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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see - ABS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/ ====== hwstar Hysteresis will solve this over time. This only works to a maximum extreme, then it snaps back and there is...
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Mueller Used Bitcoin to Catch Russia - Ibethewalrus http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_4257e917945d6897b59d5e2b5d6fbb3c ====== rman666 Regardless of your politics, I think most would agree that being in charge of a two-year investigation resulting in a 400+ page report and understanding anything about Bitcoin is pretty i...
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Looking to Disrupt Mobile Advertising and GPS - iamnumberfour I am working on the design work of an app that deals with notifications and GPS. This app will greatly serve as an alternative to IOS Maps App.<p>If interested in cofounding a startup. Please post a comment with contact info. LOOKING FOR A CODER THAT CAN ...
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How The SAFE Has Changed And It What It Means For Equity - commons-tragedy https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnycouncil/2019/01/16/how-the-safe-has-changed-and-it-what-it-means-for-your-companys-equity/ ====== gumby YC announcement of change back when it was made: [https://blog.ycombinator.com/new-standard- deal/](htt...
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Apache Kafka and GDPR compliance - Antwnis http://www.landoop.com/blog/2017/12/apache-kafka-gdpr-compliance/ ====== throwaway2016a I'm interested in the right to be forgotten section but I'm confused as too what this article is saying... How exactly do you "forget" the data on the logs? One interesting solution that...
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Really bad SSL/TLS flaw discovered with client renegotiation - tptacek http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg03928.html ====== tptacek Ouch. So, here's what's up: applications that rely on client certificates (where the client had to have a valid, accepted cert to make a request) can, on most servers,...
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Ask HN: Any good articles on hash function design? - aerovistae I&#x27;m interested to learn about how the internals of hashing functions are designed. To me, in my cryptographic ignorance, merely using modulo operation is sufficient for making something irreversible. But clearly there are many things to keep in mind ...
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Lin Wood's Twitter account disabled after beginning work on Rittenhouse defense - djsumdog https://twitter.com/Yoder_Esqq/status/1300905446782443529 ====== burfog Lin Wood is a lawyer defending a boy against a politically-motivated prosecution. The event was a clear case of self-defense against a murderous mob of felo...
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Ask HN: Which of your side projects can I/we buy for less than 1k? - thr2178008 ====== qubex Those that are worth less than $1000 to the seller. ------ SQL2219 Are you really only purchasing the idea? Because it seems that you would have to start from scratch on a lot of dusty code.
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Making a sandwich (reflections on Ajax patent) - ihumanable http://ihumanable.com/blog/2009/12/making-a-sandwich/ ====== noonespecial A patent so broad, so vague and so far reaching that you can sue Frito-Lay Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. at the same time! They basically just listed the fortune 500 and went for broke....
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Google+ Isn’t Going Away - nickbilton http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/google-isnt-going-anywhere/ Proclaiming that Google+ won’t survive is like saying that the Apple iOS will die, but the iPhone and iPad will live on. They are one and the same, just as Google and Google+ will be. ====== timr _"Instead, Goog...
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MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI - rw http://www.menuetos.net/ ====== rw An interview with two of the developers: [http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/315421/we_talk_devel...](http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/315421/we_talk_developers_behind_menuetos_an_operating_system_written_enti...
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What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? - anielsen https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising/13228924500-22d5fd24 ====== buboard Great to see an article like this. This subject is almost suspiciously under- researched by journalists. Th...
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Why it's hard to answer “when to raise a series A” - akharris https://blog.ycombinator.com/when-to-raise-a-series-a/ ====== OliverJones When to try to raise a series A round? When you BOTH need the money to ramp up your work AND you are ready to take on investors who want at least a tenfold return on their investment....
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Switched jobs, think it was a step back - ChangedJobs Quick back story, was a dev working for a small company/startup. We were spread pretty thin and I was the lead dev on a large project, with a few FT devs and contract devs on my team. I had significant exposure to top management. I ran the sprints, deployed the s...
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The Horrible Future of Social - netherland http://ted.io/the-horrible-future-of-social.html ====== jeremymcanally I see this every time I go to Disney World (I live nearby). It's almost impossible to enjoy a single ride or fireworks show without a ton of people videoing the whole thing or taking horrible pictures of...
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How to block the DiggBar - fromedome http://daringfireball.net/2009/04/how_to_block_the_diggbar ====== miles <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function breakout_of_frame() { if (top.location != location) { top.location.href = document.location.href ...
