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Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim - yuppiemephisto https://github.com/alok/notational-fzf-vim ====== tjoff The description isn't that obvious for people that don't know what notational velocity is or how it works. ~~~ fourier_mode Thanks for pointing that out. I thought it is just some name OP chose. It is just a...
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Ask HN: negotiating for vacation instead of salary? - luu Have you tried doing this? Did it work? Is this even possible at big companies, where people get X weeks of vacation to start, and then Y weeks of vacation once you hit N years of experience?<p>Am I even asking the right question? Should my question be “what ...
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Show HN: The Node Handbook - flaviocopes https://nodehandbook.com ====== imnicnic Nice work good info
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Social micropayment system by Peter Sunde of Pirate Bay fame goes beta - jonasvp http://www.flattr.com ====== ivankirigin The cake is a lie. This is exactly like contenture, which shut down: [http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/21/the-anti-ad-network- content...](http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/21/the-anti-ad-network-conten...
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Show HN: My Weekend Project, leftright.me - ecto From inception Thursday night to near-feature-complete on Sunday morning, I consider it one of my better weekend hacking projects.<p>http://leftright.me/<p>I built it with node and Redis which was particularly fun. Redis truly is the AK-47 of databases.<p>This project...
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Real-Time Vehicle Visualizations in JavaScript with D3.js - jamespollack http://www.prettymuni.com ====== dej611 I did a similar vis last year (maybe same company's job :D ) here: [http://dej611.github.io/sfmuni_tracker/](http://dej611.github.io/sfmuni_tracker/) ~~~ jamespollack ha cool, very similar! perhaps the sam...
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A dose of hope (low dose rate radiation study) - ChuckMcM http://www.frontline.in/stories/20120727291403700.htm ====== ChuckMcM This is an overview of this paper: [http://web.mit.edu/engelward- lab/publications/2010_Engelward...](http://web.mit.edu/engelward- lab/publications/2010_Engelward_HP.pdf) which looks to be...
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Time to end the myth that devs don't like sport - thetimmorgan http://picklive.com/blog/devs-that-like-sport-meetup ====== tatsuke95 >"I mean it’s not like code and sport go well together." While I think it's a stretch to assume programmers don't like sports, I _have_ worked in in a couple of developer shops as a n...
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Net neutrality fight is about to flare again - JumpCrisscross https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/15/net-neutrality-fight-is-about-to-flare-again-244912?lo=ap_c1 ====== DataWorker “is about to” meaning there might be something to read about in a few weeks. This kind of preview-of-news-that-may-come-soon seems to be...
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What Is Color Management? - PascLeRasc https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025502033-What-is-Color-Management- ====== ucarion A more accessible blog post, also from Netflix, mentioned in the article: [https://netflixtechblog.com/protecting-a-storys-future- with-...](https://netflixtechblog.com/...
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Be proactive, not reactive – Faster DOM updates via change propagation - evlapix http://blog.bitovi.com/change-propagation/ ====== lhorie Interesting article. Some thoughts off the top of my head: Proxies are presented as a possible candidate to improve performance, but in conversations w/ some vdom library authors, ...
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Design Thinking: B2 APIs and the Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility - Manozco https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-hidden-costs-of-s3-compatibility ====== elFarto I wonder if you could get the same functionality of AWS, with the same implementation of B2, by having a single URL to POST files to, th...
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Will You Take $100 Now or $200 in a Month? - nreece http://www.nilkanth.com/2014/04/11/will-you-take-100-now-or-200-in-a-month/ ====== meric "Will You Take $100 Now or $200 in a Month?" I suppose it depends who you are, on the value of $1, and how many other people you're making the same offer to... Definitely tak...
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Analyzing Flight Data: A Gentle Introduction to Spark's GraphX - anabranch http://sparktutorials.net/analyzing-flight-data:-a-gentle-introduction-to-graphx-in-spark ====== anabranch Any feedback anyone has would be greatly appreciated! Just getting this site started to teach people about the basics of Apache Spark. ...
