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Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study - Errorcod3 https://phys.org/news/2019-08-climate-deniers-media-scientists.html ====== khawkins Link to the original article, strangely absent from this piece: [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4.pdf](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-...
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Parsing the impact of Anonymous - mcantelon http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/09/parsing_the_impact_of_anonymous ====== wccrawford "As long as they don't break into other people's computers, launching DDoS should not be treated as a crime by default; " Yeah, they should. Those attacks are the same as...
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Mac Pro teardown finds a largely traditional desktop inside - Elof https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/mac-pro-teardown-finds-a-largely-traditional-desktop-inside/ ====== flashman Original article: [https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922](https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/...
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When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong - scott_s https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/mars-simulation-hi-seas-nasa-hawaii/553532/?single_page=true ====== duxup It makes me wonder who they are testing with and if they are all just academic folks testing isolated academic folks who are constantly concerned abo...
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A day in the life of a memory leak hunter - hollywoodcole http://www.szegedi.org/articles/memleak.html ====== huherto Excellent article, it was invaluable to me a couple of years ago when I was trying to find a memory leak that was placing a very large project in jeopardy. ------ cstejerean As a mental exercise thi...
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Apple stock trading halted; pending news imminent - golfer https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1080576067436494848 ====== steverb Apple lowered revenue guidance to $84 billion, down from the $89 to $93 billion it had previously projected. The company lowered gross margin to about 38 percent from between 38 percent and ...
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IBash Notebook - jeroenjanssens http://jeroenjanssens.com/2015/02/19/ibash-notebook.html ====== toth This looks great! I've been looking for something like this for a while! I've tried to use ipython (with the '!' magic) as a bash notebook, but it doesn't handle bash variables in a nice way, and it requires escapin...
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10 Tips For Achieving Email Bliss - Lightbody http://blog.lightbody.net/post/17327461693/10-tips-for-achieving-email-bliss ====== pavel_lishin This is pretty good for work e-mail, but I 100% disagree on not using filters in personal stuff. I get a lot of notifications - forum replies, twitter follows, upcoming conce...
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Codeschool is giving Free access: Learn web technologies with coding challenges - pajju http://go.codeschool.com/voV55g ====== pajju most of the course(CodeTV and screencasts) are downloadable in SD/HD formats, but trust me, SD has got excellent resolution, and so don't download HD formats. Another worth mentioning...
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How to build client trust - neilos http://bluespot.io/2016/04/25/building-trust.html ====== brudgers An interesting insight. Reading it made me think that the other side of the information asymmetry is equally relevant: the client knows more about their strategic and tactical goals as well as their economic capacity t...
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Does Evolutionary Psychology Show That Normativity Is Mind–Dependent? (2014) [pdf] - lainon https://philpapers.org/archive/BERDEP/ ====== SolaceQuantum Note that evolutionary psychology, which theorizes that human behavior is genetic and controlled by largely genetic forces, is highly controversial in of itself for be...
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HackrTrackr.com - jacquesm http://www.hackrtrackr.com/ ====== blakeperdue Nearly crashed by browser. Perhaps limit the initial number of map items to load? ~~~ bd Yes please. There are many clustering / level-of-detail solutions available for Google Maps: _Handling Large Amounts of Markers in Google Maps_ [http://...
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Dmytri Kleiner: Kickstarter will never become big with it's current model - webmonkeyuk http://www.dmytri.info/for-projects-like-kickstarter-to-scale-they-can-not-depend-on-the-limited-funds-workers-are-able-to-divert-from-consumption-and-must-tap-into-the-real-source-of-accumulation-surplus-value/ ====== clavalle O...
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Gene Wilder Has Died - cpymchn http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37215553 ====== simonsarris Willy Wonka (screenplay by the genius Roald Dahl) has one of my favorite scenes in film and I invite you all to watch it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9jc5blzRM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9jc5blzRM) > In 1...
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Ask HN: What are the benefits of Docker? - bozho Docker is becoming quite popular. I've used it as an end-user just 3 times, and it never worked as expected. But assuming it does work, can you please list some actual benefits? And contrast them with install scripts, for example (considering the overhead of the VM...
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A reddit image viewer I hacked together over the weekend - teapot01 http://reddit-slider.herokuapp.com So, I was annoyed with clicking back and forth between reddit and things like imgur and quickmeme, so I hacked this together in about a day.<p>Its built on a couple of php scripts on a free heroku instance, backed b...
