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Show HN: Error Page Relaunch (The Silent Sound Of Error) - masswerk http://www.masswerk.at/404v2 ====== masswerk Heavily inspired by Lucas Vieira's marvelous "Fourier Toy" (credits included). Invaders no more.
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Ask HN: Can operating systems be browsers? - behnamoh As a heavy user, I basically <i>live</i> in my browser. However, extensions do slow down the browser, which makes me think there&#x27;s gotta be a better way. I believe it&#x27;s high time we had an operating system which is fully optimized as a browser. Extensions...
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HN NY: Come hack.a.bit at the bit.ly hackathon 9/15 from 6:00pm to midnight - aditya http://hackabit.com/ ====== agconway Great things happen at hack.a.bit [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/visualizing-the- wik...](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/visualizing-the-wikileaks- war-logs/) ------ dzohrob ...
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Amazon and Union Airlines - unionemployee Multiple pickets have been conducted (and even a small strike) by the pilots of airlines contracted to perform Amazon Prime flying. I came across this informational site this morning as well - http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canamazondeliver.com&#x2F;. Amazon is anti-union, but they need the...
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Chat is Google's next big fix for Android's messaging mess - OberstKrueger https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17252486/google-android-messages-chat-rcs-anil-sabharwal-imessage-texting ====== FreeKill Fool me twice google! I won't get fooled again? In all seriousness, how can anyone advocate for the adoption of this n...
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Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email - heidijavi https://www.caniemail.com/ ====== ktpsns It would be really nice to have a small and simple markup language, say some markdown standard, to be the layouting language for E-Mails. No (external) images, just links, lists, headings, basic formatting. HTML E-Mails are a secu...
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Don’t go to art school (2013) - Tomte https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9#.87guodhbv ====== justinator I graduated from art school. I didn't go to art school to pursue a career in art. The art school I went to basically said, "don't" \- it's a lottery anyways. The people who can make a livin...
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Uber - not a great experience at peak times (eg: New Year's Eve) - Roedou http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/03/car-service-uber-passes-economics-test-fails-marketing/ ====== tomjen3 This is just yet another example of why taxis should be deregulated. The reason Uber is as expensive as it is is that it there are too fe...
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Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia - vmorgulis http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopherpedia.com%2F ====== vmorgulis GitHub: [https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000](https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000) From a previous thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280749](http...
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Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens - jkaljundi http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40326544 ====== sctb Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577828](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577828). ------ CyberThijs Another big recent achievement of the European Parliament is t...
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US military leak exposes “holy grail” of security clearance files - r721 http://www.zdnet.com/article/leaked-us-military-files-exposed/ ====== mtgx It doesn't seem to be any worse than the OPM hack, as it's on a much smaller scale. It's still bad for the 4,000 military employees, though, but their SF86 forms were prob...
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Google's Schmidt 'outraged' by NSA snooping - detcader http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/technology/google-nsa-snowden/index.html ====== a3n > "The fact of the matter is that citizens have a right to privacy in > democracies," [Schmidt] said. Ahem. [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric- schmid...](h...
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Python vs. R: The battle for data scientist mind share - okket http://www.infoworld.com/article/3187550/data-science/python-vs-r-the-battle-for-data-scientist-mind-share.html ====== geebee Wow, people here are being pretty hard on this article. I'm sure everyone here on HN has read their share of programming language ...
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VVatch – Stop searching, start VVatching - taher101 http://vvatch.tv ====== jackwild Sound&Vision <= fave channel :)
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The Aussie gurus selling 200 million ads a day - bootload http://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-cant-fight-assanges-extradition-20120805-23ne1.html ====== slater Wrong destination URL?
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Never accept a counter-offer - vtorosyan https://vtorosyan.github.io/never-accept-counter-offer/ ====== fecak Recruiter here, almost 20 years. Do a search for articles warning about counteroffers and you'll find almost all are written by agency recruiters. Why is that? It's because agency recruiters lose probably mil...
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Visa question - grillmaster what kind of visa i should get? if i get the interview? there will be trouble with my application since i've got a moslem name. any advice? ====== sinamdar You need to provide more specifics. Visa for which country? Interview for what? Advice on what? The only reason I have not flagged t...
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What It's Like On Day One As An Apple Employee - evo_9 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/26/businessinsiderwhat-its-like-on-day.DTL&type=jobs ====== tomdale This story is very sensational and pretty wildly inaccurate. Like many companies, your experience at Apple will vary based on which group y...