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About the security content of Security Update 2018-001 - mafro https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208742 ====== CognitiveLens For anyone unfamiliar with Project Zero, it's a team at Google dedicated to finding security vulnerabilities across the internet (and in software in general, it seems) [https://security.googleb...
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The Cmd+space Bullet Journal - Tahul https://journapi.app ====== Etheryte While this looks like something that might be interesting, the landing page has too little information to deduce what it is and how it compares to other similar tools. Having a screenshot, or a small demo video demonstrating how you use the tool...
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Top 5 tools every serious Linux user should have - mnazim http://blog.atlanticmetro.net/2013/07/02/top-5-tools-every-linux-server-should-have/ ====== mooism2 Article title is _“Top 5 tools every Linux server should have”_. Why has it been posted here as _“Top 5 tools every serious Linux user should have”_?
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Building BasicMan.co: Static-Dynamic Application Architecture - jacobwg https://blog.jacobwgillespie.com/building-basicman-co-static-dynamic-application-architecture-55f9f8021eaf ====== EwanG Case study of building a website. Feels a bit more like an ad for the website than a real case study, but that may be me. ~~~ ...
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Turbolinks: SPA-like Experience without the SPA-framework Hassle - filipewl https://goiabada.blog/can-you-build-a-single-page-application-without-a-front-end-framework-6799cee03750 ====== disconnected I know they are trying to promote their own Front-End Framework (while trying to pretend that it isn't one), but with ...
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The Principle of Incomplete Knowledge - MichaelAO http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/%5EINCOMKNO.html ====== brudgers Recent, related: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11544149](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11544149)
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BinDiff now available for free - ner0x652 http://security.googleblog.com/2016/03/bindiff-now-available-for-free.html ====== aurelianito Shameless plug: Several years ago I did a tool that shows differences between disassembled functions basic-block graphs, that you can use for free and it is GPLv2 licensed. I believe...
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How Your Race Affects the Messages You Get (2009) - Cozumel https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/ ====== ksk Probably a combination of media brainwashing, societal expectations, and biological programming, but you can't control who you're attracted to. Maybe its worth figh...
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Tell HN: iPhone app using Quizlet API hit Top 15 in Free Apps - philfreo Our small startup, Quizlet.com, is using online flashcards and games to make studying fun, social, and more productive. We've got 800,000+ registered users and over 50 million user-generated flash cards on the site.<p>Just wanted to share with H...
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Chopin on an 1832 Pleyel Under Creative Commons (Kickstarter) - robertDouglass https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opengoldberg/kimiko-ishizaka-plays-chopin-on-an-1832-pleyel ====== crazycomposer A fantastic, worthy project which will allow everyone to experience Chopin's 24 Preludes on the instrument Chopin compos...
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Easy Ways to End All Diseases Immediately (and Forever) - transburgh http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/12/alttext_1212 ====== jey Far more effective: <http://vhemt.org>
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Refactoring code that accesses external services - henrik_w http://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-external-service.html ====== e28eta I like the goal of the article, I think it does a great job of refactoring a typical-looking method with too many responsibilities into a reasonably decomposed system. I also r...
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F*dging up a Racket - sea6ear https://www.hashcollision.org/brainfudge/ ====== tonyg Nice article. One thing that people are doing these days is using the #lang mechanism to easily turn a Redex [0] model into a quick-and-dirty prototype implementation of a new language, integrated with the Racket tooling (IDE etc.). ...
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Code, Eval, Play, Loop – Common Lisp OpenGL Environment - joubert https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl ====== raphaelss Be sure to check out the videos of it in use [1] and the Lisp to GLSL translator [2]. [1] [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2VAYZE_4wRKKr5pJzfYD1...](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2VAYZ...
