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Ask HN: How long should money the 1st investment last? - MateuszMucha It&#x27;s a bit weird situation. I got accepted into an accelerator, will go with them unless there&#x27;s something I like more and there&#x27;s just ~10 days left before I have to sign the papers.<p>I just finished an initial Skype call with two...
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Ask HN:Should google include tweets and retweets as part of pagerank? - ThomPete Don't know if this has already been asked or discussed to death or whether it's a stupid question.<p>Anyone have any opinions on whether Google should or have plans to include tweets and re-tweets of url's as part of their page-rank cal...
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Launch HN: Vitamin P for Positivity - wbnns https://vitaminp.net/ ====== wbnns Hi HN! My name is Will. I'm currently enrolled in Startup School and have been talking to my wife/partner a lot lately about how all of this negative and depressing news that keeps coming out day after day, really sticks to me and makes me ...
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Ask HN: Can You Recommend an Online Mentoring Service? - thegrif Can anyone recommend an online service that pairs students or otherwise new users of technology with verified or otherwise screened experts that field? I have seen many sites that attempt to do this - but interested in user feedback as to which ones h...
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Optical Mouse Teardown: a look at the sensor - Jerry2 https://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2016/10/optical-mouse-teardown-look-at-sensor.html ====== p1mrx I count the optical mouse among the more significant developments in computer history. People today will never know the pain of using a mouse with accumulated gunk o...
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Show HN: Email that keeps parents in the loop - joshuamckenty http://www.hastwoparents.com ====== joshuamckenty I put this together to solve my own problems, using Flask and Mailgun. The tricky part was rewriting the Reply-To header and storing the MessageId, so I can make sure that folks don't get dropped. (Piano t...
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Trying to make a pretty book lamp - zecken http://sam.town/book-lamp/ ====== altano You are placing a burden on people you gift things to that diminishes the value of receiving gifts from you. It's like giving a friend a painting and then holding the friendship hostage unless they hang it up as their living room cente...
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Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff - revorad http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/12/staging-servers-source-control-deploy-workflows-and-other-stuff-nobody-teaches-you/ ====== SkyMarshal _> Git is very popular in the Rails community, but there are probably no two companies using git the sa...
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The lost art of sticking to it - micaelwidell http://www.micaelwidell.com/p/15/ ====== schrodingersCat There's a difference between cutting your losses because an idea just isn't worth your time, and putting in the work to get a bring a good idea into fruition. Sometimes its hard to do this, especially when you have...
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UK seizes rnbxclusive.com, owners arrested, website visitors threatened - sehugg http://dajaz1.com/2012/02/14/so-the-uk-government-gets-in-on-seizing-domains-music-websites-seized/ ====== bri3d The source of this news is amusing - as they allude to in one sentence of the linked article, their own domain was siezed b...
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My real name is David Jones - bootload http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/my-real-name-is-david-jones.html ====== brudgers A good example of doing things that don't scale?
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Zdenek Kalal's object tracking algorithm learns on the fly - hansy http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/zdenek-kalals-object-tracking-algorithm-learns-on-the-fly-like/ ====== karl_nerd From this paper [http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/Publications/20...](http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/Publica...
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How To Get Rich -- Mark Cuban - sgoraya http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/04/how-to-get-rich-2/ ====== YosefLevi This isn't an article on how to get rich. This is an article on how possibly you might not be poor. The rich invest. The poor and the middle-class try to get this thing called careers and earn paychecks. Th...
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Improve Security by Unit Testing Your Code - captaincrunch http://wontlistentoreason.com/2015/01/19/improve-security-with-unit-testing/ ====== dalke I didn't see security mentioned in that essay. What I saw was using a unit test framework to manage regression tests. Regression tests date back to at least Brooks' "Th...
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A Practical Cryptanalysis of the Telegram Messaging Protocol [pdf] - tptacek http://cs.au.dk/~jakjak/master-thesis.pdf ====== tptacek Core flaw: Telegram uses a block cipher mode that requires padding to the cipher's block length, which means messages end in a variable amount of random bytes. Telegram "MACs" plaintext...
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Show HN : My friends and I have created a corporate intranet network - sidcool Hi HN,<p>My friends and I have created a corporate pooling network Korpool (http://www.korpool.com)<p>This is mostly for Indian companies for now. You can do following things:<p>1. It keeps broker out since it verifies ur mail id by comp...
