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How TV Networks flubbed coverage of Neil Armstrong's passing - mehrshad http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/On-TV-a-quiet-exit-for-first-man-on-the-moon-3816493.php ====== jeffool I can't agree with this enough. I didn't actually tune into TV until the local 11:00 pm newscast, and he wasn't mentioned until 11:20. Tha...
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Google reviewed pay equity and learned it was underpaying men - mgiannopoulos https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/04/google-asked-about-pay-equity-learned-it-was-mostly-underpaying-men/ ====== sanxiyn Previous discussion (>500 comments) here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303039](https://news.y...
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There are two kinds of student: those with ability, and those who need lectures. - asciilifeform http://groups.google.com/group/rec.org.mensa/msg/3c5c1b3a88f4cabe?dmode=source&output=gplain ====== DrJokepu Well I'm not sure if I have any ability but I definitely didn't spend a lot of time on the campus. In the age o...
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How Much Does The Government Spend To Send A Kid To Public School? - tokenadult http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/21/155515613/how-much-does-the-government-spend-to-send-a-kid-to-school ====== tokenadult Full Census report: <http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/10f33pub.pdf>
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Worst Advice on Starting a Company - dpolaske http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231130 ====== sharemywin Curious why you say that. There's some risk of analysis paralysis, but I wouldn't right a piece of software without some kind of spec or requirements. Now if you can build a product for free while you work for ...
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Use the DNS to Announce Your ZeroMQ Services - Loic http://www.ceondo.com/ecte/2011/12/dns-zeromq-services ====== darklajid So.. What exactly is wrong with using SRV records [1] in this case? 1: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record> ~~~ Loic In this particular case it is that I want to provide more than just ...
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A bug in macOS 10.15.5 impacts bootable backups - chmaynard https://bombich.com/blog/2020/05/27/bug-in-macos-10.15.5-impacts-bootable-backups-weve-got-you-covered ====== chmaynard From the article: The chflags() system call can no longer set the SF_FIRMLINK flag on a folder on an APFS volume. Rather than fail with an...
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Ask HN: Help with acqhire from EU by US company? - throwaway_asker I&#x27;m a european single founder working on a niche startup and have received an acqhire offer from a US company. The package is vested equity (a mix of shares and options), no cash and is conditioned by my employment in the EU subsidiary of the comp...
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Pay Your Programmers $200/hour - abtinf http://www.abtinforouzandeh.com/2011/12/30/Pay-Your-Programmers-200-Per-Hour.html ====== gvb The author mixes work as a contractor and work as a full time employee in the same article. Further, there is no evidence he is working (or has worked) as an employee. "As a programme...
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How Facebook Became Cash-Flow Positive A Year Ahead Of Schedule - onreact-com http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-became-cash-flow-positive-a-year-ahead-of-schedule-2009-9 ====== onreact-com I remember a year or two ago everybody in the press complaining how Facebook had huge numbers of users but no profits....
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MX3D is to 3D-print a steel bridge over water in Amsterdam - dnetesn http://phys.org/news/2015-06-mx3d-3d-print-steel-bridge-amsterdam.html ====== Animats Here's the actual process.[1] It's not clear if the video has been sped up. The product quality seems comparable to rebar. Making a pedestrian bridge out of that s...
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I'm not sure who this Oleg person is, but he sure has some cool links on his site. - coglethorpe http://okmij.org/ftp/ ====== sigstoat Oleg Kiselyov, a big name in functional programming. [http://library.readscheme.org/servlets/search.ss?pattern=Kis...](http://library.readscheme.org/servlets/search.ss?pattern=Kisel...
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Arc4random – randomization for all occasions - edwintorok http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/index.html ====== protomyth Link to Hackfest 2014: Theo de Raadt presented "arc4random - randomization for all occasions" video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmLWx8ut20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Imgix Status – Elevated Rendering Errors - gurgeous https://status.imgix.com/incidents/bg0msyrz9f17 ====== gurgeous This is the third outage this month for imgix. What's going on over there? Can anyone recommend an alternative?
