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The .NET Language Strategy - benaadams https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/01/the-net-language-strategy/ ====== Analemma_ I also want to commend Microsoft for continuing to support VB and not succumbing to the whims of sneering hipster programmers who consider it beneath contempt (see the second comment on...
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Mint, online money manager, raises $4.7M - terpua http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/16/mint-online-money-manager-raises-47m/ ====== nootopian Is it just me or does the idea of providing all my bank and credit card login details make anyone else a little nervous? ~~~ migpwr I have not tried Mint yet but has anyone compar...
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CTO and co-founder of Hyperloop One leaves amid reported tensions - pavornyoh http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/07/cto-and-co-founder-of-hyperloop-one-leaves-amid-reported-tensions/ ====== ChuckMcM The fact that they agreed to build one in Moscow really amazed me. It felt exactly like the old space elevator startup...
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Silk Road investigator pleads guilty to stealing Bitcoins - kailuowang http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/02/carl-force-pleads-guilty/ ====== kailuowang DoJ announcement [http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silk-road-task-force- ag...](http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silk-road-task-force-agent-pleads- guilty-exto...
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Show HN: Direct Mail – a native email marketing app for OS X - jhammer http://directmailmac.com ====== sjs382 "Direct Mail" is a term that usually means physical mail. This is similar enough to cause confusion, and I had to do a second-take on your home page. ------ jhammer Hi All, We just released version 4 of Di...
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Track the time of your life on Earth just in your mac menu bar - immelstorn http://time-of-your-life.com/ ====== pavelshtanko Nice, electron? ~~~ immelstorn yes, it is!
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Show HN: Repl for Jinja2 - bechampion https://github.com/bechampion/jinrepl ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might be a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) ~~~ bechampion danke!
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A fireside chat with Apple’s Jonathan Ive - Apple 2.0 - Mrinal http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/01/a-fireside-chat-with-apples-jonathan-ive/ ====== whughes This isn't a fireside chat; it's a report on a report of a talk he gave. Here's the original: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/07/listening...
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Tech entrepreneurs revive communal living - cft http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tech-entrepreneurs-revive-communal-living-4988388.php#photo-5472398 ====== cft When I submitted this, I titled it "hacker communes popping up in San Francisco houses". Then the title was edited. What are the rules of editing the su...
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Analyzing HTTPS Traffic to Identify User Operating System, Browser, Application - runesoerensen http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04865 ====== tobltobs I am wondering a bit about "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that shows this." and the already existing p0f from [http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/](http://lcamt...
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The story of Jelani Henry, who says Facebook likes landed him in Rikers - kirillzubovsky http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/10/7341077/nypd-harlem-crews-social-media-rikers-prison ====== lostcolony 'The district attorney offered him 20 years if he pled guilty, but Jelani refused.' 'The violence changed him. "My experien...
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Top Banks Suffering from Multiple Vulnerabilities - backslash http://www.stopthehacker.com/2009/11/25/top-banks-suffering-from-multiple-vulnerabilities/ ====== petronius Interesting article. Sort of confirms what i already knew. ------ Biffins This is why I keep all my money under my bed.
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Fear of making the wrong choice, advice needed - Nathandim Hello everyone. I'll try to keep it short. After deciding to learn programming I picked Python because of the online programming classes that are available for free and because I want to start with web development.<p>The problem started last week in a differ...
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Creating a high availability architecture on AWS - Alan01252 http://alanhollis.com/creating-a-highly-available-minimum-viable-architecture/ ====== Alan01252 Hi all, I was writing this post yesterday before the AWS outage it seemed fitting to post this today. This has taken quite a long time to put together, and is...
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API for creating random users in your application - aram http://randomuser.me/ ====== patio11 So a lesson from when I was young and stupid: If you make fake data, it's often advantageous to make it obviously fake data. If, in a fit of boredom, you decide to do something _clever_ and e.g. generate plausible names and...
