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Don’t believe the Silicon Valley hype - mdhayes http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/20/dont-believe-the-hype-silicon-valley-is-not-the-be-all-end-all-for-tech-companies/ ====== KirinDave Am I the only person who reads articles like these and gets the suspicion that this is less about how great Austin is (and it is a grea...
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Year-End Report on Why Developers Love iOS - FluidDjango http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/distimos-year-end-report-shows-why-developers-love-ios-iphone-4x-android-revenue-ipad-2x/ ====== saturdaysaint Owning the high end has its advantages. I've long seen anyone with a smartphone as an early adopter with a bit of disp...
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Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill - jeo1234 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/germany-s-wi-fi-shortage-set-to-ease-as-merkel-backs-new-bill ====== codebeaker I'm currently suffering two copyright infringement cases, which I can only assume are the result of the storm that re...
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Git LFS 2.5.0 is now available - guessmyname https://blog.github.com/2018-07-30-git-lfs-2.5.0-now-available/ ====== skunkworker The new 'git lfs migrate' command will help when accidentally committing files that should've been git-lfs but weren't. ------ jhabdas Is it free yet? ><
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Things I Learned from World of Warcraft - JabavuAdams http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/seven-things-warcraft ====== patio11 Seven Things I Learned From WoW (The Business): 1) Put _obsessive_ attention into making the first five minutes of use of your product awesome. It is the five minutes people are most likely...
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Software development at 1 Hz - telotortium https://hackernoon.com/software-development-at-1-hz-5530bb58fc0e ====== ArthurBrussee Article is a little snarky but I really agree with the main point: we've accepted terrible tools and comlile times. It's been years since real Innovation happened in this space - regressions...
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Google Chrome OS is 7 years too late - nreece http://www.baekdal.com/articles/technology/google-chrome-os/ ====== ZeroGravitas I'd suggest the author's (mis)conceptions about the limits of browser based apps is 7 years out of date. It's not even an explicit argument, it's just an unspoken assumption that web apps aren...
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WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon - Abid http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazon ====== RiderOfGiraffes Choose your news source: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959697> \- techdirt.com <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959655> \- cnn.com <http://news.ycombina...
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A New Twist on Neural Networks - sonabinu https://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-twist-on-neural-networks/amp ====== dr_zoidberg Hinton explains the concept of capsules in this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTawFwUvnLE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Linux Challenge Blackbox #1 - iodigitalsec http://www.iodigitalsec.com/linux-challenge-blackbox-1/ ====== ageha I reached a point where I have no idea on how to move on. I hope after this is "done" that there will be a mini how-to on how you get to the solution :) ~~~ iodigitalsec Solution has been posted :) -----...
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Give us your phones and passwords - virtuabhi https://theintercept.com/2017/01/14/complaints-describes-border-agents-interrogating-muslim-americans-asking-for-social-media-accounts/ ====== RichardHeart Canada is brutal with this. They will demand your phone, they will demand your password. If there's anything that mak...
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan - fjarlq https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552 ====== flowerlad Zero mentions of Solaris. Surprising. BSD, Minix and Linux are mentioned. Even Santa Cruz Operation is mentioned. Bill Joy and Sun Microsystems are mentioned. Solaris was the most influential Unix of the 90’...
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Hacker unlocks the 3DS system kernel key to running pirated software - unstoppableted http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/02/hackers-break-3ds-security/ ====== SifJar A poorly researched article. First of all, GBAtemp is a terrible source, 90% of it users are self entitled pirates who know nothing. Secondly, neimod has n...
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Where to Go to College If You Want a High-Paying Job - prostoalex http://www.fastcoexist.com/3045598/forget-harvard-heres-where-to-go-to-college-if-you-want-a-high-paying-job?utm_source=facebook ====== sgeisenh This is Simpson's paradox at work. And the article even acknowledges it. Most of the universities on the lis...
