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Apple hires Burberry CEO to spruce up its retail operation - kuanche http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/15/apple-hires-burberry-ceo/ ====== nonchalance Where is Ron Johnson? Earlier this year, he was ousted from JC Penney ...
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GIMP Windows Installers move from Sourceforge to ftp.gimp.org - uladzislau http://www.gimp.org/? ====== mathrawka The link in the article sums up the "what happened to Sourceforge" pretty well: [http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty- sourc...](http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sou...
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Julia Language: Multiple Dispatch vs. Function Overloading [video excerpt] - open-source-ux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY&t=392 ====== ChrisRackauckas That's a nice example, though I would like it if Stefan had the discussion about templates inside of the slides to make that point really clear since that...
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A programming language agnostic type construction and interchange language - mafm http://typedefs.com/ ====== mafm The documentation seems to have a lot of off-putting mathy category theory stuff, and it didn't look like there are a lot of practical examples, but it would be cool to have an alternative to protobufs/th...
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Why App Speed Matters: Revenue - jpsaccount https://fly.io/articles/why-fast-pages-are-important/ ====== birken If fly.io is serious about their marketing, this is not the way to do it. Find a really slow website that sells something, give them your service for free and run half the traffic through your fast version v...
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New Zealand: Up to 85 cases of illegal spying uncovered - stfu http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10876344 ====== owenwil There's a real lack of context in that article so it's worth mentioning that a less generic thread about this exists here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093710...
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Paul Graham and Walt Disney - drm237 http://community.livejournal.com/penguicon/40139.html Here's more of an opinion piece than a convention report. Needless to say, everything here is my own opinion alone and I'm not speaking for anybody else running Penguicon. I like to think that Penguicon is an incubator of Imagi...
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Show HN: Gif2sprite – Convert animated GIFs to image sprites and CSS - DigitalSea http://gif2sprite.com ====== mr_luc Whoa, cool! The gif integration would be what appears to separate this from little libs like Motio[0]. _Question for HN_: is there a reliable cross-browser way to use the sprited background-image a...
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How to hire top developers? [step-by-step tactic] - mwarcholinski https://brainhub.eu/blog/how-to-hire-react-developers/ ====== pfarrell I like this idea of the bottom right quadrant being where you want to hire. I've been advocating the same notion in my startup. We want to build a team where people grow into top tal...
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Old World Order Alive but Unwell After Four Months of Trump - davidf18 https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-29/old-world-order-is-alive-but-unwell-after-four-months-of-trump ====== davidf18 Instructive is a bar chart in the middle of the article that shows the amounts of money NATO member countries were...
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Web 2.0 is a bubble for 3 reasons - xyzzy http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116679843912957776-fF7CtrdMDTE4n1h5Ju5pv0HKhgM_20071227.html ====== jwecker OK everyone, so what is Web 3.0 (or Enterprise 2.0 or whatever)? My bet is on xulrunner type highly responsive local apps with persistent connections to the serve...
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A super-lightweight HTTP client for Android and the JVM - psimonazzi https://github.com/psimonazzi/url-droid ====== NonEUCitizen It's "lightweight" because the heavy lifting is done by JDK's HttpURLConnection. Furthermore, it has dependencies on two other libraries.
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The Computer Will See You Now - asnyder http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/opinion/06coben.html ====== asnyder Most of his gripes seem to be coming from the software UI. All these problems seem readily addressable, there are numerous EMR systems out there with vastly different UIs, some more intuitive than others. I...
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If Japan Can, Why Cant We? (1980) - curiouscats http://blog.deming.org/2015/11/if-japan-can-why-cant-we-1980-nbc-special-report/ ====== Outdoorsman Quote: "Throughout “If Japan Can, Why Cant We?” executives and front line workers talk about how important it is to involve workers in improvement efforts." That's it in ...
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Gentrification Spreads an Upheaval in San Francisco’s Mission District - zonotope http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/us/high-rents-elbow-latinos-from-san-franciscos-mission-district.html ====== lnanek2 I wish they had a reasonable argument that benefitted everyone. They want the owners of properties not to be able to s...
