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Who’s Been Accessing Your Facebook Account? - knaox http://marketaire.com/2011/02/01/whos-been-accessing-your-facebook-account/ ====== kalpeshjoshi Is there a super secret feature which keeps ol Mark Zuckerberg from accessing my info?! But on the whole, good info to know about finding out other devices who may be a...
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Beware of those who say they help entrepreneurs - abarrera http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/beware-of-those-who-say-they-help-entrepreneurs/ ====== mixmax This sounds eerily similar to the so-called startupscene in Denmark. The events revolve around bankers, bureaucrats, lawyers and consultants try...
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Linux driver map: paste the output of lspci -n, get your hardware and appropriate drivers. - kaens http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ ====== ComputerGuru Why does HN show the domain as (.kmuto.jp) with that leading dot?
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Is It Ethical to Own an iPhone? - minecraftman http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-it-ethical-to-own-an-iphone ====== batista Why not: is it ethical to use any product or pay any company that has employees working more than the eight hour day, with possibly unpaid overtime and only gives them < 4 weeks...
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Explaining React's license - y4m4b4 https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/explaining-react-s-license/ ====== kevinflo I love love love love love react as a technology, but this is just awful. I believe any developer not on Facebook's payroll still contributing to React or React native at this point has a mor...
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How Our Marketing Team Spends Money Each Month - kawera https://open.buffer.com/marketing-budget/ ====== capkutay Most people are focussing on their advertising spend, but it looks like they've built their marketing team for inside sales rather than growth. $3k/month on advertising means they're getting spending abou...
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Dan Cohen Named Founding Director of the Digital Public Library of America - boonebgorges http://dp.la/2013/03/05/dan-cohen-named-founding-executive-director-of-the-digital-public-library-of-america/ ====== japaget I up-voted this article because I didn't know about the "Digital Public Library of America". It has se...
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Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal - cheeaun http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/17/nintendo-says-this-amazing-super-mario-site-is-illegal-heres-why-it-shouldnt-be/ ====== scrabble _Creating a game like that from scratch is a lot of work, but it would be a lot easier to do i...
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Ask YC: What is your take on web2py? - aitoehigie i am new to web2py and i must confess that i have fallen in love with it. if you have used the framework before, what is your take on it? ====== fredcy I've been experimenting with web2py over the last week and I like it. Simple web apps are easy to create with very li...
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Kicking My Caffeine Addiction - mathgenius https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/kicking-my-caffeine-addiction/?amp ====== WheelsAtLarge I totally agree with the idea of caffeine being more destructive than beneficial to one's life. We think it's a mild addiction but it is not. I didn't start until my 30's...
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Google Street View Images Reveal the Demographic Makeup of the U.S. - adsouza1 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603779/how-google-street-view-images-reveal-the-demographic-makeup-of-the-us/ ====== nl Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742449](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742449) ...
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Backtesting Our 100% YoY Profit Generating Strategy - lettergram https://austingwalters.com/backtesting-our-100-yoy-profit-generating-strategy/ ====== cimmanom They backtested this only against a recent period with no major economic downturns. Buyer beware.
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Global market share of Google Public DNS and OpenDNS - sajal83 http://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/google-dns-opendns-and-cdn-performance/ ====== nuttendorfer I used to use Googles DNS but when I started to move away from Google products for privacy reasons (I still use some, can't help it) this one was one of the easier ...
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Show HN: Interactive Maps for IoT Search Engine Shodan - achillean https://maps.shodan.io/#36.421282443649496/-99.228515625/5/green/apache ====== Stately Very cool. But you're using basemaps that require attribution[0], which you're very conveniently covering with the Shodan Maps logo. [0] - [http://wiki.openstreetma...
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Climate Change Inst. Hacked - Email Leak - Climate Change a Possible Farce - keltecp11 http://news.aol.com/article/hacked-e-mails-heat-up-global-warming/778525?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fhacked-e-mails-heat-up-global-warming%2F778525 ====== jacquesm Can we please stop posting the ...
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Buddy Beers: How they are becoming the world's mobile beer tap - robwoodbridge http://untether.tv/ellb/sessions/new-mobile-business-models/buddy-beers-how-they-are-becoming-the-worlds-mobile-beer-tap-and-how-they-landed-carlsberg-as-their-first-client-with-founder-travis-todd// ====== nerdben What I've been waiting fo...