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Could Patriotism Be Genetic? - BIackSwan http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/why-were-patriotic ====== vijayr genuine question - why should anyone feel patriotic at all? shouldn't we love/like the whole planet? what is the point in getting attached to a place just because we were born there? ~~~ bovermyer The article ...
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SARS-CoV-2 Point of Entry into Cells Captured by Cryo-EM - ajaviaad https://www.genengnews.com/news/sars-cov-2-point-of-entry-into-cells-captured-by-cryo-em/ ====== easytiger This is what I see when I click the above link [https://imgur.com/a/NPKYdBR](https://imgur.com/a/NPKYdBR) The web had been well and truly ruin...
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Give it five minutes - sathishmanohar http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes ====== analyst74 I come from the opposite direction, where I was thinking too much. In the sense that I am quiet in most conversations, because I need to think about what to say back, and most conversations flow quite quickl...
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Ask HN: How hard are beginning college CS classes? - solipsist ====== T-R Depends a lot on the school, and how much prior experience you have. As far as rigor and workload, that really depends on the professor. That said, intro courses are usually designed to be at least survivable by someone with no background at ...
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Criminals aren't going dark, says Harvard study - theandrewbailey http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10887838/criminals-going-dark-terrorism-berkman-center ====== brudgers The Harvard Study: [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/dont- panic/Dont_Pan...](https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/dont- panic/Dont_Panic...
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Facebook buys Parse - uptown http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/ ====== cletus This doesn't surprise me in that it seems like a natural fit for Facebook, who has a Mobile Problem [tm]. As much as people fear Facebook becoming The Internet (in the AOL sense), Facebook is actually really late to this party...
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$87 M. News Corp. Backed Startup Shuts Down Before Launch - ccarella http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/31/to-oblivion-and-beyond-wait-no-just-oblivion-87-m-news-corp-backed-startup-shuts-down-before-launch/ ====== freejack I think this is less a story about a failed News Corp. ambition and more a story about how the m...
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Side Effects vs. Promises - dangoor http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2015/10/01/side-effects-vs-promises/ ====== inglor So much wrong in one place. A promise _is_ the IO monad, with `then` being `>>=` [1]. If you write your promises code not to cause explicit side effects - it won't and you get pure code. The fact you h...
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Dear India, Show Some Spine: Take Hong Kong for Example - jayadevan http://www.nextbigwhat.com/india-hong-kong-snowden-297/ ====== michaelpinto So India should take orders from Beijing? China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/asia/china-said- to-h...](http://www.ny...
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Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018 – I, Cringely - rbanffy https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/16/bobs-first-predictions-2018/ ====== hacknat I think the death of net neutrality is an act of desperation (clearly someone is behind it, because...why now, why the spam comments, why so fast, etc), b...
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Why Sell at a Loss - mattmcknight http://www.trizle.com/topics/1134-why-sell-at-a-loss ====== mattmcknight Trizle is thinking like a plumber ( <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412785> )
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Download And Upload Free High Resolution Pictures - vishalnegal http://www.Pinhat.com ====== brudgers This make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) Is there a story behind it's development?
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Comprehensive list of built-in utility types in TypeScript - miloszpp https://codewithstyle.info/Comprehensive-list-of-useful-built-in-types-in-TypeScript/ ====== sonnyblarney Superb. Would be nice for non-nullability to be baked into the syntax. ------ ghego1 Great list! Thanks for sharing!
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A website to count the votes of #TheDress - SILVERjl http://colorthatdress.com ====== jgehrcke The "scientific" conclusion taken by Wired is not correct. Nobody is "wrong". The phenomenon we observe is known, and it is the manipulative way the questions were asked that led to the weird hype. See [https://news.ycombi...
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Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing - sebgr https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/january/jobs-involving-routine-tasks-arent-growing ====== kristianc I'm interested by the classification here. Many backend jobs involve routine work from people who could be doing non- routine work if the CRUD routine ...
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From 0 to 16K users in 2 weeks – Visual Inspector is designer's dream come true - vipul4vb https://medium.com/@CanvasFlip/visual-inspector-web-designers-rescue-from-digging-in-codes-1a636f6a4cde ====== andreicon cute, but it doesn't export the edits in any way, how do i pass my modifications to the frontend devs?
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Ask HN: What are the best cross-platform options for desktop (and mobile)? - rustyrose I&#x27;m interested in developing cross-platform applications. I know that it&#x27;s not ideal and there are some shortcomings, but I want to support Windows, Mac, and Linux. If the solution offers some form of mobile support as wel...
