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Cringely suggests job losses at Microsoft should be ten times greater - naish http://www.cringely.com/ ====== JoelSutherland I am failing to see a point in this post. Would it have killed him to write: Microsoft should lay off 50,000 employees because...[his point]. The closest he comes is this: _Instead of 5000 p...
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Embarrassing Story. Moral: Take Care of Your Health - healthfirst For obvious reasons I created a new account for this post.<p>I just had a miserable 8 days where I suffered from an embarrassing and painful ailment called hemorrhoids which were the byproduct of a two day hack-a-thon. As embarrassing as this is to writ...
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PIN-Punching Robot Can Crack Your Phone's Security Code In Less Than 24 Hours - Element_ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/22/pin-punching-robot-can-crack-your-phones-security-code-in-less-than-24-hours/ ====== Element_ direct link to youtube video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_D- zX3yP8](http:...
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NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon for Two Weeks - yobananaboy https://futurism.com/nasa-moon-visitors-stay-longer-apollo ====== pnako While the rest of the world is busy eliminating human beings from dangerous work sites (factories, mines, etc.) it seems counter-intuitive and wasteful to focus on sending hum...
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Andreessen Horowitz Backs SkySafe, Which Wirelessly Grounds Your Drone - cpeterso http://recode.net/2016/04/20/skysafe-uses-a-wireless-signal-to-take-down-drones/ ====== viperscape So this might not work with totally custom drones, and that's a huge market in done world. They'd have to continually track and build a da...
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So you still don´t know AngularJS? - alfongj http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=angularJS%2C+backboneJS%2C+coffee+script%2C+nodeJS ====== alfongj And just before anyone points it out, I know that Node JS, Backbone, Coffee Script and Angular have little to do with each another. I did the comparison with them jus...
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7 Things No One Ever Tells You About Raising Venture Capital Financing - xutopia http://www.instigatorblog.com/7-things-no-one-ever-tells-you-about-raising-venture-capital-financing/2007/11/12/ ====== xutopia I especially like point 7. A more succesful team where you make a smaller percentage is better than a failin...
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Your next conference should have real-time captioning - steveklabnik http://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ ====== bibinou dupe : [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829357](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829357)
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Ask HN: Wordpress alternatives for simple content management? - jc_811 I do some front-end development and mostly do everything by simply writing the HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS (with other frameworks included - bootstrap, etc). I enjoy writing the code and the flexibility it gives.<p>The issue is when clients want to be ab...
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White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts - rosser http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/us/white-house-tries-to-prevent-judge-from-ruling-on-surveillance-efforts.html?_r=0 ====== pvnick So, [Clapper] said, he was continuing to assert the state secrets privilege, which allows the ...
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Scribd "YouTube for Text" Gets $300K - perler http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/scribd-youtube-for-text-gets-300k/ ====== ed I think the concept sounds great and it is beautifully executed. Books don't have the same broad appeal as videos but are definitely easier to classify, search, and analyze. There's a whole ...
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Why Hackers Must Welcome Social Justice Advocates - kawera https://medium.com/@coralineada/why-hackers-must-welcome-social-justice-advocates-1f8d7e216b00#.nv8s2ka1m ====== ferrari8608 I really don't understand what point the author of this article is trying to make. Is it that diversity in self identification amongst ...
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Use after free bug in OpenSSL - beala http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.4/common/008_openssl.patch ====== userbinator It's good to see that one of the positive effects of Heartbleed is that it motivated people to inspect OpenSSL's code, leading to more bugs being found and fixed. This is supposed to be how...
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Show HN: SentiNews – first intelligence news reader - Yeroniomus http://www.sentinews.ml ====== bradknowles The first "intelligence" news reader? You mean a news reader for classified "intelligence" material for the CIA, NSA, etc...? Or did you mean the first "intelligent" news reader, in that it uses machine learnin...