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Replace multiple strings, O(1) wrt number of replacements - alphaBetaGamma https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/137932 ====== alphaBetaGamma I was using sed to do many replacements (hundreds) in a file and it was starting to be slow, running in O(num_replacemnts). I thought that this can be done with a state machine so th...
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Is it okay to ask for feedback about my business here? - WheelofCommerce Hi!<p>I&#x27;ve created a free platform for e-commerce, something like Facebook meets Amazon, except users pay no commissions or anything at all (it&#x27;s 100% free). Is it okay to ask for feedback here?<p>Thanks! :) ====== troydavis Sure! Submi...
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Laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in LA find some aren't - mariorz http://www.quarrygirl.com/2009/06/28/undercover-investigation-of-la-area-vegan-restaurants/ ====== ankhmoop The subject matter is interesting, but what I find most interesting is a blog performing real, 'hard-hitting' local journalism, of genuine...
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What's the best way to convert HTML to PDF in 2018? - npad https://medium.com/paperplane-app/whats-the-best-way-to-convert-html-to-pdf-in-2018-4da8d2c85d7 ====== FetchBen There are indeed a wealth of HTML to PDF solutions out there... In fact, I created yet another one. [https://fetchpdf.com](https://fetchpdf.com) F...
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America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’ - elorant http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200429-americas-fried-chicken-war ====== stronglikedan For those in the SE US, I recommend trying Publix fried chicken, if you haven't already. I get a whole fried chicken for less than $10, and it's better than anything I've had in a restaurant...
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Seeing Through the Hangover “Fog” from 2014-2015 - yarapavan http://blog.semilshah.com/2017/09/12/seeing-through-the-hangover-fog-from-2014-2015/ ====== dvaita99 Thanks for this: I only see Series As and Series Bs happening when one or more of the following conditions are met: (a) An elite executive team (bonus if th...
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Protecting customers from the Ticketmaster breach: Monzo's story - tldnr https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/28/ticketmaster-breach/ ====== Sholmesy Nice write up. Blows my mind that these big companies can juts ignore things like this and hope that it doesn't come up.
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Webify Me - tathagatadg https://webifyme.org/en-US/quiz/ ====== hammock I just took the whole effing quiz and when I submitted it threw an error, losing all my answers in the process. Great _Forbidden (403) CSRF verification failed. Request aborted._ ~~~ reemrevnivek Same here. First few questions were interesting...
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Ask HN: How is the startup employee hiring market doing? - genieyclo Hello HN, I'd like to commit a very unscientific study here asking how busy and active the startup hiring market is. I'd really appreciate it if current YC-funded (and non-YC as well) startups could input with their experience when posting jobs.<p>...
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Woodworking, the opposite of software development - disposablename https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180618-00/?p=99035 ====== Finnucane "Move fast and break things"\--said no carpenter, ever. ------ tonyedgecombe It never bothered me when customers changed their minds. What did bother me was when they c...
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Software developers: How plans to automate coding could mean big changes ahead - sunnyP https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-developers-how-plans-to-automate-coding-could-mean-big-changes-ahead/ ====== faizshah No doubt these innovations are impressive and will change software developers role. But I think the way to...
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The Fable of Edward Snowden - JackFr http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483143143 ====== dbg31415 Dupe. [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fartic...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fthe- fable-of-edward- snowden-1483143143&sort=byDate&prefix=...
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History of Lisp - parenthesis http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP ====== rbanffy I am speechless. Not because of LISP, but because this history preservation effort really deserves all support we can give them. Unfortunately the mailing list and volunteer forms are 404'ed. The contact form works just f...
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Skype for Android uses your T-Mobile minutes for calling - fromedome http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/skype-for-android ====== dcurtis How they can justify this? Skype should use my _unlimited_ data plan that I pay for to route the call completely independent of the carrier. ~~~ jm4 Just because they've routed ca...
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A survival guide for people with Asperger syndrome - qwph http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/survival/ ====== pmorici "It can often be an effort to have a shower or a bath three times a week and to wear deodorant but it is much easier to talk to people if you feel you are clean and if you cannot be smelt. Rememb...
