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What killed Smalltalk and could it kill Ruby? - _pius
http://litanyagainstfear.com/blog/2009/05/06/railsconf-2009-robert-martin-keynote/
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pedalpete
I'm not familiar with Smalltalk, but I find it interesting that the author's
concern for the future of Ruby code is that it is 'just too easy to make a
mess'. This s... | {
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Aaron Swartz v. United States - edsu
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2011/07/24/aaron-swartz-v-united-states/
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pmb
This whole thing weirds me out. Here we are on Hacker News, and yet there is a
super-large contingent of people going "Well, he DID technically commit a
victimless crime...".
So yes - he did do som... | {
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Net Sadness - benzguo
http://netsadness.net
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mc_hammer
ok??
but in all seriousness i love this
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ProtonMail – Crowdfunding Campaign - binaryanomaly
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protonmail/x/7992808
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binaryanomaly
End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland.
[https://protonmail.ch/](https://protonmail.ch/)
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Mark Zuckerberg: Elon Musk's doomsday AI predictions are 'pretty irresponsible' - elmar
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musks-doomsday-ai-predictions-are-irresponsible.html
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mtgx
On a scale of 1 to 10 for people I would trust with our planet's future, Musk
is a 9.5 and Zuckerberg is a 0.
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Show HN: A curated compendium of free PC games, updated daily - stvmln_
https://neogratis.com
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anotheryou
Nice work!
I'd get rid of the "generic" screenshots on the home page and replace it with
the latest games like on the archive page and links to the most common
categories.
Personally I'd like to see "best ... | {
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} |
Air Berlin lost luggage: The German airline melts down on social media - pier0
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/09/air_berlin_lost_luggage_the_german_airline_melts_down_on_social_media.html
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UnoriginalGuy
This is a really low quality (and badly formatted) article.
I'm not sure how the Germ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Review my startup - GrexIt: Build a Knowledge Base out of your email - nands
Site URL: http://grexit.com<p>Please use this invite code to register: INVGREXIT<p>GrexIt helps to create a company-wide Knowledge Base right out of your email.
Important email discussions, customer interaction, files and knowledge ... | {
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} |
Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default - itamarst
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dockerizing-python-is-hard/
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btilly
I have a mixed opinion about his first point.
There are two basic approaches to take with dependency management.
The first version is to lock down every dependency as tightly a... | {
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} |
IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms - MrFacepalm
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223396/IBM_smashes_Moore_s_Law_cuts_bit_size_to_12_atoms?taxonomyId=19
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da-bacon
Cool result, major bad title. 1) Moore's law is about transistor size, this is
about storing bits. 2) As the article does ment... | {
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} |
Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting - IfOnlyYouKnew
https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/deadspin-writers-quitting-g-o-media-controversy-01drf9syxbdp
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IfOnlyYouKnew
Here's (some of) the reasoning from (one of) the horse's mouth:
[https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-
room-183...](https://theconcourse.deads... | {
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Ask HN: Is anyone using REST API code generator in production? - craig_murray
I'm aware of some comparisons conducted a while ago on some API code generators listed below but these comparisons seem to be outdated:<p>- apimatic.io: https://apimatic.io<p>- AutoRest: https://github.com/Azur... | {
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How to design your startup culture, according to HubSpot - williswee
https://www.techinasia.com/talk/design-startup-culture-hubspot
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ethiclub
This piece appears to be biased (and presumably was paid for by Hubspot). As a
contrasting opinion, here is a personal perception of Hubspot (having worked
with them as a ... | {
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} |
Best ways to kill your startup - vinnyglennon
https://medium.com/swlh/best-ways-to-kill-your-startup-8604a1768a89
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hacknat
Posts on creating a successful startup seem to all suffer from a lack of 2nd
order thinking. Even some of the posts from PG. I’m sorry, but it is
blindingly obvious, IMO, that startups shoul... | {
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} |
Turn your browser into a notepad with one line - bitsweet
https://coderwall.com/p/lhsrcq
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tikhonj
This is what the _scratch_ (EDIT: read _scratch_ as * scratch * without the
spaces--is there any way to escape that properly on HN?) buffer is for in
Emacs, and I find it extremely useful. Also, unlike using a diffe... | {
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Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand? - septerr
It seems I am fighting with myself. This has happened multiple times and seriously affects the quality of my life.<p>I am assigned a feature to implement, usually vague and something that I feel adds unnecessary complexity to the codebas... | {
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CarWoo's (YC S09) Tommy McClung Addressing the Founder’s Conference - turoczy
http://carwoo.com/blog/tommy-mcclungs-address-at-the-founders-conference/
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alain94040
Thanks to Tommy for a great and entertaining presentation.
