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We Need More Secrecy - marcoperaza http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/we-need-more-secrecy/359820/?single_page=true ====== sbierwagen (2014)
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Facebook’s Libra must be stopped - hhs https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/facebook-libra-must-be-stopped-by-katharina-pistor-2019-06 ====== gfodor Be careful: Facebook's best weapon in these situations (as has been done wrt "we don't sell your data") is for people to create arguments in the zeitguest that ar...
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Tesla - we may not see the forest for the trees - cjbenedikt It is interesting to see that everybody analysing or commenting on Tesla seems to focus on the car (=tree). Looking at Musk's track record we may not see the forest. Should he be able to create the nationwide blanket of charging stations and - on top ...
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IPhone or Android for new game development? - qrush So here's my dilemma: I have a great idea for a new mobile game that could go on either platform. I don't think it'll be easy to share code between the platforms despite both using OpenGL ES. I personally have access to a Droid and Droid Eris, and would have to pur...
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Epoch Converter - ryszard99 http://www.epochconverter.com/ ====== kbob $ /bin/date +%s 1269411909 $ /bin/date --date=@1269411909 Tue Mar 23 23:25:09 PDT 2010 $ Easy, scriptable, omnipresent. Why would you bother with a web page? ------ stevederico use this almost everyday at work.
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Managerator: Lorem Ipsum for Manager BS - old_sound http://www.managerator.de/managerator.php ====== 0k1n This is big. I learned a few things and had my next startup idea while reading generated contents, I'm now motivated as never before. Thanks! ~~~ old_sound I got a new Job Title thanks to Managerator.
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Amazon Unpacked - pearkes http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html#slide0 ====== gedrap I see their point but... But OK, what else realistically can they expect? Yes, it sucks a lot especially when all the media around you is telling all those success stories and make you feel like you are...
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Cost of Living in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Ixiaus http://info.openanswers.org/cost_of_living_in_buenos_aires_argentina ====== noonespecial _Last updated November 2007._ Relevant? ~~~ SlowOnTheUptake It looks like inflation was around 8 - 10% during '07 through '08 per [http://www.latin- focus.com/latinfocus/count...
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Show HN: My personal project, a innovative Pokémon search engine - Heykinox http://encyclopedex.com ====== jypepin Look really great, I like how the search is pretty fast and how you can put multiple filters. Way better than most of the searches where you have old school forms with dozen of field to fill! Great job...
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Sell yourself with open source, generating infinite money. - renas https://github.com/renasboy/canistro ====== rachelbythebay This is very peculiar. There are no "trap"s and no "|| exit 1" type constructs in that installer script. What happens if something fails or is aborted? ~~~ renas Hi, this is true. however ...
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Nearly a third of blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus - rpiguy https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/business/nearly-third-200-blood-samples-taken-chelsea-show-exposure-coronavirus/ ====== acchow Can we change the title? Article title is "Nearly a third of 200 blood samples taken in Chelsea s...
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Ask HN: Why can't I comment on this? - pards https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17100309 appeared on the front page of HN but it has no comments, nor any option to comment.<p>Why is that? ====== sp332 Sometimes HN runs hiring ads from Y Combinator-funded startups. They are on the front page for a set ...
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Ask: Anyone knows of an open source cron expression generator? - DrorY ====== manuscreationis <http://www.cronmaker.com/> ? I believe it's "Quartz" specific (a scheduling framework) so your mileage might vary ------ eg312 <http://www.corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui>
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Ask HN: good alternative to Dell for good quality rack mounted servers? - mark_l_watson ====== cd34 We've used SuperMicro for the last 15 years and have had good luck with them. edit: we've used the same vendor, interpromicro.com - Andy Wong except for the first few we purchased in 97. ------ staunch HP is a good...