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Show HN: Develop self-discipline and daily habits. Without using an app. 🧘 ️ - norsak https://youtine.co/ ====== norsak How do you develop self-discipline and track daily routines without using an app? I wanted an offline habit-building tracker, so I built one - meet Youtine /juˈtin/ Make yourself accountable, with...
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Email Phraud: An Illustrated Guide - cnouri http://www.rackspace.com/apps/blog/view/2010/04/email_phraud_an_illustrated_guide ====== michaelferranti Email Fraud is a huge problem that cost innocent people nearly $600 million in 2009. This creative Illustrated Guide to email fraud will show you the top 5 scams and ho...
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The Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA - pooriaazimi http://venomousporridge.com/post/16126436616/ibooks-author-eula-audacity ====== tstegart I think this guy is wrong. He's mixing apples and oranges when it comes to who owns what. Apple is requiring people who use its software to create an e-book to give Apple a cut ...
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Are SKS keyservers safe? Do we need them? - yakamok https://medium.com/@mdrahony/are-sks-keyservers-safe-do-we-need-them-7056b495101c ====== ggm I thought the filesystems lurking in the DNS echoed packets, and in ICMP, and in other things like mail headers were just bad RFC april-fool jokes, but doing an attack on the...
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Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash - danberger http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44208437/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/superfast-military-plane-hit-mach-crash/ ====== stcredzero This is exciting, because it opens the door for space elevators that don't rendezvous with a stationary point on the ground, ...
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Ask HN: Social web features for an elderly/mature audience - mseebach Hi,<p>I'm talking to a friend about starting a website/community based around crossword puzzles (he's a professional CW designer, I'm the techie).<p>The market is all but untapped in our niche-locale, and we're pretty certain we can go a long way ...
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The Team Behind Snarky Startup Blog Uncov Reveals Its Own Startup, Persai - blackswan http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/subscribe-to-th.html ====== chaostheory given that uncov was basically a mean spirited version of techcrunch, I wonder if what goes around will come around (that is if persai ends up sucking) ...
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Assistly now FREE:"Netflix could take a page out of Assistly’s book."-Techcrunch - gregmeyer http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26/with-v2-0-assistly-brings-a-simple-pricing-model-rewards-and-a-bit-of-free-to-customer-service-software/ ====== woverton Greg Meyer is the new Director of Customer WOW. What a smashing idea: ...
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Show HN: PyEQS – query Elasticsearch like a Django Queryset - andrewgross https://github.com/Yipit/pyeqs ====== spencera We are currently working on an official QuerySet-like python library here at Elasticsearch: [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-dsl- py](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-d...
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Ask HN: Any long-term wager sites? - geuis My roommate and I wanted to make a wager about what would last longer: his RAID-5 setup or Flickr going out of business. (This was precipitated by my signing up for a pro account on Flickr today.)<p>I did a quick search for a site that would let us record the wager and woul...
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[Record breaking] 2016 Singles Day Data: growth slows down - tjennychen https://walkthechat.com/double-11-shopping-festival-data-china-e-commerce-trend/ ====== beeforce So crazy, $17 billion in one day... ~~~ tjennychen Yep, that's China
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Ask HN: How do you take notes on your laptop? - Kastakin I&#x27;m building my Linux system as debloated as I can and I would like to know if you guys found ways to take notes during lectures with light&#x2F;not dependencies heavy software. ====== iamNumber4 Markdown, any existing text editor. Low tech, shut the lid, ...
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Killing 3ve: How The FBI And Tech Industry Took Down A Massive Ad Fraud Scheme - tysone https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/3ve-botnet-ad-fraud-fbi-takedown ====== ryan-c The actual indictment is here: [https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press- release/file/1114576...](https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/...
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Does SEO kill great writing? - silktide http://blog.silktide.com/2011/10/does-seo-kill-great-writing/ ====== swellboy I generally find it pretty simple to weave in SEO friendly terms into my writing (I'm a reporter/editor). I really don't think it's that much of a stretch
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Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized - clumsysmurf https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/how-your-social-class-affects-where-youll-move/557060/ ====== Thriptic Yet another data point showing why we need more housing and better public transportation in coastal cities. Boston...
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Coding Anywhere with Cloud IDE - patfixate http://fixate.io/tech/cloud-ide/ ====== tuxlinuxien Do you have a working URL?
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Against the Stream: The Future of the Federal Clean Water Rule - anarbadalov https://undark.org/article/clean-water-rule-epa-pruitt/ ====== germinalphrase I will look for a source - but I live in the Midwest and have always heard that after the Clean Air/Clean Water Acts came into force our two largest sources of envi...
