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How the PVS-Studio Team Improved Unreal Engine's Code - ivank https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/how-pvs-studio-team-improved-unreal-engines-code?hn ====== nickpsecurity I encouraged game developers in the past to use static analysis tools to help iron out more bugs. It's great to see Unreal Engine taking that step. A ...
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The Genius: Mike Burrows' self-effacing journey through Silicon Valley - neilc http://www.stanford.edu/group/gpj/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/60 ====== xlnt this article sure spends a lot of words discussing physical appearance, clothing, food, and weather. i wish i lived in a world where people focussed on more interesti...
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PayPal is down - blazee Paypal is, at least in europe (Germany for example), down since almost two hours. Since there is no official statement (as always) many users are reporting, that they can't login into their accounts - me neither. Several messages can be seen here: http://allestörungen.de/sto...
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Jerks and the Startups They Ruin - ziszis https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/jerks-and-the-start-ups-they-ruin.html ====== Doches This is basically a more serious riff on Dan Lyon's 'Disrupted' \-- and having read that book, I'm a little disappointed in this editorial as it doesn't bring anything par...
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How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions? - one-more-minute https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-partial-credit-on-an-exam-of-true-false-questions/ ====== gjm11 As one of the commenters points out, Tao has rediscovered the notion of a _proper scoring rule_ \-- [https://en.wiki...
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Ask HN: Tips for a newbie freelancer? - alexgaribay What are some tips that you have for someone who is about to enter the freelancing scene?<p>What kind of tools do you use to keep track of hours&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;accounting?<p>What are some things you wish you knew when you started freelancing?<p>I&#x27;m about to t...
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Wire App is exploiting the open source community (Cross-Origin restrictions) - hannaysteve https://github.com/caura/wire/issues/7 ====== cocktailpeanuts Sounds shady, but I think the real problem isn't that Wire is exploiting the open source community, but that OP is somehow still willing to work on a project that is ...
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Web tool 'as important as Google' - habs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8026331.stm ====== tokenadult The proof of this pudding is in the eating. We'll all be testing it out with questions and seeing if we are satisfied with the results. ------ verdant Its kind of disappointing that they aren't trying to parse...
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Neal Stephenson Heiroglyph project launches - bajames http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/ ====== purplelobster I don't think progress towards big goals have stopped completely, but a lot of work is being done in areas that will indirectly help accomplish the big goals. Stuff like tiny computers, 3D printing, battery technolo...
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A webcam face filter on Matrix rain code theme. Works in browser, open source - xavierwebgl https://jeeliz.com/demos/faceFilter/demos/threejs/matrix/ ====== bradknowles Hmm. Doesn’t seem to work on iOS. ~~~ bradknowles Oh. It doesn’t work in a webview. But it does work in Safari. But I don’t see anything remotely r...
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The Delinquent Borrowers Leading a Student Loans Revolt - petethomas http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/the-delinquent-borrowers-leading-a-student-loans-revolt ====== karissa Hey! Glad to see this on HN. I'm a volunteer developer for this group, and we are looking for more hands. If you're interested in...
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Private equity and hedge funds backing patent trolls - rms http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0507/044.html?partner=yahoomag ====== rms Seems like an easy bet for a hedge fund to make... 10 million for a lawsuit and an expected value of a lot more than 10 million. I don't blame the hedge funds though, I blame the ...
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Holding College Chiefs to Their Words - tokenadult http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124155688466088871.html ====== callahad The sidebar has links to the complete essays. What a treat to get to read something personally penned by my alma mater's president! (I also cannot help but read the essay in said president's vo...
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Time for Europe to stop being complicit in NSA's crimes - jdp23 http://www.neurope.eu/blog/time-europe-stop-being-complicit-nsas-crimes ====== junto The problem is that most people don't care. The vast majority of the public would prefer to give up their privacy in return for free services. The people will have the...
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Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - palebluedot https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708 ====== vb6lives The exploit is so severe they are releasing patches for xp and server 2003
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Science writer Simon Singh wins libel appeal - prakash http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8598472.stm ====== grellas _Dr Singh described the ruling as "brilliant", but added that the action had cost £200,000 "just to define the meaning of a few words"_ "These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal pr...
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5 Best Books about Isaac Newton - bookofjoe https://fivebooks.com/best-books/isaac-newton-william-newman/ ====== masonic All book links are shrouded affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20).
