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After A Four Year Run, Firefox Is No Longer The Top Browser On TechCrunch - abraham http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/top-browsers/ ====== fleitz What got me hooked on chrome was the unified address bar that just worked, and tabs on top (and the close button stays in the right place when you close half a dozen tabs), b...
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Most heinous hoaxes on the Net - Ye-Ha http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33589239/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ BTW, I have witnessed this behavior time after time on WoW. ====== Ye-Ha This has some good examples of what can go wrong in a free-for-all environment, as well as some other just plain bad behavior...
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BetNext-Play Virtual betting on Twitter - Ramanean http://www.betnext.in Betnext.in allows virtual betting on your favorite teams in leagues like NFL,NBA,EPL,La liga,NHL etc.,<p>You can bet directly from Twitter tool or client without signing in..:) ====== Ramanean I hope my site would provide a good gaming opportu...
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New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists - NikolaeVarius https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/new-faa-drone-rule-is-a-giant-middle-finger-to-aviation-hobbyists/ ====== hatsunearu Brought to you by FAA, the same people who let Boeing self certify their shitbox and killed 600+ people! Th...
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How a Dead Millionaire Convinced Women to Have as Many Babies as Possible - dgelks http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-a-dead-millionaire-convinced-dozens-of-women-to-have-as-many-babies-as-possible/?ex_cid=538fb ====== danieltillett I wonder how well an equivalent competition would work today?
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Service to determine site platform - vwtom Does anyone know of a website which will accept a URI and return a description of the platform and applications used to host, deliver and build the site. I thought I had one in my del.icio.us saves...but seems to be mia.<p>Thanks, Tom ====== xirium <http://www.netcraft.com...
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IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close - notlob https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/ ====== code4tee IBM has some OK offerings but they've really screwed themselves with all this hyped up marketing around Watson. They've become somewhat of a joke within the real dat...
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Sparrow now supports Push Notification. SIKE - jarederondu http://blog.jarederondu.com/ ====== tuananh this account should be banned! ~~~ jarederondu why?
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Rubber that can make and store power from light and vibration - pmoriarty https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/18/national/fukushima-professor-develops-rubber-can-make-store-power-light-vibration/ ====== derefr If it can convert vibration into electricity, does this imply that it would be a good sound-dampening m...
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Ask HN: Canada for tech jobs? - nicdc Is now a good time to move to Canada for tech-related jobs, data science&#x2F;analytics in particular? What parts of Canada should one consider? ====== MikeTheRocker I'm a Canadian software that moved from Victoria, BC to San Francisco, CA to begin my career two years ago. My top ...
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Why doesn't iPhone/iPod touch have wi-fi timeout to increase battery life? - amichail Turning it on and off manually is really annoying. ====== iaian jailbreak then get sbsettings from cydia, with this you can slide your finger across the status bar and access a bunch of customizable toggle switches. I use the Togg...
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BiteLabs – Eat Celebrity Meat - sinak http://www.bitelabs.org/ ====== extra88 I never heard of Thunderclap before, maybe this is a viral campaign to advertise a viral campaigning tool. Anyhow, Antiviral is a pretty good movie. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_\...
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React and .NET Core and SignalR = Amazing - dsuryd https://medium.com/@dsuryd/react-net-core-signalr-amazing-ea0a83e4357e#.2o5jixh6z ====== tracker1 That sounds either great or a state nightmare waiting to happen, depending on the approach.
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The Onlife Manifesto – Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era - peterhartree https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-manifesto ====== peterhartree An EU-backed research project, lead by Luciano Floridi. "The deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their uptake by society affect radica...
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Show HN: Compile-time typechecked Akka actors - Chasmo https://github.com/knutwalker/typed-actors ====== ryeguy Why would you name it this? A feature by this name already exists as part of akka. That's confusing and hard to find via google. ------ agentultra This is rather cool and makes me want to look at Scala agai...
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How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself - danso http://www.propublica.org/article/how-i-passed-my-us-citizenship-test-by-keeping-the-right-answers-to-myself ====== rm999 >Why does the flag have 13 stripes? The official answer: "because there were 13 original colonies." In fact, ...
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V8 Optimization Killers - diggan https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-killers ====== _greim_ Which of these (if any) are purely incidental to the current state of the V8 project, rather than being inherently insurmountable problems for JS optimization? In other words, if I memorize this particula...
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Building Conversational Interfaces to Make the Web More Accessible for All - leighbryant https://medium.com/myplanet-musings/building-conversational-interfaces-to-make-the-web-accessible-for-all-2e7635d20521 ====== obaid This is great, OP. We are building a prototyping tool [1] for conversational interfaces and with o...
