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Under No Circumstances Should You Not Solve A Real Problem - tommy_mcclung http://www.thefailingpoint.com/2009/08/buildingproduct/not-solve-a-real-problem/ ====== bravura Under no circumstances should you use a double negative for emphasis. It has the opposite effect. ------ edw519 Maybe I have fortunate circumstan...
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Show HN: SSL Timer – Certificate expiry countdown timer - steve_taylor https://ssltimer.com ====== steve_taylor I created this little website because I tend to leave things to the last minute, such as renewing an old website's certificate. There's nothing like a countdown timer to create a sense of urgency. I hope you...
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Ask HN: What to look for in a NON-technical cofounder - sgallant There is a lot of talk on HN about what to look for in a technical cofounder but I'm wondering what we should look for in a non-technical cofounder. Is there even a need for this person in a small startup? I recall reading that 37 signals doesn't hire ...
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TikTok being investigated in the U.K. for handling of children’s data and safety - Freako_Sarcasio https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/tiktok-is-being-investigated-in-the-u-k-for-how-it-handles-childrens-data-and-safety/ ====== lm28469 Every time I read "tiktok" I have flashbacks from one of paymoneywubby's video [0]. T...
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Please build an Apilatform - danw http://jatspeak.com/blog/?p=38 ====== diabloernest Well, the current structure of web goes like as follows :- 1\. You have some structured data. 2\. You convert it to structured data to unstructured data, and render it on the browser in form of xml 3\. Then search engines crawl your ...
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Simon Norton, mathematical prodigy, subject of bio ‘The Genius in my Basement’ - ColinWright https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/02/15/simon-norton-mathematical-prodigy-became-subject-biography-genius/ ====== drilldrive Any non-paywall source? ~~~ melling Here’s an old article about the book: [https://www.np...
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World first for strange molecule - habs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8013343.stm ====== tdavis I can't decide what is more amazing: that we can create molecules, that we can _see_ them in their 18 micro-second life, or that some guy predicted this particular one in 1934. Maybe it's just me, but I'm still impres...
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Why Every Innovator is in the Toy Business - pchristensen http://blog.inc.com/nolan-bushnell/2009/06/why_every_innovator_is_in_the.html ====== jamesk2 Does this mean that google was not an innovator?
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Twitch officially acquired by Amazon - munchor http://www.twitch.tv/p/thankyou ====== ihuman While I am happy for the Twitch employees on the news of acquisition, I fear this is going to hurt the user base more than it will help it. With the recent changes to VODs and music issues, people are already starting to lea...
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The US military wants super-soldiers to control drones with their minds - sahin-boydas https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614495/us-military-super-soldiers-control-drones-brain-computer-interfaces/ ====== chmaynard Next: The US Military wants super-drones to control super-soldiers that control drones with their minds....
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The Deep Web Explained by Keanu Reeves - hendi_ https://vimeo.com/124777509 ====== s986s I was hoping for something longer but was not dissappointed.
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Show HN: Lyp – a package manager for Lilyond - ciconia https://github.com/noteflakes/lyp ====== fiatjaf Lilypond is a language used to render sheet music?
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Clearest sign yet of dark matter detected - dmoney http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18303-clearest-sign-yet-of-dark-matter-detected.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space ====== waterlesscloud This experiment seems fundamentally flawed to me. If they see things they can't explain in other ways, it could be dark matter.Or ...
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How to secure an Ubuntu Apache web server - zacharytamas http://nwlinux.com/how-to-secure-an-ubuntu-apache-web-server/ ====== mino Most of these tips are really wrong: * Why using an embedded board for firewall? I can see using an hw firewall, but only in very limited corner cases (i.e. when it does inspection in ASI...
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What papers should everyone read? - Theoretical Computer Science - ColinWright http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1168/what-papers-should-everyone-read ====== calculon Anything written by Leslie Lamport is worth the effort. Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (seminal paper which ...
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Shapeways Receives the First HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printer - microtherion http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/25462-shapeways-receives-the-first-hp-multi-jet-fusion-3d-printer.html ====== sfwwolvw Happy to print there!
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A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React” - nachtigall https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/hey-thanks-for-feedback-bf9502689ca4 ====== nevir A lot of Abramov's responses do refute the original points, but they also betray how much cognitive overhead is required to play in React's ecosystem....