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Ask HN: Strategies for single source HTML5 mobile apps? - abhisec Is it even possible? Most of the js toolkits like Jquery Mobile say they are cross platform and cross device ready, but none of them actually look and feel like a WEB app (They look awesome on desktop browsers but you probably need a little more on a ...
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Do it yourself first - rantfoil http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1296-do-it-yourself-first ====== SwellJoe I've always done this...but sometimes to an extreme that is unhealthy (for myself and my company). I come from a DIY family. My dad never hired anyone to do anything: plumbing, car repair, electrical (he was ...
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Michael Nielsen on open science at TEDxWaterloo [video] - munderwood http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/open-science-2/ ====== extension Funny how it's become a novel idea to do science collaboratively on the web, which was invented _by physicists_ at a _particle accelerator_ specifically for that purpose.
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Want a new HackerNews? HackersUnit.com - karlclement Hello everyone,<p>I would like to know if you would all want a new, upgraded version of HackerNews. I would like to create a realtime version of HackerNews with user classes and communication tools.<p>If you would like me to create this project, please feel free t...
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Google to court: Galaxy Nexus code is closed just like that of the iPhone - revorad http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/google-to-court-galaxy-nexus-code-is.html ====== ZeroGravitas For someone with "FOSS" in the title of his blog, he seems strangely surprised that you can release proprietary products based on open sou...
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Building a local, people-focused tech jobs site for PDX - sanzen https://techjobspdx.com/about/ ====== sanzen I've worked in tech for over 20 years. I'm tired of throwing resumes at global job sites and hoping for the best. So, I'm building something local for tech jobs in PDX, focused on helping local companies and ...
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Differential Debugging - ctoth http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20130910/ ====== peter_l_downs Although only mentioned in a single line in this article, `git bisect` is well worth reading about by itself. I found the following tutorial to be extremely helpful: [https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git- bise...
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Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath - nostrademons http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2008/12/aftermath.html ====== vlad Regarding getting any type of programming job after doing it yourself for a time, it's not very difficult to do. I didn't have any difficulty getting a job at a billion dollar company after doin...
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How Exercise Boosts Your Brain - jamesbritt http://singularityhub.com/2010/08/05/exercise-boosts-your-brain-%e2%80%93-here%e2%80%99s-how/ ====== DavidSJ _So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory._ Try to imagine ...
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Tesla: Don't use our Superchargers all the time - electic http://www.autoblog.com/2015/08/19/tesla-superchargers-letter/ ====== sunstone It's a good sign for Tesla that the charge stations are so popular. Sure it might be a pain for now but if consumers like them so much the charge stations could become a compelling...
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Show HN: A static file server in x86 Assembly - Jeaye https://github.com/jeaye/toybox/tree/master/httpd-asm#readme ====== stevekemp Nicely written though I think you could shave some bytes off it. For example in your `error_failed_allocation` function you don't need to jump to the `error_die` function - just fall-thr...
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Twitter, make your choice, acquire a media sharing service or launch your own - abraham http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2010/12/28/image-upload-twitter-difficult/ ====== kmfrk What she wants is Tumblr. And, from a developer perspective, look how they are coping with downtime. (Horribly.) I think Twitter already pisse...
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React-Laravel: Use ReactJS with Laravel - talyssonoc https://github.com/talyssonoc/react-laravel ====== sbarre Is there any data around the benefits of server-side rendering and client-side mounting vs. client-side rendering & mounting? Can the server-side render be cached in any way? ~~~ talyssonoc Yes, there is:...
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Android banking malware is on Google Play over month with over 10,000 installs - boni11 https://lukasstefanko.com/2018/10/android-banking-malware-found-on-google-play-with-over-10000-installs-targets-brazil.html ====== ohazi The Android ecosystem today is like Windows circa 1998-2002, even with the Play store. It's no...
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Book Review: The Book of Inkscape - abennett http://www.itworld.com/software/86062/book-review-the-book-inkscape ====== gengstrand I like Inkscape. It is certainly not as fancy as Illustrator but it gets the job done for making wireframes.
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Invidious: what YouTube should be - skrps https://invidio.us/ ====== nafizh Just looking at the first page, seems like a dedicated alt-right sight.
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How to avoid building a Frankenstein product - samgetty https://dislack.com/blog/how-to-avoid-building-a-frankenstein-product/ ====== samgetty Any tips you all have on building the right features for the right audience?
