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Gay concentration camps in Chechnya (April 2017) - reimertz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_concentration_camps_in_Chechnya ====== reimertz This is a disgrace, history is repeating itself but people are too uneducated/ignorant/hateful/stupid to see it. edit: thanks for feedback. ~~~ FeepingCreature > tsunami of fa...
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The Top Ten Reasons iTunes Sucks - kwamenum86 http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Top_Ten_Reasons_iTunes_Sucks ====== callmeed Top 5 reasons iTunes doesn't suck: My wife, who is not a geek, can: 1\. Import CDs 2\. Buy music 3\. Arrange playlists 4\. Sync her iPhone 5\. Burn CDs All without help or frustration. ~~~ ...
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Internet Radio Copyright Is Dumb: A Comprehensive Explainer - Amorymeltzer http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/internet-radio-copyright-is-bad-and-dumb-a-comprehensive-explainer ====== njharman > The next time you have a fleeting thought about how internet radio sucks, > and could be better—well, now you know what’...
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Ask HN: If JavaScript could talk to databases - photon137 If JavaScript (or a JS framework) could talk to databases, would we need server-side languages/frameworks at all? ====== redredraider So you want to give clients direct access to your database? ------ dotborg Yes, for offline processing. ~~~ photon137 But t...
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Hero Worship in IT - Good or Bad? - DanielBMarkham http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/12/the_guy.php ====== mechanical_fish Well, it's true that sometimes projects fail because people uncritically follow the advice of respected authorities. On the other hand, sometimes projects fail because nobody respects...
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America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis - spking https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/06/americas-aging-population-is-leading-to-a-doctor-shortage-crisis.html ====== dantheman The doctor shortage has to do with the American Medical Associate (AMA), a cartel, that successfully lobbied to reduce the nu...
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Ask HN: What secure email provider do you use? - fizwhiz Yes, it's not easy for email to be truly secure, and yes a secure email provider may shut down (a la Lavabit). I just want to pay for a reliable service accessible via my phone (android) that doesn't mine my data and that is significantly harder to h...
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Understanding vipassana meditation - kapilkaisare http://lesswrong.com/lw/2rd/understanding_vipassana_meditation/ ====== skowmunk Having done the 10 day basic vipassana course just after high school (had to find a way to control my restless mind), can't say if it helped with any of those 4 points mentioned in the ar...
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Paul Kedrosky on Y Combinator - theudude2002 http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/03/y_combinator_ne.html ====== theudude2002 That's how I found out about Y Combinator. Thanks Paul
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Atlas of Emotions, a New Project with the Dalai Lama and Paul and Eve Ekman - sebg https://hi.stamen.com/in-2014-the-dalai-lama-asked-his-friend-scientist-dr-2a46f0c6bd80#.tqpk6qg2m ====== woodandsteel I find it interesting to look at the relationship between the basic emotions and Maslow's need theory. So for instanc...
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Ask HN: How do you focus on working - jeep_b I have a hard time focusing on my tasks, whether it&#x27;s because of YouTube , Reddit or HN, I always find myself doing something that completely break my work mindset.<p>Do you have any tips, philosophy or tricks? ====== _the_inflator It depends on the context, however, s...
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Google to Remotely Remove Malware-Laden Apps From Android Devices - solipsist http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110305/google-plans-to-remotely-kill-rogue-apps-in-wake-of-android-attack/?mod=ATD_rss ====== duskwuff Anyone else find it incredibly ironic that, despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple's a...
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WSJT-X [pdf] - jhallenworld https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Work_the_World_part1.pdf ====== jhallenworld Here is part 2: [https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Work_the_World_par...](https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Work_the_World_part2.pdf)
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Ask HN: Good SAAS ideas - tadake Hello Everyone, I was wanting to make a list of ideas for software as a service businesses. Please post potential services that solve a real problem and would be something you would be interested in using yourself. Thanks! ====== CyberFonic When I think of a great SAAS idea, I'll impl...
