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Adblock looking for crowdfunding to fund an advertising campaign for Adblock - qwertzlcoatl http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/08/24/web-ad-killer-adblock-launches-crowdfunding-initiative-to-finance-an-internet-ad-campaign/ ====== billadoid I wonder if adwords would display advertisments with potential to hurt their...
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Why a Mentor is Critical to Your Success - chiachun http://stanfordbusiness.tumblr.com/post/82651880857/why-a-mentor-is-critical-to-your-success ====== mintykeen Stanford is such a great resource. I've been watching some of their lectures from some very wise people in the business world on YouTube. Eye-opening insig...
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John Oliver: Net Neutrality [video] - marai2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU ====== gkoberger This is blog spam; direct link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU) ~~~ toomuchtodo Mods, can we get the link updated? EDIT: Thanks dang. ~~~ dang Emphat...
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The Academic Destruction of the University of Tulsa - dontread https://www.city-journal.org/university-of-tulsa ====== t2xc2 Alumni here that graduated a few years ago. I'm a brown guy (that matters in this context.) During my time there, the university was super obsessed with being in the top XX list. From what I co...
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2013 NIPS Proceedings – Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - benhamner http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-26-2013? ====== ajtulloch Alexandre Passos has an excellent editorial selection of NIPS 2013 papers (along with some comments) on his blog at [1]. [1]: [...
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Do you use email signatures and salutations? - neilmiddleton I'm seeing more and more email missing signatures and salutations. Based on the fact that this information is generally in the email headers I can understand why.<p>Do you use them? ====== Metatron When messaging strangers or clients I always use both. I...
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Ask HN: Slow Gmail - a way to move out? - ved_a I am using Gmail exclusively to non-work email for last few years. Lately, gmail has become excruciatingly slow. I was thinking if I can host my own VPS/Amazon AWS to handle email storage redirected from Gmail as the primary account. Any thoughts on this approach ? ===...
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WordPress is not easy, and that's OK - ozh http://www.mor10.com/wordpress-easy-thats-ok/ ====== davidgerard WordPress is less worse than every other blogging solution of the same feature level. If you don't need all that stuff, use something lighter-weight. But for the general question "I need a blog", it's the least...
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Examples of Automatic 3D reconstructions from photographs - dualogy http://paulbourke.net/miscellaneous/areconstruction/ ====== peteretep Tangental random thought: I wonder if you could reconstruct a high-quality 3D concert from combining multiple pieces of low quality cell phone video taken by fans... ~~~ apu I lo...
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Show HN: Joyvite – Referral Program for Your SaaS - ganis https://joyvite.com/ ====== ganis Hi everyone, I'm co-founder / CEO of Joyvite. Joyvite is basically referral program as a service. I’m happy to have any feedback you may have! Thank you! ~~~ tixocloud Hey Ganis. I reckon there must be a typo in your header "...
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Graphene made with kitchen blender - efficientarch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27113732 ====== ColinWright Clearly a story that has grabbed some people's imaginations, but not others. No comments (so far) on any of these: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7627892](https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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The trouble with indiscriminate tree-planting in Africa - muriithi https://mg.co.za/article/2019-10-31-00-the-trouble-with-indiscriminate-tree-planting-in-africa ====== Yaa101 Anther thing is that by planting trees you increase the oxygen level and will cause fires that way, but also oxygen will cause a temperature dr...
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Can an Astrophysicist Change the Way We Watch Sports? - ecopoesis http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-an-astrophysicist-change-the-way-we-watch-sports/ ====== EA By the time the video of the sporting event is transmitted through the air, satellite, or internet, there is already a time delay between when the viewer...
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Show HN: Any UX suggestions for my auto dealer website? - jeremyreel https://www.southernpalmsmazda.com/ ====== rgbrenner Is Show HN for this? This isn't a startup, or some developers pet project. This is a very standard website made for a local car dealership. And in the footer, there's a link to DealerOn: [https://...
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How people 'of no security interest' are keystrokes away in UK's spy databases - mocko http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/bulk_personal_datasets/ ====== jsingleton Credit to Privacy International for unearthing all this: [https://privacyinternational.org/node/843](https://privacyinternational.org/node/843) If yo...
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Working for a Start-up: Expectations - ssclafani http://dandemeyere.squarespace.com/blog/2011/2/28/working-for-a-start-up-expectations.html ====== bugsy Good use of the "sandwich method" of delivering unpleasant news. The pattern is this: 1\. Upper slice of bread - happy light carbohydrate empty calorie news. 2\. B...
