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Problematic business relationships - dmistrio https://medium.com/@dimist/problematic-business-relationships-44dc00aeb05c ====== lotsofmangos _" We don’t need to have developers in our software company, we can outsource the function and keep only a product owner who would know the history of the project. Only the relat...
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Friend-Watch - Analytics for your Facebook account - ndroo http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/new-friend-watch-app-lets-you-stalk-your-facebook-friends/ ====== malik <plug>Got nothin' on wisdom.com.</plug>
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Facebook will disappear in three years - kemoly http://www.acercandonaciones.com/en/news/facebook-desaparecera-en-tres-anos.html ====== px1999 I'll be honest, a couple of years ago, I believed something similar, but for different reasons: * Friendships change over time, no social network (Facebook included) could c...
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OpenNews: 24 Hours to Choose Your Own Adventure. - knowtheory http://sinker.tumblr.com/post/29130883993/opennews-24-hours-to-choose-your-own-adventure ====== dansinker Hi there. I'm the director of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews program. We're looking for developers, hackers, and the like who want to spend 10 months tr...
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Airlines scour the world for scarce 737 Max simulators - hhs https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-training/airlines-scour-the-world-for-scarce-737-max-simulators-idUSKBN1ZL0EH ====== thawaway1837 There’s some weird numbers in the article, which may either be a lost in translation situation or more evidence...
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You might be able to get a tax credit for your prototyping - juwo http://www.ksrevenue.org/taxcredits-research.htm if you are incorporated. ====== nostrademons Well, aside from this being Kansas-only... " The credit is 6.5% of the difference between the actual qualified research and development expenses for the year...
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Traffico – An Open Source Traffic Sign Font - gyllen http://blog.mapillary.com/technology/2015/01/28/traffico.html ====== jboynyc There's also a great free (SIL-licensed) typeface for signage: [http://pixelspread.com/allerta/](http://pixelspread.com/allerta/) ------ michaelmior Since it doesn't seem to be linked an...
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Apple: The Beginning of a Long Decline? - dsr12 http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130913142423-71871-apple-the-beginning-of-a-long-decline ====== sarreph I'm sorry but I can't read rubbish like this; stopped after the extrapolation of Apple's potential future innovations as 'the construction industry' and...
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C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept according to TIOBE - Jjducu https://www.techrepublic.com/article/c-is-now-the-fastest-growing-programming-language/ ====== in3d This index has a lot of noise. C++ is only up because Sep 2019 was a low point. Its popularity is lower than in June 2019 for example....
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Lichess rating distributions display peaks at round numbers - throwawaylolx https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/bullet ====== throwawaylolx Hypothesised to be interpretable as empirical evidence that some users stop playing when they reach their target rating to avoid losing points: [https://www.reddit.com/r/...
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Jack Dorsey: There's a “middle ground” in encryption - widforss http://news.sky.com/story/twitter-boss-jack-dorsey-there-is-a-middle-ground-in-encryption-row-10816229 ====== Doches Jack Dorsey, expert mathematician. Because he's done a great job with Twitter's numbers, clearly.
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Reddit Is Down Following Routine Software Upgrade - dpflan http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4 ====== _Marak_ Reddit Admin's made this announcement a few weeks back: > A few days ago, we talked about a few technological and process changes we > would be working on in order to improve your Reddit experi...
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Building a Model for Retirement Savings in Python - koblenski http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2018/08/building-model-for-retirement-savings.html ====== westurner re: pulling historical data with pandas-datareader, backtesting, algorithmic trading: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7zxptg/pulling_stoc...](htt...
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Whatever happened to Tineye? - sdragon http://tineye.com/search Today, I tried to use the virtually only startup of this season, which I cared about -Tineye. But, alas, instead of the search page, I got a facefull of ads. Does anyone have any insights what happened to them? Did they let the page expire (highly doubt...
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MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis performance test - _pius http://timyang.net/data/mcdb-tt-redis/ ====== codahale These benchmarks don't seem to take HotSpot compilation into account, which means some of those numbers are for interpreted Java bytecode and some of those numbers are for native code and you don't know whic...
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Is mobile gaming a threat to the games industry? - SlipperySlope http://www.computerandvideogames.com/356139/is-mobile-gaming-a-threat-to-the-games-industry/ ====== Kelliot I see mobile gaming as an entirely new field which can be explored. Mobile devices dont have the specs or controls to be considered true competi...
