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Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math? (2016) - 0xCMP http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/math-knowledge.html ====== ajarmst In Lamport's defence: (1) He's Leslie Lamport, so his comments about academic Computer Science should be at least considered before they are dismissed. (2) His audience (and the target of hi...
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China's Xi could rule for life, as two-term limit set to be scrapped - anthonyleecook https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/with-a-dash-of-putin-and-an-echo-of-mao-chinas-xi-sets-himself-up-to-rule-for-life-/2018/02/26/ddae5e3e-1ad7-11e8-8a2c-1a6665f59e95_story.html?utm_term=.6e9b977fc2ef ====== dang [http...
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Compiled tips 'n tricks guide for PIC microcontrollers (2009) [pdf] - segfaultbuserr https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/devicedoc/01146b.pdf ====== analog31 The 8-bit PIC microcontrollers won the love of hobbyists for a number of good reasons. In particular, the PIC16C84 and PIC16F84 chips had EEPROM/Flash memory ...
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VCs Congratulating Themselves - philshem https://twitter.com/vcbrags ====== celticninja the lack of self awareness is astounding. the guy bigging himself up for leaving a 200% tip is one of the worst. do something good to do something good, not to brag about it on twitter. but the guy suggesting it was VCs who were ra...
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Use your time wisely - drojasug http://reinventingsquares.com/2013/12/09/user-your-time-wisely/ ====== visakanv Nice to see you go down this path, but it's probably too simple an insight for anybody to find interesting/useful. (Read, talk to people.)
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The PayPal Mafia - uladzislau http://fortune.com/2007/11/13/paypal-mafia/ ====== kuharich Prior discussion: [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79713](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79713)
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The new Apple TV 4k - chrisked https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/12/the-new-apple-tv-gets-a-4k-upgrade/ ====== ben174 I'm especially excited to get my hands on the new 4k Aerial screensaver videos. The 1080p ones are all easy to download: [http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial- vide...](http://benjamin...
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Ask HN: A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? - liuliu I used redis, memcachedb & tokyo cabinet. They are all key-value database implementation. Is there any multi-key-value database c implementation with open-source? The question is to maintain correspondence of tag and per image. In the spec...
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Show HN: Hackers Daily – Get all Show HN posts emailed to you daily - singer http://www.hackersdaily.com ====== singer I often don't have time to check out Show HN posts in real-time. So, I built this app to email myself a daily list of yesterday's Show HN posts. It's ordered by points, easy to read via email, and l...
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24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork' - jentulman http://shanghaiist.com/2013/05/15/24_year_old_ogilvy_china_employee_dies_from_overwork.php ====== kayoone Sudden cardiac arrest can, in theory, happen to anyone at anytime, its just that its an extremely rare occurrence. Most of those cases can be tra...
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Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python? - luu http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-lines-from-stdin-much-slower-in-c-than-python ====== dded Back about 15 or more years or so ago, I wrote all my small utility programs in C. These were typically small programs, but I often h...
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Rails Rumble 2009 Teams Map - kineticac http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101351504570893600882.000470f6f6cd705a3fdfc ====== kineticac A map of the Rails Rumble 2009 Teams. If you're in it, you should definitely add yourself!
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Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says - rutenspitz https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/notre-dame-is-unstable ====== kweks I was up on the rooftop three weeks ago. What is more incredible is how untouched everything that was not directly touched by the fire is. Inside th...
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O'Reilly Online Certification Programs - citizenkeys http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/ ====== citizenkeys I'm considering taking a few of these mainly so I can put them on a resume. A quick search on Google and StackExchange seems entirely positive. Anybody here have any first-hand experience with these?
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Flaky: datatypes for real world quantities - knowledgesale http://dimaborzov.com/flaky-hn.html ====== blackhole This is a terrible idea. This is a catastrophically bad idea. How do you compare numbers? How do you figure out that 2.2 is less than exp(65)? You have to represent these as numbers at some point in the ca...
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What Israel's Strike on Hamas Hackers Means for Cyberwar - kostaddin https://www.wired.com/story/israel-hamas-cyberattack-air-strike-cyberwar/ ====== bediger4000 Look if it doesn't mean that FVEYES is going to take out "CardHolder Services", the $250K small business loan MFers, and the medical-grade knee brace dorks, ...
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Nginx doesn't suck at SSL after all - seiji http://matt.io/technobabble/hivemind_devops_alert:_nginx_does_not_suck_at_ssl/ur ====== tptacek In case you're wondering what "Perfect Forward Secrecy" is: SSL/TLS, like most protocols, uses (expensive, dangerous) RSA to exchange (cheap, simple) AES or RC4 session keys; bulk...