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Last 48 hours in Kathmandu – a Mathematician's analysis of the earthquakes - anaxag0ras http://younghamlet.blogspot.com/2015/04/attempt-at-some-words-of-calm-through.html ====== stevewilhelm USGS Aftershock Forecast for the Magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake of April 25, 2015 (as of April 26, 2015) In the coming week, ...
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Ask HN: Why do companies care about their own valuation? - vpoulain As far as I understand company IPO allows to raise huge amount of money. Once they raised this money why do they care about share value on a daily basis? This valuation is different than cash flow and considering it too much deeply impact long-term st...
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No, Flappy Bird developer didn't give up on $50,000 a day - ColinWright http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57618722-93/no-flappy-bird-developer-didnt-give-up-on-$50000-a-day/ ====== lazyjones All other interesting events surrounding this game aside, I believe this displays well how pointless online and in-app advertisin...
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Astronomers discover ‘impossibly massive’ black hole LB-1 - Waiterpanda https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3039790/chinese-astronomers-discover-impossibly-massive-black-hole-lb-1 ====== gus_massa From a previous post, the "impossibility" part is that it is impossible to form a black hole of this size afte...
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CockroachDB 2.0 released - nate_stewart https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-2-0-release/ ====== caleblloyd I am genuinely interested in using CockroachDB as a primary datastore but feel like I have been burned too many times by hopping on board with a young database. I tried lucene based databases that off...
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WhatsApp has been bought by Facebook. Time to try out the better version. - JelteF https://telegram.org/# ====== bazinga123 you have so many downloads, are you still struggling with users? Can you explain further on this
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“Scientific Discovery Is Not Valuable Unless It Has Commercial Value.” - mikecane http://jonathanturley.org/2013/07/09/the-rise-of-the-science-philistines-canadas-chief-science-regulator-announces-that-scientific-discovery-is-not-valuable-unless-it-has-commercial-value/ ====== schrodingersCat DNA, quantum theory, an...
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Intel XDK - rohu1990 http://xdk-software.intel.com/ ====== kbojody Since there is zero description of what this actually is on that page, I had to go to the google store to find info on the plugin. > Develop HTML5-based apps with the Intel® XDK (cross platform development > kit) > The XDK is the world’s first HTML...
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Scaling Twitter & Scaling Ruby on Rails (by Blaine from Twitter) - gustaf http://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter ====== schoudha <http://www.atdot.net/yarv/> Ruby will be 5 times faster by Christmas 2007. :) ------ zeph does anyone know if there is/will be any video or audio to go with these slides? The ta...
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NET Core 3.0 Intrinsics in Real Life – 3/3 - matthewwarren https://bits.houmus.org/2018-08-20/netcoreapp3.0-intrinsics-in-real-life-pt3 ====== reitzensteinm If op is reading this, eg, xor eax eax will zero the entire 64 bit register, so rax will be zero. It's not that the processor is clever enough to know there's no...
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Ask HN: What to do with an existing hydronic house heating system? - EFFALO Just moved into an older house that has an existing hydronic baseboard heating system installed. It&#x27;s connected to a boiler that burns heating oil. While the system is quite old, it still works. I&#x27;ve never lived in a house with this ...
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Delmore Schwartz vs. Delmore Schwartz - lermontov https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/detail/91295 ====== cafard Minor point: "[Schwartz and T.S. Eliot] had studied philosophy at Harvard and left without taking a degree, but there the similarities ended." Eliot never took the examination for his P...
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pocketdiner.co.uk - the future of mobile restaurant websites - chunkyslink http://www.pocketdiner.co.uk/ ====== chunkyslink Although not really involved in this project myself I work with and am friends with the people behind it (who are not HN members) but I know they would appreciate any feedback from this communi...
