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Ask HN: How to get near the top of search in GitHub? - RogerL I have a few projects that I&#x27;m working on that I&#x27;m getting close to wanting to have them publically available. They live in public repositories and if you enter the right search terms you can find them.<p>However, they show up at the bottom of t...
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BART Defends Decision To Cut Off Cell Service - marklabedz http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/08/bart-cell-fcc.php ====== marklabedz >>"We saw people who were clearly ready to take action, with backpacks and tools. It was a recipe for disaster." I'm not sure what he means by tools, but backpacks seems like a pretty common...
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Ask HN: Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers? - objectiveariel Consider the following projects:<p>* Facebook&#x27;s Free Basics initiative in India: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-35169226<p>* The Stingray phone surveillance device: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiped...
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How Apple and Microsoft intend to destroy Android - mtgx http://osnews.com/story/26229/How_Apple_and_Microsoft_intend_to_destroy_Android ====== codex The issue here is that Samsung's patents are deemed essential to cell phone networking standards, so the law mandates that they be licensed under standard terms to pre...
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Poaching Tesla - mercutio2 https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2018/9/6/poaching-tesla ====== AnthonyMouse There are some errors here: > The dramatic shift to SUVs in the U.S. is driven by consumers caring less > about traditional car value metrics such as performance. The cause of this was exactly the opposite -- the...
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What it means to be an entrepreneur - cominatchu http://evbeard.com/posts/to-be-an-entrepreneur/ ====== donaq Let's not over romanticize or aggrandize what an entrepreneur is.
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IPython 2.0 - hyperbovine http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/whatsnew/version2.0.html ====== kseistrup [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513884](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513884)
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List of Web Applications from 2005 (How many are still around today?) - antiform http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/21/03045/5568 ====== petercooper To be fair, some of them have changed names, rebranded, or been bought out. For example, the one listed as "RSS Digest" was owned by me but was a donation-ware servic...
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How Much Revenue Does It Take To Be A $1B Public Company? - dwynings http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/how-much-revenue-does-it-take-to-be-a-1b-public-company/ ====== _delirium So some of this makes sense, but I don't entirely get the focus on recurring/subscription revenue as a new/disruptive thing in the B2B space. I...
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Silicon Valley's Stock Funk - jasondc http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443493304578038763698056392.html ====== tatsuke95 > _"Rank-and-file workers at four of the highest profile Internet companies > that began selling shares in the past 16 months have collectively lost about > $9 billion on paper..."_ ...
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The Landscape of Music - vorador http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/MusicMap/index.html ====== zoba Found a bug/easter egg: If you zoom all the way out and center Elton John at the top of your screen, then zoom in to the middle zoom level, you can see a map for TV shows as well. <http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2...
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Someone named Kevin Rose forked Reddit on GitHub... - tlrobinson http://github.com/kevinrose/diggit ====== mahmud Yeah, it looks like him: <http://github.com/kevinrose> ~~~ weaksauce It looks more like someone having a bit of fun with global find and replace and a picture they found on the internet of Kevin.
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Tesla Is The New Bubble Stock - minnesota_boy http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2013/10/17/tesla-is-the-new-bubble-stock/# ====== austenallred This article is the perfect example of why why the financial industry and looking at the bottom-line so often falls short of the entire picture. If you think the value of ...
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The U.S. government is about to bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system - gregcrv https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/the-government-is-about-to-permanently-bar-the-irs-from-creating-a-free-electronic-filing-system/ ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613725](https://news.ycomb...
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Re: My Space - Making .NET a Star Performer - mythz https://github.com/mythz/ScalingDotNET ====== keithwarren This just left me scratching my head. But really, why is this argument even important? .NET can scale, if you toss out the religious arguments then you realize that just about anything can scale if you do i...
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Ask HN: How do I stop being resentful towards other devs - resentfuldev We are a new team of developers working on a new project. We share a git repo and we are split between product teams. We are 6 developers and we review each others code.<p>Even though all of us have a lot of experience, we came from different orga...
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Scheme on the iPad - gnosis http://web.mac.com/Jay_reynolds_freeman/My/Pixie_Scheme_III.html ====== hasenj I feel that a lispy language on the ipad should not be text-based, but tree- based: you create and manipulate the tree structure using the touch interface. For example, you touch, and that creates a node. ...
