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Steve Wozniak On Antennagate, Google And Steve Jobs ( with Video) - px http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/steve-wozniak-apple-google/ ====== fuzzythinker He may be too close to Apple to realize Apple may be as likely (or more) as Google to be the "Microsoft of the future". ~~~ martythemaniak I thought that was the mo...
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Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go - riccomini http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=rust&lang2=go ====== jerf Probably more interesting is Rust vs. C++. Rust is actually beating C++ on several benchmarks, by a comfortable margin. Go is a modern scripting language, stripped of t...
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Malaria No More - nate http://malarianomore.org ====== schemescape For what it’s worth, GiveWell recommends the Against Malaria Foundation: [https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf](https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf) ~~~ colinmhayes People who donate to domestic charities when AMF and the malaria consortium are ...
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Scott Bellware: A Simple, Definitive Metric of Software Development Productivity - woan http://blog.scottbellware.com/2011/03/simple-definitive-metric-of-software.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sbellware+%28Scott+Bellware%29 ====== ibejoeb Under Non-Value-Added Work: > Here are a few ...
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Ask YC: Stats on Commenting before Reading - DaniFong Occasionally, I read a comment that seems to plainly ignore the main points of the article: the comment seems to have posted, a'la Slashdot, before they've even read it.<p>I wonder if my impressions are correct? Do many people comment before clicking the article,...
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Emacs for the HP49G - brudgers https://staff.science.uva.nl/c.dominik/hpcalc/emacs/ ====== encode To clarify: this is not Emacs. Instead, it is a text editor that features improvements over the built-in editor. It was partly written by Carsten Dominik (creator of Org mode), who is an Emacs user. Some features were ins...
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A very cool dude and his ski clothing company: Klaus Obermeyer - eserorg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQdFjO7mgnY Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Obermeyer ====== eserorg Wikipedia article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Obermeyer>
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Email your notes into OneNote with me[at]onenote.com (2014) - vmarsy https://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/email-your-notes-into-onenote-with-meonenote-com/ ====== Ezhik Microsoft released a lot of cool stuff for OneNote starting around a year ago. The REST API they have is pretty neat, I built a project with it for a...
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Show HN: Nikon DSLR as video conf webcam on Mac - dognotdog I&#x27;ve spent the COVID weekends working on an open-source plugin to use my Nikon DSLR as a webcam for the endless Zoom calls, and here it is:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dognotdog&#x2F;ptpwebcam ====== jamesponddotco Nice! If anyone is looking for...
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Are You a Responsible Owner of Your Availability? - somic http://somic.org/2010/07/06/are-you-a-responsible-owner-of-your-availability/ ====== shib71 I originally thought this was about _personal_ availability. It isn't, but it prompted some interesting ideas about being mindful about how open I am to interruption, ...
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Ask HN: What's your point of view on code review services such as Codacy? - symbolepro ====== smt88 N/A. All of my code handles private data (don't most revenue-generating programs?) and I can't/won't send my code to a third-party server. ~~~ symbolepro What about on premise version of these services? ~~~ jaimefjorge...
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How Are Infosec Pros Affected by Pentagon’s 46K Layoffs Plans? - grecs https://www.novainfosec.com/2013/01/26/how-are-infosec-pros-affected-by-pentagons-46k-layoffs-plans/ ====== phaus I would imagine that many Infosec positions would be safe, as there are regulations in place that mandate many aspects of security, in...
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A 32-year-old state senator is trying to get patent trolls out of Massachusetts - jessiemcr https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/this-32-year-old-state-senator-is-trying-to-get-patent-trolls-out-of-massachusetts/ ====== Animats I'm always amused at the Silicon Valley attitude towards "patent trolls". Figuring out some wa...
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Humans are not constraint solvers - miguelferreira http://amigueloferreira.pt/humans-are-no-constraint-solvers/ ====== ridiculous_fish Disclaimer: I was the owner and maintainer of autolayout at Apple for a few years. I think the article makes a fair point, but focuses on just a detail. The article criticizes what it...
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Ask HN: Where do you keep your startup ideas? - kp368 Ideally, it would do a little more than just Evernote notebook. I am using Trello at the moment, as I can order them etc. Is there a better way? Maybe even a social way? ====== sjs382 In Bitbucket, with each as its own project. Gathering "startup ideas" seems to...
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A secret startup saved the worst website in America, HealthCare.gov - NN88 http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-startup-saved-americas-worst-website-2015-7 ====== jsnell Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857662](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857662) ------ bmmayer1 Has anyone in t...
