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Apple losing its supply chain mojo is a major threat - adventured https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-10-23/apple-losing-its-supply-chain-mojo-is-a-major-threat ====== dep_b If there's anything I'm worried about it's not the supply chain, that's Tim Cook's speciality. We had similar stories about jet black ...
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Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Google Maps - iPhone1 http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/10/01/apple-maps-up-to-five-times-more-data-efficient-than-google-maps/ ====== mtgx The title is a little misleading. It may be more efficient compared to the 5 years old Google Maps app on iOS, but Google Maps f...
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Ask HN: What happened to Kite? - rhys91 Aside from securities concerns from a few, Kite seemed like a really promising tool that I'd love to include into my workflow. Their blog and Twitter both seem abandoned. Is something still coming? ====== mmutuyu Also would like to know more. I've been waiting for months to...
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The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (1999) - YeGoblynQueenne http://www.kibble.net/magic/ ====== stephengillie Some time ago, I tried to recreate a few basic Powershell commands as MTG cards.[0] Try/Catch [1] is one of my favorites - it's designed to "pre- counter" counterspells. [0] [https://imgur.com/a/4sa6v](h...
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Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail - betocmn https://hbr.org/2018/05/why-entrepreneurship-programs-for-engineers-fail ====== taneq > Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and risk tolerance; engineers, > mathematicians, and health care workers typically aren’t. Lost me in the first line: 1) The ...
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Show HN: cashay.me – translating time at work to cost of items - jsomau http://www.cashay.me/ Just a toy I put together while learning AngularJS. ====== jsomau This is a toy I put together while learning AngularJS. The idea: People struggle to associate the time spent behind their desk with the money that gets depos...
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Profits = Freedom - whyleym http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2223-profits-freedom ====== pchristensen This is typical of what drives me crazy about 37signals. They say several things that are true but then claim that there's a causal relationship between them. Take this post. Premise: Profits = Freedom. Results: C...
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GitLab 8.11.2 released - dwaxe https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/25/gitlab-8-dot-11-dot-2-released/ ====== owaislone The progress GitLab is making is great but lately it feels like HN frontpage is a GitLab release announcement page. It would make much more sense to see announcement on HN about some very useful or groun...
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Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate? - mark_l_watson I have a few &quot;information only&quot; (i.e., no customer data stored, no user logins) for almost 20 years that I just added HTTPS support for.<p>I did this after reading the EFF&#x27;s &quot;Join us on June 5th to Reset the Net&quot; artic...
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OCaml 4.06.0 Released - aw1621107 https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2017-11/msg00005.html ====== aw1621107 Saw this on /r/programming and was intrigued by comments from /u/subtly_homoerotic discussing multi-processing vs multi-threading on *nix. That's well outside my realm of expertise, so I'm curious what y...
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Findima: The first Iranian “crowdfunded” gadget - mohisanisel By lifting the sanctions against Iran, this question came to the minds of the technology lovers that what is going on the Iranian technology market? Which kind of facilities exists that could provide a good groundwork for cooperation&#x2F;investment? Hearin...
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Js-joda – Immutable date and time library for JavaScript - joekrie https://github.com/js-joda/js-joda ====== niftich This is inspired by both Threeten [1] and Joda-Time [2], which are well- engineered Java libraries for date/time concepts. I have often wished for that API to be available in other environments, so thi...
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Most used words in programming languages - Walkman https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=py ====== Noughmad In most languages, the top words are self/this and function/def. On the other hand, in Go, the most common word is "err", and "if err != nil" are three of the top four words. I really wonder how big part ...
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People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds - pseudolus https://phys.org/news/2020-06-people.html ====== leto_ii > "From an evolutionary perspective, it's kind of perplexing that it even > exists, because you're decreasing your own fitness on behalf of others," > Melamed said. "And yet,...
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The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet - ohjeez http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-the-teen-hackers-who-transformed-th-1770977586 ====== fallingfrog I found this quote pretty poignant: "When I went to Santa Monica to meet Bill, I was pretty sure I’d hear a story about h...
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Ask HN: Which games do you prefer? - King_mansur ====== Espionage724 MMORPGs (Guild Wars 2, OSRS), ARPGs (Diablo III, Path of Exile), and music games (DDR, SDVX, pop'n, etc)
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Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18 - nonbel http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-high-impact-cancer-papers-shrinks-just-18 ====== sytelus Every academic cries about this but no one wants to accept an _obvious_ solution: Add reprodicibility criteria for peer review. Ri...
