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Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak - mjlee https://voice.mozilla.org/ ====== gok The goal of making a large, publicly available training corpus for ASR is incredibly admirable, but this approach is problematic. People speak entirely differently when reading from a script. ...
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OATV posted an opening for an associate. Only one woman applied. - ivankirigin http://bryce.vc/post/3919404272/lets-try-this-again-ladies-oatv-is-hiring ====== solsenNet Yeah, this recruitment thing he laid out is illegal on several dimensions. 1\. employer is obligated to advertise broadly enough to generate a div...
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Target's website crashes - 8ig8 http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9PNOC3G0.htm ====== mooism2 Websites crash under unexpected traffic all the time. Why should we care about this one? ~~~ 8ig8 From my perspective, I find it interesting when a high profile website goes down for an extended period of time....
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Digg Is Working On a Toolbar To Go After StumbleUpon, TinyURL, and All The Rest - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/26/digg-is-working-on-a-toolbar-to-go-after-stumbleupon-tinyurl-and-all-the-rest/ ====== mikeyur Kevin Rose confirmed this during the Digg Townhall, and Jay Adelson said "we're not going after stu...
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Ask HN: The most interesting/weird interview question you've been asked? - lowglow While reading http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16346813 I thought it might be fair to source HN and ask about interesting interview questions. ====== lowglow Question: Imagine that you have a non-session-persisting load balancer...
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RabbitMQ based chat. Erlang FTW! - caillou http://69.195.198.92:8080/ ====== icey What differentiates this from every other chat app that gets posted here? Using erlang for a chat app doesn't seem all that newsworthy to me. ~~~ old_sound Is just a PoC of using RabbitMQ to route messages and keep history on a custom...
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Ask HN: Give a novice dev a dose of reality? - fooboy Hey all, posting under an alias since my normal nick is linked to me IRL. I&#x27;m a pretty novice developer (1-2 years professionally, 3-4 since I first learned Python), and as my previous questions might demonstrate, I have very concrete career goals.<p>At my c...
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New, Up to 6 times faster Publii Static CMS beta released - robertgavick https://getpublii.com/blog/publii-beta-speed-increases.html ====== jenkijo Thank for share
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Switched from Subversion to Git - stuff4ben http://concise-software.blogspot.com/2009/08/git-scales-enough-for-enterprise-java.html ====== wvenable I wish git was bit more user-friendly on Windows. With TortioseSVN, using subversion is so smooth and easy I almost forget it's there. I've got a bunch of Git tools inst...
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Printer dots raise privacy concerns - timr http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2008-07-13-printer_N.htm ====== brk This isn't really new, it's been around/known for several years now. I haven't kept up with the yellow-dots, but this quote in the article piqued my interest: "The Secret Service is the only U...
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Ask HN: What is the best way to construct safe and secure C code - wean_irdeh Despite the resurgence of safe language that prevent common pitfalls in C language like Rust and Ada, things like Linux and NetBSD are still written in C. What is the best way to construct safe and secure C code for contribution to Linux or ...
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Does life online give you 'popcorn brain'? - SocialHacks http://www.dutiee.com/edition-cnn-com/2011/HEALTH/06/23/tech-popcorn-brain-ep/index-html ====== laglad I agree but it's an irreversible phenomenon. Some people will balance online/offline better than others, but we will continue to adapt to the times we live i...
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Ask HN: Startup could be killed with a single feature? - quotz Should I start a startup that could potentially be killed by a big corp if they implement the feature that my product is built on? Its a product based on a strong community around it, which is a plus, but still very risky. ====== allenleein I think big cor...
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Ask HN: efreeme.com Head to head with etsy.com, marketing help? - boonez123 Okay. I've built the site efreeme.com, proven it works, done the bare minimum required to get it off the ground, however now I'm looking for the marketing angle to push this. Any ideas?<p>My big competitive advantage over etsy.com is that we...
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Man Implants Giant Computer Into His Arm Without Doctors - alexgrcs http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/01/this-guy-implanted-a-giant-computer-chip-into-his-arm-without-medical-supervision/ ====== Ellipsis753 It can read his body temperature and send it via bluetooth. It also has 3 status leds. Now honestly, the question...
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Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick - michaelochurch http://qz.com/85400/moving-to-open-plan-offices-makes-employees-less-productive-less-happy-and-more-likely-to-get-sick/# ====== jroseattle Anyone who has worked in enough office environments for a while will recognize that the...
