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Ask HN: How do you balance side project time? - ralston I currently have a FT job (thankfully isn't too taxing), but I also have several side projects that I'm working on (browser extension, autonomous trading bot, and just general learning as well). I'm getting to a point where I don't exactly kno...
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Liveblogging the Amazon Kindle E-Reader Show with Jeff Bezos - shayan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/19/liveblogging-the-amazon-kindle-e-reader-show-with-jeff-bezos/ ====== kyro Come on man, the same exact story was posted 30 minutes ago. It was and still is in the top 10 for new stories, so I'd imagine it wouldn...
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Ask HN: Is it possible for me to change the color of downvoted comments? - sigmaprimus My eyesight is not what it used to be, I know I can set the "Top Color" in preferences but would really like to change the color of down voted comments as I can barely read them and feel that this should be my choice on ho...
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Wait till you have a child of your own. - kategleason http://katgleason.tumblr.com/ ====== Casseres Please use permalinks. If after your next post, someone finds this link from HN, they're not going to see the same article you're referring to. Permalink: [http://katgleason.tumblr.com/post/27175271183/wait-till- yo...
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Google now activates 500,000 Android devices every day - cryptoz http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/06/28/google-now-activates-500000-android-devices-every-day/ ====== nextparadigms I think there are at least 1 billion _phones_ sold per year from all the companies right now. That means that 5 years from now when Andr...
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Will U.S.-China trade war help end China's dependency on Western tech? - saravana85 https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20190525/will-us-china-trade-war-help-end-chinas-dependency-on-western-tech ====== orionblastar Western Tech has CPUs and GPUs that China needs to make PCs and smartphones. Intel and AMD make the CP...
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An Airbnb Host Got Drunk And Let Himself Into The House - amrrs http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-employee-has-airbnb-horror-story-2014-6 ====== cones688 It is a very serious story but the reporting is all a little bit odd, why do they quote the girlfriend who couldn't hear the conversation yet not get the boyfriend...
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Ask HN: Why nobody competes with Adobe? - pacavaca Adobe has sort of a monopoly on the creative tools market. Nobody seriously considers an alternative for their Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc, and for some people, these are truly the only products which can satisfy their sophisticated needs. However, there a...
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Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy - tokenadult http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/enter-the-chronotherapists/ ====== atamyrat This looks like an opportunity for WakeMate (YC S09) guys. Wouldn't it make sense for them to sell their current product as a general purpose/programmable chronoconsu...
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HTML5 Media Source Extensions: Bringing Production Video to the Web - slederer https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/04/html5-media-source-extensions-bringing-production-video-web/ ====== manfrominterne Without detracting anything from MSE, EME doesn't bring "production video" to the web. It brings useless encryption ...
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TensorFlow can now run on £12 edge hardware - TecheratiJames https://techerati.com/news-hub/tensorflow-can-now-run-on-12-edge-hardware/ ====== scottlamb "Cortex M4 processor is extremely low power, using less than 1 MW in many cases" Talk about low standards. Data centers run into megawatts but I expect more power ef...
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Unix Command Lines and Relations - ludsan http://merrigrove.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-occultation-of-relations-and-logic_22.html ====== ivanhoe Just for the record the initial proposed solution is not really an optimal way to do it, specially if log files are huge. Using cat will push the whole log file to stdout fir...
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Server Power-ups That Worked For Our Startup: Handling 10x Traffic - robert_mygengo http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/server-power-ups-that-worked-for-us-handling-10x-traffic/ ====== dolinsky Having been there a few times there are a few suggestions I'd like to put out there. The points here should take a very minimal am...
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The day Google founders asked Steve Jobs to be CEO - lotusleaf1987 http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36534/google-bosses-wanted-apple-boss ====== ecommercematt This "article" is misleading. The video which this link-bait inaccurately describes states "they visited Steve Jobs just to meet him because he was a hero of the...
