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Bringing FPGA Development to the Masses - johncmouser http://notryan.com/webfpga ====== godsendit Fucking cloud shit
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Teleportation on the command line - liquidwax http://thecakeisalie.in/blog/2014/01/11/teleportation-on-the-commandline/ ====== euank It looks like no one has posted what, in my opinion, is the most powerful of the "jump" programs: fasd. My workflow for getting around is just to type "z <fragment of directory name>"...
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Google’s New Logo Is Trying Really Hard to Look Friendly - snake117 http://www.wired.com/2015/09/googles-new-logo-trying-really-hard-look-friendly/ ====== kenOfYugen [http://i.imgur.com/x7HQW.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/x7HQW.jpg)
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New trojan targets Firefox, masquerades as Greasemonkey - dhimes http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081205-new-trojan-targets-firefox-masquerades-as-greasemonkey.html ====== dhimes This link is actually more interesting [http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/NW900-uk --BitDefender-detects-n...](http://www.bitdefender.co....
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When a designer joins a startup: In the name of pixels - rominak http://www.zemanta.com/blog/designer-startup-pixels/ ====== k__ divas ;)
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Hacker News Almost Real Time.(Automatic loading of updates/every 5 minutes) - danfitch http://toseeitlive.com/ ====== danfitch This is my experiment using Comet, Faye, Sinatra, and Redis. Let me know what you think. I keep it open all day and watch stories move up and down without missing the ones that fall off the ...
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Ask YC: is MVC the best solution? - Tichy Somehow my intuition is always a little bit at odds with MVC (as found in current web frameworks). It feels more natural that the view would request the data it needs, especially if it is putting together a mosaic of different sources. <p>For example, I guess most web applic...
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Ask HN: How do I start learning about personal finance? - shry4ns I understand that &quot;learning&quot; personal financial management can only happen by actually doing it, but I&#x27;d like to start by knowing some basic concepts and maybe some advanced stuff too. Where can I do that and what are the best resources t...
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Ask HN: How much time/effort did Heartbleed cost your team? - ubi Looking for time or dollar impact of Heartbleed on your team:<p>1. &lt; hour 2. Hours 3. Days 4. Weeks 5. Unknown ====== caw Probably around 1-2 man-hours directly. The first bit was myself and my coworker running around trying to figure out what this...
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Germany can no longer ratify Unitary Patent due to Brexit and AETR, says FFII - zoobab http://blog.ffii.org/germany-can-no-longer-ratify-the-unitary-patent-due-to-brexit-and-the-established-aetr-case-law-says-ffii/ ====== lioeters The punchline hits hard.. "Such an unprecedented takeover of the EU’s institutional pow...
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Getting Started with C# - ingve https://www.microsoft.com/net/tutorials/csharp/getting-started ====== piotrkubisa I must admit that Microsoft is champion of creating tutorials and documentation about their programming languages. It is difficult to find the equivalent number of resources dedicated to one programming la...
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PC Shipments Post Steepest Decline In History, Now Lower Than Whale Shit - ctovision http://ctovision.com/2013/04/thanks-in-large-part-to-windows8-pc-shipments-post-seepest-decline-in-history-worse-than-all-estimates/ ====== lifeguard I hate to pass up a chance to point out Microsoft's failings, but "its the economy, ...
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Check Out – GoWemy – Ultimate Style Rating Social App - gowemy Hi guys,<p>We would love your feedback on this one. We are in pre-launch phase trying to get enough subscribers for beta release.<p>When we get around 10.000 we will release the beta.<p>Please take a look at our promo video and subscribe if you like it.<...
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Fast Charging Stations Damage Tesla Car Batteries After Just 25 Charging Cycles - olivermarks https://www.science20.com/news_staff/fast_charging_stations_damage_tesla_car_batteries_after_just_25_charging_cycles-246206 ====== olivermarks Paper this article is based on abstract: Development of lithium-ion batteries (LI...
