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SBCL quicker than C? - lbolla http://lbolla.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/sbcl-quicker-than-c/ ====== rst SBCL = Steel Bank Common Lisp More precisely, if you tell the SBCL compiler to trust that all data types are as declared and omit type checks, it gives you code that's faster than gcc with the options at the bottom of...
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Dear NSA, I've never really been into privacy... - nkurz http://www.sebastianbraff.com/2014/08/dear-nsa.html ====== dang This post was killed by user flags. ~~~ nkurz Unless you think the article itself it offensive, you might consider reviving this one, especially if you will be around to moderate the comments. I do...
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers - tonyg https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md ====== DrScump In the USA, not only did the area code used to be specific to a given location, but the _prefix_ (first 3 of 7 digits) used to identify the _zone_ you were in within a prefix...
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In 1982, Forbes first 400 list, total of $93B - sharemywin http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/warren-buffett-says-the-problem-with-the-economy-is-people-like-him.html ====== sharemywin They now they have $2.4 trillion, [a multiple of] 25 for one.
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Linux Debugging Tools You'll Love [pdf] - oxguy3 http://jvns.ca/debugging-zine.pdf ====== oxguy3 This is a zine made by Julia Evans (@b0rk on Twitter). More info about it here: [http://jvns.ca/zines/#linux-debugging- tools](http://jvns.ca/zines/#linux-debugging-tools)
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Is Privacy An Illusion? Facebook Fans Claim Hack Exposes Private Profile Info - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/is-privacy-an-illusion-facebook-fans-claim-hack-exposes-private-profile-information/ ====== jonknee By this point it should be clear, don't post anything on Facebook that you don't want to be pub...
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Bye, bye, bananas - e15ctr0n https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/04/the-worlds-most-popular-banana-could-go-extinct/ ====== vkjv Another story on the topic from the unusually engaging authors at DamnInteresting.com. [http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life- of-t...](http://www.damninte...
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Books on Swearing - whocansay https://fivebooks.com/best-books/swearing-melissa-mohr/ ====== kbouck Roger's Profanisaurus: [http://viz.co.uk/category/rogers- profanisaurus/](http://viz.co.uk/category/rogers-profanisaurus/) ~~~ ablation Came here to post this. The all-time greatest swearing dictionary. ------ camjoh...
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I paid off my wife’s student loans – then she filed for divorce after two years - maxshmax https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-paid-off-my-wifes-student-loans-then-she-filed-for-divorce-after-two-years-of-marriage-2018-04-21 ====== modbait Been there. Unless you have an IOU, anything "given" before marriage is utterly...
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A Twitch channel from which viewers can play with CockroachDB - jordanlewis https://twitch.tv/twitchrunscockroachdb ====== bhahn I was very confused by the title. I thought it was a blog post that implied that CockroachDB was in-use at Twitch, but it's actually a Twitch channel from which viewers can play with Cockroa...
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Why Teams Will Defeat Slack in the Long Run - szsoppa https://curiosum.dev/blog/slack_vs_teams_who_wins ====== szsoppa Collaboration software is present almost in every business, in one form or another. The one that first comes to mind and was in many ways a precursor of the field – Slack – has found more and more cap...
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Security Vulnerability Found in Heroku and Rails form_tag - benmanns http://www.benmanns.com/posts/security-vulnerability-found-in-heroku-and-rails-form-tag/ ====== Ergomane Why are authenticity tokens not tied to a specific form and the originating session? Is there a technical reason? ~~~ benmanns I suppose that ...
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Adblockers are immoral - Doubleguitars http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/05/17/adblockers-are-immoral-and-mobile-networks-should-know-better ====== dozzie Sorry, but there's no obligation for the world to keep your business model viable. If you hold on to it no matter what, it's your problem, not mine. I'm not requ...
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Peak Abstraction - 6ren http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4442?repost ====== ExpiredLink > He has not yet learnt the fine art of simplicity. So true. Great pattern discovery!