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Let's talk about sex baby, let's talk about PGP (by Jacob Applebaum) - preek https://voicerepublic.com/venues/193/talks/284 ====== mxmo0rhuhn Interesting crypto beginner talk to share with non IT people!
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Show HN: Relevé Heels – Rent designer heels at a fraction of retail - antognini http://www.releveheels.com ====== antognini Co-founder of Relevé Heels here. We recently launched and are grateful for any feedback!
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The Wii U web browser's HTML5 gaming capabilities - richtaur http://www.lostdecadegames.com/wii-u-browser/ ====== hayksaakian While what it does support is cool, what it does not support is more worrying. I doubt the browser will be a high priority for them, so the lack of audio support and web sockets will likely p...
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Users hack around SublimeText open bug when not addressed for years - bluehex https://github.com/SublimeText/Issues/issues/27#issuecomment-66480303 ====== snarkyturtle When you the dev seems be only releasing a version every 6 months or so, what else can you do? ------ ggreer Sublime Text 2 and 3 have many bugs, in...
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Show HN: Popup Encyclopedia – A lightning fast popup encyclopedia/dictionary - pncnmnp https://github.com/pncnmnp/PopUp-Encyclopedia ====== pncnmnp Most of the other extensions do not support encyclopedia ( or proper nouns ), hence the motive was to support both. Also the dictionary can be used offline.
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Analyzing Big Data With Twitter - EzGraphs http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-abdt-s12/2012/12/13/uc-berkeley-course-lectures-analyzing-big-data-with-twitter/ ====== Jagat Looks like I've found a very nice todo for the winter break.
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The Gods of Silicon Valley are on the wrong side of history - jimnotgym https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/1118280949991714817 ====== MrZongle2 I've always found people declaring a particular position on any current event "on the wrong side of history" to be incredibly arrogant. _Nobody_ knows how history will port...
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Zen, Skill Development, and The Inner Game Of Tennis - zackattack http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/06/zen-skill-development-and-the-inner-game-of-tennis-this-post-is-not-about-tennis/ ====== Perceval This is more or less how I played tennis in high school. I never had the best skills, but my doubles partner and I were ...
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Chess Move Compression - nreece https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/chess-move-compression/ ====== mjn Although I'm also not very familiar with the history of such schemes, I do recognize the (not quite) 12-bit one, which I believe was the first scheme proposed, by Claude Shannon in his 1950 article "Programm...
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WhatsApp Is Down - aginovski https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/whatsapp-down-not-working-picture-voice-messages-photo-video-download-failed-a8986406.html ====== tsjq governments testing their kill switches ------ the-dude FB pictures and movies not loading. ~~~ paganel Same for me. ~~~ ...
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If It Was My Home (Oil spill visualization) - angusgr http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ ====== retube At the risk of getting downvoted, and I'm not saying the oil spill isn't bad - it is (very) - but let's remember some context: 1) The area is large. But this is meaningless without knowledge of the density. 2) I can't...
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Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? - esalazar https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-international-drug-dealer-maybe/ ====== blakesterz Even though there's no good answers here, I still enjoyed reading this. It's as much about the process and the hype as it is about trying to answe...
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Minteye wants to put an end to the CAPTCHA as we know it - iProject http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/12/15/minteye-wants-to-put-an-end-to-the-captcha-as-we-know-it/?fromcat=all ====== nwh That would be horrendously easy to write a bypass for. As with most of these "lets end CAPTCHA" solutions. ------ diziet Strangely,...
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The Story of How McDonald’s First Got Its Start - samclemens http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-how-mcdonalds-first-got-its-start-180960931/?no-ist ====== dharmon Despite the tone of the article, Kroc did not just swoop in and capitalize off of the Brothers' genius. If anything, they were an albatross around ...
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Google to allow certain cryptocurrency ads in U.S., Japan - sahin-boydas https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-advertising-crypto/google-to-allow-certain-cryptocurrency-ads-in-us-japan-idUSKCN1M5248 ====== montenegrohugo I really do hope there is some sort of curation system. The amount of scams run in the crypt...