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Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs? - lbj Looking for some inspiration. Ive done a lot of MVPs&#x2F;Early-stage apps over the years and I tend to lean on the same SaaS portfolio for mails, text gateways, payment etc, but Im sure Ive missed a few valuable additions.<p>Here&#x27;s a few I use: M...
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Ask HN: Alternatives to GMail? - KaeseEs I&#x27;ve gotten fed up with the UI changes that been made to (inflicted on) gmail in the last two years or so; new compose is the last straw. What are some good alternatives? SSL, non-&quot;flat&quot; UI and a good thread&#x2F;conversation view are my only musts, skins&#x2F...
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The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective - fogus http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem.ars ====== tambourine_man BeOS was the greatest experience I've ever had with an OS. It felt faster booted from a ZIP Drive on a 160MHz PPC with 192MB of RAM than my machine feels today, and this...
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Ask HN: Why all Backbone resources seem to be outdated? - cberrios Hello. I&#x27;m self-studying to become a &quot;full stack&quot; web developer and I&#x27;ve chosen Backbone as the first frontend framework&#x2F;library to learn, since it&#x27;s small, widely used and plays well with React and other libraries&#x2F;...
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The Science of Pixar's ‘Inside Out’ - aaronbrethorst http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/the-science-of-inside-out.html ====== tfigment As always Fresh Air's Terry Gross on NPR did an outstanding interview with the Director several weeks ago. They go fairly deep into the trade offs of making a movie and g...
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Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author - fanf2 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417 ====== drewg123 To see how Google feels about ad blockers, all you need to do is look at Chrome on Android & the fact that it does not allow extensions at all...
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WordPress and Docker Secure Product Demos (Saas) - denis_g http://wpdemo.cloud/public/wpdemo-beta-release/ ====== brudgers Curious if WPDemo spins up a new container for each vistor. ~~~ denis_g Yes it does. However, they are garbage collected after 5min of inactivity.
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JsCoq - colinprince https://github.com/ejgallego/jscoq ====== tempodox But if I run Coq on the client anyway, why would I take a gratuitous detour through the browser? A real REPL (i.e. in your shell, not in your browser) that uses MathJax or whatever for result rendering would look much more interesting to me. If...
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Naval Ravikant talks in-depth on: Twitter, Bubbles, and Start Fund - suhail http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/02/22/naval-ravikant-talks-in-depth-on-twitter-bubbles-new-york-and-start-fund-interview-part-2/ ====== pclark “The Market has to be huge because everyone makes mistakes. You never quite get it right t...
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Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor - mileswu http://www.anandtech.com/show/7556/dell-leaks-details-of-a-24-uhd-4k-3840x2160-monitor-the-up2414q ====== sillysaurus2 Watch out for problems with the monitor. New ultra-high-def monitors often have problems such as lag or poor color accuracy. Before bu...
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Renaissance-Era Italian Warlord Was Poisoned, Mummy Reveals - Thevet http://www.livescience.com/49319-mummy-reveals-italian-warlord-poisoned.html ====== davidw Verona is one of the nicest towns in northern Italy to visit: you have a bit of everything, historically, from the Arena onwards, plus the nice hills to the ...
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Ask HN: Do you miss MySpace? - startupflix ====== hulahoof Yes, I think in its own little way it promoted learning html to younger people. (I personally got my start on my Neopets page) ~~~ startupflix Wow :) Which feature(s) do you miss the most. ~~~ hulahoof I think I miss the customisation the most, whenever I loo...
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Bicycle Sharing Analysis in Pittsburgh - georgel http://lejnine.com/bike_analysis.html ====== georgel Author here, if you have any questions.