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Live revolution from Kiev – EuroMaydan Square - deiu http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromaydan-falcon ====== matteotom As somebody half way around the world in the US, is there anything I can do to support the protesters in Ukraine? Would calling my Congress-people be worth anything? The State Department? ~~~ apskim...
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Ask HN: Video Screenshot Software for Documentation Purposes? - chwolfe Can anyone recommend a free software tool that will capture the actions on my screen and output it to a standard video format? Currently working in Windows. Thanks! ====== twohey I believe you want the following thread <http://news.ycombinator.c...
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Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) - jgrodziski http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/ ====== cousin_it I admit that I don't completely understand Lisp's claim to fame. Yes, programs in the language are represented by a built-in data type, and you can write a self-i...
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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again - el_duderino https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/think-youve-got-your-credit-freezes-covered-think-again/ ====== kxyvr Since I was having a hard time finding the link in the article. Here's the page to add a NCTUE security freeze: [https://www.nctue.com/consu...
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New paint colors invented by neural network - CPLX http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network ====== gfody I want the algorithm for generating server names: Bunflow, Snowbonk, Stanky Bean, Dorkwood, Bank Butt.. these are great! ~~~ rbanffy [https://www.npmjs.com/pack...
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Activists crowdsource escape from North Korea - ramisms http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/12/27/north-korea-crowdsourcingescape.html ====== notdonspaulding Things like this are what make me a "bad" libertarian. Strict libertarians are all about keeping our nose (and milit...
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If you publish Georgia’s state laws, you’ll get sued for copyright and lose - darkblackcorner https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-activist-violated-copyright-by-publishing-georgia-legal-code-online ====== klez Previous discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13995072](https://news.yco...
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Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam - brongondwana http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/26/mac-os-10-9-infinity-times-your-spam/ ====== nknighthb Have you reproduced this problem yourselves? It sounds like you've seen it with exactly one user so far, whom you've not been able to contact. This strikes me as something tha...
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20-Year Mortgages Hit Zero for First Time in Danish Rate History - ptr https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/nordea-offers-20-year-mortgages-at-zero-interest-as-rates-plunge ====== yasp This seems like a good place to ask the question: how is it that we're seeing $15T of bonds worldwide trading with negat...
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Pesticides found on nearly all fruits and vegitables - ck2 http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/06/13/apples-can-be-tainted-with-pesticides%E2%80%94but-you-still-need-your-fruits-and-vegetables/ ====== hrasm "And so we're back in the magical world of risk perception, where science can become the tool of bias—consci...
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Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is Protected Speech - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/court-rules-effs-stupid-patent-month-post-protected-speech ====== CPAhem The company in question GEMSA Pty Ltd of Australia got a patent on "Storage cabinets" on a computer. Pretty much a patent ...
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Ask HN: How to Self-Learn Programming? - __e__ I am self-learning programming for building web apps. Self-learning is not working. I am constantly switching from one language to another, Python to JS, or HTML, or CSS.<p>I don&#x27;t have enough money and time to join any course or bootcamp.<p>Please give me some advic...
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Venmo Five Years Ago - mnewberg https://medium.com/@thenewb/venmo-five-years-ago-3d361563b98f ====== habosa Venmo was started by UPenn alums so it was popular among my friends long before it was a phenomenon (one of my good friends interned there and wrote the BlackBerry app). I used to use it exclusively by SMS star...
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Show HN: Flatris – A fast-paced two-player web game - skidding https://flatris.space/ ====== slowmotarget Excellent! I love the animated feedback when bursting a line. Hope you won't get copyright issues.
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Ask HN: Is Perl 5 or Perl 6 still worth learning in 2019? - grepgeek ====== SwellJoe Perl knowledge has been extremely valuable for me, but I first learned it when it was still _the_ scripting language of choice for just about everything (web, CLI, one-liners, etc.). Even Perl 5 is multi-paradigm and that's been helpfu...
