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Twitter boss slams Wikipedia's 'silly' SOPA protest - llambda http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/16/wikipedia-sopa-blackout-slammed-twitter ====== im_dario Maybe a nice way to "blackout" Twitter is don't tweeting or just censoring our tweets. I just started to spread this tweet (with #twuserblackout as main...
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TED Q&A: Neurologist Oliver Sacks - kqr2 http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-qa-neurol-1.html ====== katamole For anybody who hasn't read "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", I highly recommend it. Very interesting read (especially for ex-neurology students like myself).
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White House seeks Silicon Valley help battling coronavirus - notlukesky https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/11/white-house-seeks-silicon-valley-help-battling-coronavirus-125794 ====== onyva Step one: close Drumpf’s twitter account and delete all video clips of him talking.
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Scientists improve smart phone battery life by up to 60 percent - ohjeez https://techxplore.com/news/2018-11-scientists-smart-battery-life-percent.html ====== JoeAltmaier ...for certain apps. Not for the OS, nor for extending the lifetime of a dormant phone.
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Why You Should Be Using Virtualisation In Your Development Environment - danw http://morethanseven.net/2010/11/04/Why-you-should-be-using-virtualisation.html ====== codypo We're big fans of virtualized development environments at my startup. Not only is it very helpful in preventing weird environment-related bugs li...
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John Allspaw Joins the Etsy Team - prakash http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/john-allspaw-joins-the-etsy-team-6183/ ====== look_lookatme I interviewed at flickr around 2006 when they were doing a big batch of recruiting post yahoo buyout. Everyone was super nice (I was pretty nervous), but I walked away most impr...
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Pingdom being hosed by IP 104.131.86.169 (see recent tests) - ashitlerferad https://tools.pingdom.com ====== jake_rd wow looks like they're using pingdom to mine bitcoin ------ ashitlerferad ⋊> ~ whois 104.131.86.169 # # ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: [https...
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A grandmother made a forest on her own [video] - happy-go-lucky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEQZDHnAb4 ====== qubex My mother passed away when I was 11, in 1992. My grandfather, who owned property outside of Bristol (UK), planted a forest in her memory and named it “Pam’s Wood”. He said that memories fade but tha...
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SingPath is the most FUN way to practice software languages - tea-anemone http://www.singpath.com/eli/index.html ====== koopajah Could be nice to have one or two examples before having to sign up. I will not give my gmail and/or facebook information without being sure I would use the site.
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Grieving for Apple - mrzool https://wincent.com/blog/grieving-for-apple ====== vessenes I'm sure there's a word coined for these 'death of Apple' posts. It is true that my 2020 Macbook Pro 16 is not as much better than the competition as my 2011 Macbook Air was. But it is still definitely the best laptop I've ever o...
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Why we will never see a 15-hour work week - showsover http://www.sphere-engineering.com/blog/15-hour-work-week.html? ====== informatimago Indeed, but the point is that we're about to see a systemic change.
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Show HN: GatePlay, HTML5 logic circuit simulator - greglo http://greglo.github.io/gateplay/ I created a logic circuit simulator called GatePlay - aimed for casual use by beginners&#x2F;students, but the simulation is not over simplified.<p>I know of a couple of small bugs already, but feedback would be awesome!<p>Use...
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Convert sqlite results to json consumable dicts [python] - khubo https://github.com/khubo/sqliteJson ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) ~~~ khubo I will do it. thanks :D ...
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X is business value - teej http://unethicalblogger.com/2011/11/18/x-as-business-value.html ====== hello-trolls obvious
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What Happens When Web Services Do Not Backup? - martey http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/who-protects-your-cloud-data/ ====== tlrobinson I'm not too surprised. I was just reading a blog post ([http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_omnidrive_data_sta...](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_omnidrive_data...
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It's Harder to Read Code than to Write It - edw519 http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2007/12/22/reading-comprehension-will-make-you-a-better-programmer/ ====== cduan Great post, so true. One point I'd add, though: when you're writing code, make it readable by commenting well! Sure it's obvious to you why you used a ter...
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Ask HN/YC/PG: Dealing with tax and accounting - markbao (Focusing on the US) So, how do you deal with tax (and on a side note, accounting?) If I remember correctly, YC companies are incorporated as C corps (which means both double taxation and a bit of hassle with IRS forms and such.)<p>More specifically, what does ...