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Rare photo of Richard Stallman before the neckbeard, dancing with Lisp Machine - tjaerv https://twitter.com/szpak/status/376878504547082241/photo/1 ====== olefoo So this seems like the appropriate thread to link a series of illustrations of sorting and searching algorithms illustrated with and by Hungarian Folk Dancer...
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Achievement Unlocked! - hanifvirani http://evilrouters.net/achievement-unlocked/ ====== statenjason Site is down for me. Google cache for anyone who's having same issue: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vaksAVJ...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vaksAVJsSUQJ:evilrouters.net...
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Go: It Mostly Doesn't Suck - ingve https://athornton.github.io/go-it-mostly-doesnt-suck/#/step-1 ====== dvddgld I always enjoy content of this style, entertaining and effective. There’s no unnecessary filler and I get to laugh along the way. I’ve briefly used golang before and the experience was very smooth. Will fin...
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Court found NSA surveillance unconstitutional in 2011 - replax http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/06/court-finds-nsa-surveillance.html ====== chris_mahan A quote by Joseph Goebbels: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such t...
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How to take reasonable measures to protect your information offline - salcar http://on-competition.com/how-to-take-reasonable-measures-to-protect-your-information/ ====== apiapi You are right on sensitive corporations and strategic technologies. For small startups, IMO it is too much processes that "unfocus" you on...
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Ask HN: How to make money with a diary site? - hndb I am running a diary site, on which users can keep their diary both private and publicly. People also comment on each others diary posts (if public). Me and a friend started this as a hobby project a couple of years ago. We have regular day jobs, so we have limited...
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Apple Store down globally: iPad pre-orders only or something more? - whyleym http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/apple-store-down-globally-ipad-pre-orders-only-or-something-mor/ ====== ojbyrne One thing I wonder - it seems like poor practice to take down the site just to add a new product. Seems like they could do be...
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ISIS Gives Us No Choice but to Consider Limits on Speech - patcheudor http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/12/isis_s_online_radicalization_efforts_present_an_unprecedented_danger.single.html ====== bediger4000 Why should I be punished for what someone else (ISIS) might be doing, or mi...
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Numerical Recipes in C - helwr http://www.nrbook.com/a/bookcpdf.php ====== alextgordon I thought this bit of the license was hilariously draconian: You can type the programs from this book directly into your computer. In this case, the only kind of license available to you is the f...
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How To Not Fit In On A Development Team - scribblewiki http://blog.james-carr.org/2008/08/18/how-to-not-fit-in-on-a-development-team/ ====== mick_m Hm, sounds like a whole lot stupid guys are throwing a popularity contest. Remind me not to apply for a job with carr's team. ~~~ shard The way I see it, Carr is saying...
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Benchmarking AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Packet, and Vultr - raiyu https://goldfirestudios.com/blog/150/Benchmarking-AWS-DigitalOcean-Linode-Packet-and-Vultr ====== wcarron This is great to see. I love DigitalOcean and they've really stepped up their game wrt. product offerings. But I was surprised at how DO beat AWS ...
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Google's AdBlockPlus deal will save them nearly $1bn per year - seanblanchfield http://blog.pagefair.com/2013/acceptable-ads-soothe-google-pain/?cmp=17 ====== joosters Does anyone have any good data on the prevalence of ad blocking? The headline number in this article ($887 million) is a _pure guess_ , based on an ...
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Vx32: portable, efficient, safe execution of untrusted x86 code - ingve https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/ ====== comex Fairly similar to Native Client [1], whose originally paper was released the next year (2009): they both rely on x86 segment registers, for example. A core difference is in how they guarantee tha...
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An Account of the Russian Revolution - Pete-Codes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqbleas1mmo ====== Pete-Codes The channel is also Oversimplified - it's actually incredibly detailed.
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SoundCord - Ruby GEM - lukastm https://github.com/lukasalexandre/soundcord ====== rodrigoavie Cool aid.
