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Mozilla Plans H.264 Video for Desktop Firefox - glhaynes
http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/10/mozilla-plans-h-264-video-for-desktop-firefox/
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gmartres
H.264 is not a "proprietary video codec", it's a patent-encumbered codec. The
spec is available for free on the ITU
website(<http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264>) an... | {
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The Cost of a Logo - damian2000
http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/view_article.php?id=4140&s=art&t=design
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mikeryan
Please note this mixes up the cost of a logo with the cost of a rebranding
effort.
Creating the logo is only one very small piece of a rebrand.
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cschmidt
Right, I'm sure the BP rebrand included n... | {
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Parents Revolt Over Fisher-Price Infant Seat With Face-Level iPad Mount - davidsmith8900
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gadgets/parents-dislike-infant-seat-ipad-mount/
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PhasmaFelis
> _CCFC director Susan Linn said “Babies thrive when they are talked to,
> played with and cuddled, not when they are alone with a sc... | {
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YC application Winter Batch - cubinho
Hey guys!<p>It says that you can just update your previous application and apply for the batch.<p>Has anyone been able to do that? Pls help.
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wirddin
Is this from the email we all have received for a 10-day reminder? I guess by
that they meant that you can apply with the sam... | {
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Littlest database that could - dpweb
http://run-node.com/littlest-database-that-could/
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ZitchDog
You are relying on disk io for each update, which can easily be slower than a
web request. Either that, or you aren't flushing to disk, which could mean
data loss. Modern databases use a write-ahead log to store da... | {
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Popular dating app OkCupid leak puts millions of women at risk - teslademigod1
https://cybernews.com/security/popular-dating-app-leak-puts-millions-of-women-at-risk/
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fyrefoxboy12
happy women's day i guess? another app, another leak. color me surprised...
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I started Gumroad as a weekend project - JamesIH
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/4fc6cbc0e8
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Matticus_Rex
Yes, this is the same Gumroad and same founder of "Reflections on my failure
to build a billion-dollar company" ([https://medium.com/s/story/reflecting-on-
my-failure-to-build...](https://medium.com/s... | {
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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings. Inquire within.) - mikegreenberg
Every once in a while, I throw up an offer to give free help. If it's something I can do in 10-15 minutes, I'm happy to oblige (within reason).<p>- I'm a full stack web developer (LAMP primarily),<p>- I've helped a lot with p... | {
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Ask HN: Why Apple put a whitespace on iCloud Path? - amineazariz
Genuine question.<p>Why on earth an engineer, supposedly good since she/he is working at Apple, would think that putting a whitespace on a working-space path is a good idea ? (+ Now way to change it.)<p>Reasons to not do that :<p>- It costs nothing ... | {
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Show HN: Rails based Asset Manager for business environments - ryanmacg
I started work on this Asset Manager as my first ever Ruby on Rails project at my first job. I've spent the past couple of months refining it and making it business agnostic and now it's ready to show off fully. Happy to take advice an... | {
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Jq: a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor - comice
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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dozzie
I fail to see how jq is even close to the functions of App::RecordStream.
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Apigee API Console for LinkedIn, PayPal, Foursquare, Twilio and SoundCloud APIs - abraham
http://blog.apigee.com/detail/apigee_api_console/
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sramji
We are trying hard to make the most useful APIs easier to develop against -
let us know which APIs you'd like to see in the console: sramji@apigee.com
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diet... | {
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Twillage helps you find local events from twitter - ldenoue
http://twillage.com
We just opened Twillage, an event aggregator that mines twitter for local events and groups them by date and location. Let us know what you think. info@twillage.com
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ldenoue
twillage now has fulltext search, e.g. find concerts in Sa... | {
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Linux 3.7-rc1 is out - esolyt
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/14/281
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sciurus
I'm surprised to see this on HN. Linux kernel RCs are released weekly, there
were 7 RCs of 3.6 before the final release. Is there something special in this
one that I'm missing?