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NASA ‘Snoopy’ lunar module likely found 50 years after being jettisoned - jason_zig https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/nasa-snoopy-lunar-module-likely-found-50-years-after-being-jettisoned-into-space/ ====== seniorsassycat > Notably, the fuel tanks used in this mission weren’t provided enough fuel to > return from the ...
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Andy Hertzfeld tells about the team behind Google+ Circles - dirtyaura https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts/FddaP6jeCqp ====== orky56 You've got to hand it to him for being so classy and humble about it. It's much easier to be quiet and take the praise. Only when someone is modest enough and truly bel...
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Social Networks Will Be the New Breeding Ground for Viruses - reazalun http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2008/12/11/11readwriteweb-the_facebook_virus_spreads_no_social_network_is_s.html?em ====== wesley The biggest difference between email and social network viruses is that the social networks are central...
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Shag Marry Employ - isomorph http://shagmarryemploy.com/go/index ====== metageek Creepy.
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What if this is as good as it gets? - jeffmiller http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/02/18/ie9-is-the-new-ie6 ====== chubs I have a suspicion that they will focus heavily on ie because of windows phone 7 - they desperately need developers, and will do whatever they can to get them on their new mobile platform, be it...
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Show HN: Song Lyrics Generator - lessthanseventy https://lessthanseventy.com/lyricsmarkov ====== lessthanseventy This is still a work in progress but I think it's neat. It still needs caching and proper error handling. I would welcome any feedback. ~~~ karmakaze Because it uses the same words and short phrases as the...
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Ask HN: Coronavirus: any open source WebRTC conferencing website without login? - zoobab ====== lwakefield Check out [https://meet.jit.si/](https://meet.jit.si/) \- no account needed. I believe all rooms are public, but not discoverable. I don't know how well it holds up for large groups, but for ~5 or so clients it h...
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Power of customizability and Time management = Smarter task management - katrik14 https://medium.com/orgzit/think-your-task-management-solutions-are-a-setback-read-this-f2b4a37ded3e ====== magicsquare15 Yes! The ability to add custom fields is missing from so many apps. Also necessary for task management / bug repos i...
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Nation's Cops Seem Determined To Demonstrate Why People Are Protesting Them - miles https://reason.com/2020/05/31/nations-cops-seem-determined-to-demonstrate-why-people-are-protesting-them-in-the-first-place/ ====== cmurf Peaceful protest does not work. That is the legacy of the last 50 years since the civil rights mo...
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Facebook deliberately bans Grooveshark from its services - Natsu http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/facebook-deliberately-bans-grooveshark-from-its-services/ ====== Rudism I'd always avoided using Facebook to sign into any third party service due to privacy concerns (and eventually deleted my Facebook account al...
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An outdated idea about solar panels has been slowing advancement: study - xbmcuser https://www.inverse.com/article/59404-solar-panel-replacement ====== ASalazarMX Alternative title: "Why don't we make solar panels last 10-15 years instead of 20-25?" How about no. The technology improves in very small increments, ther...
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YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service - uptown http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/17/youtube-indie-labels-music-subscription ====== fpgeek Upon reflection , I think this article (and others like it) are starting from the wrong place and end up confusing the issue more than il...
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Google Cloud Armor - mindprince https://cloud.google.com/armor/ ====== antoncohen I know people are saying this is just like Cloudflare, but there might be some real value differentiation here. Google has been doing some really advanced things in this area for a long time. I think I saw a research paper or talk from 5...
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Boston Based Startup Goes Live with app that gives Job applicants an edge - bgelb7 Boston, MA: This week, Jobgator Inc, a startup focused on giving candidates an edge in the job application process will launch their software live to the world. Three months ago, Jobgator was accepted to MassChallenge, one of the worl...
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Tell HN: Simple ransom spam results in success - hippich So I was going through my spam folder and noticed email below. Essentially, spammer told me they recorded me watching porn and bitcoin address where I should send 650 USD equivalent to erase these records. I was like &quot;what a waste of spam&quot;. But then de...