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HTC Vive review: You can now buy your own holodeck simulator v1.0 - drewrv http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/htc-vive-review-you-can-now-buy-your-own-holodeck-simulator-v-1-0/ ====== gr3yh47 Good article with some great demos but man, I'm reminded that I stopped reading Ars gaming because Kyle brings massive bias ...
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MIT Hacks Kinect Laser For A Wearable Map Generator For Firefighters - dmoney67 http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/25/mit-hacks-kinect-laser-for-a-wearable-map-generator-for-firefighters/ ====== mertd Direct link to MIT news release: [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/automatic-building- mappin...](http://web.mit.edu/ne...
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Y-Combinator-company heysan! looking for software developer. Meet us at startup school! - gustaf http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfsgtr7_181cpm27z ====== danielha So tell me, how awesome is it to be at a point where you're able to recruit developers to join your team? Exciting times, gustaf, exciting times. ~~~ gusta...
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Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway - icey http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/starting-justin-tv/ ====== cfinke That was the first guest post I've ever read on Techcrunch that was genuinely interesting and didn't read like droning self promotion. Thanks, Justin! ~~~ benologist I'...
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OneJS lets coders convert NodeJS projects into single, stand-alone files - combataircraft https://github.com/azer/onejs ====== dkastner I've been using a very similar tool, browserify to do the same thing. The great thing about browserify is it already comes with core node.js library support, as well as an http modu...
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Does it make sense to replace all disks with SSDs? - neilc http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/14/ReplacingALLDiskWithSSD.aspx ====== mckilljoy Those Fusion IO cards are wicked fast, so long as you don't mind paying like $8K for 160 GB. ------ favouriteduck No. ~~~ Devilboy Ask again in 5 years.
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Ask HN: What is your advice/comments on "publish or perish" culture in academia? - trashpanda ====== cmdoptesc Think you meant "publish or perish." I'm not on academia, but it seems like it'd lead to a lot of filler articles written. The problem with research is that it doesn't always move in predictable increments. S...
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Ask HN: Any good publications that deal with the Internet? - unalone I'm working on an essay regarding the Internet and how creative minds can use it - regarding various mediums and their limitations. Usually I'd just publish it online and link here, but this one is exceptionally good, and I'd like to see if I could...
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Ask HN: How do I become an 'elite' programmer? - iobt92 I&#x27;m a budding undergraduate awaiting enrollment this year. I&#x27;ve already started to get into programming, and am nearing the end of a ML internship. I really admire people with robust programming skills and hope that I can become one of them (hopefully b...
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Iceland to elect citizens' panel to rewrite constitution - gruseom http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/26/iceland-elect-citizens-rewrite-constitution ====== ilkhd2 ... it is a good side of having only 300000 of population. My observations convinced me that there can be no democracy with population bigger than 5...
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A system to help you remember more of what you read - robheaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/ ====== allworknoplay I find that simply sitting and thinking while -- and after -- reading nonfiction (or fiction, if it's got good ideas) burns the facts and ideas in as well as anything. I don't think mos...
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Why It's So Hard To Find A Software Engineer - erratic http://www.businessinsider.com/engineer-shortage-2010-9 ====== canterburry I think what isn't mentioned in this article are some of the unrealistic expectations posed from employers as to what a "skilled" software engineer is. I have countless times seen job re...
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Why you shouldnt join an accelerator - prostoalex http://blossomstreetventures.com/blog_details.php?bcat_id=87&utm_campaign=Mattermark+Daily&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=38905427&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--29ibnuPT1REKKwKpWPd51yPlSueoHPA2EgmT2oLad53JLTZfkFn1dY41YdpF-rqIWWO4SWTI1E8peUnDh2kJWLwIahw&_hsmi=389054...
