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Ask HN: How to archive online articles - jdowner Often, after reading an article online, I want to be able to archive the contents of the article for future reference or to add notes. Obviously I could just save the webpage, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a service or application that can extract the contents ...
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Why my first startup in the valley “flopped” - pat2man http://pozo.me/post/28603867718/startup-flop ====== ChuckMcM I've seen a lot of startups come and go and there is a huge difference between 'coming up with a problem to solve' and 'finding a problem to solve.' They sound the same but they aren't. In the first cas...
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The quest for the perfect Linux distribution: an ongoing journey - pietrofmaggi http://rainbowtux.blogspot.it/2012/08/Quest-for-perfect-Linux-distribution.html ====== neverm0re I read articles like these hoping they'd contain more interesting distributions that would challenge the status quo. Projects like GoboLinux...
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Show HN: Create a portfolio of the mobile apps you've built - satjot http://tapfame.com Tapfame is the easiest way to create a portfolio of all the mobile apps you've worked on. Once you create a portfolio you will start receiving freelance gigs that businesses and companies post. ====== ken I'm seeing a pattern her...
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Oracle Webinar: Lowering TCO by moving from MySQL to Oracle - mattmcknight I received an email invite to this webinar a couple of weeks ago. It takes on a whole new dimension with the Sun acquisition...and it's IE only.<p>4/28 Lower Total Cost of Ownership with Oracle: Comparing Oracle to MySQL<p>As the global econo...
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App gold rush is over - tschellenbach http://www.plattysoft.com/2013/05/09/app-gold-rush-the-gold-is-almost-over/ ====== tschellenbach i think the app store as a distribution mechanism just doesn't scale to the current number of apps. on the web we've seen the same with yahoo, dmoz etc. there is still a lot of poten...
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Ask HN: Suggest me some good books on work ethics - aryamaan I have found that well-written books help me a lot getting back on track and also getting better at some values.<p>These days I feel in need of some inspirations, anecdotes, and experiences about work ethics and productivity. If it&#x27;s by someone in the t...
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Help the EU make free software more reliable and secure - M2Ys4U https://juliareda.eu/2016/06/eu-free-software-security-audits/ ====== benaston The EU is a supra-national political union with the aim of turning nation states into regions and centralising power and wealth in an unelected/indirectly elected elite. You ...
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An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics (1996) - timdierks http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf ====== timdierks Moral: evolved complexity ≠ designed complexity.
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Startup Quote: Henry Ford, Founder, Ford - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/11315452477 ====== raychancc Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain. \- Henry Ford <http://startupquote.com/post/11315452477>
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Eric Schmidt is stepping down as Alphabet’s executive chairman - dcgudeman https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2017/1221.html ====== Overtonwindow Previous Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211)
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Show HN: My first open source project (micro check library) - arasatasaygin http://arasatasaygin.github.io/is.js/ ====== callum_hart Really like the look of this! ~~~ arasatasaygin Thanks, appreciate it. ------ zekiunal Cool, congratulations! ~~~ arasatasaygin :) ------ bbcbasic is.verynice() ~~~ arasatasaygin Th...
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Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text - bankerofpawns http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-center-align-paragraph-text ====== teye Another painfully obvious, no-data article from uxmovement.com. A minute of Googling gave me a more researched article with more comprehensive suggestions. See ...
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Illinois Man Charged with Desecrating US Flag After Posting Photos on Facebook - jackgavigan http://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandoalfonso/2016/07/04/illinois-man-charged-with-desecrating-american-flag-after-posting-photos-on-facebook/ ====== waterphone > _Champaign County State 's Attorney Julia Rietz said today that t...
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Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git - rplnt https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit ====== rplnt Quick video introduction: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBVAi3oKvo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBVAi3oKvo) Some discussion with the author present on reddit: [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1k...
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D-Wave confirmed as the first real quantum computer by new research - paulgb http://www.extremetech.com/computing/184242-d-wave-confirmed-as-the-first-real-quantum-computer-by-new-research ====== valarauca1 I really had to do some digging for the source. But it appears to be 'old news' i.e. 2 weeks old. The publicat...
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Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? - truffle_pig https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/ ====== pdog If you're looking for The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns[1], here it is: [http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the- single-gre...](http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/20...
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Daimlers MyTaxi to merge with Hailo - madbiz http://www.reuters.com/artic ====== madbiz Cant edit the link: [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-mytaxi-hailo- idUSK...](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-mytaxi-hailo- idUSKCN1060FK?utm_source=applenews) ------ shaqbert With heavy regulation in Germany pr...
