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Ask HN: Most flexible open source e-commerce platform? - anujkk I'm exploring about open source e-commerce platforms for one of my e-commerce ventures. Please suggest me which one is best in terms of -<p>1. Flexibility in customization.<p>2. Simplicity in UI/UX.<p>3. Active community.<p>4. Plugin architecture and av...
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How about learning f***ing programming? [9min video] - yogsototh http://vimeo.com/49324970 ====== krigath I guess she makes some good points. I'm a 4th year student at the University of St Andrews[1], Scotland. We were introduced to both refactoring and unit testing quite early, and there has been a strong emphasis...
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Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year - shrutigarg06 Use this stack.<p>1. DynamoDB for database<p>2. AWS Lambda for backend<p>3. Netlify &#x2F; Now &#x2F; Surge for frontend<p>4. S3 for file&#x2F;image hosting<p>5. Cloudinary for image hosting<p>6. IFTTT to webhook for cron<p>7. RedisLabs for queues, cache<p>8. ...
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Newest Androids will join iPhones in offering default encryption - bane http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/18/newest-androids-will-join-iphones-in-offering-default-encryption-blocking-police/?hpid=z1 ====== gonvaled Only the data physically on the smartphone gets encrypted. All information (em...
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Mastodon 2.4.0 - valeg https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0 ====== willvarfar Is mastodon getting mainstream? I first saw mastodon a few months ago on HN where it was suddenly 'hot'. But I had trouble finding any content to actually consume, and I didn't poke around very long. Hopefully that's c...
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RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET - darrenkopp http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/09/30/ryujit-the-next-generation-jit-compiler.aspx ====== jevinskie > It’s not supported for production code right now but we definitely want to > hear about any issues, bugs or behavioral differences that you ...
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Ask HN: Ok to use HN for our blog comments? - Bradosaur Comment threads on Wordpress blogs across the internet are often low-quality, whereas people seem to be well behaved and insightful on HN. Is it okay to simply have a "Discuss this post on [Hacker News]" on every blog post?<p>Is there a posting rate above whic...
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New metal is so hydrophobic it makes water bounce like magic - tomp http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-amazing-metal-is-so-hydrophobic-it-makes-water-boun-1680799039?amp ====== biot This is blogspam. Original source was discussed here yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8921655](https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Why Tech Didn't Stop the New Zealand Attack from Going Viral - Reedx https://www.wired.com/story/new-zealand-shooting-video-social-media/ ====== ordu Because of you, Wired. I didn't thought that this video is interesting enough, but I feel pressure to find it now, to download and watch. You know, if I didn't download ...
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Show HN: Graph search for Twitter - joeteplow https://www.socialrank.com/ ====== beastfromeast Hey- I'm one of the co-founders of SocialRank.com. We built graph search for Twitter --> allowing you to search your followers by location, interests, verification, bio keywords and more. It is really powerful. It is great...
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Ask HN: Investment Advice from Hacker News - andy_ppp Hello Everyone and Merry Christmas!<p>I have a feeling Hacker News will have some interesting thoughts on investment ideas over the next 5-10 years that are going to give good returns.<p>I would love to know your opinions on medium to long term investments, funds a...
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Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops - GiraffeNecktie http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/policing-the-police-the-apps-that-let-you-spy-on-the-cops/240916/ ====== ajays The article mentions 2 apps, but I'm sure these are not the only ones. It would be nice to know about others...
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U.S. will look at sudden acceleration complaints involving 500k Tesla vehicles - the-dude https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-probe/u-s-will-look-at-sudden-acceleration-complaints-involving-500000-tesla-vehicles-idUSKBN1ZG1IL ====== mdorazio I don't think I've ever seen a confirmed case from any auto maker that u...
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Show HN: See what the internet thinks about any topic, based on Google queries - ionwake http://thehivemind.online/?startups ====== jszymborski Completely broken in FF46 (Win 10). [http://thehivemind.online/?poop](http://thehivemind.online/?poop) for great laughs ~~~ carlob Same on Safari OSX. How hard is it to make...
