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IPhone 4S Review by Steve's favorite reviewer - apoorvnarang http://allthingsd.com/20111011/the-iphone-finds-its-voice/?mod=tweet ====== grandalf The improvements in the 4S are likely 100% due to Sprint's faster data network and not due to the phone's processor, etc.
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Show HN: Listkit – A simple list share Mithril.js app demo - ninive http://listkit.co/ ====== ninive Hi everyone, OP here. In those last rushing weekends busy with my startup I needed something simple to quick share my shopping list with my girlfriend as she is also working in my core team. So, bored of upgrade gdri...
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Morte: an intermediate language for super-optimizing functional programs - mercurial http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/09/morte-intermediate-language-for-super.html ====== rrradical I love the work this guy does. He consistently and often develops really interesting Haskell libraries. Does anyone know his background? ...
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Namecheap now officially accepts Bitcoin - redegg https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment-options/bitcoin.aspx ====== gibybo Well, I just tried to transfer one of my domains to Namecheap using Bitcoin, but their implementation leaves a lot to be desired. I filled in my domain, got to the checkout page, and it gave ...
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Loon’s Balloons Will Fly Over Kenya in First Commercial Telecom Tryout - lawrenceyan https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/loons-balloons-will-fly-over-kenya-in-first-commercial-telecom-tryout ====== partingshots Loon balloons powering the Kenyan internet through their phones. I can already see the inklings of a ...
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Ask HN: what's a good pet for the working programmer? - seldo So, here's the deal: I'd quite like a pet of some kind.<p>I'm a programmer. I work quite long hours sometimes, and I'm not keen on taking things out for walks, so I don't want anything that's very high-maintenance. I have my own apartment, so no roommate dr...
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Facebook Updates Its Policy Documents Regarding How It Uses And Shares Your Data - dsr12 http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/facebooks-new-rules-change-how-it-treats-your-data-and-who-can-access-it ====== dsr12 Link to the official announcement: [https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook- site-governance/1015...](https:/...
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Goodbye Big Five: Google - kaboro https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500 ====== bpicolo > “Your smart home pings Google at the same time every hour in order to > determine whether or not it’s connected to the internet,” Dhruv tells me. > “Which is funny to me because these ...
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The future of surveys - meteor - smothers http://www.marq.io I have been working on this over the holiday and I'd like to share it with all of you and hear what you think. Happy new year! ====== ss34 super cool idea! ~~~ smothers thanks
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Nuclear Waste Dumpsters in Massachusettes Are Costing Taxpayers a Fortune - mimixco http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/31/these-dumpsters-old-nuclear-waste-are-costing-you-billions/lw7aIpcWOhmn3ThjeqEnVP/story.html ====== AngryData Lack of reprocessing plants, lack of real storage facilities, these are political...
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NSA Said to Use Manhattan Tower as Listening Post - danso http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/national-security-agency-said-to-use-manhattan-tower-as-listening-post.html ====== jackweirdy In many ways the building is a monument to privacy - the kind of twisted privacy where the state can keep whatever it wants ...
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What is Ultimate Software and why is it worth $11B? - throwaway5752 https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-cb-ultimate-software-qa-20190204-story.html ====== throwaway5752 Summary: $11B software acquisition occurred today ([https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190204005338/en/](https://www.businesswire.com/ne...
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What if you couldn’t program with loops? - helloiloveyou http://www.mikealche.com/software-development/what-if-you-couldnt-program-with-loops ====== pcstl While the article is a cute way to introduce the loop body extraction refactoring, I think it is a disservice to talk about not using loops without mentioning recur...
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Field Play: a cool vector field visualisation - vulcan01 https://anvaka.github.io/fieldplay/ ====== h2odragon v.x = -0.1 * p.x; v.y = 0.1 * p.y; ... looks better
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Warren Buffett Joins the Crowd Struggling to Understand Oracle - partingshots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-26/buffett-joins-crowd-struggling-to-assess-opaque-oracle ====== andyjohnson0 Related discussion from four days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19289583](https://news.ycombinator.com...