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T. Greg Doucette on reforming the police - js2 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1266053291684827138.html ====== dredmorbius An excellent Qualified Immunity explainer: [https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity- explained/](https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity-explained/)
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Shoplocket partners with WordPress to enable blog-based ecommerce - peteforde http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/28/shoplocket-blog-commerce/ ====== ninjakeyboard For someone blogging about their latest scary teddy bear frankenstein creation this may be a nice convenient way to hook in for a sale with little technical kn...
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Usermind raises $7.6M from Andreessen Horowitz - kt9 http://www.geekwire.com/2013/usermind-raises-76m-andreessen-horowitz-build-software-improves-inhouse-business-operations/ ====== noir-york Did you notice the skill reqs for the dev position? They're asking for Go ~~~ jchenry (disclaimer: I work for usermind) We ...
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Hello quantum world - imartin2k https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/hello-quantum-world ====== KenanSulayman "Serious quantum computers are finally here." What does "serious" mean in this context? Do we _actually_ have usable, _serious_ quantum computers? ~~~ cjohansson “We have this device that is more complicate...
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Ask HN: Why aren't people making tablets with normal OS? - digamber_kamat Samsung Galaxy (and zillion others) run Android, iPad runs iOS and so one. RIM playbook alone seems to run a normal Linux operating system.<p>I would have loved to buy a tablet if it could run an operating system like Windows 7 or Ubuntu.<p>Pr...
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One of world's biggest container ships arrives in the UK - mrlonglong https://news.sky.com/story/hmm-algeciras-worlds-largest-container-ship-arrives-in-uk-for-first-time-12006469 ====== LargoLasskhyfv [1] [https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/hmm-algeciras- lar...](https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/hmm-...
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Toyota and JAXA plan to send space rover to the moon in 2029 - Ultramanoid https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/12/national/toyota-jaxa-plan-send-space-rover-moon-2029/ ====== Ultramanoid Here's a short news video of the vehicle : [https://youtu.be/97gsm3TFd4E](https://youtu.be/97gsm3TFd4E)
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Learning Rust with Entirely Too Many Linked Lists - xwvvvvwx http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/README.html ====== Animats Rust needs back pointers as a primitive. A back pointer and a forward pointer are locked in an invariant relationship (A points to B which points back to A). The borrow checker nee...
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LLVM.js: LLVM Itself Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten - cleverjake http://badassjs.com/post/39573969361/llvm-js-llvm-itself-compiled-to-javascript-via ====== MatthewPhillips I think I know where they are going with this; PNaCl compiles Native Client code to LLVM bitcode, which now will be able to be compiled to J...
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Ask HN: Is Offer HN Dead? - il So news.ycombinator.com/offers is dead, and I haven't seen any Offer HN threads anywhere recently.<p>Was Offer HN just an extremely short-lived HN meme, or has it simply changed or moved elsewhere? ====== RDDavies I'm still following up on all of the people who replied to my first offe...
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Evolution of C Programming Practices: Study of the Unix OS 1973–2015 [pdf] - adamnemecek http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2890000/2884799/p748-spinellis.pdf?ip=71.227.158.231&id=2884799&acc=OPEN&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E6D218144511F3437&CFID=797301950&CFTOKEN=27845792&__acm__=1465405...
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Show HN: Zephyr – Collaboration for teams and freelancers - gotzephyr https://zephyrplatform.com/demo/login/?fname=hacker&lname=news&email=hn@zephyr.email ====== bshimmin I'll be honest - I find the UI impenetrable. It's dark and full of fiddly icons and I'm not sure what I can click, what I can drag, etc. If there...
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To Raise, Or Not To Raise (Money) - BenSS http://maplebutter.com/to-raise-or-not-to-raise/ ====== BenSS Best bit of the article: "Here’s what I know. If you’re raising so .. you can quit your job your co-founders will join you full time you can build the features that you might mone...