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are now VCs - dwynings http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/27/meet-silicon-valleys-newest-vcs-tyler-and-cameron-winklevoss-video/ ====== bermanoid The Zuck > Winklevoss thing here is out of control. Do you guys even understand what really happened? This is not a tale of "Rich assholes t...
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Bitcoin Surpasses PayPal in Transaction Volume? - lelf http://coinowl.com/bitcoin-surpasses-paypal-in-transaction-volume/ ====== nly More pitiful, bullshit statistics out of BTC fairyland. PayPal currently processes 100 times as many transactions in a day as the Bitcoin network. 8 million [1], versus ~80,000 [2]. The ...
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Ask HN: Have you seen group interviews for people who want to work together? - Elof ====== par This is something that so many dev teams have pined for. We wanted this as a dev team so badly when we were all acquired and wanted to move on from the acquiring company. Unfortunately in practice it's a lot harder than it lo...
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Audience Interaction System running on iPod - demetree http://demetree.yourqforme.com ====== demetree Go ahead and try it. Ask a question.
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Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer - dricornelius http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/ ====== L_226 This one is pretty good too, and doesn't eat all my RAM - [http://stuffin.space/](http://stuffin.space/) ------ pierrec Interesting stuff, it appears to be their own data (I'm guessing aggregated from sou...
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Android Lollipop is out, but almost no one is using it - AshleysBrain http://www.zdnet.com/article/android-lollipop-is-out-but-almost-no-one-is-using-it/ ====== fivedogit This is not surprising and this hit-job of an article implies it has something to do with the quality of Lollipop rather than the real reason: When ...
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The Danger of Too Much Information (2013) - hhs http://randomglenings.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-danger-of-too-much-information.html ====== armaanbhati Really good read. Thanks for sharing with us
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Parents of overweight children don't know their children are overweight - yummyfajitas http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/how-deep-can-we-get-our-heads-underground-ctd/ ====== patio11 Quick guess: "How can little Timmy be overweight if half the kids in the neighborhood are chubbier than him?" (Psst: not that ...
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Darknetplan: organizing a decentralized alternative to traditional ISPs - ilaksh https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/ ====== sova When wifi-receiver -to- wifi-receiver comms become a standard practice, we'll truly have a decentralized and open net. and it'll be glorious.
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Rich Kids: Social network for the “wealthiest and most interesting” kids - fnordsensei https://richkids.life/membership/ ====== LordWinstanley Oh dear. How common! My even more exclusive social media site "evenricherkids.life" has a membership fee of €10000 / month. That should keep out the ghastly parvenus I'd expec...
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Mechanics of Building a Carpooling Service - WestCoastJustin https://www.sysadmincasts.com/episodes/51-mechanics-of-building-a-carpooling-service-introduction ====== partart I look forward to this series, I can feel my horizons broadening already !. Thanks again for your previous ansible series. ------ bmohansa Looki...
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Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real Time [pdf] - cpeterso http://www.mjkranch.com/docs/CODASPY17_Kranch_Reed_IdentifyingHTTPSNetflix.pdf ====== mholt Before people panic and again try to claim that HTTPS does not help here, note that the leak here is not in HTTPS itself per-se: it's in DASH and VBR enco...
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Ask HN: What do you do to make sense of your thoughts over time? - IgorCarron A generic question that comes back often is how to put one's thought in consignment somewhere so as to not let this potential "big idea".<p>My question is further down the road: once all the ideas have been streaming and been written or st...
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Introducing the PiCloud Notebook - usaar333 http://blog.picloud.com/2012/12/23/introducing-the-picloud-notebook/ ====== scorpion032 The iPython Notebook is really amazing which is seriously under utilised and under marketed. Every "I will teach beginner to program" site these days creates a new platform which start...
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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics - chocolateboy https://jeremykun.com/2018/12/01/a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/ ====== threwythrw Do the exercises have solutions? The most annoying things about math books is the lack of solutions. A beginner absolutely needs to know whether or not their solutions...