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JoshTriplett
The release of -rc1 indicates the closure... | {
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Show HN: A-Painter: Paint in VR in Your Browser - ngokevin
https://blog.mozvr.com/a-painter/
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yodon
Adding a license file to the github repo is always a good place to start. Some
of the other aframe projects have them but I don't see one for a-painter
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ngokevin
Oops, will do now.
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A Game of Life on Penrose Tilings - sohkamyung
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09301
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pmoriarty
Here's a video of the Game of Life on a Penrose Tiling:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DFi4FgzEeQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DFi4FgzEeQ)
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undersuit
I love that oscillator down in the bottom right!
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da... | {
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Pathjoy (YC S10) Offers Affordable Housecleaning With Easy Web Booking - briankim
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/16/pathjoy-launch/
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Harj
I use Pathjoy to clean my apartment and I love it. The booking process is
simple and the quality of the cleaning has always been superb. Recently a
second cleaner came by at th... | {
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The Biggest Problem with Google Glass - jsoverson
http://jarrodoverson.com/blog/the-one-biggest-problem-with-google-glass/
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dm2
This "problem" can pretty easily be fixed with a more flexible frame and a
slim carrying case.
It's prototype hardware that you are critiquing. Google Glass is more than
just the har... | {
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Sam and Max Hit the Road - doppp
https://www.filfre.net/2019/06/sam-and-max-hit-the-road/
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bennyp101
I absolutely loved this game when it came out, then a few years ago I bought
it again on GOG - just as good as when I was 8!
I vaguely remember my dad taking me to go and buy a Soundblaster card so the
sound wor... | {
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TwitterNotes - Take notes anywhere using Twitter - sdsantos
http://twitternotes.com/
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karzeem
From their About page: "This website layout was humbly borrowed from Twitter
original layout, since we believe we are creating value for its own community
from which we belong."
I wonder how Twitter feels about sites r... | {
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0 Tweets, 12,207 Followers - scrrr
https://twitter.com/apple
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pyrotechnick
url - tweets - followers - ratio
<http://twitter.com/adobe> \- 10,420 - 139,670 - 13.40
<http://twitter.com/apple> \- 0 - 12,207 - ∞
<http://twitter.com/facebook> \- 997 - 5,673,552 - 5,690.62
<http://twitter.com/google> \- 3,820 - ... | {
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It’s No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car ‘Crashes’ Instead - aaronbrethorst
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/science/its-no-accident-advocates-want-to-speak-of-car-crashes-instead.html
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mikerichards
I'm not surprised considering the litigious nature of American society and the
typical knee-jerk reaction... | {
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Microsoft infographic encouraging working while on vacation - magrimes
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/nov13/11-06getitdone.aspx
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jptman
What if the reason you get to have a nice vacation at a particular time of
year is that you are able to join important meetings from wherever?
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gdc
I do... | {
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Wanted: Sr. Software Engineer NYC Startup - doriandargan
https://jobs.github.com/positions/c27f0668-5b74-11e2-9ed4-2f95be6a68af
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greenyoda
If you don't mention anything about the compensation package -- salary range,
equity, benefits, etc. -- I have no idea whether it's even worth my while
sending you an e-ma... | {
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The Knight-Mozilla Journalism Challenge; Call for Ideas - knowtheory
http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/mojo-what-is-it/
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OpenMatt
This is a great opportunity for people interested in the future of news and
the web.
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Stages of a startup (infographic) - williswee
https://www.techinasia.com/startup-stages
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pedalpete
I'm not familiar with the Marmer model, and also don't see how it is really
different from the Customer Development Model, with the exception that it puts
timeframes to each stage.
I think the Funding Stages model... | {
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Teen Solves Quantum Entanglement Problem for Fun - sunsu
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/ari-dyckovsky/
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hello_asdf
"With his paper, Ari Dyckovsky has helped show that you can have quantum
entanglement with vastly different particles, not just particles that are
similar."