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Players have contributed $4,028,459 to Valve's TI4 Dota Tournament - manifesto http://www.dota2.com/international/compendium/ ====== manifesto Submitter here: For those who are not familiar with e-sport, Valve is holding The International 4, which is the biggest Dota tournament. The tournament begin with Valve's $1...
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Ask HN: How much of pay cut would you take for a more fulfilling job? - x32n23nr I'm at that point where I'm considering changing jobs. After a string of trampoline-like moves from one place to another, I quite frankly feel I'm only doing it for the money. As I search for options, I realised jobs I woul...
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Trying to be a Naive Entrepreneur again - RobbieStats https://unsupervisedmethods.com/trying-to-be-a-naive-entrepreneur-again-2e03a9a7457e ====== FLUX-YOU I think you'll be quicker to tire in healthcare. The highs are not very high and lows can be really low. It depends if your product depends on cooperation from sta...
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Is Private Internet Access injecting their own Google cert? - vicken I noticed something really strange happen today. I'm getting an invalid certificate warning ("This certificate is not valid (host name mismatch") while sending email through Google's smtp server. I decided to disconnect from PIA...
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How to Debug Programs - teddyh http://www.drpaulcarter.com/cs/debug.php ====== greenyoda See also [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642566](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642566), which is more oriented toward high-level debugging methodology, in particular, the use of the scientific method (hypothesis f...
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KDE Releases Alpha Version of Next-gen Plasma Workspace - Tsiolkovsky http://dot.kde.org/2014/04/02/kde-releases-alpha-version-next-gen-plasma-workspace ====== nemasu This is exciting! Qt5! Interface looks simpler, reminds me of razor-qt which is a good thing. Looking forward to release.
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Ask HN: Why not use CloudFlare authoritative DNS? - orangewin Many advocate using Google DNS or OpenDNS instead of your ISP&#x27;s DNS servers (recursive DNS) because of security and performance.<p>If we apply the same advice to authoritative DNS are there any reasons why using CloudFlare&#x27;s DNS servers should not...
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3D Printer company now accepts bitcoin - owendbybest http://www.protoparadigm.com/blog/2012/11/now-accepting-bitcoin/ ====== h8er Every day news about BTC acceptance! nice sign!
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Spending three days as a hunter-gatherer to see if it would improve gut health - Mz https://theconversation.com/i-spent-three-days-as-a-hunter-gatherer-to-see-if-it-would-improve-my-gut-health-78773 ====== onychomys Although it sounds like an amazing experience, I'm not really sure if we should be impressed with the r...
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1/3 of Stocks in the S&P 500 are no longer qualified to be included - ksvs http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4AI96T20081119 ====== gaika It is even worse (or better if you're buying), the dividend yield on S&P 500 is now more than the yield on 10 year treasury bond. ~~~ lpgauth Can you extrapolate a littl...
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Ask HN: Resources for starting semi-technical business - csdrane I&#x27;m looking to launch a business in the health insurance industry. I would describe the business as semi-technical in that although coding will need to be done, there are other things that need to be done that I view as more difficult and more imp...
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Twitter bots - cdvonstinkpot http://botwiki.org/bots/ ====== nthitz Allison Parrish has done a lot of neat work with twitter bots. [http://air.decontextualize.com/twitterbot/](http://air.decontextualize.com/twitterbot/) [https://twitter.com/aparrish/lists/my- bots/members](https://twitter.com/aparrish/lists/my-bots...
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On Joining Microsoft Edge and Moving to Seattle - nolanl https://nolanlawson.com/2016/06/09/on-joining-microsoft-edge-and-moving-to-seattle/ ====== anonymous__ Oh, the person writing this blog post hasn't actually STARTED yet. He sounds very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed optimistic eager to improve their software. "I'...
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Report: Twitter CEO took a Russian impostor’s bait in 2016 - okket https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/report-twitter-ceo-took-a-russian-impostors-bait-in-2016/#p3 ====== mindcrash If this is true it seems Russia is doing a bang up job taking two groups who are heavily involved in identity politics and putting them...
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Nassim Taleb: How to React to Pandemics (Coronavirus) - tosh https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1221486205847646208 ====== kqr2 Direct link to Nassim's Taleb paper: [https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_...](https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_via_Novel_Pathogens_- _Coron...