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News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple over App Store Terms - pseudolus https://www.wsj.com/articles/news-publishers-join-fight-against-apple-over-app-store-terms-11597949300 ====== saithir "Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership" How ironic.
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Lines of code that changed the world - gricardo99 https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html ====== froh What a clickbait headline... Entertaining article actually, with nice code snippets. Actual subtitle: "Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of so...
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Ask HN: What type of service/SaaS would you pay for if someone was to create it? - polygot ====== skiltz Someone who could test different marketing channels and tell me which ones worked and which ones didn't. Would be more of a productized service. Once you found a good channel I would pay you a ongoing monthly fee to...
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New study suggests people use “constructive noncompliance” to enact change - user_235711 http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/citizens-disobey-enact-change-0519 ====== timthelion I live in the Czech Republic, a former member of the Soviet Union, and people and businesses here take breaking the law for granted. Many of the l...
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LittleTable: A Relational Time-Series Database at Cisco Meraki - rodionos http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3056102 ====== timeseriesdbfan Can anybody comment how this compares to open source alternatives [1] [2] ? [1] [https://clickhouse.yandex/](https://clickhouse.yandex/) [2] [https://eventql.io/](https://eventql....
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Why you shouldn't fix your customers typos in reviews and comments - skbohra123 http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/06/08/zapos-zappoz-or-zappos-why-typos-are-good-for-your-brand/ ====== rick888 I never tamper with reviews or comments for this very reason. With no mistakes, it seems to perfect.
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JavaScript tooling: madge - jpalardy https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/javascript-tooling-madge/ ====== sdegutis This is actually something I've been looking for recently. Does it handle full ES6 destructuring syntax within import statements? Does it handle import() expressions?
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Sergio Marchionne Dies Aged 66 - ottavio https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/fiat-s-founding-family-puts-a-jeep-selling-brit-behind-the-wheel ====== jsoc815 [Dupe] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608080](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608080) ~~~ detaro [https://news.ycombinator.com/new...
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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? - MindGods https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/ ====== blisseyGo I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was. Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions i...
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Majority of Digital Media Consumption Now Takes Place in Mobile Apps - prostoalex http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/21/majority-of-digital-media-consumption-now-takes-place-in-mobile-apps/ ====== JoeAltmaier But - mobile bandwidth is so small! I can believe the number of events may be larger in mobile, but on my wired d...
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Show HN: Predictive Models for Student - bastinrobin Last few weeks I am very much interested in building an interesting tool #PredictEasy which can simplify the way we see predictive models. Students can start using it for projects.<p>Please check it out and let me know your feedback, you&#x27;re always awesome - <a ...
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Ask HN: Why Google does not love GitHub? - suhair Why google search is not loving GitHub as mush as StackOverflow?. It already has the metrics to decide which github projects are popular and relevant and which are not. The latest evidence is I have searched for "email_spec gem". It lists the h-lame fork as the top ...
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Ask HN: Is ASP.NET Worth Learning? - kishansundar I&#x27;m currently learning Rails and Swift. But my Current Job requires me to learn ASP.NET. ====== proyb2 Are you working is Microsoft shop or mixed development skill set for different projects? Learn it would be useful where some projects required building from scra...
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The Masculine Mystique of T - ehudla https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/28/the-masculine-mystique-of-t/ ====== stanfordkid Intriguing why someone would try to analyze a biological compound through a cultural / political / sociological lens without at least giving some reference to actual scientific research. I hav...
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The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive - Readmore http://gizmodo.com/356488/first-video-of-elmo-live-singing-and-dancing-shows-he-got-skillz ====== wallflower Do children need to conjure up virtual/imaginary friends anymore with toys like these? Amazing technology but I think playing in the dirt with action figures...
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Simple & Not Social Bookmarking Service - nitrohack http://bookmarks2.com/online_bookmarks.php ====== chrisbolt Doesn't look that different from <http://www.google.com/bookmarks/> ~~~ josefresco Except your personal data isn't being shared with some giant ad corp. that will undoubtedly be using it for profit down t...
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Azlo – Fee-free small business banking - michaelrkn https://www.azlo.com/ ====== eternal_virgin We were recommended Azlo by Stripe Atlas. I would not recommend them... it's a pain to switch to anything else, their support can't do anything except tell you to open a new account to change anything at all, and they have ...