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Coping with Java security changes - wmnwmn We really like Java for bioinformatics apps because the same app can run the heavy-duty backend processing, as well as the web-enabled front-end for querying results. We don&#x27;t have to program two UI&#x27;s, one for standalone use and one for public data access over the...
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Why salaries don’t rise - altern8 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-salaries-dont-rise/2015/03/11/38c08cea-c81d-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html ====== ap22213 Software development is supposedly a high-demand skill. And, I hear that companies can't seem to hire anyone qualified. I still get dozens of recruit...
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The dark side of an MIT brain - andrewljohnson http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N34/normandin.html ====== zacharyvoase Gosh, that was judgemental. I suppose it was intended to be an opinion piece, but it took prostitution to be wrong _a priori_ , with no discussion or justification of this premise. Bandying about words like...
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Google buying Songza - raldi http://songza.com/google ====== marclave I do not exactly know I feel about this..
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Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 - sfoskett http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-thunderbolt-3/ ====== jws We will survive this. We survived having RJ45 jacks (which I just learned are not really RJ45 jacks, but 8P8C connectors) in walls. Is it a phone, a token ring, or an Ethernet? Cat 3,...
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Ask HN: Why did you accept a lower salary? - mattbgates Anyone who has settled for a lower salary when they know they could probably go and earn more elsewhere, what are your reasons?<p>For me, I work with my fiancee... for over 5 years now. This is our second job together and this is the longest job I&#x27;ve ever he...
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Why we can’t wage war on drugs - jseliger http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/we-cant-wage-war-on-drugs/ ====== aggieben I checked out the moment the author drew a kind of strained equivalency between illegal amphetamines (i.e., meth) and modafinil and _caffeine_. I'm all for ending the drug war as we know it, bu...
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Tesla Is Now America's Number One Premium Automotive Company - danhak https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2019/01/02/tesla-is-now-americas-number-one-premium-automotive-company-outsells-bmw-lexus-in-q4/#14c2254d4af3 ====== toomuchtodo Title is inaccurate due to the Forbes article being inaccurate. Forbes compare...
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Parrot Secrets - robotrout http://www.cringely.com/tag/parrot-secrets/ ====== ankhmoop I'm weary of hearing how market success is demonstrative of genuine value. Parrot Secrets may be a valuable resource -- we don't know -- but a snake oil salesman can also be quite successful, and his success does not validate his ...
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Chamath Palihapitiya says most of the things VCs have funded are "mostly crap" - jackgavigan http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/chamath-palihapitiya-interview-says-start-ups-are-mostly-crap ====== grandalf The broader thing I've realized of late is that so many startups exist simply because they are building somet...
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Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly - NickLarsen http://cultureofdevelopment.com/blog/build-your-first-thing-with-web-assembly/ ====== tdumitrescu Nice investigation! A minor point about your description of wasm: "WebAssembly or wasm is a bytecode specification for writing performant, browser agnostic web componen...
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Code to Inspire: Coders Without Borders - prtkgpt http://americas.startupbus.com/2013/a-short-story-behind-coders-without-borders/#.UTeatDCG0rX ====== KateScisel Honestly, I joined startupbus because I needed a ride to SXSW, I didn't expect to meet so awesome people and in 3 days create a project that actually makes...
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‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Problem - retupmoc01 https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151124-kadison-singer-math-problem/ ====== mathgenius > The fact that he, Srivastava and Spielman were able to solve it “says > something about what I hope will be the future of mathematics,” he said. > When ma...
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Can 'Cover' convince a doubting Valley that Android-first is sexy? - trendspotter http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/25/can-cover-convince-a-doubting-valley-that-android-first-is-sexy/ ====== _lex Given android's upward trending market share dominance, android-first will probably be the default in the next year, with and...
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The pi is a lie… Happy Half Tau Day! - mhartl http://halftauday.com/? ====== GavinB If we don't fix this, everyone at the galactic congress is going to laugh at us. ~~~ archangel_one If the only thing the others at the galactic congress laugh at us about is our usage of pi instead of tau, I reckon we'd be doing prett...
