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How WriteWork.com doubled sales & conversions by A/B testing a radical design - paraschopra http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/how-to-increase-online-sales/ ====== robryan It's great how you do these articles, provides some general A/B testing info while also promoting your product. Only negative w...
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The Autocrat's Algorithm: Is Google News helping to spread propaganda? - andreshb http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/19/the_autocrat_s_algorithm ====== ajays One man's "propaganda" is another man's "truth". The author writes, "While few American readers object to getting their news from the BBC, partiall...
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Webkit opera for android - First hands-on video - exterm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgMAPEXUP0 ====== rockdoe Looking at the pictures, those who said it would be a Chrome clone (instead of being based on WebKit) were certainly right. ~~~ exterm looking at the video, they good quite a lot of opera specific fea...
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WiMonitor: Wi-Fi Threat Monitoring Simplified - PenAcad https://www.hackerarsenal.com/collections/frontpage/products/wimonitor ====== jlgaddis That looks extremely similar to some TP-Link MR3020's I got on Amazon for about $15/each. I can't imagine the software is worth that much extra, especially since it's just some...
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Twitter may double character limit from 140 to 280 - smb06 http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/09/twitter_may_double_its_character_limit_freak_out_or_nah.html ====== CamelCaseName Why don't they charge for the privilege? Same with the blue checkmark -- why not charge a monthly fee while keeping th...
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A BuzzFeed investigation: 14 deaths on UK soil linked to the Russian government - lambdadmitry https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-14-suspected-hits-on-british-soil ====== RugnirViking I can almost guarantee the government hasn't 'ignored' these cases as suggested here.
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How to multiply numbers in a column in MySQL - physcab http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/166184 ====== joshu switching to log-space is insanely useful for compounding returns. inside mysql, i used it all the time. for example, perhaps i want to get a sense of the distribution of users; i have a table "users" with colum...
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Ask HN: Git/Github workflow for students and projects. - kbojody Hi Hacker News!<p>Some fellow students and I are trying to introduce other students to git&#x2F;Github and holding seminars has never really worked to get students excited and to start taking advantage of the tool and service. This year we want to try ...
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Twitter Bootstrap Progress Bar - a jQuery Plugin For Multi-Colored Progress Bars - Hirvesh http://geersch.github.com/bootstrap-progressbar/ ====== wedtm I hate to be a scrooge, but Bootstrap already supports multi-colored progress bars: <http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#progress> Check out the "St...
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Encourage 'Dutch reach' to stop cyclists' car-door deaths - matthberg https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/11/encourage-dutch-reach-to-stop-cyclists-car-door-deaths-says-charity ====== armada651 The 'Dutch Reach' isn't universally taught drivers in the Netherlands, I'm Dutch and I've never heard of it bef...
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Why C Arrays Start at Zero: I Don't Know - nkurz http://embedded.fm/blog/2016/2/9/why-c-arrays-start-at-zero ====== jepler eventually, the text loaded. the meat of the article is a link to [http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation- needed/](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/) and the point ...
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The Unsure Artist - grellas http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703807904575097390662423192.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTSecondBucket ====== CoreDumpling This seems to be extremely common among artists and musicians, which I suspect is because their livelihood is tremendously dependent on reputation as it is h...
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Roll a D6: Why is it so hard to tell people you play D&D? - spullara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VJWHL2K3I ====== spicerunner I don't recall any of the girls I played D&D with looking like her... ~~~ Mz Makes me wish I had a high school photo available so you could say whether or not I "looked like her" back i...
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Swiss finance guru sees hard times for the US and the world (2006) - socratees http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/news/business/Dr_Doom_gives_gloomy_economic_forecast.html?siteSect=161&sid=6749727&cKey=1148914435000&ty=st ====== swombat No fucking way? Really? Shit, that's news! Whodathunk? Is there some crisis or someth...
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Is it better to be a private or public company? - MLEnthusiast https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/08/is-it-better-to-be-a-private-or-public-company-right-now/ ====== uberman Other than a big pot of money are there any advantages to being a public company? Off the top of my head I cannot think of any.
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UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’ - owlmusic http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/06/gchq-mass-internet-surveillance-unlawful-court-nsa ====== ch215 The way this same story has been spun by the BBC worries me. You'd think the news line has to be, as the Guardian and others are reporting,...
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Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg - pseudolus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/aaron-sorkin-mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html ====== hannibalhorn > If I’d known you felt that way, I’d have had the Winklevoss twins invent > Facebook. That made me chuckle! ------ viggity Why should we hold Facebook...
