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How to Go from a Engineering Student to an Entrepreneur - stevederico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaJKPCdimLA ====== scrrr Hm so all the successful entrepreneurs were younger than 30 years old when they started?
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Releasing early with bugs: GrandCentral A Little Too Beta For Some - brett http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/26/grandcentral-a-little-too-beta-for-some/ ====== brett It's interesting that this write up is not as negative as it could be. For a phone service some of the failures he mentions are pretty bad. Is Arrington ...
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Wesabe's Bank Aggregation Engine Open Sourced - tonystubblebine https://github.com/wesabe/ssu ====== tonystubblebine This is code for pulling transaction data from a huge number of financial institutions. Consider it an alternative to Yodlee.
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Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart - peter123 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/26/amazon-shopping-cart/ ====== dschoon I have great admiration for the amount of time and precision put into this article--as well as Amazon's relentless, cold, uncool devotion to optimization. These meditations on A/B optimizat...
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Microsoft Admits Normal Windows 10 Users Are 'Testing' Unstable Updates - Santosh83 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/12/microsoft-admits-normal-windows-10-users-are-testing-unstable-updates/ ====== newen I actually disabled all updates a while back because of stability and driver issues when I had a...
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Denim Breaker Club (Beta Test) - anu_gupta http://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/denim-breaker-club ====== anigbrowl This seems a ridiculous idea at first blush but on reflection I think it can work, and well. Too bad there's no button to sign up.
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Will Google Crush The iPhone? - terpua http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/10/18/gphone-iphone-wireless-technology-personaltech-cx_bc_1019gphone.html ====== joeguilmette Not unless they can think outside the "40 buttons and small screen" box.
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Ask HN Devs: What's up with the expiring pages? - arctic (Not sure if this has been asked/answered before. If it has, can you link me?)<p>So, I browse hacker news pretty much every day. Thing is, I go about it reasonably slowly while I do other things. So, when I come to change page a few minutes after trawling thro...
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Ask HN: Best resources for running a Linux dedicated server? - Ileca I never touched Linux but I plan to rent a dedicated server for running a website on it and I fear doing a lot of wrong things. What did you read at first, up to mastering that field, especially on a security point of view?<p>Keep the list simple, fo...
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A Surge in Meth Use in Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery - DoreenMichele https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/14/628134831/a-surge-in-meth-use-in-colorado-complicates-opioid-recovery ====== liquidise This strikes as correlation not causation. As someone in denver since before the legalization, i belie...
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Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com - tptacek http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/08/jonah_lehrer_plagiarism_in_wired_com_an_investigation_into_plagiarism_quotes_and_factual_inaccuracies_.html ====== tokenadult This one nails Lehrer to the wall: "In a third post from mid-20...
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Show HN: A Fortran web framework - mapmeld https://github.com/mapmeld/fortran-machine ====== projectramo I would love it if these projects were accompanied by a little blog post stating who the person is, why they decided to do it etc. for projects where it is obviously a labor of love. Especially because of the effo...
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FCC, FTC Demand Gateway Providers Cut Off Covid-19 Robocall Scammers [pdf] - QUFB https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363522A1.pdf ====== troydavis The named offenders are: > SIPJoin of Suffolk, Virginia; Connexum of Orange, California; and VoIP > Terminator/BLMarketing of Lake Mary, Florida SIPJoin: [http:/...
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First U.S. use of CRISPR to directly target cancer seeks approval - ChefboyOG https://www.statnews.com/2019/05/02/crispr-targeting-cancer-seeking-go-ahead/ ====== Funes- As someone who lives with and takes care of a cancer patient, I'm really frustrated with how little effort has been devoted to cancer research in suc...
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Show HN: Prototyping board for making motion sensitive wearable light - thefool https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2055918540/1295169121?ref=hn ====== thefool Hi there! I made this, it turn electro-luminescent materials (the make EL wire, EL panels/tape, EL paint) into a capacitive touch sensor It is also an open s...
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Hacking Google for Fun and Profit - tectonic http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google-for-fun-and-profit/ ====== _djc_ Well done -- an accomplishment indeed. Great content aside, I found the tone especially refreshing. Too often, it's "look how smart I am, and how stupid you all are" -- the bril...
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Google is pledging $4M to support U.S. immigration organizations - suprgeek https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/29/google-us-immigration-fund ====== ocdtrekkie This isn't really an accurate headline, Google is pledging $2 million, and offering to let their employees contribute another $2 million.
