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One year living on Airbnb in nyc - misiti3780 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/realestate/our-year-of-living-airbnb.html ====== chx So this guy had 3000 bucks a month for rent and most of the time was living in illegal rents. Congrats.
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No Clear Exit - ltrain1203 Let me begin by saying that I have been actively reading and sourcing Y Combinator for the last year and am extremely grateful for the community. The articles and information are thought provoking and inspirational. That said, I am not a programmer and thus have never posted.<p>However, I ...
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Outrageously Large Neural Nets: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer (2017) - msoad https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538 ====== merricksb Discussion 2 years ago at time of publication: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518039](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518039) ------ jcims N00b here. I can’t tell ...
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Inside the FBI's Fight Against Chinese Cyber-Espionage - ghosh http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/27/exclusive_inside_the_fbi_s_fight_against_chinese_cyber_espionage ====== tikums DOJ Plans To Indict State-Sponsored Cyber Attackers [http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121218/C4ISR01/31218000...](http://www...
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Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round - bjonathan http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/12/storenvy-goes-from-getting-kicked-out-of-yc-to-raising-a-5m-round/ ====== aviswanathan Storenvy has an interesting model, but I'm a bit skeptical about their scalability. I started a fashion brand in HS (bac...
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The Master's Voice: What we know of Bach, and may never comprehend - tintinnabula http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-masters-voice/article/2008586 ====== ktRolster The article compares Bach to Handel saying "not a single work of Bach’s is more beloved than Handel’s Messiah—and this is owing to that oratorio’s undeniabl...
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Adobe's Source Sans Pro updated, moved to Github - georgebashi http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro-revised-and-hosted-on-github.html ====== gknoy The monowidth version of the font is still in development. I look forward to hearing about that in the ("near") future.
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50 Common Misconceptions in the World of Software Development - sirkarthik https://hackernoon.com/50-common-misconceptions-in-the-world-of-software-development-7144566c54f9 ====== sirkarthik This one seem to have caught the attention of a lot of readers in Hackernoon on Medium platform. #InterestingRead #ReadIt
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Sorry, No, I’m Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass - chacha102 http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/lyons ====== moultano Great. Trolling in response to trolling. I can't think of a better use for the attention of everyone on hackernews than reading this. I'm sure we'll all be further toward ...
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Portable sunshine: Earbuds that shine light into your ears - Juha http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/02/start/portable-sunshine ====== jot There's a good discussion about these, including responses from the makers here: "Valkee Scam" <http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2011/09/valkee-scam/> ~~~ sambeau I dis...
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Aha.io makes it affordable for startups to plan great products - speek http://blog.aha.io/index.php/startups-wanted-new-aha-startup-pack/ ====== danwilson My company uses Aha! and we're getting a ton out of it. Finally, we have a structured means of clearly communicating product strategy/objectives and demonstrating...
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Intentional memory leaks - throwaway2048 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ ====== tjalfi The previous discussion is [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542) ------ wyldfire It's certainly a humorous anecdote and...
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I can build an forever-free and anonymous personal finance web app - adrian_pop I&#x27;ve always wanted to control my finance, to know where goes my money and one important thing: forecasting. All sites that I&#x27;ve found over this feature as a paid one. Well, listen my plan:<p>#1. completely free personal finance (...
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Goldman Sachs: space-mining for platinum is 'more realistic than perceived' - ptrptr http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-space-mining-asteroid-platinum-2017-4 ====== foxyv "It used to cost $35 million (£28 million) to send one person up on a Soyuz rocket. Today, Virgin Galactic hopes to get space tourists int...
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Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust - adamnemecek https://github.com/archseer/enigma ====== archseer Thanks for sharing, author here! (AMA?) I had a lot of fun working on this project, having implemented enough of the VM to run both Elixir and IEx before I stopped. Ultimately development stalled since I couldn'...
