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Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate - dnetesn https://phys.org/news/2019-01-saturn-precise-planet-rotation.html ====== pmalynin Question for the astrophysicists: is Jupiter’s high mass and rotation rate sizable enough to detect and measure frame drag on the rings? ~~~ matteocant...
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Australia to seal off 6.6M people in virus-hit state as outbreak worsens - finphil https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/asia/australia-victoria-coronavirus-intl-hnk/ ====== codezero For larger nations I think we’ll be seeing more regional lockdowns in the coming months.
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Should You Do A Startup? I Have No Idea - diego http://diegobasch.com/should-you-do-a-startup-i-have-no-idea ====== tferris The reasons doing a startup are totally irrelevant. For some it's money, for other power, status, passion or whatever. It's not important _why_ you do a startup. These are just drivers and they...
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Ask HN: What are the most challenging pages to scrape? - gbajson ====== randomerr Try PWA based one. Since they load in segments and cache a lot you'll have fun: [https://pwa.rocks/](https://pwa.rocks/) \- Look at the business and news webpages Also look for the website that use AMP. They're even more fragmented then...
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DC Police Department monitors gunshots with acoustic rooftop sensors - _pius http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/shotspotter-detection-system-documents-39000-shooting-incidents-in-the-district/2013/11/02/055f8e9c-2ab1-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html ====== tokenadult This system has been used in Minneapolis...
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Quirky Birds and Meta-Syntactic Programming - raganwald http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master/2008-11-04 ====== mechanical_fish _As explained in Kestrels, the practice of nicknaming combinators after birds was established in Raymond Smullyan's amazing book To Mock a Mockingbird. In this book, Smullyan e...
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Compiling JSX with Sweet.js using Readtables - danabramov http://jlongster.com/Compiling-JSX-with-Sweet.js-using-Readtables ====== jannes Isn't Facebook's own jstransform library (which is used by their JSX compiler) supposed to be composable already? They have various ES6 transforms in their repository. Plus, there...
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Ask HN: How do you find stories you care about on the web? - mmeister Hey HN! How do you find stories you care about on the web? Everyday, I have a few go-to sites that I use but usually only find a couple stories I'm really interested in...Extending this circle of sites is difficult as well with 1000's of n...
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CSS sprites shouldn't add production time (and 4 other tips) - rriepe http://matchstrike.net/strikepad/2009/11/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-css-sprites/ ====== TheThomas The transparent spacer image hack seems horribly antiquated to me. I'm surprised anyone still does it that way. ------ railsjedi Cool library...
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The Job Interview Will Soon Be Dead. What It's Being Replaced With - gmays http://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/science-81-percent-of-people-lie-in-job-interviews-heres-what-top-companies-are-.html ====== muninn_ Not a very good article. At the end of the article they even say "While traditional interviews aren't goin...
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Why we were wrong about why we were wrong. - StavrosK http://blog.historio.us/why-we-were-wrong-about-why-we-were-wrong ====== ced _Decide your sample size beforehand, and only stop the test after you've reached it._ That may be the gospel among A/B testers, but from a Bayesian perspective, this is definitely not t...
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Reason #562 newspapers are doomed: One of them bought this... - brandnewlow http://www.quantcast.com/wikicity.com ====== brandnewlow Here's the news: [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/omaha-world-herald- rethinki...](http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/omaha-world-herald-rethinking- its-product-buys-hyperlocal-wikicity...
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Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool - susiecambria https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/ ====== azepoi see also [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871593](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871593)
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After a failed crowdfunding, Mayan EDMS future uncertain - aminoson https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mayan-edms/vu7wq5aR11I/eUdJ33AzCAAJ ====== karinato Is it ethical for the Mayan EDMS developer to close the project and leave all his users up in the air because of a failed crowdfunding campaign?
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HN-Our dev's need a hand, any python wizards want to make some $? - Binary We are finishing up a web app but need some APIs setup and a few other things coded. If you are interested in helping put the final touches on a startup before launch and make some $$$ shoot me an email. The api's you'll be playing with are.....
