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Show HN: A curated list of awesome web apps - vasanthv https://github.com/vasanthv/awesome-web-apps ====== bradknowles It’s not a curated list of awesome anything if you don’t annotate each entry and tell us what it does and why it is awesome at doing it. IMO, of course. ~~~ vasanthv Makesense, renamed it to [https:...
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TSMC and OIP Deliver Industry’s First Complete Design Infrastructure 5nm Process - ytch https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&newsid=THPGWQTHTH&language=E ====== doe88 As an outsider I would never had anticipated Intel being leapfroged like that in such a short window of time. As side ef...
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Announcing the Second Edition of Infrastructure as Code - mooreds https://infrastructure-as-code.com/book/2019/12/10/announcing-second-edition.html ====== santoriv I really hope this book has some discussion regarding Pulumi in addition to the normal Terraform discussion. My team switched over to Pulumi recently after...
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Ask HN: Bootstrap alternatives? - mkrecny ====== beat I've started using Foundation, and like it so far. It's less prescriptive visually than Bootstrap. ------ razvvan Zurb Foundation ------ gustavomx Foundation
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The likely end of DownThemAll - deltaprotocol http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/ ====== tptacek There is no piece of software in the world harder to secure than a browser. There's almost no other piece of software where compromises have higher stakes. Further, the verdict is probably in on wheth...
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Indian PSLV successfully lofts multiple satellites - swatkat http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/02/pslv-launch-multi-sats/ ====== teeboy Go ISRO! I wish the Indian Govt did one less scam a year and granted a 10X increase in ISRO budget. But you are doing some amazing work on an operating budget less than a big Amer...
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Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain - davidbarker https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/11165823451/filmmaker-finally-aims-to-get-court-to-admit-that-happy-birthday-is-public-domain.shtml ====== dang A dupe of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092864](https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Coronavirus: How the UK government failed to develop a contact-tracing app - davidbarker https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-the-inside-story-of-how-government-failed-to-develop-a-contact-tracing-app-12031282 ====== quattrofan It's pretty clear the time is fast approaching for big tech to be dealt with and ideally ...
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Show HN: New SEO tool for content and technical SEO analysis - gregory90 https://seodity.com ====== gregory90 Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a new tool for analyzing websites. In the first iteration we’ve focused on the analysis of the content and technical aspects. While entering one address o...
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Photogenic Alchemy - Photo developed in Absinthe? - cheeyoonlee http://www.synapseshots.com/photogenicalchemy/#prettyPhoto ====== cheeyoonlee Just mesmerized by the results...chemical explanations of occurrences to each effect would be extremely interesting!
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Introducing Tectonic – A Kubernetes and CoreOS Platform - lucasjans https://tectonic.com/blog/announcing-tectonic/ ====== mackwic > Tectonic is a commercial distribution of the combined Kubernetes and CoreOS > stack. > Tectonic pre-packages all of the open source components required to build a > Google-style infrastr...
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Introducing the Internet.org App - djug http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/07/introducing-the-internet-org-app/ ====== quink > The Internet.org app will be available first to Airtel subscribers in Zambia > and we’ll continue to improve the experience and roll it out to other parts > of the world. And by coincidence thi...
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Half-Life HeadCrab Zombie Rendered in WebGL w/ animation - darien http://www.webgl.com/2012/04/webgl-demo-half-life-zombie-model/ ====== zrgiu_ While this doesn't really show anything we haven't seen before done in WebGL, it's good to have because it shrinks the perception of the gap between browser and native apps/...
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Smartphone app recognizes stress and depression - matthijs_ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530876/this-phone-app-knows-if-youre-depressed/ ====== matthijs_ The Dartmouth research this article mentions: Authors: Rui Wang, Fanglin Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Tianxing Li, Gabriella Harari, Stefanie Tignor, Xia Zhou, Dror...
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P5.js: Processing for today’s web - bpierre http://p5js.org ====== html5web Holy shit! This is great presentation [http://hello.p5js.org/](http://hello.p5js.org/) ~~~ nfoz > Your browser doesn't support all of the features required for this demo. > Please consider using the latest version of Chrome. I guess "today's...
