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Should software be patentable? That's the wrong question to ask - llambda http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2011/10/29/should-software-be-patentable-thats-the-wrong-question-to-ask-40094152/ ====== nemoniac The central argument holds: a machine process implemented in hardware is in essence no different...
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Ask HN: Who are working on young open-source projects? (or know such?) - pankratiev I mean projects that just started recently and are not so popular.<p>I am working on a flexible discussion platform for open-source projects. If you are interested, could you please drop me a few lines at vladimir@tagmask.com ====== ...
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Incident Report – DDoS Attack - alainmeier http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/12/incident-report-ddos/ ====== latch I need to learn to let things go, but: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280515](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280515) I've been a DnsMadeEasy customer for a while (they had an outage ~4 years...
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The freelance software developer’s limbo: from freelancer to agency - peppesilletti https://medium.com/@peppesilletti/the-freelance-software-developers-limbo-from-freelancer-to-agency-761c91848f53 ====== peppesilletti There are many blog posts, communities, online courses, and gurus talking about how to get started on...
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Config manager based on Git for your $HOME - albertzeyer https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh ====== rofrol And this is my imho simpler approach: [https://github.com/rofrol/.configs](https://github.com/rofrol/.configs) Store all configs in ~/.configs, and make symlinks to ~/ with install.sh. There is also push_configs.sh...
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Ask HN: How do I find an angel investor for my startup? - sktrdie Really I don't know anything about investors, company logistics, economics, marketing. I'm just a developer that created a useful product (I hope).<p>Can Y Combinator help me with this? ====== badmash69 As Tony Montana ( Scarface) said: In this count...
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Impossible Figures Library - franklin_p_dyer https://im-possible.info/english/library/index.html ====== matsemann I like these. Some of them are even non-obviously impossible. They may pass at first glance, but then one sees why it shouldn't work. I recently posted my figures [0] here. It's also a kind of impossible ...
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Bare Metal Rust 2: Retarget your compiler so interrupts are not evil - dbaupp http://www.randomhacks.net/2015/11/11/bare-metal-rust-custom-target-kernel-space/ ====== jscheel I've been playing with Rust for os dev and emulation for a little bit. It's great to have others who are significantly more well-versed in this ...
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Show HN: I made an Android app that gives you an extra phone number to give out - dustball https://market.android.com/details?id=net.tyx.extraphone ====== dustball I built this using the Twilio API, which I really enjoy using. The app is a little expensive; I can lower the price later if I move to a different solut...
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Not Hotdog App - rcamp https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521?mt=8 ====== timanglade Ha didn't expect this to end up here. If anyone is interested, I'm working on a blogpost explaining how we built the app in detail… It uses embedded TensorFlow on device (better availability, better speed, better priv...
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New Hack: Tired of getting kicked off News.YC? - apgwoz Is noprocrast dragging you down? Or the maxvisit clock staring you in the face? Well, then I've got the solution for you.<p>1. Wait minaway minutes after your maxvisit has timed out.<p>2. Reload the front page<p>3. In new tabs, open each and every link on the h...
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Big Tech needs to act on concerns over ‘surveillance capitalism’ - mancerayder https://www.ft.com/content/37a0cb82-23c6-11e9-8ce6-5db4543da632 ====== mancerayder Apologies for the paywall. This is a letter to the FT from John Chen, CEO of Blackberry. I can't post it in whole, but the gist is: _The inevitable implica...
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Ask HN: my website doesn't work in Opera (it works in Firefox,chrome,explorer)) - Vejita00 www.winteriscomming.com (just test domain name,i know it's wrong)<p>Don't know what to do to make it work with Opera. Any help? Thanks.<p>It's theme from themeforest, and it worked until I made some changes, but I can't rememb...
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Could “Is Dead” Please Die? - api http://adamierymenko.com/is-dead-should-die/ ====== goatandsheep People can say any phrase that catches our eyes and we'll believe it. Tech news is learning from Buzzfeed and people are taking it seriously. Also, I'm not too impressed with the watch. I'm sure there could be some Spr...
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So You Want to Make Games - szafranek http://szafranek.net/blog/2017/05/04/so-you-want-to-make-games/ ====== madshiva Mobile industrie are not the same than game for PC, they are really focused more on money than the game itself, they are for dumb users (sorry I don't have other word for, and it's not even casual) mak...
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Show HN: Lightweight vacuum packed foam camping matress - alexlajeunesse https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/campcomprest/comprest-the-unstoppable-camping-bed-that-charges ====== alexlajeunesse Hey HN, a guy I went to university with followed through with his idea to make a better alternative to the current camping m...