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Brit converts jet engine nacelle into camper - samizdis https://www.thedrive.com/news/34636/this-hollowed-out-jet-engine-camper-took-over-six-years-and-1000-hours-to-build ====== adrianmonk Ironically, it doesn't look like it would be very aerodynamic when being hauled down the road. ~~~ simonh It would probably be m...
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Show HN: Tinder++ – Tinder for Desktop (plus extra features) - mfkp http://tinderplusplus.com/ ====== mfkp Author here, just wanted to note that it's free and open source: [https://github.com/mfkp/tinderplusplus](https://github.com/mfkp/tinderplusplus) ~~~ mx12 That's awesome that you made it open source! Maybe I'...
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VC Fund Performance - Some History - luccastera http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/11/vc-fund-perform.html ====== danteembermage "The very best funds of every vintage generally pay out at least 5x and sometimes more than 10x. Like all asset classes, venture is all about manager selection and timing." The very best cra...
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The Latest Battle Over When and Where Kids Can Walk to School - jcater http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/01/kids-independence-free-range-parenting/423168/ ====== Afton The closing of this article is actually the key for me. I've been trying to teach my kids that if they have a problem, and I'm not around, they sho...
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Secret-sharing app Whisper left users’ locations, fetishes exposed on the Web - miked85 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/10/secret-sharing-app-whisper-left-users-locations-fetishes-exposed-web/ ====== olefoo It said Secret _sharing_ app. I guess people should pay attention. ~~~ lasagnaphil The datase...
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Ask YC: Where do you get simple legal counsel on your startup ideas? - lunchbox I'm wondering what you guys think the best way is to get quick advice on simple legal questions related to startups. I'm not talking about complex things like drafting partnership agreements and evaluating the legal merits of a patent ap...
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Datadex public beta: Find and exchange data easily - fjeanson https://datadex.net ====== fjeanson Hi Everyone, We're excited to share with you our first public beta release of Datadex. We're a cloud service start-up that helps organizations and data scientists share data with proper security, privacy and governance. ...
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San Francisco Opens The City’s Data - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/san-francisco-opens-the-city%e2%80%99s-data/ ====== vaksel Site doesn't seem that polished, since hitting the logo gets you an error
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What is the biggest problem a programmer has? - mcartyem ====== Kelliot Its got to be answering to a non-technical manager. I have had particular problems in the past with the 'hands-on, always in the know' types that need to be educated about the full issue before action is taken. Drags out the most simple tasks....
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If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support - pchristensen http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/if-you-want-to-write-useful-software-you-have-to-do-tech-support.html ====== derefr And the corollary, from the customer's perspective: The best possible person to get on the phone is a developer with ...
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Financial Modelling for Startups - Madintelligence http://www.madintelligence.com/financial-modelling-question-page/ ====== Madintelligence If anybody would leave feedback so I can improve the content I would be very thankful. ~~~ blazzar A couple of items that would help the initial page: \- the page title would ...
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Manning Books – Half Price on All MEAPS - myth_drannon https://www.manning.com/dotd ====== clishem I don't like Manning books in general. The writing is often unnecessarily verbose and their books contain lots of redundant diagrams. With the last book I bought from them they refused to honour their refund policy for ...
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AirPods Are Becoming a Platform? - bdr https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2019/11/19/airpods-are-becoming-a-platform ====== vegardx There's something very Her-esque ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/)) over the AirPods, at least when they were first released. There's somethin...
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NetBeans 6.7 Released: New Interface for Mac OS X - mdasen http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1399 ====== st3fan What I hate about NetBeans is that they ship the OS X version as a .mpkg. Why not simply a disk image that has a NetBeans.app? I don't trust installers. ------ dpurp Are there scree...
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Star Trek and the shiny, boring future - jnazario https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/7e7dc993b4fd ====== anigbrowl Oh, so you have a teleportation device? Antigravity machines that let you fly and hover without aerofoils or rockets? FTL communications? Disease-adaptive medicines? A volume-based universal positioning ...