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How long is a 'long term investment'? (a brief analysis of S&P500 since 1950) - tomsaffell http://saffell.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/snp500/ ====== mattmaroon He's missing dividends. The average S&P 500 dividend yield is 1.37% according to something I just found on Motley Fool. If that's accurate, that's pretty substa...
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Ask HN: Side project you're working on? - startupflix ====== jwbensley I've been working on some software called Etherate that let's you test (or "rate") an Ethernet connection: [https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate](https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate) I use it for testing that devices parse frame headers correctl...
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Show HN: Keep unwanted photos off any site with javascript one-liner - chrisconley http://houdiniapi.com/2011/05/introducing-safecontent-keep-unwanted-photos-off-any-site/ ====== chrisconley Hey all, Chris from Houdini here. This is a new idea we're currently working on - any feedback is greatly appreciated! ------...
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Pattern-defeating quicksort - pettou https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort ====== atilimcetin Rust's stable sort is based on timsort ([https://doc.rust- lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.sor...](https://doc.rust- lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.sort)) and unstable sort is based on pattern-defeating quicksort (...
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I need to know what is the future of mobile app development? - umairmehdi I am planning to switch from php side to mobile app development side. I need to know what is the scope of android and ios app development. ====== zer00eyz Its pretty huge right now. The realities are the space is evolving, I suspect that in 5 ...
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How to Decide if a New Hire Will Be a Team Player in the Interview - erinbryce http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130718210257-15454-the-best-interview-question-of-all-time-to-assess-team-skills ====== mtkd Why do they have to be? Just because a person isn't 100% 'team player' material doesn't mean they are...
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Musicslu's "name your own price" music distribution system - dimarco http://musicslu.com/we-are-artists ====== dimarco The basics of Musicslu: How does a community purchase work? 1\. The artists of We Are Artists lists a total amount they would like to sell their release for, in this case $1,500. 2\. You name your ...
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When we forget why we bothered to try - as http://www.jorydesjardins.com/pause/2006/05/the_retired_sai.html "You just can't imagine how frustrating it is," he said, looking up at the ceiling, as if trying to make sense of the ceiling tiles. "I keep looking, but there's just no answer!"<p>This would be my worst case s...
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Paypal making a change? An automated e-mail I just received from them. - massarog Rewarding your PayPal performance<p>Dear <i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i>* <i></i><i></i><i></i>*,<p>PayPal appreciates your business and continues to design its products and services with you in mind. Our goal is to make sending and recei...
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Uber is the new Google - viscanti http://www.fastcompany.com/3029457/technovore/uber-is-the-new-google ====== kb120 When should Google acquire Uber? It seems inevitable (Uber + Google's self- driving cars) but the longer Google waits the higher Ubers valuation will be.
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Can a single car break a traffic jam? - chiachun http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160428-how-ai-will-solve-traffic-part-one ====== logn I often try the technique of leaving lots of space and going at a slower, steady pace. One problem is that everyone re-routes around you, and you induce road rage and traffic weaving....
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Pot Plants Draining Drought-Ridden California - prostoalex http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/266119311.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_BAYBrand ====== dobbsbob Nobody uses that much water to grow indoor weed. Plenty of grow guides around, if I remember correctly water every 3-5 days depending on if co...
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World's First Slaughter-free Steak - brandonhall https://nationalpost.com/life/food/israeli-start-up-aleph-farms-raises-the-steaks-with-the-worlds-first-lab-grown-sirloin ====== qnsi The price is very low. Is there anyone knowledgeable with industry to maybe shed some light on this issue? I thought we were years from ...
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Are porn site video players really better than youtube? From Reddit. - uast23 http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rbn7u/why_do_porn_sites_have_video_players_that_are_so/ ====== uast23 This amuses me. In my experience I haven't seen any porn site player being faster or better than youtube; or may be I have too...
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A short tale of a read overflow - ingve http://antirez.com/news/117 ====== wyldfire > You can never detect a read overflow otherwise: it will just access data > outside your structure, but inside mapped memory, so the bug would be > totally harmless and silent, with the exception of doing the same operations > at the ...
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Evolve your hierarchy - wallflower http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/01/05/evolve-your-heirachy/ ====== kiba This is posted in 2007 but it is still useful, at least a possible solution. As of right now, I am still doing game entities like he is describing except it is divided up into three parts which are events, m...