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Tesla Model S P100D Crushes All Competition in ‘World’s Greatest Drag Race’ - mpweiher https://electrek.co/2017/09/21/tesla-model-s-p100d-crushes-all-competition-in-motor-trends-world-greatest-drag-race/ ====== sixbrx "Crushed" is maybe a little strong. Won by a tenth, but at lower speed, runner ups were gaining and w...
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Japan Now Has More Electric Car Charging Spots Than Gas Stations - SimplyUseless https://transportevolved.com/2015/02/17/official-japan-now-electric-car-charging-spots-gas-stations/ ====== grillvogel >Unlike the majority of gas stations in Japan however, the 40,000 electric car charging points quoted by Nissan include...
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New College of Florida - deskglass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_college_of_florida Recently, there have been many submissions that critique the cost and structure of higher education. As such, I think many of you will find this college interesting. I attend it and would be happy to answer any questions you have a...
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Bill Gates' Philanthropic Impact Put in Perspective - mike2477 http://www.insatiablefox.com/blog/2016/4/21/the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-is-really-big ====== dharmon If you put aside the "M$ was evil and he is just atoning" arguments, Gates is a huge inspiration, at least for me. This guy finds problems that h...
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Ask HN: Whats your preferred CMS for non technical users? - webstartupper Hi All,<p>I am looking at building a CMS for a very non technical audience. Rather than re-build the wheel I would like to extend an existing CMS. I have worked with WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Serendipity. However, none of them is very easy...
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Ideologues miss Orwell's greatest lesson - i-j https://unherd.com/2019/02/idealogues-miss-orwells-greatest-lesson/ ====== Barrin92 Orwell as a flexible thinker who doesn't fit neatly into any category is a very common take, but I honestly think this is too positive. When I read 1984 for the first time I had a similar ...
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Ask HN: What are your group messaging use cases? - technothirst So group messaging is becoming more popular and some argue that will be the new form of social media.<p>I&#x27;m curious what do people use group messaging for and what are the most popular use cases?<p>Let&#x27;s discuss the group messaging behaviors. tr...
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MySQL vs PostgreSQL - chaostheory http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL ====== jhancock I've read many MySQL vs Postgres articles/papers over the years. This one is the best. Not highly opinionated. "Just the facts" mostly. And in a good format. Thanks for publishing!!! oh yeah, go postgres!!! ;) ~~~ iamelg...
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A comparison of programming languages in economics - scarmig http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/07/a-comparison-of-programming-languages-in-economics.html ====== minimax Their code is on github [1]. I am a C++ programmer so I'm happy that C++ came out on top, but the comparison is obviously flawed...
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Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications - styfle https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo ====== yathern Very interesting. If I understand correctly - this essentially solves the problem of each Electron application having to package the entirety of chromium with it. However it comes at the cost of assum...
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Show HN: enter URL, get screenshot and hosted link to image - fduran http://site2pic.com/ ====== waterside81 Cool, works well. It looks like you have some default viewport size so if content scrolls beneath it, it gets cropped in the image: Compare: <http://site2pic.com/pics/littleheroes.com9474.png> To: <http:/...
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LivingSocial Brings Daily Deals To The Hood - brianbreslin http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/02/livingsocial-local-deals/ ====== brianbreslin interesting to see how they manage sales for hyper-targeted areas. someone has to build a self-serve tool for these services.
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The Internet Doesn't Love Anything. It Is Not a Human Being. - yiedyie http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2014/06/the_internet_loves_the_internet_hates_no_the_internet_is_not_a_person.html ====== okonomiyaki3000 I disagree. Saying that the internet loves something is similar to saying that "information...
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The future is software engineers who can't code - ZnZirconium https://qz.com/778380/the-future-is-software-engineers-who-cant-code/ ====== kristianpaul Professional developers jobs are still safe. Most people still cannot code without engineers assisting. QuickBase surveyed its customers and found about 75% of them re...
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Elon Musk sub 'impractical', won't be used - oldgradstudent http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/07/10/elon-musk-sub-impractical-wont-be-used/ ====== robryan It is possible to both do good and generate positive PR. If he was getting in the way or come uninvited would be one thing, but other than that nothing wrong...
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Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming - sturza https://tryolabs.com/blog/2020/04/02/swift-googles-bet-on-differentiable-programming/ ====== eggy I will stay with Julia because although it gets touted as a general purpose language it's audience is predominantly in the sciences, and it is fast. The article m...
