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Why the world's biggest military keeps losing wars - Thevet http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/why_the_worlds_biggest_military_keeps_losing_wars ====== orbifold Most of those conflicts are a pretense to funnel trillions of dollars into the economy, but almost always also a fight to maintain spheres of influence. This wa...
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Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks revisions to news articles? - alanh It’s increasingly commonplace for journalists and hacks alike to update their articles, dropping or revising the most poorly researched sections, without noting the retraction, much less preserving the original edit.<p>It would make sense f...
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Dooby, a command-line tag-driven mini to-do list manager in Ruby - rafmagana https://github.com/rafmagana/dooby ====== devmonk Ack! Name confusion ahead. There is a Duby also already in the Ruby community: <https://github.com/headius/duby>
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Ruby on Rails Documentation (formatted for the iPhone) - zaveri http://pocketrails.com/ ====== ruby_roo Thanks! This is nice. Can we get a nice icon for it though? :)
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Show HN: @, a self modifying shell script/swiss army knife - irrationalidiom https://github.com/lmartinking/monkey-tail ====== fexl Clever concept, and it really shows off a lot of shell techniques in one place. The self-modifying aspect is fun to study (e.g. external-add, ext_insert), and the meta functions are int...
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How Apple's New Face ID Works (Infrared Projector, Like MS Kinect) - bhouston http://gizmodo.com/how-apples-new-face-id-works-1803813400 ====== occultist_throw Since its biometric, ill assume that it too like your fingerprint, is coersable. Still the only safe way is a PIN.
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Ask HN: How would you solve the Windows Phone app gap? - EpicBlackCrayon ====== PaulHoule I am not a big fan of apps and it seems these days, developers and users hate apps too even if they don't know it. Something better in 2018 would be a personal assistant who is always in your pocket and has a holistic view of you...
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Prediction markets on Obama's chance of winning nomination - mhb http://www.intrade.com/ ====== mechanical_fish Richard Feynman: _This question of trying to figure out whether a book is good or bad by looking at it carefully or by taking the reports of a lot of people who looked at it carelessly is like this famou...
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Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path - joshtynjala https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/ ====== nilkn In my experience, many companies legitimately don't really know what to do with very senior engineering staff. And how many distinguished engineers or principal engineers or technical ...
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NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - maydemir https://threatpost.com/nsa-fbi-warn-of-linux-malware-used-in-espionage-attacks/158351/ ====== fsflover It seems Linux is getting mainstream.
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Show HN: AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers - phillmv https://appcanary.com/hey_hn ====== jaryd You may want to rethink the pricing. I have several server variants that I effectively clone in different datacenters across my deployment. Since the base images are static I would really only need to run...
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Worst 404 Page Ever? - da5e http://opensu.blogspot.com/2012/03/worst-404-page-ever.html ====== peterbwf It is what it is. Hacker News is a no-frills site. I like it that way :) If it really does bother you, perhaps some greasemonkey might work for you to save you from having to retype the address or hit the favorite a...
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Malcolm Gladwell on Bruce Ratner and the Barclays Center - pauljonas http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7021031/the-nets-nba-economics ====== daniellicht Great Article!
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Deep sea frogfish that walks on the ocean floor found in New Zealand - never-the-bride http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/12108262/Frogfish-Meet-the-curious-creature-that-walks-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea.html ====== nsajko The handfish has a very similar type of locomotion: [http...
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Elixir Cross Referencer: new way to browse kernel sources - tryp http://free-electrons.com/blog/elixir/ ====== tryp As a longtime browser of cross-referenced source generated by LXR [0] I found this article on their new implementation of the backend interesting. [0] [http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/sour...
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My Setup - revorad http://paulstamatiou.com/my-setup ====== pc86 These posts are all meaningless drivel. Does anyone really care what chair someone sits on? Whether they use a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro? Yes, you use 1Password. We get it.
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Hash lookup in Ruby, why is it so fast? - elainejgreen https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/hash-lookup-in-ruby-why-is-it-so-fast ====== cheald This isn't unique to Ruby - this is a property of hash tables in general. Hash tables are Data Structures 101 kind of stuff.
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Google Can't Google? Jeff Barr on Googles Recruitment - danw http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1047 ====== danw Anyone else have interesting google HR stories?
