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PubNub is Faster than iMessage - ajb413 https://www.pubnub.com/blog/pubnub-chatengine-is-faster-than-imessage/ ====== millzlane It looks like apple just has a slower animation to show the read receipt. ~~~ stephenblum Yes you are right regarding the visuals, essentially you can not be certain unless you check the dat...
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Ruby and the power of gems - gduplessy http://gduplessy.com/2011/04/09/ruby-and-the-power-of-gems.html ====== gduplessy Just wrote this up and I would like to know what you guys think about it! :)
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Why Women-Only Transit Options Have Caught On (2012) - EGreg http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/02/why-women-only-transit-options-have-caught/1171/ ====== biff _But there are worries the harsher penalties may have actually led some women to falsely accuse men of groping in the hope of a cash settlement._ ...
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Ask HN: Will they hate me? - ThrowawayCoward I wrote the following letter to my team (only peers, no managers). Does it have a chance of being productive? If so, would I become hated or viewed as a superior jerk? Is there anything that would produce a better letter if it were eliminated?<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastie.or...
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Opium, Empire, and India - Hooke https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/opium-empire-and-india-part-i/ ====== atxcrab This might be interesting to readers : ibis trilogy from amithav ghosh [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis_trilogy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis_trilogy) ~~~ miraj it sure is a grea...
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Plans to Put Chips in Human Brains by 2020 - Yuqing7 https://medium.com/@Synced/elon-musks-neuralink-plans-to-put-chips-in-human-brains-by-2020-d7ad5f7afde1 ====== franciscojgo How can Musk be involved in so many high-stress projects and still have the clarity of mind needed to pursue even awesom...
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The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale [video] - kornish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2zo7tzrO8 ====== citeguised Recently started to dive into FP and Haskell, and it's nice to see it used at this scale. If anyone is looking for a starting-point: I stumbled upon a great book: [http://haskellbook.com/](htt...
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A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View - Cozumel https://backchannel.com/a-new-kind-of-science-a-15-year-view-4f5668abe54f ====== leephillips I haven't read the book, but I've dipped into it. Some of the ideas are interesting; ideas that I was acquainted with through Wolfram's papers before the book appeared. From crit...
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Show HN: Language-agnostic project template CLI for OSX - bryceneal https://github.com/prettymuchbryce/templ ====== face7hill This is pretty awesome. I've wanted something like this for a while but was too lazy to create it myself. Thanks for doing this.
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Working Remote Is Awesome - dsschnau https://danschnau.com/blog/working_remote_is_awesome ====== 6nomads In terms of remote work, only one thing matters — work! This is amazing because the ordinary question “What have you done today?” replaces many others such as: “What time did you come?”, “Why are you late?”, “What ...
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Ask PG: How many non-commenters? - saurabh Just wondering about how many people here do not comment at all, would be interesting to know. ====== BigEd781 I never comment. Oh, shit... ------ fuzzythinker Your question is an oxymoron. ~~~ mahmud Why? it's a perfectly legitimate question. He is asking about the perce...
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A Dam-Building Boom Is Transforming the Brazilian Amazon - Red_Tarsius http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-a-dam-building-boom-is-transforming-the-brazilian-amazon ====== thiagooffm I think it's a fair move. A lot of people around the world and organizations try to do anything on their hands to protect Brazil from using...
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Ask HN: What do you think on volunteering opportunities during a pandemic? - emrehan There are many opportunities to volunteer during a pandemic: Helping at hospitals, helping dependent of healthcare workers, elderly, patients at home isolation. There are also volunteers needed to curate academic research for doctors ...
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AMD: what went wrong? - dotmanish http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372859/amd-what-went-wrong ====== gbaygon "In a bid to win new custom, AMD offered HP a million free chips – but it was only able to accept 160,000 because of its agreement with Intel." Couldn't they reduce the price of their chips instead of giving th...
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Ask HN: Converting a Slideshow to a Website? - Mz I have an old PPT, now converted to Google Slides and slightly edited and I have set up a BlogSpot site to move it to. But I am running into real problems with moving graphics, figuring out how best to convey the information, etc.<p>The slideshow is probably super bad ...
