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YNAB releases an API - darkpicnic https://api.youneedabudget.com/ ====== cremp I used to love YNAB, until they went to the web-based, and threw away their fat client. This only proves that they have had your financial data since they moved to the web client, and probably sell that juicy data.
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Show HN: Five promising Evernote alternatives - nicolaspr https://medium.com/@attilaorosz/five-evernote-alternatives-to-suit-any-workflow-714be108e2d9#.gzw5y5dxp ====== arca_vorago Even better, see all the alternatives: [http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/?license=opensour...](http://alternativeto.net/softwar...
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How should our kids play at recess? Alameda schools offer lessons - JamilD http://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/How-should-our-kids-play-at-recess-Alameda-10995385.php ====== rl3 When I was a kid, both the local park and elementary school playgrounds had climbable constructs made out of widely-spaced wooden lo...
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Forget the Goggles: Chlorophyll Eye Drops Give Night Vision (2009) - DocFeind http://discovermagazine.com/2009/sep/04-forget-goggles-chlorophyll-eye-drops-give-night-vision ====== ColinCera Interesting. It says it doubles night vision ability, but night vision goggles/scopes give 10000x - 50000x amplification. If the ...
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Show HN: Who Is Hiring Android App That Pulls Listing from HN, Angel, Lever, SE - symisc_devel https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.symisc.whois.hiring ====== symisc_devel Author Here: Basically, we pull listing from HN, StackExchange, Angel, Lever, etc. We index them by types (Remote, Fulltime, Freelance...
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Probability as Space - jballanc http://thebitfarm.blogspot.com/2009/01/probability-as-space.html ====== psyklic The real point of confusion is that people don't realize that BG/GB are two separate states. Like many of the recent blog articles, this one also doesn't clearly explain why you need to consider both BG an...
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Peter Cooper's "Beginning Ruby" ebook for $10 on Apress - raju http://www.apress.com/info/dailydeal ====== raju Reviews on Amazon for the same <http://tinyurl.com/5c65xg> ~~~ icey Non-tinied URL: [http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice- Professional/dp/...](http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice- Professi...
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FundersClub (YC S12) helps Soldsie recruit Chief Scientist - mittal http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/09/value-add-of-crowdfunding-fundersclub-soldsie/ ====== jeffwass Nice one, FundersClub. Good to see the benefits FC brings to their startup clients extending beyond just capital sourcing. There's also a great quote f...
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Gifs (in your terminal) - kwl https://github.com/levthedev/gif ====== _will I've always thought it would be cool if I could have the option to run more rich apps in my terminal - ncurses and lynx come to mind as examples. ~~~ 51582 I wish more websites were readable with Lynx. A lot of sites use a ton of crazy JavaSc...
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Show HN: A first look at what we’re building - srn_ http://blog.buildingthetool.com/post/107414350736/a-first-look-at-what-were-building ====== xyby please tell me in one sentence. not in one vieeo.
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Modula-2 Reloaded – A Modern Typesafe and Literate Programming Language - networked http://modula-2.info/m2r10/ ====== zokier The problem with Pascal/Wirthian family of languages in my opinon is that they are really scattered and it is somewhat difficult for an outsider to discover what is the currently alive variatio...
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Top Mistakes in Behavior Change - gnufied http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/personal-development/top-10-mistakes-in-behavior-change.html ====== rednum Previous discussion on HN concerning the same slides (minus the guys comments): <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106553> tldr: start small, don't set bullsh...
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Tesla's Cybertruck would not get regulatory approval in Europe - bakuninsbart https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/tesla-cybertruck-bekaeme-in-europa-keine-zulassung-a-1301086.html ====== mtmail 95 comments two days ago at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788668](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788668) -...
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How to remotely debug Java and JSP with Eclipse - jvmhost http://www.jvmhost.com/articles/remotely-debug-java-jsp-eclipse ====== llcoolv ive been doing it for at least 8 years - how is this news? ~~~ EdSharkey I learned what jwdp stands for. Never bothered to research that. As for remote debugging a hosted JVM, I wo...
