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You don't need a grid framework on top of the CSS grid layout - kawera https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/07/01/you-do-not-need-a-css-grid-based-grid-system ====== Brajeshwar Wow, it's been a while. Back in the days[1], it was a feat to do even a simple Faux 3-Column layout[2]. I made lots of friends and followi...
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Ask HN: Why is still so hard to detect spam? - nkkollaw I&#x27;m using macOS Mail as a secondary client alongside Google Inbox (which works great), and it&#x27;s amazing how bad the spam filter is.<p>I&#x27;ve been training it to detect spam by marking emails manually for about 2 weeks, and it&#x27;s still having a ha...
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(2012) Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election - luso_brazilian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-data-machine-facebook-election ====== luso_brazilian Context for the significance of this article > Barack Obama's re-election team are building a vast digital data o...
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The Broken Promise of No Man’s Sky and Why It Matters - webwielder2 https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/17/broken-promises-of-no-mans-sky/ ====== DamnYuppie Everytime I read about this game I keep thinking "it is a stripped down version of Eve Online with better graphics." I like Eve Online but it is not very fu...
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Germany's Giant Windmills Are Unpopular - blast https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-31/germany-s-nationalist-party-has-wind-industry-in-limbo ====== linuxhansl As a German I find that article... uhm... Interesting. I could also just call bulls*it. First: With a population of about 2m and as part of for...
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Flirting with ideas - skorks http://www.thousandtyone.com/blog/EntrepreneurshipTipYouDoNotFindAGenuineIdeaItFindsYou.aspx ====== prawn I flirt with ideas, sneak off into the bushes with ideas, have affairs with ideas, but I can't finish anything. If it's not procrastination that kills me, it's not getting ideas to t...
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Final project reports from 2012 Stanford Machine Learning class - admp http://cs229.stanford.edu/projects2012.html ====== forrestthewoods Maybe it's just me, but I absolute loathe the format and language style of "proper" papers. The column view heavy on text and weak on media feels highly outdated. They come across a...
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Learning from Animals That Resist Cancer - dnetesn http://cancer.nautil.us/article/234/what-medicine-is-learning-from-animals-that-resist-cancer ====== skypather When I see the title of this article, I expected to see sharks on the list. Am I mistaken? ~~~ zeofig While actually reading articles is considered a faux p...
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Top start-up incubators - Finntastic http://www.startupsmart.com.au/funding/top-10-start-up-incubators.html ====== pg "Every single one of the more than 300 start-ups backed by the US seed fund has gone on to receive further funding" I wish this were true, but it isn't. It's been true for the last 2 batches, thank...
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SINQ - Swift queries fluently - brmunk https://github.com/slazyk/SINQ ====== brmunk Will the fluent interface catch on now that Swift syntactically makes it nice to look at (as opposed to Objective-C)? Or will you still prefer a string in the old Predicate format?
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What does gun violence really cost? - radmuzom http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america ====== kluck I love this article. It had to be said. Some may say: Its not the guns that are dangerous, but the people using them. Thats wrong, guns themselves are dangerous, because they m...
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Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star - dnetesn https://phys.org/news/2018-11-astronomers-super-earth-barnard-star.html ====== autocorr One of the most exciting things about this discovery is that because Barnard's star is so close, the planet should have a maximum angular separation of 0.22 arcsecond...
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Nassim Taleb on IQ - ptbello https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1076845397795065856.html ====== ellius I like Taleb's work. It's always good food for thought and frequently insightful. That said, his posture towards academia of late seems a bit juvenile and not a little annoying. Which isn't to say that he doesn't hav...
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Moodymann on Rollerskating in Detroit - pmcpinto https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3544 ====== BenGosub I am a DJ and a programmer, didn't expect to see Moodymann on Hacker News, but kudos for this :) Moodymann is a legend, I haven't yet read this interview, but there was one video interview recently, done by ...