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Airbnb allegedly purged more than 1,000 New York listings to rig survey - jflowers45 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/10/airbnb-new-york-city-listings-purge-multiple-apartment-listings ====== jakevoytko Honestly, it couldn't be easier to find listings that violate the law. This stuff isn't abstract, you ...
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Intermittent fasting: No advantage over conventional weight loss diets - AndrewDucker https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181126115842.htm ====== tonystubblebine This reminds me of a study we ran at Lift/Coach.me a few years ago where we randomly assigned 12,000 people into popular diets. I was hoping we'd b...
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How to Use Trend Micro's Rootkit Remover to Install a Rootkit - MikusR https://d4stiny.github.io/How-to-use-Trend-Micro-Rootkit-Remover-to-Install-a-Rootkit/ ====== guardiangod >the Bruteforcing Processes code doesn’t make sense, are Trend Micro developers not aware of enumerating processes via ZwQuerySystemInformatio...
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Would You Pay Someone to Do Your Online Dating? - samanthaglower http://observer.com/2016/02/would-you-pay-someone-to-date-for-you/ ====== douche Not long ago, I took an Uber ride from a driver who's main job is as an online dating consultant. It apparently is a fairly lucrative niche. ~~~ DrScump He has a "lucrative...
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Entrepreneurs are cocky jerks - SeattleSeeley http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2011/11/03/surviving-startups-justin-seeley-entrepreneurs-jerks/#more-3851 ====== j45 I like talking with doers. I like sharing with doers. I like learning from doers. Helping people want to become doers is where I find some of t...
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Show HN: My Google Analytics widget is now available for OS X - ryno2019 http://ryanbrink.ca/ga-today/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=link&utm_term=osx&utm_campaign=osxlaunch ====== therollingrook Just bought this! Great job! ~~~ ryno2019 Thanks a million! Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions on ho...
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How Paypal Onboards New Users - amitmathew http://www.useronboard.com/how-paypal-onboards-new-users/ ====== samuelhulick Hi all! I'm the person who made this. If you'd care to share your thoughts, I plan on watching this thread closely today. :) ------ samuelhulick @amitmathew Thank you for sharing this!
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Startups : Stop thinking about fucking aqusition - ofca http://svenduplic.com/post/12601995015/startups-stop-thinking-about-fucking-aquisition ====== rick888 This seems to be the new theme: Create a startup that has no long-term plans and the goal of being bought out by a larger company.
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Show HN: Commits.io - Create a poster from your code and logo - ortuna https://commits.io ====== gregmac Suggestion: Write a standalone tool that does the code extraction step, so someone can run it on their private repository (or checked-out code) and generate the data dump you need. This mitigates some of the secur...
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Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language - opusdie http://www.ithkuil.net/texts.html ====== jasode Not the same url as submitter but there was a previous discussion about the New Yorker article: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493) ------ g...
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Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.S. Attorney General - jhatax https://www.reuters.com/article/us-internet-regulation-justice-idUSKBN20D26S ====== danShumway There are 3 options for moderation: 1\. Platforms with no moderation (8Chan -- except probably even worse, because even 8Chan moderates s...
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Tell HN: Vodafone AU is still blocking archive.is - tempactforhn Today I found myself unable to access archive.is on my Vodafone network, I got redirected to<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vodafone.com.au&#x2F;temporarily-unavailable<p>from<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;gcj3w<p>I don&#x27;t think they are forced by a co...
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How I like my Finder - stelian http://stelian.firez.be/post/how-i-like-my-finder ====== mhd I'm still surprised how used we all got to the modern, somewhat simplistic file management metaphors. Icon/list view plus "shortcut" panel, wherever you look. I still remember that for years after Windows 95 came out, one of ...
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StarCraft is a deep, complicated strategy game. DeepMind’s AlphaStar crushed it - lawrenceyan https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/24/18196177/ai-artificial-intelligence-google-deepmind-starcraft-game ====== kwillets Micro has always seemed like the weak point of this game; it relies a lot on making the UI clunky...