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The ideal startup team - istoselidas http://johndel.gr/blog/ideal-startup-team ====== sarahallen The ideal team is not three "guys" \-- diversity of perspective helps creativity and versatility, of course your team should be aligned in values and methodology. Your post is fine as far as it goes, but there is so much...
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If you had a magic button on your phone that could do anything what would it do? - furqanrydhan ====== scottyallen Teleport me through time and space. On a more serious note, I think you're probably trying to do customer development, and trying to modify the question people tell you to ask "If you had a magic wand...
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WebGL Fluid Simulator - grimmfang http://dev.miaumiau.cat/sph/ ====== cimonDuke Awesome work.
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Ask HN: How do you backup your DB? - wasd Feel free to include where your db is stored (bare metal, cloud, managed), how often, how you do it and a short story about recovering your db. ====== codegeek 1\. mysqldump.... > $curr_date/backup.sql 2\. aws s3 sync $curr_date s3://mybucket The 2 steps above go into a cron...
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Android at risk from SpyEye banking Trojan - EdwardQ http://news.techworld.com/applications/3303493/android-at-risk-from-spyeye-banking-trojan/ ====== nextparadigms Sounds more like a case of PC malware rather than an Android one. Of course if your PC gets compromised and they get access to your accounts, that will ...
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Facebook marketing? Don't bother, says new report - codegeek http://www.cnbc.com/id/101151565 ====== jccooper We found Facebook PPC ads to be about twice as expensive as they are worth, and well under-performing Google. We shut it down. But that was based on direct conversions; I guess if you're doing branding you mig...
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Where to live in Boston? - frodo01 I'm moving to boston in January, and have to start looking for apartments. I like startups, hackers, bookshops, theatres, sports (skiing, skateboarding). If anyone could tell me which places I shouldn't miss checking out, it would be great.<p>I checked the past discussions and it s...
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An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace - minimaxir https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-marketplace-sellers-black-hat-scams-search-rankings ====== iooi Just today I was browsing for new wine glasses. I finally found the product that I wanted and checked out a...
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The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old - pmcpinto http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-future-of-the-web-is-100-years-old ====== petewailes In a world where the Trump bid for the Whitehouse has popular support, and a lot of it, and where things like Fox News and Buzzfeed exist, it's reasonably clear that people c...
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How we use Backbone.js to build Codiqa – Part 1: API - yesimahuman http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/05/how-we-use-backbone-js-to-build-codiqa-part-1-api/ ====== zgohr Excellent article. Did you run into any major pain points when ramping up with Backbone? Any resources you used that you would recommend to a newcomer? ~~...
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The Flop That Saved Microsoft - iwh http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/microsoft_zune_how_one_of_the_biggest_flops_in_tech_history_helped_revive.single.html ====== quanticle Well, it hasn't saved Microsoft _yet_. Yes, the Zune's UI has had huge influences on both Windows Phone and Windows 8....
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BYTE, the most beloved computer-magazine brand of all, is coming back. - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2010/12/22/good-grief-byte-is-coming-back/ ====== cpr The back story of Byte (if anyone cares) is that Carl Helmers, who was working at Intermetrics at Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA at the time (1973? 74?--f...
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Ask HN: How do I convince a company to participate in Open Source? - opendomain I have been asked to give a proposal to my friend's company for why they should participate in Open Source. They use a lot of open source, but I think their current policies do not allow employees to contribute code or time. I am looki...
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U.S. sets plan to build two exascale supercomputers - jonbaer http://www.computerworld.com/article/3143551/high-performance-computing/us-sets-plan-to-build-two-exascale-supercomputers.html ====== thomasrossi I was at a conference in Sept (actually YC startupschool:P) and there was a comprehensive speech by Rigetti abo...
