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Three Strikes of Injustice - kenshiro_o http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/opinion/three-strikes-of-injustice.html?_r=0 ====== stephengillie It's very sad that these _convicted criminials_ could have committed much more hurtful crimes for their _3rd offense_ and received the same penalty: life in prison. I don't fee...
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Windows NT 3.50 Build 782 (RC2) source code leaked - ASVVVAD https://boards.4channel.org/vp/thread/43555197#p43583389 ====== ASVVVAD An article about it: [https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/nt-3-50-build-782-...](https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/nt-3-50-build-782-rc2-source- code-has-been-leaked/) Vide...
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PagerDuty makes their security training public - vuln https://sudo.pagerduty.com/ ====== Bucephalus355 In a few years, employers are going to start screening for and rejecting / hiring employees based on how secure they think they are in their personal lives. A user who is compromised in their personal/computer life ...
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Five surprising salaries (Astronomers 96K/year) - willz http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/04/09/cb.surprising.salaries/index.html ====== noodle iirc, we already had this on the front page, but i'm adding my $0.02 to it: i read this article, and then heard this (<http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sche...
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Shipping Startup Shyp Raises $10M, Plans Expansion to New York City - dkasper http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/16/shyp-10m-sherpaventures/ ====== akurilin Really convenient product, excellent customer experience. Shipped half an apartment through these guys, would have taken me forever without their crew taking care of...
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S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate - gabbo https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/sp-500-to-exclude-snap-after-voting-rights-debate.html ====== hendzen This is huge. There are a huge amount of capital inflows from indexers from being part of the SP500. This will be a strong disencentive to future IPO candidat...
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Apple is suing its former lead chip designer - mywittyname https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-suing-ex-employee-after-he-quit-tech-giant-2019-12 ====== ReptileMan Weren't non competes unenforceable in California?
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Big Breach Of Patient Data In California - joellarsson http://www.businessinsider.com/patient-data-breach-in-california-2014-3 ====== Zenst One key aspect of this is that the data was not stolen thru hacking or other networking evilness, but was physicaly stolen. Another aspect of note is that the data appears to n...
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Picocli v4.1.0 - remkop2 https://github.com/remkop/picocli/releases/tag/v4.1.0 ====== remkop2 this release includes a built-in `generate-completion` subcommand that end users can use to easily install Bash/ZSH completion for your application
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Maily Herald – Rails open source self-hosted Mailchimp alternative - tortilla http://mailyherald.org/ ====== solidgumby Ever had to deal with email deliverability issues? This alone is a very good reason to go with a hosted service. The self-hosted software looks good but I'd never touch that with a stick. There might...
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PolarSSL Remote Code Execution and a Denial of Service - draugadrotten https://www.certifiedsecure.com/polarssl-advisory/ ====== feld In the case of OpenVPN -- can anyone confirm if this is mitigated simply by requiring a ta key? I believe it would, as the server won't move to the next step and process certificates/...
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Restricting User Access by Country using an IP Geolocation API - kevinjyc https://smartip.io ====== kevinjyc Using an IP geolocation API like [https://smartip.io](https://smartip.io) can help on restricting access to your website to users connecting from specific countries.
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Show HN: Find the fastest route via a place - FriedPickles http://road.li ====== rwhitman This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is large and by far something I'd be more likely to use...
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Group buying: Fad or future Facebook? - anya http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/06/group.buying.2011.prospects/index.html Group buying websites enjoyed massive growth in 2010 grabbing new customers and the headlines as the sector's biggest player, Groupon turned down a reported $6 billion offer from Google in e...
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How much money to set aside for legal work/fees? - chwolfe ====== zaidf It cost us about $500 to incorporate/get a PO box. I figure another few hundred - on the cheap side - if we paid to get our TOS and/or Privacy Policy written by a lawyer. ~~~ chwolfe Thanks... Did you go the LLC route? ~~~ zaidf We went with an...
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Peer-to-peer markets [pdf] - deweerdt http://papers.nber.org/tmp/95308-w21496.pdf ====== deweerdt > Internet marketplaces also have managed to deal fairly successfully with the > incentive problems that arise in long-distance and semi-anonymous trade, and > in doing so have enabled the entry and participation of sma...
