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Asana Status - flyt http://www.asanastatus.com/ ====== Villodre I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but, what is this webpage for? ~~~ crixlet I'm guessing it's tongue in cheek? Or at least, this is what I typically see for the Asana Android app. ------ ewang1 Seems to just be a loading bar and nothing else... ...
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After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife - kyleblarson https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/828565428/bloomberg-news-killed-investigation-fired-reporter-then-sought-to-silence-his-wi ====== floatingatoll The article that Bloomberg refused to publish, that was later published at NYT, is h...
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The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter - rmason https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/t-magazine/the-distinctly-american-ethos-of-the-grifter.html ====== espeed Grifting is obsolete. Mass data and AI are pushing time to identify to zero. Risk vs Reward is now upside down. The Internet is written in ink. Integrity ...
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Google Rounds Out Insight into TPU Architecture and Inference - jonbaer https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/09/19/google-rounds-out-insight-into-tpu-architecture-and-inference/ ====== puzzle From the original article: "Most architecture research papers are based on simulations running small, easily portable benchmarks ...
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Latest PS3 update swaps out existing browser for WebKit - robin_reala http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=462325 ====== sgentle That's pretty interesting. WebKit-based browsers currently have about 30% of desktop browser market share, and basically all of the mobile browser share (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, ...
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50+ Everyday Products That Use ARM Microcontroller - ionela http://dev.emcelettronica.com/50-everyday-products-use-arm-microcontroller ====== ionela ARM is by now as God - it is in everything: in our mobile phones, in our GPS, PDA or in our laptops. Let's see a list with 50 products that use ARM Linux technology.
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Day of the Triffords: A live coding performance in Scheme with Impromptu - pygy_ http://vimeo.com/2735394 ====== pygy_ It starts with quiet howls and hums, but gradually gathers in strength into layers of heavy industrial beats. The whole piece is coded right in front of your eyes, in Scheme. The code controls vari...
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Show HN: Appbase - Fast graph data store for building web apps - sidi http://appbase.io/ ====== yashness Sounds interesting ! Waiting to try 't out ------ brenobmo Are there any free credits for new users? ------ telespablo Let's together! ------ pisrael Go appbase! ------ felipebyrro Great!
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Ask HN: Have I earned the right to edit my HN username? - babyshake When I first signed up for News YC as a junior in college, I gave myself one of the few throwaway account names I was using on other tech-oriented forums at the time.<p>Well, two and a half years later, and I'm increasingly unhappy with my username,...
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Computer Program for Simulating Time Travel and a Solution to Grandfather Paradox - mindcrime http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08470 ====== squozzer Interesting. (Sorry, Spock.) I offer the following conjectures -- because they lack the falsifiability for them to rise to the level of hypotheses. 1) Causality may resemble in...
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Paperless: Scan and index paper documents - DaGardner https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless ====== bonoboTP For me the problem is stability and future-proofness. Technology changes very quickly. If the maintainer loses interest, the software may rot away as the dependencies change, etc. Important documents often n...
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Benefits of Using .Net for Startup Development - freezepro http://freezeprosoftware.com/news/benefits-of-using-net-for-startup-development.aspx ====== vhogemann Until .NET Core is mature, and gains support of the major packages from the Nugget repository I'll say: Thanks, but no thanks. Java, more specifically the JV...
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Even casually smoking marijuana can change your brain, study says - taylorbuley http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/16/even-casually-smoking-marijuana-can-change-your-brain-study-says/ ====== moron4hire This guy claims it was bad science: [http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/GeneralNeurology/...
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DDecode – Hex,Octal,HTML Decoder - steeples http://ddecode.com/hexdecoder/ ====== whitten Seems to be a useful tool based on a research project, but very little example of what it expects for input. I tried it with some HTML entity notation, and didn't see the letters represented, but was disappointed. Maybe my use...
