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Is Pre-K All It’s Cracked Up to Be? - tokenadult https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-pre-k-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/ ====== tokenadult Here is a link to the study publication from Vanderbilt University about the program in Tennessee: [http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/research/pri/VPKthrough3rd_fin...](http://peabody...
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Quantum Cryptography Applied to Control Power Grid - kvakernaak http://dailyfusion.net/2013/02/quantum-cryptography-applied-to-control-power-grid/ ====== marcel99 Why use it for power grid specifically?
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Internationalisation for beginners - kyllikki http://vincentsanders.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/true-art-selects-and-paraphrases-but.html ====== luxpir Thanks for the write-up. A very interesting read. It's an area that is ripe for innovation, and a massively growing industry. The XLIFF and TMX formats also offer flexib...
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Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam - rpm4321 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1261720.ece ====== cynicalkane Not paying your fair share isn't contrary to the spirit of tax law because there _is_ no discernible spirit of the tax law. If the tax law says if you do Foo with shell co...
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GeekWire's favorite pitches from the TechStars Seattle Demo Day - tomfakes http://www.geekwire.com/2011/favorite-pitches-techstars-demo-day-red ====== tomfakes I spent the afternoon at this event. My top 5 and bottom 5 are roughly the same. I really, really want to use Smore, but I have nothing to promote right now...
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Time.is - LeoPanthera https://time.is ====== LeoPanthera Later today there will be a leap second. Leap seconds are introduced to keep time in sync with the rotation of the Earth, which is slowing down, although not at a uniform rate, and so we only know when we will need a leap second about six months in advance. Tod...
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Ask HN: How do you stay motivated when creating content in a vacuum? - essub I've started tinkering on a few web apps of my own in my free time. Currently I'm working on a bookmarking site a la Delicious or Pinboard. At first, working on features for myself was fun, but now I'm finding myself unmotivated with no act...
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Show HN: Fairbooks – Uber for authors, Spotify for readers - gottarts http://fairbooks.co?ref=hn ====== 3dfan Im interested in the topic of books so I went out of my way and enable javascript. Because your page otherwise shows nothing. And yet, I still see no explanation of what it is. Just some beautiful layout with ...
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Winners and losers in Amazon’s $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods - smb06 https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/16/winners-and-losers-in-amazons-13-7b-purchase-of-whole-foods/ ====== clumsysmurf I think the customer is going to lose, eventually. I was chatting with a worker at WFM and they mentioned that WFM sends out inspectors...
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Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse - dnetesn http://cosmos.nautil.us/short/132/virtual-reality-poses-the-same-riddles-as-the-cosmic-multiverse ====== botverse Wachowski Brothers really made an impact. Jokes appart that nautil.us page messed around my ios safari browser history pushing sta...
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Evidence of water in megacanyon on Mars - cwan http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/10/getting-down-under-on-mars.html ====== wanderr Can anyone help explain how likely this is to be the result of water? Is it possible these lines were produced by wind?
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The idea ain't the hard part. One writer finds out hard it is to create an app - DuncanKinney http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2011/08/how-to-create-an-iphone-app/ ====== zachrose Spoiler: At no point in the story does the author download Xcode. ~~~ wccrawford Haha, I thought you meant he just paid someone else to do...
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Ask HN: Software engineers, do you fill timesheet with 1 hr granularity? - ankurdhama ====== davelnewton I usually go in 30min chunks. Ot depends on the client, e.g., if they generate relatively small tasks I'll go in 15 min increments. I rarely have things that take that short of a burst, but I'd be uncomfortable bi...
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Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools - lispm http://piratasum.com/algorithms-are-thoughts-chainsaws-are-tools?c=1 ====== pook Check out Sorenson's collection of livecoding videos: <http://vimeo.com/impromptu/videos> Trust me, Impromptu does not need a narrator to speak for it. Too bad Sorenson has no plans...
