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Mapping Anything with BSicons - zetter https://chriszetter.com/blog/2020/06/25/mapping-anything-with-bsicons/ ====== shakna As every BSicon has a specific purpose, especially some of the rarer ones, I wonder how difficult it would be to encode that information into a simulation? There's a couple of train simulators I...
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Truth: how great a virtue is it in business? - transburgh http://foundread.com/2007/10/23/truth-how-great-a-virtue-is-it-business/ ====== gibsonf1 The article is based on analyzing a birthdate lie on a public forum. I actually always "lie" about my age on public forums where that information can be seen to avoid ident...
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Can a modern website design improve credibility? - gvidon https://ottofeller.com/blog/can-a-modern-website-design-improve-credibility ====== onreact This is a rhetorical question, isn't it? Otherwise the answer is: of course! People judge a website in milliseconds just by looking at the design. When it's cluttered et...
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Ask HN: What's a good book on breaking apart monoliths? - monolithbook I&#x27;m working with a company right now that&#x27;s struggling to maintain a huge monolith that lives on what&#x27;s basically a mainframe. <i>Everything</i> is tightly coupled, to the point that our database tables haven&#x27;t been modified in ...
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Make your terminal look more fancy - stevemao https://github.com/stevemao/prompt-so-fancy ====== brudgers For feedback, this might make a good "Show HN".
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7 Things You Must Be Doing with Docker - agonzalezro http://blog.getcrane.com/7-things-must-docker ====== collyw "Over the next eighteen months, your enterprise will need to adopt container technology at pace. And that will put pressure on you to assess the role containers can play and adapt your infrastructure to s...
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Ask HN: What's wrong or missing in your favorite OS? - jayphelps Whether you're a Windows, Linux, or Mac person, most hackers are very opinionated about their preferred OS.<p>My question is what "feature" (or lack thereof) do you secretly hate about it? You know, that thing you won't admit in _____ vs. _____ argume...
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Planet Earth time lapse photos from the International Space Station - evo_9 http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/14/cosmic-bal/ ====== xbryanx Here are the original photographs and video if you want to see the astronauts' work in context with explanations: <http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/> -----...
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Why developers are afraid of user testing - subpixel http://ryandeussing.com/blog/2012/03/14/why-developers-are-afraid-of-user-testing/ ====== Boumbles Isn't the reason they've released it for free before retail so that they can find out stuff like this and adapt the UI to how users react?
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Green tea compound may halt molecular cause of often-fatal condition - upen http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/10091.html ====== baldfat I always find it funny how they test Green, Black, White or Oolong Teas separately. All teas (Not herbal infusions) are all from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The only differen...
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Mistakes in silicon chips could help boost computer power - yanw http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10134655.stm ====== coderdude So software (or another part of the CPU) will handle the errors so that the programmer doesn't have to check that every single operation worked correctly. This reminds me of how Hadoop...
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Will 2-D tin be the next super material? - hythloday http://m.phys.org/news/2013-11-d-tin-super-material.html ====== tokenadult The Physical Review Letters abstract[1] (kindly included as a link in the recycled press release[2] kindly submitted here) may lead to more information about this preliminary finding. Rese...
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Add bytecode cache to Ruby - ksec https://github.com/github/ruby/pull/27 ====== 3JPLW What's the relationship between github/ruby and ruby/ruby? It looks like they've diverged quite a far ways away from each other, but that might just be an artifact of which branches GitHub uses when comparing the two. ~~~ randall Se...
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Apple's A12Z Under Rosetta Outperforms Microsoft's Native Arm-Based Surface ProX - wwelch https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/29/apple-rosetta-2-a12z-beats-surface-pro-x/ ====== melling “and though forbidden, the first thing some developers did was benchmark the machine." That’s why Apple is saving the new chips for th...
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Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions - tswicegood http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html ====== ReidZB I think SHA-2 should be "minor weakness discovered" (if not outright "unbroken"), not "weakened". At the onset of the SHA-3 competition, everyone was nervous about SHA-2: it appeared as though a good attack was ine...
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014) - whoishiring Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. ====== dylandrop SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote / NYC - ControlShift Labs - [http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/](http://www.controlshiftla...
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13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness - nickb http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/15/13-reasons-for-umls-descent-into-darkness/ ====== mike_organon If found #7 to be the most interesting, even beyond UML. "Pictures prove to be good at sharing ideas and allowing people to visualize concepts. But in the end words ar...