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Morph.io – search over 3000 scrapers - dkarapetyan https://morph.io/ ====== btown TL;DR it's cron jobs as a service + a managed result database + GUI + API to the database, all for free (donation-supported) and intended for nonprofits trying to expose government data. For instance, the table at [https://morph.io/pl...
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Ask HN: What are some good hands-on tech jobs? - mpg33 Non-office tech jobs I guess is what I mean. ====== stonemetal Industrial automation controls. Sure some of your time would be spent in an office coding, but you would also spend sometime with your system out on the shop floor working with the system. If it is ...
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Analyse Asia Podcast #59: China's Five Year Plan and Huawei with Kitty Fok - bleongcw http://analyse.asia/2015/09/13/episode-59-chinas-five-year-plan-and-huawei-with-kitty-fok/ ====== bleongcw Synopsis: With Kitty Fok (Country Manager, China) from IDC, we discuss the Chinese government’s five year plan specifically on...
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Handwriting recognition for Kindle Touch (sudoku) - sblom http://www.geekwire.com/2012/kindle-touch-handwriting-recognition-slick-feature-puzzazz ====== royleban This article was also picked up by MSNBC: [http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/14/10408891-sta...](http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/14...
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The Toggle that Wouldn't - qwph http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Toggle-that-Wouldnt.aspx ====== yan hah "The toggles... they do nothing"
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What you do versus what your customers want Venn diagram - reubenswartz http://www.mimiran.com/small-business-owner/what-you-do-versus-what-your-customers-want/ ====== Millennium Certainly you want the overlap to be large, but if you always do only what your customers want, there's no room for innovation or vision (...
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Leaving Github - srl http://bytbox.net/blog/2012/08/leaving-github.html ====== akent You can still get the full git diff out of a pull request by appending .diff to the pull request URL on github. Even better, you can get output similar to git send-email by appending .patch. Likewise there's nothing stopping you appl...
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Show HN: GreyNoise Visualizer – Monitor Internet-wide scan and attack traffic - a_morris https://viz.greynoise.io/ ====== a_morris Short video showing basic usage: [https://vimeo.com/351627637](https://vimeo.com/351627637) ~~~ A2017U1 this is real neat do you have plans to monetize it or more a hobby thing? Think you...
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How can we thank Google for their commitment to free expression? - censormuch It seems to me that Google has been taking a lot of heat lately with denying the request to remove the Mohammed video and their Brazil chief being detained for refusing to remove a user-uploaded video attacking and "slandering" a mayoral c...
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Soon, It Will Cost Less to Sequence a Genome Than to Flush a Toilet - motyka http://www.businessinsider.com/super-cheap-genome-sequencing-by-2020-2014-10 ====== jMyles I'm always a little wary of predictions that try to tell me when the "game- changers" are nigh. I have no doubt that we live in incredible, historic ...
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Show HN: Puntly – Twitter meets pinterest (save, share the stuff you like) - theianwhiteley http://punt.ly ====== theianwhiteley Everyone has something useful to share (or remember). Think Product Hunt for everyone - and everything. It's fully live. If just testing with random input you can also delete posts. -----...
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Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub - jacoblyles http://math.andrej.com/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/ ====== anandkulkarni The most interesting suggestion, to me: "However, there is something else we can do. It is more radical, but also more useful. Rather than letting people only evaluat...
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General Commission – Full-Time, Full-Stack Developer – Denver, CO - Eidamj1 We are a newly formed bespoke data research firm set out to pioneer a new kind of data-backed research product. We provide unique insights to customers across the fintech, medical device, and artificial intelligence spaces, and are seeking to ...
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SF Gentrification/DropBox Community Service – Mission Playground Is Not for Sale - keebEz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPVY1DcupE ====== skullum This is really sad. I'm not from the Mission but I used to play pickup here all the time. Never had any problems. I hope they all just shut up and played together. ~~~...
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'A direct, toxic chemical injury': What vaping does to the lungs - ceejayoz https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/direct-toxic-chemical-injury-what-vaping-does-lungs-n1061151 ====== wahern > "But I will not be shocked when we discover 20 years from now that some > patients have chronic lung disease because they’ve bee...
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Big Brother is not watching you - gaius http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095609/Big-brother-NOT-watching-Cash-strapped-towns-leave-CCTV-cameras-unmonitored.html?ITO=1490 ====== prospero I work for a company in this space. Our product tracks and describes things of interest (faces, text, moving objects), and ...