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Ask HN: Would you be interested in being provided daily option plan entries - marketgod I currently utilize a system to trade for myself. It has impressive returns and is fairly simple to enter plans.<p>With a developer skill set you would be able to enter the trades automatically and sell whenever you decide. General...
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Ask HN: What are the features users want in a location based app? - vskr ====== cdvonstinkpot Automatic tagging, don't make me have to initiate interaction with the interface to make the apps primary function do its thing. ------ AznHisoka the ability to see where their friends are. Nothing more.
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Bash Vi Command Line Editing Mode - timmorgan http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet/ ====== glymor It's readline that has the vi mode set editing-mode vi in .inputrc will enable it everywhere. ~~~ james2vegas luckily not everything on the command line uses readline, el...
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Richest 1% now owns more of US wealth than at any time in past 50 years - eevilspock https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the-richest-1-percent-now-owns-more-of-the-countrys-wealth-than-at-any-time-in-the-past-50-years/ ====== vfulco Trickle down capitalism at its finest. ------ danschumann If you t...
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Emails prove traffic shutdown was political payback from office of NJ governor - ck2 http://www.northjersey.com/news/christie_kelly_bridge_lane_closures_emails.html ====== ck2 What's interesting about this is apparently you can get anything back from Google gmail via a warrant. Also, without the press, this would h...
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Ask HN: Review my startup, Snapherd.com - endtwist So I've just launched Snapherd, a mobile photo game. Basically, every 48 hours a new catchword or catchphrase is given, and the goal is to take a picture of what you think best represents the subject matter.<p>The idea is simple, but I'd love to hear what the Hacker...
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See Star Wars a Day Early - lenkendall http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2015/12/14/do-or-do-not-there-is-no-try/ ====== DerekL I'm in the SF Bay Area, and many theaters are showing it on the 17th starting at 7PM.
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Show HN: Flight search to max. accr. mileage at best price (for frequent flyers) - alexjawad http://www.bunainternational.com/demo-0.1.html ====== alexjawad The demo page is primarily for potential users to provide feedback on the features before building, and it's a bit sloppy but should illustrate what it's all ab...
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Why OpenHeatMap is banned from Github - joshfraser http://petewarden.com/2013/09/27/why-openheatmap-is-banned-from-github/ ====== alexholehouse The weird/upsetting thing is that CTO would go to the producer of a software his or her company use for _free_ and despite having active communication lines open go behind t...
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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says - stablemap https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2017/09/26/many-students-around-the-world-cant-read-or-add-world-bank-says/ ====== moretai So is the world just a top that's about to stop spinning? I mean we are probably the most educated group of humans in ...
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APOD: LIGO detects gravity waves... - AliCollins http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html ====== AliCollins Currently a "Placeholder APOD" until the LIGO Press Conference at 11AM (ET)...we're waiting!! ------ AliCollins ...and now there is an interesting image showing the signals from the twin LIGO detectors - fantast...
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2 Steps to Becoming a Great Developer - jmonegro http://theadmin.org/articles/2010/04/16/two-steps-to-becoming-a-great-developer/ ====== dinde I can definitely appreciate the fears listed in step one. I am about four years into my career and have recently begun realizing that I will not surpass what I consider mediocr...
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Ask HN: anyone willing to contribute ideas for pricing for our startup? - andrewstuart Hi folks - we're coming out of beta soon and need to come up with pricing. trouble is I'm not sure how to price it. Is anyone willing to contribute ideas on pricing this service? Any input would be a help and much appreciated.<...
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Show HN: Assistant to help you fight social media addiction and do smth useful - pogorsky https://douseful.com/ ====== pogorsky Hi, I'm Eduard, and over the last few years I've been enrolled on many online courses to strengthen my research skills, broaden my career prospects, and to simply learn something new. Some of...
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Maya Angelou Dies at 86 - tieistoowhite http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html ====== silverbax88 I was fortunate enough to have Maya living within a couple of miles of me, and was able to meet her a couple of times. I admired her, and she was an ins...
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Share Your Location Easily - crjHome https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mycords/id803293602?mt=8 ====== crjHome If anyone wants a free download then please tweet @conrjac for a coupon code for the App store.
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Street pastors calm down drunken aggro after closing time - pbowyer http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/12/what-do-you-do-when-theres-drunken-aggro-after-closing-time-send-in-the-street-pastors/ ====== hanoz > Street pastors calm down drunken aggros after closing time At the risk of opening a Lego-built can of worms, the...