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Find True Love Using Game Theory - philfreo http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/01/08/game-theory-tuesdays-how-can-i-find-true-love/ ====== mahmud No! Not this week. Xoopit and Zappos just sold; romance can wait, this week I am turned on by acquisitions. Please save the dating links for the weekend. ------ frossi...
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How Jack Ma took on eBay with Taobao - williswee https://www.techinasia.com/were-war-story-jack-ma-ebay-taobao ====== not_that_noob Some of this is of course the Chinese government placing its thumb on the scales in favor of local businesses. It does this for a lot of reasons, but it's clear it happens. However, comp...
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Everything Technical in F1 - dmmalam http://scarbsf1.com/blog1/ ====== junto A friend of mine was a transmission/gearbox designer for F1 cars. It was fascinating to hear about the things going on behind the scenes. Most teams have components built by a handful of specialized external engineering companies. Some thing...
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Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams - hhaidar https://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/ ====== alfg This looks great. Thanks for making it open-source. I've tried other self- hosted chat apps, but this one looks promising. IRC integration would be great. :) When I was experimenting with websocke...
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Ask HN: I lost years of bookmarks because of Chrome's new design - latenightcoding I was on a vacation and didn&#x27;t realize Google added an &quot;auto-login&quot; feature to chrome, I work with sensitive data so naturally I tried to logout and accidentally deleted the person #1 on my browser, and just like that wit...
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Consensus Algorithms – What Are Dags, PBFT, FBA, and Poet? - tmlee https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/coingecko-consensus-algorithms-guide-part-2 ====== cakes_laptop Great share, thank you! Read this (part 2) along with the earlier post (part 1) which has been informative!
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1Password Is Coming to Linux - irontinkerer https://www.zdnet.com/article/1password-is-coming-to-linux/ ====== jermier One thing I never got about _premium_ password managers is the question of: If I stop paying for the subscription, do I still get to access my secrets? I imagine there is still some grace period to ba...
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All that You Would Want to know About FB Graph Search - ap_rv http://lurnq.com/lesson/all-that-you-would-want-to-know-about-fb-graph-search/ An exhaustive article on the Facebook Graph Search covering all aspects including dating, advertising, entertainment, recommendations, recruiting, the war with Google, privacy c...
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Soylent debuts new top shelf drink, Soylent Beige Label - aberoham https://www.techloaf.io/2019/02/08/soylent-debuts-new-top-shelf-drink-soylent-beige-label/ ====== shaqncheese Does anyone have Soy Boy’s contact info? Would love to contact him for an interview. ------ k__ This is still a thing? I backed this with $20...
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Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 released - rnyman https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-simulator-4-0-released/ ====== ndesaulniers Leave us some feedback or report any issues in our bug tracker! [1] [1] [https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/issues](https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/issues) ------ executive The lef...
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Show HN: I made a simple but smart note taking application - kilian https://fromscratch.rocks ====== kilian Author here. I wrote FromScratch to accommodate how I want note taking to work: it's always an alt-tab away, it takes care of all the tedious bits (saving, window positioning) and allows me to very quickly take ...
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Show HN: /frink, a Slack app for Simpsons gifs - gesteves https://slashfrink.herokuapp.com/ ====== gesteves Just a fun little timewaster that uses frinkiac.com to post Simpsons gifs in Slack. It's not the first Frinkiac integration, but the ones I've seen post jpgs instead of gifs (Frinkiac was just recently updated w...
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Ask HN: How to check if your website works for all ISPs and locations? - rokhayakebe I found a few times that there are some places where internauts could not access our website. Some people suggested that it may be a DNS issue and others said it may be an issue with a particular internet service provider.<p>Is th...
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Building a PostgreSQL load tester - lawrjone https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/building-a-postgresql-load-tester/ ====== michelpp > When faced with a technical problem it’s often better to use an existing > tool than jump into writing one yourself. Having benchmarked Postgres > clusters before, I was already familiar wit...
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A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors - okket http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13077658/statcheck-psychology-replication ====== justinclift In case it's of interest, the code for this is on GitHub. There seem to be two repos for it: https://github.com/Michel...
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Read this one if you have no idea what to read - danvoell I dabble in technology but I am not very good at it. I want to learn but when I try to learn a new tool I generally end up on pages like this (Python) - http://www.python.org/download/ - and I have no idea which version I should be using. I realized this when...