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“Bifinexed” Twitter account suspended following spam reports - ForHackernews https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7vv1gc/after_failing_to_spam_my_twitter_with_400000_fake/ ====== zuzun Might be suspended because someone posted details of an alleged new bank account on their support forum and Bitfinexed shared a ...
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Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown shuts down government transparency website - danso http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/11/jerry-brown-shuts-down-california-government-transparency-website.html ====== danso The merits of this decision seem silly...how hard is it to maintain a domain even if it is nothing but a ce...
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LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year - wkoszek http://twinprime.com/lte-has-slowed-by-50-in-the-us/ ====== franciscop A quick reminder that 4G != LTE. The 4G specification requires a minimum speed [1] so LTE was launched to avoid exactly this minimum. It seems that the companies did it right by launching LTE inst...
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Mercurial 1.3 released - brodie http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general/14672 ====== illumen 'This release is dedicated to my grandfather, Walter Gordon Heffron, who introduced me to Unix 30 years ago, and who passed away yesterday.' ------ swaroop What is the use case for subrepos? <h...
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Memories of Turbo Pascal version 1.0 - jwilliams http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/11/09/39041 ====== bootload _"... Native code compiler Turbo Pascal lives on in Delphi 2009 - if you haven't tried it yet, get the trial download at<http://www.codegear.com/downloads> ..."_ Forget codegear ( _"burnt way too many ti...
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Govt Contractor Charged with Removal of Classified Materials - campuscodi https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/government-contractor-charged-removal-classified-materials-and-theft-government-property ====== kafkaesq _Multiple Government Agencies Charged with Removal of Citizens ' Private Information, Theft of Citizens' ...
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HQ Trivia hits 1M players milestone as app soars in popularity - deegles https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/7/16861762/hq-1-million-players-record-milestone-trivia ====== dsl Last night they hit 1M+ users, but also booted the vast majority of them from the game by marking the correct answer as incorrect on the first ques...
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Obama has a $100M plan to fill the tech talent shortage - cossatot http://www.wired.com/2015/03/techhire-initiative/ ====== chrisbennet Sigh, there is no "tech talent shortage". There is just a shortage of employers willing to pay market rate. ~~~ Netsec I feel like it's a combination of that and scarcity in a few,...
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Learn to let it go ... - RiderOfGiraffes I've found myself watching the item numbers here on Hacker News having realised some time ago (before the item that mentioned it) that it was getting close to submission/comment number 10^6. I found myself thinking: OK, in the past M minutes there have been S submissions. I...
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Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two - colanderman https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/economy/productivity-inequality-wages.html ====== arandr0x I saw this when I arrived in America, and it's the reason I left. I take the bus and seeing literally every day that there were people with families who worr...
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Efficient collections as column values in Cassandra 1.2 - jbellis http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3_collections? ====== jbellis "Efficient" here means that unlike most (all?) popular document databases -- and postgresql's hstore -- appending an item to a list or adding an entry to a map does not require rewritin...
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Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor - z3t1 http://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-tech-economy-silicon-valley ====== supster It must help Chinese startups that many SV companies are blocked from competing in China. For example no competition from Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Sn...
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Show HN: Vigyaa Anonymous – A safe place to write and read anonymously - goelgarry1980 http://Vigyaa.io ====== jborichevskiy A hunch: I think anonymous writing today (by those with more non-anonymous writing) will be reliably de-anonymized relatively soon through some sort of comparative analysis by a motivated enough...
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Palette Gear: Hands-On Control of Your Favourite Software - prawn http://palettegear.com/index ====== scrumper I like it. Something I see in music tech in particular is a growing number of hardware controllers interacting with specialized software; the marriage is really powerful and makes for a very pleasant and prod...
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Ask HN: How to proceed with smartphone ideas that are too low-level to be apps? - sendos I have a few ideas on how to enhance the UI/UX of smartphones, but most of them are too low-level to be made into apps.<p>To get an idea of the sort of things I'm thinking about, take a feature that is now in many phones: person...
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Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart - mazsa https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-the-revolutionary-new-statistical-test-that-can-tease-them-apart-ed84a988e &quot;The key assumption is that the pattern of noise in the cause will be different to the pattern of noise ...
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Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine? - epi0Bauqu http://duckduckgo.com/ ====== walesmd Pretty impressive results for the terms I searched for. Unfortunately, the design made me temporarily go blind. In all seriousness, the name is pretty horrible and I "feel" as if I am using a website, not a tool. Goog...