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The Privacy Scandal That Should Be Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica - sqdbps https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-locationsmart-scandal-is-bigger-than-cambridge-analytica-heres-why-no-one-is-talking-about-it.html ====== WisNorCan This is far beyond Telcos. Lots of apps are selling location data to data intermediari...
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First OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes - nickb http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/02/first-opensocial-application-hacked-within-45-minutes/ ====== hello_moto Was this Google fault or the 3rd-party fault?
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New York, America’s unhappiest city - __Joker http://nypost.com/2014/07/22/new-york-americas-unhappiest-city/ ====== __Joker Article based on this study [http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/Seminar/Papers/Glaeser...](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/Seminar/Papers/Glaeser14.pdf)
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Ask HN: How does instagress get permission - wootez Instagram requires users to have a proper business case in order to use their API to like&#x2F;follow people. Instagram says you shouldn&#x27;t use this to automate likes and follows. However, instagress seems to sell automated likes and follows - how does this hap...
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Graphene Doubles Up on Quantum Dots’ Promise in Quantum Computing - gsmethells http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/quantum-dots-made-from-graphene-help-realize-their-promise-for-quantum-computing ====== xbmcuser I wish someone would do a chart of all the things graphene can be used for that hav...
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Startup Madness - guglanisam http://sameerg.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/startup-madness/ ====== bootload _"... Each time we met a new person, we were constantly thinking of how this person can help our venture, . Everywhere we went, we explored if there was something there that could benefit our startup. Frankly we wer...
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Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus MBA programs - hhs https://www.forbes.com/sites/poetsandquants/2019/05/26/why-business-schools-are-shutting-down-their-mba-programs/ ====== mcmoose75 I went to one of the top-tier (top 3) MBA programs in the US. The way I've described that value of the top MBA p...
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The future of photography and Unsplash - dstein64 https://medium.com/unsplash-unfiltered/the-future-of-photography-and-unsplash-811f114aab7a ====== pgeorgep Unsplash powers nearly all of the stock photography I see these days. It's crazy to see photographers are able to get more impressions on their photos than any ot...
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Golang only 2x ruby at net/http level and same as ruby at web framework level? - gankgu https://gist.github.com/gankkank/3a59513ea81cb5ec5e33 ====== nostrademons TechEmpower has it at about 3x Ruby at net/http level, but close to 10x on BeeGo vs. Sinatra. [https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=...
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Careful, there's an app which will delete all your tweets - FluidDjango http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/27/9737518-careful-theres-an-app-which-will-delete-all-your-tweets ====== rtjggfj The point of the application is to delete all your tweets, it explains that it's not undo-able, and it requires confir...
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LShift is terrified by asynchronous libraries performance - bandris http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/12/15/asynchronous-libraries-performance ====== tptacek Couple things. First, there isn't enough context in the LShift article to judge whether Marek has a valid point. He's conceded up front that both Libev and libeve...
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A new class of attack via LinkedIn Skills - rjurney https://twitter.com/rjurney/status/567455739245895681 ====== positr0n Sorry to be that guy, ([http://xkcd.com/1053/](http://xkcd.com/1053/) and all), but this isn't new. It was discovered soon after the skills feature came out. Here's a buzzfeed article from 2013:...
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Postmortem: Azure DevOps (VSTS) Outage of 4 Sep 2018 - wallflower https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17485 ====== a2tech Long story short they give no indication as to why their data center cooling systems were unable to handle voltage changes caused by the storm and their systems are not designed for spee...
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Ask HN: I Just Got A Used MacBook Pro. What To Install? - tronium I just got a late 2011, 15-inch MacBook Pro from my older brother. I enjoy programming&#x2F;developing a lot, so what apps should I get&#x2F;install on the new system for developing and productivity? ====== jevinskie Divvy lets you easily resize windo...
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Ask HN: Industry job for 1+ year or try directly for grad school? - cybernoodles Curious about what your thoughts would be on the pros and cons of the two options and whether or not going into industry for a bit would hurt or improve someone&#x27;s chances. My real passion is research. I&#x27;ve been told working at...
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The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution - dmmalam http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588104-humble-usb-cable-part-electrical-revolution-it-will-make-power-supplies ====== kabdib It's going to be interesting, from a security standpoint. One of the original cracks on the PS3 was via the USB s...