This was pretty much the... | {
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Siemens previews autonomous 3d printing spiders - Sanddancer
http://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/home/pictures-of-the-future/digitalization-and-software/autonomous-systems-siemens-research-usa.html
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djaychela
Impressive stuff, but also reminiscent of minority report. I'd have liked more
detail about the volume ... | {
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Preface to the new edition of The Design of Everyday Things - breck
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/preface_design_of_e.html
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russelluresti
I loved the original version of this book (actually just passed it along to a
friend to read), and I'm probably going to pick up the digital copy of this
revision. Interested in... | {
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Congressman Spends Week on Uninhabited Island in Pacific - breck
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101760_pf.html
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patio11
That brings back memories of my days in Boy Scouts. Getting out in the
outdoors is a wonderful character building exercise and presents opportunities... | {
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Mailchimp Project Omnivore: Declassified - dajobe
http://blog.mailchimp.com/project-omnivore-declassified/
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mgkimsal
Interesting that they link to a definition of spam which is 'both unsolicited
and bulk'. The vast majority of people I know who are militant about spam
focus solely on the unsolicited aspect. I ... | {
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Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer - mpicard
https://mpicard.github.io/kite-review.html
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veli_joza
Now, this is an exciting development of tooling. This could bootstrap next
generation of tools that would make huge increase in software complexity
actually manageable.
I like that it shows you code examples ... | {
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Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/apparently-bing-is-something-of-a-hit/
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calambrac
I've been using Bing as my default search in FF all day today, just as an
experiment. I can't tell if what frustration I am experiencing is just due to
not being used to it, but I... | {
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6.7 earthquake near Japan - y0ghur7_xxx
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0004e5w.php
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mikecane
I tuned into NHK online and there was nothing.
<http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/r/movie/>
EDIT: There was a brief mention in passing on the news. Given the magnitude, I
expected live bull... | {
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Twitter should copy Google+’s circle feature. - skbohra123
http://www.geekybuddha.org/blog/2011/07/16/twitter-should-copy-google%e2%80%99s-circle-feature/
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athst
Absolutely not. The whole nature of twitter is about its spontaneity and real-
time nature. Can you imagine if someone had to go through the extra tho... | {
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Show HN: Gita – a CLI tool to manage multiple Git repos - nosarthur
https://github.com/nosarthur/gita
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fyhn
One thing this project does really well is to start the readme with a
screenshot. I open the link, scroll down to the readme, and I immediately see
what sort of user interface/experience I will get. Some c... | {
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Immutability Changes Everything - ingve
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2884038
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Scarbutt
At the database level, lets say I want to take this approach with postgresql,
is using just one big table with no deletes or updates-in-place and just doing
appends one way to go about this? (assuming space is not a prob... | {
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Why the US federal employee record breach is worse than others - caseysoftware
http://caseysoftware.com/blog/why-this-security-breach-is-worse-than-all-the-others-combined
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meesterdude
What a mess, but does highlight the fact that you know, when you gather a lot
of information on people, you become a target. The... | {
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If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too - teslacar
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/opinion/if-war-can-have-ethics-wall-street-can-too.html?_r=00
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nostrademons
Historically the idea of war having rules has had a very unfortunate past. In
WW1, Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare in 1915 and torpedo... | {
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} |
Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (2014) - dhotson
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html
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jacquesm
If he had that insight in 2011 then he was pretty late to the party. By then
the 1K to 2K line limit for 'beginner programmers' was very well established.
To go beyond that you... | {
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No More Pirated Games in Two Years, Cracking Group Warns - bpierre
https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-group-warns-160106/
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thedudemabry
As someone who casually browses articles about DRM technology, I'm really
impressed by the partial descriptions of Denuvo's method. They seem to have
fou... | {
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} |
Google Pack: Chrome Replaces Firefox in Google Pack's Default Browser Choice - Anon84
http://lifehacker.com/5108733/chrome-replaces-firefox-in-google-packs-default-browser-choice
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pasbesoin
Anyone else have NoScript alert on this page to a potential XSS condition?