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Volitional Control of Vocalizations in Crows - bookofjoe https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000375 ====== silicaroach Absolutely escapes me why anyone would think that any birds would not have conscious control over vocalizations. Highlights what is wrong with biology ie the assumpt...
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Biased News Media or Biased Readers? An Experiment on Trust - tysone https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/upshot/biased-news-media-or-biased-readers-an-experiment-on-trust.html ====== speeder Sadly they only measured bias in the sense of how much people is biased in relation to the brands, they didn't found out a way to...
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High-Level Comparison of JavaScript and Go - jstam397 https://medium.com/xo-tech/from-node-to-go-a-high-level-comparison-56c8b717324a#.8oglxxg8x ====== olliej So very tired of "less punctuation saves typing time" fluff here. If ()'s etc are really that much of your typing time I question what you're doing. Readabilit...
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Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order - heshiebee https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891 ====== dannyw The reasons for not restarting production seem to be dogmatic and not evidence driven. Tesla is running the factory at a 30-40% capacity, and the Fremont factory has 5.3 mill...
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4 Months of serious coding, tutorial request site is finally complete (the beta) - tonechild https://wanted-tuts.com ====== tonechild The idea behind this site is to let a self-moderated community vote on tutorial requests themselves. This would give teachers a better idea of what to blog about or vlog about etc. This...
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The Paper Data Storage Option - Nate879 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001292.html ====== billswift "However, by looking on CD or magnetic tape, you are not able to tell whether your data is readable or not." Since the paper is not human readable, you still don't know whether you have a backup or a print...
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Show HN: Spotify + Youtube = Tubufy - superted http://www.tubufy.com/ ====== superted Tubufy is a hobby project of mine with the goal of easily converting Spotify playlists to Youtube powered music video channels. The motiviation is really that there are so many good music videos being made (and has been made) that ...
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Ask HN: How are you combatting computer elbow? - nous Apart from stretching, resting, and arranging an ergonomic setup (e.g. arms at 90 degrees, etc.), are you employing any coping strategies for computer elbow, or that dull ache in an elbow&#x27;s tendons from computer overuse? If the pain I&#x27;ve been experiencing...
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Show HN: Metahunt – Everything you ever wanted to know about Product Hunt - sebst https://metahunt.co ====== bopf very cool website. Product Hunt is an awesome site to launch new products and your tool provides very cool stats and insights.
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Two big challenges in machine learning [pdf] - jsnell http://icml.cc/2015/invited/LeonBottouICML2015.pdf ====== joe_the_user It seems Léon Bottou is an important figure in Machine learning. His personal website has interesting stuff too. [https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1558013787807218/l...](https://resear...
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Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google - rayvega http://simplystatistics.org/2013/02/15/interview-with-nick-chamandy-statistician-at-google/ ====== mamp Very interesting interview, but I couldn't help be saddened by this: "...my PhD research was on Gaussian random fields, with particular application to ...
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Hyperink (YC W11) just launched - help pick our next book - kevingao1 Hi guys, we recently published a book with Mixergy about PG, and we got a ton of great feedback from this community. We've been working hard to fix all of the mentioned issues, in particular that it was unclear exactly what was in the book, the fo...
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Ask HN: Would anyone use a command line task manager? - mythriel For personal use I have a small script that I run in command line while I am coding and that tracks the time I spend on a task and what tasks I do. The thing is I do not really like to use a web service because I do not like to have 2 many tabs opened,...
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GraphQL Mesh - diggan https://github.com/Urigo/graphql-mesh ====== beders In the Clojure world, Pathom scratches the same itch and seamlessly connects different domains that can then be queried together. It uses EQL behind the scenes and also converts to GraphQL ~~~ diggan That's very interesting and something I've ...
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Logic programming on the JVM and Javascript - fogus http://www.is-research.de/info/vmlanguages/tag/logic-programming/ ====== code4pizza I didn't see anything much to do with Javascript here. Unless you're meant to use some of these libraries (such as Drools) through something like RingoJS.
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PIVX qr-code generator - labseb http://pivxqrcode.org ====== otheotheothe lol.
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Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale - loevborg https://presumably.de/monorepos-and-the-fallacy-of-scale.html ====== ken Whenever I hear smart and reasonable people argue well for both sides of an engineering issue, my experience is that it will turn out that we're arguing the wrong question. The perspective is wrong. W...
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8 Definitive Web Font Stacks - arjunlall http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/ ====== russell Good article. His stacks are large, but it give you the basis for selecting stacks that will work across a large range of computers.