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Gallium oxide to boost field-effect transistor performance? - rbanffy http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/gallium-oxide-to-boost-fet-performance/168259/ ====== romdev Neat thing about gallium - it has a room temperature melting point. Learned this from a book I recommend: [https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-...
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Show HN: CloudDeck | A music discovery and listening tool for SoundCloud - kowdermeister http://clouddeck.net ====== Borealis You couldn't build something like this in HTML5? A lot of people will not install Adobe Air (or Microsoft Silverlight, etc.) plus a desktop application just to be able to search a crappy musi...
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Snowden may be granted entry to Russia Wednesday - ra http://rt.com/news/snowden-russia-asylum-request-503/ ====== peterkelly > "He plans to get a job" Getting a letter of reference from his previous employer may turn out to be a bit tricky... ~~~ dmxt In Russia Federation, most employers don't require a letter of...
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Ask HN: Review my Idiocy prevention without site-wide https - notphilatall I've been reading a lot of hype about idiocy and how long it will take people to implement site-wide https. Unless I'm missing something, it's already possible to avoid hijacking on the internet by combining a few existing approaches, and enf...
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A Field Guide to Yelp's Unhappy, Unhelpful Eaters - pkarbe http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/03/a-field-guide-to-yelps-unhappy-unhelpful-eaters/72248/ ====== mattlanger As Merlin Mann so brilliantly put it, "Yelp.com: Explore Where Local Illiterates Have Recently Stopped Eating.™" <http://twitter.com/#!/...
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Wat by Gary Bernhardt - coreyp_1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BySC_6HyY ====== Zekio Been a long time since I last watched that, still makes me laugh every time I watch it haha :)
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Merkel admitted in 2011 Greek debt unsustainable - thibaut_barrere http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/merkel-admitted-in-2011-greek-debt-unsustainable-1.2270858 ====== DrScump I think "admitted" is an unfair characterization. Experts and leaders from all over the world were telling the Greek government that...
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Day 1 for a $1 app on the Mac App Store - pavlov http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/01/day-1-for-a-1-app-on-the-mac-app-store/ ====== pavlov Yesterday I promised [1] to tell HN about the sales of my app on the Mac App Store. This blog post exclusively opens the business secret kimono to reveal the riches I shall make...
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Senator Schumer's waffling response to SOPA - foolinator http://i.imgur.com/hD9T5.png ====== foolinator TLDR - He hears us, but he's doing nothing. This motivates me to go to the tech meetup on Wednesday. www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/47879702/ ~~~ nextparadigms Schumer is a PIPA sponsor: [http://www.reddit.com/...
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Ask HN: Where to buy Computers, Monitors & Peripherals in bulk at a discount? - jtesp Any advice on where to buy discounted equipment in bulk? Looking for some cheapo Atom or the like computers, 19" LCD/LED monitors, and basic peripherals. They can be no-name brands.<p>Is there a minimum amount before such items g...
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Team email from Shopify CEO re Diablo 3 - edwardog Team,<p>Diablo 3 comes out tomorrow. Since 90% of you won't be able to concentrate anyways let's just meet tomorrow after lunch in the Lounge for an impromptu Lan party.<p>Need a refresher on why you need to play Diablo 3 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geuAc8F7Gt0...
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How Being a Doctor Made Me a Better Founder - jakek http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/how-being-a-doctor-made-me-a-better-founder.html ====== dmfdmf It has been my experience that doctors make horrible businessmen. I think it is the medical school training that encourages over confidence in their abilities, even o...
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Calculating 316 Million Movie Correlations in 2 Minutes (Down From 2.5 Hours) - physcab http://dmnewbie.blogspot.com/2009/06/calculating-316-million-movie.html ====== physcab Hi HN, I submitted this article because it has sat in my bookmarks for a while and I've referenced it quite a number of times over the past fe...
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Your Architecture Sucks and I Don't Care - rco8786 http://friendlydingo.com/blog/2011/your-architecture-sucks-and-i-dont-care ====== CodeMage Same old warning against becoming an "architecture astronaut". Look, I understand you got burned and you want to share. However, I'm getting a teeny little bit tired of people w...
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Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics now supports both SVG and Canvas - shihn https://github.com/pshihn/rough ====== shihn Hi, I launched Rough.js a month ago ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16571827](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16571827)) and was overwhelmed by all the love. Now Rough.js ren...
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Blockstream Commits to Patent Nonaggression - wslh https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/blockstream-commits-patent-nonaggression ====== wslh More opinions in this thread: [https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5clbgz/sergioalso_bloc...](https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5clbgz/sergioalso_blockstream_hid_the_fact_...