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DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman says general AI is still a long way off - seycombi https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/deepmind-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-says-general-ai-is-still-a-long-way-off/ ====== dpandey The fascinating thing about his answers is that he says nothing that wasn't already known 25 years ago. 'General AI' is ...
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VoicePHP from TringMe to create Voice Applications - code_devil http://socialapp.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/voice-applications/ ====== rantfoil How does this compare to twilio.com? ~~~ code_devil Never heard of twilio. I'll check it out and see.
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Introducing Ring -3 Rootkits: BIOS rootkit targeting vPro chipsets (2009) [pdf] - devconsole https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/TERESHKIN/BHUSA09-Tereshkin-Ring3Rootkit-SLIDES.pdf ====== devconsole Highlights from the slides: Your CPU chipset is also standalone webserver. Most vPro chipsets (MCHs) have:...
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Gogs: A self-hosted Git service written in Go - tombenner http://gogs.io/ ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gogs#!/story/forever/0/gogs](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gogs#!/story/forever/0/gogs)
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FDA grants emergency authorization for first saliva-based coronavirus test - new_time https://www.rutgers.edu/news/new-rutgers-saliva-test-coronavirus-gets-fda-approval ====== selectodude One of the bigger issues with COVID testing is false negatives. I wonder how an even smaller sample of viral load will fare with th...
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Let’s See What We Know About Russia’s 5th Generation Stealth Jet - smacktoward https://theaviationist.com/2019/08/01/sukhoi-begins-production-of-the-su-57-meanwhile-lets-see-what-we-know-about-russias-5th-generation-stealth-jet/ ====== howard941 Like the F-35s this airplane looks like it has oversized (for a 5th gen) ...
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Ask HN: Ideas and Getting 'Stuck' - inquiryaccount Hi HN<p>How does the community take an idea and prevent themselves from getting stuck or even better, how to &#x27;unstuck&#x27; yourselves to be able to move beyond and work on a side project? ====== saradhi > "getting stuck or even better" This ain't stop with one....
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What are the nearest unsolved (technical) problems in AI? - pluv ====== aurizon Content addressable memory(CAM). Digital memory as addressable (row/column/etc). CAM is like an army roll call, you shout "Schwartz", and he says "here". If not you would have to inspect every member of the army, one by one. Humans do this ...
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Drupal 7 Released - kylemathews http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0 ====== CitizenKane There is a lot of cool stuff in here: * A complete rewritten database layer with dynamic query building capabilities. This allows for queries to built in a way that are DB agnostic. Also makes it very easy for other to modify them. * A ...
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Spotify App template/example app using Ember.js - rstrobl https://github.com/neonroots/spotify-ember-template This project demonstrates how to build a structured MVC Spotify App with Ember.js ====== matismasters This is an amazing idea! ~~~ burningfiat Vey cool. Thanks for this.
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Scrcpy – An app to display and control Android devices - rom1v https://blog.rom1v.com/2018/03/introducing-scrcpy/ ====== mikeymop This is an example of one of those applications that work so well, consists of simple parts, and leverages these simple tools very cleverly. It's a solution that I think 'why didn't I writ...
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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - coriander http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/announcing-oreilly-answers.html ====== tseabrooks I think this is clearly a response to StackOverflow. If I can get a lot of high quality content on the sorts of things O'Reilly publishes books about in a free online place (StackOverflow) w...
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How we’re fixing “unlimited” vacation - bcaulfield https://baremetrics.com/blog/unlimited-minimum-vacation ====== aynsof He talks about how important it is for people not to feel judged for taking more than the minimum amount of time off, then calls out a member of his team by name: "Tyler has taken over double what ...
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EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents - magicalist https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patents-bad ====== WhoIsSatoshi Is there a point at which regular people will realize what is going on? The only ones who seem to care are the few people who understand the im...
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My First Open Source Project – Feedback Please? - FranT https://gitlab.com/trubanews/truba ====== iamarsibragimov Use prefix Show HN: for this kind of posts and you'll be get your feedback :)
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Stanford researchers develop new method for waking up small electronic devices - breck https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/18900 ====== JoeAltmaier Some of us remember TV remote controls that operated ultrasonically. They were terrible - somebody rattles their keys or the dog walks by with its metal collar clinking -...
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Intel HTML5 Dev Platform - marizmelo http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5 From Intel website: If you've used appMobi's HTML5 development tools in the past, then you're already familiar with our new tools. We're introducing this set of cross-platform HTML5 tools as Intel's HTML5 Development Environment to help you m...