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99% of Those Who Died from Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says - kasperni https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says ====== gentleman11 “Other illness” is extremely vague. Apparently having had a high blood pressure reading counts. What about sore kn...
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B- environment merits B- effort - mickeyben http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3461-b-environment-merits-b-effort ====== arkitaip "the statistical outliers who do not follow this are not worth focusing policy on" This is a great idea that 37signals keeps coming back to, i.e. don't shape HR policies based on outliners a...
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Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing - networked https://send.firefox.com/ ====== nneonneo The last time this was posted I hacked up a quick and dirty Python client for Send: [https://github.com/nneonneo/ffsend](https://github.com/nneonneo/ffsend). I just updated it for recent Send changes, which streamlined ...
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Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Are Easier to Read on Your Ereader - mono http://lifehacker.com/5744899/briss-trims-pdfs-to-make-them-more-readable-on-your-e+reader ====== larsberg I know I should "just do it myself," but I keep waiting for something that can unsplit and unwrap PDFs generated in ACM double-colu...
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Scientists find 2,000-year-old brain in Britain - epi0Bauqu http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081212/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_ancient_brain ====== zandorg Should go nicely with that 2,000 year old computer...
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The Global Price Tag for 100 Percent Renewable Energy: $73T - chmaynard https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion ====== erentz > In the U.S., reaching 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 will require an > investment of $7.8 trillion. It will involve building 288,0...
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What do you do after losing thousands to bad advice? Become a financial adviser - mirandajane720 https://medium.com/the-modern-adviser/financial-advice-fever-pitch-with-former-footballer-daniel-nardiello-4bf2e3c75439 ====== mtmail The title is "Financial Advice Fever Pitch with former footballer Daniel Nardiello" Plea...
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Would the internet be healthier without 'like' counts? (2019) - headalgorithm https://www.wired.com/story/internet-healthier-without-like-counts/ ====== mattgreenrocks Addicts never want you to cut their supply off. Social media is a video game as much as World of Warcraft is. There's no value judgment there; I enjoy...
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Show HN: Mathlore, Your Math Knowledge Base - CatsAreCool https://mathlore.org/ ====== CatsAreCool I created Mathlore to help students, researchers, and hobbyists learn, explore, and discover mathematics by creating a place where they can collect math knowledge (either in a public collection or their own private colle...
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Ask HN: Why should I use Django? - xcoding I want to build an app allowing users to search local car for rent availability. ====== cyberpanther If you want to use Python then use Django. As with any framework, it can be hard to work around but Django gives you the most options to work around the framework than any oth...
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An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework (1998) - tosh https://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html ====== emmanueloga_ TL; DR I think Jena, a free and open source RDF framework, has been around for the last 20 years, and still releases pretty often. If you are considering using a graph database ...
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Facebook Fudges Your Password for Your Convenience - ryan_j_naughton https://www.howtogeek.com/402761/facebook-fudges-your-password-for-your-convenience/ ====== chmaynard This is so, so wrong. Now I have another good reason to avoid Facebook.
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Microsoft Patented Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data - MadMx https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&tab=PCTBIBLIO ====== cyberg1 00109] Concept 24. A device, comprising: one or more processors communicatively coupled to a sensor, the sensor configured to sense body activity o...
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Advice on Beggining a Career as a Freelance Web-Developer. - blister http://ericharrison.info/2010/06/01/ama-how-do-i-get-started-as-a-freelance-web-developer/ ====== phatbyte I'm a web dev freelancer as well. And here my thoughts and tips. \- First, I don't find it a crazy lifestyle, in fact it changed my life for g...
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20 Subjects Every Software Engineer Should Know - nikosmar http://www.dotnetcodegeeks.com/2012/07/20-subjects-every-software-engineer.html ====== tstyle I'd rather hire someone who excels only at two or three things on this list(#3, #20), along with some product sense and good communication skills. ------ roguecode...
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Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript - fagnerbrack https://www.wix.engineering/post/breaking-chains-with-pipelines-in-modern-javascript ====== dvdhnt Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the purpose of a pipeline operator - at least in JS. From a cognitive perspective, it doesn't make code more readable...
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Grove, Ellison, Andreessen, etc. speak out on Steve Jobs - adamhowell http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/technology/0911/gallery.steve_jobs_testimonials.fortune/index.html ====== blasdel Larry Ellison, uber-consumerist: _I remember when Steve was my neighbor in Woodside, Calif., and he had no furniture. It struck ...