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Before you condemn Apple again... - wells-riley http://blog.wells.ee/before-you-condemn-apple-again ====== freehunter So basically, before you condemn Apple, remember all the good ads they had before? All the ads they had with a real point, showing something that was clear to the viewer? The reason Apple is being c...
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Nail the Customer Development Manifesto to the Wall - TristanKromer http://steveblank.com/2012/03/29/nail-the-customer-development-manifesto/ ====== sunkencity Seeing mottos, manifestos or anything else in list form on wall in your company is a sign that it's time to try to find a new job. ------ yumraj I'm in Steve'...
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SHN: "Big Iron Age"-Tweets - masswerk http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch?b=XDAwMzIwMTM0MDMxYTA3MzQwNzM0MDMxYTAxMzQwMDMyXCAgIFwwMDFjMDAzMDA1M2MwMzFhMDEzYTAxMzgwMTNhMDMxYTA1M2MwMDMwMDAxY1wgICBPTUcsIGxvb2sgYXQgdGhpczogaHR0cDovL3d3dy5tYXNzd2Vyay5hdC80MDQhICNlcnJvcg== ====== masswerk Not exactly new, but updated to detect a...
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Google Invests $450M in ADT - uhhyeahdude https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/adt-will-exclusively-install-nest-hardware-in-450-million-google-deal/ ====== uhhyeahdude I'm not surprised that GOOG is buying a huge home security company. It advances the prevailing narrative in the US. One in which pervasive state su...
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Ask HN: Remote workers, what headphone/mic combo do you use for video calls? - remoboost Simple enough question. I&#x27;m about to start a remote position and I&#x27;m looking for good suggestions for a clear, comfortable, and hopefully non-intrusive headphone&#x2F;mic combo for video calls. Preferably, something wi...
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Porting the Go compiler from C to Go - sqs http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com/post/83820197495/russ-cox-porting-the-go-compiler-from-c-to-go ====== beliu Author of the post here. Happy to answer any questions I can, and FYI, we (Sourcegraph) are liveblogging all of GopherCon at [http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com](http://...
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Ask HN: Why is there no $10,000+ luxury smartphones? - Huhty Tons of people are willing to spend thousands of dollars on fancy clothes, jackets, purses, sunglasses, etc. So why is there no ultra expensive (but also VERY POWERFUL) smartphones out there? ====== tfitz237 Here you go: Phones that range from $13,300 to $31...
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The end of dumb software - wyday http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/the-end-of-dumb-software.html ====== patio11 The web/cloud does not automatically make software "smart". _Programmers_ make software smart. Everything else is an implementation detail. Your addressbook does not automatically hook up wi...
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Sunsetting Tor Messenger - nimbs https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger ====== VikingCoder I think about trying to hide the metadata of who is communicating... I wonder about a public stream of end-to-end encrypted messages. Anyone can add a message to the stream. Everyone reads all of the messages, a...
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Run your own job board - Giorgi http://www.jobberbase.com ====== there aren't all of these separate job board sites diluting the results for employers? if i were to post a job opening, i'd want to expand my reach for candidates, not shrink it by only posting to a low-traffic niche site. maybe someone should make a ...
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Ask HN: Job searches don't have to suck, do they? - LanceJones We're working on a 'Hipmunk' for hacker job searches, and we'd love to hear from this community about what's important in a job search.<p>What drives your search? Is it 'job first' or 'company first'?<p>We can imagine job/company location is pretty impor...
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Google cloud outage - thomassharoon https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/20004 ====== qmarchi Heyo Googler here. The problem was a mix between another cloud provider and GCP. Dare I say, there should be little customer impact as of 13:37 PST..... The status dashboard is going to be your best id...
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Real World Divorce: Introduction - lisper http://www.realworlddivorce.com/Introduction ====== pedalpete The initial intro is an interesting read, I wonder if a catchier title would make this a best-seller. It could be in the horror section.
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Tesla wants to power your home with a battery - ghshephard http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/22/technology/tesla-home-battery/ ====== ghshephard "Those batteries start at about $13,000, though California's Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PCG) offers customers a 50% rebate. " For the summer, California E-6 Residential rate...
