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Show HN: What Is My DNS Resolver? (requires IPv6) - pjf http://whatismydns.eu/ ====== p1mrx There used to be a service at myresolver.info, which worked by redirecting to a unique hostname and associating the two requests at the backend. That supported any combination of (IPv4, IPv6) x (DNS, HTTP). This approach (list...
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My Startup Story: Lessons Learned from Ngame.tv - joelhooks http://johncblandii.com/2011/09/my-startup-story-lessons-learned-from-ngame-tv.html ====== pguzmang I think flat tv is the best bet apple could try, as well as a cell phone the tv will be the next personal computer in our home. So, with the astonishing imag...
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Browser Pong - AbhishekBiswal http://stewd.io/pong/ ====== bobsy The first game on HN which I actually competed. Great fun. Had a rather fantastic come back from 1 - 9 down to win 12 - 10 against the computer. Fairly beatable once you get the technique down. My heart stopped at 8 - 9 when I dropped a point and tho...
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Build a Web spider on Linux - A simple spider and webpage scraper - nickb http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-spider/index.html ====== a-priori Just throwing this out there: I wrote a web spider a while ago in Erlang. You can find it at <http://github.com/a-priori/spider> ------ notdarkyet This is per...
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A lambda calculus for quantum computation - fogus http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/qlambda/ ====== messel This may be a little too advanced of a standalone post. Written for those with at least a functional familiarity with quantum computing and lambda calculus (languages) May be more interesting if you spend ti...
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How to Make US Broadband Competitive - Quickly and Cheaply - drm237 http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/04/10/how-to-make-us-broadband-competitive-quickly-and-cheaply/ ====== goofygrin I only have analog basic cable at home. I use a myth server with three tuner cards (QAM and regular analog) as my PVR solution. If TW re...
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Google AI to no longer use gender labels like 'woman' or 'man' - sincerely https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-vision-api-wont-tag-images-by-gender-2020-2 ====== yellow_lead We all know they're still labeling that way internally though
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Introducing CFSSL – CloudFlare's PKI toolkit - helper http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cfssl ====== zdw The main use case brought up is supporting people still on Win XP SP2 (released in August 2004), when the answer should be for them to upgrade to something newer, either OS or browser. That said, there are ...
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Analysts say attack on Google is part of widespread spying effort - araneae http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=28293 ====== lt _Google's security team eventually managed to gain access to a server that was used to control the hacked systems, and discovered that it was not the only compa...
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A brief history of credit cards - astdb http://a16z.com/2017/07/28/credit-cards-history-transaction-behind-scenes/ ====== Artemis2 There is a great 99% Invisible episode on the early days of credit cards: [http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-fresno- drop/](http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-fresno-drop/) ...
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Paradox: 1 – 1/2 and 1/3 – 1/4 and . . . = 0 - ColinWright http://www.simonsingh.net/Simpsons_Mathematics/1-12-13-14-0/ ====== gglon And 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ = ... ------ lorddoig 8pts, 6 comments and already the site's buckled. Sometimes this place makes me think that not putting a caching proxy in front of your blo...
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An Alternative to the Singleton Anti-Pattern - eamann http://eamann.com/tech/singleton-alternative/ ====== aespinoza It is really not an alternative in the sense of the Singleton Pattern. It is an alternative implementation of the Singleton Pattern in PHP. We have been doing this in C# for a while: [http://neonlabs...
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Ask HN: Is ML/AI a good long-term career path? - drumttocs8 ML&#x2F;AI careers are perhaps the sexiest jobs in tech now, offering high salaries and great job satisfaction. How good of careers are they long term, though? It seems like it&#x27;s very possible that those very jobs would be the first to be automated away....
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Git Hacking: A Social Layer for GitHub - audreyw http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/git-hacking-a-social-layer-for.php ====== ubermajestix I think contributing to open source is more about "fixing a broken window" than a service finding me projects it thinks I should work on or that have lots of broken windows. ...