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How To : Install Webmin In Ubuntu - abttech http://www.abttech.com/how-to-install-webmin-in-ubuntu/ ====== bradleyland A better method is to add the Webmin repo to your repository list. This allows you to update using apt along with your other software. Webmin has it's own built-in update mechanism, but I find it eas...
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Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions - danso https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-courtesy-cards ====== merricksb If curious, see this discussion about the topic from early 2018: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207890](https://news.ycombinator.co...
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Influencing Founders: Have We Reached "Peak Hoodie?" - joering2 http://www.hunterwalk.com/2013/01/influencing-founders-have-we-reached.html ====== jusben1369 I think Musk is the most influential founder of our times now. ~~~ cargo8 Good call, even just considering the startups he alone has planned for the next seve...
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Tricks with the Floating Point Format (2012) - brudgers https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/tricks-with-the-floating-point-format/ ====== nkurz This is a fine series of articles done over several months. The final one includes links to the rest: [https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/thats-not- norma...
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What the Deer Are Telling Us - Ygg2 http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/what-the-deer-are-telling-us-rd ====== Spooky23 I grew up in rural upstate NY and can attest to this. Once subdivisions reach further out into the countryside, the denziens of these developments (another disease afflicting the land, IMO) apply thei...
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A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain - LookWhatIFound https://bitaps.com/1K69sEhUwNgiva3xzPnToxS89dzydU7nPm ====== throwaway2016a I don't see what the appeal is on having a permanent message board. Certainly almost everyone who has spent a lot of time online has said something that they wish they could take of...
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Show HN: Tokyo-based Hitch'd Stash, Collect Inspiration For Your Wedding - Swoopey http://blog.hitchdbydesign.com/pages/hitchd-stash-faq Hi HN, here's what I've been working on. Excited to share with the HN community and would love feedback.&#60;p&#62;I created it to solve the problem most nearlyweds come across whe...
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Show HN: I suck at remembering names, so I built an app to help - tomasien http://wehighfive.com ====== marknutter The best way to remember people's names doesn't require an app or any technology to speak of. When you meet someone, key in on their most unique, memorable physical feature or personality quirk. Come up...
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Authentication in Angular with NGRX - mjhea0 http://mherman.org/blog/2018/04/17/authentication-in-angular-with-ngrx/#.WtX5X0IsTJB.hackernews ====== wingi Is that the short version?
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Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store - ngaut https://arveknudsen.com/posts/practical-networked-applications-in-rust/module-1/ ====== cpursley Interesting! I'd love to take a structured distributed systems MOOC or course in a modern language well suited for the domain like Rus...
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Show HN: Form endpoints for static sites with Email/Slack notifications - rathboma https://www.99inbound.com ====== rathboma Hey all, I built this to scratch my own itch when I needed Slack and Close.io integration for my static-site webforms. Seemed to be useful so figured I share with others. Nothing else I found o...
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Stripe and Apple Pay - Peroni https://stripe.com/applepay ====== nextstep I'm not sure I understand Stripe's value proposition here. What is the benefit of using Stripe's library over using ApplePay (PassKit) directly? (Honest question) ~~~ pc You can't use Apple Pay directly: you have to use it with a supported paym...
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OctoLinker added Ruby support - stefanbuck https://github.com/OctoLinker/browser-extension ====== stefanbuck Most projects consist of many files and third party dependencies. Files are referencing other files and / or dependencies by language specific statements like include or require. Dependencies are most likely de...
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Love Google. Hate Facebook. Here’s Why: - rblion http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/10/love-google-hate-facebook-why/ ====== pluies _A curious melancholy infests the New Yorker’s profile. You wonder, for example, to what extent Zuckerberg actually possesses an interior life of his own. He doesn’t seem passionate ab...
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The great nutrient collapse - fmihaila http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511?lo=ap_a1 ====== jpfed I wonder what math is being used, and whether there's some way to package it in a way that's approachable to biologists.
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Ask HN: Do you scrape data? What do you use it for? - jmaccabee I&#x27;ve got a theory that in 2018, most people or companies can use web scraping tools to make some aspect of their lives easier.<p>For example, I wrote a script a few months back to scrape transit data and send me a text when the subway is delayed for ...
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Rural Democrats: We Tried to Warn You - pwthornton http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/rural-democrats-ignored-suffer-consequences ====== webmaven _" But they don’t know how to talk about ordinary people."_ Riiight... because Americans who live in urban areas aren't "ordinary people". Hey, I bet they aren't actuall...