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Star Wars toy photography - BobPalmer http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/10/3/star-wars-toy-photography-is-truly-amazing.html ====== Zimahl Great pictures. I'm going to guess that the photographer used flour as the snow? Maybe not, it seems almost too white for flour. Most appear to be Star Wars Lego but the third- an...
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Does Startup Life Have To Be A 24/7 Grind? - alexmturnbull http://blog.groovehq.com/post/47537406719/does-startup-life-have-to-be-a-24-7-grind ====== outside1234 The reason this meme exists is that there is a huge economic benefit to (some, not all) founders and VCs to perpetuating it. It attracts only young impressi...
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Judge rules California coffee shops must display cancer warnings - ayanai http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/380925-judge-rules-coffee-sellers-must-include-cancer-warnings-in-california ====== malcolmgreaves What an absolute waste of everyone's time. Prop 65 has such a high false positive rate that it's worthless; ...
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The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests - hhs https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-backfire-effect-is-mostly-a-myth-a-broad-look-at-the-research-suggests/ ====== stupidcar This is like one of those Knights and Knaves logic puzzles we used to do at school: Amy believes the backfi...
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101 Great Computer Programming Quotes - hollywoodcole http://www.devtopics.com/101-great-computer-programming-quotes/ ====== hollywoodcole "I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing."
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Gcapizzi/moka: A Go mocking framework - kiyanwang https://github.com/gcapizzi/moka ====== gcapizzi Just tried to post about Moka on here and I find out that someone has done it before me :D Thanks OP! I'm the author of Moka, so if anyone has any question or feedback for me, please shoot :)
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Square jumps in market debut - petethomas http://reuters.com/article/idUSL3N13E45620151119 ====== chollida1 A couple of interesting things about the IPO. A Lot more the trades happening are tagged as coming from trade reporting facilities, which means they were crossed/filled by internalizes, than is normal. This usu...
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Boycotts or buycotts? The role of corporate activism - samizdis https://phys.org/news/2020-08-boycotts-buycotts-role-corporate.html ====== samizdis Corporate Sociopolitical Activism and Firm Value, The Journal of Marketing, [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022242920937000](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/...
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Java (or JVM Lang) Based Startups - We Want To Hear From You - friendlytuna http://java.dzone.com/articles/are-you-java-or-mobile-based ====== mindcrime Here's one: Fogbeam Labs[1]. Our stack is JVM based, mostly being Groovy / Grails, and some plain old Java. There may be a place for some Scala and/or Clojure down t...
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What It Means to Design for Growth at The New York Times - infodocket https://open.nytimes.com/what-it-means-to-design-for-growth-at-the-new-york-times-2041e0f5e64a ====== Fjolsvith Probably doesn't have anything with axing the political cartoon department. [1] 1\. [https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/13/political-ca...
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The coming shortage of helium and how government policy is creating it. - stretchwithme http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-coming-shortage-of-helium-2010-06-30 There's a mandate that sales cover the costs associated with the helium reserves, so they've lowered the price to increase the sales in th...
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Children raised in greener areas have higher IQ, study finds - onetimemanytime https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/24/children-raised-greener-areas-higher-iq-study ====== dhosek There is a well-known correlation between the greenness of an urban (or suburban) space and income level of the residents. [htt...
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Teen Solves Quantum Entanglement Problem for Fun - sunsu http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/ari-dyckovsky/ ====== hello_asdf "With his paper, Ari Dyckovsky has helped show that you can have quantum entanglement with vastly different particles, not just particles that are similar." This was pretty much the...
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The Instagram Effect: Causing Silicon Valley to fund the wrong companies? - iProject http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/is-the-instagram-effect-causing-silicon-valley-to-fund-the-wrong-companies/ ====== dkrich “You see people graduating from top tech schools… and they’re starting companies in internet and mobile,” said Core...
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Research estimates vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking - bonif https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-health-harms-campaign-encourages-smokers-to-quit ====== jostmey How did they determine vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking? I don't see references to the methods they used to make this assessment. Whe...
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I Used to Be a Human Being - spking http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html ====== woodandsteel I think this is a profound essay. Let me just emphasize one point. I think that to find out what you really want, what would be truly rewarding, often you have to sit with your f...
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Litecoin nears $10 - up from $4 a day ago - samwilliams http://www.ltc-charts.com/period-charts.php?period=5-days&resolution=hour&pair=ltc-usd&market=btc-e ====== oleganza It's going to be interesting. There's inherently no technical difference between LTC and BTC (block intervals are not drastically different in prac...