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What Facebook needs? A killer search engine - paraschopra http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/what-facebook-needs-a-killer-search-engine.htm ====== indigoviolet You know what would be cool? If the author went to www.facebook.com, found the rather prominent input box on top called 'Search', and tried putting somethi...
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Did James Damore really deserve to be fired for what he wrote? - saltvedt http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/opinion/google-wrong-article-1.3399750 ====== richmarr It's a valid question, but Singer gets the answer wrong. This is politics, not science. 1) Biology is a red herring. There's a huge chasm between any suppose...
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Ask HN: Site with tools people use? - aviraldg So I vaguely remember this website which used to publish articles describing the tools (software, hardware, etc.) used by famous designers, developers, musicians and so on. I think I remember reading an entry on Linus on that website. Does anyone remember what it was?<p...
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Cask: a Scala HTTP micro-framework - based2 https://github.com/lihaoyi/cask ====== based2 [http://www.lihaoyi.com/cask/page/about- cask.html](http://www.lihaoyi.com/cask/page/about-cask.html)
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The Blockchain Is a Reminder of the Internet’s Failure - skilled https://medium.com/s/love-hate/the-blockchain-is-a-reminder-of-the-internets-failure-b16c58d70413 ====== hndamien Come together, like as in a consensus?
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“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week." - minimaxir https://facebook.com/groups/759985267390294?view=permalink&id=1424100054312142 ====== seldo Reminds me of this great presentation: [http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf](http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productiv...
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Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us - beefield http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber ====== forgotpwtomain For such along article (and I did enjoy some of it) they spent almost no time on describing the study methodology. > Nowhere in t...
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Drinking age of 21 doesn't work - edw519 http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/16/mccardell.lower.drinking.age/index.html ====== ScottWhigham Not hacker news certainly?
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A little idea to resolve special m:n relations a bit different with MySQL - seonap http://www.xarg.org/2010/09/resolve-many-to-many-relations-a-bit-different-with-mysql/ An approach to resolve many-to-many relations without an additional table. ====== michael_dorfman So, you break First Normal Form, require some text...
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Show HN: Motigram, an SMS based to-do app backed by real humans not a.i. - titusblair https://motigram.com ====== ismail I went through the entire page trying to figure out what the humans offer and value I get. My best guess it is motivation and accountability? Did not look at the video. Maybe this has a specific ta...
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Sex, Steroids, and Arnold: The Story of the Gym That Shaped America - jseliger https://deadspin.com/sex-steroids-and-arnold-the-gym-that-shaped-america-1828228786 ====== B1FF_PSUVM This slid off the front page pretty damn quick - the culture so deftly portrayed is probably almost as alien here as anything short of mar...
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Amazon S3 Simple Backup Script - s3backup - leftnode http://artisansystem.com/blog/entry/37 ====== callmeed I've been using s3sync.rb combined with a cron job and shell script. Working great for me. Good to see a PHP-based alternative I suppose. ~~~ leftnode Thanks! I don't know Ruby/have never played around with ...
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A New Way for the Wealthy to Shop for Citizenships - lebek http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-way-for-the-wealthy-to-shop-for-citizenships?mbid=rss ====== liamcardenas > The U.S. ranks twenty-eighth on the Q.N.I., behind nearly every E.U. > country. Kalin told me that the U.S.’s rank is partly due to its re...
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Some Technical Clarifications About Do Not Track - tshtf http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/harlanyu/some-technical-clarifications-about-do-not-track ====== jdp23 Important clarifications, in particular highlighting that it's _not_ a do-not- track list.
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Alienware Evaluating Customers' Interest in Linux - vimes656 http://www.osnews.com/story/24310/Alienware_Evaluating_Customers_Interest_in_Linux ====== goombastic Would have been easier for them to allow people to say no to Windows when they buy the laptop, rather than do polls and other stuff. I would be interested i...
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40% off Pragmatic Programmers books and screencasts. - steve19 http://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2009-11-18.html ====== simonista Anyone have recommendations? The only thing I've ever bought from PragProg is Agile Web Development with Rails, which I can recommend. ~~~ justinweiss Most of their language books ar...
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The Medieval Mindset (2017) - marchenko https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2017/09/thinking-medieval-seeking-endarkenment.html ====== hprotagonist Much of the mindset(s) of the 14th century make a LOT more sense when you realize two things. 1\. 19 year olds were routinely making critical military decisions. Remembe...