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Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem - alexandros http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/07/silicon-valley-you%e2%80%99ve-got-a-gender-problem-and-some-of-your-vc%e2%80%99s-still-live-in-the-past/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=G...
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LibreOffice Has Found its Rhythm - Garbage http://ostatic.com/blog/libreoffice-has-found-its-rhythm ====== AncientPC > Nearly 9 out of 10 downloads of the new version of OpenOffice have been for > Windows machines, rather than Linux, according to recently released > statistics from Apache. I'm fairly certain that Lin...
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Show HN: Systems visualization for SW development - rocksoug http://systemmeasure.com ====== asimuvPR Free no signup demo available? ~~~ systemmeasure Demo videos here: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpGZwOjYpo6rAigcM77c5A](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpGZwOjYpo6rAigcM77c5A)
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Why the Library of Congress is wrong to archive Twitter - mgunes http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/17/whyTheLocArchivingTwitterI.html ====== sp332 LoC archives Twitter because only LoC _can_ archive Twitter. Other projects, notably the Internet Archive, already archive open web sites including blogs. But IA doesn't...
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IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer - cglynch http://www.cio.com/article/133000/IBM_s_Web_._Sales_Pitch_We_re_Safer With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security. ====== run4yourlives It's...
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Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic (2015) - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-alien-life-will-be-robotic ====== sharemywin I would assume they will have managed to master nano tech, gray goo/replicator.
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Einstein as a Jew and a Philosopher - dnetesn http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/may/07/albert-einstein-jew-and-philosopher/ ====== marjukahm It always baffles me to think how much abstractions that Einstein's mind could contain. His philosophical, political, and scientific views reflect his sheer ability...
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The country that sentences children without parole - looguagra https://theintercept.com/2016/06/03/the-u-s-is-the-only-country-that-routinely-sentences-children-to-life-in-prison-without-parole/ ====== DrScump Some background, for perspective: [http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD/20101215/NEWS/31215996...](http://w...
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Near death, explained - evo_9 http://www.salon.com/2012/04/21/near_death_explained/singleton/ ====== ColinWright Discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875801>
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Request for Feedback: an “opportunity fund” for underrepresented founders - TTringas https://earnestcapital.com/help-design-the-earnest-opportunity-fund/ ====== TTringas Hello Hacker News, looking for feedback on how we could expand our "funding for bootstrappers" model to better serve underrepresented founders. Sugge...
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Google Deal With Luxottica Will Bring Glass to Ray-Ban, Oakley - bane http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579459770701232200 ====== xyzzy123 So. Post-Snowden, does anyone think Glass is a remotely good idea? I believe the only kind thing that can be said is that glass is "perhaps not terrib...
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Only fools rush in (and watch presidential debates live) - jal278 https://worldbetter.svbtle.com/only-fools-rush-in-and-watch-presidential-debates-live ====== emptybits The article makes a good point. But one reason I favour watching such an event live is to get ahead of the mainstream analysis before it starts to inf...
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Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns - inshane http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/1317252/Zuckerberg-Quits-Google-Over-Privacy-Concerns ====== tbh2347 Linkbait, Zuckerberg has only opted to hide certain stats on his profile and he now no longer shows up in this top followed lists. It has been noted th...
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Kontena Pharos 1.0 Released: Control the Raw Power of Kubernetes - xfiler https://blog.kontena.io/kontena-pharos-1-0-released/ ====== Aleena-James Nice One..
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Swift Now Included in FreeBSD - DaNmarner http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.devel ====== groovy2shoes This post is mistitled. According to the linked email, patches were committed that allow Swift to run on FreeBSD, but it is not _included_ in FreeBSD for the time being. ~~~ runjake Also: It targets FreeBSD...
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Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon - joeguilmette For three years I managed a skydiving facility. In March of 2010 we chose to run a Groupon promotion. At the time I hadn't heard of Groupon, and frankly, not many others had. They were new and at the beginning of the discussion with our Groupon rep, we had no idea wh...
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My Productivity Stack: What Apps I Use for My Second Brain - daltonmabery https://www.daltonmabery.com/ideas-and-insights/productivity-stack ====== jokab I love posts like this! The life dashboard is a good idea. I dont think notion will do it for me but maybe something will. That tool is still out there. The Everno...
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FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript - tux3 https://github.com/TankerHQ/sdk-js/tree/master/packages/filekit ====== wglb Doing cryptography in the browser is a bad idea: [https://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with- webcrypto](https://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto) ...