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Rethinking Streets for Bikes - dsego http://rethinkingstreets.com/ ====== crote I quickly read through this. Context: I'm Dutch and live in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This booklet has one massive flaw: it is constructed using American best- practices. At best, a couple of examples could be considered almost acceptable...
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An interview with Ross Anderson on new threats to security and privacy - gpresot https://www.edge.org/conversation/ross_anderson-the-threat ====== theprop "And that’s why Microsoft software is so insecure, and why everything that prevails in the marketplace starts off by being insecure. People race to get that market ...
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EOS Blockchain – Creating Your First Monster in EOS Jungle Testnet - leordev https://steemit.com/eos/@leordev/monstereos-creating-your-first-monster-in-eos-jungle-testnet ====== leordev I'm sharing here because I think there's a lot of developers interested in blockchain and I believe EOS is the cutting edge next-gen ...
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Rain simulator for pluviophiles - verbilis http://pluvior.com/raindrops.html ====== deathanatos Oh man, as a southerner stuck in California, I cannot tell you how much I miss rain. And especially thunderstorms[1]. (if you want a few recommendations) I love how the drops wipe away the moisture on the "window"; in my...
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Sir Roger Scruton: 1944-2020 - cpr https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/roger-scruton-1944-2020/ ====== dredmorbius A conservative voice, and one I didn't know well, but from what I've seen, respected. Rare these days. His BBC series "Why Beauty Matters" is well worth viewing, and would make an appropriate remembran...
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Show HN: MMO 2D Space Action Game - esuen http://astralrift.com/game.html ====== Fando Cool game, what did you use to make it and how long did it take? It would be more engaging if controlling the ship was easier. The momentum drift makes it annoying to play because controlling the ship is so counter intuitive. ~~~...
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Mozilla adopts plain-vanilla password sign-in for Firefox sync - hiburo http://news.hitb.org/content/mozilla-adopts-plain-vanilla-password-sign-firefox-sync ====== josteink I see this as a reaction to the competition they're facing with Google Chrome. With Google Chrome you log into your Google account. email + pas...
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Show HN: Pact – a safe smart contract language (web editor) - buckie http://kadena.io/try-pact/ ====== fiatjaf I think everybody knows this, but I don't: what is the use case of something like a private blockchain with smart contracts? ~~~ spopejoy There's a number of applications for permissioned blockchains, perhap...
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Uber fined peanuts in God View surveillance, data breach investigation - ourmandave http://www.zdnet.com/article/uber-fined-peanuts-in-god-view-surveillance-data-breach-investigation/ ====== gcb0 it pays off to have all those former politicians in the payroll.
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Telegram Raises Target for Biggest ICO Ever to $2B - uptown https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/biggest-ico-ever-is-said-to-grow-as-telegram-targets-2-billion ====== mehrdada Durov had hoped working with the Iranian government and caving to their requirements would give him free rein over that market wh...
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Pakistan Criticizes U.S. Raid on bin Laden - lotusleaf1987 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703922804576301124180651068.html?mod=WSJ_Home_largeHeadline ====== lotusleaf1987 Sorry but when you're too corrupt and incompetent to find the world's most hated man living in a mansion near your most elite militar...
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Show HN: PostDish – What’s on Your Plate? - asidiali https://postdish.com ====== asidiali Hey all! With this lockdown in place, I’ve found myself cooking more than normal - and with that, lots of new food pics have been piling up on my phone. I hacked together PostDish this past weekend as an easy way for people aro...
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DNA technique that caught Golden State Killer is more powerful than we thought - rustcharm https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17964862/family-dna-crime-search-golden-state-killer-forensics# ====== coolspot There is no way of not leaving DNA samples on a crime scene. Humans lose tiny particles of skin, hairs all the ...