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This png encrypts to the same image - diafygi https://i.imgur.com/WRxFKdq.png ====== diafygi Command: openssl aes-128-cbc -K "55555555555555555555555555555555" -iv "83deccd3f93b37c70d37297f319cf367" -in WRxFKdq.png -out OMG_SAME_IMAGE.png Youtube Link: [http://youtu.be/wbHkVZfCNuE](http://youtu.be/wbHkVZfCNuE) Pre...
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Calendario: A jQuery calendar plugin for creating flexible calendars - pbotelho http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/11/27/calendario-a-flexible-calendar-plugin/ ====== ruckusing This looks great but how does it compare to FullCalendar? [1] From what I can see there is zero documentation, an area which FullCalendar exc...
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Focus and the Difference Between Losing and Being Beaten - gmays http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/12/focus-and-the-difference-between-losing-and-being-beaten/ ====== hackerjam off topic: if the hacker news community is NOT familiar with farnam street and the person who writes the book reviews, shane parrish, you...
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Timeline for Logic, λ-Calculus, and Programming Language Theory (2012) [pdf] - adamnemecek http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT15/Timeline.pages.pdf ====== pron To those interested in the history of logic and computation, and the relationship between them (and algebra) -- which, BTW, was not at all accidental or surprising but ...
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Show HN: Launch your subscription box business in 7 days - jointhebox https://www.producthunt.com/tech/join-the-box ====== justboxing Why linking to producthunt? Why not directly link to the website?? [http://jointhebox.com/?ref=HN](http://jointhebox.com/?ref=HN) ~~~ Paulods Probably because its recently been linked ...
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Why it is so much harder to do TDD with iPhone development than with Rails. - thinksocrates http://joecannatti.com/?p=291 ====== stevenwei I think the biggest reason is that testing client side GUI code is generally much harder than testing server side web based code.....regardless of what platform you're working wi...
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Carphone Warehouse leaks LG's Google Nexus 4 phone - colinscape http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20081930 ====== kitcar They were leaked more than 2 weeks ago I believe... [http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/lg-nexus-4-photos-and- sp...](http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/lg-nexus-4-photos-and-specs- leaked-20...
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The Mondragon experiment - kelvin0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation ====== kelvin0 The documentary about this extraordinarly successful COOP [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-obHJfTaQvw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-obHJfTaQvw)
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The End of Blu-ray - sky_nox https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-end-of-blu-ray/ ====== beatgammit My main problem with streaming is limited access to older movies, and many streaming services are focusing on shows rather than features length films, so I can't reliably get recent films either with my subscription servic...
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CSS digital clock - uses no images, only CSS borders - bmunro http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/post/iphone-clock-web-application ====== raganwald Taking advantage of the way a browser renders a very thick border is a tremendous hack, with all of the attendant admiration and alarm the word implies. ~~~ rimantas differe...
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Hey Look, It's Every Bootstrap Website Ever - tangue http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/ ====== KZeillmann Maybe it's because I'm not a front-end developer, but I fail to see the issue here. Besides the weird scrolling. As a backend dev, I enjoy the ease with which I can set up a Bootstrap site on my side projects. I'm ...
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Map of America's Mass Shootings - jordanstaniscia http://jordanstaniscia.com/2012/07/americas-mass-shootings/ ====== csours Seattle has some very accurate mass murderers.
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Three things you need if you want more customers - zen53 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/three-things-you-need-if-you-want-more-customers.html ====== imgabe It's weird how Seth Godin usually has a good general point, and then manages to pick the worst possible examples to illustrate it. _A service ai...
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Artificial intelligence, and the rise of the bot enabled agent - Peter424 http://www.geniianalytics.com/2016/11/08/artificial-intelligence-rise-bot-enabled-agent/ ====== grzm Actual title: "Artificial intelligence, and the rise of the bot enabled agent."
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Why I hate programming competitions - gnosis http://web.archive.org/web/20071121053436/http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/programming_competitions.html ====== mquander Consider this -- if the author wrote a litany of reasons why he thought that chess was a poor way to measure one's skill at board games, ...
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GoogleChrome/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API - mxfh https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer#readme ====== nthcolumn Duplicated here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15028329](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15028329)
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Buffett: Wealth, Estate Taxes, and the Ovarian Lottery - wheels http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2009/06/buffett-wealth-estate-taxes-and-the-ovarian-lottery.html ====== Dove Sure, a large inheritance is undeserved. But when you get right down to it, everything you have and everything you are is undeserved. You can'...