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Show HN: The Conference The media about events in business, tech and science - tarasmatsyk https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-conference ====== tarasmatsyk Hi HackerNews! We are a group of people who are looking for a better way to know about upcoming conferences and share insights with others We are presenting a ...
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Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI - amynordrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-intelligence/layoffs-at-watson-health-reveal-ibms-problem-with-ai ====== ryanmcbride I've never interacted directly with IBM, but I remember about 2 years ago, they had a talk at the Akamai Edg...
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Can a video game company tame toxic behaviour? - okket http://www.nature.com/news/can-a-video-game-company-tame-toxic-behaviour-1.19647 ====== supremeanger Sure just strip away the anonymity of the internet that is all you're pushing towards with this sort of internet hugbox conversion.
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts - trysomething http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/07/health/internet-addiction-treatment-center/?hpt=hp_t2 ====== soora In a weird way, stories like this remind me just how amazing the internet and games have become. The fact that people can become so immersed into the experience th...
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Ask HN: What advice would you give a non-tech person seeking a tech co-founder? - mikepk In a couple of weeks I'm going to be teaching a class at at http://intelligent.ly in Boston titled: "How to find a technical co-founder". I get asked the question about finding tech co-founders a lot and thought it would be fun ...
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What's with all the spam on whois? - mtimjones I was recently working on an article on network reconnaissance, and ran across this on Microsoft&#x27;s whois. When did whois become spamworthy?<p># whois microsoft.com<p>Whois Server Version 2.0<p>Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with ma...
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Parasites That Brainwash Their Host - mark-t http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/08/brainwashed_by_a_parasite.php ====== sungam Cysticercosis (pork tapeworm) can cause marked personality changes in humans when cysts form in the brain. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis> ~~~ river_styx I think I s...
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Ask HN: What do you think about these offer terms? - mircea Hello HN,<p>I've been offered the role of CTO for a stealth mode startup(internet e-commerce) in Berlin, to complete the founding team. The terms of the offer were: - 3.5K€ gross, t &#60; 7 mo - 4.5K€ gross, 6 months &#60; t &#60; 13 months - market val...
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Ask HN: What do you read every day? - jranck Be sides the obvious Hacker News, what newspapers, magazines, sites, blogs, etc do you like to follow on a daily basis? ====== shii Something Awful, newsmap.jp, K10 if there's anything new, HN, and dis.4chan.org/prog/ I take a general overview of the internets in the mor...
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Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election - MikeCapone http://boingboing.net/2011/12/30/penn-jillette-an-atheists-g.html ====== kls _I have tried with friends to say the most blasphemous sentence I can possibly say and it does not come close to the blasphemy of Michelle Bachman saying that earthquakes a...
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Predictions on the future of databases - thewarrior http://gigaom.com/2013/12/14/5-predictions-on-the-future-of-databases-from-a-guy-who-knows-databases/ ====== siddboots The future is a fickle thing. 15 years ago I, along with many others, would have told you that this was "the future of databases": [https://en.wiki...
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Is Spotify Going Bankrupt in 2017? Wall Street Delivers Another Red Flag - pja http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/02/02/spotify-bankrupt-ipo/ ====== pratap103 If they don't manage to reneg their deals with the big three, bankruptcy is certainly foreseeable. 70% percent royalties not including tax and overheads on a ...
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Recreating “Portugal cakes” from 1730 - Petiver https://rarecooking.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/potingallportugal-cakes/ ====== jcrei The name Portugal refers to the orange fruit, not the country. Orange in many parts of the world (Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and I think some Arabic countries) is still called something l...
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Cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives – what happened? - r721 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/these-cheap-clean-stoves-were-supposed-to-save-millions-of-lives-what-happened/2015/10/29/c0b98f38-77fa-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html ====== bcg1 Ethanol stoves are actually great for this pr...
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How We Work - Or why we ditched Campfire and moved to Google Wave. - cedsav http://www.veerwest.com/blog/productivity/how-we-work-or-why-we-ditched-campfire-and-moved-to-google-wave ====== p3rs3us A good use case for Google wave. Though Google wave has not been much of a success, but it has really helped a lot of sm...
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Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality - raju http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/27/1833202.shtml ====== chris11 From the article and comments on slashdot it just looks like Fairpoint is cutting access to email from the verizon website in Febuary, which makes sense because Fairport is taking over Verizon's servi...
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Ask HN: how do I get myself ready for the job market again? - mygoodness I&#x27;ve been recently growing frustrated at my job - a few key people who I just can&#x27;t seem to click with and a technology stack that is getting better but still moving glacially. For the most part, I love it, and I&#x27;m happy with a ...
