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Pelagic Thoroughbreds - quickfox https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/2/pelagic-thoroughbreds ====== hprotagonist “pelagic”, for those wondering, means “relating to the open seas”. i’m mostly familiar with the term from “pelagic zone”, which is the upper stratum of the water column where most fish live. ------ C...
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Ask HN: Why is “My Bathroom Mirror is Smarter Than Yours” being posted so much? - davelnewton This has been posted so many times-possibly dozens. Why? How?<p>Is someone trying to game this Medium story for some reason? If so, why does HN keep allowing it to appear over and over?<p>(14 times at last count, with tweaky ...
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Show HN: Get anonymous feedback from your colleagues - ali_ibrahim Hi everyone,<p>We have developed a platform to help tech professionals solicit anonymous feedback from colleagues and discover tech content relevant to their skills. Check us out at www.pleasantfish.com<p>We&#x27;ll be super happy if you find it useful...
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A Taxonomy of Internet Chum (2015) - firloop https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/ ====== Bartweiss > _Clicking on a chumlink — even one on the site of a relatively high-class > chummer, like nymag.com — is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser > chum. The boxes are daisy-chain...
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On Hiring and FizzBuzz - scrabble http://topherlandry.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/on-hiring-and-fizzbuzz/ ====== thebear I honestly don't know if it's the mathematician in me, or if I'm just a cranky person, or if I actually have a valid point, but if I were given the FizzBuzz task the way it is worded here, I would re...
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Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance by gender [Preprint] - jasonhoyt https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ ====== kriro I like how this paper is constructed. They form a bunch of hypotheses and test them and aren't afraid to be wrong. Rather refreshing since the typical papers I read are more of the "here'...
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Tablet dollars: Android passed Apple for first time in Q3 - arunitc http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/15/apple-ipad-huberty-idc/ ====== codelust Notable point being this part: "Working from the tracking numbers IDC released two weeks ago". Extrapolation, like this, has very limited use and is vaguely indicative at...
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How Secure your iOS Apps are? - subhransu http://www.slideshare.net/arya.subhransu/hacking-and-securing-ios-apps-part-1 ====== subhransu I will be talking more on the security part in our next iOS developer meet-up in Singapore. If you are in Singapore on 13th, September drop by and say hello to us. <https://www.fa...
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How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool - scarhill https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb ====== AznHisoka I used to work at Standard and Poors. They do media monitoring for lots of financial companies. When I joined, I thought they using state of the art tools to monito...
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“Don’t Move to Vancouver”: Why I Changed My Mind After 6 Months - notastartup http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cWVAfdoXLvgJ:www.anabellebf.com/dont-move-to-vancouver-why-i-changed-my-mind-after-6-months/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk ====== notastartup I lived here for 19 years and she hits every point per...
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LoRaWAN Energy Performance and Ambient Energy Harvesting - c0n5pir4cy https://www.stream-technologies.com/whitepapers/lorawan-energy-performance-and-ambient-energy-harvesting/ ====== c0n5pir4cy Full disclosure: I work for the company that is hosting the whitepaper. ~~~ 1001101 This is great stuff, thanks for sharing!...
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The Case for Getting Rid of Borders - mhb http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/get-rid-borders-completely/409501/?single_page=true ====== venomsnake Only if the people that come in are willing to assimilate into the culture that is the host. There are good reasons to keep some worldviews out of one's bo...
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Early employees take the most risk today - gyre007 https://medium.com/@tikhon/founders-it-s-not-1990-stop-treating-your-employees-like-it-is-523f48fe90cb#.c6u481pwn ====== jalopy Great, great article. I'd like to add: This, I think, is one of the big reasons why startups prefer hiring young people (ie, recent grads) ...
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Developer and Social Activism - rahulrrixe https://medium.com/p/4b31cbd4ce3c How small contribution using technology can makes big difference ====== rahulrrixe How small contribution using technology can makes big difference? and we developer have major role to play in the society.