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tommy_mcclung
Thanks for having me. Lots of fun.
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Psychiatry Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways, But Can It Change? - gruseom
http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/03/psychiatry-admits-wrong-big-ways-can-change-chat-robert-whitaker/
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joesmo
"[The lie supporting the chemical imbalance theory] is an astonishing betrayal
of the trust that the public puts in a medical d... | {
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} |
The POODLE has friends - yuhong
https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/entry/the-poodle-has-friends
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yuhong
BTW, thanks Nelson Bolyard for fighting with the server vendors during the
secure renegotiation effort (allowing us to finally disable SSLv3 fallback
years later): [http://www.ietf.org/mail-
archive/web/tls/cur... | {
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Ask HN: What happens to your code if you get hit by a truck? - empressplay
It's a pretty common scenario: you develop thousands of lines of code, then get hit by a truck. Now what? What do you do to make sure your code continues after you've become a spot on the pavement?
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richerlariviere
If your code ... | {
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Mach-O Tricks [pdf] - supro
http://iokit.racing/machotricks.pdf
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woodruffw
Another interesting fact: Mach-O also specifies "fat" or universal binaries,
which are just a packed collection of Mach-O binaries with a special header
and magic value (CAFEBABE for big-endian, like a Java classfile). The loader
reads th... | {
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} |
Show HN: OPC UA Server Qt C++ Library - juangburgos
https://github.com/juangburgos/QUaServer
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makapuf
For those that don't know, OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a machine to
machine communication protocol for industrial automation ( from Wikipedia
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPC_Unified_Architecture](h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Reddit Must End Politically Motivated Publishing Decisions - RickJWagner
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/31/reddit_must_end_politically_motivated_publishing_decisions_141623.html
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nabla9
As far as I know FB hearings are about political ads. Correct me if I'm wrong
(with sources), but I have no... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you send transactional emails using Gmail API? - h99
So I find sending emails with services like mailchimp, mailgun, etc. very non-personal. So I've been using Gmail api to send emails. Wondering if others do the same.
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ryan8020
Instead of switching to Gmail I'd rather think about what exactly ma... | {
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} |
Uber slapped with suit by Philadelphia taxi companies - larrys
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20141225_Uber_slapped_with_suit_by_45_city_taxi_companies.html
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meesterdude
I recently took a cab home in philly, and throughout the ride home the cab
driver was telling me about uber and the impact its had on ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
“Learn at least one new language every year” is bad advice - bhalp1
https://dev.to/bosepchuk/learn-at-least-one-new-language-every-year-is-bad-advice--207p
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tboyd47
> Over the years, people have stripped that context away and turned it into
> something like this: "Learn at least one new language every year or yo... | {
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Designed to distract: Stock app Robinhood nudges users to take risks - ryan_j_naughton
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/confetti-push-notifications-stock-app-robinhood-nudges-investors-toward-risk-n1053071
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af1991
״Rather than directing users to adopt a coherent strategy, the app pushes
riskier options lik... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How much of the Mythical Man Month still applies? - tocomment
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spokey
This strikes me as a strange question. What aspects of the Mythical Man Month
do you feel no longer apply?