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pasbesoin
Guess this explains it. Sigh. Now... | {
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St. Louis Fed official: No evidence QE boosted economy - adventured
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/18/st-louis-fed-official-no-evidence-qe-boosted-economy.html
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Animats
But it sure helped out banks, who get to borrow from the Fed at near zero
rates and lend at much higher rates.
The US tends to inject Government... | {
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} |
reMarkable – The paper tablet for people who prefer paper - bruun
https://getremarkable.com/
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adaszko
Some of the intriguing books appearing in the video:
* [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sparse-distributed-memory](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sparse-distributed-memory)
* [https://www.amazon.com/Fluid-Conce... | {
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Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps - mgdiaz
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/dive-into-great-barrier-reef-with-first_25.html
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snogglethorpe
haha, I can imagine the discussion in the google maps office.
"Well, we've finished with all the planet's landmasses...can you make this
thing ... | {
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The Boston restaurant where robots have replaced the chefs - djrogers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/05/17/will-robots-replace-chefs-at-this-new-boston-restaurant-they-already-have/
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ItsMe000001
Hey OP, I forgot to tell you:
> he made a joke with the word thesis
In other words, his con... | {
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Python for system administration - adionditsak
http://aarvik.dk/python-for-system-administration/
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adionditsak
What do you think about Python for system administration?
| {
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OpenGL and Direct3D crazy GUI debugger via APITrace - icefox
http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2011/04/apitrace.html
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corysama
Before Xbox PIX, graphics debugging involved thinking really hard about a huge
state machine that lives in a separate, uninspectable memory space and is
modified in hundreds of locations in y... | {
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} |
Accommodating Feedburner Redirects? - dpapathanasiou
I'd be curious to get the news.yc community's take on a mini-dilemma we're seeing at SeekSift.com recently.<p>It's explained in more detail on the blog (<a href="http://blog.seeksift.com/2007/07/19/feedburner-redirects/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.seeksift.com/200... | {
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Joi Ito: Formal vs informal education - snewe
http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2010/02/28/formal-vs-infor.html
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chrischen
> I wonder how many people there are like me who can't engage well with formal
> education
Well considering nearly 1/10 people have ADHD
([http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2007... | {
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Ask HN: Best way to validate a product idea? - kver
What is your experience validating product ideas, so you're getting out most from it without spending much effort?
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tablet
The best way to validate a product idea is to build the product. And even that
might not validate the idea itself due to poor executi... | {
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Another Dropbox alternative: Jottacloud, hosted in Norway - workhere-io
http://www.jottacloud.com/
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workhere-io
(I'm not affiliated with them, btw.).
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taktix
Thanks for posting. Looks promising.
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US to start charging visitor entry fee this summer - gaius
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article7123827.ece
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_delirium
Interesting that "many" of the knock-off websites are in North Korea. Looks
like they're getting pretty desperate in the internet-fraud department.
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jleyank
Folks, the on... | {
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I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones - msh
http://digitaltrends.com/mobile/firefox-os-review/
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programminggeek
I haven't used Firefox OS, but I've wrote PhoneGap apps for iOS and Android,
and the biggest problem is just that it puts the developer experience before
the end user experie... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Forget technical co-founders, where do you find a good designer? - calebamsden
I've been working on my first project in Django and Python, and I've been finding that the coding takes way less time than trying to get the design down. I'm okay with HTML/CSS and know my way around Photoshop/GIMP, but anything r... | {
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GPU-Oriented PCIe Expansion Cluster - minxomat
http://amfeltec.com/products/gpu-oriented-cluster/
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krautsourced
For those doubting the usefulness of these rigs, I can say that for GPU
rendering numerous of these are in use by small sized studios and freelancers.
