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Massive Email Bombs Target .Gov Addresses - ryanlol
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/massive-email-bombs-target-gov-addresses/
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ryanlol
This is hilarious, a single individual can easily cripple email usage for the
entirety of the US government.
HOWTO:
Step 1) Download a bunch of publicly leaked databases, i.... | {
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Show HN: Snower – funny iOS app to make videos with snow effect - yarodya
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snower/id1179291695?mt=8
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yarodya
Need feedback about our recently released app. Make it snow on your video.
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Test can show if the speed of light has changed - lucodibidil
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/27/test-for-change-in-speed-of-light/
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wcoenen
1 meter is defined as the distance travelled by light in 1 / 299,792,458
seconds. Doesn't this mean that "light slowing down" would be
indistinguishable from "space expand... | {
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The fight to keep the internet free and open for everyone - mikece
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191025-the-fight-to-keep-the-internet-free-and-open-for-everyone
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K0SM0S
> this “network of networks”, the free and open online world envisioned by
> early pioneers is under attack
This is a dire topic. But I... | {
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Yahoo Rocks my World (Sorry, Google) - theproductguy
http://tpgblog.com/2007/10/19/yahoo-rocks-my-world-sorry-google/
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pbnaidu
Article is old....
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws - dmmalam
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/cruel-and-unusual-punishment-the-shame-of-three-strikes-laws-20130327
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benjohnson
A rational person would stop stealing after the 2nd strike. It's wise to
remove harmful and irrational people from so... | {
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Show HN: Proxy Orbit – Web Proxy API - max0563
https://proxyorbit.com/
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cottsak
This is so kool. I wanted to make this some years ago
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Watch this homemade ‘lightsaber’ quickly burn through everything - edwinjm
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/05/27/watch-this-homemade-lightsaber-quickly-burn-through-everything-put-in-front-of-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+(The+Next+Web+All+Stories)
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maresca
When yo... | {
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2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart - jaytaylor
http://torrentfreak.com/2919-movie-pirates-walk-free-as-bittorrent-trolling-scheme-falls-apart-130802
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GabrielF00
There's another interesting copyright issue regarding the film in question
here, "All Things Fall Apart". Apparentl... | {
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Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. - siculars
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933_pf.html
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siculars
We can't make lightbulbs in the U.S. Just stop and take a moment to think
about that fact. Apparently there is no way to make a cost effective lightbulb
in... | {
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HN: Feedback on my laptop recovery service - sigfrid
http://www.melezi.com/
Think "lojack for laptops." Sign up, download/install client, and if you mark it as stolen you can recover files, delete files, see the IP, take pics, etc.
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huhtenberg
You have zero implementation details on the website, so based on thi... | {
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Fiat Chrysler is giving up to $1,500 to hackers who find bugs in its software - cag_ii
http://fortune.com/2016/07/13/fiat-chrysler-bug-bounty-program/
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chrisbennet
Would even the max ($1500) be enough to attract bug hunters? Does that seem
pretty cheap?
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Bell Labs Centenary Homage to Claude Shannon - metaphor
https://www.bell-labs.com/claude-shannon/
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ebcode
download pdf points to google.com?
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Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (2014) - sergeant3
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/
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FroshKiller
I was charged with a felony (unauthorized access of a government computer)
back in 2004. I had just graduated from college and was looking for steady
work. I f... | {
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Ask HN: In what ways do non-developers waste money not knowing how to code? - castig
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mrfusion
There are probably a lot of use cases for version control in the non
programming world where people could benefit.
I'm guessing people waste time copying and versioning files, and emailing
updates back and forth, l... | {
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IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version - dochtman
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_team_responds_to_your_questions/c10szx5
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niyazpk
Mark my words, the decision of not to making IE9 compatible with XP will lead
to thousands of hours of developer time and millions of d... | {
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Rails references - mechanician
I'm have a few web applications I'm trying to develop and I have been told Ruby on Rails is the tool to use. What references (free would be nice) would ya'll recommend? My programming experience has been limited to scientific analysis and simulation.