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Is the tech sector producing more startups than other areas? - woodtrail As a 19 year old who reads HackerNews, it can feel overwhelming to read about all the startups that are being founded in the tech sector.<p>I'm wondering if this is just an effect of the HN echo chamber, or whether other industries are just as ...
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Show HN: MailTrigger – A Simple HTTP-Based Email Notification Service - BjoernKW https://github.com/BjoernKW/MailTrigger ====== BjoernKW This blog post explains the motivation and design rationale behind this tool in some more detail: [https://bjoernkw.com/2017/12/24/mailtrigger-a-simple-http- ba...](https://bjoernkw...
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Do you know the“Awesome” lists in GitHub? I made one about anti-racism - rafacavalcante https://github.com/rafaelcavalcante/awesome-anti-racism ====== rafacavalcante An awesome list with anti-racism material
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Google fires Kenya boss over Mocality - jaxonrice http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Google-fires-Kenya-boss-over-Mocality-20120131 ====== ChuckMcM Nice to see the follow up. And it does clear up the whole "Were they contractors or did they work for Google" question. It seems clear now that they did work for Google ...
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Ask HN: Ideas for weekend projects? - CGamesPlay I'm wondering if anyone knows of any idea pools for weekend projects, or if anyone has any small projects that they haven't implemented yet. I have a lot of down time over the next two weeks, and I would love to put the time to good, creative use. Note, I'm not lookin...
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The death of Bitcoin (controversial) - tranc99 http://hackishword.com/blog/2014/the-death-of-bitcoin ====== typedweb I heard that GHash.io was reaching the 50% mark a while ago and then the community decided to split off of a lot of their hashing power to rebalance the minering to other pools. Now this article is sa...
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Systemd is nice. Dont be afraid - sandGorgon http://www.lambdacurry.com/systemd-nice-dont-afraid/ ====== olgeni Had Microsoft attempted to pull even 10% of systemd on Linux a few years ago, the wailing would have reached the highest heavens. And "frankly, after ShellShock," learn to use a less bloated shell for init...
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I’m Learning Ruby On Rails Because I’m Weak-Willed And Stupid - RawData http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-learning-ruby-on-rails-because-im-weak-willed-and-stupid.html ====== RawData Not to start a flame war, but I've always sort of thought of ruby on rails as kinda faddish. What's the reason to use it over php/mysq...
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Ask HN: How to find people/blogs in niche topics? - freetonik While finding good blogs, in general, seems to be very hard, finding good and interesting blogs about niche topics is just blind luck to me. For example, I&#x27;m very interested in the topic of exploring new ways to teach computer science and math (taking ...
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Getting started with bare-metal assembly - a7b3fa https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html ====== rixrax I think one great way to do this is to get a Commodore 64 emulator (or Atari 2600 etc) and start writing and learning 6502 assy. Arguably its one of the last instruction sets that was designed with hu...
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Mobirise Free Wwebsite Bbuilder – CSS Background Video - Mobirise http://mobirise.com/video-background/ ====== Mobirise HTML5 Background Video - Add breathtaking video background to your website w/o touching the code! [http://mobirise.com/video- background/](http://mobirise.com/video-background/)
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Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for U.S. Comfort - aritraghosh007 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/russian-presence-near-undersea-cables-concerns-us.html?_r=0 ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449673](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449673) ------ drafty Why exactly...
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San Diego Hacker News Meetup is Tomorrow, 7/30 at 7:30 PM - paulbaumgart http://cses.ucsd.edu/wiki/index.php/San_Diego_Hacker_News_Meetup#Upcoming_meetups ====== Towle_ I demand to know whether the 7/30-7:30 thing was intentional or mere coincidence. ~~~ jayliew Historical records show that it's mere coincidence, a...
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Show HN: Tubda – An easy way to play our songs and videos together with friends - daajust https://tubda.com ====== daajust My friend and his girlfriend discovered that they unconsciously do listen to similar songs at bedtime. Oh, how beautiful would it be to help them actually play the same songs at bedtime, sharing t...