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10 Most Recommended JavaScript Scene Articles of 2015 - ericelliott https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-most-recommended-javascript-scene-articles-of-2015-292be655d6cc ====== honua The article is written by Eric Elliot and literally every one of the ten articles he recommends he wrote himself.. reminds me of the pl...
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Ask HN: Anything better than Tableau for data viz, dashboards? - datavizq I am in charge of implementing a web-accessible dashboard to visualise some data we are collecting on behalf of a client.<p>I am currently planning to use Tableau. However, my (admittedly very limited) exposure to the platform has left heavily u...
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Where can I hire designers? - sidwyn I need a new icon and UI for my iPhone app - Definition.<p>Been looking through oDesk but somehow it doesn't really appeal to me. Browsing through Forrst and Dribbble is driving insane too. Anyone has any good contacts experienced in iOS design? ====== lachyg <http://www.dribbble...
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Ask HN: Is there a name for the 'web shortcut' services? (tinyurl, tinypaste, cli.gs, etc) - AlexeyMK Other than 'web shortcuts', is there an umbrella category name for tinyurl and the resulting offshoot services?&#60;p&#62;This feels like an interesting niche blog to start.&#60;p&#62;[Full disclosure: I created loo...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released - jgillich https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-March/000181.html ====== ghotli Most of the articles and chatter I can find talks about the changes in 14.04 from a desktop perspective. I only run ubuntu on servers and vms. Does anyone know where I ca...
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Ask HN: How does Twitter implement following and followers between users? - benkovy I have always been curious as to how twitter implemented this in their user model. How do they keep track of who the user is following and who is following the user? ====== tedmiston In 2010, Twitter was using a graph database, FlockDB...
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Oculus Rift co-founder killed by a car speeding form police. - bamfunkified http://3dgeeks.com/news_story/oculus_rift_co_founder_killed_by_a_speeding_car_ina_police_chase.html ====== ColinWright <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5802474>
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Ask HN: Facebook hack - jeffmould So a few hours ago I looked at my FB on my laptop. At the top of my profile was a message that my account was memorialized. Doing some digging it seems anyone can submit a request to FB to have one of their friend&#x27;s profiles memorialized. It appears that when that happens whoever...
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Myself (interactive programming demo) - IA21 https://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/full/PwLXXP/ ====== King-Aaron That was extremely cool, and would make for a useful little demo for front end development students (and maybe also for people working in the field, grinding their teeth looking for something to engage themselves...
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The Recursive Women in Tech Issue - DoreenMichele http://gistofthegemini.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-recursive-women-in-tech-issue.html ====== lkrubner I think partly people want an explanation for why women's participation in tech has declined so much since the 1980s. Consider: \---------------------- _Suppose there ...
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“This is my Merrill Lynch portfolio – 1.83% expenses, underperformed S&P 500” - keywonc http://hellomoney.co/portfolio/347 ====== philrea Problem with the arg how can an "average" investor expect to compete against the big dedicated investment houses is that in most respects the big guys are average at best. Speaki...
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API Keys on GitHub - fabulist I wanted to add something a little more dangerous to this recent meme. A lot of the time, people bake credentials into apps and then accidentally commit them. Especially database credentials and API keys.<p>A naive approach for hunting API keys gets a of false positives; things like api...
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Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots - iisbum https://botlist.co ====== bentossell Hey! I'm one of the makers here Appreciate any thoughts anyone else. WE are all ears :) Mobile responsive isnt in place yet so apologies for that. Trying to get bots/AI from different platforms in one central, 3rd party place - n...
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Recommended Space Books for Kids, 2019 - sohkamyung https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/space-books-kids.html ====== mncharity Sigh. So, a common misconception in astronomy education, is that the Sun itself is yellow. It's common even among astronomy graduate students at, err, a first-tier institution for...
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Ask HN: What's the most secure communications method today? - JamesAdir Assuming that I can exchange keys of some sort (physical, digital) with the other contact. ====== adrianN What's your threat model? If you don't care about metadata and you can exchange keys, use some form of symmetric encryption. If you care abou...
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µTorrent 1.0 for Mac released - drewr http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/mac ====== Naga This is a bit late to the boat. Not sure about on Windows, but on OS X, Transmission is a great torrent client. ~~~ maximilian I don't have any evidence to back it up, but I think uTorrent has better network code and produces fa...
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Ask HN: online Work a winner takes it all market? Elance vs. odesk - cked Hello hacker news community,<p>I am a frequent user of marketplaces like Elance and odesk where I offer my services as a .NET developer. I thought a lot about the nature of hat market and how many platforms  we will have as the markets matures...