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Jeff Pulver opens up on Silicon Valley’s scorn for old entrepreneurs - Libertatea http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/10/09/jeff-pulver-opens-up-on-silicon-valleys-scorn-for-old-entrepreneurs-and-why-every-start-up-needs-a-lead-singer/ ====== dreamweapon _I was in Silicon Valley two years ago mee...
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The Basic Layout of the Google User Data Empire - makimaki http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com/index.php/googles-user-data-empire/ ====== jodrellblank This article does miss out quite a lot of Google information gathering sites (Hosted gmail for business use, default search on the iphone, maps+GPS on the iphone, Picasa, y...
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Ask YC: What do you think of Apple's SDK vs. Open Tool Chain from a business perspective? - kcy So several people seem to agree that the Open Tool Chain allows everything Apple's SDK does and more. But, if you want to start a company based on the iPhone do you think it's preferrable to use Apple's SDK to remain "of...
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Is Windows improving, and MacOs failing? - tabulatouch Ever since Windows 7 I was able to get better performances on older PCs, Windows 8 made me resuscitate 6 years old machines, Windows 10 seems to improve it even more. On the other hand my Macs are stuck on ancient Os releases, cannot install majority of apps, and ...
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Show HN: Brit/Euro version of Threadless tee design competition- Facebook App - NiceGuyJimmy ====== NiceGuyJimmy Hello fellow HN pals- Jay and I were sick of waiting for shipping from threadless over in the states and paying a premium for delivery, so we hacked together this MVP as a Facebook app. We are London ba...
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Is Facebook Innovative? - shivkapoor http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/12/20/is-facebook-innovative/ ====== rayhano Of course: for one, Facebook has pushed the boundaries of what we accept in terms of privacy. They have changed the behaviour of the whole world (not single-handed, but they have really pushed). Their ...
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How Easy and Cheap It Is to Manipulate Reddit Discussions - coinmall https://medium.com/@coinmallio/how-easy-and-cheap-it-is-to-manipulate-reddit-discussions-4139a488542 ====== minimaxir This post is being vote manipulated. It’s not working. ~~~ coinmall LPT: Don't share a social media link with sources who earn the...
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Airbus electric passenger drone makes first flight at Pendleton UAS range - walrus01 http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/robo-air-taxi-makes-first-flight-pendleton-airport ====== walrus01 more info: [https://www.fastcompany.com/40518081/inside-airbuss-mad- dash...](https://www.fastcompany.com/40518081/inside-airbuss-mad-das...
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Why does HipChat client 2.2.1080 flash my webcam on startup? - dm03514 I&#x27;m running HipChat client 2.2.1080 on ubuntu 64bit and whenever I start the application the webcam flashes. I have just asked hipchat help directly and have posted on superuser.stackexchange but was hoping we could get to the truth of this...
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Foursquare Now Six Million Users Strong, Hit 381M Total Check-Ins In 2010 - obilgic http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/24/foursquare-now-six-million-users-strong-hit-381m-total-check-ins-in-2010/ ====== brk "Strong"? 381 / 6 = 63.5 checkins/user. Or, about 5 per month. Doesn't seem like a high-engagement app to me. I to...
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Sonny – Fast single page app engine - develix https://github.com/felixmaier/sonnyJS ====== RussianCow You know how to make an incredibly fast single page app? Pre-render it on the server. I'm tired of waiting several seconds while the JS framework gets initialized. ~~~ huula You are right, [http://huu.la](http://hu...
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LABjs - Loading And Blocking Javascript - mshafrir http://labjs.com/ ====== akaGOMEZ I like it.
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That guy who called the big one? Don’t listen to him. - aaronbrethorst http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/09/that_guy_who_called_the_big_one_dont_listen_to_him/?page=full ====== d2viant I had a professor that told me it's actually a good strategy to make wild predictions far in the future. If you...