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16-year old teen claims his search engine is 47% more accurate than Google - kshatrea http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/tech-news/This-16-year-old-Indian-origin-teen-claims-his-search-engine-is-47-more-accurate-than-Google/articleshow/48553228.cms ====== VOYD "60 hours to code a search engine", sounds like someone is s...
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Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich - nreece http://www.nilkanth.com/2007/09/07/millionaires-who-don%e2%80%99t-feel-rich/ ====== byoung2 _"One might ask then, are these people fools to work so hard even after all that stack of cash?"_ I think the problem is that they might be millionaires on paper, but they don't have c...
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This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New Frontier Of Business - benjlang http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business ====== richoakley One of the most brilliant articles I've read in a long time.
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Ask HN: Is there some unwritten code of conduct for code reviews? - MichaelMoser123 Code reviews are all the rage these days: I am getting code reviews at work from people whom I don&#x27;t even know; Is there some accepted code of conduct for this kind of situations? I mean is one supposed to just do what any review...
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An open letter to Yelp's CEO - RickS https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.5lakumugq ====== dogecoinbase As an update, Talia has now been fired for writing this open letter asking for a living wage for Yelp/Eat24 employees: [https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/700862005834444800](https...
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Open Thread: How Would You Fix Yahoo? - terpua http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/open_thread_how_would_you_fix_yahoo.php ====== tyohn If I was put in charge; I'd start by examining each unit of the business and the leadership of each of the units. I'd make the tough calls; such as eliminating under performing manag...
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Bangka Island: The WW2 massacre and a 'truth too awful to speak' - rmason https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47796046 ====== GreeniFi In my late teens, in the late 90s I attended university in the United Kingdom. In my first year, the Japanese Emperor visited the Queen. And was met by British WW2 soldiers on the...
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Show HN: Staffjoy Flex – Marketplace Scheduling for Contractors - philip1209 https://www.staffjoy.com/flex/ ====== philip1209 Today we are launching Staffjoy Flex, which is our product for scheduling independent contractors. Last month, we launched Staffjoy Boss, which is our employee product. The key difference is t...
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Is Cyberpunk Dead? A Conversation with Bruce Bethke - keiferski https://www.markeverglade.com/iscyberpunkdead ====== currymj The book "Void Star" is an interesting one. It has a William Gibson style plot very similar to Neuromancer but instead of 1980s aesthetic choices, it has 2017 aesthetic choices. So instead of n...
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When online gambling is legalized, Facebook will be $100 billion company - gdhillon http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-gambling-2012-1 ====== sbtest What concerns me is behavioral information obtained through games (particularly ones of the push-a-button, get point variety) could be used to target individuals w...
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A Drug to Cure Fear - andrewl http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/a-drug-to-cure-fear.html ====== jqm I'm of the opinion that eventually (soon) human emotions/gut level feelings will be replaced with a controlled layer. In an earlier time hunger, fear, (and probably even things like love and religious se...
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Ask HN: What is your employer doing to improve the commute? - mapster ====== mtmail Not my commute (I cycle), but friends get subsidized public transport, there a scheme to buy a bicycle and pay off later (not even the full 100%), locked bicycle parking obviously, company bike for running errands. The company has two r...
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Exploiting a Go Binary - fabriceleal http://codearcana.com/posts/2013/04/23/exploiting-a-go-binary.html ====== laumars This is what should happen in IT. Someone looks for a vulnerability; find it. Determine if the project owners need prior warning; then go public. Everyone becomes aware of the issue and upgrades the...
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Ask HN: What are some best resources for learning R? - xijuan I will be starting graduate school this year September for quantitative psychology program. I really need to learn R to be able to conduct the research. My undergraduate degree is just psychology so I don't have too much background in programming although I...
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GNU Octave 3.8 - lelf http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.8.html ====== clintonc A GUI!? Oh, my stars... Honestly, I like Octave a lot, and this new feature gives me the option to use it in collaboration with folks who aren't as UNIX-happy as I. I'm interested to know how "unpolished" the GUI is.