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Why Geeks Should Care About Sports - shakes http://blog.rickyrobinett.com/2012/12/why-geeks-should-care-about-sports/ ====== illumin8 The argument seems to mainly be: Sports are unpredictable, code is always predictable, so try to make your apps have the excitement of unpredictable experiences. Also, there is a lot of...
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8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year - walterbell https://hbr.org/2017/02/x8-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books-this-year# ====== Tomte Correct URL: [https://hbr.org/2017/02/8-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books- this...](https://hbr.org/2017/02/8-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books-this-year#)
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GitHub.com font changed - dariubs https://github.com/github ====== rvern One of the most useful options in Firefox is the checkbox "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"[1], also available as browser.display.use_document_fonts in about:config. When this is unchecked, Firefox will ignor...
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Ask HN: Career path guidance - leign Background: I am in my second to last year of my undergraduate degree studying computer science and engineering. I have been told that the next best step is to get a technical graduate degree. My guess, however, is that by getting a more technical degree, I will be locked into a m...
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Epic Games renews legal request to bring Fortnite back to Apple store - maydemir https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/tech/fortnite-app-epic-apple-lawsuit/index.html ====== pjmlp I am with Apple on this one, apparently Epic would rather pay the royalties required by mobile operators on the age of Symbian, J2ME, Brew, Blackb...
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Ask YC: Good laptop mouse? - ciscoriordan Anyone have a recommendation for a good, lightweight mouse?<p>I got a free one as swag a few years ago, and one of the buttons is starting to act up, so I need a replacement. ====== ejs I use the MoGo bluetooth mouse because it is easy to carry and works fairly well... I wou...
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Apache vs Nginx: Practical Considerations (2015) - g4k https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/apache-vs-nginx-practical-considerations ====== reacharavindh I skimmed through the article and a simple question came to mind that I couldn't get an easy answer for. For serving static files to very few users, wha...
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Introducing Rack: a web server interface and software package for R - agconway http://jeffreyhorner.tumblr.com/post/4723187316/introducing-rack ====== hkarthik From the article: _Rack is a web server interface and software package for R. It is very much like Ruby’s Rack. In fact it is so much like Ruby’s Rack that...
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Why doesn't Google maps have routes for tsunami/volcano evacuation - ozfive We were just in a 4.6 Earthquake here in the Seattle area. I just tried to get google maps to give me the route for tsunami evacuation and it doesn&#x27;t have that capability. Why not? Anyone from the maps team here? ====== codedrome I think ...
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Why no one cares about privacy anymore - edw519 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20000336-38.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20 ====== TomOfTTB Wow. I don’t claim to know specifically where the line between “journalism” and “propaganda piece” lies but I think this article crosses it. The way I see i...
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Wikipedia using JavaScript redirect for blackout - fatalerrorx3 Never realized how much I use Wikipedia until today..good thing they only used a JavaScript redirect for the blackout, just disabled JavaScript and I was able to get the info I needed ====== valisystem I just press escape while the page is loading.
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Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go - tromp http://tromp.github.io/go/legal.html ====== everyone Anyone here play? It is pretty much the ultimate boardgame. Its like game- theory the game. From the very start you are embroiled in interesting risk/reward and provoking you opponent to overextendi...
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Trane: a language for automating data science [video] - greenyouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4f1jzhUjjs ====== greenyouse Research articles on the system are: [http://dai.lids.mit.edu/Trane.pdf](http://dai.lids.mit.edu/Trane.pdf) [http://dai.lids.mit.edu/Pred_eng.pdf](http://dai.lids.mit.edu/Pred_eng.pdf)
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100% time - lemming http://cemerick.com/2013/02/15/100-time/ ====== cemerick Author here. While I appreciate the reads, I am even more glad for the amusement provided by various comments about how I'm confused about what "100% time" means (since, AFAIK, the post is where the term was first used outside of private co...