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Show HN: The most commented books on Reddit - bckygldstn https://redditreads.com/ ====== bckygldstn This was a fun side project I've been working on for the last few weeks. It's been a nice way to find books on new topics, and some new subreddits too. The home and subreddit pages are prerendered and served statically...
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Panic on the streets of London - filiwickers http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html ====== oracuk The author makes a good point. These areas have been off the UK media radar for a long time. They haven't had a voice. That said it seems at the moment that this is less political and more...
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Setting Up a Cayman Islands Company [pdf] - dvasdekis https://www.stuartslaw.com/cms/document/Setting_up_a_Cayman_Islands_Company.pdf ====== MikeEhrmantraut I'm curious if any HNers have any ideas for ways to use off-shore status to protect your website from frivolous libel claims. I run some forums in the automotive ...
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Researchers Discover the Tallest Known Tree in the Amazon - deepbow https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-discover-tallest-known-tree-amazon-180973227/ ====== lacker Because a lot of HN readers are located near San Francisco, I thought it would be worth mentioning that this tree is not as tall as t...
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Toyplot – A plotting toolkit for Python - aw3c2 http://toyplot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html ====== cwyers Seems like a fair amount of boilerplate. You really have to specify that the axes are Cartesian with every simple two-axis plot you make? ~~~ ketralnis This is the code from the beginning of the tutorial: ...
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OSGified Containerless Platform - mcrakens https://github.com/mcraken/platform ====== mcrakens The description of the platform repository has been updated. Added description for the gateway bundle. Check it out. ------ mcrakens A platform to create a scaleable and containerless applications. The platform is built ...
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Manually Testing SSL/TLS Weaknesses - zerognowl https://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/manually-testing-ssltls-weaknesses-2016-edition/ ====== goatslacker Amazing work! I'll be following through your post on Saturday; it will be a pleasure to reproduce some of those attack vectors.
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The Great IPv6 Experiment: Free Adult Content - dedalus http://www.ipv6experiment.com/ ====== gscott I have seen those videos before, but in the name of furthering the Internet I guess I can watch them again... ------ AndyKelley It will be interesting to talk about later: "IPv4 only had 256^4 possible names, and w...
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Ask HN: Why are Microsoft’s software eng levels super broken up? - goldenzun Microsoft’s track starts at 59 and goes up until 70, while Google and Facebook has a smaller number of blocks, for reference: levels.fyi<p>Anyone know why Microsoft chose such a ladder? ====== zuhayeer Creator of levels.fyi here – I touch on ...
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Atom 1.36 - beardicus https://blog.atom.io/2019/04/09/atom-1-36.html ====== taylorlapeyre Prediction: If VS Code is the general do-it-all editor, Atom will become the GitHub editor. Atom is quickly ramping up feature integration with GitHub — seen here with integrating review comments inline with the code and the deep...
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Should I finally drop QWERTY? - mrhonza https://honza.ca/2017/04/should-i-finally-drop-qwerty ====== savethefuture Why do you want to drop it? It seems like not using it would cause more problems when trying to use other computers besides your own. Might be fun, if you can actually learn it as well as you are now with...
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PC Sales Drop to Historic Lows - jseliger http://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-sales-drop-to-historic-lows-1452634605 ====== ChuckMcM This is not unexpected, so many people who own a PC don't need a personal "computer" they just need a system to deploy pre-built network applications to. And while it is "weird" to see that b...
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Marcus Aurelius on Dealing with Setbacks and Obstacles - bramkrom https://medium.com/@bramkrommenhoek/the-ancient-art-of-dealing-with-setbacks-and-obstacles-marcus-aurelius-b4586efad017 ====== bramkrom Bit of background - last January I read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for the first time. There haven't been many book...