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Static Analysis in GCC 10 - fanf2 https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/03/26/static-analysis-in-gcc-10/ ====== WalterBright Double-free's can be tracked by doing data flow analysis on the function. This is how D does it in its nascent implementation of an Ownership/Borrowing system. It can be done without DFA if ge...
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CloudMine now allows you handle any 3rd party HTTP callback with their platform - ilyabraude http://blog.cloudmine.me/post/18515705556/http-callbacks ====== tlianza This is really a fantastic idea... partners should be lining up. More and more services have http hook support, but I'm sure people don't want to (or do...
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Jinnetic Engineering by Richard Stallman - revorad http://stallman.org/articles/jinnetic.html ====== xxzz Fascinating story. The story's narrator is supposed to be a woman, but the story has an unmistakably male voice. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but everyone I know who talks like that is male. Part of it may be tha...
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What Tracking Down Missing TCP Keepalives Taught Me About Docker, and Golang - sytse https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/15/tracking-down-missing-tcp-keepalives/ ====== sytse Not sure what word to leave out of the title so I opted to leave out our company name.
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AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft’s Ad Business, Swaps Google Search for Bing - whatgoodisaroad http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/06/29/aol-takes-over-majority-of-microsofts-ad-business-swaps-google-search-for-bing/ ====== reilly3000 MSFT isn't out of the ad business. They are keeping Bing and likely to make some inter...
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Ask HN: What's the best tool to convert any doc to PDF? - voicemynah I am working on a side project that needs to convert any document (typically word&#x2F;excel&#x2F;text) to PDF that can be rendered on the server via pdf.js<p>I see lot of cloud SaaS products that seem to do it - but I don&#x27;t know how good of a q...
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MarineTraffic.com - Live Ships Map - gtzi http://www.marinetraffic.com/ ====== joezydeco Note the hundreds of ships parked off the coast of Singapore. That's the US economy anchored out there. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Reve...](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/R...
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Did You Know? HTML5 Tag Omission - BasDirks http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#syntax-tag-omission ====== quink We knew :) <http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2010/a-minimal-html5-document/> <!doctype html> <html lang=en> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>blah</title> <body> <p>I'm the con...
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Eric Ries: Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics - _pius http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/19/vanity-metrics-vs-actionable-metrics/ ====== tophat02 "Actionable Metrics" is quite possibly the worst business buzzword combination I've ever heard. Hey Lawrence, when you're at work does anyone ever talk to yo...
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This popular teen app is quickly turning into Chatroulette 2.0 - SirLJ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/03/popular-teen-app-monkey-turning-into-chatroulette-2-point-0.html ====== KiDD The Not Hot Dog protocol in action!
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YC interview advice - drusenko http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/11/y-combinator-interview-advice.html ====== tdavis Speaking of Ramen, don't get the grocery-store stuff, that's for suckers. Get the good stuff off Amazon or VeryAsia.com. I'm pretty sure we lived exclusively off of _Mi Goreng Pedas_ for about 2 wee...
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America Needs Compulsory National Service - wellsjosephc https://josephcwells.com/blog/e-pluribus-unum-a-case-for-compulsory-national-service ====== babulus Counterpoint: no we don't. Fucking idiot. ~~~ dang We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. If you don't want to be banned, you're...
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AI websites that design themselves - nvk https://thegrid.io/#53 ====== minimaxir The website is doing stealthy user-referral tracking. Note the end of the url: [https://thegrid.io/#53](https://thegrid.io/#53) Other links on Twitter have the same #<user_id> schema. From the FAQ: > _How do referrals rewards work? We ...
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Reverse Engineering a NAND Flash Device Management Algorithm - jwise0 http://joshuawise.com/projects/ndfslave ====== Coko I realize that this whole process was more than just data recovery (it's a very valuable learning experience too), but if it was _just_ about data recovery, couldn't he buy another SD card and re-s...