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Mastering Bitcoin – Unlocking digital currencies – Early Release Draft - xkarga00 https://github.com/aantonop/bitcoinbook ====== scottcanoni What is going on here?
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Why the iPhone 5 makes me sad - jeffchuber http://huberessays.tumblr.com/post/31435064167/iphone-5 ====== zmonkeyz I think the hardware is great for the new IPhone. I think the real problem is that they are now going to have to really create compelling software as Google is catching up. They also really need to reth...
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Services you should be using: CloudSponge contacts importer - ishi http://www.cloudsponge.com/<p>Previously I've used OpenInviter to import user contacts, but it tends to break and remains broken for months. I've switched to CloudSponge and now everyone's happy.<p>- Works with the 4 major webmail services plus Outlo...
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The Ultimate Airfare Hacking Guide - ajpatel http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/the-ultimate-travel-hacking-guide/ ====== sneak This is a pretty simple and cursory overview - hardly "ultimate". Also, having seen some actual creative bookings (not full-on penetrations, either), calling this "hacking" is a stretch...
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Interview with Stephen Wolfram on AI and the Future - cjdulberger https://gigaom.com/2015/07/27/interview-with-stephen-wolfram-on-ai-and-the-future/ ====== zekevermillion The most interesting part of this interview is the discussion of what happens when human agency is further removed from an individual bot. If a bo...
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Tell us what you wanna learn and we’ll find high quality content for it - mtolga https://fluffzy.com ====== mtolga I had problem with finding high quality resources online. Sometimes, I took me hours hours to find great content about a subject I want to learn. So, I created this landing page and me and my friends will...
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Ask HN: Which large websites are still using dedicated servers? - asto ====== kaolinite Not sure, but I know that since the company I work for has switched to AWS, hosting costs have gone through the roof and performance has been reduced massively. Reason that I mention this is that the only clients that have actua...
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CAPTCHA Busted? AI Company Claims Break of Internet’s Favorite Protection System - adamb_ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/captcha-busted/ ====== rspeer They have released no code and no paper, and failed at the demo that ScienceNOW asked for. Here's their explanation for the failure, quoted in the article...
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The Immune Landscape of Cancer - indescions_2018 http://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(18)30121-3 ====== kevinwuhoo I'm really excited for more meta-analyses to come out of these large-scale projects. I'm even more excited for the prospect of a single cell TCGA which the Human Cell Atlas will eventually get...
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NHS App - bookofjoe https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-app ====== kennydude This seems like a really nice and modern thing, if it all works. Much better than things like "patient.co.uk" which some GPs use and has a GoDaddy SSL certificate (of all things) ------ NotPaidToPost I bet it's just "stay hydrated and come b...
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Resources for cloud independent architecture design? - carnitas Hi there! I&#x27;ve been tasked with lifting some existing architecture and build systems to the cloud. I want to go with Kubernetes or some solution that allows for little to no cloud vendor lock in, allowing system to be run on prem as well.<p>Can anybo...
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Product Managers: How to get your engineers to love being lean - hanzq http://blog.kera.io/post/37714288534/product-managers-how-to-get-your-engineers-to-love ====== ebiester If you want this, then: A. Let your engineers know they will never have to look or explain this code to anyone, and B. Their job isn't on the ...
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Addo – Online Giving for Churches - roycehaynes http://addo.io/ ====== chad_oliver Great work. I'll be keeping a close eye on this. I think the tagline "Grow your church community and increase giving" doesn't feel quite right. Specifically, "increase giving" sounds a little bit ... greedy, maybe? Every church I've ...
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Return to the rainforest: A son's search for his Amazonian mother (2013) - yesenadam https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23758087 ====== yesenadam I read David's father Kenneth Good's book _Into the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami_ , which was amazing. He appears in José Padilha's fasci...
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Delicious not powerful enough for my needs - fjabre http://www.teabuzzed.com/2009/11/delicious-not-powerful-enough-for-my-needs/ ====== spokey Fred, this is an interesting post, but I have a bit of an off topic comment for you: I don't know if I'm missing a common font or what but I find your body copy font very dif...
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Canberra students hack into to school network, send graphic content to children - 0xdeadb00f https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-14/canberra-school-students-email-explicit-content-network/12561130 ====== 0xdeadb00f Original title: _Canberra students gained access to school network to send graphic content to children a...
