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Finding Your Co-Founders - terpua http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/11/finding-your-co-founders/ ====== akkartik To everyone pointing out sites for networking with potential co-founders: I find them disappointing. They're great places to chat with interesting folks, but if you're like me you've been to them for months...
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Amazon Announces Login with Amazon - wanghq http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1824961&highlight= ====== hemancuso I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some...
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DreamWorks Releases Software Used in 'Guardians' - Quekster http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323622904578129551861947218-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMDEyNDAyWj.html ====== corysama The software: <http://www.openvdb.org/>
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Ask HN: why do you get up in the morning - davidjhamp Mine was reason was to try to make the world a better place so that I could feel fulfilled when I died.<p>Now I&#x27;m looking for better alternatives. ====== adzeds Because the Mrs kicks me out the bed and gives me a list of jobs to do! ~~~ davidjhamp That sounds...
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A basic forking server in Oberon-2 - eatonphil https://github.com/norayr/voc/tree/master/src/test/server ====== mizzao Any comment on what is so special about this? ~~~ nine_k If you ever wondered where Go took a lot of good ideas from, look at Modula / Oberon. ~~~ theamk In the code the link points to, I just see a...
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Why Bitcoin lives in a “legal gray area” - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/why-bitcoin-lives-in-a-legal-gray-area/ ====== ChuckMcM Actually its not legal in the US, as part of the original Federation of states and later under 31 U.S.C Sec 5103 the United States has held that it is not legal to co...
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Proposal: Go should have generics - dsymonds https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-generics.md ====== NateDad I work on juju ([https://github.com/juju/juju](https://github.com/juju/juju)), which all told is about 1M LOC. In my almost 3 years on the project, I have not been bothered by lack of gen...
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Regular Expression Denial of Service and Catastrophic Backtracking - guypod https://snyk.io/blog/redos-and-catastrophic-backtracking/ ====== tkadlec Thanks for adding. As a related aside, someone who read the post pointed me in the direction of [http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage- postmortem-j...](http://...
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Ask HN: Early employees – What won you over? - beat Early non-founder employees (first ten or so) at startups - what attracted you to the job? Why did you choose your company over other opportunities? How did the company find you? And what advice do you have for founders looking to make those first critical hires? =...
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The Simple Example of the Double Tetris Lamp - TheRedBarron https://barronwasteland.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/527/ ====== jpeggg Hey, original Tetris proof guy here. Glad to see it works with two lamps! However, since the 'one of each colour' property is a necessary property for a rectangular arrangement to exist, no...
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Ask HN: Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS - wagerlabs I'm located in the Canary Islands, Spain. Any suggestions on where I can buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS and how much it will cost me? My intention is to buy 10 devices a month initially and I want to be able to use them with any carrier, no contract. ====== sganesh [http:...
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Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube Shooting, and the Anxiety of Demonetization - anthotny https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/nasim-aghdam-the-youtube-shooting-and-the-anxiety-of-demonetization ====== Mononokay No. Just no. She was obviously mentally ill beforehand, and the mentally ill are prone to doing irrational things...
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Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning - superfx https://stanfordmlgroup.github.io/projects/chexnet/ ====== nopinsight A high-quality blog series by Luke Oakden-Rayner, a radiologist (MD) who is doing a PhD focusing on applying machine learning to medical images and text. The End of ...
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Click around, hover over a link - ericz http://desandro.com/ ====== DigitalSea This simple effect reminds me of the hey day of horrible animated GIF files, entertaining nonetheless and pretty awesome that this kind of effect can be done without using images. Aside: David DeSandro is awesome. His jQuery Masonry plug...
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PayPal Goes In-Store - 3lit3H4ck3r http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/15/paypal-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 ====== fluidcruft Yeah, sure. I'll let someone use a smart phone to take a picture of my credit card. That has to be the dumbest idea ever. ~~~ gamach...
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Alexis Ohanian, reddit's co-founder, has returned as an advisor - thecoffman http://blog.reddit.com/2011/04/good-news-everyone.html ====== wheels So, what I find more interesting in this is that Reddit did bring in a "new" general manager. What worries me is that it's not actually someone new. Neither is Alexis, f...
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The Professor Has a Daring Past - hvo http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/professor-justus-rosenberg-has-a-past.html ====== doug1001 some lucky 20-year olds at Bard college who happen to sign up for a class by Prof Justus Rosenberg are in for an intellectual experience that they will likely never forget. This N...
