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How long until Facebook acquires kickstarter? - clef ...and does it make sense that they would? ====== bredman I feel like they have to stop at some point but I agree this would make much more sense than something like Oculus Rift. I can imagine lots of great ways to integrate this into Facebook. ------ anigbrowl Y...
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Teaching and Learning with Jupyter (A book by Jupyter for Education) - westurner https://jupyter4edu.github.io/jupyter-edu-book/ ====== dsblank Still under heavy development, but already useful. Add we accept Pull Requests to add items or fix issues. Join us! ~~~ ontouchstart A small suggestion. Since Jupyter Notebo...
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Automakers: Don't Ask Customers What They Want - csours http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a12469411/dont-ask-november-2017/ ====== theluketaylor I listen to a few different screenwriting podcasts and one of the most fascinating parts is the studio note process. Writers submit scripts and then studio execs make n...
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How Peter Thiel Hunts Heads - fatveesh http://www.rockingchairllc.com/blog/howpeterthielhuntsheadsseedownloadbelow ====== Tzunamitom Dealt with these guys over a position at Palantir. They're a cut above your average headhunters, but they're recruitment consultants nonetheless. Starting from a position of presumed B...
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Essential services your startup should use (especially if you’re bootstrapped) - limedaring http://blog.limedaring.com/essential-services-your-startup-should-use-especially-if-youre-bootstrapped ====== rwhitman I just checked out WeddingLovely from your blog post. I got married a few months ago and also did advisory...
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We are living in instant messenger hell - pmlnr https://petermolnar.net/instant-messenger-hell/ ====== edhelas Hey :) Did you tried modern XMPP clients like Conversations, Dino and Movim (I'm the maintainer of this one)?
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Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar - robin_reala https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/scrollbars/ ====== jvzr I am of the opinion that you should not mess with my scrollbars. I like them to be visible and wide, because (a) I like to know a page's length and my current progress, and (b) I'm a bit blind and I don't want ...
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes - old-gregg https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/ ====== ranrotx AWS employee here--thoughts and opinions are my own. Prior to AWS, I was in IT Operations at a large financial services company. I saw the writing on the wall that over time, companies would not want ...
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Self-Control and Peer Groups: "The ability to resist temptation is contagious" - cwan http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/self-control_and_peer_groups.php ====== pasbesoin Makes me think of the comparisons people are constantly performing. If you see someone else exert self-control, you can do so while your inher...
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In Graphics: Supercomputing Superpowers - marklittlewood http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10187248.stm ====== Keyframe I just watched this the other day - <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kobkqAicU> Cray-1 Supercomputer 30th Anniversary. I would give up my career and turn it around if given a chance to work in...
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Google: Expect 18 Android Phones By Year’s End - mjfern http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/google-expect-18-android-phones-by-years-end/ ====== mdasen I really hope these devices give Apple a run for their money. As of now, the iPhone is quickly becoming the Windows of the mobile phone world in that application ...
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The Real Reason “Stupid” Startups Raise So Much Money - ASquare http://www.nirandfar.com/2014/12/stupid-startups.html?source=HackerNews&referrer=@anujadhiya ====== graycat > Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest An easier reason: They get a lot of eyeballs. ~~~ ASquare Getting eyeballs is one thing - keeping...
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The Point of Laziness in Programing Languages - gus_massa http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/the-real-point-of-laziness/ ====== ScottBurson _variables in a lazy language range over computations, including the non- terminating computation, whereas in a strict language they range only over values_ This i...
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Show HN: Kixker – The social soccer news app (curated by r/soccer community) - haile I am a huge soccer fan, but nowadays I could rarely find the time to go from web to web to read soccer news and watch highlights.<p>Recently, I&#x27;ve found the reddit r&#x2F;soccer community (~400k redditors) to be a great source fo...