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"Good ideas have lonely childhoods" - MaysonL http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004670.html ====== froo I agree with most of the points presented, but I just cannot agree with point 2. In fact, the second point comes across as more like hey-you're-awesome mumbo jumbo that I would expect from motivatio...
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Git Tips - akras14 http://www.alexkras.com/19-git-tips-for-everyday-use/ ====== majewsky Here's my favorite git oneliner: git push origin --delete $(git branch --merged origin/master -r | grep -v master | grep origin | cut -d/ -f2-) It deletes all remote branches that are merged into the remote ...
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Bye bye Google (2018) - app4soft https://homehack.nl/bye-bye-google/ ====== app4soft And here is penultimate post on authors (old) blog on Blogspot. [0] [https://eribuijs.blogspot.com/2018/10/moving-from-blogger- to...](https://eribuijs.blogspot.com/2018/10/moving-from-blogger-to-wordpress- bye.html)
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Top algorithms in interview questions - g2183889 http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-in-interview-questions/ ====== hal9000xp This is nice list and ability to implement these algorithms certainly won't hurt. But I have to say that knowing these algorithms alone won't help you much during job interview with...
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List of unusual units of measurement - peterkshultz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement ====== Rjevski I disagree with some of them being unused. This page lists some units like “rack unit” (length) and “jiffies” (time). They are domain-specific but not unused by any means - physical ser...
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DevOps leadership / mentor training – what to do? - mrmondo I&#x27;m the team lead for a small group of operational engineers that work in a fairly high performance DevOps application delivery environment based in Melbourne, Australia.<p>I&#x27;m looking to further improve my communication skills, better utilise emp...
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How exercise changes our DNA - walterbell http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2014/12/17/how-exercise-changes-our-dna/ ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=exercise+dna#!/story/forever/0/exe...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=exercise+dna#!/story/forever/0/exercise%20dna)
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Klipfolio Adds Email Sharing of Dashboards and Visualizations - klipfolio http://www.klipfolio.com/company/press-release/item-498 ====== electrichead I always try to tell people what an awesome product the Klipfolio v.5 was. I have kept it since I first got it years ago and find it to be the absolute best for RSS at...
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UW team wins AI prize for optimization approach - jonbaer http://phys.org/news/2015-08-protein-self-driving-cars-uw-team.html ====== masterjack Minor nitpick, it took me way too long to figure out which UW this is. ~~~ brador It's University of Washington. ------ dsfsdfd This looks like a big deal to me. Why such a ...
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‘Cybersovereignty’ Splits the Once World Wide Web - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-02/how-cybersovereignty-splits-the-once-world-wide-web-quicktake ====== 0xcde4c3db There's allegedly been a thriving industry of in-person data transfers in Cuba, where people get their portable media loaded u...
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Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad - Petiver https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2020.1732046 ====== dr_dshiv From The Histories of Herodotus (d.424 BC): "Hemp grows in Scythia: it is very like flax; only that it is a much coarser and taller plant: some grows wild about the cou...
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Would you use it: A new address book? - rumberg I've been thinking about a problem I had for quite a while now: Contact information that are out of date from people that I haven't talked to in a while or are missing altogether (like postal addresses) because I didn't add them.<p>Here is the core idea:<p>An app that ...
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Fighting Racism with Drones - innovat http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/14/serbia-albania-euro-2016-flag-halted?1 ====== innovat Much of the international media coverage of the violence in the Partizan Belgrade stadium has focused on the stunt of a drone flying an Albanian banner, the ensuing brawl and pi...
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Billionaire Zuckerberg left no tip after Rome lunch - sparknlaunch http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mark-zuckerberg/9297450/Facebook-founder-Mark-Zuckerberg-left-no-tip-after-Rome-lunch.html ====== jbigelow76 Not that I care one way or another about Zuck getting a reputation for being cheap, but when my own wif...
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Ask HN: what has been the personal & financial cost of your failed ventures? - hoodoof I'm interested in hearing what has been the personal and financial cost to you of when your entrepreneurial venture failed.<p>How do these outcomes make you feel emotionally?<p>Edit: anyone been bankrupted or financially broken? ...
