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Polly.IM: auto-suggests Twitter responses to local business customers - greattypo http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/12/polly-im-helps-businesses-engage-with-customers-on-twitter/ ====== 2arrs2ells Hmm, I'm torn. On the one hand - this seems like a great use of NLP and sentiment analysis, and I can see how this coul...
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iOS 14 turns volume down if it is set to "loud" for too long - tosh https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1306884214252613632 ====== nickysielicki That's pretty stupid. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the device presumably has no idea what the impedance of the sink is, or what the sink even is. AUX port on your car that re...
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Inside the adult ADHD brain - mikevm http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/inside-adult-adhd-brain-0610 ====== atemerev I have been diagnosed with ADD about 6 months ago (of course, I knew it for much longer time, but adult ADD only recently started to be recognized in Switzerland, where I live). I started taking Ritalin imm...
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Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science - apu http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science ====== mhartl I agree with Philip's basic observation that scientific careers are overrated, but a lot of his arguments would appear work against academic careers in general. The "scientific careers suck but men are ...
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Are We Remembering the Future? - Elof https://medium.com/@duncanr/are-we-remembering-the-future-cfedc3270948 ====== jerf "The time axis is like any other axis." No it's not. In the Minkowski metric used by many things such as relativity, distances are defined as SQRT(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2). That minus sign is fun...
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Show HN: Pongderdome – Multiplayer Pong for 2-10 Players - jscottmiller https://www.1dash1.com/users/jscottmiller/games/Pongderdome ====== tmoullet Hey, this is pretty cool! A few suggestions; feel free to take or leave them: -The playing area zooming towards the ball was really distracting and made playing diffic...
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Samsung’s Bizarre Emojis - coldtea https://hackernoon.com/samsungs-bizarre-emojis-6be568a3b7d9 ====== chch I'm surprised the article doesn't mention my favorite, the simple Cookie: [https://emojipedia.org/cookie/](https://emojipedia.org/cookie/) Everyone decided cookies are probably chocolate chip cookies, except Sa...
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World's Simplest Note App: Atomic Note - mtufekyapan www.atomicnote.co Hello everyone,<p>I build a beta version of my product. I want to build a note app which focus on simplicity. What you think about it? What feature should be build on it? ====== schrodingersCat After using your app for a few days, Here's what I f...
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The Last McDonalds in Iceland - ThisIsSavo https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/ ====== aszantu They say a country will sink into chaos when McDonald's leaves xD
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Google Play and App Store: statistics, trends, sales and top publishers - mark01 http://www.ihelplounge.com/google-play-and-app-store-statistics-trends-sales-and-top-publishers/ ====== chaghalibaghali Interesting article, I recently posted a few stats about a moderately successful app of mine on the Google Play Stor...
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Yondr – Create phone-free spaces and venues - nkrisc http://overyondr.com/ ====== colept This reminds me of those grocery store carts that lock automatically when taken off the lot - and then the ones that malfunction and get stuck locked. What about the hazard of emergency situations: fires in crowded places, heart ...
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Justin.tv Signs Deal With Fox, Gets Serious About Copyright Problems - NathanielMc1 http://www.businessinsider.com/justintv-signs-deal-with-fox-gets-serious-about-copyright-problems-2009-8 ====== naz I imagine their compete.com graph will look like scribd's after they kill their live sports traffic ~~~ paul9290 Way...
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MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing Posix-compatible Operating System - thirsteh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3KuE7UjGA?2 ====== thirsteh The video is from 2010, but it provides an accurate introduction to MINIX 3.x by Andrew Tanenbaum himself. Version 3.2 was just released: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527...
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Google Express Is Now Free - bhartzer http://www.elischwartz.co/google-express-now-free/ ====== nikolay I read this as "Google Express is dead." I paid for the membership but never used it as it was sub par compared to Amazon Fresh, Amazon Prime Now, and Instacart. ------ 51Cards Looking forward to this coming to Can...
