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My webapp: Guitar tabs as they should be - kilian http://guitaryst.com/ ====== mayank This is great, but as another comment below notes, beware the legal troubles that are headed your way. A number of wonderful guitar tab sites (starting with OLGA back in the day) have been taken down. In fact, it seems that OLGA i...
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Aviv Ovadya on impending information apocalypse - althaffe https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news ====== cmurf I'm rather unsurprised this, and similar stories, get almost no votes or comments on HN. There's a massive cognitive dissonance in the tech community about the peril of tech...
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Twitter Bootstrap Code Clip Marketplace - bavidar http://www.bootclipper.com ====== msurguy Bootsnipp.com creator here... I really do not appreciate that somebody just ripped off my idea completely, the layout, the thumbnails styles, etc. Maybe you can change it up a little? There is also Foundation by Zurb that do...
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The Discoveries of Continuations (1993) [pdf] - brudgers http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/courses/tt-2011/papers/cps/histcont.pdf ====== ufo Changing topic a bit, the other day I tried looking for some paper on John Reynold's webpage and the ftp server is apparently offline: ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/jcr Made me think ab...
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Microsoft’s Next Era - jamesjyu http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/microsofts-next-era/ ====== mcdougle As most people seem to right now, until the past few months I thought of Microsoft as sort of an aging giant. They had gotten lax during their monopoly, and instead of keeping up with the times they're struggling to k...
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REST Anti-patterns - marcelocure http://marcelo-cure.blogspot.com/2016/09/rest-anti-patterns.html ====== PaulHoule This misses the elephant in the room. The REST-inspired API that requires 10,000 API calls to do something that could be done in 1. This is a disaster from a simple performance perspective. There is no ...
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Cloudflare Warp - blocked_again https://blog.cloudflare.com/get-started-with-warp/ ====== geetfun This looks like a ngrok competitor. Am I missing something or is this essentially the same kind of service? ~~~ jgalt212 my read as well. waiting for others to weigh in to see what I am missing.
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Show HN: PHP cross-env CLI helper - asika32764 https://github.com/asika32764/php-cross-env ====== meSingh You seriously need to work on your documentation, I can't understand if this is to pass the env variables or what? if its only sending them then how are we supposed to accept them? and if we are using a different ...
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Anticresis - syntaxfree http://dayvancowboy.org/?p=49 ====== talboito Seems like what he's describing as anticresis is a form of <a href="[http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/639E3D61-87F1-4663-9...](http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/639E3D61-87F1-4663-9B08614F3414F24E/alpha/S/)">shared equity mortgage</a>...
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Ask HN: Ever refuse to build something for moral reasons? - mavsman A lot of times we talk about what makes the internet good and free and what makes it bad (e.g. auto playing media in a page). As developers, we are often asked&#x2F;demanded by managers, sales people, and CEOs to build things simply to make money. Hav...
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We're living in the Age of Curation - Okvivi http://okvivi.com/?p=324 ====== nextstep This is a rambling jumble of thoughts. I'm not sure what the take away is.
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The Internet Attack That Wasn't - iProject http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/the-internet-attack-that-wasnt/ ====== onetwothreefour So... a story about a non-story?
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The Value of Undefined Behavior - ingve https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/20/ ====== arcticbull Its undefined because it's not guaranteed to happen, that's the whole point, and that's what makes it undesirable. Rust has it right here: don't allow undefined behavior and make the programmer specify the behavior they ...
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AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - sehrope https://launchbylunch.com/posts/2014/Jan/29/aws-tips/ ====== thomseddon Here's another one for you: distribute your s3 paths/names Because of the way s3 is designed, the place files are stored on the physical infrastructure is dependant on the prefix of the key name. I'm not...
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No Webcam? No Problem : Desktop Video Recording w/o A Webcam. - cdanzig One of the sticking points in our sales process has been that our video recording feature was dependent on the user having a webcam to work (duh). While this may seem like an obvious limitation it didn&#x27;t stop us from getting the &quot;what ...