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evdawg
Try Ruby in Your Br... | {
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Would you use this? Why/Why Not? What three things it definitely must have? - jwtuckr
http://www.glasswireframe.com<p>Entrepreneur looking for feedback :-) Thanks!
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jonaldomo
What does this solve/do better than the other wireframe tools? Also, you have
a 1.3mb image and a 600kb javascript file... | {
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Ask HN - mikefb
I love to spend time coding and building the product. But how does one make his saas look less like crap? Any good resources?
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gringoDan
Quickest way: hire a great designer.
Cheapest way: learn design yourself.
I don't think there are any quick shortcuts here. You may want to check out
Dribbble... | {
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How to define custom, colored labels (like TODO) in VIM - pabloIMO
http://dtuite.github.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-labels.html
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Nick_C
The link to the article is: [http://dtuite.github.com/define-custom-vim-tags-
and-labels.h...](http://dtuite.github.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-
labels.html)
yet Chrome... | {
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QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code - voodoochilo
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/13/qart-codes-the-better-way-to-put-picture-in-a-qr-code/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29
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luriel
Russ Cox's original blog post about QArt: <http://research... | {
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Ask HN: Advice needed for spare time project - ibrow
Hi all,<p>What do we do?<p>My girlfriend loves music and I love coding so we joined forces a couple of years ago and produced LiveUnsigned.com - an international listings site and blog for unsigned and micro-label artists.<p>We've always gone for the slow burn, bu... | {
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Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved: Methane Bubbles - cwan
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/08/bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved/
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ghnyujryjh
Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved: Proper analysis reveals nothing of
statistical significance.
Mine doesn't cling to any shred of mystery or danger, but I suspect it's more
a... | {
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Jimmy Wales responds: Is Wikipedia collecting more money than required? - kanamekun
http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-Wikipedia-collecting-more-money-than-required
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mtgx
A foundation shouldn't wait until the very last minute to collect money and
pay their bills, like how the FreeBSD foundation did it, and then... | {
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Huawei's Microchip Vulnerability Explained - octosphere
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48345509
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londons_explore
The article fails to mention that non-US companies with any kind of connection
to the US are affected too.
The US sanctions affect pretty much all multinational companies.
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Will Google stand up to France and Italy,too? - rams
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jan/13/google-china-western-internet-freedom
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DenisM
It would be awesome to have decentralized social networking - no single point
of failure. Same way email is decentralized - you can always run yo... | {
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Ask HN: Is there a side project network? - joshmn
More specifically, is there a network for people to find others to collaborate on side projects with? I mean, we all know other developers/designers/marketers, but, the ones I know, are mostly too busy to take on another project.
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swanson
There is <http://www.w... | {
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Uber vs. Lyft surge pricing - stestar7
http://www.surgeometer.com/
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DrScump
posted yesterday:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526137](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526137)
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Ask HN: Anybody else get ripped off via “Free Tea Friday” at Starbucks today? - masonic
All week, Starbucks here advertised a "Free Tea Friday" promo for their new Iced Tea Infusion drinks -- free from 1PM - 2PM today.<p>Well, the local Starbucks was slammed, with a 20+ minute wait in line and who-knows-how-... | {
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Tell me it is not how it looks like, simpleCart - samzhao
http://www.screenr.com/qoQs
I just found a crazy little bug in the Javascript shopping cart plugin, simpleCart.js. I am a javascript noob. I do a lot of jQuery code writing and debugging at this stage, and I use Google Chrome. I found that if you change the pr... | {
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The “too small to fail” memory-allocation rule - Athas
http://lwn.net/Articles/627419/
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greenyoda
Even if you're not a kernel developer, this article is well worth reading
because it provides a warning about doing things in your code that would cause
a lot of suffering if you ever had to undo them in the futur... | {
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Programming in a Mad Max Wasteland - necrodome
http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/10/11/programming-in-a-mad-max-wasteland/
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thristian
See also the Gary Bernhardt talk, Capability vs. Suitability:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftT6HWFgq0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftT6HWFgq0)
Some technologies are radical... | {
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The Changing of the Guard (1991) - wyndham
https://tricycle.org/magazine/changing-guard/
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wyndham
These are related and I also found them interesting.