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The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday - sir_kitty http://www.thenation.com/article/177377/holiday-crush?page=full ====== rayiner > After waiting twenty minutes, we are ushered into a room upstairs. A woman > from the agency hands each of us a time sheet. For the sign-in, she tells us > to write 8:30. “I know you were...
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The Best-Paying Internships in America - dpflan https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-02/these-are-the-best-paying-internships-in-america ====== tikhonj The data here is only for large companies. I happen to know what a couple of medium-sized quantitative trading firms (Jane Street and DE Shaw) pay interns, ...
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Show HN: ShareQuick – Send stuff from your desktop browser to mobile apps - karanrajpal http://share-quick.com/?ref=shn ====== dmlittle This is pretty much the same as DeskConnect for Android but as a Chrome Extension [http://deskconnect.com/](http://deskconnect.com/) ~~~ karanrajpal It does offer some of the same fe...
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Haskell Problems for a New Decade - psibi http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/decade.html ====== siraben Most undergraduates take a compiler course in which they implement C, Java or Scheme. I have yet to see a course at any university, however, in which Haskell is used as the project language. [...] ...
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Show HN: Sales List – A curated list of tools and resources for salespeople - vincenzor https://saleslist.co/ ====== kelkes Saleslist without stuff made by Steli Efti is no saleslist :) ------ vincenzor Hi all, A little side project. I would love to get your feedback on this. Thx!
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Peter Thiel Met with the Racist Fringe as He Went All in on Trump - minimaxir https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support ====== abvdasker At a certain point you have to call a spade a spade and acknowledge that Thiel is apparently a cryptofascist. I wonder if this...
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Ask HN: How to handle angel investor interest? - 100-xyz Our product has entered the launch stage and we are doing a kickstarter. I had asked a bunch of people for feedback before going live.<p>One of them has expressed interest in being an angel investor. I had never given any thought to this.<p>How do I handle th...
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Announcing Fedora 21 - dysoco http://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-21/ ====== iamtew Looks like the blog is having some issues coping with the traffic, according to Matthew Miller (from reddit): > The blog where we are hosting the annoucement doesn't have enough juice. > Working on it, but in the meantime, i...
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It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning – Ted Chiang - bookofjoe https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html ====== neilv > _In a society increasingly obsessed with credentials, being genetically > engineered is like having an Ivy-League M.B.A.: It is a marker of status...
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Looking at Python for commercial apps but there are problems with packaging - darreld I&#x27;m researching using Python for commercial desktop applications but deployment seems problematic. I&#x27;m trying to decide if I&#x27;m looking at the wrong technology?<p>I love the language and I can see how productive I woul...
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Larry Page's question in USENET about a "web robot" he was making (1996) - cryptoz https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO05LIU/ushhUIQQ-ogJ ====== dhaneshnm A relic indeed :)
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EU warn pesticides are far more dangerous than was thought - vixen99 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/02/organic-foods-backed-landmark-report-warning-pesticides-far/ ====== dazc Article can be read here: [https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily- telegraph/20170603/...](https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-...
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Is a Black Hole, Sucking the Fun Out of the Universe - et1337 http://www.wired.com/2016/04/neil-degrasse-tyson-black-hole-sucking-fun-universe/ ====== brudgers Original blog post before Wired picked it up and added tweets to make it real journalism: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330297](h...
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If iPhone 5 Looks Like This, Apple Maybe Screwed - frankphilips http://www.businessinsider.com/if-the-iphone-5-really-looks-like-this-apple-may-be-screwed-2012-7 ====== shadesandcolour Please, the day that Apple loses market share because the phone looks the same as the old phone is the day pigs fly. The phone will ...
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A tale of two decompilers - rockybernstein The last 3 years or so I&#x27;ve been working on a decompiler, and it is like a compiler in complexity, engineering, and testing. But different.<p>In https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocky&#x2F;python-uncompyle6&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;pycdc-compared-with-uncompyle6 I compare two Pyt...
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Turning the Ship - karjaluoto http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/turning-the-ship/ ====== karjaluoto If you run a services-based design shop—and want to instead make products—the transition is something to consider carefully. Here’s a recollection about how I once bungled it completely, and how you can avoid those mis...
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The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++” - ingve http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-time-needed-to-write-effective.html ====== mpu Is this guy actually writing C++ programs in the wild? He often presents himself as an apostle in the C++ church, but, I am always surprised that he does not seem to apply ...
