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The Highway Less Traveled (1998) - dredmorbius https://www.greensboro.com/the-highway-less-traveled/article_5e9d9ffd-5abf-59d4-8630-048594cbcb88.html ====== dredmorbius Robert Wood Kruch's dictum, sometimes abbreviated to bad roads make good filters, strikes me as a melding of Gresham's Law and the Jevons paradox.
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Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like - swamy_g https://acoachcalledlife.com/bandersnatch-film-dpdr/ ====== brootstrap Interesting and good to learn about this real problem. The show had me really on edge (like all black mirror content) until they kind of broke the 4th (5th wall?) with the ...
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Study confirms that ending your texts with a period is terrible - KerryJones https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/08/study-confirms-that-ending-your-texts-with-a-period-is-terrible/?tid=ss_fb ====== DrScump [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703303](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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German police raid homes of Tor-linked group's board members - jfreax https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/ ====== merricksb Heavily discussed 1-2 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456289](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456289) (333 points/1...
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Gauge blocks, a system for producing precision lengths - camtarn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block ====== Obi_Juan_Kenobi If you're interested in precision machining, Robrenz is a good channel to check out: [https://www.youtube.com/user/ROBRENZ/videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/ROBRENZ/videos) He demos a ...
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Ask HN: Ok done with our website. But Look and feel is developerified. - retrofit_brain We got done building our site but it has developer looks. How to find a cheap way of improving the look and feel? What sites/designers have you guys looked at to improve the look. I know many people on hacker news suggest hire a ...
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Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer (online book, Haskell) - SkyMarshal http://nlpwp.org/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907825>
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Groovy and Grails Plans Announced at SpringOne2GX - mindcrime http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/09/groovy24-25-grails31 ====== vorg > Perhaps the most significant is improved compiler performance with a new > Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) class reader in place of using class loading > tricks. The Groovy compiler starts by c...
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Safety Implications of Serialization Timing in Autonomous Vehicles (2017) [pdf] - zzulus https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a60ec649f8dce866f011db6/t/5ab286da2b6a283afce7d752/1521649372997/Safety-Serialization.pdf ====== zzulus Author compares different message serialization libraries (protobuf, capnproto, flatbu...
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World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis' - gibsonf1 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435681,00.html ====== ryanmahoski It appears a contractor at the World Bank methodically compromised a _ton_ of sensitive information. Article Summary: Between 18 and 40 servers at the World Bank Group were secretly...
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China is on track to beat its peak-emissions pledge - bryanrasmussen https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/china-is-on-track-to-beat-its-peak-emissions-pledge/ ====== ei8htyfi5e I've lived there and can say from experience China just makes stuff up. The local governments are responsible for reporting to higher ups a...
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Who Signs Up to Fight? Makeup of U.S. Recruits Shows Glaring Disparity - johnny313 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/us/military-enlistment.html ====== killjoywashere As usual, the HN crowd is comfortably outside the impact zone of military recruiting and despite being submitted multiple times, the basic responsibili...
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Show HN: Remotion – Quick video chat for remote teams (macOS only) - aejae https://remotion.com/ ====== aejae Hey folks, I’m Alexander, cofounder of Remotion. We help teams get into quick video chats instead of scheduling meetings or texting. This makes remote collaboration faster and less isolating. We’re in beta (...
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Under Pressure from Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting - uladzislau http://nytimes.com/2014/11/28/upshot/under-pressure-from-uber-taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting.html ====== ps4fanboy "The crucial question for medallion owners like Mr. Ionescu is, if Uber is that much cheaper than a taxi, why would anyone...
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Site that lets you record and automatically phone-blast SOPA supporters for you - cjfont http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/reverse-robocall-campaign-lets-citizens-phone-blast-sopa-supporters.ars ====== nick-dap Activism needs to be reinvented. Legislators are already not paying attention to email, bec...
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One line of node.js turns RSS to JSON - duvander http://h3manth.com/content/rss-json-using-nodejs ====== tantalor And that one line calls out to a library which does all the work. Why should this be a module? It's absurd. ------ eonil What's NEWs on one line of calling a library? Titling crap.
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The story of Henry Ford's $5 a day wages: not what you think (2012) - hhs https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story-of-henry-fords-5-a-day-wages-its-not-what-you-think/#674d6332766d ====== mjw1007 The story makes a good deal of sense if, in general, wages are set only partly by supply and demand, a...