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Show HN: Interactive SICP - zodiac http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/1-1-elements.html ====== zodiac Hello everyone, OP here. This is my first Show HN post. I guess most of you should know what SICP is. I took a class where it was used as a textbook (only the first 3 chapters, unfortunately) and loved it. Most of the ...
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How to Upgrade Your Office Using Science - floown http://www.slideshare.net/floown/5-ways-to-upgrade-your-office-using-science ====== Finnucane I would expect my upgraded-with-science office to not need PowerPoint slides. Srlsy, should I take advice from someone who thinks PP on the web is a good idea? ~~~ floown Ne...
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Triclosan Promotes Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Colonization - greenyoda http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/2/e01015-13 ====== jstalin I now make it a point to look and make sure products I'm buying do not include triclosan. Such a proliferation of antibiotics in everything can't be good. ------ crb002 So toothpaste with...
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Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship - cristianoc http://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882 ====== guepe The types of issues discovered (they mention null pointer access and resource and memory leaks) is much smaller than what a tool like Coverity will find (I use it). And they analyze C a...
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People are being victimized by a terrifying new email scam - kenshinsoul https://www.businessinsider.com/new-email-scam-uses-old-password-fake-porn-threats-webcam-video-bitcoin-2018-7 ====== throw03172019 I received one of these without the password leaked a few weeks ago. I was surprised to see people were actually s...
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TitanPad shutting down - georgecmu http://blog.titanpad.com/2016/11/shutting-down-titanpad_12.html ====== Pyxl101 > The underlying technologies of the Web are in constant evolution and we > cannot keep TitanPad up to Web standards. Is the web itself really changing in backwards-incompatible ways that would break a we...
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Ask HN: Who feels undervalued at work? - tech_crawl_ Feeling undervalued at work. Anyone else feel the same way? ====== J-dawg I'm a web developer in the consulting business of a big international IT company. I'd like to be paid more, but if I'm honest with myself, my salary probably isn't far from market rate. Howev...
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Germany Moves Away from U.S.-Dominated IoT Standards Groups - yahliwharton http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/18/germany-moves-away-from-us-dominated-iot-standards-groups/?mod=ST1 ====== legulere It probably will be a failure just like DeMail. I have a pretty bad outlook for the future of our country. ~~~ macco Wh...
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Rockstar Jacks Up GTA Price for Steam Summer Sale - giancarlostoro http://armedgamer.com/2015/06/steam-summer-sale/ ====== jeeva It amuses me that the article states that it's only available in bundles, not on-own - then has a screenshot showing it being available.
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Linux kernel root-level exploit leveraging three previous vulnerabilities - there http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=129175358621826&w=2 ====== martinp Did not work on a server running Debian Lenny with 2.6.26-2-amd64. Worked fine on Ubuntu Server 10.10 with 2.6.35-22-generic-pae though (got root shell). The com...
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The Cavendish banana is slowly but surely being driven to extinction - tokenadult http://qz.com/559579/the-worlds-favorite-fruit-is-slowly-but-surely-being-driven-to-extinction/ ====== jacobolus This article by the same author from March of last year (2014) is longer, and does a more thorough job explaining the contex...
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Dr. Hoover wrote 335,000 opioid prescriptions in 7 years, says she did no wrong - jonwachob91 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dr-katherine-hoover-accused-fueling-west-virginia-s-opioid-crisis-n909366 ====== boobsbr Assuming 1 year has 52 weeks, and 1 week has 5 working days, and 1 working day has 8 hours, that's ...
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Islands in lakes in islands in lakes ... - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.elbruz.org/islands/Islands%20and%20Lakes.htm ====== pchristensen Don't forget Isle Royale: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale#Interior_lakes> "Siskiwit Lake, largest lake on the island; cold, deep, clear, and relatively low in nutrients. S...
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Ask HN: The future of Remote Worker (WFH) technologies - eternalban Back in early 90s I had a software consulting gig with a telecomm company down in Austin, TX. I have completely forgotten the software project itself. What made a lasting impression was the attached small call-center (of the same company), and the fac...