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Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts? - mdevere My contacts are a mess. Phone numbers scattered across Google Contacts, iCloud, some just stored on my phone. And don&#x27;t get me started on email addresses. I generally just rely on Gmail to autocomplete the email addresses that I&#x27;ve used before...<p>Show me n...
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Better flight stats results - terpua http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/better-flight-stats-results.html ====== cduan The sad thing is, if they seriously tried, Google could easily solve lost luggage problems. All they need are a few RFID tags... ~~~ maw It would take more than a technical solution -- currently m...
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Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other - abnry http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/why-mathematicians-should-stop-naming-things-after-each-other ====== crazygringo Hard disagree. Once you get to the advanced levels of _any_ field, terminology being "accessible" doesn't really matter, but being ...
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Helloworld program in 100+ langauges - hckr https://github.com/Prithvirajbilla/helloworld ====== nailer And it still surprises me there are new languages where 'hello world' is more complicated than: print('hello world') Dart, which was released two years ago, after JavaScript had been around ...
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Show HN: Perspective for Men - paul_cryer http://www.helpaguyout.com/ ====== scrrr The advice that men get when asking women about romance is often pretty much useless and will do more harm than good. It would be way more useful to ask men that have their stuff together and know what they are talking about. Besides,...
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Fast as Fuck Django, Part 1: Using a Profiler - Mizza http://gun.io/blog/fast-as-fuck-django-part-1-using-a-profiler/ ====== jc4p Doesn't Django Debug Toolbar bring in itself into AJAX calls if you simply wrap the results in a <body> element? ------ xster Great article but that server's DEBUG is left on and some form...
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AI can be trusted to take our 911 calls - vladws https://thenextweb.com/podium/2019/03/24/ai-can-be-trusted-to-take-our-911-calls/ ====== Thetawaves I think this is probably the purest vision of a dystopian hell hole that I have ever seen. Just what I want to do, dick around with a computer when life is on the line. ...
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I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. - hendler http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole ====== leeHS "SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring." Love it!
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The Arc Challenge by Jim Weirich - luccastera http://www.onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/ArcChallenge.red ====== tig Yes, you can create an environment in every language to help you write very short web-apps. I still dont get the point Paul wants to make with his Arc example. Your Ruby solution looks a lot more re...
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Google and Microsoft fight hotels' attempts to block personal WiFi - h43k3r http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/23/tech-business-fights-hotel-attempts-to-block-personal-wifi/?ncid=rss_truncated ====== h43k3r I have a question. People will use the USB or bluetooth tethering if this happens then what is the purpose of doing...
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Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - mgav http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apple-should-kill-off-the-mac-1434321848 ====== jaegerpicker So many things wrong in this article but the base most fundamental issue is that iOS is in the position it is because of the app store and the stellar quality of the apps available in i...
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Senators seek crackdown on Bitcoin currency - jasongullickson http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-financial-bitcoins-idUSTRE7573T320110608?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&dlvrit=56505 ====== nextparadigms This is a knee-jerk reaction. I doubt they really understand the technology. And from what I under...
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What happens to your bike after it’s stolen - bootload http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/articles/this-is-what-happens-to-your-bike-after-its-stolen-october-2014 ====== ScottBurson Somewhere in the last year or so I read an article arguing that the reason bike theft is so attractive is that although the rewa...
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Laddering a Chimney (Fred Dibnah) - savingthrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA ====== savingthrow This video shows traditional techniques to attach a ladder to a tall chimney. It comes in two parts. I'm not sure when this was filmed, but some time in the 1990s would be about right. I'm glad these traditi...
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Show HN: Interest Groups Around Places - xackpot Hi Guys, I have recently released an iphone app (old app but pivoted to a different idea). The app has a limited set of features and also limited feature set website (http://www.findero.us), but would like to test it out if users like the idea. The idea is to fulfill ...
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Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history - dvorka https://github.com/dvorka/hstr ====== kbd This seems to work very similarly to how fzf hooks into ctrl+r to let you browse/search your history. fzf is a much more general tool. [https://github.com/junegunn/fzf](https://github.com/jun...
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Another Xiaomi Shocker - bryanwbh http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/07/25/xiaomi-flower ====== tptacek Nowhere nearly as shocking as his first Xiaomi shocker, which was that in the actual product photos for the phone, the camera lenses _were the Apple Aperture logo_. ------ tszming Stealing and copying are part o...