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Security wish list for 2019 - dlgeek https://alexgaynor.net/2019/jan/06/security-wish-list-2019/ ====== kerng >>The most secure email provider (Gmail) and consumer operating system (ChromeOS) [...] MacOS has arguably been more secure then ChromeOS, maybe even Windows. ChromeOS had some horrific security issues, like...
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OVH down - 56k http://ovh.com/ ====== nly Had some huge (10x) increase in ping times to Roubaix yesterday, but everything seems fine for me today. Firs time in 3 years I've noticed anything. ------ Shank I've got servers in their Canadian datacenter and everything seems peachy. I'm guessing this is their French infra...
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CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web - spahl http://blog.cloudflare.com/cdnjs-the-fastest-javascript-repo-on-the-web ====== jread Low latency with a handful of pingdom monitoring nodes sitting in data centers does not necessarily translate to the "fastest repo on the web". We've tested CloudFlare since their ...
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The CCC English YouTube Channel Terminated - comboy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4QMB95FR6Df6XdQwn8gSg ====== comboy I have it in subscriptions and just noticed accidentally. Couldn't find any info about it. Needless to say there were a lot of excellent videos in there. Some information could be used to do malic...
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Americans say US cars top Asian autos - samratjp http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1425/ap-gfk-poll-americans-say-us-cars-top-asian-autos/ ====== ilkhd2 I prefer Canadian vehicles, New Flyer (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abqride_729.jpg>).
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Ask HN: An Autodidact Asks, "What's Your Favorite Wikipedia Article?" - shawndumas Being that I barely made it out of high school, and am a person who is self-taught, I need to fill in the gaps myself. But knowing what you don’t know is tough. Reading interesting mathematical, historical, philosophical, grammatical,...
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The Cyberpunk Sensibility (2016) - zabana https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/10/27/the-cyberpunk-sensibility/ ====== keypusher The author seems to have wanted to write an article about cyberpunk, but didn't have anything to say. There was no premise or conclusion, simply a few rambling thoughts about the current state of...
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Ask HN: Should you commit package-lock.json? - wawhal Hello HN,<p>We are trying to decide if we should commit package-lock to version control for our JavaScript project.<p>It is generally considered a good practice to commit package-lock to version control to avoid breaking anything due to the dependency updates and t...
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Show HN: IMDB ratings, movie browsing for the lazy (Chrome) - skidding https://github.com/skidding/chrome-imdb-ratings ====== skidding Hi guys. I wanted to take a break from all these TV shows everybody's been watching lately and get the time to catch up with some good movies for a change, but I didn't really know w...
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Judge Protects Secret Muffin Recipe by Barring Employee Hire - grellas http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202443728649&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Law.com&pt=Law.com%20Newswire%20Update&cn=LAWCOM_NewswireUpdate_20100217&kw=Secret%20Muffin%20Recipe%20Prevents%20Executive%20From%20Switching%20Jobs ====== grellas...
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We bought a $1 house in Italy. Here's what happened next - yarapavan https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-one-euro-home-buyers/index.html ====== auslegung Here’s an excellent counterpoint to this [https://www.italianfix.com/italy- giving-away-houses/](https://www.italianfix.com/italy-giving-away-houses/) ----...
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My weekend project: Get Facebook events in your calendar - maggit http://myfbfilter.appspot.com/ ====== maggit The iCal export at Facebook is unfortunately written in a way that lots of calendar software chokes on. I wrote this utility to fix that problem. In the process, I also added a filter on RSVP-status, so yo...
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Engineering Leaders Are Failing Themselves - mooreds https://medium.com/@kathkeating_78433/engineering-leaders-are-failing-themselves-73678d41192b ====== remotecool Skin color and gender do not make a better engineer. We should have diversity of thoughts and ideas and educational backgrounds. Ie: the content of our c...
