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What Raising Money Means To Me - jamesgolick http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2012/09/what-raising-money-means-to-me/ ====== biot TL;DR: Initially raised some money and then reality set in as we didn't have a product. Whoops! This made me learn a handful of lessons about humility and not claiming that you're a big fuc...
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Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used - doener https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067907/google-chrome-apps-end-support-lune-windows-macos-linux ====== crazygringo First of all, this was announced more than 3 years ago, and it _still_ won't happen for another 2.5 years. Second of all, ...
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Dirty Word Searches In iTunes Store Suggested Apps for Disney... - diziet http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/11/15/dirty-word-searches-in-itunes-store-suggested-apps-for-disney-fox-washington-post-and-kids-games/ ====== jtmoulia This must have made a wonderful internal bug report in Apple. Perhaps a profa...
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Others are speaking up about discrimination at Tesla - ameen https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/05/tesla-sexual-harassment-discrimination-engineer-fired ====== thebiglebrewski I am here to say (as a Tesla owner), that I truly hope this kind of behavior is not being tolerated by Tesla. I would hope Elon Mu...
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Ask HN: What is the best online marketing strategy you found? - rokhayakebe Ask HN: What is the best online marketing strategy you found? ====== fallentimes I know everyone is going to describe building something people want or building something that is easy to use or excellent. And this, of course, is the best strat...
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Rethinking CS Education (A. Kay) - cconroy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9c7_8Gp7gI ====== cconroy About once a month for the past 3-4 years I have typed "Alan Kay" into youtube. This has been more valuable than my 85K CS Degree manyfold.
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GCC tiny - ingve http://thinkingeek.com/gcc-tiny/ ====== modulan5 I appreciate the series of articles on Tiny and think they are fine, but I have a few minor points: 1\. Missing “string” types in Tiny?: In Part 8 a “bool” and “string” type were both first introduced. Tiny’s type system was extended with “bool” in Pa...
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Show HN: Google Glass + Tesla Model S = GlassTesla - sahaskatta http://glasstesla.com In case you didn&#x27;t guess, it this app lets Tesla Model S owners interact with their vehicle with Google Glass.<p>Here&#x27;s what it can do:<p>- View vehicle charging status. Start or stop charging via Glass. You can even open ...
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The secret cost of pivoting to video - smacktoward https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/pivot-to-video.php ====== konschubert > But advertisers don’t need publishers: Advertisers long ago realized they > can pay Facebook directly for traffic. That's a very good point. ~~~ gcb0 or "advertisers don't need publishers, ...
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Scientists develop atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing - jonbaer http://phys.org/news/2015-05-scientists-atomic-scale-hardware-natural.html ====== j-pb I think the author means "neural computing" when speaking of "natural computing"... The rest is equally bad. > Unfortunately, conventional fabricati...
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Estimize launches Mergerize.com to crowdsource startup acquisitions - LDrogen http://www.mergerize.com/ ====== mathattack I'm very impressed with Estimize. I wonder about Mergerize - could this be used as a Mosaic [0] whereby investors can defend themselves against inside information claims? If so, they will get lo...
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Using neural nets to recognize handwritten digits - ivoflipse http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html ====== svantana Very well written, and I applaud the effort. But personally I don't care for the "magical" aura that writers tend to give ANNs - to me, they are simply (non-linear) function approximators t...
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Googler v2.9 – Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the Terminal - apjana https://github.com/jarun/googler/releases/tag/v2.9 ====== apjana Features \- Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News \- Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom color \- Open result URLs (or the actual sear...
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This Guy Earned $450K Last Year. And He Hasn't Written a Line of Code - sk2code https://medium.com/@CharlynKeating/if-you-re-an-app-developer-who-isn-t-making-a-decent-living-from-the-app-stores-there-s-someone-ac5082d8de47 ====== brianwawok I mean a basketball player earns 10 million a year without writing code OR b...
