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Evidence that Apple is making a TV, and the remote will likely be your hand - slerner17 http://qz.com/104796/heres-all-the-evidence-that-apple-is-making-an-actual-tv-and-the-remote-will-likely-be-your-hand/ ====== jmharvey I've read the article twice, and the only "evidence" Apple is making a TV (as opposed to a set...
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HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones - drivebyacct2 https://www.facebook.com/HTC/posts/10150307320018084 ====== bad_user This is exactly what I've been talking about -- customers want unlocked phones, and because with Android competition is tough, sooner or later unlocked phones will ...
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Speeding Up Your Python Code - bemmu http://www.maxburstein.com/blog/speeding-up-your-python-code/ ====== merb Not only is it slightly faster but you also avoid storing the entire list in memory! Actually that won't help when you need a big list and need to store it in memory. Python is really a...
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Hulu Plus Now Available on Apple TV - rpledge http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/31/hulu-plus-now-available-on-apple-tv/ ====== tocomment Any news for Google TV? Not a day goes but I don't regret buying that thing ... :-(
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Which are the best training institute for learning Big Data and Hadoop? - sheetalsharma ====== lovelearning I think that would be the institute paying you to post this "question". ------ gauravhp Which part of the world?
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A look inside Facebook's source code - evandrix http://sintheticlabs.com/blog/a-look-inside-facebooks-source-code.html ====== anw Interesting. It's also interesting that Facebook developers are using Pastebin for things such as this. I would assume that they'd have an internal wiki, or gist-like app. It's also not...
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Ask HN: Do you see a productivity boost working from home due to the Covid-19? - yashvanth Just curious, do you see a spike in your or your team's productivity? Do you see this 'work from home' as the next big thing? ====== JohnFen My workplace has not yet required people to work from home (although the...
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Encryption app ‘SIGNAL’ fights censorship with a clever workaround - gauMah https://www.wired.com/2016/12/encryption-app-signal-fights-censorship-clever-workaround/amp/ ====== brudgers Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13245970](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13245970)
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Developers Should Abandon Agile - ingve https://ronjeffries.com/articles/018-01ff/abandon-1/ ====== airfreak Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. I don't mean to be harsh on anyone, but after working for over a decade in enterprises, mediocrity seems to be the norm. There are of cours...
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Build a Real Battery Status Web Component with Polymer - nemanjapopovic https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-real-battery-status-web-component-with-polymer ====== tracker1 I think Polymer is definitely interesting, I'm not sure how one would necessarily incorporate state management at a higher level, or avoid the effec...
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An OSI model for the 21st century (2014) - eaguyhn http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/04/24/an-osi-layer-model-for-the-21st-century/ ====== oldandtired I have read the various comments against the OSI model and the one interesting observation is that none of you seem to have ever worked with a compliant implementation...
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Can't use your lights anymore because we're slathering your data around and GDPR - edward https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/999619364541394944 ====== merricksb This was on the GDPR Hall of Shame blog, heavily discussed here yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17143200](https://news.ycombinator.co...
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HTML5 Game Benchmark - kenjackson http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=491691753919&id=9445547199 ====== Aaronontheweb IE9 skunked most of the competition by the looks of it, with Chrome 10 on Windows at a reasonable second place ~~~ melling Within a short period of time, all the major browsers will match IE9. ...
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Seasteading: A Practical Guide to Homesteading the High Seas - tlrobinson http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/book_beta/full_book_beta.html ====== tlrobinson Also: [http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seaste...](http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading) (Peter Thiel Makes D...
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Ignore Sparrow. Let's build real companies - bazookaBen http://www.marketjs.com/blog/ignore-sparrow-lets-build-real-companies ====== zmonkeyz ...and robust websites. ~~~ bazookaBen site back up!
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US Senator Charles Schumer's Open Letter to Steve Jobs - VengefulCynic http://schumer.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=326405& ====== VengefulCynic While I find it encouraging that the Senator's letter seems to intelligently capture the crux of the controversy, I have to wonder if there isn't something slightly more pressin...