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GMail is not a business tool. Period. - lostbit http://www.formortals.com/gmail-is-not-a-business-tool-period/ ====== burke To play Devil's Advocate: > Problem #1: Over-aggressive spam filtering In five years of using exclusively GMail (and GAfB, which has the same filters), I have never once missed a legitimate m...
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If you haven't pushed it to revision control, it doesn't exist - edward http://yakking.branchable.com/posts/truism-3-if-you-havent-pushed-it/ ====== dalke Minor historical point. SCCS dates from 1972 and was first written for the IBM 370 and then for Unix on the PDP 11. See [http://basepath.com/aup/talks/SCCS- Slide...
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Show HN: Pauv, a P2P Bitcoin exchange - luisivan http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pauv/x/4135454 ====== 0x006A its unclear to me what "their favourite payment processor" is supposed to be. How does the system prevent fraud? ~~~ luisivan Good question. So, we will implement some payment processors by default, and o...
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Ask HN: What exactly does the Color app do? - eklovlfjkeos Okay, so Color is a photo sharing app - but it's not?... I get that they mine users' data extensively, but can someone give me a detailed example of how the app would actually be used?<p>I don't have a smart phone, so I can't just download the app.<p>Review ...
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Tell HN: Rejected from YC Core and Startup School - real_yc_reject A little disappointing, but I&#x27;ll continue working on my startup nevertheless. Stay strong, don&#x27;t take a YC rejection personally and keep working on your startup anyway. A YC acceptance is not a requirement to succeed. ====== ENadyr Well said....
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Ask HN: What's it like working at Apple? - Flameancer So I went to a job hiring event on Sunday and I got a call sunday asking to comeback tomorrow for an interview. From the way it sounded on Sunday they said if I got a call asking to come back in I was basically hired and they just wanted me to come back to see wh...
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On being a single founder for 7 years - apolymath http://www.markentingh.com/home/entry+on-being-a-single-founder-for-7-years ====== filvdg Mark, nice project,but don't be scared that the product is not completely finished ... it will never be ... your most important next steps are now get customers , get customers...
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Ask HN: Would a book on “Data Engineering” be useful? - vishalzone2002 Hi All, I have been working in the field of data engineering before it was a real title. I was recently approached by a publisher to gauge my interest in publishing either simply on data analysis or data engineering.<p>When I google for &quot;data...
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Abusing the HTML5 History API for fun (and chaos) - mmastrac http://grack.com/blog/2011/03/07/abusing-the-html5-history-api-for-fun-and-chaos/ ====== pak OK, but websites have used alert() since the dawn of time to trap you on the site with an endless stream of annoying modal dialogs. If this ever catches on, browse...
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OCaml for the Masses (2011) - alanfranz https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036 ====== jasim I for one can't wait for Typed FP to become mainstream as soon as possible. I think the prevalence of scripting languages in large systems today is a quirk of history. In early 2000s, as the web was growing to be an appli...
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Show HN: Golang library to convert png/gif/jpeg images into ANSI art - alexellisuk https://github.com/johnmccabe/img2ansi ====== kadirayk looks fun! Some sample output would be great.
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A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013) - bookofjoe https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3 ====== b5 This is one of my favourite _New Yorker_ articles. I wish they published more articles like this. Suicidal thoughts are a really tough thing to deal with. I've struggled with them f...
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Some iPhone apps should not be written in Cocoa - jrnkntl http://kudtler.com/2008/12/some-iphone-apps-should-not-be-written-in-cocoa/ ====== byteCoder A new religious war is breaking out before my eyes: web apps vs. native apps on the iPhone. The reality is that there are lots of native iPhone apps that should be w...
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Ask HN: What software do you use for graphics in mobile games? - FreeRadical I was wondering what software packages are used to create the graphics in games like 'Angry Birds' and 'Plants vs Zombies'...and what are the common software packages people use for this? ====== davidw Since it's available for Nokia, that m...
