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Public servants warned against liking anti-government social media posts - RileyJames https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/07/public-servants-warned-against-liking-anti-government-social-media-posts ====== RileyJames "The guidance warns that “liking” something on social media “will generally be taken to...
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Direct correlation: imap use and tearing my eyes out - bkj123 What has been your experience with using imap (e.g. gmail and outlook)? I gave it a shot and was trying to be smart about it (e.g. not downloading spam folder). However, I found that performance was very slow. I'm thinking of going back to pop or just ...
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Having lots of debt at a young age “is the new normal.” - spking https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/millennials-average-debt-2019 ====== quaquaqua1 My parente went into a lot of debt at my age, but they were able to file bankruptcy and walk away from it after living the high life for 20 years. I don't h...
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ChordBuff: hum a melody, get chords - golergka http://www.chordbuff.com/ ====== ChiguireDeRio Awesome idea! I wonder if they could add MIDI I/O
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Handling page faults in user space (2014) - nnx http://lwn.net/Articles/615086/ ====== vezzy-fnord Linux is the new Mach. This got merged recently. It's better than the old hack of using solutions like libsigsegv to overload SIGSEGV handlers. That it took nearly 25 years to get it should tell you a thing or two about...
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Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox - openjck https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/10/celebrating-10-years-of-firefox-2/ ====== bad_user My love for Chrome ended and I switched back to Firefox about 3 months ago. The switch went well and I'm happy with my choice. Reasons: 1\. First version of Chrome for the desktop supp...
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Can Fracking Be Cleaned Up? - iProject http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428076/can-fracking-be-cleaned-up/?p1=A3 ====== DiabloD3 The rule of any headline that asks a question: the answer is always no. In this case, this greatly saddens me. Why haven't we banned fracking? We don't need the natural gas, but we need...
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Piracy Release Group Has Been Spying on Downloaders For 9 Months - Libertatea http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-release-group-has-been-spying-on-downloaders-for-9-months-131111/ ====== aroch And this is why I learned long ago how to defeat licensing myself rather than let someone else do it for me. Also why I use an acti...
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Robert Scoble and Me - strangeloops85 https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/robert-scoble-and-me-9b14ee92fffb ====== Mz _She was propped up between two of my friends, walked away from the scene, and looked after for the evening. Both of those guys will have my undying respect for what they did that night._ Yes, this. The a...
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Ask HN : Where Does VC Money Really Go? - samirahmed In the last few years, we We numbers like 81 million for Box.com, 11 million for enterproid etc, 100 million for foursquare. I have no experience with startups, or operation sides, but I am curious as to where this money goes? Hardware costs for servers? Salaries/w...
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Readying Windows 8.1 for release - Suraj-Sun http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/08/27/readying-windows-8-1-for-release.aspx ====== mikhailt What are they thinking? There are zero excuses not to release it early to MSDN/TechNet. There could be show stopper bugs that those folks can find. ...
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What I’ve learned in 5 years of running a SaaS - rahulroy http://mir.aculo.us/2013/11/27/5-things-ive-learned-in-5-years-of-running-a-saas/ ====== WA I absolutely agree on every item. Notes: 2.: Couldn't agree more. I tried it a few times, could never make it, because something came up. So I don't tell release dates....
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Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10 - pyprism http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/be-very-afraid-hell-has-frozen-over-bash-is-coming-to-windows-10/ ====== sciurus See [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388418) ------ be5invis And i am curious about can t...
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The Internet Has a C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal with It - signa11 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mgxb/the-internet-has-a-huge-cc-problem-and-developers-dont-want-to-deal-with-it ====== FourierTformed I think we all like to think that our high level languages will save us from those pesky error...
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Bitcoin Nordic brings Bitcoin to 300M people in the Middle East and North Africa - Kenan https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93352.0 ====== malandrew Finally someone targeting the markets where bit coin is most likely to succeed. TBH, I'd love to see all the bit coin startups band together and focus on Africa. It...
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Introduction to Clojure - jamesbritt http://www.creativeapplications.net/tutorials/introduction-to-clojure-part-1/ ====== rhgraysonii As someone in love with Clojure myself, and currently working on a side project/experiment involving writing a free and collaborative book on it, I really loved how in depth this went....
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Whatever happened to chatbots? - Animats 2016 was the "year of the chatbot". Three years later, how are chatbots doing? ====== AznHisoka This article does a good job explaining why they were overhyped: [https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big- thing-...](https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were...