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Ford recalls 1.5M Focuses for faulty fuel tank purge valves - extraterra https://arstechnica.com/?p=1400149 ====== hector_ka Just bought one from 2014. Has horrible transmission that has a recall, and I was just thinking about taking it to the dealer.Why not go for 2 recalls instead of 1.
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The Hacker Way, an alternative to Agile - tosh http://www.vimeo.com/110554082 ====== tosh An incredibly polemic delivery. Erik Meijer is a manifestation of the 10th man here. If you look beyond the surface/delivery of the talk you will see some profound truth about the industry we're in. I also see some parallels ...
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Why You Need to be in Silicon Valley - prakash http://startupboy.com/2010/01/17/why-you-need-to-be-in-silicon-valley/ ====== toddml Tell that to foursquare, tumblr, bit.ly, etsy, gilt, drop.io, aviary, boxee, meetup, gdgt, hunch, betaworks, hot potato, kickstarter, challengepost, etc, etc, etc. All New York startup...
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Jaquard Loom - colund http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom ====== chestnut-tree There's a short (3 min) video of how a Jacquard Loom works on the V&A website (V&A = Victoria & Albert Museum, London). There's no sound in the video but it shows, using animation, how patterns are woven into the fabric. [http://www...
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Show HN: Write blog in Emacs with hexo/org-page - codefalling https://github.com/CodeFalling/blog-admin ====== gravypod What does the generated blog look like? ~~~ pachydermic Looks like it uses [https://github.com/kelvinh/org- page](https://github.com/kelvinh/org-page) You can see an example and more info there ~~...
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Devs have eaten the world (and still have room for dessert) - r0dms https://medium.com/quine/devs-have-eaten-the-world-523c8a1d1da2 ====== r0dms An essay on open-source, the future-of-work, and new interfaces between devs and the labour markets.
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Ask HN: I don't know how to raise money. How should I? - zmkahn Throwaway.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to raise money.<p>What&#x27;s a first time entrepreneur with a solid technical &amp; business background, tons of experience, a working product in the hands of soon-to-be-paying B2B customers supposed to do to get star...
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A Short Fuse For Fusion As Ignition Misses Deadline - rdamico http://www.npr.org/2012/11/28/166095618/a-short-fuse-for-fusion-as-ignition-misses-deadline ====== mtgx If they do gut it, can we at least get all the science they've done in open source, especially since they've used $5 billion in tax payer's money to do...
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Baydin Closes Its $375,000 Funding Round (In An UberCab, Per Our Suggestion) - migmartri http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/baydin-closes-its-375000-funding-round-in-an-ubercab-per-our-suggestion/ ====== pclark Did it take from October to raise $375,000? was that with a single guy on it dedicated or part time fund rai...
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Dwolla Gets Into Government With Iowa Tax-Paying Plan - mjshampine http://www.fastcompany.com/3004961/who-needs-starbucks-dwolla-gets-govt-iowa-tax-paying-plan ====== JimWillTri Not sure why you would use Dwolla to pay state taxes. Most states allow ACH transfers. ------ venomsnake Is there any reason for the lack of...
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Can we feed a future population of 10B people a healthy diet? - open-source-ux https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/ ====== open-source-ux Related BBC report: _The diet to save lives, the planet and feed us all?_ [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46865204](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46865204)
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Intel Goes for 48-Cores: Cascade-AP with Multi-Chip Package Coming Soon - dmmalam https://www.anandtech.com/show/13535/intel-goes-for-48cores-cascade-ap ====== drewg123 I wonder if it doubles the PCIe lanes as well as the core count and memory channels. It is .. interesting that they are only at 1.3x EPYC for Stream....
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Are Aliens Trying to Contact Earth? - wmat http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4061990/Are-aliens-trying-contact-Earth-Six-new-mysterious-blasts-radio-energy-detected-deep-space.html ====== gus_massa The Alien part is a ... totally unsupported speculation. Can we change the title? A good candidate is: "Six ...