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Ask HN: What is a good tech business model to start during a recession? - numakerg In the WeWTF article that&#x27;s currently on the front page, Scott Galloway mentions that the firms he started during recessions were more successful for these reasons:<p>1. an easier time finding talent<p>2. easier to control costs<p>...
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Google ML/AI Comic - jacquesm https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/ml-comic-1/ ====== siliconc0w Annnnd Martha still doesn't have a ml-solvable business problem identified with a large enough curated dataset to actually create a useful model. ~~~ baron_harkonnen That's not a problem at all! In the fortune 500 there a...
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Hotels Hammered by Coronavirus Offer 14-Day Quarantine Packages - djsumdog https://www.wsj.com/articles/hit-by-coronavirus-slowdown-hotels-try-catering-to-the-quarantined-11584624502 ====== jobigoud What about the staff? Are they still doing room service? What about when the guest leave, to the hospital or after the 1...
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The $2 million penalty clause - chaostheory http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/12/tom_offers_us_t.html?source=rss ====== jamess Ha! A wonderful example of why we have laws regarding unfair contract terms. I can't believe they found a lawyer either ignorant or optimistic enough to put this in. The reme...
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Functional Geometry - b-man http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/functional.html ====== jcl Neat. It might be interesting to try this with DrScheme, since it can display images inline in the repl. <http://docs.plt-scheme.org/quick/> <http://docs.plt-scheme.org/teachpack/image.html> ~~~ b-man In the same spirit I would r...
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U.S. officials believe Iran is behind recent cyberattacks - evo_9 http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/15/u-s-officials-believe-iran-is-behind-recent-cyberattacks/?hpt=hp_t1 ====== MaysonL Talk about burying the lede. Here's the last sentence: _"The unit was developed in response to American and Israeli cyberattacks...
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Star Simpson speaks out about how MIT treated her in LED case at Logan - kramarao https://medium.com/@starsandrobots/understandably-cause-for-alarm-1f0929be0615 ====== tehwebguy > So, I went directly to the best place I could think of: the very first place > I walked to after I was let free, was the Office of the Pres...
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Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think [video] - vmmenon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c ====== thefreeman It should be noted that the speaker is one of the lead developers at Naughty Dog, likely one of the greatest game studios of all time. Definitely recommend a watch. ------ kevingadd Th...
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Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware - probdist https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/ ====== grandmczeb Here's the bottom line for anyone who doesn't want to read the whole article. > Using a commercially available 28-nanometer ASIC process technology, we have > profiled (8, 1, 5...
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There should be a day every year for donating money to free apps - jcslzr ====== seekingcharlie Really? I mean, of all the things that one could donate money to... ------ aurora72 A similar thing might be done for e-books, too. Because e-books are sooner or later falling into torrent networks becoming available f...
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Release day economics - tbassetto http://uniformmotion.tumblr.com/post/9659997039/release-day-economics ====== gravitronic I always like music industry posts showing up on HN as it's my view that the startup industry is in some ways like the music industry of years past. Competition is fierce. Most start out workin...
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The Service Mesh: What Engineers Need to Know - scott_s https://servicemesh.io/ ====== ajessup One reason for the explosive interest in service mesh over the last 24 months that this article glosses over is that it's deeply threatening to a range of existing industries, that are now responding. Most immediately to AP...
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PyPy 1.9 Released - makeramen http://morepypy.blogspot.it/2012/06/pypy-19-yard-wolf.html ====== mark_l_watson That is impressive performance, and steady progress. I have a renewed interest in Python since all the work for a new customer is in Python. I usually use Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Java - but, I am findi...
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Why a FILE-BASED dependency manager rocks for C/C++ - MordodeMaru http://blog.biicode.com/file-based-cpp-dependency-manager/ ====== thewolas Because it was about f __*n time! Almost all new languages ship out with one as default. And C /C++ is the most used language in the world (or almost) ------ cza Read here and...