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Ask HN: What prohibits smartphones use as desktops - quietthrow I am interested in understanding your thoughts on what are the barriers today to turning your smartphone into your main and only computer.<p>The idea of the carrying laptops when you have such powerful smartphones makes me curious about why are they not c...
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How Statisticians Could Help Find That Missing Plane - Thrymr http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-statisticians-could-help-find-flight-370/ ====== dsugarman it sounds like the strength of the bayesian model is completely dependant on the ability of experts to provide accurate statistical guesses ~~~ thearn4 Bayes...
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Spamcop retiring webmail service - steanne http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14271 ====== steanne Subject: Important Announcement about SpamCop Email Service Changes - Action Required Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:46:21 -0400 (EDT) From: SpamCop Email <questions@spamcop.net> To: undisclosed-recipients:;...
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Amazon OSS – Coral and ION - setheron As an ex-amazonian I was always baffled why Amazon never open sourced Coral and Ion.<p>Considering the popularity of AWS if would seem like the last tick on the list to get people locked in (imagine easy interopt with IAM etc..)<p>Seems like a market that Twitter was able to capit...
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Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Faster in the US Than Any Other Country - doener https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2020/03/20/coronavirus-is-growing-faster-in-the-united-states-than-any-other-country-in-the-world/#4eb806657e72 ====== tannerbrockwell Not really surprising at all. There are most likely a h...
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We'll be stuck in this recession for years, economists say - paulpauper https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/42532778/well-be-stuck-in-this-recession-for-years-economists-say ====== TheCowboy The grandstanding against economists is disappointing. Let's say you were driving at night with someone in the country, and becau...
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Some Strategies for Fast Lexical Analysis When Parsing Programming Languages - userbinator http://nothings.org/computer/lexing.html ====== choeger I wonder what the audience of such a leader is. JavaScript engines would probably profit here, given the waste amount of code we download every day. Maybe even browsers in ...
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Ludwig: A DSL for the Cloud of Today and the Future - AndrewWright https://blog.fugue.co/2016-10-11-why-we-built-ludwig.html ====== nikolay Closed-source - thanks but no thanks! We'll stick to Terraform for the time being!
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Show HN: Real mode demo inspired by CMatrix in 187 bytes - delan https://bitbucket.org/delan/matrix86/src/5b48331410e3e5071ebdf424da319887eaf89da6/matrix86.s ====== brudgers CMatrix homepage: [http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/](http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/) ------ supernintendo Cool demo with beautiful and well-commented ...
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Remote work means anyone can take your job - deegles https://marker.medium.com/remote-workers-just-outsourced-themselves-3f771f9d1529 ====== davedx Seems like this article ignores the gigantic wave of out-sourcing throughout IT that already happened in previous decades and in many cases returned to near-shore / onsite...
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Forget Slack. Discord is the best messaging app I’ve ever used - lustless https://hackernoon.com/forget-slack-discord-is-the-best-messaging-app-ive-ever-used-9351a035069 ====== helen___keller I use Discord every day, and have for quite a while now. I'm going to be sad the day that years of my conversation history gets...
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The Hacker 4Chan Is at It Again - voynich61 http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/52680526 ====== Tiksi _> Show HN: webapp that does something desktop programs did in 1996 while turning your laptop fan into a jet engine. Only works in Chrome nightly._ _> We left X framework and rewrote our app on Y and saw a 0.0005% incr...
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An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019) - maxbaines https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have ====== peter_retief We are all colonies of creatures, really interesting book written 100 years ago called the "Soul of the Ant" by [https://en.wikipedi...
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Graphtreon – Follow the progress of Patreon campaigns - countdownnet http://graphtreon.com/ ====== mwill I had no idea how much money was getting pushed through Patreon until now, wow.
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Gephi 0.9 announced, coming this December - mbastian https://gephi.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/announcing-gephi-0-9-release-date/ ====== mightyhops This is exciting! Fixes to Java and Mac OS X compatibility will probably let me drop Java 6 from my machine. And the new Gephi core comes with timestamp support, new GEXF, mu...
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Polycraft - A WebGL 3D tower defence game - jamesaustin http://ga.me/polycraft ====== orthecreedence This game (like everyone else is saying) is technically and visually impressive. My advice for this game: drop the up-front PAY US LOL bullshit. Don't make people click through 18 menus to play the game. Drop the st...
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Why an American went to Cuba for cancer care - jackgavigan http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39640165 ====== dmoy Honestly and pleasently surprised that this wasn't an article where the answer was just "they went to [other country] because it was cheaper". ~~~ Neliquat Why? Is to avoid regulations somehow better? J...