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The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup Stripe - fragmented http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9c8d9f7c-c000-11e3-9513-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2zLRSJUsg ====== tomasien “We were the first people to work on Stripe, and chronologically that’s interesting but so much of the great work that we do now, we’re a p...
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Google : Facts about our network neutrality - dreur http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/facts-about-our-network-neutrality.html ====== jokermatt999 Dupe: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598737> ------ spooneybarger Google's veil of not evil while always hyperbole has been pierced. At this point, it feels l...
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Hacking Scrabble: Using a Python script to improve my game - zephod http://blog.zephod.com/post/28118665268/hacking-scrabble-part-2 ====== zephod The discussion which followed part 1 of this article is here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3347720> (I incorporated some of the things we discussed into this foll...
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The Rise and Fall of Quirky, a Startup That Bet on the Genius of Regular Folks - kanamekun http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/they-were-quirky.html ====== jeffgreco I've only ever heard bad things about their products' build quality -- crazy to me that a company like GE would want to align themselves with lo...
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Learn Emacs and Lisp with simple, bite-sized screencasts - ColinWright http://www.emacsbites.com/ ====== eyko I like the approach (two birds with one stone) but the first bitecast has left me the impression that I've learnt some emacs lisp and very little emacs. Since total newbies are supposed to be the audience of t...
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Ask HN: Monetizing your brain (without writing code) - danilocampos Hi HN,<p>I'd like to raise some cash but I'm not sure I want to do contract work. Writing code for money can be a big commitment. More than that, it's often just not fun. Few clients have interesting problems to solve and I'd rather build things for...
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Learn about security from free online training - joebasirico http://www.securityinnovation.com/products/security-summer.html ====== joebasirico Hey, submitter of the above link here. I had a hard time coming up with a non- spammy sounding title for this submission, but my company, Security Innovation, does a lot of ...
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Anyvite takes aim at the Evite juggernaut - jmorin007 http://thestandard.com/news/2008/08/06/anyvite-takes-aim-evite-juggernaut ====== fallentimes Based on usability alone, it's not even a competition. The biggest hurdle is getting people to change their ways. Last time I checked more people used yahoo mail or hotmail...
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Rules to live by - yarapavan http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/rules-to-live-by/ ====== yarapavan Rules to live by: * You must not dilly-dally. * You must be your word. * You must have good intentions. * You must admit to being the maker of meaning. * You must not feel sorry for yourself. * You must have ...
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Yesterbox - bouncingsoul http://yesterbox.com/ ====== Fuzzwah Every time I read one of these articles which go into great depth about tricks, systems or processes for dealing with email I'm left feeling amazingly glad that I don't have this problem. My work email inbox receives about ~10 emails a day. Of which maybe ...
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Making The Call: Vertex's Cystic Fibrosis Trials Will Succeed. Here's Why. - Mz http://www.thestreet.com/story/12717763/1/making-the-call-vertexs-cystic-fibrosis-trials-will-succeed-heres-why.html ====== Mz This sort of turns my stomach, in part because it is a crazy expensive drug (about $250,000/year/patient), but...
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IRS just declared war on Bitcoins - tn13 https://fee.org/articles/the-irs-just-declared-war-on-bitcoin-privacy/ ====== scott_c Did you actually except to be able to exchange an unlimited amount of money without having to declare it on your tax returns?
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Why Clojure? I’ll tell you why… - ertucetin https://medium.com/@ertu.ctn/why-clojure-seriously-why-9f5e6f24dc29 ====== Annatar "Clojure is a functional programming language, that runs on JVM" ...which means that the party is over: anything that I cannot permanently compile into straight machine code and generate a bi...