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Myth of the Brown Recluse - josephpmay http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html ====== nimbius Working in a midwest auto repair shop, we get our share of spiders and such. Brown recluse spiders are just that, reclusive. Ive seen them take up residence in old tire piles mostly. Ive rarely seen a recluse, but our shop bathroom ...
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Ask HN: If sharing music is illegal, how am I able to share music on WhatsApp? - ziggystardust I know WhatsApp&#x27;s intention is not to distribute copyrighted music but it does allow sharing of copyrighted music with peers. one might argue that it is &quot;User Generated Content&quot; but its still copyrighted mate...
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Syntax Matters? (2012) - ingve http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/04/15/syntax-matters-dot-dot-dot/ ====== hzhou321 Yes, syntax matters. What is in question is why syntax has to be so tightly bound to intrinsics of a language? I think it is possible to have a meta layer above any programming language th...
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The Forbes 50 Hottest Startups of 2015 – Ranked by Growth Score - nickfrost http://mattermark.com/the-forbes-hottest-startups-of-2015-ranked-by-growth-score/ ====== luchadorvader You have to create an account to see the full list. I'm good with just the first ten.
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Koding gives away 4gb per developer - chrisbuc https://koding.com/?c=Crazy100TBWeek ====== blktiger Site is non-responsive for me, I guess they are getting slammed right now. ------ chrisbuc What I like about Koding is that you get a real VM in the cloud to play with (the catch being that it shuts down automaticall...
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What’s New in Thunderbird 68 - meris https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/08/whats-new-in-thunderbird-68/ ====== mtmail 90 comments today in [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820524](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820524)
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COBINHOOD – Cryptocurrency Exchange without trading fees - superchink https://cobinhood.com/home ====== palakchokshi "By teaming up with COBINHOOD, together, we will launch your project to the skies and beyond." Doesn't really give the warm and fuzzies. Also why not have clickable links on your "media" icons if you we...
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Betting on fusion - dkirtley http://fortune.com/2015/09/28/jeff-bezos-peter-thiel-fusion/ ====== Tossrock I'm kind of astonished to hear someone paid money for the e-cat. I'd always thought of Rossi as a crank. Hopefully I was wrong and we get a revolutionary new energy source, but I'm still not convinced. General Fu...
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David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS - drallison http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/ ====== tptacek _Third, Google claims that this service is better because it has no ads or redirection. But you have to remember they are also the largest advertising and redirection company on the Internet....
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In space, no one can hear you kernel panic - ohjeez https://increment.com/software-architecture/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-kernel-panic/ ====== klingonopera > _" The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to the moon in a > future crewed mission, will carry four computers, each with two processors > working ...
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Mirra 2 - lukashed http://www.hermanmiller.com/content/hermanmiller/microsites/mirra-2-chairs.html ====== Danieru This is a good redesign. I've had a Mirra for maybe 5 years now, best chair in the house. The only issues I had were the prongs which provide the back skeletal strength broke through the mesh. As the mesh...
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CoreOS renames to ContainerLinux - type0 http://sdtimes.com/coreos-renames-core-os-to-container-linux/ ====== caterama Hmm... CoreOS as a name seems all around more sleek. Though the tech behind the name is the same, we are humans and we judge books by their covers - I imagine this carries into software as well.
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Ask HN: Selenium like solution but for win apps/games - visox Hi, is there a way to run a game fullscreen in windows and make use of the ui&#x2F;buttons etc with just some script or similar ?<p>So without any human interaction. I would like to automate some process of playing replays of a game which i need to record.<...
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“GPT-3 Does The Work on some business analyst SQL queries” - exolymph https://twitter.com/aquariusacquah/status/1284706786247880705 ====== sidthekid This is something that could literally be productionized today. ------ gigatexal Yikes. Forget the machines the ML algos will take over my job soon
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Tracking the S&P 500 using ETFs holdings - clemlais https://claisne.io/tracking-sp ====== anonu Misleading title. The author is just web scraping ETF holdings and running some analysis on it. ETFs are required to publish daily holdings, so there's no secret there. The best way to track the sp500 is with an ETF. Inte...