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Archy - GuiA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy ====== aidos For anyone who hasn't read it, Jef Raskin's _The Humane Interface_ is a great book. Makes you really stop and think about how we interact with objects around us - physical and virtual. [http://www.amazon.com/The-Humane-Interface-Directions- Intera...](ht...
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Show HN: A light-touch educational game engine in ES6 - justosophy https://github.com/justosophy/Plausible-Game-Engine/ ====== sargegood Looks pretty cool. I think I'll check it out. ------ alifa Pretty cool! awesome
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The Psychology of “OK, Boomer” - Pick-A-Hill2019 https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/how-do-you-know/201911/the-psychology-ok-boomer ====== Quequau I'm old enough to be just barely a boomer and I have to admit that I've long suspected that if all the kids, _en masse_ , ever figure out just how much was given away ...
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The Elsevier boycott one year on - tokenadult http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/the-elsevier-boycott-one-year-on/ ====== aswanson I would like to see a similar effort directed towards the IEEE and Acm publishing associations. They both leech off of publicly funded research and impede scientific and technological ...
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Oracle loses on fair use; Only rangeCheck left (w/o new trial) - fpgeek http://www.theverge.com/android/2012/5/9/3010404/judge-denies-oracles-motion-for-ruling-on-fair-use-says-new-trial ====== lbrandy These infamous lines are certain to get copied quite a bit more. In case you haven't seen them: pr...
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The Meaning of Null in Databases and Programming Languages (2016) - raaij https://arxiv.org/html/1606.00740 ====== carapace Not to be flip but the crux of the issue is (I think I've got this correct): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open- world_assumption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-world_assumption) vs. [ht...
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Ask HN: How does the Twitch iOS app keep me logged in after reinstalling it? - holidaytrucksky I thought that deleting an iOS app would delete all data related to that app. How does the Twitch app still know my account after I delete it and instal it again? ====== solumos Uber got in Big Trouble for this a while back[...
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The Art of Fear Blogging - rob_dodson http://robdodson.me/blog/2013/09/16/the-art-of-fear-blogging/ ====== duggieawesome Rob, great post. I especially liked the Ulysses anecdote. Somewhat irrelevant, but when using Octopress as a blogging platform, do spend some time working on the CSS. Octopress has some great fea...
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Fireworks - Cheap Thrills with Toxic Consequences - gnosis http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Falls/9200/toxic_fireworks.html ====== movix "If for some reason I can't be on the trail I'll hole up indoors next to my air filter." I appreciate his concerns for the environment, but isn't this taking things a little too ...
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Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beings - irickt http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-01-Visualizing-Representations/ ====== colah3 I cut the following sections, on user interface and machine learning, because they were too speculative. But they might be of interest here, so I'll post them. === Pe...
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S.F.'s hottest area for Millennials: Cow Hollow - lskurman http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-hottest-area-for-Millennials-Cow-Hollow-5407820.php ====== lskurman Hey my company came up with the methodology for this ... just trying to get a sense from some locals if we got the right neighborhood for Cow Holl...
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A Masashi Wakui Look with GIMP - BuuQu9hu https://pixls.us/articles/a-masashi-wakui-look-with-gimp/ ====== jbmorgado Sorry, I don't want to sound like overly critic, but the final product has nothing to do with the Masashi Wakui photographs. It's still an interesting Gimp tutorial though. ~~~ patdavid It was inspire...
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Ask HN: Experience with System76 14“ model? - DoubleMalt I&#x27;m seriously considering it given the possibility to load it up with 32GB of RAM, but I&#x27;d like to hear from someone who actually used it. ====== morpheuskafka I'd recommend a Thinkpad T series (or even P series if high budget), use the perks code foun...
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Running a small company using outsourced IT services - ilamont http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/26/running-company-using-outsourced-it-services ====== earle Running a decentralized workforce in the 90s was not viable for most people for obvious reasons. Today, tools are better, and more widely available, but ...