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Kickstarter apologizes for hosting pickup/rape how-to guide - sequoia http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/21/kickstarter-seduction-guides/ ====== sequoia Justification for putting the world "rape" in submission title (excerpt from guide): "Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be domina...
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Show HN: Search engine to find the best online courses on the web - intous https://coursesity.com ====== intous Coursesity is a platform to discover the best online courses & tutorials on the internet. Find the best online courses across hundreds of subjects including programming, design, marketing, business & more. P...
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Slaughterhouse-Five - DanielBMarkham http://www.hn-books.com/Books/Slaughterhouse-Five.htm ====== KarmabalanceDeb Time changes everything. That certainly goes for the way you feel about the books you've read. It also changes the way you feel about books that you've always wanted to read and are just now getting around...
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Ask HN: How do I move from my little pond to a bigger lake? - DrorY I am a web developer. I've been working on an idea of mine with friends. We all left our day jobs. We've built a product, we've got our first customers, people are happy, but we can't seem to move out of our little pond. We are based outside of the...
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IJulia: iPython Notebook for Julia - terhechte https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl ====== StefanKarpinski To be clear: IJulia is still in a pre-release state but we're working on getting it ready for general consumption in the next couple of weeks. Fernando Perez's G+ post has a nice write up of the situation: [...
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Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure - JumpCrisscross http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/27/13706776/apple-functional-divisional ====== qwrusz I'm not defending Apple's shitbox of a new Macbook Pro and the fact that the latest iPhone can't even be plugged into a computer the comp...
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How Facebook Saw Trump Coming When No One Else Did - anchpop https://medium.com/@erinpettigrew/how-facebook-saw-trump-coming-when-no-one-else-did-84cd6b4e0d8e ====== herbst IMO pretty much the whole world saw that coming. Except appearantly the U.S. itself? ~~~ hga America's ruling class was in denial. (Heck, I'm sur...
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How to create a startup in 10.5 hours - mmaunder http://markmaunder.com/2007/how-to-create-a-startup-in-105-hours/ I just launched FEEDJIT. It took me about 10.5 hours (4pm until 2:30am) from the first time my hand touched the keyboard until I fixed the last bug and went live. I got a question on the Seattle Tech Sta...
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July 8th Gezipark Turkish Police Fires with Tear Gas and Water Canons - Page 1 - l8in http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php?topic=20328.0#.UdsH99RoxHA.hackernews ====== lifeguard related: [http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/](http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/) [http://www.livestream.com/revoltistanbul](http://www.l...
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Show HN: Official Aaron Swartz remembrance site is now CC-licensed, open source - bguthrie http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/ ====== bguthrie Hi everyone. You can find the link to the code here: <https://github.com/rememberaaronsw/rememberaaronsw>. You can read more about our reasoning here: <http://www.rememberaaronsw...
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Big Phones? So Over. - linhtran168 http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/big-phones-so-over/?grcc=33333Z98 ====== sebandr There's only two formats that succeed: briefcase size and pocket size, anything else better fit in one of those two otherwise it's a Betamax. ------ anigbrowl Takes one to know one...
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Why Microsoft Needs All the Code: To Build a Virtuous Cycle for Windows 10 - werencole http://arc.applause.com/2015/05/01/microsoft-windows-10-ios-and-android-apps/ ====== werencole Microsoft needs all the code from iOS and Android to help escape the vicious cycle it created with Windows 8.
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Chrome's experimenting with URL display again. Truth is, humans can't read URLs - mdoms https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1272777814891266049 ====== elktea I'm not really in the habit of watching rambling videos, shame the tweet author won't articulate his position in a thread instead of responding to all commen...
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Dear Marc Andreessen - steveklabnik https://al3x.net/2014/06/17/dear-marc-andreessen.html ====== alaskamiller Tragic that we all inevitably grow up to replace the old outdated system we grew up rebelling, nee disrupting, against. Hunter S. Thompson said something profound and unique to his position. He remarked his b...