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Morse.rb - qhoxie http://judofyr.net/posts/morse.html ====== silentbicycle The really fun part is when you have to maintain code like this that somebody else thought was a good idea. Adam's refactoring is actually quite clean: [http://refactormycode.com/codes/513-morse-code-encoder- decod...](http://refactormycode....
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Microsoft should dump Windows Phone -Robert Scoble - magsafe http://www.geekwire.com/2014/ex-microsoft-evangelist-robert-scoble-advises-former-employer-give-windows-phone/ ====== rmason In the seventies and eighties you just didn't see Japanese cars on the road in Michigan. The Big 3 execs all drove each others prod...
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What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about? - duck http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726894/what-are-the-dark-corners-of-vim-your-mom-never-told-you-about ====== rbanffy Mom was into IBM mainframes. She never used vim.
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Is there a seed bubble? - phil_KartMe http://www.philmichaelson.com/fundraising/is-there-a-seed-bubble/ ====== phil_KartMe If anyone has stats on angel funds and fundings, please let me know. I'd love to firm up the assumptions in the main equation. I'm looking for: 1) Number of "seed" funds & average size of fund ...
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Ask HN: Any recommendations for PCI audit firms - pjg We are a payment processor and do routine audits. Our currently auditor is busy and has a long lead time for PCI DSS Level 1 audit. Any recommendations from anyone for a company they have worked with that can do PCI audits efficiently and not too expensive ? ======...
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Show HN: Thought for iPhone – express yourself beyond 140 characters - jamando http://thgt.is ====== ilyaeck Love the logo, but I am wondering what makes blogging on mobile so different? Is it the small keyboard? Do we really need a radically different tool? ~~~ jamando We think that mobile blogging will be very di...
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Show HN: Data Grid for Framer - focuser https://twitter.com/lintonye/status/1193634615346417664 ====== focuser Join the webinar to learn more about it: [https://ti.to/learnreact/data- grid](https://ti.to/learnreact/data-grid)
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Top Dying Industries, and lessons for your startup - onik69 http://feefighters.com/blog/the-10-worst-businesses-to-start/ ====== runT1ME Wow, I think this article is taking quite a leap calling shrinking industries dying. I'm not sure anyone would argue that the typewriter industry is anything but dying, or the pager ...
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Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says - ALee http://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10 ====== Adutude Interesting tidbit, in the sentence in the article " To explore these patterns further, we conducted three studies that ex...
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Linux-insides: Introduction to system calls - 0xAX https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SysCall/syscall-1.md ====== vezzy-fnord See also LWN's "Anatomy of a system call": [https://lwn.net/Articles/604287/](https://lwn.net/Articles/604287/) ------ fintler Are you planning to put out a Kindle version of ...
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes - huetsch http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20582845717/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-2-notes-essay ====== bannerts Here is a link to his notes from the first lecture in case if anyone is interested: <http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1> ------...
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A Giant Asteroid of Gold Won’t Make Us Richer - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-08/asteroid-16-psyche-and-all-that-gold-won-t-make-earth-richer ====== Animats Hey, at least we could fix soldering. 80% gold, 20% tin is the best solder.[1] Very strong, no whisker growth. Often used inside IC...
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Beg HN: The Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - 7mediaws https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/455-edutrac ====== 7mediaws There is some skepticism around this project, but I strongly believe that the education community needs an open source student information system of this magnitude. It's feature se...
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Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement - vamsee https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv ====== chc I'm having trouble imagining who this is for, at least in the context of an RVM replacement. The point of RVM is convenience. It's like RVM, only without most of the convenience (gemsets, installing standard versions and mig...
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Team Behind Finnish Success Story Supercell Launches Nordic Startup Fund - dirtyaura http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/04/22/finnish-success-story-supercell-and-investors-launch-nordic-startup-fund/ ====== dirtyaura "... Applifier, which was acquired by a bigger American software tool developer Unity Technolo...
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AI vs. Me. WHO.WILL.WIN? - pplonski86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxloGgn9Fj0&list=PLpSMHMRlawwHAnFltguX1SouT4W2aCbKX ====== zunzun THIS WAS INTERESTING, THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT.
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Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Edward Snowden - morgante http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/hillary-clinton-is-wrong-about-edward-snowden ====== willholloway There was only one candidate in the first Democratic debate that had the courage to say that Snowden should be brought home a hero, because the governmen...