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An industry commits suicide and blames us - mariuz http://gwolf.org/blog/industry-commits-suicide-and-blames-us ====== relix The bashing of MP3 in that article is unwarranted. I can't find any decent source, but I'm pretty sure a 192kbps MP3 is indistinguishable from a CD for 99.999% of the people. Especially with t...
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Types of dark pattern - imartin2k https://darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern ====== wiz21c I always wonder : are they people paid to actually ask programmers to implement that (obviously, yes) and who think that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do ? Second question : is this socially acceptable or is it just me ...
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Uncommon Schools Network Closes the Achievement Gap - tokenadult http://www.uncommonschools.org/results ====== tokenadult Statistical analysis report by independent researchers: [http://www.mathematica- mpr.com/publications/PDFs/education/s...](http://www.mathematica- mpr.com/publications/PDFs/education/student_ach...
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Show HN: Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress - zupreme http://www.hn2.co/ ====== michaelmartin Doesn't seem to work at all on Chrome for Mac. Just seeing a single black line down the page. It's fine for a test product to not support all browsers, but I think that at the very least, the most up-to-date version of ...
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Ask HN: Open Source project (Python) - afeezaziz Hi,<p>I am interested in contributing to open source projects that are using Python.<p>I never contributed to open source project before but I would like to start now. Nevertheless, I know that there are a lot of libraries and frameworks in Python so I am not interest...
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Ask HN: HN for medicine students or doctors - csomar Hi Fellow HNers, I'm looking for a discussion forum like HN (quality and also quantity) about medicine. I have been looking for a while but failed to find out.<p>Please post what you know is worthwhile. Thanks. ====== itg the only active site I can think of is stu...
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More Americans Watched the Total Solar Eclipse Than the Super Bowl - louismg http://www.iflscience.com/space/more-americans-watched-the-total-solar-eclipse-than-the-super-bowl/ ====== tbirrell If the Super Bowl had automatically turned on in every television in the nation and only happened like 3 times a century, I'm ...
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One-hour Project: really fast timer - elitheeli It's taken me all four years of college to realize that my productivity and interest usually tail off after about an hour of distraction-free work. Lacking time to do a weekend project, I threw something together in under an hour.<p>Your turn to make something marginal...
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“Currently, it is not possible to add an SSL certificate to your site.” - eliyak https://www.wix.com/support/html5/article/request-adding-an-ssl-certificate-https-to-your-site ====== kevinmitnick WIX is not supporting SSL Certificate, thats the reason and there is no option to Add it.
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NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed - shahryc http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/us-stuxnet-cyber-attack-north-korea-failure ====== Zirro "...imposing further sanctions on North Korea, which he said was “not even close” to taking steps to end its nuclear programme." North...
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SaaS-Founder and not Good at Math? Go learn it. - grexi http://usersnap.com/blog/3-tips-for-saas-startups ====== JRFuentes7 I found this interesting: "this advice is printed on real paper and motivates us to eliminate our weak spot every single day." Does this ever work against you in terms of demoralizing your team...
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Becker - Posner advocating eliminating of software patents - EGreg http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/07//on-reforming-the-patent-system-becker.html ====== EGreg "In narrowing the type of innovations that are patentable, one can start by eliminating the patenting of software. Disputes over software patents are a...
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Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors - nabla9 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/qatar-air-conditioning-temperature-weather-heat-climate-change-athletics-world-cup-a9160751.html ====== bronzeage The irony is that the big winners of fossil fuels, which are all the arabic count...
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Singapore-based Newkia wants to bring Nokia back - wiradikusuma http://asia.cnet.com/singapore-based-newkia-wants-to-bring-nokia-back-62222296.htm ====== iamshs This is pure desperation and raking nationalistic fire by the CEO of newkia. The name sounds like a generic Chinese knockoff of Nokia, and they started the ...
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Show HN: WebLooper, a simple loop station powered by Web Audio and WebRTC - mardurhack http://weblooper.hackandstack.com/?from=hn#main ====== mardurhack Hello everybody, This is the (old, made 2.5 years ago) application I implemented for my BSc thesis called "WebLooper". It aims at simulating a loop station like t...