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Interview: Reginald Braithwaite (aka raganwald) on Rewrite - luckystrike http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Rewrite-Reginald-Braithwaite ====== michael_dorfman Well done, Raganwald ~~~ raganwald Thank you.
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Introducing F*: Secure Distributed Programming with Value-Dependent Types - buro9 http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=141708 ====== buro9 Warning for those downloading the PDF on that page, it's 1.6MB. There is also a compiler project here: <http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/projects/fstar/> And you can t...
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Recovered Mt. Gox Financials - nchuhoai https://docs.google.com/document/d/1miioFP1oFnLa8OQ1MZ91ABUDfLKY8X9KDGwz8Izjaa0/edit ====== eterm Look at the Salary row, this claims they were running an exchange handling hundreds of millions worth of assets with a salary that would be a struggle to hire an accountant, a devel...
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The Decay of Twitter - bceskavich http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/?single_page=true ====== benten10 I _really_ hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hott...
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Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery - prostoalex https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/amazon-to-launch-prime-air-its-own-dedicated-cargo-planes-to-speed-delivery/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 ====== GuiA I can't rem...
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Trying to Solve the L.E.D. Quandary - ohjeez http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/trying-to-solve-the-l-e-d-quandary?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email ====== pipio21 Quandary? As a market matures, new markets appear. When LEDs become so cheap and you have all the light you need, you could add more light or ...
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Actually, Raising Beef Is Good for the Planet - prostoalex http://www.wsj.com/articles/actually-raising-beef-is-good-for-the-planet-1419030738?mod=trending_now_3 ====== SwellJoe So, a rancher says beef is good for the environment. I'm totally convinced. This article makes no mention of how grazing lands come to exi...
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Ask HN: Tips for flying ? - hajrice Recently a fellow HN member posted an interesting article regarding hot to sleep on a long haul flight(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410258).<p>I'm 17, and have a flight(Sarajevo-Munchen-Newyork-Jacksonville) in 3 days. I'd really love to hear your tips/tricks/hacks for fl...
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App to call attention to Reckless drivers suspended by Twitter - scrose https://twitter.com/howsmydrivingny/status/1293638206353793025 ====== lacker Makes sense, the app is all about exposing peoples’ personal information online to shame them. ~~~ scrose The app doesn’t publish any personal information and complies w...
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Samwers getting Burned in Germany Of Air BnB Vs Wimdu Fame - missy http://eu.techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/german-clone-king-faces-battle-with-former-staff-and-satirical-dance-track-of-his-memos/ ====== missy Played everywere in Berlin right now. ------ NoraVanessa Not enough focus on shoes.
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COP21: Climate deal final draft 'agreed' in Paris - Jerry2 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35079532 ====== RcouF1uZ4gsC Looking at this, and also at the New York Times article[0] it appears that 1) The plans that the nations put forward are about 1/2 the reduction in emissions required to prevent a 2 degr...
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The App Design Handbook + Time-lapse Design Video - nathanbarry http://nathanbarry.com/book-app-design-handbook/ ====== nathanbarry Here is the direct link to the landing page: <http://nathanbarry.com/app- design-handbook/> ------ kefs I love the idea, the video, and the design.. but I wish it wasn't geared strictl...
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Ask HN: What technologies one should learn? - grep What are the most recent technologies being used by startups and other companies (e.g: Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) ?<p>e.g: MongoDB, Cassandra, etc ====== mahmud Going about it all the wrong way. You need fundamentals, not technologies. Get yourself a list of b...
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Japan’s labor market is tight, and higher wages may be needed to retain workers - SirLJ https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/japan-inc-may-finally-have-to-fatten-paychecks ====== patio11 Partly this is a recognition that Japan Inc. has historically awarded a blended compensation package which includes sa...
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Open Sourcing a Python Project the Right Way - Perados https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/08/16/open-sourcing-a-python-project-the-right-way/ ====== dozzie GitHub is not _the_ right way to publish something. ~~~ viraptor Would you care to elaborate? ~~~ dozzie First, there are other valid options, like BitBucket or Git...
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Say “experts” instead of “smart people” (2015) - sridca http://composition.al/blog/2015/04/30/say-experts-instead-of-smart-people/ ====== drallison A worthwhile read: [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-death-of- experti...](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-death-of- expertise-9780190469412?cc=us&l...
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Ask HN: is having the .com domain for your business important? - alexjeffrey I've been putting off starting a business because I can't find a name that I like with a reasonable unregistered .com domain that I can use. For example, if I wanted to use "perplex" as the name I'm looking for perplex.com, perplexit.com, p...