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Hacking: Always Design the UX First - systemizer http://blog.systemizer.me/2012/06/hacking-always-design-ux-first.html ====== robomartin I disagree with this. Think of the basics of the UI if you'd like, but this idea of creating it first might only apply to a narrow project definition. In my view you must think in t...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation - pvsukale3 https://tanay.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-stock-based ====== cletus So people have a tendency to read a headline/submission title like this and without reading the article they launch onto their soapbox about their pet issue like, for example, equity ...
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Show HN: CryptFolio – a decentralized app to manage cryptocurrency portfolio - kherwa https://github.com/kherwa/cryptfolio ====== kherwa CryptFolio is a small client side application, where you can save your cryptocurrency portfolio. It uses IPFS to store your encrypted portfolio and Ethereum blockchain to store IPFS ...
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Platypus genetic code unravelled - epi0Bauqu http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7385949.stm ====== epi0Bauqu Summary: _One big surprise was the patchwork nature of the genome with avian, reptilian and mammalian features..._
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13″ Retina MacBook Pro review: more pixels, less value - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/13-retina-macbook-pro-review-more-pixels-less-value/ ====== gros-calin please, won't you stop to publish Ars Technica papers? Probably everyone here is subscribed on Ars. ~~~ carlosn Not everyone. And I kno...
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Show HN: Weekend Project, Social Network Without Users - martinariel http://doadoing.com A proof of concept i've developed several months ago . The idea was to build a social network without users and learn Django.<p>Warm Regards from Argentina. Martin. ====== materialhero Pretty cool. A little scary how accurate th...
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Silicon Valley Prefers Obama 2 to 1 - nikunjk http://paulgraham.com/ovr.html ====== ssclafani I flagged this. No politics on HN, not even from PG. ~~~ tzs I wouldn't consider this to be politics. It is not advocating a political position, or discussing the merits of a political position, or advocating or discussing t...
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Scientists have developed a method to control moths using electrodes - section43 http://www.factor-tech.com/robots/7303-scientists-to-transform-moths-into-search-and-rescue-cyborg-biobots/ ====== Stwerp Maybe I'm reading the article wrong, but it seems they are only describing a way to record EMG signals --- and not...
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Cycle of Reincarnation - dsr_ http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/cycle%20of%20reincarnation ====== dsr_ It's not just hardware: this also applies to software, occupations, business models, and probably governments. In particular, I'm thinking of "full stack programmers" and DevOps right now.
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Barking drones used on farms instead of sheep dogs - howard941 https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018685575/barking-drones-used-on-farms-instead-of-sheep-dogs ====== samcday > The latest drone model, the $3500 DJI Mavic Enterprise, can record sounds > and play them over a speaker - allowin...
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011) - whoishiring Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. ====== mikeryan SEEKING FREELANCER - SF, CA / Remote Possible but likely it will have to be in the US at this point. We pay competiti...
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Ask HN: Is $5k really worth 5%? - quellhorst A good software developer contractor can gross 10k in a month. Is something like ycombinator worthwhile to give up 5% for $5,000 per founder? ====== froo Well, apart from the fact that you got your math wrong (its $5k + $5k per founder) I'll give you a few other reasons w...
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We Finally Know How Wombats Produce Their Distinctly Cube-Shaped Poop - kw71 https://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-how-wombats-produce-their-distinctly-cu-1830414749 ====== lysp Dupes: [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wombat&sort=byPopularity&prefi...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wombat&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&d...
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Facebook Timeline - equilibrium http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?timeline ====== 27182818284 There is something I've pointed out before, but it is interesting and, I think, worth repeating: If they lost half of all of their users overnight, it would only set them back about two years in terms of growth.
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Recess Labs: A Pre-Idea Incubator - xenophon http://www.recesslabs.com ====== RepressedEmu I love this idea! Its like a side-project focused sabbatical. I wonder what kind of startups are going to come out of it.
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IPhone 4 Teardown - icco http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/1 ====== icco From their press email: "We went to extreme lengths to acquire the iPhone 4. Kyle flew to Japan, expecting to take advantage of the 16-hour time difference. He had his camping gear all ready to wait in line outside the Ginz...
