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David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts - kmfrk http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/david_simon_creator_of_the_wir.php ====== niallsmart If you read that, read this: [http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/why_david_simon_is_wrong_about...](http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/why_david_simon_is_wrong_abou...
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Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth - djwebb1977 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/02/giant-archaeological-trove-fou.html ====== aw3c2 * _potential_! I am disappointed that there is no image of the aerial imagery nor the ground. At least the photo looks 99% like generic stock footage. ...
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Imgur, please don't be the next TinyPic or ImageShack - dylz https://dillpickle.github.io/imgur-please-dont-be-the-next-tinypic-or-imageshack.html ====== briholt Let's dig a bit deeper and ask _why_ is imgur doing these things? The fact is image uploading is one of the most commoditized services you can offer. Long te...
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Got $5? $10? $500? Here is how to start investing with any budget - flaviuspop https://thefinancialdiary.com/got-5eur-10eur-500eur-here-is-how-to-start-investing-with-any-budget/ ====== Cypher Since when is P2P lending low risk?
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Ask HN: Is it possible for a mobile app store, not to report in-app purchases? - leowoo91 Just being a bit paranoid, I was wondering if app I develop gets abused by that giant evil cooperation, assuming it cuts all its network access, lets user buy the app but doesnt report me it as a number? How confident you would b...
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More H-1B visas needed because of skill or money shortage? - SethMurphy You often hear entrepreneurs say we need more H-1B visas. Are we really facing a skill shortage in tech or is it the lure of having an employee who is tied to their employer for lower wages than older americans (who have a job shortage) the real...
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The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes - bdcravens https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-controllers-for-kubernetes-ack/ ====== solatic Currently no support for provisioning IAM permissions. ACK will be happy to construct an S3 bucket for you, that is then inaccessible, unless you use dangerous IAM wildcard permissi...
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Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error' - xufi http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37957593 ====== jrockway The biggest thing I take away from this is that users have learned to tolerate minor problems in software. I always make it a personal goal to have 0 bugs, but never succeed. It is good that users cut us s...
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Show HN: Tool for testing sites and apps on slow connections - pkhach https://www.httpdebugger.com/netthrottler.html ====== shereadsthenews Chrome has this built in, FWIW, and of course you can always use the standard tools to achieve this on Linux. ~~~ Animats _You can always use the standard tools to achieve this o...
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Obstacles to Developing Cost-Lowering Health Technology: The Inventor’s Dilemma - wormold http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2429454 ====== ucha I like the example of the MI and stroke reducing polypill. However, if the only reason why this pill's not sold is because it delivers a low return on investm...
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500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin resigns over McClure situation - Geekette https://www.axios.com/500-startups-partner-elizabeth-yin-resigns-2452787280.html ====== nikcub Related: [https://www.axios.com/exclusive-dave-mcclure-resigns-as- gene...](https://www.axios.com/exclusive-dave-mcclure-resigns-as-general- partn...
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Restlet raises $2M to facilitate RESTful API creation with APISpark - ferrantim http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/11/14/restlet-raises-2m/ ====== ferrantim Congrats to Jerome and team. Hope you guys do great! For anyone interested, here is the java and js repos * [https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java](...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction - hiphipjorge http://www.basilica.ai/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-deep-feature-extraction/ ====== asavinov Deep feature extraction is important for not only image analysis but also in other areas where specialized tools might be useful such as listed ...
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Did Angry Birds eat the iPad mags market? - atularora http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/2010/12/did-angry-birds-eat-the-ipad-mags-market/ ====== bauchidgw simple enough WIRED om the ipad sucked, thats why the sales dropped.
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Backup Shell script: each Mysql database to a separated dump - giuseppeurso http://blog.giuseppeurso.net/export-each-mysql-database-to-a-separated-dump/index.html ====== pkhamre You should add a command-line option to skip single databases.
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Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC - craigkerstiens https://brandur.org/postgres-queues ====== chanks (I'm the author of Que, the job queue discussed in the post most extensively) This isn't terribly surprising to me, since I have an appreciation for what long-running transactions will do to a system, and I try ...
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New Windows backdoor: SSL encryption is not safe anymore - hazelnut http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/windows-hintertuer-gefaehrdet-ssl-verschluesselung-a-913825.html http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fne...
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Ask HN: What are you using for managing reference data in your app? - paramz Hi HN, In almost every company I have ever worked in, we had some in-house solution for managing so-called dictionaries/parameters/reference-data. If you still wonder what I am talking about: assume you would have some data that nor...
