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Amazon will start displaying 3rd party seller names and addresses on its US site - hbcondo714 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-to-display-seller-names-and-addresses-on-us-marketplace-2020-7 ====== justaguy88 Please provide the text, is paywalled ~~~ spzb [https://outline.com/NNpPGY](https://outline.com/NNpPGY) ...
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Show HN: Browser extension to quickly inspect, pick colors, capture and more - zicsus Hi HN!, My name is Himanshu Mishra I would like to introduce you Hoverify, A browser extension that makes it super easy to inspect by just hovering over the element. If you are anything like me then you would often find yourself scro...
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Ask HN: Do you keep a journal? And Why? - zabana ====== pawelwentpawel Pinning this thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492501](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492501) ------ makmanalp Personal journal aside, I love the benefits of keeping a technical journal. Every day, I have these sections: ...
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Scientists tell us their favourite jokes - wrongc0ntinent http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/29/scientists-favourite-jokes ====== JoeAltmaier So its true; scientists have underdeveloped senses of humor.
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Show HN: 'Halo' ring three.js small demo - belltyler http://mixingrealities.site44.com/halo/ ====== belltyler If it seems super blurry, that's by design. I wanted to make it seem like you were viewing it from the 'depths of space' if you will. ;)
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Ask HN: What's Spotify NYC culture like? - tastefulcakeful I recently saw my dream opening, user researcher, posted for the NYC and Stockholm office. So I&#x27;m thinking of applying and just wanted to ask if anyone could describe more of the team&#x2F;&quot;missions&quot;?<p>Any input and advice would be appreciated ...
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A Proposal to Fix Online Identity - llambda http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_proposal_to_fix_online_identity.php?_utm_source=null ====== jfarmer Why do people think online identity is broken? Better yet, why do people even think this is a "problem" at all? ~~~ droithomme Well in some cases oppressive government...
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Scientists find damage to coral near BP well - sz http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-scientists-coral-bp.html ====== devmonk Why am I not surprised?
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French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals - apsec112 https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/52208/title/French-Universities-Cancel-Subscriptions-to-Springer-Journals/ ====== fnordsensei The alternative business model that the world is moving to is Open Access. The difference being t...
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WikiLeaks flash conference in NYC on Saturday - davewiner http://scripting.com/stories/2010/12/08/wikileaksFlashConferenceOn.html ====== steveklabnik I think your original title is much better.
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McDonald's staff took offence to digital glasses, inventor says - tokenadult http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/17/tech-mann-digital-eye-glass-assault.html ====== ColinWright <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252955> _Added in edit after tokenadult made his reply:_ _I see that this is, as tokenad...
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What is the best solution to get rid of banners, pop ups, tracking, malware etc? - ClarenceBoyd What is the best solution to get rid of banners, pop ups, tracking, malware and more? ====== JamRob If you are like me, while browsing the net, you've come across thousands of banner ads. Generally, I am the type of person,...
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These guys do great job on understanding my problems on home monitoring cameras - phnx http://get3rdeye.com ====== get3rdeye Thank you for comments. Appreciate your signing up for early access. We are also listening to your feedback / requirements. Please let us know if you would like to connect with us for finding ...
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Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder - wmat http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100929191312.htm ====== rauljara One thing to note about ADHD research: The bar for getting diagnosed with ADHD in a clinical trial is much higher than getting diagnosed with it by your family doctor. All of the symptoms invol...
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Death of M. Rocard, former French PM, hero in the fight against software patents - fermigier https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.fr%2Factualites%2Fmichel-rocard-heros-victorieux-de-la-lutte-contre-les-brevets-logiciels-39839198.htm&edit-text=&act=url ...
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6 lessons learned from going serverless - dfirment https://read.acloud.guru/6-things-i-wish-i-had-known-before-going-serverless-502236cf5540 ====== jgrid007 I would add to the list 'keep an eye on the billing'. Once you exhaust the free tier, it could be the case that your Serverless solution is more expensive than a ...
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Estimate cost of mobile app development yourself - AppAgency http://www.agicent.com/app-development-cost-calculator ====== AppAgency Anyone can calculate cost of mobile app (iOS, Android) yourself by answering some questions on this tool, also feel free to give your feedback. This is ofcourse not a replacement of man...
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Bitcoin Unlimited Miners May Be Preparing a 51% Attack - prostoalex https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-unlimited-miners-may-be-preparing-51-attack-bitcoin/?_ke=bW9za2FseXVrQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D ====== 6nf This is not an attack, this is just the miners working out a way to increase transaction throughput on th...