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Solyndra (SV Solar Startup that got $535m guarantee from govt) fails - pitdesi http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2011/08/31/what-solyndras-bankruptcy-means-for-silicon-valley-solar-startups/ ====== salemh Wow..Last year they were hiring ~200+ engineering types of roles (our firm was trying to "get in" with recru...
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Growing X20 without spending an extra penny on hosting - ilhackernews http://www.geektime.com/2014/03/10/growing-x20-without-spending-an-extra-penny-on-hosting/ ====== igoldny An interesting approach!
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The Case for the Fat Startup (2010) - a_d https://a16z.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup/ ====== thinkingkong Going out an raising an initial metric boat load of capital seems to fly in the face of modern convention for pure digital services. Notable exceptions seem to be businesses where a high capez model ...
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Why falsificationism is false - viburnum https://necpluribusimpar.net/why-falsificationism-is-false/ ====== noego The author makes some good points, but does not propose his own criteria for what distinguishes a good theory from a bad theory, which seems like a cop-out to be frank. I imagine a big appeal of falsifiab...
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A Deep Dive into Litecoin - toddinsights https://medium.com/todd-moses/a-deep-dive-into-litecoin-ltc-31b7dbbabf3a ====== earthlingdavey Is there a way to get around the Medium paywall?
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Book made of ocean plastic / Initial Book Offering - cryptoexile Book made of ocean plastic &#x2F; Initial Book Offering - http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptic.fun ====== cryptoexile I am the founder. Please help me spread the word. Send in your suggestions and Ideas. We are starting from scratch. #AR #OCEANPLASTIC #CRYPTO
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Rethinking Cookies: originOnly - homakov http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/rethinking-cookies-originonly.html ====== ChuckMcM It is an interesting rant about a real problem. Cookies provide a function for their origin web site, every other use is generally not good for the consumer. The challenge implementing some...
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Hard Times For The Venture Capital And Seed Founding Industry - csbartus http://metaman.tumblr.com/post/841759647/hard-times-for-the-venture-capital-and-seed-founding ====== adrianscott eehh... perhaps hard times for vc but NOT hard times for seed funds seed funding is where the action is there is NO bubble yet -...
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Eradicate Business Plans: Give them the same respect that merits I.E. the Sixth - govind201 http://blog.semantics3.com/post/16752084868/eradicate-business-plans ====== ishan123 Hahahha. Good one
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Is an offline version of gmail coming? - azsromej http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/19/google-about-to-drop-the-other-shoe-on-microsoft/ ====== stcredzero I want a version of Gmail that can run offline on my iPhone. I currently use Gmail, and it works fine with my iPhone's Mail program, but the paradigm shift between it...
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The Last Galapagos tortoise dies - JayInt http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/24/12386484-lonesome-george-last-of-its-kind-galapagos-tortoise-dies?lite ====== bdfh42 The edited title gets it wrong (when the original was correct). last of a particular sub-species dies - there are still lots of others.
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ISP Association Nominates Mozilla as “Internet Villain” - pjc50 https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-announces-finalists-for-2019-internet-heroes-and-villains-trump-and-mozilla-lead-the-way-as-villain-nominees/ ====== readyp1 It says in the link that Mozilla was nominated "for their proposed approach to introduce DNS-over-HTT...
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Ask HN: Why is there no really successful Ruby on Rails CMS solution - etewiah I know there are a lot of Rails CMS solutions out there but the ones that became popular a few years ago are now pretty much dead. The newer ones don&#x27;t seem to be gaining traction and there are now so many half-decent options that it ...
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U.S., companies: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data - ennuihenry http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-company-officials-internet-surveillance-does-not-indiscriminately-mine-data/2013/06/08/5b3bb234-d07d-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story_1.html ====== btilly If I were a Chinese o...
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How Curiosity, Luck, and the Flip of a Switch Saved the Moon Program (2014) - dctoedt http://motherboard.vice.com/read/john-aaron-apollo-12-curiosity-luck-and-sce-to-aux ====== dmd > (For the astronauts, speeding into space at one and a half times the speed > of sound, a mile and a half up, time, according to Einstein...
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Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men? - bootload http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/why-are-senior.html ====== Tichy "It is not acceptable if women are forced to choose between a family and a career in science." Why not? Since family has a price, how else could it work than having ...
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Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system - headShrinker https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/man-agrees-to-pay-25000-for-abusing-youtubes-takedown-system/ ====== ropiwqefjnpoa If he had just incorporated himself he could do that legally along with all the other predatory "companies" doing...