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CurrentC: The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt to Kill Apple Pay and Credit Card Fees - ryan_j_naughton http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/25/currentc/ ====== zaroth This is so bad it makes me angry, so I'm sorry for ranting, but, seriously WTF? Did Walmart just think, 'Blast those Visa and Mastercard scum with their excessiv...
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Minimal explanation of the CAP theorem - Dave_Rosenthal http://blog.foundationdb.com/minimal-explanation-of-the-cap-theorem ====== jayvanguard This is a very good explanation actually. > Pro tip: If an article includes a diagram with a triangle, stop reading Exactly. I've seen many explanations that try to turn it...
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Lightspeed Summer Fellowship - kparikh http://lsvp.com/summer-fellowships/ Earn up to $45,000 this summer to build your startup at Lightspeed!<p>Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking for more than an internship this summer? How about getting quality time with some of the investors behind companies like Nest, Snapc...
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Today we were the victim of a malicious social engineering attack. - mappu http://blog.whmcs.com/ ====== mappu Summary: Malicious user managed to answer all the security questions of WHMCS's webhost in order to reset the password and gain access to the server. Apparently credit card details are at risk. An email wa...
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Amazon announces new Kindle Paperwhite - adamkochanowicz http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/kindle-announces-new-119-paperwhite-e-reader-with-a-font-thats-easy-on-the-eyes/#.ueknbe:0t2k ====== tomcam I wish so dearly they would allow ragged right text.
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Why I’m betting my retirement on Facebook stock today - daryn http://www.geekwire.com/2012/betting-retirement-facebook-stock-today/ ====== tworats I hope he's not actually putting his retirement money on the line here. It's not about the quality of the ads, which he argues will get better with more data. It's about...
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Neom, megacity with its own moon, dinosaurs, and robots, reaches next phase - jelliclesfarm https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/neom-megacity-with-own-moon-dinosaurs-robots.html ====== Colegno 404 in the page ~~~ jelliclesfarm [https://bigthink- com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/bigthink.com/tec...](https://bigthink-...
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Registration conversion rate - burgalon Hey everybody, I've been working for some time now on my private project called 9folds, and have been trying to understand conversion rates for users, and why users seem to drop out mainly on the registration/login phase, and how can I improve on that.<p>Currently I'm using Go...
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KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features - xenophonf http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ ====== Mahn Fun fact: The ssh-agent equivalent for Windows that ships with PuTTY (pageant) has a limited amount of memory reserved to store the actual keys (8kb) which causes it to stop responding when more than 25 keys o...
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Malaysia Wins Young Singaporean Science Whiz - tokenadult http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703837004575012950290932696.html ====== houseabsolute What an embarrassment that they spend so much effort on fighting over a foreigner instead of ceasing the religious oppression of their own people and spending ...
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The Life Of A Helicopter Lineman - diaphanous http://www.graybaresp.com/helicopter-lineman/ ====== RickJWagner Wow, that's a seriously dangerous combination. Top shelf cool factor, though.
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Ask HN: What tools are you using for your site's documentation - iantimothy I'm fascinated by the beautiful documentation from companies like Stripe (https://stripe.com/docs), Parse (https://www.parse.com/docs) and Filepicker (https://developers.filepicker.io/docs/web/). Beautiful in clarity and presentation. What...
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Lost and Found: Digging into the Abandoned Cart Email - mevlow https://medium.com/reallygoodemails/digging-into-abandoned-cart-emails-136b193cff8#.ifyvhvbn6 ====== squaredeye So stoked to get this out there! What would you change about this article if you could?
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The Startup Employee's Real Guide to Stock Options - grdeken https://www.stevenmoseley.com/blog/the-startup-employees-guide-to-stock-options ====== grdeken Thought this was a great piece on options worth reading in a time where many are getting laid off and/or options are under water.
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Ask HN: review my startup touchqode - source code editor for android - mks link: http://www.touchqode.com<p>Touchqode is source code editor for use on your mobile phone. Its main idea is to let you think about and work on your code even if you are away from computer. It features syntax highlighting, code suggestions...
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I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make - amirmc http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hvv2m/i_work_for_a_large_multinational_tech_company_i/ ====== patio11 Having been a male engineer for a couple of years now, it is very disquieting to learn that there is any population of people anywhere...