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Rock found in backyard came from space station - mdturnerphys http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/06/14/rock-found-in-amesbury-backyard-came-from-space-station/ ====== Luc This article mentions that the NASA engineer determined it to be ballast from MIR or a Progress resupply ship: [http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_1...
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The Solowheel: like a Segway but cool - jonasvp http://solowheel.com ====== cultureulterior I highly disagree. Segways are awesome.
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Risk in developing a simple SaaS solution - j_z_reeves Has anyone developed a simple SaaS solution and had it cloned before gaining market traction?<p>The app that I developed is extremely simple and took about 5-7 hours of development time. It solves a very specific problem for B2B companies.<p>My worry is that, sinc...
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Ask HN: Are you still using React-Native although it wasnt relicensed by FB? - lalalathrow I know it may be far away, but my imagination doesn&#x27;t allow me to learn react-native knowing the license issues.<p>In the worst scenario I imagine Facebook copies my app (just like it did with snapchat) and then I can&#x27;...
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Ask HN: A more convinient Magic Wormhole alternative? - vsenko Magic Wormhole (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;warner&#x2F;magic-wormhole) is an incredible piece of software that facilitates data transfer between computers when URL&#x2F;id&#x2F;hash digital transfer or copy-paste is not an option.<p>But, in my opini...
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Meditation under the microscope - xriddle https://aeon.co/essays/can-meditation-really-make-the-world-a-better-place? ====== davidgrenier But what if, spending eight weeks thinking about compassion does makes the world a more compassionate place? Yes, the business of picking the right control must indeed be a tricky ...
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Show HN: Undo send mail for Apple Mail - lichtschlag https://github.com/lichtschlag/undosendmail/ ====== lichtschlag I am a big fan of Gmail's undo send feature for emails (stalls the delivery for a moment so that you can stop if you spot a mistake in the last moment). I wrote this plug-in for Mail.app to support a s...
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The HTTPS-Only Standard - konklone https://https.cio.gov ====== kysol There's something about their favicon being the default green lock ( [https://https.cio.gov/assets/favicon.ico](https://https.cio.gov/assets/favicon.ico) ) that unsettles me. It feels like a social engineering trick. ~~~ konklone That's an interest...
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Show HN: ElementHistory – See what code created or updated a DOM element - mostlystatic https://github.com/mattzeunert/ElementHistory ====== chrisz42 how much does it affect performance? ~~~ mostlystatic Capturing the callstack with `Error().stack` is expensive and it's done for every DOM manipulation. The idea is t...
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Core NFC beta - runesoerensen https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc ====== op00to Does this mean that iOS devices might be able to use something like a Yubikey? Reading the Yubikey Neo spec sheet, it looks like the answer very well may be yes! ~~~ ghostly_s Not sure I understand the use-case here...for 2F...
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Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ says he has found the next market bubble - ak39 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/the-big-shorts-michael-burry-says-he-has-found-the-next-market-bubble.html ====== mehhh Passive stock funds have consistently beat actively managed funds for decades, in part due to the high fees actively m...
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Micro-scale fusion in dense relativistic nanowire array plasmas - nabla9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03445-z ====== nabla9 In case it's unclear from the abstract, this is not related to fusion as energy source. Its a new way to generate neutron pulses for neutron imaging. ~~~ ISL It's also just cool. T...
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Colleges want professors to stay mum on student Covid-19 cases - chriskanan https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/31/colleges-want-professors-stay-mum-student-covid-19-cases ====== aurizon They would, they are sensitive about cash, all about cash - let them die in silence... the ultimate conflict of interest... ...
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Graphene: A D3.js, Backbone.js based Graphite Dashboard Toolkit - jondot https://github.com/jondot/graphene ====== madarco I'm tracking Graphite evolution since some articles from the Etsy engineers (Track every Release <http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/12/08/track-every- release/> and Measure Everything [http://cod...
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Cloud Zoom - Uncle_Sam http://www.professorcloud.com/mainsite/cloud-zoom.htm ====== OwlHuntr very nice! useful like all hell
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Apple, AT&T sued for lack of MMS capability - AndrewWarner http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43616/118/ ====== daeken It's rare I see a class action suit with merit, and this is one of them. If it was just Apple advertising it, it wouldn't be as big a problem (since it does work with other carriers elsewhere), but a...