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Ask HN: Should I go into management despite of loving to code? - NumberCruncher Hi there! The last 3 years I used to work for a big telco as a senior data scientist and I was rehired by the VP of IT at one of my former employers. He did this because he used to work for the same big telco in the same department like I ...
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Ask HN: When do you containerize new projects? - jamesmaniscalco When you spin up a new project, how far do you go into containerization and similar abstraction before you actually start writing code?<p>I am planning on starting a new Django app after a few years out of &quot;the game&quot;. The last sites I worked on...
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The real reason why developers are awkward - swombat http://trogger.com/discussions/the-real-reason-why-developers-are-awkward ====== pmjordan Maybe this is true for some people. I can't really find myself in this article, though. I'm pretty sure I remember finding certain everyday social situations difficult when I...
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Apple Store Update - aeolus42 http://store.apple.com/ ====== therealarmen Assuming that the online store makes up 10% of total sales, Apple is losing approximately $35,000 per second that their website is down.
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What's the best way to meet a technical co-founder? - ronnwer Hi what's the best way to find a technical co-founder? ====== zv Here <http://programmermeetdesigner.com/> Some forums (Joel, etc). On a side note: I'm interested in serious projects. Mail me paavels@gmail.com ~~~ ronnwer where r u from? ------ sidmitr...
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GDPR: Privacy and data protection in mobile applications - _o_ https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/privacy-and-data-protection-in-mobile-applications ====== _o_ "Moreover, the document focuses on the concept of privacy by design and tries to make it more clear, especially for mobile app developers. Approaches to ...
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A platform full of opportunities for students - siddhartharora https://gradbee.com ====== mrfregg "Connect with India's best students". Well that's a pity. ~~~ siddhartharora the website is in development, we have implemented mobile verification across the globe. ~~~ mrfregg So it's not limited to Indian students as...
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Airbnb and San Francisco - betadreamer http://blog.samaltman.com/airbnb-and-san-francisco ====== callmeed _" Unfortunately, a lot of other people have problems paying their rent or mortgage. 75% of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco say that their income from Airbnb helps them stay in their homes, and 60% of the Airbnb inc...
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How money corrupts Congress. Lessig speaks at Google - zlotty http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ik1AK56FtVc ====== sp332 If you can't watch videos, or if you like being able to skim, Lessig makes his case in text: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353324> ~~~ zlotty thx for the link -----...
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Cinderella - CLI app to manage open source dev on OSX - tzm http://www.atmos.org/cinderella/ ====== teilo Needs virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. These days, almost no one develops in Python without them. ------ hackermom What extra does the user get from an additional installation of Python and Ruby as contained i...
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Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed - nielsbjerg https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-battery-material-with-5x-faster-charging-speed ====== philipkglass This looks closer to an industrial product than many new battery technology announcements. The cathode chemistry isn't exotic....
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Ceylon 1.2.0 is now available - egorst http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/10/29/ceylon-1-2-0/ ====== gavinking Yay! Folks, please feel welcome to Ask Me Anything. ~~~ marvelous Yay! The language module is a 1.5MB JavaScript beast and people routinely complain about 150KB frameworks on HN. Are there plans to have a wh...
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Official: Anonymous May Be Able to Disable Power Grids by Next Year - maudlinmau5 http://mashable.com/2012/02/21/anonymous-threat/ ====== duncan_bayne Here comes the FUD in advance of a Govt. crackdown on hacktivism. Cute.
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - dmmalam http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/ ====== jtheory Teaching music theory is _damned hard_. You very quickly find yourself making statements like this (taken from the second PDF in this series): "A tuplet is any non-standard division of a note. These...
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Can we please stop saying ORDER BY RAND/RANDOM is slow? - compay http://njclarke.com/posts/can-we-please-stop-saying-order-by-random-is-slow.html ====== andfarm Sadly, while just selecting an id is faster than selecting the whole row, it's still a very slow operation overall. Here's the results on an 8-million-row p...
