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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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cdvonstinkpot
Automatic tagging, don't make me have to initiate interaction with the
interface to make the apps primary function do its thing.
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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/
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glymor
It's readline that has the vi mode
set editing-mode vi
in .inputrc will enable it everywhere.
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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/
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vfulco
Trickle down capitalism at its finest.
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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AliCollins
Currently a "Placeholder APOD" until the LIGO Press Conference at 11AM
(ET)...we're waiting!!
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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__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/follow people. Instagram says you shouldn'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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/developing a lot, so what apps should I get/install on the new system for developing and productivity?
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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's chances. My real passion is research. I'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
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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
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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?
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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?<p>This feels like an interesting niche blog to start.<p>[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
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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?
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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
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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'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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Naga
This is a bit late to the boat. Not sure about on Windows, but on OS X,
Transmission is a great torrent client.
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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
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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
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_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/
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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 "restructuring" 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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's New to Java Programming page (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/newtojava/downloads/index.html), the recommended books section (bottom of the page) contain a link to Head First Java on it-ebooks: http://it-... | {
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Ask HN: What are you building? - northfoxz2018
What are you guys building? What are devs excited about nowadays?
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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/
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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/#/
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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
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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/
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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
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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://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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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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).
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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
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imperialdrive
mind getting blown!
| {
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Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? - aspyct
I'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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