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Anti-concussion collar draws inspiration from woodpeckers - tokenadult http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-23/preventing-football-concussions-lessons-from-bird-brains ====== PhantomGremlin People interested in how the NFL has been trying to ignore the concussion issue for decades should watch the Frontline ...
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The Internet Before the Internet: Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum (2016) - diodorus https://daily.jstor.org/internet-before-internet-paul-otlet/ ====== Isamu >More than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally available. He for...
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Why Do We Need a Decentralized Storage System? - containerds https://youtu.be/iW3eg5leKhE ====== remram So why do we need it?
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Game Mechanic Explorer – interactive game mechanics and algorithms playground - dannyow http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/ ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=game+mechanic+explorer#!/story/for...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=game+mechanic+explorer#!/story/forever/0/game%20mechanic%20explorer)
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Ask HN: Is it more fun ( and wise ) to implement or to read about coding theory? - SNBasti I love to read about design patterns, syntax and semantics language specifications ( e.g. the C++ standard ), Unit tests and this kind of stuff. Actually even more than to actually implement it because I am not confident with my...
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The Junk Science of the Abortion Lobby - tu7001 https://mindmatters.ai/2019/01/the-junk-science-of-the-abortion-lobby/ ====== ykevinator Also jesus.
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Hire this guy for love - cleverbaker http://mibake.co ====== tptacek For PSD2HTML? And that round trip ticket price? Ok. Shoot me a mail. (See profile) ~~~ veemjeem Didn't that YC company, Markupwand, do something like this automatically? Since they've vanished, I wonder if this problem is hard to do automatically? ...
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Clinton Looks to Data to Help Her Drown Out Trump - hodgesmr http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-19/clinton-bets-on-tech-strategy-to-defeat-trump ====== venomsnake I can't help but wonder if I inhabit the same planet with campaign strategists. We have a candidate that already have a problem with being ...
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The effect of passive heating on heat shock protein 70 and interleukin-6 - kunle http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2017.1288688 ====== teslabox Didn't realize heat shock proteins are so useful. This explains a lot for me, thx.
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Google Optimize now free for everyone - gmays https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/this-is-not-a-test-google-optimize-now-free-for-everyone/ ====== rightbyte "Optimizing" UI for session length and clicks is the same thing as finding the local maxima of bad, right? ~~~ uberstuber The effects of...
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Qt for Python 5.12 officially released - mherrmann https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/12/18/qt-python-5-12-released/ ====== mherrmann Very happy about this as an avid Qt and Python user. People looking to get started may be interested in my tutorial [1] and open source build system [2] for Qt for Python apps. 1: [https://b...
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Driverless car review launched by UK government - sjcsjc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31364441 ====== awjr A most telling point is the comment about how driverless cars would keep to the speed limits and how 'boring' this would be. In the UK there is a reason why the police have stopped using the word 'acci...
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Computational Complexity Theory - sonabinu http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-complexity/ ====== Sharlin No discussion of philosophy and complexity theory is complete without the thought-provoking paper by Aaronson [1]. [1] Aaronson, Scott. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity. [ht...
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A Cavernous World under the Woods - sohkamyung https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-cavernous-world-under-the-woods/ ====== contingencies World map of karst regions: [https://i2.wp.com/www.circleofblue.org/wp- content/uploads/20...](https://i2.wp.com/www.circleofblue.org/wp- content/uploads/2010/01/world-karst-m...
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Integral Calculus in Lambda Calculus (Lisp) - jgrant27 http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2009-04-09-161839_integral_calculus_in_lambda_calculus_lisp.html ====== jrockway One other thing. The Lisp is rather non-idiomatic. Here is how I'd write it: (defparameter small-dx 0.00001) (defun i...
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Ask HN: How to deal with domain squatters/resellers? - halfmatthalfcat I&#x27;m currently working on a project where the .com is owned by a domain reseller who has, in my opinion, an unrealistic valuation. I own the .io, so I&#x27;m not super concerned but it&#x27;s frustrating to negotiate when I feel like the resell...
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Solving a Maze with D3.js - runlevel1 http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11189414 ====== dsilver Part of a whole family of maze visualizations created in the past day by Mike Bostock: Maze Generator: [http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11159599](http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11159599) Maze Solver: [http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/111...