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Ask HN: How to start solving binary challenges in a CTF - raven_stark I&#x27;m quite used to web challenges in a CTF. Also I&#x27;m familiar with assembly programming, gdb, but find it difficult to solve binary challenges. What all tools should I start using? ====== kiloreux Since you already know how to use GDB and y...
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GNU C Library 2.30 - jrepinc https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2019/msg00001.html ====== pascal_cuoq > * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc, > pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size larger > than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefin...
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Ask HN: What does it really mean when companies want you to have AWS experience? - martin-ting I see a lot of job listings that mention &quot;AWS experience&quot; as part of what they&#x27;d like to see in someone&#x27;s skill set. Does this mean that they&#x27;d like to see familiarity with using AWS services such as...
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Magic in Panama, 1681 (2011) - benbreen https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-they-are-very-expert-and-skillful.html ====== lowdose Talking about magic I came across this one last week. Robert Houdin hired by Napoleon III to perform a magic trick in Africa to convince the local tribes France magic was stronger t...
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Crafty Killer Whales Are Harassing Alaskan Fishing Boats - Mz http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crafty-killer-whales-are-harassing-alaskan-fishing-boats-180963788/?no-ist ====== AnimalMuppet I wonder if this isn't "harassment", exactly. It sounds like they've learned that they can collect a whole lot of fish fo...
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Zed Shaw is teaching two four-week Python classes (online) - thesethings http://codelesson.com/python ====== netmau5 I'd -love- to take a Python course from Zed but this site makes me uneasy about following through. Not enough information and the site simply doesn't look professional enough to be sending in payments...
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The Self-Appointed Twitter Scolds - telemachos http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/fashion/29twitter.html ====== TwitterFail Some people have asked me why I created the www.Twitter-Fail.com blog. It's not, as John Metcalfe said, to "mock tweets I consider stupid." Instead, it is my way of sharing what I find on Twitte...
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Aztec app brings historic Mexico codex into the digital age - Thevet http://phys.org/news/2015-01-aztec-app-historic-mexico-codex.html ====== Trombone12 Wow, nice way for the Brits to avoiding the "we-should-give-this-back-it-was- essentially-stolen" issue that infects basically all old anthropological collections in ...
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What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The Force That Really Matters (2012) - tortilla http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/11/20/what-killed-michael-porters-monitor-group-the-one-force-that-really-matters ====== dworin This is a rant against Michael Porter, his theories, and the practice of business str...
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Show HN: A standards-compliant 3d compass implementation for *the web* - richtr https://github.com/richtr/Marine-Compass ====== altsa I'm trying to load the demo on my Macbook Pro with Chrome, but its not working for some reason. Is this broken for anyone else? ~~~ richtr Works for me on my Macbook Pro with Chrome ...
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Ask HN: Give me recommendations to improve jsonip.com - geuis Hey folks. I wrote http://jsonip.com a while back and lots of folks seem to find it useful. So I'd like to ask for your tips on how it might be made better to be more useful for you.<p>As a quick primer, jsonip.com returns your ip as either a json object,...
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Former NSA contractor designs 'surveillance-proof' font - antimora http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/30/tech/web/nsa-contractor-surveillance-proof-font/index.html?hpt=hp_c3 ====== Nanzikambe As these are fonts and don't implement any randomness like a captcha would, it will be trivially easy to just implement recognition...
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Facebook won't release Russia-linked ads despite call to do by US investigators - SirLJ http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-wont-release-russia-linked-ads-publicly-2017-10 ====== subie I believe the issue here is "publicly" releasing the ads. FB just had a trending story yesterday about turning the ads over to inv...
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Data is the new oil - edward http://nation.lk/online/2015/09/19/data-is-the-new-oil/ ====== Chefkoochooloo If people and businesses become enabled to streamline and tap into the possibilities of data query and analysis it could prove to be more monetary compensation than oil. The filtering and restructuring of data ma...