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The first YouTube streaming of a freediving competition captured by drone - postila http://www.cmas.org/news/new-era-has-been-opened-in-free-diving-by-cmas ====== postila The very short video posted in CMAS news doesn't fully reflect the awesomeness of what's been done. The full recordings of one of the competition's ...
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The dangerous downsides of perfectionism - ernsheong http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180219-toxic-perfectionism-is-on-the-rise ====== shoover _“They give up more easily. They have quite avoidant coping tendencies when things can 't be perfect.” That, of course, hinders them from the very success that they want to ac...
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Ask HN: What's the best place to hire part-time Python consultants? - node-bayarea ====== jlgaddis Who not here, on HN? Look through the most recent "Who wants to be hired?" thread [0]. [0]: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534)
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It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF - tbassetto http://stephanierieger.com/its-about-the-content-stupid/ ====== ekidd This isn't a problem with HTML 5, it's a problem with the Camper site itself. The Chrome developer tools show _202_ HTTP requests, including tons of tiny images, and many non-minified J...
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Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat - bloat http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat ====== razzaj I always though our biggest existential threat were Nukes and other WMDs. AI could potentially become yet anothe...
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A clone of Microsoft Paint in JavaScript, using the WHATWG Canvas - alifaziz http://canvaspaint.org/ ====== c3o Whoa, that's a surprise – I wrote this back in late 2006 and it has been unmaintained since then. A lot has happened in the <canvas> world in the past four and a half years (font drawing API, get/setImageD...
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Finnish bank opens extensive Public APIs - velmu https://metropolitan.fi/entry/finnish-financial-group-opens-extensive-public-apis ====== nherment This is a PR piece. A European law called PSD2 (Payment Services Directive v2) enters into effect tomorrow (Jan 13th) that forces EU banks to provide APIs to third parties...
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A home microhydro plant (2009) - fanf2 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html ====== stephen_g There’s a very cool hydro system built over a few years by a YouTuber called ‘Mr HydroHead’ over a bunch of videos spanning several years - the first here: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edEhvmNlYqk](https://m.youtu...
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Prank Startup Pitch To A Real Investor (VIDEO) - alexjmann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI99phzofk8 ====== nioroiwiowjij Something similar to the described software has already been made by a group of artists ~ The transborder immigrant tool: [http://www.vice.com/read/follow- the-gps-225-v16n11](http://www.vice.co...
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Apple Cracking Down on Sites Selling Access to iOS 6 Developer Betas - paulschlacter http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/08/apple-cracking-down-on-sites-selling-access-to-ios-6-developer-betas/ ====== michaelpinto Why not just this into a business and charge fanboys $1000 to get the new thing before everyone else?
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Ask HN: It's been a month and I still haven't heard from dmoz.org - pennyfiller What can be done? ====== exec I never heard back from dmoz.org. I have tried to add my customer's website years ago... ------ matdwyer dmoz is complete b/s - if you don't know a moderator there, you're basically SOL. You'll be in that ...
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The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't - glass- http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-openssh-bug-that-wasnt.html ====== geerlingguy Key takeaway: > And as several correspondents have reminded me already -- switching your > sshd to keys only authentication will let you sleep better at night. Even with fail2ban and limited retr...
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‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is using facial recognition to make arrests - pseudolus https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/16/its-techno-racism-detroit-is-quietly-using-facial-recognition-to-make-arrests ====== lacker Facial recognition technology with some error rate doesn’t seem like a huge problem for polic...
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New York Times has more Twitter followers than print readers - skbohra123 http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2010/10/027107.htm ====== goodwinb Non link-jacked [http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/10/report-new-york-times- has...](http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/10/report-new-york-times-has-more- twitter-follow...
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Lady Java Video Marks Exact Point Where Geek Culture Jumped The Shark - bwaldorf http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/lady-java ====== KC8ZKF This person seems to be confusing _culture_ with _random shit I click on._ ------ btilly Does anyone else find it disturbing that the image of Java programmers in the video is a ...
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New Mac Malware Used in Cyberespionage Campaign - Fjolsvith http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/malware-research/2014/09/forced-to-adapt-xslcmd-backdoor-now-on-os-x.html ====== officialjunk An employee at an apple store literally told me macs can't get viruses. I laughed and replied that you may just not know if y...
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What is the best way to accept payments in Latin America countries? - ronaldrios Is a world processor like Paypal or Stripe will help me or do I need another provider? Wich one? Also, can my company receive the payments in USD or do I will need to open a bank account in those countries to receive the payments?<p>Thank...