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Could Apple become the next Comcast? - 001sky http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/could-apple-become-the-next-comcast/2015/03/18/a90a8e9c-ccc3-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html ====== yunyeng Apple is developing really slow after Steve Jobs, but if they play their cards smartly they will dominant this Onl...
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Retina Mac External display problem - sayhello https://github.com/oyiptong/retinadisplayproblem ====== mbell Just a guess: The patterns in the examples seem to be horizontal, meaning the raw (pre 'cable encoding', usually 8b/10b) bit pattern of the display output would be repetitive . It wouldn't be out of the questi...
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S3sync – Tool belt for managing your S3 buckets - clarete https://github.com/clarete/s3sync I started contributing to s3sync before hearing about the official amazon s3 tool written in python. However, after testing the official tool for a couple minutes, I decided to spend more time working on s3sync and here&#x27;s...
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Italian village literally sells itself to avoid death - dexteve http://latribuna.eu/italian-village-litterally-sells-itself-roads-for-e-2500-with-your-name-on-them-benches-e-250/ ====== ignoranceprior This is the same comune that hosted the Wikimania conference in 2016.
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My least favorite VC behaviour? - dwynings http://asack.typepad.com/a_sack_of_seattle/2011/07/my-least-favorite-vc-behaviour.html ====== rdl A common (although I haven't seen it) but also lame VC thing is for them to say "No, we don't want to invest, because ..." where "..." is some random reason which sounds plausib...
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KitKat’s primary interface is Google Search - kunai http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/google-just-pulled-a-facebook-home-kitkats-primary-interface-is-google-search/ ====== droopyEyelids > The dialer and incoming call screen now automatically perform Google > searches for phone number information (and will display...
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Rudy Giuliani Twitter typo sparks anti-Trump protest website - trusche https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/05/rudy-giuliani-helps-create-anti-trump-protest-website-with-twitter-typo ====== trusche This is too funny. You wouldn't expect your average politician to understand how the web works, but how on earth ...
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Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust - joeyespo http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/ ====== qznc Is that really some "special behavior"? As far as i understand the semicolon is just an expression separator like in Erlang and Pascal. In contrast, the semicolon is a statement terminator in C. C ...
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[Ask HN] what caused the HN traffic spike? - uptownhr https://siteanalytics.compete.com/embed_chart/ycombinator.com/small/ ====== adventured That's assuming there was a traffic spike that resembles what compete.com is showing. They're not an accurate source for traffic stats. ~~~ uptownhr If compete is not accurate...
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Modern Perl, the book, is Available. - dtby http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/11/the-book-is-out.html ====== agentultra This is great. I've been anticipating this book for a while. I'm tired of hearing the same canned complaints about perl. It's a great language. Thanks for showing us all why. :) ~~~ viraptor ...
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How to properly use UTF-8 in Perl - ojosilva http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default/#6163129 ====== jrockway This is way too much to remember. The key to handling Unicode correctly is to think about the data that comes into your program and the data that leaves your p...
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What are the best hosting options for a new startup - mhidalgo ====== terpua Serverbeach for mid-range, Rackspace for high-end, Amazon EC2 for development
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Hacking iPhone 5S touchID - xmpir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8b8d8kSNQ ====== xmpir [http://istouchidhackedyet.com/](http://istouchidhackedyet.com/) changed to MAYBE ....
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Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy - mkrecny http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/passive-income-hacker-vs-startup-guy ====== patio11 The conversation has been known to continue: SG: "You should join our company as chief growth hacker, since it's a great fit for your skills and experience. You'll work 100 hour weeks. We...
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Type Safety, ORM and Dependency Injection with Node.js - kiyanwang http://paulosuzart.github.io/blog/2017/10/04/type-safety-orm-and-dependency-injection-node/ ====== meitham The syntax for the ORM definition and the relationships between the columns makes the api absolutely beautiful!