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Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Equipment: It's Sort of Like a Cybertruck - duck https://insideevs.com/news/384021/heavy-duty-equipment-meets-electrification/ ====== westurner > _They’ve created a single platform that can be easily modified to do any > number of jobs. For instance, their flagship product, the Dannar 4.00,...
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Your Password Complexity Requirements Suck - stevepaulo https://medium.com/302-found/your-password-complexity-requirements-suck-7934c4e4b295 ====== gerdesj "like 15 minutes from the login attempt, and randomly generate a string for the token itself. Send a link to the user, when they click it, find them by the token, ...
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Google Maps Engine could be quietly coming to a halt soon - ArtDev http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-maps-engine-quietly-coming-to-a-halt-as-sign-up-window-shutters/ ====== Someone For someone not familiar with the details of Google's offerings, I find that a confusing read. The article mentions the following Goog...
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The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder - epi0Bauqu http://blog.cubeofm.com/the-subtleties-in-outsourcing-using-rentacode ====== andrewljohnson I've had experience using online sites to source jobs, and I think this advice is right on. Here are some summary points, generalized away from rent-a-coder: * don't ...
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Vine places porn at the top of every user’s feed - taytus http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/28/vine-porn/ ====== joshstrange > “I clicked on the video b/c I thought the warning was a joke,” wrote in the > comments. I’m furious I had to see something like this.” Really? And somehow it is Vine's fault you saw porn while c...
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Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (2016) - luu http://www.elidedbranches.com/2016/11/building-and-motivating-engineering.html ====== marmaduke The triad of money, purpose and respect is worth keeping in mind if you are reevaluating where you currently work, asking if you should stay: do you get paid enough to ...
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Australia's net censorship and Operation Titstorm - monkeygrinder http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2784&blogid=10 ====== monkeygrinder I wrote this in response to this: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114122>
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A numerical analysis of Quicksort: How many cases are bad cases? [pdf] - edofic http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.04220v1.pdf ====== coherentpony If you're going to post articles from arxiv, please post the top-level description so I can read the abstract before being forced to download a PDF document. [http://arxiv.org/abs/...
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The Soviet Union Is Gone, but It’s Still Collapsing - jseliger https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/22/the-unlearned-lessons-from-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union/#browder ====== Nomentatus I kept looking for a pony in this pile, but I didn't find one. No new facts, ending with a call to, well... non-action or at least n...
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Why I Love Basic Auth - selmat https://www.rdegges.com/2015/why-i-love-basic-auth/ ====== st3fan Yes to all of this.
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Why is WinPhone a failure but OSX a success? - netpenthe OSX has about 9% market share and has taken a long time to get there.<p>i don&#x27;t think it is considered a massive failure<p>c.f.<p>Windows Phone which has about 4% of the phone market and growing fast, but is considered by many to be a failure.<p>why =====...
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Ask HN: What monitor/alert system do you use to monitor your cloud servers? - fbueno I&#x27;m a nagios user, but I&#x27;m having problems to find an &quot;equivalent&quot; solution to my elastic AWS opsworks stacks. I mean, machines will be created, terminated, stopped, launched or for some reason down.<p>I&#x27;m t...
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Ask HN: How do you manage env variables and secrets? - kulikalov Man, I&#x27;m tired of this topic. I have gitlab CI, local environments, keychain, keepass, gcp, aws and a whole bunch of other places where some of my env variables stored. Furthermore, Expo apps, for example, can&#x27;t pull .env files, so I have to wr...
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Tesla Cybertruck - sahin-boydas https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck ====== ogre_codes Unlike any other previous Tesla, or for that matter any other previous electric car, this is a reasonable value proposition. Everyone is so busy panning the looks they are overlooking the utility of this truck. Even the Model 3 is expen...
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Patrick Vlaskovits, Explains CustDev & Lean Startup in a Nutshell | Foundora - akramquraishi http://www.foundora.com/2010/11/09/patrick-vlaskovits-co-author-of-entrepreneurs-guide-to-custdev-explains-custdev-lean-startup/ ====== akramquraishi Excerpts: What Steve describes in "The Four Steps to the Epiphany," is a met...
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Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests - headalgorithm https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/05/22/perovskite-solar-cells-pass-strict-international-tests.html ====== jsingleton This is a great long read (if you like log graphs) on how solar prices have dropped more than anyone predicted...
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Ask HN: Alternatives to setting up a Massachusetts LLC - matt1 I live in Massachusetts and run a small web app that brings in about $600/month.<p>While it's a low risk endeavor, I'd like to get liability protection to cover me in the event of some catastrophe. Setting up and operating a Massachusetts LLC costs $500/...