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A primer on elliptic curve cryptography - amboar http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/3/ ====== andrewcooke If you understand DH key exchange (the one where you multiply numbers modulo something) then you know what the discrete logarithm proble...
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Google,Bing and Yahoo not giving me any results for "-moz-border-radius". - devasiajoseph I couldn't find references for " -moz-border-radius" in Google, Bing or Yahoo. The only search engine that gives me the result is duckduckgo ====== nbpoole Because the leading minus sign indicates that you DON'T want a particul...
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Show HN: Our First Month Since Launching: Open Review - JacobAldridge http://everydaydreamholiday.com/2013/01/15/startup-business-review-launch-first-month/ ====== kerno Would love some honest feedback, especially things we can do better or haven't thought about yet.
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WikiLeaks, iPhone Incidents Show that U.S. Needs Shield Law - rbanffy http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/07/wikileaks-iphone-incidents-show-that-us-needs-shield-law182.html ====== isaacpthomas The United States' global reputation as a champion of free speech is at stake. This is partly because the legal framework ha...
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Inside the Atari 800: It's the 30th anniversary of this 8-bit PC classic. - hshah http://www.pcworld.com/article/181421/inside_the_atari_800.html ====== david927 I had the 400 which had a plastic membrane instead of keyboard. And it was always running out of memory. Good times.
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Ask HN: Fax Over Voip - relm86 I want to setup a web app for sending Fax over Voip. What would be the best way to go about it? I know I need to obtain a SIP trunk and an asterisk server. Where can I get one at a good price? What are the biggest hurdles to doing this? I really appreciate any advice you can give. ...
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Visualizing Philadelphia tax changes parcel by parcel - pselle http://axisphillyapps.tumblr.com/post/44714283089/how-we-made-the-avi-map ====== stephengillie This is very cool. I don't know much about Philadelphia, but I'm interested in how much this reflects/affects rental trends -- would people move from a higher-...
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Ask HN: Do you use PHPMyAdmin as an alternative to your app admin? - paraschopra Just curious if any of you substitute PHPMyAdmin for constructing an admin interface for your MySQL based application. Is it a recommended practice NOT to use PHPMyAdmin or other database scaffolds for administrating the application? ==...
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Sony Files Patent for Digital Rights Storage on a Blockchain - srameshc https://www.ccn.com/sony-files-for-blockchain-fueled-drm-patent/ ====== wglb You want to remove the /amp/ from the end of the URL, otherwise desktop folks might not get the story. ~~~ sctb Updated. Thank you!
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Groupthink - mrfusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink ====== dredmorbius Related: hive mind / collective consciousness. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness)
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FaCT: A Flexible, Constant-Time Programming Language [pdf] - gbrown_ https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/pubs/cauligi:2017:fact.pdf ====== jedisct1 The language is actually called ConstantC, and its implementation has just been made public on GitHub: [https://github.com/PLSysSec/FaCT](https://github.com/PLSysSec/FaCT) -...
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Tell HN: Happy Pi Day - kull ====== eth0up And the anniversary of Hawking's departure (3.14.2018). Unfortunately, it could all be a lot more happy. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking) ------ _0ffh Out of curiosity I just looked up the year 1592 on Wikiped...
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Ask HN: What are some good programming blogs? - FramesPerSushi An example of what I like is http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ ====== hendzen 1) <http://www.altdevblogaday.com/> 2) <http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/> 3) (Not really a blog, but so great) <http://lwn.net/> 4) (For entertainment) <http://theda...
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Ask HN: Suggestion on which framework to use - trapped123 I am planning to write an app which should run on iOS, Android and also on a web browser. The app needs to use camera as well as GPS. I also want the app to be available from appstores. I understand that I need to use HTML5 and other mobile web technologies. ...
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Show HN: Learn about a Watsi patient every time you open up a tab - zaytoun http://www.donatetab.co/ ====== VertexRed This way I'll get emotional each time I open a new tab. I also didn't know about Watsi before coming across your plugin, seems like a really interesting idea! I also noticed that the "%" symbol is on ...
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Ask HN: Should I worry about having a job offer retracted? - jacorreia At my school, many students are about to receive offers for summer co-op terms within the next two weeks. However, none of them have ever even considered negotiating their offers, and when I try to show them how easy it could be for them to make ...
