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Ask HN: Developers with small AWS clusters, what are your monthly costs? - lhuser123 Aws costs are hard to understand for the non experienced. Perhaps a few real life examples could help. ====== malux85 AWS Cost Calculator has been pretty accurate for me: [https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html](https://calcu...
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Puncture-proof tires are the future - bookofjoe https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a30653824/puncture-proof-tire/ ====== stevehawk I feel like I've been reading about this tire design for as long as I've been reading about 20xx is the year of the linux desktop". I expect neither to happen. ~~~ wmeredi...
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Ask HN: How would you get the word out about a new dating site? - irrationaljared I'm having a lot of success with advertising for my new dating site, The Matching Game - http://www.thematchinggame.com - but am having a hard time figuring out other ways to get the word out. All of the articles I google just look lik...
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Open source may be the future, but few are writing it - CrankyBear https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-may-be-the-future-but-very-few-are-writing-it/ ====== simonblack _80.2% of developers surveyed said that they code as a hobby._ As do I. My projects are generally one-off emulators of various 1970s-1980...
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I turned my interview task for Google into a startup - mmoez https://uxdesign.cc/i-turned-my-interview-task-for-google-into-a-startup-877943fb3b34 ====== sethammons The rule of thumb I subscribed to: have the interviewer(s) do the interview. Give the candidate 3x time to do it that the in-house people took. Or, framed...
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Waving goodbye to Google - on the exodus of Wave engineers - michaelneale http://rethrick.com/#waving-goodbye ====== plinkplonk Some interesting observations there e.g: "Here is something you've may have heard but never quite believed before: Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. Don't get...
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Groundbreaking Study Shows Shielding EMF Improves Autoimmune Disease in 90% - mhkool https://www.greenmedinfo.health/blog/groundbreaking-study-shows-shielding-emf-improves-autoimmune-disease ====== felixyz Very mixed bag of the sources, several that look less than scientifically viable at a first glance (not judging w...
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Four communication hacks that help me survive as an introverted CEO - jorymackay http://blog.rescuetime.com/four-communication-hacks-that-help-me-survive-as-an-introverted-ceo/ ====== Top19 Man calling everything a “hack” really has to stop. What’s next, “six hacks that help a recovering alcoholic not also develop an...
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How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord - timjahn http://www.fastcompany.com/1839465/how-airbnb-earned-me-20000-and-legal-action-from-my-landlord ====== hack_edu Again and again, people who use Airbnb to 'hack' the rental market get little sympathy from me when the chickens come to roost....
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Finally,an Alternative to QR Code - ruchir_21hj http://mashable.com/2014/01/09/qr-code-clickable-paper/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss&utm_reader=feedly ====== trebor Alternative? There's no visible way that the data is em...
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Facebook adds translate button on the news feed to users updates - ArabGeek http://arabcrunch.com/2011/08/exclusive-facebook-adds-translate-button-on-the-news-feed-to-users-updates.html ====== ArabGeek Facebook copied Google Translate for Google+ that translate updates on google+. facebook translate button seems to be...
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What happened to OCaml? - modulow I seem to hear so much on HN about most of the other "popular" FP languages, but haven't heard much about OCaml lately. Haskell, Clojure, Scala, CL, Scheme, etc. all get their due, but OCaml has always been my choice. ====== gjvc Here's one place you might be surprised to see it in...
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.Net Core Is the Most Loved Framework on StackOverflow Dev Survey - bishala https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-other-frameworks-libraries-and-tools ====== willio58 Wow, I only hear bad things about .Net. Goes to show the bubble of engineers I find myself in. ~~~...
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95% of ATMs use COBOL, but where are the new COBOL programmers? - benballjr https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/ ====== daly My first programming job was in COBOL. I don't even list it on my resume. I taught a class in COBOL at UConn a long time ago. The IBM mainframe instruction set is a practically...
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Austrian plane search for leaker Snowden enrages Bolivia - ignostic http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE9610C520130703 ====== venomsnake That is a frakking act of war ... wtf. Seems like US is writing blank checks to all other countries in the pursuit of Snowden. How low can th...
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The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites - gts http://bsdly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html ====== citricsquid There are many ISPs in England. One of these ISPs is called O2. A service that O2 offers is a whitelist only internet service designed for p...