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Where the f*** can I park? - hk__2 http://blog.manugarri.com/where-the-f-can-i-park/ ====== chrisan Not as cool as finding a street spot in a neighborhood but I recently visited family in Columbus, OH where they had a parking garage that helped you find a spot. This was a very popular shopping area when the weather is...
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Grateful Dead Lyricist Robert Hunter Dies - RBBronson123 So sad about the death of Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rollingstone.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;music-news&#x2F;robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788&#x2F; . In so many ways, his were the lyrics of my youth--the very best part of it. &quot;Le...
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MATLAB code relicensed under BSD license - skorks http://www.aravind.name/matlab-code-relicensed-under-bsd-license ====== fragmede Misleading title; The code for Mathworks product, MATLAB is not being relicensed. A previously GPL'd ".m" file is being forced to relicense as BSD in order to stay listed on MathWorks' w...
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Inheritance in C using structure composition - arpitbbhayani https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/inheritance-c ====== ChrisSD > Structures in C are not padded and they do not even hold any meta > information, not even for the member names; hence during allocation, they > are allocated the space just enough to hold the actua...
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Biometric payment system trialled in supermarket - tooba http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41346717 ====== gruez >"Today's millennial generation now expects a higher level of ease, security and efficiency from the way that we pay," he said. >have to put your finger in some weird scanner, rather than tapping your c...
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How to Replace Windows 7 with Linux Mint - jrepinc https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-replace-windows-7-with-linux-mint/ ====== imdyingboys I actually tried this, but the video drivers just wouldn't work with my graphics card. This meant I couldn't play any games. Honestly I shouldn't be playing games anyway, but I...
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Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties? - mosconaut I&#x27;m in my early thirties and I feel I&#x27;ve not really made any significant effort in learning math&#x2F;physics beyond the usual curriculum at school. I realize I didn&#x27;t have the need for it and didn&#x27;t have the right exposure (environmen...
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White House Takes Security Pitch to Silicon Valley - aarestad http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/us/white-house-takes-cybersecurity-pitch-to-silicon-valley.html ====== Canada > "I think that people and companies need to be convinced that everything we > do in the cyber domain is lawful and appropriate and necessary," M...
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Internet threats hound teen subsistence hunter after he kills bowhead whale - thesmallestcat https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/we-alaskans/2017/08/12/internet-threats-hound-teen-subsistence-hunter-after-he-kills-bowhead-whale/ ====== MichaelBurge I have a hard time believing that people actually cared about that whale. ...
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WebServius - Amazon SimpleDB based, data focused API service - cesther http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/webservius-monetization-system-for-data-vendors.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AmazonWebServicesBlog+(Amazon+Web+Services+Blog) ====== mark_l_watson That looks very cool and useful...
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Under-building of new homes, high construction cost perpetuate housing shortage - prostoalex https://www.redfin.com/blog/2017/10/heres-the-1-reason-its-so-hard-to-find-an-affordable-home.html ====== chiefalchemist "We would love to build more affordable starter homes, but when high-end homes cost the same to build and...
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IF-less programming - alisnic http://alisnic.github.com/posts/ifless/ ====== raverbashing This is getting ridiculous " ifs are a smelly thing in a Object Oriented language." What's smelly is such a absurd assumption. Yes, let's replace every small decision in our program with inheritance and another level of abstrac...
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San Francisco to Tax Google Buses - joshhart http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/06/san-francisco-to-tax-google-buses ====== muzz Why was the title changed to remove the quotes around "Google Buses"? As if SF is taking one company, and not all private bus operators? Changes like these, in addition to WSJ's own word...
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FPGA Programming for the Masses - nkurz http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2443836 ====== AndresNavarro I think the last paragraph is key: > We also need to revisit the approach of compiling a high-level language to > VHDL/Verilog and then using vendor-specific synthesis tools to generate > bitstreams. If FPGA vendor...