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Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io - srpeck https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-20-apache-wave.html ====== ChikkaChiChi Wave was a great idea that was completely misunderstood. Unfortunately, it also seemed to have been misunderstood by the people who designed it. Wave was supposed to be a collaborative replacement for e...
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AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available - SoapSeller https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator-kubernetes-available/ ====== bearforcenine > _we need to set up a way to manage AWS IAM credentials to Kubernetes pods... > In a production system, this should be done using a tool such as kube2i...
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Ultracapacitor Nanotech Breakthrough Could Boost Storage Capacity and Power Output - MikeCapone http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/ultracapacitor-nanotechnology-breakthrough-power-storage.php ====== LogicHoleFlaw Power storage and distribution is the limiting factor in _so many things_ that it's not even funny....
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The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response - ciconia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/04/climate-change-world-war-iii-green-new-deal ====== LinuxBender Please don't turn climate change into a war. The war on drugs has backfired immensely. I don't trust governments to play wit...
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The Xinjiang Procedure - revorad http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/xinjiang-procedure_610145.html ====== blrgeek Warning - extremely disturbing read - and I've read a ton of crazy shit. As interesting as it was - I couldn't actually compel myself to complete reading this. Perhaps later. ~~~ alf I couldn't...
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Need some advice: I'm losing confidence trying to find a job as a Jr Rails dev. - Lhopitals_rule I graduated months ago with a non-computer science degree but spent the latter half of university diving into Rails, Vim, Linux, and other peripheral technologies. I'm comfortable (at varying degrees) with the menagerie ...
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Can You Trust An Early-Stage VC With a HIR and EIR? - mschonfeld http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/45913644960/can-you-trust-an-early-stage-vc-with-a-hir-and-eir ====== itsprofitbaron I think you can trust VC firms because they are _incentivised_ to not steal your idea. In fact, they see that many ideas there will p...
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On building systems that will fail - sbmthakur https://fermatslibrary.com/s/on-building-systems-that-will-fail ====== dredmorbius For those who prefer PDFs (for local reading / archival): [https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691st/readings...](https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691st/readings/OS/...
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LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon - brlewis http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html ====== anigbrowl _But Colaprete couldn't resist a further tease, saying that other features in the spectra hinted at a variety of additional chemicals. "This goes beyond the water," he said, b...
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Messaging as the Single Source of Truth - deegles https://www.confluent.io/blog/messaging-single-source-truth/ ====== mpweiher Messaging as state was described very thoroughly by David Reed[1] in his 1978 thesis[2][3]: [1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed) [2]...
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The State of LTE - cleis http://opensignal.com/reports/state-of-lte/# ====== JamesCRR This was my first attempt at Data-visualisation using d3. I've done a few things with GoogleVis and R, the one is awesome for the web the other is awesome for its flexibility, D3 is awesome for both. I was also pretty much a novice...
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I'm Moving to the Valley What next? - MenaMena123 So what next, I have enough money for a year to live, looking for a parnter/programmer to mix up some ideas. Then what! Tell me your game plan, I have an idea, but my time is limited so i gotta hit the ground running. ====== seanmccann Are you a programmer or just id...
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Ask HN: Who is launching MVP? - pyeu We&#x27;re super interested in knowing what you are launching in March 2018. Please include in your replies the short description of what you are launching, how you got the idea, and URL. ====== good123d67 just launched [http://startmydomain.com](http://startmydomain.com) would lo...
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Node Predictions for 2015 - shubhra51 http://strongloop.com/strongblog/2015-node-js-predictions/ ====== ijroth Glad to see Node making strong progress ------ centrinoblue it was a very good year
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Future Software Superheroes - It’s time for your CodeMontage - vanessa http://developersforgood.org/post/35212705141/introducingcodemontage ====== shuaib $500 fee?!? I don't get it. This is the first time I am hearing about"Developers for Good". Am I missing something? Why would someone pay $500 to solve a problem t...
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Are humans cruel to be kind? - robg http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.400-are-humans-cruel-to-be-kind.html?full=true ====== TheSOB88 Holy crap, this article is amazingly interesting. Please repost it or something. I'd vote for it again.
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Stealthy, destructive malware infects half a million routers - milankragujevic https://www.wired.com/story/vpnfilter-router-malware-outbreak/amp ====== milankragujevic Non-amp version: [https://www.wired.com/story/vpnfilter-router-malware- outbrea...](https://www.wired.com/story/vpnfilter-router-malware-outbreak/) --...