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Show HN: An interactive CLI ArXiv explorer - 191101 https://github.com/knguyenanhoa/cli-arxiv ====== 191101 I wrote a simple arXiv quick browser + article suggester in the terminal. I personally use it on a day to day basis and would love suggestions on ways to improve it. ~~~ sixhobbits I love the combination of TF-...
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The 'Art' of Being Donald Knuth - bentoner http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807/?pm=2&zin=169&u1=texterity&pg=36&z=106 ====== simplegeek Also this is amazing _Then a startup came to me and said 'Don, write compilers for us and we will take care of finding computers to debug them. Name your price.' I said, 'Oh...
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What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) - krat0sprakhar https://pragprog.com/articles/erlang/ ====== chrisseaton > Your Erlang program should just run N times faster on an N core processor But only if your program is embarrassingly parallel with at least N times available parallelism in the first place! If you have...
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Enabling Offline "Facebook Likes" Via QR Codes For Your Brand - nreece http://www.dericloh.com/enabling-offline-facebook-likes-via-qr-codes ====== andrewacove My project ties QR codes to Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook profiles: <http://www.getaquirk.com/> So you can scan a QR and easily follow, check-in, etc. Curr...
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Best Buy charging $100 extra for some iPhone X purchases - gnicholas https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/27/16562228/best-buy-iphone-x-price-100-dollars-more-installment-plan ====== gnicholas TLDR: They're pushing people to their installment plans, so if you want to pay upfront they'll charge an extra $100...
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Arrgh Facebook is lying about me - davewiner http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/28/facebookFraud.html ====== phwd Maybe I am wrong, but Dave you said you deleted your account. Are you sure that is your account, if it was shouldn't it resolve to your _username_ you chose? > But when I went to my URL, or at least wha...
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Who runs the world? - robg http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11664289 ====== nazgulnarsil people constantly ask this question because the idea that no one is running things is too scary to contemplate. this is the reason for both organized religion and conspiracy theories. ------ tx I like the bias...
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Sexbots development: Ethical? - waroc http://www.geeksnack.com/2015/09/16/sexbots-development-further-objectifies-women-and-children-says-ethicist-campaign-to-ban-them-already-underway/ ====== waroc Where there's demand, there's supply. On the bright side, sexbots may force women in sex industries to study and pursue ...
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Scientists discover Indonesian cave with 'stunning' record of tsunamis - kschua http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/scientists-discover-indonesian-cave-with-stunning-record-of-tsunamis-dating-back-thousands-of-years/story-fn5fsgyc-1226782895230 ====== jsaxton86 I can't find the original paper, unfortunately. W...
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Show HN: Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams - t4l0s https://cloudmaker.ai# ====== arkadiyt Gave it a try. Here's my feedback in no particular order: \- I couldn't get into my account to start playing around for a while because your email verification is flagged as spam \- Basic resources like A...
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Y Combinator by the Numbers - ssclafani http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERQ7ZtseWo ====== rajeshvaya wow!
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MongoDB Gotchas - vlucas http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/mongodb-gotchas/ ====== TrevorBurnham These seem a bit obvious to me. "String searches are case-sensitive"? "Strings and integers aren't equivalent"? I was hoping the article would be a bit deeper. ~~~ jkmcf For the majority of people migrating from MySQL, the...
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Ask HN for comments: Popular math article: Sailing Hydrofoils - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.penzba.co.uk/Catastrophe/ ====== frig If the article's really about catastrophe theory I'd better-motivate the catastrophe reference; dropping it in at the last second is pretty much a wtf moment for a reader not forewarned. ...
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Humans are Liars - tckr https://coderbyheart.com/humans-are-liars/ ====== chongli This piece is interesting but it misses the elephant in the room: Work is transactional at its heart. When somebody is your boss and you depend on them to pay your bills and feed your family then they are not your friend no matter how pl...
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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things - kiyanwang https://launchdarkly.com/blog/the-fallacy-of-move-fast-and-break-things/ ====== jasode The _" move fast and break things"_ is just a web app version of previous sayings in other domains: \- _" A ship in harbor is safe but that's not what ships are made for."_ \- ...
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How to make a stop-motion video in Ubuntu Linux - robotico http://www.jcopro.net/2012/11/14/how-to-make-a-stop-motion-video-in-ubuntu-linux/ ====== robotico Would also like to hear about any better and/or different ways of doing this. ~~~ qbrass <http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Examples-5>
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Pipistrel Velis Electro: first fully electric aeroplane to be type certified - jka https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/pipistrel-obtains-first-ever-type-certificate-in-the-world-for-an-electric-aeroplane-from-easa/ ====== jka See also a video from a couple of years ago covering some details of the aircraft and in-fligh...