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In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis - bakbak http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/books/merkels-possible-successor-resigns-in-plagiarism-scandal.html?src=me&ref=homepage ====== narkee I wonder if his supporters would be so enthusiastic if they found out their family doctors had cheated to pass their medical exams...
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Ask HN: What is your solution to data duplication across applications? - Dansvidania I work in enterprise and there is an incredible amount of replication and &quot;de-normalisation&quot; across both old and new applications.<p>I am investigating methods of record linkage, but it does not seem like a solved problem.<p...
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The human brain can create structures in up to 11 dimensions - touristtam https://www.sciencealert.com/science-discovers-human-brain-works-up-to-11-dimensions ====== sharemywin Wouldn't feature be a better term? or Am I missing something?
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Photos from Pyongyang, North Korea - jlturner http://www.m1key.me/photography/ostensibly_ordinary_pyongyang/ ====== detaro [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11286997](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11286997), submitted 18h ago, points to a different gallery about the same trip and seems to discuss both.
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Some questions about domain ownership - ez77 Greetings! Here are some rather paranoid questions on domain ownership. In the first place, what would happen if someone obtained your (say) GoDaddy's username and password and took over it by changing the owner, A-, and MX-records? (Be it by guessing, stealing, keyloggin...
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10 Years of Atari/Atari Games VaxMail - quadfour http://www.textfiles.com/games/ATARIMAIL/ ====== jf This archive has been a personal reminder to watch what I say in all digital communication. Even if I think that my post is "internal only" or "private", it can still end up online. I say this because one of these f...
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Section links in READMEs and blob pages - pathdependent https://github.com/blog/1126-section-links-in-readmes-and-blob-pages ====== pathdependent I know there has been a lot of user interface complaints about github lately. People have said it's very noisy. What I liked about this update was that I noticed it a few ...
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The Dehumanisation of Agile and Objects – James Coplien (GOTO 2017) - einrealist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBQmIDdls4 ====== einrealist James Coplien talks about the origins of OO (Object Orientation) and Agile and puts them into perspective by ranting about the current meaning of those terms. I like the talk ...
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The Management Engine: an attack on computer users' freedom - tomrod https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-attack-on-computer-users-freedom ====== peatmoss I just found this note that suggests the AMD PSP (ME equivalent) can be disabled, officially, and not as a hack: [https://www.phoronix.com/s...
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@Snowden - uptown https://twitter.com/snowden ====== uptown verified: [https://theintercept.com/2015/09/29/edward-snowden- twitter-s...](https://theintercept.com/2015/09/29/edward-snowden-twitter- snowden/) ------ cryoshon Pretty cool to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson chatting with Snowden. It's like all the internet's hero...
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Why I love having a geeky boyfriend - this is the surprise I was given today - mansigandhi http://shoutt.me/mansi/surprise.html ====== jzworkman Got stuck on trying to type out answers for the binary clue, yay for viewing page source ;) ~~~ mansigandhi Hehe yeah. ------ hashgowda Hmm.. Tricky. ------ jameswyse he...
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Npm v3 Dependency Resolution - bpierre https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3 ====== dang We re-upped this post (described at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926) and earlier posts linked from there). But [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10817978](https...
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An Experiment in Haskell: A Compiler - lukeqsee https://github.com/lseelenbinder/oodle-compiler ====== lukeqsee See [https://www.lukeseelenbinder.com/compiler.pdf](https://www.lukeseelenbinder.com/compiler.pdf) for a more detailed project description and documentation. This was an academic project, but it taught me ...
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Crow: Flask based Microframework in C++ - suyash93 https://github.com/ipkn/crow ====== detaro flask _inspired_ , not _based_ (which would be an odd way of doing things)
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If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged - fogus http://geekfeminism.org/2010/07/27/if-you-were-hacking-since-age-8-it-means-you-were-privileged/ ====== rdtsc That is simply not true. We weren't poor growing up but we were not far from it (at least according to the Western standards). I remember ...