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How “cell tower dumps” caught the High Country Bandits, and why it matters - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/how-cell-tower-dumps-caught-the-high-country-bandits-and-why-it-matters/ ====== phurley I have a real issue with the current NSA practices and with much of the government surveillance atti...
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New hire cannon fodder - raju http://skepticalmethodologist.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/new-hire-cannon-fodder/ ====== gruseom My lord. How can anything manage to be this incoherent, ignorant, dysfunctional, and personally ugly all at the same time? It's almost like a genuine design achievement. This meme of "Paul Graha...
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CME gave high-frequency traders peek, lawsuit claims - mcphilip http://m.futuresmag.com/2014/04/13/cme-gave-high-frequency-traders-peek-lawsuit-claim ====== lauradhamilton It's unclear what the specific allegation is here. The HFT's definitely can see the orders before the person entering the order "received confir...
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Reader’s Digest Files for Bankruptcy Protection - newacc http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ap2Z7NIpu7GY ====== jacquesm <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768931>
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Electric truck startup Rivian raises $1.3B more to challenge Tesla - pseudolus https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/12/electric-truck-startup-rivian-raises-1-3-billion-more-to-challenge-tesla/ ====== sunstone Well the CyberTruck response has validated the market and market surveys indicate that the major alternative play...
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Calculus Series: A Technique to Replace Substitution and Integration by Parts - lizwr https://mathvault.ca/integration-overshooting-method ====== gus_massa The title is overoptimistic. This only work if you have a good understanding of the of the function to have a good enough guess of the integral. There are many in...
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Ask HN: Review this startup idea we are discussing - ziggystardust Tl;dr : We have a idea to build a platform where people can connect and get paid to have meaningful conversations. Roast this idea in the comments section.<p>Long version: Me and a colleague have been brainstorming this idea to build a platform where ...
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Q: How best to populate a new site? - redcherry I've posted something similar on Reddit - but didn't get very far (most of the responses degenerated into a joke, but that's probably because my example was about a dating site)<p>And, I saw a similar post here on HN which leads to the OP's blog at http://startupblog.w...
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Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest - ekm2 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130325111154.htm#.UVGlgwZ7pk0.twitter ====== claudius arXiv preprints at [0,1]. While interesting results, this is by no means groundbreaking work, and as long as we don’t understand the relation between gravity a...
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Ask HN: Legalities of developing "worthless" ideas on company time? - Tichy Does the law agree that ideas are worthless? Suppose while working for a company I have an idea for a great product. I quit and build the product - what does the company own, if anything?<p>What if I made drawings of the idea, or created a b...
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Building the Next Generation of Mobile Web Apps - tomdale http://jtaby.com/2011/07/01/the-next-generation-of-mobile-web-apps.html ====== jonsmock All of these arguments are the same arguments you need to think through when determining whether to make a web app vs. a native app on the desktop. They're identical, beca...
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New App Tells Which Stephen King Novels You Will Like - jkuria https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-stephen-king-novels-are-you-most-likely-to-like-a-new-app-will-tell-you-1528801200 ====== mlthoughts2018 Cool, I like It.
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C++0x Final Committee Draft Approved - EricBurnett http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/trip-report-march-2010-iso-c-standards-meeting/ ====== jrockway One thing I didn't realize until now is that the "0x" is not some reference to 0x1234568, but rather, it was supposed to be the last two digits of some year be...
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Introducing Firefox 3D View for Developers - DanielRibeiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zqHV625EU3E ====== wxl I'm pretty sure this has been out for a while, right? Regardless, it's kinda neat. But it's more of a gimmicky thing to me. More of a "Hey look at this I can view websites in 3D!" ...
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Every Company Should Have a Mental Health Policy – Ours - mwetzler https://blog.keen.io/why-every-company-should-have-a-mental-health-policy-91393d4cd235?s=mw2 ====== Torwald > Recent data from a survey conducted by Open Sourcing Mental Illness (2016) > suggests 51% of individuals in the tech community have been diag...
