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Show HN: put a text nyan cat in your emacs - joeheyming
https://github.com/joeheyming/ascii_nyan
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joeheyming
yo dawg, I herd you like nyan cat, so I put a nyan cat in your emacs so you
can nyan while you program
~~~
joeheyming
or prank a co-worker, thats the real intent :-)
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Show HN: Create a WordPress Plugin from Any Embed Code - bosdev
http://InstantWordpressPlugin.com
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afslas
Amazing and elegant. Gets the job done.
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Ask HN: What accounting appz do you use? - marcamillion
Small business, future web app company...what do you guys use to track all accounting?
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rlpb
All I do is maintain a general ledger. Everything else I need falls out of
this data. I use gnucash.
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apowell
Quickbooks. Best feature: my accountant knows... | {
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Show HN: My HN November App (Quotiac) is finished. Better late than never? - beeeph
Back in October, the "HN Make November Launch an App Month" discussion was started and it sounded like a great opportunity, so I joined the Facebook group and decided to build my take on an iOS version of the classic Quotefalls puzzl... | {
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} |
Why do firemen not earn as much as movie stars? - known
http://forbesindia.com/blog/business-strategy/put-need-before-greed-flamboyance-can-wait/
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tosseraccount
Why do diamonds cost more than water?
| {
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Hedge Fund Boss Retires at 37. Thanks "Idiot Traders" - DanielBMarkham
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/18/banking-useconomy
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markbao
That's pretty much one of the permutations that success can be.
You get enough money, you say fuck you to the industry, and you do what you
couldn't when you were wo... | {
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} |
Volkswagen C++ - gpderetta
https://github.com/elnormous/volkswagencpp
======
waynecochran
So on the first reported issue is someone trying to push code that is
segfaulting? This is evil.
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Is It Time for the US to Drag Jobs Out of Silicon Valley and into the Heartland? - teklaperry
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/innovation/is-it-time-for-the-us-government-to-drag-tech-jobs-out-of-silicon-valley-and-into-the-heartland
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alex_young
Silicon Valley is a place where you have lots... | {
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} |
Show HN: My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans - SlyShy
http://nemaload.davidad.org/
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apl
While interesting (especially from a funding perspective!), most of these
approaches aren't quite as ground-breaking as one might think. Neuroscientists
in academia _are_ doing most of these things. For optog... | {
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Ask HN: Best Ad Netowrks? - nickFaraday
Hi HN,<p>I'm currently in the process of evaluating Ad Networks to provide revenue for my site. There are so many out there some free, some pay, some new, some old. I'm not even sure where to start!<p>Any fellow HN readers have any suggestions?<p>My Ideal network would have:... | {
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} |
Selenium with Headless Chrome on Travis CI - amihaiemil
http://www.amihaiemil.com/2017/07/14/selenium-headless-chrome-travis.html
======
based2
Headless Java notes from yesterday:
[https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/headless-execution-
selenium-...](https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/headless-execution-selenium-
tests-jenk... | {
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} |
Show HN: Mailbrew Mobile (Sneak Peek) - linuz90
http://mailbrew.com/mobile
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Lightbody
A couple thoughts:
1) I was bummed I couldn't actually _try_ Mailbrew Mobile yet :(
2) That said, I hadn't heard of Mailbrew before and I _love_ the idea behind
it. I visit 4-5 sites as part of my morning and nightly routine,... | {
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} |
Cache Control Immutable – A Year Later - cpeterso
https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/cache-control-immutable-a-year-later/1195
======
brlewis
I'll probably be excited about this directive for a long time. I'm still
excited about stale-if-error and stale-while-revalidate though it's taking a
long time for support to go ... | {
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} |
Patent infringement claim re: “Creating Shazam in Java” blogpost (2010) - danso
http://www.royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement/
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Smerity
It terrifies me that even disclosing that you are attempting to understand a
patent implies you intend to infringe upon it. It's as close to a thoughtcrime
as pos... | {
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} |
16% of web vulnerabilities are still XSS - bensedat
https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/100-000-security-vulnerabilities-and-counting
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tptacek
I assume they're not tracking CSRF, since CSRF tends to be much more common
than XSS.