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Lisp as a replacement for XML -- any ideas? - mojuba If I want to use Lisp syntax to store tree-like data structures (as a replacement for XML), are there any libraries, standards, or just ideas how to do it? ====== gibsonf1 Here's how we do it: ("as_2586" ("as_2587" ("as_2588" ("as_2637" ("as_2638" ("as_2639")) ("...
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Web 2.0: Making Friends / Web 3.0: Making Money - bdfh42 http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/09/web-20-making-friends-web-30-making.html ====== dejb For me the term 'Web 2.0' is more closely related to collective intelligence and social media/apps than AJAX or other UI inovations. But hey it's just a term. By the...
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On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting - robg http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/03/on-twitter-mind.html ====== smoody Minscasting = "Twitter meets Delicious." It would be more appropriate to use a service like Diigo to accomplish the same feat. Then they could also highlight relevant text, attach...
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Ask HN: Should I form an LLC for my side project mobile app? - trident2 Or am I just being paranoid? ====== droz I think you should ask yourself what you will gain by having an LLC. * Are you trying to reduce your liabilities in the event of lawsuit (how likely is one?) * Are you trying to get certain tax advantag...
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New Redis Cluster meta-data handling - llambda http://antirez.com/news/62 ====== jessaustin Newb question: how would Cluster and Sentinel interact in a typical deployment? I thought I understood Sentinel's operation, but I'm at a loss as to how Cluster fits into the picture of Sentinel I have in my head.
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Voltron: A hacky debugger UI for hackers - okanesen https://github.com/snare/voltron ====== Roritharr Sometimes my girlfriend reminds me that its kinda fucked up that I get excited when the things I need to understand are presented to me in a more readable way but still look like the Matrix to her. ~~~ JustSomeNobody...
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Computational performance — a beginner’s case study - nuclear_eclipse http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/07/computational-performanc-a-beginners-case-study/ ====== scott_s I was appalled at the Stack Overflow answer; thankfully the author corrected it. This sort of exercise is a first homework assignment in a computer archi...
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Instapaper is now a free app, with extra Premium upgrade that costs $30/year - kanamekun https://www.instapaper.com/premium ====== bdcravens Those who purchased app get a month free. From the email announcement: "Since most Instapaper users purchased the iOS and/or Android app, we’d like to thank you for that past ...
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Trust in Physics - ColinWright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXXF2C-vrQE ====== bubalus Other lecturers have replicated this experiment, sometimes with the subject (often a student) simply standing still, rather than standing with their head against a wall. With no reference point for keeping the head still, some su...
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Kotlin Is Better - praxxis http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-kotlin-is-better-than-whatever-dumb.html ====== bpicolo I've started to come around on a similar thought recently, after a few years avoiding static typing in python. I've been toying with C# specifically. C# with visual studio is, I think, the mo...
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Notes from Malcolm Gladwell's Writing Masterclass - refrigerator https://taimur.me/posts/notes-from-malcolm-gladwell-s-writing-masterclass-part-1 ====== wenc There’s a review[1] on Amazon that speaks to the kind of books Gladwell writes, and it's both funny and perhaps contains a shred of truth. It goes: _”There 's ...
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MySQL: the Pros and Cons of MyISAM Tables - ajbatac http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/25/mysql-myisam-table-pros-con/ ====== mdasen Not a good article at all. It makes MyISAM sound good which just isn't the case. MyISAM is good for read-only tables. It has very fast reads. Once you start getting writes, it crumb...
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The NSA's Cryptographic Capabilities - silenteh http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsas_crypto_1.html ====== devx After the new revelations every site who's using SSL should be using Perfect Forward Secrecy with it, too. Right now, only a few known companies like Google (only for the search engine proba...
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Best text editor for writing a technical document or programming book? - cyborgdino What are some good text editors that will help aid in writing a book about coding. I am worried about formatting as well as my code samples staying intact when publishing to print. Any suggestions? ====== allanmacgregor Give leanpub....