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Missouri to use deafening military LRAD tech in construction zones - sologoub http://www.leftlanenews.com/missouri-to-use-deafening-military-lrad-tech-to-warn-speeders-in-construction-zones.html ====== greenyoda _"...though it is unclear if the sound levels that are capable of overpowering 'loud tunes' inside a car ...
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A guide to mathematical emotions - Radim https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/01/25/a-guide-to-mathematical-emotions/ ====== NotAmazin I thought with a title like that, that this would be a guide on how to calculate emotions and numerical presentation of emotions. But it's pretty pictures.
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Facebook’s Anti-Semitic Ad-Targeting Disaster - rbanffy https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608882/facebooks-anti-semitic-ad-targeting-disaster/ ====== nariinano Am I the only one who thinks it's obvious and evident that those categories were generated automatically? ------ tortasaur I'd hardly call it anyt...
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Fast Bing Tokenizer for BERT - catam https://blogs.bing.com/Developers-Blog/march-2020/Bling-FIRE-Tokenizer-for-BERT ====== chuah Super fast BERT tokenizer. It will save you 100x time in preprocessing text. ~~~ sergeio76 Mainly it will help improve latency at inference time. For preprocessing training one can always ...
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Will Switzerland give every adult $2,500 a month? - apo http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/24/news/economy/switzerland-guaranteed-basic-income/index.html ====== billytetrud "a rich country that can afford it" is an absolutely terrible argument. I agree with tracker1, its better than the bevy of welfare programs in the US f...
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How to spot a fake Canon flash - unwind http://petapixel.com/2013/09/03/spot-fake-canon-flash-learned-hard-way/ ====== dangero Having worked with factories in China I'm not sure the sleuthing relating to glue types, etc really mean a lot. Our vendors regularly changed things like that, sometimes without even consult...
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Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3% of Women Agree - laurex https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/upshot/pandemic-chores-homeschooling-gender.html ====== downerending Seems like flamebait. A modestly more interesting set of questions would ask how spouses _feel_ about their level of contributio...
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Why I run my business like an open source project (2013) - luu http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2013/02/26/why-i-run-my-business-like-an-open-source-project/ ====== partycoder I think this is valuable. The worst engineering behavior I've found is when development teams are not accountable for their code quality. J...
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Indonesia to Fault 737 MAX Design, U.S. Oversight in Lion Air Crash Report - cmurf https://www.wsj.com/articles/indonesia-to-fault-737-max-design-u-s-oversight-in-lion-air-crash-report-11569185664 ====== grecy I'm calling it now: The US Government will pass a law protecting Boeing from litigation over this, or they wi...
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Logistic Regression from Bayes’ Theorem - Homunculiheaded https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2019/6/12/logistic-regression-from-bayes-theorem ====== imbusy111 If you fit a linear model for the coffee making problem and one of the parameters is temperature and the coefficient for the temperature in the linear model is p...
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Facebook trapped in MySQL fate worse than death - dblock http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death ====== goldmab Summary: The creator of VoltDB thinks MySQL is hopelessly slow. No other sources are cited.
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How to reduce the cognitive load of your code - ingve http://chrismm.com/blog/how-to-reduce-the-cognitive-load-of-your-code/ ====== hbt There are so many similarities between writing code and writing English. \- Thinking of paragraphs as functions with one purpose \- keeping sentences short to reduce load on working...
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REST APIs with Node.js? Develop,manage,scale with the new StrongLoop API Server - shubhra51 http://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-api-server-announcement/ ====== ijroth Wait so this lets you create REST APIs in JS by just using Yeoman? Sweet...
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What Is Poverty (2000) - baud147258 https://www.city-journal.org/html/what-poverty-11845.html ====== kubanczyk Gotta love the lively language: > [...] see someone toss aside the can whose contents he has just consumed, as > a Russian vodka drinker throws down his glass. > City Journal is a publication of the Manhatt...
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The simplest, cleanest todo list for command line - shcallaway https://github.com/shcallaway/todo ====== thepapanoob taskwarrior > this
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Prototyping, Mockup, and Wireframing Tools for iPhone App Development - iphoneized http://iphoneized.com/2009/11/21-prototyping-mockup-wireframing-tools-iphone-app-development/ It's far from being the definitive list, but it's definitely a good place to start if you are creating an iPhone app mockup. ====== grinich W...