(That is, it has been a while since I last read it, but I can't think of
anything specific about TMMM that seems out of dat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Another experiment: No Rails at Railsberry 2013? - elamadej
http://blog.railsberry.com/index.php/2012/10/31/railsberry-2013-is-another-experiment-hint-no-rails/
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taybenlor
That actually sounds kind of awesome. It's easy to get sick of the same Rails
news over and over. Plus Ruby has such a vibrant and exciting... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC - basro
https://www.webliero.com
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z3t4
It seem to run smooth. Very impressive. You should make a blog post/article on
how you did the game and the problems and challenges you solved. Should make
it playable on mobile, use accelerometer... | {
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} |
“OK boomer” isn’t just about the past. It’s about our apocalyptic future - eplanit
https://www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20963757/what-is-ok-boomer-meme-about-meaning-gen-z-millennials
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ohiovr
I don't fancy myself as judge of the generations. Civilization is better when
it is civilized.
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DATACOMMANDER
If the ave... | {
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Episode 1 of "Connections": A Series that Follows the History of Science and Technology - 3dFlatLander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g
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3dFlatLander
The user who uploaded the Connections series has also uploaded other TV shows
James Burke worked on. You can find all the episodes here
[http://www.you... | {
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} |
Introducing Bootstrap Studio - 2a0c40
https://bootstrapstudio.io/
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PhilWright
Great job, it looks really useful and something I would be interested in using
in the future. Some feedback...
1 - The webpage could make it more obvious that the paid for version is a
NodeJS based application. It took me a little tim... | {
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Send files at up to 1 Gbps and get 400 GB for the trial. Feedback welcomed - davehorne
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lecarore
Is it just me, or the link is missing here ?
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Cypher
Just you, it works fine on my end.
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kull
Yeah works perfect on my end as well.
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018) - agarden
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/
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anon1m0us
This article is about a term, "Emotional Labor" being used more broadly than
the inventor of the term appreciates. She thinks it waters dow... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Choosing a framework; and why Django? - farhanahmad
http://blog.shopfiber.com/?p=90
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jakelumetta
A good approach to the subject, not declaring that one is superior to the
other but rather each has it's own pluses and minuses that should be taken
into account depending on what it will be used for.
| {
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Most Europeans Now Prefer AMD CPUs over Intel - ekoutanov
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/most-europeans-now-prefer-amd-cpus-as-sentiment-turns-against-intel
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dijit
Not sure what the conclusion is there,
Europeans have less brand loyalty as a whole, I know a lot of central
europeans who are quite thrifty (or,... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Which itches can I scratch? - gschiller
We're always told, "Scratch your own itch" when it comes to entrepreneurship. I think that this is bullshit. I want to solve problems where the money is.<p>What problems do you have to which I could create a solution?
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helen842000
The 'scratch your... | {
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Stay-at-home dad - joebeetee
http://www.facebook.com/tstocky/posts/996111776858
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enraged_camel
The part about being viewed suspiciously at the playground was particularly
awful.
Why is it that we as a society are so fucking fearful? We have an irrational
fear of communists, socialists, terrorists, serial killer... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Choosing an SSO Strategy: SAML vs OAuth2 - ejdyksen
http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/blog/2013/05/09/choosing-an-sso-strategy-saml-vs-oauth2/
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sk5t
Some minor notes:
Conventionally, "authn" means authentication, "authz" means authorization, and
plain old "auth" doesn't mean anything in particular.
I don't think ... | {
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} |
Apply HN: FundChan.com – funded channel messaging - jimbursch
FundChan is a messaging auction platform where senders place bids to get their message to the front of the recipient's message queue.<p>This addresses the problem of communication in asymmetric relationships -- I know you, but you don't know me, s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Django deployment made as easy as ABC (and PHP) - DanieleProcida
https://www.divio.com/en/blog/django-deployment-made-as-easy-as-abc-and-php/
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sdomino
What is the underlying platform for Divio?