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Net Neutrality Protesters Arrested At Google HQ - hammock http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/occupygoogle-arrests/# ====== jack-r-abbit From the article: _Google has generally been a strong advocate of net neutrality but the OccupyGoogle protestors argue the company could be doing more to champion the cause at this cr...
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The perils of microtask work - okket https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/in-most-cases-online-microtask-work-can-be-a-raw-deal-un-study-finds/ ====== tenpoundhammer I think this particular example is a great example of what's difficult about the world right now. Technology has opened many new oppor...
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Show HN: Breathe – Peripheral Breath Trainer - filipeisho https://github.com/filipeisho/breathe/ ====== amar-laksh KISS Solution for Linux: imv breathe.gif -> imv: [https://github.com/eXeC64/imv](https://github.com/eXeC64/imv) (or any other really lightweight gif viewer) -> breathe.gif: [https://quietkit.com/img/box...
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Show HN: XZA.FR – a modern URL shortener - xza-fr https://xza.fr ====== caraujorenan Got the following error: # ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in ShortnController#create > The browser returned a 'null' origin for a request with origin-based forgery protection turned on. This usually means you have the 'no-...
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Show HN: Async Requests and Downloads Without Thinking About It (Python) - jelloslinger http://aiodownload.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ====== jelloslinger Here is a python package I wrote a few months ago to make async requests and downloads more convenient. I haven't had much time to work on it lately so I thought I wo...
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Grade levels could be a thing of the past in schools focused on competency - tokenadult http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/say-goodbye-fifth-grade-k-12-schools-test-competency-based-learning/ ====== paulhauggis In a PC world that we live in, with gems such as "everyone needs to get a trophy so they don't feel left ...
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Appsumo + Crate = 10gb lifetime account! - sahillavingia http://appsumo.com/lets-crate-lifetime-file-sharing-promo/ ====== mbyrne I believe the correct equation is: Appsumo + Crate - $25 = 10gb lifetime account!
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger - specialp http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 ====== japhyr I'm teaching a high school science class right now called "Are We Alone?" It's a survey class of what kind of objects exist in the Universe, and how we're scie...
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Ask HN: Will you consider using this Whatsapp tool? - bthn Hello, I started to make a tool for managing and automating mine and my clients&#x27; whatsapp accounts 2-3 months ago and day by day I improved this tool according to my needs.<p>Right now, it&#x27;s so easy to use. You will register from project website and ...
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Is Lisp a Blub Language? - ehsanul http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2007-07/msg00060.html ====== Zak I find in certain cases that I'm looking across the power spectrum from the Lisp point of view. I recently ported some code from Haskell to Clojure and occasionally found myself missing Haskell's...
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Facebook creates preview photos that are just 200 Bytes for fast mobile loading - slyall https://code.facebook.com/posts/991252547593574/the-technology-behind-preview-photos/ ====== mtmail duplicate of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020840](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020840) ~~~ slyall Weird. t...
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Browser wars go back to future over video formats - cwan http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/01/guest-post-browser-wars-go-back-to.html ====== iwwr Is Google really that concerned with saving a measly $6M per year? It looks like they would pay it back anyway ( <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442> \-- less...
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Micro-targeted digital porn is changing human sexuality - jseliger https://aeon.co/essays/micro-targeted-digital-porn-is-changing-human-sexuality ====== Tenoke I am not convinced their interpretation of how market forces work is definitely right, but this rings true: >The pursuit of the most rabidly loyal audience ha...
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Coder Frozen in 2009 Awakens to Find Front End Development Not Awful - eropple https://www.schneems.com/2017/08/09/coder-frozen-in-2009-awakens-to-find-frontend-development-not-awful/ ====== eropple I posted this because this was basically me about six months ago. Modern JavaScript is almost as nice, for me, as peak R...
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Solar energy in Israel: It's a knockout - mblakele http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14082027 ====== dkasper Just goes to show, it's only a matter of time before enough breakthroughs occur that solar power overtakes fossil fuels. ~~~ pmorici How much of this is scientific breakthrou...
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MS-Linux? Lindows? Could Microsoft Release a Desktop Linux? - CrankyBear https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/ ====== masonic Call it "Black Hat Linux"
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Facebook Approves Dogecoin Tipping App - kordless http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/facebook-approves-dogecoin-tipping-app/2014/06/06?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed ====== kordless To the moon.