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The Eyjafjallajoekull Art Project - garbeam http://eyjafjallajoekull.com/ Icelands second strike in less than 2 years ====== garbeam Please submit your art entries! Presumably Eyjafjallajoekul will stop flights for longer than people imagine...
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Google's Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch - edwinjm http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4133428/is-google-building-a-smart-watch-of-its-own After Samsumg and Apple, now it seems Google is making a smartwatch, too. ====== Mahn Somehow I can't help but suspect Apple will, again, be the first to get the UI of...
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A brief history of the UUID (2017) - tosh https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/ ====== ponytech Comments from the first post in 2017: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508413](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508413) ------ thanatos_dem Reading through this, I kept thinking that ULIDs[1] g...
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Show HN: C2mon-Core - Shared404 https://github.com/EvanGHoose/c2mon ====== Shared404 This is the first semi-serious code I've open sourced. I'm mostly a sysadmin, and not a particularly good programmer, so if you see anything done badly, please let me know. I know that I did a bad job with error handling, I couldn't ...
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What is your Sublime Text workflow? - joshearl I'm curious: What does your editing workflow look like when you work with Sublime? What type of development do you do, and what plugins and features are most useful? ====== allyant PHP/Rails web developer here using OSX: I like to keep ST full screen with the file brow...
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Late applications for summer 2010 have all been considered - pg http://ycombinator.posterous.com/late-applications-for-summer-2010-have-all-be ====== avk Thanks for accepting late applications and for lettings us know the cycle's over. Maybe next time :)
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RHODOS – A Microkernel-Based Distributed Operating System (1994) [pdf] - vezzy-fnord http://darknedgy.net/files/rhodos94.pdf ====== unboxed_type Why this paper deserves attention in your opinion? I found nothing remarkable there. ~~~ vezzy-fnord Focuses specifically on multiserver interactions in reasonable detail. I...
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DOJ Closing Bank Accounts for "undesirable" but legal businesses/employees - melindajb http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/chase-closing-porn-stars-bank-accounts/ ====== dragonwriter Actual headline from source article: "Chase Closing Porn Star’s Bank Accounts" First line of text (emphasis added): "Chase Bank has been...
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Julian Assange claims his encrypted laptops were stolen in 2010 while traveling - jessicasumthing http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/julian-assange-claims-his-encrypted-laptops-were-stolen-in-2010-while-traveling/ ====== grecy > the document revealed that the police force was instructed to violate the > Vien...
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Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time? - bradtx As in B2B sales, where nearly all potential clients are only open Monday - Friday. ====== codegeek Automate as much as possible. Payments ? Slap a stripe checkout form (unless you happen to be in a country where Stripe is still not supported) ...
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Conflicting goals between VCs and entrepreneurs - amichail It seems to me that VCs and entrepreneurs have conflicting goals. VCs are looking to hit a home run in one out of ten attempts. Entrepreneurs are looking to maximize their probability of financial independence -- which is a different goal altogether involv...
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Ask HN: Windows Laptops with Good Keyboards? - puranjay My 2018 Macbook&#x27;s butterfly keyboard started causing issues 4 months after I bought it. Apple will replace it but it&#x27;s clear this problem will happen again.<p>So I&#x27;ve decided to move back to Windows. Linux isn&#x27;t an option because some tools I ...
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Microsoft downloading Windows 10 to your machine just in case - JustSomeNobody http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2425381/microsoft-is-downloading-windows-10-to-your-machine-just-in-case ====== maxharris Anything that reduces the usage of IE is a very good thing! I've been working on a project for a couple of m...
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Ask HN: How do think tanks make money? - mbesto ====== Rhodee I worked in that space for seven years. To put it plainly, we were paid to create ideas by entities and individuals who wanted a certain frame or perspective to emerge or persist in the wild. ~~~ noodle i understand generally what you're talking about, but ...