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Buffett and Munger won't buy Facebook stock - airnomad http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/06/news/buffett-facebook/index.htm ====== rmATinnovafy No surprise here. If you want to understand why (in depth) read "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. tl;dr: Facebook lacks intrinsic value. Like most tech companies ou...
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Ask HN: Can body odor transmit virus? - ezconnect ====== DamonHD no
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Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Faces Jail - mediagearbox http://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-weev-auernheimer-att-ipad-hacker-sentencing-2013-3 ====== eldr I wonder how he would be treated if he had picked up a stack of paper printouts an AT&T employee had left on a park bench and taken it to a news outlet in order to sh...
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Microsoft's Complete Diskinect - SolInvictus http://hellmode.com/2010/06/15/microsofts-complete-diskinect/ ====== rbanffy "and a dance demo featuring a No Doubt song (“Hella Good”) that was last popular nearly ten years ago" Ouch!
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Why I'm dumping Google Chrome - zatkin http://www.extremetech.com/computing/210576-why-im-dumping-google-chrome ====== QUFB Every release of the Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome, is available for download: [https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser- sn...](https://commondatastorage.google...
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U.S. sets 5-year and lifetime lobbying ban for officials - randomname2 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_LOBBYING_BAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-28-17-31-55 ====== Overtonwindow As a former lobbyist in DC, I support this. The revolving door makes perfect sense in a closed loop of...
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DirecTV charges family $400 for equipment destroyed in Colorado fire - jalanco http://gazette.com/article/1502291 ====== driverdan Why is this on HN? I don't understand the problem. Why wouldn't they charge for the lost equipment? That's why you have insurance. ~~~ Turing_Machine "Why wouldn't they charge for the lo...
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Not raising funds to stay small and happy - antoinefink https://antoine.finkelstein.fr/not-raising-funds-to-stay-small-and-happy-938535c9c09d ====== edshiro I also identify with the author. Tried the startup game on two occasions and got burned 2 times (one as senior engineer the other as CTO) - somehow both companies...
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Ask Disporia on HN: Are you building a system or an application? - lakeeffect Does anyone have a good idea if Disporia is building a system or an application? I took what i could bare at their blog, but no email contact , only join our email list. Better said, Are they building a system of applications or an appli...
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Ask HN: Good Taxonomy Naming Conventions? - Kagerjay How do you go about naming things? I struggle with this. Especially when it comes to frontend design. I use mostly BEM style naming, but I find things to be too verbose sometimes, slowing down productivity and readability. Often times the first tool I grab off my sh...
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Introducing Xubuntu core - ebilgenius http://xubuntu.org/news/introducing-xubuntu-core/ ====== theandrewbailey This looks great. I've continually chose Xubuntu because it's Ubuntu without a lot of the fluff. I've wondered if there was an easy way to remove or not install the few other things that I don't use (like A...
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WSJ: The Family Business Revenue Act - hga http://www.google.com/search?q=%22on+January+1.+The+sales+pitch+is+that+this+will+only+whack+hedge+fund+managers+and+other+unsympathetic%22+site%3Awsj.com ====== hga (For subscribers: [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870462980457532...](http://online.wsj.com/ar...
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The AI-Box Experiment - mhb http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/ ====== justintocci pretty simple solution. I'm surprised no one has posted it.
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Ask HN: How do you and your team share code snippets? - brianchu How does your team share snippets of code with each other? Simple chat? Skype? Gists?<p>Do you think there is a better way of doing this? ====== tptacek Internal Github enterprise server, gist. ------ darkstar999 Google chat, email, verbal ------ bed...
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Systemd Is Not Magic Security Dust - walterbell https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/systemd_is_not_magic_security_dust ====== bkor Systemd makes it easy to add additional limitations to every service you're running. More easily restrict all your services (NTP client, DNS caching server, etc). It adds an easy to use metho...
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Microsoft says don't use PPTP and MS-CHAP - Suraj-Sun http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Microsoft-says-don-t-use-PPTP-and-MS-CHAP-1672257.html ====== Mithrandir Here's Moxie Marlinspike's blog post about the MS-CHAPv2 vulnerabilities: [https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms- cha...](https:...