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Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups - dbul http://allthingsd.com/20110823/y-combinator-unloads-massive-new-batch-of-start-ups/ ====== pg "The other distinction is that Y Combinator didn’t let investors snag any participants early, as it previously has." We don't have any power to stop companies from...
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Reconsidering whether Prohibition was a failure - jasonhansel https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibition-alcohol-public-health-crime-benefits ====== baudehlo Are there statistics that compare other countries? I have found in my personal experience that countries that actually have lower minimum dr...
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Congress Hates You, Votes To Bring Back Glory Days Of Opaque Airfare Pricing - wolfgke http://consumerist.com/2014/07/28/congress-hates-you-votes-to-bring-back-glory-days-of-opaque-airfare-pricing/ ====== PhantomGremlin Much of what Congress does proves that they "hate" us, or more precisely that are more beholden t...
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Contact your representatives about the 50+ active cryptocurrency bills - mmabb https://www.supportcrypto.org/ ====== mmabb Hey I’m a crypto enthusiast and engineer at FiscalNote, and I’ve seen a lot of buzz about policy relating to crypto on this subreddit. I did a quick search on our platform, and saw that right now ...
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Show HN: Given a pastebin URL, return the raw text - neosilky_ https://reversepaste.com/ ====== TekMol What is the use case? ~~~ applecrazy my guess is that it's so you can directly pipe the text using to another command in the terminal. also may be useful for bypassing censorship of these types of sites.
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When hermit crabs confuse plastic trash for shells, ‘avalanche’ of death happens - vo2maxer https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/05/what-happens-when-hermit-crabs-confuse-plastic-trash-shells-an-avalanche-death/ ====== halkcyon That is atrocious. I know in some communities, there is an effort to clean up bea...
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A-Frame v1.0.0 – WebXR Support, AR Mode - raybb https://aframe.io/blog/aframe-v1.0.0/ ====== raybb This is a little older but still pretty cool. Has anyone here used this for a project before?
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Promises in JavaScript - q library design rationale - grn https://github.com/kriskowal/q/blob/master/design/README.js ====== paulbaumgart Plain text link (more readable IMO): <https://raw.github.com/kriskowal/q/master/design/README.js>
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Google Wallet Announced: Use Your Phone for Mobile Payments - engr_haseeb http://www.technobolt.com/2011/05/26/google-wallet-announced-use-your-phone-for-mobile-payments/ ====== phlux One thing that would be interesting with NFC & mobile payments, is that as there will no longer be any privacy surrounding payment ac...
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Validate your startup idea by asking 3 simple questions - paraschopra http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/validate-startup-idea.htm ====== DanielBMarkham I didn't like this, and I'm struggling with how to explain it. After all, these are excellent and insightful questions. I think the reason is that people a...
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Stay home science project: Enlarge gummy bears to reveal the secrets of osmosis - WaitWaitWha https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/osmosis-gummy-bears/ ====== tlarkworthy My wife made a whole YouTube series on fun experiments you can do with young kids. This one creates beautiful art by utilizing syphoning and chromatogra...
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Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video] - dsr12 https://techcrunch.com/video/in-conversation-with-vitalik-buterin-justin-drake-and-karl-floersch-ethereum-foundation/ ====== Egidius Great to see these young guys attempting to tackle these huge problems out of their believe that they can make "the world a be...
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Demystifying Secret - coloneltcb https://medium.com/p/12ab82fda29f ====== cwb71 "First, your data is stored on Google servers — essentially the same servers as Gmail. This means your secrets are as safe as your email." Well, if David says so…
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Ask HN: opinion on the landing page of my startup - needleme Hello,<p>it&#x27;s still in a test page<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;test.bluetouchdev.com&#x2F;<p>We&#x27;re about to officially launch the app at the end of June, with press release, video and everything - we&#x27;re actually already in the App Store, without any ...
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Ask HN: Why/how Pornhub is free? - novaRom Really, they have millions of &#x27;incognito&#x27; users every single day. How is it possible you pay Netflix but not Pornhub? ====== angersock Netflix doesn't really have ads. Also, the viewing patterns and infra needs are totally different. ------ Eridrus Copyright infrin...