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Some of the API calls for Fifa World Cup 2014 - alpartar https://gist.github.com/paganre/83b3470c79476510f47a ====== crazypyro Watch out for the terms. I believe this is technically illegal access of information, considering the terms state it should only be used by Fifa website and app.
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Could one's heartbeat authenticate and authorize mobile payments? - jkalkbrenner http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/06/apple-patent-applications-heartbeat-biometrics-multidimensional-dashboard-widgets/ ====== carbocation Your EKG waveform, which is discussed in the patent application, is a much more likely candidate f...
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Who Controls Diners’ Data? OpenTable Moves to Assert Control - drkimball https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-controls-diners-data-opentable-moves-to-assert-control-11552644121 ====== luckylion non-paywalled: [https://outline.com/fMSNSn](https://outline.com/fMSNSn)
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The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ - diafygi https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html ====== DrScump [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10878...
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GiftPush: Send promotional gifts to your customers with a tweet - gpl1 http://www.giftpush.com/ ====== kmfrk I love this concept. For a while, I've thought about a solution to reward customers or users - for instance, people who report bugs - without the need for having access to their personal information. This mi...
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Deconstructing Corporate Culture to Find Microsoft's Soul - ableal http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2461205,00.asp ====== ableal (I'll indulge myself with a note excerpting some bits) """ [...] The Stages of Employment SURVIVAL STAGE. When first hired, this is critical. If you cannot last a week because you ...
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Cheap computer for programmers - bullian https://medium.com/@boltmick1/computer-to-program-e91b1dc1c6c9 ====== masonic The vast majority of this submitter's submissions, including this one, are just lists of items with Amazon affiliate links.
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Introducing the Computer of 2010 (2000) - russell http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0821/087_print.html ====== Gimbal "Electrons remain, doing everything they do best (switching), while photons do what they do best (traveling very, very fast)." - brilliant, no? ~~~ jganetsk This is the way things work now. Electrons ...
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The security of the most popular programming languages - thaumasiotes http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16694 ====== sanderjd What I found most striking about this article was how different the industry it is talking about seems to be from the one I've been working in. In their industry, Java, .Net and ASP...
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Hyper-Matrix (moving wall) at 2012 Yeosu Expo - smn http://vimeo.com/46857169 ====== smn Making of the hyper wall: <http://vimeo.com/48285842>
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China’s Didi Invests in Taxify, an Uber Rival Operating in Europe and Africa - yasinaydin https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/chinas-didi-invests-in-taxify/ ====== yasinaydin Link for the official blog: [https://blog.taxify.eu/2017/08/taxify-partnering- with-didi-c...](https://blog.taxify.eu/2017/08/taxify-partnering-wi...
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These are the real Stack Overflow trends: Use the pageviews - fhoffa https://medium.com/@hoffa/these-are-the-real-stack-overflow-trends-use-the-pageviews-c439903cd1a ====== fhoffa Previous discussion: When Stack Overflow introduced the trends tool (May 2017). \- [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299731](https:/...
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Scheme Is Love - apotheon http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163729.aspx ====== dkarl An utterly commonplace article in itself, but to see this written by Don Box is surreal. ~~~ profquail I'd never heard of him before, so I looked him up: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Box> I did like the article though...
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Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes - danicgross Hi HN,<p>Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aigrant.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aigrant.org</a>). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strin...
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How Ajit Pai’s Plan Threatens Small-Town America - cdransf https://backchannel.com/how-ajit-pais-plan-threatens-small-town-america-c63fbd535160?source=rss----d16afa0ae7c---4 ====== I_am_neo A free and open internet, threatens only those who do not support free and open speech. I cannot conceive of any other tiered re...