[http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/exegesis/sex-shoes-and-
calif...](http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/exegesis/sex-shoes-and-california-
zen/)
[https://tricycle.or... | {
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Advanced exception handling - fogus
http://vmathew.in/cond-sys.html
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mtomczak
I've heard this approach described as a failure continuation, and it's a good
approach. It's much easier to do in a language that allows for easy creation
of closures. Such a system wouldn't be impossible to construct in C++; you
could... | {
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Science Fairs Aren't So Fair - klunger
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-science-fairs-arent-so-fair/387547?single_page=true
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wyager
I did a lot of science fairs in high school. I was pretty good at it, too; I'm
currently paying for college with the help of some military research
scholarsh... | {
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From Syria to Sudan: How do you count the dead? - DanBC
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/08/from-syria-to-sudan-how-do-you-count-the-dead?repost=hn
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DanBC
(re)Posting this because I'm interested in the statistics bit of counting
things that are difficult to count.
> A... | {
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Beat the IE6 wolf! - aslamnd
http://beatie6.frontcube.com/
An alternative IE6 banner for your site inspired by "ie6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing" (http://statichtml.com/2011/ie6-countdown-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.html)article.
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ck2
Saying something is "old" is not a good enough reason to make peop... | {
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An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined a Game - ourmandave
https://kotaku.com/an-easy-mode-has-never-ruined-a-game-1833757865
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babuskov
Easy mode has ruined games for me.
For example, Metal Slug 3. My steam stats show I used to play it for 100+
hours. Before they added easy mode via infinite continues, I was really
enjo... | {
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Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data - ytch
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001890/apple-employee-threatens-to-leak-users-icloud-data
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threwaway-1
Something about this article feels "off", as if it were a fabricated and
unsubstantiated story meant purely to sow uncertainty over the integrity of
App... | {
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Breakdown of web-developer salary by experience, employer and location. - dc2k08
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Web_Developer/Salary
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ssanders82
joelonsoftware has only had, oh, about 200 of these threads. But what the
hell: 26 y.o./PHP & C#/2-4 years exp./east coast/$40-50hr.
Question to anyone out ... | {
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DLang's betterC mode improves on C - grok2
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/07/vanquish-forever-these-bugs-that-blasted-your-kingdom/
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grok2
The -betterC option in the D language makes think that switching to D (instead
of C where it would be used) would be a painless way to use a better language
with an easy tran... | {
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Show HN: Recommendation engine for any website in minutes - justinyek
https://github.com/altitudelabs/metisa-js
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justinyek
Hi, we built an easy way for any media or consumer app to incorporate a
Netflix-like personalization experience.
Demo: [https://altitudelabs.github.io/metisa-js/demo-movie-
app/](https://al... | {
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Foresight.js - Another responsive images technique - necolas
https://github.com/adamdbradley/foresight.js
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tnorthcutt
This looks like an interesting alternative to Scot Jehl's picturefill
(<https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill>). Obviously they're not entirely
analogous in their intent, but for the purpose... | {
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The Hubble Space Telescope Is Falling - breadbox
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-hubble-space-telescope-is-falling-96951f3e50e1
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pinewurst
"The only planned apparatus capable of servicing or boosting Hubble, NASA’s
Space Launch System, has already seen its first planned flight slip behind
schedule."
I... | {
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Ask HN: Developing for IOS on a VM or "Hackintosh" environment - manuscreationis
Anyone have any experience or advice with this?<p>Looking for a low cost alternative to getting started with IOS development.<p>Any and all input welcome
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TobbenTM
Tried VMs before with bad luck, never got it to work properly.