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20-year-old lost 700k on Robinhood options, takes life - zoolander2 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/finance-isnt-worth-losing-your-life-over-the-heartbreaking-story-of-a-rookie-trader-who-racked-up-700000-in-debt-2020-06-14 ====== UncleMeat A while ago I got a recruiting email from somebody at Robinhood. In it, they...
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Pirate Bay Hack Exposes User Booty - ukdm http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/07/pirate-bay-hack-exposes-user-booty/ ====== epochwolf > I also sought comment from a Pirate Bay representative at the organization’s > official IRC channel, but was unceremoniously kicked and banned from the > channel after pasting the user ...
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The Story of Stripe (2018) - lowmemcpu https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stripe-payments-apple-amazon-facebook ====== julianeon So, where did Stripe go wrong? It says in the article (and I've heard this in other places) you could start using Stripe "with only seven lines of code." Sounds like a JavaScript snippet you d...
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[Brief critique of Go error proposal] Golang, how dare you handle my checks! - networkimprov https://medium.com/@mnmnotmail/golang-how-dare-you-handle-my-checks-d5485f991289 ====== reusLi You can always use `if` to handle errors like now. Handle/check is a addition to error handling but not replacement. Function argu...
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Wii board comparable to 100x more expensive physio "force platforms" - mmastrac http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527435.300-wii-board-helps-physios-strike-a-balance-after-strokes.html ====== danw Likely more expensive for two reasons: 1) Wii board is mass produced in greater volumes. 2) Selling any technolo...
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France map its local investement and release openDatas via GitHub - cowreth https://cget-carto.github.io/dotation_investissement/ ====== cowreth French gov has published a map of where (and in what) it invests money on a local scale (cities, regions). It's a new step in openData _by_ France, where previous openDatas w...
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Ask HN: How would you define a full stack developer? - NikolaTesla You see it in job posts everywhere: &quot;looking for a full-stack developer, engineer, programmer&quot;. What exactly does that mean? And yes, since I&#x27;m asking the question, I must not be one. Seriously though, how would you define it? =====...
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How to Overcome Patent Rejections Based on the Alice Decision - nitin_flanker http://www.greyb.com/rejections-based-on-the-alice-decision/ ====== mkesper This is the evil side talking. ~~~ nitin_flanker Yeah you can say so. But you know the way USPTO is rejecting patents on the basis of Examiner's subjective examinat...
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Bulk SMS Services for Ecommerce Businesses - jkuria https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/2981268/Which-are-the-best-bulk-SMS-services-for-an-ecommerce-business ====== peeterx You should also checkout custom chatbots for Ecommerce Business. They are a great opportunity to anyone looking to improve the communication bet...
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Common Lisp Standard Draft - tosh http://cvberry.com/tech_writings/notes/common_lisp_standard_draft.html ====== jlarocco I'm downloading and may use this, but I've actually come to like the hyperspec. It was overwhelming at first, and the formatting isn't great, but I got used to it, and can actually find things pret...
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THE 9 BEST LANGUAGES FOR CRUNCHING DATA - kodekracker http://www.fastcompany.com/3030716/the-9-best-languages-for-crunching-data ====== bsg75 These are not all languages, but a mix of languages and tools.
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Harvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money - edw519 http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9141428/Harvard_study_Computers_don_t_save_hospitals_money?taxonomyName=Hardware&taxonomyId=12 ====== iamelgringo This just touched a big nerve with me, so be prepared for a rant. I've been an ER/Critical Care ...
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Ask HN: What is your web “Go to” tech stack? - funerr Why is it the go to? And maybe an addition of any API&#x27;s&#x2F;SaaSs that help? ====== polishdude20 React for frontend Node, express, postgres for backend. Logrocket , Google analytics for tracking. Im most proud of myself for setting up a little server applica...
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Boeing seeking to reduce scope, duration of physical tests for new aircraft - pseudolus https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airshow-boeing-certification-e/exclusive-boeing-seeking-to-reduce-scope-duration-of-some-physical-tests-for-new-aircraft-sources-idUSKCN1TH0A3 ====== torpfactory In my experience as a mecha...