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Hacker News currently not accessible in China - null_undefined http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com ====== mckee1 Seems okay to me
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When Companies Don't Verify Email Addresses, This Is What Happens - srameshc https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2017/08/01/when-companies-dont-verify-email-addresses-this-is-what-happens/ ====== smn1234 verifying identity by confirming personal details used at sign-up would probably be most effective to verify if ...
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Gaming company Ouya is reportedly putting itself up for sale - lladnar http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/28/8509005/ouya-android-microconsole-reportedly-seeking-buyer-debt ====== empressplay This was never going to end well. When you have a small form-factor platform with a large reach, and you attempt to introduce a lar...
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git-issue – Track issues within Git repositories - gaxun https://www.gaxun.net/ideas/git-issue/ ====== alphapapa > This is just an idea so far! If you think you know how to do it, I'd love to > hear about it. > Don't be too hard on me, I'm just dreaming in public. Then mark it as an idea in the headline. This is dec...
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How To Steal From Your Competitors Using Twitter - outcyde http://www.adpoppr.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-steal-customers-from-your-competition-using-twitter/ ====== jlangenauer There's been a bit of debate lately amongst a few Australian bloggers about how Twitter is viewed by marketers as just another place where they...
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Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives - 001sky http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/24/hackers-stole-secrets-of-u-s-government-workers-sex-lives.html ====== mindslight "U.S. Government Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives" Public understanding needs to shift to condemni...
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Textual configuration has comments, GUIs don't. - raganwald http://machinesplusminds.blogspot.com/2011/06/textual-configuration-has-comments-guis.html ====== synnik "There is no good way to put comments into GUI." Maybe he hasn't seen any, but this seems a harsh conclusion. Whoever wrote the GUI could track history...
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Western diet increases Alzheimer's risk (2016) - jamesknelson https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825102121.htm ====== Nomentatus A genius experiment designed to track down just what the difference in diet is and does: [https://medium.com/@russjj/choline-is-it-the-key-to- modern-i...](https://medium.com/@...
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HTML5 New Target for Cybercriminals - 8ig8 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16005053 ====== nextparadigms I'm getting really tired of the "cyber" warfare. It's obvious they are just now starting to push hard for it, thinking they'll get people to give up even more rights and let them spy all their activities onl...
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Biotech in the Garage - cindywu123 http://sethbannon.com/biotech-in-the-garage ====== searine Yes there are "bio-hacker spaces" and yes, you can outsource a lot of the more delicate methods, but we won't see software-level start-ups for biotech for several decades for three reasons. 1\. Biology usually doesn't work. ...
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Ask HN: Browser GUI - SeanDav How would you go about writing a GUI that would run in most browsers on all platforms that support those browsers, even if offline? An example might be a Spreadsheet application that would still work offline but have extra abilities online (cloud storage, collaboration etc). The ability...
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My "Chrome to Phone" knockoff app for iOS - checker659 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jumping-url/id388521070?mt=8 ====== checker659 Link to website : <http://www.jumpingurl.com>
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Help create this image - aeliassen http://image.andreaseliassen.com/ ====== oftenwrong Got an error: >Error. >An error occurred while processing your request. ~~~ memming Same here. But the history still says I added a point. ~~~ aeliassen I was stupid enough not to check if the colors were actual colors before ...
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Show HN: NeuralDraw, an AI-powered speed-drawing game, on your iPhone - soonpls https://apps.apple.com/app/neural-draw/id1440577395 ====== beezle suggest 'on your iPhone' if it is not also available on the Android platform.
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Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game - sek http://allthingsd.com/20121115/google-launches-ingress-a-worldwide-mobile-alternate-reality-game/ ====== blocke I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and som...
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Compiling OCaml directly to a new cloud operating system - nl http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-hotcloud-lamp.pdf ====== mathgladiator Woah, this is like my dream on steroids. during my weekends when I work on node.ocaml ( <http://github.com/mathgladiator/node.ocaml> ), I occasionally think "gosh, If I could just ...
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Surprising effect of light could change solar power generation - merijn481 http://smartenergyshow.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/surprising-effect-of-light-could-change-solar-power-generation/ ====== dhs Source paper: “Optically-induced charge separation and terahertz emission in unbiased dielectrics” [http://www.google.c...