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Chicago Police Bust Alleged Car2Go Theft Ring, with Up to 100 Vehicles Stolen - admn2 https://gizmodo.com/chicago-police-bust-alleged-car2go-theft-ring-with-up-1834127023 ====== admn2 This hasn't gotten too much attention on here, nor has Car2go released any details. They have said it wasn't "hacking" per se, so I ass...
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The ghost moose, the drone and the search for a winter-tick cure - pera https://thenarwhal.ca/ghost-moose-drone-search-for-a-winter-tick-cure/ ====== pvaldes You must choose, predators or parasites. Is always the same. You don't allow predators to clean the populations, you will have parasites and diseases. Either on...
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Internet companies should resist the way of telephone companies on surveillance - anjalimullany http://qz.com/93501/internet-companies-should-resist-going-the-way-of-telephone-companies-on-surveillance/ ====== j2d3 no
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How dangerous is a wet server room floor - kmfrk http://serverfault.com/questions/327738/how-dangerous-is-a-wet-server-room-floor ====== holograham Reading the title I thought it was going to be some satirical article. ~~~ cas I can imagine next week someone will be posting 'How dangerous is a small smouldering fir...
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Search Engines are Parasites - mroman http://www.searchengineblog.com/interviews/interview_ralph_tegtmeier.htm ====== krakensden This guy is selling software that generates "topical fillertext related to your targeted keywords and search phrases, implementing predefined keyword densities, randomized page description...
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Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? Obama Has an App for That - stfu http://www.propublica.org/article/is-your-neighbor-a-democrat-obama-has-an-app-for-that ====== enraged_camel >> Asked about the privacy aspects of the new app, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign wrote that "anyone familiar with the political process in...
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2-colors gradients generator - giancarlosgza https://www.colorffy.com/generator/gradients ====== giancarlosgza hi there!
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How banks are using blockchain - charliejrgower https://blockchain.works-hub.com/blog/Which-Major-Banks-Have-Adopted-or-Are-Adopting-the-Blockchain- ====== block_chain_ Interesting that Goldman are one of the few banks to create a site explaining the technology fully...
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How Well Intentioned Lawyers from a Top 20 Firm Almost Ruined My Startup - MediaSquirrel http://mattmireles.com/blog/the-importance-of-lawyers/ ====== conorh Orrick has a very useful set of documents to help you do things the right way - [http://www.orrick.com/practices/emerging- companies/startup-f...](http://www.o...
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Semiconductor Fabs Still Operational in Wuhan - rajnathani https://technode.com/2020/02/12/what-industry-cant-stop-semiconductors/ ====== rajnathani A noteworthy point: > Fabs are the cleanest places around, so they should know what they are doing > when it comes to prevention.
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Twitter Not Denying Facebook Acquisition Rumors - domino http://www.lockergnome.com/social/2011/02/14/twitter-not-denying-facebook-acquisition-rumors/ ====== profitbaron A Facebook acquisition makes sense because, if Facebook wants to be the centre of all of social interactions on the web or at least control them then...
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Ask HN: How to best help a youngster who's tinkering to proper SaaS programming? - anexprogrammer A friend&#x27;s son is learning programming and he&#x27;s asking me for ideas. He&#x27;s nearing 18 and progressed via Minecraft to some python and PHP on a Raspberry Pi, and his PC now has Ubuntu. Not quite sure how he g...
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Why the EC2 Outage Might Have Killed Amazon’s Shot at PaaS Dominance - jernst http://upon2020.com/2011/04/why-the-ec2-outage-might-have-killed-amazons-shot-at-paas-dominance/ ====== edw A lot of words that can be boiled down to this: Cloud service providers are going to be forced to compete on operational excellence...
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BlackBerry move to embrace Android may bring unexpected reward - mmrasheed http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/06/13/us-blackberry-google-android-idINKBN0OS2G820150613 ====== mmrasheed The phrase "unexpected reward" sounds sarcastic and the move of Blackberry seems the final nail in its coffin. Why does the world nee...