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Ask HN: How do you backup? - may Is it automatic, how quickly can you recover and what service(s) do you use (or is it all done in-house) ... or not at all? What thought-process prompted your chosen solution?<p>Personally, I keep all of my important stuff in git, mirrored to GitHub and augmented with cperciva's Tars...
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Is Twitter going to pull a bait-and-switch on developers? - RyanMcGreal http://econsultancy.com/blog/5724-is-twitter-going-to-pull-a-bait-and-switch-on-developers?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed ====== necrecious Platform owners are the new land users and developers are share croppers. If you develop for ...
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7 most crowded spaces for your new web startup - techcore http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/03/28/7-most-crowded-spaces-for-your-new-web-startup/ ====== danielha Look at them so easily and distinctly categorize all the different spaces of the web. I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty of successful startups that signi...
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Big Tech Is Going After Health Care - SREinSF https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/technology/big-tech-health-care.html ====== mxwll There are some major hurdles for these SV companies to overcome if they want any level of success in this arena. EPIC and Cerner together hold over 50% market share of EHR systems in Ameri...
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California Senate passes universal health care bill - fred256 http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article153931299.html ====== ZeroGravitas Why is the level of conversation on this topic so low? There's two top level comments here that effectively say: "Healthcare costs money! You didn't thin...
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How to Talk to Your Parents About Encryption7 - r3bl https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-talk-to-your-parents-about-encryption/ ====== ColinWright Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790861](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790861)
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Random startup tip #1: Picking a name - matt http://blog.mattrubens.com/2007/07/06/random-startup-tip-1-picking-a-name/ ====== coffeeaddicted What I find more important now in retrospect is to agree upon a name as one of the first things when working together with someone. _Not_ because the name is important, but beca...
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CloudFlare issues wildcard SSL certs for domains without owners consent - tachion https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/certificate-transparency/1tAcVS17wMM ====== BetaCygni Just a simple misunderstanding/communication problem. The "DNS-only" option seems to be reached by clicking "Pause website", that will "tempo...
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All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof - soundsop http://www.wildlifemanagementpro.com/2008/07/09/water-rights-and-rain/ ====== spectre Where do they draw the line on rain harvesting? It sounds as like having any vegetation on your property would be included. ------ cubicle67 I too live in a very dry ...
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Could you cope with eight different jobs a week? - pmoriarty http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/43145319 ====== gamechangr Or just get out of the academic world. Everyone knows it's going down.
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Ask HN: is Prolog special or enlightening? - QuadrupleA In the book Coders at Work, Joe Armstrong got me curious about Prolog: &quot;Prolog is a beautiful language but not widely used... Prolog is so different to all the other programming languages. It&#x27;s just this amazing way of thinking.&quot;<p>Another blog pos...
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“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics” - donohoe https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ ====== kerng I totally agree with this! I built a game and naively added ads to it as it seemed a good way to monetize. The game started to be really liked, and had 300k+ do...
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Richard Stallman Is Active and Doing Well - madmax108 http://techrights.org/2019/12/02/rms-alive-active-and-well/ ====== jascii """Summary: The rumour mill may still be humming along; but against all odds — as Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project — Stallman keeps fighting the good fight""" Calling the body of questiona...
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Ask HN: What's your interview question? - marmshallow What behavioral or technical interview questions do you like giving? What has proven to be a good measure of a candidate&#x27;s ability? ====== acctng What have you been reading lately?
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Facebook will remove 5,000 ad targeting categories to limit discrimination - anigbrowl https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17764480/facebook-ad-targeting-options-removal-housing-racial-discrimination ====== bertil It sounds like they are not removing the category but the ability to exclude members from those categories...
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Self-driving cars can be disabled with a laser pointer and a Raspberry Pi - scoot http://www.alphr.com/cars/1001483/self-driving-cars-can-be-fooled-by-fake-cars-pedestrians-and-other-bogus-signals ====== ArcticCelt Human-driven cars can also be disabled with a laser pointer to the eye of the driver. [http://www.lives...