I ... | {
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Have Millennials Made Quitting More Common? - hgennaro
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/have-millennials-made-quitting-more-common
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dozzie
> More people are leaving their jobs, and disloyal young people may have
> something to do with that.
And how did we get those disloyal employees? Maybe it'... | {
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Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader - ajbatac
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/revisiting-gnu-awk-youtube-video-downloader/
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qwph
It's not fair of me to single out this particular site, but why do people
insist on presenting source code in tiny little windows with both vertical
_and_ horizontal scrollbars?... | {
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How we threat model - arkadiyt
https://github.blog/2020-09-02-how-we-threat-model/
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baby
Thanks for the article! Some comments:
\- this methodology lacks what I think is a good threat model: a list of
attacks your system wants to defend against, attacks that are not in scope,
and the attacker model (attacker ha... | {
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Ocaml / functional programming abuses - stablemap
https://gist.github.com/vjeux/cc2c4f83a6b60d69b79057b6ef651b56
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leovonl
Nothing new on this, experienced programmers know the performance implications
of data structures (ie, lists are generally bad regardless of the
language/paradigm) and most complains about la... | {
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Show HN: Browse “Who's Hiring” remote jobs by eligible country/timezone - pricj004
https://www.teamremote.io
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pricj004
Hi folks!
A lot of the REMOTE posts in “Who’s Hiring” have specific location
requirements (e.g. ‘US only’, ‘within +- 2hrs of GMT’ etc).
This is a quick tool for browsing/filtering those.
Fee... | {
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2000x performance win - tilt
http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/12/08/2000x-performance-win/
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luriel
This is not really a 2000x performance "win", this is GNU grep(1) being so bad
at dealing with UTF-8 to the point of being basically unusable.
The PoSix locale system is a nightmare, but the implementation in ... | {
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Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay - dacm
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/iceland-country-legalise-equal-pay-180101150054329.html
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avar
The article is light on details, so hopefully I can help out as an Icelandic
speaker. I'm only just familiarizing myself with this now.
It was already il... | {
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Fertility Is Kaput, but Life Goes On - forloop
http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2015/03/30/fertility-is-kaput-but-life-goes-on/
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cauterized
It's also worth noting that reproduction is more taxing and more dangerous for
human women than for the females of essentially any other mammal (perhaps even
any other ... | {
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - rblion
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/
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mahmud
This is the successor:
<http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html>
Downing has a bunch of good stuff; his text on concurrency is good too.
~~~
jmah
Thanks, you got me interested. Ther... | {
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Show HN: our Startup Weekend project - autoscale your Heroku dynos & workers - keo
Startup Weekend just started in our city and we thought we'll build a Heroku autoscaler that really works, and saves you not only from slowly building traffic but from the slashdot effect as well.<p>Those who tried out ddollar... | {
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Ask HN: Are wireless and electromagnetic fields dangerous for health? - cosittgf
It seems this topic haven't been discussed here on HN, so I'm asking now.<p>- Are wireless and electromagnetic fields dangerous for health?<p>- Should I be worried about and take more care when using my laptop Wi-Fi too close to... | {
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Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014) - Tomte
http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_i_did_not_go_to_jail
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lostcolony
'I obviously don’t know what happened at the other company, but I do know that
Michelle had no intention of breaking any laws and no idea that she’d broken
any laws'
This. This is terrifying. We're already in t... | {
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Gears for Safari – Google releases a beta of Gears for Safari - nickb
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/08/gears-for-safari.html
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hbien
Nice! I hope they get one out for Mobile Safari too - GMail and Google Reader
would be great on my ipod touch without wifi.
~~~
tlrobinson
I think Apple would have to coo... | {
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Carbon Fiber Flywheels for Energy Storage - blueatlas
http://beaconpower.com/carbon-fiber-flywheels/
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Quequau
Porsche made a really interesting hybrid track car that used a carbon fiber
flywheel based storage to harvest & power an electric motor mounted on the
front wheels.