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Tobacco industry generates highest net income per employee - qwerty2020 http://erikrood.com/Posts/NIPE.html ====== jmarbach One reason for this is because the Tobacco industry benefits enormously from manufacturing economies of scale. Take for example Reynolds American's (mentioned in the article) largest manufacturin...
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The $1,632 Copy Of Microsoft Vista - nreece http://consumerist.com/tag/windows/?i=5010868&t=microsoft-and-the-1632-copy-of-vista ====== sriramk Its probably a bad thing to reveal which company I work for here :). The right people at MSFT are on the case (on a Sunday morning during Memorial Day weekend no less) and ar...
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Awesome Ssh Tricks - mds http://criticalfutures.com/2011/03/9-awesome-ssh-tricks/ ====== benawabe896 These have been good to me. Nice way to preserve permissions as well. tar czf - files/ | ssh whatever.com "cd /path/to/; tar xzvf - " ssh whatever.com "cd /path/to/; tar czf - files/" | tar xzvf -
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Wisee uses wi-fi signals to recognise body gestures - jamesbritt http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22780640 ====== Eduardo3rd Even though the article does not go into a large amount of detail about it, the actual paper [0] does a fairly good job addressing the issue of interference with the signal. I'm still skepti...
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Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available - silentbicycle http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-01/msg00260.html ====== twrensch There's some information in the readme.html file included with the distribution, and a bit more in the manual. Work versions are aimed at the active lua community as a way to get feedback on featur...
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Show HN: Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback? - alabut http://messagify.com Hey HN, I'm a longtime reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me and two friends, and we're building this upon another app we made called EmailYak, an API to receive email. We're trying so...
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ReactOS 0.3.17 is about to be released - userulluipeste http://community.reactos.org/index.php/news/reactos-0-3-17-is-about-to-be-released ====== jeditobe [http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in- reactos-...](http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos- livecd/)
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Shadow banned by fingerprint? - justintestin My old account "get" is shadow banned. I have no idea why. So I tried to make a new one "GetMeAway". I used a new IP and deleted cookies. Yet the new one was immediately shadowbanned too. Does HN use fingerprinting for this? Writing this via a proxy and ...
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Project 5050 [video] - spking http://www.project5050.org/ ====== goodroot Woohoo! I once heard a metaphor on HN for the growth of software products. Building technology as War. Start-up: Your initial core of members make up the ELITE team. They are the ones that storm the enemy lines, cutting the throats of the enem...
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It's impossible to opt out of unsolicited emails from Heroku? “That is correct” - rickymetz2 https://imgur.com/a/96yoKrq ====== m-p-3 That would be a violation of the Anti-Spam Legislation in Canada. ------ eesmith Would that be a GDPR violation? ~~~ throwaway73629 My understanding is that it would be a GDPR violati...
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Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica - rock57 https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-suspended-account-whistleblower-exposed-221429183.html ====== JumpCrisscross The arrogance of Facebook's response to this breach, quibbling over what to call it and now this, is mind-blowing. Th...
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JointJS 0.8 Released - filters, gradients and ports - durman http://jointjs.com/blog/jointjs-0-8-released.html ====== flipchart How does this library compare to d3?
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I was partially deaf for the last couple of years - comet http://bycomet.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/ear-wax-i-was-partially-deaf-for-the-last-couple-of-years/ ====== sambeau A taxi driver once told me great story about an old man in his local bar. * _pushes light gently to provide suitable on-boat ambiance_ * 'Gunner...
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Show HN: 12 Days of Christmas for Techies - alexellisuk https://blog.alexellis.io/your-12-days-of-tech-christmas/ ====== lowpro Honestly I hope most techies actually use the holidays for... holiday things. These are great and seem like a lot of fun! However, I can't imagine another industry where people take twelve da...
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Is your serverless system as good as you think? Are your sure? - rehemagi https://medium.com/@rehemagi/is-your-serverless-as-good-as-you-think-it-is-2baa3d36b1de ====== BoorishBears Yes, because we use Cloudwatch and we monitor DLQ events. That should be standard operating procedure.