~~~
borski
We actually were, for a while, but are working through some bugs in t... | {
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Take a pic of your creditcard and get a call from the fraud hotline in 30 mins - jakobjs
https://translate.google.is/translate?sl=is&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=is&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dv.is%2Fskrytid%2F2017%2F10%2F9%2Fdagur-tok-mynd-af-debetkortinu-sinu-stuttu-sidar-var-hringt-i-hann-fra-valitor%2F&edit-text=
======... | {
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Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100M years old, from beneath the sea - walterbell
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea
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sradman
The paper _Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as
101.5 million years_ [1]:
> Our ... | {
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} |
Cortex: API platform for machine learning engineers - ChefboyOG
https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/v0.18.0
======
ishcheklein
Interesting, what are the benefits of using this vs Sagemaker?
~~~
calebkaiser
Maintainer here. There are a bunch of feature-level differences between Cortex
and SageMaker (spot instanc... | {
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I just lost 1,400 BTC - agirgelen
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecomment-683356052
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nemothekid
As far as I can understand
1\. The user had 1,400 BTC in an old wallet using this software
2\. An old version of the software was vulnerable to phishing
3\. The user attempted to use the softw... | {
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The Problem with Prediction Markets - bjterry
http://blog.statricks.com/the-problem-with-prediction-markets.html
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jefreier
The fact that a terrorism futures market was even proposed seems ridiculous to
me. If even 2 seconds of thought went into that, you would see the gaping
holes in that idea.
| {
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} |
Writing Resilient Components in React - iraldir
https://overreacted.io/writing-resilient-components/
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jessaustin
'draw_down you are hellbanned. To see this, just open this page in an
"incognito" tab. In reviewing your comment history, I can't see anything to
justify a hellban...
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} |
Ask HN: Domain dynamics? - thomasreggi
Should the home page of a domain be a portfolio or should it be a blog? I have a really short and sweet domain (reggi.com) and I don't know what to do with it. Should I use subdomains like this? http://portfolio.site.com/ and http://blog.site.com/ . Should I use root folders li... | {
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I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me - mdlincoln
http://www.lespetitescases.net/why-I-dont-use-semantic-web-technologies-anymore-even-if-they-still-influence-me
======
zcw100
I could write a book on what's wrong with the semantic web. One of the worst
isn't even technical, it's... | {
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} |
Show HN: A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3 - photon_lines
https://github.com/photonlines/Python-Prolog-Interpreter
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westurner
Cool tests! PyDatalog does Datalog (which is ~Prolog, but similar and very
capable) logic programming with SQLAlchemy (and database indexes) and
apparently No... | {
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} |
Show HN: LaTeX based Résumé / CV creator - cvsintellect
https://www.cvsintellect.com/guest/page/home
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cvsintellect
Blog post: [https://medium.com/news-cvsintellect/cvsintellect-v2-0-is-
he...](https://medium.com/news-cvsintellect/cvsintellect-v2-0-is-
here-4cc5ba1f9ee9)
Launch Post:
[https://news.ycombinator.... | {
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A no-coding-required Google Reader alternative (prototype of the possibilities) - webwanderings
https://sites.google.com/site/usmsmnews/
======
webwanderings
I cropped this together using nothing but Google Sheets and Google Sites.
It is not a bad alternative if you are of busy type and only wish to take a
quick g... | {
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} |
Apple ios 6 passcode hack - atiman
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/apple-acknowledges-ios-61-passcode-hack-says-fix-coming-331170?pfrom=gadgetstop
======
sudarshan1234
it was known
| {
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Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems (2008) [video] - pmarin
http://epresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca/1/watch/630.aspx
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justin66
"To be honest, looking back on it, Unix today is worse than the systems that
Unix itself was created to get away from."