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How libraries decide which books to keep - ASquare https://medium.com/book-excerpts/4ca8405f1e11 ====== GuiA This is super interesting. It just occurs to me that it could be really fun to work as a technologist for a library. In the light of this article, it sounds like there's room to automate and enhance some stuff...
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Ayn Rand interview (1959) - jobeirne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k&feature=related ====== yummyfajitas Good interview, but I didn't notice any mention of a pending economic disaster. ~~~ jobeirne That comes up in part 2 of this interview. I was thinking of just posting a link to that, but it seemed dis...
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Ways to screw up as a woman in technology - sdpy https://medium.com/@zornitsatomova/5-ways-to-screw-up-as-a-woman-in-technology-7c416aed8db8 ====== BigChiefSmokem Another multiple fail-preneur article from Medium? Downvote as you see fit but come on HN you are better than this. This one is especially bad... "There is...
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Mastodon 2.0 - daveid https://medium.com/@Gargron/mastodon-2-0-e93d9d28dbb9? ====== kemenaran I started using Mastodon a few months ago, "just to see", and found great people to interact to there. And these days I'm using Twitter less and less. Looking back, I feel like the short-messages limit is fueling flaming sta...
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Ask HN: US laws affecting private user data? - rebootthesystem You collect user data for the purpose of offering a service or selling products through a website. Depending on the nature of the business the range of info collected can span a wide range:<p>Name, email, driver&#x27;s license, social security number, cre...
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Master-Less Distributed Queue with PG Paxos - ahachete https://www.citusdata.com/blog/14-marco/411-master-less-distributed-queue-postgres-and-pg-paxos ====== teraflop How does Paxos replication interact with Postgres transactions? This doesn't seem to be explained in the article or docs, and the examples only show the...
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Amazon crowns winner of first warehouse robot challenge - oillio http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/01/amazon-picking-challenge-winner/ ====== Animats That's a nice bin-picking system. Bin-picking is a classic robotic manipulation problem [1], and they're doing a good job. They target the object and approach it from an a...
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Tired of enterprisey programming - joe_coder First post here. Cheers to all.<p>I work as a Java programmer since 1999, but with all this mileage I do not consider myself a great programmer, only an average one.<p>Unfortunatelly most of this time I dealt only with Java, thus being a monolingual programmer... but I&#x27...
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Resignations at Cisco hint at internal power struggle - petethomas http://www.recode.net/2016/6/6/11871550/cisco-mpls-team-resigns ====== vanessa98 A legendary racket from days past! Leave Cisco with technology and engineers, get generously funded by Cisco, get generously bought out by Cisco, inside Cisco enjoy sandba...
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Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? - schappim What book have you found so amazing that you have given it as a gift? This could be a tech book, biz, self help or other book. ====== ComputerGuru _The Count of Monte Cristo_ , by Alexander Dumas. I'd read thousands of books, novels, and other literature and never...
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McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity: the proof in the pudding - rbanffy http://www.enerjy.com/blog/?p=198 ====== billsix if John McCarthy's eval/apply had a high cyclomatic complexity; would it matter?
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Researchers Print World’s First 3-D Heart - puttycat https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/.premium-israeli-scientists-print-world-s-first-3-d-heart-1.7124321 ====== puttycat Unpaid-wall link: [https://www.haaretz.com/amp/science-and-health/.premium- isra...](https://www.haaretz.com/amp/science-and-health/.premiu...
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Building Problem Solvers (1993) - callmekit http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/BPS/readme.html ====== brudgers Direct link to PDF: [http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/bps/BPS- Searchable.pdf](http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/bps/BPS-Searchable.pdf) ------ icu Thank you for posting this link on HN :-) ~~~ pjmorris Your comm...
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Google’s 46-camera ‘light field videos’ let you change perspective - boulos https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/23/googles-46-camera-light-field-videos-let-you-change-perspective-and-peek-around-corners/ ====== hatsunearu This is incredible! I love how they went ahead and did work on not just compressing it, and also makin...
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Donald Knuth used an Erlang-like notation - old_sound http://videlalvaro.github.io/2016/10/knuth-first-erlang-programmer.html ====== fusiongyro Knuth is simply defining a piecewise function here in ordinary math notation. Functional programming languages borrow heavily from math, Erlang is a functional language. The r...
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The dirty secret of browser security #1 - TheCowboy http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2012/01/dirty-secret-of-browser-security-1.html ====== jiggy2011 Perhaps someone should maintain a list of vulnerable versions of software (similar to bugtraq) and then whenever a browser executes an external program it could ...