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Interactive Vim tutorial - ashitlerferad http://www.openvim.com ====== sevensor Alternatively, don't try to hurry enlightenment. First, learn :q! Next h,j,k,l Then i and ESC Finally :w Now you know vim. Don't let peopl...
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IdeaSquares - every Square has the potential for success - IdeaSquares http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ideasquares-an-idea-platform-with-endless-possibilities/x/4742129 ====== doubt_me Whats stopping these ideas from being stolen?
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Ontology is Overrated (2005) - Tomte http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html ====== PaulHoule In the Semantic Web that is called "anybody can say anything about any subject".
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words - mcantor http://www.apostate.com/how-say-nothing-500-words ====== chime Giving concrete examples is something Feynman talked about a lot too. It is easy to talk abstractly about anything but in the end, something real and relatable must exist. When I deal with enterprise software, I pr...
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The man who changed Internet security - nickb http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9989292-57.html?hhTest=1 ====== cperciva I don't think this issue is quite as serious as Dan Kaminsky is making it sound; but I'll say this for him: He's great at wrangling the media. Is this bigger than past coordinated advisories? Maybe...
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Android (G1) Market Model: Low-volume, Low-cost? - brkumar http://geekyouup.blogspot.com/2009/03/android-g1-market-model-low-volume-low.html ====== metachris interesting posts. i guess the low-volume, low-value kind of game is the most easiest to make some money at the current time. as said in the article, a game ...
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Ask HN: Is your company's code open to all employees - imagiko What considerations go in when a company decides to restrict codebase access to respective teams? I cannot see any code another team is working on. How common is this practice? What can one gauge about the company culture if this is the case? ====== jetti ...
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Show HN: Bullish – Stock market performance stats in your inbox - blakbelt78 https://bullish.email ====== Etheryte Interesting concept, a few questions right off the bat, though. Where does the data come from? Premarket data can mean very different things with modern buzzwords. What's your ToC and privacy policy? I'm ...
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) - wglb https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html ====== __sy__ One the aspect I like the most about this man is how approachable and down to earth he still is after all these years. I'll give one example. Late on night, my friends we...
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Airbnb Hosting Horror Stories - mbarsh I had a guest ruin a rug with coffee this week. When I asked him to partially pay for the rug he responded with &quot;You are sending me this now. It&#x27;s Friday we left on Tuesday. Really.&quot; Airbnb is impossible to get in touch with. As a host, I feel we are stuck with the...
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Billboard visible only to women - jacklei http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/21/face-recognizing-billboard-only-displays-ad-to-women/ ====== cafard Is it just that I'm old, jaded, and maybe better, or could it be that many men would regard this a perfectly good chance not to be lectured? None of the issues covered here--...
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Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair - chicagoscott https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k7mby/45-out-of-50-electronics-companies-illegally-void-warranties-after-independent-repair-sting-operation-finds ====== chicagoscott The full headline is: 45 Out of 50 Electronics Compa...
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Building a Recurring Revenue Consulting Business [audio] - tomhoward http://www.freelancetransformation.com/blog/building-a-recurring-revenue-consulting-business-with-einar-vollset ====== patio11 This is really fantastic (just got done with listening to it). Highlights include: 1) Why/how to price productized service...
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iFixit has been acquired by Apple - milesf http://www.ifixit.com/apple_press_release ====== rdl Could we kill all of the stupid April Fools' articles? ~~~ dang What a coincidence: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793) Could you all take care of this one as tes...
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Suspicious pizza order led police to Paris attack mastermind's hideout - rayascott http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/suspicious-pizza-order-led-police-to-paris-attack-masterminds-hideout-at-brussels-flat-34556144.html ====== RubyPinch No it didn't. > But their suspicions were only confirmed when a woman mad...
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Cops often let off hook for civil rights complaints - cryoshon http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/9939487-74/police-rights-civil ====== mtgx I wouldn't say 96% of the time is "often". I would say "cops get off the hook _virtually always_ ". Of those 4% who do get investigated, about 3 out of 4 don't get indicted, bec...
