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Flight ET702 hijacked – live Twitter feed - lars512 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ET702 ====== rdl At least it wasn't an ET961 situation this time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961) (Hijackers were too dumb to understand fuel l...
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Bye bye Symfony.. Hello Zend - madmotive http://blog.kwiqq.com/2008/08/12/announcement-bye-bye-symfony-hello-zend/ I've not used PHP for a while but was quite intrigued by this switch. What's the opinion of the PHP developers amongst you? ====== noodle i submitted this on his blog too, but i wanted to point out the ...
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Show HN: Coinerra – JavaScript Crypto Miner - andrei821 http://coinerra.com ====== mcintyre1994 "We add an intermediary 15s step" "Add a timer to lock items which your users can unlock by mining" "you can delay showing the results for 5-10s to mine crypto" "giving your users the awesome experience they deserve." Awe...
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Ask HN: Any good book recommendations? - pg_bot Can be technical or non-technical. Looking for a few things to read while taking some time off. ====== onion2k I've recently finished _Ready Player One_ by Ernest Cline which is an enjoyably nostalgic novel based on computer games and 80s trivia.
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Steve Jobs talks consultants, hiring, and leaving Apple 1992 - DonnyV http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/steve-jobs-talks-consultants-hiring-and-leaving-apple-in-unearthed-1992-talk/ ====== DonnyV Here is the full YouTube video. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9Fd2mEnI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9F...
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Wonobo - India's answer to Google Street View - naren87 http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/wonobo-indias-answer-to-google-street-view/article5236876.ece ====== alphakappa They deserve to be congratulated for coming up with a alternative to Street View. That said, this product is all over the place...
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The danger of "language" in programming (2009) - phowat http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/language ====== kbenson I think it's worth bringing Perl into this discussion, as a language designed by linguists to to make it easier to express yourself in ways similar to how you think. Thinking about this, it puts the followi...
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Startups Entrepreneurs —  You’re Never Fundraising - greg387 https://medium.com/p/10c6d359f8d4 ====== geekrax Very inspirational post !
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Megaupload Raid ‘Destroyed’ (Way) More Than 10,000,000 Legal Files - grej http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-raid-destroyed-more-than-10000000-legal-files-131018/ ====== grej TL:DR - A Northeastern University study shows that with the shutdown of Megaupload, the U.S. Government took down at least 10.75 million legit...
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Warren Buffet quotes on thought provoking topics - shahzaibkhan http://www.theideallab.com/blog/inspiration/warren-buffet-quotes-on-thought-provoking-topics/ ====== ed209 “Do not pull all your eggs in one basket” Problem is, most of us only have one egg. Whether that one egg is backing your own startup, taking one...
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Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali to Receive 2012 Turing Award - tdrnd http://www.acm.org/news/featured/awards/turing-award-2012 ====== ScottBurson Congratulations especially to Shafi Goldwasser for being, if I have counted correctly, only the third female Turing Award recipient (after Fran Allen and Barbara Liskov). ...
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Ask YC: How to Build an RSS Aggregator? - ridertech What do you recommend for reading and parsing 100s of RSS/Atom feeds on an hourly basis?<p>I'm able to write a custom script in PHP or preferably Rails, but wondering if there is a sweet app or tutorial that others have used and liked. ====== billturner Look at Sam R...
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Reflex: Practical Functional Reactive Programming (part 1) - mightybyte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvkcskJbc4 ====== mightybyte This talk gives one of the best descriptions I've ever seen of the motivations for why FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) is useful. All the other explanations I've seen are too much...
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Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon (2014) - Schiphol http://www.nature.com/news/theoretical-physics-complexity-on-the-horizon-1.15285 ====== legel “The black hole's interior is protected by an armour of computational complexity.” “Things fall because there is a tendency toward complexity.” "...the black ...
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First indie game created for the Kindle - allenp http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/10/triple-town-released-for-amazon-kindle.html ====== allenp I thought this was a good explanation of the design constraints and their motivation for using that platform.
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Mark Twain on Risk Analysis - yan http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/mark_twain_on_r.html ====== liquidben This sort of thread would be remiss to not include the quote popularized by Twain about there being three types of falsehoods: "Lies, damn lies, and statistics" Amusingly enough, it's got its own Wi...