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Bill Simmons: A Sports Column Written Far From Print, and the Game - prakash http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/media/16simmons.html?_r=1&ref=basketball ====== zach Simmons is just expounding, at the highest level, the fascinations, lifestyle and thoughts of a guy who likes sports. So much so that he actuall...
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Feed me data - robg http://www.scribd.com/doc/17460297/Feed-me-data ====== kierank Minor word of warning. Scrolling through that document caused major cpu usage and my browser to lock for about 20 seconds. (Opera on Windows XP)
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VC Trading Cards - gk1 https://vctradingcards.com/ ====== johnhenry At $12 per card, are they at least signed?
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Hash function performance - glower http://scripting.com/stories/2010/09/09/hashFunctionPerformance.html ====== gojomo That's an awful hash function. The largest bucket has more than 4X as many items as the smallest. He should pick another function that uses all the characters in the object name. Whatever language or l...
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Voice, an invite-only social network where everyone is verified - aspenmayer https://voice.com ====== emerged There is a push against anonymity on the internet, but I'm not convinced that is the best way. Not with the growing threat of cancel culture. I'd rather go the other direction and provide additional assurances...
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Box86, an x86 app player for ARM with native rendering performance - jdonald https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 ====== ekianjo See this for a lot more details: [https://www.giantpockets.com/box86-run-x86-code-and-games- on...](https://www.giantpockets.com/box86-run-x86-code-and-games-on-arm/) ~~~ jdonald Thanks for lin...
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Why’s “Try Ruby” Back Online - Hagelin http://www.rubyinside.com/try-ruby-back-online-2413.html ====== oink <http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/> ------ shadytrees > _We will be back in a few hours. Someone discovered a security hole. They > reported it, but not until someone else thought it would be cute to drop a > rootk...
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Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986) - apsec112 http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html ====== wwarner I think this is good reading. I like the advice on drive and hard work, I think the amortization example is perfect. I recommend Hamming's book _The Art of Doing Science and Engineering_ which goes on in this...
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Python and Machine Learning in Astronomy [audio] - privong https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/81/python-and-machine-learning-in-astronomy ====== tangue I've just discovered this podcast thanks to HN. Thanks @privong ------ giancarlostoro Great episode, there are also great mobile apps out there for viewing the Sky t...
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Show HN: A Node.js and electron based image viewer for Mac, Windows and Linux - sachinchoolur https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightgallery-desktop/tree/master ====== brudgers Recently: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11776321](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11776321)
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Engineers boost AMD CPU by 20% with software alone; no overclocking - 11031a http://www.extremetech.com/computing/117377-engineers-boost-amd-cpu-performance-by-20-without-overclocking ====== wwalker3 It sounds like the NCSU guys are using the CPU as a prefetcher to speed up GPU kernel execution, not using the GPU to...
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Painting with Math Formulas in Google Sheets [video] - dustmop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCkF62gkOY ====== 2pointsomone This is so amazing!! Is there more of this math-driven animation or design on the web? I constantly need to do math for web animations. And even though I learned this in middle and high school...
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"If APIs are copyrightable in U.S....startups will come to Europe." - msredmond http://adtmag.com/articles/2012/05/08/api-implications-from-oracle-v-google.aspx ====== stewie2 but startups generally don't create api, they use ready-made apis. if apis are not copyright-able, what about assembly apis? does Qualcomm n...
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Ask HN: How to find a better job while being employed? - ishener I wonder, did anyone else ever had this problem. I have a full time job, but I also want to look for a better job. I can&#x27;t just quit because I have a family and honestly, we wouldn&#x27;t last a month...<p>So how can I look for a job? I&#x27;ll have...
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Job Security Through Code Obscurity - andrewacove http://seven-degrees-of-freedom.blogspot.com/2011/01/job-security-through-code-obscurity.html ====== j_baker I can't wait for the follow-up: "Ego Security Through Assenine, Passive- Aggressive Blog Posts". (And I can say this because I've written asinine, passive-ag...
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Google Explains The ‘Hotpot’ Name: “It’s About Community” - abraham http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/29/google-hotpot-hotpotato/ ====== mark_l_watson Hotpot is cool. I just took 5 minutes to invite all my friends who live in the same small tourist-rich town that I live in (Sedona Arizona) and also rated some restaurant...
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Esketamine Drug For Depression Treatment Nears FDA Approval - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/first-big-depression-advance-since-prozac-nears-fda-approval ====== copper_think So, it's just enantiomerically pure S-ketamine - not really a new drug discovery. The drug is already around as an ...