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Jobs at Airbnb.com - bkwok http://www.airbnb.com/jobs?=srcHN ====== bkwok We announced to the Internet our latest round of funding. We launched our new iPhone app and we're proud of it. We're creating an industry and we need the best people to be a part of it plus we love making people happy. We have 40 positions op...
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Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0 - ReticentMonkey https://github.com/django/django/pull/7867/files ====== Flimm The next release, Django 1.11, will be a long-term support release, and the one after that, Django 2.0, will no longer support Python 2. [https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jun...
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Swedish Researchers Connect 160k Bees to the Internet - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/digital-beehive-becomes-latest-attempt-to-save-pollinators ====== sarcasmatwork Not pay-walled: [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/swedish- researcher...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technol...
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Ask HN: Is email the new fax? - Fsp2WFuH ====== spyckie2 No. Fax is a specific communication medium where you can send physical documents to others, and was replaced by email because email was a general communication medium that was more accessible (everyone had it), and didn't have as high costs to accessibility espec...
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Portable contact lists and the case against XFN - bootload http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/03/11/portable-contact-lists-and-the-case-against-xfn/ ====== iamwil Boils down to, of the 18 XFN relationships, only rel-contact and rel-me is being used. For those of you that never heard of XFN, <http://gmpg.org/xfn/intro>,...
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New Android phone crushes iPhone X in speed test - incan1275 http://bgr.com/2017/11/21/iphone-x-review-speed-vs-oneplus-5t/ ====== nv-vn Let's see the actual benchmarks though. I'm more interested in seeing if it beats the iPhone on benchmarks, since these app opening races have been done a million times, and Android ...
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PON-Z, the world's first honest ponzi scheme. Using bitcoin. - KennethMyers http://www.pon-z.com/ ====== burke This raises an interesting question. I wonder if explicitly labeling itself as a Ponzi scheme precludes it from being technically classified as a Ponzi scheme. Is it still technically fraud if you walk up ...
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From a Farm in Egypt to Building a YC Computer Vision Startup for Fitness - dang http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/smartspot/ ====== x0x0 [http://www.smartspot.io](http://www.smartspot.io) because googling completely failed and I had to find it via product hunt This looks like a fascinating product; if the founder's a...
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Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One - bshanks http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-one/ ====== rwmj For those not following RISC-V closely, 2018 promises to be an interesting year: * 64 bit hardware will be available from SiFive. It'll be low-ish end, 4 application cores, but it'll run real Li...
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Click and Grow (YC S15) Lets You Grow an Indoor Garden with Zero Effort - katm http://blog.ycombinator.com/click-and-grow-yc-s15-lets-you-grow-an-indoor-garden-with-zero-effort ====== mr_cat Read about your product in WIRED and became very interested in the agronomical potential it might have when developed further....
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KLEKTD: Super Simple Social Bookmarking - adk3 http://klektd.com ====== adk3 I've been working on this in my spare time for a while now. I built it to scratch an itch I was having with keeping track of things I'd come across online. I wanted something that could; track links in one click, give me visual references o...
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Why does unsubscribing from a newsletter take “a few days”? - scop https://twitter.com/Joe8Bit/status/1156312965265707013 ====== JakeStone I work for a company in a department that sends out on average, 2 million emails a day. These are emails to people who (1 or more): \- have signed up and are receiving a verificat...
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Ask HN: How does this website know I'm in incognito mode? - MarkMc When I try to view this page [1] in incognito mode it says, &quot;You must exit incognito mode to read the content&quot;. How does it know I&#x27;m in incognito mode?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;429438&#x2F;dear-everyon...
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Deaf New York residents sue Cuomo for not using a sign language interpreter - colinprince https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics/andrew-cuomo-lawsuit-asl-interpreter-trnd/index.html ====== bb2018 I have been seeing all the ASL interpreters during government press conferences and have been very confused about their us...
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Turkish coup – bridges, social media blocked - AdamN http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36809083 ====== chinathrow Good live coverage also at the guardian. Latest news is that the military has full control. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey- co...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/201...
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Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot - kevindeasis http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-disaster-decommissioning-idUSKCN0WB2X5 ====== mkesper Recent Greenpeace article re Fukushima: The environmental impacts are already becoming apparent, with studies showing: \- High radiation concentrations in new ...
