "experts", and when you go to your neighborhood hospital Dr, you are not getting (typically) an "expert" in the field, so,...
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Why website crashes are unavoidable -- at least for now - edw519 http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/11/wordpress.outage/index.html?hpt=C2 ====== arnorhs Interesting stuff. The article references a PDF document made by Pingdom about uptime of a few social networking sites in 2008. It would be interesting to see how ...
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Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber - dmmalam http://blog.caranddriver.com/lamborghini-is-forging-ahead-with-forged-carbon-fiber-we-visit-their-u-s-based-lab/ ====== arcanus Has Lamborghini ever made a car that had actual technical merit as a racecar? I'm general, supercars are vastly overpriced for...
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A Twitter Growth Hack for SAAS Companies - zeeshanm https://twitter.com/_zeeshan_mughal/status/634965544689639424 ====== fixingapp I don't understand, how does it work exactly ? If its just "follow your potential customers; unfollow them after a few days; repeat" what causes the potential customers to become actual c...
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