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efoto
According to wikipedia f... | {
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Entrepreneurs value 'ideas' over wealth, study finds - getp
http://www.physorg.com/news130164408.html
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workpost
Wouldn't a statement like this make more sense after the entrepreneur has sold
his / her first company? Once you've obtained a certain amount of money and
success, ideas become a lot more important bec... | {
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How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will - cryptoz
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/hacking-google-maps/
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csandreasen
Several years ago my spouse and I took a vacation abroad and booked a tour
with a local company. The guide was really shocked when I told him that I went
with their company because they ... | {
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Tell HN: Why I will Pirate 'Crossing The Chasm' . - OoTheNigerian
I have waited for months for Geoffery Moore's classic book Crossing The Chasm to be "available as in my country" .<p>Normally, changing my country to US will make the Kindle verson available to me.<p>So here I am, literally card in hand, unable to p... | {
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Overnight success takes years - wwwjscom2
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1624-overnight-success-takes-years
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wwwjscom2
Also seems this post is in direct response to a question he received at his
Q/A. A link to the blog post about his talk was posted by another user just
recently (can't seem to find the use... | {
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Announcing WSL 2 - MikusR
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
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benaadams
> File intensive operations like git clone, npm install, apt update, apt
> upgrade, and more will all be noticeably faster. The actual speed increase
> will depend on which app you’re running and how it is interacti... | {
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The Mighty Named Pipe - vsbuffalo
http://vincebuffalo.com/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.html
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aidos
Nice article. Really easy to follow introduction.
I only discovered process substitution a few months ago but it's already
become a frequently used tool in my kit.
One thing that I find a little annoying abou... | {
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Apple: Lion Launches Wednesday July 20 - digiwizard
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_lion_launches_wednesday_july_20/
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president
Hopefully there will some sort of method to allow for clean installs.
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Why Bitcoin may never hit the mainstream – decimal points - bradnickel
http://clickbrain.com/miami/bitcoin-may-never-hit-mainstream-usability-2/
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ikt
I agree completely and this has been the main drag I have with bitcoin, people
struggle with whole numbers let alone decimals! This will frustrate people to
the ... | {
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Show HN: AidName.com - We'll Help Find Your Startup's Perfect .Com Name - AidName
http://www.aidname.com
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AidName
Hi HN,
AidName is a service which will help you find the best available .COM names
for your startup or project. We noticed that naming projects was a problem a
lot of people were experiencing and ... | {
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Ask HN: How important are ergonomics to you? - kayoone
In an never ending race to improve myself and my productivity i also think alot about the perfect hardware, software and enviroment. I bet many of you do aswell. I probably think way to much about this which isnt good for my productivity in the first place, just... | {
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Uber's China Rival Close to Raising $2B in New Funding - davidiach
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-06/uber-china-rival-said-close-to-raising-2-billion-in-new-funding
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tluyben2
I have used Didi quite a bit, it's somewhat easier to arrange custom deals
with the drivers, like all-day-driver, etc. But... | {
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Ask HN: Structured approach to learning Python/Django - naithemilkman
Can anyone recommend a sequential order of books and resources to read and learn to learn Python and Django?<p>Suppose my objective is to create a simple webapp and host it on Google App Engine, what should I be reading when?<p>I've started with L... | {
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Why isn't your API specification public? - allthingsapi
http://www.apiful.io/intro/2016/04/26/where-is-the-spec.html
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andrewstuart2
Not a single mention of the human element, which I will theorize is the main
reason.