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Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them - nreece http://gizmodo.com/5418342/ridiculous-user-interfaces-in-film-and-the-man-who-designs-them ====== lt There's something that always amuses me in movies and series: something happened/is about to happen, a taskforce is created and they're running ...
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Ask HN: Is startup equity just snake oil? - Spiritus Is equity just an excuse for start-ups to motivate lower salaries and bad work hours, which in the end don&#x27;t yield much anyway? ====== AureliaDalek Think of them like lottery tickets. Yes, they could be worth millions of dollars, but the chance of that happenin...
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Address randomization defense does not protect against stagefright exploits - gtufano http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/googles-own-researchers-challenge-key-android-security-talking-point/ ====== Spellman In a related concept, what is a reliable way of checking whether your phone has the patches? Recently I got...
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Researchers use Kinect to scan T. rex skull - el_duderino https://news.mit.edu/2017/kinect-3-d-scan-t-rex-skull-0705 ====== sohkamyung Link to the paper on PlosONE [1] [1] "A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens" [ [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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Amazon to hand over Echo audio from alleged murder after defendant consents - ghosh http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39191056 ====== koolba This should be a lesson to people who don't understand the distinction between "can't" and "won't". If you're running things yourself and control the encryption keys required t...
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Ask HN: Logging Remote vs Local - dedalus I have a bunch of servers that run webservers with a specific option to log remotely or locally. In my case remote,equals the logserver box sitting right next to the webservers on the same rack. In such a case I can make the boxes diskless and log remotely. Or else I have to...
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Elon Musk: Delete Facebook, ‘It’s Lame’ - SirLJ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/10/elon-musk-delete-facebook-its-lame.html ====== downerending He's not wrong. I'm off about four years now, and the _only_ thing I miss is snapshots of everyone's kids.
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Django on Jython: Minding the Gap - jholloway7 http://zyasoft.com/pythoneering/2008/01/django-on-jython-minding-gap.html ====== wehriam What's the use case of Django on Jython? ~~~ wmf Performance? Deployment? Enterprisey marketing BS?
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The Road from Serfdom - an interview with F.A. Hayek - limist http://reason.com/archives/1992/07/01/the-road-from-serfdom/print ====== sitmaster Wow look at how clearly he answers the questions. Half his answers begin with a "Yes" or a "No." Can you imagine someone thinking and speaking this clearly these days? ~~~ m...
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Spectre/Meltdown: An Azure retrospective [video] - ToFab123 https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1190448255479336960 ====== ToFab123 Video from Microsoft's Ignite Event about patching Azure to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown bugs [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Ignite- Cont...](https://techcommunity.micro...
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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 6th Edition - mhartl https://news.learnenough.com/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-6th-edition-launch ====== mhartl This is the newly updated 6th edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now updated for Rails 6. Over the years, HN readers have been some of the most enthusiastic and loyal supporters of...
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New in AFL: persistent mode - edward http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-in-afl-persistent-mode.html ====== eridius > _On all supported OSes with the exception of MacOS X, the fork() call is > actually surprisingly fast_ I'm curious about this. What makes fork() on OS X slower than other OSes? ~~~ milspec MacO...
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10 Nobel Laureates who changed the world - LaDaDa http://mashable.com/2013/10/14/nobel-laureates-changed-world/ ====== LaDaDa Dr. Banting (1920s) should have cracked the TOP10 for his work with insulin. This research actually saved people.
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Internet Archive raises National Emergency Library: 1M free books no waitlist - mekarpeles https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-archives-national-emergency-library-has-over-a-million-books-to-read-right-now/ ====== sayhar This is a big deal ~~~ mekarpeles Thanks @sayhar! specially given so many libraries across the cou...
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The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 - bpchaps https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html ====== JoeSmithson I'm very surprised they gave out this information. I'm not talking about the mistake, I mean the actual request. In the UK I do...