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Coinbase added Bitcoin Cash - will_brown https://mobile.twitter.com/coinbase/status/943270201058922496?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet ====== mohoff This will increase the price of Bitcoin Cash further. I feel like Bitcoin Cash is very unpopular in online forums (HN, reddit) but its value increa...
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People who use BSD as their desktop os, why do you choose BSD over Linux? - rodrigo975 https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/gkvcs6/people_who_use_bsd_as_their_desktop_os_why_do_you/ ====== blaser-waffle Security, simplicity (at least in principle...), plus an excuse to understand other OS's. FreeBSD had a cool histor...
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Are We Taking CSS Too Far? - superduper http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/08/14/are-we-taking-css-too-far/ ====== tptacek It bothers the hell out of me that many web devs have decides that all HTML and CSS should be hand-editable and comprehensible at a glance. Obviously, it's vital that both those features be poss...
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Before cancer kills, it cheats - chmaynard https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/harvard-talk-envisions-path-to-containing-cancer/ ====== wgerard Hah! Wow that's a blast. I used to work at a lab as an undergrad that worked on extremely similar topics, though the cancer link was more implied: [http://research...
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CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million + - kunle http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/12/cnn-to-buy-social-media-blog-mashable-for-200-million-a-little-bird-tells-reuters-reporter/?awesm=tnw.to_1Dcix&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=CNN%20to%20buy%20social%20media%20blog%20...
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Ask HN: How would you invest $500k? - jliptzin Aside from startup investing, where would you allocate $500k? Real estate? S&amp;P? Gold? Cash? Bitcoin? Assume no diversification - you can only put it in one place. ====== fennecfoxen VFFVX (Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund) [https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/...
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What's Wrong with the Internet of Things - ghosh http://www.tomtunguz.com/simplicity-complexity-coin/ ====== Sanddancer Ugh. The example given here, the electric imp, is everything that's wrong with how people want to commoditize the Internet of Things. Had the "as a service" product been optional, I'd have already pu...
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Show HN: Segment Functions - nzoschke https://segment.com/functions/ ====== nzoschke Poster here, and engineer on the Segment Functions platform. We're super excited to launch this new way to process your analytics data. Functions open up Segment to integrate with virtually any service. You can write a function to co...
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Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant - vermaden http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2019/01/27/strategic-thinking-or-what-i-think-what-we-need-to-do-to-keep-freebsd-relevant/ ====== ggm The docker story needs work. I use bhyve a lot and docker on Debian and OSX. I'd love to be able...
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Show HN: Impact Investment Funds – Growth-Enabled P2P Lending Donation Funds - jkurnia https://p2p-microlending-blog.zidisha.org/2016/11/24/introducing-impact-investment-funds/ ====== jkurnia I'm Julia, the founder of Zidisha (YC W14 nonprofit). This is the first time in two years we've offered a loan fund that is des...
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Efficient Methods and Hardware for Deep Learning – Stanford – Lecture 15 [pdf] - blopeur http://cs231n.stanford.edu/slides/2017/cs231n_2017_lecture15.pdf ====== blopeur video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdOkDtYMoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdOkDtYMoo)
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Keybase.io Invite - erasmuswill Hi, Does anyone maybe have an extra keybase.io invite code? I&#x27;d really like to try it out. ====== joshstrange What's your email address? I need that to send the invite. ~~~ erasmuswill keybaseioinvite@hmamail.com ~~~ joshstrange I sent the invite ~~~ erasmuswill Thanks a lot :...
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Container OS comparison - kilimchoi http://blog.codeship.com/container-os-comparison/ ====== xj9 What about SmartOS? It's been container-native for, like, ten years and Joyent just recently added support for running Docker containers on bare metal. ~~~ yellowapple Seconding SmartOS. I haven't used it for running cont...