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I tried to find out how much my son's birth would cost. No one would tell me - lkurtz http://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11591592/birth-cost-hospital-bills ====== anywhichway My company has developed several tools to answer these kinds of questions. One of which is publicly available and done for a non-profit: [http://guroo....
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The Wolfram Physics Project - pokolovsky https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/ ====== dang We merged this thread with [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867707](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867707) and kept its titl...
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Google+ Demo - cskau http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/ ====== kyro I'm really looking forward to trying this out, and here's why: With Facebook, I felt as if I was on this huge football field with all of my 'friends.' I could lean in to whisper with a friend here and there, or even put on some face paint and hu...
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$699 Apple Pro Wheels - onewhonknocks https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit ====== kyledrake The Apple apologists are going to call this a marketing stunt, but functionally it's just the inevitable conclusion of a platform monopoly that's extremely hard to leave. All it really does for ...
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Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds” - rmbryan https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet ====== mattknox Wetherell was not involved with launching retweet, and didn't implement much (maybe any?) of the code in that Nov 2009 launch. He proba...
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LOOP (programming language) - anqurvanillapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOP_(programming_language) ====== niklasd We are learning these (meaning LOOP, WHILE, GOTO) in university right now, the course is designed after a short German textbook of Schöning. The proofs on how powerful they are are quite interesting (e...
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Ask HN: How to find the full court documents from Zuck/Andreessen article? - arikr &quot;The case In RE Facebook Class C Reclassification Litigation, CA 12228, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington)&quot;<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chimicles.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;File-Stamped-Facebook-Comp...
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Storing Data in DNA [pdf] - ChuckMcM https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~luisceze/publications/dnastorage-asplos16.pdf ====== aaronmck If this kind of work interests you, I'd also recommending reading Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski's DNA fountain paper (which just came out in Science). They've done some really nice work...
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The iPad is transforming media firms, and frustrating them - cwan http://www.economist.com/node/17043882 ====== tumult The real reason media companies are frustrated (no, really) by the iPad and iPhone is that their entire workflow, and often culture, are based around Flash.
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The $16M offer letter Yahoo sent to poach its CRO from Amazon - coloneltcb http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-offer-letter-lisa-utzschneider-2016-2 ====== eganist 16 million that could've gone towards an innovative product developed under a separate (non-Yahoo) label. If the brand is that expensive to fix, build a ...
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Ask HN: How hard would it be to build a TARS robot? - allenleein ====== sgillen It depends what exactly you mean. Just building 4 metal beams that connect to each other and move in some of the ways you see in the movie is doable. The balance displayed may be accomplished, I suspect a lot of energy would be needed to d...
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Ask HN: Why is "Reform the PhD system or close it down" dead? - arethuza I just logged in to add a comment on this thread to find out that it is dead - why has this happened? ====== owensmartin For quick reference: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474573> ~~~ arethuza Thanks - I guess I should have added that ...
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Responsibility and the Encryption Debate: A Response to DAG Rosenstein - cratermoon https://www.justsecurity.org/46036/responsibility-encryption-debate-response-dag-rosenstein/ ====== berbec Didnt we try this before ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper) chip) and it was determ...
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Ask YC: Why can't you down-mod people's responses to you? - time_management I understand the potential for abuse here, but I feel like the pros outweigh the cons, and I highly doubt that adding this ability would have a "chilling effect" on disagreements. Quite frankly, most of us don't care about karma enough that ...
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Harvey Weinstein tests positive for Covid in prison - mmhsieh https://www.niagara-gazette.com/covid-19/at-new-york-prison-harvey-weinstein-put-in-isolation-after/article_26e38374-6c7d-11ea-9f8a-3b2c09e7817d.html ====== JensRex Blocked in Europe. [https://archive.ph/xVj1D](https://archive.ph/xVj1D)
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Groupon: from dotcom star to just another coupon business - Libertatea http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/02/groupon-dotcom-star-just-another-coupon-business ====== corporalagumbo _Really it never was a social media company. It's a coupon business, which is a perfectly respectable business – but not one wor...