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3 free licenses of Balsamiq Mockups up for grabs on FuelYourCoding - sant0sk1 http://fuelyourcoding.com/giveaway-balsamiq-mockups/ ====== tjpick > I mocked up this simplified version of the FYC homepage in about 20 minutes that's not fast. I could draw that mockup on a piece of paper in 2 minutes or less.
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Rockstar scores a 1, 2 with GTAIV & GTAV in all time highest review scores - restlessmedia http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/grand-theft-auto-v The hype machine was well oiled this time, but with most things Rockstar, it looks like it was justified.<p>[edit] This is the chart, I couldn&#x27;t change the fi...
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Dart can now produce self-contained, native executables - ceronman https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ds2emt/dart_can_now_produce_selfcontained_native/ ====== rvz This sounds like an absolutely magnificent milestone for Dart and a direct hit on developers who use SwiftUI or Electron. Finally, a mature cros...
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Ask HN: Which books are “must-read” for anyone trying to learn about your field? - jackallis Books that are easy to read and beginner friendly. ====== ThorinJacobs For software development - I favor books that are about good practices generally rather than books about particular languages which work well as references...
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The Case Against Education - dsr12 https://jakeseliger.com/2018/03/12/the-case-against-education-bryan-caplan/ ====== neokantian The system forcibly taxes the population, forces the children through a funnel, and then witnesses how all of that does not work particularly well. The alternative would be to cancel Statis...
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China is blocking most Google search queries - garply http://shanghaiist.com/2010/03/30/the_googlecn_googlecomhk_lockdown_h.php ====== garply More specifically, all queries entered from the Google html web forms. I can still search from the search / url bar in Chrome. The block is indeed, as the article states, keye...
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Site Hopes Automatic Arabic-English Translation Translates into Peace - quant18 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/arabic-english-diplomacy/ ====== smallblacksun The idea that reducing language barriers will reduce conflict is questionable. There is a huge amount of conflict between the left and the right in the...
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How can you compare Facebook and Google? - tikna http://ankitaggarwal.me/my-views/how-can-you-even-compare-facebook-with-google/ ====== pj001 i am not in a mood to compare both..my life will be almost awful without any one of them.
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Ponder a thought from Alain de Botton (philosopher) - auxbuss Profit is the reward for correctly understanding an aspect of reality ahead of your peers. ====== markstansbury Like, the reality that if I stab someone the throat I am free to help myself to the contents of his pocket? I'm not sure how useful that defin...
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Ask HN: I have a colocated server that I don't fully use anymore - obilgic I have a colocated server(Dell 2950III, 8-core, 16gb ram) that I don't fully use anymore. I don't want to sell it ,because I am using it to make experiments with virtual machines(learning more about devops). It has XenServer on it. What would...
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NASA Develops Unique Materials for the Next Generation of Aircraft - rbanffy https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2020/nasa-develops-unique-materials-for-the-next-generation-of-aircraft ====== mindcrime _After extensive process improvement and testing, NASA opened SiC fibers up for licensing through its Technology Trans...
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Snowden attended hacking school in India - tn13 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10495221/Edward-Snowden-attended-hacking-course-in-India.html ====== fintler So, he took a class? I don't get the point of this. ~~~ tn13 There is no point to be made here. This kind of trivia is sometimes a good br...
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Do engineers shop for clothes? - define_hipster If you&#x27;re an engineer, how do you pick out new clothes to buy? Would you ever let someone do it for you (i.e. someone with good fashion sense to go with you to the mall for a couple hours to help you look your best?) ====== debacle Would I ever let someone do it f...
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The Case Against Tipping in America - fourmii https://www.eater.com/a/case-against-tipping ====== pepe56 „tipped minimum“ - just wow! As someone living in Asia the American tipping culture is ridiculous and highly unfair. This countr is broken on so many levels. ------ valuearb I’m still confused how the definition o...
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Ask HN: Learning Design - FameofLight Hi,<p>After seeing a lots of good thing about Ruby on Rails here , I started learning it. I am pretty much satisfied with my journey till now.<p>But my site sucks like hell , they have really no good design and no appeal to potential user ( even to me ) .<p>I would like to ask y...