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Disqus 3 Preview - simanyay http://disqus.com/v3/ ====== pclark Whoa, that was annoying. the retweet thing is daft. the music annoying. the text flying in actually hurts your eyes. you didn't explain any _new_ features. "a revamped comment system"? seriously? Just give a screenshot with a few annotated labels. And...
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Ask HN: How to help non-technical designers work with CSS? - oblomovshchina One of my coworkers is a graphic designer&#x2F;illustrator kind of guy. He knows colors and how to draw and how to make things look neat and ordered, but he lacks an explicit understanding of UX and the technical knowledge to work with CSS. La...
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The US Has Its First ‘Community Spread’ Coronavirus Case - jdkee https://www.wired.com/story/community-spread-coronavirus/ ====== aazaa > That gap between admission and diagnosis raises concerns about health care > workers being unknowingly exposed at Davis—a potential problem anywhere. ... Then later: > The UC Davi...
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The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass - taylorbuley http://www.businessinsider.com/nobody-really-likes-google-glass-2013-5 ====== dasil003 I guess I'm well on my way to being a cranky old man at the tender age of 34, but I find it extremely unlikely I'll ever use any device like glass on a regular basis. I love...
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Why Fire Makes Us Human - onuralp https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-fire-makes-us-human-72989884/?no-ist ====== danielam I once came across a curious anthropological account of the importance of fire is a section in Feliks Koneczny's book "On the Plurality of Civilizations"[0] written in the 1930s. (Th...
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Tesla explains Model 3 build in response to Munro’s teardown analysis - raybb https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-explains-model-3-build-munro-teardown-analysis/ ====== cfadvan That’s a surprisingly weak and imo damning response. _The primary car evaluated by Munro was built in 2017. We have significantly refined our pr...
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How to Deal with Conflicting Health Advice - danielrileyblog https://danielriley.blog/conflicting-health-advice/ ====== aszantu I'm one of the carnivore nuts :|
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Final Tax Bill Targets the Free Food at Your Office - jedberg https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/tax-bill-2017/card/1513390025 ====== jedberg This is clearly targeting tech companies, who are the majority of companies that give this benefit. ~~~ steanne construction companies often offer free drinks to discourage dehyd...
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Programming Windows 6th Edition - johndcook http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2012/02/Programming-Windows-6th-Edition.html ====== tomjen3 Am I the only one who thinks it is sad that he is writing a book about programming with C# and XAML? I mean those are great technologies to work with, but his expertise is on C++ a...
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Build Your Own Tablet for $400 - nreece http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/build-your-own-tablet-for-400/ ====== ngvrnd I think the performance of the touch screen is critical to the experience of using a tablet. This device has a resistive touch screen. I've used a number of different touch screens, and all of th...
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This is the story of frozen custard - dmitrygr https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-passion-frozen-custard-velvet-scoop-origin-story-zoe-madigan?published=t ====== qohen Frozen custard seems to be having a moment now -- in the US, a large ice cream manufacturer -- Dreyer's (AKA Edy's) -- came out with a line of packa...
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Ask HN: I have an idea,an implementation, users and want to invest.What is next? - incognito_user I have been developing a side project for a couple of years and I mostly started it for fun, as a learning practice and to enlarge my developments portfolio. Of course I thought on monetize it if possible and dreamed on b...
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Show HN: RippleTick – Real Time Ripple XRP Prices and Calculator - RippleTick https://rippletick.com ====== iDemonix Nice project. What is annoying, is that it'll sit at a price (USD 2.12 currently) and it'll flash red/green rapidly, with the up/down arrow changing etc - but the value doesn't change. I'm guessing thi...
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FlexSense: A Transparent Self-Sensing Deformable Surface [video] - guardian5x http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=230399 ====== Lambdanaut Idea: Attach a flexible screen to the surface and display a fluid or ball on the screen. Simulate a force of gravity. Now physically manipulate the surface a...