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Bret Stephens: Climategate: Follow the Money - littleiffel http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566124250205490.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular ====== jfoutz Does the CRU even collect data? i thought they were some sort of aggregation organization. Maybe I'm wildly off base, but it thought a w...
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The dance moves that make men attractive to women - LANYC http://www.economist.com/node/16984701?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/lordofthedance&ref=nf ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673302>
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Ask HN: What features would the ideal news reader app have? - allenleein Which one is best news reader for you (Flipboard, Feedly, Nuzzel, Pulse, Google News, Trigger...)?<p>And, What features would the ideal news reader app have? ====== sjs382 I use Feedbin. The web view is attractive but not decorated, and it has...
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Windows 10 will soon run Edge in a virtual machine to keep you safe - antouank http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/09/windows-10-will-soon-run-edge-in-a-virtual-machine-to-keep-you-safe/ ====== chatmasta Why stop at the browser? Why not do this for every app? And sure, this makes exploiting the deskt...
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Twice a Century, India is Attacked by a Plague of Rats - jbail http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9198000/9198744.stm ====== nodata _Burma's ruling junta offered a small cash reward for each rat tail delivered by the rat collection campaigns_ Great way to reward rat breeding! ~~~ dboyd Only if the re...
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Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times - n1000 https://www.zdnet.com/article/upcoming-firefox-update-will-decrease-power-usage-on-macos-by-up-to-three-times/ ====== tylerchr > This, according to a series of tests, has put Firefox on par with Chrome, in > regards to power usage....
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Show HN: taxKilla helps us turn the game around - fredBuddemeyer http://www.taxkilla.org ====== philiphodgen Oh dear. I don't know what lurks behind the signup page. I hope the strategies are scrupulously legal and kept up to date. I'm a tax lawyer. I have seen a lot of train wrecks, let's just say. If the promote...
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Show HN: Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision - fchollet https://github.com/fchollet/deep-learning-models ====== terhechte Caffenet also offers a set of pre-trained models in their "model zoo": [https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/wiki/Model- Zoo](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/wiki/Model-Zoo) ------ Omni...
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The Dangerous Folly of Software as a Service - ingve http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8338 ====== freedomben Really wish this would get more attention. I suspect that ESR has fallen out of favor with many because of his Libertarian leaning views, but he is a historical legend in the free software movement. He's also complete...
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Ash HN: What is your must-read audiobook? - uvu What is your must-read audiobook? ====== prossercj A number of great selections from The Great Courses, including: The Great Ideas of Philosophy [0] Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It [1] The History of the United States [2] World War II: A Milit...
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Ask HN: What's cool these days? - graviboots I&#x27;m looking to build something new, and need a refresher on the exciting opportunities at the moment. So... what&#x27;s good now?<p>PHP sucks now right? Did Python replace that? And what about IOS? Is there more opportunity there, or is Android &quot;where it&#x2...
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The Wrong Kind of Paranoia - akerl_ http://prog21.dadgum.com/206.html ====== AdeptusAquinas In my view the purpose of const/protected/internal/static etc is not so much to prevent mistakes by myself or others, but to embed in my code a 'living documentation', enforced by the compiler. If I mark a method as internal, ...
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Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update - Nitishshah700 https://www.troyhunt.com/dont-tell-people-to-turn-off-windows-update-just-dont ====== merricksb Heavily discussed at time of publication 7 months ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340286](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340286) ~~~ hunger...
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Forecasting with Econometric Methods: Folklore versus Fact (1978) [pdf] - henning https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=marketing_papers ====== zwaps Interesting article, but heavily biased approach. 1\. Econometrics, as defined here, would include anything regression or classification...
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Rant: The DRY Principle Is Bad Advice - rotemtam https://medium.com/@rotemtam/the-dry-principle-is-bad-advice-78c51afd5cf0 ====== danielovichdk DRY is simple and should not be thought too much off. Don't Repeat Yourself. Too many developers look at this principle with refatoring in mind, a lot more than it should be....
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Italy’s Struggling Economy Has World’s Healthiest People - davidf18 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/italy-s-struggling-economy-has-world-s-healthiest-people ====== madengr 40% unemployment? Maybe it's the lack of stress due to not working. Is there universal healthcare? How about education? If I di...