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[SF] Weebly is hiring! - drusenko http://www.weebly.com/jobs.html ====== drm237 The puzzle was fun. So what are people supposed to do with the secret code, email it to you? Or is there a place for it that I missed? Anyway, good way to make it interesting! ~~~ drusenko yeah, the idea is that if we get an email with a ...
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New Stanford class on Cryptography - robdoherty2 http://www.crypto-class.org/ ====== innocentques Wow, does anyone know what is the system here? Has stanford just said to their faculty that this is something they can do in their spare time but stanford will not actively support it? Or is there some other arrangement g...
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Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7 - vectorbunny http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/26/ubuntu-core-on-the-nexus-7/ ====== listic Is Nexus 7 the first hardware of choice for Ubuntu developers? I would love for them to start with Microsoft Surface (with keyboard as standard in some models it would kinda be the logical choice) b...
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Google moves to mainstream RSS with a simple name - prakash http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_moves_to_mainstream_rss_with_a_simple_name_change.php ====== netcan Lingo is so important. I was at a lecture once given by a top Australian political PR/Lobbyist. He recounted running the battle over some enviro...
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How the Bubble Destroyed the Middle Class - mvs http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113086/bubble-destroyed-middle-class-marketwatch;_ylt=At4mPlCBilFtqaDeVWAOHkK7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1YTVsNjl0BHBvcwM4BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNob3d0aGVidWJibGU-?mod=bb-budgeting&sec=topStories&pos=5&asset=&ccode= ====== Id...
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Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!) - tkiley http://viviti.com/welcome ====== bprater It's obvious there has been a tremendous amount of development time invested in the project. Looks great, feels good. There are many site builders out there, so I think execution counts for a lot...
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The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe - gmurphy http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-considered-unsafe/ ====== semanticist While I'm as against Sharia law as the next privileged westerner/godless heathen, I found the complaint that the rules weren't in English really amusing. Why shoul...
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Redmine - Excellent alternative to Trac - nickb http://www.redmine.org/ ====== aggieben No Git support. No sale. Next? ~~~ jacintos Actually, as of 0.7.0 RC1, Redmine does support Git (see <http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Changelog>). It took a couple of patches, but Git support was added to the Subversion trun...
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Ask HN: Which board game would you play online? - melkael Hi there, like most people in the west now I currently am confined.<p>Thus I would love to play risk or other board games with my friends and people online. I&#x27;ve been struggling to find decent quality games (I&#x27;ve mostly looked for a risk and it was ei...
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Where’d our app go? There’s No App for That - edw519 http://www.riverturn.com/blog/?p=455 ====== brandon272 What I don't understand is why iPhone developers expect decent treatment from Apple or continue to be surprised when their apps are removed. This developer considers Apple a "partner" (their words). Apple is n...
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Steve Jobs – The Lost Interview - jpswade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio ====== boyaka Found some links for US: [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17ul31_the-lost- interview-...](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17ul31_the-lost-interview-of- steve-jobs-part-1-of-2_lifestyle) [http://www.dailymotion.c...
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Scientists have detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans - seycombi https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/15/its-official-the-oceans-are-losing-oxygen-posing-growing-threats-to-marine-life/?utm_term=.8e8242767461 ====== fsloth Why was it a piece of cake to regulate CFC:s but no one has...
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Show HN: Pibow - an update (sold 12,000 in 11 weeks) - whiskers 76 days ago I submitted this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4257793<p>Since then the response we've had has been just unbelievable - we've opened a workshop, bought three laser-cutters, have distributors in the UK, America, and Sweden, hired...
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Show HN: World's first static code analysis tool for Go - serda https://github.com/SerdaOzun/Gopham ====== serda Hello, No static code analysis tool for Go existed yet, so I created one. I plan on updating in the feature with more metrics and especially visualisations for said metrics. For super obvious reasons this...