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A Brief Overview of Deep Learning - ozansener http://yyue.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-brief-overview-of-deep-learning.html ====== amelius I found this to be insightful: > ... human neurons are slow yet humans can perform lots of complicated tasks > in a fraction of a second. More specifically, it is well-known that a hu...
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Ask HN: Best way to manage custom email addresses? - sbuccini I have several email addresses through custom domains that I want to be send&#x2F;receive mail from. I currently use one Gmail account that sends&#x2F;receives emails from the POP mail servers maintained by my domain registrars.<p>There are two main problem...
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Ask HN: Cool intro videos for your startup's landing page? - fjabre I figured this would be a good place to ask. Does anyone have any recommendations for flash design shops or individuals who specialize in video intros for a website's product or web app?<p>The video intro on the Dropbox site would be an example of a...
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Systems Thinking and Making Homelessness Worse by Helping - liamzebedee https://stw.kumu.io/making-homelessness-worse-by-helping ====== jlg23 TL;DR: By providing temporary shelters the problem of homelessness is less visible and therefore less long term solutions are sought. This is one of the most perverted line of ...
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Mozilla's latest step in fight to save net neutrality - jdorfman https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/08/20/mozilla-files-arguments-against-the-fcc-latest-step-in-fight-to-save-net-neutrality/ ====== core-questions Net Neutrality might be important in the grand scheme of things, but overall I find that it's less importa...
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The Opposite of Fitts' Law - bdfh42 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/03/the-opposite-of-fitts-law.html ====== dagw Another relevant example would be the voting arrows here on this site. I don't know about anyone else, but I have voted comments the wrong way on a number of occasions. Having some sort of obvious un...
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Where to start counting, 0 or 1? - joseakle My hypothesis: It's more usual to start with 0 when counting steps and with 1 when counting things.<p>Maybe that's why programmers start with 0, they usually count steps. Age also starts at 0, nobody is born being 1 year old, although we are living our 1st year of life. Ra...
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Going underground: the Moscow metro - e15ctr0n https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/going-underground-the-moscow-metro ====== Grue3 Ride it everyday, and all the Soviet nostalgia aesthetic is making me sick. Here are some actually interesting stations: \- Vorobyovy Gory (the longest station, situated on a bridge over...
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Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows - osrec https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49008300 ====== JauntyHatAngle As someone who recently cancelled my Netflix subscription after idly flipping through it and realising nothing here holds my interest anymore, I feel like many of the reasons people pirated TV...
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Ask HN: I was fired from a startup I helped found, I'm fucked - grumpymarketer I'm in a rough spot and I'd like to ask for advice from my fellow HNers. I was employee #1 at my startup and was fired 11 months in - 1 month from my cliff. I'm not necessarily bummed I was let go, things changed with the company and my r...
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Ask HN: Dear Recruiters Stop Asking why do you want to work for our company - syed123 Nothing worthwile came out of this question. At the end of the day everyone wants to get paid. ====== NotPaidToPost To me the real purpose of this question is to see if the candidate did a minimum of homework about the company and wh...
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It's Harder to Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says - dickbutt http://time.com/4551521/uber-lyft-black-discrimination/ ====== cup No real surprise there. Most things are harder when you're black. Getting a job, getting an airbnb, getting a fair trial, getting an education, getting a lease on a house, gettin...
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Learn Voraciously (2015) - arbingsam http://www.arbing.co.uk/learn-voraciously/ ====== jasode _> So why do so many people who have chosen to take that extra step, just stop educating themselves when they graduate?_ Because most people _don 't_ go to college to "get an education." They just go there as a hoop-jumping ...
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South Park Sums Up Most Web Startups - jasonlbaptiste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6kGJDGctU ====== snprbob86 As funny and cleverly satirical as South Park is, I don't think this belongs on HN. ~~~ zepolen You must admit, this scene is a lot more on topic than a lot of other submissions. ------ Rawsock That's th...