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ES2015 is not backward compatible with ES5 - tbassetto http://bocoup.com/weblog/es2015-nightmarefile/ ====== Nadya I dislike it was made with as clickbait - but on the other hand I probably wouldn't have read the entire thing otherwise... so I'll tolerate it this time! TL;DR: The breaking changes only occur in rar...
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Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages - jimmyjim http://mod.gov.sy/ ====== lotharbot The text loads slowly. It actually freezes if you're in another tab, which IMO is a poor implementation decision; it means you actually have to sit and watch it come on the screen word by word. For those who either don't want ...
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Dear Klout, This Is How You Measure Influence - kjhughes http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/science-social-contagion-klout/ ====== phant0ms Klout is the most ridiculous thing ever. Sure, it helps you visibly notice who could be considered an influencer, but the scoring system is completely messed up and the topics you...
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Turn off DoH, Firefox - telmich https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/ ====== jfindley This is painful to read. Masses off unfounded FUD - the article deliberately buries that it's trivial to change your DoH provider if you're silly enough to believe that CF is actively logging DoH request...
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Ask HN: Best Way to Discover Blogs? - onlyrealcuzzo For podcasts, there&#x27;s a lot of discovery services popping up. And as far as keeping up with several different blogs, RSS is great for that.<p>But is there a service that makes it easy to discover blogs?<p>In a sense, HackerNews and Reddit and such sort of functi...
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George Hotz Presents Comma Neo - phodo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2_E2y4eCg ====== 3327 So let me get this straight. After 3mn bucks of funding and a few vanity demo's on techcrunch and this the output is a DIY 3D printed with a 120mhz microcontroller that you solder together? Are you fucking kidding me? A ope...
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Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad - altsyset Hi everyone, I just found out that I&#x27;m gonna be a dad. If is something I always wanted but my income is unpredictable. Sometimes I make 50k sometimes nothing. It never bothered me untill now. So I&#x27;m freaking out. What do you guys did when you have to ...
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Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG - benmunster1 https://decrypt.co/7795/investigators-tether-loaned-usdt-to-investors-illegally-traded-in-new-york-ran-an-unregistered-securities-offering ====== llamataboot Tether has been an openly fraudulent enterprise since the beginning. Pr...
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DRM Needs To Be Banned Because It’s Toxic - Uncle_Sam http://torrentfreak.com/drm-needs-to-be-banned-because-its-toxic-111016/ ====== jdludlow _DRM is toxic. Just like lead._ Eating a CD might be bad for your health, but that's where this analogy stops. I rarely buy DRM-protected content, and will always prefer open...
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The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same - quantisan https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613034/the-hipster-effect-why-anti-conformists-always-end-up-looking-the-same/ ====== quantisan link to the paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8001](https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8001) ------ ListeningPi...
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A Move Away from SQL Server - No Longer Buying Aircraft Carriers - peschkaj http://datachomp.com/archives/no-longer-buying-aircraft-carriers/ ====== shawty I have to confess, these days I use Postgres more than SQL Server. But that said I do a LOT of GIS work, and weather you like it or not SQL Server just does not ...
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Show HN: Rofocus – Chrome extension that plays ambient sounds to help you focus - rohanm93 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rofocus-increase-your-foc/olomkelphccokjjidpagjpihlnemlpng/ ====== rohanm93 Hi HN! Been spending the last week or so hacking away at this side project. I'm hoping it might be useful to s...
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Ask HN: Good long form presentation of the history of probability theory - formalsystem How did it start? How did it evolve? Who were the main players? First big success stories? Competing formalism? ====== stiff This is a very good book, fairly mathematical: [https://archive.org/details/ofmathemahistory00todhrich](ht...