~~~
Dewie
Can anyone here corroborate that there are better alterna... | {
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} |
Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading Has Finally Arrived - eugenejen
http://torrentfreak.com/truly-decentralized-bittorrent-downloading-has-finally-arrived-101208/
======
slang701
This is really great and you had better check it out below
[http://www.xilisoft.com/ipad-
magic.html?utm_source=John%26We...](http:/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Lack of self-discipline driving me hopeless. Tips? - Damnit
Dear Hacker News,<p>I am a longtime member here. I would never think I would be one of those writing this but here it goes.<p>I have a terrible problem with focus and discipline. I simply cannot manage to achieve both for any prolonged period of times... | {
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} |
Show HN: ZipBooks – Free invoicing and autobill, time tracker, bank feed, reports - bradhanks
https://zipbooks.com
======
bradhanks
There is also an iPhone app that has a lot of the same functionality.
[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zipbooks-free-accounting-
inv...](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zipbooks-free-acco... | {
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} |
The eviction crisis is starting to look a lot like the subprime mortgage crisis - howard941
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-eviction-crisis-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-the-subprime-mortgage-crisis-2019-07-03?link=sfmw_tw
======
celias
On The Media did a podcast series about evictions in the US
[https://www.w... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where can I learn more about programming video and audio codecs? - radmuzom
Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but I barely have any knowledge about programming audio and video codecs.<p>Is it just software knowledge? Or do I need knowledge about hardware / physics / electronics to actually wr... | {
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WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you. - emiller829
http://metautonomo.us/2011/06/14/wth-is-happening-to-rails-ill-tell-you/
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trustfundbaby
I don't think the author really gets why people have a problem with what's
going on with Rails, and the article strikes me as a "I like this why don't
you?!" type deal ... | {
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} |
CentMail: Donate to charity and fight spam - rlm
http://centmail.net/
======
patio11
There are two components to this offer: one is a $5 donation to charity. The
other is a spam-fighting scheme. Analyze them separately.
The spam fighting scheme is not a workable idea. Sorry.
If the person doing the verifying is a ... | {
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} |
Photo of plane crashing in NY. - rokhayakebe
http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/15/plane-crash-in-nyc-captured-on-real-time-web/#comment-2004872
Sorry. I fixed it.
======
RiderOfGiraffes
Why have you called this "Video of plane crashing" when there appears to be no
video of a plane crashing?
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smoody
where is the v... | {
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Building the Spaced Repetition Website I've Always Wanted - bjfish
https://www.knowki.com/blog/building-the-spaced-repetition-website-i-ve-always-wanted
======
syockit
Drats, no Unicode support! I hope it saved my page/card in its original form,
or else I might have to retype it again by the time support is availabl... | {
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} |
Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society (2014) - anirudh24seven
http://ncase.me/polygons/
======
anirudh24seven
Previous discussion on HN:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538)
| {
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Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searches - davidw
http://ben.casnocha.com/2009/11/contrasts-in-how-google-suggets-searches.html
======
zach
All trumped by "what is the situation" vs. "what is the deal", I think. Too
easy?
On the other hand, "how to make" is relatively erudite compared to "how to
cause."
------
pr... | {
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Samsung rains paper airplanes from space on the heads of Earthians - hoag
http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/136204/samsung-rains-paper-airplanes-space-heads-earthians
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hoag
Anybody else rolling their eyes at this?
| {
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Apple is Filtering “Jailbreak” Term in the US iTunes Store - ausman
http://www.shoutpedia.com/apple-is-filtering-jailbreak-term-in-the-us-itunes-store-11080/
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jonhendry
I suspect someone at Apple is snarking surreptitiously, and making an
unauthorized statement about how "jail breaking" is a dirty word at App... | {
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} |
Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] - doener
http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/presspb2016d6_en.pdf
======
JoeAltmaier
I had a dream where I had the last programming job in the world - writing
cobol printer drivers. Then somebody came in and put a box on my desk. "What's
that?" "Its a dev... | {
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} |
Explore the President's Stock and Business Returns - bingdig
https://www.govtrades.com/executive
======
bingdig
Thanks so much for all the support and volunteers on our original Show HN post
showing senate data! We've been able to add executive branch data and are well
on our way to adding data for members of the Hous... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The ABCs of virtual private servers, Part 1: Why go virtual? - evo_9
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/02/virtual-private-servers.ars
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prodigal_erik
A hypervisor is just an operating system (arbiter of resource use) relying on
legacy operating systems as compatibility shims, because it has a native API
n... | {
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} |
Google App Engine SDK for PHP - k0t0n0
https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads#Google_App_Engine_SDK_for_PHP
======
DonaldDerek
Heard about it in the Google IO, I wish there was a NodeJs SDK for app engine
to be honest..