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Why OWASP's Threat Dragon will change the game on threat modeling - augb https://techbeacon.com/why-owasps-threat-dragon-will-change-game-threat-modeling ====== rgacote Link that does not require you to provide GitHub access: [http://docs.threatdragon.org](http://docs.threatdragon.org)
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Known packings of equal circles in a circle - terminalhealth http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci.html ====== pavel_lishin What do the colors indicate? [http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/d1.html](http://hydra.nat.uni- magdeburg.de/packing/cci/d1.html) I see orange, blue, purple and yellow on...
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Rand Paul Has Coronavirus - big_chungus https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1241780756617273345 ====== microtherion Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery! That said, why does an “asymptomatic” senator get a test, while symptomatic medical personnel still gets denied them? ~~~ neonate It's not hard to see how te...
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SIGGRAPH 2014 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer - signa11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Z1hDwGEmM ====== signa11 checkout the physics from sound demo, pretty cool :)
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Sick of This Text: 'Sorry I'm Late' - cwan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526471179963214.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editorsPicks_1 ====== msluyter The flipside, imho, is that it's simply less of a big deal to be late, precisely because technology makes it less problematic. 20 years ago, if someone...
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The sad state of the backbone ecosystem - azsromej http://benmccormick.org/2016/03/07/the-sad-state-of-the-backbone-ecosystem/ ====== lioeters I wonder if the React ecosystem will resemble this in a few years. Not saying that's undesirable either, it may be a natural course of progression, the flourishing of libraries...
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Human competitive genetic programming results - yters http://www.genetic-programming.com/humancompetitive.html ====== Allocator2008 Very cool stuff. I have often thought that as long as one can find an appropriate "fitness function", that genetic algorithms of one form or another ought to be able to solve a wide-range...
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Forget Aeron, here's the best programmer's chair in the world - k7d http://b7og.com/post/306057238/forget-aeron-heres-the-best-programmers-chair-in-the ====== jbellis I worked like this for two years: <http://www.dqd.com/~mayoff/images/alfa.jpg> (picture shows the guy I got the idea from, not me) the backsaver zero...
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Credit Suisse Warns That U.S. Store Closings May Worsen in 2020 - toomuchtodo https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/store-closures-may-be-even-worse-next-year-credit-suisse-says ====== toomuchtodo Outline: [https://outline.com/eRjrp9](https://outline.com/eRjrp9)
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Autosetup – a replacement for autoconf - networked https://msteveb.github.io/autosetup/ ====== aurora72 Well if can't be made to work on Windows then it's not a worthwhile replacement for autoconf because autoconf does every job on all environments except Windows already, why need a replacement? To do the job on Wind...
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Fear of Failure Prevents Minimal, but Necessary Time Off - SparksZilla http://andysparks.co/post/34718564879/week-4-fear-of-failure-prevents-minimal-but-necessary ====== jevanish Check out the book, "The Power of Full Engagement." The short of it is that yes, you do need a break. You'll be more productive managing y...
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The End of Agile - interweb https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/23/the-end-of-agile/ ====== jdmoreira It works pretty well for me but that’s because we refuse to engage in bullshit. No estimates. No sprints. No Jira. No bullshit! What we do? Retro, grooming and planning. Standup everyday in front of ...
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Ask HN: Are some signup CAPTCHAs becoming a bit ridiculous (yes you HN)? - bitmilitia My friend showed me this after trying to sign up for HN. There’s now a Capcha when you sign up which is more than difficult to answer... mostly because the text is so difficult to read it doesn&#x27;t look like english. Not sure ...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with irrationality? - pj I'm a fairly rational person. Perhaps some around me would say too rational. A lot of you here are rational. I know it because I read your comments. Many of you are also wiser and more experienced in dealing with the world around you than I am. I am itchy on the tri...