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Dat, open-source software, seeks to restart the open data revolution - gordon_freeman http://www.wired.com/2014/08/dat/ ====== danieldk Can anyone explain how this is different from iRods, which is already in production at many organizations, abstract away the underlying data storage systems, provides policy enforce...
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How much can you earn from blogging on Medium? - mese848 https://medium.com/swlh/how-much-money-can-you-actually-make-writing-articles-on-medium-e9855c255485 ====== sytelus TLDR; They only want to give max which is in range of $5000-$11,000/mo income for a writer. This could obviously be deceiving as we get to see onl...
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How would go about building an online store in 2020? - ricedigi ====== Nextgrid Shopify is nice to get started. When you get big enough or have custom requirements you can develop your own solution.
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Where to witness a full solar eclipse in 2017 - titusblair http://www.visittheusa.com/experience/witness-solar-eclipse ====== darkseas Gotta say that the total solar eclipse i witnessed in Hungary round 2000 or so, was one of the most memorable moments of my travels. The sensation of the terminator rushing at you was ...
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Learning with Texts (2020) - azurexp https://sourceforge.net/projects/lwt/ ====== azurexp To give a bit of the backstory, Learning with Texts was a web application written in JavaScript which allowed for a sort of computerized reading of interlinear texts. However recently, Steve Kaufmann and LingQ have decided to thr...
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Road to Clojure Survey - cubix http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/d05837df1efe075/6e382d9b74bee86e ====== old-gregg A lot of folks seem to _like_ the fact that Clojure runs on JVM. It solves the libraries problem and takes advantage of probably the best implementation of VM available....
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LILO development ends next month - zlatan_todoric It is stated on its site but developer is offering adoption to anyone who wants to move forward with it. It has basic GPT and RAID (so more work there) and also needs BTRFS love. ====== mschuster91 tbh I didn't know it still was under active development. Last time I us...
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Ask YC: How to Dazzle? - ideamonk http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html eversince I have seen http://tinyurl.com/6ddzjh , I have always wanted to automate creation of such images. such an attempt is http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html But I am wondering how to perfect it. R...
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Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects - bontaq https://textdb.dev ====== bontaq Made because I couldn't find a simple, no-sign-up service to sync a list of names for a command line tool. And resubmitted because yesterday I goofed and the curl commands listed didn't point to the right location, whi...
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Edit tests are out of control, say journalists in search of jobs - paultopia https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/edit-tests.php ====== paultopia Apparently journalists have their own whiteboard interviews/take-home exercises!
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Flip – A ReactJS Game - xngzng http://henleyedition.com/flip-a-reactjs-game/ ====== tomw1808 I hate you for posting this. I kept playing it while I should have done something else :) Great idea, great concept! Keep on! You got your first addict. ~~~ taude Agreed. I originally was looking for the ReactJS implementati...
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The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users - mrduncan http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cormac/papers/2009/SoLongAndNoThanks.pdf ====== epochwolf tl;dr -> _...The cost-benefit tradeoff for most security advice is simply unfavorable: users are offered too little benefit for too much cost. Better...
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Bleeding Edge HTML5 - franze http://kinlan-presentations.appspot.com/bleeding-berlin/index.html#1 ====== ccanassa I saw this presentation on the Google Developers Day, the WebRTC was working during the presentation. ------ pan69 "webkitMediaSourceURL is not available" Guess my latest Chromium isn't bleeding edge e...
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GitKraken 0.5.0 with Git Flow integration - smonff http://www.gitkraken.com/release-notes ====== brudgers GitKraken home page: [http://www.gitkraken.com/](http://www.gitkraken.com/) ------ ivl It's really superficial, but the name alone makes me want to give it a try.
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How much (or how little) we trust the world's biggest brands - lpcrealmadrid https://intel.morningconsult.com/featured/2017/12/13/brands-review#section_home ====== oomwat Awful UI on that page ... whoever designed that should be shot!
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