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FAA's Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress - szczys http://hackaday.com/2015/12/21/heres-the-reason-the-faas-drone-registration-system-doesnt-make-sense/ ====== teovall I'm not sure why the title leads with the registration system not making sense rather than the fact that it's illegal. It seems like that's...
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The Adobe/Apple Flame war - anderzole http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/04/11/the-adobe-apple-flame-war/ ====== Terretta Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) was an executive at Apple Computer from 1981 to 1990. He is most famous for founding Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. Afte...
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Hacker News Nation is Live - castig http://blog.onemonthrails.com/hacker-news-nation-episode-1/ ====== mooted1 I love the idea. And this deserves more attention. But two gripes: 1.) "Hacker News Nation is Live" is a very ambiguous headline. A lot of people who would've found this interesting never clicked through ...
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Show HN: 99Gamers.com, free video game trading. From Reddit post to 2000 trades. - brandonthejames http://99gamers.com/ ====== brandonthejames A few months ago I made a post on Reddit (<http://redd.it/v8y2o>) about an idea for a video game trading community. I had always wanted a way to get more value for my games b...
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A Vote of No Confidence in Shari Steele - bahjoite https://medium.com/@stderr/a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-shari-steele-380e327d73b8 ====== bahjoite The content of this medium.com article was posted to the tor-project mailing list, educing the following (summarised) responses:- \- the email address of the OP was flagge...
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Paycheck Protection Program Recipient Map - miles https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/sbaloans ====== virusduck Only 9 states data are present... ~~~ ed312 From the site: "data upload in progress: 9/50 states completed" ~~~ skoskie A day later it’s up to 12. This should be resubmitted next month.
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Ask HN: Why isn't Silverlight more popular? - d4nt I mean, I work for a Microsoft Gold partner building (mostly) internal business apps, and I spend literally hours trying to get ASP.NET, MS AJAX Toolkit, jQuery, IE6 and HTML/CSS/Javascript to all play along nicely. I'm exactly the sort of person who should be switc...
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Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? - drops https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-power-lines-anime-electrical-infrastructure ====== coolandsmartrr Short Answer: Anno Until their depiction in _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ in 1995, power lines were virtually non-existent in anime. After all, why draw them when the...
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Apple malware affects mostly Chinese users - dan1234 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29928751 ====== 0x0 A more informative technical explanation is given here: [http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=4140](http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=4140) TL;DR: Pirated OSX apps with components that listen for iphone usb connec...
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Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand - hooboy https://apnews.com/1566b3c6a377ee907a0f2e143a5b26c9 ====== contingencies What is interesting is that they set out from Puluwat[0], which was the site at which one of the pacific's last master navigators was interviewed by modern anthropologists in _We:...
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Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces - ballmers_peak https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apple-factory-thefts-secret-tunnels-hidden-crawl-spaces?pu=hackernews11vvpt&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock ====== ballmers_peak Hi everyone, Jay from The Information here. We have unlocked ...
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The Single Sign On - billpg http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Single-Sign-On.aspx ====== patio11 This situation is virtually made for client-side certificates: 1) You won't need passwords beyond whatever it takes to log in locally. 2) You can assume the hospital computers are physically secured. (Well, I wouldn't,...
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Google homepage redesign project - barryhand http://www.lettersociety.com/tagged/Project-9 ====== NicoJuicy At first i didn't see the changes, but as i scrolled lower, i must admit... It's truly amazing. Perhaps you should remind that people look at screenshots without reading the text and they don't see a lot of ...
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Over one thousand children illegally registered - yesbabyyes http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/over-one-thousand-children-illegally-registered/ ====== amybe Um. Does ancestry.com disclose statistics on requests by law enforcement? Could governments get any creepier?
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Easy and simple server push with JRuby and JWt - gvitez http://blog.elevat.eu/2012/03/server-push-made-easy-with-jruby-and-jwt/ ====== gvitez Constructive criticism is welcome!
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A Pythoneers directory - kachhalimbu http://blog.ziade.org/2013/06/13/a-pythoneers-directory/ ====== yakxxx Is it only me who finds inviting women to be speakers only because they are women wrong and in fact sexist? You shouldn't differentiate people like this. It's basically wrong in the same way as saying "Im loo...
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Wait for User to Stop Typing, in JavaScript - gschier https://schier.co/blog/wait-for-user-to-stop-typing-using-javascript ====== jamespetercook The immensely useful lodash library comes with a debounce utility you can use for this. [https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#debounce](https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#debounce) ...