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Show HN: XMap – Replacing your walls of sticky notes - elijahlofgren http://xmapit.com/?src=hn ====== elijahlofgren My coworkers created a fun "ad" for xMap showing the problem it is solving here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPu68JvQvaw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPu68JvQvaw) It all started with one of o...
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Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway - alizauf http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/europe/hardangervidda-norway-lightning-reindeer.html ====== Scaevolus Detecting lightning automatically isn't that hard-- it's a sudden burst of powerful, wideband static. There are several sites where users colla...
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Vanity Fair Report: Google Glass Broke Up Founder Sergey Brin's Marriage - 001sky http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Google-Glass-Broke-Up-Founder-Sergey-Brins-Marriage-250217621.html ====== 001sky Original article for reference> [http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/04/sergey-brin- amanda...](http://www.v...
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PirateProxyList – Online Status of Various Pirate Proxy Services - darkp https://pirateproxylist.com/ ====== d33 I'm really worried that our current trackers are just a few single points of failure and we're at risk of losing (or at least greatly complicating) content discovery in torrent. What do you think about the ...
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Ask HN: Where can I find Internet browsing data? - gregw134 Somebody posted a large dataset from Indiana University a while back, but it's several years old and only available to researchers.<p>http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/click-dataset<p>Does anyone know of another source of browsing data? Is it p...
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A War Journalist’s Worst Case Scenario: The Kidnapping of Michael Scott Moore - kumarski https://medium.com/war-is-boring/d9ae08733eb9 ====== joellarsson And two Swedish journalists were kidnapped in Syria yesterday: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/2-swedish- journal...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wor...
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Ask HN: Best place to sell domain names? - awb I have ~200 domain names (.app mostly) that I&#x27;m looking to sell. Had anyone had success selling domains online and if so what service did you use and how long did it take? ====== kemalg I'm using a couple of marketplaces to list my domain names. Some of them are Sedo...
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Google Says "We're Not Doing a Mobile Phone" - joshuaHatfield http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/03/24/google-says-outright-were-not-building-a-mobile-phone/ ====== danielha Maybe, but they didn't really want to do email either. Individual handsets can possibly be ruled out, but huge (huge-r?) moves in the mobi...
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Servee, looking for Designers in the Bay area to show off to. - izak30 http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cpg/695988689.html ====== aaroneous I wouldn't trust design advice from someone who makes a site like this: <http://www.servee.com> ~~~ izak30 Not quite sure what you mean by this. At best, its the least construct...
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Alibaba founder defends overtime work culture as 'huge blessing' - SolaceQuantum https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tech-labour/alibaba-founder-defends-overtime-work-culture-as-huge-blessing-idUSKCN1RO1BC ====== rfwhyte It is indeed a "huge blessing." A "huge blessing" for the owners of companies who are able to...
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“We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site” - jchrisa https://status.github.com/messages/2015-05-06 ====== colund 12:20 UTCEverything operating normally. 11:54 UTCWe've finished emergency maintenance and are monitoring closely. 11:40 UTCWe're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site. 11:32 UTCWe'...
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SxSW – Lost That Loving Feeling for Early Stage Entrepreneurs - aalter http://founderdating.com/sxswearly-stage-entrepreneurs/ ====== chiph I'm not sure what the relationship is between an A Capella group and entrepreneurs is... But I can tell you why the cops showed up. SXSW the brand is very powerful - if you are...
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The First Documentary about Crowd Funding - Udo http://capitalc-movie.com/ ====== GabeN Interesting idea, and the time is right with Kickstarter achieving some of it's largest funded projects yet with all the video game developer hype as of present. I hope it will contain aspects of a self exploratory nature as well...