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The Dangers of the “Google Analytics-Powered Startup” - redredredred http://simontorring.com/google-analytics/ ====== stdbrouw The criticism of sampling in this blogpost is way overblown. (1) there's virtually no difference between the accuracy of a sample size of 10k and one of 100k, and those are the sample sizes yo...
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The Art of DJing, Louie Vega - kenny87 https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3338 ====== ams6110 Louie Vega and Kenny Dope are two of my favorite DJs. I used to (try to) spin a bit of vinyl back in the 80s but never approached what these guys do. Absolute genius.
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What Kids Are Learning About Thanksgiving Is Changing - ohjeez https://time.com/5725168/thanksgiving-history-lesson/ ====== ropiwqefjnpoa Living in New England, you'll see many roads, even schools named after tribes and chiefs like Pequot and Metacom. I always wonder at the reasoning behind that, a rosy view of the pa...
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12 Free Web Apps to Boost Your Drawing Skills - cskakun http://mashable.com/2014/01/01/drawing-apps-online/ ====== zBrain Awesome little app for simple quick drawings
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So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery - sedev http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/challenges-of-opening-a-brewery-job-advice-beer-industry-collin-mcdonnell-henhouse.html ====== edj This is so apropos! Three groups of my friends (6 people, total) are attempting to start breweries, brewpubs, or cideries. I have a ...
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What if Turntable.fm and Hot Or Not had a child...Presenting SoundOff.fm - JDS950 http://www.soundoff.fm ====== koopajah I really love the idea, and the design is really nice/easy to get. The website seems to slow my firefox down a bit. I tries the battle in HipHop/Rap and almost has always the same songs which is ...
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What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans - yarapavan https://www.infoq.com/presentations/taxonomy-black-swans/ ====== aszantu If she talks about the slides she shows, the slides should be visible
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Facebook is down. - kashif_hn https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F; is down. ====== nashe Who cares? ------ matysanchez Nope. ~~~ kashif_hn Opening but unable to login... ~~~ psykovsky Works fine here.
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Hidden costs of constantly shipping new things - michalbugno https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-hidden-costs-of-constantly-shipping-new-things/ ====== digitallogic Interesting! I especially enjoyed the insight into the evolution of the company. Though with this insight I have slightly different conclusions than the au...
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Introducing Improved Performance Dynos - narfz http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/8/20/introducing-improved-performance-dynos ====== habitue It seems like the hype around Heroku has died down somewhat. Does anyone care to comment why they went with Heroku vs. AWS or the like? ~~~ jtokoph I would argue that Heroku...
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Show HN: Write Games with Python in Godot - touilleMan https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python ====== touilleMan If you don't know Godot game engine ([https://godotengine.org/](https://godotengine.org/)), you should definitly give it a try ;-) Godot use a Python-inspired custom language for scripting called GDScri...
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Trip.com founder gives advice on fundraising - ALee https://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/82755250.html ====== satyajit Its good, but article is from 2002. A lot of it may still hold true, however, would like an updated one with the funding under current economic weather.
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A New Prediction Market for the Masses - amichail http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/a-new-prediction-market-for-the-masses/ ====== MisterMerkin <http://www.owise.com/> Was around way before this. And I think there were others before "Web" was even "2.0". ------ myoung8 What's with designers using th...
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Cloudcraft Pro - narsil https://cloudcraft.co/pricing ====== subie Why are you directing to your pricing page initially? The homepage is great and shows what the product actually is. ~~~ bryanlarsen The last posting of cloudcraft was only 4 months ago. IIRC, hacker news penalizes anything that was popular within the ...
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Web of trust for scientific peer review - mark_h http://code.google.com/p/gpeerreview/ ====== mmc This is a really interesting idea. A way of signaling quality of publications that is more useful than 'it made it through the committee at some conference/journal/etc' would be a major improvement for researchers. The...
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Apple to Spend $1.9B on New European Data Centers - gmays http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-invest-1-9-billion-in-european-data-centers-1424685191 ====== ChuckMcM Its interesting in that here is potentially another $2B going into data centers, if you look at Google's results you see they spend 1 - 2B$ per quarter o...
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Three surprises with bc - fogus http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/07/14/bc-math-library/ ====== jimfl One surprise, the Twitter account @bc_l will run 'bc -l' on anything you direct message to it. I wonder how many such Twitter accounts there are.