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DTrace for Linux 2016 - okket http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html ====== jdesfossez It would be worthwhile to clarify the term "tracing" to distinguish between live aggregation and post-processing approaches. The general confusion around the "tracing" terminology seems to imply a com...
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Jade template language forced to rename to Pug - joshmanders https://github.com/pugjs/jade/issues/2184#issuecomment-175763098 ====== ljoshua Great example of a community coming together to just get stuff done. Benefits of open source right there.
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The Articles of Unity - ca98am79 https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336 ====== aiscapehumanity Not really tech related; However, I think its is a silly idea, mostly in that for 2020, it just won't happen. Something like this needs momentum well before the general election. I saw this re...
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Ask HN: Where is my cloud addressbook? - frossie All my info lives happily in the cloud- notes, to-do lists, documents, photos, music - except for my darn addressbook - you know, name, phone number, address, email, group. Now I am <i>not</i> looking for social networking solutions - what I wish for is:<p>1. An onlin...
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HN Bookmarklet to make all comments visible - niyazpk http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/?name=HN+Read+all&ver=1.3.2&code=%24%28%27span.comment+font%27%29.css%28%27color%27%2C+%27%23000%27%29%3B ====== niyazpk This is a very simple bookmarklet I am using to make comments with -ve points (which...
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Micro-documentary on "A cool tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet" - sleepingbot http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/a-tiny-home-tour-living-in-96-square-feet/ Homes are shrinking in America. After doubling in size since 1960, the national average dropped for the first time in nearly 15 years (by 9%, the size of...
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Show HN: Interledger – How to Interconnect All Blockchains and Value Networks - emschwartz https://medium.com/xpring/interledger-how-to-interconnect-all-blockchains-and-value-networks-74f432e64543 ====== fiatjaf I would love to know how.
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Why I Walked Away from a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch - rmason https://www.groovehq.com/blog/startup-acquisition-offer ====== beeskneecaps [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601975](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601975) ------ oldspiceman Feel free to correct my math here: 50% shar...
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Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple - ashishgandhi http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_left_designer_jony_ive_more_power_than_anyone_at_apple.html ====== zach By comparison, John Lasseter has more power than anyone at Pixar. I think the situation could be similar. No...
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Buttercoin is shutting down - dzhao https://buttercoin.com/#/goodbye ====== Sealy Given that you are a Y Combinator startup, would you be able to post a Y Combinator style "Lessons Learned" or "What went wrong" style reflective post. As a community of budding entrepreneurs, PG often tells us we can learn a lot more f...
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In Defense of Technology (2014) - sloria http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/andrew-ohagan-technology/?_r=0 ====== ThomPete I think what is missing from this conversation which both this article and people like Marc Andreesen forget is that technology isnt just progress its also change. The thing is we ar...
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Rands In Repose: A Story Culture - filament http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/02/08/a_story_culture.html ====== yannis Culture is becoming nothing but advertising. The anthropologist Steve Barnett saw in this the phenomenon of pattern exhaustion, in which a culture runs out of variations of traditional desi...
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Fitness tracking app's map reveals movement patterns on remote military bases - bagels https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-bases-location/index.html ====== greenyoda Extensive discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955) ------ bagels T...
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Show HN: Devknox – Free Security Plugin for Android Studio - subho007 https://devknox.io/ ====== efuquen This is a great idea. Is there anywhere a list of all the flaws that it can detect? I couldn't find it on the website. ~~~ subho007 We just updated our blog. The list is here: [https://blog.devknox.io/devknox- aut...
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Politically motivated climate data deletions - okket https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations ====== ada1981 This seems to be happening with enough frequency that we citizens of the world ought to create a third party mirror of all gov data so as to wit...
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Joystiq is closing and I'll miss them like hell – Polygon - evo_9 http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/30/7945625/joystiq-is-closing-and-ill-miss-them-like-hell ====== smt88 We live in a world where a single publication is less and less meaningful. The writers from Joystiq will likely continue writing about games. Find your ...
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Quantum setback for warp drives - Anon84 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23292/ ====== jerf So, previously, if you applied an impossible amount of impossibly-stable negative mass in an impossible configuration that was impossible to maintain due to impossible-to-predict interactions with the interstellar me...