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Show HN: Pick a number from 1 to 1000 in C - dlsym https://gist.github.com/dlsym/7705448 ====== dlsym Inspired by: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6816411](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6816411) SCNR.
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Show HN: Breach Insider – Find out about your data breach, before everyone else - graystevens https://breachinsider.com ====== graystevens Some of you may remember the previous discussion about BreachCanary (now Breach Insider) from the DocuSign breach: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347188](https://news.ycom...
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Bill Gates Fails to Guess the Price of Basic Household Items - jonawesomegreen https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pammeb/the-ellen-show-bill-gates ====== RoyTyrell I don't know the price of a box of Rice-a-Roni either but then I don't live in San Fransisco where it's such a treat.
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No, It Really Is That Easy To Manipulate The New York Times - socialmediaisbs I've been working in PR since 1999. One of the most common things I run into with startups is that, when I talk about sockpuppets or how stuff actually gets placed on TechCrunch (usually via an influential investor), there's some...
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Munch On Me (YC S11), a deals site for restaurants, expands to West Los Angeles - hydrazine http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/07/munch-on-me-deals-site-for-restaurants-comes-to-west-los-angeles-.html ====== georgemcbay I know I'm not the first to suggest thing, but the name just sounds so creepy that I...
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Unreal Engine 4.16 Released - pyprism https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-16-released ====== tylermac1 I'm always amazed at just how much the Unreal team accomplishes in a release cycle. Keep up the great work!
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Primary Care for $20/month and $10 copay - Profitable - will_brown Partnering For Community Care, LLC (www.partneringforcommunitycare.com) is a healthcare start-up that I co-founded in June of 2012 with my brother, Dr. James Brown, a family physician. As of this month the start-up has become profitable.<p>I would l...
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AOSA: 500 Lines or Less (Early preview) - ApiM https://github.com/aosabook/500lines ====== ApiM The other AOSA books: [http://aosabook.org/en/index.html](http://aosabook.org/en/index.html)
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Quantum “spooky action” approaches the human scale - chris1993 https://theconversation.com/experiment-shows-einsteins-quantum-spooky-action-approaches-the-human-scale-95372 ====== dbasedweeb Approaches the human scale? This experiment was done on 10^12 supercooled atoms in a vacuum. That is at least FIFTEEN orders of ...
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Certified Pre-owned Teslas for Less Than $40K USD - untangle https://electrek.co/2017/06/06/tesla-cheap-new-certified-pre-owned-model-s-vehicles/ ====== lucaspiller So what's the current situation with battery life on the Tesla and other full EV vehicles? I have a Prius (which uses NiMH, so not really the same but sti...
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Coroutines in C, revisited - codr4life http://vicsydev.blogspot.com/2016/11/coroutines-in-c-revisited.html ====== markpapadakis This is a C++ coroutines framework( [https://github.com/markpapadakis/coros- fibers](https://github.com/markpapadakis/coros-fibers) ), but its trivial to “port” it to C. I ‘ve also written a...
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What do you think about my idea? - toutouastro my idea is a advertising platform for facebook : I want facebook page owners to make money out of their pages : they submit their pages for advertisers and advertisers come search the submitted pages they choose one then the page have the submit a link to the advertiser...
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Jack in the Belfry - pepys http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n17/terry-eagleton/jack-in-the-belfry ====== pepys Just want to point out two truly outstanding eccentric English names mentioned in the article. Straight out of Dickens: Urania Wallop: "Not long after the botched elopement/abduction, Urania ordered that her son be ...
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Can Y Combinator find its next $1B company in a hardware startup? - jumpyjack http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/y-combinator-hardware-unicorn/ ====== jumpyjack Good idea? Worthwhile for entrepreneurs?
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Ask HN:What's on your list of good programming principles? - sendos I'm trying to set up a list of good programming principles to give to new employees.<p>Of course, there are things like DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), etc.<p>I just wanted to tap into the collective wisdom and experience of HN to see what you guys think...
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A Long Way to Robot Domination: Will AI Have Human Rights? - likhuta https://lawless.tech/a-long-way-to-robot-domination-will-ai-have-human-rights/ ====== basicplus2 No robot should have any rights considered until it is self aware
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Ask HN: Need help with distributed application infrastucture design - herbst Hey HN,<p>I hope some smart brains here can lead me to the right direction. I am looking for a simple yet robust data replication and transfering mechanism for a web application i am writing.<p>The main things i need:<p>1) Replicate login &am...