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Tahoe-LAFS encrypted cloud filestorage - pelle http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs ====== secorp If you want to know anything more about this system, we are having a get together at PyCon tonight at 10pm in Room F (thanks warner!) and then presenting at the RSA Conference at the beginning of March (search the agenda ...
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Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web - Libertatea http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/03/tim-berners-lee-spies-cracking-encryption-web-snowden ====== binarymax While I agree that its horrible for agencies to be doing this, I must also say - if it is breakable, then it is not goo...
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Dear Prime Minister Cameron - oyvind http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Dear-Prime-Minister-Cameron--7289954.html ====== robotmay This will hopefully signal a trend of newspapers other than The Guardian standing up against privacy issues (I've no doubt it's already happening outside the UK, but there's a language barr...
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MantisTek GK2's Keylogger Is a Warning Against Cheap Gadgets - infodroid http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mantistek-gk2-collects-typed-keys,35850.html ====== userbinator My first thought is, why does a keyboard even need its own software? There's a reason PS/2 and USB HID are standards... I remember purchasing an HP ...
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ATS programming language - huhtenberg http://www.ats-lang.org ====== joe_the_user It might be nice if languages wishing to distinguish themselves could show a simple __other __than factorial. If there is something unique about your language, please, please show it to us. I have seen umpteen "new, great functional l...
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Roundup and Risk Assessment - igonvalue http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/roundup-and-risk-assessment ====== bsbechtel >>But how do you prove that a substance is safe? This is more or less one of the central tenets of scientific study....you can't prove anything, you can only disprove things. ~~~ Spooky2...
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Ask HN: Using other videos/music as footage - Copyright issue - huy me and friends are organizing a small TEDx conference and we're making a small promotion video for the event. Then suddenly all the copyright issues brought up when we try to use some other good existing videos on youtube as excerpts.<p>Then it gets...
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The New World of Writing: Pulp Speed - marttt http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/the-new-world-of-writing-pulp-speed/ ====== DrScump Site down, as of 19:10 PST (03:10 GMT) anyway. ~~~ marttt It was sluggish for me as well. Seems to be working now, though. Alternative link: [https://web.archive.org/web/20161026214120/http...
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Lyft’s IPO disclosure shows it’s not close to profitability - howard941 https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lyft-ipo-disclosure-20190307-story.html ====== ChuckMcM Yeah. And while this says a lot about Lyft, for me it really really says a lot about Uber too. It has never been impossible to run a co...
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Ask HN: Feedback from Pet-Owners Please? Pet Transportation (Uber for Pets) - jaybul Would you as a pet-owner use a transportation service to take your pet from and to salon, pet-care, pet-sitting or anywhere else while you are busy with your things?<p>How much is there need for such service? ====== bradknowles My vet...
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Zoobotics - jamesbritt http://www.economist.com/node/18925855?story_id=18925855&fsrc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+economist/full_print_edition+(The+Economist:+Full+print+edition)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher ====== zby "A tiny flying robot of this sort, equipped with a camera, could g...
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The Big Eric Ligman Microsoft EBook Giveaway - dragonbonheur https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2016/07/10/free-thats-right-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepoint-2016-sha/ ====== stumpo wget --trust-...
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Bitcoin: Lifeline for Venezuela - deanfankhauser http://www.tokentalk.co/TokenTalk/press-release/Bitcoin%3A%20Lifeline%20For%20Venezuela ====== firekvz Venezuelan here, bitcoin is only used as a fast bridge between VEF and USD* mostly money laundering. That's it. So how it works is that people have tons of VEF from ...
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Ask HN: Am I the only one deflated about the new TLDs? - scotthtaylor Come February 4th we are going to have a distinctively different web. With the onset of domains such as .plumber, .london, etc. Am I just being nostalgic of a world of .coms? ====== jaachan It's a cash grab for ICANN, IMHO. There's no need for any...