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A Breakthrough Blindness Treatment Will Cost $425,000 per Eye, If It Works - Jerry2 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-03/biotech-to-charge-850-000-for-blindness-treatment-if-it-works ====== sctb Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068163](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606816...
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The Accidental DBA - craigkerstiens https://charity.wtf/2016/10/02/the-accidental-dba/ ====== user5994461 > This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet > Another outage involving MongoDB and data loss, this time by some company > called “CleverTap”. After hundreds of blog posts relating...
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Startups Attempting to Reinvent the Magazine Industry - erin_bury http://betakit.com/2012/04/14/startups-attempting-to-reinvent-the-magazine-industry ====== pikewood Ever since pg put magazines out as a fund-worthy idea, I've kept an ear open to see if anything innovative had been started, because it sounded like an...
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Ask HN: Cloudflare stock as a long term investment? - plg I know the IPO bump already happened ... but I wonder if it might be advantageous to buy some now anyway. Who are their real competition? What is their business plan? ====== JakeTheAndroid Fastly opened at 16 and has hovered around 26-28 dollars for a while. Ak...
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The Panacea for Putting Things Off - johns http://thinksimplenow.com/productivity/the-panacea-for-putting-things-off/ ====== michael_dorfman Stay Tuned. Coming soon from the same author: The panacea for quitting smoking _(Don't Smoke!)_ and the panacea for depression _(Cheer Up!)_.
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Google employee collapsed on the job; coworkers say corp. culture is to blame - SeanBoocock https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/02/a-google-x-employee-collapsed-on-the-job-and-coworkers-say-corporate-culture-is-to-blame/ ====== walrus01 If you have a sufficiently large number of employees (in the tens of thousands), basic...
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How Does One Boy Survive a Plane Crash? - edw519 http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10627064 ====== jacquesm I think this may be related to why a horse falling down a mineshaft will explode on impact whereas a mouse thrown down the same mineshaft will probably experience just a shock and wander off. Adults weigh consid...
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Ask HN: Giving raises after a series A round - mpc Do co-founders usually give themselves large pay raises after closing their first big round of VC money?<p>For example, a startup that has lasted for 1year on 200k of seed and angel money closes a 3 million dollar series A round. The company has 3 cofounders and 2 ...
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Did humans create the Sahara desert? - upen http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/11260.html ====== DrScump blogspam of [https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/03/14/did-humans-create- th...](https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/03/14/did-humans-create-the-sahara- desert/) which is in itself a summation of this David K. Wrigh...
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The Crisis of the Multiverse - dnetesn http://cosmos.nautil.us/feature/120/the-crisis-of-the-multiverse ====== justinpombrio > Theoretical and observational evidence suggests that we are living in an > enormous, eternally expanding multiverse where the constants of nature vary > from place to place. Really? What is t...
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How bad is the Windows command line really? - momo-reina http://blog.nullspace.io/batch.html ====== byuu It's really, really, _really, really_ really bad. It doesn't even have a logical history. Despite having used it for many years, I still don't understand why when I type one command (eg make), and then another (eg...
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New YC Startup: Buxfer - pg http://www.buxfer.com/index.php ====== Alex3917 I'm imagining two intersecting lines. The positively sloped line represents the amount of time saved increasing as transactions of this kind increase. The other negatively sloped line is the cognitive overhead of using the system, i.e. higher ...
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Second longest bull market - gopalakrishnans https://qz.com/928808/the-bull-run-in-stocks-that-started-in-2009-is-the-second-longest-in-history/ ====== smallduck Thanks, Obama! Oh, which one is bull again?
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Amazing Charts showing Viral Loops - socmoth http://productplanner.com/gallery/ ====== Radix I'm very interested in this, but I do not see the chart. Could you please post a comment on how I can see it and why you find it interesting.
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Undebt: How We Refactored 3M Lines of Code - Yelp http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/08/undebt-how-we-refactored-3-million-lines-of-code.html ====== spejson 404 not found error ------ PaulHoule woo hoo!
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A Man Who Got Away with Everything (2002) - vo2maxer https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/books/the-man-who-got-away-with-everything.html ====== acqq > the well-known photograph of his fibula and tibia, a favorite exhibit on > display in the Army Medical Museum in Washington, which in the 19th century > was one of the m...
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Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements - tosh https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole ====== ignoramous I absolutely love the DNS based solution for ad-blocking and preventing tracking. I use AdGuard DNS on my PC (DNSCrypt) [0] and phone (DoTLS) [1], and it has improved performance of apps (not just websites), ...