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Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training? - the_antipode Hi, all. Long time, first time. Hoping to tap into the collective HN consciousness to help make sense of this question, as I feel it&#x27;s something I&#x27;m seeing&#x2F;experiencing at present.<p>It seems like twice a week or more I...
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Ask HN: How do you go about meeting cofounders? - BadassFractal Let's say I'm in a situation where I'm looking for a co-founder in the SF area. I'm highly technical myself (MS from top 3 school, years of experience at a software giant, passion for open source and bleeding edge technologies, treat software engineerin...
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The Apprentice Programmer (2013) - bootload http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-programmer ====== jakobegger We also have the apprentice system in Austria. It's not always as nice as this. If you manage to get an apprenticeship at a good company like Siemens, you'll receive great education. They ...
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Where does your plastic waste end up? - sambeau https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2018/11/where-does-your-plastic-waste-end ====== nitwit005 Article connects the plastics ending up in the ocean to the exports to recyclers, but it never shows how that would work. Are the recyclers dumpin...
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Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees - dror https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html ====== tssva The article itself acknowledges that the ratio of contractors to employees at Google isn't out of the ordinary for SV companies and my personal experience is th...
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How to make a product video for under $150 - dpolaske http://polaske.tumblr.com/post/91289197615/how-i-created-a-professional-product-video-for-146-55?one=one ====== ttty still something is missing to be professional. Anyway is a lot better than other home made (: ~~~ dpolaske Most definitely not quite pro. And tha...
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You can't see or remove non-amazon devices from your Amazon account - altmind https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dpbt3t/the_perils_of_security_and_how_i_finally_resolved/ ====== ratsmack This is the stuff that gives me nightmares... Are there any Amazon folks that hang out here in HN that can expand on this?
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The UDP Firewall Punching Technique Explored - joshuacc http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/08/05/the-udp-firewall-punching-technique-explored/ ====== msie This technique won't work on a Symmetric NAT firewall.
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PEP 380 ("yield from") is now Final - motter http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115471.html ====== motter Full details: <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/> ~~~ sp332 Talk about syntactic sugar :) RESULT = yield from EXPR _is semantically equivalent to_ ...
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Python Hunter – a flexible code tracing toolkit - ionelm https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter/ ====== ionelm Hunter has now a bit of everything (process attach, variable diffing like in pysnooper, env var activation, breakpoints, thread support and an api to build stuff on top) but without going overboard with ove...
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An Error Leads to a New Way to Draw, and Erase, Computing Circuits - signa11 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/science/an-error-leads-to-a-new-way-to-draw-and-erase-computing-circuits.html?_r=0 ====== AlbertoGP TL;DR: they found that low-energy fluorescent's ultraviolet emissions allow "etching" circuits in topologica...
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Show HN: Testing at Compile-Time - billsix http://billsix.github.io/cac.html ====== billsix Let me know if anyone has questions. I learned quite a bit in making libbug. Being able to do any computation during Compile-Time, such as state and IO, was more powerful then I had initially expected.
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Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code - wglb http://www.smh.com.au/world/honour-for-overlooked-poles-who-were-first-to-crack-enigma-code-20121009-27b9y.html ====== jgrahamc I'm glad that Poland wants to honor these people, but to say that Bletchley Park has been overlooking them is utter nons...
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Ask HN: Why is subscription billing hard? - zdrummond Our company has created a new pricing model which is built around subscriptions. We have been thinking about the best way to bill our customers and report what has happened to accounting.<p>While doing research I came across Zuora (http://www.zuora.com) which is ...
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Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable - suprgeek http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/05/introducing-Google-Cloud-Bigtable.html ====== mataug I've been quite frustrated with the google cloud platform, Just take a look at their APIs for AppEngine, CloudSQL, GCE and the sort, Its pathetic compared to their direct com...