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The most beautiful equation - ldayley http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-the-most-beautiful-equation ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2193377>
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The Story of Oculus Rift - jonbaer http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/09/oculus-rift-mark-zuckerberg-cover-story-palmer-lucky ====== staunch > _Before I met them, I’d assumed that Zuckerberg and Luckey would have much > in common. They’re both hackers who started valuable companies before they > turned 20, but the si...
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Boeing Crashes Highlight the High Costs of Cheap Government - molecule http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/boeing-737-max-crashes-highlight-the-high-costs-of-cheap-government.html ====== kazinator Throwing money at government just to make it expensive won't fix this kind of problem. What if a bigger, fatter, bette...
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“My position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated” - binaryapparatus https://macosxautomation.com/about.html ====== binaryapparatus Q. I hear you no longer work for Apple; is that true? A. Correct. I joined Apple in January of 1997, almost twenty years ago, because of my profound belief that “...
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What are your top 5 most frequently used apps on your phone? - avni000 I came across an interesting article about how to better understand how much users are using your app (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;theres-an-app-for-that-but-how-much-are-you-actually-using-it&#x2F;) but wanted to s...
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The best things and stuff of 2013 - platz http://blog.fogus.me/2013/12/27/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2013/ ====== shahzad_76 For the politically inclined - the GQ interview with Kim Jong-Il's sushi chef is brilliant (and will probably become a movie someday because the arc is so crazy). Excerpt: "The chef's name, a...
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5G: The Next Big Public Health Experiment - rhollos https://anh-usa.org/5g-the-next-big-public-health-experiment/ ====== Crosseye_Jack The comment section of that page and the page itself seems like just general FUD.
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Uploading files which method you prefer? - jamongkad ====== jamongkad Hi guys I've been wondering where would be the best place to upload files such as photos, music, videos and etc? into the file system? or database? This pretty much answers my question but what do the wizards here in YC think? <http://www.sitepoin...
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Please stand with me [What happens when you critisize the Ukraine government] - tete http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1slk265 ====== anonbanker been in more than one argument on HN about this one, taking this person's side, and am usually downvoted to oblivion. no surprise this is buried on HN.
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'Don't Panic' Is Rotten Advice - bookofjoe https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-panic-is-rotten-advice-11584054431 ====== bookofjoe [https://archive.is/xZmaU](https://archive.is/xZmaU)
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US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images - darrhiggs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27868703 ====== guylhem I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the resolution of whatever form of imagery??? If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes, ...
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Clearwire Launches 4G WiMAX Network in Silicon Valley - johnnybgoode http://newsroom.clearwire.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=214419&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1331811&highlight= ====== laut "Developers can expect to see peak download speeds of up to 10 Mbps, with average download speeds of 3 to 6 Mbps. In contrast, some of t...
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nnn v1.2 – The missing terminal file browser for X - apjana https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/tag/v1.2 ====== apjana ## What's in? \- Use the desktop opener (xdg-open on Linux, open(1) on OS X) to open files \- Option `NNN_USE_EDITOR` to open text files in EDITOR (fallback vi) \- Bookmark support (maximum 10, k...
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The United States slaughters 1M pigs every 3 days - arbuge https://publicemails.com/blog/display/1043/The-United-States-slaughters-1-million-pigs-every-3-days ====== jelliclesfarm I am more concerned about the pollution and environmental impact this kind of factory farming and CAFOs are responsible for...
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Photocracy.org = Revolutionizing photo-sorting? - joshwprinceton Hi everyone, For my Senior Thesis, I'm working on implementing pair-wise comparisons for sorting photos, in particular for national perception and cross-cultural identity (I'm an East Asian Studies Major). As of now, there are limited implementations o...
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On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services - zdw https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5863 ====== Shared404 > The point of open source is not to ritualistically compile our stuff from > source. It’s the awareness that technology is not magic: that there is a > trail of breadcrumbs any of us could follow to liber...
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How to get rich in America: A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories - staunch http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0706/gallery.success_stories.moneymag/index.html ====== brlewis The second guy lives in my town, is about my age, prepped while on payroll as I'm doing, and entered an established market as...
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Show HN: CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go - rkirkendall http://www.CheckUpApp.org ====== phfez I can understand why you think this might be a good idea. But it completely doesn't take the depressed person into account at all. It thinks it can solve suicide by checking up on the individual? Do you thin...