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Google Reader API - peter123 http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/12/google-reader-api.html ====== waleedka Although an old article, it's still probably the best reference for Google's Feed APIs out there. I considered using the APIs some time ago for a project in which I need to pull tens of thousands of feeds, but ...
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Transition to Python4 won't be like Python3(“we've learned our lesson”) - angadsg https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-December/142361.html ====== spacemanmatt Too late; learned Clojure.
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Side-project Ideas That Could Get Big - danicgross https://pioneer.app/ideas ====== pokoleo > Reply-to-sheet > You often send emails to lots of people where the replies > ("yes I can make it!") are collected into a spreadsheet. With your service, > you can simply CC XXX@your-website.com and have the replies collected ...
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Building a To-Do List with Cloudflare Workers and KV - soheilpro https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-a-to-do-list-with-workers-and-kv/ ====== steveklabnik Workers KV went out of beta today, and this is a great tutorial on building a small application entirely at the edge, with Workers for the code, and KV for the dat...
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Machine-learning: Crowdsourcing Feature discovery - datascientist http://strata.oreilly.com/2014/03/crowdsourcing-feature-discovery.html ====== avg81 Very good article. A lot of times features are overlooked as they are seen as part of modeling exercise. The more diverse they are, better it is to improve predictions...
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Mass incarceration: A new theory for why so many Americans are in prison - po http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/02/mass_incarceration_a_provocative_new_theory_for_why_so_many_americans_are.single.html ====== Nursie >> The fact of the matter is in today’s state prisons, which hold about 90 perc...
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Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts - rlalwani http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/habits-are-the-new-viral-why-startups-must-be-behavior-experts/?grcc=33333Z98 ====== rlalwani This is a bit old but it's a very interesting way of looking at startups.
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U.S. threatens to freeze Iraq's account at NY Fed if troops told to leave - AndrewBissell https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-leave-11578759629 ====== 40acres This is ridiculous. U.S troops (along with other coalition nations) are in Iraq at the requ...
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Ask HN: Self-taught dev, how to improve my job prospects in 2-3 months? - JohnCapilary People at my company are great and the work is okay, but I am not growing my skill set. I will have some extra time for the next 2-3 months. How best can I improve my job prospects? My dream would be to work at a company that is ...
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Zoox, Self-Driving Car Startup Valued at $2.7B, Is for Sale - jchallis https://www.theinformation.com/articles/zoox-self-driving-car-startup-valued-at-2-7-billion-is-for-sale ====== fallingmeat Good riddance. Get those half-baked unproven ego-driven prototype death-traps off the public road. Get back to us about using...
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Comparing IPFS and Dat - arcalinea https://medium.com/@graber.jay/comparing-ipfs-and-dat-8f3891d3a603 ====== api One thing I did not see compared is overhead. I haven't tried Dat yet but IPFS seems somewhat fat from my tests of it. It eats it's fair share of RAM and CPU. I expect a distributed everything store to eat ...
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Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime? - jarcoal This is a spiritual successor to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909. However, I am hoping to just hear from bootstrappers today.<p>Show us what is paying your bills. Inspiration for those that are not there yet. ====== dangross...
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Hurrian songs - tintinnabula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs ====== topynate Tolkien's "Black Speech" may have been inspired by Hurrian. I prefer the original in this case, I think: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc) ------ senekerim Fascinating. I...
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Live Longer by Eating Apples, Drinking Tea Every Day - spking https://www.studyfinds.org/study-live-longer-by-eating-apples-drinking-tea-flavonoids-every-day/ ====== QuantumAphid The supporting study: Flavonoid intake is associated with lower mortality in the Danish Diet Cancer and Health Cohort [https://www.nature.c...
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The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free - praptak https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/ ====== andrewtbham > it is not that the facts it reports tend to be inaccurate yes it is. I really lost faith in nyt when they ran article about running out of running out of ch...
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Ask HN: Recommendation services? - sanj Can anyone suggest recommendation services?<p>What I'd like is a service to which I can send a simple query like "I like Jack Johnson" and it will tell me "You should also listen to Madeleine Peyroux, Indigo Girls and John Coltrane."<p>Or whatever, in some machine-queryable fo...