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Ask HN: Should I quit my job? - _navaneethan I am working in an organization which generates enough revenue with decent fellow engineers. But, our engineering solutions are not up to the level. The way code is written, the way of architectured the stack, and following the coding practices are very below the par. Even ...
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What products/apps/services you use for video conferencing/calls/meetings? - ConstantineSh What products&#x2F;apps&#x2F;services you use for video conferencing&#x2F;calls&#x2F;meetings? What you like&#x2F;dislike about them? What features you&#x27;d like to add&#x2F;see in products that you currently or would like to ...
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Google Planning Tenth Messaging App–This One’s Another Slack Clone - ezy_ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/report-google-planning-tenth-messaging-app-this-ones-another-slack-clone ====== wbsun There are just 10? For Hangout related, there are already: Hangout, Hangout Chat, Hangout Meet, Chat, Meet, etc.... bt...
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Build your own webcrawler - hibobbo http://www.bobbylough.com/2015/08/build-crawler.html ====== bobbotheclowno I really should do more stuff like this
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N Reduce opens up as alternative to ultra-elite startup incubators - waderoush http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/05/14/n-reduce-opens-up-as-alternative-to-ultra-elite-startup-incubators/ ====== victork2 Take that in your faces "Elite" startups, you wouldn't be selected, you're not even "Ultra elite"! More s...
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QuestDB – OpenSource Time Series Database - bluestreak I would like to plug new time series database, which I&#x27;m writing: QuestDB (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluestreak01&#x2F;questdb)<p>This project was born out of the realisation that data can be handled much faster than existing databases would lead you ...
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Show HN: WebGL-powered oscilloscope emulator - m1el http://m1el.github.io/woscope/ ====== hughes That was one of the highest-fidelity visual experiences I've had on the web. I know there's no more information being displayed than what's in the audio channel, but I feel like this sort of experience just wouldn't transl...
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iTunesConnect new UI - mikado http://help.apple.com/itc/my-apps-quick-tour/ ====== proxymoron Well, it looks pretty, like most Apple products. The proof will be in the pudding when artists and labels use it, I guess.
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Should you move from GitHub to sr.ht - Sir_Cmpwn https://drewdevault.com/2018/06/05/Should-you-move-to-sr.ht.html ====== sevensor Like the business model and the notable lack of candy-colored features. Looks like it basically gives you the tools to run an open source project the way the Linux kernel developers do? ~~...
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Ask YC: Open source platform for a social network with lots of UGC(structured) - jyothi I want to put up a quick prototype of a community based site with lots of structured user generated content. Support for multi-media content is preferred. Please suggest.<p>I need an open source solution rather than a hosted plat...
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Goethe’s Colors: A Visual Catalogue - seesawtron https://www.c82.net/work/?id=380 ====== adzm Despite being a fan of Goethe's writing and poetry, I somehow never knew about his work with color. I find this area fascinating, especially how it relates to language. What an interesting read to find on HN. ~~~ seesawtron ...
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Rate my startup - 123LinkIt.com - myasmine http://123LinkIt.com ====== maushu Too much text on the landing page and the domain name (specially the 123) activated my anti-spam sense, which would have made me close the tab automatically if I hadn't remembered that it came from HN. ~~~ myasmine It must be the three b...
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The FH exploit sends local IPs, hostnames & MAC to an IP in Washington DC - Revisor https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-events-and-freedom-hosting#comment-31981 ====== Revisor Here is a more in-depth analysis [http://tsyrklevich.net/tbb_payload.txt](http://tsyrklevich.net/tbb_payload.txt)
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Time to wake up to the facts about sleep - robg http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg20026781.600-time-to-wake-up-to-the-facts-about-sleep.html ====== a-priori The best explanation I've heard for the three states of consciousness (NREM, REM and wakefulness), and one that the evidence in this article seems...