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Import.io – Structured Web Data Scraping - steeples https://import.io/ ====== mlandauer If you're concerned about using a hosted scraping platform because it might disappear check out [https://morph.io](https://morph.io) \- it's open source as well [https://github.com/openaustralia/morph](https://github.com/openaustra...
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Where Have All the Bold VCs Gone? - redorb http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/15/where-have-all-the-bold-vcs-gone/ ====== hooande It seems like news.yc really influences the conversation on tech blogs. I see a lot of blog posts on techmeme that seem to be in response to "Ask YC" submissions. Has any one else been not...
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KONG: open-source, centralized management layer for microservices and APIs - tilt https://github.com/Mashape/kong ====== detaro [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451947](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451947)
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Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Server Farm with Load Balancing - robwgibbons Hey HN,<p>I am a Web developer with only rudimentary knowledge of how a server farm is physically designed and maintained. Nevertheless I would like to build a tiny rack filled with about a dozen Raspberry Pi computers (when suppliers allow buying that...
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Idiots rule the AT&T Yahoo worlds - ramiyer21a Some idiots decided that I need to see full page news items and should really click (four time) to get to my email. My email home page suddenly changed to a new and shiney "AT&#38;T Powered by Yahoo" page. Thus forcing me to go to an email client like thunderbird (or me...
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Show HN: Squirrel feeder based on Raspberry Pi - ulf http://blog.ulfster.com/post/114938394419/diy-automated-squirrel-feeder ====== yareally I've been mulling about doing something like that for blue jays and peanuts to ration out their allotment in a sustainable manner. A family of blue jays (or most birds in the C...
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City Lights – suite of gorgeous dark theme goodies for Atom and Visual Studio Code - saoudy http://citylights.xyz/ ====== jmnicolas Found my new theme, thanks HN ! Spoke too fast, I can't download it for VS Code and I don't have git on my work computer :-(
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Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of lean or agile for recruiting? - dlf This is more or less a random thought, but I've noticed that recruiting has basically continued to do business the same way for decades with no major disruptions to their business process.<p>Everyone says that recruiting is broken, so is a fundame...
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Android 4.4 KitKat Targets Google's Next Billion Users - hackhackhack http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/31/android-4-4-kitkat-google/ ====== sheikhimran01 Does the new Chromium WebView has WebRTC? Its says it is included in the 4.4SDK
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The FCC could ask you to pay to complain - josefresco https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fcc-could-ask-pay-complain-132200240.html ====== poster123 The $225 fee seems high, but nowadays it is easy to start a social media campaign encouraging people to complain, and I don't want the government to spend a lot of money respo...
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HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell - snowmaker Starting at 11 am PST today, Trevor Blackwell and I are going to do online office hours. If you&#x27;d like help with your startup, please post a top-level comment with a one or two sentence description of what you do and the first thing you&#x27;d l...
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Masterji: Coventry's secret 94-year-old photographer – in pictures - prismatic https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/nov/10/masterji-coventry-photographer-maganbhai-patel-immigration-in-pictures ====== olivermarks [https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry- news/tribute...](https://www.coventryte...
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Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing - sharpn http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/6170112/Gordon-Brown-Im-proud-to-say-sorry-to-a-real-war-hero.html ====== slackenerny Congratulations jgrahamc! (It was his campaign to effectiveness of which many, including me, were sceptical.) Furthe...
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Bribing users for iPhone app installs - msencenb http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2010/09/05/bribe-for-install/ ====== michael_dorfman _However, we’d have to really, seriously, question whether people you get this way are going to stay engaged with your app long enough for there to conceivably be any positive value pr...
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Free real time rendering resources - allending http://www.realtimerendering.com ====== allending Look for some gems in the 'free' section.
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Breaking the rules of video game design with a collection of free strategy games - scorecard Design principles for the eSports for engineers game collection are:<p>1. target audience is people who enjoy reading dense technical material<p>2. designed to accompany your daily exercise bike workout, for 30 min to one hour...