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Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway - rbanffy https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/some-nasa-contractors-appear-to-be-trying-to-kill-the-lunar-gateway/ ====== superkuh Good. The lunar gateway has absolutely no purpose now that that asteroid retrieval mission (ARM) funding picks by NA...
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FOXIT READER Now AVAILABLE ON MAC AND LINUX - byaruhaf https://www.foxitsoftware.com/company/press.php?id=408 ====== detaro No reason to scream... (please don't use all-caps headlines)
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Show HN: New Music Release Tracker - hmhrex http://therthm.com/releases ====== hmhrex I was getting frustrated with AllMusic, Metacritic and Spotify excluding new music releases, or giving wrong dates for new music. So I built something for my friend and I to use for finding new releases. It uses MusicBrainz for the ...
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More notes on OS X Mavericks (+ Yosemite) on QEMU with KVM - kvmosx http://blog.definedcode.com/qemu-osx-update ====== st3fan I installed Mavericks straight to an LVM volume withou the need for any magic.
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Find the hidden cameras in your BnB and elsewhere - ZguideZ https://medium.com/fast-company/how-to-find-hidden-cameras-in-your-airbnb-and-anywhere-else-d1de793f7ddc ====== matt-attack Anyone have a recommendation for an RF scanner? Always hesitant to click on the amazon referral links in an article like this. Also an ...
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Show HN: Tail -f Your Cloudflare Logs - chasers https://logflare.app ====== chasers Use a Cloudflare worker to POST logs to Logflare and they'll be streamed to your browser. We also have rules you define with regex so you can route log entries to different sources. Good for saving important events like signups, bots, ...
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Ask HN: What to consider when buying a business - warent I&#x27;m currently looking at buying a business via FE International which I believe will synergize very well when combined with my current side business (of which I amm the sole owner&#x2F;employee) and potentially multiply the value of each other. The deal wou...
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Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool - r4um http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netflixs-on-host.html ====== philsnow I got down to you should be able to install PCP from binary packages made available by the PCP development team on: ftp....
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Dynamically Typed Languages (2009) - dkarapetyan http://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/tratt__dynamically_typed_languages/ ====== orting I dont like this paper. It makes statements based on references to opinion style articles. F.ex "in practice, run-time type errors in deployed programs are exceedingly rare [TW...
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Great April Fool's Day Hoaxes - tokenadult http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/ ====== icey Ugh. I am really not looking forward to tomorrow. ~~~ tokenadult You have my sympathies. I figured the submitted article would be the best combination of humorous relief from much less funny April Fools jokes and a ...
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How iPhone apps are like McDonalds hamburgers. - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2010/10/18/after-a-while-you-stop-counting/ ====== devmonk "When do Apple and Apple watchers stop caring so much about how exactly how many iPhone apps there are?" By your example, somewhere beyond "billions and billions". The ...
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FreeBSD Kernel Internals Evening Course Taught by a Core Commiter - jedberg http://www.mckusick.com/courses/introeveclass.html ====== nickynix This seems like a great opportunity to learn more about FreeBSD, but for an individual, the price is steep. I even looked at the videos for purchase and they surprisingly cos...
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Yumbunny (launched at HN): Crowd-Sourced Matchmaking With Hilarious Results - terpua http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/10/yumbunny-crowd-sourced-matchmaking-with-hilarious-results/ ====== thorax Thanks for posting this. Was travelling and was gratefully surprised when they covered us. Thanks guys for all your great...
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Tesla: the roadmap to domination - andrewtbham https://medium.com/@andrewt3000/the-2-reasons-tesla-will-be-number-1-bab788ef215e#.yy1id7i5h ====== 11thEarlOfMar “we may be witnessing an interplay of technology, industrial strategy, and capital not unlike Cornelius Vanderbilt and the railroads, or Thomas Edison and ele...