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The Skysphere - techaddict009 http://www.theskysphere.com/ ====== VLM I LOLed a bit at the low cost on this and the authors treehouse. Its kind of like cheap ham radio antennas, where the wire to put up a 160M dipole is only $10 but it costs $3M to buy a piece of land big enough and unregulated enough to put it on. A...
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Improve Your Python: 'yield' and Generators Explained - gbtxg http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/04/07/improve-your-python-yield-and-generators-explained/ ====== ColinWright This is a good explanation, but I still prefer the one from StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/the-pyt...
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Hacking Foursquare: Taking over the White House...from North Carolina - jodoglevy http://chronline.posterous.com/hacking-foursquare-taking-over-the-white-hous ====== drharris I especially like the anecdotes about people who get so offended at "stealing" mayorships. I did something similar last fall, but didn't make ...
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Don’t Buy The HTC EVO, It Is A Seriously Flawed Device - ukdm http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/dont-buy-the-android-evo-it-is-a-seriously-flawed-device/ ====== KirinDave I was about --| |-- this close to waiting in line last Friday for the EVO launch and moving away from my iPhone. Then I got to play with one for aw...
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Ask HN: What could journey84.com have done to avoid crashing? - YPCrumble Last night https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journey84.com site crashed immediately when the Super Bowl ad linked to their site. What infrastructure decisions should they have made to make sure the site not crash?<p>- Is it even possible to purchase an Amazon E...
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The Miracle Berry - time_management http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7367548.stm ====== zasz Hah, we had a party at our college dorm. We ordered 80 of these and someone brought in goat cheese, limes, lemons, grapefruit juice, sourdough bread and a few other things. The goat cheese tasted like ice cream, t...
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Is America a democracy? If so, why does it deny millions the vote? - aramanto https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/is-america-a-democracy-if-so-why-does-it-deny-millions-the-vote ====== eindiran It seems like Canada (for Federal elections at least) and most European countries have voter ID laws [0]. Notably...
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Richard Stallman on Data Autonomy [video] - DoubleMalt https://cloudfleet.io/blog/richard-stallman-on-data-autonomy.html ====== autoreleasepool If BTsync ever goes open source or SyncThing ever achieves the quality and functionality of BTSync, then achieving autonomy over our data will be easy. I use BitTorrent Sync ...
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Why Scaling Bitcoin with Sharding Is Very Hard (2015) - elmar https://petertodd.org/2015/why-scaling-bitcoin-with-sharding-is-very-hard ====== davidgerard this is pretty good. Key line for me: > How do you prove that a coin has validly been spent? First, prove that it > hasn’t already been spent! How do you do that i...
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Open-sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster - tilt https://code.facebook.com/posts/998080480282805 ====== mckilljoy 25-30% is a pretty solid improvement. ------ ksec I thought it was iPhone Apps that need help. At 100+MB for a simple App where Instagram is 25MB only..
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Shoelace Knots - phreeza http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm ====== bediger I have used the "Better Bow Knot" (<http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/betterbowknot.htm>) for over 20 years. I found it in some book about knots ages ago. This Better Bow Knot is harder to tie, and harder to learn to tie, but it rarely com...
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Offer HN: I will review and critique your CV. - KoZeN I'm an experienced technical recruiter based in the UK and due to the uprise in offers of assistance to this site I've decided to add my own two cents.<p>I'm willing to analyse your CV and offer constructive feedback on potential content alterations, layout, etc....
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Ask HN: Which five books have influenced you the most in shaping your worldview? - urs2102 ====== urs2102 Saw this on Twitter ([https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/929862403763798016](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/929862403763798016)) and wanted to carry the conversation here to see the discussion unfold. ~~~ mt...
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Startups: If you take a hiring test... - lifeinafolder Recently, I came across a position at a Startup. Since it was a remote gig, the startup sent me a detailed problem to solve before discussing anything about the nature of the gig.<p>I liked the problem and hence, decided to solve it first and then talk to them. ...