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An Atheist Defends Religion - Kapura https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/2bed2dd4ed78 ====== divinedefault Part I: The value offered by religion has absolutely no bearing on the truthfulness of the religion. Charitable acts or creating a sense of community by Mormons, Scientologists, or Christians do not me...
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Always be the new user - f055 https://medium.com/@f055/what-the-new-iphone-taught-me-about-the-most-important-business-practice-for-your-company-or-f72756e4187#.a16j0ah3s ====== dang Sockpuppet votes and comments will get your account banned on Hacker News. Please don't do this again. ------ taninhabib Good job ----...
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Java 8: Replace traditional for loops with IntStreams - mariushe http://www.deadcoderising.com/2015-05-19-java-8-replace-traditional-for-loops-with-intstreams/ ====== cousin_it Maybe a heretical opinion here, but I like writing loops much more than using higher order functions like map/fold/filter, even though I have ...
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The most awkward 404 not found page on the internet - stuti90 http://visitsteve.com/404.html ====== bitslayer It would be great if after it is done, the video could be replaced with a still image of the same scene, so that it is not clear if the video is actually over or not. You could stay there for hours waiting t...
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MOSH - cjr http://getmosh.io/ ====== mhax This is actually really well done. Nothing new technically, but presented really well. (I thought this was going to be another posing of [https://mosh.mit.edu/](https://mosh.mit.edu/)) ------ markild I was really confused about what this site had to do with mosh, the mobile ...
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eBay Horror Story - sirinath https://twitter.com/sirinath/status/1213690911798046720 ====== masonic Return shipping is covered by the seller only if the item listing says that.
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Howto setup vim for node.js coding - deedee Advice howto setup vim for node.js coding ====== threepointone <http://www.google.co.in/search?q=vim+node+js>
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Profiling CPython at Instagram (2017) - mcenedella https://instagram-engineering.com/profiling-cpython-at-instagram-89d4cbeeb898 ====== sandGorgon this is a very interesting talk around the same topic - [https://lwn.net/Articles/754163/](https://lwn.net/Articles/754163/) > _But Shapiro may not be aware that the Pytho...
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In Defense of “Mindless Rote” (2001) - rlvesco7 http://nychold.com/akin-rote01.html ====== sqrt17 The article shows a confusion between training (committing things to muscle memory, or to visual patterns that can be recognized or executed) and teaching (a deeper understanding of a thing). Training is always more testa...
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Beware the Pitfalls of Relative Benchmarks - lhartwich http://lhartwich.com/ ====== booyah123 Great point, it always good to have a level perspective when making a comparison.
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Ask HN: Recommend a Technical Virtualization Reference - mattheww Hi everyone, I'm using virtual machines and the cloud as a resource for some of my work, and I'd like to have a better understanding how the virtualization technology works.<p>I'm looking for a book or review paper that explains the basics (trap and e...
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Show HN: I talked to 917 ecommerce software users. Here's what I found. - steve-benjamins https://www.wisebuyer.com/ecommerce-software ====== pc86 Maybe I am too critical or just hyper-sensitive to this, but it's an affiliate site submitted by the creator almost identical to another affiliate site in his profile follo...
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Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year - symisc_devel https://www.axios.com/amazon-lobbying-washington-wide-reach-0f7253e4-234e-462a-aca1-ca19705b9c39.html ====== Shivetya Isn't this the point of politicians pressuring corporations? I remember back, way back, when Apple was caught ...
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Is Arm ready for server dominance? - PeterCorless https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-dominance/ ====== walrus01 My concern about this is that with the failure of Qualcomm Centriq, there is no industry standard/affordable/easy to buy ARM based server platform ordinary persons and small/medium s...
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Economics Has a Math Problem - gedrap http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/economics-has-a-math-problem ====== ThePhysicist I was always interested in both Physics and Economics and did studies in both disciplines. As a physicist, the models that I encountered in economic theory always left me quite disap...
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Ask HN: What are (y)our ethical stances in software? - Zaskoda I believe in and support some fundamental things like open source, decentralization, creative commons, and net neutrality. Sometimes I feel like I fall into some kind of hacker news stereotype and other times I feel like I am an oddball idealist with nobod...
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GitHub Flavored Markdown - chaostheory http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ ====== angelbob This does a fine job of address Jeff Atwood's criticisms of Markdown. Yay for GitHub stepping up where Markdown's author isn't. This also vindicates the "OSS authors don't owe nobody nothing!" crowd, as GitHub st...