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What's the logic behind Google rejecting Max Howell, author of Homebrew? - ziodave https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejecting-Max-Howell-the-author-of-Homebrew-for-not-being-able-to-invert-a-binary-tree?share=1 ====== byoung2 Imagine Guns 'N Roses rejecting Les Paul after an audition. The lead guita...
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Fat that makes you thin - prat http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327211.200-the-fat-that-makes-you-thin.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=genetics ====== mhotchen This is an interesting discovery, but I have a question about its uses for anyone that knows more about nutrition and/or biology than myself: If Bob has 50 g...
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SAFE Network: a decentralized data storage and communications network - lwhsiao https://safenetwork.org/ ====== pdx SAFE will certainly store files, and it will do so in such a way that nobody will know who is reading them or who published them, striving to be completely censorship resistant. Think TOR hidden services...
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What does a data team really do - Michal_Sz https://medium.com/gogovan-technology/what-does-a-data-team-really-do-84b2f669e4b6 ====== Michal_Sz I published this article about work of the data team. Appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Thanks!
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Raise Ducks, Not Chickens - tosh https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/bangladesh-climate-change-floods-ducks/593581/ ====== Pick-A-Hill2019 Fav Quote from the article “Ducks,” Akter told me matter-of-factly, “can swim.” (context snippet) " Climate change has made that way of life unpredictable, ...
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New Car Hacking Research: 2017, Remote Attack Tesla Motors Again - kartD http://keenlab.tencent.com/en/2017/07/27/New-Car-Hacking-Research-2017-Remote-Attack-Tesla-Motors-Again/ ====== devy > The video below demonstrates ... Where is the video below in the blog? I can't seem to find it...
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Ask HN: What should we do - warewolf We need some advice on our next step. We currently have a product that is in the App Store that we launched for user validation. The problem is, we now have that validation but the product isn&#x27;t scalable. We outsourced the development so the backend isn&#x27;t what it should b...
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Helvetica: The Blend, Reinvented - tedmiston https://blog.suddencoffee.com/helvetica-the-blend-reinvented-2a4c557821b7 ====== tedmiston Sudden Coffee (YC W17) created a new process for blending coffee. Instead of brewing the blend together, each different bean is brewed and dried separately, then combined after the fa...
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UK Porn Block Could Be a Ticking ‘Privacy Timebomb’ - Prickly_Pear https://digit.fyi/uk-porn-block-could-be-a-ticking-privacy-timebomb/ ====== astazangasta I'll never understand the British tolerance of ubiquitous surveillance. The CCTV regime is appalling and makes me never want to visit. The Internet censorship by g...
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Why tech conferences are the worst place to demo tech products. - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2010/07/13/why-tech-conferences-are-now-the-worst-place-to-demo-tech-products/ ====== pedalpete I think the best advice is to just run a local version. That way you are guaranteed to not have a connectivity issue...
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Facebook – You are the Product - rditooait https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product ====== notadoc I stopped using Facebook years ago and I could not recommend it more. I found it to be mental pollution at best and and a total waste of time. If you want to 'keep in touch' with people, call or...
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Learn Morse code - daenney https://www.morsecode.io ====== timonoko I totally learned. What do I do with the skill?
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Why Facebook Getting It Wrong Pays More Than Getting It Right - iProject http://observer.com/2012/09/broken-on-purpose/ ====== morgannnn I'm surprised this doesn't bother more people. Especially because facebook, etc. are so open about their policies. Holiday claims this will make Facebook go by the way of Myspace, bu...
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Dmr: Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix - robinhouston http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html ====== un1xl0ser In regards to /* You are not expected to understand this */, the most resonating part of the example was the fact that it didn't work at all the way the implementor expected it to. I sometimes ...
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CitySourced: Lessons learned from our TC50 experience - aditya http://blog.freedomspeaks.com/index.php/88/drinking-from-the-fire-hose-our-tc50-experience/ ====== dondenald Neat demo. Nitpick: the presenter's nervousness made it uncomfortable to watch. Between his dry-mouth clicks and swallows, long verbal gaps & unp...