Is it like [https://nanobox.io](https://nanobox.io) that allows you select any
host (AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.), or is i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017) - max_
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
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hadsed
An excellent video lecture on this by Max himself which is brilliant and very
intuitive: [https://youtu.be/5MdSE-N0bxs](https://youtu.be/5MdSE-N0bxs)
| {
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Why Warren Buffett is gambling on Japan’s distinctive dealmakers - kome
https://www.ft.com/content/e20708ac-347b-47de-b79a-ab7fb9088d6f
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miles
First gold[0], now Japan[1]?
[0]
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166302](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166302)
[1] "My thoughts about Japan? I am not a... | {
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12 english words known by men but not by women (and vice versa) - pavelrub
http://zipf.ugent.be/crr.ugent.be/archives/1628
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PhantomGremlin
It's hard for me to believe that 88% of a "random" sample of men know what
"codec" is. Perhaps this vocabulary test was given mainly to people in
Flanders. If so, I'm quite i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A TV set turned into a useless brick by Android malware - DemiGuru
https://boingboing.net/2016/12/27/heres-a-tv-set-turned-into-a.html
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viggity
since it is near impossible to find a "dumb" tv anymore, the big lesson is to
never stray from google play or amazon app store.
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ganoushoreilly
This is actually a Go... | {
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} |
Democrats want FCC to reject Trump campaign threat to broadcasters - CameronNemo
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-campaign-ad/democrats-want-fcc-to-reject-trump-campaign-threat-to-broadcasters-idUSKBN21K2IG
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battery_cowboy
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless... | {
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} |
Windows 7 is the best operating system on the market - iamelgringo
http://www.slate.com/id/2233294/
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novum
_What's so great about Windows 7? For starters, it offers everything you want
in an OS: Programs load and run quickly, your computer pretty much never
crashes, and the system mostly stays out of your way._
... | {
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} |
NodeCloud: Node.js resources - fcambus
http://www.nodecloud.org
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luckyeights
I just picked up node recently and found this genuinely useful - for me at
least, it doesn't matter if it's ranked in exactly accurate order or not.
In fact, I really wish I knew of more lists like this. Every time I start
learning a... | {
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Monthly Hashes 2020-07 - KajMagnus
Here you can post hashes of, say, your Git repo current revision, or maybe the work-in-progress text of a book you're writing but didn't show to anyone yet.
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KajMagnus
Talkyard origin master Git SHA1, 2020-06-20: 236226766862c1a92b127d3cf6006197784967fb
... | {
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Samsung makes business history - bane
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2978445&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist1
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stephenr
Company with no ethics makes lots of money. News at 11.
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Google's Tough Alphabet Transition - tosseraccount
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/googles-alphabet-transition-tougher-b-c/
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sna1l
This doesn't seem very unexpected. Companies who haven't been expected to make
revenue/profit are being forced to rethink their business strategies with that
in mind. It is a tough proc... | {
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} |
The most important entrepreneurial lesson I've learned. - carsonm
http://www.workhappy.net/2012/03/the-most-important-entrepreneurial-lesson-ive-learned.html
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Akram
"This is why building an MVP, and validated learning are so important. Before
we get too carried away, we have to find out if the market wants wha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
This Women’s-Only Networking App Aims to Build a Community of Support - crazybob
https://www.fastcompany.com/40492852/this-womens-only-networking-app-aims-to-build-a-community-of-support
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TheMissingPiece
I definitely do not want to have to verify my account by logging into
facebook... and I also dont see how thi... | {
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} |
Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader - mikeevans
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evans.hackernews
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LVB
Good start, though the feature I've found essential in this type of
application is being able to share an article via a long press on the main
page. I send dozens of articles t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Atlassian Marketplace revenues soar ($100M in 2016) - gsylvie
https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2017/05/03/atlassian-marketplace-revenues-soar/
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gsylvie
0.003% of those revenues came from my own add-on (for Bitbucket Server). :-D
:-D :-D
Any other marketplace.atlassian.com vendors here on HN?
Anyone thinking o... | {
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} |
How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water - CapitalistCartr
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/automobiles/how-do-you-make-turbo-engines-more-efficient-just-add-water.html
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kls
The process is actually more efficient with a 50/50 mix of water and methanol.