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Senator Leahy Kills Patent Reform (For Now) - _stephan https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/senator-leahy-kills-patent-reform-now ====== rayiner ArsTechnica has a writeup with less . . . editorializing: [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/gridlock- strikes-...](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/gri...
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A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result - danso https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workweek-new-zealand.html ====== merricksb Discussed two days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569391](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569391) ------ NeedMoreTea The UK tried an ex...
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Distributed in Memory Cache for .Net - efaruk https://github.com/efaruk/yakari ====== efaruk This is global help call...
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Browserify v2 released - substack http://browserify.org/announcing_browserify_v2 ====== freeman478 For front end dev, is there a reason to prefer this over requirejs ? ~~~ irickt Clean syntax. Minimum excess download. Use it if you want to deliver your js in one bundle. ~~~ freeman478 Thanks ! ------ sergiotapia...
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Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year? - iamelgringo I'm curious to find out what grads from CS programs are getting offered. The last post by Spolsky seemed to say that MSFT is offering starting salaries close to 6 figures.<p>s this accurate? Can anyone corroborate? If you're graduating and ...
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Why isn't there a Steve Jobs of social networking? - techaddict009 http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57603009-71/why-isnt-there-a-steve-jobs-of-social-networking/ ====== bradleyland This is such a ridiculous premise. Why should the entirety of the tech business universe fit in to the Microsoft vs Apple dichotomy? I...
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Ideas Are Cheap, Building is Hard: Daniel Burka - erin_bury http://sprouter.com/blog/ideas-are-cheap-building-is-hard/ ====== zwieback And selling/monetizing stuff is even harder.
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Twitter clarifies special rules for tweets by world leaders like Trump - JaimeThompson https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/trump-tweets-will-get-warning-labels-if-they-break-rules-twitter-says/ ====== gtirloni This looks like a pretty nice solution to the problem. ------ tropo A better rule would reference th...
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An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus - colund https://www.wired.com/story/ai-epidemiologist-wuhan-public-health-warnings/ ====== ksaj Discovering Li Wenliang's original posts (the _actual_ first warnings) doesn't seem like much of an AI breakthrough, especially when the technology used was e...
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Cisco warns 500,000 routers have been hacked in suspected Russian attack - yankcrime https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/cisco-warns-500000-routers-hacked-in-suspected-russian-attack.html ====== remingtonc Technical breakdown at [https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html](https://blog.talosintelligence.com...
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How to scrape data from sites you can't log into - geoscripting http://ssscripting.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/how-to-scrape-data-from-sites-you-cant-log-into/ ====== tarmac You're still technically logging in by providing the copied cookie. I don't see any difference here. Or say the title should be changed to "How t...
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We build DROPBOX for business cards. We have some questions. Could you help us? - mrholek http://nessfile.com/feedback ====== bconway Best of luck, it's an uphill battle: [http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/hashable-the-app-that- aimed...](http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/hashable-the-app-that-aimed-to- replace-busin...
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The truth about net neutrality, no really. – Imgur - teddyh https://imgur.com/gallery/5xjPs1L ====== BlackDinosaur Everything is all about the money, every little thing that is done by companies is about the money and net neutrality is one of the most elaborate schemes on how to get it
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Can Random Promotions Prevent the Rise of Incompetence? - ashley http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/#business-2 ====== ashley My only concern with this finding is that once workers realized promotion was random, then problems of fairness and motivation kick in. First, economics literature has alread...
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Microsoft Has Acquisition Deal with Nvidia - wslh http://www.osnews.com/story/24824/Microsoft_Has_Acquisition_Deal_with_Nvidia ====== terrellm Not an acquisition deal as in "signing the contract this week" like with Skype but rather a deal for the opportunity to match an offer in the event that another company wants...
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Why access and API tokens are the new passwords but worse - akane https://emilebosch.com/2018/10/06/why-acess-tokens-are-the-new-passwords-but-worse/ ====== Cpoll > On top of that, passwords are at least hashed in the database and salted. > And most frameworks promote this good behaviour nowadays and have extensive > ...