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An important quantum algorithm may be a property of nature - pisky https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614259/an-important-quantum-algorithm-may-actually-be-a-property-of-nature/ ====== nicwilson Hmm, there are several things I find strange about this article. There are 22 proteinogenic amino acids (admittedly two are...
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Ask HN: Online Certificates or Degrees for IT Managers - elcottm I&#x27;m looking for that &quot;edge&quot; to add to my resume to show that I have technical and managerial experience and knowledge.<p>My current situation only allows me to do online courses&#x2F;programs.<p>What (online) programs are recommended tha...
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Microphone found in the embassy of Ecuador in London. - pitiburi http:&#x2F;&#x2F;inagist.com&#x2F;all&#x2F;352201540880187392&#x2F; ====== pitiburi Some explaining here: [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http:/...](http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.aporrea.org/int...
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Investors Recruit Terminally Ill To Outwit Insurers on Annuities - cwan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704479704575061392800740492.html ====== flipper Though I think I get the idea from the first two paragraphs, perhaps you could provide a summary for those of us without a WSJ subscription? ~~~ cwan ...
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PICO-8 - jmduke http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php ====== modeless See also [http://puzzlescript.net](http://puzzlescript.net) which is even more minimalist but has some very interesting games, such as Heroes of Sokoban: [http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=6860122](http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=686012...
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Show HN: We built a tool to save and practise relevant words to learn languages - fishsander https://wordeys.com ====== fishsander We started working on Wordeys this summer (on a cool hackweekend at a farm), after we felt like there was a gap between learning the basics of languages and mastering languages. On top of ...
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Paul Carr on Facebook Privacy - aaronbrethorst http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/fool-disclosure ====== bonaldi What a massively unpleasant troll. All based on a simple fallacy: "If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your “private” photos or tweets then they’re not p...
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Change.org Petition - LinkedIn: Protect your users from stalkers - pmikal https://www.change.org/petitions/linkedin-protect-your-users-from-stalkers-and-help-keep-victims-safe ====== devicenull How is a blocking feature going to help when it's trivial to create a new account?
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The death of the paper ticket for sporting events - hhs https://www.axios.com/sports-tickets-paper-digital-19d71f8d-c146-4873-8a83-50de1fbbb25e.html ====== joezydeco Do mobile tickets put resale capability exclusively in the hands of the issuer? How does one take a mobile ticket from Ticketmaster and sell it on Stubhu...
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Instagram Is the “Top Showcase Platform for Counterfeiters” on the Web - juokaz http://www.thefashionlaw.com/home/instagram-is-the-top-showcase-platform-for-counterfeiters-on-the-web ====== rchaud This sounds like the modern version of having Disqus comments sections overrun with spam comments pitching Prada bags, Air...
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Ask HN: Google CDN Down? - eddydkim West LA folks have trouble accessing sites that use google&#x27;s cdn js libraries like jquery etc.<p>Other reports: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;search?q=google%20cdn&amp;src=typd<p>Example link: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajax.googleapis.com&#x2F;ajax&#x2F;libs&#x2F;jquery&#x2F;2....
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Wrangling COVID19 Data with Easy Data Transform - hermitcrab https://www.screencast.com/t/B38HJdHq ====== hermitcrab See how you can use desktop tool Easy Data Transform to convert the latest COVID19 data into useful information such as deaths per 10k population per country.
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Peter Thiel: There Are No Good Bets Against Globalization - riffer http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5646 ====== Andrew_Quentin An awful piece. I repent that I read it. His introduction is good though. Grand claims, appealing to ancient lands, myths. However, the man seems to have no patience. ...
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TSMC Details 5 nm - baybal2 https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3398/tsmc-details-5-nm/ ====== Symmetry The thing that really jumped out at me was making the channel partially out of germanium. Velocity saturation has been a limiting factor in our tiny modern transistors for a while, playing its own minor part in the break...
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Sweden brings back military conscription - sjcsjc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39140100 ====== chrisseaton How do you motivate a conscript? When I was in the British Army, which is volunteer only, commanding a basic training troop if someone was wanted to give up we could say to them 'if this isn't for you ...