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Ask HN: What online payment platform do you use in Europe? - yitchelle With the high concentration of countries in Europe, the mix of online payment laws between the countries make it difficult for one system for satisfy all of them.<p>In a US where a large population is covered under the one umbrella, it is much si...
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Show HN: Redppr – taking on Instagram and rating apps - redppr http://www.redppr.com ====== detaro Congratulations on the emptiest website ever... ~~~ redppr Work in progress, the main thing is the links to the App and Play stores.
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Proof That Game Theory Isn't Fully True - taylorwc http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/oracle-google-android-lawsuit/ ====== jleader Maybe I'm overlooking something, but in what way does Oracle's suit against Google (or the article) prove that "game theory isn't fully true"? ------ WCC Not everyone acts according to the...
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Painting in Clojure - speednoise http://tombooth.co.uk/painting-in-clojure/ ====== tombooth Hi I am the author of this post, I'm going to be knocking around if anyone has any questions, as I think you all deserve a finished post. If anyone wants to contribute or have a look at the code it is all hosted at [https://g...
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Why Bottled Water Is So Expensive on Amazon Right Now - petethomas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/here-s-why-bottled-water-is-so-expensive-on-amazon-right-now ====== legitster _Amazon’s algorithms are designed to spot unusually high prices – that is, high in comparison to other sellers on Amazon—an...
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Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation - logic http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html ====== theGimp Wow. Thanks for noticing and bringing this to our attention, Matthew. I, for one, am ready to drop my membership and stop supporting the foundation. Not that they care. A single platinum sponsor is wo...
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The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing and Briefly Saved Lives - Hooke http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives ====== richardwigley His work was ignored, ironically, through a lack of scientific reasoning - by which the critics meant there w...
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How Anxiety Warps Your Perception - nedsma http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160928-how-anxiety-warps-your-perception ====== apatters The most interesting and useful piece of information in this story is buried towards the end: there is an app which implements a gamified version of ABMT therapy. The BBC didn't even m...
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Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs - smhx https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embeddings-of-extremely-large-graphs ====== bryanrasmussen Don't see anything but my main problem is finding a good open source graph engine (NEO4J level maturity...
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Don’t Pull An All-Nighter - jeffio http://jeff.io/posts/dont-pull-an-all-nighter ====== dalke I've pulled all-nighters for star parties. Takes a while to get back on schedule, but it's been worth it. However, the thesis is that an all-nighter is bad for the project. Unfortunately, the author mixes up an occasional ...
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire - serverdude http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/05/opinion/main7121029.shtml Interesting article. The current selfish and misguided crop of politicians and the declining economy (and prospects) lead me to believe there is some truth to what this article states. ====== v...
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The Verge Says YouTube Reaction Videos Aren’t Fair Use, Sparking Backlash - _bxg1 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/the-verge-briefly-censored-youtubers-who-mocked-its-bad-pc-building-advice/ ====== levythe Playing a video and talking over it is not fair use. Too bad for The Verge, that's not what was done. ...
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Mocha VNC Lite (iPhone VNC) - superchink http://lifehacker.com/398625/mocha-vnc-lite-is-simple-remote-control-for-iphones ====== sant0sk1 Now all we need is a terminal application and it'll be all good. ~~~ felideon Agreed. Very nice though. I heard (read) there might be an app to SSH from the iPhone, but that's a...
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Open Sourcing Katran: A Scalable Network Load Balancer - SEJeff https://code.fb.com/open-source/open-sourcing-katran-a-scalable-network-load-balancer/ ====== moneil971 This is from last May...why share now? ~~~ SEJeff I found it interesting and hadn't seen it here.
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Ask HN: Impossible to Write Good Software As a Service? - SamRichardson I currently work at a digital agency, we offer our services to build websites for clients.<p>Now to write good software you need to iterate over it. I think we can all agree that it's also impossible to write a perfect spec of a product before i...
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Trump weighs mobilizing National Guard for immigration roundups - secfirstmd http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_NATIONAL_GUARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-17-10-22-45 ====== MrZongle2 That's a pretty alarming headline. If I were in the United States illegally, I'd be freaking out a...
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Cultural history captured in 5-minute film - vinnyglennon http://www.nature.com/news/humanity-s-cultural-history-captured-in-5-minute-film-1.15650 ====== oska There is such an obvious bias in the data to Western Europeans and North Americans that I wonder at the hubris displayed in titling this as "Humanity's cultur...