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Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'? - el_benhameen https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57456188/why-is-the-result-of-ba-a-a-tolowercase-banana ====== perl4ever ([![]] + [][[]])[(![] + []).length]+([![]] + [][[]])[(![] + []).length + +!+[]]+ (![] + [])[+[]+ +[]]+([![]] + [][[]])[([][[]]+...
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CyberSource outages Day #2 - spd997m23 For the second day in a row CyberSource is timing out and not authenticating customer payment information. We lose an order each time this happens. Is anyone else having this problem? ====== dangrossman When this costs you enough money, consider building your next payment int...
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POTUS Twitter account is registered to a private Gmail account - Daviey https://theintercept.com/2017/01/26/donald-trump-is-using-a-private-gmail-account-to-secure-the-most-powerful-twitter-account-in-the-world/ ====== cronjobber > Update: Jan. 26, 2017 > An earlier version of this story did not address the possibili...
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Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems - Deinos https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/logitech-firmware-update-breaks-locally-controlled-harmony-hub-systems/ ====== all2 I am sad to see that Logitech has fallen into the business model of technological churn. I've found their devic...
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Don't let sharedWorkers die - malko https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/315#issuecomment-244903762 ====== malko If you think sharedWorkers are for a better web experience it's time to cast your vote and say no to the deprecation of this feature. Follow the url and add a thumbs up :)
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John Carmack on “Facebook listening to you” conspiracy theory - tosh https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1227234781886386176 ====== willis936 While I haven’t done rigorous science, there were times last year that youtube suggestions were a little too timely in regards to conversations I had within the past hour. ...
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WebAssembly: A New Compiler Target for the Web [video] - jandem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RByPdCN1RQ4 ====== bluejekyll I wish webassembly was already here. I honestly can't wait for more language choice for targeting the browser DOM. I believe this will bring a revolution in client side apps on the browser. Ul...
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The first open company - zende http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-company ====== amix I like the idea behind Gittip, but I think this is bullshit: "company are developed for the benefit of society as a whole, and not just the mutual benefit of the members of the cooperative" Most companies are deve...
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With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever - froo http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/30/with-an-official-description-google-drive-is-more-real-than-ever/ ====== eli I think this is the most clear-cut case of people getting excited about a product _solely_ because the brand name is Google. Online ...
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Img/loading-related jQuery plugin I posted as a comment on some blog... - soundphed http://engineeredweb.com/blog/09/12/preloading-images-jquery-and-javascript#comment-92 ====== soundphed I don't have my own blog and I'm not sure of the etiquette here. I've been using this jQuery plugin I wrote for awhile now and a...
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Pixelapse (YC W12): GitHub-Style Sharing and Version Control For Design Projects - lominming http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/yc-backed-pixelapse-brings-github-style-sharing-version-control-to-your-design-projects/ ====== cantlin There's tremendous value in the history of a design file. Virtually every design agency...
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Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama - xivzgrev https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-is-an-act-of-insanity-to-stay-in-the-us-why-this-63-year-old-teacher-ditched-massachusetts-to-retire-in-the-highlands-of-panama-2019-08-23 ====== adonnjohn It certainly doesn't strike as a s...
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Google Cloud shell Command injection - cujanovic http://www.pranav-venkat.com/2016/03/command-injection-which-got-me-6000.html ====== samuellb Mobile version that doesn't require Javascript: [http://www.pranav- venkat.com/2016/03/command-injection-which...](http://www.pranav- venkat.com/2016/03/command-injection-which...
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Waveboard: Google Wave Client for Mac and iPhone is Coming - holoohapter http://mashable.com/2009/10/19/waveboard/ ====== cpr Not a real client on the Mac. Just a Fluid-like (Fluid-based?) wrapper app. Don't know about the iPhone. The real test of Wave's openness is going to be whether a client can realistically be...