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Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses - jazzyb http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/if_your_company_has_terrible_it_security_that_could_be_a_rational_business_decision/ ====== Noseshine Why is that "sad"? Nature has gone the same path. We have basic defenses that are "on" all the tim...
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Unit testing in the enterprise: Five common myths dispelled - kungfudoi http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid92_gci1312005,00.html ====== mleonhard "The few organizations that enjoy long-term success are those that make unit testing part of their daily workflow." I wish the author would elabo...
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Euthanasia Coaster - ca98am79 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster ====== gpcz I know it's taboo to bring up the Holocaust in Internet discussions, but this coaster and the verbiage that the Wikipedia article uses ("unloading of corpses" in particular) creeps me out at a level similar to the industrial proc...
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How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers - edw519 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/351331/how-uk-government-spun-136-people-into-7m-illegal-file-sharers ====== tomsaffell The extrapolation from 1176 is reasonable (I think the error is roughly +-2% for n=1000) _if_ the sample is not biased.. But the...
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How To Get 30 Million Facebook Fans - schlichtm http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/12/19/30-under-30-tracks-bys-founders-on-how-to-get-30-million-facebook-fans/ ====== latchkey Yawn, this is basically just an advertisement article for UStream, Socialcam and Crowdbooster. ------ danso I'm guessing by how th...
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An Ex-Car Rental Agent’s Money Saving Advice - raymondhome http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/an-ex-car-rental-agents-money-saving-advice/ ====== binarray2000 While the NY Times article is a nice summary you still can read the source [http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/165627/article...](http://ww...
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Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? - luu http://computers-are-fast.github.io/ ====== userbinator Alternatively: do you know how much your computer _could_ do in a second, but isn't, because the majority of software is so full of inefficiency? In my experience, this is something that a lot of devel...
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A Better Qt Because of Open Source and KDE - t4h4 http://www.olafsw.de/a-better-qt-because-of-open-source-and-kde/ ====== giancarlostoro > In case The Qt Company would ever attempt to close down Open Source Qt, the > foundation is entitled to publish Qt under the BSD license. This notable > legal guarantee strengthens...
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Show HN: ReSRC – Free programming learning resources incl. 500 free books - lalmachado http://resrc.io/ ====== eglover Talk about information overload. :/
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The first server side programmable graphics generator - kuszi http://ideone.com/SQwvj ====== kuszi Java example: <http://ideone.com/HrXrC> ------ brechin First? ~~~ kuszi Think so. Please let me know if you know more.
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Ask HN: Books about industrial control systems - thecleaner I know that control systems exist and I could find two companies that make those - Fujitsu and Mitsubishi. But I don&#x27;t know anything else about how these systems are made. Books, reading-lists, articles &#x2F; article sources most welcome. ====== aphexti...
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Ask HN: Should I branch off my startup's technology into a separate company? - laundrysheet My two co-founders and I own a profitable home services company that runs on a proprietary technology platform that I&#x27;ve built. Over the past two years, I&#x27;ve put the majority of work into the startup, with most of t...
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He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen - prostoalex https://theintercept.com/2016/06/28/he-was-a-hacker-for-the-nsa-and-he-was-willing-to-talk-i-was-willing-to-listen/ ====== batbomb This is garbage. There is easily enough information to uniquely identify him (lamb of god, reli...
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Interesting Esoterica - cirgue http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/ ====== drallison So many fascinating papers, so little time.
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Google 2FA mobile breached? - ascended https://imgur.com/a/dwwdj ====== flukus Why do you suspect a breach and not someone that knows your phone number and gmail address? They can try to log in as you, triggering the 2FA message to be sent and then send you the reset message with sender spoofing.
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Bats have outsmarted viruses–including coronaviruses–for 65M years - yread https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/how-bats-have-outsmarted-viruses-including-coronaviruses-65-million-years ====== yread Paper is here. Amazing that you can build such a high quality annotation for a de novo genome [https://www.nature.co...
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Did Stack Exchange staff members assist in the apprehension of Ross Ulbricht? - codezero http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/199353/did-the-stack-exchange-staff-members-assist-in-the-apprehension-of-ross-ulbricht ====== kevinpet Can we please not get distracted by police investigating criminal activity acting with...
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Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking - elorant https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/7/1/21308153/the-ezra-klein-show-the-shallows-twitter-facebook-attention-deep-reading-thinking ====== ciarannolan His book, _The Shallows_ , is an incredible journey into the human/technology relationship. As much as we crea...