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Why TDD Should Not Be Controversial - kellet https://dzone.com/articles/why-tdd-should-not-be-controversial?oid=hn ====== fbreduc don't waste your time, a BS handwavy thing
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Waymo Tests Autonomous Trucks in Texas - apsec112 https://www.ttnews.com/articles/waymo-tests-autonomous-trucks-texas ====== benatkin Curious what the founder of Starsky Robotics is up to. The site is still up and there's even a blog post after the post about them shutting down: [https://www.starsky.io/](https://www.s...
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What process do you use to find mental healthcare? - bluecenter I&#x27;m curious why it&#x27;s so fundamentally difficult to find the right care? It&#x27;s a nightmare navigating the system and am curious if anyone else has struggled with it. ====== zahrc Give less fucks Move on Rant Take breaks Have proper and relaxi...
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Ask HN: Give me one topic and in one month I'll present you a project - bobnarizes Please share one topic, idea and I&#x27;ll do a project out of it. On August 18th I&#x27;ll post the project here as Show HN! Since I only can do one project I&#x27;ll take the most ranked one. Thanks! ====== gradschool I'm not the OP, ...
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Canada's software development jobs - niceguy4net what website do you use to find software developement jobs in Canada. ====== Poui Here are four starter suggestions: 1: MaRS Community Job Board: [https://www.marsdd.com/careers/?type=community_careers](https://www.marsdd.com/careers/?type=community_careers) 2: Betakit...
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Ask HN: Will this post reach the front page? - sgt ====== ColinWright Why should it? It's content-free ... why would anyone upvote it? ------ PaulHoule No.
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Marc Andreessen's Startup School Talk One of his Last? - edw519 http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/05/is-marc-andrees.html ====== SwellJoe The "clown" mentioned in the article (dubbed "mic troll" by folks around these parts) was also at Startup Camp a couple of weeks ago, sharing his gas-baggery once again. And, ap...
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Valve debuts Source 2 for free in bid to compete with Epic, Unity - risyasin http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237944/Valve_debuts_Source_2_for_free_in_bid_to_compete_with_Epic_Unity.php ====== Zezima Not entirely sure if it's a fair assessment to say that it was released for free in order to compete with Unreal an...
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Ask HN: Is there any software like this (online marketing for business owners)? - saturngirl I have been speaking to a few small business owners and I have come to the conclusion that advertising online is a big pain point for them. Most of them are not tech savvy enough to be able to run adwords or facebook ads - l...
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Show HN: Journyal – record all your travels in the background - journyal http://journyal.com ====== duiker101 Nice! I have been looking for something like this but for Android, in an attempt to break out of Google Maps Location tracking. For now the only solution I found is to store all my history with GPSLogger but t...
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Memory recall dependent on gene influencing hippocampus-based circadian clock - bookofjoe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13554-y ====== S_A_P Perhaps my thinking is flawed and grossly oversimplified here. Doesn't this just seem to line up with brain chemistry and how everything seems to work in the brain? ...
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Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online - jeromec http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-to-bring-Dead-Sea-apf-2071511005.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode= ====== hammerdr These are the types of things that made me fall in love with Google in the 00's. It makes me happy that Google is continuing its quest to...
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Wacom Inkling Makes Vector Graphics From Pen & Paper Drawing [video] - moe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84 ====== cjbprime This would be more exciting to me if there were a Linux client, or signs that they were using some open standard (SVG paths/layers?) for storage. :/
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Show HN: Bitcast.io – A marketplace for web development tutorials - zhs https://www.bitcast.io/ ====== avolcano Massive feature missing: last updated date. I would NEVER buy a screencast, tutorial, or anything on web development without knowing EXACTLY when it was last updated. For example, the paid Ember screencas...
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MySpace v. Facebook Advertising Showdown. Which Platform Is Better? - qhoxie http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/21/myspace-v-facebook-advertising-showdown-which-platform-is-better/ ====== symptic According to my affiliate marketer friends, Myspace is one of the only reliable sources of relatively cheap traffic. Google ...