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Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism - daegloe https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/12/08/gut-bacteria-may-offer-a-treatment-for-autism ====== theprotocol Without S. Boulardii, I am a neurotic mess who can't digest anything at all nor think straight after eating anything, so I'm inclined to b...
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Some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events - JoachimOfFiore https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/ ====== noetic_techy Going to go out on a personal opinion limb here, but I think we dismiss far too much in archaeology and ancient recorded history, even with the evidence all a...
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We do not use foreign keys (2016) - Scarbutt https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331#issuecomment-266027731 ====== conroy When posts like these come up, I'd like to remind people that context matters when making technical decisions. What works for large companies with huge scale (GitHub, Google, Facebook) may not ...
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Assessing Wind Power Cost Estimates [pdf] - todd8 http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Giberson-study-Final.pdf ====== ju-st > Although the IAR presents itself as an objective science-based institute, > many reports and watchdog organizations have disputed this, citing funding > from oil in...
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Show HN: Get Voice / Text feedback from your mobile apps - cinbun8 http://konotor.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html ====== cinbun8 Hi folks. Konotor is the result of seeing the kind of difference low friction feedback can make to help engage with your users to gain valuable insight on what your users like or don't like in...
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Making Emacs Popular Again - Tomte https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/819452/04a6728a07895762/ ====== strangattractor It was popular? ~~~ fpoling When I studied physics 25 years ago in Bergen University in Norway Emacs was used by most stuff and students. Most of the usage was writing papers/thesis in LaTex followed by s...
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Review my startup idea: Reduce spam sent to company's contact e-mail - bonzoq I experienced it myself, from time to time we get spam sent to our company's contact e-mail displayed on the front page.<p>One work around is replacing the '@' character with 'at' or something similar. However we did not want to do that, ...
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Show HN: Monitoring the Bitcoin network with Bitcoin-top - esotericn https://bitcoin.electronrelocation.com/ ====== esotericn I've been developing and running this monitoring software for quite a while, and recently got around to making it ready for distribution. You can run this yourself - the software is AGPLv3 and...
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pingdeck • Create smart mini-websites with sharing-superpowers - domu https://pingdeck.com ====== domu pingdeck is the simplest way to create amazing mini-websites in no time. Just upload a background image or choose one of our suggestions (powered by unsplash and giphy). Enter a title, a message and add up to three l...
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Is a trillion dollars’ worth of programming lying on the ground? - george3d6 https://blog.cerebralab.com/Is_a_trillion-dollar_worth_of_programming_lying_on_the_ground ====== crote It seems to be missing a very big factor: culture. If your goal is to implement some code for, say, healthcare, it is a lot easier to expl...
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The RC2014 Retro Computer - jamesbowman http://sustburbia.blogspot.com/2016/06/z80-reloaded-rc2014-retro-computer.html ====== coderjames My home-brew 68K machine just recently reached the same level of completeness except for the particular BASIC implementation (Tiny vs. Microsoft). Guess I should get it written up as...
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IPad '4G' claims face scrutiny from UK regulator - wgx http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17899912 ====== panacea The iPhone 3G should never have been called that and Apple should _not_ be touting the latest iterations of the devices as "4G". They are meaningless terms in so many real world situations. I can hav...
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Fast and precise type checking for JavaScript - deltux https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/08/fast-and-precise-type-checking-for-javascript/ ====== dgreensp I used both Flow and TypeScript extensively at my last job (coda.io), and through a series of thoughtful discussions and debates, we chose to migrate to TypeScript, ...
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Cable Freedom Is a Click Away - edw519 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?_r=1&hpw ====== pmorici I've heard lots of people say they hook Mac Mini's up to their TV. How are they doing it? I've got a DVI -> HDMI cable but that only handles the Video are people using junky PC spea...
