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Booking bugs (for non-engineers) - ericlamb89 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPtnmP9ACOqS2JOXFQZgKLfW2UwB-8oRgUoLIFkZQOM/edit#heading=h.b3v9mp4zdifd ====== ericlamb89 Wrote this doc to help my support team better communicate UI bugs to our engineering team. Looking for feedback or any relevant (or better) resourc...
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Ask HN: Compiled and Interepted language? - pkc Is it possible for a language to be both compiled as well as interpreted.<p>* During development we can use interpreter to rapid application development * In production environment same code base gets compiled to machine code or bytecode for performance reasons<p>Is...
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Groovy 2.2 released - michschar http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+2.2+release+notes ====== pixelmonkey I wrote a post awhile back, called "Groovy, the Python of Java"[1], which praised Groovy as a great language for Python/Ruby developers who are forced to work with the JVM and associated libraries. In the post, I sa...
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Searching for Signal: The how and why of financial models for startups - paulkbennetts http://paulbennetts.co/searching-for-signal-the-how-and-why-of-financial-models-for-startups/ ====== dankohn1 This is a superb essay. I really like the focus on 30 line bottoms up spreadsheets for clarifying thinking and trying to...
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Noah's Ark Rises in Kentucky, Dinosaurs and All - aerocapture http://www.newsweek.com/noahs-ark-kentucky-dinosaurs-416653 ====== orionblastar Paywalled, here is a link to MSN covering the same article: [http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/noahs-ark-rises-in- kentucky...](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/noahs-ark-rises-i...
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Samsung Chromebox - pajju http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html ====== dm2 This has been available for over a year. The old version had the exact same specs as far as I can tell. [http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE300M22-A01US- Series-3-Chrome...](http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE300M22-A01US- Ser...
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Just launched tonight: thisemailwillselfdestruct.com - feedback? - dustball A simple &#38; fun site to send e-mails that self-destruct: http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com/<p>You can specify how long the message will last after it has been opened. It's an easy way to send a secure message to someone without ha...
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Entrepreneurs Must Make Money Before Making Meaning - gigamon http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2008/01/bootstrapping.html#more ====== nostrademons I always thought that Drucker said it best: "Profit is the cost of doing business." Businesses exist for a purpose: to provide goods and/or services to customers. They don...
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Gerald Sussman - An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch (2003) - gosub http://video.mit.edu/watch/an-electrical-engineering-view-of-a-mechanical-watch-9035/ ====== daurnimator "they will remember your name for 500 years".... "I can't remember who made the first one" ~~~ SpacemanSpiff yeah, I caught th...
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Microsoft wins US import ban on Motorola’s Android devices - protomyth http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/microsoft-wins-us-import-ban-on-motorolas-android-devices/ ====== AlexFromBelgium ... patent on “generating meeting requests” _facepalm_ ------ bfrs If this is true, then I have no more doubt that Microsoft i...
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K3D – WebGL 3D Plots in Jupyter Notebook - stared https://github.com/K3D-tools/K3D-jupyter ====== billconan this looks very awesome, I really want to adopt it, but my site is mainly js (although I do support in browser python now). I don't know if the js/webgl part can be used as a separate library. ------ mecharoid ...
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Techniques of Systems Analysis (1957) [pdf] - gwern https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM1829-1.pdf ====== jonjacky One of the co-authors here is Herman Kahn, the nuclear strategist. He wrote On Thermonuclear War in 1960, which made him one of the models for Dr. Strangelove - some of th...
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Yammer CEO Calls The End Of Silicon Valley - frankphilips http://www.businessinsider.com/david-sacks-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it-may-be-over-2012-8 ====== drstewart >"How many ideas like that are left?" he asks. This, of course, is reminiscent of the famous quote from the US patent commissioner back in 1900: >Eve...
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LaMem Demo - tsutomun http://memorability.csail.mit.edu/demo.html ====== brudgers Recent discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744497](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744497)
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Ask HN: Securely exposing host just to webhooks? - andbberger Background: I wish to listen for github webhooks on a Jenkins instance sitting in a private network. There are no public endpoints on the network, it&#x27;s for internal services.<p>Easy enough to add an endpoint that forwards to Jenkins, but I&#x27;m not ...
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Ask HN: Good customer support AI system? - masonicb00m Has anyone found a good customer support system that you can train to auto-tag support requests? ====== dfischer Dialogflow, wit.ai, amazon lex, Microsoft language work well.