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Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest - suprgeek http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10305822-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 ====== suprgeek Microsoft has a well-known strategy. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish> Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. As one of the other comme...
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How we boosted in-app conversions by 125% - splitforce http://blog.splitforce.com/post/66332510495/driving-in-app-revenue-through-a-b-testing-reigndesign ====== ikura That's really interesting... I'd have gone with the same assumption about the time penalty - am gonna have to try this out myself!
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Before the shock wave, the brightness of a nuclear explosion boils everything - DoreenMichele http://engineer--cat.tumblr.com/post/85107895095/lumoblaze-jonkakes-bigcoolscorner ====== Simulacra Is this light converted into Kinetic energy? I don't see how this is possible. ~~~ angersock Photons are absorbed by surface...
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Show HN: Turn any door intercom into a programmable Internet device - darrennix https://www.doorbuzzing.com ====== lotsofcows Title should be "Turn any door intercom that calls a 'phone into ..." ------ jgrahamc No, please don't. Just make it ring a bell.
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An introduction to Clean Architecture - Triiistan http://www.theodo.fr/blog/2014/12/sfpot-paris-2014-12-12-pepiniere-27/ ====== jmnicolas > _In a few words, it’s an evolution of Domain Driven Design, with more > abstractions. It’s based on UseCase Drive Design and Hexagonal > Architecture._ Lost me here ... What h...
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Pi - an e-book reader from Infibeam, an Indian Company - deepakjois http://infibeam.com/Pi ====== anigbrowl Looks...strangely...familiar... ~~~ deepakjois Yes it does. Engadget did a post on the blatant rip-off of both the Amazon.com website and Kindle [http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/keepin-it-real-fake- part-....
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Google Search Results for Blm - theduder99 look at autocomplete suggestions for &quot;blm is &quot; on google compared to bing. just some manual search results limitations, nothing to see here. try the same exercise for any other organization. ====== jeffbee Bing also completes "is hillary clinton" with "at gitmo". ...
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OneNote Mac – The Song [Parody of One Day More from Les Misérables] - awa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsAPdv8JZ4&feature=share ====== davidras What a fun team.
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Ask HN: What do you use for Javascript, CSS, and image dependency management? - neilk Past a certain point of complexity, it becomes desirable to have a framework to manage all the various JS, CSS and image files that one uses into "modules" of functionality, some of which might even be loaded on-demand from the cli...
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Plenty of Sex and Nowhere to Sit: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris - pepys https://literaryreview.co.uk/plenty-of-sex-nowhere-to-sit ====== nottorp The title looked interesting (though it's possibly clickbait) so I opened it in a new tab. When I switched to the tab the article was covered by a 'subscribe to our n...
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Patatap - erickhill http://www.patatap.com/ ====== clintonc Before you press the space bar, "nowisthetimeforallgoodmentocometotheaidoftheircountry" sounds like the music they used to play early in the mornings on VH1...
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The Concurnas Programming Language - blopeur https://concurnas.com/ ====== smithza Never seen anything like this before in a programming language (VHDL/Verilog supports this sort of stuff of course): onchange(x){ doSomething()}//on change of x, perform an action every(x){ doSomething(x)}//as abo...
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The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - nkurz http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-secret-life-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-20100521-w1um.html ====== tptacek _Wikileaks appeared on the internet three years ago. It acts as an electronic dead drop for highly sensitive or secret inf...
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Trump Hosted Zuckerberg for Undisclosed Dinner at the White House in October - uptown https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-hosted-zuckerberg-undisclosed-dinner-white-house-october-n1087986 ====== davidw Kind of seeing a pattern here... [https://popular.info/p/facebooks-top-news-executive- has](https://popular...
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NASA Images of Oil Slick - J3L2404 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43846 ====== alt219 Ironic that at the same time a fossil fuel disaster of this scope is occurring, there are folks in Massachusetts still fighting to prevent offshore wind turbines because of concerns over the ecological impact. ~...
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Smaller – Batch Minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript Files - chenluois http://smallerapp.com ====== pedalpete Would you want a desktop app to minify your html/css/javascript files rather than including this as part of your build process? If so, can you explain why?
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Monitoring service/server with Arduino microcontroller - helwr http://burnsforce.com/original-guides/project-arduino-nagios-server-monitoring/ ====== jellisjapan Really cool, but I'd love to see the code you use to monitor your gmail account as well.