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The Ham Sandwich Theorem - jbert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem ====== RiderOfGiraffes Having seen the Hairy Ball theorem posted here a few hours ago I was wondering how long it would be before someone posted the Ham Sandwich Theorem. The interesting thing is that it works in all dimensions. In 8...
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Mozilla and Xiph's new Daala video codec to compete with h.265 - mtgx https://xiph.org/daala/ ====== y0ghur7_xxx I'm a bit out of the loop, but what was wrong with Theora? Daalas goal "is to provide a free to implement, use and distribute digital media format and reference implementation with technical performance su...
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Proposal to split up Qualcomm is patently absurd - stevep2007 http://www.networkworld.com/article/2951117/opensource-subnet/proposal-to-split-up-qualcomm-is-patently-absurd.html?nsdr=true ====== stevep2007 The proposed breakup of Qualcomm by activist investment firm Jana Partners, as reported by the Wall Street Jour...
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Converting Shopping Malls to Micro-Apartments - Corrado http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/02/one-americas-oldest-shopping-malls-converts-micro-apartments/4755/ ====== Corrado This seems like a really cool idea for a hacker space or even a YC funded area. Everybody lives and works under one roof but you st...
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Solaris no longer free, Open Solaris may die - mcantelon http://www.katonda.com/news/solaries-no-more-free-open-solaris-may-die/936/2010 ====== ElllisD [http://genunix.org/dist/nexenta/nexenta-core- platform_3.0-b1...](http://genunix.org/dist/nexenta/nexenta-core- platform_3.0-b134-beta2_x86.iso.zip)
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The PhD Factory (2011) - Petiver http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html ====== cozzyd I find these articles to be missing the point. It's probably not rational to enter a PhD program if you're primarily motivated by making money. It's usually only a worthwile if you enjoy the subject enough that you ...
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Best, Brightest – and Saddest? - jacinda http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-best-brightest-and-saddest.html?ref=international ====== Mikeb85 This is symptomatic of our society at large (actually many societies, maybe even modern 'global' society). The middle class is being squeezed by rising ...
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Do you believe that the Chinese government steals technology from US companies? - tosh https://twitter.com/__tosh/status/1288598252112220171 ====== simonblack Everybody steals technology from everybody else. (Even _within_ countries.) To say that it's otherwise is being a bit naive.
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GCD and the magic of subtraction - plumsempy https://plumsempy.com/2020/08/24/gcd-and-the-magic-of-subtraction/ ====== fjfaase I usually use this algorithm (in C-like syntax) with modulo division: int gcd(int a, int b) { while (b != 0) { int c = a % b; a = b; b = c; } return a; } I think it is a rather efficient alg...
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Tell HN: I have a bunch of Google Wave invites - adammichaelc If you want one, send an email to adam -at- snappsoftware dot com with your google email.<p>Cheers ====== gr366 These things went from the hottest online commodity (selling on eBay, etc) to something that can't be given away. I think there's a conundrum —...
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Why Big Tobacco and Big Vape love comparing nicotine to caffeine (2019) - Tomte https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/26/18513312/vape-tobacco-big-companies-nicotine-caffeine-comparison-drugs-chemicals ====== gwern > But nicotine and caffeine aren’t chemically similar, not really. When I > covered the health effects of nico...
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MP3 for Image Compression (2006) - joshumax http://keyj.emphy.de/mp3-for-image-compression/ ====== robert_foss I just posted the article[1] that I think prompted this script to be brought up. What I did instead was to run images through an audio editing tool, which lets you apply echoes or do mindboggling things like...
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Show HN: Wedgetail – Time your functions in your tests - ojkelly https://wedgetail.js.org/ ====== ojkelly I wrote this for something else I'm working on, which needs to be really fast (an access control library, I expect to be called up to 100+ times a request). So I wanted to be able to add a unit test that solely t...