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To Be More Creative, Cheer Up - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/to-be-more-creative-cheer-up-rd ====== j_baker I have to say, I can't help thinking the author doesn't know anything about Hemingway or Picasso. Both are very famous examples of how _depression_ can be creative. You can name many others like ...
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Kavanaugh's defense of NSA phone surveillance looms as confirmation question - notscj https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/brett-kavanaughs-defense-of-nsa-phone-surveillance-looms-as-confirmation-question ====== monetus Also, his words on net neutrality: “In short, although the briefs and commentary ab...
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Jig.com domain (tasty labs prev. owned) sold to Wal Mart - larrys http://who.is/whois/jig.com/ ====== larrys Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927374](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927374) Whois info: Registrant: Domain Administrator Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 702 S.W. 8th Street Bent...
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Ask HN: How did employees do after the Jet.com acquisition? - seattle_spring As the title said-- I&#x27;m just curious how the rank and file employees and engineers fared with the acquisition. ====== wyc From my understanding, the Jet.com deal was more of an acquihire to get Marc Lore to work for walmart.com[1]. The J...
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Microsoft Sandboxes Windows Defender - chablent https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-sandboxes-windows-defender/ ====== Someone1234 This is great news. The old implementation was a little scary, they had a full JavaScript parsing engine (and other similar parsers) running as SYSTEM. You can get a ...
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Seed.happyfuncorp.com - bschippers718 http://tech.co/happyfuncorp-happy-seed-will-simplify-standardize-app-development-2014-08 ====== mperejda Powerful tool for new and experienced devs. Lowers the cost of creation and enables more awesome stuff to be built. Love it. ------ pavanagrawal Awesome concept,most of the ...
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The Weedkiller in Our Food Is Killing Us? - simonebrunozzi https://medium.com/the-guardian/the-weedkiller-in-our-food-is-killing-us-5598c440205f ====== IshKebab Woah first time I've seen "This story is for Medium members". I guess this is when people will start abandoning Medium. ------ mattferderer Here's the link o...
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Show HN: Anwendo - alexvu https://anwendo.com ====== alexvu Hello Hacker News Community, I'm founder, will be very glad about any feedback. Thanks, Alex ------ sophisticateds does it support file uploads? ~~~ alexvu Yes, it does - it captures file upload event and you can customize test files afterwords.
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Met Office forecasters set for 'billion pound' supercomputer - aluket https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51504002 ====== jjgreen I guess this is not unrelated to the ECMWF departing Reading for Bologna [https://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/workshops/ecmwf- bologna-20...](https://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/work...
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The Epic Games Store is now live - Reedx https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/ ====== portmanteaufu I always instinctively click on the `[dupe]` tag assuming that it will take me to the original, preferred post. Someday, perhaps.
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The dirty little secret about Google Android - milesf http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-dirty-little-secret-about-google-android/38260 ====== nanairo (disclaimer: I realise HN is full of people who really like their Android so I hope not to get downvoted just to give a different opinion.) I think the problem with A...
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AVM violating license of the Linux kernel - biafra http://gpl-violations.org/news/20110620-avm-cybits.html ====== bryanlarsen This is much more than your typical license violation -- AVM is suing Cybits because Cybits exercised their GPL rights. So this is a very important case to legitimize the GPL. more informati...
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Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox - digital55 https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150424-wormholes-entanglement-firewalls-er-epr/ ====== dave_sullivan Can someone explain why black holes are often assumed to "lead somewhere"? Aren't they just Very Dense Objects in space--hence, they lead to the surface of the obj...
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One Laptop Per Hacker--OLPH - waynecolvin http://olph.gdium.com/ ====== nowarninglabel Kind of a poor naming choice. I went there expecting some hackers using OLPCs running Sugar. The page itself makes it fairly difficult to discern just what this is all about, indeed it wasn't till I read devmonk's comment that thi...
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U2's Natural Logarhythm: Exponential Decay in the Delay of The Edge's Guitar - atularora http://5cense.com/Edge_Delay.htm ====== anigbrowl _This is to say, there was roughly three delayed notes per beat, or as Tim Darling points out, it's roughly 3/16 tempo (though really I think he meant 6/16 time or 3/8 time, wher...
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Tables - tosh https://www.lua.org/pil/2.5.html ====== lxe In 2010 I worked on building a "dynamic" web app that would run on a very tiny embedded device -- no MMU, about 130 bogoMIPS. Think of an old wireless router you have at your parents' place. There aren't that many options for building a "modern" web backend on...