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Lavabit Update - njrc http://lavabit.com/? ====== ColinWright [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784913](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784913)
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Some Tesla workers still concerned at partially-reopened plant - MilnerRoute https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/05/16/0340222/some-tesla-workers-still-concerned-at-partially-reopened-plant ====== SpicyLemonZest Some people will be concerned for a long time. There's nothing wrong with that, the coronavirus is a concern...
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Gawker Media shuts Valleywag, offers Consumerist for sale - erickhill http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/11/12/briefly-gawker-media-shuts-valleywag-offers-consumerist-sale ====== ardit33 Nooo..... I actually like valleywag :( Sure it was nasty, and it was gossipy, and not journalism at all, but it was a lot more fra...
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Conflict Over How Open ‘Do Not Track’ Talks Will Be - daegloe http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/technology/debating-the-path-to-do-not-track.html ====== magicalist Nothing like a little techcrunch in your HN. You should really re-title your submission. You do the community a disservice when you turn to intellectual...
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Take heart! There's life without YC! Our Plan B. What's yours? - juwo http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/04/our-plan-b.html ====== juwo read my post (in the url). what do you think? can you come up with a plan B to bootstrap if you are rejected? if you are rejected, dont get dejected! :)
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Show HN: CRUD Spreadsheets - dustingetz http://www.hyperfiddle.net/:dustingetz!crud-spreadsheets/ ====== ryeguy_24 Having a bit of trouble understanding what the potential solution is and what problem it solves. I may very well have missed it in There but figured I’d mention because others may have similar thoughts. S...
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Dabeaz: PyCon 2012 Followup - ot http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2012/03/pycon-2012-followup.html ====== vgnet Great video linked in the article (the author's PyCon keynote about PyPy).
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Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country - georgecmu http://brilliantmaps.com/europe-fight-war/ ====== allengeorge This is the actual reddit thread in which the map was posted: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5q433o/percentage_...](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5q...
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Whatsapp got acquired by an insane amount. Still safe to use whatsapp for work? - jeilerman http://blog.qisc.us/post/77263136322/whatsapp-got-acquired-by-an-insane-amount-wait-is-it ====== critique was that safe?
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Mitro is Shutting Down on August 31st - boristhespider https://www.mitro.co/shutdown.html ====== alexggordon I've used Mitro ever since I heard about it. It's been really fantastic to use, and the team did an incredible job creating it. It has everything I look for in a password manager, even without any updates or ...
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Dunning–Kruger Effect - based2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect ====== based2 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=164&v=f89WVeqWe-...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=164&v=f89WVeqWe-M&feature=emb_logo) L'ultracrépidarianisme, l'art de parler de ce qu'on ne connaît pas
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Test post please ignore... - Kittynana I'm making sure self posts work in my Hacker News client for Android. ====== crystalmace Here's a comment on a self post to test if those work too.
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Demystifying container runtimes - Tomte https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/741897/5ba9c60a4f6747a3/ ====== dsies I think this is a great article that can be used as a way to shed some light on the container movement over the past couple of years to someone who is not intimately familiar with containerization. Bookmarked ...
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My Journey from Zero to $10k MRR – SaaS Growth Case Study - SaaS_Growth https://www.whalepages.com/saas-growth-case-study-my-journey-from-0-to-10000-mrr/ ====== tallerzalan Thanks for some great advice Karsten! :-) ~~~ Karsteel Thanks for thanking ;D
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Hello Kafka World the Complete Guide to Kafka with Docker and Python - dvainrub https://medium.com/big-data-engineering/hello-kafka-world-the-complete-guide-to-kafka-with-docker-and-python-f788e2588cfc ====== jscheel We've been using this docker container for a few years now, and it's been really great for us. Every o...
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Digging Across Panama (2011) - mrkgnao https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/januaryfebruary/feature/digging-across-panama ====== skh I grew up in the Canal Zone. I'm an American and was one of the colonists. This quote from the article brought back memories: _Theodore Roosevelt wrote to a friend at the British Foreig...
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A digital solution to Brexit - squiggy22 http://howtostayin.eu/ ====== TheOtherHobbes "E-Residency does not confer any citizenship, domicile or right of entry to Estonia or to the European Union. E-Residency does not automatically establish tax residency. To learn about taxation and to avoid double taxation please con...