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Wine on Windows - handpickednames http://www.kegel.com/wine/wow.html ====== black_puppydog Being able to run one of the finest pieces of OSS software might finally put Windows into the 21st century! :D ------ fithisux Does this build create wine utilities on windows?
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Top10SQLPerformanceTips - neotyk http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Top10SQLPerformanceTips ====== wanderr Take these tips with a grain of salt. MySQL query performance tuning requires a lot more nuance than a list like this indicates. For example: 2\. Use LOAD DATA instead of INSERT For raw insert speed this is usually tr...
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Thunderbird "papercuts" bug fixes - some continuing UX development - dbcooper https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Papercuts ====== dbcooper "Papercut" is Mozilla's term for annoyances and inconsistencies experienced by users when interacting with an app. 6 devs (so far) plan to fix 5 of these each over the next ye...
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Programmers solve MIT’s 20-year-old cryptographic puzzle - doener https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/programmers-solve-mits-20-year-old-cryptographic-puzzle ====== greenyoda Extensive discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782634](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782634) ------ doener Description of th...
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The Android Market - slackerIII http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2010/10/12/the-android-market/ ====== Nemisis7654 Yeah, I completely agree with this post. I recently published my first application to the Android Market (last month) and was pretty shocked with how little the Developer Console tells me. I had expected a ...
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Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project - lgsilver http://7-min.com/ ====== d0m OK, fine for _this_ time, but tomorrow, you do it instead of procrastinating and creating a web page about it : ) ------ baby You made hundreds of hackers move their ass for 7 minutes today. That is a huge accomplishment. ...
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PG on trolls - sharpshoot http://paulgraham.com/trolls.html ====== DarrenStuart I think news.yc has a 5th troll behavior and it's down modding a comment because they disagree with it. I have been down modded a number of times not for saying something rude or stupid just something that others don't agree with. I tend ...
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Mark Cuban: The world’s first trillionaire will be an AI entrepreneur - freshfey http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/13/mark-cuban-the-worlds-first-trillionaire-will-be-an-ai-entrepreneur.html ====== thedailymail In many conceivable scenarios, the AI trillionaire's riches will represent a transfer of wealth from millions of p...
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Ask HN: Whats the best API/Library documentation you've ever seen? - apawloski ====== jfaucett I think Ruby has some pretty nice documentation. at ruby-doc.org I love being able to toggle source view for functions and stuff to see how its implemented. I know this is probably violating some "best practice" of don't ...
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Stop building apps no one wants - vlokshin http://launchsky.com ====== trotsky It seems to me that there is a significant group of users out there that are web app groupies for lack of a better word who will more or less express an interest in anything as long as it is pre-launch or early in the launch cycle. Since th...
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The Mythical Team-Month - DanielRibeiro http://speakerdeck.com/u/searls/p/the-mythical-team-month ====== searls Just saw this posted here. If anyone wants to comment on the presentation, I'll monitor this thread to discuss :-) There's also a screencast of the talk up on vimeo: <https://vimeo.com/38321427> ~~~ Daniel...
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Ask HN: How can I get myself out of this? - potta_coffee Dear HN, I&#x27;ve been in my current job about five months. Initially the job was supposed to be a simple Python web-dev gig, but the job description morphed and I found myself the &quot;manager&quot; of a tiny development team.<p>We&#x27;re supposed to be do...
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Ask HN: How to handle 50GB of transaction data each day? (200GB during peak) - NietTim Recently I switched jobs and joined some old employers and friends on a new endeavour, an advertisement platform. So far things have been very good, so good in fact that we&#x27;re quickly growing out of our current infrastructure. ...
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Show HN: I built an app to help you split the tab - radihuq https://split.mrhuq.com ====== radihuq Currently it only supports splitting the expenses equally among all members of the group. I recently went on a trip to New York with some friends and we all made miscellaneous group expenses. When we came back we used t...
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Acrobatic thieves avoid cameras, motion sensors, alarms in daring heist - pinstriped_dude http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/acrobatic_thieves_hit_nj_best.html ====== pinstriped_dude via Schneier on Security blog - [http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/03/acrobatic_thie...](http://www.schneier.com/blog/a...
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Shellshock protection enabled for all customers - jgrahamc https://blog.cloudflare.com/shellshock-protection-enabled-for-all-customers/ ====== milankragujevic Everything was pointing towards free TLS for everyone, but thank you. I won't be using this with Windows Server. ~~~ jgrahamc This is an extra thing, not the...