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Useful Emacs Hacks - dskhatri http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60367/the-single-most-useful-emacs-feature ====== dskhatri I have been a light Emacs user for a few years now. I was so thrilled about discovering Org-Mode through an HN post [1], I went out looking for other cool Emacs hacks and found this Stackoveflo...
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Sony adopts, then drops, Cocoa-like GNUStep - teamonkey http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/27/sony_adopts_then_drops_cocoa_like_gnustep_plans_to_rival_apple_ios.html ====== sudont This is a cold war. God knows who pressured Sony to drop it, it was a fairly novel move and generated a _ton_ of developer intere...
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Why Startups Fail (infographic based on Startup Genome data) - danberger http://visual.ly/why-startups-fail ====== mattront "Inconsistent startups write 3.4 times more lines of code in the Discovery stage and 2.25 times more lines of code in the Efficiency stage." This is interesting. Either inconsistent startups (...
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Judge extends ban on 3D printed guns - RobertSmith http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/403811-judge-extends-ban-on-3d-printed-guns ====== akvadrako My favourite quote from the ruling: _> First, it is not clear how available the nine files are: the possibility that a cybernaut with a BitTorrent protocol will ...
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Health Surveillance Tech for Athletes Could Come to an Office Near You - AdroitLake http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/09/14/health-surveillance-tech-athletes-sport/ ====== a3n This would be great data for one team to steal from another.
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Droids Will Replace Work? - srid68 http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.sg/2012/09/can-fed-fight-droids-and-win-apples.html ====== jhartmann Maybe this isn't the best article, but this is definitely a conversation worth having. I'm sure this would not come as a surprise to any of us here. Most of the technical pe...
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Work Online? My Insight Into Setting An Hourly Rate - MatCarpenter http://www.sofamoolah.com/blogging/work-online-my-insight-into-setting-an-hourly-rate/ ====== Vitaly It's pretty simple actually. Evey time you are overwhelmed with work, rise the rate. If you don't have enough work for a prolonged amount of time, lo...
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LLVM Europe 2012: A Portable C++/CLI Compiler - voodoochilo http://www.atoker.com/blog/2012/04/12/llvm-europe-2012-cli-compiler/ ====== j_s I couldn't tell if the Nuanti C++/CLI compiler was something that was open source, or if it was the secret sauce that Nuanti uses to port native projects (mostly WebKit) to Silver...
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Why is the Daily Mail website so successful? - arihelgason http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/15/mailonline-daily-mail-website ====== arihelgason Apart from this, they have also done a phenomenal job at SEO.
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Show HN: Hacker News and Top Comment - growt http://newsx.de/ ====== growt Creator here. A while ago I found a link here to "Silent HN" which was HN without any comments. That experiment got me thinking how I use HN. When I observed how I use this site I realized that most often I would open the link to the discussion...
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VSCode silently opts you in to data collection - alangibson https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting ====== tapirl I disabled the telemetry feature before, but the latest vsc version reverts it to enabled automatically, holy creepy. And the latest version introduces many o...
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Application Bundles for Linux (drag&drop installer) - urlwolf http://www.appbundles.org/ ====== andrewtj I think <http://0install.net> is a better solution as it handles updates and works on multiple platforms. Regardless, unless a couple of major distributions support one of these alternative install systems they're...
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Microsoft opens cloud services to select Canadian clients with new data centres - ppereira http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/microsoft-opens-cloud-services-to-select-canadian-clients-with-new-data-centres/article29225256/ ====== SteveNuts What a great day for canada, therefore the world ------ drpgq I wonder ...
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San Francisco’s Dominance Over U.S. Innovation and Technology Patents - jseliger http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/05/san-franciscos-increasing-dominance-over-us-innovation/484199/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29 ====== PaulHoule People in Peoria pay into pensi...