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Ask HN: Why don't we pay our rent online? - ramoq After juggling through serveral statup ideas, one that often made me stop and think was the current state of rental payments(for apartments etc).<p>There are plenty of companies in this space(facilitating online rental payments), but not a single one of them has made...
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Tesla: The greatest hacker of all time - iamelgringo http://www.totse.com/en/fringe/tesla/tesla5.html ====== Hexstream "Tesla generates a powerful pulse of electricity, and drains it into the ground. Because the ground is conductive, it doesn't stop. Rather, it spreads out like a radio wave, traveling at the speed of ...
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Tsrc – managing multiple Git repositories - based2 https://tankerapp.github.io/tsrc/ ====== based2 [https://asciinema.org/a/131625](https://asciinema.org/a/131625) src: [http://linuxfr.org/news/tsrc-un-gestionnaire-de-depots- git](http://linuxfr.org/news/tsrc-un-gestionnaire-de-depots-git)
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Beautiful pictures of Endeavour docked at ISS taken from departing Soyuz - rkuester http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/e27depart.html ====== mmaunder Funny how ISS looks nothing like the space stations in sci-fi. <http://portfolio.shaunsgallery.co.uk/con-eo3.jpg> [http://images.elfwood.com/art/c/...
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Our Alien DNA - evo_9 http://www.dailygrail.com/Essays/2014/7/Our-Alien-DNA ====== daveslash Interesting read from a historical perspective, but the idea of a message hidden in DNA is far fetched to me - DNA is subject to the effects of evolution and mutation which seem to me would make any message unrecognizable afte...
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UniversalCoin is a cryptocurrency that will be distributed for free on Jan 15th - svdree https://universalcoin.io ====== tobltobs This is cool. It is the essence of the current coinmania reduced to the minimum, the MVP of a shitcoin. It will be interesting to see if they really shell out the money (GAS) to distribute...
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The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out - sampo https://www.nber.org/papers/w26598 ====== spyckie2 I would be really grateful if someone can summarize the details of how people project $12b in costs and explain the modeling. I know that a lot of work has been done into economic impacts of climat...
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I am James Bamford, one of the journalists investigating the NSA. AMA. - bcn http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1g9gz0/i_am_james_bamford_one_of_the_journalists/ ====== jdp23 _The Puzzle Palace_ and Bamford's other books are among the best about the NSA. His Wired article on Connecting the dots on PRISM, Phone S...
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Tesla Model 3 Production Lower, Price Higher (A Lot): Morgan Stanley Analyst - jbredeche https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2017/03/28/tesla-model-3-production-lower-price-higher-a-lot-morgan-stanley-analyst/ ====== greglindahl This is a great example of terrible writing. The analyst is predicting that the av...
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Interview with Founder of Minds.com - jmsflknr https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/19/03/08/1817245/we-will-never-sell-out-or-compromise-our-principles-that-would-be-like-murder-the-slashdot-interview-with-ceo-and-founder-of-mindscom-social-network ====== rudedogg Since users get tokens for interactions with their c...
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End of the road for RC4 - rdl https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-of-the-road-for-rc4/ ====== rdl I wish we'd done this earlier -- I'm pretty sure nothing bad has resulted from supporting RC4 a few months longer than we would have liked, but as we've seen from Google's "aggressive" push to end SHA1, it's the only way to...
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Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing (2013) - salmonet http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/ ====== Outdoorsman Build a quality product...sell it...back it with outstanding customer service...rely on user exp...
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What A Mission Statement Is - paulsb http://www.markpeterdavis.com/getventure/2008/06/understand-your.html ====== paulsb Mine, at the minute, is: To organise science in order to accelerate research. What's yours?
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CAcert – A community-driven Certificate Authority - zerognowl http://www.cacert.org/ ====== tshtf CAcert isn't accepted in the trust store for devices that most humans use. Today we have Let's Encrypt. ------ tf2manu994 I saw this earlier, iirc the certs don't get acknowledged anywhere.
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Live streaming a new SaaS product - ryanckulp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LNj3cKWzMg ====== ryanckulp going live in 48 mins... should be fun! am also the founder of Fomo: [https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/fomo-05b996966c](https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/fomo-05b996966c)
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Students Should Learn Bleeding-Control Methods to Prepare for School Shootings - okket https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/us/dhs-training-students-mass-casualties.html ====== blackdogie While I can see the benefits, it’s hard to fathom why they are not looking at the cause more seriously and just accepting as a fait a...