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Ask HN: Any ICO that actually delivers what it promises? - archibaldJ It&#x27;s the end of 2018 and I have not really come across any ICO that is not fraud (or hype and dump manipulation at best) in nature.<p>Doing start-up is already very hard itself. Trying to do a start-up and create a new economy surrounding a new...
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In social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study finds - anacleto http://phys.org/news/2015-06-social-networks-group-boundaries-ideas.html ====== qntty The take away: _Loosening these tight group boundaries means that people 's next-door neighbors may have different jobs or levels of education...
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Who uses In-App Analytics? - aliciaheraz Hi, I am Alicia, from Emaww.com (Montreal) and this is my first post here :) I&#x27;d like to assess your interest in what we are building at Emaww: an AI-API that detects emotions in interactive touches. For those of you who are using platforms like mixpanel, hotjar, kissmetri...
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Ask YC: When should you incorporate? - bitsantos I've been working with a few friends from college on a web startup and we actually have a few things almost ready for launch, but we've put off incorporating and registering ourselves as a real company. Should we get that done now or can we afford to wait?<p>We're a b...
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Reasons Startup CEOs Fail - JayNeely http://blog.bostonsearchgroup.com/7-reasons-ceos-fail/ ====== kolya3 Interesting point: "At some point, it may be required that the rest of the team that started the company with the CEO may need to be changed out for an executive team with experience at the “growth-stage” versus...
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Why there’s still no Netflix app for Android - Fragmentation - jaybol http://www.edibleapple.com/why-theres-still-no-netflix-app-for-android-fragmentation/ ====== Zak I think it would be more accurate to say that there's no Netflix app because the movie studios want DRM features and Android doesn't provide them direct...
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The brain may actively forget during REM sleep - bookofjoe https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-may-actively-forget-during-dream-sleep ====== _Nat_ It's always weird to see a study reporting a hypothesis you'd always assumed to have been established as common knowledge. It's exploitable, too. Health co...
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The Subscription App Paradox - tzfld https://hackernoon.com/subscription-software-paradox-d4a1aef4d88a ====== TeMPOraL Apps are just a harbinger; this starts to happen everywhere else too. I dislike how our ever more efficient economy makes your capabilities and quality of life tied closer and closer to your _instanta...
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Exploring large projects with Projectile - pmoriarty http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html ====== tptacek If you're not using Helm, you're not using Emacs the way it's meant to be used in 2014. It sounds crazy to suggest than an Emacs extension could transform your workflow, but Helm can. Projectile is cool, ...
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What Entrepreneurs Want From VCs: Independence And Faster Feedback - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/25/cornell-study-what-entrepreneurs-want-from-vcs-independence-and-faster-feedback/ ====== natch Don't those word at cross purposes? Perhaps with great skill a VC could manage to do both well, but this must be...
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Designing the Perfect Slider - thmslee https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/07/designing-perfect-slider/ ====== deepsun Several years ago I made a perfect slider for my app. When I told about it to American, he said: "It doesn't make any sense. Slider is like a small burger, what are you talking about?" ~~~ girzel I...
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Help naming my event sourcing / CQRS platform - yrashk I have a working prototype of an event sourcing &#x2F; CQRS platform for Java with some interesting capabilities. It&#x27;s already being used in commercial projects and is licensed under Apache license.<p>I want to find the most appropriate name for it:<p>https:&...
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Google Adsense 10 Year Celebration - Play Pong - tomfakes https://www.google.com/adsense ====== tomfakes On my Adsense Dashboard, there's a new logo in the bottom left that, when hovered over, starts a game of pong over the page. All to celebrate 10 years of Adsense
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Show HN: Quoter – Save and manage your highlights - mhasbini https://getquoter.app/ ====== mhasbini Hey HN, Often, I come across interesting quotes or tips that are worth saving. I’m lazy, so I needed a way to save them effortlessly – otherwise, I would forget or procrastinate. I also wanted a pop out every now and...
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Reddit - gatsby http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit ====== kyro Exciting news. One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I thi...
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Revised Font Stack - chaostheory http://www.awayback.com/revised-font-stack/ ====== decklin I might be daft, but this article doesn't explain (and seems to assume it's perfectly obvious) why in the world you should use Arial, sans-serif instead of: sans-serif at the bo...
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My Fake Coffee Shop -or- Local Audience Twitter Favoriting - LastZactionHero http://lastzactionhero.roughdraft.io/cd3ac6998a94a06c37ad-my-fake-coffee-shop-or-local-audience-twitter-favoriting ====== LastZactionHero Is favoriting kind of a spammy way to get traffic? Yes. But... it kinda worked...