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12-year-old boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous - rake http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/10/26/12-year-old-canadian-boy-admits-to-hacking-police-and-government-sites-for-anonymous/ ====== jcutrell I think the end of the argument is a bit short-sighted. [edit: not "argument" \- "article"...
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Why Nokia "lost" to Apple in the US mobile war - ilitirit http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/07/obituary-for-opk-wall-street-is-a-cruel-mistress-nokia-searching-for-ceo.html ====== ZeroGravitas "Nokia should adopt Android" is the new "Apple should license Mac OS X". It is the worst possible business a...
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Face Masks and Politics of Vulnerability - Kinrany https://strelkamag.com/en/article/face-masks-and-politics-of-vulnerability ====== Kinrany I wish the article was shorter. Still, this is an interesting topic. "By wearing a face mask, you publicly announce that the conditions of your existence do not end at the tip o...
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Electronic Reader Running Doom 2 - jitbit http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/electronic-reader-running-doom-2.html ====== JonnieCache Nice to see the refresh rates are steadily increasing on e-ink displays. Anyone got any thoughts on what kind of growth rate function we're seeing here? Does it fit moore's law? ~~~ electr...
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GraphQL Fragments Are the Best Match for UI Components - samerbuna https://blog.manifold.co/graphql-fragments-are-the-best-match-for-ui-components-72b8f61c20fe ====== exogen One thing I keep running into is that for a few of my app ideas, I'm not really interested in just having static queries known at build time, lik...
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Aviary.com/URL to screen capture the web page at URL - RyanMcGreal http://aviary.com/http://news.ycombinator.com/news ====== ejs Did not work for anything I tried...
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Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?" - __Joker http://edge.org/response-detail/25366 ====== btipling This "essentialism" applies to gender as well. Not just gender but sexual orientation and even biological sex which some sociologists and anthropologists distinguish as different...
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"Conquer English to Make China Stronger!” - lurkage http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/28/080428fa_fact_osnos ====== jimbokun One could probably make a career out of traveling to the latest emerging world power every few years. In the 90s, going to Japan to teach English was a huge deal. Everyone seemed willi...
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Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code - bkudria http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Seen before: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166555> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174333>
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OVH giving 10 000 servers for free to test new USA DC - GBiT http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml ====== GBiT They giving 90 every day (Intel Core i3 2130 2x2(HT)x3.4+ GHz - 16 GB RAM, 2x1 TB HDD - 100Mbps). Servers will be active till August for free to use. 1\. You need to follow their twitt...
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Yum Brands just spent $375M to finally take on McDonald's hamburgers - hhs https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pizza-hut-owner-yum-brands-just-spent-375-million-to-finally-take-on-mc-donalds-hamburgers-154129133.html ====== nightfly I don't think the "lucrative premium burger segment" is how to take on McDonald's. And I do...
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Homegrown master-master replication for a NoSQL database - danikin https://medium.com/@Vadim.Popov/fault-tolerant-processing-of-10m-oauth-tokens-with-tarantool-189323fc5236 ====== danikin Wow! Is it really working?
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Map of Silicon Alley's Early-Stage Tech Investor Ecosystem - davidblerner http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2010/06/map-of-silicon-alleys-earlystage-tech-venture-ecosystem.html In that I am a heavy user of mapping software and think programs like MindNode are excellent visual aids, I decided to put together...
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Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Captionss - jbranchaud http://captionss.com ====== woah Why is this a plugin? I'm likely only going to be using one of these types of captions, which I can write in about 5 lines of stylus. The rest of the options that you added to make this a 'real open source pr...
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Calico, Google’s Anti-Aging Company, Announces New Research Facility - dnetesn http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/googles-anti-aging-company-announces-new-research-facility/?ref=technology ====== exratione This is another point of reinforcement for my view that this effort is going to look much like a mix of the...
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Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks? - gghyslain I have been following several startup news sites in the past few years, and my bookmark list on Chrome is now huge and almost un-manageable. Having recently suscribed to weekly newsletters (Mattermark, A16z) does not help either.<p>Considering the amount of knowled...
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Ask HN: Can't get a job because poor communication skills - rantaccount I was let go from my last job because I couldn&#x27;t fit into the &quot;office culture&quot;, and now I&#x27;m really struggling to get a job because of &quot;poor communication skills&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve been looking for 4 months, with 90% of my ...
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Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970) [pdf] - musha68k http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf ====== paulajohnson This paper doesn't just describe the waterfall, it explains why it doesn't work and proposes a more iterative approach, albeit with only two iterations. ...