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Ask HN: what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? - hashtable What software do you use for analyzing apache logs? I would prefer open source ones that will work on Linux, although this is not a deal breaker. ====== davidw I use 'visitors' ( <http://www.hping.org/visitors/> ), which was written by my friend...
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How to roll your own streaming service - MPetitt https://medium.com/p/4e8d9f7308cd ====== MPetitt Hey everyone, I'm the author of the article and one of the developers at CuriosityStream. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have about streaming technology or the industry.
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Show HN: Founderkit Deals – Credits and Discounts for Startup Founders - ryanmickle https://founderkit.com/deals ====== codegeek I am not sure if it is just me but what do you mean by "Sometimes it pays to know the founders" Are you offering a discount on specific products if I know their founder ? This sounds silly ...
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High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes - joshtronic https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/ ====== pjungwir Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales in...
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Ask HN: Is anything like TotalSpaces possible again with macOS? - benologist ====== BinaryAge You can still run TotalSpaces on 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra: [http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/elcapitan](http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/elcapitan) TotalSpaces is still being actively developed.
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How to be the 10X programmer - johnfn http://blog-johnfn.herokuapp.com/entry/4 ====== danielrhodes Couldn't disagree with this article more. What the author is saying is that to be a 10x programmer, you should be building scaffolding all day (instead of actually tackling the problem at hand and getting things done...
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Principles Of Minimalist Web Design - bearwithclaws http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/13/principles-of-minimalist-web-design-with-examples/ ====== blehn The problem with this article (other than the usual SM lack of substance) is that almost all the examples are portfolio sites for artists and designers. How abo...
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What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths? - LinuxBender https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33470/what-technical-reasons-are-there-to-have-low-maximum-password-lengths/33471#33471 ====== pwg Note also that an enforced length limit is sometimes an externally visible code smell of n...
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Apple products are back on EPEAT, glued-in batteries and all - Foomandoonian http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/13/stop-the-presses-apple-admits-it-made-a-mistake/ ====== Foomandoonian There's a lot about this Apple/EPEAT story that doesn't add up to me. I'd be fascinated to read some educated speculation as to wha...
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Project Natalia: A wristband panic button for activits - bjornsing http://natalia.civilrightsdefenders.org/ ====== HoopleHead "Activits"? Some kind of health supplement, I guess?
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Expedia Affiliate Hacks Google Plus Local hotel listings - Aussiewebmaster http://blog.sweetiq.com/2014/01/expedia-affiliate-hacked-google-plus-local-hotel-listings/#axzz2qgalvsWF Recent Google Plus Local hack shown to be by Expedia affiliate ====== no-brainer apparently this stuff happens all the time... "Quite a f...
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VMware, Google Team On Chromebooks - cpeterso http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/software-as-a-service/vmware-google-team-on-chromebooks/d/d-id/1113817 ====== neeks I use Fedora, and occasionally run into the same problems with proprietary apps as some Chromebook users would. All and all this sounds ok, but unfortun...
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iMessage + Apps - brbcoding https://developer.apple.com/imessage/ ====== wlesieutre I admit it, I don't get the draw of these things. I can vandalize people's messages with stickers now? And from the keynote, "Nothing beats a fullscreen moment!"? Ookay. The amount of applause for "We made emoji bigger!" was ... surpr...
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Twelve-Year-Old Awarded $3,000 for Finding Critical Firefox Flaw - Mikecsi http://news.softpedia.com/news/Twelve-Year-Old-Awarded-3-000-for-Finding-Critical-Firefox-Flaw-162522.shtml ====== RiderOfGiraffes See also: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822116> <\- This one has the comments. <http://news.ycombinat...
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Ask HN: How frequent do you rewrite from scratch? - beenpoor I am writing a template generator for my team and feel like I need to rewrite from scratch. I started couple of weeks back and already redid once. I feel like I need to rewrite and improve it again. It&#x27;s frustrating to see how not-so-well-thought out ...