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The Log: An Epic Software Engineering Article - tosh http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-log-epic-software-engineering.html ====== Erwin Hah, I just noticed something amusing: Oracle headquarters buildings: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#mediaviewer/...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora...
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IOS Devs Hit by Patent Infringement Notices For In-App Purchases - epo http://www.macstories.net/news/ios-devs-hit-by-patent-infringement-notices-for-in-app-purchases/#more-22837 ====== akadien Using the logic of this company, why stop there? Why not go after users of the apps that use in-app purchases? ~~~ noonesp...
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Mark Shuttleworth Comments Following Ubuntu Community Friction - caution https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/future-of-ubuntu-community/17593/29 ====== Kednicma Sounds like a preparatory delegitimization of the community council. After all, if the community doesn't care enough, then Canonical can retake more direct control...
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Quelling the floating point demon in my line rendering code - mortoray http://mortoray.com/2015/01/07/quelling-the-floating-point-demon-in-my-line-rendering-code/ ====== Sharlin > angle = Collision2D.AngleBetween( lv, bisectNormal ) > if( /*cusp*/ angle < 0.1f || angle > Math.PIf - 0.1f ) { > /...
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Nu: Lisp on Objective C. (think Clojure for Cocoa) - jashmenn http://github.com/timburks/nu ====== mahmud I was going to complain how I found neither compiler nor VM in that source listings, and how it's not a pure Lisp, yada yada yada. Then I took a look at the author's other projects to see if he was a Lisper .. ...
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This Just in From the Institute for the Obvious: Media Likes Covering App - mjfern http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100927/pew-apple/ ====== mjfern What's interesting to me is the percentage of tech articles that cover Apple (15.1%) and the advantage that Apple has over competitors, particularly Microsoft and to s...
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FTC: Vemma Has Been Shut Down for Running Pyramid Scheme - saadmalik01 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/ftc-vemma-shut-running-pyramid-scheme-33333526 ====== saadhus It's Ok, Vemma will just change their name and be back.
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McCain signs on to Democrats' Facebook ad disclosure bill - tareqak http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/facebook-ad-disclosure-bill-243914 ====== tareqak Techmeme summary: _Ashley Gold / Politico: Senators Warner and Klobuchar to file bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, brin...
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Ask HN: Anyone using Nixos in production? - notheguyouthink If so, what are your experiences? ====== smilliken MixRank has been using nix in production for over 3 years now. We're just using the nix package manager on Ubuntu and MacOS, not nixos. Easily one of the best technical decisions I've made. Here's a comment ...
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Yet Another Boingo HotSpot Loophole for Free Wi-Fi at Airports - skaul http://shivankaul.com/blog/2015/11/03/boingo-hotspot-loophole.html ====== sithadmin Welp, cat's out of the bag. Guess I'll count on this being fixed before the next time I need it.
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The Thought Emporium - apsec112 https://www.thethoughtemporium.com/ ====== SilasHaslam Found this one: "Developing a Permanent Treatment for Lactose Intolerance Using Gene Therapy" Seems very promising. Recently, I discovered that lactase derived from Kluyveromyces lactis is effective for me, whereas lactase derived ...
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As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting - sethbannon https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/international-enrollment-drop.html ====== lewis500 There are really three different downsides to this. First, the foreign students cross-subsidize the locals' education. There are large fixed cost...
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An 1828 Balloon Ascent on a Pony - Avawelles http://mimimatthews.com/2015/12/17/an-1828-balloon-ascent-on-a-pony/ ====== twic I was drinking in that pub a couple of weeks ago! Inexplicably, it has no monument or plaque commemorating this feat of equestro-aerial navigation. ~~~ Avawelles It should have one! This ballo...
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We need feedback for our tower defense game - we are 2 guys with a game engine. - calufa http://scramblermedia.com/charliesHardWorkDay ====== jameswyse It wasn't what I expected when I read 'tower defence game', but it looks fun anyway. Unfortunately it runs incredibly slow and crashed the chrome window it was runni...