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33 Exceptional Logo Rebranding In 2008 For Your Inspiration - jwilliams http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/11/13/33-exceptional-logo-rebranding-in-2008-for-your-inspiration.html ====== swombat Voting up for interest, but not at all convinced that all of those are "exceptional". Many are just "gradient + shadows + reflec...
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Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? - donkoz_ab ====== bunderbunder Worse is better Or, to put it a bit more optimistically - usable now is better than perfect later. I've found that, if I disappear behind a curtain and spend a long time trying to make something really well-polished and feature rich, that just gi...
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Show HN: I rebuilt my WP blog on React and Cosmic JS. It's now 10x faster - tonyspiro https://github.com/tonyspiro/tonyspiro.com-react ====== jjoe Hi Document Length is much bigger with WP. Is it compression being off in Apache/PHP or caching in React? Update: ok, compression is off in Apache. Hmm, I'm not sure ab ...
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Ask HN: Any undergrad engineering students interested in MakeMIT? - makemitdude I've got an interesting project idea and room for 4 teammates! If you're an undergrad in ME, EE, CS, or otherwise have skills in these fields, drop me a line! Send an email to kudujelo@duck2.club (temporary address) and we can go...
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Seth Godin's least read book is the one you must read - kentf http://kent.io/post/40975979413/seth-godins-book-you-havent-read-yet-pick-four ====== prakster The blog is promoting the book, "Pick Four" (not Linchpin). ~~~ milkman Linchpin is actually really good though. ------ milkman I agree. I've read most of his...
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New York Comic Con Tweets From Attendees' Accounts Without Permission - FireBeyond http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/new-york-comic-con-promotional-tweets/ ====== gregcohn This kind of behavior is absolutely insane on the part of a developer, but is also the kind of thing that happens when a platform doesn't vet its ap...
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Ask HN: Why not disclose hardware info in web scale datacenter? - ZhuHan I know a lot of large web companies are generous to contribute software project to open source community. Some of them are just for education purpose, not even taking anything back.<p>Why are they not willing to disclose the hardware specs, or ...
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Pay Google to stop seeing ads - FWeinb https://contributor.google.com ====== criddell Blocking ads motivates some people but many others are motivated by the desire to not be tracked. When I read a paper magazine, nobody knows what pages I flip through, what ads I read, no profile is being built, etc... Why can't ads ...
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Ask HN: Who is seeking co-hacker/sales hustler? - wsieroci ====== marketgod Not really looking but I can create a referral option for my project. If you get someone to sign up for a whole year, I would give you 1 month of their subscription cost, $400-500.
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Linux Performance Measurements using vmstat - simonreed http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Linux_Performance_Measurements_using_vmstat ====== zurn It would be high time for some capable & easy to use IO instrumentation in Linux. This (vmstat) has been the state of the art for ~ 20 years and you often long for somet...
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Ask HN: Is Fastly down? - jpetrucc It appears that many sites are having issues currently:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubygems.org&#x2F; https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;<p>Also unable to run bundle installs or gem installs, potentially related? ====== MichaelGlass Yesterday there was problem resolving cloudflare hosts when...
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Ask HN: What can I buy for under $50 that will most dramatically improve my life - sndean ====== AnimalMuppet There are two ways to go with that question. Option one: What will most dramatically improve your life _economically?_ That will almost certainly be some tool that you can use to create a side income stream. (...
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NodeJS Powered Pastebin - robinduckett http://paste.robinduckett.com ====== robinduckett Just a tiny project whilst taking a break from developing Social Drop
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Leaving the Mac App Store - davidbarker http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store ====== xenadu02 The worst part about this is all the problems are easily solved if Apple simply put the resources into it. * The actual MAS store app itself is a horrible piece of garbage wrapping a bunch of ...