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Corn biofuels worse than gasoline on global warming in short term - 001sky http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/20/corn-biofuels-gasoline-global-warming ====== 001sky There seem to be limits on both sides of this debate. What is 'news' here is not that one-side or the other has 'won'.
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Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer - punkrobby https://www.mint.com/accounting ====== chimeracoder I love it when companies add a little personal touch to their 404 pages (though they're taking 'personal' to a whole new level here!) I saw an incredibly great collection of creative 404 pages a few m...
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Need Some Feedback on the Python Job Positions Aggregator - vmesel http://www.pyjobs.xyz/#refer ====== txsh Menu bar overlaps heading on mobile. iPhone 6, chrome. ~~~ vmesel Thanks for reporting, bro! Gonna change it xD
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Stockfish – open source chess engine - uriva https://stockfishchess.org/ ====== ganeshkrishnan I use this as my primary chess engine. Most top chess engines are better than any human grandmaster. However none of them use deep learning like Google did with go and I am trying to setup tensor flow with stockfish so that ...
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Bill Gates: Chinese censorship is "very limited" - ilamont http://blogs.computerworld.com/15466/bill_gates_chinese_censorship_is_very_limited ====== nailer I quite like a lot of Microsoft's older products, and I think the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation does great work with his (and others' contributed) money. But e...
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What Microsoft gets for $2 billion - loboman http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/what-microsoft-gets-for-2-billion/ ====== cletus Isn't it simple? Microsoft is sinking a huge pile of money into improve Bing, getting market share and making acquisitions (altough I guess these wouldn't be expensed directly against inco...
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Germany to meet EU guidelines to ban single-use plastics by 2021 - yboris https://mymodernmet.com/germany-single-use-plastic-ban/ ====== air7 From my reading of the data, I feel that banning plastic bags (for example) would do more harm than good (in 1st world countries). The alternatives require more reuse than actua...
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Grafana v6.2 - el_duderino https://grafana.com/blog/2019/05/22/grafana-v6.2-released/ ====== mikepurvis Tried Grafana briefly a year or two ago, and I wanted to like it, but similar to Kibana, it's laser-focused on the task of realtime monitoring current data. I wanted to use it for a high-level view of historical stu...
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Google/Alphabet partners with GSK to develop nerve implants - ucaetano http://www.dw.com/en/google-parent-alphabet-makes-foray-into-futuristic-biotech/a-19441725 ====== danielmorozoff It's interesting to see where google sees this will go, given BMI tech is in its infancy. Has anyone else heard more about this?
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SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple executes its invisible transition strategy - colinprince https://www.macworld.com/article/3402057/swiftui-and-catalyst-apple-executes-its-invisible-transition-strategy.html ====== thought_alarm There is a disconnect between what Apple's engineers say vs. what the Apple pundits at large thin...
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What's the history behind 192.168.1.1? - vinnyglennon https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-history-behind-192-168-1-1-Why-not-192-169-1-1-or-any-other-IP-address-When-did-it-start-being-used-Who-started-it-Why-Why-not-1-1-1-1-What-is-the-relation-to-127-0-0-1-What-about-10-0-0-1-Apple?share=1 ====== insickness This explain...
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Wedding Startup RegistryLove (YC S12) Lets Couples Register For Anything - Jerpo http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/yc-backed-wedding-startup-registrylove-lets-couples-register-for-anything/ ====== creativename From their "Tour" page: _The fun part! Browse and shop our gorgeous gift catalogue filled with inspiration...
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Google Wave Patent License (what does this mean?) - paulgb http://www.waveprotocol.org/patent-license ====== tlrobinson Google promises not to sue you (or rather gives you a license so they can't sue you) for violating any of their patents while implementing the Wave Protocol. Unless you sue them. Pretty standard f...
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My Favorite Pieces of Syntax in 8 Different Programming Languages - yakkomajuri https://medium.com/@yakko.majuri/my-favorite-pieces-of-syntax-in-8-different-programming-languages-ba37b64fc232 ====== perfunctory def even_numbers(limit): return [num for num in range(0, limit, 2)] It’s unfortunate th...
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Shunting-yard Algorithm - wooby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm ====== BigZaphod Yeah, it's a neat algorithm. I think we implemented it in college. I'm not sure why it was posted here, though. Is there a greater context to this that I'm missing? ~~~ memetichazard Possibly related to this story ...