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BQ and Canonical Launch the Second Ubuntu Phone - reddotX http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/bq-and-canonical-launch-their-second-underwhelming-ubuntu-phone/ ====== thrill I keep thinking it'd have to play well to Canonical's agenda if they'd release Touch on the Note 4. Can they not legally buy the devices, reflash t...
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Is Cold Fusion Finally Being Accepted by Scientists? - andykaufman http://www.cnbc.com/id/48615362 ====== Steuard No. (That was easy.) I'll happily take that back if someone can point to mainstream peer-reviewed publications by at least two independent research groups claiming success with the same approach (or eve...
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What is the most confusing thing to you in Python? - r0f1 https://dev.to/r0f1/what-is-the-most-confusing-thing-to-you-in-python ====== tdbgamer () is an empty tuple (1,) is a tuple with one element Most small numbers are Singleton's, hardcoded or single character strings are Singletons as well. ------ LarryMade2 Why...
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What you don't like eating - pacifi30 http://nsingh.posterous.com/what-you-dont-like-eating ====== pacifi30 Not just cereals but everything that has a element of horse shit attached to it
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The algorithm police is coming. Will it have teeth? - n_kb https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/algorithm-police/ ====== OneGuy123 Why do I have a feeling that the way these laws will work will be to add some "academicaly derived, politcaly approved" bias to certain machine learning models to push the results in the "c...
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Ron Rivest on why MD6 was withdrawn from the SHA-3 contest at NIST - soundsop http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/OFFICIAL_COMMENT_MD6_2009-07-01.txt ====== scscsc It seems to be a very classy withdrawal. I wonder how much the other candidates satisfy the two 'suggestions'. ~~~ omail You echo Bruce Schneier's sentime...
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New Chromecast apps for the holidays - rooster8 http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/12/new-chromecast-apps-for-holidays.html ====== mrt0mat0 when is the chromecast app going to allow me to just select any video that i view on the internet and click the symbol to stream? I know their big worry is probably pirated movies, b...
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Ask HN: Does anyone else also have a thick black line at the top of the screen? - eindiran ====== mindcrime Yes, it's an HN tradition to acknowledge the passing of notable figures in the community. On this particular occasion, the individual is Larry Tesler. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282](https://news...
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All’s well that spends well - pepys http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/alls-well-that-spends-well/ ====== duncans Are we supposed to comment on the fact that the article is delivered as HTML embedded in JSON, or that the images are 8 megapixels but then displayed at 600 x 400?
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The challenges of teaching software engineering - ingve https://www.sicpers.info/2019/07/the-challenges-of-teaching-software-engineering/ ====== dzink You seem to be starting too abstract. Analogs help and so does starting from a point where the students can experiment and get feedback on their mistakes from their own...
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Huawei abandoned by Google and major US chipmakers - yashwt07 https://medium.com/@yashwate07/huawei-abandoned-by-google-and-major-us-chipmakers-bf1e085d957a ====== hn45oye Could turn out as a big problem for Huawei
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Space and Human Survival: My Views on the Importance of Colonizing Space [2003] - billswift http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm ====== billswift She also has a related Listmania! page "Why We Must Colonize Space" [http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Must-Colonize- Space/lm/15QM4CUB...](http://www.amazon.com/Wh...
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C++17 Fold Expressions - ingve http://baptiste-wicht.com/posts/2015/05/cpp17-fold-expressions.html ====== mdup It seems very ironic that C++ adds _more_ rules to the language in order to get _less_ cluttered code. This "..." syntax, which probably won't be used a lot of times, will be nice because you'll understand...
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Outreach Program For Women—FOSS internships for cis and trans women, and genderqueer - celebril http://gnome.org/opw/ ====== alxjrvs It's fantastic to see such prolific and powerful organizations be so inclusive. A+. ~~~ JoeAltmaier I approve and support this effort. But the word 'inclusive' is a reach, when their ...