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Fewer people go to college than you think - imcqueen http://iainmcqueen.posterous.com/a-lot-fewer-people-go-to-college-than-you-thi ====== curt Also there is a big difference between GOING to college and GRADUATING from college. A ton of people drop out during their first or second years. ~~~ imcqueen Agreed. I glo...
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Non native speakers need some help with their startup name - fbailey We are currently working on an idea plattform, a central place to easily share and distribute ideas. A littlebit like halfbakery, but a lot more serious, with a stronger business focus and some advanced features. For us this is mostly a fun project...
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Ask HN: Explain to me the theory behind P=NP in simple words - orionblastar I studied Computer Science at Um Rolla (Now Science and technology) and never was told how the P=NP theory works without people using nonsense and stuff that doesn't make any sense (Teacher's Assistants covering for professors who don't unders...
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Is Microsoft Giving Up On Vista? - AndrewWarner http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/08/microsoft.ballmer/index.html ====== josefresco They're giving up on Vista like Apple gives up on previous versions of OS X. Which is to say they aren't, they're just moving on and improving upon the base OS. Which is a good thing in my...
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Chest cavity fire during emergency cardiac surgery - Osiris30 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/eso-ccf053019.php ====== signa11 this submission looks like a prime candidate for posting to risks digest as well. nice overall reading :)
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Ask HN: What are the best laptop brands to use for Visual Studio development - pymendoza Ask HN: What are the best laptop brands to use for Windows development with tools to include SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc.? Thinking of retiring my 3-year old Asus Core i5 laptop and replacing with higher-end Windows machine. ==...
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5 reasons Ubuntu 12.04 won't be my main OS... yet. - domainkiller http://icorbin.com/why-ubuntu-12-04-wont-be-my-main-os-yet/2819 ====== klez As an alternative to 1Password, have you ever tried KeePassX? It seems to have all you asked for in the article <http://www.keepassx.org/features/> ~~~ domainkiller Thanks K...
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What are some of the most relaxing pieces of music? - wslh http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-relaxing-pieces-of-music ====== rizzy I don't have any specific artist or piece in mind. I always turn to SomaFM's Groove Salad if I want some nice relaxing music.
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In a Parachute-Effectiveness Trial, Who Gets the Placebo? - astrec http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/in-a-parachute-effectiveness-trial-who-gets-the-placebo/ ====== Protophore The article cited in the NY Times: <http://tinyurl.com/6ol8fk> Is a bit absurd. While I agree that in some instances it is ben...
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A letter to Jamie Dimon - ezhil https://blog.chain.com/a-letter-to-jamie-dimon-de89d417cb80?source=linkShare-1cde79981f65-1508548471 ====== CarolineW A few comments: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486582](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486582)
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Does anyone here on HN have experience of FaceFlow? - CarolineW https://www.faceflow.com/ ====== old-fart Seems like i do too, Caroline! I've worked on elaborating a version of faceflow's communication system framework following Dany's goals and ideas for the project. If you have any questions, concerns, feel free to...
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Here's what Google's mystery barge is going to look like - ghosh http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/07/heres-what-googles-mystery-barge-looks-like/ ====== benologist Third-hand summary of [http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/11/07/google- barge...](http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/11/07/google-barge- revea...
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Symantec explores selling web certificates business - bracewel http://www.reuters.com/article/us-symantec-divestiture-idUSKBN19W2WI ====== tialaramex Hmm. Whilst sale of this business is certainly a possibility, one thing to keep in mind is that the anonymous sources could have been confused by activity that isn't act...
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I no longer want to be a developer - SandB0x http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/78956/i-no-longer-want-to-be-a-developer ====== abyssknight There's the thing with good developers. We tend to fit into the INTP range of things, but many flop over to the INFJ and INFP realms as well. Meaningful work, as it ...
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IT firms lose billions after NSA scandal - cryptoz http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/it-firms-lose-billions-after-nsa-scandal-exposed-by-whistleblower-edward-snowden-9028599.html? ====== a3n Some people say it's misguided to pull your data out of the US, because it's within US law to spy ...