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Google Acquires Jibe Mobile - stingrae http://www.jibemobile.com/ ====== wyldfire Would this/could this replace Hangouts? Or maybe WebRTC is a good complement for Project Fi? ~~~ DiabloD3 This would be nice, but Google has a habit of buying companies for certain people or certain technologies and just ditches the act...
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North Korea – Vintage Socialist Architecture - curtis http://www.raphaelolivier.com/urban/documentary/photographer/north-korea/pyongyang/vintage/socialist/architecture/ ====== nikolay Not working in Firefox.
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A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer - danielrm26 http://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/ ====== 0x0 If you are planning on poking around with captures in Wireshark, keep in mind that there have been quite a lot of exploits for that app, particularly in the various protocol dissectors. You should avoid working on captures ...
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Samsung buying WebOS? I wish they would. It's great. - EGreg http://www.fabcapo.com/2011/08/samsung-buying-webos-it-makes-sense.html ====== yardie _webOS still has no developers, which is the reason they did not make it._ WTF! As a webOS developer I'll be damned if someone says that the developers were the reason t...
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Formally Verified Software in the Real World (2018) - icc97 https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231372-formally-verified-software-in-the-real-world/fulltext ====== tpaschalis Second day in a row where HN frontpage features formally verified software! If you're like me, and would like to get started, or just see wh...
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Closure of NM solar observatory a mystery - DyslexicAtheist https://www.abqjournal.com/1219922/nm-solar-observatory-closed-authorities-mum.html ====== eitally Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978598](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17978598) ~~~ dang Thanks. We moved the other comments there.
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The Life of a Forgotten employee - jcslzr http://shii.org/knows/American_Dream ====== AngryParsley I'm surprised none of the comments (so far) are critical of the author. What's the point of mooching if you're not going to use that time productively? Eventually he'll have to find a new job, and not very many places wa...
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Letter to a Young PL Enthusiast - vamsee http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/06/letter-to-young-pl-enthusiast.html ====== jules > Ignore the siren calls of the virtual machines. You have to be the master of > your domain. Use C or assembler to implemente your language. The free Unices > are your friends. Learne abou...
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Political data on over 198M US citizens exposed - kjhughes http://gizmodo.com/gop-data-firm-accidentally-leaks-personal-details-of-ne-1796211612 ====== sctb Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586833](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586833).
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695k TPS with Node.js and VoltDB - dscape http://voltdb.com/company/blog/695k-tps-nodejs-and-voltdb ====== MichaelGG I'd like to add an independent voice too. I tried VoltDB out around a year ago. Ran it on 3 servers, with k=1 (all data replicated on 2 nodes). Servers were Dell PowerEdge 860 - only 8GB RAM, and a Q6...
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Timelion: The time series composer for Kibana – Elastic - rbanffy https://www.elastic.co/blog/timelion-timeline?ultron=luke-warm-email17&blade=touch-email&hulk=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0Rjd1lqZzBNMkpsWVdFeCIsInQiOiJSYWw1RmJmNkpWTHJTWDdHeDM2c1I5TVFuVDYyZFN5MUVQTmRCVEVUR2grNVZcL1FJTklpZHZoK1diQmc3UWlzWXRvZG5jWWc5SnhXUk5jR...
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The Two Types of Friends You Make on Facebook - Or Why I Use Facebook Less - dreambird http://thefastertimes.com/theweb/2010/07/14/why-i-use-facebook-less-and-less/?preview=true&preview_id=123&preview_nonce=44ba7479be ====== spooneybarger Right now, I just get a 'you are not permitted to view drafts' message. ~~~ n...