When the water reaches threshold there ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nvidia Launches New Mainstream GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card - MojoKid
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-560-Ti-Debut-MSI/
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iwwr
If you don't need CUDA or PhysX, is there any reason to use nvidia and not
ATI?
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nuclear_eclipse
Proper Linux driver support for 3D acceleration, video games, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released - p4bl0
https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/01/04/inkscape-version-092-released/
======
new299
I've always found Inkscape surprisingly easy to use in comparison to other
open source tools (like for Gimp for example).
I use it for almost all my diagramming needs (scientific
publications... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is your experience with cheaper s3 clones on the market excluding? - ddorian43
So basically i want something like s3, just cheaper. 2 companies that i know of are :<p>http://dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/pricing/<p>http://www.constant.com/cloud/storage/<p>
Exluding azure,googl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Node.js, Twitter, Instagram-powered e-paper picture frame - matevzmihalic
http://www.visionect.com/blog/instagram-twitter-ifttt-e-paper-digital-signage/
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NathanKP
Very nice set up. I would probably just code it to hook up to an Instagram
content and scrape the images directly instead of going through ... | {
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} |
How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people? - carapace
https://www.quora.com/How-is-China-able-to-provide-enough-food-to-feed-its-population-of-over-1-billion-people-Do-they-import-food-or-are-they-self-sustainable?share=1
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FigBug
The country I don't understand how they do it is Bangladesh. ... | {
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} |
Six Million iBricks… and Growing - prakash
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/11/six-million-ibricks-and-growing/
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run4yourlives
Every major tech release is the same thing. Everyone raves over how wonderful
this new piece of kit will be, a few morons line up for hours to give their
money away, and then comes the ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Morse Node - morse code in node.js - mfkp
http://www.morsenode.com/
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mfkp
The source is available at
[https://github.com/mfkp/morsenode](https://github.com/mfkp/morsenode) if
anybody is interested. Pretty straightforward node app.
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mokkol
haha awesome idea of a project!
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tylerdavis
FINALLY.... | {
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One week with the Google Pixel - tortilla
https://medium.com/@elliotjaystocks/one-week-with-the-google-pixel-f43e6647906f#.2l4udx8oo
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clumsysmurf
"3\. Deep Google integration - This shouldn’t be surprising in any way, but
having Google built into pretty much everything you do on the phone is
seriously useful."
... | {
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} |
Unverified.email - vitplister
https://kerestey.net/writing/2020-04-05-announcing-unverified-dot-email.html
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afraca
> we can create a mailbox via HTTP GET request to
> [https://api.unverified.email/create](https://api.unverified.email/create)
Shouldn't GETs be idempotent? (Sorry for not having feedback on the id... | {
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} |
Greggs: Victim of Google Rich Results Spam - adzeds
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Greggs&oq=Greggs&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.368j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8
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adzeds
Check out the logo that gets pulled into the company profile!
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Delivering a consistent Twitter experience - decklin
https://dev.twitter.com/blog/delivering-consistent-twitter-experience
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bonaldi
The coming tighter rules on client apps are worrying. The "things that make
twitter twitter" are not geegaws. It's time for someone to blow the dust off
identi.ca
~~~
iand
Yes, t... | {
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Running Kubernetes on a Jet (Simulator for Now) - InTheArena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZ4AZ7hRM0
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InTheArena
Pretty interesting look at what the United States DoD is doing on Kubernetes.
I've gone through Fedramp and authority to operate before - and I'm not used
to the government being in the same decad... | {
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Whiteboard Interview Advice I Ever Received - pplonski86
https://hackernoon.com/the-best-whiteboard-interview-advice-i-ever-received-3ebbfa72e4a
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bradknowles
The actual title is “The Best Whiteboard Interview Advice I Ever Received”.