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SAP gets serious in predictive analytics: buys KXEN - haiduc http://www.sap.com/news-reader/index.epx?articleID=21521 ====== haiduc The announce from KXEN side: [http://www.kxen.com/News+and+Events/Press+and+News/Press/201...](http://www.kxen.com/News+and+Events/Press+and+News/Press/2013-09-10+SAP+ACQUIRES+KXEN)
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How I learned to stop worrying and love Vim plugins - antipasta http://blog.bugreplay.com/post/149712686514/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-vim?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=blog20160830 ====== ediblenergy Syntastic is awesome, though it can definitely get slow working with larger go projects. ...
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Good design and type safety in Yahtzee - nuriaion http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/good-design-and-type-safety-in-yahtzee/ ====== skybrian Although I don't think it applies in this example, it might be worth pointing out a trade-off: the more constraints you encode into parameter or return types in a API, the more spec...
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Ask HN: First time doing a hackathon, any advice? - jacalulu Hey HN,<p>I'm about to participate in my first ever hackathon this weekend. I've been wanting to do one for a while and am super excited about it, but not sure exactly what to expect.<p>I'm doing it with 3 other friends and our idea is something we are doi...
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The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8 - DarkShikari http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377 ====== cscotta In terms of both raw talent and writing ability, Jason's blog is one of my favorites. You can depend on him for solid analysis, clear thinking, and good writing. This article is worth reading. While I only ha...
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Ask HN: What are you working on this week? - chilicuil What projects are you working on for work or pleasure?<p>Please be descriptive and don’t hesitate to ask for help, advice or other guidance. ====== mindcrime Working on some marketing collateral - specifically a document titled "Working with Fogbeam" that describe...
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On the Insecurity of Whitelists and the Future of Content Security Policy [pdf] - okket https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/de//pubs/archive/45542.pdf ====== sctb Previously: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12408328](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12408328)
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MtGox's Bitcoin price drops to $260 (others at $600+) - austenallred https://www.mtgox.com/trade ====== mappum This is pretty logical. MtGox halted BTC withdrawals because of the transaction malleability issue (which, due to MtGox's poorly made software, let people get their withdrawal payments more than once, leaving...
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Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters - privong https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/neanderthal-teeth-reveal-lead-exposure-and-difficult-winters/ ====== RugnirViking Very interesting that they were getting lead exposure like that from living in caves near lead deposits or drinking contaminat...
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The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness - luu http://danluu.com/empirical-pl ====== michaelochurch First of all, this is one of those where differences within categories are much greater than those between categories. I'd rather work at a principled Python shop than a sloppy Scala shop. I...
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Go programming language secure coding practices guide - rbanffy https://github.com/Checkmarx/Go-SCP ====== tptacek Taking some random samplings of the content, this appears to be mostly rehashed OWASP Wiki content with some random, incomplete Go snippets. The password hashing content is particularly bad (unsurprising,...
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Terraform Plugin to order Dominos Pizza - blacksmythe https://ndmckinley.github.io/terraform-provider-dominos/ ====== Someone Reminds me of _”What do you get if you send this code to a fully equipped LaserWriter type such-and-so”_ from _Stump the Experts_ ([https://en.everybodywiki.com/Stump_the_Experts#Sample_Questi....
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AmazonFresh Has Launched in Bay Area - dko http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2013/12/amazonfresh_has_launched_in_ba.php ====== evmar I tried Google Shopping Express (a similar idea) for a while and found that what really matters is how delivery works. I'm typically at work all day and I (like most San Franciscans?) don...
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Microsoft's search engine way behind Google? Blame the name - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2009/04/08/microsofts-search-engine-way-behind-google-must-be-the-name/ ====== lucumo I'm not sure about the quality of Live Search. I do know that I'm starting to find that Google Search gets increasingly more annoy...
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25 Ideas That Will Shape the 2020s - RickJWagner https://fortune.com/longform/ideas-shape-2020s-tech-economy-markets-ai-health-work-society/ ====== nefitty The ideas: \- Business and government will—gasp!—work together again. \- The new age of economics is dawning. \- A "gold standard" of digital currencies will em...
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How Gen Y is changing the corporate workplace - freshrap6 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-those-spoiled-millennials-will-make-the-workplace-better-for-everyone/2012/08/16/814af692-d5d8-11e1-a0cc-8954acd5f90c_story.html ====== Shenglong One part of this article I want to address is 'respect'. Speaking as a g...