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Favorite scientist? - kirk21 Who is your favorite scientist?<p>(We are building a new tool for scientist: http://bohr.launchrock.com) ====== ISL Varies by the day. Dicke is a perpetual candidate.
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Ask HN: What to read? - pandatigox Hello all. I&#x27;ve recently taken up an urge to read more on world affairs. Apart from the usual newspapers ({The} New York{er} Times, for example), what are some good sites to subscribe to?<p>Thank you very much ====== mseebach The Economist has very high quality content and has...
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Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm - hhs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-29/america-s-middle-class-is-getting-hooked-on-debt-with-100-rates ====== blhack Okay these loans certainly sound like a bad deal, but what are people supposed to do? Say your car breaks and you can’t...
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SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition - MilnerRoute https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/01/29/2336244/spacex-is-livestreaming-a-hyperloop-pod-competition ====== ChuckMcM So really the hyperloop is just the highway system Elon expects to have on Mars :-) More seriously I find engineering challenges like t...
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A website to read and share contents related to startup ecosystem - ayushmayank What about a website where people can submit and read contents related to startup ecosystem. I just came up with an idea, a website where anybody can share contents related to startup and entrepreneurial circle. And people can mark those c...
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Your Phone Is Deadlier Than Pacific Sushi - JumpCrisscross http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/your-phone-is-deadlier-than-pacific-sushi.html ====== spindritf > John LaForge, who writes for Nukewatch, correctly notes that there is no > "safe" level of exposure to radioactivity. We don't know that. Not only the...
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Ask HN: Do you look down on non-entrepreneurs? - eavc Having gone from a regular job to self-employment and now looking at moving back to a regular job, I've gotten a surprising amount of disappointment from my entrepreneurial buddies when I tell them I'm thinking about opting out.<p>What I was expecting was for the...
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Purity - andreyf http://xkcd.com/435/ ====== ph0rque I thought of making a knowledge map like this, except two-dimensional. The other dimension would be practical vs. theoretical (this one would be hard vs. soft sciences). I wonder if there is a quantitative measure for the hard vs. soft, such as the number of axiom...
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Border agents threatened to “be dicks” - drewg123 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/man-border-agents-threatened-to-be-dicks-take-my-phone-if-i-didnt-unlock-it/ ====== devopsproject 5-10 minutes seems like enough time to do a full system dump. And definitely enough time to install some malware. Are there any...
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Ask HN: How have you used (or wanted to use) machine learning in your business? - adamb ====== skyfallsin Definitely need it for sales forecasting, and for figuring out what a brand- new click to a website will most likely do. ------ sam5q I used to work in the IP industry and was frustrated with how inefficient and i...
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Ask HN: Why is there such a divide in new languages for webdev newbies to learn? - butwhy I&#x27;ve been in a mindset where I want to add some dynamic content to a html&#x2F;css website and after asking for advice and reading around, I see so many people offering different opinions. Not only do they suggest a partic...
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Table of keyboard shortcuts - cooperadymas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts ====== brilliantday This is a vivid list of keyboard shortcuts. Wikipedia is such a great help. I don't even have any idea of this: Inverse (Reverse Colors) Mode.
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Ask HN: small fish v. big fish - exclusivity contract? - alex_c Executive summary: small bootstrapped startup, approaching potential B2B clients about the product we want to build. One established company wants to help us build it, in return for an exclusivity deal. What are the gotchas? How do we avoid getting s...
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How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People - aburan28 https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/07/27/How-The-United-Arab-Emirates-Intelligence-Tried-to-Hire-me-to-Spy-on-its-People/ ====== brudgers Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12176837](https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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The Best Affordable Housing Plan in the U.S. Isn’t Good Enough - jseliger http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/01/nyc_affordable_housing_plan_de_blasio_s_efforts_are_ambitious_and_laudable.single.html ====== josephpmay This article is making the assumption that rent control works. The real world is sig...
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New Sharing Economy App on the Blockchain Live in Germany - ashrafaleryani https://fainin.com/ ====== ashrafaleryani Fainin, the new airbnb for everything else that you own, is now live in Germany. Users can make money from things they own while being insured and protected against theft or damage. Since it went live i...
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Getting Started with Django - sidshringi https://medium.com/@siddharthshringi/how-i-made-my-first-django-app-4ede65c9b17f ====== NoB4Mouth Buddy this is the first time i'm reading a post on Django in HN since i've landed here. I've started learning Django for some months and got stuck on creating and running my own pr...