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NTT DoCoMopresents smartphone with 2 touch-screens held together by magnets - BvS http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-35816.html#backToArticle=581905 While beeing ahead with mobile internet for years, Japanese companies seem never to be able to make any progress in Europe or the US. So I'm afraid we have to...
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Ask HN: Recommendations for open source Framework/Library to work on - ethanburrell Hey HN!<p>I&#x27;m a CS student who just finished his second year in school.<p>I&#x27;m passionate about Data Science, Visualizations, and cool web technology. I have a large background in development. I&#x27;ve never worked on a open ...
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Skype does a clever trick when bandwidth is scarce - jloughry On a Skype video conference this morning, I noticed the software did something very interesting. Instead of pixelating video when my crappy broadband internet connection slowed down briefly, it <i>zoomed</i>.<p>It was accomplished so smoothly I wouldn&#x27;...
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Show HN: AsOne – Platform for Crowdsourcing Research - shuhari https://asone.ai ====== shuhari AsOne is a platform for crowdsourcing research where anyone can create and join research communities. We allow all research topics, from COVID-19 to your own personal research. Our mission is to help solve humanity's hardes...
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Why Android, The #1 Mobile Platform, Won’t Get Great Music Apps - shawndumas http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/07/30/why-android-the-1-mobile-platform-wont-get-great-music-apps/ ====== dottrap <sigh> Just remember: Bug 3434 [http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434](http://code.google.com/p/androi...
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The Latin America WikiLeaks Files - cryoshon https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/latin-america-wikileaks-hugo-chavez-rafael-correa-obama-venezuela-intervention/ ====== jayess As an American I am disturbed by my country's foreign policy as it relates to Latin America, largely over the last half of the 20th century. But ...
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C99 tricks - guillaumec http://blog.noctua-software.com/c-tricks.html ====== unwind There's nothing "C99" about that ARRAY_SIZE macro, of course. That said, I'm rather sceptical towards it, I think it's better written as-is. Otherwise, the question "does SIZE mean bytes, or number of elements?" always arises to haun...
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Ask YC: Where are the open source consumer web apps? - nonrecursive On the front page right now is an article about DimDim, the first open source consumer web app I've heard of. ("Consumer" is meant to distinguish this type of app from something like ActiveCollab, which is also an open source web app but which is me...
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Ask HN: What is the simplest but still useful NN example you know? - mlang23 I find neural networks pretty interesting, but most useful examples I know of require too much training data to be useful when it comes to trying to understand the whole process. I used a DOS program over 20 years ago in school to train an NN...
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Twitter Still Headed To The Moon With 17 Million U.S. Visitors In April - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/twitter-still-headed-to-the-moon-with-17-million-us-visitors-in-april/ ====== TomOfTTB I've given up on fighting the Twitter hypsters. They think it'll change society as we know it and they'll latch on...
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Zuckerberg Is Praised by Putin's Newspaper - Nikita_Sadkov https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/articles/2017/08/15/729388-facebook-dolzhen-platit ====== mehly tl;dr anyone? ~~~ pelmenept I scrolled really fast. Article is not praising anyone, it talks about basic income. And an idea of Facebook paying basic income, from...
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Tizen (Meego Replacement) Releases Source Code and SDK Previews - cnxsoft http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/01/10/tizen-releases-source-code-and-sdk-previews/ ====== nextparadigms It seems a bit like WebOS structurally, doesn't it?
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Dependent Type Systems as Macros [pdf] - EvgeniyZh https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/pubs/cbtb-popl2020.pdf ====== dang A recent thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22097000](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22097000)
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SMOB - Open & distributed semantic microblogging (integrates with Twitter) - p_alexander http://smob.me/ ====== p_alexander Here's a lightning presentation from today's SemTech 2010 that describes this in more detail: [http://www.slideshare.net/terraces/smob-a-framework-for- sema...](http://www.slideshare.net/terrac...