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Developer Excuses - jzone3 http://developerexcuses.com/ ====== angersock Aaaand for anyone who is reminded of the BOFH excuse list: [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/excuses](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/excuses) ~~~ snake_plissken This is great. "Zombie processes haunting the computer" ~~~ daGrevi...
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The Trolley Problem Problem - Hooke https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-problem-with-ethical-trolley-problems ====== dereferenceddev There just seems to be a misunderstanding on the intention of a though experiment here. There is a subtle implication that because the thought experiment is "contrived" that its less valu...
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Shares in Beyond Meat up 163% on first day of trading - osrec https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48141428 ====== osrec Has anyone here tried their food? Is it available in the UK at all? ~~~ danielbln Have had a few burgers with their patties here in Berlin. It's great, like a solid regular burger. It will not be the ...
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Linux Has Run Out of Time - rukshn http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2465125,00.asp ====== ignostic >[Running windows apps on Linux is] like vegetarians who crave meat and eat meat-"flavored" tofu burgers instead. Again, what's the point? That's a better analogy than the author apparently realized. People someti...
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Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband - ghosh http://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/ ====== mbrock Neal Stephenson wrote about Disney in "In the Beginning was the Command Line": "Americans' preference for mediated experiences is obvious enough, and I'm not going to keep pounding it into the ground. I'm not ...
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Facebook forms PAC - kno http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/sept-27-obama-wows-in-hollywood-and-facebook-forms-pac-10860.gallery?photoId=45507&gt1=28135 ====== gerggerg money = free speech lol cats = money for facebook lol cats enable free speech. any one who doesnt like lol cats must also dislike america. ...
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ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance? - sebiw https://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surveillance/ ====== protonmail ProtonMail team here. These allegations are false. Hidden at the bottom of the article, is this: "Public prosecutor Walder of the Competence Center Cyber...
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Anyone else find the redesign of Indie Hackers somewhat confusing? - aerovistae I used to go to the site and it took one click to go to the newest interview, now it takes 3-4 clicks and I&#x27;m consistently unsure if I&#x27;m I&#x27;ve clicked the right thing because I&#x27;m not sure what the purpose of the timeline...
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Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance from Employees - iio7 https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=211538 ====== baud147258 Title Has Too Many Uselessly Capitalized Words.
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The Impact of Copyright Policy Changes on Venture Capital Investment [pdf] - brownbat http://www.analysisgroup.com/uploadedFiles/Publishing/Articles/Lerner_Fall2011_Copyright_Policy_VC_Investments.pdf ====== Animats The argument here is that the _Cablevision_ decision, which allowed cable companies to offer centrall...
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Terra Nullius - tosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius ====== shadowgovt Sort of a fascinating aspect of purchasing a home was realizing that within the territory of the United States, there isn't any unowned land. All land is owned by either a private entity (person or corporate) or the state or federal gov...
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The Cost of Mistake in Hardware Projects - Gen1us https://blog.maddevs.io/the-cost-of-errors-in-hardware-projects-7d73b0fd8465?source=friends_link&sk=eb21eb69d892cb19c0f85f3e0276481e ====== Gen1us In this article, we will consider common errors in the design of electronic devices and how to solve them. We will see how...
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Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal, Department by Department (Infographic) - bengebre http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html?hp ====== timr One thing that should immediately pop out at even the casual observer: the traditional bugaboos of the right (social services for poor people, welfare, etc.) are...
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Ask HN: Where to Get Involved in Cybersecurity - gowicibir I have a good technical background, networking, some programming&#x2F;scripting, extensive telecom (2G-3G-VoIP), arduino. I can play with anything mostly (working alone). I have my own LLC (also working alone) but also employee at one of the big tech companies...
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Crowd Funded Bitcoin Mining - onticfrog http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitcoin-prospecting/x/4081716#share They are honest about the risks, and the numbers look right. Pretty cool idea ====== julien_c This is either really neat, or the latest Ponzi scheme. Has this been done before?
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The "Do Whatever It Takes" model: an alternative to the Lean Startup - tomasienrbc http://blog.thecityswig.com/2012/02/08/how-to-start-a-business-hint-its-not-the-lean-startup-model/ ====== eligottlieb Ah, the old Giga Drill Breaker model. Easily said, a joy if done willingly, but an incredible pain to make others g...