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Install Android 2.2 on a jailbroken iPhone over the air - hardik http://mobiputing.com/2010/11/how-to-install-android-2-2-on-a-jailbroken-iphone/ ====== kevinelliott I've been helping with iDroid and Bootlace, and I can tell you that a lot has progressed over the last couple of months. Power management has been a hu...
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Is That Really a Cappuccino? - zabramow http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/is-that-cappuccino-youre-drinking-really-a-cappuccino.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur ====== lisper I made a brief foray into coffee snobbery about three years ago. I quickly got lost in all the permutations of espresso machine...
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Greener pastures? A tale of the Minnesota startup that was - johns http://tech.mn/news/2010/07/14/greener-pastures-a-tale-of-the-minnesota-startup-that-was/ ====== CitizenKane As a former Minnesotan I can say that it goes beyond taxes. The culture in Minnesota is very risk averse and if you're starting a software comp...
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To PGP/MIME or not to PGP/MIME - HerraBRE https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-11-21_To_PGP_MIME_Or_Not.html ====== darklajid I just started looking into PGP (well, gnupg to be honest). The plan is to both use gpg for communication/email, but also for backups (duplicity), secret stuff/passwords (pass) and authenticati...
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Why HackerRank and other coding tests are ageist - forrestbrazeal http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/287595/hackerrank-tests-banking ====== carlmr <<Most damningly, he says the questions posed by HackerRank and similar tests aren’t necessarily relevant to the work actually done in finance technology roles: “They’...
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Come to Silicon Valley and Learn to Code for Free - teklaperry https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/education/come-to-silicon-valley-and-learn-to-code-for-free ====== cannontwentytwo This really seems like the future of education. Wish the program was offered here in Toronto.
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Russian researchers expose U.S. hard drive spyware program - georgecmu http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/usa-cyberspying-idINKBN0LK1R320150216 ====== dandelion_lover [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059156](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059156)
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Tokyo Wants People to Go to Work Earlier to Ease Train Crush - BanzaiTokyo https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-17/tokyo-encourages-earlier-work-commutes-to-ease-jam-packed-trains ====== black_puppydog I've long been wondering why anyone would require (or accept) workin hours so inflexible that they force t...
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Baptism by Fire: A New York Firefighter Confronts His First Test (2014) - Bud http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/22/nyregion/rookie-new-york-firefighter-faces-first-test.html?ref=sonny ====== xname2 I really hate this kind of writing. After five paragraphs, I still don't know where it is going. What a waste of...
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A JavaScript repository for leetcode solutions - hanzichi https://github.com/hanzichi/leetcode ====== hanzichi I love JavaScript and algorithm, but it seems there is not many JSers that like to have fun with solving algorithm questions
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New Google Chrome Beta - agotterer http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-chrome-has-new-beta_17.html ====== mpk And .... still no linux build. ~~~ agotterer or Mac :( ~~~ reconbot A significant amount of work is going into both those builds but a lot more is needed. As much as I love having a multiprocess brow...
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Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved - augb http://news.mit.edu/2016/cement-structure-solved-0208 ====== devindotcom I love these base-level, practical advances where even a slight improvement in a formula (provided it is not closely guarded) can, say, improve the strength of a material by 5-10%, meaning tha...
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Ask HN: What is the impact of opening FB and Twitter offices in Vancouver? - gummify How will the opening of new Facebook and Twitter offices in Vancouver, Canada affect the city and will it affect the Bay Area (i.e. recruitment of Canadians)? ====== t1m One of the reasons the big SF/Valley companies are opening Can...
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How to improve the performance of your new HP TouchPad - shawndumas http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/how-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-new-hp-touchpad/3866 ====== reemrevnivek Unfortunately, the article doesn't talk at all about overclocking. It simply disables logging across the OS - and I _want_ verbose lo...
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Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data - jocker12 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N594EF44CZD2aGkSh/machine-learning-can-t-understand-long-term-time-series-data ====== mjburgess Time is only a symptom of what's missing: causation. ML operates with associative models of billions of parameters: trying...