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Fake ‘Unicorns’ Are Running Roughshod Over the Venture Capital Industry - howard941 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/fake-unicorns-are-running-over-the-venture-capital-industry.html ====== robocat The interesting part to me was: "investigations indicated that over 90 percent of mutual funds used inflated post-m...
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SHOW HN: Left-Pad could be the next FizzBuzz so we coded it up in 13 Languages - fahimulhaq https://www.educative.io/collection/page/10370001/520001/750001 ====== plugnburn 14 lines in JS? O'rly? Even with such a strict check of the padding character length (with an exception) and a period by default it's a four-line...
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Pirates Use Flask, the Navy Uses Django - welder https://wakatime.com/blog/25-pirates-use-flask-the-navy-uses-django ====== dgilland Interested in knowing what backend setup you have that allows you to scale up to 27,000+ while using Flask: 1\. How many application servers are you using? 2\. How much RAM, CPU cores,...
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The Innovative 'Gypsy Brewers' Shaking Up the Beer World - sasvari http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/10/the-innovative-gypsy-brewers-shaking-up-the-beer-world/64828/ ====== Symbol I met Dan at a local beer tasting, where he told he told me about this business model. It limits their sales capacity, but all...
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Hey, PC, Who Taught You to Fight Back? - edw519 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/business/media/30ad.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all ====== jamesbritt The funny thing about the "I'm a Mac" commercials is that they remind me of high school, where the jocks and cool kids would entertain themselves by mocking the nerds...
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NASA turns research to California drought - Varcht http://www.apnews.com/ap/db_15897/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ZBuWu6oJ ====== judk I wonder of less "famous" states get similar support, and if NASA support could be a useful less corruptible for of development aid, compared to other aid programs.
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The EU punishes Google – for no real crime - gingerbread-man https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-eu-punishes-google--for-no-real-crime/2017/07/01/4838701e-5dc3-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory ====== yummmuy Controversial issue. You can make a strong case that...
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Canada's top privacy professionals are doing an iAMA tomorrow - cageek https://privasectech.com/2015/04/canadian-privacy-iama/ ====== usr12345 I've never heard of them. They must be good. ~~~ PeterWhittaker Yeah, seems a bit slashvertisy. I expected to see Michael Geist or one or two former information/privacy comm...
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Ask HN: Review my first website design - nrbafna http://csa.22web.net/<p>This is my first website design for the Computer Science Association, BITS-Pilani, India. I have been learning HTML, CSS and jquery for a month now and this was the first actual work of mine. Please review it. ====== jacquesm If you've been doi...
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Torvalds and Theo harsh quote battle - sberder http://torvaldsortheo.com/ ====== ScottBurson Cute. I did better than one might have expected considering I don't know either of them well. But once it started recycling questions I got bored. (What? No score?) And why not "Linus and Theo"?
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Coffee Delivery Is the Future of On-Demand Ordering - prostoalex http://www.eater.com/2016/1/14/10758072/starbucks-delivery-dunkin-donuts-office ====== aaroninsf Me, I think 'the future' is resource-intensive delivery services predicated on blowing 10x the resources to deliver someone else's product to 1/100th the cus...
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Poop 101: A beginner's guide to reading your own poop (2016) - Tomte http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13212952/poop-healthy-normal-color-food-shape-disease ====== BubRoss Maybe I'll take a break from hacker news for a while.
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Ask HN: Which “Tech Business Model” makes the most sense to you? - rxsel Not limited to business models, please share opinions on unique ways of generating revenue, acquiring customers, etc. ====== kevsim This is entirely dependent on your product. For example, I'm working on an alternative to Jira [0] so it was prett...
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Ask HN: What would you build an email-heavy webapp on? - kulkarnic Hello!<p>I'm working with a friend on a webapp that involves sending and receiving copious amounts of email. While the application does have a web-interface, this interface is mostly used for simple CRUD operations on data that comes in via email (t...
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Appeals court rules ACA’s individual mandate unconstitutional - hanging https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/appeals-court-rules-acas-individual-mandate-unconstitutional-lower-court-to-decide-whether-rest-of-law-can-stand-without-it/2019/12/18/3443fd3e-c03c-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html ====== tantalor The indivi...