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Male college students also victims of violence at girlfriends' hands - toni http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/feb10/univviol21210.html ====== cjbprime FTA: _Thinking about a typical victim of college dating violence, you're probably imagining her, not him._ Yes, that's because the typical victim of dating v...
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User loses 1400 BTC to malicious Electrum node - typpo https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecomment-683356052 ====== Arnt The answer seems to say: "Because there exists least some user errors that the software cannot guard against, guarding against this class of error isn't worthwhile". My bank manag...
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Demon-Haunted World - drabiega http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/09/cory-doctorow-demon-haunted-world/ ====== jordigh There is so much "Stallman was right" in all of these examples... non-free software always manages to eventually sneak in malicious anti-user features, where the user has no recourse. At least ...
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Federal prosecutors freeze accounts of people who play poker online. - vaksel http://www.cnbc.com/id/31201075 ====== kirse When I think of dumb laws, the US laws against internet gambling (especially poker) are high on that list. I have never played online poker, but if stupid people want to flush their money down ...
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Open Dylan 2013.1 released - BruceM http://opendylan.org/news/2013/07/11/new-release.html ====== sspiff I've been seeing OpenDylan pass by on /r/lisp and HN the past few months. I've installed it, and it looks nice, but it could use some maturing and I'm not sure what the advantage over other LISPs is. Can someone e...
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Show HN: Comūn - rastn https://comun.us/ ====== dang You guys have posted this 9 times in the last few weeks. A small number of reposts is ok ([https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)), but this is on the other side of that line, and users have complained, so please stop. ...
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Facebook Has Decided That I Am Not Interested In My Wife - forrestkyle http://thinkforrestthink.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/facebook-is-a-website-that-does-nothing-except-spy-on-you/ ====== missechokit ...explain? I honestly don't understand what happened. How does promoted posts tie in? ~~~ forrestkyle [http://danger...
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How to Be a More Productive Web Developer - willfarrell http://sixrevisions.com/project-management/ways-more-productive-web-developer/ ====== dholowiski I would add either using the noprocrast option on this site, or a hosts entry pointing news.ycombinator.com to 127.0.0.1 for a huge increase in productivity.
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Ask HN: What sit/stand desk should I buy for home? - SoftwarePatent Title says it all, I&#x27;m setting up a home office and am going to buy myself a nice sit&#x2F;stand desk. ====== akulbe I'll go against the grain here. I think moving is better than just standing. I'd get a treadmill desk. Lifespan Fitness makes a...
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Tell HN: readwriteweb.com Canvassing HN'ers for their 'HN Love' - jacquesm http://jacquesmattheij.com/readwriteweb.com-canvassing-hn-members ====== icey All of these meta-police postings are starting to get ridiculous. I get that you're outraged because someone asked you to read or post something, or vote for somethi...
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I’m a student launching my first app, need advice on how to launch / market - danreed07 Hi guys, I’m working on an app called BubblyPlanet, it’s an social augmented reality app that’s kind of like Twitter meets Google StreetView.<p>I have no idea how to market this to people short of showing it to my friends and famil...
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Ask HN: Crawl the entire web? - nullundefined If you were tasked with crawling the entire web, how would you go about doing it? ====== Eridrus I'd grab the CommonCrawl data and keep moving on what my actual problem is.
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How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small - rspivak https://unstoppable.me/accomplish-big-things/ ====== ambivalents Has anyone else given up TV and noticed beneficial effects? "I replaced all TV time with reading time. TV is full of stories of murder, betrayal, and pain. It’s riveting, but it also messe...
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Show HN: Checkout our app Hot5 - artilheiro http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/hot5/ Workout videos with personal trainers. 5 minutes. 5 exercises. 1 intense workout. Train like you live. ====== artilheiro Let me know what you think.
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Feerless: Crowd-sourced, preemptive notifications for Netflix watchers with PTSD - lmahini https://feerless.us/ ====== ccorcoran This is a really creative approach to a problem that far too many people need to deal with. I think this project is going to end up helping a lot of people. ~~~ tsunamino Thanks! I'm really...
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Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers - dcgudeman https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742 ====== empath75 The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to me. Requiring the driv...
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Review of Studies About Standing Desks - JohnHammersley http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045217/evidence/everything-science-knows-right-now-about-standing-desks ====== carsongross OT, but this image from the article: [http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imageca...](http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_file...
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Ask HN: What makes consoles so much better than PCs for games at their price? - notknifescience A PS4 currently 300 dollars on Amazon. It would be difficult to build a PC for 300 dollars that could play video games at the same quality &#x2F; performance. So where does the gap come from, or what is so specialized about...