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Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup - jseliger http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/business/once-a-student-now-dogged-by-collection-agencies.html?hpw&pagewanted=all ====== DanielBMarkham _“It’s the closest thing to debtor prison that there is on this earth,” he said._ One of the sadder parts of a credit ...
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Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/critics-call-foul-as-google-takes-aim-at-javascript-with-dart.ars ====== billswift Two problems with this article. First, the primary critic they quote, and the only individual named, is the creat...
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Hosting a GPT-2 autoresponder bot - luu https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/190086745889/in-case-anyone-was-wondering-maybe-no-one-was ====== IfOnlyYouKnew I seem to remember a pretty large pop up like “do not abuse and don’t run bitcoin mining in collab” from the initial setup process? In any case, Collab is a gr...
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Clock with simulated Game of Life around numbers - daniel-cussen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYNxNkEAIPw ====== pook The background Game of Life is too faint. I would have liked to see it set up so at the head of each minute/15 minute/hour, the numbers themselves briefly enter the CA. Or, perhaps for ubergeekishn...
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Apple to cease Mac Pro shipments to Europe - bane http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/apple-to-cease-mac-pro-shipments-to-europe-2013021/ ====== adamt I think this is about apple to cease shipping the _current_ Mac Pro to Europe. If Apple had a new version of the Mac Pro around the corner, then they probably wouldn'...
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Why is Tim Cook sacrificing the Mac at the altar of the iPad? - housedonuts http://bgr.com/2015/11/12/ipad-pro-vs-macbook/ ====== thinkingkong I would argue that this has less to do with "people that require laptops" vs "people that require laptops _for work_ ". The iPad pro seems to be a direct competitor or option ...
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NASA's Curiosity rover spots unexplained light in Mars - karthiekc http://thespacereporter.com/2014/04/curiosity-reaches-next-destination-spots-unexplained-mars-light/ ====== tempodox I feel link-baited.
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Why GCP: Compute - coxy http://www.chriscox.org.uk/why_gcp_compute/ ====== jbarciauskas I don't understand this statement: >Due to the way GCE instances are deployed (in containers) they do not suffer from noisy neighbour syndrome I understand the second half of the statement might be true, but it doesn't follow fro...
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Show HN: chinstagram.com - china http://chinstagram.com/ ====== ttran4 Nice simple idea! I like it
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Graphene Gives You Infrared Vision in a Contact Lens (2014) - Jan_jw http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/optoelectronics/graphene-gives-you-infrared-vision-in-a-contact-lens ====== cordite Should have 2014 in the title. They demonstrated a technology the size of a contact lense, but did not make a funct...
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The Big Four: Culture, Innovation and Sentiment - codepower http://tastethecloud.com/content/big-four-culture-innovation-and-sentiment ====== mrphoebs brilliant analysis
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Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland - dkd903 http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/ubuntu-to-ditch-x-for-wayland/ ====== paol This is a huge shift if it happens. X has been synonymous with GUIs on unix for more than 20 years, and has accumulated all the attendant baggage (both good and bad). There are also some big conseq...
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All The Top Investors Are Scrambling To Invest In A Startup Called Chromatik - earbitscom http://www.businessinsider.com/chromatik-ipad-music-app-investors-2012-12 ====== mgalica "Startup"? This looks more like a "business". Cheers to them for staying low- pro & avoiding the hypebeast for all this time. ------ anig...
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Mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances - GuiA http://www.kellenmyers.org/deaths.html ====== stiff Two whole schools of mathematics died in "unfortunate and unfitting circumstances", namely the Lwów school and the Warsaw school: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Lviv_professors](h...
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Ask HN: What's your favorite GitHub project mascot? - alixander ====== timetraveller How about we start with yours. ~~~ alixander [https://github.com/libuv/libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv) Maybe not my all-time favorite but a recent one that I liked! ------ cpg1111 Octocat
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Do Software Engineers inflate the reported hours they claim to work? - pjtham Every now and then I hear a Software Engineer (often from the Bay Area) report how they work or are expected to work &quot;60 to 90 hours a week&quot;, for example this guy: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;dvdL-21o3GM?t=224<p>60h&#x2F;w is 1...
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Tell HN: CTO of Twitpic, in SF 11/9 to 11/18, want to meet up? - stevencorona Hey HN. I'm going to be in San Francisco all next week. It's my second time, I'm usually on the East Coast in Charleston, SC. I don't know anyone in SF, though, and I know there's a ton of cool people out there.<p>Want to meet up and grab ...