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Karl Rove's book vs. Rework - what the American People need to know - henning http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2209-karl-roves-book-vs-rework-what-the-american-people-need-to-know ====== mixmax This is genius. 37signals is already a strong brand, but only in a relatively narrow niche. This is an excellent way of mark...
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Ask HN: Please review my crazy idea. - thetrumanshow So I took one of jacquesm's ideas from his list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790564<p>... as I told him I would do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791494<p>... and build a gadget around the (5) AdProfs idea: http://fcgadgets.blogspot.com/2010/10/ad-...
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US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree - lotusleaf1987 http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false ====== ck2 We need to sponsor that image as a billboard in Washington D.C. to get the mainstream news to cover it and then maybe Congress to lo...
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Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload - ederlf https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3405796.3405827 ====== secondcoming > We find that the kernel to userspace communication, ... often the cause of > application performance degradation Assuming they're talking about Linux here, I wonder if they used io_uring. ~~~ mustst...
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Fast AMF0 library written in pure TypeScript - Zaseth https://github.com/Zaseth/AMF0-TS ====== tonetheman If only somewhere on the page it explained WTF amf0 is ... ~~~ dragonwriter My guess is that the people a fast amf0 library is trying to reach know what amf0 is. For the rest of us, there's always [https://en.m....
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How did Europe become the richest part of the world? - pepys https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world ====== ttsubotai The article overlooks a very important factor, that only Europe had colonies in the Americas, and that brought massive wealth to the continent since the XVI century. ...
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Show HN: Affordable counseling by future psychologists for people in tech - selimjeffrey http://www.talk-buddies.com ====== selimjeffrey Hi everybody, I noticed there where so many people in my environment who suffered from psychological problems like a burn-out or feeling down but couldn't find the right help. Cause...
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Ask HN: Can we build Ironman's Jarvis with 2019 tech? - hsikka I was rewatching movies in preparation for the new Marvel movie, and I felt some nostalgia and childhood fascination when I saw the depiction of Jarvis in the Ironman movies.<p>I work in ML research and am currently in graduate school, and I know we&#x27;r...
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Catalonia Declares Independence as Spain Gets Power to Hit Back - merqurio https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/spanish-senate-gives-rajoy-the-power-to-oust-catalan-government-j99z8pj1 ====== ColinWright Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15568078](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556...
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Show HN: Games from a jam with a 1 BTC prize - jajoosam https://gamejam2019.repl.co ====== jajoosam This is a gallery featuring the winners, along with all other entries in the repl.it game jam, where the winner won a Bitcoin. There are some really amazing games in thee, many built by high school students using repl....
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Binary tree traversal in Python with generators - pkrumins http://thatmattbone.com/2009/09/binary-tree-traversal-in-python-with-generators/ ====== pkrumins This is a test. I had my previous two submissions go [dead]. No idea why. So I test one more time with a random URL.
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Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web - trq_ http://www.chimeapp.com/ ====== Yzupnick This looks great, congratulations. 1) Do you have any plans to allow arbitrary RSS as notifications, or integrating with ITTT? This could allow people to create notifications for services that you don't support. 2) Whi...
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The reason riding a unicycle is difficult - mariorz http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/07/the-reason-riding-a-unicycle-is-difficult.html ====== RiderOfGiraffes That's only true if you learn unicycling purely by trying it until you get it. I've taught dozens of people how to unicycle, all of whom felt they we...
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Amazon becomes fastest-growing music streaming service - artsandsci https://www.ft.com/content/60633178-a282-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1 ====== UMBReate Can I read this without a subscription?
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Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases - LopRabbit https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-silicon-sql-on-dna-is-the-next-frontier-for-databases/ ====== not_a_cop75 Encoding what is essentially able to produce random proteins by backing up data to it. What could possibly go wrong? ------ epiphan...
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Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body - idl3Y https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gut-bacteria-may-change-way-many-drugs-work-body ====== tachyonbeam Not to take away from these findings, but in general, individual genetics can radically change the way many drugs work, and even doctors seem bliss...
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2 California men fall off edge of ocean bluff while playing 'Pokemon Go' - elmar http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pokemon-go-players-stabbed-fall-off-cliff-20160714-snap-story.html ====== Cpoll Tunnel vision is a scary thing. On the other hand, some of the other anecdotes are, I think, completely coinciden...