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Verizon Bets on Connected Car - jayzee http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303552104577440550104642214.html ====== moistgorilla Good thinking by Verizon. In the long term this will play out to be a huge advantage with self-driving cars.
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The Unbelievable History of the Express JavaScript Framework - tdurden http://thefullstack.xyz/history-express-javascript-framework/ ====== toyg There's something missing here, timelines don't align... So TJH sells express in 2014; Doug ploughs on for two years, with zero contributions from StrongLoop (?). Then IBM ta...
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Sexual Partners “Gender Gap” Debunked by Scientific Research - nikse https://www.inverse.com/article/47430-number-of-sexual-partners-study ====== notadoc The most obvious reason for any discrepancy is that people lie.
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Web services should be both federated and extensible - dwynings http://cdixon.org/2010/09/04/web-services-should-be-both-federated-and-extensible/ ====== dva There is so much data already trapped in Twitter & Facebook services. It is up to those platforms to provide the tools to free it.
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Ask HN: Javascript type inference and Asm.js - logn Asm.js works best for compiling statically typed languages into Javascript, adding type information into the JS so that compilers can optimize around this. Some people are worried this will lead to stagnation in JS optimization for when it's written by humans (alth...
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NYT Cascade visualization - helwr http://WWW.nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html ====== mattdeboard This could be a Very Big Deal in the Marketing/PR 'industry' where it is extremely difficult to quantify performance of PR departments and individuals. I can easily envision a "Cascade score" of a particular press relea...
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Ask HN: Do You Still Read Comics (And Do They Inspire You)? - CallMeV How many of you regulars here derive pleasure and draw inspiration from reading comic books?<p>Do you eagerly await the latest X-Men to be put on the shelf of your regular newsstand on your way to work, or have it on order at your newsagent? Do yo...
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Cisco ASA Software IKEv1 and IKEv2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - amatus https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160210-asa-ike ====== amatus Here's Exodus's write-up on the vulnerability and exploit: [https://blog.exodusintel.com/2016/01/26/firewall- hacking/](https://blog.ex...
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Michael Arrington falls for Y Combinator - drm237 http://blog.bos.genotrope.com/2008/03/16/michael-arrington-falls-for-y-combinator/ ====== alex_c Not much to say about the article itself (yeah, TechCrunch has been covering YCombinator a lot lately), but that blog has a seriously annoying layout.
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Launching Docs.github.com - todsacerdoti https://github.blog/2020-07-01-launching-docs-github-com/ ====== li8n Remarkable post of ms. Jean Leaver on Launching docs.github.com [https://github.blog/2020-07-01-launching-docs-github- com/](https://github.blog/2020-07-01-launching-docs-github-com/) Femene genius soured int...
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The latest “nightmare inducing” Boston Dynamics robots - swamp40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5qpXO3isM ====== swamp40 Skip to the 3:45 mark.
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SimTK: open-access biomedical research models and tools - fitzwatermellow https://simtk.org/xml/index.xml ====== brudgers SimTK is part of Simbios: [http://simbios.stanford.edu/](http://simbios.stanford.edu/)
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Keeping the Art of Silent Film Music Alive - tintinnabula https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/keeping-art-silent-film-music-alive-organ-cinema-comedy ====== mrob Not only did theater organists improvise music, they also improvised sound effects. See this booklet describing such techniques: [https://archive.org/deta...
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Announcing Free Tier and Live Migration Tool for MongoDB Atlas - nparsons08 https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-free-tier-and-live-migration-tool-for-mongodb-atlas ====== arkham Disclaimer: I used to work for MongoDB, but left more than 2 years ago. I'm really happy to see the free tier as an option - I was ...
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How do developers promote open source projects? - eqcho4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04219 ====== ktpsns Interesting topic, but the paper presentation looks weird to me. Most figures don't show curves but a single value with error bars. Never have seen such a way of presenting single data points. I don't see any advant...
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Show HN: PWA, SSR for a demo modern web app - revskill https://www.resta.us ====== sotaan can you show your code please? seems like you are using Vue 2
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WhatsApp Cofounder Tells Students to Delete Facebook - jmsflknr https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/whatsapp-brian-acton-delete-facebook-stanford-lecture ====== nilskidoo “The capitalistic profit motive, or answering to Wall Street, is what’s driving the expansion of invasion of data privacy and driving the e...
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Orbitz shows costlier hotel options to Mac users - Kenan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304458604577488822667325882.html ====== suprgeek It is important to read the article carefully: WRONG - Mac users see higher prices for same hotels than Windows users RIGHT - Mac users are sometimes also shown hote...