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Opower and Efficiency 2.0 sue each other over Layout in Mailers - weeny http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-home-energy-battle-in-court-opower-vs-efficiency-2-0/ ====== weeny This is old news now - but I'm really looking forward to when the federal decision is made, I'm sure it will make for comedy gold.
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Ask HN: How often do you see duplicated work in your company? - lettergram I&#x27;ve worked at multiple companies and see duplicated efforts all the time. It&#x27;s honestly good to some degree to have competing products, but I was curious how often some of the HN crowd has seen it as well? ====== cimmanom How large a...
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Gmail vs. Outlook - JoshTriplett http://opensource-usability.blogspot.com/2016/07/gmail-vs-outlook.html ====== techmicrobiz Outlook has Categories, which works similar to Labels in Gmail. ~~~ JoshTriplett The article specifically mentions Categories.
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Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests - TimWolla https://bl.duesterhus.eu/20180119/ ====== lima Why do people use stateless authentication when there's absolutely no need to do so? Unless you're very large, request authentication is not going to be your bottleneck. One of your users se...
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox - rendall https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting-with-firefox/ ====== dessant Google's reCAPTCHA makes it impossible to use large portions of the web once you take reasonable measures to protect your privacy. The challenge will continuously fail, despite you spen...
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Shunning Amazon, Booksellers Resist a Transformation - arvinds http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/technology/shunning-amazon-booksellers-resist-a-transformation.html?ref=technology ====== ilaksh Why do we tolerate the middle men at all? There are actually a number of easy ways to sell digital books online without an Am...
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Differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x, with examples - rasbt http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.html ====== ak217 "Now, in Python 3, we finally have Unicode (utf-8) strings, and 2 byte classes: byte and bytearrays." No, they are Unicode strings. utf-8 is an encoding, and only co...
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The Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin” - jstoiko http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin ====== Lazare Regardless of whether Craig Wright is Nakamoto, there's an interesting story here, and I'm looking forward to it coming out. Someone has spent ...
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Why developers should be force-fed state machines - Titanous http://www.shopify.com/technology/3383012-why-developers-should-be-force-fed-state-machines ====== pacemkr This is mostly a description of state, not of state machines. Status, published, or paid fields on your objects have little to do with state machines ...
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A First Look at BankSimple - ahhrrr http://banksimple.com/blog/BankSimple/a-first-look-at-BankSimple/ ====== ThomPete As someone who have worked a lot for banks and actually already done some of this work let me offer a viewpoint. Last year my company managed to get a large Danish bank to implement tracking into thei...
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Open-sourcing bioinstruments - homarp https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/open-sourcing-bioinstruments/ ====== sinab My name is Sina Booeshaghi a second year PhD student at Caltech and I built and designed the poseidon system (with the help of Eduardo Beltrame, Jase Gehring, Dylan Bannon, and Lior Pachter) in...
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Putin among Nobel Peace nominees - veganarchocap http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-nobel-peace-idUSBREA231R920140304 ====== bigd lol. They also tried to convince stockholm to give one to Berlusconi few years ago [http://silvioperilnobel.blogspot.com/](http://silvioperilnobel.blogspot.com/) The best part...
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Barack Obama: Women are better leaders than men - drodil https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50805822 ====== pmdulaney Women may be better leaders than men, in general, but each person has the right to be treated as an individual, not as a member of a group (whether based on sex, race, etc.). ------ Bostonian If Obam...
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“How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul” - OrwellianChild https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/how-amazon-took-seattles-soul.html ====== jorblumesea Old Seattle was an interesting place, but also a much rougher place. The SLU was mostly warehouses, junkies and prostitutes. South Seattle was the real hood, not the semi-t...
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Show HN: I created a social network to share geotagged recipes - zerobudgetdev http://snapaliciousapp.com/ ====== TheSmoke i'm a big fan of world cuisine and i really would love a web site (some might like an app) to browse recipes categorized by region / country. if all the recipes would go through someone who's go...