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The Evolution of a Software Engineer - dolel13 https://medium.com/@webseanhickey/the-evolution-of-a-software-engineer-db854689243 ====== venomsnake No spring, no ORM. Their enterprise example is worthless. On a more serious note - in the career of a software developer the moments in which his power, resources and res...
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Scribblenauts Caught Being Accidentally Racist - aliasaria http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94784-Scribblenauts-Caught-Being-Accidentally-Racist ====== eplanit No -- it's not them being accidentally racist. It's you misunderstanding something you read, and _leaping_ to the conclusion that it's racism. This is...
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The Name Game (1999) - hernan7 http://dir.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/11/30/naming/print.html ====== egypturnash Wait is this Salon or the Onion? > It seems that when Altman and Manning presented the name Jamcracker to a > client recently, the reception was not everything they had hoped for. "I put > the name up ...
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The Latest Project to Preserve Pompeii Reveals New Treasures - bookofjoe https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-latest-project-to-preserve-pompeii-reveals-new-treasures-11597837940 ====== mywacaday The European Union has its problems but it's good to see it contributing to world heritage preservation by funding 105M to help...
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Virginia Police Caught Assaulting Teens, Video Deletion Fails - guiambros http://revolution-news.com/virginia-police-caught-assaulting-teens-video-deletion-fails/ ====== nickysielicki "Smell" as probable cause needs to disappear. As an extension of this, the existence of drug dogs is extremely irritating to me. It's ...
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The IP Bill: A Letter to My MP - mocko https://mocko.org.uk/b/2016/03/12/ip-bill-a-letter-to-my-mp/ ====== youngbullind Any suggestions of a good base country? My company is registered in London but if this goes through I can see the argument for changing that. ~~~ flashm Yep I'm registered in the UK as well. I'm not...
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Chinese Labor - watch the first 34 minutes at least - merryandrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZnZOe_tKCs&feature=player_embedded ====== merryandrew <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_Landscapes> Awards: Best Documentary – 2007 Genie Awards[1] Best Canadian Film – Toronto International Film Festival[1] ...
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Is Go an Object-Oriented Language? - spf13 http://spf13.com/post/is-go-object-oriented ====== optymizer The problem with the author's case for Go's is-a relationships is that it breaks down the moment you want to pass the object to a function expecting the original object. For example, [http://play.golang.org/p/Emodo...
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Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts - ganlad https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/31/technology/social-media-bots-investigations.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/technology ====== ActsJuvenile Twitter is in a dire situation. As a fun project I wrote a Lua - Torch bot to search for c...
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Real-Time Strategy Game AI: Problems and Techniques [pdf] - tosh http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/pdf/ecgg15_chapter-rts_ai.pdf ====== stygiansonic Related HN discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638184](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638184) ~~~ lfowles It would be interesting to see a gr...
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Show HN: Network geographic activity visualization, made with Processing - valverde Processing (processing.org) is such a great tool, I decided to spend some time learning about it during the holidays. Here's what I came up with:<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ehmI2YVdQ<p>The globe you see in the video is render...
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What's Caterina Fake doing in Yahoo! - sf2007 ====== sf2007 I really think people like her create a lot more value when they are starting a new company, and not when they are working for a giant like Yahoo! ~~~ danielha Funny you say that. She's currently leading Yahoo!'s technology development group, and is behind ...
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Ask HN: moving to Thailand for 2-6 months, any advices? Anyone join me? - snitko So I decided I should do this some time, just to change the scenes and boost productivity, so this December I'm probably moving to Thailand for 2-6 months where I'm going to code the hell out of my current projects. However I'm not real...
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An Open Response to Taylor Swift's Rant Against Apple - ColinWright http://nextshark.com/an-open-response-to-taylor-swifts-rant-against-apple/ ====== natch Nice try, but if the photographer is only getting paid when their work is used, don't they have themselves to blame, for refusing to work on a work-for- hire basis...