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Ben Horowitz: Taking the mystery out of scaling a company - sk_0919 http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/02/taking-the-mystery-out-of-scaling-a-company/ ====== jasonkester _As the company grows, things will only get worse from here in each dimension._ _Still, if the company doesn’t expand, then it will never be much of a ...
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Cornell Said Chosen for NYC Engineering Campus - apaprocki http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-19/cornell-university-said-to-be-chosen-by-new-york-for-engineering-campus.html ====== mathattack I was also hoping for Stanford. This is not meant to disrespect Cornell - I just question how additive it will be. Cornell...
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Issues with Apple's iOS WebGL Implementation - espadrine http://codeflow.org/entries/2014/jun/08/some-issues-with-apples-ios-webgl-implementation/ ====== 0x0 So... It's a beta and some limits aren't up to native spec because of things like the UIWebView currently being backed by an OpenGL ES 2.0 surface (instead of 3....
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We’re Living in a Subscriptions World. Here’s How to Navigate It - CapitalistCartr https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/technology/personaltech/streaming-media-home-server.html ====== JohnFen I navigate it much more simply -- I don't do subscriptions. I've learned long ago, the hard way, that the most important thing fo...
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Linux Foundation head proclaims year of Linux desktop – from a Mac - mediawatch https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/79948-linux-foundation-head-proclaims-year-of-linux-desktop-from-a-mac.html ====== bostand Kind of related: at Google IO this year all speakers were using macbooks, but i have heard that a lot of teams hav...
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YC, what is it worth to me? - mrkmcknz I'm trawling through the YC application. Yeah I hate it just as much as business plans yet find it much easier to complete. It wasn't aimed to bore you but gather key information.<p>However it still has me thinking is YC really worth it?<p>We're funded through a convertible not...
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The story of the longest-held American POW - dctoedt http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014/09/john_t_downey_cia_agent_captured_by_china_during_the_korean_war_the_story.single.html ====== cperciva The title "... American POW" is inaccurate, since Downey was never a POW: He was engaged in espion...
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I can still see your actions on Google Maps over SSL (2012) - asmosoinio http://blog.ioactive.com/2012/02/ssl-traffic-analysis-on-google-maps.html ====== mattjorgs This is really neat. How effective would this be on more text-based sites?
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We have relaunched Quarkbase a few days back. What do you think? - ritesharora We got good response from HN when we first launched quarkbase an year back. We hope to get feedback on usability &#38; content. ====== alexkearns Clickable link: <http://www.quarkbase.com> I really like it. One of the best of this style ...
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Which cyclist hill descent position is superior? (2017) - discreteevent https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/which-cyclist-hill-descent-position-really-superior-froome-blocken ====== moneytide1 Perhaps less safe and unconventional, but the "superman" position is not listed in the article: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iz...
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Book Shopping in Stores, Then Buying Online - sathishmanohar http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/book-shopping-in-stores-then-buying-online/ ====== marcomonteiro Over the years I've actually done the opposite. I'll read reviews on books I'm interested in on Amazon and go to a local bookstore to buy it. ...
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New Adam Curtis Documentary: HyperNormalisation - krona http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation ====== clydethefrog International mirror. [https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/?lang=en](https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/?lang=en) And here [1] is a review of th...
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Pipefy: Workflows and process management for startups - alessioalionco3 http://www.pipefy.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=hackernews ====== alessioalionco3 Hi Guys! I am founder of Pipefy! Today we finally finish our private beta and are open for free sign-ups! Would love to hear your f...
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Would you buy hacker clothing? - dethstarr I am an artist and want to make a clothing line for hackers. I want to know if any of you would buy it? Do you like the idea?<p>It would kind of look like skater clothing, with t-shirts and cool art on the shirt that describes the hacker ethos.<p>The reason I want to do thi...