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Jim Rogers: I would urge anyone to buy a farm - cwan http://www.smh.com.au/business/reserve-earns-praise-but-not-our-politicians-20100518-vc69.html ====== hugh3 _The only disappointment I've had is that your politicians are as bad as the ones in America. If the Australian government keeps running up such gigantic de...
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iOS Backdoor Services Proof of Concept - taylorhalliday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ymf0UsEuw ====== owenwil I'm tired of the misinformation around this - the requirements to do this mean the user needs to know exactly what they're doing: 1) Unlock the phone 2) Trust the connected PC on the prompt Isn't it inh...
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Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders - mattfrasernz https://shinesolutions.com/2018/03/14/using-google-cloud-automl-vision-to-classify-poisonous-australian-spiders/ ====== michaelgreen This is huge, and it's only an alpha. I begun reading about AutoML/Neural Architecture searches around ~...
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Judge tells copyright troll to put up or shut up on porn lawsuits - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/judge-tells-copyright-troll-to-put-up-or-shut-up-on-porn-lawsuits/ ====== 1simonsayz "This summer, a California judge referred to Malibu's lawsuits in that state as "essentially an extortion scheme." I...
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Show HN: With-React-Hooks - kesne https://github.com/kesne/with-react-hooks ====== kesne Author here. React Hooks are kind of cool, but they're a bit too magic because you use them in functions and functions don't have state. Classes have state, and we all understand them, so I thought it'd be nice to bring the usefu...
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We're getting closer to the quantum internet, but what is it? - retpirato https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/future-tech/quantum-internet.htm ====== retpirato [https://youtu.be/jxZD2QdutEc](https://youtu.be/jxZD2QdutEc) also mentions quantum internet
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Never Hate. Only Ever Destroy. - baha_man http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-hate-only-ever-destroy.html ====== maxklein This is how I see it: The startup scene is like a big mall where one quarter have shops selling stuff that people are looking for, and the other 3/4 are borrowing money to buy lottery ...
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jQuery 1.4.3 Released - nathanhammond http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/2d201873ff47b927a8c1efcee07191a47033744c From the jQuery blog: There are a few areas in jQuery that have seen extensive changes since 1.4.2 was released: * .css() and related css-handling methods were all overhauled. * Logic for dete...
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Into the Grey Zone - evilsimon http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/08/grey-zone-can-one-really-be-conscious-while-coma ====== subroutine Consciousness is a very interesting epiphenomenon. It piques intellectual interest across the board, from first year psychology students, to Nobel Laureates like Francis C...
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This nasty new Android ransomware encrypts your phone – and changes your PIN - excalibur http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-nasty-new-android-ransomware-encrypts-your-phone-and-changes-your-pin/ ====== excalibur Better URL: [https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/10/13/doublelocker- innov...](https://www.welivesecurity.c...
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New apps designed to reduce depression and anxiety - upen https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/01/apps-to-reduce-depression-anxiety/ ====== innocentoldguy The article doesn't mention what platforms these apps currently run on. This may change in the future, but for now it looks like they are Android-only. Here ...
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Show HN: Shorty – A dead simple URL shortener service (with analytics) - Syncbo https://github.com/shorty/ ====== gokaygurcan [https://github.com/shorty/](https://github.com/shorty/) is a user with no repository from UK. Are you sure that the url is correct? ------ johnmurch Correct URL - [https://github.com/PadamSet...
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Inssist – Instagram Assistant - inssist https://inssist.com ====== inssist A free Chrome extension for Instagram that offers post scheduling, videos & photos uploads from desktop, insights, account analytics, DMs and more.
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I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too - martius http://marti.us/w/2014-07-19-Mozilla-BSP.html ====== paulrouget I've been working with new contributors for some years now. Here are some advices: \- find a mentor. It will helps a lot (use [http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/);](http://www.joshmatthews.ne...
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Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage - ship your HDDs to Google - rasterizer https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/early-access ====== octo_t For me to upload 3TB on my shoddy connection would take about 290 days or so. If I ever needed to put that much data in the cloud, you can bet I'd use something l...