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US whistleblower dropped from speaking at Melbourne cybersecurity conference - peterkelly https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-08/us-whistleblower-speech-cancelled-at-cybersecurity-conference/11581986 ====== NotSammyHagar so can someone provide an explanation about why this happened? this seems to have nothing ...
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Show HN: Queen City Brunch – A web app for brunch discovery - tedmiston http://blog.tedmiston.com/queen-city-brunch/ ====== tedmiston Co-creator here. The #1 reason we made QCBrunch is: we really love breakfast food, and every time we talk about getting it, we end up google brunch hours for each place. Many don't publ...
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How to Build a Robot That Will Feed You Breakfast - traxmaxx http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-build-a-robot-that-will-feed-you-breakfast ====== DrScump already posted yesterday. exact same story, same title. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10509355](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10509355)
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It takes 48 seconds to view an Oracle blog post - jonny_eh https://twitter.com/peterc/status/1040723744963080192 ====== Findeton Mixing laws and big companies gets you this. Other sites will load faster but it's the government forcing you to get that popup. ~~~ Nadya The popup freezes at 99% when you click "No, you m...
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Is OOP “anti-modular”? - kilimchoi http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/70831/is-objected-oriented-programming-paradigm-outdated-since-it-is-anti-modular-and ====== dragonwriter OOP suffers from a distinct lack of clear, universally accepted, definition that allows such questions to be answered well, but c...
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German intelligence claims to be able to decrypt PGP - xcallmejudasx http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fbundesregierung-deutsche-geheimdienste-koennen-pgp-entschluesseln-1205-92031.html&act=url ====== bhuga The translatio...
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Help me fix photo sharing - Cheeese One the one side you have flickr who has the most amazing community but a product that has stagnated. On the other you have instagram who has had explosive growth using new social mechanics like follow. I think there is an opportunity to build a community aimed squarely at flickr,...
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The Dozenal Society of America - adius http://www.dozenal.org/ ====== nwatson An uncle who designed jet engines at General Electric said one advantage GE had over European counterparts was the greater diversity in sheet metal gauges/thicknesses used to build the engines; they could maintain required strength throughou...
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Beginner Web Design Mistakes - nickpettit http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginner-web-design-mistakes-avoid ====== nhebb > _Modals and Pop-Ups - You’ve seen this before. You click on a link to a news > article or a blog post, and a gigantic modal pop-up window covers the > content. This makes absolutely no sense._ The...
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What Would a VC Sponsored Coworking Location Look Like? - transburgh http://www.centernetworks.com/vc-coworking ====== dawie They wouldn't, People are supposed to work at home and basically sleep where they work
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IT Startup – The Card Game - zola https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kupilasmedia/it-startup-the-card-game ====== zola Not affiliated with the creator. I played it once (polish version) with work colleagues - we split into three teams and were brainstorming moves and how to hurt competitors the most. It was fun.
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Let's Encrypt ACMEv2 and Wildcard Launch Delay - cm2187 https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acmev2-and-wildcard-launch-delay/53654 ====== sdrinf While HTTPS is being burned into the architecture of the Web, I have a humble question to ask: what is the dear HN community's next-best-option in a scenario if letsencrypt d...
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Saying Hi to Allo and Duo: new apps for smart messaging and video calling - shayannafisi https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/allo-duo-apps-messaging-video.html ====== BinaryIdiot So here's what I don't understand. Hangouts has been the main message app from Google that supports text and video chat. One of the bigg...
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Show HN: I'm building a service to help people schedule tasks - s-stude http://scheduleworkers.com ====== ColinWright Another gorgeous looking website that is clearly intended to explain what the service is, and I still haven't got a clue exactly what it does, how it works, how I'd use it, or what value I'd get from i...
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How did organized crime attempt to ransack PayPal in the early years? - mg1313 http://www.quora.com/How-did-organized-crime-attempt-to-ransack-PayPal-in-the-early-years ====== frankel0 It is interesting to hear that eBay originally was against the use of PayPal. Did they at one time have a competing system that they...
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AWS stops some EC2 servers without warning - iProject http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/aws_ec2_servers_retired_with_little_warning/ ====== kelnos Not really news...
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Tensorflow 0.11rc1 Supports Cuda 8.0 Officially - wagonhelm As you can see here TensorFlow now supports Cuda 8.0<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tensorflow&#x2F;tensorflow&#x2F;releases<p>I also have this tutorial on how to install it from sources.<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wp.me&#x2F;p7GvOc-2H ====== TuringNYC Thanks ve...