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Ask HN: Does this seem like an interesting idea? - jmtame It seems that it&#x27;s fairly easy if you&#x27;re recently out of college to find a cofounder and do a startup. However, once you&#x27;ve moved and been in a job for a while, your network dissipates. Would it be interesting to have some community that would ...
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Database Lab – Full-size staging databases as a service - stansler https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab ====== sandGorgon My advice - go all the way into RDS territory. This is a killer feature. But it is hard to adopt it by itself, while being on RDS, which is what most people end up doing. If you can build ...
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Show HN: Sharing to multiple social accounts made easy - thesubroot http://socialbox.io/about ====== jeffmould Not sure if I am missing something, but there is nothing on the site that tells what it is, how it works, etc... I get it, the product lets you share to multiple social media accounts, but how is it different...
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Why there are mysterious giant barcodes across the US [video] - ColinWright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMe-xF2sRd4 ====== _JamesA_ "Aerial camera calibration targets". Saved you a click. ~~~ half-kh-hacker Thanks - I despise this format of "let's explain a two-paragraph concept in a five-minute long video" wher...
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Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO - hornokplease http://allthingsd.com/20110906/exclusive-carol-bartz-out-at-yahoo-cfo-interim-ceo/ ====== xyahoo An ex-Yahoo here, using a throwaway account. Yahoo's biggest problem is the creamy middle layer of managers. They are usually lifers (as in, been at Yahoo for a dec...
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Why Numba and Cython are not substitutes for Julia - ChrisRackauckas http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/why-numba-and-cython-are-not-substitutes-for-julia/ ====== oxinabox Anyone got any good examples major program written using Numba? Plenty exist for Cython -- I run into those all the time. ~~~ IlyaOrson Not sure i...
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Release of Google+ Widget | Google+ API - xpressyoo http://gplusapi.appspot.com/#?Get-It ====== bea85 Not bad at all! Good use of the API ------ dbin78 Nice work, and very customizable.
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How to Harden SSH with Identities and Certificates (2014) - gk1 https://ef.gy/hardening-ssh ====== xiaomai I run a fleet of thousands of business devices running ssh. I used to have ssh configured to just ignore HostKey warnings but that always made me a little uneasy. Setting up an ssh CA and signing host keys was ju...
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New iphone costs $27.94 more than the old iphone - jarnold Okay, we all know that the new iphone price is just a marketing ploy to get people in more expensive contracts. But how much more will it cost you. Assuming a 5% opportunity cost for your cash.<p>New iphone w/ $69.99 plan: ($1,794.34) =PV(5%/12, 24, 69.99) -...
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A sexy, secure visualization of password field input - marknutter http://foxxtrot.github.com/Chroma-Hash/ ====== tptacek This is * Not particularly sexy (it's 3 colored bars) * Not particularly secure (it reveals information about your password that drastically reduces a brute-force search) * Extremely confusing ...
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How to break the internet - pulkitpulkit http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150310-how-to-break-the-internet/ ====== dudul Typing 'google' in Google will break the Internet, please don't do it.
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"The Dead Zoo Gang" (Irish organized crime, rhino horn theft) - gwern https://read.atavist.com/dead-zoo-gang ====== frozenport preview button doesn't work in firefox 28
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Accesibility, Games and Author Intent - CM30 https://medium.com/@CM30/accessibility-games-and-author-intent-gaming-reinvented-c3ceeb310e8d ====== CM30 Well, I posted this article a short while ago, and I thought it was an interesting look at how an artform that is by definition not entirely accessible can be made more...
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Kookoo cloud call center. Zero agent rental - nutanc http://getkookoo.com ====== ganjirajesh great to see koo-koo in US market. All the best
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Python: language moratorium is lifted - prog http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/121459 ====== gjm11 In case anyone's wondering about the two PEPs GvR mentions: PEP 380 (<http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/>) would provide a convenient way for one generator function to yield all the values of anot...
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I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made - denzil_correa http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/india-garment-factories-sumangali ====== tokenadult Come on, ladies and gentlemen, the fine submitted article is about stark conditions in _India,_ where "Western capitalism" was specifically rejected, and socialism em...
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Come to Flourish 2011 an open-source conference in Chicago hosted by UIC - zitterbewegung http://www.flourishconf.com/2011/ ====== zitterbewegung Some of the speakers at the conference are \- Ryan "Icculus" Gordon - Will talk about Gaming on Linux \- Italo Vignoli - Founder & Steering Committee member of The Docume...