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Critical Analysis of Stretching Theory (2011) - agarttha http://www.matraining.com.au/personal-training-articles/critical-analysis-stretching-theory ====== CuriouslyC While having the strength to support yourself in extreme ranges of motion is a major part of flexibility, a muscle's level of tonic contraction is the b...
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Best CAPTCHA ever - olalonde http://qntm.org/edit_comments.php?slug=responsibility ====== batterseapower Note a very good CAPTCHA, since as a spammer I can get the answer by just feeding the question to Google: <http://www.google.com/search?q=square+root+of+minus+one> This should also work on those CAPTHCAs that a...
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Faster R-CNN: explanation of the state-of-the-art model for object detection - sameoldstory https://tryolabs.com/blog/2018/01/18/faster-r-cnn-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-modern-object-detection/?HN ====== tinchox Great post. Thanks for sharing! Quick question. Which are the main reasons behind using Faster R-CNN instead ...
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Tell HN: My reasoning as to why points should be displayed on comments - dools There are two reasons:<p>Comments can appear at the top of the page for one of 2 reasons: because they were only submitted recently, or because they've been upvoted.<p>I'm assuming also there's some sort of interaction between time since ...
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Megastore: Providing scalable, highly available storage for interactive services - mad44 http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2011/03/megastore-providing-scalable-highly.html ====== vyrotek I'm not terribly familiar with these sorts of storage systems at a low-level, but I definitely noticed some similarities between th...
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Learning Rust in 2020 - yannikyeo https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/learning-rust-in-2020.md ====== steveklabnik > When I started learning Rust I made the mistake of following the advice to > read The Book first. While it's a great resource, it's pretty overwhelming > for a beginner to get t...
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding - rbanffy https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/amp ====== giardini 2016 article that has been posted to HN 8 times: [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Next%20Big%20Blue- Collar...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Next%20Big%20Blue- Collar%20...
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Cambridge Analytica creator has State Department contract - peterkelly https://www.axios.com/cambridge-analytica-may-still-have-an-open-contract-with-th-1521494535-64a045dd-bfe3-4a7a-8439-a54f1ae13860.html ====== xster It's not like Obama didn't "suck out the whole social graph" from Facebook who "didn’t stop us once ...
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Google Code Jam 2015 - Aaronn https://code.google.com/codejam/ ====== yodsanklai Competitive programming is like a competitive sport. You need to practice a lot to excel at it. The best ones have been training consistently for years. It's a humbling experience for anyone who thinks he or she is a good programmer. I r...
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Software Development And The Sunk Cost Fallacy - milep http://www.skorks.com/2010/04/software-development-and-the-sunk-cost-fallacy/ ====== bdfh42 How did a reasonably good reiteration of the "sunk cost fallacy" and how it applies to software projects (and I am closely observing just such a project running at a clie...
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If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time - rjb http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/aaker_happiness_2011.html ====== spodek After I figured out my priorities (took years of challenging myself and introspection) I figured out how to spend my time. Now I do what's important and don't waste my time with other...
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The Lancet should be promoting public health not climate alarmism - tomhoward http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/doctors-obligation-to-patient-before-planet/story-e6frg6zo-1225976795292 ====== A1kmm > it would be equally valid to argue for as many coal-fired > power plants to > be built in Africa, India an...
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Ask HN: What do you think about my agency's new website and how can I improve it - kiraken We had to retire our old website, and move to something more modern and simplistic. However i feel that i spent a lot of time over thinking this project, so i wanted to show it to you guys at its current form to get your opinion...
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Show HN: EDB – A framework to make and manage backups of your database - RoxasShadow https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB ====== dchest Filed issues related to crypto: [https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB/issues/created_by/dchest](https://github.com/RoxasShadow/EDB/issues/created_by/dchest) ~~~ RoxasShadow Thanks for th...
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Ask HN: How to Automate Large Work Spaces and Tools Setup on Windows Machines? - important ====== teyc You can have a look at how some of my colleagues publish their new machine powershell scripts. [https://github.com/tathamoddie/New- Machine.ps1/blob/master/N...](https://github.com/tathamoddie/New- Machine.ps1/blob/m...