| {
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Notice: We're turning off the YC application form at 10pm Pacific - pg
Since people are still applying, I thought we'd better announce when the application form will be turned off. If you want to apply, do it by tonight at 10 Pacific time. Please don't get your hopes up, though. The odds of a late application gett... | {
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} |
WeddingInviteLove: A Comprehensive Wedding Invitation Designer Directory - limedaring
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/04/15/weddinginvitelove-a-comprehensive-wedding-invitation-designer-directory/
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iseff
Looks nice.
There's also OneWed (<http://www.onewed.com>) which has a directory of all
types of wedding ve... | {
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} |
Deep learning may need a new programming language - bobjordan
https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/18/facebooks-chief-ai-scientist-deep-learning-may-need-a-new-programming-language/
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xvilka
What about Julia[1]? Seems like a perfect fit[2].
[1] [https://julialang.org/](https://julialang.org/)
[2] [https://juliacompu... | {
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} |
Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees? - eternalban
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Chinese-political-leaders-have-engineering-degrees-whereas-their-American-counterparts-have-law-degrees?share=1
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noname123
IMHO, STEM careers not sure about now, but before the mid-90's were considered
more prest... | {
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} |
An Entrepreneurial Counter Culture is Looming – The Startup Market is Not OK - rizzn
http://siliconangle.net/ver2/2009/09/18/an-entrepreneurial-counter-culture-is-looming-the-startup-market-is-not-ok/
======
patio11
Capital available in $200,000 chunks would be an interesting world:
1) You'd presumably want to make... | {
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} |
New features in C# 7 - avita1
https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/01/20/new-features-in-c-sharp-7/
======
feylikurds
New features in C# 7: Tuples, Record types, Pattern Matching, Immutable types,
and Non-nullable reference types.
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nickpeterson
These are nice, will probably allow some C# code to be more succinc... | {
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} |
Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit - pchristensen
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html
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jmillikin
140 points? Really?
I know it's fashionable in these parts to make fun of Haskell, but it's just
not _funny_ unless the wri... | {
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} |
Paul Graham's near-death experience - nickb
http://valleywag.com/tech/acquisitions/paul-grahams-near+death-experience-295574.php
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pg
The fact that Viaweb happened to be at the mercy of its investors at that
moment hardly meant it was worthless. In fact it generated lots of revenue for
Yahoo. I believe roughly ... | {
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} |
Possibly The Coolest Facebook Application To Date - transburgh
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/possibly-the-coolest-facebook-application-to-date/
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AF
Is he serious about this being the coolest application to date? I mean really,
a music video that will end up embedded on even more people's profile page and
... | {
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} |
Ask HN: I need help 'guessing' initial startup cost - donohoe
I'm only asking for napkin level calculations here, so...<p>Imagine you're putting together a startup for a new magical product/service. You know you will need experienced 3 engineers (lets say 5 years experience covering web, mobile apps, backend), 1 des... | {
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Thousands of Ruby on Rails sites leave logins lying around - Cbasedlifeform
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/28/thousands_of_ror_sites_leave_logins_lying_around/
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Cbasedlifeform
I am not remotely qualified to judge this, alas. Can someone please indicate
how valid this is?
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jafaku
Classic Rails.
| {
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Ask HN: What are the best tools to implement Pirate Metrics? - submarine
My website (and service) is finally built, and I'm readying to let my subscribers know about it.