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Is Dreamjb Another Fake iOS 6.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak? - ausman http://www.shoutpedia.com/dreamjb-ios-6.0.1-untethered-jailbreak-release-december-22nd/ ====== Ndrey everybody are welcome to discuss the future Dream JB release and give your personall thought at <http://dreamjb.net/> fan page
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Ask HN: Will people use blockchain without knowing what it is at some point? - JulienDevoir I mean if I take Internet as an example, no one cares about IPv6 protocol. Do you think it will be the same with blockchain? And what is the best way to go there? ====== duiker101 Maybe, but currently, people that use "the bloc...
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13 Xcode Tips That Will Help You Conquer Xcode - mcgraw http://www.xmcgraw.com/13-xcode-tips-that-will-help-you-conquer-xcode/ ====== chrisdroukas On the topic of useful keyboard shortcuts, I like auto indentation of selected lines with control (not command) + i. ~~~ mcgraw I'm really digging this. Thanks for shari...
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Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag - ahmicro http://bytebaker.com/2011/10/19/ubuntu-should-zig-to-apples-zag/ ====== div I don't really understand what the author is trying to say. Granted, it's been a while since I used Ubuntu, but as a developer I mainly live in my editor and terminal. Anything I ever wanted is just ...
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Kylie Jenner is set to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever - nniroclax https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/#1f28a1ddaa62 ====== natorum_9 "Self-made" O Rly ~~~ spraak My thoughts exactly ~~~ borkt All sh...
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Yeoman on FreeBSD 9 - sergeylukin http://sergeylukin.com/2012/yeoman-on-freebsd-9/ How I got Yeoman up and running on FreeBSD 9 ====== lmm The idea of doing "curl -L <URL> | bash" fills me with horror. Is this really the best way to install software in 2012? ~~~ sergeylukin Well what would you offer instead?
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Wrap on integer overflow is not a good idea - AndreyKarpov https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0589/ ====== shikoba It's just the faster method we know. It's not about safety, it's about speed.
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Indonesian cave art may be world's oldest - daegloe http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/10/indonesian-cave-art-may-be-worlds-oldest ====== moioci They mention the oldest depiction of a rhinoceros --- in a cave in France. Mind = blown.
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The TSA's FAST Personality Screening Program Violates the Fourth Amendment [pdf] - CapitalistCartr http://www.aulawreview.org/pdfs/64/64.2/Rogers.Off.To.Website.pdf ====== rayiner This is a note, written by a law student. Not a reason to discount the analysis, per se, but worth keeping in mind if you were thinking of ...
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Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's Legally Imposed Deadlines - Suraj-Sun http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/08/18/unpublished-crs-memo-obama-administration-has-missed-half-of-obamacares-legally-imposed-implementation-deadlines/ ====== beat Congress has voted 40 times this year to overtur...
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Google Colaboratory - goptimize https://research.google.com/colaboratory/ ====== Dowwie This has the potential to serve as a general-use collaborative Python environment
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Masquerade Acquired by Facebook - espinchi http://msqrd.me/joining-facebook.html ====== drum This strikes me as a response to Snapchat's recent success with fun video filters. If you look at the App Store rankings, they've clearly boosted Snapchat's ranking past Instagram and Facebook recently, as they're totally vira...
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Ambient weather display for your home - pstadler http://www.tempescope.com/ ====== bhhaskin This is pretty cool! I would love to see a better "consumer product". The one in the video doesn't appear to be sealed very well.
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Nokia’s Losses Fires Up Finland's Start-Up Culture - pbahra http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/08/04/nokias-losses-become-finlands-gains/ ====== latch I went through hundreds of resumes from Nortel employees (and a few interviews) while Nortel was bleeding employees. It was pretty brutal, their skill set was irre...
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Ask HN: Fastest way to get to MVP for something I'd like to try - sendos What's the fastest/easiest way to get to an MVP for a site where people post some text, and then others vote on that text, and can also add comments of their own. The submissions are ranked by the number of upvotes minus downvotes.<p>Sort of li...
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Usability of Programming Languages - Garbage http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/R201/ ====== phrotoma The section on experts is fascinating!
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Amsterdam – My (Not Mine) Home 4Klapse Film - teekert https://youtu.be/yu3pvWGnYVs ====== aequitas This (Dutch) article goes a little more in depth about the process and the tools used: [https://tweakers.net/geek/168250/tweaker-toont- timelapsevide...](https://tweakers.net/geek/168250/tweaker-toont- timelapsevideo-van...