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Ask HN: What would you do with $5k/mo basic income for rest of life? - throw99887 ====== Cshelton If assuming that everyone was also receiving $5k/mo "UBI"... Nothing different, because the cost of everything I buy will go up by a total of $5k/mo. Hence why UBI is flawed. My total purchasing power will be unchanged. ...
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Have scientists found a crashed UFO on the seabed? - harold http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2021174/Have-scientists-crashed-flying-saucer-seabed.html ====== paulhauggis "Now, however, his team do not have the money or resources to examine the shape further." If it really has any chance of being an al...
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Enough about the NSA, already - orchdork10159 Are there any tech blogs that aren&#x27;t currently flooded with NSA foolishness? ====== obstacle1 Do you think that maybe it's an extremely important issue for people who live in the tech space, and that is why it is dominating the discourse right now? ------ mikecane ...
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Poloniex loses around $50,000 in Bitcoin - taybin http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/yet-another-exchange-hacked-poloniex-loses-around-50000-in-bitcoin/ ====== sp332 This story was already discussed [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340908](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340908) ------ taybin I'm g...
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The problem with Facebook - loisaidasam https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976563870322999296 ====== astalwick [https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360](https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360) He goes on to defend his work at Google, arguing that they're similar on the surface, but Fac...
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FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder - garrettgillas http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/fbi-asks-public-for-help-breaking-encrypted-notes-tied-to-1999-murder ====== garrettgillas Quoted: The bureau isn't offering any reward for assistance in solvin...
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UK Rejects International Court of Justice Opinion on the Chagos Islands - yasp https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/02/uk-rejects-international-court-of-justice-opinion-on-the-chagos-islands/ ====== yasp >I have taken it for granted that you know that the reason the UK refuses to decolonise the Chagos Islands ...
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Ask HN: How does one help a teenager teach himself how to read? - markessien I live in Africa, and in many houses there are these &quot;gateboys&quot; who are typically teenage boys that came from some small village far away to the cities looking for work. Their jobs involve opening the gates for visitors, gardening...
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Terms of Service; Didn't Read - dz0ny http://tos-dr.info/ ====== IvyMike Step 1: Write a .dll that interposes on common windows controls used to display EULA messages. Step 2: Whenever this .dll sees common EULA agreements, it randomly modifies them before displaying them. Changes "SHALL" to "SHALL NOT", changes "GPL...
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A Cavity-Fighting Liquid Lets Kids Avoid Dentists’ Drills - aaronbrethorst http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/health/silver-diamine-fluoride-dentist-cavities.html ====== msie W/O reading the article I'm guessing that this technology is 10 years away? Edit: I'm delighted to be wrong. But the problem is uptake by practi...
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Extending Legal Protection to Social Robots - vectorbunny http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/extending-legal-protection-to-social-robots?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumFullText+%28IEEE+Spectrum+Full+Text%29 ====== bediger4000 Shouldn't we first g...
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The Best-Paying Companies For Software Engineers - negrit http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-highest-paid-software-engineers-work-for-these-25-companies-2013-4 ====== mynewwork I wonder how this works out for take-home pay. Many of the companies listed have offices in Austin as well as the bay area (Cisco, Pa...
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Phtevenize Me - marvwhere http://phtevenize.me ====== newmetl Haha, that's a nice idea. But still needs some polishing!
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Python Resume - lukasm https://github.com/lukasz-madon/resume/blob/master/resume.py ====== Winterflow3r A fellow Caplin alum! ------ lxw experience is misspelled :)
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Facebook hiring monetization principle - robot https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=data&req=a2KA0000000LtgxMAC ====== askimto You mean principal. Pretty sure they try to avoid principles. ------ robot Its funny they do this after the IPO.
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The C# compiler and ‘Lowering’ - matthewwarren http://mattwarren.org/2017/05/25/Lowering-in-the-C-Compiler/ ====== dfox Coming from Lisp background one would take this as pretty obvious approach. In fact I somewhat suspect that CL's tagbody is explicitly designed such that every non-trivial control structure in the l...