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Chrome Extension for automatic incognito sessions = more safety & privacy - ladino
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/incognito-filter/cifilbmpnkjinlkchohdfcpdkmpngiik
I build "Incognito Filter" to:
use Chrome in a sandboxed private window for onlinebanking or sites with privacy concerns:
- Google and Facebook... | {
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Ask PG: Do you ever fund startups outside of normal Y Comb. funding cycles? - jlgosse
Hey Paul,<p>In the case that someone were to run a startup in the months leading up to Christmas, has there ever been a situation where Y Combinator has provided funding to a startup outside of the "normal" funding cycles?<p>I ask ... | {
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Show HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) on iOS and Android - chanfest22
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cointracker-crypto-portfolio/id1401499763
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chanfest22
Hi — we’re Chandan and Jon, co-founders of CoinTracker
([https://cointracker.io](https://cointracker.io)). CoinTracker is a
cryptocurrency portfolio manager that aut... | {
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IBM’s $3B Research Project Has Kept Computing Moving Forward - MindGods
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/ibms-3billion-research-project-has-kept-computing-moving-forward
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tgflynn
This article is interesting but it's causing me quite a bit of cognitive
dissonance.
If IBM spent $3... | {
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PicPlz Python Backup Script - rchaudhary
http://www.danielandrade.net/2012/06/04/picplz-python-backup-script/
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dansku
This can be quite handy! Thanks for sharing! :)
| {
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Transitioning from Video to Physical Game Development: An Education (2014) - wallflower
http://ryancreighton.com/transitioning-from-video-to-physical-game-development-an-education/
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jacobush
Is it a board game?
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arkem
It's an escape room:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_room](https://en.wikipedia.org/w... | {
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www.apple.com now crashes Safari - paulvs
On an iOS 7.1.2, go to www.apple.com, see the event clock, wait a minute and a new page to load automatically, and Safari crashes.
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fredbrown
The redirect to:
[http://www.apple.com.edgesuite.net/live/](http://www.apple.com.edgesuite.net/live/)
is lame. It looks amate... | {
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} |
Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games - vlaaad
https://defold.com/opensource/
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minxomat
This is quite good news, to say the least. This is one of the most well-
integrated, sensible engines and development environments I've ever used.
Can't wait to patch more native moonsc... | {
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Chrome app launcher for Windows, Mac, Linux being removed in July - JohnTHaller
http://blog.chromium.org/2016/03/retiring-chrome-app-launcher.html
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ethanbond
Thank god. That was one of the most annoying ideas I've ever seen.
| {
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New date rape drug test allows women to check if drinks are spiked - pmoriarty
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/date-rape-drug-test-women-check-spiked-drinks-undercover-colour-a8527791.html
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JoeAltmaier
...or anybody I guess.
| {
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Fitbit, why can’t I have my data? - KC8ZKF
http://simplystatistics.org/2013/01/02/fitbit-why-cant-i-have-my-data/
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heyitsnick
I'm a huge fan of the entire Fitbit product; the hardware is a joy to use, it
has great apps for desktop and Android, sync is a breeze, the web app works
very well; the whole process has ... | {
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The Chinese families revealing their Internet shopping habits - SimplyUseless
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32498456
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yitchelle
It looks like not much has changed since 2012.
[http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19648095](http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19648095)
| {
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Fukushima: The Price of Nuclear Power - fitzwatermellow
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/aug/12/fukushima-price-nuclear-power-namie/
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orangecat
And it's worth it. The alternative to nuclear power is not Living in Peace and
Harmony with Gaia, it's coal.
| {
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Interpol issues 'red notice' for Carlos Ghosn's arrest - dynamite-ready
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50972149
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rossdavidh
Not particularly well informed on this, just want to point out to those trying
to decide between scenario 1 (Ghosn broke the law with impunity because he was
a CEO and felt entitle... | {
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What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers? - programminggeek
http://brianknapp.me/best-kept-secrets-of-great-programmers/
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gravypod
This is something more people need to see since it's obvious most people, at
least that I have met at university, don't get.
They ask me how I got good at this and I just... | {
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Aurum.js powerful JavaScript library. Incredibly fast - vaneri2007
https://aurumjs.org/
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lpilot
Powerful and fast at doing what? From the title it could be solving
differential equations or drawing phalluses on my screen.