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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation - saeedjabbar https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/qualcomm-and-apple-agree-to-drop-all-litigation/ ====== chollida1 Notes: \- Apple pays Qualcomm a one time payment, no word on the size \- Qualcomm is up almost 18% while apple is flat which tells you who this affect...
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Reality Check: Have Leave campaigners changed their minds? - ifdefdebug http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36641390 ====== lordnacho I can say the vitriol after the result has been crazy. My FB has dozens and dozens of posts from Remoaners decrying the idiots, racists, and old people who dared to vote a...
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Clojure IDEs — The Grand Tour - fogus http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2010/03/clojure-ides-the-grand-tour-getting-started/ ====== prosa Guides like this are so, so helpful. I had a lot of false starts when I first started exploring Clojure, all due to difficulties setting up a development environment. Maybe due to...
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What happens when National Geographic steals your art? - playhard http://www.blyon.com/what-happens-when-national-geographic-steals-your-art/ ====== zaroth They apologize and offer to pay a fair and reasonable licensing fee? It sounds like someone sold NG a license for art that wasn't theirs. NG was also a victim h...
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Ethcore is seeking out JavaScript developers to build the future of blockchain - raulrtti https://ethcore.io/javascript_advert.js ====== adamqureshi To apply as a JS wiz/full stack gay or gal, give us some code (info@ethcore.io) that processes this into a lovely-looking web (HTML/CSS/JS) document var job = { You have ...
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Show HN: Beamer, the best way to announce product updates - marianorc2 https://www.getbeamer.com/?ref=hackernews ====== kcollignon How does your offering compare to [https://headwayapp.co/](https://headwayapp.co/) ?
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How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike - peter123 http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/planetdefense.html ====== MikeCapone I hope this isn't considered improper, but I wrote a few things on this topic and I think I go a bit more in depth than this Wired piece. Here they are: [http://michaelgr.com/2007/...
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Lessons from last week’s cyberattack - ycitm https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/ ====== loteck The quote bombshell here, and what hasnt yet gotten much attention since sysadmins the world over are busy dealing with f...
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Wi-Fi and Neighborhood Conflicts: An Algorithm to Keep the Peace - Wookai http://actu.epfl.ch/news/wi-fi-and-neighborhood-conflicts-an-algorithm-to-k/ ====== rayiner These sorts of technologies are really interesting, and will play a big part in getting the most out of limited wireless spectrum. But the big picture ...
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After Nokia Layoffs, Tech Workers in Finland Regroup and Refocus - forgotAgain http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/technology/after-nokia-layoffs-tech-workers-in-finland-regroup-and-refocus.html?r=0 ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035584](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035...
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Climate Change Cause..Effect..Cure - dynomight Of course I don&#x27;t have a background in science but whenever I walk into the woods on a hot day the temperature is quite a bit cooler. Usually startlingly, though refreshingly, so. I believe a large scale effort to plant forests would be a necessary step to take as ...
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What Is the Cost of Building a Subway? [pdf] - tptacek https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/costspresentation2.pdf ====== elvinyung I also like this analysis of general high infrastructure costs in America: [https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why- american-c...](https://pedestrianobser...
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Ask HN: If Trump wins. How could it impact the tech industry? - mrcabada I&#x27;m concerned about what could mean for the tech industry in America (and maybe the world) to have Trump as a president.<p>As far as I know Trump is not so happy with: Immigrants working in the US, clean&#x2F;renewable energy, importing good...
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Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast, like “make old hardware feel new” fast - rbanffy https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubuntu-19-10-quite-simply-the-best-ubuntu-canonical-has-ever-released/ ====== mtmail Duplicate of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21649397](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21649397)
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Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks - SirLJ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/apple-walled-garden-starting-to-show-cracks.html ====== chipotle_coyote This is not about "cracking the walled garden"; we're comparing, well, not apples and oranges as much as Apples and Netflixes. This is about laying th...
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MoMo: Ensuring Reliable Access To Water With Open Source Hardware - janineyoong http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2013/12/momo-%252D-ensuring-reliable-access-to-water-in-the-developing-world ====== stuff4ben This is a great example of using our talents for the greater good of society. Would love to work on something...
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MPAA Ok With Users Getting Back Their Megaupload Files If 0% Infringement - ZeroMinx http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120606/16165119228/mpaa-ok-with-allowing-users-to-get-back-their-megaupload-files-if-0-infringement-can-be-guaranteed.shtml ====== debacle The MPAA shouldn't have a fucking say in MegaUpload users ...