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Live data from Chandra satellite - helwr http://cxc.harvard.edu/mta/G15.html ====== helwr About: <http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/tracking.html>
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With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs - mcone https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/with-200m-daily-users-giphy-will-soon-test-sponsored-gifs/ ====== anilgulecha Unit economics never works out for gifs. It's historically not worked out well for normal JPG image hosts. It will most definitely not work ...
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Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer - MindGods https://jamesmunns.com/blog/anachro-pc-001/ ====== traverseda I think there's definitely a market for some kind of "forever PC". A 20 year old PC is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff, and the really impressive part is that it wouldn't ever need to change s...
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Your degree determines your salary: Choose wisely - volandovengo http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/education-degrees-that-almost-guarantee-jobs-1295023.html ====== comm_it Not just this, but your GCSEs and A-Levels too. I was actually turned down from a graduate job because my GCSEs were no...
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Trademark lawyer to 3-man startup: hand over your domain–or else - velodrome http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/trademark-lawyer-to-3-man-startup-hand-over-your-domain-or-else/ ====== benologist This is exactly how trademarks are supposed to work... he used and protected the name first by several years and t...
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Freemium Vs. Premium - AndrewWarner http://michaelpriceless.com/freemium-vs-premium-which-is-better/08/25/2010/ ====== michaelpriceles Thanks for the post Andrew!
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Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections - macawfish https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/climate/trump-clean-water-rollback.html ====== mindslight It is truly amazing how well these shitheads prey on our understandable frustration with the government to gather support, and redirect that ener...
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Ask HN: What would change in a neighborhood that installed Gigabit Internet? - Articulate I am helping a non-profit that is trying to bring gigabit internet to a main street in a neighborhood of Saint Louis. I want to explain to small businesses (restaurants, coffee shops, movie theaters, retail stores) how interne...
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Pre-Eminent VC – Forward Partners Is Hiring a Senior Developer - ForwardChris https://forward-partners.workable.com/j/73E3782BC4 ====== ForwardChris Work on greenfield projects, build MVP's, get equity in a successful fund, help build world class businesses. Click through and see what the fuss is about. ------ sharem...
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Ask HN: Stockholm Startups? - dsimard I recently moved to Stockholm for my wife's job. I'd like to work at a startup, and I've heard that there's supposed to be a decent community for that here (not like the valley, but better than most places). However, I'm starting from zero, with no network of people to talk to....
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CopCards: Cheatsheets for dealing with the police - saraid216 http://s.ai/copcards/ ====== batguano I love this bit at the end: "I am not a lawyer and I am sure as hell not your lawyer."
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HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity - jverrecchia http://verekia.com/initializr/responsive-template ====== ceol Great beginner article on "responsive web design". I found the walkthrough to be very friendly. Does anyone else feel like there are lots of buzzwords in HTML articles? For instance, _"Th...
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Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption - robin_reala https://www.electricitymap.org/ ====== trzeci This page shows that some countries produce electric power in cleaner way than other. This projects only one point of view, and congratulations for countries that are shifting towards green sourc...
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Ask HN: Employee surveillance at your work place? - badrabbit HN,<p>I&#x27;ve seen both ends of the spectrum but I wanted to know what the consensus with the HN crowd was:<p>Does your work place monitor employee activity? Does it extend to their personal devices? How about off work activity? How extensive are we ta...
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Show HN: Land conservation through crowdfunding - cromulent https://www.helsinkifoundation.org ====== fiatjaf If this is successful you should somehow open it to people that have land or want to buy land in other parts of the globe to let it be sold like that. Which is probably very difficult legally speaking. Ok, I...
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Why so many celebrities have died in 2016 - ohjeez http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36108133 ====== MicroBerto The biggest and scariest issue is that all of these celebrities are going completely unreplaced. I am a fan of rock and heavy metal, and it is clear that rock stardom is literally dying off. The da...
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Ask HN: Socratic dialogue between two cybersecurity experts? - RodericDay I cannot for the life of me find this fantastic resource I saw posted on HN a while ago.<p>It was a fake conversation between Alice and Bob, where they took turns explaining how Alice would protect a password submission form, and then how Bob wo...