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Ask HN: Please review my startup: flashissue.com - eranation We launched FlashIssue, a web app for curating newsletters quickly using existing web content about two months ago and got great reviews from users, but we would like to help convert more users to the point of sending the newsletter through us (or the mail...
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Ask HN: What are some cool ideas for a Chat Bot? - hugofonseca I want to build bots as a side project, and would appreciate some ideas. They could be just productivity increase ideas (e.g. solve human problems/needs in a office(?)), or just for fun. I'm thinking about integrating with Slack, but not necessar...
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Empty-Stomach Intelligence - lbr http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1C.t-1.html ====== gpcz This reminds me of a passage from Ben Franklin's "Autobiography" about vegetarianism, but could be reinterpreted as a statement on the benefits of being hungry: "When about 16 years of age I happened to meet w...
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I was turned down for a job at a tech startup because I’m male - vs2 https://medium.com/@stigmapseudonym/i-was-turned-down-for-a-job-at-a-tech-startup-because-im-male-c1ea6dc87733 ====== andy_felsil This article has already been submitted 1 hour earlier: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8172047](https://news.yc...
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Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices? - jmtame Hi everyone,<p>I have scoured the YC forum for a post on great PHP tricks and best practices, but found nothing. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I would appreciate it if anyone knows of great sites or tutorials. I use CodeIgniter (excellent classes, typical MV...
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Really clever augmented reality advertising - adriand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JT0Fs3JXM ====== Dellort Really impractical with current technology for augmented reality. Maybe with an overlay on glasses or something, but this is stupid.
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Falling in Love with the Dark - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/falling-in-love-with-the-dark?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom ====== chrissnell Once a year, some buddies from all over the country and I get together to spend a week in the deserts of Southern Utah and the Colorado Plateau...
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Making the web faster with SPDY and HTTP/2 - cleverjake http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/making-web-faster-with-spdy-and-http2.html ====== cpg SPDY is a common sense protocol in many ways. It seems simple but it has quite a few wrinkles when implementing it properly. As a way to learn Go I started a Go SPDY library[1...
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A Review of MVC - fcoury http://mikepackdev.com/blog_posts/34-a-review-of-mvc ====== azza-bazoo "a program is without value before it is used by an end user for something valuable" Nice snippet of advice there. Also the rest of Trygve's original post is an excellent reminder (and in simple terms) of MVC as an idea,...
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Google is stalking me (iOS). Did I agree? - tomas789 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/timeline ====== tomas789 I just found out, that Google has my history of visited places and they are collecting it for quite long time. I'd never agreed to this consciously. Where did they get my agreement from?
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Blackstone Plans Orbitz IPO - rbc http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070510/orbitz_ipo.html?.v=1 ====== rbc I'm curious how ITA Software will be affected by this.
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Success Breeds Success in Startups - quizbiz http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-028.pdf ====== randomwalker Summary: a previously successful entrepreneur is two-thirds more likely to succeed in his next venture than a first-time entrepreneur. Part of this difference is (obviously) attributable to skill, but the pape...
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Huawei to offload undersea telecoms cable business - jmsflknr https://www.ft.com/content/cb093112-85d1-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2 ====== rurban Non paywall: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa- cable/chi...](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-cable/chinas- huawei-to-sell-undersea-cable-busi...
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Innovations For Poor Farmers - vicpara http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Innovation ====== vicpara I like the fact that it frames the term "innovative" in a space where maybe very few expect it. My first intuition was toward some fancy tech or smart materials. I was surprised to find out innovative for them mean...
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Testing Database Transactions in Go - marvinblum https://marvinblum.de/blog/testing-database-transactions-in-go-jEaOGXravM ====== theptip This covers one possible deadlock, but there are so many more ways to do this. More common (IME) is a true logic deadlock, particularly if you are using strict serialization (say, y...
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Concurrency vs. Parallelism and the Erlang Advantage - nathan_long http://nathanmlong.com/2017/06/concurrency-vs-paralellism/ ====== ac2u Funnily enough, I also employ lunchtime food prep scenarios to help explain similar topics.