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Police thwarted by criminals using BlackBerry Phantom encrypted phones - angry_octet http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/are-encrypted-phones-allowing-criminals-to-get-away-with-murder-20150523-gh82gv.html ====== jkestner "Phantom" is a service not provided by BlackBerry itself. But this title made me think that there will...
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Google: The Beginning - mjfern http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576444363668512764.html?mod=rss_Technology ====== markerdmann If you like this article, you would probably enjoy Stephen Levy's book In The Plex: [http://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works- Shapes/dp/141...](http://www.amazon.c...
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Show HN: Fork the Quote – Create, Share and Fork Quotes. Flutter and Serverless - ForkTheQuote https://forkthequote.com ====== pzubkiewicz Do you have a case study about how you implemented this application?
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Every C99.php shell is backdoored - chewxy http://thehackerblog.com/every-c99-php-shell-is-backdoored-aka-free-shells/ ====== kijin The whole thing _is_ a backdoor. Backdoor in a backdoor? Surprise! Of course it's backdoors all the way down ;) But of course, script kiddies aren't particularly good at securing the ser...
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Ask HN: Master 1 language or learn several languages intermediary? - mistick I&#x27;m a senior graduate student studying in India with BS in CS. We&#x27;ve been taught several languages throughout the 4 semesters particularly C &amp; C++ in the junior year. But I always felt that the courses of the languages went by i...
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Ideal HTTP Performance - josephscott https://www.mnot.net/blog/2016/04/22/ideal-http ====== creshal HTTP performance is one thing. Making a blog use so much JS that browsers need 5+ seconds to load the site another. Rendering text to images in client-side JS, WTF do you need to smoke to think that's a good idea?! ~~...
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Your Body Text Is Too Small - adamcarson https://medium.com/@xtianmiller/your-body-text-is-too-small-5e02d36dc902 ====== enkiv2 Default body text sizes on most sites are too big, resulting in systems that make 500 words look like an acceptable size for an article. The only time large body text makes sense is in an adv...
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Ask HN: If Bitcoins are traceable, can't we trace and find Bitcoin thieves? - panabee Assuming thieves want to profit from their stolen Bitcoins, doesn&#x27;t the Bitcoin traceability property mean it&#x27;s possible to track the Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox, for instance, and any related transactions? ====== dfc Ye...
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Wadler's Law - kols http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadlers_Law ====== ori_b Wadler's law, generalized: <http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Bikeshedding> ------ larsberg This law seems to depend on the mailing list and the age/status of the language. I wonder how it went during the "Successor ML" conversations a w...
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MessageBird raises $60M Series A - joeyvanommen https://blog.messagebird.com/messagebird-raises-60m-series-a-funding-9c703f95c67e ====== sillysaurus3 I see a lot of "Congrats" type sentiments in this thread. Maybe I should just say congrats too, but I can't help but wonder: Isn't it a terrible idea to raise $60M as a ...
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US ICE Contract with GitHub Sparks Developer Protests - throw0101a https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/ice-contract-github-sparks-developer-protests/604339/ ====== JanSt Who is going to choose who the good / bad people / companies / institutions are? Activists? You cannot (even in good faith) deny ...
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House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill - ryduh http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/?tag=mantle_skin;content ====== elb0w Well I guess we need to write a screensaver that crawls the web. Maybe when ISP's have to spend $ on all this storage it will ...
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At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners - jventura https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python ====== chrsstrm I've used Python sparingly in the past for tooling and helper apps and am now picking it up in a more serious way as I'm working on a Flask API app. I've been reading lots of instructional ma...
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I'm tired of trying to meet new people. So I've built another social network - talhof8 http://blog.interestin.co/post/im-tired-of-trying-to-meet-new-like-minded-people-online-so-ive-built-another-social-network#.UXFm8aJT7GA ====== jblok Everyone, please stop. Seriously, stop. How many more of these things do we need...
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Tech Industry Needs Female Quotas Now - waitwhat http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sue-black/tech-industry-needs-femal_b_953817.html ====== petercooper As does the childcare industry. 2% of people in the childcare industry (in the UK) are men. I suspect this sort of experience early in many children's lives causes mor...
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Ask HN: First time in 4 years I lost interest working for startup. What do I do? - denverdevguy I have worked at the same startup for 4 years now. During a meeting last week I realized: I don&#x27;t care about our product or it&#x27;s mission anymore. I would rather be watching TV with my girlfriend or literally doing...