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The US military could begin drafting 40-year-old hackers - jstoiko https://thenextweb.com/insider/2018/03/13/the-us-military-could-begin-drafting-40-year-old-hackers/ ====== redspectre The military is the antithesis of hacking culture: \- Play by the rules, even if they don't make sense, because I said so. \- Listen t...
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Texas shooting: Devin Kelley's locked cell phone thwarts FBI - fmihaila https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/11/08/fbi-has-devin-kelleys-cell-phone-but-cant-unlock-it-obscuring-clues-texas-shooter/844694001/ ====== Gibbon1 I'm sure there is a trove of useful and important crap on that phone.
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Ask HN: Behind every great fortune lies a great crime? - osipov http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Featured+Market+Commentary/IO/2009/IO+June+2009+Staying+Rich+in+the+New+Normal+Gross.htm "Balzac was on to something 200 years ago, but to be fair to modern day multi-millionaires, the only real way to accumulate wealth prior...
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Re/code removes onsite comments - devindotcom http://recode.net/2014/11/20/a-note-to-recode-readers/ ====== goler I'm a re/code fan, but it would be a shame if other sites followed this move. User comments posted in social media are difficult to find after some time has passed, so removing comments from articles mak...
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Larry Ellison ‘Speechless’ Over New CEO of HP - markbao http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/10/01/larry-ellison-%E2%80%9Cspeechless%E2%80%9D-over-h-p%E2%80%99s-new-ceo/ ====== anigbrowl I was half-hoping he would emphasize his astonishment in pictorial fashion. Oh well.
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Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules - wj http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34210002 ====== furyg3 In the US, I worked for a consulting group in the bay area (Fremont). There was a big discussion about whether or not we were on the clock while driving to client sites, because some people wanted to live in Tracy...
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Programmatic access to the call stack in C++ - kilimchoi http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/programmatic-access-to-the-call-stack-in-c/ ====== forrestthewoods I find it pretty annoying how often things are advertised as C++ but are Unix specific. As someone who ships Windows + OS X + Linux I'm pretty biased though. An...
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Specialising Dynamic Techniques for Implementing Ruby (TruffleRuby, 2015) - tosh https://chrisseaton.com/phd/ ====== tosh discussion from 2015: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791428](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791428)
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Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use - ch4s3 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/04/20/its-final-corn-ethanol-is-of-no-use/?fb_action_ids=277355565775300&fb_action_types=news.publishes ====== beloch First off, let's take a moment to appreciate what we've got. Gasoline is fantastically dense in energy. Approximately 46 ...
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Why Speakers Earn $30,000 an Hour - Confessions of a Public Speaker - baha_man http://oreilly.com/social-media/excerpts/9780596802004/why-speakers-earn-30k-an-hour.html ====== oldgregg I spent 7 years helping to build one of the largest speaking bureaus in the country before leaving a couple years ago to launch an unr...
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Webshop with the most amazing design ever - tobiasf http://www.arngren.net/ ====== arkitaip I love it. Imagine being a kid and opening this web site: it's very visual and very obvious what they are selling. ------ iask Brings back so many memories...and felt like a kid again. ------ btown NSFW
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Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft - jamesbritt http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYzn1xEmIu0lbdWczON4Iyj5akvQ?docId=b62c8d3e439643ddbded9bb0cee899a6 ====== hunterjrj Forgive what could be a naive question but... why now? ~~~ wmf Novell was probably running out of money and decided to ca...
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Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger - tysone https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html ====== wyldfire > Mr. Zuckerberg has also ordered all of the apps to incorporate end-to-end > encryption, the people said, a significant step ...
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Baggage and bits: Overage fees have unintended consequences - chaostheory http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9969570-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware ====== ambition I don't mind pay-for-what-you-use services... "unlimited" plans of anything rarely reflect the economic realities of providing the service. Paying by...
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The New Seiko SII NE88 Automatic Chronograph Movement: A Change in the Wind? - QuillandPad http://quillandpad.com/2014/06/29/the-new-seiko-ne88-automatic-chronograph-movement-a-change-in-the-wind/ ====== chrisbennet I flag very rarely but i think you have earned this one. Please read read the FAQ and consider why s...
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The libtom projects: cryptography and multiprecision arithmetic - fanf2 https://www.libtom.net/ ====== Sir_Cmpwn I'm a big fan of libtom. The relevant GNU project is gmp: [https://gmplib.org/](https://gmplib.org/) In comparison, libtom is very liberally licensed, which is a feature that I think is good to have in a ...