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$5,000 for your dream project: 2 days left - yrashk http://5kgrant.com ====== ryanx435 In all honesty, what can be done with 5k for a dream project? It's not enough to go full time. I guess maybe pay for hosting, maybe bring on a short term consultant, or do some advertising? Obviously 5k is better than 0, but it st...
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Algorithm Is the Problem, Not Mark Zuckerberg - ceohockey60 https://interconnected.blog/algorithm-is-the-problem-not-mark-zuckerberg/ ====== sharemywin I would argue the algorithm needs to be personalized. people should have multiple channels. And you should have a volume control. if not query access.
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China bans new Bitcoin deposits - aronvox http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6707013a-67af-11e3-8ada-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2noKo4XIN ====== sillysaurus2 I present, for your satisfaction, my comment from two weeks ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829180](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829180) Along with this ...
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HP made a laptop slightly thicker to add 3 hours of battery life - slantyyz http://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/3/14126382/new-hp-spectre-x360-laptop-2017-announced-price-release-date-ces ====== rayiner To put that into context, it will be 18 mm and 4.4 pounds, versus 15.5 mm and 4 pounds for the new 15" MBP. Apparentl...
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The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881) - behoove https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1881/03/the-story-of-a-great-monopoly/306019/ ====== dredmorbius Far too much here for easy synopsis. Picking two arbitrary items: _The contract is in print by which the Pennsylvania Railroad agreed with the Standard, under t...
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Drag out files like Gmail - ahrjay http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/gmail-dragout ====== keltex Does it seem sort of Microsoftish that Google uses an undocumented API to their own benefit without letting the rest of the community know? ~~~ kragen There's a bit of difference: there's an open-source version of Chr...
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How a Quantum Satellite Network Could Produce a Secure Internet - nextstep http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/quantum-satellites ====== mtgx Except they would be even more vulnerable to government's monitoring the conversations, since they'd own those satellites. Unless we can envision a future where even a small busi...
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Why Is PayPal So Successful Yet They Treat Merchants Like Crap? - jkuria https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1524/why-is-paypal-so-successful-yet-they-treat-merchan.html ====== theamk Because they provide security for the users. With paypal, I can buy from any random sellers, and know that in the worst case, I am ...
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Why do Macs need so much fixing? - edw519 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=446 ====== mechanical_fish Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Philip Greenspun! "Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no monotheism strong enough that it cannot be shaken by Unix or any Microsoft product. Th...
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iPhone Privacy - taranfx http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/iPhonePrivacy.pdf ====== DougBTX More details here: <http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/iPhonePrivacy.pdf> Note that this applies to only applications installed by the user, there is no hacking going on. Much like installing an application on a d...
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The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value - brahmwg http://evonomics.com/maximizing-shareholder-value-dumbest-idea/ ====== jacquesm [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392108](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392108)
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4 months of work turned into Gnome, Debian testing based tablet - ashitlerferad https://zgrimshell.github.io/posts/4-months-of-work-turned-into-gnome-debian-testing-based-tablet.html ====== lostmsu Does it support deep sleep and push notifications?
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2016 Annual Report - dtnewman https://watsi.org/2016/?utm_source=2016&utm_campaign=annual%20report&utm_medium=email ====== saganus This is a really nice idea for a transparency report. I got the email from Chase Adam and he says: "This year, we’re doing something different. Instead of using our annual report to shar...
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Java won't curl up and die like Cobol, insists Oracle - thebootstrapper http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/07/oracle_java_9_10_roadmap/ ====== karianna Some surprisingly well balanced comments on that article, colour me surprised, might actually read more of the Register's tech articles from now on.
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Ask HN: Working at Pivotal Labs? - mxplusc Hi HNers, here is a follow up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488273.<p>There is surprisingly little of Pivotal Labs on HN, if you consider their reputation. Any opinions on them as a work place? Pivots? ====== zbrock I used to work at Pivotal and I really enjoyed...
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Tesla is 'going out of business,' says former GM exec Bob Lutz - kushti https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/tesla-is-going-out-of-business-says-former-gm-exec-bob-lutz.html ====== Nokinside At least some points he makes are true. __Battery tech __ Tesla don 't own any important battery technology or patents. Main batt...
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Autonomous braking: 'The most significant development since the safety belt' - ZeljkoS http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43752226 ====== nxc18 Autonomous braking is a huge step, and, imho, more exciting at the moment than full autonomous driving because it can save lives right now, and is unlikely to take them (shots f...