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Help American Workers. Pass TPP. – Michael Bloomberg and Thomas Donohue - soroushjp https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-16/help-american-workers-pass-tpp ====== dalke "Charter schools are pubic even though their books are not open for audit" Bloomberg? "Raising minimum wage is 'one of the most misguided th...
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Ask HN: Why Shouldn’t I Use Lisp? - nicholas-cc I’ve been following people like Jonathan Blow, as well as Paul Graham. I’ve learned Lisp and kind of like it, but I’ve heard Jonathan Blow say that A) GC is bad, and B) not to use Lisp and other similar languages. Could you explain these reasons not to use Lisp&#x2F;hig...
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Entrepreneurs Will Save America - breck http://www.linkrap.com/Entrep ====== known Reminds me of Ronald Reagan quote. "Entrepreneurs have built America." ~~~ nazgulnarsil entrepreneurs built modern civilization.
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Multi-Service Local Development Environment with Vagrant and Docker - cbrantley http://devbandit.com/2015/05/29/vagrant-and-docker.html ====== lioeters Love the clear, concise example repo and informative explanation. Perfect introduction to start exploring this concept. Thank you for sharing, looking forward to mor...
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Ask HN: A good book on Calculus? - mannicken Hi,<p>After a year-long break I'll continue studying math this fall.<p>What I want is some refreshment on calculus. Does anyone know something similar to Feynman's Lectures on Physics, just on calculus? Feynman's books were really fucking awesome and I would like a simila...
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The Alternative Facts of Cable Companies - ccdd4 https://backchannel.com/the-alternate-facts-of-cable-companies-f0cd1e10e66#.fwht3dxix ====== webmaven We have all seen this pattern in the past few years: _Although the FCC in 2015 relabeled high-speed internet access as a regulated product, neither it nor state commi...
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HTML/XML Parsing with Node & jQuery - mjijackson http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/node_jquery_xml_parsing ====== pshc I was scraping with jQuery for a while but it felt like an awful lot of overhead. In the case of simpler scraping tasks that happen a lot I've actually gone back to nuts and bolts with HTML5[1]'s tokeni...
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The Actual Science of James Damore’s Google Memo - Simon321 https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-damores-google-memo/ ====== unityByFreedom Was Damore referencing race when he brought up IQ in the memo? "the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ[8...
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Show HN: ParisHilton.js - knowbody https://github.com/knowbody/ParisHilton.js ====== ColinWright So how many people are going to clone this repo and then submit it here? [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686054](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686054) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686077](https...
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Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple - aynlaplant http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57550839-71/woz-microsoft-might-be-more-creative-than-apple/ ====== jacquesm Imagine if Bill Gates were to give interviews like this commenting on Microsoft. Woz is one of my heroes, but I can easily see that the Apple PR d...
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Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse' - stfu http://www.france24.com/en/20130608-assange-us-rule-law-suffering-calamitous-collapse ====== ihsw One has to wonder how the world's governments will react to this, especially since they won't be publishing blog posts in a similar manner to Google et al. T...
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In a First, Square Tops $100M in US Sales in One Day - jonastern http://www.wired.com/2014/12/square-100m-sales/ ====== kitbrennan _noting that this kind of sales volume ranks it as the 13th largest U.S. retailer by annual sales_ Statements like this are very misleading. Square isn't a retailer, it is a payment pro...
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Show HN: I am currently.... - lostirc http://francisaltomare.com/upvotes/ ====== binarymax Interesting. One small usability tip if you can be bothered...might want to have the count on the left side of the text, so you don't have to scroll when long entries have been submitted. ~~~ lostirc great idea, thanks ----...
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Ask HN: What makes your product unique? - mickyvicky 1- What is your product?<p>2- In one sentence (just one) explain what makes your product unique from the rest of the market.<p>3- In one more sentence (just one more) explain how you got to find the niche you&#x27;re building the product for.<p>4- Are you pre or po...