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Goto and the folly of dogma (2018) - luu https://manybutfinite.com/post/goto-and-the-folly-of-dogma/ ====== _bxg1 Over my first five years of professional programming, I've been thirstily chasing the dragon of "perfect description". Early on I thought it was OOP. Then entity/component. Then FP. Then it was _really_ ab...
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Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fairness in WiFi [pdf] - fanf2 https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-hoiland-jorgensen.pdf ====== jabl Awesome work! It's just too bad ath9k equipped routers are starting to be a bit hard to find.. And since ath9k is the only blob-free driver,...
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Ask HN: Is licensing your Software a viable business model? - casabarata ====== __d It can be, in some circumstances. I mean, clearly, consider: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Adobe, AutoCAD, etc. They all license their software, either as a one-time license purchase, or (increasingly) as an annual license fee. On a smaller...
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Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications - max_ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/building-hybrid-blockchain-cloud-applications-with-ethereum-and-google-cloud ====== gaogao It's an interesting article, but also feels like peak buzzword with use-case 1 essentially being "machine learning in the...
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How the Boring Company plans to disrupt tunnelling - utkarshohm http://boringcompany.com/faq ====== Boothroid If they did manage to hit 125 mph and if the tunnels were built over long enough distances, couldn't these be a competitor to travelling by air for shorter trips i.e. 1-2 hour flight times? You can go a long w...
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Ask HN: Is Revenue-Based Funding Great for SaaS who's just starting? - artur_makly I just found out about this model from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightercapital.com&#x2F;how-it-works&#x2F;<p>It seems appealing at first sight.. but has anyone been bitten by it? ====== justherefortart Why would you need this company if yo...
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How to delete all your files - maple3142 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/if1krd/how_to_delete_all_your_files/ ====== garaetjjte Unix Haters Handbook is still surprisingly up to date. [http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf](http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf) page 28 (68) >Some Unix victims turn this f...
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Ways Startups Can Deal With Patent Troll Demands - iProject http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/07/10-ways-startups-can-deal-with-patent-troll-demands/ ====== tisme Start-ups generally don't have a problem until they get into the making-money or getting publicity stage. After that you'll pick up all kinds of parasites, pate...
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A veritable Venn diagram of beverages ... - RiderOfGiraffes http://twitgoo.com/1zdeec ====== RiderOfGiraffes Technically it's an Euler diagram, because not all intersections are shown: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram>
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Barcelona cracks down on Airbnb rentals with illegal apartment squads - kawera https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/02/airbnb-faces-crackdown-on-illegal-apartment-rentals-in-barcelona ====== malandrew > Anti-tourist graffiti has begun to appear, with “No tourists past this > point” painted on a street in th...
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Airbnb in the City – New York State Attorney General's Report [pdf] - ics http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Airbnb%20report.pdf ====== dwg Missing tax revenue is one thing, but it's also worth checking out the summary of safety laws and complaints in the appendix. Much public discussion focuses on legality from a tax perspect...
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Show HN: Medium for programmers - parvbhullar https://recalll.co/ ====== joshtronic Expected to see a login with Github (and/or other repo hosting services) button considering the type of user you're attempting to attract. ~~~ parvbhullar valid point. ------ minimaxir Er, Medium is the Medium for programmers. How do...
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Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space” - suneliot http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/09/google-on-massive-google-spam-influx-we-ran-out-of-disk-space/ ====== ChuckMcM Interesting. Given the minimum size of a Colossus cluster I find the explanation Vic gives unsatisfying. That being sai...
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Apple's Mobile Rules To Get FTC Scrutiny - 16g http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509404575301242754089172.html?mod=WSJASIA_newsreel_technology ====== jsz0 _"However, some antitrust enforcers say that if they wait until a tech company has cornered a market it may be too late"_ Sounds like the plot fo...