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ryanar
This title is pure clickbait and gives no information about what Aurum.js is... | {
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OpenSSL Security Advisory [26 Sep 2016] - m4r71n
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-September/000083.html
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0x0
Nice, introducing an RCE in a security update XD
| {
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Microsoft is forcing Edge and Bing on Windows 10 S users - mgiannopoulos
https://betanews.com/2017/05/02/microsoft-edge-bing-windows-10-s/
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Safety1stClyde
The Windows 10 seems to be flipping the emailer away from Thunderbird over and
over, since each time I open Thunderbird it asks me if I want to set it as
defa... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best E-commerce Platforms - bsbechtel
My startup is looking into adding e-commerce functionality to our business. I've been exploring different e-commerce platform options, and they all look like they have different pros and cons. We're using meteor.js for some internal software already, so I'... | {
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The Best Countries For Business - luckystrike
http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/06/26/denmark-ireland-finland-biz-cz_jg_bizcountries08_0626bizcountries_bestcountries.html
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martythemaniak
If one spends some time reading various international rankings, they'll
quickly notice that Nordic countries dominate pret... | {
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} |
Social Security Trust Fund Is Going to Start Irreversibly Drawing Down in 2020 - baronmunchausen
https://thesoundingline.com/the-social-security-trust-fund-is-finally-going-to-start-irreversibly-drawing-down-in-2020/
======
blacksqr
Linked article states that SS actuarial deficit is decreasing, and projected
time of e... | {
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} |
HTML11 Labs - creativityhurts
http://html11.org/index.html
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mw63214
support for EML?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Markup_Language>
| {
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Why money messes with your mind - agrinshtein
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.200-why-money-messes-with-your-mind.html?full=true
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time_management
I noticed this when I worked on a trading floor. Even though the amounts of
money being discussed were very large (a good trader could send millions
a... | {
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Ask HN: How do you research large appliances? - pards
I'm in the market for a new washing machine and dryer but I've found that online research doesn't yield much insight.<p>I'm looking for appliances that work well, are reliable, and will last a long time.<p>How do you research large appliances?
=... | {
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How I Found My Market (and a 10% Monthly Growth Rate) - ezekg
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-found-my-market-and-a-10-monthly-growth-rate-2fa6c5e1eb
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ezekg
I made the decision this year to be more open about my journey bootstrapping
Keygen. This interview is a bit long, but I hope it contains some ... | {
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} |
Text Wizardry : Ten Commands - gurgeous
http://gurge.com/blog/2008/08/18/text-wizardry-ten-commands/
======
silentbicycle
for a in `ls -1 /usr/bin/`; do whatis "$a"; done | less
That prints out a list of every command in /usr/bin with a one-line
description.
sed (transforming pipe with regular expressi... | {
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Protecting your site against DNS outages - sedds
http://blog.women.com/protecting-your-site-against-dns-outages/
======
rdl
This works for simple DNS configurations, but gets a lot more complicated if
you use DNS based load balancing, any kind of automated changes to DNS,
DNSSEC, etc.
Also, I would absolutely make ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to build a stack for real-time analysis application? - zedzan
I am building a real-time data-analysis application where I need to aggregate and analyze data in real-time from myriad sources.
I am trying to figure out what is the best technology to use in order to build a scalable stack for my solution.<... | {
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Writing HTML5 apps with Google App Engine, Google Closure Library and Clojure - iampims
http://www.slideshare.net/smartrevolution/writing-html5-apps-with-google-app-engine-google-closure-library-and-clojure
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iampims
We try to do as much page-rendering on the client-side as we can,
only encapsu... | {
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A Primer on the React Ecosystem: Part 2 of 3 - votr
http://patternhatch.com/2016/08/02/a-primer-on-the-react-ecosystem-part-2-of-3/
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acemarke
It's a fairly good project-based React tutorial, but based on the title I was
really expecting a much different kind of article. I thought it would be an
overview of the m... | {
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} |
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