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Jekyll turns 21! Err... I mean 2.1.0 - parkr http://jekyllrb.com/news/2014/06/28/jekyll-turns-21-i-mean-2-1-0/ ====== Isofarro Does Jekyll 2.1.0 still have a dependency on node.js out of the box ([https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/2327](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/2327))? The release notes don't in...
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Wallflux User Agent - tracked http://ua.wallflux.com/ ====== tracked Wallflux User Agent is an online user agent switcher. It displays the versions of a page shown to a for example Googlebot and is helpful to kill google cloaking. (here goes the disclaimer)
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PostmarketOS in 2020-02 - ollieparanoid https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/02/17/postmarketos-in-2020-02/ ====== jeroenhd This is a great project. I've put it on my old tablet and it's surprisingly quick. Sadly, it's an old ARMv7 chip so there's not a lot of Alpine packages compiled for it and the graphics aren't hard...
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Creating a New Business Model for Cartoonists (2014) - gk1 https://www.gkogan.co/blog/creating-new-business-model-cartoonists/ ====== billconan I have been using [https://www.webtoons.com/en/](https://www.webtoons.com/en/)
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Show HN: A crowdsourced list of “buy it for life” products and brands - hubraumhugo https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/ ====== husarcik There is some issue with voting. I tried to vote for Arc'teryx but as I vote / unvote it pushes the count down. If I refresh the page and then vote/unvote, it'll continue to go more n...
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Jajasblog - jajas http://denuncia-online.org/faq-preguntas-y-respuestas-sobre-delitos-en-internet/ ====== jajas jajas its good. its sweet and fantastic. go hack!
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UN Population Report: 8.5B people by 2030 [pdf] - drallison http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_WPP_2015.pdf ====== drallison The summary of key findings report linked here are only part of the package. Check out [http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/](http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/) for additional details...
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Refactoring JIT Compilation [video] - andralex https://archive.org/details/dconf2014-day02-talk02 ====== tach4n I may be biased, but this was one of my favorite talks at DConf :3. You can find the source to higgs on GH: [https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs](https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs) More info is on Maxime's...
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Experiment reveals the ugly side of open-source journal industry - D-Coder http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/experiment-reveals-ugly-side-to-open-source-journal-industry ====== dllthomas Yes, this experiment revealed that Science publishes studies _with no control_ if you flatter them.
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Ask HN: How can I improve and make my CV more effective? - register Hi All, I am looking for constructive feedback about my CV. I am a software engineer turned manager with a long history in system integration consulting companies. At the point at which I am now I would like to move from the consulting industry to the...
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What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015) - midko http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ ====== sitkack Technology will play a role in affecting a perilous recovery, it won't in the way most technologists think. We don't have time to "invent a fix", we can't bank on having fusion power magically suck carbo...
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Orlando shooting discussion censored on Reddit - personjerry https://reddit.com/r/news/comments/4nql8f/orlando_nightclub_shooting_megathread/ ====== personjerry The uncensored version can be seen at [https://r.go1dfish.me/r/news/comments/4nql8f/_](https://r.go1dfish.me/r/news/comments/4nql8f/_) ------ philiphodgen Di...
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The Founder Dilemma: Risk, Equity Dilution, And Term Sheets - oguz http://tech.li/2012/02/the-founder-dilemma-risk-equity-dilution-term-sheets/ ====== flom I have a question for the more experienced HN users: is the author correct in asserting that in the "real world," being a co-founder of a startup is considered u...
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When does data access become data theft?(2011 article) - sonabinu http://strata.oreilly.com/2011/07/jstor-swartz-microsoft-daytona-academics.html ====== gasull Please add "(2011)" to the title. ~~~ sonabinu Just did :)
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Plan to bring UK clocks forward - vrikhter http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12517762 ====== th0ma5 I hope they factor in global costs. Also when the DST stuff changed here in the states a while back, I either missed an update on my corporate managed machines (or something) cause I was showing up late in the Spring and ear...