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The “Google banned our entire company” story was likely a fake - askvictor In the interests of correcting potentially misleading news, a couple of responses from Googlers on HN https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17120223 and Reddit (same content as on HN: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;g...
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Townscaper - doener https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper/ ====== simonebrunozzi This is so fascinating in many ways. This little indie game is having a blast, and reviews are raving about it. I draw two main conclusions: 1) There is enormous interest in how we build cities, how we live in them, and...
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Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) - arikr https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ ====== nattaylor Reminds me of [https://web.archive.org/web/20171023045242/http://www.samefa...](https://web.archive.org/web/20171023045242/http://www.samefacts.com/2013/04/everything- else/advice-to-alex-m/) "Wh...
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Your Ignorance Does Not Make a Programming Language Suck - edw519 http://coffeeghost.net/2008/03/19/your-ignorance-does-not-make-a-programming-language-suck/ ====== astine I disagree with this. The argument seems to be that the only valid reasons to discredit a language are extrinsic to the language itself. Granted,...
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Ask HN: How do you get into mental flow? - elamje I think many of us here are software people or in a job that requires holding complex ideas in your head for long periods of time. I’m curious what you all use to get into the zone and stay there.<p>Do you have a mental hack, a playlist, white noise, etc?<p>I personall...
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What-the-pack: ultra-fast messagepack in JavaScript for Node.js and browsers - davalapar https://github.com/davalapar/what-the-pack ====== davalapar Lol damn this should've been in show tab. Fuck
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Never send email marketing campaigns on a Friday - cpursley The title pretty much says it all.<p>Much lower open and click rates. Higher unsubscribes.<p>The Mail Chimp does not lie. ====== dirktheman I've been heavily involved with direct marketing and email marketing for years, I can tell you this is not a rule tha...
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Cross-browser collection of nice looking CSS box-shadows - madeas https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/8pafjn/crossbrowser_collection_of_nice_looking_css/ ====== laurent123456 Direct link - [https://github.com/madeas/box- shadows.css](https://github.com/madeas/box-shadows.css)
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99% code coverage (2017) - fagnerbrack https://rachelcarmena.github.io/2017/09/01/do-we-have-a-good-safety-net-to-change-this-legacy-code.html ====== cryptica The industry is obsessed with getting 100% unit test code coverage even though it doesn't mean anything to the project. The purpose of unit tests is to lock dow...
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Getting into the tech scene when you have no skills - kevin_morrill http://josephwalla.com/getting-into-the-tech-scene-when-you-have-no-skills ====== ryen I think the first thing people should ask themselves is: Why are you trying to get into this scene without any skills? In the last 10 years Silicon Valley and star...
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A Proposal: Renaming Backend/Frontend to Application/UI Developers - zappan http://theothersideofcode.com/renaming-backend-frontend-to-application-ui-developers ====== zacharyvoase I tried calling myself an 'Application Developer' once before, and it lasted about 5 minutes, because I suddenly started receiving reque...
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Yahoo to Replace PHP with JavaScript on Server Side (Node.js) - mlemos http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/14-Is-JavaScript-going-to-replace-PHP--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast-episode-7.html ====== farrel Headline is incorrect.
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Linux vs. Bullshit - Mithrandir http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-vs-bullshit ====== dap I found this article confusing because the introduction -- the title, the SunOS history, the Longfellow quote, and Morton's quote -- all suggest a self- righteous position around technical integrity and engineering choices...
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Startup Quote: Marissa Mayer, vice president, Google - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/3087317670 ====== raychancc If you need the user to tell you what you’re selling, then you don’t know what you’re selling, and it’s probably not going to be a good experience. \- Marissa Mayer (@marissamayer) <http://star...
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Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio - tiburon https://websitevoice.com ====== mindwork If this is not a wake up call for me, I don't know what it should be. I had this same exact idea for 9 months now but never moved to execute. Reading through site it even has the same wording as in my head. As a de...