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In 2013, so many people still search for a site instead of writing the URL - basilesimon http://journalism.basilesimon.fr/2013/11/why-on-earth-do-you-search-instead-of-typing-the-url/ ====== joosters People do it because it is quick and easy. If Google is your homepage, then when you start typing stuff in, it goes i...
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Using SMS Text Messaging to Monitor and Track Weight Loss - mp3jeep01 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/15/prweb8718864.DTL ====== kevin_morrill I built textWeight in my basement on New Years Eve and planned to just have it as an experiment with a few friends to better understand usability of ...
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Pit Ponies: ghosts of the coal mines - brudgers https://www.horsejournals.com/popular/history-heritage/ghosts-coal-mines ====== rad_gruchalski This reminded me of a Polish primary school reading: [https://www.amazon.com/Lysek-pokladu-Idy-Morcinek- Gustaw/dp/...](https://www.amazon.com/Lysek-pokladu-Idy-Morcinek- Gusta...
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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore - esolyt http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/ ====== pefavre That's a great article. I thought I was pretty secure with the two-factor authentification. But with the 'socialing' technique it looks quite easy to b...
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Show HN: CardBase – the most comprehensive credit card database in the US - beachminter https://www.walla.by/cardbase ====== jonrx My first surprise is on the APR. In Canada, most cards have an interest rate of 19,9%[1], if you're not counting the store ones (27,99%+). Even looking at the "poor credit" section, the...
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Language Oriented Programming - Hexstream http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/martin/papers/middle-out-t.pdf ====== kleevr makes me want to learn lisp, but not until I'm speedy in python LISP, you're next and I do expect to have my mind thoroughly blown when I 'get it'... I was thinking about code-emitting and meta pro...
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NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github - diamondhead https://github.com/popular/watched ====== bascule Just to show how Github watchers correlate to real-world popularity, my now- defunct programming language Reia is the #3 most watched Erlang project on Github, ahead of projects like Riak and RabbitMQ:...
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Ask HN: How do you delegate? When? Without micromanaging? - ohjeez I’m writing a white paper tentatively titled “Learning How to Delegate” – and once again I’d like your input. I want this to be real-world useful!<p>For any startup – or even software development team lead – a difficult-but-necessary transition is when...
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Pinterest president and top business chief Tim Kendall is out - joubert http://www.businessinsider.com/pinterest-president-tim-kendall-leaves-to-launch-his-own-startup-2017-11 ====== CrankyBear "Pinterest's president and top business executive, Tim Kendall, is leaving to create a startup with the goal of curbing tech ...
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Ask HN: Where do Marketing Guys hang out? - mukgupta We are in the process of validating our SAAS Product Idea. How do i find Marketing Guys&#x2F;Agencies who can provide us feedback on new product that we are planning to build for them? ====== notduncansmith Just find other SaaS products that look successful, and ema...
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The Internet is Shit (2003) - chroem- http://www.internetisshit.org/print.html ====== userbinator _If I can operate Google, I can find anything_ Or the collorary "if I can't find it on Google, it doesn't exist" \- which seems to be the perception among people these days, and in some ways it's quite scary how much pow...
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The Overoptimism of Research Assistants - jmcguire http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-excessive-optimism-of-research.html ====== jmcguire This gives a good (and cynical) way to correct for naive programmer time estimates.
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Dear OpenOffice - Snoddas http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=11526 ====== wccrawford Dear guy who doesn't allow comments on his site, Have you tried LibreOffice instead? If so, have you filed a bug report? Sincerely, HN Reader. ~~~ cstross Warren has been Informed. You can stand down, now. ~~~ rbanffy He could also ...
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Hmmm: 2009 Bail out = $700B, investment in VC funds in 2009 = $15B - jasonmcalacanis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51bAiXHkZw ====== schmittz I honestly can't believe this guy is a financial reporter and doesn't know the difference between TARP and the stimulus. I'm sorry, but you can't argue that he works in sta...
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Ask HN: What's the status of Stripe's Ruby type checker? - BaronVonSteuben About 9 months ago, Stripe announced they were building a type checker for Ruby called &quot;Sorbet.&quot; Haven&#x27;t heard or seen anything since, and was wondering if anything has been announced that I may have missed, and&#x2F;or if the p...