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The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - coffeeandjunk https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm ====== Buldak I remember reading about this topic in philosophy class, namely, the Pessimistic Induction [1]. I've wondered if a similar argument could be made for moral progress. Certainly, many people are qui...
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Can Psychiatry Turn Itself Around? - okket http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/can-psychiatry-turn-itself-around/ ====== phren0logy I'm a psychiatrist. It is always amazing to me that despite four years of medical school, six years of residency and fellowships, and four board certifications, the assump...
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Microsoft is testing a new mosquito trap to fight Zika - nmc http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/technology/microsoft-mosquito-zika/index.html ====== MollyR Just wondering, why microsoft is spending resources on this, rather than its flagship products. It feels like a pr move.
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Look out for No. 1 - yread http://timharford.com/2011/09/look-out-for-no-1/ ====== mdda "Nobody seems sure why so much data has the Benford distribution. " : Have a look at [http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law- zipfs-...](http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs-law- and-the-pare...
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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists - blasdel http://powazek.com/posts/2090 ====== blasdel "SEO consultants are just web designers who are incapable of doing the other 90% of the job" ~~~ meatbag By the same logic, web designers are just web developers who are incapable of doing the other 90% of the job. ------ co...
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The Fallacy of Technical Debt - fpgaminer https://medium.com/@fpgaminer/the-fallacy-of-technical-debt-202f7406337e#.4wxxnqksy ====== devnonymous > This is because the real cost of software is time. Exactly... And so it follows that technical debt is the debt of time. What your quick and dirty ^solution^ achieves toda...
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Home Industries Health Care Many diabetics won’t be able to get insulin by 2030 - srameshc https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-diabetics-wont-be-able-to-get-insulin-by-2030-unless-big-changes-happen-2018-11-21 ====== capsch Annoyingly doesn't say WHY.
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Minimalism in feature implementation presentation from Social App Workshop - abraham http://vimeo.com/13770948 ====== abraham I would love feedback on content, style, usefulness, etc.
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Show HN: SCSS live editing with Sublime Text - bwm https://github.com/mechio/takana ====== akhleung LibSass maintainer here -- it's really great to see another project pick it up, and although we're aware that we still have a fair bit of catching up to do, things like this give us all the more incentive! ~~~ iamlac...
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Paris Rolls Out Sidewalk Urinals to Tame "Wild Peeing" - gscott https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638512558/nope-those-arent-mailboxes-paris-rolls-out-sidewalk-urinals ====== cpursley This would not be a problem if Europe had free toilets like the United States. I really don't understand why I should have to pay to pee. ...
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Ask HN: With all of these news about Rust, is anybody running it in production? - aledalgrande It seems a cool language and I have a lot of C++ in my prototype that I could, possibly, convert to Rust when I do the rewrite. C++ hasn&#x27;t treated me bad, but I am evaluating the conversion possibility.<p>But is there...
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Why super-smart people may be drawn to a life of crime - randomname2 https://qz.com/923648/why-do-highly-intelligent-people-commit-crimes/ ====== AndrewKemendo _Many prevailing theories of intelligence suggest that people with lower IQs are the ones most likely to break the law, since impulsivity, struggles at school,...
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Presentation of a project: Muonium, an encrypted cloud - hitoshi54 https://github.com/muonium/core/wiki/Presentation ====== cmurf What French crypo laws prevent them from deploying in France? And then why can C14 do this? "Your data are encrypted using AES-256, replicated many times and stored in our 25 meter deep und...
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Ask HN: How to address horrible practices at new job? - remyp I recently (~2 weeks ago) started a new position that ostensibly was &quot;running the development team (3 devs)&quot; for a SaaS firm. I am working remotely, so it has been difficult to get the CEO to keep meetings or spend the necessary time (&gt; 5 minu...
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Show HN: Scratchwork – a tool for drawing technical equations and diagrams - jstogin http://scratchworktool.com ====== jstogin Hi everyone, I’m John from Scratchwork (scratchworktool.com). This is a project I started as a math PhD student, because I was frustrated by how difficult it is to share ideas (mainly equation...
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Xero ditches HTML5 in favor of native iOS and Android apps - mattquiros http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/18/accounting-software-startup-xero-ditches-html5-in-favor-of-native-ios-and-android-apps/ ====== jarjoura That's been the case all along that HTML5/CSS/Javascript is much harder to develop for when targeting mobil...