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A megathread on breaking away from Google - rinze https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8l3vjy/can_we_get_a_megathread_on_breaking_away_from/ ====== ejrv I've recently moved from Gmail to Fastmail (which also has a calendar), and to MicroG + Yalp instead of Google Apps on my phone. Both have worked very well for m...
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How I almost killed Facebook - neilc http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed-facebook.html ====== mixmax _"Of course, at that time I thought that social networking sites were a complete waste of time -- both for the users and those developing the sites -- so I earnestly tried to talk Mark out of squ...
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What Would Real Brain-To-Brain Communication Look Like? - DiabloD3 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/10/17/what-would-real-brain-to-brain-communication-look-like/ ====== plg I use this form of brain-to-brain communication that involves using other parts of my body to make sounds that I assume other p...
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PulseWallet lets you pay with your veins - vinceleo http://pulsewallet.com/ ====== kseistrup Veins don't have pulse, arteries do.
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Bitcoin Exposed Silicon Valley's Ultimate Aim: Making Money - petethomas https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-exposed-silicon-valley-aim-making-money/ ====== jraedisch The author states that he heard of Bitcoin at $17 and then goes on describing Bitcoin as providing "oligarchic control" to early investors. This means ...
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Javascript Arrays and Functional Programming - zabana http://zabanaa.github.io/notes/functional-programming-and-javascript-arrays.html ====== seanwilson I accept that this is a widely used phrase now but I never understood why just using map/filter/reduce and avoiding state is enough for code to be called "functional ...
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Java Advent Calendar - code-dog http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2012/12/java-advent-calendar.html ====== code-dog Good point - what is clojure actually for?
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APFS and HFS+ Benchmarks on High Sierra - robk https://hk.saowen.com/a/e9c3e3a82f4000f86663ba10526d1a3d5e6e68face971ebd61a3f3f2244730fb ====== cerberusss Interesting read, but written in July last year, so things might be different now.
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Lost Generation: The Relay Computers - cfmcdonald https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/lost-generation-the-relay-computers/ ====== pavlov My favorite "lost" type of computer is the balanced ternary machines. These were actually built in the Soviet Union in the 1960s: [https://dev.to/buntine/the-balanced-t...
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The picture that makes you feel as if you're on Mars - amerf1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2301619/Amazing-FOUR-BILLION-PIXEL-interactive-panorama-gives-360-degree-view-Mars-standing-Curiosity-rover.html ====== anigbrowl Not only does it provide impressive Martian panoramas, this is also a good way...
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This Is Why Apple Won’t Be Fine If Steve Doesn’t Return - kanebennett http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/01/this-is-why-apple-wont-be-fine-if-steve-doesnt-return/ ====== kanebennett I generally don't like Gizmodo's articles (generally being sensationalist rubbish) but I found this article very interesting.
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TLDRead – Sparknotes for Research Papers - tayvz https://www.tldread.org ====== tayvz Hey All, I built a program that takes research articles and uses Machine Learning to automatically summarize papers and mount them as a dashboard to get a quick overview. If you enjoy it please show some love on product hunt: www.pro...
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Professional Software Engineer Exam coming in April 2013 - stephen http://ncees.org/About_NCEES/News/News_Pages/New_PE_Software_exam.php ====== spamizbad Looks like "How to do Waterfall" (62.5% of the test) with additional coverage of Security (15%), QA (7.5%), and Engineering process (7.5%), and Configuration Mainten...
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Iceland-Bound Jet for Edward Snowden 'Could Take Off Tomorrow' - stfu http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/06/21/iceland-bound-jet-for-edward-snowden-could-take-off-tomorrow ====== crazygringo I'm assuming that the chartered yet ($240,000, yikes!) is necessary because there are no direct flights between...
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Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 - reitzensteinm http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html? ====== zmmmmm I've switched to ddg for my basic searches. Hard searches still go through Google but the truth is, most of my searches these days are because I can't be bothered bookmarking stuff, not because they are diffi...
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Snortable Chocolate Arrives in U.S. Stores - notscj https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/snortable-chocolate-arrives-in-us-stores ====== lwlml First thing I thought of when I read this was of the two people who thought it would be fun to play with cocoa powder. They died. [http://1000waystodie.wikia.com/wi...
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Failed $4.4 billion bid for Nortel patents comes back to haunt Google&Friends - pietrofmaggi http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/11/failed-44-billion-bid-for-nortel.html ====== tehabe Florian Müller is not an independent voice. He was/is a consultant for Microsoft and Oracle. Also he was wrong in his predictions when Or...