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OpenBSD 5.7 Released - jakobdabo https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=143043178115828 ====== privong There was some conversation on this release announcement a few days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467990](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467990)
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Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons - nissimk https://medium.com/@cjdew/post-capitalism-rise-of-the-collaborative-commons-62b0160a7048 ====== jjoonathan I don't see it as post-capitalism, just a change in what constitutes the most efficient means of production. Cuts out middlemen. If rent-seeking accou...
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Malaysian Official Says Missing Plane Hijacked - r0h1n http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_MALAYSIA_PLANE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-15-00-22-45 ====== dakrisht First, I can't imagine the US doesn't know the location of this airplane or exactly what happened during deviation from its ori...
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The Fall of Open Source - linuxhiker https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/the_fall_of_open_source/ ====== verandaguy I agree with the author's concerns. It's a bit unsettling to build upon a closed-source ecosystem, but it's unrealistic to expect the world to work otherwise. When people have skills, it's natural and to...
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Ask HN: Framing other sites has always seemed scummy to me. Am I off-base? - brandnewlow One thing that never fails to tick me off is when a site frames one of my own. Seeing someone else's URL and branding atop a page that I created and filled with original research/content/thoughts makes me feel just a tad viol...
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So Remind Me Again, Why Do We Need the NPM Registry? - benologist https://blog.javascripting.com/2015/06/11/so-remind-me-again-why-do-we-need-the-npm-registry/ ====== judge2020 Really excited to see this play out: [https://github.com/entropic- dev/entropic](https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic)
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The Porn Identity (2006) - yannis http://www.tnr.com/article/washington-diarist-the-porn-identity ====== dotBen Um, for a start this article is for _2006_ people -- I'm not sure why this is of interest now. The piece sounds fabricated/exaggerated - the author claims she was not involved in porn yet she was clearly ...
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Sony starts another standards war - iamelgringo http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080107-sonys-transferjet-to-take-on-bluetooth.html ====== justinw Surprised? Nope! Sony is king of the propriety format from the overpriced Memory Stick to the UMD Disc. It's all about the money; Sony hopes that by flooding the mark...
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Why Spacemacs? - twampss http://www.lunaryorn.com/2016/01/26/why-spacemacs.html ====== anonyfox I used to love Sublime Text. Been a paid user, even paid for addons (sftp). As accessible as sublime is for newcomers, as restricted and antique it feels. I can't describe it in words right now, it's a feeling of mine. The...
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80 chars per line is great - jaimebuelta http://wrongsideofmemphis.com/2013/03/25/80-chars-per-line-is-great/ ====== cletus At Google, our Python style guide dictates 80 characters with 2 character indenting [1]. Java is the only exception at 100. Even 100 can be awkward to fit into. Lord knows I've renamed variables...
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Scale Cheaply - Sharding - dhotson http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin/archive/2008/06/30/scale-cheaply-sharding.aspx ====== mdasen Sharding is a great way to scale, but it has problems - specifically, you loose easy joins. With the example mentioned, you have a client where all their stuff is on one box - think ...
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Deep Learning – Past, Present, and Future - rbanffy http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/05/deep-learning-big-deal.html ====== nl One day someone will properly credit the anonymous Canadian public service workers who recommended the CIFAR bet and their political masters for backing it. Then maybe CIFAR can join it's rightful...
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Using hosts file to block ads - anilshanbhag http://blog.anilshanbhag.in/post/12511348303/block-ads-the-geek-way ====== infinity It is generally not true that nothing exists at 127.0.0.2. For example I have a local Apache server running. If you are using the hosts file to block the resolution of domains, you can us...
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Ask HN: GUID, int, or both for primary key? - Fsp2WFuH If both I&#x27;d just use int as primary key, and short guid as unique indexed key.<p>I like being able to get last n records if my primary key is int. At the same time I don&#x27;t want to show to the public my auto incrementing int, I&#x27;d rather do a form of ...