The bottleneck of the slow PCIe connection is noth... | {
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} |
An RF-powered cordless phone - jonbaer
https://www.wired.com/story/this-cell-phone-can-make-calls-even-without-a-battery
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userbinator
Neither the title of this item (currently "A cell phone powered by ambient
light") nor the article's ("This Cell Phone Can Make Calls Even Without a
Battery") is really accurate.
... | {
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} |
Tulsa to pay remote workers $10k to relocate - yoloswagins
https://tulsaremote.com/
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strangemonad
[https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/18/oklahoma-and-kansas-
enac...](https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/18/oklahoma-and-kansas-enact-anti-
lgbt-laws)
Thanks but no thanks
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axaxs
I think this is a really smart mo... | {
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Mind-controlled animatronics cat ears - alex_c
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13390
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alex_c
MindWave headset, Arduino controller, and MakerBot for printing the parts.
What a time to be alive!
| {
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Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js - amitdugar
http://zombie.labnotes.org/
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developuh
Has anyone tried this ? Looks like a good option to test front-end
| {
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Airbnb agrees to rat out its hosts to NYC - milkshakes
https://gizmodo.com/airbnb-agrees-to-rat-out-its-hosts-like-nyc-wants-it-to-1844017966
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remotists
I think rat out is a strong word, being transparent with law enforcement is
more appropriate.
| {
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A Startup’s Guide to Outsourcing - ttunguz
http://tomtunguz.com/outsourcing
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ttunguz
What lessons have you learnt from outsourcing?
| {
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} |
College Daily brings Chinese students in U.S. news with nationalistic undertones - mitchbob
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-truth-publication-where-chinese-students-in-america-get-their-news
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kvonhorn
> “Most people just read to kill time. Who is going to investigate? No one
> will. It on... | {
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The Case for Endless Oil - cwan
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_03/b4163046952385.htm
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brc
While I'm in no position to comment on the accuracy of the article, being
neither an energy analyst or oil industry specialist, I'm getting a bit tired
of the vicious ad-hominen attacks in blog comments a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Buy this Heartbleed T-Shirt, and support OpenSSL Foundataion - agilevic
http://teespring.com/iheartbleedopenssl
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mdob
Not bad, shares info about OpenSSL and Heartbleed, a way of supporting
foundation and it's a nice geek t-shirt. Why not.
True, it could be, somebody is trying to make money. If the t-shirt cos... | {
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} |
Show HN: I published my first bot, todo list manager - armmenn
http://m.me/mybigbot
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arthur_bonus
I've discovered this bot recently and started using it quite often. It's
simple yet helpful features allow myself to keep track of the things I have to
do. It would be great to see more features such as the ability ... | {
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Average Paid Dating Site subscriptions per user fall 25% in 6 months. - peter123
http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/average-paid-dating-site-subscriptions-per-user-fall-25-in-6-months/
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sam_in_nyc
From 1.306 to 1.245 is a fall of 25% ?
| {
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Hollywood loses final appeal in piracy case - matthewsinclair
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/hollywood-loses-final-appeal-in-piracy-case-20120420-1xb12.html
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ajtaylor
I've been in Australia for nearly a year now, and the dearth of movies/videos
available to buy/rent here is astounding. If you... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New evidence supporting the existence of the hypothetical X17 particle - bookofjoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10459
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henearkr
Worth noting: they even propose it could be the sign of a fifth fundamental
force of physics.
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badrabbit
Is it more correct to say interaction instead of force?
Why only 5? Couldn't ... | {
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Greenwald responds on Wired/Lamo/Poulsen/Manning affair - Bud
http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/12/29/wired_1
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Bud
Actually not a dupe; Greenwald's response was in two parts, and this is the
other (and somewhat more relevant) part.
~~~
gnosis
You're right. It's not a... | {
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Developing Modularized Web Apps with ReactJS and Webpack - fidanov
http://www.terlici.com/2015/08/04/react-apps-webpack.html
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DarkTree
Wow, I have to say React looks pretty nice. I can't yet say I see a major
improvement from Gulp to Webpack yet. Anyway, thanks for the quick intro!