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Ask HN: Between PHP and Python, which one is better for web programming purpose? - reazalun I've a decent knowledge in JavaScript. Now I want to do a more serious web programming. I want to learn both PHP and Python. In your opinion:<p>1) Which one should I learn first? PHP or Python? 2) Which language has a better ...
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Lesser-Known Google Projects - ssaddi http://www.diygenius.com/12-lesser-known-google-projects-that-are-absolutely-amazing/ ====== snarfy > One of the reasons why Google has consistently released new innovative > project is because of their 20% time policy, which gives many of their > employees one day a week to exp...
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Leo editor – “a revolutionary step in the right direction for programming” - scapbi http://leoeditor.com/ ====== jacquesm I use Leo every day. It's a great little editor, very stable and with a ton of handy features. Outlines are a fantastic tool to keep track of the state of a complex project. My .leo files are what...
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Show HN: Tool to organize and refine ideas – Walling - elmasryahmed https://walling.app ====== elmasryahmed Hey everyone! Elmasry here from Walling. I've launched Walling before on ProductHunt but I'm excited to introduce the tool to HN community. Whether you're working on a project, researching a topic or writing an...
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Netflix Long Term View - _pius http://ir.netflix.com/long-term-view.cfm ====== ctdonath This is a huge shift for Netflix. Until recently, the motivating impression was that Netflix just plain had every movie out there (which its continuing DVD service kinda does). I subscribed because it was a cheap replacement for b...
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What Caused the Sidekick Failure? - hko http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/what-caused-the-sidekick-fail ====== ErrantX Seems like wild conjecture; have they got any sources? ------ DavidSJ "it's destruction" = "it is destruction" "its destruction" = "the destruction of it"
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Oxytocin drug can make the people accept migrants - draugadrotten https://www.uni-bonn.de/news/188-2017 ====== draugadrotten "Oxytocin may help promote the acceptance and integration of migrants into Western cultures" says Prof. Rene Hurlemann Is it ethical to drug the population to create cultural change? Are there...
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Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF - edent https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/ ====== rekshaw I've worked with gov.uk. They are essentially a startup inside a huge organization, and their great work reflects that. One of the things they...
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Ask HN: FB suggests friends after visiting same city, don't use FB phone. How? - shafyy Facebook suggested two new friends two days after we hung out together in a city. They are my co-workers.<p>I moved recently to this city (4 months ago). I don&#x27;t have the FB app or use FB on my phone, don&#x27;t have this city...
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Show HN: Lookback - user experience collecting for iOS - littke http://lookback.io ====== nevyn That looks totally sweet! _self promotion_
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More on Arduino LLC vs. Arduino SRL - detaro http://hackaday.com/2015/03/12/arduino-v-arduino-part-ii/ ====== paulannesley I've been waiting for the Arduino Zero[0], seems like a really good collaboration between Arduino LLC and Atmel to get 32-bit ARM platform to the same price-point and form-factor as the Arduino ...
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Announcing Open Live Writer – An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer - jongalloway2 http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingOpenLiveWriterAnOpenSourceForkOfWindowsLiveWriter.aspx ====== bovermyer This is cool. I used to use Windows Live Writer for about a year before moving on. But with WordPress's Calypso now a ...
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I went to Chirp and all I got was this lousy lollypop - GVRV http://mrcoles.com/blog/i-went-chirp-and-all-i-got-was-lousy-lollypop/ ====== samratjp I like the sound of "Code Writers." How about "Codies"?
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How smart cars enable smart criminals - webdesignerz http://www.technologeek.net/smart-cars-enable-smart-criminals/ ====== aiiane A giant collection of FUD, essentially. "You'll no longer need a crowbar and screwdriver, just access to the computer plugins under the hood or dash." ... and how do you propose getting t...