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Show HN: Graph Playground - Make Graphs/Networks and run Algorithms - mikedombo https://mikedombo.github.io/graphPlayground/ ====== philipov Here's a link to the git repo: [https://github.com/MikeDombo/graphPlayground](https://github.com/MikeDombo/graphPlayground) ------ lmeyerov This idea is very cool! Would you be...
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Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal - bichenkk https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon ====== adtac $ coinmon() { > curl "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$1" | jq ".[0] .price_$1" > } $ coinmon eur "6988.4723188" In case you don't wan...
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Detained blogger revealed true picture of Chinese information warfare - nabla9 https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/detained-blogger-revealed-true-picture-of-chinese-information-warfare-20190125-p50tmq.html ====== octosphere I don't know what to say after reading that. It's so depressing. Imagine being scared of being ar...
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Go Object Oriented Design - nathany http://nathany.com/good ====== codygman Great article, really enjoyed it! Well structured and example code seems to be good. Will be going over this again tomorrow and adding some of the tricks I wasn't aware of to my toolbox. ~~~ nathany Thanks very much. Glad it was helpful. ^_...
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Ants Use Their Own Velcro to Catch Supersized Prey - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/velcro-ants/ ====== wglb Very cool article about the strength of ants and possible co-evolution with their favorite plant.
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Ask HN: Bored? Please give me some feedback on my new project -- Enstoria.com - deckardt Last week, I launched a new project, enstoria.com, and I didn't get much feedback or tractionfrom friends or family on it (aside from the usual, great idea! I'll get right on it!).<p>Enstoria is a dead-simple way to share your f...
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Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Proof of Universality Flawed - nickb http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2007-October/012156.html ====== Elfan Or not? I do not have the expertise to evaluate the disagreement. [http://forum.wolframscience.com/showthread.php?s=c34045c0fea...](http://forum.wolframscience.com/showthread.php?s=c...
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Trade in Services Agreement - davidgerard https://wikileaks.org/tisa/ ====== rashkov This includes 17 documents of the secret text from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. Anyone know if it's legal to read?
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A startup's "Why we use Lisp" story - zachbeane http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/9675 ====== mojuba Lisp is a beautiful language but I think the biggest problem with it is its proponents failing to explain the merits. I'm sorry, this post would have probably made a bit more sense 15 years ago, but...
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As Prostitutes Turn to Craigslist, Law Takes Notice - brett http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/nyregion/05craigslist.html?ex=1346644800&en=82b7e3c6f376a86a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss ====== portLAN I detect a start-up opportunity. ~~~ corentin For an anonymous sex service marketplace? This non-problem would...
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Ask HN: Why are Cryptoexchanges so easily hacked? - jason_slack 2 exchanges in S. Korea in June alone. There are always exchanges getting hacked and coins stolen.<p>Is it a social networking thing?<p>Poor IT security?<p>Lack on knowledge on IT security?<p>An inside job? ====== anoncoward111 Some inside jobs but mostly...
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1985 home automation system - waffle_ss http://imgur.com/a/Jb6jW/layout/horizontal#0 ====== andrewguenther It seems that the touch screen uses infrared LEDs. Light reflects off of the finger when it comes near the screen, but I don't see any sort of receptors which would capture that reflection. Can anyone shed some...
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What really happened on the Deepwater Horizon? - hocaoglv http://www.csb.gov/videos/deepwater-horizon-blowout-animation/ ====== ihnorton Here is a more informative summary from the agency: [http://www.csb.gov/csb- board-approves-final-report-finding-d...](http://www.csb.gov/csb-board- approves-final-report-finding-...
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Innovation comes from educated, hard-working immigrants–not genius dropouts - tokenadult http://qz.com/622893/innovation-comes-from-educated-hard-working-immigrants-not-genius-dropouts/ ====== davesque So they surveyed a subset of innovators that had won national awards and are now claiming that this represents most i...
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SpaceX Starlink satellite almost collided with a weather satellite - pjf https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614250/one-of-spacexs-starlink-satellites-almost-collided-with-a-weather-forecasting-satellite/ ====== ColinWright Also on HN, the same story from several different sources in case you prefer one source's bias t...