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Pyquery 0.2 : jQuery for Python - iamelgringo http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery ====== epoweripi Sounds a lot like ruby's hpricot. Wish I saw this earler - I am already in the middle of a project (screen scraping of course) using hpricot. Sounds weird, but the only reaason to pick ruby for me was hpricot and not...
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Libya’s Central Bank forgot the code to a safe containing $184m worth of coins - jackgavigan http://www.wsj.com/articles/libyas-central-bank-needs-money-stashed-in-a-safe-problem-is-officials-dont-have-the-code-1463153910 ====== dlgeek I'm confused by this whole thing. Due to a political fight, they can't get the comb...
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Why NonExperts are Better at Disruptive Innovation - aespinoza http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/13/rethinking-the-concept-of-%e2%80%9coutliers%e2%80%9d-why-non-experts-are-better-at-disruptive-innovation/ ====== DenisM The article's author failed to provide any evidence to support his key premise "Non-Experts are Bet...
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The Green Book Map - Thevet http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/ ====== marcusgarvey I'm glad this exists. I think it's important to point out: it's not just that black travelers had to find places to stay overnight that were welcoming because Jim Crow laws meant that many hotels and boarding houses only accept...
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Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers - ilamont http://www.computerworld.com/article/2849263/doxxing-defense-remove-your-personal-info-from-data-brokers.html#tk.cwfb ====== blauwbilgorgel Just because a data aggregation site does not show your data on the front-end, does not mean they deleted it...
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Ask HN: Low demanding job to support you - telemator I&#x27;ve been working on a software project for a while that I&#x27;m hoping will bring me income when done. Until then, I&#x27;m digging into my savings but it&#x27;s running out faster than I&#x27;d planned. So I need to get a job, but it shouldn&#x27;t be ment...
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LungoJS - Create Powerful Mobile Apps With Just HTML5, CSS3, And JavaScript - noob007 http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/03/lungojs-create-powerful-mobile-apps.html#.T2oJlo6890Y.hackernews ====== noob007 Direct Link For Those Who Prefer It: <http://www.lungojs.com/>
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Gitea – A painless self-hosted Git service - brettlangdon https://gitea.io ====== detaro discussion 20 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717) ------ nfriedly What's different between Gitea and Gogs? I just setup the Gogs docker image the other day to ...
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The hottest new thing in sustainable building is, uh, wood - throw0101a https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/15/21058051/climate-change-building-materials-mass-timber-cross-laminated-clt ====== throw0101a For those not familiar with these techniques, an American builder visiting DE and CH and learning abo...
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Gmail extractor - Extract all email addresses from your inbox - BigBalli http://giacomoballi.com/gmail-extract-email-addresses-from-inbox/#.UUsnf6XIik_ ====== BigBalli 60sec for 12k emails. Does anyone have a benchmark reference? fast? slow? ------ qompiler Uhm, I'm not going to enter my password.
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Facebook deliberately bans Grooveshark from its services - Natsu http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/facebook-deliberately-bans-grooveshark-from-its-services/ ====== Rudism I'd always avoided using Facebook to sign into any third party service due to privacy concerns (and eventually deleted my Facebook account al...
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The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It? - thomasjudge https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/13/technology/skydio-autonomous-drones.html ====== King-Aaron Change the Skydio logo to a McDonnel Douglas / Lockheed Martin logo and the product seems a lot more sinister.
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Google Puts The Squeeze On Free Apps - peter123 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/23/google-puts-the-squeeze-on-free-apps/ ====== mikeyur I don't know. I agree with Google on this one. There should be more people paying for this awesome service. And to be honest, 50 accounts is still a lot. Having 50 or so employees ...
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On rvm's *cd* script - benatkin http://batkin.tumblr.com/post/8847990062/on-rvms-cd-script ====== pilif > I knew about .rvmrc’s behavior, but I thought that the shell must have > provided a hook for the directory changing! And this, my friends, is another reason to use zsh which calls chpwd() whenever the working d...