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How do you tag a jellyfish? - Tomte https://futureoftheocean.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/how-do-you-tag-a-jellyfish/ ====== userbinator Whoever has eaten jellyfish before, will be aware that at least some species aren't as soft and squishy as the word "jelly" may evoke on first thought. ~~~ raybb I can vouch for that. W...
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The State of Probabilistic Programming - superfx https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/the-state-of-probabilistic-programming/ ====== mizzao I've tried to use probabilistic programming for building a model of real data, and it seems that there is a long way to go before it's practical and fast. On one hand, t...
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Why Are Warranty Disclaimers in ALL CAPS? - cribbles http://www.partingthoughts.net/why-are-warranty-disclaimers-in-all-caps/ ====== MrLunk Because if they print 'small print' that small in Lower Caps... it becomes even more unreadable ;)
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Startups [are] addicted to meaningless jargon - blowski http://qz.com/697558/internet-startups-cant-explain-what-they-do-because-theyre-addicted-to-meaningless-jargon/ ====== blowski I truncated the title because it was too long.
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Certificate Authority provides free certificates - stakent http://www.disog.org/2010/01/certificate-authority-provides-free.html ====== dangrossman The only difference between what they're doing and what every other SSL issuer is doing already is 20 bucks. A cheap-o certificate from GoDaddy or your favorite reseller d...
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Group Mind. More than 13,000 People Are Playing Pokémon Red Together - toksaitov http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/14/5411790/twitch-plays-pokemon-creator-interview-twitchplayspokemon ====== crystalmace I'm curious, does the setup read and execute every single typed command it recieves, or does it analyze the commands e...
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Hiccupops: A 13-year-old biological hacker's award-winning startup - buu700 http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/a-13-year-old-enlists-m-b-a-students-to-build-her-start-up/ ====== chime Does it really work? ------ 3piphany890 anyone who creates a start up at 13 is brilliant. but is she a hacker?
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Ask HN: What would you like to see included in a 21st Century Bill of Rights? - zebrafish With the explosion of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the ever decreasing cost of storage and compute, and the apparent disregard for individual privacy on the part of both government and industry, which rights woul...
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Ask HN: Is this a feasible business idea? - webgambit A couple weeks ago I had an idea for a new service, but I'm not sure it's something others would find useful or if it would be accepted as an authority.<p>Basically, what I'm thinking is a service where people could do things like store notes, pictures, recording...
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New Redis Fork with SSL and Transactions - DrJosiah http://www.dr-josiah.com/2018/04/yes-im-forking-redis-ssltls-transactions.html ====== DrJosiah I'll be around here and in the similarly named Reddit post, feel free to ask questions. ~~~ voidlogic It looks like most of the discussion is here: [https://news.ycombinat...
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Scientist discovers PageRank-type algorithm from the 1940s - alexandros http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24821/ ====== lmkg Page Rank is not a particularly impressive algorithm. The technical leap that Google made was the idea of having outgoing links be a proxy for authority, and it was an innovative and us...
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Did Space X just show its secret plans for a mission to Mars? - amayne http://weirdthings.com/2011/04/did-space-x-just-show-its-secret-plans-for-a-mission-to-mars/ ====== ceejayoz There's a bit of development between an artist's conception and a Mars mission.
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15 Jobs, What I’ve Learned – I Don’t Want To Do “This” - camz http://www.cameronkeng.com/2012/07/17/15-jobs-what-ive-learned-i-dont-want-to-do-this/ ====== camz Curious to see if anyone else had any tidbits or advice from their experiences in a variety of jobs.
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Patent US6368227 – Method of swinging on a swing - chrisdotcode http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6368227 ====== chrisdotcode Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585175](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585175)
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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret - prakash http://www.cdixon.org/?p=338 ====== jamesbritt "In terms of the risk of someone stealing your idea, there are at best a handful of people in the world who might actually drop everything and copy your idea." Sure. But what if there are others who are already w...
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The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District - danso https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-europe/the-uncertain-fate-of-amsterdams-red-light-district ====== sktrdie I have been living in Amsterdam for about half a year. Met lots of locals. The red light district is not liked. It’s full of trashy people wa...
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Covid-19 vs. Temperature (Not Real Science) - chrisdengso I was curious to see if I could find any correlation between the Coronavirus and the temperature. In this post, I explain why and how I did it. DISCLAIMER: This is very unscientific and I just hacked a script together as fast I could on a boring night in quaran...