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Apple Claims Amazon Improperly Using ‘App Store’ Trademark - macco http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/apple-sues-amazon-com-over-use-of-app-store-trademark.html ====== macco Can you really trademark something generic like "App Store" in the US? Maybe somebody should trademark a "Software Store".
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It’s Goodbye QWERTY, Hello Emojis as Apple Rethinks the Keyboard - personjerry http://www.wsj.com/articles/its-goodbye-qwerty-hello-emojis-as-apple-redesigns-the-keyboard-1476869408 ====== cloudsloth Terrible headline. In the article it looks like Apple is replacing key markings with an e-ink display. Sounds expensiv...
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Startuplet - constructive bounds on startup ideas - akhavr http://startuplet.com ====== battle_cruiser Looks very promising!
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CIA and NSA Directors Blame the Media for Terrorists Using Encryption - magoghm https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160225/12440333712/cia-nsa-directors-blame-media-terrorists-using-encryption.shtml ====== SCAQTony What does the NSA/CIA/FBI/DHS, the Pentagon, Senate, and House of representatives want? Do they want all...
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It’s time to grow up. - wellboy http://appreneur-diaries.com/its-time-to-grow-up ====== Throwadev It's nice that you blog your thoughts, but I think posts like this are more suitable for twitter than HN. What are others going to learn from this post? You are just announcing that you are doing something else, there's...
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Ron Minnich's 196-node Gumstix Overo cluster - jff http://picasaweb.google.com/rminnich/StrongboxAtSC10?authkey=Gv1sRgCJbWpcfci73HxwE# ====== jff A few notes: * This uses the Gumstix Stagecoach modules, each of which can hold 7 Overo processors. * Every shelf is a self-contained unit with a power supply and ethern...
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines - todayiamme http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGDesignProcess/XHIGDesignProcess.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002718-TPXREF101 ====== harrybr Nice quote (from the 7th paragraph) "Recognize that, as an application devel...
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Code Quality - gkya http://xkcd.com/1513/ ====== nickysielicki I sincerely doubt that being self-taught has anything to do with how well clean your code style is. ------ NicoJuicy My self thaught code is prettier then my work code ( deadlines @work, perfectionism at home) ~~~ gkya Are you equating «self-taught» with...
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How the Gates Foundation Reflects the Good and the Bad of “Hacker Philanthropy” - pavornyoh https://theintercept.com/2015/11/25/how-the-gates-foundation-reflects-the-good-and-the-bad-of-hacker-philanthropy/ ====== imh >How might Gates spend its money more wisely? McGoey offers little guidance on this. This is the cru...
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The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages - rmoriz http://www.vwgroupsupply.com/b2b/vwb2b_folder/supply2public/en/die_plattform/sicherheit_und_technik.html ====== FuzzyDunlop One time a few years ago I was contracted to redesign a large Mercedes dealership's website. They recommended IE6 ...
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Not So Fast Public Cloud: Big Players Still Run Privately - wattersjames http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/17/not-so-fast-public-cloud-big-players-still-run-privately/?utm_campaign=BackType&utm_medium=bt.io-twitter&utm_source=direct-bt.io&utm_content=backtype-tweetcount ====== clemesha "The real success of the...
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Smart contracts: Turing completeness and reality - CarolineW https://hackernoon.com/smart-contracts-turing-completeness-reality-3eb897996621#.4844vm8li ====== mathiasrw Thanks for a great article!
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Animated Engines - streblo http://www.animatedengines.com/ ====== cousin_it Fascinating. And I had no idea that most engines could be explained in a 2D picture, without the need to go 3D. ------ 10ren Looks cool, so I feel churlish complaining, but I'd prefer it if the speed was varied by changing the distance/rota...
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Naughty Dog still uses Lisp in its videogames - kazuya http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20100315_354802.html ====== zephjc <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp> seems to contradict that - they seem to be moving to C++ for future projects, which is kind of a shame. ~~~ acg The post appear...