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ValueStream: DevOps Metrics – Observing Delivery Across Multiple Systems - dm03514 https://medium.com/@dm03514/valuestream-devops-metrics-observing-delivery-across-multiple-systems-7ae76a6e8deb ====== dm03514 Hi, Author here, I would very much love to hear your experiences capturing these "core" DevOps metrics. Are yo...
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Using chatbots against voicespam: analyzing Lenny’s effectiveness - mathgenius https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/28/using-chatbots-against-voicespam-analyzing-lennys-effectiveness/ ====== oblib So, we'll have bots sucking up bandwidth for nothing in this scenario? How about a bot that just hangs up on them?
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Adobe will drop desktop apps to become web only - jsjenkins168 http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-10-18T130541Z_01_N17292526_RTRUKOC_0_US-ADOBE-SERVICES.xml ====== e1ven Wow. This is a very bold double-down on Flash and Flex. This is why Adobe bought Macromedia- They see...
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U.S. regulator demands companies take action to halt 'robocalls' - tareqak https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wireless-fcc/u-s-regulator-demands-companies-take-action-to-halt-robocalls-idUSKCN1NA2KH ====== troydavis Source docs: Release: [https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354933A1.pdf](https://docs.fcc....
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Ask HN: What domain do you use for your docs site? - scapecast ====== CM30 [https://companyname.com/docs](https://companyname.com/docs) Don't see why you need a subdomain for this, and it seems like something that may be worse on a SEO/marketing level (there's mixed evidence here, but some sources like Moz say that su...
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Ask HN: Guide to Learning Software Architecture - Xtech4582 Is there any websites or books have solved Software Architectures?. This could help me evaluate my architecture against the de facto standard. ====== Xtech4582 Is this way to learn software architecture ?. Is there any good other way to software architecture....
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Amazing collection of Free PHP Frameworks and CMS - shahzadvu http://guidesigner.net/collection-of-development/amazing-collection-of-free-php-frameworks-and-cms/ ====== FluidDjango Maybe not an "amazing" [this blogger seems to need to use that descriptor for half his posts :( ] collection - but some new (to me) offeri...
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FBook removes dissident's profile for using pseudonym. Zuckerberg's dog has one - thecoffman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/08/michael-anti-facebook_n_832771.html ====== michaelpinto Zuck doesn't get that some of us have multiple online identities: I see the biggest drop off rate in Facebook occurring in Teen...
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Tunologist - abstractbill http://tunologist.com/ ====== abstractbill Tunologist is a little web app that's supposed to help you learn to read music well enough that you can quickly sing or play the notes you see written on the screen. Before I settled on the tunologist domain, my working title was "Mavis Beacon For ...
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Jimmy Wales: Fox News Is Wrong, No Shake Up - derekc http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/16/jimmy-wales-fox-news-is-wrong-no-shakeup/ ====== jrockway I wish we would stop calling drawings of small girls with boobs "child pornography". Not you thing? Sure. "Obscene" under the Miller Test? Possibly. Graphical depiction of t...
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Lion’s Plan: Set the Stage — Don’t Burn it Down - Semteksam http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/lions_plan_set_the_stage_--_dont_burn_it_down/ ====== Synaesthesia Direct manipulation by touch is a 21st century computing paradigm which Apple used in iOS and which they're bringing to Lion in a big way.
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100,000th Google Knol published - Anon84 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/100000th-knol-published.html ====== AndrewWarner Does this mean Knol is a success? ~~~ gojomo Judge for yourself: <http://siteanalytics.compete.com/knol.google.com/?metric=uv> (Traffic is below initial surge, but steady with perhaps a v...
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Fully managed HashiCorp Consul Service generally available on Azure today - GordonS https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/fully-managed-hashicorp-consul-service-generally-available-on-azure-today/ ====== GordonS This got me thinking. Consul is one of those infrastructure services that is generally deployed in a stand...
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TuneUp Puts Boxed Software in Apple’s Stores - pchristensen http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/tuneup-brings-boxed-software-to-apples-stores/ ====== pchristensen I thought this was interesting because it's similar to the App Store - paying the margins is worth it to _be exposed to customers used to paying money_...