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Watch: MICA, Magic Leap's Eerily Human AI Avatar Who Looks You in the Eye - Kroeler http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/10/video-mica-ai-avatar-magic-leap.html ====== karmakaze I wouldn't list machines being able to communicate emotions to people as important. The limited value I do sed is having a machine express uncertain...
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Ask HN: RSS feed of my comments/submissions - aj Is it possible to get the RSS feed of my submissions and comments? It would be useful to have and display on other sites ====== nreece _shameless plug_ Try our webapp to create a custom RSS feed from any webpage: <http://feedity.com> ~~~ aj Not too bad. But it does n...
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Dark Patterns: Inside the interfaces designed to trick you - Evolved http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-inside-the-interfaces-designed-to-trick-you ====== praptak I have recently spotted a real-life dark pattern: [http://imgur.com/wFsfrfl](http://imgur.com/wFsfrfl) It's a gas station in Poland....
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The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks - alexforster https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/ ====== kyledrake I strongly believe it's not possible to safely run a site without DDoS protection for all servers anymore. Anyone with $20 can take down anything ...
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New silicon valley in international waters near SF - PetoU http://blueseed.co ====== matt__rose Why does this remind me of: [http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mansion_Family](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mansion_Family) ------ nemasu I'm getting Bad Gateway / Gateway Timeout. ------ johndegree Doesn't work...
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ASDF Version Manager - Croaky https://www.statusok.com/asdf-version-manager ====== jolmg Not to be confused as related to Common Lisp's ASDF build system.
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Apple backtracks on netbooks, zoom - meelash The announcements today were interesting because Apple seems to have backtracked on a couple of their philosophies, one of them quite long-standing. The release of a low power, very small new version of the macbook air (basically a netbook, given the old processor, low me...
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7 Search Engines vs. Google = Fail - nickb http://www.compuplus.com/blog/2008/05/27/7-search-engines-google/ ====== schtog yes the link fails...am i missing the point?
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What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? - raybb https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer-and-software-is-used-by-the-falcon-9 ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23368109](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23368109).
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New Horizons Will Have Little Time to Measure Pluto’s Atmosphere - omnibrain http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/after-a-9-year-voyage-new-horizons-will-have-little-time-to-measure-plutos-atmosphere ====== dakr Just last night the SOFIA Observatory observed Pluto during an occultation [1], a very rare ev...
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"Alone Together": An MIT Professor's New Book Urges Us to Unplug - J3L2404 http://www.fastcompany.com/1716844/alone-together-an-mit-professors-new-book-urges-us-to-unplug ====== pygy_ Please change the title of the submission, this isn't editorialization but downright insult. Meanwhile: flag. ~~~ noahr I thought ...
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ShowHN: MuleDrive email attachments to Google Drive and Dropbox - freddy I wanted to be able to forward attachments from any email client and save it to Google Drive. So I created http://muledrive.com. All feedback is appreciated. ====== s10r Clickable: <http://muledrive.com>
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What a Small World: Carmen Ortiz, Aaron Swartz, and Tarek Mehanna - pms http://translationexercises.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/what-a-small-world-carmen-ortiz-aaron-swartz-and-tarek-mehanna/ ====== hamai > _under Massachusetts law, the potential sentence that Swartz faced was more > than the maximum sentence given to ...
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OAuth Device Authorization for Roku, AppleTV, Xbox - brokenwren https://fusionauth.io/blog/2019/10/29/oauth-device-authorization-roku-appletv-xbox ====== robotdan The last time I had to type in my Netflix password into my Roku using a d-pad I nearly chucked the remote at my TV. Not sure why everyone doesn't use this ...
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VistaDB shutting down because of business operating costs - fraXis http://infinitecodex.com/post/2010/07/07/Closing-VistaDB-Office.aspx ====== Nwallins > _Option – Open Source the Product_ > _No, Not really an option at all. Who would work on it? Sure lots of people > love to consume open source projects, but very ...
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Detroit police chief admits facial recognition is wrong “96% of the time” - furcyd https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/detroit-police-chief-admits-facial-recognition-is-wrong-96-of-the-time/ ====== rurban Unscientific. The best facial recognition is accurate 98%-99.9% of the time. There are minor known problem...
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How workers ended up in cubes – and how they could break free - e15ctr0n http://www.economist.com/news/international/21637359-how-workers-ended-up-cubesand-how-they-could-break-free-inside-box ====== hristov The Economist are being rather disingenuous here. They explain how the cubicle is a bad thing, and then they go...