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Language Hacking in a Live Programming Environment - iamwil https://ohmlang.github.io/pubs/live2016/ ====== haldean This looks amazing! I would love to have access to a tool like this for working on my current programming language project; is the tool available for download somewhere? I don't see anything about the ed...
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Why I'm Skeptical of the FCC's Call for User Broadband Testing - wglb http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000688.html ====== loupgarou21 I'm somewhat skeptical of it because it isn't doing any sort of sustained testing. I have commercial internet access to my house (it's faster, I get static IP addresses, I can setup PT...
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Instapaper is now a free app, with extra Premium upgrade that costs $30/year - kanamekun https://www.instapaper.com/premium ====== bdcravens Those who purchased app get a month free. From the email announcement: "Since most Instapaper users purchased the iOS and/or Android app, we’d like to thank you for that past ...
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Equifax's IT team knew it hadn't patched web app vulnerability - rbanffy https://www.grahamcluley.com/equifax-vulnerability-heads-roll/ ====== slitaz Then it is even more damning to the head of security if they knew about the vulnerability. The ultimate person to decide whether a vulnerability is not to be patched, is...
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France to force web giants to delete some content within the hour - aspenmayer https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-regulation/france-to-force-web-giants-to-delete-some-content-within-the-hour-idUSKBN22P2JU ====== aspenmayer 'Social networks and other online content providers will have to remove paedophile a...
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Motorola Xoom a huge disappointment - zdw http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2011/03/motorola-xoom-huge-disappointment.html ====== nlogn Rather short and lacking in details for a "review" isn't this? Anandtech and Engadget have already reviewed the Xoom in more detail and I have to say, this reads very much like someone wan...
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Ask PG: Why Not Host an Arc Conference at YC? - Kinnard Why not host an Arc conference at YC?<p>Could reinvigorate the community.<p>You could call it Arc-Con . . . ====== cylinder714 Yes, please!
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Recruiters: why I’m kind of rude to them, why they deserve it, and how to fix it - Flopsy http://omgbloglol.com/post/18791070151/recruiters-why-im-kind-of-rude-to-them-why-they ====== exodust His associations with the so-called "good recruiters" is enough reason not to slam all recruiters with a "how crap are recrui...
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Indian School Girl Creates Washing Machine That Runs Without Electricity - miaowmix http://trak.in/innovation/indian-school-girl-invents-washing-machine-without-electricity-302013/ ====== kokey I have conflicted feelings about this. On the one hand it's nice to see the creativity and spirit, on the other hand it's sad...
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I can get your kid into an Ivy - imgabe http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/103709/I-Can-Get-Your-Kid-Into-an-Ivy ====== whacked_new Great, someone has figured out the recipe for high-performing, cookie-cutter drones. They might as well submit their super-early-action resumes to Wall Street alongside ...
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Bathroom usability. - yookd http://davidkyoo.posterous.com/bathroom-usability ====== MPSimmons How a bathroom usability post got written without a reference to three seashells, I'll never know. ------ logn Bathrooms are rarely designed with OCD sufferers in mind.
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Only a few vendor-paid developers do almost all open-source work - tomxor https://www.infoworld.com/article/3268001/open-source-tools/open-source-isnt-the-community-you-think-it-is.html ====== mhsabbagh This is hilarious: >> It is fair to say that for almost all of the projects in the CNCF, specific vendors account f...
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Amazon's Silk Browser To Be A Data Mining Jackpot - there http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110929/23172216142/amazons-silk-browser-to-be-data-mining-jackpot.shtml ====== mitultiwari With Silk, Amazon will be able to see what webpages Kindle Fire readers are reading, and they can mine that data to figure out which we...
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Show HN: Maki, an online generator of promotional videos - ikliuger http://makivideo.com ====== ikliuger Examples of videos made in Maki: [http://bit.ly/1MV43I6](http://bit.ly/1MV43I6)
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Ask HN: Why big email providers don't sign the email? - ddalex I completely understand the resistance of Gmail and the likes to full end-to-end email encryption.<p>What I don&#x27;t understand is the resistance of cryptographically sign the outbound email and discard incoming spoofed emails that don&#x27;t have proper...