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Another example of why you shouldn't roll-your-own crypto - cybergibbons http://cybergibbons.com/security-2/csl-dualcom-cs2300-signalling-unit-vulnerabilities/ ====== CM30 Wow, that's kind of shocking. I mean, I know pretty much nothing about security, and even I could tell that coding your own 'crypto' based on a for...
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch - fanf2 https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-from-scratch.html ====== mtmail About 150 comments when the story originally was published [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21724191](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21724191)
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Obox copies Svbtle - corywatilo http://www.obox-design.com/themes_page.cfm/theme/principles/ref/home ====== benaiah While it is very similar, and there are glaring thefts such as the style of the buttons, it does have several important changes. Color is used extensively, when it is totally absent in Svbtle - a chang...
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Introducing AgentBase, for Agent Based Modeling from the Browser - wybo http://agentbase.org/ ====== wybo A side-project that came out of my (ongoing) thesis work at Oxford. I model social movements, and how the Internet and Social Media might affect them. You can try a template model here: [http://agentbase.org/mo...
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Transitioning to Scala - jlward4th https://medium.com/p/d1818f25b2b7 ====== zenbowman I think this is a well-thought out article. We use Scala quite extensively at Hulu, and it is important to use its more powerful features only when they really make sense. You can do quite amazing things with the language, but it d...
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Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior (2015) - kercker https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/upshot/unless-you-are-spock-irrelevant-things-matter-in-economic-behavior.html ====== 1123581321 Economics makes no claims about what items, experiences or feelings should be demanded. It’s impossibl...
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Hulu Has A Desktop Client For Linux - tsally http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux ====== liuliu I disappointed to see that the Linux version requires Flash. The Flash plugin performance are terrible on Linux. Hulu should do better than wrapping Flash to a exec. The VLC codebase is good to start with. ~~~ dan...
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WhatsApp: a new trick to free up space on your phone - varmansk https://www.5to9news.com/whatsapp-a-new-trick-to-free-up-space-on-your-phone.html ====== wingi Not available in the android version 2.17.323 ~~~ varmansk The functionality is available for testing on Android beta version 2.17.340.
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Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally) - qhoxie http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_office_comes_to_browser.php ====== jbert That's interesting. They'll be "comparable" to google docs, which Ballmer called "pretty primitive" just a couple of weeks ago? [http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/steve-...
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Lucid Meets Prolog - mr_tyzic https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/lucid-meets-prolog/ ====== PaulHoule This is a Big Deal. Remember though that in the old A.I. there were two approaches. One was Prolog, based on backwards chaining, the other one was the expert system shells based on production rules. The prod...
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Using virtual reality to desensitize troops - CharlieHall http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/17/6994793/using-virtual-reality-to-desensitize-troops ====== srean At a certain level things like these ask the question what it is to be human, and should we tamper with it because it is perceived as an impediment to our polit...
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Sweden's unusual response to coronavirus - imartin2k https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52076293 ====== alkonaut The reports of “business as usual in Sweden” are exaggerated. The end results are pretty similar across Scandinavia despite approaches being officially different. Streets are mostly empty. People do walk...
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Rabbitmq + node.js = rabbit.js - Messaging that just works - tswicegood http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2010/11/12/rabbitmq-nodejs-rabbitjs/ ====== sgt We switched from ActiveMQ (with JMS) to RabbitMQ (with AMQP) on our enterprise grade application, and we are extremely happy with it. Rock stable, message delivery always...
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US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead' - gnosis http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22099990 ====== uvdiv Here's an abstract from the researcher, Tsanangurayi Tongesayi. Not this exact presentation, but apparently the same research: _Lead was present in all the foods samples and its concentrati...
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Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf] - timthelion http://thobbs.cz/anal-probes/anal-probes.pdf ====== jessaustin _While she was standing in line, a CBP dog handler walked by Ms. Doe and hit the ground by her feet, but did not hit the ground by any of the others in the line. The dog responded by lu...
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iOS: Using Keychain to Get a Persistent, Cross-Install Device Identifier - dicapriol https://blog.lqd.io/persistent-device-unique-identifier-ios-keychain/ ====== spotman This is cool. I have been through the pain of removing UDID from a large production application. So on the surface this seems like a great idea. H...
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Sneakers (Film, 1992) - SandB0x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(film) ====== st3fan This movie is full of the usual hollywood hacker bs. But I still enjoy watching it every time. Redford, Kingsley, Akroid, James Earl Jones. Awesome!