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Show HN: Quadiq – A Simple, Relaxing, Strategy Game - jessehorne I&#x27;m making this post before I go to bed. I&#x27;ll check comments tomorrow if there are any to check! I just wanted to show off a simple game I built somewhat inspired by Hexiq and similar games. It&#x27;s called Quadiq. You can play it at the link ...
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Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biography of one man. - gruseom http://www.esquire.com/print-this/robert-caro-0512?page=all ====== tptacek Tradecraft: _Gottlieb has questioned the veracity of Caro's reporting only once. There was a single paragraph that stood out on what would become the 214th...
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[Emacs]Org-Mode « Musings of a Software Engineering Student - drieddust http://nflath.com/2010/03/org-mode-2/ ====== zackham If you're interested in using org-mode more extensively then this is (imo) the holy grail of customization walkthroughs: <http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html> I scheduled (with org-mode of cou...
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Rethinking the Science of Skin - haltingproblem https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/rethinking-the-science-of-skin ====== DoreenMichele Overall, I'm glad to see this piece proposing a more complex understanding of our largest organ. But some of what is said in this piece aggravates me, like this quote: _Di...
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Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife - jampoole http://www.mealdays.com ====== frantzmiccoli Reading the title, I was sure that feminist trolls will be on a hunt. I am not disappointed ;) Your project could be useful to others, if you want to push it further my advice would be: find a graphic designer (it's n...
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration - ArtWomb https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/september/synthetic-vaccine.html ====== fnord77 would this work for biologic drugs like remicade, humira and the like that require refrigeration? ~~~ EForEndeavour My guess is no, based on this quote f...
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Best programming language(s) for blockchain software technologies? - dlcmh Given that technologies based on C&#x2F;C++ are vulnerable to security exploits, should future blockchain software be written primarily in JVM-based languages? ====== nostrademons JVM is pretty memory-hungry, which isn't ideal for a lot of bloc...
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How to Hire a Great Marketer for Your Company - pw http://blog.mixrank.com/how-to-hire-a-great-marketer-for-your-company ====== dmk23 Great tips and I would definitely add another one: "Make sure your marketer is readily willing to implement automation tools to increase their efficiency". As many new tools, MixRan...
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Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org? - da-bacon http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=5948 ====== ak217 There are plenty of real reasons to dislike Elsevier. Making up hypothetical ones only discredits the OP and adds noise. ------ gwillen I would love to see Elsevier try to shut down the arXiv. That might be the one thing ...
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Forget DTV; FCC now planning "all-IP" phone transition - ojbyrne http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/fcc-plans-for-death-of-circuit-switched-phone-networks.ars ====== ars IP was never designed for real time reliability. If they want a packet switched phone network, fine. But a new protocol, not IP. A p...
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Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007) - mulander http://www.neilconway.org/talks/hacking/ ====== parhamn It's a shame you can't easily add an extensions to most hosted postgres solutions. I hacked on the postgres ltree extension [1] recently, and was amazed at how easy it is to extend functionality of the database...
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Is Microsoft About To Overpay For Skype? - mvs http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/microsoft-skype/ ====== melling Did Google overpay for YouTube? Won't it really come down to how the leverage the product and its hundreds of million users? These types are articles aren't really worth reading.
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Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40 - fuzzix http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age ====== edw519 I love articles like this. It reminds the 99% of us who didn't "hit it big" in our youth that it's never too late. Hopefully someday... "edw519 toiled in obscurity writing software for o...
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What language should I learn? - robinwarren http://jobstractor.com/what-language-should-I-learn/ ====== rwl It would be fun to see the data in the other direction: where should I move if I know...? ------ kabdib Cupertino, CA said "Java" That is very funny. Has someone done the reverse? "All I know is PL/1, FORTRAN...