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There's one clear, immediate way to fix L.A.'s traffic: Tolls - jseliger http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-traffic-toll-lane-freeway-20170303-story.html ====== Gibbon1 This is great. The rabble gets to pay for the roads. And the wealthy get to drive on them without some fool in his 1998 Honda Civic get...
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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - coriander http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/announcing-oreilly-answers.html ====== tseabrooks I think this is clearly a response to StackOverflow. If I can get a lot of high quality content on the sorts of things O'Reilly publishes books about in a free online place (StackOverflow) w...
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Show HN: My First Step Towards Being a Digital Nomad - veermanhas https://www.crumpledpapr.com/post/i-will-develop-10-single-page-websites-for-free-my-first-step-towards-being-a-digital-nomad ====== qnsi This shouldn't use Show HN tag. also We Couldn’t Find This Page Check out some of the other great posts in this blo...
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ChemBot: Robot morphs between solid and semi-liquid states - PieSquared http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/irobots-chembot.php ====== dnsworks Have you seen this boy?
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Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Your Phone Does. Geo-Tracking Heats Up - kkleiner http://singularityhub.com/2010/08/09/do-you-know-where-your-children-are-your-phone-does-geo-tracking-heats-up/ ====== gamble I wonder what Orwell's publisher would have said if he'd written 1984 using the premise that every citiz...
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Bram Cohen on the Go language - BarkMore http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/71760.html ====== willvarfar Great article, shame its not got the attention
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Beat the clock: the surprising psychology behind being perpetually late - hhs https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/01/surprising-psychology-behind-being-perpetually-late ====== gcatalfamo Not much psychology and just observations. The premise was stronger than the actual insights.
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Ask HN: Is an Autonomy Fund a viable business model? - michaelochurch Here’s a software business model that helps engineers to retain control of their companies and aim for excellence, instead of having everything they build get hijacked by MBAs. It encourages engineers to build profitable companies rather than “get b...
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Why do Linux distros have different package names? - FooBarWidget http://gwan.ch/faq#packages ====== CaioAlonso With a collective market share of 1%, I find it hard to believe that the reason Linux distributions use incompatible package names is to get revenue from usage statistics. Maybe we should use Hanlon's raz...
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Create No-JavaScript friendly sites - g-garron https://www.garron.blog/posts/no-javascript-sites.html ====== mdoms I absolutely agree that JS is over-used, but for anything other than very static content I generally am not interested in kowtowing to the strict "no JS" folks. Javascript has become a fundamental part of...
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LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census - mopoke http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/21/lulzsec-supposedly-claims-its-biggest-coup-yet-the-entire-uk-2011-census/ ====== BasDirks LulzSec The Lulz Boat _Oh well, just because we want to waste government and local authority investiga...
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Ask HN: Commercial projects versus open source? - theoverworked I find potential employers pushing open source (github activity, etc) projects a lot. I feel this discourages me from working on commercial (closed source) projects.<p>How does one balance closed source work while maintaining a &quot;public&quot; presence...
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Mumtris - Tetris in M - pkoper https://github.com/pkoper/mumtris Only for ancient hackers: Tetris in MUMPS, implementation is GT.M specific. ====== sp332 To add insult to injury, it uses 100% CPU by design :)
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The Growth Ponzi Scheme (2011) - minikites https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme ====== lisper Before someone says something like, "This is why we need to colonize Mars" remember: the laws of physics do not permit sustained exponential growth, full stop. Even with arbitrarily advanced technology that all...
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Inside Faraday Future - coloneltcb http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/19/9761852/faraday-future-car-company-interview-tour-electric-tesla-competitor ====== shostack One thing I really worry about with the future of cars is ownership. If you are renting your car, you cannot do as you like with it, and if you stop paying,...
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JavaScript's “new Date()” causing 90% of Alibaba's internal compatibility issues - mrrrgn http://www.mrrrgn.com/20/ ====== tdy721 Everything with timezones in a disaster, and the solution always seems to be a unix timestamp that is converted to human readable form at the last possible moment... ~~~ lightblade Nope, u...
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Visual Studio Code 1.16 released - runesoerensen https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_16 ====== bopcrane I'm excited for the JS refactoring and the color picker. VS code is looking better all the time! ~~~ tracker1 Can't agree more... each version adds at least one very useful feature that I use regularly. They a...