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Ask HN: Review my Startup - KaBadge.com - Achievements and Badges - vyrotek http://www.KaBadge.com ====== vyrotek My goal is to create a service that allows users to carry their good reputation from service to service. The idea is to collect the achievements you have earned from many sites and make them accessible v...
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Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video] - espeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0yfvm0UoU ====== cousin_it 1) e^x is a function whose derivative is equal to its value. 2) e^ix is a function whose derivative is equal to its value rotated by 90 degrees (ie^ix). 3) As x goes from 0 to pi, the trajectory of e^ix ...
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Govt attempts to gain powers over the design and operation of all networks in NZ - mfincham http://techliberty.org.nz/govt-proposes-gcsb-control-over-nz-communications-in-new-tics-bill/ ====== mtgx This all seems to happen in about the same time in different countries: US, India, Australia, NZ, UK recently, France m...
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Show HN: Vine Slide: Easily watch Vines as a slideshow - pauliewalnuts http://vineslide.com/ I was playing around with Backbone.js and scraping Vine videos over the weekend and came up with Vine Slide. (It doesn't work yet on Firefox.)<p>Feedback would be great. Code can be found here: https://github.com/rparang/vine...
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Dot-Name Becomes Haven for Scammers - kkim http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/dot_name ====== cstejerean I actually think requiring a small but reasonable fee to get personal information out of Whois would help prevent spam, etc. Paying $2 dollars to get the contact info for the owner of a hacked si...
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‘Freedom isn’t a handout’: Chinese professor's graduation speech - jger15 https://www.inkstonenews.com/education/chinese-college-professor-qu-weiguos-full-graduation-speech/article/3015786 ====== PavlovsCat Wow, and bravo. Everybody everywhere would do well to hear/read this. > Under the impact of complicated thought...
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Integrating LibreOffice with SharePoint - buovjaga https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/first-blog-post/ ====== buovjaga Part 2: [https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/integrating- li...](https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/integrating-libreoffice- with-sharepoint-part-2/)
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Ask HN: What to do when a company's second engineering hire is horrible? - journeyadv First post here.<p>So there&#x27;s this startup who made a good first engineering hire. The company&#x27;s business side had since struggled to find a capable second engineer to do systems engineering. They interviewed a candidate wh...
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Wikipedia to the Moon - chris_wot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon ====== johngossman The FAQ is much more illuminatng then the main page: [https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/FAQ](https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/FAQ) ~~~ Sniffnoy Non-mobile link: [http...
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What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? - ivank https://privacylog.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-happens-when-you-send-zero-day-to.html ====== iamleppert There needs to exist a legal entity/non-profit or company that acts as a shield and/or escrow for these kinds of situations. Basically, as a researcher you can ...
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On valuing people - bscofield http://benscofield.com/on-valuing-people/ ====== grimtrigger It is wrong to treat other people simply as a means to some end or goal. I'm not sure what exactly this means. How do you interact with someone besides as a means towards an end (even if the "end" is just a fun...
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Before There Was Lean, Agile Or Waterfall There Was Theory X, Y And Z - askorkin http://www.skorks.com/2009/08/before-there-was-lean-agile-or-waterfall-there-was-theory-x-y-and-z/ ====== rjprins Slightly tangent: The question if humans are inherently lazy or not is wrong. To understand motivation you need to grasp bac...
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Show HN: Chrome extension warning user of hitting maxlength in password fields - jpxw https://github.com/jamespwilliams/MaxLengthWarner ====== jpxw After reading a number of comments on Hacker News recently expressing frustration at maxlength password fields on websites, I have written this (tiny) Chrome extension whi...
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The Story of Building an Education Startup - olivercameron https://medium.com/on-startups/d1d0b95ff595 ====== OafTobark Sounds like a great opportunity. Unfortunately being non-technical rules out a lot of people it seems like.