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I wrote a paperback book with code - izzydoesizzy http://www.zachlevy.me/blog/i-wrote-a-paperback-book-with-code/ ====== qubex This is so wrongheaded, so demeaning, so homeopathy-level diluted derivative that I don't even know where to begin critiquing the idea. What makes him think that basically publishing a collect...
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Ten Predictions for 2030 - smsm42 https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/ten-predictions-for-2030/ ====== ktpsns What a pessimist! Here are my ten optimistic positions: 1\. Computing and tech: Manycore systems become standard, even cellphones have hundreds of cores. Many fundamental algorithms have been devel...
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Critic Markup: Plain-Text Editing Markup for Humans - mattparcher http://criticmarkup.com/ ====== robertskmiles Reminds me very strongly of a simpler (and in my opinion more elegant) notation that I have been using for a long time: [http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/collaboration_made_simple_wi...](http://www.azarask.i...
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The End of Numeric Error: An interview with John L. Gustafson - ozdave http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=2913029 ====== muizelaar Here's a python port of Gustafson's Mathematica unum implementation that I did: [https://github.com/jrmuizel/pyunum](https://github.com/jrmuizel/pyunum) ~~~ jepler Hi, thanks for sha...
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Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off - uptown https://www.recode.net/2018/1/22/16911692/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-trading-coinbase-revenue-secondary ====== jcrites If these reports are true, that's really impressive growth in just a few years! Congrats on hitting that milestone, Br...
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Announcing the new Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform - TazeTSchnitzel http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/10/30/announcing-the-new-windows-phone-8-developer-platform.aspx ====== sambeau It wasn't totally clear to me what tools you'd get if you joined. After a bunch of clicking I found this: ...
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How do you validate B2B startup ideas? - sidjainla Suppose you find an inefficiency with your company&#x27;s software development process. You think of a product idea to solve this problem. Before starting a company, what is the best process for validating the idea, making sure other companies have the same problem?<p...
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Virus Tracker - Gimpei https://virustrack.live/ ====== designnomaddl This is a great tool, and very useful. It has great, easy-to-understand data. As a designer, the UI makes it my favorite source for getting recent data on COVID-19. The comparison tools and the customization of turning countries off/on is awesome. Gr...
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New Bespin Release - Raphael https://mozillalabs.com/bespin/ ====== fierarul I'm having a hard time understanding what the Bespin license and structure is. More to the point, this "release" seems to point towards a "server-only" update, which doesn't seem to have a source code repository. So -- they are releasing a...
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Show HN: A 3D recreation of the book cover of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' in Three.js - aidenbuis https://aidenbuis.com/ ====== guivr Nice!
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Ask HN: How much equity is a good advisor worth? - throwaway6 Hi Guys,<p>Long time HN'er here. I'm using a throwaway for this post.<p>Here's the deal: We have a solid advisor looking to join our startup. His connections and involvement will have a strong positive impact on our company and it's a legitimate possibility...
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WTFUK - wallflower https://medium.com/@rachelnabors/wtfuk-73009d5623b4 ====== Johnny_Brahms I am banned from entering the US in a turn of events that not only cost me $30k in lost income and another $1k in flight tickets, but that has made flying anywhere a 24h project. I am routinely harassed on just about any inter...
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The Torenberg Effect: How ProductHunt Blew Up LinkTexting.com - kumarski https://medium.com/@linktexting/the-torenberg-ph-effect-65403d621685 ====== minimaxir Ok, I am getting genuinely sick of the "We got onto Product Hunt and became a success, and you can too!" submissions that keep popping onto Hacker News. Your ...
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Ask HN: Best payment solution for a non-profit looking to accept micropayments? - habosa I'm the webmaster for a small, non-profit student group looking to bring fundraising online. The fundraiser involves taking small payments ($1-$2) from students via credit card. I have previously worked with Stripe, but I am ...
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Whenn 3D printing meets GPU programming - AlanZucconi http://www.alanzucconi.com/?p=5660 ====== billconan there was a guy on Quora asking me how to render a model as if it's 3d printed [https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-render-a-3D-printed-model- usi...](https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-render-a-3D-printed-model-using-Ope...
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My first three days with a data plan - akothari http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=259 ====== hippo33 So, question: do you think that having a data plan makes you more or less efficient? When I used to have a data plan, I found that I could stay up to date with real-time information on the go. So, at first I thought it was a...