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Ask HN: How do you handle debates with non-scientists? - seertaak I find myself getting into arguments with non-scientists and coming out of them satisfied that I've argued my case well and fairly, only to find my friends subsequently insisting that I've been "aggressive" or "rude". It bothers me, because I'm convin...
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Thoughts about transitioning from SysAdmin to DevOps - m4b0 This is my article about the transition from SysAdmin to DevOps where I navigate through some considerations:<p>- Version control - From pets to cattle - Logs and observability - Idempotency and automation - Security<p>Hopefully will help to others. ====== m4...
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Were you watching on TV when Challenger broke up? - DavidWanjiru I&#x27;ve just watched footage of the Challenger space shuttle breaking up in this documentary [0], and although I knew what happened, I&#x27;ve instinctively reacted like I didn&#x27;t know it was going to happen. You know how they show replays of a spo...
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Twitter Data Up For Sale: 1 Billion Connections - lrm242 http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/11/12/12readwriteweb-twitter-data-dump-infochimp-puts-1b-connect-51616.html ====== akkartik Nice to see Scoble referred to as journalist rather than blogger.
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Faster arithmetic by flipping signs - ingve https://nfrechette.github.io/2019/05/08/sign_flip_optimization/ ====== benj111 I thought this was going to be about 2s complement bit flipping. But no it's for floating point! ------ MayeulC Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a quite recent game, and was not released on Xbox 360 ...
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PriceTea – Simple Amazon Price Guides - ajaymehta http://pricetea.com/ ====== smadam9 Lovely. Exactly the sort of thing people into "economical order quantity" ordering are into. Plans to expand? ------ guci22 The alert box ruins your website. ~~~ xur17 Agreed. It's showing up any time I click on a link on your s...
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Ask HN: About to interview for Android Developer role. What should I read up on? - drepricruf iOS Developer about to interview for Android Developer role. What should I read up on? ====== amacalac Activity and Fragment lifecycles are a good topic. Understanding commonly used libraries often comes up e.g. Volley, Gson,...
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Michael Crichton: “Why Speculate?” & The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (2002) - emptybits http://geer.tinho.net/crichton.why.speculate.txt ====== secondbreakfast One of my favorite talks ever, up there with Munger's "psychology of human misjudgment" Disagree with the conclusion (that climate change isn't worth worr...
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Extracting timestamp and MAC address from UUIDs - mooreds http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2014/06/mysql-extracting-timstamp-and-mac.html ====== geofft There's a story that the creator of 1999's "Melissa" virus was found via a GUID in the Word document that included their MAC address. (I'm having trouble confirming the...
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Music Animation Machine Notation - acqq http://www.musanim.com/mam/closer.html ====== acqq For examples see <http://www.musanim.com/watch/> J. S. Bach's Air on a G-string, from his 3rd orchestral suite in D major on youtube (just for convenience, note that vimeo has better quality of his videos): <http://www.youtub...
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Linux kernel 5.1 data loss bug when using devicemapper and SSDs - djsumdog https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62693 ====== dreix Nice, I match ' the other people ' too
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Mailgun hack day: Making our API documentation smarter - safun http://blog.mailgun.com/mailgun-hack-day-making-our-developer-docs-smarter/ ====== jstoiko I am curious. What did you use to spec out your documentation? Have been using RAML lately.
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A Visit to the R&D Dept of the New York Times - keltecp11 http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/03/a-visit-to-the-rd-deparmtent-o.php ====== bkudria This is the same exact coverage of the R&D lab we hear about every time - the large collection of gadgets (look at us! we can spend money!), the living room of the "future...
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Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people - rblion http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2020378/Facebook-Twitter-creating-vain-generation-self-obsessed-people.html#ixzz1U21zZjzi ====== pyoung I highly doubt vanity is a unique trait of our generation. It has been around for...
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Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many? - 147 https://medium.com/@dweinberger/e9d6abcf6fed ====== japhyr I have been thinking about this the last few days. My first thought is that I would accept being sacrificed so that the overall impact of any collision is minimized. When I get into a car, I'm...
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Show HN: WebMTG, manage Magic the Gathering games, tournaments and decks - bartzon https://github.com/bartzon/webmtg ====== bartzon I've added some screenshots! [https://github.com/bartzon/webmtg#features](https://github.com/bartzon/webmtg#features) ------ fiatjaf After some time, this becomes a website for managi...
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A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009) - radicalbyte http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242 ====== rubyn00bie This little section just blew my mind... ================================================= BC: Do you ever look at your own code and think, "What the hell was I doing here?" AW: No, I guess I don't. ...