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Inside Google's shadow workforce of contract laborers - dsr12 http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-contractors-20180727-story.html?outputType=amp ====== nsstring96 I don't get the point of this article - why single out Google specifically, when a lot of tech companies (as the article notes) hire ...
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Ask HN: Why does Windows feel more responsive than macOS? - pier25 I recently built a new gaming machine with Windows 10 and damn this thing is fast and responsive. When scrolling or simply moving windows around it feels like Windows is running at more FPS than macOS (for a lack of a better description).<p>I&#x27;m co...
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Self-Driving Ubers Driving in Bike Lanes - driverlessnick https://driverlessratings.com/news/self-driving-ubers-crossing-bike-lanes ====== bdonlan This is, in fact, correct behavior: [http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes- and-right-turns/](http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/) If turning traffic do...
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How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? - robg http://www.bakadesuyo.com/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth ====== swombat That probably vastly under-estimates the number (depending on whether you call babies "people"). The population in 8,000 BC might have been 5 million, but each of those was probably the on...
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Is Hardware Really Cheaper Than Humans? - silentbicycle http://www.falvotech.com/blog/index.php?/archives/464-Is-Hardware-Really-Cheaper-Than-Humans.html ====== lsc for something big that lasts a while, it almost always makes sense to optimize. the problem is that usually when you write something, you don't know if ...
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Go Home, Bill - dmoney http://www.crfh.net/d/20080704.html ====== dmoney I meant to link here: [http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080627_0051...](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080627_005146.html)
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The Debate on Whether America’s Best Days Are Past, or Ahead - w1ntermute http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/business/economy/a-somber-view-of-americas-pace-of-progress.html ====== oldmanjay Consider the framing of the article, using a tv show to describe the reality of the past. Is there more than a vanishingly small ...
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Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation - auvi https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp ====== KenoFischer Used to implement the parser/lowering for Julia! It's probably on the way out at this point, but it's served us very well this past decade.
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Introducing Olympus – A tool that instantly creates a REST API for any AI model - subby https://github.com/galiboo/olympus ====== subby Hi guys! I'm Subhash, and I've just released a new open source tool for instantly creating a REST API for any ML model. Currently, it's a work in progress and supports all Keras mod...
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Ask HN: How to implement a time capsule in software - slackwill Is it possible to implement a time capsule in software? For example, somehow (cryptographically?) enforce that the contents of the software are not readable until a date in the future? ====== jeremyw You're looking for "time lock encryption". Gwern [1] is...
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A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons - gilrain https://palant.info/2020/08/31/a-grim-outlook-on-the-future-of-browser-add-ons/ ====== IainIreland Mozilla employee here (albeit not on the mobile team): Relax, everybody. Fenix is a major rewrite. It takes time to reimplement all the WebExtension APIs. Nevert...
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Why Checking References Isn't A Waste Of Time - tptacek http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/why-checking-references-isnt-a-waste-of-time/ ====== tptacek There's a kernel of a good idea in this article: before checking references, determine 2-3 questions about the candidate you need answered; then focus the refe...
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Ask HN: Could the back-end language influence the success of a Web startup? - hkr Let's assume we have two (or more) versions of a given Web application written in different programming languages--no bugs or difference as far as the user is concerned.<p>Would one version be more prone to success over another one? ==...
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Take that, Facebook: Google+ commission on game transactions is 5%, not 30% - thedoctor http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/11/take-that-facebook-google-commission-on-game-transactions-is-5-percent-not-30-percent/ ====== gabaix Well, the value isn't exactly the same. Facebook has a much more tight platform where sharing o...
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Ant Design - modinfo https://ant.design/ ====== bryanrasmussen It's got some downsides (or maybe not I could be wrong on these parts) from what I've seen: 1\. if you want the antd style for a particular component I do not believe you can import a css file specific to just that component. you are importing the full An...