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AMD Radeon RX 480: June 29th for $199 - bryanlarsen http://www.anandtech.com/show/10389/amd-teases-radeon-rx-480-launching-june-29th-for-199 ====== JohnTHaller The big deal about this card can be summed up thusly: "AMD is planning on heavily promoting the VR aspects of the RX 480, as it brings the necessary performanc...
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Synnefo + Ganeti = cloud software that works - vkoukis http://www.synnefo.org ====== Loic I cannot comment on Synnefo itself, but Ganeti is a wonderful software. I have been using it for more than a year in production (June 2011) without a single issue. I even built my own PaaS on top of it[1]. If you want to under...
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Nars – Server Rendered React Native - tilt https://www.nars.dev/ ====== wczekalski Oh, glad you like nars, @tilt. Creator of nars here, happy to answer any questions!
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UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk - brettcvz http://brettcvz.com/projects/6-upnext ====== wenc I would buy a product version of this too, even though I have calendar notifications on 3+ devices. I really like the aesthetics. There's something human about it -- it reminds me of Susan Kare's work on the...
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Emscripten switches to the LLVM WebAssembly Back End - mpweiher https://v8.dev/blog/emscripten-llvm-wasm ====== truth_seeker This is great news!
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Winner of the Engineyard contest - nkurz http://www.win.tue.nl/cccc/ ====== tptacek I'm more interested in what they're doing with NSEC3, which is a key loose end in IETF's boondoggle DNSSEC system. NSEC3 is to domain names in a zone transfer what crypt(3) is to passwords in /etc/shadow. ------ mronge I should have...
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How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation - artsandsci https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/how-a-conservative-tv-giant-is-ridding-itself-of-regulation.html?referer=https://t.co/dFYlXuKAKv?amp=1 ====== damnfine Serious question to those outside the tech bubble; Do you, or anyone you know, s...
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Introducing Apache Spark 2.0 - rxin https://databricks.com/blog/2016/07/26/introducing-apache-spark-2-0.html ====== brudgers Announcement: [https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark- release-2-0-0.html](https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark- release-2-0-0.html)
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A snapshot of your computer with dd, pv and gzip - Part 1 - adito http://allgood38.github.io/a-snapshot-of-your-computer-with-dd-pv-and-gzip-part-1.html ====== networked Consider using Clonezilla [1] instead. While dd will produce a sector-by- sector image of your medium (which can be terribly inefficient if you're us...
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(Wel)come back! - niccolop http://taskforce.posterous.com/welcome-back ====== Applecores Looking forward to the new version. ~~~ niccolop Thanks, we are excited to hear feedback of our coming new features as well!
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Dan Gilbert confirms he’s trying to get Amazon to build its second HQ in Detroit - janober https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/dan-gilbert-confirms-hes-trying-to-get-amazon-to-build-its-second-hq-in-detroit ====== grizzles I hope Detroit gets it. Metro Detroit would be just perfect for it. It's on the East Coast. It has...
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Ask HN: How to predict startup viability? - fnid2 There are a lot of web services out there and sometimes I am torn between my corporate days and my startup days. I think to myself, "I need to pick something here that will be a solution for a long time." Other times I think, "I don't really care about this, whatev...
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X86-to-6502: translate x86 assembly into mos6502 assembly - ingve https://github.com/lefticus/x86-to-6502 ====== KSS42 Can you explain the example? // test.asm main: movb $1, 53280 xorl %eax, %eax ret And get this output: main: ldy #$1 sty 53280 lda $00 rts I can see "movb $1, 53280" getting mapped to: ldy #$1 sty...
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Ask HN: Would you rather type with your iPhone or type with your iPad? - kunle ====== makecheck Both have the same inconveniences, but the iPad keys are bigger so it will always be better. I find the iOS' problems with text editing don't really have much to do with its keyboard though. For instance, the "press, ho...