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Canning Spam: Why is it so difficult to prevent junk e-mail? - dpapathanasiou http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9805795 ====== chmike I see at least two problems at the source of junk e-mail. 1X no authentication of sender. One of the most problematic consequence is that reporting errors to senders ...
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Deep learning for source to source computer language translation? - naveen99 Anyone know of any recent work on deep learning for source to source computer language translation ? Since go and real time strategy games were the last out of reach items for machine learning, i feel like this is the next thing that&#x27;s o...
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Building Photoshop 1.0 - nglevin http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/3/30_Building_Photoshop.html ====== kristofferR I really hope the author of this great piece shares his rare copy of MacApp 1.1 with the world, so it won't end up as another piece of lost software history on...
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Ask HN: Employees of Facebook, what's it like to work there? - rblion Former or current. Use a new username if you have to. I&#x27;ve learned about the suicide of Qin Chen and it&#x27;s made me wonder what life is like inside Facebook.<p>Thanks for taking the time to answer and discuss this. ====== jsjckendj I was a f...
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OpenMediaVault 1.0 “Kralizec” released - gandave http://www.nasstorageserver.com/2014/09/15/nas-openmediavault-1-0-kralizec-released/ ====== gandave OpenMediaVault (“a next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution”) has gone 1.0. Free and Open Source NAS, challenging FreeNAS.
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Show HN: Txtodo – a day-to-day todo list for coronavirus quarantine - figbert https://txtodo.app/ ====== codingninjas How's building on SWIFT UI? We will be using it for the first time for a client. ~~~ figbert TLDR: I like it. Working with SwiftUI is fantastic – I always had trouble getting the storyboards to work ...
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Kippt: A Bookmarking App to Watch - jorde http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kippt_a_bookmarking_app_to_watch.php ====== spokey Hi Jori and Karri. Kippt does look promising. I have a little bit of a meta-question for you. Do you have any tips or advice you could share about getting covered on RWW with an early s...
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Nicco says: Google = Evil - bootload http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/03/10/niccoSaysGoogleEvil.html ====== bootload _"... What you may not know is that we also spend a lot of time thinking about the security that goes into those products, and more specifically the ways we can protect you and your private infor...
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Where: Like Foursquare, except with profits and lots more users - cwan http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/14/youve-heard-of-foursquare-how-about-this-start-up/ ====== gojomo The name change from 'uLocate Communications' to 'Where' was sideways at best. 'Where' is hard to google, prone to confusion in spoken communica...
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Show HN: Sslnotify.me, a free serverless opensource SSL cert monitoring service - alexfortin https://alexanderfortin.tumblr.com/post/159003883536/sslnotifyme-yet-another-opensource-serverless ====== alexfortin Hello, I've posted about my experiment here not because I think is particularly cool nor useful, but because ...
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Ask HN: Language/framework pros and cons for writing a web server nowadays? - pvnick I&#x27;m not looking for &quot;best,&quot; but I would like to hear what you guys would consider for choosing between some of the modern languages&#x2F;frameworks.<p>Despite the flak that PHP gets, many successful web servers have tra...
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US intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic - cyang08 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html ====== digikazi Any intelligence servic...
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Ask HN: What resource allocation strategies do IaaS providers use? - push7joshi This is a classic case of multidimensional bin packing problem. The problem of assigning VMs to PMs is known to be NP-Hard. It would be great to understand&#x2F;know a high level solution ignoring the detailed complexity (SLA etc.) ====== ...
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Ask HN: Do you use Managed Servers? - Complete Im wondering: Do you use manages servers for hosting your applications? I do so and would like to discuss the pros and cons of various providers. But I have the feeling most of you here on HN use servers where you have root access.<p>To me, it seems very logical to use ...