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Show HN: I built this simple Trello clone today and launched it before lunch - aculver https://bt-cardboard.herokuapp.com ====== kinduff Looks nice but it's more a kanban board rather than a Trello clone. I don't doubt you're that skilled to build something like this "before lunch", but in my experience it is highly u...
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A website for human-centered news using location verification - aellaboudy http://peoples-word.com ====== aellaboudy The People’s Word is a project dedicated to bringing more human-centered news to the people. This means publishing news that is produced from the actual places where it’s happening, by the people affect...
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We're in an icon-sharpness limbo - tbassetto http://simurai.com/post/19895985870/icon-sharpness-limbo ====== WiseWeasel I think the answer is SVG for anything we've got vectorized, and I've started delving more deeply into the format, which turns out to be pretty awesome. First, to create them, I draw icons with vect...
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Designer/Programmer Harmony: Not Just a Myth - omgsean http://factore.ca/on-the-floor/22-designer-programmer-harmony-not-just-a-myth ====== whiskeyjack This is a difficult dynamic to manage and depends really heavily on the designer and programmer involved, how good they actually are and how much they credit the oth...
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Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder - rahulroy http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-career-advice-for-college-grads-from-linkedins-billionaire-founder-2013-5?op=1 ====== pcrh Fairly standard stuff. However, here is one piece of advice for Hoffman: do not use one hundred and ...
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Drone Flies Over NSA Complex in Germany, Dropping Leaflets - cryoshon https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/drone-flies-over-nsa-complex-in-germany-dropping-pamphlets/ ====== dogma1138 While it's a nifty gesture it's also one of the easiest ways of getting drones banned (especially considering that according to openAIP ...
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Tech firms shell out to hire and hoard talent - prostoalex http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709574-tech-firms-battle-hire-and-hoard-talented-employees-huge-pay-packages-silicon-valley ====== xenadu02 Translation: hey all you other crabs, LOOK! One of you is making it out of the bucket! Pull them back! Am I th...
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Defensibility as an touchstone for development decisions « Hints and Kinks - mceachen http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/defensibility-as-an-touchstone-for-development-decisions-786.html ====== bediger I have to question the _universal_ truth of "there's more than one way to do it". That saying bears truth for algorithmi...
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Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger Slams Boeing for Inadequate Pilot Training - jgwil2 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/capt-sully-sullenberger-slams-boeing-093246566.html ====== PowerfulWizard The thing that still bothers me about the 737 MAX information I've seen, in particular from the NYT article that was discussed here: [h...
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MTU Study: 3D printers may soon be in every home - makos http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130730-mtu-study-3d-printers-may-soon-be-in-every-home.html ====== anigbrowl _In the study, Pearce and his team chose 20 common household items listed on Thingiverse, such as cellphone accessories, a garlic press, a showerhead, a ...
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Audience Interaction System running on iPod - demetree http://demetree.yourqforme.com ====== demetree Go ahead and try it. Ask a question.
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MacBook Pro 2012: 15″ Retina Display, USB 3.0 and ultra-thin - PaulMcCartney http://www.slashgear.com/macbook-pro-2012-15-retina-display-usb-3-0-and-ultra-thin-14228062/ ====== bigs324 It will be interesting to see if they found a way to deal with the reported heat issues related to ivy-bridge. Supposedly it was rel...
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McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs - johanam https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49664633 ====== hirundo Next they'll come for the cooks: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKCVol2iWcc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKCVol2iWcc) There are ~487k fast food cooks employed at ...
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JavaScript Charting in Angular 2 - derekfletes https://blog.zingchart.com/2016/07/19/zingchart-and-angular-2-back-at-it-again/ ====== derekfletes If you are interested in Angular, you might also be interested in getting started with charting in Angular. As the description says, this tutorial will get you started in m...
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The Startup Myth - inglorian http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/03/the-startup-myth.html ====== blackguardx I thought it was a great article. The author is basically telling people not to create bubble startups. If you want to create a business, create one that has value. Don't just create a startup for some romantici...
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Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind - artur_makly https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html ====== bredren Speaking of being lost you might enjoy this story from 2009 where people called the cops on Bob Dylan for being "an 'eccentric-looking old man' in their yard," and the officer ...
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Draggabilly - JS library to make elements draggable - areski http://draggabilly.desandro.com/ ====== duopixel This is great, it even provides hardware acceleration for browsers that support CSS 3D transformations (which is important on mobile devices), all without the overhead of jQuery UI. ------ joeyespo This is ...