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Electricity Shock: Toyota Camry Cheaper to Fuel Than a Tesla Model 3 - jvandonsel https://seekingalpha.com/article/4316505-electricity-shock-toyota-camry-cheaper-to-fuel-tesla-model-3 ====== manmeet Looks like an incredibly poor analysis by someone desperately holding onto their short position. Tesla owners don't use...
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Bug Bounty, two years in - amitku https://blog.twitter.com/2016/bug-bounty-2-years-in ====== paulpauper my experience with bug bounties Me: here is a bug Them: it's a feature, not a bug [fixes feature] ~~~ busterarm Or in my case recently with trying to get HubSpot to support PRURLs: Me: Here is a bug. Your implem...
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Django CRM: Best open source Software - anuja073 https://github.com/MicroPyramid/Django-CRM ====== anuja073 Django-CRM enables businesses to create customer relationships with an innovative, flexible and affordable CRM solution.
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Flaming Wreckage of Clinkle Rebuilds as a Referral Service - coloneltcb http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/29/i-know-you-thought-it-was-dead-but/ ====== powera Is this even a startup at this point, or just a guy good at making mock-ups that get covered by TechCrunch? ~~~ yarou What's the difference? ------ seibelj $30m i...
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Small company developer pain points - ph33t Just curious if anyone who works writing software as a service for a small company (&lt; 10 developers, sys admins, and dba&#x27;s combined) have particular pain points.<p>I have a ton of experience in this area, having worked exclusively in this realm for the last 30 years ...
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Spy Dust (Nitrophenyl Pentadienal) - boredgamer2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrophenyl_pentadienal ====== jdietrich A modern equivalent is SmartWater, a clear fluid that a) fluoresces under UV b) is extremely difficult to wash off and c) contains a unique code for forensic identification. [https://en.wikipedia.or...
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Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food - brudgers https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/malnutrition-miracle-what-ready-use-therapeutic-food/30730 ====== blacksmith_tb I thought these had been in use for quite a while - Plumpy'nut [1] being the variety I'd seen mentioned most commonly. I see that there's some patent nastiness[2], ...
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Show HN: stk8.co, a multiple URL/Text shortener. - kqueue I am sorry to submit this again, but I feel it didn't get its share yesterday on HN. So I am giving it one last try.<p>stk8.co allows you to stack several Links or Text and share them under one shortened url. It embeds a preview of the link for common service...
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Show HN: Realtime Website Analytics for Free - _ao789 https://statvoo.com/ ====== maz1b What is the difference between this and something like Google Analytics? ~~~ _ao789 All data is _always_ realtime with a very simple integration. Integrating into SPA/Angular/React is so easy that you don't even need to tell it a...
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There still aren't enough tech workers, and enterprises are paying the price - JSeymourATL http://www.cio.com/article/2982976/there-still-arent-enough-tech-workers-and-enterprises-are-paying-the-price.html ====== mindcrime As others have pointed out, there isn't really a "shortage" in the general sense. There's a "sho...
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The Darkweb’s New Favorite Drug Market, Profiting from Silk Road 2’s Demise - InternetGiant http://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-evolution-of-evolution-after-silk-road/ ====== jobu _" And in addition to drugs, counterfeits and guns, Evolution also sells stolen credit cards, a kind of crime never allowed on the Silk Road...
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Hitler's secret fighter revealed - newacc http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/jun/30/slide-show-1-hitler-stealth-fighter-reincarnated.htm ====== DannoHung Man, that's a beautiful plane. I wonder why flying wing designs haven't been more prevalent. I mean, there've been a few, but not a whole lot. ~~~ russell The o...
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Open source Arduino based USB/MIDI foot controller - rch http://axe.io/post/3412714714/welcome-to-axe-io ====== jamesotron I am shocked and amazed to see one of my projects posted to HN by someone other than myself. Apparently someone else cares enough about what I'm doing to tell their mates about it. Thanks.