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Betterment adds charitable giving - amykyta https://www.betterment.com/resources/inside-betterment/product-news/charitable-stock-donation/ ====== amykyta Coinbase should follow suit and allow people to donate those massive long term unrealized capital gains they have accrued.
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Top kill animation from BBC - how BP oil well is being plugged - dctoedt http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10159626.stm ====== mootothemax To think, all it takes is a simple set of graphics like this and I think I finally understand what this attempt is all about. Good work! ~~~ what CNN had Bill Nye T...
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NSA slides laugh at Steve Jobs & Apple 1984 ad, label iPhone users as 'zombies' - teamgb http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-spying-on-smartphones-fotostrecke-101201.html ====== vezzy-fnord So shall mark the beginning of a new age where people will let go of their shiny portable tracking devices and beco...
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Show HN: Hacker News Android Reader - RavneetGrewal Hi,<p>I have been a lurker for a long time, and had always wanted to see a good reader for HN on the Android platform.<p>Here is an early screenshot:<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ravneetg.com&#x2F;HN&#x2F;HN.png<p>I see there are some which are based on scraping the site. I ...
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What Is Fatigue? - iKenshu http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-is-fatigue?intcid=mod-most-popular ====== jamesaguilar Huh. I wonder if I should put up a bunch of positive and encouraging signs and images in my home gym to exploit this effect. Also, my lifting buddies and I often joke around with each other ...
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Valve Proton: Run Windows Games on Linux Using Steam Play - ingve https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#introduction ====== detaro previously: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815892](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815892) ------ fturco Don't use it. It's proprietary software.
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Wayfair layoffs: The retailer is cutting 550 jobs, 3% of its workforce - myth_drannon https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/02/13/wayfair-layoffs-retailer-cutting-550-jobs-3-its-workforce/4749435002/ ====== rmason Up here in East Lansing Wayfair is adding 500 jobs this fall. I have to wonder if they're moving jobs...
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The Simpson Gearset (2017) - userbinator https://ateupwithmotor.com/terms-technology-definitions/simpson-gearset/ ====== aquabeagle Battle of the interstitials [http://imgs.fyi/img/7b1q.png](http://imgs.fyi/img/7b1q.png) ------ Namari I clicked because I thought it was about the Simpsons... Next time I'll read the w...
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Mark Zuckerberg's personal challenge for 2017 is to visit every US state - esalman https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10103385178272401&id=4 ====== MrZongle2 Serious question: _why is this noteworthy?_ ------ Urgo Non mobile link: [https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103385178272401?pnref=...](https://www....
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Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack - gighi http://draios.com/fishing-for-hackers/ ====== jwcrux OP may also benefit from the use of an SSH honeypot. I use kippo ([https://code.google.com/p/kippo/](https://code.google.com/p/kippo/)) with great success. It tracks all commands run, as well as keeps co...
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Our Part of the Milky Way Is Bigger Than Previously Thought - wrongc0ntinent http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/milky-way-local-arm-four-times-bigger-than-expected/ ====== f_allwein Well, I suppose we're still at the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy... [http://www.goodreads.com/quotes...
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Mark Cuban's Plan to Choke Google's Super Powers - araneae http://gizmodo.com/5406446/mark-cubans-plan-to-choke-googles-super-powers ====== dkersten What a brilliant plan to get done under anti trust law.
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Compiling Lambda Calculus - rs86 http://t3x.org/clc/ ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17669993](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17669993)
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Rethinking Mental Health with Psychedelics - ada1981 https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-48-anthony-adams/ ====== ada1981 My latest, most vulnerable and in depth interview on my journey of transcending mental illness by deconstructing psychosis and reconstructing my psyche from scratch. Including the role of psyc...
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Why KIND's CEO Asks for 2 Months' Notice from Departing Employees - SuperbCrew http://www.businessinsider.com/kinds-ceo-asks-for-2-months-notice-2014-8 ====== sarciszewski My immediate reaction when I read the title was something along the lines of, "[Expetives] your sense of entitlement you [expletives] elitist [ex...