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Stripe now supports ACH payments - craigkerstiens https://stripe.com/blog/accept-ach-payments ====== spenczar5 When I last worked on a billing system about three years ago, we looked _so_ hard to find an ACH provider. There was just nothing out there. This is an enormous advance. The problem we had was that we issued...
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Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia - LoganCale http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/7/4036040/cypherpunks-julian-assange-wikileaks-encryption-surveillance-dystopia ====== LoganCale Relevant to this, where have the cypherpunks gone? The mailing lists fizzled out in the early 2000...
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Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed - Yossi_Frenkel https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/android-8-0-oreo-thoroughly-reviewed/ ====== lukepothier If it's true that Chrome on Oreo genuinely prevents picture-in-picture _for YouTube specifically_ , that's a troubling precedent to set. Why not allow all websites to e...
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Remote Procedure and Event Protocol - billytetrud https://github.com/Tixit/RPEP ====== billytetrud I wrote and implemented a similar protocol to RPEP in 2013 and have been using it personally, but haven't released it. In my recent search of something similar I found the unfortunately named WAMP (Web Application Messag...
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Ask HN: Asynchronous customer service - swah I'd like to know if this already exists or if this is stupid.<p>All customer services in my country operate in "Blocked IO" mode: you call them, you wait 30 minutes for someone to answer you, and sometimes they even hang-up.<p>The alternative I'm thinking is: you call, au...
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Show HN: Globlog – One post a day. Anyone can submit their post for publication - mapehe http://globlog.xyz/ ====== mapehe This is a format I thought about a long time ago. No idea if it makes any sense, but decided to give it a shot and put it out there anyway. Making it was also a good few hour exercise. Maybe ther...
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How the Internet Is Broken: Big Questions and Bad Answers - rhema https://nextbison.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/how-the-internet-is-broken/ ====== k9s9 I am going to keep posting the ledger of harms - [https://ledger.humanetech.com/](https://ledger.humanetech.com/) Until we see all the issues in one place like a github ...
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An attempt to upgrade to Webpack 4 - isuckatcoding https://gist.github.com/gricard/e8057f7de1029f9036a990af95c62ba8 ====== andrew_ Hello. Webpack team member here. The webpack@4 release was, well, interesting. I can't add much that hasn't already been said - but I can say that we're working to make sure there will nev...
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Show HN: My personal project landing page - hhog http://intro.daloops.com/ ====== gabeochoa Here is the list that hides from you: Make your art richer and interactive Get collaborators to work with you Use the internet as a canvas Record, stream and share your sessions Remix ...
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Positive Lexicography – List of untranslatable words from other languages - cromulent https://hifisamurai.github.io/lexicography/ ====== Festro This is always oversold as 'untranslateable', when it just means 'can be translated, but not in a single word'. Really nicely presented though! :P
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Must-know url hash techniques (2011) - jfaucett http://blog.mgm-tp.com/2011/10/must-know-url-hashtechniques-for-ajax-applications/ ====== StavrosK With pushState, isn't this now irrelevant (and, as it has always been, ugly)? ~~~ jfaucett Well, if you do not have to support older browsers, which I think a lot of webde...
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How Sun Tzu Would Outflank Patent Trolls - wslh http://businessmodelvalidation.com/HowSunTzuWouldOutflankPatentTrolls.aspx ====== WalterSear Actually, I think would have probably set fire to their homes, flushing them out and into the range of archers. Then sent his chariots in to route those still standing. I know ...
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Eric Schmidt talks about AI at MIT conference - giacaglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgPGwH9Oec ====== ghostcluster It's nice to hear him talk about demographic challenges and urban fertility. We are entering an idiocracy sort of situation in the Western democracies, as well as Asian countries including China, w...
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Ask YC: How important is it to be friends with your co-founder? - pxigorth At least twice I've had the opportunity to co-found a startup with someone whom I've respected, who I know does good work, and has complementary skills. But I chose not to, because of some other aspect of their personality. Something bother...
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Proto-internet trolls: Struensee and press freedom in 18th century Denmark - Pausanias https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html ====== kingofhdds The piece is interesting, but author's conclusions left very strange aftertaste. So there was a king with psychiatric problems, and his doctor wh...