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Light Trade Centre - c4ddownload http://lighttradecentre.com/ ====== c4ddownload Light Trade Centre
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Show HN: Ahoy – Twitter for Your Neighbourhood - serious-sam https://itsahoy.com/ ====== verdverm Add a geo input, not giving location access to any apps these days. Far too much abuse by the general app market to let anything have access at this point ~~~ vasanthv That would defeat the purpose of the whole hyperloca...
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UI For Drunks - edent http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/ui-for-drunks/ ====== acconrad In essence, simple wins. If you can appeal to the lowest common denominator in your demographics, people who are are the biggest disadvantage with technology (e.g. drunks, the elderly), then you are clear enough for your primary targe...
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Show HN: Keypirinha, a new semantic launcher for keyboard ninjas - polyvertex http://keypirinha.com ====== Nadya What advantages does this have over the well-known Launchy [0] which accomplishes the same tasks but multi-platform? You may want to touch upon any improvements if you want to win anyone (namely: me) over. ...
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What Is the World to Do About Gene-Editing? - amanuensis https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/21/what-is-the-world-to-do-about-gene-editing/ ====== technotony The main thing* holding back this is that we don't understand the human genome enough to make really useful edits. It's very rare that there's a change that wo...
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Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008) - tosh https://clojure.org/about/state ====== stuhood Immutability is very helpful, and the connection between values and identity is illuminating. But there have been very important developments in programming languages since this post/page was written: notably, the in...
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OpenBSD 5.6 - fcambus http://www.openbsd.org/56.html?hn ====== brynet Related to OpenBSD, and BSD in general. Peter N. M. Hansteen is auctioning off the first signed copy The Book of PF, 3rd edition. He will be supporting the OpenBSD Foundation by donating the amount raised. [http://bsdly.blogspot.ca/2014/10/the-bo...
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SWF Machine: generating SWF binary from Erlang - mrinalwadhwa http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/2010/03/17/swfmachine/ ====== pan69 swfmill.org in Erlang.
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A first step towards freeing London’s data - robin_reala http://data.london.gov.uk/ ====== mjs Hey, that's some quality XML they're pumping out there. From their population data: <ROWSET> <ROW> <Area_Code>00AA</Area_Code> <Area_Name>City of London</Area_Name> <P...
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Ask HN: What technical skill should I learn to prepare for the next 10 Years? - alexjray ====== chatmasta It's a safe bet that if something was relevant twenty years ago, and still is today, then it will also be relevant in ten years from now. Examples: OS fundamentals, networking fundamentals, low level languages, emb...
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Tell HN: The Grocery Store is Watching You (and it's brilliant) - lionhearted I just saw this quote in an article here and wanted to highlight it. If I had a blog, I'd have written it up there but I thought it was too interesting not to comment.<p>&#62; It's one thing if I trade my personal sales habits to a grocery...
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I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck - Halienja http://github.com/resistor/BrainFTracing ====== resistor Hey folks, I'm the actual author of this. I actually work on LLVM-proper during my day job. This was just a fun exercise to demonstrate that it was possible. I also have plans to write a tutorial ...
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American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots - dankohn1 http://www.vox.com/2016/8/3/12342764/autonomous-trucks-employment?utm_campaign=drvox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter ====== tuna-piano The other question you need to ask in order to understand this future scenerio:. Shipping cost...
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Does Amazon serve broken JS to anyone else? - pdknsk Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL<p>http://z-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/browser-scripts/site-wide-js-1.2.6-beacon/site-wide-10533302446._V1_.js:1998<p>It has been like this for a few days now. I wonder why Amazon didn't and doesn't notice it. T...
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Software Allows Hackers to Activate MacBook Webcams Without Green Warning Light - patrickg http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/18/software-allows-hackers-to-activate-macbook-webcams-without-green-warning-light/ ====== patrickg I wonder: is this still up to date? Has Apple fixed this?