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Perl 5.32 Released - todsacerdoti https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.32.0/pod/perldelta.pod ====== nchelluri Ooh, [https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.32.0/pod/pe...](https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.32.0/pod/perldelta.pod#Chained- comparisons-capability) . Looks nice. ~~~ p...
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Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions - theBashShell https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/27/facebook-vs-apple-ad-tracking/ ====== amrrs Related [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291152](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291152)
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Biosensors to monitor U.S. students' attentiveness - petethomas http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-gates-idUSBRE85C17Z20120613 ====== kafkaesq _Gates officials hope the devices, known as Q Sensors, can become a common classroom tool, enabling teachers to see, in real time, which kids are tuned in and whic...
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Crownstone, the smart power outlet that recognizes you and your devices - harianus https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dobots/crownstone/description ====== harianus From the description on Kickstarter: The Crownstone is a power outlet for both the European and the American market, that uses Bluetooth Low-Energy to es...
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Realtime Bitcoin Stats - rwinn http://realtimebitcoin.info/ ====== gigantor I have one new appreciation for fiat currencies - they're designed to circulate with a steady rate of inflation. It seems there's a hesitation of spending bitcoins knowing if you just wait a day it will go up, so it's being treated like a prec...
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Amazon Employees Are Very Interested in a Particular Article About Arlington - deegles https://www.arlnow.com/2018/02/20/amazon-employees-are-very-interested-in-a-particular-article-about-arlington/ ====== vxNsr Well, this is certainly fascinating. If this gets discovered, I'm sure it'll become someone's job to build...
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Ask HN: SEO penalty for non-HTTPS if they are static sites? - mark_l_watson I maintain several sites that change slowly in time and I have started hosting them as static sites on Google Cloud Storage (easy to do, also easy using AWS S3, and I think Azure). I set up HTTPS via a free Cloudflare service on one of them th...
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The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (2014) - zensavona http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-cant-find-hackers-that-dont-smoke-pot ====== mjevans How about because those whom are skilled and ethical view a lot of the work that the government would use them for to be unethical and a...
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A 60 GHz phased array for $10 - blueintegral https://www.hscott.net/a-60-ghz-phased-array-for-10/ ====== stefan_ I love how industry came up with ever crazier schemes to stream content from phones and laptops to TVs. There must have been three different attempts involving WiFi alone, but this phased array mmWave 60 GH...
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IBM Simulates 4.5 percent of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain - Sato http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=graphic-science-ibm-simulates-4-percent-human-brain-all-of-cat-brain ====== vannevar Until they can demonstrate that their simulation in fact acts like a cat, then no, they have not simulate...
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The pitfalls of A/B testing in social networks - kiyanwang https://tech.okcupid.com/the-pitfalls-of-a-b-testing-in-social-networks/ ====== dalbasal Many moons ago, OKC had a sort of clever & irreverent blog for stuff like this. It was a great read. There were some classics like " _never pay for online dating_ [1]" and...
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GPS mapping application in uLisp - kristianp http://www.ulisp.com/show?2DT6 ====== drmeister This is really nice! I wonder how well the ulisp compiler does with optimization - especially for code size. My group is developing Clasp Common Lisp and we use the Cleavir compiler ([https://github.com/clasp- developers/clasp...
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Matrices from a geometric perspective - niklasbuschmann http://www.coranac.com/documents/geomatrix/ ====== pdkl95 3Blue1Brown has an _outstanding_ series of short videos, "Essence of linear algebra"[1], which covers vectors, matrix transformations, and the related math. What I particularly like about these videos is t...
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Extending the JavaScript Array Prototype with Ruby Methods - henck http://www.independent-software.com/extending-the-javascript-array-prototype-with-ruby-methods/ ====== Bino I really wish javascript had more array methods of higher level. It would make our code more readable. Now it's always the dilemma of extending ...