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RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning - wsxiaoys https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/enhance-raisr-sharp-images-with-machine.html ====== romaniv I would not compare a fancy NN algorithm to Bicubic interpolation, even as an example. Bicubic sucks. If someone really wants to get a decent high-res upscale of an im...
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The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Crawling Using Combinators - pathdependent http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/28/the-anatomy-of-search-technology-crawling-using-combinators.html ====== walrus Ok, I'll bite. From the article: Now let's see how combinators (which we discussed in the previous blo...
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Why You Won't Quit Your Job - georgecmu http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/why_you_wont_quit_your_job.html ====== cafard I have been conditioned to discount "blog posts by and about the new generation of purpose-driven leaders." (And shouldn't purpose pull rather than drive one?) ------ gregjor Good example of the term ...
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Ask HN: How do you keep your coffee fresh? - a_lifters_life For those who buy a full bag of unground or ground coffee? ====== eco I don't go through my coffee quickly but I buy a 3 lb bag at Costco so I divide it into 1 lb portions, vacuum seal them, and keep them in the freezer. I've never found it tasted stale while...
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Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy - networked http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22/japans-sexual-apathy-is-endangering-the-global-economy/ ====== greggyb A simple (though far from easy, and likely complex in political reality) solution to this sort of problem is to import ...
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Ask HN: What are the best audiobooks you have ever listened to? - rblion I&#x27;m interested in science, technology, engineering, art, math, music, history, biographies.<p>I am open to good works of fiction (particularly historical and science) too.<p>I have one Audible credit left and I plan to cancel after that. I h...
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Create on-line portfolio from Dropbox files - wojk http://www.triangly.com ====== wojk Triangly will use Dropbox API to build on-line portfolio from graphic files located on your Dropbox/Applications/Triangly folder. Each user will have custom domain (e.g. joe.triangly.com) with a few customisation options, like mai...
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Polyaxon – An open source platform for reproducible machine learning at scale - jonbaer https://polyaxon.com/ ====== aflam It's great to see this sort of tool open-sourced. I am excited by new tools enabling better algo/ML engineering workflows. In addition to the infra management, it's quickly tricky to support qa/v...
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Do I need to pay for Java now? - nfrankel https://dev.karakun.com/java/2018/06/25/java-releases.html ====== fcurts The conclusions that the article draws in "What does the new release train mean to my company?" are completely wrong. Starting with Java 11, Oracle JDK is no longer free for commercial use, not even for ...
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How we might abolish Cabal Hell, part 1 - tux1968 http://www.well-typed.com/blog/2014/09/how-we-might-abolish-cabal-hell-part-1/ ====== jordigh Why do we keep running into this problem over and over again? Why do we need one package manager per programming language? Why is software distribution so damn hard? ~~~ makm...
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Serving Customers in New Ways: Walmart Begins Testing Associate Delivery - Nelkins http://blog.walmart.com/innovation/20170601/serving-customers-in-new-ways-walmart-begins-testing-associate-delivery ====== Nelkins Fun fact: the mobile app for associate delivery was written in F# using Xamarin. Source: I work at Jet, ...
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Rising Anxiety Among American Whites - 11thEarlOfMar https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-rising-anxiety-white-america/ ====== ralusek Identity politics beget identity politics, and it's _always_ bad, period. The amount of comments in this thread alone talking about what "white people" are and aren...
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RedHack leaks reveal the rise of Turkey's pro-government Twitter trolls - mynameislegion http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/redhack-turkey-albayrak-censorship/ ====== JumpCrisscross > _Simultaneously, Albayrak’s wife, Esra, who is a Ph.D. graduate from the > University of California, Berkeley, arranged a social media moni...
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Ubuntu Linux: Donationware? - CrankyBear http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-linux-donationware-7000005497/ ====== s_henry_paulson This solidifies the idea for me that Canonical is completely clueless. Asking for donations AND bundling Amazon shopping ads? That's over the line IMHO. Yes, you can disable the Amazon stuff, ...
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Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving - gwern https://www.nature.com/news/massive-genetic-study-shows-how-humans-are-evolving-1.22565 ====== Will_Parker Now that we have access to the entire genome directly, instead of relying on twin and adoption studies, we are going to get many more of these insights....