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Developing Service Oriented Architectures - hachiya http://lethain.com/lessons-from-developing-software-oriented-architectures/ ====== JeffJenkins If you're considering switching your monolithic application into a SOA you should consider the testing and debugging implications seriously. If your call graph goes more t...
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Strange google results - voodoochilo i am from germany. recently i found a strange phenomenon. when i search for the digits 1 through 9 on google with english as results language i get:<p>1 14.25<p>2 11.45<p>3 10.00<p>4 9.39<p>5 8.55<p>6 25.31 (??)<p>7 7.08<p>8 6.89<p>9 6.46<p>has anybody an idea why digit 6 is so ...
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Lyft Seizes on Uber's Struggles as Bookings and Ridership Soar, Losses Shrink - rayuela https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/lyft-bookings-and-ridership-soar-while-losses-shrink ====== throwaway90125 Absent numbers showing a decline in Uber numbers, there is absolutely nothing here that suggests that Lyf...
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We are not sheep - yummyfajitas http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1029#more-1029 ====== SamAtt Let me rephrase his strategy here: If someone comes to you with an emotional argument antagonize them and eventually they'll start acting rational. I'm sorry but not only do I think this is a bad idea I'm hereby calling b#llsh#t ...
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Tesla Autopilot tricked into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with modified sign - harambae https://electrek.co/2020/02/19/tesla-autopilot-tricked-accelerate-speed-limit-sign/ ====== dmitrygr Further proving that "self driving" is approximately as hard as AGI, and is _nowhere_ near as "close" as everyone thinks to think...
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NASA hands space enthusiasts the keys to a 1970s-era spacecraft - ghosh http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/nasa-hands-space-enthusiasts-the-keys-to-a-1970s-era-spacecraft/ ====== ColinWright Significant discussion on an earlier discussion of a different article on the same question: [https://news.ycombinator.co...
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AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery - panabee https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-scientific-discovery ====== lucidrains For those interested, it appears as though David Baker (who dedicated his life to protein folding) has also turned to deep learning. His lab recently published [https:/...
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Has the modern university become just another corporation? - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30wwln-lede-t.html?ex=1348804800&en=89c1bfa23c3175ea&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss ====== Goladus This is a pointless argument until everyone agrees on the definitions of "Corporation" versus "Universit...
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How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists - ingve http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/09/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-a-guide-for-non-scientists/ ====== neutronicus I have a little "hack" that I find _extremely_ helpful for getting a sense of specific ...
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Ask HN/Google: should Google link to hotel sites instead of aggregator sites? - petervandijck You can expand this question to generalize: should Google link to, say, a tripadvisor hotel page first, or to the hotel website first? Whenever I search for a hotel or something, I always get a long list of aggregators, which...
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Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things - seancron http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/beyond_social_web_internet_of_things.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29 ====== seancron From the article: If I was an entrepreneur or developer, I woul...
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Native HTML quadplay fantasy console - Tepix https://github.com/morgan3d/quadplay ====== Tepix Here's an amazing 64x64 space dogfighting game for this fantasy console: [https://twitter.com/CasualEffects/status/1167565673435926529](https://twitter.com/CasualEffects/status/1167565673435926529)
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No word for sex - Muzza http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001979.html ====== RiderOfGiraffes I remember reading a science fiction novel in which a story was recounted by one character to another of a "first contact" expedition to a world. The members of the expedition had been assured that the inha...
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Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big - peter123 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/business/22digi.html ====== mcarlin I think a much bigger problem is Wikipedia. It's a much quieter but much stronger monopoly, and the people who run it are known to be prone to cliques, drama and manipulation. Google is profession...
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The truth about pirates of Somalia - hoffcoder http://www.africaontheblog.com/the-truth-about-somali-pirates/ ====== muyuu They forgot the part where they repeatedly rape female crew, and where they murder crew for petty reasons. Some people will feel good about "supporting the poor guy" though. ~~~ Spooky23 I think...
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How to Work Remotely and Live to Tell the Tale - sugarenia http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/life/how-to-work-remotely-and-live-to-tell-the-tale ====== marfilip Very well written and inspiring for us dreaming of working from home but don't even dare to try. ------ ruimiguelforte Incredibly insightful and honest.
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Ask HN: Suggestions for workout app - tmaly I just got back to the gym, and I did the free consult with the personal trainer. I have used a trainer a decade ago, but todays prices are too high. I do have a gym partner. Are there any apps out there that can be used in place of a trainer to show proper exercise for...