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Ask HN: Why is hosting in Australia (and New Zealand) so crazy expensive? - mingabunga I have a dedicated Xeon server in Australia with 20TB monthly bandwidth allowance, costs about US$315 a month - this is cheap. I think I got lucky because I went to get another, my 20TB bandwidth now costs US$1550 a month. Looking a...
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Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states - gloriosoc https://realscience.community/2020/08/17/why-i-believe-the-us-has-herd-immunity-in-some-states-and-is-barreling-towards-it-as-a-country/ ====== tghw NYC had only 20% prevalence in mid-June[1], after they had contained the initial outbreak[2]. Therefore,...
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Hash: Simulation For Everybody - tobr https://hash.ai/about/mission ====== sradman Joel Spolsky is one of the founders and blogged about it [1]. [1] [https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2020/06/18/hash-a-free- online...](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2020/06/18/hash-a-free-online- platform-for-modeling-the-world/) ~~~ d...
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Quora's "India Problem" - Brajeshwar https://www.quora.com/Navin-Kabra/Blog/Quoras-India-Problem ====== GhotiFish I think Quora has a Quora problem. It's Quora. The bait and switch yahoo answers with the anti-user attitude. Why the hell are people using this service? ~~~ maqr It's not like there aren't people competi...
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Why Bosses at Google Are Not Allowed to Hire, Fire, or Promote Employees - bedros https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/heres-why-bosses-at-google-are-not-allowed-to-hire-fire-or-promote-employees.html ====== dollaholla Google: The only company where your potential colleagues and managers have no say in whether or not you ...
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Ask HN: How do you manage non urgent new problems? - justinboogaard I used to make a list of things that I needed to do and stacked new questions or problems under my list. Over the last week I tried addressing the most recently discovered non urgent problems first and it’s been feeling more productive. What do you do...
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Virginia man owes $1.5 million for sharing 10 porn films - chinmoy http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/virginia-man-owes-1-5-million-for-sharing-10-porn-films/ ====== JoeAltmaier Ignore a plaintiff; ignore a lawyer; but Never ignore a judge.
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Microsoft unveils IE8 Beta 1 (now available) - drm237 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software_development&articleId=9066778&taxonomyId=63&intsrc=kc_top ====== andreyf Link for the lazy:[http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/e/8/7e88c69b-77d2-4...](http://downloa...
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Claims that tomato juice is good for the heart not backed by evidence - open-source-ux https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/claims-tomato-juice-good-heart-not-backed-evidence/ ====== dvfjsdhgfv I still wonder why anyone is still spending money on studies without a control group, it makes the whole study useless. And ...
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Graceful server restart with Go - _Soulou http://blog.appsdeck.eu/post/105609534953/graceful-server-restart-with-go ====== zimbatm This is something the process manager should handle. With this approach each language and program has to implement the fd-passing and restart coordination. It also doesn't integrate really...
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Results of the SQL Performance Quiz - randomdrake http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-02/results-three-minutes-sql-performance-quiz ====== pdubs Regarding #5: >That caught me by surprise. Both options “roughly the same” and “depends on the data” got about 25% — the guessing probably. I don't think it was guessing...
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Wrapping up Java 9 new Features - submeta https://aboullaite.me/wrapping-up-java-9-new-features/ ====== pwaivers I am a C# developer. My thoughts: \- I love that they are adding REPL. I really wish C# had this. I use IPython all the time for Python. It is very helpful to mock something up quickly or try out different...
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Introducing UberLETTERS - ben1040 http://newsroom.uber.com/st-louis/2015/07/introducing-uberletters/ ====== ben1040 Backstory: St Louis is the one of the largest US markets in the country that doesn't have UberX. By state law, 4 of the 9 members sitting on the taxi commission must be taxi fleet owners, and at least...
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IOS 6.1 jailbreak site officially launched, releasing on Sunday - signifiers https://twitter.com/evad3rs/status/296778372141420547 ====== signifiers For those who don't follow this closely, from @MuscleNerd (of the gang-of- four): <https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/295964113270620160> ------ saurik (AFAIK, the ...
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German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA - devx http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/ ====== rainsford This is among the sillier NSA stories I've read. First of all, the "link to NSA" was basically invented out of...
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Barefoot shoes try to outrace the black market - edw519 http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/13/smallbusiness/vibram_fivefingers/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin ====== cgs1019 Seems like there is a great business opportunity in here somewhere. Something like SSL certs but for identifying brands being sold online. I understa...