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Bill Gates Fails Guessing Average Grocery Costs on Ellen – Time - evo_9 http://time.com/5169246/bill-gates-grocery-shopping/ ====== WheelsAtLarge Why is this news? If you never do the shopping why would you know prices? You don't have to be a billionaire to not know prices. Reporters/shows do this to embarrass rich/po...
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Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society - jgwil2 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/iran-cannot-handle-coronavirus/607150/ ====== jgwil2 The outbreak is centered around Qom, a pilgrimage site. > Mohammad Saeedi, the head of the shrine in Qom and a local representative of > the country’s supreme leader,...
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How do you live your life? - kirpekar http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=84670&newpost=1490535 ====== drblast Personally I've decided that life is absolutely meaningless, and I've found that to be incredibly liberating. It's helped me to not put so much pressure on myself to achieve (achieve what?) a...
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“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business” - hippich https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187 ====== devy The OP said it was a velocity hold tripped up due to COVID19 situation that caused the sales to sp...
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Step by Step Guide: Blend Redux with ReactJs - atapas https://blog.greenroots.info/step-by-step-guide-blend-redux-with-reactjs-ck1tixqp00055avs100ncho2x ====== c89X My understanding was that Redux had become largely redundant now that React Hooks have been released. I have only entered the React domain recently, so ma...
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Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve - johnkevinmbasco http://realproblemhunt.com/ ====== ArekDymalski As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was [http://theinternetwishlist.com/](http://theinternetwishlist.com/) These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not...
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Millennials on the Cusp of Middle Age Missed Their Boom - jseliger https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-12/millennials-approach-middle-age-without-benefit-of-economic-boom ====== mirimir I'm clearly boomer, but I didn't start caring about money until my mid 40s. I did luck out, and got in a good decade o...
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Nim: Deploying static binaries - kaushalmodi https://scripter.co/nim-deploying-static-binaries/ ====== Annatar The reason why static linking has been all but banned is security and bug fixes: with static linking, the bugs and performance issues are fused into the resulting binary; fixes to libc will require a complete...
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Japanese geek recruiting boyfriend at github. - barlog https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require Please help her with your coding skills if you are interested. ====== w1ntermute This sounds like a joke: > 冬の間は暖房をつけなくても平気な人 > Someone who is OK not having heating in the winter [Note: residential > central hea...
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Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them - TDL http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/ ====== rayiner _Great_ work by the EFF here. There is a delicate balance between the power of the executive and the power of the courts and trying to chill the telecom's ...
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A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal - dkroy https://github.com/jschr/bootstrap-modal/ ====== krichman This is a nice modal, but I'd much rather never have a modal ever. The only time a modal should appear is if a critical error occurred that the user must know about immediately. For most cases where modals tend to get ...
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Show HN: A place to share our wfh spaces and experiences - priyankc https://www.wfhcave.com/ ====== priyankc Made some updates to make it more mobile responsive. Planning to add tags for several activities people could share with each other.
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I Almost Lost My Career Because I Had the Wrong Passport - doppp https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/opinion/immigration-law.html ====== beerandt ≥their system of research support and early childhood education for my son allowed me to do the _innovative research on tax havens_ that led to the book and the findings I’d ...
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Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay - kotakufanb http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/ed-mcmillen-ubuntu-store-sold-super-meat-boy-for-a-year-without-permission-has-yet-to-pay-team-meat/ ====== jacquesm Pirates is way too heavy a term here. Canonical is large enough and the i...
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Nokia warns that Nexus 7 tablet infringes its patents - LVB http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/03/nokia_warns_that_nexus_7_tablet_infringes_its_patents.html ====== willvarfar AHA, Nokia's backup plan exposed! :) [http://yle.fi/uutiset/nokias_siilasmaa_goal_to_regain_compet...](http://yle.fi/uutiset/nokias_s...
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Ask HN: Would you use more gestures if would be easier? - JoseVigil At gesturekit.com we believe that gestures are part of the future of our interaction with computers however there is a lot to be done about them. We are currently doing but we need your feedback. Can help us improve our platform and continue solving...