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Shoelace.css – a free CSS boilerplate - claviska https://shoelace.style/ ====== claviska I created Shoelace.css because I felt like Bootstrap 4 was taking too long and getting way too heavy for what it's intended to do. The idea with Shoelace.css is: \- pure CSS, yet highly customizable via CSS variables \- import ...
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Better geometry through graph theory - memexy https://ideolalia.com/2018/08/28/artifex.html ====== memexy The trick reminds me of transverse intersection assumption from topology: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversality_(mathematics)#:...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversality_\(mathematics\)#:~:text=tran...
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MacBook Buy Button Is 404 on Apple.com - laithshadeed http://www.apple.com/us/shop/go/macbook/select ====== brianjking Wow, that really isn't good for Apple.
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Steam, PSN and Nintendo eShop are down - kodisha https://twitter.com/TheAlexLynch97/status/415958971116040192 ====== aamoyg Yeah, I just tried to access Steam, and it does not connect. I believe it is due to the huge influx of people trying to get free copies of Left for Dead 2.
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HackrTrackr now has area based forums for Y Combinator Readers - dottertrotter http://hackrtrackr.com/blog3.php ====== danteembermage I feel kinda alone in my forum, do you think you could maybe fold Mississippi, Arkansas, Utah, Idaho, and South Dakota into the Wisconsin forum so I can have someone to talk to? ~~~ ...
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Arduino gets CLI support - frob https://hackaday.com/2018/08/26/arduino-gets-command-line-interface-tools-that-let-you-skip-the-ide/ ====== frob Link to the github repo: [https://github.com/arduino/arduino- cli](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli)
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Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages - rb808 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages ====== sharemywin it would a lot easier to train existing programmers in newer technologies than wait 5-15 years for kids to grow up...
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Ask HN: My employee equity? - fokker Hey HN,<p>I Have been working my butt off for a startup for approx 1 year and I have just recently brought up the discussion regarding my equity in the company.<p>There were no formalities such as a contract in place, it was purely based on trust but with a promise of equity toward...
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The big chill of the censor - benfreu http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/apr/03/mediaguardian1.comment ====== brownbat > "At a recent business conference, I heard CEOs tell FCC chairman Kevin > Martin to ... get America to broadband parity with Korea and even France. > Instead, I told him, he was wasting ...
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Ask HN: Is there an increasing demand for martial law to save lives? - thinkingemote I&#x27;ve noticed that there appears to be a growing feeling amongst my peer group and HN users that our western governments are not doing enough and that, effectively, martial law should be imposed to keep people indoors. It seems to...
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Sam Altman interviewed on CNN Money [video] - staunch http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/09/technology/innovation/sam-altman-y-combinator/index.html ====== keithwarren On acceptance of failure... I am curious how truly different Silicon Valley is versus other areas. While we give lip service to the idea of failure being OK...
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AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic - denzil_correa http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 ====== evook Cases like this reinforce my opinion,...
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“DataGateKeeper: The FIRST Impenetrable Anti-Hacking Software” - rudolf0 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/datagatekeeper/datagatekeeper-the-first-impenetrable-anti-hacking ====== cpeterso This "security" company's website does not even support HTTPS: [https://www.mydataangel.com/](https://www.mydataangel.com/) --...
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Spanish Morphology in Haskell - stralep http://www.cling.gu.se/theses/2003/cl8tsode_cl8iande.pdf ====== elboru Great work,I'm a Spanish speaker so I know the complexity of this language, I mean, verb conjugation is so complex compared to English. Let's just think about the "Work" verb: English: Work, Works, Worked, ...