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Warby Parker (or, Finding Broken Systems That Are Full of Money) - yoshizar http://www.thinkhard-ly.com/1/post/2011/11/warby-parker.html ====== binarysolo Reads a bit too much like ad copy for my tastes. Or rather I read it with the intent to understand more about the content in the parentheses, not Warby Parker. :)...
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Plugin Roadmap for Firefox - doener https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap ====== metalliqaz TL;DR: Firefox has already disabled everything other than Flash, Flash is currently discouraged, and Flash will be killed off in 2020. At some point in 2018 I decided to disable the Flash plugin on my system...
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I just wrote Machine Learning with TensorFlow – The code is available on GitHub - BinRoo http://tensorflowbook.com/ ====== NipunSingh This looks really interesting! Can't wait to get my hands on the book.
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Dear HN: Please Fucking Hire Me To Do Anything - KennethMyers http://i.imgur.com/vB27cd2.jpg ====== ynoclo "I'm good at communicating." Really? If I were your prospective employer, I'd be wondering just how often the f-bomb finds its way into your communications, and why you thought it was appropriate to drop twice ...
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High blood pressure damages brain long before old age - whoisnicole http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-blood-pressure-brain-damage-20121101,0,3791840.story ...the brain integrity of a 40-year-old with hypertension, for instance, was roughly equivalent to that of a person 7.2 years older whose systolic ...
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Ask HN: How will twitter make money? - johnrob Now that they've raised money on a billion dollar valuation, it's clear that someone thinks twitter will have a serious revenue model. Who has the best guess as to what that could be? ====== johnrob In all honesty, the only thing I can think of is a big sale to either ...
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USS Liberty incident - evo_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident ====== rbanffy I think a sister ship (still in its cargo configuration) is docked in San Francisco and open to visitation and cruises. The engine, even it's 19th century tech, is quite impressive.
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Finally true prepared statements for node-mysql? - Glyptodon https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/prepared-statements-for-nodemysql/description ====== Glyptodon Complaints and arguments about this were (I think) the genesis of this blog post previously discussed on HN: [http://felixge.de/2013/03/07/open-source- and-r...
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Monitoring team health in a startup - zackgilbert https://ofcoursebooks.com/platypodes/ ====== zackgilbert I'm one of the founders of ofCourseBooks. Happy to answer any questions people might have. We built this to help encourage ourselves to, not only be more transparent, but to not just sit in front of the computer...
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When the Billionaire Next Door Moves Out - hvo http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opinion/sunday/when-the-billionaire-next-door-moves-out.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0 ====== tracker1 I've been saying for years we should remove income taxes, and move to a financial exchange tax, specifically on transactions in/out o...
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Stop Comparing JSON and XML - padraic7a http://www.yegor256.com/2015/11/16/json-vs-xml.html ====== jtmarmon This article is pretty garbage. compares almost nothing about xml and instead compares the tooling around xml giving no thought to the tooling around json. instead, let me give you my unsolicited opinion: if y...
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Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018) - alexandroo https://alexand.ro/2018/08/how-focus-became-more-valuable-than-intelligence ====== ChrisMarshallNY As someone that is "on the spectrum," I can report that focus can be pretty awesome. I generate _vast_ amounts of code, in relatively short time, and a...
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Beginner's Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrency - nesquena https://hackmd.io/s/Sym2QZb-M ====== brndnmtthws Here's a tool I wrote which is basically an automated version of what's described in the article: [https://github.com/brndnmtthws/optimal-buy- gdax](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/optimal-buy-gdax) ~~~ nesquena...
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Venture Pimp: Plenty of Tweeps has a crummy name, but a good idea - markchristian http://venturepimp.com/post/650821209/plenty-of-tweeps ====== olefoo I would agree that the name Venture Pimp lacks a certain something.
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Andoid app pulled from Marketplace for in app purchases - 00joe http://androidcommunity.com/visual-voicemail-pulled-from-android-market-due-to-terms-of-service-violation-20110225/ ====== pedalpete With Android being an open platform, I would expect the marketplace to be open as well. What google needs to be doing i...
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Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today - robin_reala https://philipwalton.com/articles/deploying-es2015-code-in-production-today/ ====== WorldMaker One additional thing to further the article's points is to mention @std/esm [1][2], doing a similar thing for node module loading. Between the tools the article mentio...
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On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8 - OberstKrueger https://webkit.org/blog/8672/on-the-road-to-webrtc-1-0-including-vp8/ ====== bobowzki I like WebRTC but it's a complicated mess of protocols... I'm currently trying to implement a WebRTC peer client in pure Erlang. One of the most difficult things I've done bec...