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The Story Of Joseph Nacchio And The NSA - Esifer http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-and-the-nsa-2013-6 ====== tptacek This came up last week, too. Joseph Nacchio sold millions of dollars of Qwest stock after gaining access to information about weak future sales and, according to other Qwest i...
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Google is the number one employer of Bernie Sanders donors - karangoeluw http://qz.com/665099/google-is-the-number-one-employer-of-bernie-sanders-donors/ ====== ocdtrekkie Google employees are also among the top donators of Obama's last reelection campaign, and Google employees have contributed to over half the curren...
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Is Roundup the Cause of 'Gluten Intolerance'? - yiedyie http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/gluten-intolerance-from-roundup-herbicide-zw0z1402zkin.aspx?newsletter=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=RF%20eNews&utm_campaign=03.03.14%20RFSR ====== Angostura Ummm. Those authors look familiar: [http://www...
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Treksit – Graph theory game - thenormal http://treksit.com/?graph ====== pimlottc Nifty. The arbitrary size of the playfield (and its invisible border) was annoying at times, though. More suggestions: * A reset button when things get too messed up * A "check my work" button that highlights errors, which can be hard...
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Database of Criminal Politicians? - charliemagee Does anyone know of a database that contains criminal convictions of local, state, federal politicians? There is some text stuff on Wikipedia but I would like the ability to sort. ====== Top19 The closest thing I can think of is that Utah has a database of a white-colla...
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Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP - ranza http://www.pagodabox.com/ ====== apl Their website is ridiculously well designed -- possibly on par with Heroku. Doesn't say much about their solutions and infrastructure, but it does signal great care. ------ sparkygoblue Pulling only from github seems very rest...
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Introducing Gruen Tenders - a simple way to induce an unbiased prognosis - datageek http://kaggle.com/blog/2010/08/01/introducing-gruen-tenders-a-simple-way-to-induce-an-unbiased-prognosis/ ====== datageek I wonder if there's a business model in this?
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IPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission - neya http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2053241/iphone-5-scorns-standards-promise-to-european-commission?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook ====== mtgx I'm not an Apple user, so I might not fully understand how Apple's connectors work, but it seem...
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Ask HN: Google SRE vs. Google TSE - nextinline I have been debating whether to go for SRE or TSE (Google Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer), as I understand if I go with TSE interview, the offer will be TSE, not SRE.<p>Recruiter gave me a good tour and in this YT video [1] it does seem TSE will do development too (m...
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How do you reverse burnout? - randomnumber314 I&#x27;ve been working 50+ hours a week for the last six months. Between my &quot;9-5&quot; freelancing for a full-time client, and my evening personal projects, I pretty much spend 7am-10pm concentrating and mentally engaged. For the last couple of weeks I&#x27;m having a...
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We can know whether we are in a simulation - carlos http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2012/10/we-can-know-whether-we-are-in-a-simulation.html ====== lutusp No, as a matter of fact, we cannot know this. No matter how many people speculate about it, it's not a property of the universe we can determine in a scienti...
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Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb - everbody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Pipkin ====== axaxs > Not being aware his assignment was a type of joke, he went about the task as > if it was something that could be done and had been done before. I've read stories similar to this before, iirc assignm...
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CEO Turns a Seldom Used ccTLD Into a Booming Global Brand - DotSauce http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2010/november-december.htm ====== iwwr Companies just have to pay a little more for domain hosting due to the threat of .co brand hijacking or phishing. It's the nearest legitimate thing to blackmailing, not a brillia...
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Why is programming fun? - signa11 http://www.grok2.com/progfun.html ====== michaels0620 I remember early in my programming career, I had a program that was a tangled mess and making changes was requiring more and more effort just to keep everything straight. I was able to refactor the code into three well contained,...