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General Electric: A Bigger Fraud Than Enron - airstrike https://www.gefraud.com/ ====== ma2rten Previous Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705449](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705449) ------ Eiriksmal I clicked the link to download the report. The disclosure you have to agree to is _very_...
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The Evolution of Ember.js at Intercom - HatchedLake721 https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/evolution-of-ember-at-intercom/ ====== mehulkar The ease of updating Ember apps is really great. I've helped take apps through the early 2.x to latest 3.x. There _has_ been some tedious work involved, but on the whole, I usuall...
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Is Github down? - AznHisoka Is it down for anyone besides me? ====== runarb Down for me also.. And for [http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github.com](http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github.com) ------ dbond Yep
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How Internet Explorer cost a website a month's salary - voodooalerts http://www.voodooalerts.com/blog/is-internet-explorer-costing-your-site-money-heres-how-it-cost-one-site-owner-a-months-salary/ ====== x0n Slashdot moron clickbait. TL;DR Newsflash: idiot doesn't test his website on known buggy legacy browsers and ...
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Ask HN: What precise problem does machine learning solve? - Tomminn Can someone give me a precise specification of the problem that machine learning actually solves. This would be useful so anytime someone suggests it, I can start my line of reasoning with &quot;the problem machine learning solves is...&quot;<p>Analog...
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Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? - phn1x Just purchased my first macbook and I'm already digging it. When it comes to Windows and Linux I have a standard set of apps for both programming and security auditing that I load up. I know what's available and where to get it.<p>With this new mac I've already loaded u...
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Sideline, a CoffeeScript shell for your server - TrevorBurnham http://labnotes.org/2011/09/01/sideline-a-coffeescript-shell-for-your-server/ ====== TrevorBurnham Looks really nice and simple. Would've been great to have for Node Knockout.
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This VC says Dropbox's recent moves show why companies often fail to innovate - tim333 http://www.businessinsider.in/This-VC-says-Dropboxs-recent-moves-show-why-big-companies-often-fail-to-innovate/articleshow/51449745.cms ====== nostrademons It's also possible that DropBox is planning to get into the Cloud business, ...
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Continuous Delivery - rdegges http://www.rdegges.com/cd/ ====== mh- Nice post, Randall. But I had trouble buying the premise of: 30 minutes later I had configured my CD software, Jenkins [..] _Nothing_ in Jenkins can be configured in just a half hour. ;) ~~~ rdegges Thanks! I wrote this po...
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Meet WildCat, The Galloping Robot Animal And Future Soldier's Companion - RougeFemme http://www.fastcompany.com/3019356/fast-feed/meet-wildcat-the-galloping-robot-animal-and-future-soldiers-companion?partner=newsletter ====== bengotow You know this is incredibly impressive, but I still wonder what the practical use ...
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Numbers in Action - dmor http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/numbers-in-action/ ====== martythemaniak I want to thank you for posting this, as I find it very helpful. I understand why no one likes posting numbers about their company (we don't), but it is extremely helpful to be able to compare your progress, or h...
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A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education - cwan http://chronicle.com/article/A-Perfect-Storm-in/126451/ ====== salemh A paragraph detailing the "return" or diminishing returns of a Undergraduate degree in more recent years (with differences per degree choice) would have been relevant.
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Facebook’s HTML5 mistake? - shawndumas http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/09/facebooks_html5.html ====== danboarder A question mark in the title of an article usually indicates that the opposite can be assumed true. This article is no exception; the author makes the conclusion that HTML5 is not going anywhe...
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Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes - philips http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/container-runtime-interface-cri-in-kubernetes.html ====== vidarh I can't get over how much of a smell the requirement of an RPC interface in order to interface with tools that may or may not have any good reason to be running o...
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Judge grants Apple an injunction against the Galaxy Nexus - Cadsby http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/breaking-judge-grants-apple-an-injunction-against-the-galaxy-nexus/ ====== thechut These patent wars don't help anyone but Apple, and directly hurts consumers. I don't think this is what anyone wants. It actuall...
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Want to scale? Make sure your LTV is greater than your CPA - DanLivesHere http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/ltv-cpa.html ====== alain94040 Unusual for Fred Wilson to repost spammy content. Did you count how many times the newsletter - by the way you should subscribe - is mentioned? And then the content was very basic...