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I can't concentrate for studies in University - iwtdwiwtd Hello, So, my problem is that I absolutely can't concentrate on my lectures. I used to be like that in high school too, I skipped many lessons, because they were useless for me, I couldn't concentrate on them, but I would go home and studied hard on my own an...
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Hacking Product Hunt – A Data-Driven Approach to Win at Product Hunt - edoventurini https://medium.com/@edoventurini/hacking-product-hunt-fcbcc22875 ====== haloklaus Awesome article, gonna do that with my start-up Modescope ~~~ edoventurini Thank you. Let me know how it goes. ------ anacleto I hope to see somethin...
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Show HN: GitBook Editor – Merge Conflict Resolution UI - friendcode https://www.gitbook.com/blog/features/merge-conflicts ====== ocdtrekkie This sounds awesome. I avoid merging things specifically because I never learned Git command line, and GitHub doesn't have a UI to deal with it. ~~~ AaronO Hi Aaron from GitBook ...
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The Spiritual Life of the Long-Distance Runner - pmcpinto http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/spiritual-life-long-distance-runner ====== michael_h I'm envious of people who get the 'runners high'. I've run for hours to no effect except rubbery legs and boredom. I like riding a bike because going fast is fun, ...
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SyrianStories : timeline of the revolt in Syria in pics & vidz - lolizbak http://syrianstories.org/ ====== lolizbak (i know there's normally no politics here, but i think it's worth sharing)
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Extreme Productivity with Screen and Vim - feydr http://airodig.com/2010/08/27/extreme-productivity-with-screen-and-vim/ ====== spudlyo I didn't care for this video. I thought it was light on content and the narrator had some pretty annoying mannerisms. _"...cuz you know, like back in the day we didn't have fancy ...
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Time Machine style backup with rsync in 540 lines of code - terminalhealth https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup ====== pwg The description sounds like this mirrors a lot of the functionality found in rsnapshot ([https://rsnapshot.org/](https://rsnapshot.org/)). What are the advantages here vs. what rsnapsho...
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Intel Announces Xeon W-3175X: 28-Core Processor for Extreme Workstations - rbanffy https://www.anandtech.com/show/13449/intel-announces-xeon-w3175x-28core-processor-for-extreme-workstations ====== piinbinary In a surprise to no one, it doesn't run at 5 Ghz like their demo did. Still, 4.3 is very impressive for that ma...
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Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing - bcn http://fortune.com/2015/05/26/google-oracle-api-supremecourt-obama-appeal/ ====== badlogic This advise by the Solicitor General hinges on an interpretation of section 102(b) of the copyright act. That section essentially says that "methods of ...
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Bash has local variables - dorfsmay http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/localvar.html ====== dorfsmay By default all variables are global, and had not realised that you can specify "local" to make variables inside a function, local.
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Mozilla Signs Lucrative 3-Year Google Search Deal for Firefox - shock https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox ====== mikece I wonder if there was a way to work out a scheme of tax breaks for supporting open source development. The problem is politics: the politicians ce...
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Culture handbooks from the world's most culture-centric companies - miraj http://info.zealify.com/blog/best-culture-handbooks ====== andyparker Thanks for sharing Miraj! Appreciate it.
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As Curiosity touches down on Mars, video is taken down from YouTube - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/as-curiosity-touches-down-on-mars-video-is-taken-down-from-youtube/ ====== wtracy It's time for penalties for false DMCA takedown notices. ~~~ novas0x2a If it was a content id takedown (which it sou...
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IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (2009) - acqq http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/21/iphone-apps-design-mistakes-overblown-visuals/ ====== andrewljohnson To this day, Motion-X absolutely kills it with their "overblown" designs. This 2009 article is harping on an app that was dominant for the two ...
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Interview with Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang - torgian https://podcasts.apple.com/tw/podcast/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E5%B3%B6%E8%AE%80/id1264391007?i=1000473082360 ====== torgian Brief notes: His self introduction is interesting of itself considering how different he is from other ministers around the world ( at lea...
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Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1? - mkovji ====== mark212 I'll tell you you're a cheapskate. IaaS -- insults as a service. ~~~ DoreenMichele But for an entire dollar, I want custom insults. None of this telling me the same thing you told the last ten people who gave you a dollar. Cuz, wow, lazy. ...
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Facebook used contractors to transcribe users' audio messages - iafrikan https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/09/03/facebook-transcribe-user-audio-no-permission-privacy/ ====== sarcasmatwork CWs (contingent workers) were used so Facebook could pay them less money to do work that a full time employee should be doing. The fact...