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Meet Mila, your smart Business Assistant - pstadler http://about.mila.com/ ====== mweibel Disclaimer: I'm working for this project. We're hiring passionate developers/engineers. Take a look at the Hiring Page: <http://about.mila.com/en/jobs/>
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American parenting is killing the American marriage (2014) - kareemm http://qz.com/273255/how-american-parenting-is-killing-the-american-marriage/ ====== Vexs While I think his insights on how we treat our children is amazingly insightful, and I love how it's described as a religion (the point that children are our sa...
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Ask HN : What print magazines do you still subscribe to? - kqr2 Given the demise of Dr. Dobbs, just curious what print magazines people here still subscribe to?<p>I subscribe to Circuit Cellar and Make Magazine. ====== burrokeet I still love magasines- no iTablet to read on the toilet yet... Wired Billboard Urb The...
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Some Thoughts on the Cost Disease - dsr_ http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/331 ====== marchenko This article also hints at one of the reasons why humans chafe at economic inequality, and a rising tide lifting all boats is not enough to produce utopia: there are some resources - desirable reproductive partners, status, la...
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How to choose colours everyone likes - juliang http://www.creativepro.com/article/how-choose-colors-everyone-likes ====== jacobolus This is bogus. Basically the popular combinations are "liked" because (a) they are colorful, and (b) they have value (lightness) contrast, whereas the others are both less colorful, and...
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Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive - SilliMon http://www.syncdocs.com/keep-google-drive-files-private-with-syncdocs-encryption/ ====== CPAhem With the news that the NSA is tapping Google's internal fibre links, local encryption of Google is the way to go. The problem is that it makes it harder to use, and...
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Why SQL Sucks for NoSQL Unstructured Databases - dscape http://writings.nunojob.com/2011/06/why-sql-sucks-for-nosql-unstructured-databases.html ====== favd44 Great article!!! ... and I agree. I work for IBM, and I dealt with SQL/XML before ... and I still agree with the article. Thanks. ------ datagirl What's bett...
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Amazon.com and The Atlantic Will Sell Short Stories on the Kindle - byrneseyeview http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/books/05fiction.html ====== waterlesscloud $3.99 each. Gonna have to lower that price point a little. Too many people with their hands in the till. ~~~ anigbrowl Agree...but it strikes me that there's...
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Don't like Brexit? We have a plan - beniaminmincu http://www.transylvaniabeyond.com/ ====== lemiant This is really cool and well done. I'm unhappy with the stats they chose though. I thought that 20x less robberies seemed unlikely so I clicked their source. They were using the absolute number of robberies not per cap...
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Chargify to Increase Prices In May, Asking For Customer Feedback - speric http://chargify.com/blog/may-2012-price-change/ ====== toast76 From an email sent to customers re: their last price increase: Price assurance guarantee. We now understand that it’s impossible to grow your business if you can’t be sure how mu...
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ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards - doublextremevil https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=315401 ====== sah88 First you have to void your warranty to properly dual boot now this? They want to drop support for a file format so they can make renaming drives easier? I'm a...
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Ask HN: How to get feedback from people who signed up but churned? - diegogoncalves When someone use my product for a while and I send a message, for a good percentage I get feedback but for people who signed up and didn&#x27;t use much the product&#x2F;dropout before even activating I&#x27;m having a hard time to get...
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Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine - spyspy https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444 ====== obulpathi Two things keep coming up while comparing GCP and AWS: * This accomplishment would not have been possible for our three-person tea...
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Do any startups have dress codes? - johndavidback https://medium.com/@johndavidback/kill-dress-codes-3dbeec685dbd#.83927bpkv ====== dalke I do not like how the author jokes that women in workout shorts make him sweaty, nor the call out to "Be the bro tank you want to see in the world.". If you want to get rid of dres...
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People’s Bank of China started advanced testing of digital currency - CalmStorm https://www.forbes.com/sites/biserdimitrov/2020/04/16/these-chinese-blockchain-platforms-are-launching-soon-here-is-why/ ====== CalmStorm It is mentioned in the article that the digital currency supports offline transactions. How can this ...