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Show HN: Orb – The World's First Germ-Killing UV Light Ball (1st Kickstarter) - SeerWS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/572058660/orbtm-the-worlds-first-germ-killing-uv-light-ball ====== bradknowles So, there's a problem here. When you expose human eyeballs to UV light, you risk causing serious damage to your reti...
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NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect Gravitational Waves - Reltair http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/atom-optics.html ====== andrewflnr Why rubidium? If I recall correctly, rubidium was also used in the first Bose- Einstein condensate experiments. Does it have properties that make it especially useful for...
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7 great places to work - benhoyt http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/smallbusiness/0906/gallery.best_small_companies.fsb/index.html ====== hellweaver666 Daxko doesn't sound that great to me to be honest, my current employer in the UK gives me 24 days off a year, and have just agreed to a 14 week sabbatical after 8 y...
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Ask HN: Anyone want to help me make a social network for frequent flyers? - ahacker1 I&#x27;ve been working on this app for ~1.5 years at night, and I was wondering if anyone is interested in assisting. It&#x27;s like a foursquare + waze for travelers. Karma points for checking in to airports. Crowd-sourced tsa waiti...
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Dyn Inc. Acquires EveryDNS - dannyr http://www.besttechie.net/2010/01/12/dyn-inc-acquires-everydns/ ====== fierarul So it's probably time to start looking for an EveryDNS replacement ? ------ jamesbritt Earlier post and discussion here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047798> ------ Pistos2 "Welcome EveryDNS...
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The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns - prakash http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120580966534444395.html?mod=MKTW ====== maximilian The stuff going down on wall street is pretty unreal. The numbers they talk about are mind-boggling and I wish I knew more of what exactly everything meant -...
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PluginStash – A free curated directory of 'everything' to build your startup - lenin1234 http://www.maaxmarket.com/pluginstash-free-for-startup/ ====== lenin1234 A free tool designed for the startup community. Hope you like it ~~~ shiftpgdn I laughed that you have MySQL under growth marketing. ~~~ lenin1234 thanks f...
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GitHub for Windows 2.0 - bencevans https://github.com/blog/1844-say-hello-to-github-for-windows-2-0 ====== codemac One of our hardware engineers uses Windows, and has been checking in schematics and other documents into a git repo. He's tried switching to Linux, but there are tools that only work on Windows. I was ...
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Big Wins Processing Big Data: Behind the Scenes with Big Data at Torbit - voidlogic http://torbit.com/blog/2013/02/19/big-data-at-torbit/ ====== pwittrock fwiw: there is a pretty cool paper on abstractions over mapreduce to make life simpler: <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806638> ------ dsl Go is awesome. :) ...
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Ask HN: Do React Web Apps Have Poor SEO? - ricotico060 I&#x27;ve recently built a web app with React only to hear that they have have bad SEO. Is this true? If so, is there an easy way to correct this? ====== JMTQp8lwXL Having good keywords and links from other sites is likely a bigger impact on your SEO than using Re...
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Show HN: Relish, discover new places to eat, invite friends to join you - jadebyfield89 http://relishwith.us ====== jadebyfield89 Hey guys, Wanted to stop by and introduce our latest app, Relish. It's a social dining app that seeks to make getting friends/coworkers together for lunch, dinner or drinks dead simple. I...
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How I got a 100% conversion rate cold calling prospects for customer development - rgraham http://whitetailsoftware.com/2011/07/how-i-got-a-100-conversion-rate-cold-calling-prospects-for-customer-development/ ====== JoeAltmaier Coincidence: Steve Blank just appeared on Hacker News with some article about contacting ...
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VPN.sh are offering a VPN for £2/year. Yes, £2 yearly D: - halfpipe https://www.vpn.sh/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=1&billingcycle=annually&promocode=12MONTHS_2 ====== frdmn Actually it's £2/month: [http://up.frd.mn/8a552.png+](http://up.frd.mn/8a552.png+) ~~~ halfpipe Nope, follow the original link and click checkou...
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Facebook adds translate button on the news feed to users updates - ArabGeek http://arabcrunch.com/2011/08/exclusive-facebook-adds-translate-button-on-the-news-feed-to-users-updates.html ====== ArabGeek Facebook copied Google Translate for Google+ that translate updates on google+. facebook translate button seems to be...
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A startup should create this storage device. I would buy it. - arnorhs http://arnorhs.com/2010/07/05/somebody-needs-to-invent-this-storage-device/ ====== jackowayed I think you really want this to be 2 pieces: something "in the cloud" and a local cache. When you're accessing from your phone (at least when not on your...
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