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Swift: How to make single-character Strings work in a UInt8 raw value enum - icodestuff https://gist.github.com/danhd123/c1dc8242f48ace176cf8 ====== icodestuff The motivation for this was trying to parse a binary file with a discriminated union, with the tag being a single byte representing one of several ASCII char...
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West German spies secretly monitored jokes to assess public mood - bouncingsoul http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,655123,00.html ====== recurser I forget the name of the book (maybe 'stasiland'?) given to me by a German coworker but the level of surveillance the east Germans lived under sounds incr...
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How Big is Email? - raindrift https://medium.com/@raindrift/how-big-is-email-305bbdb69776 ====== ThomPete Having someones email is like you being logged into their social network instead of them having to log into yours. You need to handle this relationship carefully. I am 40 and for that reason I am biased with rega...
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NY Personalized License Plates – Accepted and Rejected - uptown https://github.com/datanews/license-plates ====== profinger How is it possible that 2 plates had the same text and were accepted within 2-3months of each other? There are a ton in the accepted file that are equal to each other. FTG for example was acce...
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Geospatial Analysis - a comprehensive guide - Anon84 http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/output/ ====== apinstein I was really looking forward to seeing the content of this comprehensive guide having just gone through a GIS 0-60 myself last year. That guide is horrible! It _might_ contain some good content in there,...
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Fast food calories per dollar - obxerve http://reflectionof.me/fast-food-calories-per-dollar-0 ====== tocomment I bet you could do a lot better with the dollar menu. Donuts might also get higher calories for dollar. I wonder how Ramen compares? Or rice? ------ DanielStraight This is interesting, but unless your go...
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Hazelcast - In-Memory Data Grid for Java - vinutheraj http://code.google.com/p/hazelcast/ ====== jcdreads Anyone with experience with both this and Oracle Coherence (formerly Tangosol Coherence)? I'd dearly love for this to be a reasonable alternative to Coherence, which I love but which is fabulously expensive. -...
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Future of Storytelling: a Conversation with Transmedia Creator Andrea Phillips - krgaskins http://latd.com/2011/09/27/future-of-storytelling-expert-series-a-conversation-with-transmedia-creator-andrea-phillips/ ====== fleitz It seems that transmedia is the one form of media more opaque than social media. Personally...
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Encrypted email service used by Snowden mysteriously shuts down - nicolly http://rt.com/usa/lavabit-email-snowden-statement-247/ ====== e3pi Oh no. This may have automatically triggered the Snowden dead man switch doomsday dump.
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Ask HN: What do you look for in a web developer? - kenmasters What do you guys look for in your web developers when hiring?<p>Personally, I am 25, I do not have a College degree, though I have taken an abundance of courses (I do not plan to continue attending). Right now I know HTML/CSS and am spending the Summer le...
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Jack Dorsey's two years as Twitter's CEO have not saved the company - coloneltcb https://www.recode.net/2017/10/4/16382954/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-progress-stock-tweets-140-video-live-users ====== ajc-sorin A quick glance at Twitter's 2016 Annual report: 2016 Revenue: 2.5B 2015 Revenue: 2.2B 2014 Revenue: 1.4B 2013 Re...
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Ask HN: Alternate email app on ipad - qwerty_bgcp The default mail client on the iPad is really really badly designed. I've done some searching on both Google and the Appstore and I was unable to find any decent mail apps. There seems to be quite a demand for a proper mail app, so why is it that there is no app for ...
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Anonymous did not attack Stratfor - steve8918 http://pastebin.com/8yrwyNkt ====== Permit Man it's a good thing I have this pastebin post to discredit my other pastebin post. ~~~ blantonl When one anonymous person tells the other anonymous person that they were not responsible for the anonymous person's action, you be...
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Show HN: Lark, a modern parsing library with Earley and LALR(1) implementations - erezsh https://github.com/erezsh/Lark ====== jwilk You should put "Python" in the title. ------ snowcrshd Very nice! And the documentation looks pretty good. Congrats for the good job! ~~~ erezsh Thanks!