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Bitcoin for Gold – Major Gold Dealer Now Accepting Bitcoin - glmxstd http://blockchaincourier.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin-for-gold-major-gold-dealer-now-accepting-bitcoin/ ====== GhostVII If the cost in Bitcoin changes when the value of Bitcoin in USD changes, you aren't paying in Bitcoin - you are paying in USD, you just ...
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The electric scooter Bird startup with big workplace problems - zoolander2 https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/23/21231802/bird-electric-scooter-company-workplace-culture-layoffs ====== ashtonkem I live in the area where Bird is headquartered, and they have an absolutely toxic reputation around town. Not the scooters them...
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Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010 - Aqwis http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/evmek/2010_we_hardly_knew_ye/ ====== Mystalic Title's wrong. Growing by 300% means Reddit would be at 1 billion pageviews. Grow by 100%, you get 500 million. Grow by 200%, you get 750 million. Grow by 231.6%, you get 829 million. --...
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Email is dying among mobile’s youngest users - rezist808 http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobiles-youngest-users/ ====== lazylizard was it ever "alive" among those users?
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How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives - kungfudoi https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/2016/10/01/dreamhost-builds-cloud-selecting-hard-drives/ ====== hackuser There's something I don't understand about the enterprise vs consumer (or "client") SSD classification: According to the widely quoted JEDEC standard...
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Ask HN: Majority of Bitcoin mining can give you control over the block chain - onecooldev24 Is is true that if a agent controls majority of the miners on the bitcoin network he&#x2F;she can control the blockchain? ====== sharemywin [https://learncryptography.com/cryptocurrency/51-attack](https://learncryptography.com/...
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Affective Wear – Recognizing Facial Expressions - kgarten http://kaikunze.de/posts/-affective-wear/ ====== mr_O It reminds me of affective, developed in MIT. I hope this time it will be Open Sourced instead of sold like the other one. I think marketing companies have already enough tools to fool us... ~~~ mr_O * af...
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Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field - airnomad https://github.com/ardagnir/pterosaur ====== sinkasapa I've really enjoyed the "It's All Text" extension that allows you to use whatever editor you like to edit text fields. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all- text/](https://addon...
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To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars - jimsojim http://news.mit.edu/2015/mars-mission-save-weight-fuel-on-moon-1015 ====== Ankaios “This is completely against the established common wisdom of how to go to Mars, which is a straight shot to Mars, carry everything with you,...
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EquipmentShare (YC W15) Is Like Airbnb for Construction Equipment - sunilkumarc http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/09/equipmentshare/ ====== sitkack Isn't this Hertz, Sunbelt or United? I see how this is a startup, get people with capital equipment sitting around, monetize it, make a cut of the transaction. But serious...
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Ask HN: Is it still relevant to send you website to DMOZ - fffrad I rarely if ever hear people suggesting dmoz.org anymore. It used to be the craze when I was getting started in web development and SEO<p>Did dmoz become irrelevant? Do you even go to dmoz ever? Are search engines not considering its weight anymore? =...
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Show HN: Honeybadger Chrome Extension - jaequery http://gethoneybadger.com ====== tzaman The orange nearly killed my eyes. Apart from that, why do you use fake testimonials? I'm assuming that, since in the bottom you have a person, called "Antonina K. Director of Operations, TrustGuard". The lady on the picture is S...
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Microsoft Signals It Would Rather Talk To An Icahn-Controlled Yahoo - nickb http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/07/microsoft-signals-it-would-rather-talk-to-an-icahn-controlled-yahoo/ ====== pg Of course they would. Icahn couldn't actually run Yahoo. So if they were negotiating with him they'd be negotiating with someo...
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How much does employee turnover really cost? - wyclif https://medium.com/latticehq/how-much-does-employee-turnover-really-cost-d61df5eed151 ====== wyclif I'm still constantly told by engineering friends that the easiest way to get a raise is to get a new job. That indicates to me that employers aren't that worried abo...
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