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One wolf's migration across Europe - lelf http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/aug/08/slavc-wolf-migration-europe ====== miahi This reminds me of an anecdote from a local (European) telco: A customer called the customer support line because their monthly invoice was way higher than in the previous mon...
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Trans-Pacific Hawaiki cable secures US landing site - mwilcox http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1311/S00505/hawaiki-secures-us-landing-site.htm ====== alexforster 20 terabits/second [http://hawaikicable.co.nz/index.php/network](http://hawaikicable.co.nz/index.php/network) ~~~ lostlogin Hmm - it tells me to get flas...
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Show HN: Web App to Send and Manage Offers to Your Clients - hkanaktas https://dytto.co/?source=hackernews ====== hkanaktas Hey everyone! Thanks for checking out my first product. If you have any questions or comments, you can post them here, or you can find me on Twitter as @hkanaktas. I appreciate any feedback. ~~~...
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Apply HN: Kohapp – Helping friends hangout without the hassle - manishk We are trying to make it easy for friends to hangout with each other and have fun. There are various instances where we decide to hangout with our friends but face the following problems in doing so:<p>- Long calls&#x2F;texts&#x2F;chats to decide ...
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Ask HN: Embedded Software Test Automation Platforms - 11thEarlOfMar We are planning to automate the software testing for a catalog of embedded controllers. There are about 30 different versions. Wondering if any HN&#x27;ers have experience with and opinions about such tools:<p>Requirements:<p>- The controllers run QNX...
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Apple = God? - sokrates http://clarkware.com/blog/2011/1/10/trackpro This is just ridiculous. Scroll down to the rejections. This is probably not the first and only article in this tone. Do all devs see apple as a kind of "jurisdiction", a vis major? Is a rejection of your app an act of nature that you have to bow un...
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Yet another Authentication in Phoenix - ck3g http://whatdidilearn.info/2018/02/18/authentication-in-phoenix.html ====== karmakaze GitHub project has no description and the README is Phoenix generic. What is Prater and why should it be used instead of another solution. ~~~ ck3g You are right, I need to update the read...
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Show HN: Flask-Ask – Amazon Echo Development in Python - johnwheeler https://johnwheeler.org/flask-ask ====== johnwheeler Hi Everybody! For the last month I've been working on a Flask extension called Flask-Ask I want to shamelessly plug. The "Ask" part stands for the "Alexa Skills Kit", which is the service behind t...
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Demand for sand is killing rivers in Africa - Red_Tarsius http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41123284 ====== payne92 Demand for sand (for concrete) is killing rivers... _in Africa_ In the US, dredging rivers or land near a waterway is pretty restricted. Sand is typically mined from open pits, see: [https://en.wikipedia...
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Ask HN: Any great programming books in text file format? - breck Someone in Africa emailed me asking for good books on programming. I sent him some as PDFs, but he said he can only get text files. Can anyone help me out? If so please provide links or email me some text files to breck7@gmail.com. Thanks! ====== mjdn ...
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Ask HN: What phone systems do you use for your business? - nixme - Consumer-style services like Google Voice or Skype?<p>- Small business hardware solutions like Avaya Partner ACS?<p>- Enterprisey hardware/software combos like Cisco CallManager?<p>- Hosted VOIP vs. in-house hardware?<p>What are your likes, dislikes,...
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Why Angular Made Me Quit Web Dev - setra https://medium.com/@TobyMerk/why-angular-made-me-quit-web-dev-f63b83a157af ====== TheChaplain I quite like Angular, it's a bit lite Django with batteries included. Very organized, TypeScript(!), reusable components, easy to write tests, create models, call Rest end-points for d...
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Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts, a social CRM for hackers? - bdclimber14 I've become overwhelmed with contacts and networks from conferences, happy hours, etc. What do other hackers use to manage this and work relationships? ====== thinkalone I would look through the "CRM" results on SearchYC - <http://searc...