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Are Americans Fleeing Cities During Covid? - wooten https://medium.com/@realblocinfo/flight-from-the-cities-670898e3ab5a ====== wooten The answer is yes, where they can afford to: [https://medium.com/@realblocinfo/flight-from-the- cities-6708...](https://medium.com/@realblocinfo/flight-from-the- cities-670898e3ab5a)
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Introducing GeoViews - mkesper https://www.continuum.io/blog/developer-blog/introducing-geoviews ====== geeio Warning this site makes mobile Safari freeze.
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Prime editing: DNA tool could correct 89% of genetic defects - hhs https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50125843 ====== russler23 No cell division required, much more accurate than CRISPR. That’s a major advance.
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What Could Have Saved Dropbox? - myxo http://backdrift.org/what-could-have-saved-dropbox ====== Toddward I think the option of having an opt-in Google Authenticator-like service within Dropbox would be extremely useful. I would definitely use something like that.
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Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 3 - rspivak http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part3/ ====== w0utert It's going to be interesting how this series will expand to more complex concepts of interpreter design, such as grammars, AST's etc. To be honest, right now I'm thinking the approach taken to teach the basics of ...
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US 'got it so wrong' on Saddam Hussein, says CIA agent who interrogated dictator - lisper http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-wrong-iraq-saddam-hussein-cia-interrogator-john-nixon-george-w-bush-invasion-a7482456.html ====== DrScump “We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction. It was no...
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Ask HN: Mobile Broadband sateside - ErrantX Hopefully you can figure out a bit of a conundrum for me :)<p>Im coming to the mighty US for a holiday later this month. As it's 3 a week trip roaming new england etc. Im taking my Netbook so I can keep up with emails and book hotels etc.<p>Problem is that my mobile broadb...
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1,250 Mile Motorway Connecting Hamburg with Shanghai Across Russia Going Ahead - stevenjgarner https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/russia-meridian-highway-motorway-china-belarus-europe-belt-road-travel-a8996286.html ====== stevenjgarner Hamburg and Shanghai are at least 8,517 km apart (Great Circle Ro...
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Ask HN: What's been your best investment? - uptown I'm curious what everyone here considers their best investment. Not necessarily from a financial standpoint (thought it certainly could be, and that'd be interesting to hear too) ... but maybe your best investment has been the time you spent to learn something new, o...
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Use the Native Web Component Shadow DOM API as React Components - treshugart https://github.com/treshugart/react-shade ====== Gys Demo does not work in Firefox 57.0.1
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Barnes and Noble’s Jekyll and Hyde (1999) - hhs http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/47/ ====== jhbadger Presumably this was posted as a reminder on how things change. In the 1990s Riggio/B&N was indeed a powerful force (think of the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy "You've Got Mail!" where Hanks plays a cha...
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Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019 [pdf] - phsilva https://vimconf.org/2019/slides/justin.pdf ====== phsilva Presented by Justin M. Keyes on VimConf 2019. Video at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-vmPC_- Ho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-vmPC_-Ho)
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Amiga Graphics Archive - erickhill http://amiga.lychesis.net/ ====== NeedMoreTea So many memories. Defender of the Crown, art by Jim Sachs, was remarkable so soon after the machine's release. Especially as much was painted pixel by pixel. It was ported to PC, in CGA and I think EGA, not that anyone could afford EGA! ...
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The 2nd-class Facebook workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battle - 80mph https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/08/inside-facebook-second-class-workers-who-do-hardest-job-are-waging-quiet-battle/ ====== lostmymind66 I've been contracting for over a decade. I don't expect any sort of benefits ...
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What programming languages are used most on weekends? - minaandrawos http://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/What-Programming-Languages-Weekends/?cb=1 ====== slg I surprised there was no mention in the blog post or the comments so far about the homework factor. It isn't just personal side projects that people are working on...
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Hong Kong security chief warns of growing terrorism backing planned security law - partingshots https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kongs-security-chief-warns-of-growing-terrorism-as-govt-backs-beijings-planned-security-laws-idUSKBN23107F ====== culturestate As a longtime Hong Kong resident, the ...
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A 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight - andyjohnson0 http://blog.longnow.org/02019/01/29/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/ ====== wyck Great article but I found this one easier to understand including quotes from the artist about how it works, [https://www.quora.com/At-the...
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Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial - SoftwareMaven http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10042 ====== SoftwareMaven Hmm, probably should have linked to the blog entry directly instead: <http://codebutler.com/firesheep>
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