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China's GDP May Be Up to 10 Percent Bigger Than Thought - ekm2 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-15/chinas-gdp-bigger-than-you-think ====== melling Last week China passed the U.S. as the world's largest economy, by at least one measure: [http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-america-is- now...](ht...
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Where else can you show new products other than HN and Product Hunt? - duckwithmuscles ====== mtmail I've seen lists like [https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup](https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup) but I wonder if those pages aren't frequented by other startup founders, thus not necessarily...
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Why hasn't the U.S.P.S. taken over email by now? - winternett Its been ages since the advent of email. Why hasn't the US government transitioned postal service into the Internet age?<p>It would make spoofing accounts, e-mail scams, and possibly most spam a federal offense.<p>Social Networking and other sites would b...
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New tool for secret agents and the rest of us - ChuckMcM http://www.caltech.edu/content/new-tool-secret-agents-and-rest-us ====== tuxidomasx This is really cool technology. I often wish I could be a part of researching and building new cutting-edge technology, but it's usually cost-prohibitive as a solo hobby (unles...
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A simple Forth-like language intended for DSL creation, implemented in Lua - IonoclastBrig https://github.com/IonoclastBrigham/firth ====== IonoclastBrig I wrote a pretty detailed blog article about the motivations and some design aspects of the project. If you want to play with a new little toy, I'd love any (constru...
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Kilombo – Kilobot Simulator in C - amirmasoudabdol http://jic-csb.github.io/kilombo/ ====== brudgers Kilobots are swarming robots. [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html](http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html)
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What do you wish you had done the summer after graduation? - driss I am very passionate about tech and will be joining the valley in late August, but how should I spend my summer? A couple thoughts 1) join an intensive code school 2) travel asia 3) work for a startup in India. Any insight would be greatly appreciate...
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Have random conversations - nathantross http://getstrange.co/notes ====== informatimago Too long to load.
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Algoraves: dancing to algorithms - cjauvin http://boingboing.net/2013/05/11/algoraves-dancing-to-algorith.html ====== evadne Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8> Bubble-sort with Hungarian (“Csángó”) folk dance: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Show HN: Happiness visualization of all countries in near real time - geekodour http://newsmapbyhrishikesh.me/ ====== geekodour It's not very responsive for mobile devices and has some firefox issues, If you can help with the problems in firefox and the synchronous loading of the chart, please let me know, source code...
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Dow Jones Predicted Last Week on Twitter - heidelbergjohn Someone on Twitter correctly predicted the Dow Jones Industrial Average change for each day for all of last week. The Twitter timestamps show that the prediction was made the previous week. The claim is corruption, but there are no details. There is an email ad...
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Introducing Visual Studio for Mac - cududa https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Vk2On-9psscJ:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt790182.aspx+&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ====== lholden A lot of Microsofts recent work has been really interesting if not surprising. Linux support in Windows and Vis...
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Idea: The super simple real-time dashboard. - ggttaa We all know Geckoboard, Leftronics, Ducksboard, etc. All these dashboards are quite complex. They are designed to contain multiple widgets on one screen. I am thinking about creating simpler dashboard, containing only 1-3 the most important widgets on dashboard sc...
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Runcoderun ending private builds - ollysb http://blog.runcoderun.com/post/380299464/runcoderun-returning-to-open-source-only#disqus_thread ====== cracell I don't understand this profit model. ------ jazzychad why, oh why would you link to the comment anchor? please fix?
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Simultaneous Discovery of Vulnerabilities - privong https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/simultaneous_di.html ====== privong > This is not uncommon. It's almost like there's something in the air that > makes a particular vulnerability shallow and easy to discover. It seems as though similar things happen in...
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A simple, open format for taking back publishing - t3mp3st I was one of the creators of Facebook&#x27;s Instant Articles. At that time, I had concerns about the future of publishing; namely, that publishers were struggling to survive whereas networks -- like Facebook -- had too much control over what was being seen an...
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Firefox disabled hardware acceleration on Linux [12-2016] - hedora https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876 ====== hedora I couldn't figure out why the internet was so freaking slow for the last few months, then I stumbled on this. As much as I prefer Firefox over Chromium, lack of OpenGL support essential...