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The 50% divorce rate stat is a myth, so why won’t it die? - prostoalex http://qz.com/306166/the-divorce-stat-that-just-keeps-cheating-50/ ====== carsongross By not discussing the plummeting marriage rate [1] and changes in the data sets [2] this article is deeply flawed. There is reasonable evidence that divorce rate ...
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Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights - dredmorbius https://globalnews.ca/news/5203960/yvr-rejects-ads/ ====== floatingatoll As an airport traveler, I'm glad they blocked the ads for the phrasing submitted, but I'm upset that they refused to explain their reasoning and negotiate...
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Is there any addon that can help me to recover abandoned carts? - John_Michael Looking for reduce cart abandoned addon that can help me recover the abandoned cart. ====== sharemywin which platform?
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What rss feeds do you subscribe to? - johnsocs ====== ScottWhigham It's a neat idea and all but I just have an issue with posts like this. It's a "leech" style post, isn't it? It's a "You give me something and I'll enjoy it" type of post. Why should I or anyone else spend 1-5 minutes writing what we like? You haven...
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Why do coincidences happen? - karlzt http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/49009/why-do-coincidences-happen ====== mooism2 Wouldn't it be spooky if there were no coincidences? ------ lutusp The article bends over backward to avoid anything resembling a rational explanation, preferring the woo-woo "reasoning" favored by New A...
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How I learned to code in my 30s - bradcrispin https://medium.com/udacity/how-i-learned-to-code-in-my-30s-61ad21180208 ====== soneca I started to learn to code last November at 37yo. About 30 hours a week for two months I finished the Front End Certificate from freeCodeCamp (highly recommend the site for starters). Th...
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Three cheers for the onion - chestnut-tree http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30549150 ====== aw3c2 I was hoping for a rebuttal of the sad [http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30637010](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30637010) fear mongering. ~~~ pluma Tor is no longer an acronym. I was actually expecting prais...
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My first startup: a happy failure story - thomask http://laurentk.posterous.com/my-first-startup-a-happy-failure-story ====== IsaacL Isn't the obvious problem that it's a terrible idea? I can't comment on subway commuters, but I've never been especially interested in meeting people on my commute, beyond the occasion...
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Clouds, a Documentary Shot With Kinect, Explores Beauty of Code - lnguyen http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/clouds-code-kinect/ ====== kevingadd Parts of the footage really had me convinced I was looking at an ordinary film recording of a human being, which is pretty damn impressive given that it's actually a t...
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Lithium-ion batteries start to take on the big stuff - lasonrisa http://www.economist.com/node/17352944 ====== amac Lithium is a finite, and more importantly - concentrated - resource unfortunately. We should aim to make use of more abundant metals such as zinc.
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Show HN: Clothes shopping app UI built in React Native - atf19 https://github.com/ATF19/react-native-shop-ui ====== IBCNU I used Redux when it first came out, but now use Mobx as it's just... easier and has less boilerplate. Also it's easy to extend into a reframe-like pure function state management system if you want...
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Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? - insta_anon Where are you currently living, what were the reasons for moving there and what are the pros &#x2F; cons?<p>Also say you work remotely, are self-employed &#x2F; working on a new idea or are (financially) retired and could live anywhere on this beautiful planet, wh...
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Statistical analysis of web performance data - bluesmoon http://www.lognormal.com/blog/2012/08/13/analysing-performance-data/ ====== cliff_crocker This was a great overview of how to approach large data sets and make sure your analysis is statistically relevant. The explanations were straight forward, and make sense...
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UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism - askl56 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pay4gz/uk-cops-say-visiting-the-dark-web-is-a-potential-sign-of-terrorism ====== gozur88 The fact that cops would want to be aware of people using the Dark Web doesn't seem particularly surprising or ...
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12 innovative programmers working to change technology forever - mac_attack http://www.businessinsider.com/12-innovative-programmers-working-to-change-technology-forever-2015-7?op=1 ====== angersock It'd be nice to see more folks on that list for, you know, actually programming. If the list contains Rob Pike and th...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help You Believe in Climate Change - kobyconrad https://www.quirk.fyi/how-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-can-help-you-believe-in-climate-change/ ====== bch132 I wonder if the same would work for homosexuals in repressive countries - perhaps they could convince themselves they were not ho...