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Superalgos and the Trading Singularity - ciencias https://hackernoon.com/superalgos-part-one-the-trading-singularity-6f66f419982f ====== westurner Though others didn't, you might find this interesting: "Ask HN: Why would anyone share trading algorithms and compare by performance?" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Launch HN: Build your app fast with our free and beautiful UI Kit - johnnyB1235 https://uikits.uifort.com ====== mortin Hey, awesome! You should have linked to your Live Demo page, though. [https://demo.uifort.com/bamburgh-ui-kit- free/](https://demo.uifort.com/bamburgh-ui-kit-free/) That's where the juice actually...
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YC: What No Means - niels http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2007/10/what-no-means.html ====== catfish Years ago when Garage.com was starting up, I applied and was rejected. No big deal as I was expecting it, but it did get me a signed rejection letter from the big "Guy" himself. As a beta tester it was a very ni...
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Node Knockout is next weekend; 15 spots left - gerad http://nodeknockout.com ====== proksoup That's 18 spots now. In totally unrelated news, they sent out an e-mail reminder with a big "Delete your team" button earlier today. That was probably a good idea. ------ gerad FWIW, Node Knockout is a 48 hour hackathon to...
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What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US] - kranner http://chronicle.com/article/What-I-Did-When-I-Couldnt/66281/ For anyone curious about what Sikkim looks like... http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sikkim ====== patio11 _grumble grumble_ I would never have expected legions of twentysomethings who want to work ...
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Robin William's Last Gift - chrisjlee84 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152653641613293&set=a.46231668292.56447.733518292&type=1 ====== chrisjlee84 For those whom don't have facebook: [http://jsbin.com/rerezi/1](http://jsbin.com/rerezi/1)
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James while John had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher - johnny313 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher ====== johnny313 Title shortened to meet posting character limit. Full title: James while John had had ha...
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Russia is strong-arming Apple into getting access to its user data - SirLJ https://www.businessinsider.com/how-russia-is-strong-arming-apple-vladimir-putin-time-cook-2019-2 ====== _bxg1 Disappointing. I can understand having to cave in China, but Russia is a much smaller market and Apple could've afforded to take a st...
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The Rise and Fall of the Fireman’s Pole - curtis http://gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-fireman-s-pole-1618281408 ====== Terr_ Is there a _practical_ reason why slides haven't caught on? They're intrinsically safer, and you can also send gear down them if necessary. ------ cafard " it's one of the last reigning ...
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Ask HN: How to communicate basic security protocols to parents, non-techs - cpher I&#x27;ve been writing an email to my family (mostly 65+ parents, retired, etc.) about how to protect themselves from email scams, etc., especially in light of the heartbleed fiasco.<p>There&#x27;s often no distinction between a system...
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Show HN: Purge old kernels and headers on Linux using apt-get - jph Hacker News today features an Ubuntu story with sysadmins asking how to purge old kernels and headers by using apt. This is necessary maintenance on some systems because &#x2F;boot fills up.<p>Here&#x27;s how we do it:<p><pre><code> apt-get remove ...
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Banking APIs, or, how fraudulent are you? - sjwhitworth http://www.stephenwhitworth.com/blog/2015/11/29/how-to-score-your-spending-activity-for-fraud ====== trowawee _> Exposing banking data, with sensible and secure authentication process can only be positive._ There's a pretty huge assumption embedded here. Sure, i...
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How to become a great software developer - jfaucett http://codeshite.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/how-to-become-a-great-software-developer/ ====== dglassan #8 - Recognise bullshit when you hear it Sums up most of the points in this article if you ask me.
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America closes the last loophole in its hounding of Huawei - known https://www.economist.com/business/2020/08/18/america-closes-the-last-loophole-in-its-hounding-of-huawei ====== known [https://archive.vn/WldqZ](https://archive.vn/WldqZ)
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Developers and Depression [video] - ssprang http://steelcityruby.confbots.com/video/72690223 ====== pedalpete Wow, how many people feel like what Greg is describing is 90% of their lives? Is his description really about ADHD and bipolar? I feel like he was describing me, though I don't feel I would label as depresse...
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US tech firms ask China to postpone 'intrusive' rules - riaface http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31039227 ====== contingencies This is basically backlash. Same with the visa hassles. Right now, if you want to deploy Huawei gear in your western internet infrastructure provider, the government encourages you strongl...
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Ask HN: could you rate my first landing page? - viandante Hi,<p>After reading HN for the last 6 months, I built by first landing page (and website) and it is here: sourcingzen.com. Web development is not my job, I work in finance, but I have been using python for a while for different things now. As this is all new...
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