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How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords - yanw http://onemansblog.com/2007/03/26/how-id-hack-your-weak-passwords/ ====== mrcharles You don't need special characters if you can use a passphrase. I use a passphrase for all my encryption passwords (usually 5-6 words long), which results in a password which is 20-30 characters...
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Apple Patents Keyboard That Knows What You’ll Type Before You Do - rondevera http://techland.time.com/2011/05/12/apple’s-patents-keyboard-that-knows-what-you’ll-type-before-you-do/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fnerd_world+(TIME%3A+Techland) ====== matthewn With technology from ...
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Solarwinds acquires Pingdom - themichael http://solarwinds-marketing.s3.amazonaws.com/solarwinds/PDFs/SWI-HIEMDALLR-External-FAQ.pdf ====== stephen To celebrate, they just sent this marketing email to all of our "serviceX- alert@" addresses: Subject: We are joining the SolarWinds family Bo...
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I Hate Entering a Date - jontomato http://medium.com/design-ux/5c63c4e195c3 ====== krapp I don't like having to enter a date using a specific format like 'mm/dd/yyyy' (as a string, the slashes or dots of course being mandatory as well.) There are libraries whose entire purpose for being is turning datelike strings i...
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Indian government says citizens don't have absolute right over their bodies - 0xmohit http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/citizens-dont-have-absolute-right-over-their-bodies-government/articleshow/58486260.cms ====== whack The arguments raised in favor of this motion, sound reasonable and applicable here in the W...
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Drones Outpacing Rules as Popularity Soars in New York - mcenedella http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/nyregion/drones-outpacing-rules-as-popularity-soars-in-new-york.html ====== MindTwister This is why we need regulation and rules: “They started jumping for it,” he said. “I started taunting them...
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Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so I built her one - dinosaurs http://www.memofromsanta.com ====== dinosaurs I built this. Girlfriend needed this to organise her christmas party and we couldn't really find a nice one on the internet.. So I built it myself. Mostly for her and as an exercise for ...
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RIP Open Source MySQL - mariuz http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/0152237/is-mysql-slowly-turning-closed-source ====== beedogs As soon as Oracle bought them, the writing was on the wall for an open-source MySQL. Look how quickly they murdered OpenSolaris. Oracle is anathema to open software. ~~~ jacques_ch...
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Cable companies have started showing fewer ads because of Netflix - rajathagasthya http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-companies-cut-ads-because-of-netflix-2015-11?IR=T ====== clentaminator Aside from ads, freedom of choice with respect to just what you watch seem to be the other key motivator. With the capability o...
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Google Calendar now has spam - justinkelly http://blog.justin.kelly.org.au/google-calendar-spam/ ====== justinkelly Didn’t know that this was even possible - but there is now spam in Google Calendars
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Ethiopia's Authorities Have Shut Down the Internet Without Giving Any Reasons - jw2013 https://www.iafrikan.com/2017/06/01/ethiopias-authorities-have-shut-down-the-internet-without-giving-any-reasons/ ====== mgr86 I have an Ethiopian colleague. Well he got his American citizenship a few years ago. But the only way to ...
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New Performance Monitor for Windows - cosmosdarwin https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Admin-Center-Blog/Introducing-the-new-Performance-Monitor-for-Windows/ba-p/957991 ====== papln Ah, Windows monitoring tools. Another great one is Driver Verifier. If your computer crashes due to hardware fault, you can u...
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The Rise of Edible Insect Farming - Osiris30 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-insects-as-food/ ====== ravenstine As someone who was eating insects long before cricket protein bars became in vogue, I don't see entomophagy becoming anything more than a fad in the west, especially America. The taste of insects si...
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Show HN: Chirpss – Hear when someone visits your website - pixelfeeder http://chirpss.com/?rst ====== anonfunction This would be cool if it could filter for certain events like people subscribing, etc... there used to be something like this that played a "cha- ching" sound but I forgot what it was called.