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Alarming study shows massive insect loss - dschuetz https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/ ====== jfk13 Duplicate of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18222888](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18222888) ~~~ dschuetz You're right :O I wonder why the su...
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There’s a rootkit in the closet - cyberviewer http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2009/08/21/theres-a-rootkit-in-the-closet/ ====== vog There’s something that puzzles me. The author found a rootkit and saw that it was integrated very deeply in the system. Yet he tried to fix the system _from within_! Only after some faile...
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Innovative robotics developments of the past year - dnetesn https://techxplore.com/news/2019-01-ten-robotics-year.html ====== msadowski If you've enjoyed this article then you might also like my compilation of what I think were the most important/interesting news or projects that I've found about in 2018: [http://week...
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Interactive Data Visualization of Geospatial Data - adilmoujahid http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2016/08/interactive-data-visualization-geospatial-d3-dc-leaflet-python/ ====== petepete This is fantastic. I'm planning to build something similar in the coming months. Only minor nit pick, not the easiest to read on mobile...
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Empirical explanation for Craig Wright's selfish mining Bitcoin bet - grano http://www.andygranowitz.com/2018/04/12/empirical-explanation-craig-wright-selfish-mining-bitcoin-bet.html ====== munro This makes me think of the classic Monty Hall problem, where Monty opens a door and asks if you would like to switch or sta...
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How to Get Started with Competitive Programming – Scaler Academy - sonalid1705 https://scaleracademy.blogspot.com/2020/06/how-to-get-started-with-competitive-programming.html ====== sonalid1705 Since the problems posed to a programmer includes a considerable variety of approaches that a programmer needs to follow, pro...
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WonderSwipe: Rethink Search, 10–100x faster than mobile browsers you are used to - hackergary http://wonderswipe.com ====== hackergary Direct app store link: [https://itunes.apple.com/app/wonderswipe- research/id13367409...](https://itunes.apple.com/app/wonderswipe- research/id1336740934?mt=8) Medium post for why: [h...
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Watch out TinyURL, Cligs is much better for us - ajbatac http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/09/watch-out-tinyurl-cligs-is-much-better.html ====== joshu I despise URL shorteners. They mostly exist to triage broken email client linewrap; more recently they fit links into SMS for twitter. This is functionality that should be ...
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Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD - baxter http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/avoid_windows_malware_bank_on.html ====== Jem > Virtually all of the data-stealing malware in circulation today is built to > attack Windows systems Well, no shit. That's the point. If you're a malware developer,...
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Crystal language 0.20.0 released - binki89 https://crystal-lang.org/2016/11/22/crystal-0.20.0-released.html ====== fithisux still no windows or cygwin release. ~~~ binki89 That's true. I think that there is a good number of people out there who have been waiting for exactly this. Hopefully it will be available soon b...
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Security concerns keeping you from using BaaS providers? We got your back. - dmansen http://blog.cloudmine.me/post/21380529268/application-level-data-security ====== jpdoctor Security is one concern, but business risk is a much bigger concern.
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BitBar - put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar - matryer https://github.com/stretchr/bitbar#bitbar BitBar lets you put the output from any script&#x2F;program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar. Powerful tool for developers who use a mac. ====== matryer I use it to keep track of the current BitCoin...
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Bringing Chance the Rapper to the Deaf - ALee https://www.gq.com/story/chance-the-rapper-sign-language-deafinitely-dope ====== warent It's probably just me personally as a teetotaler, but opening the article with praising a ritual of getting drunk/buzzed before executing a translation really set a lower bar for the re...
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Does program written with Posix compile both on Linux and macOS? - tosieuda Also if macOS is POSIX certified why it is not easy to port macOS programs and libraries to Linux and reverse? ====== wahern IIRC I've found it extremely easy to support both macOS and Linux (as well as the *BSDs, and to a large extent Solaris...
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Steven Chu on energy efficiency - MikeCapone http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-chu/energy-efficiency-achievi_b_501263.html ====== jbarmash Great article. I am especially happy to hear it talk about measuring utility bills before and after retrofits, since a lot of improvements in this industry have been measured ...
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Ask HN: Good Canadian hosting providers? - jd007 We are currently hosted on AWS (US-East), and recently one of our new Canadian clients have the requirement to be hosted in Canada (for legal reasons).<p>I looked around and found a few options, notably iWeb and Netelligent, but was wondering if anybody has any other ...