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Ancient “su – hostile” vulnerability in Debian 8 and 9 - l2dy https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2018/06/13/ancient_su_-_hostile_vulnerability_in_debian_8_and_9/ ====== tedunangst For those unaware, ioctl(TIOCSTI) allows injecting characters back into the tty, where they will be read by the next process to read from t...
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The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer - hckr_nj https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/18/the-highest-paid-athlete-of-all-time-was-a-roman-charioteer-if-he-had-lived-today-he-would-have-been-worth-15-billion/ ====== ThrustVectoring When comparing across time periods as broad as this, pretty much ...
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Mozilla increases browser privacy with encrypted DNS - jwoodswce https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/10/mozilla-increases-browser-privacy-with-encrypted-dns/ ====== flywithdolp I'm impressed by how Brave and Mozilla are paying attention to users privacy I'm using brave at the moment but I see so much news lately...
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The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse - sageabilly http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-immobile-masses-why-traffic-is-awful-and-public-transit-is-worse ====== soyiuz Two footnotes on this article: 1\. The problems it highlights can be reduced to low tax revenues. Our infrastructure is...
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ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/07/shoemoney-sues-google-employee-for-adwords-violations/ ====== patio11 I'm absolutely astounded that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. There are tens of thousands of Google employees who have access to data ...
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Free for reddit Django & Python course- eCommerce site - patrickk http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1cnmfq/free_for_reddit_coding_for_entrepreneurs_with/ ====== alfasin The coupon has expired... ~~~ vilgax Use "learnmore" instead of "freedom" coupon. ~~~ alfasin sold out as well :)
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The Healing Power of Your Own Medical Records - dnetesn http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/technology/the-healing-power-of-your-own-medical-data.html?ref=technology&_r=0 ====== mcculley I've tried to take responsibility for my own health records. I've diligently over the last few years scanned in various bits of pape...
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Canada denied visas to dozens of Africans for a big A.I. conference - masonic https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/canada-denied-visas-dozens-africans-big-artificial-intelligence-conference ====== mindcrime _I’m going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to sh...
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YC Demo Day Session 3 - TheMakeA http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/yc-demo-day-session-3-upower-edyn-craft-coffee-immunity-project-and-more/ ====== kenko Maciej Cegłowski's ongoing twitter commentary on these things is priceless. ~~~ kome Words of wisdom: [https://twitter.com/Pinboard](https://twitter.com/Pinboard) ~...
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The dark web: Not so anonymous after all - finphil https://medium.com/futuresin/the-dark-web-not-so-anonymous-after-all-450854d9805f ====== luckylion Problematic title. It's not "the dark web" that isn't anonymous, it's lack of security by service operators. "This admin allowed root login via ssh and had 'root' set a...
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US blacklists 17 firms from applying H1-B - artsandsci http://gulte.com/movienews/61927/US-blacklists-17-firms-from-applying-H1-B ====== justboxing This does nothing. The 'little guys' have gotten scape-goated. I don't see Infosys, CapGemini, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), Cognizant, Tech Mahindra or for that matte...
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Mastercard thinks millennials want payments with selfies - alexwoodcreates http://www.thememo.com/2015/07/06/mastercards-cool-selfie-verification-is-cringeworthy/ ====== darceeanne [http://trooclick.com/event/selfies-set-to-verify-online- paym...](http://trooclick.com/event/selfies-set-to-verify-online- payments-384...
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Give HN: There Are No Rules (book on entrepreneurship) - wj http://personalopz.com/books/there_are_no_rules.html ====== wj This is my latest collection of notes from the talks of Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Truly inspirational stuff. I highly recommend listening to them ([http://ecorner.stanfo...
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We Are SpaceX Software Engineers - afshinmeh https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_software_engineers_we_launch/ ====== nrki Time is running out... [–] TheRealFroman 848 points 4 years ago I'd love to know when I can start packing my bags for mars ;) [–]...