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Ask HN: Where to Find Freelance Work with Decent pay $25+ - gremlinsinc I&#x27;m a junior dev -- PHP&#x2F;Laravel or Ruby on RAils. I&#x27;m desperate for a position as I just moved to Eagle Mountain, UT and cost of living is a little high here, and I&#x27;m having trouble finding a position and getting hired right ...
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The new science of cute - pmcpinto https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/19/kumamon-the-new-science-of-cute ====== doctorstupid Japan is an hierarchical society in which the pressures flowing from the top can build to unbearable levels near the bottom. The outlook for many is quite bleak, with an unthinkably smal...
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Surprised? - alexknight http://zerodistraction.com/notes/surprised ====== cllns You've got some weird line-wrapping going on. (formatted to appear as it does for me) > We now live in a world where it is the norm for an incredibly robust and > full feat > ured piece of software to exist in the palm of our hands, al...
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Are iPhones and Blackberries becoming extensions of our thinking selves? - liuhenry http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/out-of-our-brains/?hp ====== elblanco No, but my Android phone is. In all seriousness, having migrated from a BB to a more modern phone architecture (iPhone or Android, take your pick)...
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Presentation: Redis, The Hacker's Database - zeynel1 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19593#Presentation-Redis-The-Hackers-Database ====== btipling I really am liking Redis, and they've expanded beyond just snapshots for persistent storage. You can now append data, and there a different options for both when you snapshot or...
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Feathur: Open source VPS control panel (Free for personal use) - amjd http://feathur.com/ ====== andridk License seems very restrictive: [https://github.com/BlueVM/Feathur/blob/develop/License.v1.tx...](https://github.com/BlueVM/Feathur/blob/develop/License.v1.txt) ------ eww it doesn't respect four user's freedoms...
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Software and burnout, how to get gratification? - anon1253 This is a bit of a confession I guess: I&#x27;ve never worked on software that actually got used. I&#x27;m 29, and I&#x27;m seriously considering a career switch. Since I was 12 I&#x27;ve been glued to various screens. Saw the advent of the internet, the rise ...
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Designing For Jedi - angusgr http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1534590.html ====== jacoblyles Let's make a deal, you guys refrain from pop-psychoanalyzing those of us with libertarian leanings and I won't submit right-wing essays that diagnose socialists with megalomania and delusions of grandeur. Impugning your op...
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Why a house is a terrible investment (2013) - nreece http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrible-investment/ ====== ajross This is awful analysis. Almost every one of the bullet points is just wrong, or at least terribly spun. I mean, one of them argues that homes are "heavily taxed" when of course ...
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Universally Accessible Web Application – The New Web - tirthbodawala https://www.atyantik.com/case-studies/universally-accessible-web-application/ ====== tirthbodawala I hope everyone likes the article and suggest updates to it.
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I Just Came Home to Sweden. I’m Horrified by the Coronavirus Response Here - imartin2k https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/sweden-coronavirus-response-death-social-distancing.html ====== rpiguy The author is truly hyperbolic, talking about mass death happening in Sweden and comparing it to not standing up to t...
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Diablo 3: The Blizzard sweatshop - evo_9 http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131615-diablo-3-the-blizzard-sweatshop ====== mikemarotti That's exactly what this game feels like: a sweatshop. The auction house ruined all the excitement of the game for me - instead of gearing up through farming, they eliminate the "slot ma...
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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month - kerben http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/30/9-women-cant-make-a-baby-in-a-month/ ====== ja27 A quote from an Agile / Scrum talk I saw last week: "Agile delivers things sooner, not necessarily faster." ------ Typhon Also, 9 women can't make a baby at all without a man. So, instead...
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From React to Riot 2.0 - tipiirai https://muut.com/blog/technology/riot-2.0/ ====== antihero I'm really not sure about the "problems" with React being described. Minified at 124k. Sure, but with gzip that's absolutely negligible. Unless your app utterly tiny, 124K is _nothing_ (the version of React with addons is 38K...
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On Russia, Facebook Sends a Message It Wishes It Hadn’t - uptown https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/technology/russia-facebook-trump.html ====== zaroth NYT has their head in the sand and is in full on damage control over the Mueller indictment of a dozen internet trolls. The so-called “troll factory” is pretty old new...
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Pirate Bay, Showtime caught forcing visitors to mine cryptocurrency for them - js7745 https://www.rt.com/news/404820-piratebay-showtime-cryptocurrency-mining/ ====== js7745 If they got out all of the bugs in the tech this would be an amazing business model
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Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research - datico http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-research-web-browser-tracking ====== samdk In public browsing (in Firefox) I'm unique. In private browsing I'm 1 in ~17000. Interestingly, removing some of the non-standard fonts I have installed made me unique, eve...