Before that, I'd like to set up the metrics.<p>I hear Google Analytics or Totango are good. Is there anything I should be using before la... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Men and women can't be just friends - sperm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-and-women-cant-be-just-friends/
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acchow
researchers brought 88 pairs of undergraduate opposite-sex friends into…a science lab.
Ok, so this research has nothing to do with men or women - just horny near-
adult... | {
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} |
AWS OpenVPN Endpoint Script - Ttlequals0
https://github.com/ttlequals0/autovpn
======
teknologist
I've been playing with this lately:
[https://github.com/jlund/streisand](https://github.com/jlund/streisand)
It's essentially a set of Ansible scripts that will install a set of VPN
daemons on your cloud instance* , suc... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's been your experience with AWS Lambda? - champagnepapi
======
eb0la
I tried it writing a _trivial_ python script that called a webservice every 5
minutes and stored the .json response in S3.
Advantages:
\- Cheaper than having your own micro.t1 server and setting crontab. \- I have
information about how ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What does it mean to have a attack on a problem - quietthrow
I was reading Richard Hammings lecture - “you and your research” where he mentions about having “an attack on a problem”. He mentions he didn’t work on time travel , antigravity etc because he did not have an attack on that problem. And because he di... | {
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} |
Matt Taibbi on the JOBS Act - jellicle
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-obamas-jobs-act-couldnt-suck-worse-20120409?x
======
maxcan
I find this perspective so incredibly frustrating. Its as if people feel that
stock investments need to have zero risk. Anyone who dumps their entire life
savings... | {
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} |
FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter - robbiemitchell
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-director-comments-on-san-bernardino-matter
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bradleyjg
_It should be resolved by the American people deciding how we want to govern
ourselves in a world we have never seen before. We shouldn’t drif... | {
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} |
Who owns the space between reclining airline seats? - sethbannon
https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/05/recline-and-fall?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/whoownsthespacebetweenrecliningairlineseatsreclineandfall
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totalZero
I firmly believe that if your seat reclines, you are totally entitled to use
the full extent... | {
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} |
Fusion is not 20 years in the future.It’s 50 years in the past–and we missed it - zero_kool
https://fusor.net/
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ALittleLight
"The deuterium in a single cubic meter of seawater contains the as much energy
as nearly 1,400 barrels of crude oil - enough to supply the civilizaton's
energy needs for hundreds of millio... | {
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} |
Why Klout Should Not Be A Synonym For Influence - nlwhittemore
http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2011/02/18/why-klout-should-not-be-a-synonym-for-influence/
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nlwhittemore
I think Klout is doing really interesting stuff and I love how much they're
sharing about their methodology and ideas on their blog, but I like h... | {
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} |
From Congress, a Law [JOBS Act] Befitting a Sausage Factory - JumpCrisscross
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/from-congress-a-law-befitting-a-sausage-factory/?nl=business&emc=edit_dlbkam_20120404
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sp332
>Grant Thornton asserts that the decline is a result of changes in market
structure. One reason is dec... | {
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} |
The Internet plans net neutrality 'day of action' on September 10th - jslampe
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/4/6104505/reddit-kickstarter-and-others-plan-net-neutrality-day-of-action
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kb120
Reddit thread where Katie from pornhub announces that porn sites will join:
[http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2fg8ky... | {
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} |
N.Y. Times Scales Back Free Articles to Get More Subscribers - artsandsci
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe
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concam
We desperately need the continued work of serious investigative journalism
outfits. Even the existence of organizati... | {
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} |
The Psychological Power of Satan - yiedyie
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=psychological-power-satan
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GeorgeOrr
You would think adults would be past playing with imaginary friends. But they
can't even get over their imaginary enemies.
~~~
yiedyie
Is like that apocryphal story of Hitler saying... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you still buy/read technical books? - gcatalfamo
If you decide to learn new skills (e.g python) or about a subject (e.g. ML) do you still rely on technical books for it?<p>I find myself looking more and more for alternative sources, but it could be just me, not finding a page of code written in a book all t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
If The Message Is Important, It Will Find Me - winanga
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/05/if-the-message-is-important-it-will-find-me.html
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callmeed
I'm all for managing "message overload" and there are plenty of ways to do it.