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Writing web applications in Python and Pyramid Web Framework - ergo14 http://pyramid-blogr.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ====== RossM I built one of my final university projects on Pyramid (I wanted to use Python but at the time didn't like Django) and ended up regretting it. There weren't a lot of resources out there ...
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Show HN: Laravel 3.1 PHP Framework. Includes awesome ORM. - 2two2 http://laravel.com/docs/routing#the-basics ====== there The link should probably have gone to <http://laravel.com/docs> instead of the Routing page. The ORM looks better than PHP ActiveRecord, though it's kind of weird that validations live outside o...
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5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion - joeyespo http://torrentfreak.com/5000-artists-line-up-for-a-pirate-bay-promotion-120405/ ====== Retric This get's to the real reason the RIAA hates the piracy. Once someone is internet famous they don't need promoters to start making good money. When someones is actu...
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Is it possible to detect a visitor's ISP, could websites educate Comcast users? - iOSGuy As I understand it, there are limitations, it will not be 100% accurate ie: a user could be using a proxy, or VPN, etc.<p>Still, if Comcast is going to throttle specific websites, or charge specific websites for faster connectio...
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Schneier on Detaining David Miranda - qubitsam https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/detaining_david.html ====== tokenadult Duplicate of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6283241](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6283241)
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I've got the next great idea for a social networking site... But now what? - drewbert So I've got a million dollar idea for a simple social networking site. The dilemma.. I'm not a developer and I don't know any, or know how to find one thats capable of bringing my idea to fruition. So whats a guy like me to do? ...
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Why I’m Still Using APL (2012) [pdf] - nyc111 https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Talks/APL50-talk2.pdf ====== nyc111 I really liked APL. I'm learning it from here [https://aplwiki.com/LearnApl/AplTables](https://aplwiki.com/LearnApl/AplTables) It's fun. Not sure what I can do with it but it's so different than other lan...
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Progressive web apps running as native OS X apps - amk_ https://dev.opera.com/articles/pwa-desktop/ ====== stephenr Running a website (whether hosted locally or remotely and cached) in a chrome- less browser runtime does not make your app "native". Please stop this ridiculous mis-use of the term.
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Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind - jkuria http://hbr.org/2011/07/why-fair-bosses-fall-behind/ar/1 ====== axiom I've had 3 kinds of bosses: 1\. Hardass who pushes everyone to the limit, tends to micro-manage, frequently overrules consensus with his own views. 2\. Total pushover who agrees with everything. Constantly see...
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Better without bug software? - cianestro I don't use bug software and I turn off the default error reporting in whatever environment I find myself working. The code either compiles or it doesn't--that's the only given. Initially, this made my work very tedious but eventually I got over it. Working this way has impro...
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Self-Publishers should not be called Real Authors - michaelkoz http://goodereader.com/blog/commentary/self-publishers-should-not-be-called-authors ====== pyalot2 Elitist much? So first you go on like: I think a line needs to be drawn in the sand so that we know who is the real deal. There is a ...
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Helium kills iPhones: MEMs oscillator sensitivity to helium [video] - juancampa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzWaVvB908 ====== teilo This is the inevitable follow up to this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl...](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabled_every_ios_...
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Ask HN: Rails development on the iPad - jlam3279 Hi all,<p>I'm wondering what the state of developing RoR apps from an iPad is? I picked up a copy of Textastic, but would like to know what other tools are recommended.<p>Cheers. ====== aggarwalachal I think this will help you move to the right track. How a Macbook w...
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Iron law of prohibition - luu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition ====== seibelj Similarly, anti-prostitution activists cheer that Backpage removed adult classifieds.[0] If you really want to prevent abuse of sex workers, you need to legalize the trade and bring it into the open. By driving it furthe...
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Hosting Providers: Kill Malware and Fix Vulnerable Websites - wwdevries http://patchman.co/ ====== wwdevries Founder here, let me know if you have any questions! Upvotes would naturally be greatly appreciated to get the word out in the US :-) Right now we mostly have large (and small) hosting providers in the EU as ...
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Surveillance Is Suspected as Spacecraft’s Main Role - wglb http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/science/space/23secret.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=all ====== wglb This appears to be the team that has done the discovery: <http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html>
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Researchers use Google algorithms to find cancer biomarkers - Irene http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/05/18/google.goes.cancer.researchers.use.search.engine.algorithm.find.cancer.biomarkers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eScienceNews%2Fpopular+%28e%21+Science+News+-+Popular%29 ====== ...