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FanDuel Raises $275M - prostoalex http://recode.net/2015/07/13/fanduel-raises-275-million-snags-billion-dollar-valuation/ ====== drsim First Scottish unicorn? Perhaps Skyscanner is up there too after a $800m valuation in 2013. ...and a rare success story for public funding from Scottish Enterprise. I worked at a spec...
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Show HN: Android Password Store - nohawp https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store ====== nohawp That is my first android application ever. I am not a java guru either. Suggestions, issues, and pull requests are welcome.
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You made app for Android, iOS, Windows - what about the UI? - iProject http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/25/cross_platform_abstraction/ ====== fiznool Not sure I agree with the prediction: > My prediction is that Xamarin will come up with its own GUI abstraction > framework in future, along the lines of SWT. It is...
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On the Social Deficits of Current Mobile Device Design - whoisstan http://whoisstan.tumblr.com/post/21753719270/on-the-social-deficits-of-current-mobile-device-design ====== stoolpigeon This made me chuckle. I can picture it - the looking around trying to find something to grab onto as a conversation starter. It's ...
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Refined Hacker News - memexy https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights ====== plibither8 Hi all, developer of Refined Hacker News here! Happy to see that it has been posted about again. I had initially posted it last year as a Show HN: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173974](https://news.yco...
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Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support - estel http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support ====== d_r The current situation is somewhat unfair to the indiscrete / non-tech-savvy consumer since they might buy an Android phone without understanding th...
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Slides from FourSquare's presentation on using the Lift framework (Scala) - henning http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcbpz3ck_24f3v83ggz ====== henning Here's the video to go along with it: <http://www.vimeo.com/8057986>
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Chennai floods: The Hindu not published for first time since 1878 - devnonymous http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34981328 ====== kshatrea Like many other people, I have family there and there is no doubt about it, this is one of the worst disasters to hit Chennai. We will have to wait out the storm to see the ...
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Ask HN: You have a monthly subscription to hardware product – how do you price - samstave Assume widget one costs you 100, and they will pay monthly for 3years for the device. How much do you charge per month?<p>And widget 2 is 30<p>And they will have hundreds of widget 1. But thousands of widget 2.<p>Is there some st...
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Show HN: Toc Messenger – A distributed messaging app that syncs across devices - lewisl9029 https://github.com/lewisl9029/toc ====== lewisl9029 Hi HN, Toc is a project I've been working on for more than a year now. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it. =) Toc is a proof-of-concept distributed messaging app ...
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Realtime encoding - over 150x faster - felixge http://transloadit.com/blog/2010/12/realtime-encoding-over-150x-faster ====== JonnieCache Maybe, if we keep bringing it up on here, startups will finally start putting a couple of lines of boilerplate at the top of their blog pages so we will know what on earth it is th...
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How will my plan to build and sell aluminum unibody laptops fail? - butimnotarapper * Aluminum unibody<p>* Normal scissor-switch laptop keyboard<p>* Off the shelf high resolution IPS panel<p>* Large glass trackpad<p>How hard could it be?<p># Design<p>Laptops don&#x27;t need a lot to be a world apart from plastic lapto...
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Video Brewery Crowdsources Explainer Videos for Startups - conceptfeedback http://www.videobrewery.com ====== GR8K What percentage does videobrewery get & what percentage the artists get?
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It’s Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi - kennethfriedman http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/ ====== xur17 I'd be happy to share my extra bandwidth, but then I have to worry about people pirating content or viewing illegal files, and getting stuck with the legal issues. Since it's of no d...
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Test Driven Development Cargo Cult - d0ugal http://ntoll.org/article/tdd-cargo-cult ====== jones1618 tl;dr - Developer writes a legitimate test to prove Test Driven Development will force us to write decent code. We write code that cheats by using knowledge of the test to pass in the lamest possible way. This prove...
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No, Brits aren't googling 'What is the EU?' because they don't know what EU is - tekheletknight http://www.geektime.com/2016/06/25/no-brits-are-not-googling-what-is-the-eu-because-they-dont-know-what-the-eu-is/ ====== Nadya First politically-related thing I've bookmarked in ages. I especially love the comparison to th...
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NetWare 3.12 server taken down after a decade and a half of duty - pavel_lishin http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-uptime-achievement-can-you-beat-16-years/ ====== RexRollman Previously submitted twice with no comments each time (but I think it is a cool article as well): [https://news.ycombin...
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