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AI chip said to outperform GPUs - rbanffy https://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4461127/AI-chip-said-to-outperform-GPUs ====== MBCook AT AI TASKS. Isn’t it common sense that task specific silicone is usually faster than adapting something else? Isn’t this why Apple and Google have been making their own AI proces...
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Failin.gs - ams1 http://failin.gs/ ====== transmit101 Many peoples' personal weakpoint: Listening too much to what other people think about them. This website has all the attributes to become a viral Facebook/Twitter hit, and it's clearly been designed to achieve this. But why not give it a miss, and focus on what...
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The Thing About Burnout - yarapavan https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oGNNZn4eX-a0jj9W04NjeP-2RzLkCmlxyKC8UXmfauo/edit#slide=id.g654c726fad_2_142 ====== nunez Really solid talk. This really hit me. I don't know about anyone else, but a sign that I'm burned out is when I start having trouble composing sentences/...
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What law books should an entrepreneur read? - sycren ====== blakdawg Also, what computer books should attorneys read? Obviously, if an attorney had a big IT project they should hire a professional, but they could probably get a good head start if they read a few computer books for background, right? ------ chris_d...
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Increase your productivity with a gaming mouse - marioch4 https://graymatters.substack.com/p/-how-to-boost-your-productivity-with ====== legopiece Many good points. Would love to see a similar article but focused on using a gaming mouse on Mac. I've never been a fan of the magic mouse's ergonomics...
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The Internet Says Goodbye - Boriss http://www.donotlick.com/2014/07/05/the-internet-says-goodbye/ ====== doctorshady The author lost me when they said culture needs to evolve for the web. Technologies become popular because they're culturally compatible with who we are, not because they have the potential to be that...
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Pain27 keyboard - sodapopcan https://github.com/uuupah/pain27 ====== DavidVoid If you're interested in getting a tiny keyboard then there are actually quite a few other "too" small custom keyboards which unlike the one in the OP are fairly usable. Some examples: The ortholinear layout Gherkin: [http://www.40percent.c...
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Virtual Bare Metal: DevStack Multi Node on EC2 - geertj http://www.ravellosystems.com/blog/virtual-bare-metal-devstack-multi-node-ec2 ====== dkhenry So can I run linux instances on this DevStack cluster that I can run VM's on so I can host docker containers. I feel that two levels of virtualization is not enough for...
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Fractions, diagrammatically, and Fibonacci's algorithm - graphlinalg http://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/11/24/25-fractions-diagrammatically/ ====== brudgers The "boxed set" of episodes, [http://graphicallinearalgebra.net/](http://graphicallinearalgebra.net/) will let you catch up if you are interested.
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HN as a city - barbudorojo Intelligence floats in big cities, we breath it, and for those like me that dwell abroad, HN can be that breath of intelligence.<p>Has any of your post help you with a synergistic approach, new connections, give you a new outlook, fund your business or suggest a successful alternative? I&#...
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Harvesting Cb Response Data Leaks - mbesto https://www.directdefense.com/harvesting-cb-response-data-leaks-fun-profit/ ====== majewsky Active discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967258](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967258)
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Branchless Doom - strangecasts https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/tree/master/validation/doom ====== peatmoss Thank heavens for this advancement! I imagine those using Doom to manage system processes ([https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html](https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.ht...
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Turn your Tesla into a CIA-like counter-surveillance tool with this hack - heshiebee https://electrek.co/2019/08/14/tesla-cia-counter-surveillance-tool-hack/ ====== zucked I highly doubt anyone who was worried about being followed enough to use such a thing would be 1.) driving themselves and b.) riding/driving in a T...
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Amazon achieved a market value of $1B,000 - doppp https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/amazon-achieved-a-market-value-of-1000000000000/ ====== Tomte Is that notation really in use? It looks very, very strange. ~~~ doppp Hmmm that's weird. Someone edited the title because I submitted it as is.
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Metasploit ships single-click exploit for Android - burlyscudd https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/02/12/weekly-metasploit-update ====== burlyscudd Scan a QR code, click the link --- aaaaand attacker has a shell on your phone. ~~~ todb While it's a rather ancient vulnerability (654 days at t...
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Review: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS Tested - neogodless ====== mtmail This seems to be the URL: [https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-rog- zephyrus-g14](https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14) ~~~ neogodless Ugh I don't know how I mess that up between title and url but it seems to...