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Home rating app - bhattij http://www.homr.mobi ====== bhattij HomR finds the hottest trending ideas for your home so you don't waste your evenings or weekends trawling through home stores looking for inspiration - ever. Simply download, connect and ask from the palm of your hand! Swipe left if the picture is ordinary ...
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Why is the speed of light so slow? - djsumdog https://www.space.com/37244-why-is-the-speed-of-light-so-slow.html ====== basicplus2 "So now that we've ascertained that light is not fast but rather is excruciatingly slow, we can now turn to a more pressing and difficult matter: Why?" For me it is not that light is slow...
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Replication is bad for decentralized storage, part 1 - jtolds https://storj.io/blog/2018/11/replication-is-bad-for-decentralized-storage-part-1-erasure-codes-for-fun-and-profit/ ====== wmf I'm not sure why this is controversial; Mojo Nation was doing this in 2001 and there have been tons of papers on the advantages of...
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Google's AirPlay - daspecster http://youtube.com/yt/sendtotv/ ====== joshstrange Over Quota This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later. ------ daspecster The two way communication is interesting.
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Google Wallet for Digital Goods - dannyr http://www.google.com/wallet/business/digital-goods/index.html ====== hayksaakian Cool, does anyone know if the Google tax on purchases is more/less/ the same as Google play?
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Device Recognition and Indoor Localization - MrQuincle http://www.annevanrossum.com/blog/2015/09/15/a-really-smart-power-outlet/ ====== alexdm0 How open source are these things? Can we program them ourselves? ~~~ MrQuincle Absolutely. It is open hardware, open-source firmware, open-source apps. Plus the devices have ...
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Swiss banks to divulge names of wealthy US tax avoiders, pay billions in fines - gmuslera http://rt.com/business/swiss-banks-disclose-assets-196/ ====== mindcrime Weak sauce. There was a time when you could trust the Swiss to stick to their privacy / confidentiality principles, but they caved into pressure from the ...
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3D printed, trainable robot arm with Arduino controller - bjansn http://boingboing.net/2013/11/11/3d-printed-trainable-robot-ar.html ====== jsumrall The 3D printing of the parts is cool, but the overall implementation is not out-of-this-world awesome. Still, neat. Good job. I recommend some more work on the training ...
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Book Review - 'Intelligence and How to Get It,' by Richard E. Nisbett - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Holt-t.html?ref=review&pagewanted=all ====== tokenadult Good review of a good book. The author, Nisbett, is very meticulous about citing primary research sources in his book, even though it is wr...
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Is CSS Turing Complete? - cordite http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-complete ====== bilalq One of the answers towards the bottom linked to an incredibly interesting read on programming using nothing but Procs[1]. I found it to be incredibly fascinating, and it even goes into implementing FizzBuz...
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Handbook of Applied Cryptography (2001) - rfreytag http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ ====== JoachimSchipper This is _old_ cryptography. This book should not be quite as bad for its readers as Schneier's Applied Cryptography (which includes many ciphers which were known to be broken at the time, with little hint of that fa...
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Hot or Not: Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew [pdf] - lelf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/ccs06hotornot.pdf ====== awda Tl;dr: By placing load on suspected hidden service hosts (over normal, non- anonymous IP), one can then measure the change in clock skew (as a result of higher CPU / chassis tempe...
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Some doubts about GPL, licensing and the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phone - DarkUranium http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2015/03/some-doubts-about-gpl-licensing-and-bq.html ====== noahl This appears to actually be an issue with the kernel, which I believe is the same as the kernel in the Android version of the de...
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I Saw This Coming All Along - davidedicillo http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/31/android-open ====== bediger Apologetics (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics>) anyone?
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More people on S.F. streets newly homeless - bootload http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/16/BA5N14OGCD.DTL&type=printable ====== wyclif Truly sad, esp. the stories of small children sleeping on the street with no food. It's also frightening to me. You've all read recently about major knowledge ...
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Why I left Google (2012) - Hitchhiker http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-left-google.aspx ====== jrockway This is from March of _last year_ , BTW, and has been discussed numerous other times on HN. (Ironically, there have been so many other articles titled "Why I left Google" on HN that I c...
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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods - jcdavis http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/ ====== btilly Great article. There are just a few things that I would add to it. 1\. The metrics comment could not be more true. You cannot think hard enough about the actu...