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Show HN: Headlights.io - A Different way to Lease Transfer - psp219 http://headlights.io ====== psp219 My partner and I started this project after I had a really bad experience trying to get out of an existing car lease. I either had to cough up the remaining lease amount up front, which was thousands of dollars I cou...
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Google to stop showing news snippets for French users - tannhaeuser https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-france/google-to-stop-showing-news-snippets-for-french-users-idUSKBN1WA1FK ====== pavelludiq Congratulations to the EU commission and the EU parliament on achieving the exact opposite of what they wan...
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“Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things - darkroasted http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/06/thank-you-culture-india-america/395069/?single_page=true ====== littletimmy As a non-American, this was one of the biggest culture shocks I faced. On the surface, relationships in the US s...
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Ask HN: What projects have you worked on that ended up failing - ctnieves ====== itamarst 1\. Small, fixable failures: software crashed in production every night at 4AM. 2\. Utter failures: long ago tried to do something like [https://capnproto.org/](https://capnproto.org/), wasn't up to it. 3\. Worked on many projec...
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Nymph: A slightly different version of C - nymph1324 https://github.com/roecrew/nymph ====== taspeotis It seems like the compiler allocates memory a lot, and is very optimistic in assuming a) the allocation will succeed and b) strings won't exceed 999 characters plus a null terminator. [https://github.com/roecrew/nym...
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DragonBox creator launches new game to teach geometry to kids - aymeric http://wewanttoknow.com/elements/ ====== aymeric Their first game DragonBox, that teaches algebra, managed to beat Angry Birds in the App Store rankings
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Official Spotify Web Player - mysterywhiteboy https://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2013/03/20/want-to-try-our-new-web-player/ ====== mtgx Does it work on ChromeOS, too? ~~~ mysterywhiteboy Looks like they have gone down the flash route - so no. I assume part of that decision is to make sure it doesn't work on ...
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Haskell in the Real World - patrickxb http://vimeo.com/24676617 ====== poelie We use Haskell intensively. It is a very useful and easy language. Once you mastered Haskell (and get used to the type system), it feels very natural. It is both usable for scripting and "real" tasks. The trick with Haskell is to model th...
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Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review - davepm http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973 ====== netcan I think this is an example of contracts being broken, often online but elsewhere too. You can't rent a hotel room without a credit card which helps hotels avoid you running off without paying for minibar pea...
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Ask HN: I'm 17 - have an opportunity to work at a VC firm right out of HS. - internshipsftw Hey HN,<p>I’ve been asked to send my resume to a venture capital firm in Boston, MA regarding an internship as a developer/designer for the firm. I’m really excited about this opportunity and thought I’d turn to this communit...
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Good Samaritan Backfire - blearyeyed https://medium.com/human-parts/9f53ef6a1c10 ====== rburhum Sadly, I have many friends with similar stories from police departments in different places. I attribute the officer's behavior to constantly being surrounded by violence. If everyday, most people around you are violent unr...
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The Carmack Plan - sidcool https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/ ====== signa11 previous submission: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15556387](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15556387)
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What are you avoiding working on? - akkartik https://openhatch.org/blog/2010/what-are-you-avoiding-working-on ====== barry-cotter That econometrics project that's due next Friday mostly. Also a past examination paper I want to have done in same as practice and a Macroeconomics paper. I iz _lazy_. ~~~ jodrellblank N...
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Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js - rgbrgb http://openhood.com/ruby/node/heroku/sinatra/mongo_mapper/unicorn/express/mongoose/cluster/2011/06/14/benchmark-ruby-versus-node-js/ ====== desireco42 I just can't resist, Serbs have saying 'almost is what makes girl unhappy' :). On more serious note, ruby is def...
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Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information - gusgordon http://spe.lt/ ====== shostack Wow--I really clicked with this immediately--super intuitive. Also, holy crap is it fast--instant results. Some initial reactions/suggestions: \- I want to be able to edit entries in a list in-line. When I looked at it on my Android ...
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Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50% - domino http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?art_aid=157597&fa=Articles.showArticle ====== kinofcain My bet is that facing insolvency and the lukewarm reaction to their IPO filings they've reigned in ad spend and are relying on their existing customers to bring in revenue, rather...
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Ask HN: Is 5G Dangerous for Humans? - ToFab123 My Facebook wall is floated with non-technical people posting articles about the danger of 5G to humans. The mainstream tech press rarely addresses the topic. The same goes for HN. If the subject comes up, most comments seem to agree that it is not dangerous, yet many out...