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If I hear one more entrepreneur complain I’m going to puke - mgrouchy http://www.startupottawa.com/?p=3164 ====== codeslush The click-through is the real source of info: [http://inoveryourhead.net/maybe-you-should-just-stop- being-a...](http://inoveryourhead.net/maybe-you-should-just-stop-being-a- fucking-pussy/)
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I Was an Animal Experimenter - romefort http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/i-was-an-animal-experimenter/ ====== jonchang I can say with confidence that this sort of thing would never occur in a modern research laboratory. Note that standards for ethical experimentation on animals (including humans) hadn't...
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A review of Internet Explorer on Xbox 360 - robin_reala http://www.broken-links.com/2012/10/16/internet-explorer-on-xbox-360/ ====== klausa One point from article that I found fasctinating/weird: >The on-screen keyboard is QWERTY (which I don’t understand as that’s only useful for two-handed typing) Personally, I ...
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On Hansen et al: Critical response to recent sea level rise publication - crygin http://icarus-maynooth.blogspot.com/2016/03/on-hansen-et-al.html?m=1 ====== themgt I have a lot of sympathy for what Hansen is doing. He absolutely is going out on a limb, scientifically speaking, and using PR tactics to generate mainstre...
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Why don't we dance anymore - shanac http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/why-dont-we-dance-anymore.html ====== ColinWright Ballroom dancing evolved in a time when it was about meeting the opposite sex and being able to move confidently without having innate talent, extraordinary ability, unusual skill, or time...
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Google Working on Dynamic Runtime? - timr http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/06/18/GoogleWorkingOnDynamicRuntime.aspx ====== smoody The announced at Google IO that they have written their own Java VM for use by Android. It would not surprise me if the VM turned out to be more general purpose and Java just happened ...
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The Build is Always Broken - mhd https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-build-is-always-broken.html ====== desc It's useful for development environments to cache things which have not changed in order to shorten the feedback loop. Many do. The problem is guaranteeing correctness. Correct cache invalidation is Hard(...
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Ask HN: What do you need to communicate with a remote team? - timzon_dot_com For a virtual team in multiple time zones, what new collaboration solution would you use?<p>We've developed a solution (timzon.com) to help virtual teams better communicate through video threaded discussion and would like to know what funct...
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Ask HN: Aside from the stock market, where would you invest excess cash? - uptown I&#x27;ve decided that the stock market, as a long-term investment strategy, isn&#x27;t something appealing to me. While I&#x27;m not adverse to risk, I feel that trading in a marketplace controlled by professional investors with access...
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A Proposal Generator Template for Freelancers - jmduke http://gun.io/blog/a-proposal-generator-template-for-freelancers/ ====== cmac2992 Damn i thought my screen was super dirty but it was the fixed background lol. service looks useful too. Maybe if I start doing more freelancing this will be useful.
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Coding for a cause: Benefits and Pitfalls - erics http://www.tangosource.com/blog/Coding-for-a-cause-Benefits-and-Pitfalls/ ====== spodek "Does free work sound like a bottomless pit of time expenditure, with no chance of compensation?" I hear perspectives like this a lot. I'm glad the author of this post got it by ...
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Awesome-EarthObservation-Code - zeristor https://github.com/acgeospatial/awesome-earthobservation-code ====== julienchastang Relatedly, I learned about this: [https://github.com/ESIPFed/Awesome-Earth- Artificial-Intellig...](https://github.com/ESIPFed/Awesome-Earth-Artificial- Intelligence)
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Effects of Covid-19 on US Food System - agilboa19 https://www.refed.com/content-hub/refeds-covid-19-u-s-food-system-review/ ====== agilboa19 Curious what companies are doing to address the effects of food waste across the supply chain. It seems that ReFED has started a fund for this: [https://www.refed.com/content-hub...