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Ask HN: CS major who doesn't want to code. Am I in the wrong major? - ajaimk I am currently in my 3rd year as a Computer Science major. I choose CS cause I love technology and still do. Its just that I do not see myself in a stereotypical "coding job" cause that is not who I am.&#60;p&#62;I am a very outgoing and peop...
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ARIN DATABASE MIGRATION COMPLETED - amitlan https://www.arin.net/announcements/2013/20131214.html ====== jmcguckin This just proves that the proper response is to not cooperate or say anything to the police without an attorney being present.
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NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect - stianan http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240005723&siteSectionName=cpp ====== tikhonj NaNs are annoying because, thanks to them, equality on floating point numbers is not an equivalence relation. In particular, NaN /= NaN. This means that in Haskell, for example, you c...
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Losing the War - pmcpinto http://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm ====== cannam Interesting seeing Rupert Brooke's "swimmers into cleanness leaping" associated with American attitudes to the Second World War. I associate this poem's bright naivety with European attitudes to the First World War, and associa...
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Ask HN: How to replace Excel? - gilliali Morning HN!<p>I&#x27;m just another Biz Analyst that&#x27;s getting tired of building CRUD in Excel. However, the more I look at web-based solutions, my inherent fear is that PoCs and new and complex features are going to need full on developers, rather than our analysts just p...
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Tech We’re Using: When a Tech Reporter Doesn’t Use Much Tech - 0xbxd https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/personaltech/tech-reporter-does-not-use-tech.html ====== masonic Here's an idea... why not hire people with _actual_ tech experience to write about tech?
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Line length in programming - cjk101010 http://ck.kennt-wayne.de/2014/feb/line-length-in-programming ====== yeukhon Here is what I've said about 80 char in the past. "If the argument for expanding to 100 or more is that screen is getting wider, then the benefit of wide screen is the ability to fit multiple terminals i...
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Rails, Wicket, Grails, Play, Tapestry, Lift, JSP, Context - Alind http://www.jtict.com/blog/rails-wicket-grails-play-lift-jsp/ ====== dkhenry Biggest thing I see in these tests is that tomcat actually slows down a web framework. Using Netty with Play was actually faster then using JSP's on tomcat. That's crazy it ta...
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Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor (2012) - tango24 https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html ====== jseliger This piece is likely pertinent due to the discussion of e-ink screens: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100447](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100447) from a couple days ago. I can see the ...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s political group funds ads promoting Keystone and ANWR drilling - jboynyc http://grist.org/news/mark-zuckerbergs-political-group-funds-ads-promoting-keystone-and-anwr-drilling/ ====== MaysonL One more reason not to work for, or use, Facebook. A few high-profile resignations or rejections might make ...
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War erupts over app that directs users past home owners and onto Malibu beaches - jonchang http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342147/Secret-beaches-Malibu-woman-reach--War-erupts-app-directs-users-past-obstructive-wealthy-home-owners-pristine-sands.html ====== ctdonath Downloading the app now, and wondering wh...
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This Is Your Brain on Silence - pmcpinto http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-your-brain-on-silence ====== BoppreH Great article, but I think I'm missing something. Several times through it I thought: "ok, but what about _obvious explanation_?". Examples: People who live in consistently lo...
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What's wrong with CS research - iamelgringo http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research.html?dupe=with_honor ====== mmp This rant would be worth reading weren't it for the fact that programming language provability is but one of many areas of research in CS, which is something the...
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U.S. considers cutting Huawei off from global chip suppliers - pseudolus https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-tsmc/u-s-mulls-cutting-huawei-off-from-global-chip-suppliers-with-tsmc-in-crosshairs-idUSKBN20B1YO ====== fgonzag What are they going to threaten TSMC with? Banning it's products? So you kill the...
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I made $1,000 an hour as an SAT tutor. My students did better without me - skybrian http://www.vox.com/2016/1/8/10728958/sat-tutor-expensive ====== giardini I disagree with the author's premise that "Few understand that the SAT requires specific, school-independent training." I took both PSAT and SAT cold with no sp...