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Tactical Motifs in Chess: A List - lionhearted http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2012/04/tactical-motifs-list.html ====== lionhearted Came across this when looking for some inspiration on concretizing abstract skills. Found it interesting. Deep game, eh?
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Are there any good cloud-based email clients? - stefek99 In need for #cloud #email #client --&gt; https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=cloud+email+client<p>Think &quot;ThunderBird for the cloud&quot; --&gt; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.mozillazine.org&#x2F;viewtopic.php?p=11509055&amp;sid=4f36eacd9f9262efa238ca...
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"The time has passed for the Twitter API" -Mullenweg - jolie http://ma.tt/2010/05/twitter-api/ ====== pkulak Wow, that's one hell of a header!
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A book about Git, hosted on Github - raganwald http://github.com/progit/progit ====== Another1 <http://progit.org/book/> ------ duck Dup - <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726023> ------ d0m I've read this book last summer to learn git and I pretty enjoyed it. Mainly because it's succinct and because the author ...
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Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview) - zeedotme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU&feature=channel ====== Estragon It's actually Bob Sutton's rule. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule> ~~~ pg Incidentally, we don't call it a "no asshole rule." I think what I originally said to Robe...
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DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse - tobr https://boristhebrave.github.io/DeBroglie/ ====== hesdeadjim Oh also here is the original creator of the algorithm that this implementation is based on: [https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse](https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollaps...
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Internal Disclosure Boring - wglb http://flaked.sockpuppet.org/2018/10/09/internal-disclosure-boring.html ====== tptacek This is funny; the site this is posted on is where I generally throw stuff that I don't really want to promote or anything, and accidentally copying the word "Boring" from my subhed does a nice job ...
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The dark side of .io: How UK makes DNS profits from a shady Cold War land deal - mleonhard https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/ ====== jsjddbbwj Might is right. This is senseless crying. You live in a land that enjoys security and p...
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Ask HN: How to monetize a game and not make a pay to win? - Fr33maan Dear HN, I&#x27;m making a game, a mmo based on fast paced fight. I&#x27;m looking for ideas to how to not make a pay 2 win but monetize the game in an interesting way. For now there is only fighting between knights.<p>Cheers ====== spartan7500 Follo...
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Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt - abennett http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/159785/tina-fey-chats-eric-schmidt ====== rayvega I like the mention of the improvisation concept of "yes and" as being a huge influence on her professionally. She describes how this can take good ideas from two people and create something newe...
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Adobe: HTML5 Will Throw the Web 'Back to the Dark Ages of Video' - profquail http://seekingalpha.com/article/186064-adobe-html5-will-throw-the-web-back-to-the-dark-ages-of-video ====== Locke1689 I'm not so sure about things like vector graphics animations, but I'd be willing to bet that Flash has lost online video w...
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China is on track to beat its peak-emissions pledge - bryanrasmussen https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/china-is-on-track-to-beat-its-peak-emissions-pledge/ ====== ei8htyfi5e I've lived there and can say from experience China just makes stuff up. The local governments are responsible for reporting to higher ups a...
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The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie - bpolania http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/the-tech-talent-shortage-is-a-lie/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook#.avliqr:5ahD ====== rm_-rf_slash I have said it a million times before ...
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Is Instagram Ruining Architecture? - fortran77 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/instagram-architecture-design.html ====== xhgdvjky maybe it's just me but this article seems terribly written. the topic had so much potential...
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Muzzik: Find and listen to any song, anytime, anywhere - appmuzzik Get millions of songs instantly, top charts, trending songs by all country...<p>Available for more than 30 countries including; Arabian, Bulgarian, Chinesee (China), Chinesee (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English Finnish, French, German, Greek, H...
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1TB SSD - helwr http://www.slashgear.com/ocz-colossus-1tb-ssd-gets-official-1863745/ ====== jrockway I am not sure if there is a consumer market for SSDs this big. If you have a high-performance online transaction processing app, then this could be great. But if you just have a terabyte of porn, you are wasting your...
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When to Mock - vkhorikov https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/when-to-mock/ ====== mabbo What bothers me about this article is that it doesn't really present alternatives or real-world examples of how to do what the author is saying. > Use real instances of managed dependencies in tests. Is the author suggestin...
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How many people will actually die this week because of Daylight Savings Time? - foob http://sangaline.com/post/deaths-caused-by-daylight-savings-time/ ====== psj9 I agree that standard time sucks.