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Tell HN: JPL Annual Open House this weekend - krisneuharth http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/open-house.cfm ====== abecedarius I went to this once back in the 90s when I worked there -- there was a science-fair vibe (I guess; never been to one of those) with little booths and posters and some demos of things like activ...
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GitLab Announcing January 16, 2018 Critical Security Update - teoruiz https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/12/gitlab-critical-release-preannouncement/ ====== AdamJacobMuller One thing I'll say about GitLab (even if I'm not its biggest fan) their packaging/installation/upgrade is absolutely top-notch. I've never seen anyo...
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startup 2.0 - european startup competition - brett http://www.startup2.eu/ ====== whacked_new So the deadline is over. It'll be interesting to see how this goes.
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Noam Chomsky: The world is at the most dangerous moment in human history - susam https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/09/noam-chomsky-world-most-dangerous-moment-human-history ====== ncmncm It is curious to have omitted Duterte and Erdogan from the list.
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Ask HN: Sacrifice Seniority for Better Long Term Career Prospects? - OneSummersDay I’m currently at Job A where I have some seniority (5+ years) and a minor leadership role (tech lead on a small project). I enjoy what I’m doing and like the leadership experience. A larger leadership role is my goal, but I don’t see ...
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Is kickstarter the new process for product? - sfrancisatx http://www.bp-3.com/blogs/2011/12/a-new-process-for-products/ ====== bradleyland Editorializing in the title is frowned upon. There is a gulf of difference between: "A New Process for Products?" and "Is kickstarter the new process for product?" Use of the...
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Super talented employee driving you crazy - sonabinu http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/30/talented-employees-management/ ====== rpwilcox The question raised in this question and answer column seems to me to serve as a warning for companies who are only looking for "rockstar" developers: often they come with ...
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How I built a keyboard by hand - rhinoceraptor https://jacklew.is/keyboard/ ====== trevize Have to give a shoutout to keyboard.io - [https://shop.keyboard.io](https://shop.keyboard.io). Backing this project and watching the process and creation of this keyboard has been very rewarding. They are creating band new keyca...
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The student loan crisis will dwarf the housing market crash. - mikekarnj http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2010/08/11/college-inc/ ====== patio11 It isn't going to be as bad as the housing market crash, because degrees are revenue producing assets for the overwhelming majority of people and houses are costs for the overwh...
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Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet - badgercapital https://vidfall.com ====== dkyc The age old problem that the demographic that watches video ads for .50$ is not the demographic you want to advertise to... ~~~ ianamartin So what? The people who click on google ad words and Facebook ads aren't the ta...
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Udacity Says It Can Teach Tech Skills to Millions, and Fast - olalonde http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/technology/udacity-says-it-can-teach-tech-skills-to-millions.html?_r=0 ====== pakled_engineer I prefer the MIT OpenCourseware style, where there's no signing up, no trying to get money out of you and you can come i...
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Beyond English, the language of the future - rjknight http://www.salon.com/2011/11/06/whats_the_language_of_the_future/singleton/ ====== bryanlarsen The most salient point I got from the article: an increasing number of people learning English are using it only to speak to others who do not speak it natively. A coup...
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The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization - johnsimer https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09560 ====== cs702 _> ... all DNNs face the issue of overfitting as they learn, which is when performance on one data set increases but the network's performance fails to generalize (often measured by the divergence of...
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Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else - mcrittenden http://www.duckduckgoog.com ====== jemfinch Every time I see someone laud ddg's !bang searches, I ask myself, "What makes managing your browser's configuration so damn hard?" I go to Chrome's "settings", I click "Manage Search Engines", an...