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Weekend project: web2.0collage creates collage from sniffed browser history - pantsd http://web2.0collage.com ====== crazyirish How was the set of "white-list web2.0 related sites" chosen? ------ pbhj body { background:#0099FF url('/images/g2.png') repeat-y }
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The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million - cwan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125996714714577317.html ====== dantheman I found it interesting that the wynn decided that he was on a self destructive path and decided to ban him from their casino: > In 2006, Mr. Watanabe resided primarily at Wynn Resorts' Wynn Las Vegas > ...
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A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming - throwaway888abc https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/second-coronavirus-death-surge/614122/ ====== claudeganon I’m consistently impressed by the new forms of denialism about the ongoing disaster of a pandemic response in the US (of which pointing at the death ...
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Trolls try and trick people into drilling huge holes in their new iphones - neverminder http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/iphone-7-headphone-hoax-sees-trolls-try-and-trick-people-into-drilling-huge-holes-in-their-new-a7330921.html ====== dexwiz If you did this, you were the same person who ...
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The Europa mission is real and could very well happen - anigbrowl http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2014/03/heres-why-the-europa-mission-is-real-and-could-very-well-happen/#21279101=0 ====== bfe I talked with a NASA engineer in 1998 who was working on the planned Europa probe, and hoping it would be funded enough to includ...
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Ataribox retro mini-console plays current and classic games UK - rbanffy https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/07/ataribox-mini-console/ ====== sk0g Looks pretty cool, but not sure what they mean by "modern games." Angry Birds modern, or full blown Battlefield on PS4 modern?
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New Adventures for Elm - shoover http://elm-lang.org/blog/new-adventures-for-elm ====== jey I've been looking at the options for pure-functional languages targeting JS, and it seems that PureScript is superior to Elm from a technical perspective for full-stack webdev. PureScript takes the approach of providing a full ...
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Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook - wil_I_am_27 https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18195959/facebook-advocacy-groups-ftc-break-up-cambridge-analytica-scandal-data-breach ====== porpoisely "Advocacy groups" hired and funded by whom? There are lots of "advocacy groups" demanding a lot of things. I...
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Carthago delenda est - kwikiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est ====== FabHK Cato's famous phrase, "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam", is feared for its grammar, but it is quite expressive and not really that hard. It is a combination of two constructions: ACI, Accusativus cum infinitivo, whi...
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Singapore gets a hackerspace - dgr http://www.e27.sg/2009/10/14/what-do-seattle-silicon-valley-berlin-and-cambridge-both-cambridges-have-in-common ====== donaq Good move, though the price of membership is a tad steep for a debt-ridden code monkey such as myself.
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Soylent now available on Amazon Launchpad - majewsky http://blog.soylent.com/post/145547071142/soylent-now-available-on-amazon-launchpad ====== majewsky Still only available in the US. I'm eagerly waiting to get my hands on some Soylent over here in Germany.
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My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs - mofey http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html Transcript of Richard Stallman's Speech, 28 Oct 2002, at the International Lisp Conference ====== thurn Emacs is the first and probably best proof that you can write fast and responsive software without needing to stick ...
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Ask HN: what would you put in course for data science? - tomrod I&#x27;m considering putting together a university course on data science, and would like your input as to the skills and techniques you&#x27;d expect a data scientist to have fresh out of school.<p>You all are the experts on what you need, and I&#x27;m...
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You are your biggest failure - cblackthornekc https://medium.com/devops-dudes/you-are-your-biggest-failure-48f3f389e97d ====== qubex And to quote some of Despair.com’s all-time best Demotivators: The only recurring factor in all of your failed relationships is you. It could just be that the purpose of your life is to ...
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In defense of the corporate jet - jsomers http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01garvey.html?scp=1&sq=mile-high%20office&st=cse ====== sgman If I'm a shareholder, I don't want to see profits (ha!) invested in a corporate jet. Fly commercial or better yet cut out travel altogether. ~~~ pfedor I don't think it's...
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SQL Server 2017 Announced. Called “A new database world order” - bobwardms http://www.zdnet.com/article/review-sql-server-2017-adds-python-graph-processing-and-runs-on-linux/ ====== r721 Looks like some kind of spam attack is going on - 20+ submissions from new accounts in 24 hours: [https://news.ycombinator.com/from...