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Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code - Jackypot Does anyone else have experience working with developers who just cannot code? By which I mean professional devs with terrible development skills, and little knowledge or interest in the field. I&#x27;m amazed they find jobs but they seem to.<p>Any strategies f...
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Awesome Highlighter (YC summer 08) - gabrielleydon http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/22/awesome-highlighter-isawesome/ ====== god Lets test it: <http://awurl.com/pspxuq96279> ------ cawel Nice tool. As I understand from Techcrunch, the revenue stream would come from selling their "awesome highlighter" product to ...
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Insider Selling Jumps to Highest Level Since 2007 - chaostheory http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=au8cyqeJFifg&refer=home ====== minsight April 24. If it was relevant, any strategic maneuvering that one might do to avoid this catastrophe is probably now deep in the past.
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Why Uber must be stopped - smacktoward http://www.salon.com/2014/08/31/why_uber_must_be_stopped/ ====== SocksCanClose i wonder if the author of the post has ever _talked_ to an UBER driver... that's the first thing i would recommend to anybody who wants to understand the actual economics of these companies. talk to ...
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Reuters uses AI to prototype automated video reports - OJFord https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonchandler/2020/02/07/reuters-uses-ai-to-prototype-first-ever-automated-video-reports/ ====== kick _Today, it has announced a prototype for a world first: a fully automated, yet presenter-led sports news summary system._ The...
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Zillow's second letter about McMansion Hell is still wrong - DiabloD3 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170628/01531037682/zillow-still-doesnt-get-it-second-letter-about-mcmansion-hell-is-still-just-wrong.shtml ====== jawns I'm going to disagree with most of you (and most of the commentary I've seen) that McMansion ...
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Daily Stand-Up Meetings Are a Good Tool for a Bad Manager - yegor256a http://www.yegor256.com/2015/01/08/morning-standup-meetings.html?2015-01 ====== mikerichards Standups are one of those things that 15 years ago sounded great on paper. "Yeah, everybody is communicating every morning. Our communication problems are ...
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Nord: An arctic, north-bluish color palette - tpetry https://www.nordtheme.com/ ====== semi-extrinsic Aargh, it's kinda pretty and I _want_ to like it, but it really bugs me that these colors don't actually match their descriptions. It feels like an "arctic" color map made by people who have mainly seen the far north ...
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Show HN: CodeAutomat - web service for converting SVGs to ObjC. Free today - PixelCut http://www.codeautomat.com ====== PixelCut Here's how it works: when you upload an SVG file, we convert it automatically to Objective-C or C# MonoTouch code. Then, we draw a preview image with the generated code. If you like the re...
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The lack of a case against Python 3 - ingve http://blog.lerner.co.il/case-python-3/ ====== lorenzfx > But again, the population that will be affected is the 10% who deal with > Unicode. I doubt that only 10% of people are dealing with unicode. Rough estimate 10% of the world speak English as a first language and almo...
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Reading On Paper Is Faster Than iBooks on the iPad - markwalling http://www.pcworld.com/article/200491/reading_on_paper_is_faster_than_ibooks_on_the_ipad.html ====== edster The study was interesting, yet by the author's own words incomplete with only something like 24 participants. Even then, I wasn't clear if each of...
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The philosophies of software languages, from Go to Elixir - Supermighty https://www.welcometothejungle.co/fr/articles/languages-software-go-elixir ====== pcwalton > Multicore processors and concurrent programming > To take full advantage of multicore processors, a programming language needs > to provide mechanisms fo...
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The Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lot Less Impressive Than the Movie Version - wil_I_am_27 https://forward.com/culture/433666/the-real-mark-zuckerberg-is-a-lot-less-impressive-than-the-movie-version/ ====== roenxi The congressional hearings are a hostile environment. The only reason to have Zuckerberg there is to get camera fo...
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Why I am not a fan of Apache Kafka - kornish https://gist.github.com/markrendle/26e423b6597685757732 ====== boredandroid This article is pretty out of date, I think the central concerns have actually been addressed. It's true that when we were working at LinkedIn Kafka tended to have much better Java support. Since f...