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SingPath is the most FUN way to practice software languages - tea-anemone http://www.singpath.com/eli/index.html ====== koopajah Could be nice to have one or two examples before having to sign up. I will not give my gmail and/or facebook information without being sure I would use the site.
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Some frustrated publishers are sitting out Google’s GDPR meetings - ilamont https://digiday.com/media/no-one-thinks-good-idea-frustrated-publishers-sitting-googles-gdpr-meetings/ ====== Iv Judging by the ripples it causes, it feels like GDPR is a well done piece of legislation that will actually destroy some of the mo...
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Taiwan has millions of visitors from China and only 45 coronavirus cases. How? - ericdanielski https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/10/21171722/taiwan-coronavirus-china-social-distancing-quarantine ====== The_suffocated The article's title is VERY misleading. After the fifth covid-19 case was confirmed in Taiwan ...
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COVFEFE Act would make social media a presidential record - obi1kenobi http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/337416-covefe-act-would-make-social-media-a-presidential-record ====== dmix > "President Trump’s frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account > as a means of official communication is unprecedente...
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U.S. recession odds rise to 40-45% in six months: DoubleLine's Gundlach - mataug https://www.reuters.com/article/us-funds-doubleline-gundlach/us-recession-odds-rise-to-40-45-in-six-months-doublelines-gundlach-idUSKCN1TE36Q ====== StevePerkins I'm surprised this sort of thing is on HN's front page. Yes, we are on the ...
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Has anyone read The Fourth Turning? What's your take? - jkush http://www.fourthturning.com/html/fourth_turning.html ====== hernan7 Some kind of cute parlor game. Does the theory work for countries other than the USA?
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Amazon Developing a Free, Ad-Supported Version of Prime Video - leoharsha2 http://adage.com/article/digital/amazon-developing-a-free-ad-supported-version-prime/311273/ ====== lithos The article mentioned that in order to sign on you would need to guarantee X number of hours per week. I don't see the normal YouTube cre...
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How relevant is UML modeling today? - blazzerbg http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2009/09/12/how-relevant-is-uml-modeling-today.aspx ====== makecheck I've been writing software for 20 years, and aside from my employer paying for a course on UML a few years ago when it was all the rage, I have never, ev...
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McCain signs on to Democrats' Facebook ad disclosure bill - tareqak http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/facebook-ad-disclosure-bill-243914 ====== tareqak Techmeme summary: _Ashley Gold / Politico: Senators Warner and Klobuchar to file bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, brin...
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CouchDB Conf Videos - nslater https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/couchdb_conf_videos ====== dybskiy Here are all the videos embedded on the conf site: [http://conf.couchdb.org/](http://conf.couchdb.org/) ------ cardamomo I'm glad to see so many new goings-on in the world of CouchDB. As an outside admirer, I was...
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Ask HN: What is the SAAS you currently pay for and don't mind paying for? - deadcoder0904 In addition what is the price you pay for it like monthly. For example, I pay for Netflix &amp; WWE Network $9.99&#x2F;month. ====== Doches I pay $30 / month for Offramp ([https://offramphq.com/](https://offramphq.com/)), an auto...
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Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep - guessmyname https://www.udacity.com/courses/career ====== s2g Anything to avoid actually fixing their interviewing style.
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Tesla vs Alameda County [pdf] - xoxoy https://wholemars.com/alameda-lawsuit.pdf ====== creato Neighboring counties have already allowed work like construction to resume. Is a car factory really that different in terms of risk? Just based on the sheer size of the facilities, I can't imagine the density of people is tha...
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Deploying Rails Applications book by Ezra is finished and available - pius http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/02/21/at-long-last-my-deploying-rails-applications-book-is-done ====== Xichekolas Amusing that this finally comes out... now that Ezra has developed Merb. Not that I am complaining... It's nice to have a book fr...
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Ask HN: How can foreigners get a job in the USA? - k-mcgrady I was reading another recent Ask HN about living and working in the US [0]. A question that came up a few times is &quot;How do you plan on legally working in the US?&quot;. I&#x27;m sure there are people here who have experience with moving to the US and ...
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Physicists Criticize Stephen Wolfram’s ‘Theory of Everything’ - headalgorithm https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-criticize-stephen-wolframs-theory-of-everything/ ====== forgot_again >"I think the popular notion that physicists are all in search of the eureka moment in which they will discover the th...
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