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No Parkinson's with the flip of a switch - courtstar http://kottke.org/13/06/no-parkinsons-with-the-flip-of-a-switch ====== weitzj I was really amazed and watched a live surgery. The surgery was done by one Professor, a Neurologist, and two medicine-physicists. I was really amazed how the operation was done. Most of...
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Show HN: People are afraid to give you honest feedback so we built this - jeffchuber We (@emrenx and I) wanted a simple little tool that would help us get better feedback so we could move faster. We knew that anonymizing the data would help. For more research on this approach, check out 360-degree feedback http://en...
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The American coal industry is collapsing - nashashmi http://fusion.net/story/142473/the-american-coal-industry-is-collapsing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=/feed/ ====== ZeroGravitas Recent article that goes into this issue in depth: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9618072](https://news.ycombina...
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Help Haiti, Get Valuable Rewards - jgrahamc http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/01/stay-classy-softwarefx-stay-classy.html ====== eraad Helping to get rewards is not supposed to be the right thing, but I guess it may be the only way to get some people, which would never help, to help. ------ _pius This is an example of ho...
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How to Have Real World Impact, in Five Easy Pieces - mwhicks1 https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/10/29/how-to-have-real-world-impact-five-easy-pieces/ ====== jressey Why the hell do people modify scrolling on their websites? ~~~ behnamoh Some think just because they can, they should do it.
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to the 3-strike ISP piracy scheme? - mchahn I remember the start date for the 3-strike anti-piracy program that ISPs were supposedly going to implement. (maybe it was 4, 5, or more strikes?) That date went by and I haven&#x27;t heard anything about it since. Did the ISPs come to realize i...
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma exploring bankruptcy - smaili https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purduepharma-bankruptcy-exclusive/exclusive-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-exploring-bankruptcy-sources-idUSKCN1QL1KL ====== milsorgen They must of been closer to bona fide repercussions then I realized. Seems like pain pills...
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Apple Products Banned In Germany By Motorola - techiediy http://www.techieinsider.com/news/13190 ====== ggeorgovassilis Not quite correct so. A court granted an injunction which would allow Motorola to ban 3G Apple products in Germany [¹]. However Motorola must deposit 100m € if they want to make good on that right as...
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When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It - aaronbrethorst http://steveblank.com/2010/06/07/when-big-companies-are-dead-but-don’t-know-it/ ====== aaronbrethorst I'm guessing that Steve is referring to Macrovision. Interesting inside look. ~~~ hga That was my guess as well. Analog Macrovision obviously died a hard...
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Effects of High Glucose and High Fructose Diets on Body Weight in Rats - ssp http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/16/3/229.pdf ====== nas Weight gain is the same (not surprising since calories are the same), liver is 22% bigger in fructose fed rates. This is an old study, BTW. Here's a 2009 study comparing fructose ...
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The Story of 2 $1 Million Projects in 24 Hours - zachh http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/24-hours ====== hop Hi HN, Casey from the Elevation Dock project. People use the term disruption pretty loosely, I think crowd-funding is really doing it. Goodbye middlemen, sayonara to the massive traditional barriers to entry. He...
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Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot - sz4kerto https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1742323 ====== hansendc This arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c fix is unlikely to have rendered too many things unbootable. I missed ds.c entirely when doing the original implementation. I can't fault the nice folks at Canonica...
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Steal This Idea - Interview with Matt Mason - dangoldin http://www.fastcompany.com/node/804055/print ====== dangoldin I just finished reading his book "The Pirate's Dillema" and highly recommend it. He talks about innovation through piracy and how more and more industries are being opened up through piracy - music,...
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The downside of using LED traffic lights - awa http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_re_us/us_snow_covered_stoplights ====== awa A side-effect of the conventional traffic lights (heat production) is now a requirement for the new energy efficient lights. This seems parallel to a bug becoming a important feature i...