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time element dropped from HTML5 spec - akdetrick http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/goodbye-html5-time-hello-data/ ====== untog I agree with the article- replacing <time> with <data> seems particularly unwise, given that the HTML5 improvements are supposed to allow content providers to provide semantic sense to their...
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How to Grow Your Leads Faster for SaaS Founders (4-Part Course) - kennyfrc http://www.growthhackerkit.com/courses/lead-acquisition-toolkit-for-saas ====== kennyfrc hello! hope you folks find it helpful -- there's a pdf/epub as well in the course that you can download. growth hacker kit has been previously featured in ...
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Ask HN: Why can't I pay for Firefox? - spinningslate Google&#x27;s &quot;jump the shark&quot; post yesterday [0] puts into sharp relief the perilous state of the net and privacy generally. If nothing else, it reaffirmed my decision to delete Chrome and fully embrace Firefox - not just as <i>a</i> browser, but the <i>...
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This is what a corporation looks like... - th0ma5 http://skyeome.net/wordpress/?p=248 ====== igrekel The re-layout of nodes is annoying and makes it hard to see what are the effective changes. The result is mostly eye candy and I don't find it provides any new insights. Maybe if the layout was done with the final s...
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Tell HN: StackOverflow is just terrific - brandnewlow I just wanted to sing the praises of StackOverflow.com for a second. I wanted to put together a custom query to display a few key metrics for my social news site. The folks on IRC ignored a polite request and I found a few folks willing to help for $50/hour. Bo...
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Twitter User Replaces Word 'White' with 'Black,' Gets Banned - kushti http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=55863 ====== Kenji It is part of the liberal agenda that the oppressors cannot be discriminated against. So, in this case, racism against white people is impossible, because white people are seen as oppressor...
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The Gentrification of the Internet - jboynyc http://culturedigitally.org/2019/03/the-gentrification-of-the-internet/ ====== joefourier Isn't gentrification the opposite of what's been happening to the Internet? Previously, only a small, well-educated minority was online, but now the Internet has never been more access...
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My humble tribute to Zed Shaw : The first 50 Python scripts later - romymisra http://www.romymisra.com/50-scripts-later/ ====== romymisra I'm a beginner in programming. I think there are lot less resources in programming for beginners. Zed Shaw's Python tutorial is amazing. I will highly recommend it for anyone who ...
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R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 - RyanMcGreal http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/r_i_p_the_movie_camera_1888_2011/singleton/ ====== trimbo Ex-VFX guy here. For me it's more like "don't let the door hit you on the way out." Consider all of the issues: * A toxic chemical process for development. Both the source negat...
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Ask HN: What do you think of http://decks.io? - sausheong Hello HN.<p>I wanted to scratch a specific itch -- how can a speaker/presenter do remote presentation and control his slides, without installing proprietary software?<p>The result is http://decks.io. It has a very specific purpose to allow someone doing prese...
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The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand - lisper https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-where-ladders-are-1552279252 ====== AdieuToLogic The Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs"[0] show made a segment involving the SFFD's ladder construction/maintenance crew. In it, they exp...
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Show HN: Orchestra – Model and data pipeline monitoring as a service - tixocloud Hi HN-ers,<p>We&#x27;re Teren and Qiyan, founders of Orchestra (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orchestrahq.com). We help data scientists&#x2F;data engineers discover, prioritize and investigate machine learning model performance issues in real-time. W...
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Miraculous Fingertip Regrowing Powder Strikes Again - kkleiner http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/12/miraculous-fingertip-regrowing-powder-strikes-again-video/ ====== bobds I lost the tip of one of my fingers when I was young, to a slamming door. It grew back itself, without any magic powders. "Little pieces (16mm o...
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Startup SkipTheDishes cancels job interview because applicant asked about pay - joosters https://twitter.com/feministjourney/status/841156011780116480 ====== NonEUCitizen Better to find out early that they can't afford than to waste even more time. ------ UK-AL Sad but not unexpected in the tech industry. ~~~ jooste...