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The insane cost of equity for seed stage startups - sguidoz https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/the-insane-cost-of-equity-for-seed-stage-startups-972e73d4d778 ====== sguidoz I wrote this post to help founders better understand what they are really signing up for when they sign a term sheet.
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Lyft vs. Uber: Visualizing fraud patterns - jvilledieu http://linkurio.us/lyft-vs-uber-visualizing-fraud-patterns/ ====== bcherry Every time this data gets pulled up, it's interpreted as a sort of deliberate DoS attack. Is it not possible that these "recruiters" are simply trying to canvas every driver, so they can...
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Ask HN: What steps and preparations should I make before quitting my job? - miserabletemp Hi HN.<p>I was hoping to turn to the wisdom of HN for advice. I am a software developer and for a while, I've felt unrecognized and pigeon holed on the "unsexy" projects. I've been told I was in line for a raise but was just w...
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Air travel is going to be very bad, for a very long time - smacktoward https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/james-fallows-flying-will-never-be-same/611413/ ====== keiferski No matter what the topic, there seems to be no market for writing articles about minor changes or slight adjustments. The world is al...
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Can DevOps deliver on the promise to speed modernization of IT infrastructure - jhibbets http://www.cio-asia.com/tech/applications/devops-can-deliver-on-promise-to-speed-modernisation-of-it-infrastructures-red-hat-interview/ ====== talonx DevOps "promises" that only if the premise of cultural change is met. DevOps, ...
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Crowd sourcing your Spotify playlist live - shivpatelssp https://populrr.com ====== oculusthrift i can no longer tell the difference between side projects and startups ~~~ urs2102 That's either a great thing for a side projects, or rough thing for startups. ------ morisy We've been using a similar service for our of...
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Why we got an email instead of a call from the YC partners after our interview - sherm8n http://sukhchander.com/ycombinator/ ====== zimpenfish Was it because "we made a godawful stupid slideshow instead of a simple readable blog post"? ~~~ sherm8n Slideshow was made because someone asked for tips on their applicati...
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This App Helps Users Detect ATM Skimmers - rayascott http://www.nextgov.com/mobile/2017/10/app-helps-users-detect-atm-skimmers/141439/ ====== red5tar So i can find a skimmer like this, reverse engineer its connectivity and use the thieves own tools for my gain?
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Show HN: Meet designers, programmers, other creatives around you - iamschooni https://iamschooni.github.io/tunashop/ ====== iamschooni Tunashop is an iOS application that I built entirely in Swift. It's is a project I undertook to solve a problem that I had when I moved to Los Angeles a month ago. I wanted to meet mor...
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Ask HN: Anyone want to help clone election.twitter.com for a local election? - brandnewlow I run a local news site in Chicago. There's an election happening in our area to replace Rahm Emmanuel in Congress (he left to join Obama's team). Twitter's Election.Twitter.com page was terrific for letting you see what peo...
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Open-source or proprietary? - BerislavLopac I am part of a team developing a new software technology, and we have a bit of a dilemma: whether to make it open source or proprietary? The product in question will be a core technology -- one could call it a platform -- on top of which specific applications will be built...
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The Strange Inevitability of Evolution - reedwolf http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/the-strange-inevitability-of-evolution ====== memexy Nice article. > However, it seems likely that the answer lies beyond biology. Karthik Raman, > a former postdoc in Wagner’s lab, now at the Indian Institute of Technology > Madra...
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Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for quick web side projects? - chrisshroba ====== kirubakaran This is as "quick" as side projects go: [https://crushentropy.com/](https://crushentropy.com/) (Markdown for hi-res planning). I made it one weekend a couple years ago and I've used it myself ever since. App served by Flas...
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Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs - Bud http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202646-physical-key-extraction-attacks-on-pcs/fulltext ====== schoen Could a moderator change the link to something other than the mobile version? The other versions on the CACM site should be more nicely formatted. For example, the f...