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Ghislaine Maxwell's personal emails have been hacked - pattusk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7919155/Ghislaine-Maxwells-personal-emails-HACKED-leaked.html ====== pattusk For those experiencing issues: [http://archive.is/rX4g4](http://archive.is/rX4g4)
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Startups that TechCrunch missed out on – October 2012 - chehoebunj http://www.startupplays.com/blog/top-35-startups-in-tech-that-techcrunch-missed-out-on-october-2012/ ====== polyfractal So I joined StartupPlays a while ago and checked out their "Accelerator" program. Does everyone else have a different experience t...
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Ask HN: You're not allowed to comment/ reply on your own submissions? - pistoriusp I made this submission earlier:<p>http://corporatecrimereporter.com/barrylynn021310.htm (Two corporations dominate US beer market).<p>And I'm unable to reply or comment on my own post. In place of reply I see "-----." ====== jacquesm ...
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Vulnerability Discovered in Email Server Software, 5 Million Hosts Affected - nickroessler https://nickroessler.com/dovecot-cve-2019-11500/ ====== posix_compliant What’s crazy is that this offers remote code execution for around 5 million email servers. As far as bug hunting goes, it doesn’t get much juicer than this ...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with distribute CI definitions? - throwawayci With the move to CI configuration files stored on each repository (.travis, .buildkite, Jenkinsfile, etc) versus a central location. How do you deal with keeping all pipelines standardized? Do you have a central CI team that touches all these repos ...
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The underground farm growing salad crops in a disused air raid shelter [video] - open-source-ux https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-49411645/does-the-future-of-farming-exist-beneath-city-streets ====== squish78 "Does the future of farming (something indoors) ?" No. It never will, despite all of the admi...
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WordPress vs. ProcessWire - jlahijani https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrdUWNK38ibz8U_5Vq4zSPZfvFKzUuiT ====== lixtra Are you going to also make a conclusion video? Like wp is for x pw is for y?
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3D Mandelbrot Fractal in Blender Python - swietlik http://slicker.me/blender/3d_mandelbrot.htm ====== etatoby I expected some actual 3D fractals (or rather, some shapes with 3 < dimensions < 4) such as a Sperpinski or Menger Sponge: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger...
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Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing Maps - revorad http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/craigslist-maps-test-openstreetmap.php ====== aasarava "[T]here’s a certain irony to Craigslist suing other companies for creating maps with Craigslist ad data — claiming a breach of proprietary content — then turning around ...
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Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? - ca98am79 http://www.vice.com/read/who-stole-the-four-hour-workday-0000406-v21n8 ====== spindritf People who don't work at all. That's the choice (maybe more like outcome) the society went with. For what might the first time in history, the rich are working more than the poor[1] and l...
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OAuth 2.0 for Google APIs (contact, calendar and docs) - way66 http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/03/oauth-20-for-apps-apis.html ====== way66 This is a great news because OAuth 2.0 is much easier for developers to implement. Documentation can be found at : <http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth2....
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GM, eBay test online new-car sales - bgnm2000 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/08/10/gm_ebay_test_online_new_car_sales/ ====== marcusestes Think these listings will be exposed to the eBay API?
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Lionhead: Pre-owned worse than PC piracy - josephcooney http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-17-lionhead-pre-owned-worse-than-pc-piracy ====== masterzora Oh, come on, keep the sensationalist headlines out of here. I know it's the headline on the linked page, but that doesn't change anything. Most of the article...
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Bitbucket.org - Mercurial Hosting - jespern http://www.bitbucket.org/ ====== uggedal It's good to see some competition in the marked where Github seemed to be the only player for a while. Extra kudos for Mercurial support!
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Could this be the end of electric power cords? - JournalistHack http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/wireless-electricity-charge-iphone-g1-phone.html ====== duskwuff > Could this be the end of electric power cords? No. ------ igrekel The only article by the scientist they mentionned that seems related ...
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The Problem You Solve Is More Important Than the Code You Write - treyhuffine https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-problem-you-solve-is-more-important-than-the-code-you-write-d0e5493132c6?ref=hn ====== malyk I was at a conference a few weeks ago and one speaker put up a slide that went something like: “Software engin...
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Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts - signa11 https://timr.co/go-interfaces-the-tricky-parts ====== tsimionescu It always bothers me that, when discussing why `[]struct` can't be passed to a function expecting `[]interface{}` in Go, people always give the explanation that it would require extra memory allocation and so on...
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