However, the door swings both ways ... if you're gonna ignore people you no
longer ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
About the “Security Issue” on VLC - tiri
https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1153963312981389312
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LeonM
So none of the tech news websites contacted VideoLAN and published their
articles without checking their source.
I believe this sums up the problem with online news: being first matters most
to news sites. It... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Now available: auto-scaling PostgreSQL deployments - mrkurt
https://blog.compose.io/new-year-new-database-postgresql-on-compose/
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akurilin
On this note, what is people's favorite way of scaling out Postgres? I'm told
Slony + master/slaves configs are good for scaling out read-heavy situations,
but it seems tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: has anyone built an HN to Twitter auto poster? - mooreds
Seems like it should be pretty easy with the official HN API and twitter API, so I was wondering if anyone had done it.
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frostmatthew
You should be able to accomplish this with IFTTT using Hacker New's RSS feed.
I found this recipe
[https://ifttt... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Inductive Consensus Tree Protocol: A Scalable Blockchain [pdf] - kalix_systems
https://ictp.io/ictp-whitepaper.pdf
======
kalix_systems
Authors here:
We originally started on this project because it was surprising and a bit
frustrating that no one else had done it, but there ended up being a lot of
fun technical and ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Invest Your Money In What Matters to You - chazlupei
http://www.valuedinvesting.com
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bokonist
There is a basic problem with socially conscious investing. Let us take the
Kantian/golden rule perspective and imagine that every "good" person invested
with a social conscious and avoided evil companies. The ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27 - aaronbrethorst
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/disruptive-mobile-carrier-republic-wireless-to-sell-handsets-for-99-until-november-27/
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cpr
As @jkincaid points out, this is a Bandwidth.com company.
Bandwidth.com has built up a wh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nftables code merged, expected in Linux Kernel 3.13 - conductor
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=138203780210029&w=4
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conductor
Nftables [0] comes to replace iptables, ip6tables, arptables and ebtables. It
will introduce new common syntax for IPv4, IPv6 and ARP, and it has smaller
kernel-mode code.
Its work... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Quickmeme banned from Reddit for alleged vote manipulation - OTRAustin
http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-bans-quickmeme-vote-manipulation/
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minimaxir
It's worth noting that another Redditor and mod from /r/AdviceAnimals,
/u/ManWithoutModem, independently discovered different evidence that the
Quickmeme posts... | {
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} |
Most stockmarket returns come from a tiny fraction of shares - known
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/06/23/most-stockmarket-returns-come-from-a-tiny-fraction-of-shares
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stolk
Does this statistic consider cap gains only?
Or did the author take dividend into account?
I'm not surprised that c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MetaFilter launches "Best of…" blog - turoczy
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2012/04/Announcing-the-Best-Of-Blog
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liamcampbell
I have wanted this to exist for a long time.
| {
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} |
Controlling Positive Feedback Loops in Online Communities - dsirijus
http://dsirijus.tumblr.com/post/29826465855/controlling-positive-feedback-loops-in-online
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JumpCrisscross
Assuming the conclusion is true, this has interesting implications for our
highly connected political media environment, which suffers fro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Perils of Polyglot Programming - okal
http://alexgaynor.net/2011/dec/23/perils-polyglot-programming/
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lucisferre
This was another one of those blog posts that started with <insert
inflammatory title about X being bad/dangerous/perilous>, followed by <poorly
constructed straw man about X being done wrong in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mozilla Firefox Extremely Slowing in India. What Is in Your Country? - seonirav
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mtmail
As others have pointed out the question doesn't have enough detail
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496174](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496174)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Diffie Hellman Parameter Validation Attacks Explained - tptacek
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/25/adam-bozanich-did-not-uncover-an-nsa-ipsec-conspiracy-diffie.html
======
tptacek
I don't post my own stuff often, but I just rescued this old blog post from
our database dump, read it, and kind of liked it. ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Neal Stephenson and friends fight for the future of ebooks with "The Mongoliad" - absconditus
http://io9.com/5549740/neal-stephenson-and-friends-fight-for-the-future-of-ebooks-with-the-mongoliad
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pavelludiq
It sounds like an open source e-book that you have to pay to "develop" for.