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HQ Trivia App Puts On-Demand Generation on a Strict Schedule - mudil https://www.wsj.com/articles/hq-trivia-app-puts-on-demand-generation-on-a-strict-schedule-1513870073 ====== nemothekid I play this game semi-often and as the popularity has risen, the performance of the game has gone down hill. Interestingly enough ...
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The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers - davidst https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/30/the-turing-tumble-lets-you-and-your-kids-build-real-mechanical-computers/ ====== panglott Can't understand all the negative comments here (I'm definitely in shut-up- and-take-my-money mode): this looks ...
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The Mind of a Mathematician - lordgrenville https://paw.princeton.edu/article/mind-mathematician ====== usgroup I very much like that people like Tao are famous. It’s relatively good for the intellectual spirit and hopefully it inspires others. However this fixation with his “extraordinary capacity”, scores, medals a...
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The HDFS Juggernaut - josephscott https://blog.shodan.io/the-hdfs-juggernaut/ ====== pweissbrod Hadoop (and hence HDFS) is a stack of services designed to work together to serve a file system and manage jobs. The hadoop stack has a pluggable authentication/authorization by design. And yes, the default is "no security"...
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Cowboy - A small, fast, modular HTTP server and socket acceptor pool - gurraman https://github.com/extend/cowboy ====== gurraman I've been using this wonderful piece of software for a couple of weeks now. It's extremely powerful when you need to implement multiple interfaces (including non-HTTP-based) to the same da...
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Dorm living for professionals comes to SF - tarr11 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/dorm-living-grown-ups-san-francisco.html ====== mb_72 “I feel like I’m in a relationship with everyone I live with,” Ms. Ndrepepaj said. “If their day is bad, your day is bad.” Hardly a selling point. As an introvert it's...
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The Pros and Cons of Pair Programming - eaguyhn https://hackernoon.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-pair-programming-b606625bc784 ====== projektfu The mental exhaustion (Con #3) is why eXtreme Programming included an exhortation about 8 hour days and 40 hour weeks.
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Romney: Entrepreneurs should just ask parents for money - DannyPage http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/16/romney-entrepreneurs-should-just-ask-parents-for-money/ ====== dmils4 So apparently Obama hurt entrepreneurs by funding Solyndra because every entrepreneur gives up when they see the government funds their compe...
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Why You Should Apply to TechStars Cloud - seats http://www.techstars.com/why-you-should-apply-to-techstars-cloud/ ====== dkador I had an amazing time doing TechStars Cloud this year. Definitely apply if you're considering it (or even if you're not). Happy to answer any questions about it if people have them. ------...
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Google Replaces Tele Atlas with Street View Data in US - drp http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/10/12/google-replaces-tele-atlas-data-in-us-with-google-data/ ====== wglb Good article showing improved google maps data. Also linked articles tell of google improving responses to "Report a problem" are often resolved with...
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Show HN: We made posters with Mark Zuckerberg's quotes - jpadilla_ http://hacker-gallery.goodsie.com/ ====== anonymoushn Can I buy 'They "trust me" Dumb fucks.'? ~~~ BillPosters LOL, gold! I would buy that one too. As for the actual posters for sale, if people actually do want these on their walls, just type it in ...
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Ask HN: Which hosting provider do you use and why? - techaddict009 I been seeing various hosting services like Digital Ocean, Linode, etc. But I am confused which one should I go with for the start. The app I am working on is in PHP and MySQL.<p>Can you share which hosting do you use and why? ====== jjude I have bee...
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Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class - djsegal https://djsegal.github.io/covid-19/1-data-analysis/viral-trajectory ====== djsegal I was a teaching assistant for 6S083, an undergraduate course on Julia focusing on Covid-19 modeling. Decided to turn all the problem sets into a set of interactive dashboards...
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Why PRISM May Herald a New Golden Age for P2P - paveldolezal http://tomtunguz.com/clouds-and-prism/ ====== Egregore Please show me a critical mass of concerned people who would switch to this new P2P. I'm talking with a bitter taste, because I myself developed a securier mail alternative which didn't fly.