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Functional programming with python - Anon84 http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/functional-programming-with-python ====== hedgehog Newer versions of Python also have generator expressions which look similar to list comprehensions but with parenthesis instead of brackets. They mostly can be used for similar purpos...
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Steve Bannon's far-right Europe operation undermined by election laws - orf ====== _Schizotypy missing link ?
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Cockroaches deliver kicks to avoid being turned into “zombies” - YeGoblynQueenne https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/karate-kicking-cockroaches-can-fight-off-zombifying-jewel-wasps/ ====== symplee The video[1] in the article of the kick defense is pretty crazy. [1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8XoT2-qwQ](ht...
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Ask HN: Does taking a severance package make you less marketable? - DrWumbo Is it a bad idea to take a severance package from a job that I was already planning on leaving? I work as a developer at a Fortune 50 company that is currently doing &quot;restructuring&quot; and is offering severance packages to anyone who wa...
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One Minute Reads for Writers – 30 Posts in 30 Days - monkeymagick https://medium.com/1-one-infinity/one-minute-reads-for-writers-30-posts-in-30-days-6b781fb9cf22 ====== CtrlAltEngage "These are all friend links — because I love you — so you will be able to read them whether you’re a member of Medium or not." Promptly...
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Lego NXT Mindstorm Bot controlled through IRC using perl - bsdpunkblog http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2009/02/spike-irc-nxt-mindstorm-video-using.html ====== jacquesm This reminds me of the beginnings of the webcam project, I had a silicon graphics box with a camera attached to it pointing at a 'mobile' with a bunch of...
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Demigod: So much for piracy - jemmons http://forums.demigodthegame.com/349758 ====== jemmons The money quote: "When the focus of energy is put on customers rather than fighting pirates, you end up with more sales."
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When the boss is wrong: How speaking out can save lives - schrofer http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33667046 ====== thaumasiotes Title is unrelated to article. Did you mean to submit [http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33544778](http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33544778) ?
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Let me Duck Duck Go that for you - arst http://lmddgtfy.com ====== antirez Using DDG as a replacement for Google in the latest two months. I'm impressed. If it's better or not than google for certain types of usage, I'll let other users to decide (but it _is_ better, for my usage). But what is truly impressive is how ...
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Oracle linking to it-ebooks.info - ishanr In Oracle&#x27;s New to Java Programming page (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;technetwork&#x2F;topics&#x2F;newtojava&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;index.html), the recommended books section (bottom of the page) contain a link to Head First Java on it-ebooks: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;it-...
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Ask HN: What are you building? - northfoxz2018 What are you guys building? What are devs excited about nowadays? ====== rijoja Onscreen keyboard for writing math. § - toggle visibility 1,2,3,4, q,w,e,r, a,s,d,f, z,x,c,v - Select block recursively So for example: 1,z => π q,4 => \int_{a}^{b} e,1 => newline Currently...
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$50K bounty for practical robocall-killing technology. - jamesbritt http://robocall.challenge.gov/ ====== astangl I dispute their contention that an "ideal" solution would not block political or charity robocalls. Ideally we close these loopholes in the No-Call List, so these all are illegal. It seems to me a lot of ...
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Drag and Drop for AngularJS - codef0rmer http://codef0rmer.github.com/angular-dragdrop/#/ ====== tanepiper It's good, but again adds another dependency with jQueryUI - I wish people would stop adding heavyweight dependancies to this stuff.
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NIH investigating if U.S. scientists are sharing ideas with foreign governments - SiempreViernes http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/nih-investigating-whether-us-scientists-are-sharing-ideas-foreign-governments ====== java-man scientists do science?? outrageous!
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Everyone’s AirPods Will Die - Ice_cream_suit https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/08/everyones-airpods-will-die-weve-got-trick-replacing-them/ ====== mft_ Interesting example to consider. I can usually mostly understand Apple (and others) making batteries unremovable, as it allows them to pack the maximum...
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Google shifted $23 bln to tax haven Bermuda in 2017 - bitcharmer https://www.reuters.com/article/google-taxes-netherlands/google-shifted-23-bln-to-tax-haven-bermuda-in-2017-filing-idUSL8N1Z3403 ====== tareqak Submitted yesterday ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828050](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882...
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Show HN: Applications are open for TinySeed's 2020 batch - einarvollset TinySeed is a remote, year-long accelerator for independent software businesses.<p>We just opened up our applications for our second batch: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyseed.com<p>We focus on SaaS and “non-unicorns” (companies that don’t aspire to grow a...