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Argument against Meritocracy. Can equality and hierarchy coexist? [video] - __Joker https://iai.tv/video/against-meritocracy ====== zunzun Would arguments against meritocracy apply to hospital surgeons? ------ java-man let's have less competent make the decisions! what could go wrong?
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Erlang: Pi2 ARM Cluster vs. Xeon VM - signa11 https://medium.com/@pieterjan_m/erlang-pi2-arm-cluster-vs-xeon-vm-40871d35d356#.uj7dm7a5a ====== Aissen It was tried before, with professional ARM server hardware: [http://www.anandtech.com/show/8776/arm-challinging-intel- in-...](http://www.anandtech.com/show/8776/arm-ch...
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Proposal for the HN community: Tor Chat Web App - cpursley HN, in light of the NSA news, we need a Groupme-style anonymous chat web app based on the Tor project or similar.<p>I know of this, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prof7bit&#x2F;TorChat but there&#x27;s no mac client and a web app seems more logical in ter...
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Ask HN: What is a big scale system? - syntex 300k orders a month Is in already a big scale system? If we define that large scale system requires many servers is it possible to handle such amount on single server, and all others solutions which require 10-20 servers on AWS are over over engineered. ====== greenyoda 300...
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Experimenting with creatine - gwern http://careyryan.com/creatine/ ====== pedalpete I don't know much about the tests you took, but isn't it possible that you got better at taking the test, rather than the improvements being from Creatine itself? Would it make sense to continue testing without using Creatine and se...
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Ask HN: Would you pay $10/year for an ad-free Goodreads-like service? - ashreef After Amazon&#x27;s acquisition of Goodreads a lot of people deleted their accounts. if there&#x27;s a similar ad free service, would you pay $10&#x2F;year? a Yes or No is enough ====== FedRegister Yes, if that subscription came with one...
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Ask HN: Strongest way to block distracting sites? - hella Say I'm addicted to HN. How might one block visiting HN, without an easy way to unblock it? ====== roxstar In your hosts file add: 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 other.distracting.site ...etc Windows, Linux, ...
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GitLab 11.2 released with live preview in the Web IDE and Android project import - jbergstroem https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/22/gitlab-11-2-released/ ====== shafiqissani Love the web ide features in this release! ~~~ sytse Thank you, great to hear that! And thanks to Ives from CodeSandbox who made the live preview...
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Why Windows 8 is Fundamentally Flawed - pyrmont http://inqk.net/weblog/2011/719 ====== jinushaun I really don't buy the enterprise v consumer argument when large corporations are buying iPhones and iPads en masse. The iPhone showed that bussinesses are consumers too, so why persist this out-dated dichotomy? ~~~ Len...
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Inuit.css - Another CSS framework - franze http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/ ====== Hipchan Looks nice. But there should be some way to see the source without downloading a zip. Github is an easy answer, something like what the HTML5 Boilerplate or backbone.js does would be even cooler. ~~~ csswizardry Wow, on Hack...
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Reminder: Post Startup School Distributed Open House Happening Now - yurisagalov http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215628409610962086871.0004b0279e5085205064a&msa=0&ll=37.653383,-122.242126&spn=0.935042,1.562805 Come visit any of us in the SF-Bay area!<p>Addmired 555 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto.<p>Aerofs 639 High St, P...
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Second-Chance Med School - dataminer http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/education/edlife/second-chance-med-school.html ====== bkeroack Here's a big, dark secret: being a physician isn't really that hard. Sure, there's a lot to learn. Yes there are some physical techniques that must be mastered (lots if you want to beco...
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Ask HN: What AD networks are there that don't scam people? - speeder Currently my businesses have most of the influx of new clients coming from ad networks...<p>The problem is that I noticed that no matter what I adjust, the flow of new clients keep dropping while my budgets keep getting hungrier and hungrier...<p>And...
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Snacking Hierarchy - jstorimer http://habitformed.com/2012/02/13/snacking-hierarchy ====== mildweed TL;DR: First, I must take a sip of water. Next, I have to eat a serving of vegetables or fruit. Next, I can eat a serving of nuts or more fruit. Last, I am allowed whatever terrible ...
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Skillset that'll get me a remote job if I live overseas: AWS/cloud or webdev? - 9039039 or is there something more in demand than those two?<p>and please don&#x27;t tell me both..i realisticallly have time to only learn one at the moment ====== muzani I feel like AWS/cloud would be more in house, though it's more a tr...
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How to Start Over at 40 - rspivak http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2017/04/start-over-at-40/ ====== SirLJ This guy is all talk, the same thing over and over again...