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Ex-Googlers Create Zizooboats To Make Boating Affordable - lucija_m http://bizzkube.com/whats-hot/ex-googlers-set-up-zizoo-to-make-boating-affordable/ ====== lucija_m What do you think about our website? Feedback much appreciated!
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Getting Started With Screen - jamescarl http://jamescarl.us/blog/getting-started-with-screen/ ====== a3voices I like to use 'screen -rd' because it detaches any existing sessions before connecting. ~~~ jamescarl Cool thanks for the tip. I'll add it to the post do you have a link to a site you'd like me to add? ~~~...
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If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option - rurban https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/GNUGrepForceText ====== gpvos I just looked through the GNU grep history to see when it suddenly started being able to decide halfway through a file that it is binary after all; this is since 16 Septemb...
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PHP RESTful API with an example MySQL database. - karlhadwen https://github.com/karlhadwen/RESTful-API I recently finished a small RESTful API project for a University project and thought it would be good to upload it to Github as an example as to how a RESTful API should function and work, as I know its hard to find...
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Filtrex: A simple JavaScript filter expression compiler - joewalnes https://github.com/joewalnes/filtrex ====== couchand This is really slick. I wonder if it would be useful to build an object model for the filters rather than directly concatenating the code. That would allow for interesting inspection on the parsed e...
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Form Follows Function - A collection of interactive HTML5 experiences - muratmutlu http://fff.cmiscm.com/#!/main ====== sr3d Great collection! It'd be interesting to see more posts on the techniques behind the demos. ------ oboizt So many pretty things! I'm a huge fan of seeing what people can do with HTML5.
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Nasty Bug: Safari doesn’t cache stuff. - prakash http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/04/04/nasty-bug-safari-doesnt-cache-stuff/ ====== aschobel curl -I <http://www.smugmug.com/test/safari/300k.jpg> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:16:43 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Mon, ...
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Salty diet makes you hungry, not thirsty - upen http://exactlyscience.com/archives/12047.html ====== DrScump Blogspam of [https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control- bo...](https://insights.mdc-berlin.de/en/2017/04/mission-control-bodys-salt- water-supplies/) ------ fpoling This may explain why some d...
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Ask HN: Scala technology stack? - drKarl I'm doing some research to define the technology stack I'll be using in my next project.<p>I have a Java background, but I'm interested in expanding my horizons and use the best tools available.<p>I've played with Groovy and Python, and they are nice, but I've also read about...
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Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer - r721 https://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer ====== mtgx > _“It seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is > immune from invasion,” Morgan, Jr. adds. “Indeed, the opposite ...
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Show HN: Need1Hour.com - Please provide feedback - robbiea The site is http://need1hour.com/.. The site was started by Len Kendall (aka the guy who proposed to his wife via buzzfeed.com) and after an initial success, 2 more of us jumped on. Any feedback on the idea, etc would be appreciated. ====== alt_ Clicky: <ht...
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Github: Major Service Outage - nchuhoai http://status.github.com/ ====== nchuhoai That's the first time I have ever experienced this. On a side note: Love their status pages, both the error page as well as status.github.com
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What makes dual-career couples work or not - sarapeyton https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/what-makes-dual-career-couples-work-or-not/ ====== mcv The first important point is to accept that every commitment comes with compromises. Having a job is itself a commitment. So is a relationship. Children are the biggest commi...
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Apple will reportedly introduce 16-inch MacBook Pro as soon as tomorrow - kjhughes https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/12/20962038/apple-macbook-pro-16-inch-release-date-rumor-november-13 ====== listenallyall I own a Sony laptop from 2009 with a 16.4 inch screen (1080p), the difference in readability between that and a m...
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Deaths per unit of energy for various sources - johndcook http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/2e5d4dcc4fb511e0ae0c000255111976/comments/2e70ae944fb511e0ae0c000255111976 ====== ghshephard The sources look good [1] In particular, the deaths as a result of hydroelectric power caught some c...