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Show HN: Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day - Jasber http://remotehabits.com/?ref=hackernews ====== Jasber Hey HN! Here's a small side-project I've been working on to help remote workers. I noticed when I switched to full-time indie dev, I experienced some new problems, like building discipline,...
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Distributing Covid-19 vaccines could be a major problem - hoomank3 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-distributing-a-covid-19-vaccine-could-become-a-big-problem/ ====== hoomank3 Because most COVID vaccines require 2 doses, and greater demand for the flu shot, health systems could be overwhelmed with 5.1 t...
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How Google ‘Tricks’ Users into Sharing Location Data - cybernot https://www.sherbit.io/how-google-tricks-users-into-sharing-location-data/ ====== joesmo They use a similar trick in Hangouts where one cannot delete multiple conversations, only one at a time. Not sure what the motive for that is other than pissing peo...
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The problem of China's huge bike graveyards [video] - heshamg http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-43999482/the-problem-of-china-s-huge-bike-graveyards ====== stephengillie This is a failure of collection because buying new bikes is apparently cheaper than the cost of collecting and repairing existing bikes. [0...
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Nephrology nursing and the wearable artificial kidney - axson http://www.nephrologynews.com/nephrology-nursing-and-the-wearable-artificial-kidney/ ====== axson This is an interesting development to follow. If they can make it really lightweight it could make a huge improvement in quality of life for renal failure pati...
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The Maybe Type and Its Consequences - bensummers http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/blog/MaybeType ====== tel The author seems to be learning a lot from Haskell, but still unable to really accept the larger picture _Fortress goes beyond Haskell in that the type Maybe[\T\\] extends type Generator[\T\...
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Twitter blocks, why no last message? - haaen Someone on Twitter blocks you. You think he made the wrong decision. But there&#x27;s no possibilty to tell him about that: no possibilty to tell him that you want to offer your excuse, no possibility that you just made a joke. Why doesn&#x27;t Twitter allow blocked people ...
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The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: A Primer - tacon https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51535 ====== daltonlp There's a nifty interactive tool for playing with costs! [https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54351](https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54351) I gave it a whirl. There are some built-in constraints. For instance, you ...
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FCC Designates Huawei and ZTE as National Security Threats - css https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-designates-huawei-and-zte-national-security-threats ====== css PDF: [https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-365255A1.pdf](https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-365255A1.pdf)
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Reusability and NIH - ColinWright http://irreal.org/blog/?p=982 ====== ColinWright This is an alternative viewpoint to that in the article here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360345> In that article it is suggested that it's better not to call out to the operating system to perform tasks that can be re-imple...
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Pwd alias hell - hrjet https://gist.github.com/hrj/2efd3f8f9b465e01fe09 ====== lokedhs This is purely the cause of the shell having a builtin pwd command that displays a path that is consistent with the argument to the "cd" command that was typed to enter the directory, not the actual path you're in. The shell does ...
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Ask HN: What do you use to monitor website performance from client perspective? - lambdadmitry Also known as &quot;Real User Monitoring&quot;. There are a lot of SaaSes doing some form of it, but I know none avoiding third-party JS or requests and most don&#x27;t support First (Contentful) Paint. What&#x27;s your expe...
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How the Internet will (one day) transform government - briangonzalez http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html ====== briangonzalez I love how Clay thinks society should implement git-like concepts into how we interact. Could it actually work? ~~~ rmason I ...
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DOM elements with ID's are global variables - bhalp1 https://dev.to/buntine/dom-elements-with-ids-are-global-variables ====== hdhzy The funny fact is that some browsers (Chrome?) did not have this behavior initially but it was introduced to match what others (IE?) did.
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Show HN: Very simple tool for creating polls - nicohvi http://poll.nplol.com ====== mkoryak Ill give you some real feedback though since I did sign up: when adding a new option, it should gain focus so i can start typing right away. viewing a poll that has no votes yet is weird because the whole screen is white an...
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Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare? - tech4all My wife will be undergoing significant oral surgery in a few weeks and there is a SMALL chance she may lose the ability to speak. I&#x27;d like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or ot...
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A million lines of Lisp - muriithi http://psung.blogspot.com/2008/06/million-lines-of-lisp.html ====== ajross This kind of loses me towards the end. I mean, sure, emacs is a freakishly large lisp program. I get that part. But, what's the point here? The abstractions in emacs (modes and hooks are the ones discussed ...