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Ask HN: How can I learn reverse engineering? - hacjjjjjjjj ====== cnvogel "Reverse engineering" is too broad of a term. Do you want to jailbreak the newest smartphone? Or want to repurpose some neat and cheap childrens' toy into a spectrum analyzer? Maybe your central heating has a odd habit of keeping your bedro...
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Why Engineers build crappy products - cygnus http://willschenk.com/why-engineers-build-crappy-products/ ====== DanBC It's weird to criticise engineers for bad UIs by writing an article and then designing your website to allow only about 25 words on screen at a time. [http://imgur.com/dAM2RT6](http://imgur.com/dAM2R...
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Coding Is Not a Life Skill - jsrmath https://medium.com/@jsrmath/coding-is-not-a-life-skill-3db7bd743965#.66ch29shx ====== danso What does "life skill" mean? Is math a "life skill"? Why do we think that, other than the fact that math is force-fed to us and made part of our standardized testing? I've worked with many f...
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U.N. postal union clinches deal to keep U.S. in - ineedasername http://reuters.com/article/us-un-postal/u-n-postal-union-clinches-deal-to-keep-u-s-in-club-idUSKBN1WA247 ====== lettergram Good. It was insane that we were subsidizing shipping from China. This, more than anything, will shift to a more balanced manufactur...
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Wesaturate – 6000 Free Raw Photos - kashgoudarzi https://www.wesaturate.com ====== fulldecent2 Okay photo selection. I test with: lemons, boudoir, African RAW download button did not work for me. But you can download using this script by putting in the photo ID: wget [https://cdn.wesaturate.com/photos/xxxxx.3fr](htt...
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Amazon AWS Training Self-Paced Labs - sebg http://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/ ====== neoedu I looked at this today and took a lab, seems very helpful. There are a few labs right now there, I hope they have more soon and then I can take some of the complex labs.
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Sharable, Open Source Workers for Scalable Processing - treeder http://blog.iron.io/2012/11/sharable-open-source-workers-for.html ====== jpsilvashy2 I like this idea too, I feel there are a lot of typical tasks that most web applications all need to do. Nice work! ------ malachismith This is SO cool!!! Cannot wait ...
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Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go - mrahbar https://github.com/Humpheh/goboy ====== giovannibajo1 For something more complex, I have written a mostly working Nintendo DS emulator in Go, with JIT, 3D graphics, and whatnot: [https://github.com/rasky/ndsemu/](https://github.com/rasky/nd...
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The weird world of fossil worm cocoons (2016) [pdf] - Breadmaker http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT02.pdf ====== gwern Abstract for [http://www.diva- portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT0...](http://www.diva- portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT02.pdf) ~~~ sctb Since that loads ...
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Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications Today - rayascott https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/ ====== VohuMana Been using ripgrep for a while now, I love it. One other Rust tool people might find useful is fd ([https://github.com/sharkdp/fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd)) w...
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Ask HN: Good literature for a technical guy - m1k3r during the last year i've been reading complex and highly technical books, from programing to linear algebra and computational biology, i'm starting to miss some good literature, some recommendations? ====== jackfoxy Articles about Apple censoring the illustrated U...
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Star Trek: Picard - hestipod https://www.startrek.com/news/brent-spiner-jeri-ryan-jonathan-frakes-return-star-trek-picard-sdcc-hall-h ====== hestipod New trailer for the series. I am putting the YouTube link below as well but it may be regional. It might sound ridiculous to be so excited over a TV show, but TNG was fo...
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Why hasn't Zerocator found a VP of Engineering yet? - pm24601 Links not included because of anti spam But try this search: &#x27;zerocater &quot;VP of engineering&quot; site:news.ycombinator.com&#x27;<p>1 hour ago, 14 hours ago, 12 days ago, 25 days ago, ... for FOUR pages of search results! All the way back to 20...
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The Next Web Index - sfvisser http://thenextweb.com/voice/2011/11/29/first-introduction-to-our-new-research-tool-tnw-index/ ====== rutgervw This is a great use of Silk (silkapp.com).