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Experimental Animal Decompressions to a Near-Vacuum Environment [1965] [pdf] - danso http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660005052.pdf ====== danso BTW I was interested in Googling for this after reading this New Yorker essay on the costs of colonizing Mars: [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Hunter S. Thompson: Finding Your Purpose (1958) - pizza http://tranquilmonkey.com/hunter-s-thompsons-extraordinary-letter-on-finding-your-purpose/ ====== adocracy It feels like the "maturing process" has waned over the decades. It feels like people in the past were older, at younger age. This can't be due to the educa...
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ReMarkable Tablet Gets Desktop Linux - davisr https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/gkktxy/desktop_linux_on_remarkable_xournal_doom_and_more/ ====== kadoban Looks like this is for the old version. The new version is going through staged preorder now. If it'll work on the new that'd be enough to make me w...
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Children with high IQ more likely to do drugs as adults - casemorton http://www.m.webmd.com/children/news/20111114/high-iq-in-childhood-may-predict-later-drug-use ====== tokenadult Date of publication November 2011. Previous submissions of same underlying story from other sites: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...
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Ask HN: Best Ideas or Links for SSH User/Key Management for Groups? - jqueryin I work at a relatively small development agency. Every so often we have somebody that parts ways; We have to tie up all loose ends in regards to account access, SSH public keys, etc. Is there any intuitive web interfaces or CLI apps for m...
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You Might Not Need Underscore - ville https://www.reindex.io/blog/you-might-not-need-underscore/ ====== haromaster There is some really good points here. However, i feel a lot of these 'You might not need...' articles are often a straw man response to the idea that developers only use libraries because they are easier...
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Mint has test bank accounts on the production site - iamspoilt I am surprised to see that a tool that claims bank level security has these test accounts enabled on the Canadian production website.<p>How can users trust that the bank login information they are filling in for a specific bank account is actually being re...
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Is gitlab down for anyone else? - aidos https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in ====== iriche GitLab is the new GitHub
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Show HN: WishBin – Superpowered Wishlists for Amazon - williamle8300 http://www.wishbin.co/ ====== buttonsmasher Neat! But I ran into a few issues. 1) Facebook login does not work, I used Twitter 2) The first time I clicked the Wish bookmarklet on an Amazon product, it just froze, had to do a it a multiple times Tha...
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YouTube will experiment with ways to prevent dislike button 'mobs' - unclebucknasty https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/03/youtube-experiments-could-prevent-dislike-abuse/ ====== who-knows95 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most- disliked_YouTube_...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most- disliked_YouTube_vid...
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Spotify 2017 wrap up of your personal play history in playlists and info graphic - IronWolve http://2017wrapped.com/ ====== IronWolve The infographic and quiz was kinda cool, I'm always playing Spotify it seems. "In 2017, you listened to 14,762 minutes, 3,117 songs, 1,251 artists, 28 genres" I was surprised that 5th ...
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FunnyJunk's lawyer isn't afraid of the Oatmeal - reiichiroh http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/06/15/funnyjunk-lawyer-charles-carreon-isnt-afraid-of-the-oatmeal/ Charles Carreon seems to be less of an "Internet lawyer" and more of an relic, parading out his outdated work on the sex.com case. He seems to have...
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Bus Driver with 37 Years of Programming Experience? - hello-yoshi http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-broughton/13/a4b/b29 ====== mark-r I have a friend who worked as a programmer until a bad case of burnout coincided with a layoff. He's been driving for a delivery service for at least 10 years now. ------ sp332 He ...
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The Drowned Lands of the Wallkill - commandertso http://www.bldgblog.com/2019/07/terrestrial-warfare-drowned-lands/ ====== subpixel This land is still being fought over today, as very large, insular religious communities are growing in both size and political influence with results that are...complicated. ~~~ leppr I...
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Rate my app (iconswitch.me) - iOS icon creator - nhangen http://iconswitch.me/<p>I got tired of manually exporting, resizing, and re-naming icons from Fireworks and Photoshop, so we built a PHP script to automatically convert a 512x512 image into the necessary bundle used for iOS apps, including iPad, retina, and sp...
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Combine clean architecture with entity-component-system - randle_mcmurphy My idea is to separate my code into data, domain, and presentation layers and use entity-component-system only in presentation layer. So data and domain layers will follow DDD principles and will mostly deal with reading&#x2F;writing data. And i...