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Building a web application from the ground up - truetaurus What should be considered when building a website from the ground up? What process could be followed? What resources should be considered? ====== bsdpython It starts with what you know. How much programming experience do you have? What front and back end tec...
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Ask HN: Why do public hotspots deliberately circumvent Apple’s portal detection? - ghodss When I join a hotspot using my MacBook Pro, sometimes a dedicated web browser window comes up and navigates me to a portal where I can agree to terms or purchase wifi. Other times, that window doesn’t come up at all and any websi...
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Carbon Transistors to Increase Speed, RAM of Smartphones and Tablets - RaduTyrsina http://techpp.com/2012/07/20/carbon-transistors-increase-speed-ram-smartphones-tablets/ ====== rajupp Low voltage consumption is the key
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The Difference Between Business Development and Sales - kml http://iamvictorio.us/post/26979018144/difference-between-business-development-and-sales?f4093320 ====== tryitnow Someone should send this article to every young person starting out in business, whether they're and entrepreneur or not. Biz Dev is usually c...
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Show HN: Bit-bundler – simplify the JavaScript bundling experience - manchagnu https://bundler.bitjs.io/ ====== manchagnu So I built bit-bundler as an experiment to achieve configuration ergonomics that I like. Specially around bundle splitting and pattern matching. I also wanted to try parallel file processing, which...
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Search HN for “port Facebook data” – no results – lets change this - devinrhode2 ====== ihuman What do you mean by "porting" facebook data? Moving it to another platform? There is already a way to download all the data facebook has on you. ------ c22 Saw this just the other day [0], looks pretty neat. [0] [https://ne...
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The Secret Life of Photons: Simulating 2D Light Transport - Tunabrain https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/ ====== ykl This is way cool, and the writeup is excellent as well. Very much worth the read :) ------ amadeusw Good job! The UX is top notch and the results are inspiring
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Software companies demand own copyright law - Mithrandir http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/14/software-companies-demand-own-copyright-law/ ====== bediger This smells fishy. The Digital Economy Act isn't harsh enough, so something even more draconian must be done! Think of the children! Given that the Digital Economy Act ...
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BART Workers Give 72-Hour Strike Notice - AjayTripathy http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/06/28/bart-workers-give-72-hour-strike-notice/ ====== bifrost If you read the article you'll note that "rider safety" is not about adding more and better trained cops to BART, its about lights... > BART spokesman Rick Rice sai...
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The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins - antr http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/business/global/the-scramble-for-access-to-libyas-oil-wealth-begins.html ====== tzs The title is a bit misleading as many will take from it that there wasn't access before. A better subject would have called it re-access, not...
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Ask HN: What books/tutorials/articles to read to get into reverse engineering? - mlejva ====== jamieweb I've been picking up the basics in the past few months - I started out with playing around with some open source tools (radare2/Cutter), and then watching Josh Stroschein's introductory course on PluralSight [1]. The...
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Down With Social - twampss http://spencerfry.com/down-with-social ====== bonaldi There needs to be a Godwin-esque term for "takes one data point and extrapolates it to the entire world". So, for his 5-person company the social media role "just isn't" a full-time job. I doubt if marketing or HR are full-time jobs th...
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Come for the network, pay for the tool - cookingoils https://subpixel.space/entries/come-for-the-network-pay-for-the-tool/ ====== codingdave Paid communities aren't new. AOL was a paid community. Anyone remember Apple's eWorld? I'm not denying that the economics of the internet are evolving, it just irks me our indus...
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Linkedin gets a new look - codegeek http://www.cnbc.com/id/49433400 ====== gren I don't really like this dark header in contrast with the body. Also the dropdown menu dark border looks horrible IMHO. The rest is quite ok! :-)
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How I used Heroku, Chargify and Sendgrid to take my web-app to market in 3 days - Tawheed http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/04/how-i-used-heroku-chargify-and-sendgrid-to-take-my-web-app-to-market-in-3-days/ ====== ApolloRising Did you include the time it takes to create/purchase a merchant account, Payment Gateway, etc...
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OTPW – A one-time password login package - JNRowe https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/otpw.html ====== JNRowe Links to alternatives and/or advice about how to judge the quality of these types of things as an outsider would be appreciated. For example, to me having Markus Kuhn's name attached to it is a big plus. However,...