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Hacking Froyo - benbinary https://medium.com/p/9f44f47ea4a0 ====== iwasphone This frozen yogurt shop has a really simple and straightforward onboarding technique.
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Show HN: AN ACT CREATING THE MONTANA PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT - client4 https://legiscan.com/MT/text/HB400/id/729696 ====== client4 I wrote a bill with my friend Representative Daniel Zolnikov in 2013 to try and fix data privacy in Montana. Montana as a state provides its citizens with a constitutional right to pr...
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We Should Abolish Silicon Valley - elsewhen https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xzq9/why-we-should-abolish-silicon-valley ====== mikejulietbravo This is a garbage take
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Show HN: Pinecone – Synthetic protein design, a high level genetic design tool - jfarlow https://serotiny.bio ====== jfarlow Justin here - cofounder of Serotiny. I'd be happy to field questions and take criticism and I am otherwise curious what you all think. Our goal is to make the design of powerful genetic tool as...
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$ 300 3D Printer, the Makible Makibox - Cerillio http://blog.makible.com/makibox-the-300-3d-printer-first-glimpse ====== cloneofsnake To give this a little more context, we're not just trying to make a cheap 3D printer. Our goal is to make the first consumer friendly, sub $300 level 3D printer so that 3D printing ca...
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What do you think of my Front-End? - tlong http://www.happyapps.io/features ====== haris3301 Looks cool.. :) ~~~ tlong Thanks :)
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A Crucial Clue the MH370 Investigators Missed - tomohawk http://www.thedrive.com/news/26785/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-5-years-later-the-crucial-clue-all-the-mh370-investigators-overlooked ====== ablation > "Whoever took MH370 was determined, aggressive, and far more sophisticated > than investigators have been will...
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Ask HN: What can I do to accelerate scientific research? - mariushn I love science &amp; tech and how these improve lives. As a software engineer&#x2F;entrepreneur, in the last years I thought of starting&#x2F;contributing to some projects which scientists would find useful. Now I&#x27;m ready to work full time on thi...
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Chasing Programming Fads - AstralRabbit http://hyperdimensionalrabbit.blogspot.com/ ====== WalterSear Ruby vs Javascript is a poor example, that comes across as somewhat scented with sour grapes. The requirements of the work to be done keep changing as technology grows. Ruby is dying because, right now, it makes mo...
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OpenBSD backdoor claims: bugs found during code audit - shin_lao http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/43995-openbsd-backdoor-claims-code-audit-begin ====== DupDetector Discussion from the submission 4 days ago: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014649>
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Hardly any coders among GCSE ICT entrants despite student increase - Codeson http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3466636/hardly-any-coders-among-gcse-ict-entrants-despite-student-increase/?olo=rss ====== danielrmay This article outlines (one of) the biggest problems with schooling here in the UK - the source...
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Disabled dog runs for the first time thanks to 3D-printed legs - lelf http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/18/7414591/disabled-dog-runs-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-3d-printed-legs ====== fernly Awwwww. ------ moonshinefe That's pretty great, thanks for sharing.
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Microsoft completes aquisition of Yammer - justauser http://blog.yammer.com/blog/2012/07/yammer-starts-a-new-chapter-as-part-of-microsoft.html How long will they keep on a Java stack before converting over to Dot Net? ====== justauser How long before Yammer moves off of Java and on to DotNet?
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Ask HN: What updates are you most excited about? - coffeymug I feel like this is an incredible time for tech and software progress right now.<p>There will be a stable branch of Wine 4.0 not too long from now. The Halo Online team is gearing up to put out their 0.6 release of ElDewrito. Linux Mint 19 is due in the next...
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Ask HN: What are ways to improve public speaking? - xcoding ====== pmdulaney You will reach your audience best if your tone communicates competence and humility in equal measure. If you've ever been an athlete you know how much energy you receive from the spectators. The same is true of public speaking, though it does...
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