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SEO advice for a small (non-IT) business? - jgamman ====== jgamman hi, i've started working for a small tech company (catalysis, engineering, R&D; services) and to my horror, i've discovered it's almost impossible to find us on a search engine unless you know our company name. I suspect that a consultant got the webs...
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Password Safe - geoka9 https://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html ====== aalbertson really excited to see some progress on this. Hopefully the linux/mac versions come soon!
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Can anyone explain to me how you can adjust for gas savings? - originofspecie http://www.teslamotors.com/ Can anyone explain to me how you can adjust for gas savings? ====== byoung2 [http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of- ownership](http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership) I drive 10,000 miles per year, ...
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CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line - amasad https://blog.repl.it/clui ====== atoav As somebody who worked professionally with Adobe Premiere I think the criticism of its UI misses the point. Premiere was never meant for hobbyists (reflected by it's actual name: Premiere _Pro_). The only valid point made here is ...
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Things I Learned from World of Warcraft - JabavuAdams http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/seven-things-warcraft ====== patio11 Seven Things I Learned From WoW (The Business): 1) Put _obsessive_ attention into making the first five minutes of use of your product awesome. It is the five minutes people are most likely...
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Live readings from the LHC's ALICE detector - ucaetano http://alice-logbook.cern.ch/aliceOnline/alice_online.html ====== kaivi What does the _pos_ parameter in image URL specify? Looks like some kind of a filter or historical juxtaposition: [http://alice- logbook.cern.ch/aliceOnline/get_image.php?conta...](http://alic...
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Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes Currently Offered at Liberal-Arts Colleges - MotorMouths http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/math_classes_for_people_who_ca.html ====== tshtf "This is why Asia is winning, by the way?" The first in the list is Topology, and as stated in the course catalog ([http://www.slc.edu/undergr...
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Car thief sprayed with invisible dye in police trap - Shivetya http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10344757/Car-thief-sprayed-with-invisible-dye-in-police-trap.html ====== adamjernst > sentenced to a community order for 49 hours and ordered to pay £400 costs at > Brent Magistrates' Court for theft from motor vehi...
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Show HN: Efficiently searching compressed text files - mattgodbolt https://github.com/mattgodbolt/zindex ====== jules The article's method is nice, it allows you to decompress portions of the file. I thought this would be about the FM index. The FM index allows you to search what is essentially a bzip'd archive for a ...
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Anderson Cooper on the NSA, Black Hat Heckling, Amash and Snowden - bendoernberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-p0GUJ4XG8 This is why we should support individuals who speak out against someone like General Alexander ====== bendoernberg This is why we should applaud individuals who have the courage to stand up to t...
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Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011 - leahculver http://blog.leahculver.com/2011/12/living-in-the-cloud-my-2011-new-years-resolution.html ====== andyking I'm moving home (out of my parents, over to Yorkshire for a new job) in the next couple of weeks and I'm doing something similar for entertain...
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An annotation of the Rust standard library - foogered https://github.com/brson/annotated-std-rs ====== mdup If you're wondering where the content actually is, take a look at the commit, where comments are written alongside the code: [https://github.com/brson/annotated-std- rs/commit/e50c2b16455...](https://github.c...
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Making the web faster with SPDY and HTTP/2 - cleverjake http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/making-web-faster-with-spdy-and-http2.html ====== cpg SPDY is a common sense protocol in many ways. It seems simple but it has quite a few wrinkles when implementing it properly. As a way to learn Go I started a Go SPDY library[1...
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Design Patterns 15 years later: Interview with GoF - prog http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1404056 ====== habitue Despite the flak design patterns get these days in some circles, these guys seem eminently reasonable. ------ Isamu Check out Erich's comments at the end: > I'm in favor of dropp...
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Use Google Moderator To Crowdsource Group Questions - terpua http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/25/use-google-moderator-to-crowdsource-group-questions/ ====== terpua Sounds like a "feature" of slinkset.
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Ask HN: Often have you had to re-write a legacy front end application - mohanarpit How often have you needed to modernize a legacy frontend application and re-build them using a more modern technology&#x2F;framework like React&#x2F;Angular etc.?<p>At my current job, I have to migrate a JQuery dashboard to React. I was...
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TI introduces DLP for headlights - rbanffy https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/ti-introduces-dlp-headlights-2018-01/ ====== junkcollector I got a demo of this technology close to about 10 years ago from TI. Their "killer app" in the lab was a pairing of the DLP with their DSPs to track rain while driving a...
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