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Ask HN: How to set up a minimalist professional web page these days - ACow_Adonis I&#x27;m thinking it might be time for me to start branching out on my own. I&#x27;ve been doing analytics and stats for a long time now. But I haven&#x27;t done anything with the web for almost a decade.<p>What&#x27;s a recommended pa...
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Samsung GT-E1080E - LutfiGjuta http://35879604470894/0 ====== gaspoweredcat why have you posted the imei of a samsung feature phone?
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Cloudflare Bans Sites for Using Cryptocurrency Miners - fraqed https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-bans-sites-for-using-cryptocurrency-miners-171004/ ====== godzillabrennus Good move from my perspective. The user isn't opting in to participate in this mining so it's ethical for Cloudflare to protect the user. ~~~ the...
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Ask HN: Should an RSA public exponent be prime? - cr0bar_uk I&#x27;ve done some research and found conflicting answers.. should an RSA public exponent (used in GPG etc) be prime? Is there a security risk in using non-prime numbers? ====== tptacek 1\. Technical answer: an RSA public exponent needs to be coprime with th...
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Walking Contrarian, Peter Thiel - hobaak https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-11-14/peter-thiel-is-silicon-valley-s-contradiction-video ====== bob_theslob646 FYI, video does no play for me with Adguard enabled on mobile.
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Are Startups Cool? - dshanahan http://dshan.me/are-startups-cool/ ====== mimiflynn Startups are just like any venture into starting your own business: its hard. But, your article talks about 'working at a startup' as if interchangeable with 'founding a startup', when, obviously, its not. I agree with your tribe memb...
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Ask HN: Have any good website ideas? I'll implement them, open source - lampstack Hey HN- currently in a rut because I want to program but I don&#x27;t have any good website&#x2F;app ideas to implement. Post any website ideas you want implemented and if there&#x27;s enough support I&#x27;ll make it, 100% open source...
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30 Years of .ORG - fcambus http://happy30th.org ====== 0x0 The "responsive" text layout needs some work. I clicked and clicked expecting to find the second half of every sentence (".ORG hit the 10 million mark with"... with what?) and only at the very end did it occur to me to resize the browser window.
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Facebook Back on the Defensive, Now Over Data Deals with Device Makers - Cbasedlifeform https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/technology/facebook-device-partnerships-criticized.html ====== merricksb Previous/ongoing discussions: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229397](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1722939...
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What are the advantages of the Hurd over Linux/BSD? (2013) - pmoriarty http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/still_useful.html ====== derefr > These were just examples, Linux is trying to catch up in ugly ways indeed > ... In the Hurd, it's that way from the ground and there is no limitation > like having to be root or...
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Turns out Amazon buying Eero wasn’t the startup success story we thought - aaronbrethorst https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18297619/amazon-eero-price-fire-sale-mesh-wi-fi-buyout ====== yellow_postit I hope Eero has better luck under Amazon than Blink which seems to have stalled out after the Ring acquisition and is c...
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In the Bay Area, technology has gone hand in hand with imperialism for 500 years - edw519 https://www.salon.com/2018/12/09/in-the-bay-area-technology-has-gone-hand-in-hand-with-imperialism-for-500-years/ ====== masonic n the late 18th century, the newly-arriving Spanish That would make it the last _300_ y...
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Jeri Ellsworth, self-taught engineer, talks about her career (2011) [video] - jacquesm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLy0mVkoLio ====== gluelogic Jeri Ellsworth is a wizard! A huge inspiration to me. I always loved this floppy drive reverb she made: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpr7B-7BFP4](https://www.youtube....
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Is Google Planning an E-Book Rental Service? - Anon84 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_google_planning_an_e-book_rental_service.php ====== godkira Interesting. FTA "And would users choose to go to Google for this service, rather than some of the other e-book publishers and providers out there?" Personally I ha...
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Doge iOS - lukasko https://twitter.com/doge_ios ====== ctruman This is awesome. A great addition to [https://twitter.com/horse_ios](https://twitter.com/horse_ios)
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Gandi – Why we retired the security question - ddacunha https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/07/why-we-retired-the-security-question/?affiliate=nl_EN_jul20_1&pk_campaign=Newsletter_EN_email_44032&pk_kwd=NL&pk_source=email&pk_medium=email&pk_content=news1_security ====== Jaruzel In the UK the NCSC[1] also no longer advocate ...
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