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GoCircuit: Simple language-agnostic cluster programming - whatupdave https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit ====== eikenberry Gophercon talk: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2VaXnRhob0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2VaXnRhob0) Gophercon slides: [https://github.com/gophercon/2014-talks/blob/master/petar- ma...](...
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How does a dishwasher work? GoPro goes for a spin - duvok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjcyUjXwH_4 ====== zatkin I'm not sure how this is relevant to Hacker News.
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Musk Declares Tesla Free of Factory Hell with Targets Intact - prostoalex http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/musk-declares-tesla-free-from-factory-hell-with-targets-intact ====== mikeash It certainly was interesting to see reactions to Tesla's announcement of last quarter's production and sales numbers....
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The Brain on Trial - sajid http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/ ====== tokenadult From the article, referring to recidivism rates in sex crimes: "But among the strongest predictors of recidivism are prior sexual offenses and sexual interest in children. When you compare the predic...
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Solidcoin, fork of cryptocurrency Bitcoin, launched this week - encrypop http://solidcoin.info/ ====== encrypop Also interesting: <http://solidcoin.kicks-ass.org/graphs/graphs.html> network graphs, showing 600+ GH/s network speed today ------ Egregore What are advantages of Solidcoin vs Bitcoin?
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Bufferbloat and other Internet challenges - edwintorok http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=6886125 ====== dtaht I guess no one reads Vint Cerf anymore. Sigh.
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Sony’s touchscreen projector technology feels like the future of interactivity - xbmcuser http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/12/14899804/sony-touchscreen-projector-display-prototype-sxsw-2017 ====== qbfqhfhqfbh i saw a demo of a projector+camera based system like this in the 90s! the system was capable of projecting resul...
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I Trained an AI to Write My Video Essays - blindseer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FviKrk1HJTM ====== blindseer This is not my original content, but I thought it was fascinating and well worth discussing on HN.
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First Blood Test to Diagnose Depression in Adults? - nkurz http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/09/first-blood-test-to-diagnose-depression-in-adults.html ====== gwern Coyne's "How to critique claims of a “blood test for depression”" [http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2014/09/25/critique- claim...](http...
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Celery 3.0 has been released - KenCochrane http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/whatsnew-3.0.html ====== Herbert2 Just wanted to say thanks to Ask for Celery. Absolutely fantastic for distributed systems. ------ rwhitman I like the Autechre album based version naming convention ------ bryanh Celery is one of th...
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The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack - neilwillgettoit http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-that-resulte ====== kijin Why does Google allow the hacker and the account owner to keep resetting passwords in rapid succession? The timeline indicates that two lengthy ping- p...
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Analyzing XKCD: Click and Drag - malloc47 http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2012/09/analyzing-xkcd-click-and-drag.html ====== bjarkijonasson "If Randall spent, on average, one hour drawing each frame, it would take him 9.375 days of constant, nonstop work to finish this. If he instead spent an average of 10 minutes pe...
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Thought Ocean offers a solution to the community degredation / dilution problem - tprice7 http://www.thoughtocean.com/what/dilution ====== tprice7 also see: <http://www.thoughtocean.com/what/biggeridea> ------ wmf So basically Advogato 2.0? ~~~ tprice7 This is the first I've heard of Advogato. They are similar to ...
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Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years - newacc http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/10/27/27readwriteweb-googles-eric-schmidt-on-what-the-web-will-l-68067.html ====== DanielStraight So far, I've yet to see any accurate popular prediction about technology. I see no reason to belie...
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High school student near Seattle builds coronavirus data website - mdturnerphys https://www.geekwire.com/2020/high-school-student-near-seattle-builds-website-serve-leading-place-coronavirus-information/ ====== mdturnerphys The website is [https://ncov2019.live/](https://ncov2019.live/). Looks like he submitted it on H...
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Show HN: Zip – Make “staying informed” effortless, reliable, and fun - tjs8rj http://www.zipnews.io ====== tjs8rj I made Zip to take the amorphous and cloudy concept of "staying informed" (especially during these last few months of rapid, world-changing developments) and turning it into an effortless, clearly defined ...