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I'm creating this fb group so it's easier to rent a place as a remote developer - MarvelousWololo https://www.facebook.com/groups/657254981406899/photos/ ====== MarvelousWololo as a remote dev i usually do my bookings on airbnb or booking but sometimes i wish the place i rented were specifically target for tech people...
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Superfast Nike shoes are creating a problem - bookofjoe https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/sports/marathon-running-nike-vaporfly-shoes.html ====== __initbrian__ "A 2018 New York Times data analysis based on public race results uploaded to Strava, the athlete-tracking and networking company, found that runners in Vapor...
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What was the final straw that made you stop programming with python? - slybridges https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-final-straw-that-made-you-stop-programming-with-python?share=1 ====== nikonyrh I still use Python at work, but the lack of "real" threads in the language feels very silly when you are running your code ...
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Ask HN Googlers: would you invite a fellow geek to visit the Googleplex? - phaser i am a self taught programmer from chile who founded a few startups and needs nothing but a friendly googler who can vouch for me so i can visit the googleplex. since i was growing up in santiago i used to read about silicon valley in ...
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Did RIM lose its BlackBerry software boss just ahead of QNX transition? - zacharye http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/26/did-rim-lose-its-blackberry-software-boss-just-ahead-of-qnx-transition/ ====== digamber_kamat Looking at BGR's reporting with respect to RIM now I am starting to wonder if BGR is paid to do so. Seems like...
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Ask HN: How can I contribute to cure aging/death research being a developer? - Gooblebrai ====== cimmanom Most type of research require all sorts of supporting activities, some of which can be facilitated by software or websites. For instance, modern scientific research requires a lot of data processing, and as discus...
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Is “Gamification” the new assessment game changer? - talview http://blog.talview.com/is-gamification-the-new-assessment-game-changer ====== staticelf I for one hate gamification in 99% of the cases and I am pretty young. Why not focus on the core product and actually making the product faster, more resource efficient...
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60% of YouTube’s video ads are skippable - FluidDjango http://gigaom.com/video/more-than-half-of-all-youtube-video-ads-are-skippable/ ====== unicornporn 100% of YouTube’s video ads are adblockable.
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How to Be a Stoic - Tomte http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/how-to-be-a-stoic ====== osti You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, withou...
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Final Statement on the LambdaConf Controversy - buffyoda http://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-conclusion ====== lukev Of course, LambdaConf has every right to define its community in the way it sees fit. While their explanation does have a lot of logical appeal (see: [https://www.facebook.com/notes/satnam-singh/dr-s...
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Scarcity of smartphone app developers stifles a growing industry in Michigan - bryckbost http://www.freep.com/article/20110830/COL41/108300342/Mark-W-Smith-Scarcity-app-developers-stifles-growing-industry ====== bryckbost Another article to toss in the gloom and doom pile of Michigan software industry. Since when hav...
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John McAfee unveils plans for 'the world's first truly private smartphone' - ChefDenominator http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4452720/John-McAfee-unveils-plans-hack-proof-smartphone.html ====== beamatronic Step 1. Don't have a baseband processor
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Tail recursion in Python - zweedeend http://chrispenner.ca/posts/python-tail-recursion ====== shakna Someone recently pointed out to me you can bypass the recursion limit with an inbuilt decorator, because it's basically a memoiser. lru_cache, from the functools library. The example given in the docs [0] is: ...
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Bitcoin Has Crashed – What Now? - ryan_j_naughton https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2019/09/25/bitcoin-has-crashed-what-now/ ====== rvz Perhaps this is the best news that has happened for those who missed this year's dip. The author has just answered his own question in this article. > I’ll be buying the dip but ...
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Did the FBI Plant Backdoors in OpenBSD? (2010) - egsec http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/12/did_the_fbi_pla.html ====== Wingman4l7 Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27...
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