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Robots Are the Next Revolution, So Why Isn't Anyone Acting Like It? - eguizzo http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/robots-are-the-next-revolution-so-why-isnt-anyone-acting-like-it ====== ChuckMcM I agree its a pretty weak article but its a blog, not a paper, so I would not expect it to rise to...
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Ask YC: Which looks better? (Website design feedback) - yourmomis1337 We're trying to figure out a good way to list items on the 'browse' page of our site... the problem is that there is a lot of info we want to display for each item, and it gets pretty busy. We've been playing with different solutions, and we want...
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Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) - sturza https://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors/ ====== ghaff One possible theory that's not mentioned in the article is that CS has probably become less approachable for those who don't enter college already somewhat versed in at least the basics. ...
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A model for using equity as compensation in the early days - grubhubmike http://www.grubhubmike.com/2011/03/overcompensating-with-equity.html ====== nabraham The real question is how far above market do you want to go and what should the equity/cash split be. If you pay 20% cash + 80% equity to employee, the wage ha...
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Homeland Security: Requirements for Security Decision Support Systems (2004) - vs4vijay http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA465876 ====== UVB-76 This doesn't appear to have much, if anything, to do with the so-called 'PRISM' everyone is talking about at the moment. Also, the presentation has been freely avai...
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San Francisco, Seattle included in list of "at risk" cities for DTV transition - ilamont http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/12/16/high-tech-cities-included-risk-list-dtv-transition ====== yan I'm amused at the phrase "at risk" being used to refer to people losing TV signal, akin to some disease, where I view it as...
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Ask HN: Do you learn a lot from IRC? - joeclef I just set up an IRC and I was curious to see what you guys think of it in terms of learning opportunities? Would you say that Stack Overflow is more useful and&#x2F;or better? Thanks ====== theGREENsuit I've used IRC a handful of times and the greatest benefit is havin...
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Introducing SPDY - jgrahamc http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-spdy ====== joubert _SPDY is built on top of TLS, which means it requires a site to have a valid SSL certificate in order to work. This, unfortunately, limits SPDY only to CloudFlare's paid customers who have enabled Flexible or Full SSL support. Mic...
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Software Architecture Patterns [pdf] - pykello http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/software-architecture-patterns.pdf ====== markbnj As someone who has the word "architect" in his software job title I feel like pretty much everything I read on the topic only serves to confirm that nobody knows exactly what s...
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Why Are Programming Languages Sites So Ugly? - sgdesign http://sachagreif.com/why-programming-languages-sites-are-ugly/ ====== olalonde > [...] PHP is an old language [...] More modern languages like Python or Ruby > have somewhat decent sites. Just a nitpick but PHP (1995) is not older than Ruby (1995) or Python (...
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Ask HN: What is that one deciding factor that makes a website successful? - ziggystardust I have known a lot of people who have ventured into the &#x27;website&#x27; business and found the initial success and disappeared after a while.<p>I&#x27;m curious about what makes the successful ones successful . I&#x27;ve see...
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Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time? - Hooke http://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-economist-too-far/238050 ====== philipkglass _The book’s premise is that in about a century, it will be possible to scan human brains at "fine enough spatial and chemical resolution," and to combine that with good-enough mode...
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Ask HN: Cheap and fast (just CPU) dedicated server? - tlogan We need a server to do some very CPU intensive data processing and we are looking for provider which has the best CPU/cost ratio.<p>The server does not need to have a lot of memory, fast disk or anything like that: we just care about CPU speed.<p>The data ...
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Redundancy vs. dependencies: which is worse? (2008) - ripitrust http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-worse.html ====== d--b This article is very important. I encourage everyone to read it, as it raises a lot of good points. In my opinion, the problem it describes come from the vagueness of the c...
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The tiny Wyoming creek that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - bane http://twentytwowords.com/the-tiny-wyoming-creek-that-connects-the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans/ ====== te_platt I seems like a bifurcating stream would be unstable. Does anyone here know how common they are and how long they last?
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Using Cloudflare Gateway to Stay Productive (Turn Off Distractions) While WFH - eastdakota https://blog.cloudflare.com/using-cloudflare-gateway-to-stay-productive-and-turn-off-distractions-while-working-remotely/ ====== jeffshek I've had a really great experience with using [http://nextdns.io/](http://nextdns.io/) for...
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The Weaver, the Princess and Goldman Sachs - abhinav http://in.news.yahoo.com/265/20100501/1705/top-the-weaver-the-princess-and-goldman_1.html ====== swombat Excellent story. The world is full of wisdom in the form of myths and stories. Those who know how to learn from this immense repository of human experience are...
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