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Show HN: Quotable, an ios app to remember quotes written entirely with meteor - adn http://quotableapp.io/ ====== jcr The background image on your site is just excellent. I had a bit of fun trying to figure out where it was taken. I noticed the UK style cab first, then the "Superdry" company name with "*gent Street"...
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OpenSSH now supports certified/signed keys for users and hosts - there http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=126721648405075&w=2 ====== hannibalhorn Good to have the option, I know I'd prefer it to distributing and maintaining a known_hosts file to a whole network. That said, I really prefer the idea of using DNSSEC wi...
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Moving Calm to Microservices - tekmaven https://medium.com/calm-engineering/moving-calm-to-microservices-ed9e3615fd6c ====== meditator18 This article is great!
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Show HN: A faster, cleaner YouTube built on Angular.js and Foundation - mcrittenden http://toogl.es ====== emilioolivares This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Why is it so fast? Is it angular??? ~~~ mcrittenden Angular + the fact that YouTube serves up JSONP requests really really fast :). The code is at <http://gi...
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Indian call centres selling your credit card details and medical records - dazbradbury http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116649/Indian-centres-selling-YOUR-credit-card-details-medical-records-just-2p.html ====== nitinthewiz This is a scenario that I have expected to hear about since a long time. Places like I...
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Hadoop on IPFS [pdf] - usgroup http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~hpaik/thesis/showcases/16s2/scott_brisbane.pdf ====== imrehg I think this highlights the insight that IPFS is more of a "decentralized transfer" tool rather than "decentralized storage" tool necessarily. Storage is part of the caching, but the discovery of the...
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What's the next product that will disrupt the smartphone industry? - cyrusradfar http://kapuno.com/conversation/apu6f4yabslga ====== MSM A little bit of a side story about something that really opened my eyes last week. I ordered a package that was shipping through UPS and when I called I was dismayed that there wa...
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Mysteries of avian migration at night are being solved with computational power - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/big-data-is-for-the-birds ====== acqq Are they being solved or are they researched? "You can observe a lot by watching."
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HN yellow pages (Google docs) - sdrinf http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArBfYaOI31DfdEo0TWRFN09QUHVjWHRKQUFLZGFEcnc&hl=en#gid=0 http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tFgepUuuBHSgfeuKPKccxTA&#38;hl=en&#38;authkey=CIqAl7wO#gid=0 ====== kngspook So, people keep vandalizing the publicly editable spreadsheet. Here...
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Noah: Bash on Ubuntu on macOS - prabirshrestha https://github.com/linux-noah/noah ====== oautholaf This runs linux binaries on darwin. You know what would be awesome? Running darwin binaries on linux so I can do iOS development without a Mac. ~~~ peatmoss Binary compatibility is one path, but another path is source /...
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Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - gkanai https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html ====== larsberg I was recently talking with Prof. Dave MacQueen about this (he ran a group at Bell Labs for around 20 years before the Lucent debacle). The most amazing thing was th...
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Diffbot launches AI-powered knowledge graph of 1T facts - borisjabes https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/30/diffbot-launches-ai-powered-knowledge-graph-of-1-trillion-people-places-and-things/ ====== d--b It's incredible people still try and do things like this. This is such an over ambitious problem... 1\. Webpages are ...
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Firefox Replay - nachtigall https://firefox-replay.com/ ====== darshan Mods: the link should perhaps be changed to: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay) This currently has 1215 points, and the link is no longer valid. ...
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Ask YC: market for small-ish profitable projects? - petervandijck The recent 37sigs post made me think. I know there's a market for projects that are making, say, 1 or 2K a month, you can sell them for say, 10-30K.<p>But if you are making 20K, or even 5K a month with a project, is there a market for those? Are there...
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What mathematical function starts slow, explodes, and then plateaus? - pollster http://www.wepolls.com/p/4618122/What-mathematical-function-starts-slow%2C-explodes%2C-and-then-plateaus ====== billswift This is a really bad web site. The page loaded, I saw the poll for a few seconds then it (apparently) redirected my...
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Watch as over 5,000 Eve Online pilots destroy a fully operational Death Star - fraqed http://www.pcgamer.com/watch-as-over-5000-eve-online-pilots-destroy-a-fully-operational-death-star/ ====== dwe3000 This is probably reading way too much into things, but the videos made me wonder what viewing modern battles might be ...