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Ask HN: What do you do during the dead time while programming? - selrond All those times, when you need to wait a couple of minutes to build &#x2F; compile stuff, but starting to work on something in between is not worth it &#x2F; impractical, but still - you don&#x27;t want to get completely distracted, so you can ju...
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Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy - itsybaev http://andrewchen.co/2007/09/01/viral-marketing-is-not-a-marketing-strategy/ ====== itsybaev "There's no such thing as viral" David Heinemeier (37signals) <http://youtu.be/0CDXJ6bMkMY>
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Disrupting Deepfakes: Adversarial Attacks on Image Translation Networks (Code) - natanielruiz https://github.com/natanielruiz/disrupting-deepfakes ====== brian_herman__ Doesn't this make it worse because you can just make another GAN or something that undoes this? ~~~ OneGuy123 Yes, it's a never ending race. ~~~ nat...
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Ask HN: What license key service do you use for your product? - gcatalfamo I want to generete a license key for the customers who buy my product after they purchase (e.g. with stripe or paypal).<p>I don&#x27;t want to reinvent the wheel, is there a SaaS or similar I could use for key generation and management?<p>This ...
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So what are (some of) my values? - DoreenMichele https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2020/05/so-what-are-some-of-my-values.html ====== poormystic Words mean so many different things to different people, and for me the subject of Values is the study of what is valued. For instance some people might value wealth, a...
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Ask HN: Are there no irrational/incorrect valuations? [Re: WhatsApp and others] - sendos Whenever a big acquisition is made, e.g. Instagram for $1B or WhatsApp for $19B, there are lots of posts here on HN about &quot;why is it worth so much? this is insane! we are in a bubble&quot;<p>And those posts are invariably m...
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How Brian Kemp Hacked Georgia’s Election - occamschainsaw https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/09/how-brian-kemp-hacked-georgias-election/ ====== bradknowles Hacked? No. Desecrated? Yes.
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What Does Your Company Blog About? - landtco Why?<p>How do you choose topics?<p>How do you promote your content?<p>Does blogging work for your business? ====== ASquare 1\. What do we blog about My startup is travel focused. And so naturally we blog (at [http://blog.planitwide.com](http://blog.planitwide.com)) on 2 ...
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Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management” - crsv http://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2018/08/14/lenore-manuel-blum-carnegie-mellon-university-school-computer-science-project-olympus/stories/201808140055 ====== geofft The two professors are Lenore and Manuel Blum: [https://en.wi...
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The IQ trap: how the new genetics could transform education - walterbell https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/04/iq-trap-how-new-genetics-could-transform-education ====== ggm I'm one of the naysayers, and I'm one of the lefties. So, I've come here to parade my bucket of no painted red. But, asked the purely intellectual ...
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Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO - ilamont http://blogs.computerworld.com/15275/shuttleworth_steps_down_as_ubuntu_ceo ====== dagw This could be a good thing for both Ubuntu and Canonical. From what I've seen/read/heard Shuttleworth never showed much interest in Canonical the company and spent all his time evang...
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Why Aren't Doctors More Tech-Savvy? - dvdt http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/why-arent-doctors-more-tech-savvy/283178/ ====== na85 The article does a pretty good job summing it up, actually. But there's another huge reason: time. I'm married to a physician; work tends to spill over into personal tim...
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Ask HN: Is 30 too old to be a digital native? - Flopsy ====== tmaly I am 37 and I consider myself a digital native. I did start out on super slow modems, but I have been hacking away at things since I was a young kid. ~~~ kleer001 Am 39, have same intuition. In 2nd grade we got Appl IIs. Was BBSing at 13, etc... Certa...
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Why Python 3 Exists - cocoflunchy http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists ====== andrewstuart IMO one of the reasons for all the angst is that .encode() and .decode() are so ambiguous and unintuitive which makes them incredibly confusing to use. Which direction are you converting? From what to what? The whole unicode...