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The Wiki-Hacker Strikes Again - nickb http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/07/19/security-hackers-internet-tech-cx_ag_0719wikiwatcher.html ====== sh1mmer I love the Forbes.com interstitial. It's so awesome with Flash blocked. The way you have to wait for it to redirect because there isn't a link rocks too.
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Steve Jobs contacted Samsung in 2010 to resolve Apple patent dispute - ashishgandhi http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/steve-jobs-pushed-talks-with-samsung-to-address-patent-dispute.html?cmpid=yhoo ====== tyler_ball Samsung's products are so aesthetically similar that their own marketing people get confused and ...
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Rant on Email Notifications - inmygarage http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/03/rant-on-email-notifications/ ====== abraxasz I'm usually a nice guy, but I'm an absolute jerk when it comes to my inbox: \- If a service's registration has the "send notification" button checked by default, and I don't see it when I regis...
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Ask HN: Domain name suggestions for our website - udhb Me and my friend are going to launch a website where all the practical lab (scanned) copies of our college will be available. Soon we will add other related stuffs. And may extend this site to others colleges. But we stuck at choosing the domain name. please giv...
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Ask HN: What do you still use Facebook for? - amolo I recently logged in back to my Facebook account and found so many guys over there. What do you use it for ? ====== megamindbrian2 Some family members only respond over messenger. I log in, switch to desktop mode, and use messenger from Android chrome. ------ cimman...
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Ask HN: if I work at Apple, can I sell iPhone apps on the App Store? - rdouble I'm assuming the answer is "no" but I don't know anyone at Apple, nor have I been able to find a definitive answer on the web.<p>If I am an Apple employee, am I forbidden to have applications for sale on the iTunes App Store? ====== woost...
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AT&T, T-Mobile sold real-time location data: Make a legal claim under their ToS - mjkornbl https://fairshake.myradvocate.com/2020/02/03/fcc-cell-service-providers-broke-the-law-sold-customer-location-data/ ====== sithlord Read the terms, basically you agree to give them 20% of the claim, if its less than 20 dollars, y...
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Supreme Court to Review Sarbanes-Oxley Law - newsit http://www.cnbc.com/id/30808044 ====== bmickler I went to the supreme court's website to research this further (<http://www.supremecourtus.gov>). Honestly I expected more from the U.S. Supreme Court's website. The site looks terrible and the search is abysmal. I woul...
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Is every game of Slay the Spire winnable? - jsnell https://forgottenarbiter.github.io/Is-Every-Seed-Winnable/ ====== aoeusnth1 Jorbs (a popular STS streamer) has said something like: If random shuffling of your deck can cause you to take 40 damage from Lagavaulin, and the game is still 100% winnable, then that 40 dam...
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Show HN: Slide – an open-source plain text presentation maker - zserge http://trikita.co/slide ====== evacchi This is nice. A bit OT: on the subject of presentation tools, I'm struggling to find something that suits me. I really like Deckset[0], but found it sometimes limiting. For instance, I found that very few th...
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New Way to Monitor Your Logs for Performance Problems - KarenS https://www.loggly.com/blog/using-loggly-monitor-logs-performance-problems/ ====== mjosofsky I'm building an app that has a big server so Loggly could be a valuable way for me to gain insight into my users. ------ DanjaMouse Interesting, thanks for shar...
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Canvas 2012 Conference: Birmingham UK - RutZap http://2012.canvasconf.co.uk/ ====== tombot Lineup looks good :)
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Google Will Shut Down Its Social Network After User Information Was Exposed - extraterra https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/technology/google-plus-security-disclosure.html ====== sulam Holy crap. Poignant quote: "When the company’s technical staff discovered the bug in March, they decided against disclosing the issu...