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Show HN: A really simple way to write BDD tests with NUnit - RokitSalad https://github.com/RokitSalad/Helpful.BDD ====== thom Years ago when I did .NET stuff, I had a framework that implemented Given, When, Then and And as properties on a 'Scenario' test superclass that just returned this. I then created 'Steps' fil...
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Would You Recommend Us? - the only question that matters - Mistone http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060901/handson-customer-service.html ====== vlad I just pulled some statistics on Monday while I was in San Francisco to help me write a press release (for when I'm at the airport) to finally publicize my product. Anyway,...
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EFF Asks Mass. High Court to Require Clear Limits for Searches of Devices - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/eff-asks-massachusetts-high-court-require-clear-limits-allowing-searches-digital ====== Drdrdrq While the cause seems legit, I wonder if this case is appropriate for it? The evidence seems pretty ...
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Facebook checks in - whereareyou http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/facebook-places-check-in/ ====== novum Advance notice of another enabled-by-default option to disable in privacy settings. Edit: To clarify, I signed up for facebook in 2004 because it offered simple social planning and sharing. Today, I think FB's p...
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Weinre - Debug Mobile Websites from your Desktop - daleharvey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAI29UkVCc ====== pmuellr some links: downloads - <https://github.com/pmuellr/weinre/downloads> doc - <http://pmuellr.github.com/weinre/> ------ slobirdrop This and phonegap — up, up and away!
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Ask YC: The site that let you mockup user flow / registration procedures? - Steve0 I know I've seen it here before, but didn't bookmark it and have been googling for a while now.<p>It had this flash based interface you could use to draw fancy diagrams of user sign up, invite friends, etc...<p>Does anyone recall it's...
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An open source, modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js, Git and Markdown - arikr https://github.com/Requarks/wiki ====== arikr This looks really, really nice. [https://github.com/Requarks/wiki](https://github.com/Requarks/wiki) ------ mhd If you’re using git as a backing store, why is there a need for MongoDB...
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How to frustrate developers and alienate teams - rafb3 http://anythingsoftware.posterous.com/how-to-frustrate-developers-and-alienate-team ====== rafb3 What do you find are other Enterprise approaches to annihilate developers motivation?
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Scalability and Performance Best Practices - alrex021 http://highscalability.com/15-scalability-and-performance-best-practices ====== chrisbolt _It's not just you!<http://highscalability.com> looks down from here._ ~~~ dryicerx Ironic isn't it. ------ dryicerx Something that's missing from a lot of these is the pr...
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Quick introduction to SAT/SMT solvers and symbolic execution [pdf] - jaybosamiya http://yurichev.com/tmp/SAT_SMT_DRAFT.pdf ====== rurban Oh, it's still missing cbmc or Saturn, which are IMHO the easiest way to translate C problems to SMT problems, because it translates the symbolic C problem automatically. klee still...
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Jeff Bezos Amazon Wishlist - he seems to like Lego Ninjago - hoodoof https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/BUWBWH9K2H77 ====== hoodoof It's what comes up when you put jeff@amazon.com into [https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search/) Someone should buy him that Lego - ...
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Ask HN: How's your quarantine side project going? - robmerki ( An update to this thread: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23170881 )<p>What have you been working on? How&#x27;s it going? ====== seanwilson I've been working on a single player word game for web and mobile. :) [https://seanwilson.itch...
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Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it - mmastrac http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/ ====== exDM69 I would have liked to see maps of the whole world. I live in Helsinki, 60 degrees North, and the sunrise today is 08:40 and the sunset is 15:33. It's st...
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Ask HN: Can you be sued for stealing an idea? - anon23 (This is a throwaway account)<p>I'm a software freelancer and I quote lots of small projects for random clients (maybe 4-5 a week). The vast majority of these (more than half) fall through, typically because I'm more expensive than outsourcing.<p>There have bee...
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Homeboy: Accessible home security system - natch https://www.homeboy.com/ ====== natch Received the camera today. Designed in Australia, shipped from California. Very well done packaging/unboxing. More important is the software and the accessibility. It starts talking to you as soon as you plug it in! Although I ha...
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The cost of Linux's page fault handling - LaSombra https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/YDKRFDwHwr6 ====== evmar Linus wrote: 'Even a fully built kernel ("allmodconfig", so a pretty full build) takes about half a minute on my normal desktop to say "I'm done, that pull changed nothing I could compile".' Since ...