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The Linux Programming Interface - fogus http://www.man7.org/tlpi/index.html#ordering ====== jgrahamc My short review of this book: [http://www.amazon.com/review/R5XJW6NQUUKSR/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm...](http://www.amazon.com/review/R5XJW6NQUUKSR/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1593272200&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=) ~~~ mattyb T...
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Create Google Deep Dream-style images in your browser - derwiki https://dreamscopeapp.com ====== JosephRedfern It's good to make such things easily accessible, but would be nice if you linked/credited Google with the implementation behind this project. You should also make it clear that processed images are publicl...
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One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz - Tomte http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/One-bit%20computer.html ====== Dr_Jefyll Thanks for posting, Tomte. This is a project that's been discussed on HN on the past. \-- Jeff [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616831](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76...
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Offshore in central London: the curious case of 29 Harley Street - sergeant3 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/19/offshore-central-london-curious-case-29-harley-street ====== Animats Here's the list of all companies at 29 Harley St.[1] If you want to find accommodation addresses for companies in the UK, you...
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Ask HN: How To Sell Software Without Setting Up Website Or Payment System - asimjalis Question: Is there something similar to the App Store for other platforms? Meaning something that takes care of the selling and the billing infrastructure and lets me focus just on the development.<p>One of the neat things about Ap...
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick now one of America’s highest paid executives - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-now-one-of-americas-highest-paid-executives/ ====== adventured "Even spreading that stock award out, though, puts Kotick's 2012 compensation at more than $20 million."...
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The Fat Lady Is Singing - akakievich https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/fat-lady-singing/ ====== spchampion2 American opera is suffering from the same problem faced by a lot of mainstream culture from the 20th century - it's too used to operating at scale and too expensive to cut back. This isn't to say that...
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Ask HN: Has anyone used Flippa.com for domain sale - wilsonfiifi I tried to sell ineedquickly.com on Flippa but I didn&#x27;t get any bids. The only advice from Flippa was to pay them more to have the domain listed on more sites.<p>Does anyone have any suggestions of alternative sites that charge you after the sale ...
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No-Name Companies Selling More Phones Than Samsung, LG, and Apple Combined - NonEUCitizen http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/the-no-name-companies-selling-more-phones-than-samsung-lg-and-apple-combined/245232/ ====== GeneralMaximus Spice and MicroMax are huge in India. The handsets are dirt cheap[...
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Show HN: Live Dangerously – 1-for-1 anonymous photo sharing via SMS - idealboy http://danger.life/ ====== tombrossman Are you scrubbing Exif metadata on all these? I spot-checked a few and there didn't seem to be any embedded. A surprising number of people have no idea that their mobile phone may embed GPS coordinates...
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Ask HN: Why do you run multiple VM's? - Tvorba Hey everyone!<p>I&#x27;m a developer working mostly on MS technologies so I don&#x27;t really use VM&#x27;s. I&#x27;ve been reading HN for quite some time and every time there&#x27;s a development thread (or the latest Dell XPS13 and its 8GB RAM thread) a lot of develop...
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HN/YC BBQ today - catch23 http://anyvite.com/events/home/lld60cypag ====== byrneseyeview Hm. When I saw that the link was to something on ycombinator.com, it looked like it might have been endorsed by YC. Perhaps this should be changed, to prevent abuse -- links to something on news.yc could be treated like 'ask YC'...
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Ask HN: Why will my startup fail? - tenashas Why will my startup fail?<p>Hi HN,<p>I am creating my first online startup and would greatly appreciate your input.<p>ONE LINE PITCH:<p>Outfyts.com is the easiest way to create, share and purchase outfits from your favorite retailers and fashion bloggers<p>LONG WINDED SUMMA...
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“Sea Launch” mothballed due to termination of “Zenit” launches - trhway https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftop.rbc.ru%2Feconomics%2F22%2F08%2F2014%2F944544.shtml%23xtor%3DAL-[internal_traffic]--[rbc.ru]-[main_body]-[item_10]&edit-text=&act=url ====== markta...
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Safari will soon reject any HTTPS certificate valid for more than 13 months - tosh https://thenextweb.com/security/2020/02/24/safari-will-soon-reject-any-https-certificate-valid-for-more-than-13-months/ ====== raxxorrax > For end-users, this means that the sites you’re visiting have the latest > encryption and securit...
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Oxford University gives women more time to pass exams - ptaipale http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/01/22/oxford-university-gives-women-time-pass-exams/ ====== poster123 The headline is a lie. All students were given more time, in an effort to reduce the ratio of men to women getting the highest grade. ~~~ pta...