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A Federal Privacy Board Is Reviewing DHS’ Airport Facial Recognition Programs - lp001 https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/10/federal-privacy-board-reviewing-dhs-airport-facial-recognition-programs/160341/ ====== sarcasmatwork The data will be leaked. It's a matter of time. Not if, its when. History has already ...
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Ask HN: How do you measure developers productivity? - jsifalda Hey guys, i am wondering, how do you measure productivity of developers in your team? I have been using RescueTime app but is too general, not focused on developers. Also, i tried WakaTime plugin into code editor, but it is saying a much... just general s...
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Website Hackers Slip Under the Radar with Impersonator Bots - carlchenet http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/14/website-hackers-slip-under-the-radar-with-impersonator-bots/ ====== SCAQTony Reminds me of a line from a short story by William Gibson titled, "Burning Chrome: "...“Congratulations,” I heard Bobby say. “We just...
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29 Days with Android - sandipc http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082261/29-days-with-android ====== stcredzero _There are a number of things in this picture that can only be done via iPhone jailbreaking, and even then, it may lead to a very unstable system. Just on this screen we have:_ - App-spe...
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React-app-rewired: override create-react-app webpack configs without ejecting - mxstbr https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired ====== captainmuon react-app-rewired looks cool, I'll have to try it the next time I hit a wall (and just need a little tweak)! One rant while I'm here: I don't really like create-react...
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Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator - ColinWright http://toys.usvsth3m.com/realistic-facebook-privacy-simulator/ ====== crazygringo Don't not make everything not private [ ] Not No [ ] Not Not Not Yes My brain was too slow! Great game. ~~~ Sektor Took me another 30 seconds just s...
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The One Wheel Micro-Cycle - flippyhead http://rynomotors2.wordpress.com/ ====== JoeAltmaier Is its top speed really the snails pace shown in the video? For heaven's sake, why not ride a bike? ------ signalsignal It only goes 20 mph? ------ flippyhead I know seems so slow
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Pet Peeve: "You Guys" - clintonb11 http://avc.com/2014/05/pet-peeve-you-guys ====== calciphus Curious, as I've stumbled over this one myself - do you have a non-gendered group pronoun you prefer? I feel odd saying "you guys" to mixed groups, but I feel odder with "you all" and "you folks". I've had many female cowor...
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Y Combinator Needs to Teach Better Business Communication Skills - hexagonc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66PNIUtaaE ====== angersock Pretty good customer reaction to an overly-familiar business email and a solid criticism of a botched customer interaction.
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Google Blacklists bit.ly - avinassh http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/10/bit-ly-blacklisted-by-google-safe-browsing.html ====== andygambles This is why it is a good idea to use your own custom domain with bit.ly ~~~ avinassh Yes, here's the official tutorial link for the lazy: [http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/arti...
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Blekko Review - obelix http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/techcrunch-review-the-blekko-search-engine-prepares-to-launch/ ====== moultano I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try. More competition isn't just good for consumers, it's also good for the field of IR. I work in search quality at Google, a...
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The four year vesting schedule doesn't make sense - groth http://stuckinthevalley.tumblr.com/ ====== tptacek I don't invest in companies, but if I did, having nonstandard vesting schemes would be a no-deal red flag, at least for any team that didn't have a mile- long pedigree starting and successfully building compani...
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Ask HN: Stanford students asking, how to help out with the coronavirus response? - davidtsong Hi HN,<p>My friend and I are Stanford CS students pursuing biocomp and AI. We are terrified at the thought of hospitals being overwhelmed soon and we want to do whatever it takes to help save lives from Coronavirus in the US....
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Utter Disregard for Git Commit History - hodgesmr http://zachholman.com/posts/git-commit-history/ ====== QuercusMax Sounds like the author wants something like Mercurial's [https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution](https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution). It will allow you to rebase and d...
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Ask HN: What motivates MOOC subscribers? - sunflash5 For those of you who take online classes from organizations like Coursera, EdX and Udemy, what motivated you to take the class?<p>I'm interested in MOOCs and wanted to get a perspective on what motivates people taking the class, how long they stick with the class,...
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McKinsey warns banks face wipeout in some financial services - jeo1234 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a5cafe92-66bf-11e5-97d0-1456a776a4f5.html ====== grandalf _“Most of the attackers do not want to become a bank,” said Mr Härle. “They want to squeeze themselves in between the customer and the bank and skim the cream ...