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Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins - cowsandmilk https://www.outsideonline.com/2406433/thieves-bluetooth-scanner-vehicle-break-in ====== gxon This seems like a trivial problem for law enforcement to honeypot. You wouldn't even need to actively monitor. Just get an alert when the devices start movi...
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A general purpose library for C - samuelrowe I have been working a C library for the past four years. It was originally designed for the compiler I am writing. However, I realized many of the components could be reused, which gave birth to Jez Toolkit (JTK). Currently, the library implements collections, unit tests, f...
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Speaking Fees of Media/Internet "celebs" - aj http://paidcontent.org/article/419-bonfire-of-vanities-part-deux-speaking-fees-of-mediainternet-types/ ====== onreact-com Crime pays: Kevin Mitnick: "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history" $15K to $20K.
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History of the browser user-agent string - bhaisaab http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ ====== pornel And now we have Chromium-based Opera which can't call itself Opera and has to use "OPR/16" instead, and pretends to be Chrome, which pretends to be Safari, which pretends to be KHTML, which pretends to...
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A/B Testing, Too Little Too Soon? [pdf] - mahmud http://www.futurenowinc.com/resources/abtesting.pdf ====== rrikhy Where is Patrick BCC when you need him? I'd love his take on this.
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I, Cringely 2019 Prediction 1- Apple Under Tim Cook Emulates GE Under Jack Welch - protomyth https://www.cringely.com/2019/02/27/2019-prediction-1-apple-under-tim-cook-emulates-ge-under-jack-welch/ ====== kevin_b_er Jack Welch pioneered stack ranking. Anyone trying to emulate him should be looked at dimly by the worke...
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In-Person Coding Bootcamps Are Terrible Businesses - wikyd https://medium.com/@clintmania/in-person-coding-bootcamps-are-terrible-businesses-d4c9f122814 ====== jonny_eh Points are somewhat valid, but only looks at the downsides. Keep in mind this was written by the CEO of a company that offers a competing education mo...
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Economic signs in Apple's bond sale to pay for dividend? - jhowell http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2013/04/30/apple-17-billion-bond-offer/2124791/ ====== jhowell Apple is selling bonds to pay for their upcoming dividend. Perhaps this is a precursor to raising interest rates. Otherwise, they may have wait...
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Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size - cambaceres https://gizmodo.com/small-dogs-pee-higher-to-lie-about-their-size-new-stud-1828084681 ====== hinkley Once, at a dog park, I witnessed a chihuahua-sized dog _do a handstand_ in order to pee higher on a tree. ------ chaoticmass My Australian Cattle Dog is a tot...
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Calculating Mean Time To Data Loss (and probability of silent data corruption) - prakash http://www.zetta.net/_wp/?p=147 ====== kurtosis I have a laptop harddrive that is about 5 years old. I backup to a USB drive every other day. It is inevitable that this drive will fail at some point. When is the optimal time to b...
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Sacrificing Inheritance for Equality - dasmithii https://medium.com/p/64284924df1a ====== PaulHoule I'd say that classism is the issue and not racism. Leftists of the 1960s handed the government on a silver platter to Republicans by promoting a 1-d view of "race". I grew up in New England where it didn't matter if y...
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Startups tend to ignore children privacy law - adamhaworth http://russellbulletin.com/2013/06/02/children-privacy-law/ ====== L4mppu Not all startups are from USA.
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New Tube for London - jpescada http://www.tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-tube-for-london ====== SideburnsOfDoom A related BBC news article is here: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england- london-29520761](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29520761) Including comment from the RMT Union about how they are "deeply con...
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Where to get free PHP reservation scripts? - martintoth Hi guys, I need to create PHP reservation form similar to this one: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;EhcsX9<p>Can anyone tell how to create such a PHP without PHP knowledge? ====== el33th4xx0r no. you have to learn it, or use any other language that you know.
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