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Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown - Brajeshwar https://phys.org/news/2020-06-astronomers-regular-rhythm-radio-unknown.html ====== jnurmine From the article: The pattern [for FRB 180916.J0158+65] begins with a noisy, four-day window, during which the source em...
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What Can Be Done? Digital Media Policy Options for Europe (and Beyond) - DyslexicAtheist https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/what-can-be-done-digital-media-policy-options-europe-and-beyond ====== DyslexicAtheist a TLDR is on their twitter: [https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1198939037031120896]...
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Ask HN: LinkedIn Jobs sucks for remote roles. Who will disrupt them? - josephby ====== krmmalik I was wondering exactly the same thing last night. There seem to be many innovators and disruptors in the tools for remote working space but no one in the space to help you find actual remote jobs, especially freelance gigs ...
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What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding? - ingve https://lemire.me/blog/2019/01/30/what-is-the-space-overhead-of-base64-encoding/ ====== Jaruzel I think the angle he's going for here is that if you have inline base64 blobs in your html/css code, and that's then served by a HTTP(S) server using gzip compression, ...
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The Great IDE vs Text Editor Debate - dsego http://blog.bittersweetryan.com/2012/02/great-ide-vs-text-editor-debate-why-i.html ====== coldtea I don't think there's a debate per se. IDE's (as a notion) are better than editors, and everyone would agree to that if IDE's (as an implementation) weren't worse than editor...
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Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook - alexandros http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diaspora_project_building_the_anti-facebook.php ====== thefool Meh. I don't think software people understand just how disinclined a non-software person is to do anything requiring configuring serverside stuff. Even torrent...
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The NYT’s blogs are set to be paywalled - alexandros http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/19/the-nyts-blogs-are-set-to-be-paywalled/ ====== petercooper Conversely, the NYT's blogs are going to end up being "reader-walled" and "traffic-walled" too. ~~~ drats Exactly, are people like Krugman going to accept mo...
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JDK 8 M7 update - javinpaul http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-May/002419.html ====== hnha does anyone have experience with openjdk on windows? how well does it work for everyday end-users? ~~~ rlmw As of Java 7 openjdk is the basis for the official Oracle release of Java, and constitutes the refe...
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How Wong Kar-wai inspired filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Barry Jenkin - ckcheng https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3093301/how-wong-kar-wai-hong-kong-director-mood-love-chungking ====== rado Bertolucci's “Besieged” (1998) surpassed WKW, but few people have checked it out. ~~~ perfmode Ebert rea...
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Bottle light inventor proud to be poor - kposehn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914 ====== etler This isn't an alternative to the light bulb. This is an alternative to the window for people living in slums that can't afford glass. ~~~ hcarvalhoalves Probably you've never seen a slum, so let me explain: \- H...
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Why I Never Gave Up on My Startup - benworthen http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/jgyz/why-i-never-gave-up-on-my-startup ====== benworthen Today FireEye is a public company. But in 2008, it didn't have a product, couldn't raise money, and most of its executive team quit. Here's why Ashar Aziz, FireEye's founder, ...
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Show HN: My first product. Thoughts? - alan_h http://www.mandarintap.com/ ====== xiaoma I've been in this market for a while. From running an English school in Taiwan to trying out products as an avid learner myself to chatting with friends who have basically been building the dominant platforms for teaching Chinese...
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Lector - A news reader for people who want one simple thing - mauriciogardini http://mauriciogardini.com/post/53784250046/lector-a-news-reader-for-people-who-want-one-simple ====== crux This might be sufficient for a first draft but it's also a great illustration of a lazy cliche that I'm seeing a lot—especially in ...
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DisRedis: Python Redis client with Automated Sharding and Failover - mlader http://engineering.custommade.com/introducing-disredis-an-open-source-redis-client-to-automate-sharding-and-failover/ ====== siliconc0w It looks like you're using SHA1 as your hash algorithm which isn't a great choice for sharding. Look into...