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Ask HN: What's the best way to recruit users for user testing? - freeiris Looking to recruit about 20 - 25 people to test a simple application. Ideas? ====== PaulHoule Pizza?
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A Modified ElGamal for Passwords Only - jackokring https://kring.co.uk/2017/09/a-modified-elgamal-for-passwords-only/ ====== CarolineW While I can write down D-H key exchange and ElGamal without thinking too hard, there's no guarantee when I do so that I will be using the same letters for the same components as you ha...
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“Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out - endantwit http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/24/breaking-drm-publishing-exec/ Maybe more publishers should speak out? ====== endantwit And now scifi/fantasy publisher Tor Books drops DRM on their entire catalog of e-books: [http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-5...
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Publish node modules with ease - 0x142857 https://github.com/egoist/kanpai ====== 0x142857 here's a screenshot [https://git.io/vaVeM](https://git.io/vaVeM)
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All Lyft Rides Are Now Carbon Neutral - tonyztan https://medium.com/@johnzimmer/all-lyft-rides-are-now-carbon-neutral-55693af04f36 ====== ethansinjin This is highly laudable and a great step in the right direction. Something that struck me though: what about all the time drivers are \- idling and waiting for a ride ...
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CycleStreets looking for routing engine developer - bazzargh http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2013/05/15/routing-developer-needed-for-short-term-work/ ====== TheAnimus Well it's an interesting prospect, but in London myself I find that I prefer the opposite of what TFL's cycle routing thing thinks I would. I like ma...
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A Flipboard like web site for news - PeterFitch http://www.c-est-simple.com/inmag ====== reivax pretty cool ! Would like more sources though ------ thonier Holy moly!
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Richard Hamming: Learning to Learn - sinwave https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30 ====== bradfordarner I watched through the series a couple of months ago. I will do my best to provide a couple of the highlights that I really liked. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a detailed journal of the course as a...
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Insider trading case cracked through LinkedIn - flgb http://m.smh.com.au/business/alleged-insider-trading-case-cracked-through-linkedin-20140511-zr9mw.html ====== voltagex_ Non-mobile link: [http://www.smh.com.au/business/alleged-insider-trading- case-...](http://www.smh.com.au/business/alleged-insider-trading-case-...
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Why We’ll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs - napolux http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-steve-jobs/ ====== corporalagumbo Jobs' death was really amazingly well-timed. He died just at the moment when the open communication culture he helped build was taking off. So his dea...
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Why Smart Contracts Fail: Undiscovered bugs and what we can do about them - bpierre https://medium.com/@hrishiolickel/why-smart-contracts-fail-undiscovered-bugs-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-119aa2843007 ====== Animats The basic problem is that executable programs are a crappy representation for contracts. Analyzing e...
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Ask HN: Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals for developers? - alpb Where to find good software, subscription, e-books etc for software developers this week? (Similarly, noise cancelling headphones and such items that developers may use every day.) ====== rapnie Dunno. In fact I hope this celebration of naked consumerism, ...
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Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox - mxfh https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock/ ====== jakozaur Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal. It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two comp...
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Ask HN: Review my webapp: memobuild - namarojulian Hi all,<p>Hope you won't mind if this is my first post, but I was told this is a good place to get advice for a new web business. So here it is: http://www.memobuild.com<p>It's basically an editor for large online documents (e.g. documentation, reports, e-books). It...
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Ask HN: What's the best way to notify our customers of a vulnerability? - beenalongweek What&#x27;s the best way to do this for downloadable software? I see a lot of companies do it wrong and receive harsh (but valid) criticism on this site. The issue is already fixed, but customers need to install the new version.<p>...
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Ask HN: App Store marketing strategies? - markchristian Howdy, hackers! My first App Store release is called Lidpop (http://shinyplasticbag.com/lidpop/). It makes your computer play sound effects of your choosing when you open and close the lid. It sounds silly, but it's surprisingly gratifying.<p>It's been up in the ...