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Goldman, JPMorgan Said to Fire 30 Analysts for Cheating on Tests - petethomas http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/goldman-sachs-said-to-dismiss-20-analysts-for-cheating-on-tests ====== tokenadult This was an interesting read on financial industry practices for career development. The regulatory environme...
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Why Every Analyst Should Learn To Code - sixtypoundhound http://www.marginhound.com/why-every-analyst-should-learn-to-code/ ====== dguilder Better to have every programmer learn to be an analyst. Practically any project could survive if the analyst was fired and the programmer had to pick up the slack, but the rever...
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The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp - omiossec https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-f-development-home-on-github-is-now-dotnet-fsharp/ ====== kpremote I'll just throw a random comment here: F#, to me, has the most beautiful syntax. Reading F# code is such an eye pleasing experience! I actuall...
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Judge allows temporary ban on 3D-printed gun files to continue - LinuxBender https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/judge-allows-temporary-ban-on-3d-printed-gun-files-to-continue/ ====== M_Bakhtiari What about CNC milled gun files? Seems like a much bigger threat since mills capable of producing reliable firearms...
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Shen is a portable functional programming language - curtis http://shenlanguage.org/ ====== 616c Is anyone using this, despite the license? I have seen this here on HN and elsewhere. The only reason I avoid is the weird not-so-FOSS license and key-to-the-chest mentality. I would love to hear semi-detailed experience...
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PHP: So you'd like to migrate from MySQL to CouchDB? - Part I - barredo http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/archives/74-PHP-So-youd-like-to-migrate-from-MySQL-to-CouchDB-Part-I.html ====== dutchbrit A very good introduction! I actually haven't looked much at CouchDB, how is it scalability wise? I first had a look at Cassa...
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Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless - vincentdm https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-data-api-for-amazon-aurora-serverless/ ====== coderecipe With this, VPC is no longer needed from lambda call to RDS, and this means that cold start time will be lowered from seconds to milliseconds. I made a ready to use recipe (sou...
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Using ReSharper with MonoTouch Applications - dnesteruk http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/02/using-resharper-with-monotouch-applications/ ====== jackfoxy On a related note, Dave Thomas has got F# working with MonoTouch <http://7sharpnine.com/posts/monotouch-and-fsharp-part-i> and <http://7sharpnine.com/posts/mo...
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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good - tosh http://learnyouahaskell.com/ ====== DonaldPShimoda I tried LYAH before I had any real functional experience, and it went poorly. I think I wasn't dedicated enough. I took a programming languages class taught in Racket, and by the end of that semester I felt like I had finally...
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Ask HN: Please help me with what to do with my life? - arikp9396 I am a 22 year old guy.Just about to complete my degree in mechanical engineering. I find hardware startup quite interesting and I kinda want to work there. But here is the problem, I have no technical knowledge nor passion left any more to learn. I am k...
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A 'revisited' guide to GNU Screen - ypk http://linuxgazette.net/168/silva.html ====== silentbicycle Oddly, it doesn't mention tmux (<http://tmux.sourceforge.net/>), a newer project that implements a similar terminal multiplexer. It was redesigned from the ground up to more cleanly accommodate several features that h...
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China Consumes Mind-Boggling Amounts of Raw Materials - rottyguy http://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-consumes-mind-boggling-amounts-of-raw-materials-chart/ ====== samspenc The phrase "debt fuelled binge" come to mind. The 2008 mortgage crisis was a shocker, but I think we may be under-prepared for the next financia...
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Eben Moglen is no longer a friend of the free software community - JoshTriplett https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/49370.html ====== craigsmansion It's a sad and bewildering affair. My most innocent interpretation of the events is that Eben got seduced by "big picture" thinking: the thought takes hold that there are action...
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Tardigrades may now be living on Moon - gglon https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/hordes-earths-toughest-creatures-may-now-be-living-moon-doc-1jd4j52 ====== Unknoob Can this be flagged as clickbait? They are not living, they are in cryptobiosis. Even though experiments have shown that they can come back to life after a lon...
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Brain waves can be used to detect potentially harmful personal information - upen http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/6145.html ====== woliveirajr Technology can be used for good and for evil. To assure that EGC will only be used in authenticating users and not extracting personal conditions, there's a long road down ...