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Scientists reveal the most extensive genetic map of cancers ever made - pimterry https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/02/05/scientists-reveal-the-most-extensive-genetic-map-of-cancers-ever-made ====== smn1234 similar at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22250733](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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The only growth metric that matters - jevans22 https://mobiledevmemo.com/the-only-growth-metric-that-matters/ ====== jevans22 I'm of a believer in that there's no global north-star metric, but if you were to pick one, looking at retention in this way isn't a bad place to start.
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UK Launches Open Data Site; Puts Data.gov to Shame - vijayr http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/uk_launches_open_data_site_puts_datagov_to_shame.php ====== wooster Um, no. Some of these "datasets" are links to web sites: <http://data.gov.uk/dataset/england-national-crime-mapping> Some are applications based on UK...
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Chrome is the New C Runtime - nilsbunger https://www.mobilespan.com/content/chrome-new-c-runtime ====== unsignedint This reminded me of Game Dev Tycoon [1] although premise seems to be a bit different. They essentially packaged a some version of Chromium to execute their game script... [1] [http://www.greenheartgam...
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Show HN: I'm building a cool Tower Defense game to be released soon - atum47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kca25guzSo ====== atum47 I've been also posting GIFs on each update, if you don't want to watch the video. [https://twitter.com/victorqribeiro/status/129158940021278720...](https://twitter.com/victorqribeiro/...
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The Invincible Man - byrneseyeview http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103002222_pf.html ====== asdflkj I've read elsewhere that he doesn't want to let people invest in his ideas-- only to donate. Is that reasonable?
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China builds world’s largest EV charging network with 167,000 stations - prostoalex http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0906/c90000-9265487.html ====== refurb I didn't know the China gov't new agency had such an online presence (and in English). Their "recommended reading" includes an article titles "The miracle called Commu...
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You Can't Soak the Rich - epi0Bauqu http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121124460502305693.html ====== cia_plant The Wall Street Journal needs to have its statistics license taken away. Every editorial manages to commit some sort of statistical fallacy. _highest_ marginal tax rate is charted against _total_ revenue as a...
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RIP, MBA - The economic crisis has exposed the myth of business-school expertise - winanga http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/03/25/rip-mba ====== chime _sigh_ I just got home from my evening MBA class after a full day of work. I'm the Director of IT at a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Florida and g...
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Zeebo Announces Console Launch, 'Gaming for the Next Billion' - nihilocrat http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22867 ====== whughes This has been known for a while now: [http://www.gamasutra.com/php- bin/news_index.php/db_area/imag...](http://www.gamasutra.com/php- bin/news_index.php/db_area/images...
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My day as a software engineer during quarantine - kethmar https://youtu.be/K2e9kkEiaSQ ====== kethmar This video is about my random day working from home as a developer. Each day is different and it's taken some time to get used to the new situation, but the routines I've established definitely help.
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Why do customers love Tesla despite its many mistakes? - quoraboy https://www.quora.com/Why-do-customers-love-Tesla-despite-its-many-mistakes?share=1 ====== quirkafleeg3 What I dont get is why people love Elon Musk. The man's a cock! He randomly accused someone of being a pedophile just because they said his rediculou...
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M Now Offers Suggestions to Make Your Messenger Experience More Delightful - gerosan https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/04/m-now-offers-suggestions-to-make-your-messenger-experience-more-useful-seamless-and-delightful/ ====== codr4life Fourth story down starts with 'Fuck you and die', pretty much sums it up for me. Fac...
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Show HN: Pikock, a website builder made with AngularJS, Bootstrap - tsifei http://www.pikock.com ====== callmeed The demos look really good. I didn't make an account so I can't comment on the actual features. I must admit the name is odd. I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce it. If it's indeed "Pie Cock", then I'd...