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Best Way to Learn Coding: CS Degree, Bootcamp, or Self Teach? - algodaily https://algodaily.com/lessons/best-way-to-learn-coding-cs-degree-bootcamp-or-self-teach ====== mikece What one learns in a CS degree is (ought to be?) considerably more and different from just "learning to code" so it's somewhat of a false compa...
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Should I Block ICMP? - based2 http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ ====== noinsight What I've been wondering is, do people actually set up fine-grained firewall rules for ICMP traffic or not? If they do, what are the rules specifically? Generally speaking, just allowing all of ICMP does not seem like a major issue. Denial of...
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Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye - wyclif http://nerdgap.com/why-im-kissing-spotify-goodbye/ ====== frou_dh I just wish Spotify could serve up a stream of _recommended_ tracks, based on your listening history, like Last.fm can. Spotify's "Radio" feature compounds my dislike of "genres" as a means of navigating and dis...
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Using Micro-Optimizations (Improving TCL Core Performance) - vasili111 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJrsl3fHQ74 ====== dalke This is Richard Hipp's presentation (of SQLite fame) at EuroTCL 2016. They "more than doubled the performance of SQLite using microoptimizations of the underlying C code". The same methods ca...
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Evolution of Asynchronous JavaScript - vasanthkay https://github.com/vasanthk/async-javascript ====== johnhenry This is a very good resource. Not technically being part of an ECMA standard, I can understanding leaving out streams. That being said, it would be awesome if there were also a section on streams, and possib...
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Escaping a Python sandbox (NdH 2013 quals writeup) - delroth http://blog.delroth.net/2013/03/escaping-a-python-sandbox-ndh-2013-quals-writeup/ ====== Erwin I recommend Zope's Restricted Python: <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython> for that sort of thing (this is not like Python's now-dead restricted mode)...
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Teens Now Getting High Off 'Digital Drugs' - mikecane http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12793977 ====== aristus When I was in grade school, the police passed out warnings about "blue star" rub on tattoos that contained heroin. That was total bullshit too. Every time I read "proper" journalism I am reminded ...
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The New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement - rbanffy https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/meet-the-new-york-couple-donating-millions-to-the-anti-vax-movement/2019/06/18/9d791bcc-8e28-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html#click=https://t.co/CBL8O2q3lz ====== tropdrop In all seriousness...
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Mental State of the Poor - negamax http://mohit.me/logs/mental_state_of_the_poor.html ====== patrickmclaren A few months ago, after moving apartments and traveling to renew some official documents (passport, visa, etc.), I had exhausted my emergency fund. It turned out that in my next pay period, someone in account...
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Microsoft Responds to Abusive Labor Conditions at Chinese Manufacturer - pinstriped_dude http://www.fastcompany.com/1617116/microsoft-chinese-suppliers-ncl-kernaghan-kye ====== Tichy I wonder, are the reporters here genuinely concerned about improving workers lives, or are they mostly enjoying having some leverage o...
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Glidey Cat - remixz http://zachbruggeman.me/glidey-cat/ ====== remixz As a note: This is intended to be satirical, making fun of the many Flappy Bird clones and their general poorly made nature. The bad game design is on purpose! It's also to make fun of the nature of mobile games being based on bought powerups rath...
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Rust Dataframe: Update 1 - nevi-me https://github.com/nevi-me/rust-dataframe/blob/master/notes/update-01__04-04-2020.md ====== quotemstr One of the things that most pisses me off about numpy, pandas, and the whole scipy ecosystem is that everything is "immediate mode": all operations evaluate _instantly_ to new arrays...
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Cutting the Cord, American Snipping Cable - Half a Million Cut in Q3 Alone - expathos http://www.appmarket.tv/opinion/810-cutting-the-cord-american-snipping-cable-new-teevee-reports-half-a-million-snipped-in-q3-alone.html ====== expathos Not only are our friends at NewTeeVee reporting the ax wound with US cable bleed...
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Roko's basilisk - lepht http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk ====== dreamweapon _The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don 't work on AI is lunacy._ _\-- Marc Andreessen_ Given that a significant portion of what marca himself says and adv...
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Is this rotating cube interface user-friendly? - sedachv http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11229/is-this-rotating-cube-interface-user-friendly ====== zippie I can't recall where I saw a site navigation laid out in a cube but I thought it was unique when I first encountered it. What I didn't realize was the incre...