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Boiling point: redesigning the kettle for the 21st century - heydenberk http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/08/innovators-boiling-point-redesigning-kettle-miito ====== username223 I'm not seeing the point here, especially for $120. If it's fast, you'll end up with an extremely hot metal rod at the end of the...
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Amazon SageMaker – Build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale - irs https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker ====== gk1 This blog post also includes screenshots: [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/) ------ michaelbarton If anyone from AWS is in this forum, ...
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Ask HN: Is Magic Leap just vaporware? - wemdyjreichert ====== lostdog I call it "struggleware." Some of their tech is awesome (as confirmed by friends who have tried it), but they are struggling to solve the final technical issues and get it to market. ------ gvb It's not technically vaporware, it is more like "Duke ...
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Bitcoin.org's Gavin Andresen on Open Source and Escrow - spenvo http://www.bitcoinbulletin.com/2011/04/09/bowling-for-bitcoins-meet-the-trader-05/ ====== kristofferR BitCoin is damn interesting, it has the potential to dramatically change the world. I hope it takes off. I think it will though, since the early adopter...
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How to Start a Startup Video - bvanvugt http://blog.sendwithus.com/how-to-start-a-startup-video/ ====== visha Hello, I'm Visha from Sendwithus. If you have any questions about the blog post or the making of the video let me know :) ------ Attosecond What are some of the biggest technical challenges of creating a vi...
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Peter Thiel on Pitching (2012) - _pius http://blakemasters.com/post/22271192791/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-8-notes-essay ====== beenpoor Useful! Thanks for posting
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Hulu is eliminating its free, ad-supported streaming service - kilink http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/8/12401884/hulu-cancels-free-streaming-move-to-yahoo-view ====== chjohasbrouck A couple years ago I was watching Hulu and noticed the ads always felt like they took much longer to play than they should. I got out my i...
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Why Henry Kissinger Is Wrong That AI Is “How the Enlightenment Ends” - andreyk https://www.skynettoday.com/briefs/kissinger-ai ====== basicplus2 on a slightly different tangent.. if a small group of people successfully develop an AI to sucessfuly perform some task such as driving vehicles.. and it is so successful tha...
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Inbox Zero: How to Keep a Clean Email Inbox (And Mind) - florimondmanca https://blog.florimondmanca.com/inbox-zero-how-to-keep-clean-email-inbox-and-mind ====== icedchai Why archive when I can just leave it in my inbox? Inbox infinity works for me. My personal gmail has almost 20,000 emails. ~~~ adamkruszewski Glad i...
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Figure It the %$&* Out - bearwithclaws http://www.scriptmag.com/features/primetime-juggling-writing-and-a-job-figure-it-out ====== ctdonath One great example is Eminem. Despite the hectic tour/recording schedules and all the, um, perks of being a star, every moment he can he's obsessively scribbling in his notebook. W...
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Why Twitter Deleted Those Tweets - danso http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/why-twitter-deleted-those-tweets ====== CM30 Or in other words, why the DMCA system is broken. Because a company or individual can claim anything is breaking their copyright to get it removed, and the site seemingly has to act regardless o...
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North Korea fires on South Korea – live coverage - JacobIrwin http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/nov/23/north-korea-fires-south-korea ====== rtuck This is coverage from an event last November. While interesting, I'm not sure how it's relevant. Can you provide some context?
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Whitespace - prakash http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ ====== thamer FWIW I made a Whitespace compiler for .NET as an exercise a few years ago. It works with Microsoft .NET and Mono, and emits compiled MSIL code. <http://spacesharp.batard.info/> ------ lt Here's a list of languages in the same vein: [http://en.w...
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5 Reasons KDE Is Better Than Unity - bigmetalman http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/01/5-reasons-why-kde-is-better-than-unity/ ====== javadyan Oh my god, this is so sad. What has the Linux-on-desktop world come to? "You can manage your windows with it" is actually an advantage. On a lighter note, if there is still ho...