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Advanced Git Tutorial - r11t http://thesharps.us/~sarah/advanced-git.pdf ====== gruseom Don't waste your time. This is a 4MB pdf consisting of slides that say things like this: _git commit – commits added changes to the local repo_ ~~~ limmeau although it points to useful things like git add --p...
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Dwarf Fortress update 2 years in making to be released next week. - bobjordan http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139852.0 ====== bobjordan This post got 4 votes in the first 2 hours, on 2nd page, then quickly disappeared. Obviously the HN mods put the high decay rate mojo on it. Not sure why.
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Italian Supreme Court: News "expires", online archives would need to be deleted - eagerToLearn http://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/2016/07/01/news/a-ruling-by-the-italian-supreme-court-news-do-expire-online-archives-would-need-to-be-deleted-1.275720 ====== tehwalrus "Winston Smith works as a clerk in the Records D...
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A material that shrinks when warm - Mz Http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151008173511.htm ====== hcrisp Perhaps not related, but doesn't water shrink when it transitions from ice to liquid water? I know it increases in density (thus ice floats). ~~~ zaphar I think the more interesting thing about the Scand...
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Show HN: Neeto, a secure code box for developers - mobitar https://neeto.io/ ====== mobitar Neeto is a place for developers to store their commonly used commands and useful code snippets. It has a high emphasis on privacy while also making it easy to publish your content. Snippets are encrypted server side before bei...
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Leaked Docs Show Spyware Used to Snoop on U.S. Computers - erkose https://www.propublica.org/article/leaked-docs-show-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-u.s.-computers ====== dthal This is a serious question: why isn't this illegal?
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Everything I Know About Startup Marketing I Learned From Punk Rock - francoismathieu http://blog.francoismathieu.ca/punk-rock-marketing?hn ====== designieure sounds very logical - many thanks for sharing this article
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GPD Win is a pocket-sized Windows 10 laptop - modinfo http://www.gpdwin.com/ ====== sevensor We're back to netbooks now? Resolution has improved since I had a 1024x600 eeepc, although 1280x720 is still not much. ~~~ qbrass It's more of a Windows version of a Pandora than a netbook.
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Ask HN: Create your own open-source stack for product usage analytics and BI? - kochhar Hi everyone,<p>I&#x27;m an architect for a small team trying to put together an analysis and reporting tool for our usage data (500GB&#x2F;mo). Googling around for a week plus and considering a bunch of open-source tools (Pentaho S...
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GTK+ 3.0.0 released - junkbit http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2011-February/msg00020.html ====== kjksf I think GTK+ shows how an open-source community can paint itself into a corner by becoming "too big to fail". Gtk+ 1.0 was released in in 1998. Here's a list of vastly superior UI toolkits that were ...
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ISIS Kills Norwegian, Chinese Captives – What Do They Really Want? - mengjiang http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-kills-norwegian-chinese-captives-dabiq-propaganda-magazine-n465536 ====== mengjiang ISIS is really trying to become enemy of the world, terrorizing everyone with no countries left behind..
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Airbnb, My $1B Lesson - rvcamo https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/ ====== pitchups It is interesting and a bit ironic that AirBnb accepted funding from YC - who did not believe in their idea [1], and rejected the only investor that not only believed in their crazy idea, but actively sought them out...
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Free Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing - jamesjyu http://blog.parse.com/2012/06/28/free-automated-cross-browser-javascript-testing/ ====== yesbabyyes Good advice! Another alternative, if you don't need mobile browser tests, is Testling, which runs your tests on Browserling's servers. It's not free, but way ea...
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Hackers make money from your stolen medical data - LinuxBender https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-is-how-hackers-make-money-from-your-stolen-medical-data/ ====== bastijn The title would not misfit a public newspaper shouting for attention at the kiosk. Most of the article goes on about stolen MD identities used to po...
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Ask PG: How do you stay focused while reviewing YC Applications? - 6thSigma I recall reading that YC partners read around 100 applications a day over a 10 day period. That seems incredibly draining.<p>How do you stay as focused for the 100th application vs. the first? How many hours a day are you working? Do you tak...
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