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Open-Source Recycling - pelim http://preciousplastic.com/ ====== herbst While i nether have the room nor the time to do this, i love the idea. I also love the "Why" section of the website, so simply yet so mighty. ~~~ rootlocus I'm hoping to find some workshop that would share the tools and space (for a fee), but I h...
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So How Do We Fix the Patent System? - grellas http://www.phphosts.org/2011/08/so-how-do-we-fix-the-patent-system/ ====== bediger Best to go over to techdirt.com for the original, plus the usual stimulating comebacks to persistent "Intellectual Property" maximalist trolls.
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The lifesaver app for delinquent boyfriends, the disorganized, and forgetful - sbkirk http://twotoasters.com/ideas/2013/introducing-the-h-bloom-gifts-app-for-iphone/ ====== marknutter or "The lifesaver app for all people who have a hard time spending their money fast enough."
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What's the significance of 0.05 significance? (2013) - xtacy http://www.p-value.info/2013/01/whats-significance-of-005-significance_6.html ====== avs733 The problem with all of this is that the reducto-scientific paradigm for understanding science has long been extended to communicating and teaching about science. As...
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IPhone Touch Events in JavaScript - tlrobinson http://rossboucher.com/2008/08/19/iphone-touch-events-in-javascript/ ====== auston Good stuff, will put it to use. ------ matt Great presentation last night at the JS meetup! ~~~ boucher Thanks, glad you liked it.
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Lockheed Network Suffers Major Disruption: Sources - hornokplease http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/26/us-lockheed-network-idUSTRE74P7U320110526 ====== hornokplease According to the report (which cites Robert Cringely), the intrusion technique involved SecurID tokens: _The slowdown began on Sunday after secur...
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Android is dead - linhtran168 http://brianshall.com/content/android-dead ====== kaolinite No it's not, that's ridiculous. Stop attention-seeking. (I did write a long post about the future of Android, etc, but soon realised after flicking around on the blogger's site that it's not worth it. Load of rubbish from an "ex...
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A Linux distribution inspired by Chrome OS - matthodan http://lifehacker.com/5369361/try-out-an-unofficial-but-working-chrome-os ====== dbz It's not even a working "Chrome OS". It is a fan based unstable linux distro revolving around the Chrome browser. One might as well make chrome and open office the only two apps...
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A CodePen alternative, that fits inside of a bookmarklet - artbit https://gist.github.com/ArtBIT/98c15ec047d30ebd5d2a18c601ca180f ====== artbit data:text/html;base64,PGh0bWw+PGhlYWQ+PC9oZWFkPjxib2R5PjxkaXY+IDxkaXYgY29udGVudGVkaXRhYmxlPSIiIGlkPSJodG1sIiBwbGFjZWhvbGRlcj0iaHRtbCI+Jmx0O2RpdiBjbGFzcz0iYmxpbmsiJmd0OzxkaXY+J...
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Building an IOT Platform: Centralized vs. Decentralized Models - jesusmrv https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-iot-platform-centralized-vs-decentralized-models-rodriguez ====== danyork I found this an interesting view... but I think there's another model that's a combination. The author assumes all devices will t...
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Coursera's free online courses delayed further - lars512 http://www.aiqus.com/questions/37055/nlp-delayed-again ====== lars512 I just received emails about NLP and PGM, and still haven't heard from other classes. Does anyone know any of the details around the issues they're facing? Good on Scott Page for getting so...
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Stanford seeks to create new breed of engineer - ilamont http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/22/BASU1CI2U7.DTL ====== hga Hmmm, the job of my friend who runs MIT's EECS undergraduate program is even more secure than I thought. And what I know of that department's accreditation is that the only ...
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Apple Design Awards 2017 - huangc10 https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/ ====== huangc10 Just want to point out 5/12 of the design award goes to puzzle/game apps and they were showcased as the first apps. It could mean something or it could mean nothing.