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Show HN: McLaren College – an online bootcamp for Indians with no up-front fees - MarkMc https://mclarencollege.in/ ====== MarkMc I'm the founder of McLaren College. You can think of it as kind of like "Lambda School for India" \- the goal is to train people to earn an income from computer programming in return for a ...
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Dtags: directory tags for lazy programmers - deltaone https://github.com/joowani/dtags ====== krajaratnam If you don't want to manually tag each directory, I'd suggest autojump ([https://github.com/wting/autojump](https://github.com/wting/autojump)). It'll automatically track visited directories.
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How to Stop a Hacker - Don't Trust User Input - NathanKP http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-stop-hacker-dont-trust-user.html ====== ScottWhigham Little Bobby Tables gets me every time...
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At Behest of Judge, U.S. Shortens Man’s 57-Year Mandatory Sentence - ghshephard http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/nyregion/at-judges-behest-us-shortens-mans-57-year-mandatory-sentence.html ====== ghshephard _Prosecutors offered him an 11-year plea deal that he turned down after his lawyer persuaded him that he would...
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Passing Blocks in Ruby Without &block - mudgemeister http://mudge.github.com/2011/01/26/passing-blocks-in-ruby-without-block.html ====== 3pt14159 These are really cool and understanding how magic is implemented is great, but when you are searching for the "tell_ape" method for 10 mins only to realize that method_mis...
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PMOG - pius http://pmog.com/ ====== Readmore Maybe I'm just stupid but the description doesn't make any sense to me. Anyone who's played this care to do a quick overview? ~~~ Tichy last I looked, it was something like RescueTime or 8aweek, with funny graphics. Interesting, though. ~~~ Alex3917 Would this be an inapp...
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Study documents drought’s impact on redwood forest ferns - Mz https://scienmag.com/study-documents-droughts-impact-on-redwood-forest-ferns/ ====== mudil Here's something interesting about ferns I recently learned. When scientists were investigating the increased prevalence of gastric and other GI cancers in Asian coun...
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Unit Testing Isn’t the Best You Can Do [pdf] - yorwba https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Segue.pdf ====== yorwba The original title is a bit unspecific, so I used a sentence fragment from the text instead; I feel that sums up the overall push of the article reasonably well.
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Remote for small teams: Coronavirus work from home tips - carsonfarmer https://blog.textile.io/remote-for-small-teams-during-coronavirus/ ====== devreps Hope this helps!!!! Based on data we collected from 297 remote managers and employees, here are 11 free chapters of best practices on how to manage a remote team. [ht...
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Is Iran still on the Internet? Find out with a traceroute - cawel http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Run_a_Traceroute ====== cawel Gotta love the end: "Several lines of timeouts mean the packets are being held up, clogged or lost somewhere along the way. Blame the terrorist group or national intelligence organization of yo...
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Watch This Tesla Drive Itself at the Press of a Button [video] - prateekj http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/10/watch-this-tesla-drive-itself-at-the-press-of-a-button/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook ====== dave1619 I did a test ride of a ...
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Bye, Amazon - grey-area https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon ====== jillesvangurp It's a wake up call, or at least an attempt at that, for the likes of Amazon that if they are looking to have reputable people, like Tim Bray, associate themselves and their name with you, there are certain s...
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Marissa Mayer is making Yahoo more, not less, bloated. Here's why - Libertatea http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/29/yahoo-expansion-explained ====== gotorazor Different headline between the UK and the US version of the same article. ------ fakeer It seems after the initial collective euphoria the good karma...
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Ask HN: Faking your resume to acquire projects - s3arch It has been two months joining a company as a fresher. I was pulled into the project within a month. I am comfortable working as a shadow for the project. Recently I as well as others with 1-2 years of experience were asked to prepare a resume which is to be sent...
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Zarabianie przez internet - siloam85 http://zarabianie.info.pl/ ====== dozzie Could you go promoting your ads platform somewhere else?
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