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Data from Experian breach found on the internet - nsomaru https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2020-09-13-data-from-huge-experian-breach-found-on-the-internet/ ====== nathanyz Given the amount of personal data now being held not only by credit companies, but also big tech, it seems like the liability for data...
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How can Skyrim be so unoptimized? Modders do better job than Bethesda - jhack http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1321675-how-can-skyrim-be-so-unoptimized-modders-do-better-job-than-bethesda/ ====== newobj Wow. The forum is full of so many really smart people. And the Bethesda developers are so stupid. Maybe all the peop...
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AVX-512 Mask Registers, Again - ingve https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/26/kreg2.html ====== wtallis I knew that the server variant of the Skylake core tacked on a few extra sections to enable AVX-512 and the extra L2 cache. [0] But I wasn't aware that the base consumer Skylake core already had a blank spot r...
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What happened to websites like this? - bobsondugnutt http://www.launchdate.com/ ====== anon1m0us Google stopped including them in search results for a couple reasons, I believe. 1) Google prefers to show people curated websites with modern looks because that's what most people like 2) Google prefers to show sites that...
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Numerically Controlled Oscillators - jcr http://0au.de/2015/07/numerically-controlled-oscillators ====== masswerk Regarding quick oscillators, compare Marvin Minsky's method for circles by shifts only: _«Here is an elegant way to draw almost circles on a point-plotting display:_ NEW X = OLD X – epsilon * OLD Y N...
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Taking the 'D' Out of CRUD with Soft Updates - smerchek http://scottsmerchek.com/2015/08/04/taking-the-d-out-of-crud-with-soft-updates ====== pjungwir There was a very interesting presentation this year at PGConf New York with something similar [1], but where the history table has the _same name_ as the normal table, ...
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Show HN: Wall of Books [Goodreads login required] - zodiac http://xuanji.appspot.com/goodreads/request ====== vog I find it kind of awkward to hide a "Show HN" entry behind a login wall, without any explaination what to expect there. The given "static" URL is some help, but still just shows a page filled with book ...
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Ask HN: Whats the most annoying thing about Netflix (if anything)? - curtisspope What are your biggest gripes(streaming,selection,speed,etc.) ====== CWuestefeld Their recommendations. Despite their overtures to help this, they've really been chasing a red herring. Their big $1M challenge got people to give them a 1...
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aSMtris – Tetris in assembly language (2016) - tosh http://sebastianmihai.com/main.php?t=96&n=aSMtris-Tetris-in-assembly-language-x86-16-bit ====== userbinator 1.85KB may sound tiny, but for Tetris clones written in Asm, it's still "reasonably large". The Hugi Size Coding Competition (unfortunately defunct now) from ...
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Natrium Power Production and Storage System - rbanffy https://www.terrapower.com/terrapower-and-ge-hitachi-nuclear-energy-launch-natrium-technology/ ====== gus_massa Is there a page with more technical info, like how many watts does it produce or the size of the building or the estimated cost of the electricity? ----...
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Google's Keith Enright dodges China questions at Senate privacy hearing - Jerry2 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/google-keith-enright-dodges-china-questions-senate-privacy-hearing.html ====== anoncoward111 How on Earth can US Senators question Google when the NSA does things 100x worse than this?
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MacBook Pro 13“ Function Keys Late 2016 Teardown - ProZsolt https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Function+Keys+Late+2016+Teardown/72415 ====== shadowfacts > The battery assembly is entirely, and very solidly, glued into the case, > thus complicating replacement. Eek, this seems like one of the biggest ...
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Human beings are not computers - zick http://theenergyproject.com/key-ideas ====== LoSboccacc The ideas are correct, but this > We're at our best when we move between expending energy and intermittently > renewing our four core energy needs will be hand waved as hogwash and feeling goods hr practices until they star...
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Why the Obamacare Website Sucks - __chrismc https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2013/10/21/Obamacare-website ====== hga Not impressed. E.g. his knock on the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars" per its detractors) is on a architectural strawman constructed by its enemies, the people involved planned on sane, ...
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