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Show HN: ReactJS Checkmark component with CSS animated transition - mjunaidi https://codepen.io/mjunaidi/pen/dyoNJRv ====== leshokunin Seems cool but I didn’t notice the animation. I tried on Safari mobile, and the transition is just instant. Is that a bug or am I thinking about the functionality wrong?
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Ask YC: NewsCred looking for interns. Any tips where to find em? - shafqat Hi all - we're looking for one or two interns. Ideally, people in college who want to work in a startup part time and earn a little cash.<p>How have other startups on HN gone about finding good interns? University job boards? Word of mouth?<p...
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Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago - elberto34 http://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-florence ====== SmellTheGlove I'm not entirely surprised. In Florence, and probably in lots of other places too, wealth was amassed in land holdings and gold (florins being the currency). Land hol...
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UNIX Text Formatting Using the -ms Macros (1984) - tlcu https://www.hactrn.net/ietf/rfcgen/textms.html ====== uranium235 I just found a brand new PAGER for man: konqueror (man:/) [https://imgur.com/a/F3o4VIu](https://imgur.com/a/F3o4VIu) ~~~ znpy Konqueror is a marvel. Too bad that KDE is now pushing that brain-damag...
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Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 6 - rspivak http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part6/ ====== kevin_thibedeau The shunting yard or precedence climbing algorithms are better approaches to expression parsing. They make it trivial to add operators and change precedence levels without the convolutions of a recursive gra...
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Go 1.4 will have Android Support - StandardFuture https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sYiPs2KWhNkygrmj-kJuQ1X1uYQF4aKiMZU9WR0Nw_U/edit ====== melling It's mainly for OpenGL games or other places where you would use the NDK. Wonder if it's possible to turn into a more general purpose tool for app element with enough ...
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The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer - microtherion https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-lonely-life-of-a-yacht-influencer ====== giarc I'm reminded of an old colleague of mine. She worked as a food safety inspector for Cara Foods that service many airlines around the world. They have kitchens in airports and prep...
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Ask HN: Marketing methods for startups - jolenzy I would like to know, which marketing methods are the best for startups?<p>For example, my small startup http://besthi.re will be ready soon. Which marketing methods I should use?<p>Should I invest in press release distribution?<p>Maybe to try to get review at Mashabl...
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What I Hate About Git - gammarator https://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/ ====== dasil003 I found the #1 reason to be incredibly ironic: > _The information model is complicated – and you need to know all of it. As a > point of reference, consider Subversion: you have files, a working > d...
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Why engineers don't like Twitter - sruffell http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/pop-blog/4199325/Engineers-dont-like-Twitter ====== rcfox Old people don't like Twitter, young people do. Surprise!
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RDF meets NoSQL - bensummers http://decentralyze.com/2010/03/09/rdf-meets-nosql/ ====== mark_l_watson That is a useful writeup. The Semantic Web as a technology has faced an uphill battle for acceptance but that is hopefully changing. BTW, here is a PDF link to my new SW book: <http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/...
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A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Curves - mhb http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract ====== gus_massa The article is from 1993. Is this different from the usual graphical integration methods? Was this a interesting idea in 1993??
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Show HN: I made a tool that makes me faster listing AWS resources - jckuester https://github.com/jckuester/awsls ====== verdverm If you like code gen, check out [https://github.com/hofstadter- io/hof](https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof) There is something like this in the works, to make the clouds feel like Kuberne...
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My 3 Essential Podcasts - danielrm26 https://danielmiessler.com/blog/3-essential-podcasts/ ====== xs Hey thanks for the list. Have you tried the Darknet Diaries podcast? Wondering what you think of it.
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Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way” - sahin-boydas https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/waymo-to-customers-completely-driverless-waymo-cars-are-on-the-way/ ====== Judgmentality This sounds familiar. Here's an article from 2 years ago saying the same thing: [https://www.theverge.com/2017...
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French constitutional council rejects law forcing platforms to delete content - csnover https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/19/french-constitutional-authority-rejects-law-forcing-online-platforms-to-delete-hate-speech-content/ ====== ThePowerOfFuet Cookie wall. No thanks.
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NASA's Planetary Science Division Funding and Number of Missions 2004 – 2020 - Amorymeltzer http://planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/charts/historical-levels-of-planetary-exploration-funding-fy2003-fy2019.html ====== Amorymeltzer Raw data: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AkGPD4pnAnuwdHE...](https:/...