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Going underground: who’s behind Berlin’s secret subway bedrooms? - Turukawa http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/mar/20/underground-berlin-secret-subway-bedrooms-airbnb ====== noonespecial _At first, the underground workers who stumbled upon this scene in a disused U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin’s Reinickendorf di...
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IE team member responds to IE9 canvas complaints - kemayo http://blogs.msdn.com/b/giorgio/archive/2011/01/14/building-great-browsers-together.aspx ====== zaatar Disclaimer: I work on the IE9 Team I can't overemphasize the need to submit feedback through the proper channels, namely connect.microsoft.com. We continuo...
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ASK HN: Review my latest deal for web designers - crxnamja http://appsumo.com ====== kadavy I'm thinking about getting this just for the TypeKit sub, but I don't/haven't used the others.
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Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains - laurex https://www.zmescience.com/science/honeybee-brains-alpha-waves/ ====== ajna91 I think many insects are far smarter than we have assumed. Bumblebees can learn to pull a string to receive a reward [1]. But maybe that's just blind conditioning?...
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Ask HN: Ditching iTunes, What's The Alternative? - DigitalSea I just got a Samsung Galaxy S4 and am ditching iTunes. What is the alternative these days to iTunes? I want something that can play a wide ranged of formats including Flac files. I did some Googling, but couldn't really find anything other than poorly ski...
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Systems programming in "scripting" languages - adamsmith http://www.tompinckney.com/2009/10/systems-programming-in-scripting.html ====== kmavm This is an appealing train of thought, but it turns out to be very hard to make this pay off, at least in all the concrete situations I've been able to consider. The reason i...
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Show HN: The Schwalbe Programming Language, a German Dialect of Swift - kiliankoe https://github.com/kiliankoe/schwalbe ====== kiliankoe This originated as a joke in the [SwiftDE]([http://slack.swiftde.net](http://slack.swiftde.net)) Slack. The actual idea was to fork the Swift compiler and replace the keywords with G...
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Show HN: UserInsights – Get 5 minutes of real user feedback - zxlk21e https://userinsights.com ====== spking This has become a really crowded space. UserTesting.com, Validately, Loop11, userzoom, userlytics, etc. As other commenters have alluded to, it really comes down to participant demographic granularity. If I can...
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Pioneer – A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world - golangnews https://pioneer.app/ ====== Jaruzel _We’re building a community of creative young people working on interesting projects around the globe._ YOUNG people?! As a young-minded 40-something, I find this statement offensive. On the basis that I fully i...
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Non programmers reading code (code as documentation) - smokeonline https://github.com/JpOnline/Blog/blob/master/language.md ====== smokeonline This idea passes through BDD, Ubiquitous language, code as documentation and single source of truth. Do you think is possible and desirable to have code so idiomatic that a do...
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Ask HN: Is it realistic to go from zero to freelance rails dev in 3 months? - ebaysucks Hi,<p>Could experienced developers please tell me whether it's realistic to become a productive freelance developer in 3 months of full time study and practice?<p>The goal would be to good enough to bill $25/30 hour on odesk.com ...
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Ask HN: Problems to solve in a post-virus world? - cloudking What are new problems to solve in the aftermath of the Coronavirus? ====== mdorazio I'm with samizdis on this one. Covid is a black swan event. Solving problems unique to it (like toilet paper and ventilator shortages, mass work from home implementation, etd...
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How Intellectuals Create a Public - samclemens http://chronicle.com/article/How-Intellectuals-Create-a/234984 ====== fleitz I think Guy Debord did a much better job finding the fundamental issues that give rise to these phenomena, namely, The Society of the Spectacle, it focuses on much the same dichotomies in a much ...
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Fravia's web-searching lore (2009) - userbinator http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm ====== petra With all the changes in search engines(only Google and bing left, personalization, Google disregarding a lot of your search operators and intent) - do you still find the lore usefull ? ~~~ userbinator I think it's rather s...