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US Apple iPad to be released in April - computinggeek http://thecomputinggeek.com/us-apple-ipad-to-be-released-in-april/ ====== ktf <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169343> Or: <http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html>
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Ask HN: How do you handle Excel import/exports in your apps - NOtherDev Hi folks!<p>I&#x27;m implementing Excel-related functionality for at least 4th project in my career. As usual, an ability to save the data set into an XLSX file in a custom format and the way to ingest the data back, using the same data format, or...
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How to fix knockout/playoff tournament format - awa http://letuscode.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-every-other-playoff-system-sucks.html A nice hack for fixing the knockout tournament format. The discussion on soccer (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850202) reminded me of this piece I wanted to write about for a long ...
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Spotify plans to join the hardware race, but what can it offer? - adrian_mrd https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/spotify-is-building-a-hardware-product-and-it-could-be-a-smart-speaker/ ====== adrian_mrd Really hope this is something unique and interesting - rather than just a copycat smart speaker, for instance. ...
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How Big Banks Thread the Software Performance Needle - osullivj http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/02/threading-the-performance-needling-with-automated-pinning/ ====== Chyzwar Self advertising on crappy tech. Running everything on one box is like moving back to mainframe era. Thread pinning described in article is B...
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Would you risk $31,000 for milliseconds of application response time? - lmacvittie http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2009/03/30/would-you-risk-31000-for-milliseconds-of-application-response-time.aspx ====== sho Your thesis is at odds with the experiences of others. For example, Marissa Mayer from G...
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Intel Gives Moore’s Law a Makeover - jonbaer https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/05/13/intel-gives-moores-law-a-makeover/ ====== Fjolsvith Must be rewriting it to address performance hits from Meltdown and Spectre.
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A collection of open AWS security solutions - hackeralmond https://asecure.cloud/solutions/ ====== hackeralmond I wanted to have an easily searchable collection for security solutions posted by AWS and the community, and something that could be updated on an ongoing basis. I would love to get some feedback or suggest...
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Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site - pj This is just an idea I'm going to throw out there. It seems a bit odd to suggest it because any link is a good link, right? Maybe not.<p>Anyway, something like this in a bit of javascript would prevent people from linking to your site using a url sh...
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Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB - paulcarey http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/200910.mbox/%3c4AD53996.3090104@canonical.com%3e ====== felixc Though the comments here so far seem positive, there has also been a lot of negative backlash, primarily out of privacy ...
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Hacker known as “fxmsp,” charged with fraud hacking 40 different countries - vuln https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/citizen-kazakhstan-known-fxmsp-charged-computer-fraud-wire-fraud-and-conspiracy-hacking ====== rurban He is known under his real name Turchin, not his handle fxmsp.
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Windows HAL Functions (Hal.dll) - peter_d_sherman https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/hal/api/index.htm?tx=155;13 ====== peter_d_sherman Even though Windows is not open source, from a pure OS design perspective, I like the idea that OS functions which touch hardware directly -- are placed into their own l...
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On End-To-End Program Generation from User Intention by Deep Neural Networks - apsec112 http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07211 ====== teraflop RNN's are pretty cool, and I don't want to be a downer, but we need to keep the hype under control. Ever since Karpathy's excellent article[1] and sample code made the rounds, it seem...
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When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word? - pmcpinto http://www.themorningnews.org/article/binge-reading-disorder ====== macromaniac I think it would be cool if, when scrolling through an article, the word size changes based on how far along the article you are. For instance, at the top...
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Negative Carbon Emissions - biofox https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/negative-carbon-emissions/ ====== hannob This starts to sound right and at the end takes the completely wrong turn when he says: "I especially like the idea of CO2 scrubbing for coal-fired power plants." I actually believe this is the ...
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Ask HN: Internship/Apprenticeship in Buenos Aires - gluque I&#x27;m an Electronics Engineering student. I&#x27;m moving to Argentina to finish my degree and would really appreciate any [info | hints | tips] to find a job or internship there. ====== tomascot Do you know spanish? Search for satellogic, they build satel...
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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library - runesoerensen https://code.fb.com/ai-research/wav2letter/ ====== mark_l_watson Very nice. In my work, as much as I love working with RNNs, convolutional models are faster to train and use. Years ago, FB blew away text modeling speed wit...
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Scientists have figured out exactly how much fun it is to get drunk - falcor84 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/24/scientists-have-figured-out-exactly-how-much-fun-it-is-to-get-drunk/ ====== falcor84 TL;DR: UK researchers studying the data coming from the Mappiness mood tracking app found a 10.79 we...
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