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Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files - smougel http://www.stamplin.com ====== zdw What's the benefit to using this over `pdftotext` and/or `pdfimages | convert | tesseract`? ~~~ jingo The benefit is stamplin.com gets insight on what people are viewing and reading. They get to see what the user s...
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So you're thinking about investing in Bitcoin? Don't - charlysl https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/15/should-i-invest-bitcoin-dont-mr-money-moustache ====== freddealmeida Almost everything in this article is wrong. This is someone that does not understand bitcoin or crytpo. In many ways, the market is ove...
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Nobody really knows why the London Tube is getting less and less crowded - ljf http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tfl-finances-transport-for-london-deficit-passenger-numbers ====== gbtw There might be a few reasons. The population is aging. People less opportunity to work for wage that can support the price especially if...
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Getting started with Queue Classic - fredsters_s https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-04-17-getting-started-with-queue-classic/ ====== ukd1 We've been loving Queue Classic; we switched from Resque because of the awesomeness of only enqueuing jobs after a transaction is committed! If you're wondering about QC's origin,...
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4 Things Startups should Learn from Moneyball - skelneko http://idea-stack.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-things-startups-should-learn-from.html ====== siberianjelly i watched the firm once and have similar thoughts regarding the context. it's an excellent movie, and great post in pointing these out! ~~~ skelneko thanks gl...
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iOS7 marks the best time to get started in app development - mikeyanderson https://www.codefellows.org/blogs/5-reasons-ios7-marks-the-best-time-to-get-started-in-app-development ====== RealCasually I would assert this is the _worst_ time in history to get started in app development. I have been building apps since 2...
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Why I like Vim so much [video] - LightMachine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6omymj1JZI&feature=youtu.be ====== podiki While I don't want to start a debate over VIM versus Emacs (I think they can both be used very effectively once learned), I can't help but share a video [1] on Emacs that made me go "wow!" (The vide...
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Italy Has Broken Up a Multi-Million-Dollar Olive Oil Scheme - clumsysmurf http://munchies.vice.com/articles/italy-just-broke-up-a-multi-million-dollar-olive-oil-scheme ====== johansch So only 10k other similar schemes to go, then? Italy is corrupt from the bottom up. :/
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Ask HN: Launching a new site next week, what do you suggest to promote it? - iuguy Hi,<p>I'm launching a site this Tuesday and was wondering if there was anyone from the HN crowd who'd like to share their experiences and advice. I followed some of the advice on the balsamiq blog (http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=198)...
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I've improved myself hard for 10 years and feel lonely now – what should I do? - garlic-fiction Ten years ago, i was very shy, naive and could not focus on a thing for more than 10 minutes. Somehow i got annoyed by being a looser and started to improve my self as fast as possible. i have read lots of books about effic...
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33 Unbelievable Places To Visit Before You Die - xtraclass http://distractify.com/culture/32-surreal-places-that-actually-exist-on-earth-i-cant-believe-this-isnt-photoshopped/ ====== scope missed one: Dallol, Ethiopia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallol,_Ethiopia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallol,_Ethiopia) [htt...
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When Persuasion Turns Deadly - douche http://blog.dilbert.com/post/147247313346/when-persuasion-turns-deadly#_=_ ====== pstuart > But the police shootings and the recent uptick in domestic racial violence > are mostly Clinton’s doings to win the election. What. The. Fuck. ??? ~~~ themartorana I love Dilbert. Then th...
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Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them - ilamont https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/03/theranos-disgraced-founder-elizabeth-holmes-cant-pay-lawyers-lawyers-claim/ ====== hkmurakami "Holmes — who dropped out of Stanford University at 19 to found Theranos — and Balwani face maximum penalties of 20 years in pr...
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The real world is mutable – consequences for system design - ash https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RealWorldIsMutable ====== TeMPOraL No, it isn't. > _The reality of life is that the real world is not immutable. I mean that at > two levels. The first is that sometimes people make mistakes and publish > th...
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Longest Lines of Sight on Earth - pilom https://beyondhorizons.eu/lines-of-sight/ ====== btilly You can actually work out roughly how far away the horizon should be surprisingly easily. Just use the fact that if R is the radius of the Earth and you are at height h, then from you to the horizon to the center of the Ear...