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Announcing the launch of ZeppelinOS - wslh https://blog.zeppelinos.org/announcing-the-launch-of-zeppelinos/ ====== wslh And this is the smart contracts audit: [https://medium.com/nomic-labs- blog/zeppelinos-smart-contract...](https://medium.com/nomic-labs- blog/zeppelinos-smart-contracts-audit-dc772cfae224)
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Google Chrome's plan to suspend background tabs completely by ~2018 - Ajedi32 https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_sX-KGRaHcV3xe5Xk_l6NNwXoxm-23IOepgMx4OlE4 ====== mtgx This won't cause any "reload" issues, like the ones we were experiencing on mobile browsers not too long ago, will it? Because that would be quite an...
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Foursquare cracking down on location cheaters - alex1 http://blog.foursquare.com/post/503822143/on-foursquare-cheating-and-claiming-mayorships-from ====== alex1 I don't see how they can really stop cheaters until they do something like force businesses to post a unique verification code inside their store (or print ...
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RE:DOM – Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces - edward https://redom.js.org/ ====== anonytrary Not having a VDOM is only a pro if your library maintains feature parity with libraries that have a VOM. Otherwise, you just lack whatever it is that VDOMs enable. This library seems to forget wh...
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Seven Forms of Business Process Management With JBoss jBPM - alexitosrv http://java.dzone.com/print/5585 ====== spitfire This is why you should just say no to Java. First it's "enterprise beans", next someone is pushing BPM's on you. Don't even try to get away without a consultant. Java - Designed to feed consultan...
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Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java - networked https://github.com/cxxr/better-java ====== kodablah "If you're using Java 8, you can use the excellent new Optional type. If a value may or may not be present, wrap it in an Optional class like this" While I agree with most things, overuse of Optional like t...
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Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat - rayascott https://www.wired.com/story/rowhammer-ecc-memory-data-hack/ ====== userbinator Attack or otherwise, this is ultimately a hardware reliability problem. Any access pattern that can cause bit errors is indicative of faulty memory. If I...
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Two Different Kinds of Illustration - kawera https://www.subtraction.com/2018/01/03/two-different-kinds-of-illustration/ ====== matrix The main point they author is making is: "the prevalence of a single, monocultural aesthetic that seemingly almost every startup and tech company and would-be industry disruptor out t...
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Mini-Deadmau5 costume video...hilarious - somagrand http://vimeo.com/16520938 ====== fbea And the award for best dad goes to... ~~~ fbea do you think the kid liked Deadmau5's costume or idolized his music? With kids these days hitting puberty earlier and earlier you never know...
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DuckDuckGo vs Google - gcuofano https://fourweekmba.com/duckduckgo-vs-google/ ====== Lifesnoozer Recently switched over to DuckDuckGo on all my devices. Tried to do the same thing several years ago and found it didn't really work out, but this time around it is so much better, both when it comes to speed and results. ...
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It ain't about the callbacks, it's about the flow control (2013) - majke https://idea.popcount.org/2013-09-05-it-aint-about-the-callbacks/ ====== Shank I think that, like programming in general, there are different styles that click for different people. Different analogies, like the "push" vs "pull" described in this...
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Using a Message Queue vs Background Processing. - mnbbrown http://www.mikeperham.com/2011/05/04/background-processing-vs-message-queueing/ ====== mootothemax I'm not sure that I fully understand why the author considers message queuing via something like ActiveMQ to be complicated or difficult. 1) Install ActiveMQ ...
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OpenFEC - danso https://github.com/18F/openFEC ====== waterlesscloud What kind of cleaning is being done here? ~~~ snowwrestler The data from the FEC is famously messy. Here's a bit of a description from one of the private orgs that try to clean it up and present it to the public in a usable form. [http://influenc...
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OpenNotre-Dame contribuer à la restauration de Notre Dame avec l'open data - omiossec https://news.microsoft.com/fr-fr/2019/05/17/open-notre-dame-microsoft/ ====== onyva Is there a reason why Microsoft’s news feed is being rerouted through here? My feed is full of these which makes it look like a new wave of Microsoft...
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