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Authenticated users can manipulate others fullname without their knowledge - 0xSaFi https://hackerone.com/reports/244567 ====== ksaj This is a bug report marked as resolved 3 years ago. Maybe I'm missing something.
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The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux–Paragon software’s not happy about it - Tomte https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/the-exfat-filesystem-is-coming-to-linux-paragon-softwares-not-happy-about-it/ ====== theamk Was the original press release retracted or something? Googling for quotes in the arti...
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Lockdown was supposed to be an introvert’s paradise. For some it’s not - imartin2k https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615437/virtual-happy-hour-introverts-lockdown-coronavirus/ ====== brodouevencode There are several points with which I sympathize here. >> Everything feels like a meeting Yes. Even more now than ever...
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Ask HN: Books of Problem Sets - _spoonman Hi all,<p>Considering going through some MOOC&#x27;s to brush up on and learn some new math. One thing I&#x27;m looking for are books containing tons of problem sets so I can practice (maybe ones with answers in the back). Are textbooks my only option here? ====== mindcrime A ...
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There’s No Silicon Valley In Europe — But TechHub Might Help - fjabre http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/24/europe-to-get-a-london-techhub-for-startups-to-meet-and-work-in/ ====== danohuiginn aargh, there are already too many hubs. Find a more distinctive name, please! [I'm particularly likely to confuse it with the-...
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Why You Should Feel Deceived and Sickened by America's Stunning Inequality - jdp23 http://www.alternet.org/story/149477/ ====== jdp23 make sure to look at who wrote it ...
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Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase - el_duderino https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/19/your-monthly-amazon-prime-membership-fees-are-about-to-increase/ ====== untog Amazon has done what many others dream of: I basically forget that I'm paying for Prime every year. And I perceive that it gives me en...
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What Working at Stripe Has Been Like - troydavis https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/ ====== spudlyo I left Stripe a little over 6 months ago to join an exciting startup with a number of my friends. What I miss most about working there is the culture of shipping. There are a number of 'shipped' ema...
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LLVM-based JIT Compiler for Ruby - claudiug https://github.com/k0kubun/llrb ====== pmontra The README states that there are no improvements for real world applications. What's missing to get there?
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Ask HN: How do you document your work/progress/things you have learnt? - ahmedbaracat Hi, I am getting obsessed of finding a simple tool&#x2F;app to let me easily document the work I have done each day, right notes about it, and document the things I have learnt. In essence, it is something like a daily journal, but I...
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UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws - Liriel http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/investigatory-powers-bill-a7447781.html ====== rl3 Normally this would be a positive feature, since it (in theory) serves to protect politicians from being coerced or blackma...
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A pile of matchboxes that can learn [video] - ColinWright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU ====== RubenSandwich I really like the physicality of this method of teaching people about ML. Often times people get lost in all the abstraction, especially if they haven't be trained to be comfortable with an abstra...
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YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview - laumars https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52198946 ====== bcheung We can't outsource our critical thinking to private companies. People need to develop the ability to think critically for themselves and not rely on appeals to authority. This can't happen if pe...
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How is Stephen Hawking still alive?  - Semetric http://kottke.org/15/02/how-is-stephen-hawking-still-alive ====== tomtoise [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning- mix/wp/2015/02/24...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning- mix/wp/2015/02/24/how-stephen-hawking-survived-longer-than-possibly-any-other- als-...
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Rupert has balls - rms http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/11/27/rupert-has-balls/ ====== ig1 Murdoch bought MySpace with a valuation of 330 million. In 2008 their revenue was 600 million and they had a market valuation of well into billions. Buying MySpace was clearly a success. ------ ojbyrne Lack of content - check. ...
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Amazon ‘robo-pricing’ sparks fears - davidw http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/26c5bb7a-c12f-11e1-8179-00144feabdc0.html#axzz206xx7k6d ====== davidw If you can't access it directly, do a google search for the title of this post, and it should take you to the article.
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Do Social Rights Affect Social Outcomes? - barry-cotter https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12421 ====== barry-cotter > While the United Nations and NGOs are pushing for global judicialization of > economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCRs), little is known of their > consequences. We provide evide...
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Here’s How Much Real Estate $1 Million Buys You in Every Major U.S. City - shravan http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/17/real_estate_market_how_much_does_1_million_buy_you_in_every_major_u_s_city.html ====== rayiner This is dumb, because its in large part a measure of where city boundaries are drawn...