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No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep - BDGC https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/no-doctor-should-work-30-straight-hours/510395/?utm_source=nhfb&amp;single_page=true ====== snowwrestler A friend of mine is a PA who works in emergency medicine, which means he pulls 30 hour shifts sometime...
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Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania - bobinux http://signato.lt/en/ ====== rekado Unfortunately, the license permits the use of the font only for "non- commercial" purposes, which means that it cannot be included in Free Software distributions. ~~~ ghaff Non-commercial licenses are IMO seri...
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Do our brains have extraordinary untapped powers? - prostoalex https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/24/do-our-brains-have-extraordinary-untapped-powers ====== anotheryou weird re-wiring => creativity and new passions but I doubt evolution has much room for overcapacity. Maybe a bit more for older people, be...
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Show HN: Sol Trader released in Alpha - chrismdp http://chrismdp.github.com/2012/05/sol-trader-now-in-alpha/ ====== chrismdp So after all the furore on HN surrounding the choice of platform for this game, a friend urged me to point out to everyone you can now get the alpha :) Here are the original HN posts: <http:/...
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The day the newspaper died. - ksvs http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/01/26/090126crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all ====== thomasmallen For my money, there's still nothing better than a good newspaper. We get the _Washington Post_ here. On TV, the broadcaster controls the order and scope of reporting...
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Five myths about Chinese hackers - TDL http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-chinese-hackers/2013/03/22/4aa07a7e-7f95-11e2-8074-b26a871b165a_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost ====== websitescenes Nice to see a tech security topic in a large publication. So many companies th...
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Notes from Valentine’s Day - Knuth Lecture Notes - nickb http://thermalnoise.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/notes-from-valentines-day/ ====== neilc Damn, I totally missed out on this lecture. I only heard about Knuth's "Christmas tree lecture" in December at the last minute, as well. There needs to be an aggregator for in...
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Look back with danger: on nostalgia - Petiver http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/look-back-with-danger/ ====== DarkKomunalec "Today’s constant talk of nostalgia – for old passport covers, old manners, old food, and above all that fantasy of a Britain before multiculturalism – is in part a response to rapid socia...
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Entanglement: an interesting on-line challenge/game/puzzle - ColinWright http://entanglement.gopherwoodstudios.com/ ====== detritus I like/hate this.
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Travel the world with an awesome group of hackers and designers - AlexeyMK http://hackerparadise.org ====== mmmulani would I have to come for the entire time?
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Why Quantum Computers Are Better Suited for Enslaving Humanity - jjp9999 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/cfqt-hqp032912.php ====== martinkallstrom What surprised the researchers is that the quantum simulations are still not as efficient as they could be: they still have to store more informati...
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Rob Landley on the Linux Foundation (2010) - vezzy-fnord http://landley.net/notes-2010.html#18-07-2010 ====== angrylinuxer Management Team Jim Zemlin, Executive Director Amanda McPherson, Chief Marketing Officer, VP of Developer Programs Mike Woster, Chief Revenue Officer Steve Westmoreland, Chief Information Offic...
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BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice - sahin-boydas http://www.newscientist.com/article/2179481-bpa-free-plastics-seem-to-disrupt-sperm-and-egg-development-in-mice/ ====== Apotheos More and more disadvantages seem to come out against plastic every year, not to mention the environmental i...
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Fedora CoreOS, Red Hat CoreOS, and the future of Container Linux - KenanSulayman https://coreos.com/blog/fedora-coreos-red-hat-coreos-and-future-container-linux ====== hardwaresofton This is exactly what I thought would happen when I switched off of CoreOS earlier this year. I recently switched back[0] since according...
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Show HN: I created a UX focused developer tool for Voice Apps - vineet https://helloviolet.ai/ ====== vineet I am the author - I did 10% of this for my job, but 90% of it has been a nights & weekends activity. I would love feedback. And feel free to ask me anything.
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer - auvi http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm ====== lexicalscope I'm not super fond of the assumption that someone is bipolar simply because of going in and out of frenetic periods of activity, that isn't really what bipolar disorder is. I have bipolar (II), so here's some things:...