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Facebook Brain Computer Interface Program Update - atlasunshrugged https://tech.fb.com/imagining-a-new-interface-hands-free-communication-without-saying-a-word/ ====== atlasunshrugged Nature Article that has the bulk of the information [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10994-4](https://www.nature.com/article...
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How to get Google Chrome old versions between 46 to 49? - iamtrying I need to play MP4 files which was working fine between Version 46 to 49. But since 50 there is many major bugs which i cant live with.<p>I can go back to Chromium but then MP4 files does not work on it, how can i therefore get Google Chrome version 4...
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Why People in Cities Walk Fast (2012) - vinnyglennon https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-fast/1550/ ====== xyzzy123 I think it would be interesting to see not just the average but also the _distribution_ of walking speeds. I posit the effect might just be “number of people walking to/from work ...
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Ask HN: Can the Hacker News maintainers darken the user submission body text? - zappo2938 The text of the body of user submitted stories is very light and difficult to read. Is it possible to darken it a couple shades for legibility? ====== gus_massa It's on purpose to discourage that type of submissions. The links in...
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Ask HN: Does taking a severance package make you less marketable? - DrWumbo Is it a bad idea to take a severance package from a job that I was already planning on leaving? I work as a developer at a Fortune 50 company that is currently doing &quot;restructuring&quot; and is offering severance packages to anyone who wa...
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Tmate - Instant terminal sharing - dkthehuman http://tmate.io/ ====== kareemk I've tried this out and it is dramatically better then other alternatives, full screen-sharing suffers from latency issues (screenhero, logmein, etc...) and sharing an ssh session is a pain to get setup (e.g. wemux). I highly recommend it. ...
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One Paradigm to Rule Them All - adosburg https://medium.com/@dosburg/one-paradigm-to-rule-them-all-546440de57e ====== 0_gravitas I saw your other post on this as well and I'm left with the same question. These are some significant claims, but not much has been mentioned in these sales pitches as to how exactly this is...
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The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist - acdanger https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-buenos-aires-bank-heist ====== t_mann Quite endearing Sunday afternoon read. The complete absence of violence makes it easy to sympathise. It seems they hold no grudges amongst each other too, which is remarkable given the sums involved. ...
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Why can't programmers design software? - pcr910303 https://qnoid.com/2011/02/23/Why-cant-programmers-design-software.html#main ====== jiriknesl Is it just me? I don't like this design. What's the point of wrapping an algorithm in strategy, when there is no reuse, nor any need to exchange algorithm? And more. Why Fiz...
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This Map Shows the Average Commute Time in Every U.S. County - ourmandave http://lifehacker.com/this-map-shows-the-average-commute-time-in-every-u-s-c-1796559696 ====== tbirrell As someone who lives in one of those counties... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Not even close buddy. Try 1.5x and you might be right.
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Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby? - daviddavis I'm a Ruby programmer. Recently there was a poll about everyone's favorite programming language and Python came out ahead over Ruby. To me, Python seems to lack some of the niceties that Ruby has like blocks and it also seems to have some superfluous stuff like ...
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Facebook's Gateway Drug - applecore http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/evgeny-morozov-facebooks-gateway-drug.html ====== ef4 > In a short essay outlining the vision behind Internet.org, Mr. Zuckerberg > says one of its goals is to offer credit and identity infrastructure “that > is still nascent in many ...
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Microsoft Research Details Room2Room Project – Life-Size Telepresence - vyrotek http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-research-details-room2room-project-enabes-life-size-telepresence/ ====== vyrotek Source paper: [http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/262648/Room2Room_CSCW2016...](http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/262648/Roo...
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Review my app coded in the past two days: BookBox - lkozma http://www.lkozma.net/bookbox<p>embedded for ex. on my main page: http://www.lkozma.net<p>I made this small widget during this weekend to learn a bit of javascript. I'd be glad to get feedback on how understandable, usable, etc. it is or feature ideas, sugge...
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College President Gives $90,000 of His Salary to Lowest-Paid Employees on Campus - praneshp http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/04/president-gives-up-salary-psu_n_5647997.html?ncid=dynaldusaolp00000255 ====== radmuzom Great gesture, however not a solution to the systemic problem. It is only when the government man...
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Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams - barry-cotter https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dCjz5mgQdiv57wWGz/ingredients-for-creating-disruptive-research-teams ====== jandrewrogers In my experience, attempts to build these organizations are unsuccessful primarily because they fail to understand the fu...