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The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests - hhs https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-backfire-effect-is-mostly-a-myth-a-broad-look-at-the-research-suggests/ ====== stupidcar This is like one of those Knights and Knaves logic puzzles we used to do at school: Amy believes the backfi...
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Database Internals - pointy_hat https://databass.dev ====== playing_colours This is a very good book! Recently, I am very happy with a number of more foundational data books from O’Reilly: Designing Data-Intensive Applications [https://dataintensive.net/](https://dataintensive.net/) Streaming Systems [http://shop.or...
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Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1M at an Auction - ssclafani http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/nyregion/james-watsons-nobel-medal-sells-for-record-4-million.html ====== IvyMike Slate has a far more negative view of the auction: > Jim Watson is one of the most important scientists of the 20th ce...
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The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trips - 001sky http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-obsessively-detailed-map-of-american-literatures-most-epic-road-trips ====== drallison Missing here is Peter Beagle's _I See By My Outfit_ relating his 1993 trip from the Bronx New York to Men...
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Fasting Diet Promotes Ngn3-Driven Β-Cell Regeneration to Reverse Diabetes - mattshelbourn http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30130-7 ====== DrScump PDF, with images: [http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(17)30130-7.pdf](http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674\(17\)30130-7.pdf) Details on the human fe...
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Ask HN: Open-source tools for discovering and scraping APIs - mmahut Do you know any good tools that given an API will discover it and scrape periodically data into a database for BI analysis later? ====== Jefro118 Not quite sure what you're asking for here. What does "given an API will discover it" mean exactly?
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Designing and building a keyboard - wyager http://yager.io/keyboard/keyboard.html ====== sdegutis Related: a hardware hacker that I know recently designed and made a new keyboard[1], which looks really interesting and fun to make. Fortunately he also provided really good detailed instructions[1][2] so other people can...
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Earned income tax credit recipients more likely to be audited - paulpauper https://www.propublica.org/article/earned-income-tax-credit-irs-audit-working-poor ====== bdavis__ If you know enough about the law to rely on the Earned Income Tax Credit to pay off you credit cards, why don't you just reduce your withholding....
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Cross-platform development: Mobile Flutter Apps That Run on the Desktop - MarkMc https://feather-apps.com/ ====== BrutalCoding What happens if an app is calling something like google sign in? Plugin found here: [https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/google_sign_in](https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/google_sign_in) Haven'...
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Show HN: Prime Time – Countdown to next prime unix timestamp - thexa4 https://primetime.maxmaton.nl/ ====== karmakaze Multiple primes per minute is more dense than I expected.
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Huawei is working on its own mobile OS in case things sour with Google - jonbaer http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/23/12011732/huawei-developing-own-mobile-os ====== CthulhuOvermind Currently working in this company, I guarantee you Huawei is working on its own version of everything. Any tool we use is always considered ...
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The Metrics of Backpacks - tosh https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/ ====== rfrey I really liked this essay, and I think I would really like its author if I knew her. At the end of the essay, the vague sadness I felt was joined by a pretty unsympathetic “well, what did you expect?” kind of fe...
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More evidence essential oils 'make male breasts develop' - plessthanpt05 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43429933 ====== nimbius soapmaker here. While lavender oil is nice to have, its also rather cost prohibitive in what i believe would be a compelling dose to elicit this type of response. as for tea tree oil, im in ...
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See all of the offensive things you've ever said on Facebook in one click - econti http://www.yourdirtymouth.com ====== econti Would love for some of you guys to try it out and let me know what you think
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Firefox's enterprise support version has now been released - AndrewDucker http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ ====== allbutlost A marked change of stance from the following? "Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your “big numbers”...
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Here Is the Epic Future Blockchain Is Going to Create - febin https://hackernoon.com/here-is-the-epic-future-blockchain-is-going-to-create-afe167c90568 ====== mankash666 This is rife with half truths. 1\. Amazon is cited as a middleman in multiple use cases. It's trivial for one to bypass Amazon by self hosting an e-...
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Righted Museum - jgrahamc http://righted-museum.tumblr.com/? ====== cge Since this is offered without comment, the following is an article about this: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the- intersect/wp/2015/03/...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the- intersect/wp/2015/03/04/googles-quest-to-make-art-available...