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How to Linear-Fit a Noisy Signal with Regular Discontinuities - jgforbes https://www.jforbes.io/linear-fit-regular-discontinuities ====== jofer This particular problem pops up in quite a few domains. (We often refer to it as "phase unwrapping" in the geosciences.) The approach here is a good one so long as your noise ...
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Paxos Made Moderately Complex - sargun http://paxos.systems ====== mslot Paxos is one of the simplest distributed algorithms out there. For a proposal i with value x: 1\. Ask everyone not to participate in proposals older than i, get a majority to agree and send back any previously accepted values. 2\. Ask everyone...
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Satellite Shows Armadas of Vacant Cruise Ships Huddling Together Out at Sea - gscott https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33338/satellite-images-show-armadas-of-vacant-cruise-ships-huddling-together-out-at-sea ====== a3n > With no passengers to look after and their quarantines completed, the > employees are left wond...
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NASA Will Open Pristine, Sealed Samples of Moon Rock - evo_9 https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/736212760/moon-rocks-still-awe-and-scientist-hope-to-get-more ====== xenonite > the samples that were set aside during Apollo for some far-off day when new > and better instruments would allow for markedly improved analysis. H...
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What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome) - johnx123-up http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-users-use/ ====== dazzawazza To be clear it's what HN Users that are interested in a web technology use.... and surprise surprise there are a lot of Macs in that sector. If you posted something interesting to...
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For the New Superrich, Life Is Much More Than a Beach - shalmanese http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/business/for-the-new-superrich-life-is-much-more-than-a-beach.html ====== narrator Meh, if you did all that stuff and didn't buy anything and took coach flights and rented a little boat for the yacht stuff it would p...
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Why Kids Should Grade Teachers - jseliger http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/why-kids-should-grade-teachers/309088/?single_page=true ====== tokenadult This is one way this process has been validated, from the submitted article: "The responses did indeed help predict which classes would have the most t...
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UK gov may block Twitter/Facebook to prevent riots - warrenmiller http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/872080-uk-riots-david-cameron-hints-at-social-media-shut-down ====== weego Please don't use the Metro as a source of news. For reference, it is a free paper available around the UK rail network that consists largely of news...
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HTML 5 Asteroids - gr366 http://dougmcinnes.com/html-5-asteroids/ ====== ck2 Oh heck, there goes my next hour. Wow that's fantastic. Now someone make Missile Command. Pegs my CPU though (Firefox and Chrome) Open source too: <http://github.com/dmcinnes/HTML5-Asteroids> update: I tried a few flash versions on the we...
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You are not your thoughts - imartin2k https://roadlesstravelled.me/2017/02/03/i-think-therefore-i-no-not-thoughts/ ====== basicplus2 "“I think therefore I am”, the famous phrase uttered by renowned Philosopher Rene Descartes was perhaps one, if not the most, fundamentally flawed philosophical statements of all time (s...
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Ask HN: Talented kid: what to do? - mudil I am looking for ideas on what to do with my cousin&#x27;s 8 year old (clearly gifted) kid. Ideas for pathways, scholarships, online courses, etc.<p>When Simon comes back from school, he entertains himself with math problems, and also creates for himself math problems and solv...
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California has about one year of water left - nickgrosvenor http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html ====== declan 80 percent of the developed water supply in California is used by agriculture. About 6 percent is industrial and commercial. That leaves 7 percent resi...
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Show HN: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online - zds http://labs.codecademy.com ====== mesher It's definitely a neat idea, but as a Python and JavaScript coder, I don't know how much I would actually use it. For Python, my code tends to rely heavily on modules that aren't found in th...
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Plant got rid of Junk DNA (just like Dark Angel's Max) - EvaK_de http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/carnivorous-plant-has-deleted-most-of-its-junk-dna/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29 ====== tocomment Did they ever explain the dark a...
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