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The End of "Disruption:" Is that term even relevant anymore? - ohjeez http://www.enterpriseefficiency.com/author.asp?section_id=1129&doc_id=264849& ====== VandyILL I think the author misses the point on what is being disrupted. It sounds like he thinks a law firm that adopts a better version of office is being a "disr...
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Lyft lobbying to prevent Portland from regulating impact of ride-sharing - cozzyd https://humantransit.org/2019/02/lyft-lobbying-to-keep-cities-from-governing-themselves.html ====== joecool1029 Honestly, I would much prefer everything get regulated at state level. I live in NJ. There are 565 municipalities here. Ever...
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Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack - sciwiz http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/amazon-changes-policy-wont-add-new-credit-cards-to-accounts-over-the-phone/ ====== brudgers This is the only possible response after the "exploit" was published. Amazon's process was appropriate fo...
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Ask HN: Does anyone know of a good android app tutorial? - mohsen I've googled already, I assure you. But none of the ones I've seen so far do it for me.<p>Do you guys have any recommendations? If so, what's good about your recommendation?<p>Thanks a lot! -M ====== middlegeek I have have sort of made my own path. ...
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Python API for Pintrest - rohitn Pintrest does not have an official python API, but I wanted to see if anyone has attempted it and has suggestions. There are a few projects out there trying to accomplish this: https://github.com/richid/python-pinterest, https://github.com/creotiv/python-pinterest-api ====== rohitn I...
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Show HN: Choosing meaningful work with Python Pandas data analysis - freeradical13 https://github.com/freeradical13/ValueBasedPrioritization ====== bluemania Hmm not seeing much reference to pandas here, is this the correct link? ~~~ freeradical13 Most of the pandas code is in the abstract base classes here: [https:/...
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Teaching My 5 Year Old Daughter To Code - gkwelding http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-old-daughter-to-code/ ====== moistgorilla Has anybody considered the idea of stealth teaching young kids rather than forcing them to memorize things? Imagine that instead of watching useless cartoons kids wh...
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Ask For Opinion: what you do when everything is going wrong? - wantedhelp and you feel that there is no way out.<p>I know I've to give some details and will be ignored by some, but still.<p>(yes it's account-for-a-post, apologies for that.) ====== hga Well, if you don't punch out (pull the ejection handle), one piec...
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Ask HN: What's to stop the US Government from buying 51% of Bitcoin? - vinchuco Hopefully this is not a silly question. ====== dragonwriter Why would you buy 51% of BTC? What you really want to buy is 51% of the hashing power in the BTC network. And the correct answer is nothing stops them from doing that (or even ...
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There's No Protection In High Ports Anymore, Son. If Indeed There Ever Was. - ehamberg http://bsdly.blogspot.no/2013/02/theres-no-protection-in-high-ports.html ====== mooism2 I'm tempted to hide sshd behind websockets, partly for this reason. It seems too much hassle to be worth it though. (To be clear: my concern ...
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I’m Brianna Wu, and I’m Risking My Life Standing Up to Gamergate - MaysonL http://www.marco.org/2015/02/11/brianna-wu-standing-up-to-gamergate ====== MaysonL Since there seems to be a flagging campaign (based on the low placement relative to articles with similar upvotes and time submitted) against the original, I'm s...
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A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and Women Are Treated Differently at Work - twobyfour https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-men-and-women-are-treated-differently-at-work ====== belorn They have a theory. They make a experiment to prove the theory. The experiment disprove the theory. They conc...
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Show HN: MS jobs search using bit fields, CloudFlare Workers, WASM, and no DB - wilsonzlin https://work-at-microsoft.wilsonl.in/jobs/ ====== mleonard Source available somewhere? Would love to take a look. If not... could you explain the bit fields approach a bit more please? Thanks ~~~ wilsonzlin Yep the source is av...
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Id Software - bane https://github.com/id-Software ====== paradigmshiv In case anyone doubts how revolutionary some of these games were, check out these fan letters from the Wolfenstein source: _As a former POW (Vietnam), I hesitated to play WOLF for over a month after downloading as I feared flashbacks. I didn 't wa...
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