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Brouwer–Hilbert controversy - drnewman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_controversy ====== ocfnash For a long time, I used to dismiss intuitionism but more recently I've come to find it an attractive standpoint. For one thing, you really only gain by trying to be constructive. If, in some logical...
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Ask HN: Most used programming languages in California? - aogl When looking through Software Engineering jobs in California, the greater majority of roles tend to lean towards Java and Javascript.<p>Is this a true reflection? As all the programming indexes tend to talk about Python being the most used throughout.<p>Or ...
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In pursuit of tortoise smugglers - kawera https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/02/in-pursuit-of-the-tortoise-smugglers-madagascar-trafficking-endangered-species ====== RcouF1uZ4gsC That article smacked so much of colonialism and foreign interference. Foreign donors create an organization that goes around giving o...
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project - gkolli https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20910330/mastercard-stripe-ebay-facebook-libra-association-withdrawal-cryptocurrency ====== lucasverra David Marcus update [1] : Special thanks to @Visa and @Mastercard for sticking it out until the 11th hour...
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Ask HN: Who were Steve Jobs' mentors? - stellar678 Most of the stories seem to suggest his brilliance or effectiveness came entirely from within, but I'm interested to know who guided Steve when he had questions. ====== huxley The closest he had to a business mentor was probably Mike Markkula who was Apple's angel i...
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Unwebbable - Not all documents can be a web page - whalesalad http://www.alistapart.com/articles/unwebbable/ ====== shizcakes "Nobody seriously intends screenplays on the web to have the same function they do in real life: getting read, getting optioned or bought, and getting shot. All of that happens on paper, not ...
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Best ways to learn a foreign language - domedefelice http://domenicodefelice.blogspot.it/2013/06/best-ways-to-learn-foreign-language.html ====== patio11 Professional translators often do "shadowing", which is listening to source material from the language you're weaker at and attempting to just transcribe it in real t...
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Meet the Woman Who Rocked Particle Physics Three Times - 0xbxd https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times ====== merricksb Active discussion of same article in Quanta Magazine, where it was originally published: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17580449](https://news.ycombi...
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Best Free Programming Books - ingve http://www.toptal.com/software/toptal-s-list-of-top-free-programming-books/ ====== na85 No mention of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp? Learning Lisp has really improved my productivity when it comes to prototyping and one-off projects. It also translates to using smaller lis...
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Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule - 001sky http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/opinion/sunday/douthat-obamacare-failing-ahead-of-schedule.html ====== hga " _The disaster can presumably be fixed. As Cohn pointed out on Friday, many of the state-level exchanges are working better than the federal one, and somewhere t...
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Anybots Telepresence Robots Go into Mass Production - jlhamilton http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/25/anybots-telepresence-robots-go-into-mass-production/ ====== jacquesm Hehe, couple this with the amazon mechanical turk and you can have _real_ I (instead of AI) controlling telepresence robots to do work. Rent-a-br...
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New component vue js for vuesax Update image - luisdanielfly https://github.com/lusaxweb/vuesax ====== eberkund Why do I need all this overhead for something as simple as a button or other native form input elements?
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What is the Apple Star N84? ARM hybrid, touchscreen MacBook, just a new iPhone? - rbanffy https://www.pocket-lint.com/laptops/news/apple/144651-what-is-the-apple-star-n84-arm-hybrid-touchscreen-macbook-or-just-a-new-iphone ====== Mononokay "We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work. Tou...
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Ask HN: Do you know of any startups working on wildlife/habitat conservation? - rblion Trying to find out anything and everything about startups that have or still work on wildlife&#x2F;habitat conservation. Please share any that you know of.<p>Thank you for your time :) ====== stevenrace While I'm not aware of any ...
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Pornography and the Butterfly Effect - DmenshunlAnlsis https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/27/pornography-and-the-butterfly-effect/ ====== pjc50 Two threads here: one is that copyright in porn has largely broken down, resulting in a single giant company making a lot of money from recordings without paying the performers. ...
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Selling stuff on Twitter - eberfreitas http://tuy.im/ ====== WesleyJohnson I hadn't really thought about using Twitter to sell anything, but now the the idea is in front of me I like it. I think you could take the intergration with Twitter fruther, but I'm not sure I have the best ideas on how to do that. My only i...
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Carl Sagan's 1994 “Lost” Lecture: The Age of Exploration - gj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc ====== Tepix Nice find, thanks! ~~~ gj0 :)
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