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Are those who predict 'America is in decline' right this time? - cwan http://www.newsweek.com/id/234965 ====== hga Ignore the subheading " _Declinists have always projected America's imminent demise. For a change, they're onto something._ ", it's not supported by the text, reality, or history, which this author seem...
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Tipu's Tiger - Thevet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu%27s_Tiger ====== dct Also featured in Sharpe's Tiger ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe's_Tiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe's_Tiger)) ------ Camillo I love the British reaction.
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'Quake III Arena' Bots Decide to Stop Fighting After 4-Year Match (2013) - andreasklinger https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/02/quake-iii-arena-bots-reportedly-stop-fighting-after-4-year-match/#5aab55076233 ====== kken So it is a forbes article that is based on an imageboard screenshot. I have seen more rep...
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American consumers prepared to pay more for clean energy - llambda http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/american-consumers-prepared-to-pay-more-for-clean-energy/ ====== consultutah The survey has an altruism bias. While most Americans would be willing to pay extra if they had the extra money, most Americans don't ha...
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Don’t use a programming language for configuration - marbu http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2013/03/10/dont-use-a-programming-language-for-configuration/ ====== kaoD I don't really see the point here. Poor JavaScript code and a meme to support the conclusion? I've successfully used programming languages for con...
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Shopify for user registration - ChicagoEcon Hi fellow HNers. I'm working in a start-up and while we are good web design/UX, we aren't web app geniuses.<p>Especially with the Firesheep debacle in mind, we're looking to see if there's any services out there that will handle user registration and log in for us.<p>Kind ...
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WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion - aestetix https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBGv6szuSB4sMYUcVrR8vQ/preview ====== tux3 >We also hope the public can see that when there are allegations of CA wrongdoing, Mozilla is committed to a fair, transparent and thorough investigation of ...
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F-35 Ejection Seat Fix Delayed to 2018; Pilot Restrictions Continue - the-dude http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/01/08/f-35-ejection-seat-fix-delayed-2018-pilot-restrictions-continue/78519892/ ====== jacquesm Funny how the times have changed. The original 'Skunk Works' project (the XP-80) was designed and ...
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First views of Mars show potential for ESA's new orbiter - zhan_eg http://exploration.esa.int/mars/58594-first-views-of-mars-show-potential-for-esas-new-orbiter/ ====== boznz Really looking forward to the finished products of this mission
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Things I Learned Building The Most Powerful Language Processing Engine - drakaal http://www.xyhd.tv/2013/04/industry-news/things-i-learned-building-the-most-powerful-language-processing-engine-on-the-planet/ ====== gliese1337 Linguists don’t know squat about grammar in modern times. Everything is a verb these d...
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Myers-Briggs types for developers compared to US population - benburwell http://developermedia.com/developer-personalities-audience-brief-report/ ====== mjfl Don't know why this is seen as legitimate. MBTI makes the bad assumption that people that fall on either side of a bell curve (say in terms of extraversion) are ...
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Duke project that turns organic waste into clean water - shum1 http://sanitation.pratt.duke.edu/community-treatment/current-progress ====== shum1 This deserves more attention that it gets. The article on Bill Gates father led me to reading about the Omniprocessor and other similar projects. This project has now spun o...
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The purpose of gamification - DanielRibeiro http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/gamification-purpose-marketing.html#comments ====== citizenkeys Gamification is all about psychology. Here's a good article on the psychology of badges: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328684> . And here's one about achievement design: ...
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Data Downfalls (written by a Facebook Director) - amaranand http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=438715804140 ====== ldayley Is there a public facing link viewable without signing in to Facebook for those of us without an account? ~~~ amaranand Facebook notes doesn't have this functionality, so unfortunately no...
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Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase - aston https://keybase.io/blog/cryptographic-coin-flipping ====== malgorithms I'd be curious if people on HN would want a zero knowledge survey and voting system inside Keybase, and if so, what would it look like? The background: we talk about it sometimes as a solution to...
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Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse - zdw https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse ====== mundo All of the pessimism ("This only worked because Iceland is so small/white/etc, it would never work in the US") in this thread baffles me. Are there a lot of other wildly successful app...
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Reply.com, A Competitor To Zillow Raises $6M - usablecontent http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/04/replycom-a-competitor-to-zillow-raises-6m/ ====== pg Maybe this sounds harsh, but I feel like I can tell just from their logo that they're doomed. ~~~ staunch Their logo could only be more obnoxious if it said "REPLY!!1" in...