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MH370 Debris Storm - curtis http://jeffwise.net/2016/03/10/mh370-debris-storm/ ====== steve19 "Given that after nearly two years only a single piece of debris had heretofore been found, it’s extraordinary that in the span of less than two weeks three pieces of possible MH370 debris have come to light." I would think ...
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Advice on a Startup Idea - inside__world I have this idea that could help mobile developers and non-technical publishers of mobile apps. Before I start coding it, I&#x27;d like to know whether it&#x27;s worth doing. Please be as brutality honest as you can; my feelings won&#x27;t get hurt:<p>I am thinking to develop s...
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43% of millennials see themselves quitting their current job in less than 2y - kulesh https://blog.karmabot.chat/why-millennials-quit/?source=hn ====== dastx Millennial here. When I graduated I joined a small start up company. It was great in the beginning. The people were nice, we had decent parties, life was good. I...
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London traders hit $500M jackpot when oil went negative - Inconel https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-04/oil-s-plunge-below-zero-was-500-million-jackpot-for-a-few-london-traders ====== zahma I'd greatly appreciate if any of you can explain how such a trade happened in layman's terms. Every time I try to lo...
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Ask HN: Freelance/contract developers – who are your clients? (BigCo, SMB, etc.) - timjahn ====== stevejalim VC-funded or well bootstrapped startups, mainly. But that's mainly because it's a sector I'm choosing to pursue ------ IpV8 SMB as well as boutique design shops. Occasionally well-funded startups if they ca...
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Linux 4.4 released - doener http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.1/01592.html ====== hbbio The headline is misleading. It is indeed KMS support (Kernel Mode Setting), which enables the kernel (and not the graphic driver) to control the display modes. This is better: 1\. For boot (no flicker when the graphic...
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A Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness (2014) - DyslexicAtheist https://psmag.com/social-justice/nazi-interrogator-revealed-value-kindness-84747 ====== nabla9 Almost all professional criminals know the antidote for this kind of interrogation. Military must know it too. You don't talk with the interrog...
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BitcoinStore Launch - Cheaper In Bitcoin - enmaku http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoinstore-com-launch-cheaper-in-bitcoin/ ====== JWhiteaker It's called BitcoinStore, but the prices are only shown in USD. I expect it will show the conversion on the checkout page, but at first glance the concept feels like just a marketi...
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WPENGINE Customer Credentials Exposed - artur_makly Just got this in my inbox :<p>At WP Engine we are committed to providing robust security. We are writing today to let you know that we learned of an exposure involving some of our customers’ credentials. Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively taking secur...
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How does a relational database work? (2017) - PeterZaitsev http://coding-geek.com/how-databases-work/ ====== averros "Nowadays, many developers don’t care about time complexity … and they’re right!" Massive facepalm. A developer who doesn't care about complexity (both structural complexity of the code, and execution...
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Show HN: Cashgram – Send a link to users to collect account details and pay - nafey https://www.cashfree.com/cashgram ====== nafey Hi, I am Nafey, an engineer at Cashfree (YC S17), and part of the team that built Cashgram. Cashgram is a weblink businesses can send users to collect account details securely and make a ...
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Show HN: An open source IRC client for your web browser - cjstewart88 https://github.com/cjstewart88/nirc ====== driverdan How does this compare to subway? <https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway> ~~~ stedaniels Seems like both of them require as server. Something I think means the title is misleading about. It's...
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Show HN: An open source clone of Kickstarter on Shopify - cmod I &quot;cloned&quot; Kickstarter in Shopify and have released it as an open source project. [0]<p>So why not use Kickstarter? A few reasons:<p>- OWN. YOUR. NOOK. There’s power in owning your nook of the ‘net — your domain name, your design, your archives —...
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Ask HN: How does the HN "More" link work? - zupreme I noticed today, for the first time, that the "More" link at the bottom of the HN front page was not just a javascript trigger, nor was it a canonical link to something like "news.ycombinator.com/news/2", but was a link which populates a variable called "fnid" with...
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