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Google Cloud Issue Summary [pdf] - chmars https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//appsstatus/ir/l6t5py0jbfa7em8.pdf ====== chmars 'On June 30, Google's email delivery service was targeted in what we believe was an attempt to bypass spam classification.'
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The Humble Indie Game Bundle - daniel_levine http://www.wolfire.com/humble ====== samd They probably shouldn't put the average amount paid so far on the website. The idea is to get people to pay what _they_ think the games are worth, not what other people think the games are worth. ~~~ patio11 Here's how I would ha...
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A better way to defer JS - sanj http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/defer-loading-javascript.html ====== greenyoda Can't you replace the "addEventListener" stuff with <body onload="downloadJSAtOnload()">? ~~~ tovmeod what happens if you have more than one js? of course you should only have one, but I may have a js ...
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SigOpt Fundamentals: Approximation of Data - mccourt http://blog.sigopt.com/post/132959177928/sigopt-fundamentals-approximation-of-data ====== mccourt Hello, I am Mike, the author of this post, and I will be checking in for the rest of the day to answer questions.
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What do you use for transfering domain names you buy from some unknown person? - muratny escrow.com, moniker.com or something else? escrow.com is rumored to be ripe for getting scammed. ====== sokoloff I used sedo.com, and was completely satisified for my one transaction with them.
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Apple's iPad - horrible ergonomics - urlwolf http://www.anandtech.com/show/3640/apples-ipad-the-anandtech-review/8 ====== stcredzero This review is obviously rushed. They are doing the ergonomics section without the case. That's a serious oversight. The case section has photo after photo of the case incorrectly config...
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How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play - sds111 https://medium.com/refraction-tech-everything/how-netflix-works-the-hugely-simplified-complex-stuff-that-happens-every-time-you-hit-play-3a40c9be254b ====== luckydude So this is perhaps a lame post but I'm super tired, been up since 4am. I'll try and...
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Ask HN: How to donate money effectively? - mattiss I'm thinking of donating some cash to a charity of some kind. How can I make sure my money will actually make a difference and be utilized properly? ====== subsection1h If you want to allocate money to charity now and you're currently unsure how best to do so, maybe...
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Visions of the Future - aps-sids http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/ ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104124](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104124) ------ shawnmk I love these and wanted prints of them for myself and thought others might too (and I own a printery), so: [http://w...
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Ask HN: Need More MOOC on Discrete Math - jackallis Mit&#x27;s videos are good but no solution to pset or exams. Makes it tough to self learn.<p>Other than one in coursera, are there any MOOCs with lecutre videos and pset&#x2F;exam with solutions? ====== Hernanpm Coursera is really good. Introduction to Discrete Mathe...
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The OMGPOP acquisition: 6 weeks later - teej http://teejm.com/omgpop-acquisition-6-weeks-later/ ====== bobbles Well personally right now I have stopped playing Draw Something _entirely_ since now it wont LET me play unless I give it permission to 'post to Facebook on my behalf'. No chance, Zynga ~~~ lux Exactly wh...
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Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work? - DiabloD3 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-do-we-play-video-games-that-simulate-work ====== ffn Maybe it's just me, but I find work to only suck when there is a long commute time and it's 2015 and our stupid company is still running Ruby 1.8 on rails 2.3, there is n...
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We Should Ditch Nginx - jesalas http://www.hipyoungstartup.com/2013/11/we-should-ditch-nginx/ ====== dknecht CloudFlare generates 50gb/s of logs globally and have handled collecting this volume in two ways. Historically the logs are sent to a local syslog-ng through the use of a PIPE and the forwarded to central logge...
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The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code - jgrahamc http://blog.jgc.org/2010/11/real-reason-climate-scientists-dont.html ====== patio11 They fear what would happen to their reputations if it were obvious how the sausage was being made. (Not unique to climate change: my academic AI resear...
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Ask HN: What's the first site you visit each morning? - drac89 ... for me first I check my email then HN, Twitter, Dribbble, Google+ ====== 2810 1\. Stock portfolio, news, charts 2\. Hacker news (new & best) 3\. Digg 4\. Techcrunch 5\. Mashable 6\. Gmail 7\. Facebook ------ Collizo4sky Gmail
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Wrong about Japan and Sex - po http://kotaku.com/wrong-about-japan-and-sex-1450567428 ====== po The original article ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579294](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579294)) was discussed here, and has now been linked/referenced all over the place. The original article was _intere...