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Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books - rollinDyno http://herman.asia/how-i-choose-nonfiction-books ====== tptacek John Carreyrou wasn't an expert on phlebotomy or biochemistry. Roger Lowenstein wasn't an expert on hedge funds or technical finance. Eric Schlosser on nuclear command and control? Nope. Woodward and Bernst...
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Ask HN: “Pay to turn off ads” SaaS - lenomad Scenario: An author&#x2F;website publishes quality content and makes money with ads. There are some regular readers who prefer to remove ads (or who use an ad-blocker but would like to support the site).<p>The website would get a cost-per-visit (capped to a maximum per mont...
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Flavors of programming ... - RiderOfGiraffes http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/135255.html ====== gruseom I find it interesting that you (implicitly) like Data Munging better than Clever Algorithms. I agree that the former is orders of magnitude more common. I haven't encountered a Clever Algorithms problem very ofte...
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The asteroid that wiped out most life on Earth allowed microbacteria to thrive - Tomte https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/world/asteroid-bacteria-killed-dinosaurs-scn-trnd/index.html ====== masonic "almost took all of life on Earth along with it" Absolutely false. The _Permian_ extinction was far closer to this, but ...
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Riecoin breaks world record for prime sextuplets, twice [pdf] - gatra http://riecoin.org/Press%20release%202014-11-26.pdf ====== gatra Please learn from the project at riecoin.org Latest news: "Last week, Riecoin – a project that doubles as decentralized virtual currency and a distributed computing system - quietly ...
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Don’t Use Icon Fonts - yread https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/ ====== whywhywhywhy It's not mentioned much but these are also a nightmare for maintainability. If your designer uses these and leaves the project then the next designer opens the file and it's just words and boxes where icons sho...
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Top 40 Static Code Analysis Tools - DmitryNovikov https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/tools/top-40-static-code-analysis-tools/ ====== hideo PSA: I'm a fan of static analysis tools but if you are in the position of making decisions about technology at your organization, please be aware that they are NOT a substitute fo...
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IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix Internet Explorer 6 Bugs - amackera http://www.virtuosimedia.com/tutorials/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs ====== billybob "The best strategy for dealing with Internet Explorer 6 is not to support it." Amen. ~~~ jsm386 That is the _easiest_ strategy, but th...
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On Max Perkins, One of America's Greatest Editors - samclemens http://lithub.com/on-max-perkins-one-of-americas-greatest-editors/ ====== Finnucane I read Berg's biography back when I was a noob editor, and I recall it being a good read. It is not an exaggeration to say that several generations of editors were influenc...
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CHIP-8 Interpreter, Assembler and Disassembler - ageofwant https://github.com/wernsey/chip8 ====== ageofwant The Author has a nice blog here [http://wstoop.co.za/chip8.php](http://wstoop.co.za/chip8.php)
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The Longest Possible Chess Game - monort https://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden/the-longest-possible-chess-game ====== tromp The article itself doesn't arrive at the correct number of 5898 moves, but some of the commenters do. At my own page [http://tromp.github.io/chess/longest.html](http://tromp.github.io/chess/longe...
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Ask HN: How about a rental focused credit union - bowyakka I recently moved to San Francisco to work at a startup part of this was finding and renting a place to live. In short time I found a nice place to live in the city, and, whilst the rent was a bit high I figured that it was part of the growing cost of living ...
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How Apple Is Working from Home - laktak https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-apple-is-working-from-home ====== kn8 Dupe, discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730478](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730478)
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Ask HN: Good book to start programming for 15 yo? - pplonski86 I&#x27;m looking for good book for my cousin (15 yo) to infect him with programming. What would you recommend? ====== goldenbeet Why book? I don't know about you or your cousin, but learning from a book is so slow and dry. Why not a video series or online ...
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Ask HN: How much traffic to expect if your project hits HN front page? - willismichael I have no idea what the population of HN is, not the global distribution thereof. I&#x27;m working on a pet project that I would like to show of at some point, and in the event that it actually hits the front page (unlikely as it m...
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Spam Peaked at 200 Billion per Day in 2008 - peter123 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081217_spam_200_billion_per_day_2008_cisco/ ====== SwellJoe I totally stopped counting when my junk folder got to 100 billion.
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Armin Ronacher: Collections in C - jgalvez http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/11/24/collections-in-c/ ====== tptacek Armin seems to have reinvented the BSD queue macros. Having once had the pleasure of inheriting a codebase animated by CPP-macro collections, allow me to be a voice in favor of running, not walking, from pro...