Psychologically, looking at a formal specification is pretty intimidating. How
many people do y... | {
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Byte Magazine Covers - ChrisArchitect
http://www.jsommer.com/ByteMagCovers/CoverGallery.php
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webmaven
Nice! I always loved the Robert Tinney covers:
[http://www.tinney.net/Prints/11x14/index.htm](http://www.tinney.net/Prints/11x14/index.htm)
[http://www.tinney.net/Prints/16x20/index.htm](http://www.tinney.ne... | {
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Tossing Algebraic Flowers Down the Great Divide (1997) [pdf] - haskellandchill
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~goguen/pps/tcs97.pdf
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PaulFB
Goguen, so prolific! the ADJ group, OBJ, Maude, CafeOBJ, Clear, The Semiotic
Zoo, Sheaves, Institutions. I understand maybe 5% of this stuff. Why has
Goguen's work not sparked more... | {
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Verizon to allow unlimited Skype calling over 3G starting next month - mshafrir
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/verizon-to-allow-unlimited-skype-calling-over-3g-starting-next-m/?s=t5
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wmf
"You cannot use the Skype client to make any calls to U.S. PSTN numbers."
according to GigaOM <http://gigaom.com/2010/02/1... | {
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A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies - raesene9
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-slippery-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested
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raxxorrax
I see a lot of people arguing about mods being too strict.
I abhor the recent trend of content de... | {
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} |
APIs – a beginners’ guide - benhowdle89
http://benhowdle.im/2013/01/24/apis/
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tikhonj
This seems to jump into web-based APIs without mentioning it. An API _does
not_ have to be web based: it could be a set of classes, or methods, or
modules or functions to be used from a language directly.
Web services, of cour... | {
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Show HN: Half-duplex wireless communication with a couple of LEDs and PJON - gioscarab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIncPe8OPpg
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gioscarab
What do you think about it? I believe this is a huge technology enabler :)
| {
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Apple: Samsung's iPhone 5 demand is harassment - bakbak
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Apple-Samsungs-iPhone-5-demand-is-harassment/articleshow/8862765.cms
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nextparadigms
They should've thought of that before they asked the same thing from Samsung.
| {
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Dangerous Pickles – Malicious Data Serialization in Python - foob
https://intoli.com/blog/dangerous-pickles/
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calebm
It's quite simple: they are executable code.
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philsnow
pickle is neat, but so is eval.
~~~
Doxin
And both are easily avoided with a little work.
| {
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Are there any five nines hosted database services? - aaronrc
There are a few hosted database services around but the ones I've looked at cater for web apps. My app is a VoIP/telecoms one and I need a five nines SLA, are there any that meet that?
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kochbeck
Er, yes, but I'm not sure if this will be a satisfying ... | {
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Adventures in typography - yurn
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/08/03/the-font-of-poetry-the-poetry-of-font/
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beerbajay
Ugh, basic factual errors... The elements of typographic style first came out
in 1992, not 2004.
| {
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Want Some Facebook Stock At A $3 Billion Valuation? We Know Who To Call. - rms
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/28/want-some-facebook-stock-at-a-3-billion-valutation-we-know-who-to-call/
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rms
I'd buy at a $3B valuation...
Facebook is reasonably valued at $5B-$7.5B, right? And by reasonably I mean as
a strategi... | {
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} |
Show HN: ortFolio, a minimal website template for image-based portfolios - oseph
https://gitlab.com/oseph/ortfolio
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spectramax
Love the theme, but I despise unnecessary animations (such as the weird dance
of images loading).
Whenever I think of assessing or creating a design is to repeatedly ask "why?"
until th... | {
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} |
The Prophet of Envy - apollinaire
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/12/20/rene-girard-prophet-envy/
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it
If I only want what others seem to want, then where did all the wanting begin?
~~~
photojosh
Girard addresses this in the chapter in 'Things Hidden' on "Hominization", ie
how we transitioned from just ano... | {
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Ask HN: Why Netflix still using AWS when Amazon is their biggest competitor? - horizontech-dev
I have been wondering about this question for some time. To give context, I get it, the engineers and management at Netflix continuously evaluating (and it's not an easy task), but what's something holding them mov... | {
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Ask HN: Would you respond to requests like “I have an app idea” - chamoda
How would you respond to not technical people (could be friends, family, co-workers) proposing "I have an app idea, let's share 50/50"<p>Assume I'm supposed to do all the development work. They are not ready to do any ki... | {
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Why is APC So Lame? - gherlein
http://blog.herlein.com/2010/10/why-is-apc-so-lame/
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arethuza
I've had a lot of respect for the build quality of APC power supplies since an
incident where I almost had a fairly large one dropped on me.