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Local-time effect on small space-time scale - seedlessso http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0610137 ====== jmakov That's one of the papers Global scaling theory is based on. There's a long story on how Hertmut Mueller as a researcher in Soviet Russia did some research for the gov. that was classified etc. They even had so...
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Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried? - colinprince http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages ====== molo_ There are two contributions to the load factor: number of processes/threads on the ready-to-run queue and the number blocked on I/O. The processes blocked on I/...
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Something Is Broken in the UK Intellectual Sphere - lottin https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a ====== kwhitefoot Whine, whine. ------ danharaj A prominent intellectual in one field pretends he knows immediately how to be an expert in another field and then subsequ...
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Google AppEngine - A Second Look - nickb http://highscalability.com/google-appengine-second-look ====== thorax They do have a very basic fulltext search library they didn't put in the documentation: <http://ri.ms/2r> ------ acgourley What grinds my gears is that you can't have files in your application over 128k due ...
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Company tries to scam iphone developer, claiming they own public data - jmathes http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data.php Does A Private Company Own Your Muni Arrival Times? ====== Timothee "Muni spokesperson Judson True says otherwise. In fact, he says that, no, Muni owns the data in question ...
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Groove on branding - alexmturnbull http://blog.groovehq.com/post/10202618882/hackernews-1-groove-on-branding ====== mustpax This is a great article but your headline distracts from it. I know using "HackerNews #1" in your title might increase click-throughs, but what does "HackerNews #1 Groove on branding" even mean...
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Ask HN: What are some good resources for web design? - devcheese My girlfriend has really been enjoying designing websites. I bought her a course on Udemy that teaches her the basics of photoshop, and she&#x27;s been in love with it since. What good resources should she read&#x2F;watch to keep her learning&#x2F;moti...
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Ask HN: Where in Berlin are most of the startups? - rdl I&#x27;m visiting Berlin right now (after speaking at 30c3), and wondering which areas of town have the greatest density of startups. There are various hackerspaces, but a lot of what&#x27;s going on seems to be less commercial than in SFBA. Would definitely be...
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Ask HN: What are your pain points with Python? - alexbecker Pain points with the language, ecosystem, package management, distribution, anything. I&#x27;m working on making package distribution easier, but happy to kvetch about other pain points as well. ====== ThePhysicist Since the introduction of wheels I’m mostly ...
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GraphiQL Explorer 2.0: A power-user release - sgrove https://www.onegraph.com/blog/2019/05/30/GraphiQL_Explorer_2_0_A_Power_User_Release.html ====== sgrove The GraphiQL explorer is completely open source, and anyone can use it in their own GraphiQL instance, so you can get this visual exploration and quick query build...
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Detailed analysis of a star’s orbit near supermassive black hole - furcyd http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/einstein-general-relativity-theory-questioned-ghez ====== idlewords This is a weird title given the content of the article, which is that researchers observing a supermassive black hole got a result completely c...
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Full Scheme web development stack - amirouche https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.scheme/uKdi-kZoSpE ====== shakna Using SRFI-69 would cut out some of the alist boilerplate, and help with unexpected cornercases. And seeing Biwa Scheme makes me nervous - its an interpreter, not a compiler. That's both a ...
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The eastern coyote, a wild N. American canine with coyote-wolf and dog parentage - curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_coyote ====== itp There's a Nature documentary about the Eastern Coyote/Coywolf called, appropriately enough, "Meet the Coywolf," available on pbs.org[1]. It was surprisingly non-fluffy for a...
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Three Roads To The Top Of The Mountain - jerome_etienne http://jacquesmattheij.com/three+roads+to+the+top+of+the+mountain ====== tuhin _from what I've seen in the people around me that 'made' it without a tremendous amount of luck or access to outside capital, starting from 0 with nothing to show for themselves but ...
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