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Lean Usability Testing: Current Best Practices and Resources - carterac http://www.astatespacetraveler.com/best-of-lean-usability-testing-practices-and-resources-2/ ====== fhirzall Another option is to collect a group of your friends, family, and various non- technical users and just give them a few tasks to do on y...
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Ask HN: How do you assess teamwork skills during interview? - koopuluri The standard technical interview process: 4 technical interviews that cover data structures, algorithms, system design, etc., with perhaps a conversation over food, is not enough to assess how well a candidate would fit into a team.<p>Do you disag...
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Rakuten buys yet another ecommerce company - RivalHound http://blog.rivalhound.com/rakuten-acquires-ebates/ ====== RivalHound So who is next on Rakuten's buying spree?
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NASA Overspends on Bagels, Soda at Conferences - markbnine http://www.space.com/news/nasa-conference-catering-costs-100325.html ====== DanielStraight So they spent $60k on snacks. Let's say they could have gotten by with a third that budget. So they're saving $40k now. Not only is that only 0.0002% of their budget (th...
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Airlines Urge Passengers to Wear Face Masks - bookofjoe https://www.wsj.com/articles/airlines-urge-passengers-to-wear-face-masks-11588039204 ====== interestica For security, won't one be required to remove the mask? And isn't the act of donning/doffing in itself the most dangerous and critical part in transmission? -...
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Eleven Years of Erlang - khingebjerg http://prog21.dadgum.com/64.html ====== pragmatic I wonder what he does with Erlang? Does he do work for clients, is it a company, is it just private projects. I have a lot of languages that I love (python, et al) that I don't get to user nearly as much as I would like. [unqual...
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Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS - Ghost_Noname http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/10_things_android_does_better_iphone ====== Irfaan Most of the author's complaints are completely valid. That said, a jailbroken iPhone can install software to mitigate a number of these issues. Not a sure- fire soluti...
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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates - aespinoza http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/ ====== reasonattlm The body can be considered as a system of many redundant components, with aging as the result of progres...
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What is the best way to protect your internet activity from an intrusive ISP - suprgeek All:<p>With bills like these [1] looming over the horizon, what is the best* way to protect your internet activity from your intrusive ISP?<p>Yes VPN is the one-word answer - if so please be specific - Which provider? which plan? D...
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I'm Hosting Remote Work Summit-26 Speakers from MS,WordPress,Buffer,GitHub(Phew) - nishchaldua Quick Overview: It&#x27;s a virtual summit. Free to attend. Spread over 5 days from March 5-9th. With 27 speakers from - Buffer, Evernote, Microsoft, Trello, Github, Appirio, Zapier, Toptal, Automattic (WordPress), Helpscout...
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The Building Blocks of Ruby - wycats http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/07/the-building-blocks-of-ruby/ ====== kscaldef I don't feel like any of these are particularly compelling examples, particularly if you are familiar with more languages beyond Java and Python which are used for comparison in the article. In both th...
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DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say - sgnork https://www.zdnet.com/article/dns-over-https-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves-experts-say/ ====== ohiovr If for some reason you need secrecy in dns access, why not install bind9 on a raspberry pi?
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Show HN: Collaborative todo list app – to reduce the email load in my office - nikodunk https://nikodunk.github.io/simple-to-do-react/ ====== aldo712 Sorry if I'm missing something, but how is this collaborative? ~~~ nikodunk Ah sorry if that’s unclear. It’s not password protected, so I just log in to my coworker Emm...
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Ask HN: What machine learning approach to use if you only got positive examples? - sparkpluglabs Are there some well known Machine Learning algorithms when you only have positive examples? I did some research but most I could find was when you have positive and unlabeled examples. ====== mswen Maybe I don't understa...
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GitHire Swamped After Promising 5 Hire-Worthy Programmers for $1k - tswicegood http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/jobs/githire-a-headhunter-is-swamped-after-promising-5-hire-worthy-bay-area-programmers-for-1000.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=githire&st=cse ====== guywithabike GitHire is the sleaziest, scammiest spam setup I've com...
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Show HN: Automatically create a rest API for Rails - miquelb https://github.com/miquelbarba/instant-api ====== miquelb A gem that automatically generates a rest API from the models and the routes of a Rails project. Please, give me your feedback!
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Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy - sbuccini https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/01/chip-wars-china-america-and-silicon-supremacy ====== 40acres Full disclosure, I work for Intel. We have a fabrication plant in Chengdu, it's public knowledge that this fab is helping to manufacture products built o...
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