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Microsoft Research Unveils Gloveless Digital Hand Interface - paulschlacter http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410727,00.asp ====== jaipilot747 Interesting concept! I understand it is a research prototype, but wonder how it could be shaped into a product. I doubt wouldn't want to walk around wearing something tha...
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Dotcloud Is Shutting Down on February 29 - HardyLeung http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/22/dotcloud-the-cloud-service-that-gave-birth-to-docker-is-shutting-down-on-february-29/ ====== 0xCMP Yea to be clear. This article is kind of written horribly and the title is click-bait. Everyone who follows Docker should know that ...
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Ask HN: Self-hosted Alternatives to Dropbox? - elcritch Dropbox is dropping support for syncing on &quot;non-supported&quot; filesystems. I&#x27;m a paying customer for Dropbox, but would like to have an option for self-hostable file syncing systems to scale down my reliance on Dropbox. Best recommendations? ====== da...
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France Clears Bill That Could Force Apple to Unlock Terror Data - jbraithwaite http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-08/france-votes-on-bill-that-could-make-apple-unlock-terrorist-data ====== pawadu > French lawmakers backed a plan to impose penalties including jail time on > technology executives who deny ac...
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Ask HN: Is there a tech sector that has a lower barrier to entry than software? - MiracleQueen ====== Artemix What about Web?
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If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed - tuxguy https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/04/689747637/if-youre-often-angry-or-irritable-you-may-be-depressed ====== GlenTheMachine This was precisely my wife's symptoms when we were first married. She was angry nearly all the time. She could ho...
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Ask HN: Solo founder support group? - bostonhacker Is there a group &#x2F; mailing list &#x2F; slack &#x2F; irc &#x2F; forum for those of us who are trying to start our own business but have no one to discuss the day to day issues with?<p>I have been working on my own product for the last few months. I also have a day...
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Robotic Firefighters - moisy http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247366/U.S._Navy_to_test_humanoid_robotic_firefighters?pageNumber=1 ====== obastemur Wondering something a little bit close to strong AI and how it could be .. "The robots already have some autonomy and can make decisions about taking steps and mov...
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25 Useful Websites of 2017 - sharkpower https://medium.com/@viralsites/25-useful-websites-of-2017-5be6537f14f5#.aw7vjfvx5 ====== sharkpower ...
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I’m Not an Elitist, I’m Just an Alpha Female (2015) - balls187 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-elitist-just-alpha-female-amanda-bradford ====== Mz [https://www.guidelive.com/dallas/2017/07/12/new-dating- app-l...](https://www.guidelive.com/dallas/2017/07/12/new-dating-app-league- fighting-allegations-elitist-lands-d...
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Simplicity as a Feature - hjast http://reubendoetsch.com/post/57056992492/simplicity-as-a-feature ====== smanning good to see this issue clarified
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Ask HN: We've launched successfully. Now what? - hackathonguy Hey everybody,<p>So we&#x27;ve launched our startup on TechCrunch and a whole bunch of smaller publications and are currently live on Product Hunt. Overall it&#x27;s been a rather successful &quot;soft&quot; launch (we&#x27;ve been trickling more articles, ...
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Paul Graham revisits "Microsoft is Dead" - ilamont http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/04/09/paul-graham-revisits-microsoft-dead-points-new-factors-shaping-software-industry ====== qeorge I've never agreed with this PG essay. Granted its a couple of years old, but I think its totally off-base. Specifically: "Gmai...
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Reddit admin /u/spez is accused of allowing promotion of violence and hate - creamyhorror https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/827zqc/in_response_to_recent_reports_about_the_integrity/ ====== IntronExon That first thread is a train wreck; here is a guy who has no idea what real accountability looks like. It...
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Update on the FBI datacenter raid - vaksel http://www.examiner.com/x-3628-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m4d6-More-datacenter-woes ====== briansmith From now on, geographic replication will have a new-found importance. I think a lot of businesses think "our customers will understand if the site is down for a few days after...