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How Much Does Crime Effect Rent Prices? - kevlar1818 https://priceonomics.com/how-much-does-crime-effect-rent-prices/ ====== DrScump The submitter quoted accurately; that's an ugly error on Priceonomics' part.
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The Edge Computing opportunity is not what you think - jgrahamc https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-serverless-week/ ====== iampims WebAssembly is a great platform to build upon, but it’s still very rough for most languages to build the necessary features for seamless interop with WASM. WASI is still not st...
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A 12-Month Campaign of Fake News to Influence Elections Costs $400K - KasianFranks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-12-month-campaign-of-fake-news-to-influence-elections-costs-400-000/ ====== lr4444lr _An examination of Chinese, Russian, Middle Eastern, and English-based underground fake news marketpla...
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Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency [pdf] - DyslexicAtheist https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2018/Human%20Costs,%20Nov%208%202018%20CoW.pdf ====== danboarder When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail... MLK said it best: "Darkness cannot ...
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Why Your Programming Language Sucks - tlong https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks ====== kafkaesq Many valid points in there, but many weak arguments also.
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Best Places to network my way into the software industry? - vailprogrammer What is the best way to network my way into a software job? On paper I think I look like a terrible candidate, even though I’m actively building up my software portfolio. I’ve read that portfolio projects alone won’t get me a job when applying ...
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Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse - JumpCrisscross https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/facebook-rankwave-lawsuit/ ====== inflatableDodo My prediction after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke is that it would lead to an explosion in wealthy people who want to play at noopolitics. I suspect they h...
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Looks like someone put "On Lisp" in HTML - JMiao http://www.bookshelf.jp/texi/onlisp/onlisp.html ====== dfranke I "borrowed" a bound copy from my advisor. He seems to have forgotten this fact. I'm hoping to keep it that way. ------ epall This has been around for a while. I remember referring to it something like thre...
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Probable Cache Poisoning of Mail Handling Domains - jgrahamc https://www.cert.org/blogs/certcc/post.cfm?EntryID=206 ====== danyork There is a longer discussion of this post in another HN submission: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304756](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304756) ------ danyork Good to s...
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Super Mario 64 has been decompiled - sjuut https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64/blob/master/README.md ====== bri3d As an amusing side-effect, the team working on this effort also implemented IRIX userland support for QEMU since the original N64 toolchain ran on IRIX on the SGI Indy, and they need the original compilers t...
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Netflix Stock Surges to Record Highs as Market Cap Tops Disney - theBashShell https://www.barrons.com/articles/netflix-stock-surges-to-record-highs-as-market-cap-tops-disney-51586972020 ====== christophilus > Analysts smell a blowout in the making, and in particular expect customer > growth to blow past guidance. The...
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Top Trends of 2010: Growth of eBooks & eReaders - _grrr http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ebooks_ereaders_top_trends_2010.php ======
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Ask HN: How to set up a minimalist professional web page these days - ACow_Adonis I&#x27;m thinking it might be time for me to start branching out on my own. I&#x27;ve been doing analytics and stats for a long time now. But I haven&#x27;t done anything with the web for almost a decade.<p>What&#x27;s a recommended pa...
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Heroku: Announcing Huge Growth and New CEO - alexyim http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/10/15/announcing_huge_growth_and_new_ceo/ ====== maryrosecook Their deployment is beautifully simple. The fact that they host several of my mini-apps makes me extremely grateful. But, the chances I will ever actually give them ...
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Fundable ideas – Which ideas are worth pursuing and which are just a gimmick - robbdimitrov https://medium.com/@robbdimitrov/fundable-ideas-4aa630ba97ba ====== sharemywin consumer side of AR/VR I can see that but maybe I'm wrong but being able to design in 3d whether its buildings, parts or possibly software could be ...
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USA vs. Russia arms sales from 1950 through today - sirteno https://www.disclose.tv/follow-the-money-usa-vs-russia-arms-sales-from-1950-through-today-344541 ====== siruncledrew Some countries that surprised me (without knowing the full historical context): \- Finland heavily linked to Russian exports in the 1960s-199...
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Show HN: OpenHacker, a weekly competition for hackers - JacksonGariety http://openhacker.co/ ====== murtza I think it would be interesting to shift the focus of OpenHacker to platform where companies can post challenges and offer prizes. For example, Netflix hosted a competition for a $1M prize for the "best collab...
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Timelapse video with an iPhone and CLI - rocktronica https://github.com/rocktronica/timelapse ====== rocktronica I was surprised this didn't already exist, so I made it... even though it's honestly just a wrapper around curl and ffmpeg!
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