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Unofficial Hacker News Streaming API - jkarneges http://hnstream.com/ ====== runT1ME What is the feasibility of using this (and a lot of other code) to take HN and actually real time-ify it? I wonder how easy it'd be to make that code generalized so you could 'real time' any site that is mostly updating text. Could ...
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A Comprehensive Guide To Debugging Rails | Jack Kinsella – Analyst Berlin - delfuego http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2014/06/06/a-comprehensive-guide-to-debugging-rails.html ====== delfuego Although I think you have pointed out some spot on concepts in diagnosing issues, I think the leading analogy is lacking. I don't thin...
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Evidence suggests women's ovaries can grow new eggs - danielmorozoff https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/07/evidence-suggests-womens-ovaries-can-grow-new-eggs ====== pasbesoin What bothers me is, so many doctors and scientists saying "no" / "it doesn't happen", as opposed to "we don't know". They haven't obse...
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Did Google Pre-Emptively Block a 4G iPhone on Verizon? - brownleej http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/verizon-4g-iphone-block/ ====== Jabbles _The rules were inserted at the behest of Google, which was bidding for the spectrum but who some_ cynics _contended got involved not to win but to ensure that whoever got...
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Monday: Microsoft + Nokia - mikecane http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/monday-microsoft-nokia/ ====== SlipperySlope I strongly suspect this is Nokia's Windows 8 tablet. Previous speculation was that Microsoft would manufacture its own tablet to compete head-to-head with Apple with regard to business model. ...
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Epic Eel Migration Mapped for the First Time - dfc http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151027-american-eel-migration-animal-behavior-oceans-science/#.VjgC5j4N_w8.twitter ====== Pinatubo I was hoping the article would include a map of the migration route. ~~~ nkurz There's a map in the linked Nature paper: [htt...
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Passive Income 101: How To Travel The World Without Working - maneesh http://maneeshsethi.com/blog/passive-income-101-how-to-travel-the-world-without-working ====== maneesh Here is a cached copy while my domain host is crashing, COME ON Page.ly : [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/153216/hackernews/Passive- Income-101...](http:...
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MPEG LA starts the search for VP8 patents - abraham http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/02/mpeg-la-starts-the-search-for-vp8-patents.ars ====== naner _The patents will in turn by analyzed by MPEG LA, and those deemed to be relevant will be pooled together. The pooled patents will then be available to license as a s...
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Handheld Devices Should Be Banned for Children - naren87 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cris-rowan/10-reasons-why-handheld-devices-should-be-banned_b_4899218.html ====== mschuster91 30 minutes a day of video games. LOL. In lots of games, a single level or mission takes double that time. This is just ridiculous.
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Go 2 Error Values draft implementation – planned for v1.13 - networkimprov https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/exp/errors ====== networkimprov It has dropped the dependency on Go 2 Generics described in the "draft design". [https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...](https://go.googlesource.com/propos...
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Lispworks 7.0 with Mobile (iOS, Android) Runtime - deepaksurti http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html ====== WalterGR BTW, this is a full new release of LispWorks. What's New blurb: "New features in LispWorks 7.0 include a Java interface and improved Unicode support. There are new ports to ARM Linux and PowerP...
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Show HN: Invitation Engine for Facebook Apps - deepkut http://graphmuse.com We spent a lot of time working on this, including the demo, and we'd love some feedback.<p>It might take a little bit of time to load if lots of people are trying the demo, so please try to be patient. We spent a lot of time to ensure you'll ...
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Ask HN: Is 10 yrs exp too 'Senior' for a Senior Dev? - DeepWinter ====== jkmcf The problem is new devs thinking they're senior right out of college. ------ cogentleman _Too_ senior? I'd say there's really no such thing, so long as the engineer is suitable for the job in terms of what she's looking for and what areas o...
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My thoughts on the US government shutdown - thejerz http://jerzygangi.com/my-thoughts-on-the-us-government-shutdown/ ====== jussij > No one really knows what Obamacare will do to our economy Bullshit! On any measure the USA health care system is one of the worst in the world. It seems the people in the USA are th...
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