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Writer's Block, or the Wantrepreneur Blues - fazkan https://www.indiehackers.com/@thwiv/writers-block-or-the-wantrepreneur-blues-76ab4a93b6?utm_source=Indie+Hackers+Newsletter&utm_campaign=indie-hackers-newsletter-057&utm_medium=email ====== pfisch Quit your job. Make it real. Fear is one of the best motivators. Unfo...
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Samsung CEO says all its products will be connected by 2020 - SharpSightLabs http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533941/ces-2015-the-internet-of-just-about-everything/ ====== johndubya1 Isn't this just hype? I still don't understand why it's going to be helpful to have something like my refrigerator connected. I've...
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Lemony Snicket's Occupy Wall Street Observations - swilliams http://occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket ====== rick888 I wish the same people who supported the occupation of wall street supported the rights of software developers and musicians. More money is demanded from the protesters, yet when developers and mus...
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Merkel allows prosecution of German comedian who mocked Turkish president - doener https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/15/merkel-allows-prosecution-of-german-comedian-who-mocked-turkish-president/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombin...
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The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) - lispython http://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html ====== sramsay What sort of cover art should we use for the book? How about a snow-capped mountain peak? You know, the kind of mountain peak where people die either for lack of oxygen, or because crevasses open randomly across...
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AMD Ryzen Mini-STX: ASRock’s DeskMini A300 - walterbell https://smallformfactor.net/reviews/systems/asrocks-deskmini-a300-finally ====== Dunedan That would be such a great system if it had an internal PSU. I'm so tired of all these ultra small cases which require an additional bulky external PSU. Apple seems to be the...
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Government Bailouts: A U.S. Tradition Dating to Hamilton - prakash http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122186662036058787.html?mod=article-outset-box ====== quasimojo we've never done anything on this scale. the debt ceiling will be raised to 11.3 trillion, meaning it will hit 12 trillion by 2011 and 20 trillion by 2020. ...
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Ask HN: Great online forums? - ffggvv Reddit is filled with internal jokes. HN is a big echo-chamber. Lobste.rs is invite-only. Imzy?? (too young maybe?)<p>Any good forum out there? ====== scrapcode I think I can relate to you in that I'd like to find a community to be able to interact more. I've been an active lurker...
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Ask HN: Any tool that can crawl and produce stats like avg/median/p90 pagesize? - dedalus I am looking for a fast tool that can quickly crawl a subset of pages and come up with a number like the average&#x2F;p90 stats for webpage size, request size etc ====== brianjking [https://github.com/sitespeedio/sitespeed.io](ht...
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Ask HN: Does minimum karma downvoting encourage elitism? - rm_-rf_slash When I started on HN a while back I had just assumed the visible lack of downvoting arrows meant that feature simply didn&#x27;t exist. I preferred it, since to me it meant that quality comments would bubble to the top, while poor arguments would ...
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Playwright CLI – Open/inspect/emulate pages, generate screenshots, record users - svacko https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli ====== wraptile As soon as python bindings came out I made a `promt-toolkit` based shell[1] for playwright and it has been such a time saver for prototyping! $ ptplayw...
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Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..." - andreypopp https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/364265592112414720 ====== stfu This would be in my opinion the single most important development that came so far out of the NSA controversy! If they can somewhat manage to keep the use...
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Multi-Project or Single Project - robotrout In many areas of my life, I enjoy the efficiency of moving from uncompleted task to uncompleted task, as I get bored or hit a mental or physical stop.<p>I am cursed with rather a multitude of web application ideas, and the sheer number of them would dilute my efforts to su...
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T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’ - tshtf https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t-mobile-ceo-to-eff-who-the-fuck-are-you?utm_source=mbtwitter ====== Someone1234 We pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consumers, geeks, and the privacy/digital rights inclined. They're doing exactly what donors want them to be...
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