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Interview questions, or "Can I work with you?" - stefan_kendall http://www.stefankendall.com/2012/09/can-i-work-with-you.html ====== lccarrasco I'm getting stuck on this paragraph, it seems that it's missing a 'locks','stops working' or something else: "If a customer comes to you and says that occasionally when the...
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Drupal benchmarking with NGINX and Apache - jimmyboyb http://cloudarch.co.uk/2012/10/drupal-benchmarking-apache-nginx-varnish ====== Gazler Surely you are just benchmarking Varnish and Drupal is irrelevant in the equation? The other results are more useful. Interesting to see how little it takes to kill Apache for a...
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From tl;dr to Techcrunch: My Rumble app's story - jeremymcanally http://omgbloglol.com/post/1373695996/from-tl-dr-to-techcrunch-my-rumble-apps-story ====== atomical [http://omgbloglol.com/post/1373695996/from-tl-dr-to- techcrun...](http://omgbloglol.com/post/1373695996/from-tl-dr-to-techcrunch- my-rumble-apps-story)...
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Ask HN: How to start learning JavaScript concepts - gpayal Have been using frameworks like jQuery and AngularJS in multiple applications. But I have felt that I have not been able to understand the core concepts of javascript programming the way it should be understood. I want to learn how to create a JS frontend whic...
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How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories? - jashkenas https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/jobs/nyt-news-applications-developer.html ====== tptacek The irony of this is that it's March 1, and there's a hiring thread on the site today, which is where stuff like this belongs. ~~~ jashkenas Sorry ...
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Shopify Is Joining Twitter in Permanent Work-from-Home Shift - uptown https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/shopify-is-joining-twitter-in-permanent-work-from-home-shift ====== pixxel Companies will make huge savings on office space etc., how much will they be paying to rent a room in our homes? Hear me o...
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Why 'sudo Vim' Could Hurt Your Productivity - robertelder http://blog.robertelder.org/vim-forgets-copy-buffer-on-reopen/ ====== SteveDeFacto I see no reason to ever run vim as sudo. The best option in my opinion is to save files using ":w ! sudo tee %" This way you are not opening your system up to potential exploits ...
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Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development - biscarch http://snapforbeginners.com/ ====== BadassFractal Anybody know of solid super-entry level tutorials for starting Web Development with Haskell with less opinionated libraries like Scotty? Something that shows you how to slap together a solid cabal sandboxed ready-t...
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Ask HN: Best way to generate recurring income - newsisan Looking to learn some new skills and make some money.<p>What do I have the best chance of making real money (say $50/day) with?<p>- Apps: iPhone/Android/WinMo/Ovi/Mac App Store/iPad<p>- Web apps: like most of the things that come up on HN. (Appt Reminder, for ...
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Julian Assange defiant as Sweden drops rope investigation - King_mansur http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39979343 ====== rbanffy "rope"? ;-)
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ShowHN: I built a Reddit.com Realtime mashup - JonathanBouman http://www.scrolldit.com/?r=/new ====== nandemo Cool. Although my first reaction was surprise at how awful the default front page of reddit is (I do use reddit but I don't subscribe to the pic- and meme-heavy subreddits). How about text snippets for the...
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Announcing more functionality to improve customer engagements on Twitter - chmars https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/announcing-more-functionality-to-improve-customer-engagements-on-twitter.html ====== chmars TweetBot – among others – is apparently in trouble: 'After June 19th, 2018, streaming...
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Cyber-libertarianism: Silk Road battleground individualism vs authority - CPAhem http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/stilgherrian-silk-road/4998476 ====== gum_ina_package Is it just me, or does anyone else see not buy into the idea that the Internet is something that's dramatically altering the course of human evo...
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How to know when to break the rules (of design) - chadfowler http://www.6wunderkinder.com/blog/break-rules-to-design-better-products ====== Sujan FYI: You can click the images with the blue plus to open a slideshow that shows what the article actually means.
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