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Every October, Write a Lisp Interpreter In C - blackhole https://twitter.com/#!/haikoschol/status/128741308985643008 ====== demallien I would have thought that writing a C compiler in Lisp would be more interesting... Every time I read a book on compiler design in C, the book passes an inordinate amount of time settin...
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Finding Ideas For Your Next Project - br0ke http://nathanbarry.com/finding-ideas-project/ ====== amix I think a better approach is to solve your own problems. This way you don't have to waste time cold calling people and hoping they are sincere with you with their feedback. You are the user and the creator... It's a...
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The Problem With 'Above Average Programmers' - gacba http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/problem-above-average-programmers/ ====== hga " _Being an expert means you know it all about your subject._ Unfortunately, it also means you’re going to get lazy. _It means you’re going to eventually rest on your laurels an...
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VS2008 Stepping into framework source code - tarunkotia http://referencesource.microsoft.com/serversetup.aspx Configuring Microsoft Reference Source Server ====== tarunkotia Since January 2008, Microsoft has enabled a public symbol server containing source code for most of the .NET Framework libraries. This means you...
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Tesla First Quarter 2018 Update [pdf] - kgwgk http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/6239644551x0x979026/44C49236-1FC2-4FD9-80B1-495ED74E4194/TSLA_Update_Letter_2018-1Q.pdf ====== magicbuzz Model 3 has a larger market share in the US now than BMW 3 series? That seems to be what the graph for April says... ...
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Apple Exploring New Glass Panel MacBook Keyboards - kmano8 https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/04/apple-exploring-new-glass-panel-keyboards/ ====== hsbaut76 Sorry Apple, but I won't buy another MacBook Pro again in the foreseeable future. I won't accept your dogma anymore. I encourage other developers to use Linux. Ma...
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Origins and migration of Soccer's elite – data visualization and app - antonmc https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2016/06/03/origins-of-soccer-superstars/ ====== antonmc A blog post and link to an interactive data science app that plots the origins of Copa America players and the paths that led most to Europe.
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Help with Yahoo Pipes Error - jdavid http://jdavid.net/?p=93 I am getting an error on the response while using OSDE ( Open Social Developer Environment )<p>HTTP ERROR 500 Problem accessing /gadgets/makeRequest. Reason: host parameter is null<p>I think Yahoo Pipes is rejecting the request because it's coming fro...
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Ask HN: Why don't you hire Indian freelance developers? - googlycooly ====== anandnair One thing I've felt is that there are lot of freelance developers in India, both good and bad ones. Most of them say "Yes" to everything but only few of them have the capability to do what we need. When I posted a simple task on Upw...
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ICloud: The Mother of All Halos - jsherry http://allthingsd.com/20110608/icloud-the-mother-of-all-halos/ ====== stanleydrew It would seem that this guy has never actually used more than one Android device. Cause Android has done this from the very beginning, syncing data and apps through your Google account. Which ...
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Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted on Venus - daegloe http://news.yahoo.com/russian-scientist-claims-signs-life-spotted-venus-070321311.html ====== uncoder0 “Let’s boldly suggest that the objects’ morphological features would allow us to say that they are living.” I would have liked a more in-depth expl...
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Ask HN: Does rust have a future? - zabana ====== foldr I mean, probably? Significant chunks of Rust code are already making it into Firefox. I will say that from my relatively limited experience of Rust, it's a language to use if you're really really sure that you can't use GC. Any time you want to use a graph-like da...
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Call me maybe: MongoDB - iand http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb ====== nasalgoat Frankly I was amazed that majority lost as few as it did. If you need atomic writes, MongoDB is not the place for you. ------ dccoolgai The only thing that surpises me about this is that people are still nominally surprise...
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A VNC client for your geeky character terminals (VT/xterm/etc) - howardg https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/headmore ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) ------ t0mst0n I miss the VNC cl...
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Ask HN: How long before you leave? - nzk1 If you recently started a new job but you are not enjoying it - how long would you stick with it until you leave?<p>(for sake of discussion - you have enough money to survive a year without working). ====== ndhoa Frankly, having a job one does not enjoy is the _vast majority...
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The Quest for the Ultimate Vacuum Tube - sohkamyung http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-quest-for-the-ultimate-vacuum-tube ====== imperialdrive mind getting blown!
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Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? - aspyct I&#x27;ve been managing servers for quite some time now. At home, on prem, in the cloud...<p>The more I learn, the more I believe cloud is the only competitive solution today, even for sensitive industries like banking or medical.<p>I honestly fail ...
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