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We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive - rchaudhary https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/europe-border-control-ai-lie-detector/ ====== noonespecial So more ableism for the neurotypical. Great. I fully expect to fail these sorts of things as a matter of course. I can't wait.
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Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel - htiek https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/science/japan-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown-fuel.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ ====== geon > [https://youtu.be/c5hQ6WlioRE](https://youtu.be/c5hQ6WlioRE) This has to be the worst possible way...
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Faster Coding Interview Prep Using Interactive Visualizations - fahimulhaq https://www.educative.io/collection/5642554087309312/5679846214598656 ====== coldcode Perhaps the next thing will be AI driven coding interview robots. Why bother with people when you can optimize the whole process without human intervention? C...
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Things that make Go fast - davecheney http://dave.cheney.net/2014/06/07/five-things-that-make-go-fast ====== hendzen Escape analysis, dead code elimination, and function inlining are standard optimizations taught in an undergraduate compilers course. Go is cool, but I wouldn't really cite those as justifications for w...
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Show HN: My &lt;canvas&gt;-based, Photoshop-esque JavaScript color picker - spicyj http://zetamac.com/picker/ ====== spicyj I made this for the An Event Apart JavaScript 10k contest but unfortunately finished it after the deadline (but not by much!). Anyway, here it is for all of you to enjoy. Hopefully useful when...
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Speeding Up Your Python Code - bemmu http://www.maxburstein.com/blog/speeding-up-your-python-code/ ====== merb Not only is it slightly faster but you also avoid storing the entire list in memory! Actually that won't help when you need a big list and need to store it in memory. Python is really a...
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Technical Debt: A Taxonomy - karlmdavis http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx ====== karlmdavis In addition to containing an interesting categorization of technical debt, this article explains the entire concept of such debt in a very clear manner. Much appreciated, as I k...
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Akaros - open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures - jnazario http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/news.php ====== chrisballinger Cool to see this posted here, I know one of the guys working on it. It would be nice if they provided some compiled/preconfigured images for VirtualBox or VM...
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Show HN [Again]: My Side Project, Thingist. - blhack http://www.thingist.com/ ====== rudasn I didn't take any action on your site (quite busy at the moment) but I have a few suggestions on your design. \- Try not to use sans serif (Helvetica) and serif (Georgia) fonts at the same time. Choose one and stick to it. I...
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Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back - NicoJuicy https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/11/01/twitter-is-finally-giving-our-chronological-timelines-back/ ====== spdustin I've seen a number of stories that seem to get this wrong. It's not a new feature, really. You've been able to toggle off "Show the b...
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How much does your slow machine cost your company? - acangiano http://foldingair.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-much-does-your-slow-machine-cost.html ====== mikecsh I've actually done exactly this exercise myself having been constantly frustrated with the development platform in use at my company (Similar Dell PCs, Win 7, V...
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China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage - esalazar http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-hacking-20130313,0,7978305,full.story ====== BogdanCalin Here is the blog <http://blog.sina.com.cn/rocybird> Use Google Translate to read it (or Chrome).
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EVE Online: Premeditated Murder - outworlder http://themittani.com/features/first-degree-awox-premeditated-murder?page=0%2C0 ====== lmm It'd be nice to have an explanation that covered the jargon for a beginner. E.g. why don't BDCI losses count? What even is a BDCI?
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Categorized Weaknesses (summary negatives) from State of Haskell 2011 Survey - gtani http://nickknowlson.com/blog/2011/09/12/haskell-survey-categorized-weaknesses/ ====== nickknw Hey, thanks for submitting this to HN :) There's some discussion going on in the Haskell subreddit[1] for anyone who's interested. [1] -...
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FabriKube – A framework for building Hyperledger Fabric blockchain on Kubernetes - alesiladas https://github.com/fabrikube/FabriKube ====== coffee-high Awesome!
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Show HN: Hacker News channel on Denso (Videos from popular posts on HN) - iamclovin We're still in private beta but would love to give more invites and get feedback. ====== iamclovin Clickable link: <http://getdenso.com/denso/hacker-news> There's also a Foundation channel (by Kevin Rose) - <http://getdenso.com/dens...
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Put the “Ph” Back in PhD - pooya72 http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2015/summer/forum/rethinking-put-the-ph-back-in-phd/index.html ====== jimrandomh I don't think the problem is with PhDs failing to engage with philosophy, but rather, with the name "philosophy" having been hijacked and turned towards something that isn't wor...
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