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Show HN: Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE - iogf https://github.com/vyapp/vy ====== nine_k What I love about this project is that a lot of it is glue code. It is an _integrated_ development environment because it takes existing tools and integrates them, not rewrites. I also like that you can develop plu...
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Linear Web Design: info - design - code - benblodgett http://sitecollab.com/web-design-process/ ====== mundizzle This article describes an outdated process. "Adjusting round corners for a button in photoshop is easier then[sic] adjusting border-radius in css" Actually, in CSS it couldn't be more simple... border-r...
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From Markdown to RCE in Atom - 0x0 https://statuscode.ch/2017/11/from-markdown-to-rce-in-atom/ ====== shams93 I get clowned sometimes for using emacs but this is a great example of why using a "long in the tooth" editor can be an advantage.
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Ash HN: What are great free resources for hackers? - hx_ ====== andrewstuart2 MIT OpenCourseware [1] -- Free lectures (probably at least half the value of a college course -- free) from some of the best teachers out there. Youtube -- Skip the entertainment aisle and YouTube is chock full of learning on tons of subject...
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Ask HN: What's stopping anyone of you from creating a bitcoin alternative? - machilin Judging from the prices of Bitcoin and more recently, Litecoin and the creation of new currency, it dawned on me: What's stopping me or anyone of you guys from creating your own "currency" and making a quick profit? Here's the plan...
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EA Takes Down 'Open Source' SimCity 2000 Remake - throwaway180118 https://torrentfreak.com/ea-takes-down-open-source-simcity-2000-remake-180730/ ====== kup0 Bundling the graphic assets doomed this from the beginning. It was only a matter of time. ------ Cypher fuck EA ~~~ wingi If anyone on the project knows the cop...
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Editor Wars - lnalx https://hackaday.com/2016/07/26/editor-wars/ ====== ktRolster ok, so the article made this claim: >[emacs users] tend to be touch typists. That really made me wonder: aren't most programmers touch typists?
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Regression and extraction - masnick http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3325-regression-and-extraction ====== endlessvoid94 All valid points. I do suspect, though, that "the ones who came before" noticed this years ago. Things are worse (re: patents and app stores), but the idea of the industry slowly taking a turn for th...
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The Star Trek Economy - FD3SA https://medium.com/editors-picks/29bab88d50 ====== harshreality I think this is a useless exercise. The economics of Star Trek won't be coherent, because it was pieced together through multiple series and some wishful thinking while retaining certain properties needed for the universe to ...
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Fragmenting Linux is not the way to beat Apple - AndrewWarner http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-20004567-16.html ====== MikeCapone Interesting. So it's not "beat Microsoft" anymore. That must hurt in Redmond... ~~~ tzs Perhaps the idea is that if you can't beat Apple, then you can't beat something bigger either, suc...
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Now THIS Is Entrepreneurial Hustle - with Jennifer Reuting - Gabriel_Martin http://mixergy.com/jennifer-reuting-myllc-interview/ ====== tians watched this on mixergy
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SVGjs 3.0 Advent Calendar – Day 18 - fuzzyma https://codepen.io/fuzzyma/pen/wRzjXo ====== fuzzyma You can find the whole calendar at twitter (@svg_js): [https://twitter.com/svg_js](https://twitter.com/svg_js)
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Why James Baldwin Still Matters - samclemens http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/why-james-baldwin-still-matters ====== habosa I recently read my first two Baldwin books (Go Tell It On The Mountain and The Fire Next Time) and in both cases I was blown away by the completeness of his treatment of racism at a time...
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A Modern Programming Operating System - rays http://slakinski.com/a-modern-programming-operating-system/ ====== hakaaaaak Any modern operating system that allows open development fits the bill. I think what the OP is saying is that he would settle for having it run on top of Linux, but I'd bet that he wants the core...
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BitTorrent to Fork IPFS to Create Decentralized File-Storage System - okket https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-to-fork-ipfs-to-create-decentralized-storage-system-190531/ ====== convolvatron is this a fork for protocol/technical reasons or to use a different currency? it wasn't clear from the linked article.
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The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird - jaxc http://www.vfp62.com/SR-71.html ====== fizx I just wanted to chime in that the reason I'm a programmer today is that my grandpa helped program the navigation systems on the SR-71. I found that slightly inspirational :) ~~~ jacquesm That's so cool. Imagine, most of us do...
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