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Implementing Diversity in Startups - justkd https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/implementing-diversity-question-design-karan-dehghani/ ====== justkd I am a guy and hear and read about diversity all the time. But I get the feeling that not a lot of founders are taking the question of diversity serious enough to act. Here ar...
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The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake - CowboyRobot http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365 ====== supersillyus In the article he says it is just one byte extra, but that's clearly not the case, since we probably want strings longer than 255 characters. To be practical, even in the sort term, you'd probably need at l...
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Tesla's ingenious strategy - mixmax http://www.maximise.dk/teslas-ingenious-strategy/ ====== lutusp Tesla -- and Elon Musk -- have accomplished a lot with a combination of ingenuity and timing, but their future (and the future of viable electric cars) relies entirely on a single technological advance that's almost com...
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Unusual Strategies for Fighting Dementia - PatriciaR https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/world/europe/dementia-care-treatment-symptoms-signs.html ====== PatriciaR Anyone else read this? While there are still a lot of questions, the overall idea of stepping away from medication and into immersive environments as less in...
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Building an air raid siren (2012) - nkurz http://woodgears.ca/siren/index.html ====== donquichotte This is Matthias Wandel, woodworker extraordinaire. He has a youtube channel at [1]. His projects are as well executed as they are diverse. He built band saws, tricycles, shacks, chairs, and the videos are very entertain...
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Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing - MarlonPro http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProductivityVsGuiltAndSelfLoathing.aspx ====== theallan Somewhat ironic that I found this through HN where I so often feel that the world is moving so much faster than I can possibly keep up. Some of the work produced and shown here i...
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Airport Security Is Killing Us - Umalu http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-18/how-airport-security-is-killing-us ====== joonix I opt-out of the x-ray scanner every single time, and so should you. It really doesn't take much longer to go through the process. Show up 3 minutes earlier if you have to. You're rus...
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Python bumps off Java as top learning language - jonphillips06 http://www.javaworld.com/article/2452940/learn-java/python-bumps-off-java-as-top-learning-language.html ====== arjn Does not really surprise me. I coded in Java for several years before moving to Python (an now Python+Go)
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Show HN: A pythonic wrapper over atd to schedule deletion of files/directories - devnonymous https://github.com/lonetwin/expyre ====== nathancahill Cool, but "pythonic" and from expyre.helpers import * don't go together. ~~~ asimuvPR Your comment made me check the repo. It has tests, good nam...
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Things to do in Paris by Night - BlueberryTrails Do check this out.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblueberrytrails.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;blog&#x2F;entry&#x2F;47&#x2F;ten-things-to-do-in-paris-by-night ====== BlueberryTrails We are The Blueberry Trails ([https://www.theblueberrytrails.com/](https://www.theblueberrytrails...
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The email diary service that PG requested has existed for years - obiefernandez https://ahhlife.com ====== Tomte Not the page title.
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Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads - mindgam3 http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html ====== AnimalMuppet If Facebook decides which political ads are truthful, then either they reject _all_ political ads (because when was the last time someone ra...
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iOS 7 vs. Android – A Quick Feature Comparison After the WWDC Keynote - fakeer http://www.droid-life.com/2013/06/10/ios7-vs-android-a-quick-comparison-after-the-wwdc-keynote/ ====== ajanuary There isn't a huge amount of features in this release that are taken from Andriod that I can see. There is certainly an inspir...
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Ask HN: Why did the BEEP protocol never get much traction? - mohaps I&#x27;ve always wondered why the BEEP protocol never did get much traction. It seems like a very well thought out specification (RFC-3080 &#x2F; RFC-3081) ====== mindcrime I always wondered that as well. It seems like an interesting standard. More...
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Today is the last day for Ubuntu 12.04LTS support - trymas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29#Releases ====== MiteshShah05 Still 2 more days until EOL [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases?_ga=1.36651104.196229112.14...](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases?_ga=1.36651104.196229112.1492066645)
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How to Be More Productive - dcx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP1AmDRhoas ====== dcx I was really impressed by Scott and his way of thinking about work and productivity. The video is itself a great practical demonstration: He builds a beautiful wooden ramp for his parents' house in a single afternoon, while simultan...
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Show HN: Tabulous for Google Chrome - nmb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aifeiagmjiaflfnimgdioknejnpfkbpa ====== nmb Whenever I read HN on my laptop and was about to switch to my desktop computer at home, I found there was no easy way to send the tabs I had open over to my desktop machine easily. So I mad...