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Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie - bconway http://www.develop-online.net/news/35973/Minecraft-creator-banks-350k-a-day ====== aresant The most refreshing part of this story is that it's not about the Apple / Google / etc App stores. Shows that exceptional indie products...
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Jason Seifer has Died - milesf http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-lake-ivanhoe-suspected-drowning-20170401-story.html ====== milesf Gregg Pollack, the other half of the "Rails vs." videos, has a tribute page to him:[https://www.greggpollack.com/remembering-jason- seifer/](https://www.greggpollack.com...
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Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? - vladocar http://gigaom.com/2009/05/17/memcached-and-an-ailing-mysql/ ====== russss He's getting it wrong (unsurprisingly). If you just use Memcache to cache the same results you get out of a DB, of course you might as well just throw that RAM at the DB. With any sane DBM...
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Yahoo to kill off inactive IDs to free up ‘short, sweet’ usernames - QUFB http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/12/yahoo-announces-it-will-kill-off-ids-inactive-for-more-than-a-year-to-free-up-memorable-usernames/ ====== tcdowney Glad that I've never used a Yahoo email address to register for anything.
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Driving Detroit 2017: Has the renaissance reached the streets? - rmason https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/12/21/driving-detroit-michigan/813035001/ ====== rmason A common theme in Detroit is that sure the downtown area is booming but what about the neighborhoods? I believe they've got it all...
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Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let’s Stop Pretending This Is Fun - ssclafani http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/13/foursquare-gowalla-stop-pretending-fun/ ====== acgourley This article bothers me. The author says that we should check in downtown and announce that we're hungry or need a gift somewhere "and then sit back a...
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A Silicon Valley CEO Response to Talia Jane’s Letter - rockdiesel https://medium.com/work-reimagined/a-silicon-valley-ceo-response-to-talia-jane-s-letter-6b1f4540d3df#.b719hv1es ====== dudul " Most solutions have been attempts to move people to work, but I’m proposing an alternate solution: moving the work to the work...
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How I Program Stuff - craigkerstiens http://rdegges.com/how-i-program-stuff ====== Derbasti This post is so deeply antisocial it makes me sad. Maybe I am just not born to be a programmer like he is, but I invariably have more fun and I am more productive and creative when working with other people. That said, I enjoy...
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Students Pay Services to Obtain Internships - ALee http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/business/09intern.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss ====== steamynachos [http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/20/104-unpaid- intern...](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/20/104-unpaid-internships) ~~~ abalashov Hahaha! Nice. --...
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When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China - jseliger http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0&nsukey=%2F5QBU%2FsxpVCdCfuvl%2FmKjRgKs0iqmO9SitUSEEBxRyIOUPe8bFTcrBLFWUHw%2Fj%2Bkyobnr%2FJ4Zk04a3VByvzJmw%3D%3D ====== amyjess Duplicate of [https://news.y...
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Putin to Offer Snowden Asylum, but With a Catch - vinhnx http://world.time.com/2013/07/01/putin-to-offer-snowden-asylum-but-with-a-catch/ ====== brokenparser Putin is a former KGB agent and not to be trusted. We know that from the leaked cables. ~~~ meowface Uh, we knew that far before any leak, honestly. ------ t...
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Ask HN: Has anyone made the jump from tech to finance? - gargarplex I am interested in going from tech into finance. The issue here is strictly related to compensation: I want to make more money, in cash, every year. Has anyone made the jump? I&#x27;m extremely strong with math and with web development, but I don...
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Astronomers Find a Galaxy Containing 3 Supermassive Black Holes at the Center - mmoez https://www.universetoday.com/144144/astronomers-find-a-galaxy-containing-three-supermassive-black-holes-at-the-center/ ====== teh_klev Without wanting to be pedantic, but the article title reads as if NGC 6240 is a new find, which i...
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