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Please make your software engineering advice more specific - mac-chaffee https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2020/07/26/more-specifics.html ====== mac-chaffee I've seen enough posts on here talking about the values of writing, so I'm trying to get back into blogging. Feedback is greatly appreciated! ~~~ tgflynn I agree w...
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Why Only 9% of Startups Make it to 10 Years - bradleyjoyce http://startupreport.com/content/why-only-9-startups-make-it-10-years-startupreportcom ====== JoeAltmaier This article doesn't seem to reflect the title in any way?
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Snowden warns new surveillance measures will outlast the coronavirus - fraqed https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/03/25/snowden-warns-the-surveillance-states-were-creating-now-will-outlast-the-coronavirus/ ====== boznz I was asked by my biggest client to put miradore on my personal phone so they could track my self iso...
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Ask HN: Recommended reading for building a chatbot? - jakobov I need to build a basic chatbot for a side-project. Ideally I am looking for a guide for hackers.<p>Google is not returning any relevant results, just marketing spam...<p>Any suggestions? ====== eindiran I assume you want to use a text interface rather than...
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Removing garbage collection from the Rust language - graue http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/ ====== pron This seems like the right decision: simplify the language, flatten the learning curve, and delegate complex functionality to libraries. But it's importan...
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Buxfer facebook app released - comments welcome! - ashu http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2216806192&b ====== immad I like it. Played with a bit. Quick comments: 1\. After the first time I found it slightly tricky to find "new transaction" again, I think it should be a bit more prominent. 2\. I think i...
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Control objects with only the power of your mind with OpenBCI - hippich http://iniwall.com/2015/11/27/control-objects-with-only-the-power-of-your-mind-with-openbci/ ====== nowarninglabel Does anyone know how the OpenBCI headset compares to something like the Emotiv EPOC headset? I'm just starting to get into this stuf...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting - sergeant3 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/the-unbearable-lightness-of-tweeting/385484/?single_page=true ====== gofishdigital The unbearable heaviness of Periscope...
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Hunting for a Canadian Legend: The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter - dnetesn https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/world/canada/avro-arrow-jet-.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0 =====...
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Cubby: new dropbox like service from LogMeIn creators - Ecio78 http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/logmein-prepares-to-take-on-dropbox-box-with-launch-of-cloud-storage-service-cubby ====== Darraghb Gotta love the fact that you download the app and can't even sign up! Yes, I entered my email to be on the beta waitlist,...
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You have $100k to spend on teaching about better passwords. What do you do? - randanom Hi. Longtime lurker, first time poster.<p>I&#x27;ve been given a 100k budget from a tech company to create an educational marketing campaign that teaches people to use better passwords, and improve their password habits. This is n...
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Google Gets 3 Months to Fix Privacy or Face French Fines - Libertatea http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-20/google-to-get-3-months-to-fix-privacy-policy-or-face-french-fine.html ====== nmc [http://www.cnil.fr/english/news-and- events/news/article/cnil...](http://www.cnil.fr/english/news-and- events/news/article/cni...
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Ask HN: Do I need a formal business plan for my side project? - erikschoster I&#x27;m kicking off work on an exciting side project with a friend and I think we have a pretty solid idea of how the project can be priced and who our customer base could be at least to start.<p>We&#x27;re bootstrapping and don&#x27;t plan ...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall...again - ramisms http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201303012359-0022580 ====== n3rdy Imagine trying to tell someone in 1980 that in 2013 people would be protesting the destruction of the wall.
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Writing a Redis client in pure Bash - crypt1d http://digitalserb.me/writing-a-redis-client-in-pure-bash/ ====== 1amzave Arguably not _pure_ bash, in that it calls out to external executables. I'm pretty sure all the head/cut/tr invocations could be easily replaced by appropriate parameter expansions though, and the `r...
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“Introduction to Linux” course will be free and online this summer - Reallynow http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/2400-introduction-to-linux-course-will-be-free-and-online-this-summer/ ====== r0h1n While I appreciate the intent behind this move, I'm curious who are the people who were paying $2400...
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Critique my summer project: talkOlympics.com - deyan http://talkolympics.com/ ====== deyan Hey Hacker News, I would love to get some feedback on my summer project: talkOlympics aggregates the latest on the Olympics and lets you read it together with other surfers. While browsing, you see the people following the g...
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