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Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm - Skinney https://blogg.bekk.no/using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb ====== kfk I work mostly in Python for data analytics but I like to play with front end from time to time. So I tried elm. I loved learning about the elm architecture and the concepts of a ml ...
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Boost sales with a simple 7 step pre-call plan - PeteMitchell https://www.medtechy.com/the-ticker/articles/2016/boost-sales-with-a-simple-7-step-pre-call-plan ====== PeteMitchell Many sales reps and even project managers do not use a pre-call plan before important meetings. This article reviews theirs and lets you dow...
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Sentient: a declarative language that lets you describe what your problem is - vmorgulis http://sentient-lang.org/ ====== yazr How is it different from other declarative variants?! I get the plug-in SAT solver. Great. (in practice SAT solvers need plenty of specialist tuning for non-toy problems). Is it suppose to b...
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Ask HN: Facebook alternative? - startupflix ====== ddtaylor I thought about this a while ago and came to the conclusion that if my goal wad to keep information private that's not the function of a social network. At best you'll find a different company to abuse you or a permanent decentralized network where attackers c...
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Facebook disabled users' accounts for violating WhatsApp TOS 3 years ago - hubail I don&#x27;t use my FB account anymore and it was disabled 3 weeks ago, it was strange since generally no use = no abuse.<p>Then my friend&#x27;s account was also disabled, we both released the inner workings of WA protocol along with ...
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Scientists Have Shown There's No 'Butterfly Effect' in the Quantum World - pseudolus https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889ejg/scientists-have-shown-theres-no-butterfly-effect-in-the-quantum-world ====== gus_massa Quite a big discussion a few days ago of another source, [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24167691](...
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Why Dropbox Needs Composer to Succeed to Become a $100B Company - jason_shah https://medium.com/@jasonyogeshshah/why-dropbox-needs-to-own-collaboration-to-become-a-100b-company-af3c5cc527af ====== jason_shah Personally I'm really excited about Composer. So many implications... \- What does this mean for Evernote? \...
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Google Job Page from 1998 - meterplech http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19991013034717/http://google.com/jobs.html ====== meterplech I think it's interesting to see their early focus on hiring the right people. They are even hiring for a College Recruiting Program Manager already- even when they only have about 50 p...
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An Infinite Number of Mathematicians Enter a Bar - endorphone https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/04/11/floating-point-numbers-an-infinite-number-of-mathematicians-enter-a-bar/ ====== nathanaldensr This was a great article about floating point numbers. I was already somewhat aware of how they are represented in mem...
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A hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library for the web - obulpathi https://pair-code.github.io/deeplearnjs/ ====== gradys Here's the associated Google Research Blog post: [https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/harness-power-of- mac...](https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/harness-power-of-machine- learn...
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Big Oil Is About to Lose Control of the Auto Industry - T-A http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-16/big-oil-is-about-to-lose-control-of-the-auto-industry ====== tcbawo I wonder how long until we start synthesizing hydrocarbon fuel and sequestering it underground like a giant earth-battery.
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The YouTube Music Disaster. Another Google Failure - ryan_j_naughton https://medium.com/@myabstraction/the-youtube-music-disaster-d4fe0d0a09af ====== marvion > As it seems, blind, to the customers feedback. I wonder how they gather feedback internally. Because either they don't even test some of their services by 50 ...
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Oculus to Discontinue the Rift S, Quit PC-Only VR Headsets - T-A https://www.tomshardware.com/news/oculus-to-discontinue-the-rift-s-quit-pc-only-vr-headsets ====== raxxorrax I don't understand that business decision. One problem is certainly the low spread of devices, the other is that there is a limited amount of sof...
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11 Yr olds first stop motion vid - Cyndre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEHnNNJVxQQ&feature=youtu.be ====== Cyndre My daughter showed me a bunch of pictures on her camera that she was working on so I taught her how to use windows movie maker. This is her first stop motion video and I know I will be seeing some incr...
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Undetectable remote arbitrary code execution through JavaScript and HTTP headers - zeveb https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081 ====== rauhl A Mozilla team member closed it as invalid, pointing to an online discussion of the bug as a reason why a bug isn’t necessary[0]. Interestingly, this ‘just once’ a...
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1972 Patent Case for BCD - MattyRad http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-628-patents-copyrights-and-the-law-of-intellectual-property-spring-2003/readings/gottschalkvbenson.pdf This is a patent case I read for a school assignment. If you have the mental energy to finish it, you can see a forthright...
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