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Experimenting with sweet.js macros - int3 http://jezng.com/2012/11/experimenting-with-sweet-js-macros/ ====== int3 For those who don't know what sweet.js is: It's a macro system for Javascript, designed by the folks at Mozilla. With any luck it'll pave the way for macros in post-ES6.
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Why humans can't draw - KennethMyers http://techno-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-humans-cant-draw.html ====== Jupe _Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_ is an excellent book. I still use some of the techniques to "turn-on" my right brain, and turn off the analytic, sombol-based left-brain (comes in handy ...
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Why we made Vorlon.js and how to use it to debug your JavaScript remotely - codepo8-hn http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2015/04/30/why-we-made-vorlon-js-and-how-to-use-it-to-debug-your-javascript-remotely.aspx ====== orand How is this different from weinre? [http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/l...
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Ask HN: Should external links open in the same browser tab or new tab? - srisaila I know links opening in the same page is the default behavior. Do you set same behavior (links opening in same tab) to both internal and external links? ====== lsiunsuex As a web developer, I feel external links opening in the same tab...
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Show HN: 5400 TED talk texts open sourced - svig https://github.com/saranyan/TED-Talks ====== levistoddard I have a cool way to use these transcripts. One question... I noticed the MIT Licence... but did TED authorize this? or have these just been scraped without explicit permission? (No judgement, but wanted to know...
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NASA's $1B Jupiter probe takes mind-bending new photos of the gas giant - MilnerRoute http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/NASA-s-1-billion-Jupiter-probe-has-taken-12478909.php ====== SHAKEDECADE Oh man, I want to find some High-res versions of these.
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“Nearly 25000 allocations are made for every keystroke in [Chrome's] Omnibox” - dustingetz https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318). ------ ter...
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No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit - luu https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Results-of-car-free-Market-Street-so-so-for-SF-15087210.php ====== Symbiote The linked article (1) says the redesign will have "sidewalk level bike lanes". If there's a way for local peop...
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The SF Hacker Loft - newy http://euwyn.com/post/4087921596/the-sf-hacker-loft ====== neurotech1 Noisebridge, another hackerspace is in SF. (www.noisebridge.net) It's located at 2169 Mission St (Between 17th and 18th) Drop by. I'm a member and regular visitor. ------ hparra It's this "let's hack together" mentality...
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JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation - yarapavan http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295 ====== valarauca1 Seeing as nobody is reading the fine text * Only 64bit Linux on AMD64 is supported, so no ARM or Android support _currently_. * Files must be ran on computers they were compiled on, or identical hardware * Still needs ...
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Is there such a thing as the NoMock movement? - sentiental http://henk53.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/is-there-such-a-thing-as-the-nomock-movement/ ====== boyter Pointless example. There is no value in testing the method for success. However how it deals with failures/exceptions inside the dependencies might be worth te...
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Does your startup use MSFT technology? - bootload ====== bootload _'... One thing that causes me more alarm, is that I see a lot of startups using MSFT technology these days. See, startups give you early warnings on trends of what people use. Something is going here. Startups are the early warning signs of on-coming ...
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Nice Read on Hardware Startups - nlolks https://blog.bolt.io/keurig-accidentally-created-the-perfect-business-model-for-hardware-startups-18e9c3b4e796 ====== appedus Good read indeed. Kindle example was good.
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Self extracting tar archives - izabera https://github.com/izabera/selfextracttar ====== jepler I went and researched this before reading the link, and found a slightly different solution than the author. By taking advantage of python's 'tarfile' module, it was easy to create a (us)tar-compatible header. My solution is...
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Revolut Prepared for Brexit - aginovski https://blog.revolut.com/how-we-protected-our-customers-from-brexit/ ====== ChrisRR I'm glad to see someone is prepared, but it's annoying that they had to spend money to prepare for the possibility of a no deal brexit, just because we're past the deadline and people/companies s...
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ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size - protomyth https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSOnLinuxARCShrinkage ====== twic There's a good lesson in operability here: log reasons for decisions! I have had to re-learn this lesson over and over again with my own software. "Tom, why did the system...
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Good Things Happen to Bad People - brendancahill https://brendancahill.io/blog-3/blog-post-title-three-epnlm ====== event-horizon Is this suggesting that only bad people get knocked off their horses? Or that everyone does. If it's the former - do you believe the universe is keeping track of and making judgements on p...