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Since I was 8 Years Old, I wanted to Be a Hacker - Oxydepth http://stemmatch.net/blog/2015/december/22/so-you-want-to-be-a-hacker-the-perception-vs-reality/ ====== imamachine I've always wanted to be a hacker too. Now I do cyber security & machine learning. :) ------ theseok Good post oxydepth
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Slavery Ensnares Thousands in U.K. Here’s One Teenage Girl’s Story - dsr12 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/world/europe/uk-modern-slavery.html ====== andyjohnson0 This is an important topic, but some of the comments here are shameful. Stop spreading hate. ~~~ InTheTank What's shameful is that you are willing to pa...
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Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches - willvarfar http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40435832 ====== tyingq _" from calculations we see that the total capacity of the satellite component is, for Europe, 100 Megabits per second"_ That doesn't sound like it's going to improve inflight WiFi ...
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How la Gendarmerie (French military police) ditched Microsoft and McAfee - dClauzel http://www.numerama.com/magazine/26373-comment-la-gendarmerie-a-envoye-bouler-microsoft-et-mcafee.html ====== jclos The last paragraph is a good summary: Last week, 21 June 2013, the head of technology and information systems of int...
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Twitter deletes anti-Congress cartoons, enrages tweeps - iprashantsharma http://www.niticentral.com/2013/12/17/twitter-deletes-anti-congress-cartoons-enrages-tweeps-169656.html ====== tn13 Nothing surprising in this. Media is congress' bitch.
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Show HN: A node.js drawing app - Rapp http://rappdaniel.com/experiment/diddly ====== Rapp If it's not immediately clear, the purpose of the game is for you and everyone else online to collaboratively (or individually, but it's more fun if you work together) draw the image it asks for at the top and bottom of the scr...
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System performance analysis - the USE method - dmpk2k http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/02/29/the-use-method/ ====== jaylevitt I've scaled systems from 500 to 1.5 million simultaneous users, and this is the ONLY concise, salient explanation of performance troubleshooting that I have ever seen. Bravo.
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Ask HN: Do you call yourself Ninja/Hacker? - paukiatwee Do you like a job post &quot;We looking for JavaScript Ninja&quot; or &quot;We are hiring RoR Hacker&quot;? Or some blog title &quot;I am UX Hacker and love to..&quot;?<p>I personally feel annoying. I prefer to use &quot;Talent&quot; or similar term. What do you ...
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Does not being a hacker make you less desirable in YC's eyes? - jpalacio486 If you're not a hacker and dont have any idea about programming, does that make you less desirable in YC's eyes? ====== Ultrapreneur When you say "not hackers" does that mean you still only have an idea for a site, or that you aren't familia...
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Facebook, Microsoft Disclose Government Data Requests, But Google Balks - anologwintermut http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/06/14/facebook-got-fewer-than-10000-gov-data-requests-in-2nd-half-of-2012/ ====== LoganCale This is a poor headline that does not accurately reflect the situation. Microsoft and Facebook made de...
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Android Renderscript from the perspective of an OpenCL/CUDA/C++ AMP programmer - compilercreator http://codedivine.org/2013/02/01/renderscript-from-the-perspective-of-an-openclcudac-amp-programmer/ ====== sparky There was a talk at the 2011 LLVM dev meeting (cached slides here [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/...
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Ask HN: Analytics for Google Spreadsheets? - iamarsibragimov Hey HN!<p>Looking for analytics tools&#x2F;scripts for Google Spreadsheets. I want to know how many people view the table and retention of ppl who has access to the private table.<p>Any suggestions? ====== iamarsibragimov Anyone? :)
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Procter and Gamble bids to trademark LOL, WTF and other acronyms - YeGoblynQueenne https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/24/procter-gamble-bids-to-trademark-lol-wtf-and-other-acronyms ====== olavk I was ready to become enraged, but the article mostly mentions a range of _failed_ attempts by businesses to trade...
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Launched Today: See Amazon's Giftcard Deal in Real-Time - timaelliott https://analytics.savvr.com/today ====== timaelliott This little demo of our platform is built using our internal reporting API, HighCharts for the awesome visusalization and Pubnub.com for the real-time streaming
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