Great idea in general, but a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Audiohand, automatically aligns and mixes multiple recordings - wpg854
http://www.audiohand.com/
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supercoder
This could be big for podcasters
~~~
_hq
Here's an example. It's a bunch of banter, but we recorded this at a busy
coffee shop with 2 iPhones - I was demoing it to a friend -
[https://audiohan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you prepare for PM interviews? - zhangtwin
What resources do you use and how do you approach them?
======
rolandal
PM as in Project or Product Manager? (there is definitely some overlap though)
I look for a couple things, and ask questions that help evaluate their:
1) Technical background
2) Produc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Has anyone made a product with virtual euro/pound account with a iban? - manojvenkat92
Hello folks, I'm ideating and building a digital bank for any immigrants coming into Europe for student/work purposes and offer them a digital euro account. I'm trying to get an account with Solarisbank but th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
When Proton Meets Monopole (1983) - ableal
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw01.html
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ableal
By John G. Cramer, professor of physics at the University of Washington in
Seattle.
Found in a comment by
[http://slashdot.org/~somepunk](http://slashdot.org/~somepunk) on
[http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/01/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Eric Allen: TipJoy Textpattern plugin - ivankirigin
http://svallens.com/eric/article/60/tipjoy-textpattern-plugin
======
ivankirigin
An early adopter of Tipjoy made this cool plugin. Go and tip him for it, and
use it on your Textpattern blog.
~~~
aston
Hey, Ivan, I realize this isn't the right venue, but I'm not sure... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I couldn't get into YC, so I joined a startup that did - Swizec
http://swizec.com/blog/i-couldnt-get-into-yc-so-i-joined-a-startup-that-did/swizec/1855
======
rmorrison
My YC W11 company is hiring! Join Comprehend Systems to see first hand what
it's like inside a YC company, while helping us create next-generation
d... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Wgpu-rs on the web - grovesNL
https://gfx-rs.github.io/2020/04/21/wgpu-web.html
======
echelon
This is why Rust is going to eventually eat Javascript's lunch on the browser.
I'm willing to longbets that by 2025 we see a Rust framework as the top
browser toolkit. I'd even be willing to bet that there are popular framew... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Logr. The minimalist Python blogging solution. - brewerhimself
https://github.com/BrewerHimself/Logr
======
antidoh
"If you wanted an article named An Introduction to Software Engineering to
appear in the Software category, the location of the file would look like
this:
/articles/Software... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Feedback on new Fantasy Football Social Community - esinger
My name is Evan, and I am the original founder of Pigskin Boss - fantasy football's first true social community. We just launched 4-5 weeks ago at the start of the football season, and was hoping to get your guys' feedback and thoughts about what we've buil... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Firefox introduces PDF viewer - riledhel
http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/02/19/firefox-introduces-pdf-viewer-to-browse-the-web-without-interruption
======
hosay123
It's worth pointing out this is done in _pure Javascript_ , and works by
compiling PDF functions to equivalent Javascript functions which are then
visibl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is YCombinator astroturfing now? - richm44
Is it new that news.ycombinator is including what seem to be paid adverts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678405 that allow no ability to comment etc. without distinguishing them from content being submitted via the normal process? Have I just not b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Facebook could solve "Missed Connections" right now, if they wanted to - dgurney
http://concertwindow.com/6793/the-solution-to-the-missed-connections-problem
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usaar333
"It stands to reason, therefore, that Facebook’s algorithm could scan any
photo from any of its 800 million members, and recognize you if y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How We Made Joins Faster, Part Three - nslater
https://crate.io/a/lab-notes-how-we-made-joins-23-thousand-times-faster-part-three/
======
mahesh_rm
Anybody here with experience using Crate? Why would I pick it over TimescaleDB
for IOT data ingestion?
~~~
ddorian43
It's elasticsearch with joins/subqueries on top. Many... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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