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Golymer – Create HTML custom elements with Go (GopherJS) - microo8
https://github.com/microo8/golymer
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gramstrong
Cool! I'm not too familiar with Go, but I have a weird affinity for custom
elements. I wish that I'd see cool projects that involve them more regularly,
but the community seems relatively insulated. ... | {
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U.S. warns Americans to leave Japan amid significant increase in Covid-19 cases - bookofjoe
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-japan-spread-draws-warning-us-embassy-americans-get-out-2020-04-03/
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ceejayoz
And go where? Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
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Do You Wanna Touch - co_pl_te
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/do-you-wanna-touch.html
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kijin
> _How wonderful it is to flip open the Surface and quickly type a 4 paragraph
> email response when I need to ... And switching between the two modes of
> interaction – sometimes typing, sometimes touching – is... | {
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Safe at Any Speed: Building a Performant, Safe, Maintainable Packet Processor - signa11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysBMdx9w6k
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signa11
Video description:
At Jane Street, we’ve been building systems to trade electronically for over a
decade. As technology advances and the scale of the markets grows, we nee... | {
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} |
Where can I publish scholarly articles on software development methodology? - hyperfeen
I've been working in the software industry for many years and have a research background. I want to write scholarly articles on development methodologies e.g. SCRUM. Which journals/sites would you recommend?
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dalke
... | {
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The Octopus: An Alien Among Us - galaxyLogic
https://lithub.com/the-octopus-an-alien-among-us/
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ksaj
The paragraphs beginning where they discuss Hydras is pretty much precisely
what Valentino Braitenberg was getting at with his thought experiment
Vehicles.
[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vehicles](https://mitpr... | {
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} |
Jetabroad (Bangkok, Thailand) – Senior Software Engineers| Onsite – Full-Time | - sireetorn
Airfares are hard, we tackle the hardest part, multi-city up to 10 legs long. Think exponential search space, fuzzy constraints, and constantly changing variables.
We're looking for both front-end and back-end developers t... | {
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} |
How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches - kafkaesque
http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/09/17/how-airline-reservations-are-used-to-target-illegal-searches/
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sbarre
"DHS lawyers claimed that international travel provides, in and of itself,
sufficient Constitutional basis for detention and search... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do I search source code of popular projects only? - zb3
I've tried to search code on GitHub, Codesearch, Krugle, openhub etc, but I've run into a strange problem.<p>Every time I would like to see how some feature is being used in practice, I am bombarded with results coming from small, "Hell... | {
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} |
Why Are 96M Black Balls on This Reservoir? [video] - japaget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o
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ljsocal
Will the balls abrade from rubbing together constantly? If so, do the plastic
granules enter the water stream or are they filtered out? Was the 96mm
quantity predicated on 100% surface coverage of th... | {
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} |
Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala - astrec
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/twitter_on_scala/
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zmimon
The very title of this article shows the religious nature of much of the hype
around dynamic languages. Why is using the right tool for the job "jilting"
another language which was never designed or meant to b... | {
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} |
Ask / Tell YC: Maximum email field length - cjc
When collecting email addresses, how many characters do you guys usually allow for? Most google results say "320 characters" is the limit, but I've never met someone with such a preposterously long email address.<p>I did some digging and found that the IETF recommends ... | {
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} |
The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product - rchaudhary
https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-30-year-mortgage-is-an-intrinsically-toxic-product-200c901746a
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snowwrestler
This article strikes me as a classic example of a smart person outthinking
themselves on something pretty basic. Sure, it makes for ... | {
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Ask HN: New job is having me switch from Linux to Mac – how do I cope? - ecaron
I've been using Linux over 15 years, and since 2005 I've been at startups where I controlled my destiny and ran whatever the heck I wanted on my work computer (typically Linux Mint Debian Edition on a Lenovo.)<p>Well, I took a ... | {
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Don’t sign a CLA - chmaynard
https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html
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Legogris
It's a great point to be aware of, but the title and the tone implies that you
as a contributor should be a FOSS maximalist.