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How to (Scientifically) Pick the Best Company Name - rharris http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/03/05/test-company-domain-name-with-mturk-survey-data/ ====== JohnyLy Very interesting approach. Choosing a company name is very important. I especially like the name-association part. I would just add 'meaning in foreign la...
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Persistent PostgreSQL inside Docker - myacce https://crondev.com/persistent-postgresql-inside-docker/ ====== jmnicolas A benchmark to see how much perfs you loose by virtualizing Postgres would have been nice. ~~~ kennu It would be interesting. But I would also note that Docker doesn't do virtualization. It uses e.g....
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Mir vs. Wayland Drama commencing - iso-8859-1 https://plus.google.com/100409717163242445476/posts ====== iso-8859-1 IRC log: <http://pastebin.com/KjRm3be1>
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He can’t smoke weed and drink whiskey at least not on a podcast - marmot777 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/elon-musk-nasa-spacex-commercial-crew-safety-review/576997/ ====== mimixco The suggestion that Apollo astronauts were burned up on the launch pad might have something to do with weed (or whis...
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Using Wayland from Rust, Part 1 - steveklabnik http://blog.levans.fr/rust_wayland_1-en.html ====== kibwen If you have any questions for the author, he's present over in the /r/rust thread: [https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3uwtz6/using_wayland_...](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3uwtz6/using_wayland_from...
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Ask HN: Are there any other topics in FP then simple composition and CT - eskimobloood Most of the articles about functional Programming are either simple descriptions on composition and currying or about how a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. I wonder if there are no other topics in this fiel...
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San Francisco Legalizing Airbnb - larryzhou http://dnwbl.blogspot.com/2013/01/san-francisco-legalizing-airbnb.html ====== larryzhou I want to make some money through Airbnb especially when the rent is so high in the city.
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UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs - DyslexicAtheist https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/ufo-vpn-data-exposure/ ====== outworlder Unsecured Elasticsearch, once again. ([https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/](https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/)) So E...
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How Everything Became the Culture War - paulpauper https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/02/culture-war-liberals-conservatives-trump-2018-222095 ====== sbierwagen >Politics has always been adversarial. Traditionally, though, we’ve had a fairly robust national consensus about a fairly broad set of goals—a str...
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Deja Vu: Google Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit for $11M - rmason https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2019/07/20/deja-vu-google-settles-age-discrimination-lawsuit-for-11-million/#456d9f5971f1 ====== btown > In 2010, Google settled a lawsuit filed by a one-time Silicon Valley > superstar, Brian Reid, then 5...
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Stripe Launches UK private beta - lifeisstillgood Just got my mail - looks nice folks. And the timing is perfect - was about to unleash my inner jasonkester and patio11 on a side project! ====== oliverdavenport This isn't new - I was invited to the UK beta in early April.
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Uber and Lyft can be just as bad as taxis when it comes to racial discrimination - buckbova http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/31/13478102/uber-lyft-race-gender-discrimination-study-findings-mit-stanford ====== hackuser Many repeat the story that Lyft, Uber, etc. improve service to minority communities. Was there ever da...
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Ask HN: what are some essential theoretical computer science books? - zeitg3ist ====== primitivesuave Sipser's Theory of Computation is the closest thing I could think of to an all-round essential. ------ ddp [http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...](http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um...
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Game Developers Are Flocking to Sony and Fleeing From Microsoft - keepitkosher http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/sony-indies/?cid=co6980084 ====== bashinator It's interesting how Sony seems to be finally "getting it" with regard to attracting developers. I just read about how they interviewed software developers...
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Show HN: HN Sakura – see quick rising/falling HN posts before they're gone - dosy https://hnsakura.xyz/ ====== dosy The Sakura season is short-lived. So too are some posts on HN. The rise sharply (blossom), only to fall even faster Off the rankings forever. This re-ranks HN by how fast the posts are moving through...
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FOUC with Firefox Quantum - vinayakkulkarni After all the hype, I finally downloaded Firefox Quantum and the first thing i noticed, while opening GitHub, FOUC happened! I was like, OK, it might be an anomaly but happened again on multiple websites with loads of css &amp; javascript. ====== mtmail If anybody else is wo...
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Ask HN: What tools do you still run on DOSBOX and why? - neatcoder ====== binarydinosaur ShareGenius - Came free on UK ComputerShopper magazine in early 90's. Still nothing as good. QLAY for DOS (Sinclair QL emulator).
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