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HBO NOW’s app has pulled in $19M since the “Game of Thrones” premiere - janober https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/24/hbo-nows-app-has-pulled-in-19-million-since-the-game-of-thrones-premiere ====== gergdgdfg I hope they could do better. GOT is way better than certain movies that had pulled in hundreds of millions. ~~~ St...
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37signals wants to charge their customers for the chance to give them customer feedback - brett http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/384-37signals-customer-summit-exploration ====== brett There's always been something fishy about 37signals that I can't put my finger on. I respect what they've done but know that I _defin...
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Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily - peaceiris https://github.com/hiroppy/fusuma ====== belzsch I’m surprised no one’s mentioned pandoc by now. It’s a Swiss army knife that among other things makes slides from Markdown documents and lets you pick from a number of JS templates or Latex/Beamer. Converting Markdow...
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Harold "Doc" Edgerton - adoyle http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/ ====== adoyle From the home page of the site: The Edgerton Digital Collections project celebrates the spirit of a great pioneer, Harold "Doc" Edgerton, inventor, entrepreneur, explorer and beloved MIT professor. This site is for all who share Do...
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Your car contains more code than Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner - skorks http://news.discovery.com/tech/toyota-recall-software-code.html ====== MicahNance First of all, LOC is terrible measure as we all know. Second, the author separates the plane's LOC into avionics vs. entertainment but lumps them together for cars t...
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Ask HN: YC applicants, who's up for a morale-boosting meetup/hangout? - viviantan Any applicants (past, present, future) interested in having an informal meetup this weekend? Whether we hear good news or bad news on the 15th, getting together would be a great morale boost and it'll be fun to meet everyone! I happen ...
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Ask HN: Are online lotteries/sweepstakes/pools legal and can they be successful? - Baadier I had a random idea this afternoon for a quick weekend coding session involving online betting pools with a social twist, I'd like to know if these can or have been successful or are they best to be avoided. Additionally for a...
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Gallium Nitride Power Transistors Priced Cheaper Than Silicon - rbanffy http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/gallium-nitride-transistors-priced-cheaper-than-silicon ====== kazinator This article has more meaty info: [http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the- toughe...](http://spectr...
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RIAA and MPAA call for government mandated spyware on computers to fight piracy - yanw http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/04/15/riaa-and-mpaa-call-for-government-mandated-spyware-on-computers-to-fight-piracy/ ====== RyanMcGreal Link to original: [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/15/big-contents- dystopi.ht...](htt...
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NIST:"System security should not depend on the secrecy of the implementation..." - jcox92 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity ====== jcox92 Security through obscurity came to mind when I was watching US Cyber commander, Keith Alexander, testify at the senate hearing yesterday. In this clip ([http...
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Useful ORM for .Net implementing a full LINQ Provider - fgblanch http://www.signumframework.com/ ====== nopassrecover Seems interesting but where is the "why is this better than/different from LINQ to SQL" etc. FAQ section? Also interesting that they are using StackOverflow as their support base. ------ olmo You r...
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How Search Engines Cope With Real-Time Data - DRRoman22 http://cacm.acm.org/news/53948 ====== mahmud I upvoted the story before reading the article, just because I saw the *.acm domain and thought meat awaits. Really disappointing. No actual discussion of the real technology, only a plug for OneRiot and Scoopler, n...
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Senate Boosts Funding for Directed-Energy Weapons - DanielBMarkham http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102432_pf.html ====== DanielBMarkham This technology is truly radical and could change the nature of warfare as we know it. I can't wait to get my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Spac...
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Ask HN: Anyone working on NFC technology ? - al_ I'm curious if anyone on Hackernews is working around NFC (Near Field Communication )/contactless technology. I don't see many posts about NFC, which it's quite surprising because that's a pretty fun technology to hack around.<p>I interned at a startup where they were...
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Drones will be an inflection point in the “War on General Purpose Computing” - bencollier49 ====== Varcht I, for one, welcome our bot overlords!
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