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synx508
I have never had a good experience with APC UPSs, my favourit... | {
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} |
Black hole caught snacking on a star - vmyy99
http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/black-hole-caught-snacking-on-a-star/
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ColinWright
Previous submissions of this story, in case you want to read it from other
sources:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3927666>
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3921788>
... | {
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Running MemSQL’s 107 Node Test Infrastructure on CoreOS [video] - carlsverre
http://blog.memsql.com/running-memsqls-107-node-test-infrastructure-on-coreos/
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AdmiralAsshat
"At a recent CoreOS meetup, I gave a presentation on the design and
implementation of Psyduck, which is the name for MemSQL’s test
infrastru... | {
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Show HN: Acme Blogs - gerges-beshay
https://acme.center/blogs
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gerges-beshay
Acme Blogs, the first service of Acme Center. Very minimal MVP for what is
planned to be a feature-rich blogs platform service.
Developed using Firebase (Auth, Functions, Hosting), React, GraphQL, and
MongoDB.
Give it a try, and let m... | {
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} |
Are we there yet by Rich Hickey - leandot
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
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cpr
Fantastic talk. (Should say 2007 in the title.)
This was in August, with the first announcement of Clojure in October of the
same year, so Rich was just preparing the world for Clojure concepts?
----... | {
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Germany's Privacy Stance Boosts Berlin's Tech Startups - lelf
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alisoncoleman/2014/01/20/germanys-privacy-stance-boosts-berlins-tech-start-ups/
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junto
I think there are some small green shoots in Berlin, but I'm not sure whether
it is anything to write home about.
It is true that Germa... | {
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} |
“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead.” - patricksli
http://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html
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vorg
> why can't a group of programmers just copy the design of Rails to Java?
> [...] as of now, there is still no decent web framework for Java that is as
> easy to use as Ruby on Rails.... | {
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Anonymous sources: an experiment - j_b_f
http://jbf.posterous.com/anonymous-sources-an-experiment
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anigbrowl
Anonymous sources are not anonymous to the press, who usually require at least
two independent sources for any given assertion - at least, those news organs
that wish to be taken seriously over the long... | {
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} |
Startups should think big and start small - jamesjyu
http://www.jamesyu.org/2012/11/18/startups-should-think-big-and-start-small/
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BerislavLopac
I have only recently discovered Gall's law, and was surprised to realize that
what I've been doing with my project for about a year actually has a name.
Edit: Forgot t... | {
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Show HN: Simple way to access various statistics in Git repository from bash - arzzen
https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats
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00dani
Nice idea, but why depend on dialog at all? Surely the Git Way™ would be to
accept switches or subcommands to pick which stats you want to see, perhaps
with an _optional_ intera... | {
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} |
A Gmail Clone Built with Flutter - gitgud
https://github.com/rodydavis/gmail_clone
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Normille
Thanks for this. I'm about half-way through The Complete Flutter Development
Course on Udemy at the moment. So will be on the lookout, afterwards, for
example Flutter apps to pick apart and see how they work.
| {
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ARM Macs and Virtualization: It's going to be great - mlillustrated
http://www.ml-illustrated.com/2020/06/25/ARM-Macs-virtualization-different-take.html
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reaperducer
"It's going to be great!"
"It's the end of the world!"
"This will make my life so much easier!"
"I'll never buy another Mac again!"
I've stoppe... | {
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} |
Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest App Store? - iamelgringo
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/will_java_be_the_world
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aristus
This is rather disturbing. Not only does it abuse the idea of trusted updates
even more, since it's bundled with an important runtime you probably won't be
able to opt ou... | {
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} |
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