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The State of European Tech 2016 - mxschumacher http://www.atomico.com/state-of-european-tech/2016 ====== kriro Regarding salary. I think 45-50k Euro is a pretty decent entry level salary in Germany if you're coming out of university (debt free) depending on the region. That may look shocking compared to the SV numbers...
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All MS Windows Control Panels from 1985 to Today (Windows 1.0 to 10) - tech-historian https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/all-windows-control-panels ====== BitwiseFool I still find myself snapping to where the 'Add Remove Programs' icon would be whenever I have to uninstall something. I know it's under Programs a...
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Windows 10 – Toddler Deletes Everything with 6 Clicks - scolfax OK, it&#x27;s a click-bait title, but check this out: You&#x27;re only 6 clicks away from wiping out your Windows 10 installation.<p>Starting from the Desktop, click on: Start &#x2F; Settings &#x2F; Update &amp; Security &#x2F; Recovery &#x2F; Get Starte...
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The Problem with Prototypes (in Perl5 subroutines) - draegtun http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/08/the-problem-with-prototypes.html ====== draegtun See related HN post: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=770072>
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A brief update - rbinv https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/heading-to-usds/ ====== SwellJoe The phrasing of this makes it sound like he wants to paint it as though he's doing community service or something. But...Defense Digital Service? At the Pentagon? That's not exactly curing cancer or solving poverty. ~~~ Matt_Cutts ...
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Starting points for data driven graphics from the FT - mgalka http://ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabulary/ ====== mgalka Associated repo [https://github.com/ft-interactive/visual- vocabulary](https://github.com/ft-interactive/visual-vocabulary)
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Program against your FPGA cluster like it's a single pool of accelerators - inaccel https://docs.inaccel.com/latest/tutorial/orientation ====== inaccel A product for you to build, ship and run FPGA accelerated applications
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Education hackathon is giving away a school bus - jslampe http://blog.dwolla.com/hack-to-school/ ====== arghbleargh Wow, a schoolbus! I've been wanting to get one for years, just gotta get first place now! Seriously though, I like the idea of bringing these different types of people together (students, developers, ...
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How We Support 1,650 Customers with One Representative - duaneb http://blog.statuspage.io/2-300-000-to-one-or-supporting-1650-customers-with-just-one-rep ====== huhtenberg Whether or not this number is notable depends squarely on the nature of the product/service. One-man shareware shops routinely have tens of thousan...
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How do we build encryption backdoors? - michael_fine http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/how-do-we-build-encryption-backdors.html ====== cyphar > A final, and salient feature on the key distribution approach is that it > allows only prospective eavesdropping -- that is, law enforcement must first > target ...
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Fallback from CDN to local jQuery - shawndumas http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CDNsFailButYourScriptsDontHaveToFallbackFromCDNToLocalJQuery.aspx ====== romaniv I still find the idea of CDNS repugnant. No matter how you slice it, you rely on an external resource for important parts of your application. "What it it goes...
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The Surprising Usefulness of Sloppy Arithmetic - solipsist http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/fuzzy-logic-0103.html ====== jerf Despite what the article says, if you're using floating point numbers you're _already_ using sloppy arithmetic. That's not just a sarcastic point, it's actually important; given that you're a...
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Superb.net Dedicated Servers Discounts up to 70% - duck http://www.superb.net/dedicated-servers/server-specials-and-promotions/anniversary.php ====== duck I don't want to spam HN, but thought this was a good deal for anyone needing dedicated hosted servers for their startups. I don't know anyone there, but have heard...
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How we got hosted, the Rails way - robertgaal http://blog.wakoopa.com/archives/how-we-got-hosted-the-rails-way ====== naish As an alternative, I would suggest Slicehost: http://slicehost.com I stumbled upon them last week after looking for an inexpensive dedicated server or VPS with root access. They offer slices of...
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It's the Latency, Stupid - bluesmoon http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/Latency.html ====== noonespecial Old article but a good explanation of bandwidth vs latency. Long have I labored in the paneled offices of PHB's to explain that windows networking between New York and Denver is just not going to work even tough...
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CEO of Cambridge Analytica explains hyper-targeting political campaigns (2016) - misterbowfinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc ====== misterbowfinger FYI, Cambridge Analytica was used extensively for both the Cruz and Trump campaigns
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Tech Women Choose Possibility - Michie http://recode.net/2015/05/13/tech-women-choose-possibility/ ====== Michie First, the number of women starting tech companies is rising in absolute (if not yet relative) numbers. To illustrate what’s possible, we’ve highlighted a cross section of 230 women on this list who have ...
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