As they say, not all open source is FOSS. And some people are OK with that.
Let them contrib... | {
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} |
Jet.com Is Making Its Employees' Salaries Transparent and Non-Negotiable - sytelus
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikamorphy/2015/07/21/jet-com-is-making-its-employees-salaries-transparent-and-non-negotiable/
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paulhauggis
Salary transparency essentially has taken all power away from the employee
Companies norma... | {
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} |
Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water - circadian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39482342
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CarolineW
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14027546](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14027546)
| {
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The queen does not rule - Vigier
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ant-societies-point-to-radical-possibilities-for-humans
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lisper
An interesting puzzle: how can evolution produce an organism like an ant where
the vast majority of its exemplars are sterile? And the answer is: ants are
not organisms, ant _colonies_ are ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? - nate
The problem:<p>I like to have blog posts I write to be reviewed by someone else. A co-worker, wife, etc.<p>It's definitely made my blog posts clearer, more effective and less dangerous (for those posts that sometimes contained something ... | {
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DuckDuckGo & DuckDuckHack [video from YAPC::Europe 2012] - draegtun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYE5ktzEbaw
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draegtun
Clickable links of CPAN modules mentioned (from one slide) in the talk:
* <https://metacpan.org/module/Import::Into>
* [https://metacpan.org/module/Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AutoModuleS...](https... | {
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Fun programming in Roy with Turtle Graphics - bazzargh
http://turtle-roy.herokuapp.com/
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bazzargh
A bit of context: yesterday a link was posted to the Robot Turtles
kickstarter, and I wondered whether anyone was teaching functional languages
to kids instead of imperative ones... then today Brian McKenna mentio... | {
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} |
Show HN: The Image Locator - automation for finding css top/left coordinates - code_strict
http://locator.codestrict.com
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ghostdog69
Nice! Simple, clean and easy to use. Was just testing it out on this current
html game I'm making and works like it should.
| {
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Ask HN: Does Book on Software Contracting exists? - 31reasons
Is there a paper book or ebook for learning how to do software contracting with all the details from strategies to find clients and legal matters. If you are a contractor how did you learn it ?
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bcRIPster
Start here:
Software Development: A Legal G... | {
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Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017 - geocar
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33185/000119312518154706/d583804dex991.htm
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jMyles
Wow, this document is extremely short. The disaster is very palpable in this
format.
> names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, add... | {
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What Kind of a Thing is Twitter? - blasdel
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/twitter
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RyanMcGreal
An insightful essay, as always, but I think Aaron both overstates the extent
to which persona is manufactured on Twitter and understates the extent to
which persona is manufactured in interpersonal exchanges.
That is, ... | {
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} |
William Gibson talks briefly to BoingBoing about his novel, design & the web - wgx
http://boingboing.net/2011/09/01/william-gibson-interview-boing-boing-exclusive.html
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w1ntermute
> I think I bought a total of maybe four new hardcover novels, as an
> undergraduate, so I still think of the hardcover as a sort o... | {
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Information Fiduciaries in the Digital Age - dredmorbius
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2014/03/information-fiduciaries-in-digital-age.html
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dredmorbius
Jack Balkan suggests that information holders be legally tasked with acting in
the interest of those whose information they hold:
_The idea of an information fid... | {
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} |
Elon Musk’s $600 Flamethrower Will Be Released into the Civilian Market in April - IntronExon
https://taskandpurpose.com/elon-musks-600-flamethrower-will-apparently-released-civilian-market-april/
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fullstackwebdev
Ok so that's just the Harbor Freight weed burner with a housing that looks
like a gun.
[https://ww... | {
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Daring Fireball: Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It - barredo
http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome
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CoryOndrejka
Doing this in Firefox will result in an annoying "install missing plugins"
warning from Firefox. You can click the "x" but to suppr... | {
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} |
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