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Ask HN: What Was NASA817 Up to over California? - mastry It looks like some kind of a search pattern [1], but I can&#x27;t think of a good reason to do that in a DC-8.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flightaware.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;flight&#x2F;NASA817&#x2F;history&#x2F;20190722&#x2F;1800Z&#x2F;KPMD&#x2F;KBOI ====== caycep geog...
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America’s gender-fluid future, in 100 years of baby name trends - johnny313 https://qz.com/1237944/americas-gender-fluid-future-in-100-years-of-baby-name-trends/ ====== onychomys Note that when the article says "...and Scarlett and Victoria at 1.00, without a single boy.", they actually don't know that for sure. The S...
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Visualizing matrix multiplication as a linear combination - signa11 http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/visualizing-matrix-multiplication-as-a-linear-combination/ ====== ubasu Here's how you can apply this interpretation of matrix multiplication: Think of the columns of the matrix A as basis vectors of a coordinate sys...
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Feminism and Microcontrollers: Building new clubhouses with the LilyPad Arduino - mbrubeck http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20101001-00 ====== MaysonL And a paper going into more detail: <http://hlt.media.mit.edu/publications/buechley_DIS_10.pdf>
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How can you help non-programmers understand the development process? - protomyth http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/how-can-you-help-non-programmers-understand-the-development-process/ ====== mgl There was this interdisciplinary course during my PhD studies where computer science students were meeti...
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New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction - HillaryBriss https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/06/new-discovery-throws-light-on-mystery-of-pyramids-construction ====== rando444 I always like seeing discoveries about the pyramids, but I don't get the feeling this tells us as much as the artic...
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Here's How NASA thinks society will collapse - 8sigma http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/heres-how-nasa-thinks-society-will-collapse/441375/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true ====== MrLeftHand Sounds fantastic. So, who will try to convince the wealthy to give up their status and distribute their ...
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Ask HN: How do I dive into a bigger codebase? - s4chin All I have done till now is write and read code which was small in size. How do I get started with reading a bigger codebase? For ex. The Chromium Project, etc ====== MarkCole Having recently done this what I like to do is perform some actions, and follow it throu...
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Netflix – Goodbye Stars, Hello Thumbs - te0x https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/goodbye-stars-hello-thumbs# ====== ansible This change doesn't bother me as much as it seems to with some people. Lately, I have tended not to rate any shows unless I give it a 5-start because I thought it was good. "Was that docu...
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Clown elected to Brazilian Congress - sz http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5imrl_6qHwYFdPbsqDwBRIX7pD4tA?docId=CNG.9169ad9303e8b3a2ca9470b5e05e2e20.b81 ====== jdale27 This is news? There's a few hundred clowns in the U.S. congress... ~~~ aphistic At least this one is being honest about what he is!
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Rails Has Turned into Java - urlwolf http://discursive.com/2013/02/19/rails-you-have-turned-into-java-congratulations/ ====== lkrubner In the year 2013 it is difficult to remember why Rails was such an explosive breath of fresh air, back when it burst onto the mainstage in 2004/2005. The essay that I think best captur...
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Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular? - rgun We recently decided to move from AWS to OVH, primarily for saving money. We realized that the bulk of our AWS bill was made of EC2 and Data transfer costs. So, leaving S3, Cloudfront and SES, we moved everything away from AWS. The costs have be...
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Show HN: Functional programming on Perl 5 - pflanze http://functional-perl.org/ ====== pflanze I'm the author. I have just released the first alpha. I've been programming Scheme for close to a decade now after about the same amount of time using Perl, and I've written this to be able to like programming Perl 5 again, ...
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From Anxieties to Actionable and Measurable 2014 Resolutions - randomdrake http://randomdrake.com/2014/01/02/destroying-personal-anxiety-from-anxieties-to-actionable-and-measurable-2014-resolutions/ ====== gwb3 nice, well-organized and thought-out post :)
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iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case - weisser http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MGQM2LL/A/iphone-6s-smart-battery-case-white?fnode=edf71393319294bfab1f075ee9cb9f5c06256817f3890d6dd45516f33fd74e1a2181fd202d934c080ff0ab7a78322eef72d18391b826487da8d129a6608634216fb46514df03452215e94bf886b063854d6a07c063cee2513c02a5ee0bf16a58 ==...
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