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Politico’s Founder Is Launching a Tech Site–Into a Very Crowded Market - smacktoward https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/politico-founder-is-launching-a-tech-site ====== PaulHoule If this web site targets the "C-Suite", just how many people is it targeting? 10,000? 100,000?
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SSE2 instructions in msexcl40 in a Server 2008 update - yuhong https://twitter.com/yuhong2/status/931653918450257920 ====== yuhong To this day I have not received a response from MS. ~~~ moonbug22 Cool story, bro.
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'Snoopers' charter' revival on hold as redraft demanded - callum85 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31001575 ====== AlyssaRowan Good, but I hesitate to call this a victory, with the government's "private draft" yet sight unseen. Let's see it - and see what the Lib Dems make of it - but in the current climate, a...
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Coding and drawing - danso https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/08/08/coding-and-drawing/ ====== dopu One way in which I've found the two to be incredibly similar: they're both very good at throwing me into the flow zone. And I love being there, which is why my full time job is basically programming all day lon...
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Use your twitter profile as a Chrome (or chromium) theme - ChrisRicca http://sexychrome.com ====== ssalzberg so sexy
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Facebook’s new chatbots still need work - bitsai http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/13/facebooks-new-chatbots-still-need-work/ ====== mkagenius My messenger doesn't show any bots, is it GA?
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Ask HN: Is the iPad too cold? - profgubler I received an iPad as research project at my school. I have it to use it as my own and I love it. It is a neat device that overall (despite noted downfalls) has a great web experience when you are sitting at home. However, I recently got really sick and the iPad was great, ...
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Finishing - unstoppableted http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/05/finishing.html ====== gabrielrotbart Finishing is also important for deciding not to finish. When you believe that you can finish, and you have difficult past experiences to prove it (to yourself most of all) you can more easily walk away from anything that...
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Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints - cs702 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/ ====== bootyfarm No comments. Everything must be fine then, carry on lads!
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On Interviewing as a Junior Dev - mlrtime http://lizmrush.com/on-interviewing/ ====== _RPM > I did a code challenge that involved ranking soccer teams, and while going > over the code a developer at the company asked me if I needed the rules of > the game explained to me. While it's a good thing to make sure the candi...
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Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016? - adamnemecek Also what skills have you acquired? ====== balnaphone "The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David ...
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Google Music: The Best Service That Nobody’s Using - bigmetalman http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/02/google-music-the-best-service-that-nobodys-using/2/ ====== johnnyg I installed Google Music to my MacBook Pro a few months ago. It kept prompting me with the install screen, long after I'd dragged it into my apps fol...
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Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator? - chauhankiran I have tried Jekyll, Hexo and few other static blog generator but not happy with theme. I want to build something in which I have total control. Like I have few scss&#x2F;css files, few markup files and some other templates for design and based on th...
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Announcing Keyless SSL - jgrahamc http://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-keyless-ssl-all-the-benefits-of-cloudflare-without-having-to-turn-over-your-private-ssl-keys/ ====== lucb1e For those who want to understand how it works (it took me a minute, so I'll try to explain it simpler): In simplified terms, the server us...
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Tao3D, a new open-source language for real-time 3D animations - c3d http://sourceforge.net/projects/tao3d/ ====== cordite I would have suggested changing the link to the project site [1] instead of the download page since it has some sort of presentation that sort of details what it is about better, though it seems ...
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A startup CEO drives for Uber - elmyraduff http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/25/a-startup-ceo-drives-for-uber/ ====== austenallred Before your startup is in an accelerator or has raised your seed round driving Uber to remain afloat is downright scrappy. After you've raised your seed round, it raises huge red flags for...
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It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/it-s-gotten-too-hard-to-strike-it-rich-in-america ====== codingslave I would argue that wealth in the last thirty years was driven by two primary methods: 1.) Automating basic and well known tasks using...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older? - dreifi As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?<p>Or do you feel lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing? ====== codingdave Honestly, I feel like I've outgrown the whole "dre...
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Show HN: Localmint - Quickly find local store opening hours - oisin http://www.localmint.com/ ====== DontBeADick Gave it a try on a chain of sporting goods store with several locations in my area. Google: Correct hours Yelp: Correct hours Localmint: No stores found Looks like you've got a long road ahead if you wa...
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