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Ask HN: What kind of Google Hangouts could we have? - bemmu I like the idea adding short bursts of social interaction to my day. Hangouts is a nice tool for that, but for the hacker crowd what sort of hangout would work the best?<p>Just my random idea. How about a weekly roll call. Just a very short chat where each ...
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Amazon Confirms Plans for Store Under New Grocery Brand - t23 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-11/amazon-confirms-plans-for-store-under-new-grocery-brand ====== dalfonso My bet is this will be very similar to Walmart Neighborhood Market. About the size of a drug store, will stock grocery essentials, and...
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Y Combinator by the Numbers - jwang815 http://youtu.be/6ERQ7ZtseWo ====== phzbOx Is there a service to produce video like that? Where you'd choose your music, say the texts, and automatically that'll create a couple sample of it? ~~~ garethsprice <http://animoto.com/> does a reasonable job of automating simple vide...
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Ask HN: Why is there so little debate on Trumps plan to destroy net neutrality? - thewarrior Wondering why there is no discussion of this huge issue when it is something that will impact startup founders so badly. ====== esailija We still hope it's just a bad dream and he won't get to preside over US.
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mruby - ryansama https://github.com/mruby/mruby ====== skrebbel Could anyone explain to me what the difference with normal ruby is? "Lightweight", does that mean: Small but slow? Big but fast? Quite small and quite fast, but with a half-assed library? Big, slow, but low RAM ...
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A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub - caisah https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-study-of-programming-languages-and-code-quality-in-github/fulltext ====== jayonsoftware Its a long read, so which programming lang produce the least amount of errors ?
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How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis - sararob https://medium.com/@srobtweets/how-people-talk-about-marijuana-on-reddit-a-natural-language-analysis-a8d595882a7a ====== nonsince Decent intro to natural language processing, but scientifically rubbish. I think using "cannabis" and "maraj...
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Confronting Russia's Weaponization of Information - dataker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LzvuiLbUvM ====== h4x3r US Propaganda: Weaponized Disinformation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycg- YTy0tkA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycg-YTy0tkA)
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Closure. "I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design." - stakent http://steveblank.com/2009/11/19/closure/ ====== andrewljohnson I worked at the PSC when we sold that Cray on eBay. I was a student programmer in the facilities group. I used to sell Magic cars on eBay, so I was consulted on selling the comput...
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Ask HN: Ethernet at home - evilswan If I'm home, working at my desk, I always (still) switch to the wired LAN. It's slightly faster, and I dunno <i>feels</i> more secure.<p>I like the comfort of unplugging the wire from the laptop before bed: I know it's offline.<p>Anyone else? ====== jasondrowley I back up my compu...
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Apple pays Proview $60 million in iPad trademark case settlement - dave_k http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/2/3131239/apple-pays-proview-60-million-in-ipad-trademark-case-settlement ====== josteink As much as I disregard Apple for its über-shady (lack of) ethics, it's hard to look at this as anything but extortion. Ho...
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Ask HN: Need a lawyer for my startup (and no, we don't want VC money) - needalawyer I'm currently working on a side project with a partner and we've reached a point where we feel we need to incorporate. Any recommendations for lawyers? I've searched all the threads and spoken with 4 different supposedly "startup"...
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Ask HN: Do people care about flags when selecting a site language? - DavidHogan I'm working on a site that supports multiple languages, and we are using a flag icon to indicate the current language. The language selection dropdown will have both the flag and the name of the language.<p>I would love to get your opini...
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Best Practices for Array Indexing - bollu http://bollu.github.io/#best-practices-for-array-indexing ====== shakna There's two basic ways of defining iterators in C to remove some pain points. (There's others, but these two common patterns crop up often enough.) void foreach(TYPE* o, void(*f)(TYPE, v...
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