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How many photos/videos a day do mobile users capture? - fezz Or also capture and share on instagram&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;snap? ====== coralreef You can probably google it to find some stats, but its got to be several billions if you're including anything uploaded to fb, instagram and snapchat. ------ jrowley You may al...
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Serious OS X and iOS flaws let hackers steal keychain, 1Password contents - dakull http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/serious-os-x-and-ios-flaws-let-hackers-steal-keychain-1password-contents/ ====== OrwellianChild Bad week for password managers... Here is Agile Bits' response by Jeff Goldberg: [https://blog.ag...
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A Cheap, Thin Film Gives Portable Night Vision to Cell Phones and Eyeglasses - elblanco http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/tapping-oled-tech-cheap-thin-film-gives-night-vision-cell-phones-eyeglasses ====== ilkhd2 'sucks a lot electricity, thousand of volts'... And that magazine called __* Science??? El...
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Bad News: Google Is Doing The Corporate Future-Vision Video Thing - Robelius http://techland.time.com/2012/04/04/bad-news-google-is-doing-the-corporate-future-vision-video-thing/ ====== cromwellian Except like the Google Car and unlike the Microsoft future video with transparency, flexible, credit card computer displa...
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Bootstrap for non-front end devs? - sfkid222 I’m looking for alternatives to Bootstrap that are as easy to use. Any suggestions? ====== provlem There are many: 1\. [https://materializecss.com](https://materializecss.com) 2\. [https://getuikit.com/](https://getuikit.com/) 3\. [https://semanti...
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Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones - Varcht https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/microsoft-ending-windows-10-mobile-says-switch-to-iphone-or-android.html ====== ThrowawayR2 Unfortunate news; though most won't miss it, I will. It was the last smartphone option that avoided both ...
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AT&T Customer Service Rep Tells Us How She Really Feels: "This is Bullsh*t" - gatsby http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/13/att-rep-verizon-iphone/ ====== varjag So, TC journalists putting some petty out-of-context bickering with someone into the publication. How media 2.0.
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Ask HN: What privacy-conserving measures should be taken post-snooper's charter? - libeclipse Since the Investigatory Powers Bill has been passed into law in the UK (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12978300), what steps should one take to preserve privacy and security? ====== alistproducer2 Develop...
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All-In-One Messenger 2.0 released - Gmail, Instagram, FB, Whatsapp ... - ladino https://allinone.im ====== ladino operates like Franz ([https://meetfranz.com](https://meetfranz.com)), but much more simple and minimalistic with less CPU usage. Beside all the common messenger it supports new messenger like Instagram, T...
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Toilet paper orientation - ZeljkoS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation ====== The_rationalist This made me laugh :) but I Wonder if humanity can find an even more useless debate. ------ DarkWiiPlayer What can I say... Over is the right way and under is heresy. ~~~ eesmith > The question "Do you pr...
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Rethinking Recurrent Neural Networks - jostmey https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X9f-wst8QhrCCFTWiJIz6vq1qAOlpyYAUo_kaFf0J8M/edit?usp=sharing ====== eternalban [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.01253.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.01253.pdf)
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Microsoft Tafiti Is Beautiful, But Will Anyone Use it? - transburgh http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/21/microsoft-tafity-is-beautiful-no-one-will-use-it/ ====== nickb Looks like a gimmick made to show off Silverlight. People judge search engines based on speed and usability. This has neither. But it is pretty! :)
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Partially evaluating a bytecode interpreter using C++ templates - mrry http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2015/09/16/#c++-partial-evaluating-interpreter ====== cyrusand I'm just throwing this here: [http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks- template-...](http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-t...
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Nearby Photos on Your Phone - sjs382 http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/06/18/nearby-on-your-phone/ ====== hopeless Any ideas how they grab the location through a simple webpage? ~~~ hopeless Nevermind, this is how you can do it with iPhone 3: [http://blog.bemoko.com/2009/06/17/iphone-30-geolocation- java...](http://bl...
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