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Socialism is incompatible with human nature - yarapavan https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/the-rise-and-disastrous-fall-of-the-kibbutz/ ====== MatekCopatek I very much disagree with the fact that any kind of political and economic system could be "compatible with human nature", which is a popular argument in supporti...
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What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know - ca98am79 https://www.schneier.com/essay-429.html ====== rayiner The article is old, but timely, since today is Constitution Day. Here's what Justice Scalia had to say about the NSA issue last night: [http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/09/sca...
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Ask HN: How do you host your email/cal/files (using your own domain)? - bkfh Who knows a company that offers: – email, calendar, file hosting using a – custom domain with – servers in Europe and a – beautilful UI?<p>Currently using ZOHO, but it&#x27;s incredibly buggy. Self hosting is not really an option as I find em...
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You're Overthinking It - mpakes http://engineering.gomiso.com/2012/02/01/youre-overthinking-it/ ====== josscrowcroft Upvoted just for this absolute gem: _[...] it also depends on where you are on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The lower on the pyramid your product is, the crappier it can look. If your product is core ...
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Google to Acquire Nest - coloneltcb http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0113.html ====== MrZongle2 Am I the only one who thought "well, good for the Nest guys" followed by "too bad, it looked like a good product"? ~~~ psbp Yeah, motorola products have completely gone down the toilet after that acquisition. They ...
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Speech-Based, Natural Language Conversational Recommender Systems - buovjaga http://grasch.net/node/147 ====== dvirsky This is really impressive, but personally I'd rather interact with such agents in typed text, at least as the input method. But maybe I'm just too old. ~~~ joe_the_user No, I think tend to think yo...
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Robert Zubrin: how to go to Mars right now - TriinT http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/how-to-go-to-marsright-now ====== smhinsey I think the most interesting aspect of the Mars Direct-style plans is that they can potentially be one-way. The largest expense with a trip to Mars in terms of technology...
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Why boarding schools produce bad leaders - joaorico https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/09/boarding-schools-bad-leaders-politicians-bullies-bumblers ====== epalmer This is interesting to say the least. The arguments see well thought out but I wonder how this is provable? I also ponder to what extent this i...
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Making a programming language - Richienb https://github.com/Richienb/ROS-Code ====== Richienb Currently making a programming language, probably won't become massively popular but here it is anyways. ~~~ brudgers Looks interesting but I am having a hard time finding its documentation.
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Facebook's chinese nickname - eastdark how about liandan(a funnier way to call &quot;face&quot; in Chinese)? it&#x27;s not so formal and it would be easier to be remembered ====== worldwar no matter it's called liandan or lianshu, anyway, for most Chinese, they can't visit facebook. ------ jitabc 非死不可
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Theranos adds qualified medical experts and scientists to advisory board - kqr2 http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/07/theranos-adds-a-bunch-of-qualified-medical-experts-and-scientists-to-the-board/ ====== zaidf Who writes these articles? This is their Scientific board. "The board" almost always implies the company's corpor...
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Kytephone (YC W12) lets parents monitor and schedule their teen's phone usage - martythemaniak http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/02/kytephone-the-yc-startup-making-smartphones-kid-safe-now-helps-parents-monitor-teens-smartphone-usage-with-kytetime/ ====== priley Totally needed this. Great job guys!
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Why doesn't HN have a way to do quotes? - TazeTSchnitzel Hacker News has only the bare minimum of possible formatting: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;formatdoc<p>In general this is fine. It satisfies the need for preformatted text blocks for programming, word emphasis, and hyperlinks. Some other kinds of ...
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Wikipedia Instant - novikk http://109.169.63.101/instantwiki/ ====== MeProtozoan Nice found! Also check <http://WikInstant.com> (built that one a few days ago)
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Clang 3.4 Release Notes - rwosync http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html ====== asb For anyone interested in LLVM/Clang you might like to know I've just started a weekly summary of developments. Find the first issue here [http://llvmweekly.org/issue/1](http://llvmweekly.org/issue/1) and sub...