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Loglisp: An Alternative to Prolog (1982) - grzm https://aitopics.org/download/classics:4A93472A ====== nmadden The first author of this is John Alan Robinson, inventor of the first unification algorithm and thus the first practical resolution theorem proving algorithm, on which Prolog was developed. I remember readin...
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Patent Program ideas from SCIFI? - mark_ellul If you got an idea for a software program from a SCI-FI book, and you create that program. Would you be able to patent it? ====== cperciva Depends exactly what you mean by "got an idea ... from a sci-fi book". If you mean "copied directly from a sci-fi book", you shouldn...
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Windows 1.0 emulator - agonzalezro http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows1 ====== danjayh Fun fact: Microsoft has maintained backwards compatibility so effectively that the utilities that shipped with windows 1.0 (notepad, calc, etc) will work on recent versions (search for 'man upgrades windows 1.0 to windows 7) ... s...
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Tesla N. American Reservation List Exhausted - Animats https://www.reuters.com/video/2019/02/09/exclusive-tesla-reservation-list-exhaust ====== Animats URL being difficult. Needs params to work. Video: [https://www.reuters.com/video/2019/02/09/exclusive-tesla- res...](https://www.reuters.com/video/2019/02/09/exclusiv...
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Evidence shows that about half of all clinical trials have never been published - hoggle http://www.alltrials.net/find-out-more/why-this-matters/the-alltrials-campaign/ ====== hoggle Link to cited paper "Compliance with mandatory reporting of clinical trial results on ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional study" "Con...
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A new concurrent hash map - based2 https://vmlens.com/articles/cp/computeIfAbsent_hashMap/ ====== based2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/havnko/a_new_concurre...](https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/havnko/a_new_concurrent_hash_map/)
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F.C.C. Considering Hybrid Regulatory Approach to Net Neutrality - gordon_freeman http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/technology/fcc-considering-hybrid-regulatory-approach-to-net-neutrality.html?ref=technology ====== adventured It's striking that Comcast so thoroughly dominates the US Government that the FCC has to appro...
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Ask HN: How do people become experts? - non-entity I&#x27;ve know a number of people who were <i>really</i> good at one thing or a handful of interrelated things. That might be a programming language or specific technology, some business domain or something else, but I&#x27;ve never quite figured out how they did it.<...
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Transmitter Fingerprinting - th0ma5 http://kb9mwr.blogspot.com/2008/04/transmitter-fingerprinting.html ====== VLM How it works is you build the analog parts of your synthesizer using 5% to 20% tolerance parts, because they're cheap and you can. Also FM voice being the modulation scheme that it is, you can get away wit...
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IPhone uses more electricity than a fridge - nreece http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/iphone-uses-more-electricity-than-a-fridge-20130822-2sdak.html ====== sitharus After some digging this is a syndicated article from here: [http://www.shns.com/web/guest/shns- search?p_p_id=listenersea...](http://www.shns....
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The Truth Is That Android Is Cheap, Not Good - Pr0 http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/cheap-not-good/ ====== Zigurd Android is both cheap and very good. A Nexus 4 stands toe to toe with iPhone hardware and Android 4.2 is the best designed and most innovative OS in wide use. Nexus branding makes it easy to find both goo...
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Ask HN: Is implementation of encryption by WhatsApp reliable? - stereotactic In the privacy fiasco of Zoom, I am looking for documentary proof of WhatsApp encryption implementation. I want a documentary evidence that WhatsApp encryption is poorly implemented or it is easier for Facebook to ferret out the conversations...
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How do you monetise your own site? - xueyongg https://blog.phuaxueyong.com ====== xueyongg Do you all have any idea to monetise your own site? I've heard of affiliate marketing but I don't want to sell whatever i do not believe in, or do not really use. Do let me know what are your thoughts? I also wonder if you all ...
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Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap? - spenrose https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/8/9/20767886/renewable-energy-storage-cost-electricity ====== merpnderp This is silly. If the power is only up 95% of the time, nearly everyone will buy natgas/propane generators and then...
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The C.I.A. Torture Cover-Up - r0h1n http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/opinion/the-cia-torture-cover-up.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 ====== mullingitover This is a great example of how the Constitution and our system of laws is meaningless as long as two branches conspire to make it so. In this case, the executive branch allo...
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ORM Haters Don't Get It - kalodim http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/05/orm-haters-dont-get-it.html ====== willvarfar Martin Fowler's recent post is far better: <http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html> ------ lucian1900 The concept of ORM isn't necessarily bad, it's just that most ORMs are terrible and try to ma...
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