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Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future? - mgav http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-cryptocurrencies-such-as-bitcoin-have-a-future-1425269375?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_tech ====== lectrick As a stable store of value... Not for a while. (Then again, gold has been around for awhile, and is IT a stable store of value?) ...
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How RSA Works: TLS Foundations - rmdoss https://fly.io/articles/how-rsa-works-tls-foundations/?twitter ====== mabbo I find the description of the RSA math pretty confusing. And I'm saying that with a minor in math and a CS degree specializing in security; I've don't this before, just not in a while. For example: >In...
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Is the express line really faster? - snewe http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=4646 ====== jazzychad Waiting in line at the grocery store is one of my greatest pet peeves. To avoid this I usually do one of 3 things: 1) Move to the lines further from the store exit. I've noticed that people tend to queue up in lines close to t...
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Suggestions to improve fullscreen jquery plugin - itsbits https://github.com/thecodejack/jquery-html5-fullscreen I am making a fullscreen plugin for jquery and want to add some features...Some suggestions would be great<p>https://github.com/thecodejack/jquery-html5-fullscreen ====== bdfh42 Does what it says. What a...
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Good stuff: memory management dot org - helwr http://www.memorymanagement.org/bib/f.html ====== daeken A better title for this would be "The Memory Management Reference: Bibliography". That said, this is quite a good list. ------ xtacy It's good, but quite often, I've faced the problem of an information overload, w...
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Marissa Mayer nominated to join Wal-Mart's board - yinyinwu http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/04/18/google-marissa-mayer-walmart-woman-problem/ ====== rdl This confuses me somewhat. Didn't she get basically marginalized in the new Page world at Google? (the article inaccurately reports that she's on the...
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Space Buckets, a Community of DIY LED Gardeners - ekrof http://www.spacebuckets.com ====== dogma1138 Why the buckets? I grow tomatos, spices and onions in doors with just a regular indoor pot and a natural light source AKA a window. Giving plants light for longer duration does increase their growth (tho normal LED's ...
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VIA launches $49 Android PC - 11031a http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/via-launch-a-49-android-pc-20120522/ ====== haberman I just want an ARM box that I can run headless in my closet and keep on all the time to use as a build bot. First I bought a SheevaPlug (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug>) but that fr...
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Comet Server, based on XMPP streams - julien http://github.com/superfeedr/compp ====== jdg Very cool. Love what you guys are doing at Superfeedr. Keep up the great work! Hopefully we can meet at the RT CrunchUp next week. j ~~~ julien Definetely, we'll be there! With a bunch of stickers we can't keep :) ------ ro...
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Google Parcel Service? Search giant patents shipping notifications - EvanKelly http://www.geekwire.com/2011/google-parcel-service-search-giant-patents-shipping-notifications ====== _delirium While the patent is still pretty dumb, the claim is a _bit_ more specific than this article summarizes. The claim seems carefu...
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4M people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click - notlukesky https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/18/i-found-your-data-its-sale/ ====== moocowtruck I think way more than 4Million people have chrome installed ~~~ Topgamer7 4 million is the count of people that installed those particular ...
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Non-native event-driven windowing in Wallaroo - spooneybarger https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/11/non-native-event-driven-windowing-in-wallaroo/ ====== nitbix Hello! I'm the author of this blog post. Please feel free to reach out either here or on our IRC channel #wallaroo on Freenode.
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Academic expert says Google and Facebook's AI researchers aren't doing science - laurex https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/07/14/academic-expert-says-google-and-facebooks-ai-researchers-arent-doing-science/ ====== sbinthree If you take the average Google AI project and the average AI researcher in aca...
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Application helps you search information relate to languages and technologies - vinhnglx The application helps you search information relate to languages and technologies. Currently, this application just supports three sources: [StackOverFlow](http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;, [RubyGems](https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rub...
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