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Venetian Cryptography - mr_tyzic https://vcrypto.tonyo.info/venetian_crypto/website/index.php ====== jaclaz If I may, Leon Bat _t_ ista Alberti (with two t's, you have a typo in page [https://vcrypto.tonyo.info/venetian_crypto/website/index.php...](https://vcrypto.tonyo.info/venetian_crypto/website/index.php/palgorith...
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Pentagon admits running secret UFO investigation for five years - okket https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/17/pentagon-admits-running-secret-ufo-investigation-for-five-years ====== okket See also [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940674](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940674)
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Animate.css - mcnabj https://daneden.me/animate/ ====== rhythmvs Yup, that’s a great lib! But it’s plain css, though, not very customizable. Check out this port to Sass, available as a SCSS Compass ruby gem: [https://github.com/Sewdn/animate.scss](https://github.com/Sewdn/animate.scss) ------ quizotic Very Nice!
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10 tips for designing mobile websites - samzzi http://labs.thesedays.com/2010/07/16/10-tips-for-designing-mobile-websites/ ====== svnv Tip 11: don't use flash to display headlines.
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SF Sends Cease-And-Desist To Apps Selling Public Parking Spots - chrisacky http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/23/parking-apps/?ncid=fb&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=fb&utm_content=FaceBook ====== ChuckMcM I would love to have this go to court. If I have just parked my car and am standing there and so...
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Apple at BlackHat: Reopening the “Going Dark” Debate - zdw https://lawfareblog.com/apple-blackhat-reopening-going-dark-debate ====== mtgx Sounds like Apple should ban PINs on iOS sooner rather than later, maybe even starting with the next version.
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Ghostery deploys AI in the fight against ad trackers - newman314 https://www.wired.com/story/ghostery-deploys-ai-in-fight-against-ad-trackers/ ====== camillomiller Wired must have an article template that looks like this: Company X claims breakthrough-level use of AI to do Y and obtain result Z. This is just a pile of...
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Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal - subliminalpanda https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/20/egypt-blocks-signal/ ====== vog With XMPP and federated messaging servers they would have at least working infrastructure within their country. But ... What exactly happened that XMPP lost on mobile phones? What di...
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Show HN: My first Facebook Game built entirely in HTML - LostInTheWoods2 http://apps.facebook.com/armored-titans-pg/?ref=ychn ====== LostInTheWoods2 I originally built this game a year ago and recently decided to update it and put it on Facebook, partly to see how much if any traction the game could get and as a way...
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Ask HN: Is there anything you like about recruiters? - tbanacek ====== ericb \- You can ask hard salary questions beforehand without offending a recruiter. Nothing worse than going through a long process to find out the company expects to pay below-market. \- You can set salary expectations with the recruiter directly...
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Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages - ingve https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages#energy-efficiency-in-programming-languages ====== winter_blue Previous discussion on HN, 3 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289) ------ exabrial I'...
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Ask HN: Is it possible to get into grad school with mediocre grades? - fooandbarify So let's imagine that some hypothetical person is approaching the final year of his or her electrical engineering degree, and the prospect of graduate studies has recently become alluring. If that person does not have very good grade...
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The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication - moonlighter http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-website-authentication/ ====== yread From the first answer > The only (currently practical) way to protect against login interception > (packet sniffing) during login is by using a certificate-b...
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Google Maps will let you share your location with friends and family - JumpCrisscross https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/22/google-maps-now-lets-you-share-your-location-with-friends-and-family-for-a-specific-period-of-time/ ====== jaimex2 Can't help but roll my eyes. Moved from Google Maps (Latitude) to Google Plus (Andr...
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Trash, leather, sleaze: how Gary Green shot New York's punk scene - tintinnabula https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/28/gary-green-photograph-new-york-punk-scene ====== nsajko "The White Noise Supremacists" (1979) by Lester Bangs might be more interesting. [https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/01/05/the-wh...
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Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars - justincormack http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist-banned-revealing-codes-cars ====== moocowduckquack They should try and publish it with the cambridge lot who write the light blue touchpaper blog. [http://www.lightbluetouchpaper....
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Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime - iluxonchik https://iluxonchik.github.io/regular-expression-check-if-number-is-prime/ ====== TimWolla It should be noted that this is not possible with regular expressions in the traditional sense (i.e. regular expressions only matching regular languages): [http://m...
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