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Students Support Socialism, but not when it comes to their GPA - tomohawk https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12038 ====== jimrhods23 They only support it because they feel like they will never be wealthy and won't have to pay the tax increases. This is also most people that I know that support radical changes to the cur...
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Peeping Tom: A free (open source) site pinger - duck http://terrbear.org/?p=253 ====== Roridge Excellent Terry, nice and simple and free, have bookmarked this for use very soon.
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Reddit Is Down - ropable https://www.reddit.com/ ====== kevingrahl Works for me and their status page [1] looks good too.. [1] - [https://reddit.statuspage.io](https://reddit.statuspage.io) ------ ropable "Service Unavailable". Only noteworthy because it's Reddit, man.
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The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It - ffernan http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html all I can say is:<p>AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!<p>Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unle...
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An Introduction to Static Site Generators - azat_co http://www.mickgardner.com/2012/12/an-introduction-to-static-site.html ====== graue Previous discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2489040> The posting date says December 2012, but as you can see there, this article is over a year old. It looks like th...
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China’s Grueling Formula for Success: 9-9-6 - shubhamjain https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-days-a-staple-at-chinese-tech-firms-1487787775 ====== koolba > Chinese labor law dictates a 40-hour workweek and extra pay for overtime, > but many companies circumvent those rules by asking employees to sign > contracts that s...
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Show HN: What I think Elon Musk means by ‚reasoning from first principles‘ - benjohnson1707 https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.medium.com&#x2F;NqoAewqtT8<p>I wrote a (relatively lengthy) case study about Musk and his ‚physics-driven‘ approach to problem-solving (my own research and interpretations).<p>Feedback is very much apprec...
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ACLU Has Concerns Over Military Weapons Used By Local Police - OGinparadise http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/03/07/a-c-l-u-has-concerns-over-military-weapons-used-by-local-police/ ====== aethertap I was getting ready to go on a rant about how unfortunate it is that so much more money and effort is spent on what you ...
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160k+ students will only graduate if a statistical model allows them to - ishan_dikshit http://positivelysemidefinite.com/2020/06/160k-students.html ====== hvinayak1968 Very Well Researched and written.Your analysis points out the outcome pitfalls that IB and other educational institutions should consider and correct ...
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A dark day for the future of books - ColinWright http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/15/opinion/coker-book-publishing/index.html ====== ComputerGuru I will never buy an eBook when I can get an actual used copy of the same book in mid to great condition for a tenth or a twentieth of the price of the eBook, both from Amazon....
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Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit - lettergram https://redditprofile.com/ ====== yorwba If you want to find mods and bots, try searching for "please". It works on the HN version to pick out dang and sctb and it seems to work on Reddit as well. There are some false positives, however. E.g. a comment saying...
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Ask HN: How to get a job after a failed startup? - startuplife01 I worked it for 8 months. I&#x27;ve now completely exhausted my savings. Our product is live but the growth is super slow. There is no way I can see it reaching product market fit. Investors are not interested with such low numbers.<p>I am a product guy ...
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Swift: Simple, Safe, Inflexible - aaronbrager https://medium.com/@getaaron/swift-simple-safe-inflexible-68ff6fa927dc ====== Someone _" Allow required initializers in extensions, and require subclasses to implement these initializers (even if they just call super)"_ Is that possible? The subclass could live in your ...
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New organ named in digestive system - DanBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38506708 ====== CarolineW In case anyone is interested there is some discussion of this over here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308092](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308092) The same story has been submitted from other s...
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Wix Code - dna_polymerase https://www.wix.com/code/home ====== jszymborski Man-oh-man did that take a while to load... You can always tell you've landed on a wix site when you're faced with blank screen for a while. Edit: 10MB... this page is 10MB. [https://i.imgur.com/uAoc05H.png](https://i.imgur.com/uAoc05H.png) ...
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Etsy: Crafting an IPO - sharkweek http://blog.pitchbook.com/etsy-crafting-an-ipo/ ====== jonathanpeterwu Interesting infographic on the history of Etsys history to IPO. Including details about their fundraising and what VC's participated in each round.
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Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions - xpop2027 http://beta.slashdot.org/story/200403 ====== mindcrime Very nice. Maybe the best /. interview I've ever read. McAfee may be crazy (or not, I don't know) but he sure as heck is entertaining. I'd love to sit at a bar and drink with him sometime.
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