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The Blockchain Solution to Our Deepfake Problems - vaelin https://www.wired.com/story/the-blockchain-solution-to-our-deepfake-problems/ ====== julvo I don't see how a blockchain helps with problems arising from deepfakes. What's key for the solution is signing the content on the physical device, aka public key cryptog...
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Facebook Roadblock - zoowar https://www.facebook.com/roadblock/ ====== zoowar It might be fun to send the automated phone call to a public phone booth (if any still exist).
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Ask HN: I'm a senior in high school looking for a CS internship - TheBananaWhale Dear HN,<p>I am a senior in high school who would love the opportunity to intern as a software developer this summer. From the searching I&#x27;ve done, it seems like every company wants someone currently pursuing a degree in university...
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Japanese Falconry - Petiver http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2015/05/japanese-falconry.html ====== prestonbriggs I don't know the history of falconry. It seems unlikely that such an esoteric activity would evolve in multiple locations; more likely that Japanese falconry and European (not to mention US) falconry evol...
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A WSJ article re Africa's frightening unpreparedness for Covid-19 - adelHBN https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-is-advancing-on-poor-nations-and-the-prognosis-is-troubling-11585149183 ====== pwg No paywall: [http://archive.is/B197Q](http://archive.is/B197Q) ~~~ RMPR Thanks for that.
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StackOverflow podcast with Steve Yegge - screwperman http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4090.html# ====== Encosia It's frustrating when people put so much effort into trying to shove the dynamic block through the static hole. I develop mostly in C# and love it, but have absolutely no interest in a "com...
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Muhammad Ali has died - aaronbrethorst http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776 ====== ceyhunkazel He is a man who have a heart that bigger than his fists. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vi...
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Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb - colinprince https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon-sink-or-source-1.5011490 ====== hackbinary I'm not sure what the author is playing at, but I think at the very least he is trying to be a bit clever. His argument is based upon that forest bio...
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Ask HN: How to convince employer of merits of remote culture? Resources? - blessedcursed I&#x27;m looking to start working remote for my current employer. I know it&#x27;s not going to be easy, but that&#x27;s not what I&#x27;m interested in discussing. He&#x27;s not entirely sure how it could work, and looking for ...
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Show HN: I made a simple tool to preview Google/local fonts on live websites - shash7 https://getsnapfont.com ====== shash7 Hi HN I made Snapfont, a Chrome extension to preview fonts on any website. I recently updated the extension and added heaps of filters, preview options, fixed some old bugs and many more changes...
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New Ruby podcast. Guests include DHH, Obie Fernandez, Ryan Bates and more. - milesf http://coderpath.com ====== luigi Check out the parental warnings in iTunes: <http://luigimontanez.com/snaps/iTunes.png> ~~~ coderpath Yeah, DHH loves to curse. I'm probably going to release a "clean" feed as well that edits out so...
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io.js 1.4 released – featuring debuggable ES6 promises - inglor https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md ====== ndesaulniers Trevor Norris informed me that C++11 must be supported for the version of v8 that iojs ships with, which means node native module authors can use C++11. The native stream stuff loo...
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Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade - mcenedella http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/a-humbled-kleiner-perkins-adjusts-its-strategy/ ====== NoPiece The silicon valley support for green/clean energy goes beyond rationality. They were investing based on faith (or hoping for bigger government interv...
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Our bond with dogs may go back more than 27,000 years - hdivider http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150521133626.htm ====== Oatseller I posted a link to a video about a month ago [0], where arctic wolves approached some workers in remote northern Canada. I'd always held the belief that man had probably in...
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REIA language designer on Twitter/Ruby/Scala discussion - garethr http://unlimitednovelty.com/2009/04/twitter-blaming-ruby-for-their-mistakes.html ====== tptacek I like Tony Arcieri, but this is a weak and somewhat unseemly argument, easily knocked down: (1) Most urgently, Alex isn't bashing Ruby. He's at pains to ...
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Feds Say It's Time to Cut Back on Fluoride in Drinking Water - jcater http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/27/402579949/feds-say-its-time-to-cut-back-on-fluoride-in-drinking-water ====== halviti "The only documented risk of water fluoridation is fluorosis, and it is primarily a cosmetic risk," says Barbara Gooch ...
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The Hayworth-Miller 2019 Debate About Brain Preservation - ogennadi https://brainslab.wordpress.com/2020/09/11/archiving-the-hayworth-miller-2019-debate-about-brain-preservation/ ====== russfink What if consciousness requires an active synapse loop to be maintained, kind of like a magnetic field, with little hysteresi...
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