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Droid, Pre, and iPhone compared - nym http://www.billshrink.com/blog/total-cost-of-ownership-motorola-droid-versus-iphone-3gs-versus-palm-pre/ ====== mrshoe The weakness of the ubiquitous feature matrix is that you can't just put a check mark next to "usability". ~~~ wmeredith I also thought it was goofy that this ...
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Prime Explorer - MrBra http://primes.io/ ====== MrBra What are those coefficients and how are they calculated? ------ jessup Reminds me of Mills' Theorem [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MillsConstant.html](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MillsConstant.html) ------ radiodario This is awesome! thanks! ------ TheLarch I ...
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How to Pirate Movies, Music, TV Shows, and Books Without Getting Caught - vibrunazo http://gizmodo.com/5927849/how-to-pirate-movies-music-tv-shows-and-books-without-getting-caught ====== rkudeshi How do sites like Gizmodo and Lifehacker get away with these posts? I know they're not illegal per se, but surely their c...
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Katherine Johnson Biography - wglb https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography ====== reimertz I just saw the movie Hidden Figures which is based on the incredible achievements of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. I was happily surprised to see this on HN. If you haven’t seen it, please...
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Show HN: The cheapest investment platforms in the UK - Halimah https://www.koody.co/investing/compare-funds-isa-charges ====== fiftyacorn Nice site I thought iweb were cheapest. Can't believe I ever used Hargreaves Lansdowne Have you ever read monevator? It's good for this info too ~~~ Halimah Thanks for the feedba...
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Hjson, the Human JSON - 56k http://hjson.org/ ====== simonw JSON plus comments and python-style multi-line strings is great. The thing where you can leave quotes off strings makes me nervous, especially the example where the value is HTML with its own embedded double quotes for attribute values. Not requiring quotes...
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Gardens as crypto-water-computers - ricardobeat http://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html ====== ColinWright Reminds me of the hydraulic model of the economy, the MONIAC "computer". <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438081> I assume this was the inspiration for "The Glooper" in ...
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Bitcoin lecture series (2015) - randartie http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ ====== randomwalker I'm the lead author of this textbook/lecture series. It's been a couple of years, and we've been thinking about an update. Let me know what topics you'd most like to see. Note that our goal is not to much to teach the de...
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Wikimedia 'breaks copyright' with Swedish statue photos - T-A http://www.thelocal.se/20160404/wikimedia-breaks-copyright-laws-with-pics-of-public-art ====== mixedCase Aren't these statues commissioned by the state and publicly owned?
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Why Early Stage Startups Should Not Exhibit at Conferences - netvarun http://blog.semantics3.com/our-experiences-at-demo-asia-and-why-early-stage-startups-shouldnt-exhibit-at-conferences/ ====== einhverfr Conferences are tricky. Here's a counter-example. We went to MYGOSSCON (Malaysian Government Open Source Softwa...
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Enable "path view" in Finder (OS X) - tortilla http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/05/terminal-tips-enable-path-view-in-finder/ ====== yan Also, Shift+Command+G in Finder is priceless. ~~~ tlrobinson Or, if you're in Terminal.app and want to browse your current directory in the Finder, just type "open ." (or any path inste...
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Publishers call Brave's ad-blocking browser “blatantly illegal” - arm http://www.techspot.com/news/64391-publishers-call-brave-ad-blocking-browser-blatantly-illegal.html ====== Joof I'm not in love with Brave and admittedly it takes some control from the companies, but the way they are attacking ad blockers they shoul...
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Though shalt not advertise - messel http://www.victusspiritus.com/2011/04/01/though-shalt-not-advertise/ ====== SlowOnTheUptake Thou shalt not rely on spelling correctors.
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