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How I Built a $600 / mo Product In One Day | kpkaiser.com - hboon http://www.kpkaiser.com/mindhack/how-i-built-a-600-mo-product-in-one-day/ ====== sime It appears wpplugins now take a 30% cut rather than the 10% mentioned in the article, which makes more sense. Plugin authors can also charge for a monthly support subs...
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The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones - daegloe http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/14/technology/huawei-intelligence-chiefs/index.html ====== devhead Maybe it's tinfoil hat time; the more the government says to not use Huawei, offering no proof at all, the more I think they are unable to tra...
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Hermes – a Nix/Guix-like package manager for Linux - open-paren https://acha.ninja/blog/introducing_hermes/ ====== solarkraft But how does it compare to Nix and Guix? On first look it seems like it brings very little infrastructure, which may well be an advantage. Can you somehow provide pre-built binaries? ~~~ open...
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Ask HN: Noise in HN, an idea to throttle it down - heelhook It has been pointed out several times that new items submitted to HN have increasingly less chance of being picked up because of how fast the new items page scrolls items out of sight. This problem will be growing as HN gets more users.<p>Maybe the approach...
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How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster - rtcoms https://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/11/30/how-changing-webfonts-made-rubygems-10x-faster.html ====== csense > As developers, our job isn't to tell the designers "Hey, you're dumb for > including over 500KB of WebFonts in your design!" Yes. Yes it is. I want to...
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“Microsoft security software (...) removes this unwanted software” (AskToolbar) - luso_brazilian http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?Name=BrowserModifier%3AWin32%2FAskToolbarNotifier&wa=wsignin1.0#tab=1 ====== devopsproject I'm visiting the inlaws in a few days which means I'll be...
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Being cool has ruined Berlin (2016) - Pamar http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/being-cool-has-ruined-berlin/ ====== chappi42 (⊙︿⊙)
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Disrupting Internet Access Is a Human Rights Violation, UN Says - jonbaer http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/07/01/3795026/un-affirms-online-rights/ ====== trav4225 I'm wondering... what _isn 't_ a human right these days...
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Ask HN: How to propose “we should merge companies”? - boltzmannbrain 1. If company A and B are both early startups with complimentary services, and a merger objectively benefits both A and B, how is the topic broached? How would B sell A on a merger?<p>2. Now what if A and B are competitors?<p>3. Enter big public comp...
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Make the Most of Muxtape: A Field Guide to Playlists - naish http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/make-the-most-o.html ====== aston Muxtape is getting a lot more coverage than YC's own Mixwit, despite the latter looking a lot cooler and more polished. Unintuitive...
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Show HN: Feeds Pub – A social RSS aggregator - timqian https://feeds.pub ====== brudgers For a social aggregator, sharing seems more important than elegance and live above it on the landing page. Indeed mentioning elegance is a bit inelegant. It's probably ok to let elegance be implicit. It matters a lot to you, but y...
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A GPU Approach to Conway's Game of Life - mkirsche http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/06/10/ ====== theoh What would blow my mind is the discovery of a "spigot" algorithm for the game of life, i.e. it would calculate generation n for a particular starting state without having to compute intermediate generations.
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As Bitcoin ETF Nears, Analysts Warn of Trading Frenzy - kordless https://www.wsj.com/articles/irrational-exuberance-for-bitcoin-etfs-1486350601 ====== kristianp "After a nearly four-year wait, the SEC faces a deadline of March 11 to decide on a rule change that would allow the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF to trade on ...
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Ask HN: How do you focus and track your goals? - vsergiu I am frustrated of not finding a decent app to help me set, track and achieve all my big goals. Everyone focuses on daily small tasks but not on big goals and breaking those goals into smaller steps. What apps&#x2F;methods do you guys use? ====== bemmu I use an ...
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Printing Therapeutic Proteins in 3D Using Nanoengineered Bioink - bookofjoe https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adhm.201801553 ====== mometsi At the forefront of technology we occasionally get a chance to steer the language around a new concept while it's still pliable. A bit of imagination at the right ti...
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Apply HN: RoomEase – Ease and organise flat sharing - kostas_f <i>Problem</i> : Until now flatmates end up using different apps for communication, shopping lists, task organisation, social planning, house finances, reminders and house service delivery. That&#x27;s too many apps!<p><i>Solution</i> : We are building a p...
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Meat based diets made us smarter - barmstrong http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128849908 ====== dejb This title appears to be knowingly misleading. Towards the end it actually goes on to say 'And cooking is what he thinks really changed our modern body'. In fact it could just have easily been cooke...
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