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Cloudflare's distributed database is out of beta - zackbloom https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-kv-is-ga/?hn ====== Phillipharryt It's interesting that they bring up the CAP theorem, because they've chosen to go for the two prongs of it that generally not preferred. Data consistency in my opinion is of utmost importa...
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Hacking an Android TV in less than 2 minutes - vmulas https://medium.com/@drakkars/hacking-an-android-tv-in-2-minutes-7b6f29518ff3 ====== vmulas LinkedIn article: [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hacking-android-tv-less- than-...](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hacking-android-tv-less- than-2-minutes-valerio-mulas/) Y...
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Grand Image Compression Challenge at ICIP 2016 - 112233 http://jpeg.org/items/20151126_icip_challenge.html ====== vanderZwan Eh... isn't the Joint Photographic Experts Group the one that patents everything? ~~~ defenestration I'm wondering, what incentive do researchers have to share their new compression algorithms ...
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Marijuana Investors Lost $23.3B in Penny Stocks Last Year - wclax04 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/marijuana-investors-lost-billions-in-penny-stocks-last-year ====== lbradstreet I'm skeptical of the total loss quoted. If a stock drops from 2B to 0.3B market cap, it doesn't necessarily mean that investors lost 1.7B i...
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Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up - braythwayt https://malisper.me/building-fizzbuzz-fractran-bottom/ ====== braythwayt Previous discussions around John Conway's FRACTRAN esoteric programming language: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142232](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142232) and: ...
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Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation - bollu https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io#everything-you-know-about-word2vec-is-wrong ====== DannyBee Speaking as someone who has read about 40 years of papers in compiler optimization, it's very interesting. In the early days, there were fairly exa...
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What if we were all Uber drivers? - mk44 I just had an idea. What if there existed %50 of the cars that exist in US today, but they were freely available for everyone. What&#x27;s the catch? You have to pick up people on the way to where you are going. There will be a cloud system that similar to Uber, where people ...
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Opt-IN, No Ads, and No Tracking Solve a Lot of Problems in Society - kgwxd https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/ ====== filoeleven Pure clickbait title. “Stuff in my timeline that I don’t want to see” is an annoyance, not a societal problem. Privacy is a significant p...
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Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet [pdf] - kdrakon http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/cheat.pdf ====== hugelgupf This seems more like a cheat sheet of applied mathematics with CS flavoring than a theoretical CS cheat sheet... ~~~ j2kun Seriously. Five pages of calculus? Come on. A real cheat sheet might have: * Op...
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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos - dmarby https://picsum.photos/ ====== O1111OOO Just wanted to comment on the clarity and effectiveness of the home page. Love it! So many user-friendly checkboxes are ticked off. Nice look, great description, plenty of examples, advanced usage section that's very eas...
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Google introduces fact checking feature whether news is actually true - hitr http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-fact-checking-presidential-election-candidates-news-hoax-fake-real-a7361231.html ====== LordWinstanley Who decides whether something is 'fact'? Google? The reason we don't ...
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Ask HN: Starting indie game dev. need advice - rythmshifter So I&#x27;ve decided to start in the game development field. I am a programmer, and I have 2 friends with skills I need, graphics and audio. I love both of them dearly, but they have their flaws. I am concerned about several of these flaws and how they ...
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A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012) - userbinator http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art011 ====== nineteen999 The first "serious" C program I wrote was a GIF87a decoder on Linux, using SVGAlib, back in 1998 or 1999. The reference implementation I had was written by somebody else, in QBASIC ...
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Russian hackers allegedly behind cyberattacks to steal Covid-19 vaccine - wheretheheartis https://www.cnet.com/news/russian-hackers-allegedly-behind-cyberattacks-to-steal-covid-19-vaccine/ ====== moksly This is obviously wrong, but shouldn’t something as important as a vaccine for the worst pandemic in a century kind ...
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Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People? - Reedx https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-freedom-of-speech/ ====== DanielBMarkham From a meta standpoint, it's interesting to me that the most vociferous deniers of free speech throughout history have made some version of the case "Bu...
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What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap - dcope https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/b95033c270af ====== NathanKP Interesting... For some reason I had always assumed that Bootstrap was associated more closely with Twitter because it had the word "twitter" in the name. Now I understand why some business are ...
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Tails is a operating system that protects your privacy and avoids censorship - Sami_Lehtinen https://tails.boum.org/?new ====== dang Lots of previous discussions, so the project home page is probably too generic to make a good HN submission. [https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...](https://hn...
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