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Show HN: Open sourcing nearby.lk data models library - vpj http://vpj.github.io/models.html ====== avail I see a whole lot of nothing on that page, Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Mobile build 14327 ~~~ vpj fixed it, thanks ------ fiatjaf I can't open [http://www.nearby.lk/](http://www.nearby.lk/) to know what is about...
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RJSON: compress JSON to JSON - dogada http://www.cliws.com/e/06pogA9VwXylo_GknPEeFA/ ====== ZenPsycho I see a pretty major problem with this. It seems to depend on the order of key value pairs in object literals being defined. The order is not defined by the JSON or the ecmascript standards. So you can't really depe...
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Mobile Apps: HTML5 vs Native - ct http://www.ericsink.com/entries/html5_vs_native_apps.html ====== logn Native apps are better, sure. But as a developer, do you really like porting apps and maintaining duplicate code? I'd rather invest my efforts in CSS styling HTML 5 to get a very nice looking interface than mainta...
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Innaptics: See what people do in your app with visual screen flows and heatmaps - thecupisblue http://inapptics.com/?ref=hackernews ====== thecupisblue Heard about this pre-launch, now it's finally out. Pretty amazing, it's a whole new way of looking at mobile analytics and showing you what your users do in your mobil...
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Now Open – AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region - hnrc https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-europe-stockholm-region/ ====== oskari We've just added support for the new region in our Aiven DBaaS platform. You can launch managed Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL & other clusters in AWS Stockholm at [https://aiven.io/](http...
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Rectal Marijuana Is More Effective Than Smoking Joints: Doctor - daredave http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/05/rectal-marijuana_n_15178784.html ====== nthcolumn "For all the good it'll do me may as well shove it up my arse" Renton - Trainspotting ------ M_Grey ...I'll pass, thanks. It sounds like sub-lingual would...
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Ganeti: cluster virtual server management tool from Google - scorchin http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ ====== Bleys The project lead gave a presentation at ICFP 2010 (because the project uses Haskell for some of the key algorithmic portions). The associated PDF is here: <http://k1024.org/~iusty/papers/icfp10-haskell...
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I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not declining - bozho http://techblog.bozho.net/i-stopped-contributing-to-stackoverflow-but-its-not-declining/ ====== bryanlarsen Stackoverflow works great for me, and I don't know why more people don't appear to use it like I do. 1) When you've got a problem, Google ...
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Machine Teaching: Building Machine Learning Systems - bhattisatish https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06742 ====== she1991 I did a small UX/MVP experiment on this idea some time ago - basically a human in the loop ML model fine tuning. [http://akash.me/interactive_ml](http://akash.me/interactive_ml) ------ AlexCoventry Anyo...
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Climate Slowdown Means Extreme Rates of Warming 'Not as Likely' - rpm4321 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023 ====== rayiner The thing that really put climate change in perspective for me was when a professor pointed out that the last ice age was just 4-5C colder than today, but that meant that th...
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Data Showing Increasing Shift to Nvidia and Intel from AMD - boxerbk https://blog.parsec.tv/nvidia-and-intel-are-increasingly-dominant-in-gaming-hardware-since-pascal-and-skylake-releases-5a8d216564cd#.vhhgx0h0w ====== boxerbk What do you guys think is driving these shifting behavior? Do you think it's actually the Sk...
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Elon Musk Races to Exit Tesla’s ‘Production Hell’ - jedwhite https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-races-to-exit-teslas-production-hell-1530149814 ====== sheepdestroyer paywalled ; is there a workaround? ~~~ jedwhite Outlined link: [https://outline.com/5CcYvM](https://outline.com/5CcYvM) ~~~ Predible Its not the s...
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The End of Wall Street's Boom - naish http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom ====== davi 1) Click through, read, upvote post. 2) Look at comments to see what HN denizens have said. See post is a duplicate. Upvote comment noting that. 3) Think to myself...
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