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Beaker Notebook v1.2 released - spot http://BeakerNotebook.com ====== spot Among many improvements, this release has: • Support for Java and Scala, including sharing classes with Groovy. • Support for running Python2 and Python3 at the same time. • A better method of finding and configuring language backends. • Supp...
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Ask HN: What makes you want to open up a recruiter email? - aml183 I&#x27;m sure you get emails all the times from recruiters. Why do you open them and respond? Are the subjects interesting? Good timing? Salary is within your range?<p>I&#x27;m trying to change my emails to get higher response rates from developers. ==...
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Octane: Javascript Benchmark Suite for the modern web - ZeroGravitas http://blog.chromium.org/2012/08/octane-javascript-benchmark-suite-for.html ====== ck2 Interesting, as Firefox 17 has caught up to Chrome in older benchmarks. [http://www.arewefastyet.com/?machine=11&view=regress](http://www.arewefastyet.com/?mach...
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Docker, Containers, and the Future of Application Delivery - bdon http://www.slideshare.net/dotCloud/why-docker2bisv4 ====== jacques_chester I feel like the long-term architectural implications of virtual machines and now containers haven't quite sunk in. I'm not talking about the _administrative_ advantages, which I ...
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Amazon’s Web Services, Startups and Innovation - hshah http://gigaom.com/2010/02/01/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-on-amazon’s-web-services-startups-and-innovation/ ====== timf Always interested in what Vogels is saying, but this was pretty thin and the content of what he did say was generic ma...
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The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols - yawaramin http://yawar.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-birkana-hexadecimal-number-symbols.html ====== david-given Fun fact: you can count to hexadecimal on the fingers of one hand. The way it works is that each of your four fingers has four well-defined places on them: the three join...
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Easy concurrent subprocessing in Ruby - nevinera http://nevinera.net/elegant-subprocessing ====== nevinera The source is at [http://github.com/emcien/parenting](http://github.com/emcien/parenting) if anyone prefers to go straight there.
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TIOBE is (unintentionally) misleading; in truth, interest in Java is surging - lukaseder http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/241acq/tiobe_is_unintentionally_misleading_in_truth/ ====== facorreia > The core component of the method seems to be search statistics for the name > of each language followed by the word "p...
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Give Them the Button - wheresvic1 http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2015/10/give-them-the-button/ ====== diminoten I'm a big fan of having automation enforce as many rules as possible, but mostly because the cost for a person to enforce a rule (overly simple example being tabs vs. spaces) from a relationship standpoin...
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First flight of Lunar plant growth experiment - murtza http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/cct/office/cif/2013/lunar_plant.html ====== bfe The lead contact point for this proposal, Chris McKay of NASA Ames, had a similar proposal around 14 years ago for growing a rose plant on a Mars lander. It'll be fun to see this id...
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Craving Growth, Walgreens Dismissed Its Doubts About Theranos - dbcooper http://on.wsj.com/1ONLNxk ====== dbcooper An interesting note: >In October 2012, Walgreens sent two executives and Paul Rust, a retired executive from clinical-lab company Quest Diagnostics Corp. , on a trip that included a review of quality-con...
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Developer Time - craigkerstiens http://pydanny.com/developer-time.html ====== willholloway This is why I created my own alternative to ordinary clocks - Maker Time: <http://willholloway.net/makertime.html> Clocks get it wrong because they count up, but one day we will all die, so from our perspective time is counting...
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Ask HN: Does classic Thinkpad like keyboard portable come as bluetooth keyboard - sreenadh I just come across a [bluetooth keyboard](https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;1byone-Foldable-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Smartphone&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00VRCKK1Y). It looks nice. But chiclet keyboard is an issue.<p>Is a [classic Thinkpad li...
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Ask HN: Do you still use Antivirus in 2019? - bishala I have not installed a single antivirus software in the past 5 years or so and haven&#x27;t been infected either(used to get constantly infected during the XP days). I think Windows Defender is pretty good these days. Do other HN&#x27;rs feel the same way? ====== ...
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Is the online advertising bubble finally starting to pop? - rinze http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2016/05/09/is-the-online-advertising-bubble-finally-starting-to-pop/ ====== fchollet > I started calling online advertising a bubble in 2008. Then maybe it's time to quit punditry; that was 8 years ago and the online advert...
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The F.D.A.’s Medical Device Problem - sethbannon http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/the-fdas-medical-device-problem.html ====== crisnoble As an insulin dependent diabetic I am consistently frustrated at how slow the medical device approval market moves. There is a reason that the most advanced insulin pump that...
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