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The Myth of Usability Testing - phsr http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-myth-of-usability-testing/ ====== ugh “Usability Testing: It’s not a Myth”, a reply from Lukas Mathis: [http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/10/20/usability_testing_n...](http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/10/20/usability_testing_not_a_myth/) ...
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How E-Books Make (A Lot Of) Cents - newacc http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/21/ebook-iphone-oreilly-technology-breakthroughs-ebook.html?partner=contextstory ====== HoneyAndSilicon O'Reilly talks about success of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" as an iPhone app. The app has outsold the book, and O'Reilly explains the busi...
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Monzo’s Response to Cloudbleed - obeattie https://monzo.com/blog/2017/02/24/cloudbleed/ ====== libeclipse Even though they weren't affected much and no one would have called them out if they didn't do this, the fact that they did such a nice job of dissecting the situation and deploying the appropriate measures is rea...
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Show HN: G – Google Assistant in Your Terminal - ushakov https://github.com/mishushakov/g ====== thecodrr Wow. Wow. Wow. This is cool. Although I am not a huge fan of Google Assistant but still. Having this in your terminal is pretty cool. Keep it up. Hope this gets more up votes.
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Show HN: Path/Curve Editing in the Browser - mattdesl http://mattdesl.github.io/path-illustrator/demo/advanced.html ====== kolev Source Code: [https://github.com/mattdesl/path- illustrator](https://github.com/mattdesl/path-illustrator)
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Learning Bluetooth Hackery with BLE CTF - okket http://www.hackgnar.com/2018/06/learning-bluetooth-hackery-with-ble-ctf.html ====== agumonkey [https://archive.fo/02dUk](https://archive.fo/02dUk) just in case ------ baby That looks awesome! Reminds me of the Riscure challenges that requires you to flash a chip every t...
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Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America - blasdel http://www.amazon.com/amazonHQ2 ====== Johnny555 This is a dupe of this post: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190555](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190555) Same title, same source link.
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NYC Helmet, I’m Giddy With Excitement - onreact-com http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/08/26/nyc-helmet-im-giddy-with-excitement/ ====== imd According to <http://www.bhsi.org/guide.htm> : "Most bike helmets are made of EPS foam with a thin plastic shell. The shell helps the helmet skid easily on rough pavement to avoi...
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On Task Systems - evantahler http://blog.evantahler.com/blog/on-task-systems.html ====== roskilli Looks similar to what Kue <http://learnboost.github.com/kue/> already does. I wish node had less fragmentation and more consolidation on these types of libraries/frameworks. Nice article breaking down the features and ...
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Is JavaScript the Future of Programming? - clwen http://mashable.com/2012/11/12/javascript/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+(Mashable) ====== trimbo All linkbaity headlines posed as a question are answered should be answered with "no", but I'm going to make the "yes" argument. Ri...
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Why Poland will never have hygge - MiriamWeiner http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171107-the-polish-phrase-that-will-help-you-through-tough-times ====== dozzie The original title is "The Polish phrase that will help you through tough times". Please don't change the title, especially from something that describes the c...
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Yahoo's Fireeagle Project open for business - sh1mmer http://fireeagle.com/ ====== ggruschow This is fantastic. I totally needed to make it easier to track my every move. I'd use it, but without the ability to post my social security # and bank account passwords, it seems useless. ~~~ sysop073 I honestly don't se...
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Data initialization in C++ - Tsiolkovsky http://woboq.com/blog/data-and-initialisation.html ====== apaprocki File-level static non-POD instances are a big no-no. If you really (really) need a global static, move it into function scope in a function which returns the static (singleton pattern). (Additional tricks can b...
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Why We're All Shy Sometimes - dwynings http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250350893404916.html?mod=dist_smartbrief ====== rcfox "...Unlike introverts, who prefer to be socially withdrawn, shy people want to be social. Making matters worse, shy people are often misunderstood—thought to be snobby ...
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Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-22/swiss-history-of-negative-interest-rates-is-ugly ====== roenxi ~ Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. There remains something bizarre about how the language of international trade is couched. I stil...
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Insane "underwater" startup. - noonespecial http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/13/smallbusiness/subprime_sub.fsb/index.htm ====== mixmax Either this is nothing special or I just hang around a weird crowd. I know a some guys that made three submarines, and they go to 1500 feet. The biggest one is the largest amateur submar...
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