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Ask HN: Why do we break “hover to uncover” in e-mails? - techsupporter Almost every list of security recommendations includes some advice telling users to hover over a link in an e-mail to make sure it goes to the intended place, especially for sensitive e-mails like banks or that may ask for credentials. So, why d...
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Singularitarianism vs. Totalitarism - kiyanwang https://hackernoon.com/singularitarianism-vs-totalitarism-b2bce9fcbb2 ====== randomerr It's a two edged sword. As we decentralized, we create a bigger opportunity for 'bad players' to take advantage of individual sectors. Decentralized services also means deregulated or ...
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Ask HN: Interested in Ferrari Design for Your Product? Open Call for Partners - gabriellemic Pininfarina is a legacy Italian name - most known for iconic auto design. The studio always looks for partners who are looking for collaboration on design projects in:<p>INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ex. Hardware, consumer products (inc. ...
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EFF now accepting Bitcoin again - schoen https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty ====== fianchetto EFF taking Bitcoin is good for Bitcoin but they won't get a single satoshi from me. I joined EFF not long after the Steve Jackson days and supported them until relatively re...
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Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say - jbegley https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-management-ignored-internal-research-showing-racial-bias-current-former-n1234746 ====== rbecker _In an effort to be neutral, the company’s hate speech policies treat attacks on white people or men in exactly ...
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500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash - eis http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/chart.png?width=976&m=mtgoxUSD&k=&r=1&i=&c=0&s=&e=&Prev=&Next=&v=1&cv=0&ps=0&l=0&p=0&t=S&b=&a1=&m1=10&a2=&m2=25&x=0&i1=&i2=&i3=&i4=&SubmitButton=Draw& ====== buro9 From the mt.gox site: Huge Bitcoin sell off...
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Yarn vs. npm5 determinism - styfle https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/05/31/determinism/ ====== nailer Can people please stop using 'lockfile' for things that aren't lockfiles? Particularly if you're storing important data using the name of a file type that, for the last few decades, has been something any Linux or Unix u...
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What's your one song? Jack started us off at SUS13 - scotthtaylor http://open.spotify.com/user/staylor09/playlist/7tkGvWGn0dy3qGn9RjD0Nk Jack Dorsey gave us the one song that supports and inspires him. What&#x27;s your one song?<p>I&#x27;ve created a shared playlist on Spotify. ====== dzink Mysterious (With Music Bo...
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I opensourced my Firefox bookmarks - mraza007 https://bookmarks-flask.herokuapp.com/ ====== goodfight How do I use it? ~~~ mourique The link seems to be broken. but the website points to a github repo wich in turn has another netlify-link, this one working. [https://kind-babbage-78b799.netlify.com/](https://kind- ba...
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Companies Replacing Gut Feelings With Big Data - nichm http://betakit.com/2012/02/20/startups-leveraging-big-data ====== faucet Anything is better than not present gut feeling!
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Why Do We Have “Sister Cities”? - bpolania http://priceonomics.com/why-do-we-have-sister-cities/ ====== herendin Perhaps I missed it, but the article does not seem to mention the obvious personal incentive for public officials: an exchange of free vacations. That seems naive. ~~~ coffeevradar I don't think "invective...
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Facebook Co-Founder at General Catalyst: 3 Pieces of Advice for Young Entrepreneurs - bobbud http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/05/04/facebook-co-founder-settles-in-at-general-catalyst-out-to-learn-and-help-young-entrepreneurs/ ====== kjw It's interesting to see how the tech community will continue to nurture young ...
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Show HN: Mobcrush, an iOS sdk to stream your game to Twitch.tv, Hitbox.tv, etc. - jgh http://www.mobcrush.com ====== Rizzo95 Looks cool. Just some feedback.. You should make your logo on your home page a bright color with a black outline. It's hard to see. ------ jgh You can download the binary for free from [http:...
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