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OAuth2 in Python [pdf] - nmundar http://goodcode.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/OAuth-edited.pdf ====== est Fun fact: python-oauth2 does not support oauth2. Despite its name (similar names like httplib2, urllib3) [https://github.com/simplegeo/python- oauth2/issues/92](https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2/issue...
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David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve (video) - jamesbritt http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve.html ====== jamesbritt Something I've wondered about is whether people would craft music that either exploits quirks of mp3 encoding (perhaps making the compression artifacts...
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Extempore: Cyberphysical programming [video] - TheHydroImpulse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSGKEy8vHqg ====== TheHydroImpulse Note: The original youtube title gives little indication on what it is, so I used the project's title.
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Mike Pompeo Said the US Is Considering Banning TikTok - pseudolus https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/us-considering-banning-tiktok-according-to-mike-pompeo ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755863](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755863) ------ jeffreyrogers If you thought Russi...
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10 Compelling Reasons for Microsoft to Buy RIM - felipemnoa http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/10-Compelling-Reasons-for-Microsoft-to-Buy-RIM-824257/ ====== skimbrel None of these are good reasons for Microsoft to buy the failing RIM. The Playbook is a joke, the distinction between enterprise and consumer i...
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The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists - fuzzix http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html ====== cstross I'm British. I visit the USA 2-3 times per year and travel elsewhere quite frequently. I would rate the "welcome mat" as rather less welcoming than Yugoslavia during the Cold War (a ...
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Field Play: a cool vector field visualisation - vulcan01 https://anvaka.github.io/fieldplay/ ====== h2odragon v.x = -0.1 * p.x; v.y = 0.1 * p.y; ... looks better
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Ask HN: Start-up friendly banks in San Francisco? - dnsworks Who should I bank with in San Francisco? Square1 and SVB both seem to have forgotten that San Francisco represents a key start-up market. I don't want to spend an hour on Caltrain to deposit a check or get a sit-down with my account manager.<p>I am leaning...
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Common business card mistakes - blewis http://www.onesock.net/2010/05/14/10-common-business-card-mistakes/ ====== brolewis The only purpose of a business card isn't to get scanned into a system and stored away in a CRM. Another purpose of a business card is to extend the brief encounter that started the process. A c...
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South Korea stops requiring ActiveX for online banking and shopping - quant18 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30001424052748703964104575334742135824042.html ====== hga Try this for full text: [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet+browser+market.+F...](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet+browser+market.+...
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Why is base 60 more precise for trigonometry, can you give an example? - virgilkf https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2405480/why-is-base-60-more-precise-for-trigonometry-can-you-give-an-example ====== ordu With decimal numbers we can write 1/3 as 3/10+3/100+3/1000+..., it is infinite series converging to 1/3\. W...
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Using ltrace to debug a memory leak - Dawny33 http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/15/using-ltrace-to-debug-a-memory-leak/ ====== scottlamb Is there a convenient way to get a heap profile in Rust? I'd expect it shouldn't be too hard. I'm used to using pprof with tcmalloc, jemalloc is based on tcmalloc, and Rust uses jemalloc b...
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Startups worship the young. But research shows older people are most innovative - yarapavan https://qz.com/954368/startups-worship-the-young-but-research-shows-people-are-most-innovative-when-theyre-older/ ====== saas_co_de Interesting research but I am not sure how many people actually believe that startups want youn...
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Show HN: Noise Reduction Machine using Fourier Transforms - sanjiv1994 https://github.com/sanjivsoni/reimagined-computing-machine ====== sanjiv1994 Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to improve on this.
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What are you doing for Net Neutrality Day? - parametrek Have you done something clever or creative for Net Neutrality Day? Let&#x27;s share those here.<p>Personally I&#x27;ve re-compressed the jpegs on my site at quality level 1 and threw a banner on. It looks terrible!<p>Hopefully this won&#x27;t become too much of...
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Ask HN: How to turn my voice into text data with as little friction as possible - tai_hn I want to make a system to speak to my iPhone, make that audio file into texts, and import that to Evernote or Notes. How can I achieve this with as little friction as possible? ====== afarrell I've been using [https://otter.ai/](...
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Pat Robertson thinks marijuana should be legal - avichal http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html ====== guga31bb > _“It’s completely out of control,” Mr. Robertson said. “Prisons are being > overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the > penalties, t...
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