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Massive Email Bombs Target .Gov Addresses - ryanlol http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/massive-email-bombs-target-gov-addresses/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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) ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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. ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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. ====== 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! ====== 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? ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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. ====== swanson There is <http://www.w...
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Uber vs. Lyft surge pricing - stestar7 http://www.surgeometer.com/ ====== 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 &quot;Free Tea Friday&quot; 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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. ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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.&#60;p&#62;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&#x27;t been discussed here on HN, so I&#x27;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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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. ------ efoto According to wikipedia f...
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Entrepreneurs value 'ideas' over wealth, study finds - getp http://www.physorg.com/news130164408.html ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== calebm It's quite simple: they are executable code. ------ 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? ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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&#x27;s not an easy task), but what&#x27;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 &quot;I have an app idea, let&#x27;s share 50&#x2F;50&quot;<p>Assume I&#x27;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/ ====== 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. ------ 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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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