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“God is a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller (1968) - MilnerRoute http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/1010/article/194/god.is.a.verb ====== bonesss Not too far removed (philosophically), from 'theological noncognitivism ' [0]: the idea that 'god' is more of a concept like 'hope' or 'love', not a thing like 'milk', and a poorl...
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iHasApp: detect installed apps on a user's device - gilles_bertaux https://github.com/danielamitay/iHasApp ====== galonk Is it really necessary for an app to be able to query whether a URL scheme is handled? It would be nice if Apple could make that API non-functional to put a stop to this. ~~~ e28eta If you want to ...
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A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System - beefman https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04793 ====== andbberger Funny to see this in light of our conversation yesterday [1] This should be read with extreme skepticism. I have experienced first hand how 'science' is done in the Turaga lab. I...
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Google App Engine: Viable for startup that intends (hopes!) to be bought? - jochip I'm considering using Google App Engine for a new startup but am concerned that using the Google Datastore (BigTable), Google Authentication, etc will limit the interest of future suitors. My principal concern is that it will harder ...
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Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 - bookofjoe https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsb2005114 ====== blendo “... encouraging all patients, especially those facing the prospect of intensive care, to document in an advance care directive what future quality of life they would regard as a...
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Computer ownership by country - davidw http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12758865 ====== apstuff I've never been to 'Canda' so I can't speak to the issue. ~~~ sspencer I believe they mean Canadia. ~~~ cawel And personally I think they mean 'Canada' :) ------ apstuff The list is from 2006. It would ...
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Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes - 001sky http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/edward-snowden-pulitzer-prize-washington-post-guardian-nsa-104608.html ====== higherpurpose Reminder to self: never update a Politico story ever again. It seems they are a little too eager to tell us with each of their Snowden s...
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Ask HN: help debug mapme, noob map app - messel http://mapme.heroku.com Request for assist debugging simple map script: please test from your locale http://mapme.heroku.com ====== messel Request for assist debugging simple map script: please test from your locale <http://mapme.heroku.com> source: <http://github.com/...
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Software on Librem 5 and PinePhone Linux Phones Is Progressing Nicely - iamnothere https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/06/06/software-development-librem-5-pinephone-linux-phones/ ====== camjohnson26 If these devices are useable it could start a movement away from Apple and Google’s ecosystems. Smart phones are no longer...
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No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers - randomwalker https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-user-identities-web-trackers-exploit-browser-login-managers/ ====== cm2187 What makes the matter worse is this ridiculous trend that all websites have adopted of maki...
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Ask HN: Questions about iOS Freelancing - AppsAndiOS Hi HN, I have been developing for iOS for a few months and have recently released an app that is fairly simple, but shows well-rounded iOS development skills. I have someone that would like me to develop an app for them, but neither he nor I have any experience wi...
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LinuxFoundation.org And Linux.com Hacked After Kernel.org - hardfire http://yaps.co.in/foss-linux/linuxfoundation-org-and-linux-com-hacked-after-kernel-org/ ====== adityapatawari Compromised ssh keys are floating again? Any word on how it happened?
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Ask HN: What are some good essays/blogs on VCs? - nns What are some good essays&#x2F;blogs on VCs? ====== mind_heist David Lee's talk at this year's start up school NY was great: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-8Io0i_F4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-8Io0i_F4) ------ kcovia [http://www.avc.com](http://www...
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Guide to getting started in Machine Learning - ananthrk http://abeautifulwww.com/2009/10/11/guide-to-getting-started-in-machine-learning/ ====== simon_ Andrew Ng's course notes are 90% of the way to being a textbook, and are an incredible resource, especially if you're going to watch the lectures. <http://www.stanf...
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OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested - blasdel http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3702 ====== kristianp I for one am waiting for an affordable SSD based system for my next laptop. (Running ubuntu) ~~~ chancho Just buy one. Ubuntu is very slim to begin with (~4gb) and it's very easy ...
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Any feedback on my app: Create PDF album from your photos - redpill27 It is a lean project I have been hacking on in my spare time. The app is a result of learning new (to me) technologies - backbone, celery, django-piston.<p>I'm not sure if the app is useful or if it solves some real problem in its current state. I...
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HP-Oracle war: HP ditches Oracle CRM for Salesforce - iwr http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/salesforce_oracle_hp/ ====== pilif Even with all the bad blood - migrating 40'000 users from one piece of software to another, while keeping all accumulated data intact is a huge and costly undertaking. And while I'm s...
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