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Senet: board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt - based2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet ====== nandemo Here's a more informative account, hosted on Board Game Geek: [https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/166814/senet-review- version...](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/166814/senet-review-versions- updated) Exc...
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Thinking Journeys rather than Estimates - bobm_kite9 https://riskfirst.org/estimating/Journeys ====== humanrebar > Eventually, I decide I’ve done enough planning. How? I stop at the point > where I’m happy with the risks I’m taking, or unable to mitigate them > further. There are other important places to stop. An im...
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Baidu’s Andrew Ng on Deep Learning and Innovation in Silicon Valley - avgn http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/21/baidus-andrew-ng-on-deep-learning-and-innovation-in-silicon-valley/ ====== malandrew Having lived in China and experienced the Great Firewall of China firsthand, I've always wondered what role Baidu and ...
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Table Top Fusion: Beast that will not die - brkumar http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13361472 ====== asciilifeform Tabletop fusion per se is trivial: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth_fusor> Or whack a piece of palladium deuteride with a hammer. Breakeven is another matter. ~~~ t...
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The Fundamental Problem in Python 3 - psibi https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10063-the-fundamental-problem-in-python-3 ====== mikl "Python does not cater to my favourite edge case" != fundamental problem In the days before UTF-8-everywhere, file names with anything besides alphanumerics and safe symbols like d...
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Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why People Are OK with Lies - projectramo https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/trump-lies-research/ ====== hekocelsius This will be an interesting read.
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Show HN: API for Hong Kong public data - slygent https://publicdatamarket.com/ ====== slygent Thanks to saasify.sh for providing the front-end and API gateway. I used scrapy on scrapinghub, singer.io and getdbt.com for the data pipeline.
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ShowHN: my first submission, what skills you need to work at a local startup? - davguij http://whathack.herokuapp.com ====== davguij This is a little experiment I made out of curiosity. I was wondering how different skills can be more or less valuable depending on where you live (or more exactly, where you want to w...
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Ask HN: Real-time social network aggregation, correlation, and other analysis? - ThaddeusQuay2 I recently came up with the idea of a website which would track, and report on, where people, and their friends (across multiple social networks), are, in physical space, in real time. For example, you could post on your T...
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UK ISPs Start Blocking KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy - Lightning http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-start-blocking-kickasstorrents-h33t-and-fenopy-130321/ ====== danielsamuels Because it worked so well for The Pirate Bay, right?
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Auroracoin is solid and continue its growth - gionn http://www.reddit.com/r/auroracoin/comments/21qokp/quick_update_on_auroracoin/ ====== gus_massa On the other hand the price dropped form $15 to $1.8 in a week, just after the airdrop. (From $90 in 3/4?!) [http://coinmarketcap.com/aur_7.html](http://coinmarketcap.co...
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Show HN: Mailbrew, all-in-one RSS reader, newsletters inbox, and Read Later - linuz90 https://mailbrew.com/?ref=hn ====== frankdilo Hey people, I am one of the founders. Happy to answer any questions (product or startup related). We are offering a 25% discount for HN readers [1]. You may also be interested in knowin...
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Ask HN: Where can I host a file for free in 2020? - dzej_bi I&#x27;d like to host a file somewhere in the cloud and publicly share a link to download it.<p>1. For free 2. Reliable 3. I want the file to start downloading right after a link is clicked. So that no &quot;download page&quot; shows up in between. All major ...
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How to make wealth - yarapavan http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html ====== yarapavan reposting oft-used PG's essay on wealth.
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How Google’s CDN prevents your site from loading in China - anubiann00b http://edjiang.com/post/97299595332/how-googles-cdn-prevents-your-site-from-loading-in ====== realusername It's partially related but something I would really like to have is a cross- website cache for public scripts. Around 80% of the size of the...
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