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Why I Don't Like Metro [Microsoft] - What Games Are - tadhgk http://whatgamesare.com/2012/01/why-i-dont-like-metro-microsoft.html ====== tedsbardella Metro is sounding a lot like Microsoft Bob. I loved Bob it was very interesting and fun for a couple of minutes
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Ask HN: What should you do or avoid when pivoting a startup? - aliabd Stories welcome ====== chriscatoya It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking a pivot is a failure and therefore bad. What’s important is that by killing an idea, you’re giving yourself a new opportunity rather than chasing after sunk costs. Fear ...
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I Am Community (And So Are You) - neeharc http://blog.shoutt.me/post/51573499503/i-am-community-and-so-are-you ====== hashgowda Recently back in Bangalore a guy started harassing a family consisting of Mother & daughter by tapping on the door & window @ 1am, 3am in the night. Couple of calls to Police has not solved t...
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Show HN: Find out if you’re being paid fairly and help to reduce pay inequality - ngranja19 https://knowyourworth.site/ ====== ngranja19 What is KYW about? KYW is an anonymous way for people to openly discuss their wages because we believe that sharing salary is the best way to eliminate existing pay gaps in society....
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Supposed creator of Bitcoin gave a speech on the history of the technology - ca98am79 http://www.businessinsider.my/nick-szabo-ethereum-bitcoin-blockchain-history-satoshi-nakamoto-2015-11/#GWKS300eqT2eAQUh.97 ====== Alkim REALLY bad article. Don't waste your time.
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Space Invaders in Perl 6 - szabgab http://ttjjss.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/new-game-space-invaders/ ====== peteretep > Parrot can run this, but awfully slow and JVM has a bug > that makes it impossible to run the game. For those unfamiliar, Perl 6 can now run on several backends: the JVM, the CLR...
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How to visualize a Formula 1 race - CWIZO http://mihafeus.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-visualize-formula-1-race.html?spref=fb ====== RiderOfGiraffes This is what you get if you connect to the F1 live timing. It's live (as it says) and updated in real-time during the race: <http://www.formula1.com/live_timing/live_ti...
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The Digital Marshallese Sovereign - gist https://avc.com/2020/03/the-digital-marshallese-sovereign/ ====== freepor I would also talk up idiotic concepts on my blog for his kind of money.
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Facebook outs hacker with 1 million+ accounts - FluidDjango http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/05/facebook-ups-login-security-outs-hacker-with-15m-accounts.ars ====== kgrin Of course the real trick is for Facebook to automagically _know_ the answer to your secret question rather than having you pre-populate i...
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I Spent Two Years Botting on Instagram – What I Learned - mathgenius https://petapixel.com/2017/04/06/spent-two-years-botting-instagram-heres-learned/ ====== stOneskull that's nuts and an enlightening story. i had no idea this was going on. i think his photos are genuinely really good. it'd be funny to see this exp...
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Chrome Store Foxified – Install Chrome Extensions in Firefox - nozzlegear https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-foxified/ ====== gcb0 wake me up when they reverse all that and I have firefox true extensions on chrome. remember kids, without the power of the old extensions and xul, we would never...
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Videogames Might Be Keeping Young Men Out of the Workforce - lumisota https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2017/07/13/videogames-might-be-keeping-young-men-out-of-the-workforce ====== digikata Is correlation != causation not a consideration anymore? They should have spent much more time seeing if the causation analysis was...
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U.S. Army Exploring “Devastating” New Weapon in the Event of War with Russia - smacktoward http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/04/us-army-exploring-devastating-new-weapon-event-war-russia/136943/ ====== leed25d The thing to do is to put these things in orbit. Imagine a piece of tungsten bigger than a phone pole ...
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Pair vs. Pair: Pair The App Is Being Sued By Pair Networks, The Hosting Company - dwynings http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/05/pair-vs-pair-pair-the-app-is-getting-sued-by-pair-networks-the-hosting-company/ ====== pg This is a lame move by Pair Networks. It reminds me of the days when Sun went around threatening random...
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