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Datomic: The most innovative DB you've never heard of - nwjsmith http://augustl.com/blog/2016/datomic_the_most_innovative_db_youve_never_heard_of/ ====== nickpsecurity Great summary! Might have to check it out. Plus, even if they don't want to grow, they could always partner with a company that handles the sales, supp...
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Coming Soon: The Five Dollar ATM Fee - pbj http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/03/16/its-coming-the-5-atm-fee/ ====== nanoanderson In the UK, 97% of ATM transactions are done using free-to-use LINK-network ATMs (<http://www.link.co.uk/> & <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_usage_fees#United_Kingdom>). I feel that there a...
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3D-printed skull simulates sensations of brain surgery - graeham http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24741-3dprinted-skull-simulates-sensations-of-brain-surgery.html#.UqpZa_RdV8E ====== pramalin Wow. It is one the best application of 3D printers I have seen. One nitpick: The name of the professor is incorrectly s...
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Recommended Readings in AI - a list by Russell and Norvig - fogus http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/books.html ====== Dn_Ab Ever since Euclid listed (collected?) his axioms the march towards AI became inevitable. People don't realize how much AI "failures" have contriubted to computing, programming and society in general. S...
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Google’s Stock-Split Plan Would Replace Stewardship With Dictatorship - cpeterso http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-wong-google-dividend/ ====== sirclueless While I agree in principle with this article's point that non-voting stock makes more likely the possibility of an iron-clad grip by irresponsible d...
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Always Connected PCs enable a new culture of work - benaadams https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/05/always-connected-pcs-enable-a-new-culture-of-work/ ====== benaadams built in 4G LTE2/Gigabit LTE and week long battery life
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American Express will give all parents 20 weeks of paid leave - codegeek http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/12/pf/paid-parental-leave-american-express/index.html ====== dharmon This is a great step for what's really a sad state of affairs in the US. My wife and I like to "joke" (it's not really funny) that we know enough t...
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Show HN: Taking on the Freight Industry with Freightify - bluehat http://www.freightify.com/ ====== pg_bot I am the founder of freightify, if you have any questions feel free to ask me here or send me an email. ------ bluehat every time he says "load" I snicker like a middle schooler
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Ask HN: What are your biggest time savers when building a SaaS? - philtar What are some things you do when building a SaaS that save a ton of time?<p>Some that I can name:<p>* Use a web framework<p>* Customize a template instead of building from scratch (wrap bootstrap)<p>* outsource your billing (zuroa, chargify, etc...
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Show HN: Unreplied 2.0 for SMS/iMessage, now with CLI support - nexuist https://unreplied.app ====== nexuist Hi HN! I finally released version 2.0 of my Mac app, Unreplied! it offers a status bar menu that shows you a list of messages you haven't replied to. Even if you open the conversation, Unreplied will still ke...
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How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ - hhs https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/books/review-gods-of-upper-air-charles-king.html ====== deogeo > He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous > fiction. [..] Boas and his circle confronted a bigotry tha...
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Working in a Prison Goat Milk Farm - happy-go-lucky http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/20/538062911/whats-it-really-like-to-work-in-a-prison-goat-milk-farm-we-asked-inmates ====== Lazare Prison labour is deeply problematic for ethical reasons, but I think a lot of commentators here are misunderstanding the ec...
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Ask HN: What are some great startup blogs? - hackathonguy Hey fellas!<p>What are some startups that run fantastic blogs? Looking for some inspiration for http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.yalabot.com.<p>I enjoy https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.baremetrics.com and the marvelous https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalvnoise.com. Would love to hear your fav...
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Ruby Developers Don't Scale - swombat http://railsontherun.com/2008/8/27/ruby-developers-don-t-scale ====== thomasmallen Being from San Diego, it appears the writer has more than one thing in common with Ron Burgundy: "Anyways, I have been quite busy preparing courses for classes I gave to a bunch a great Engineers...
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David Byrne: Don't Forget the Motor City - jericsinger http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/09/092310-dont-forget-the-motor-city.html ====== bryansum Having lived in Michigan for almost all my life, I find Mr. Byrne's conclusion and observations about Detroit to be pretty accurate. I want to point out that not all par...
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RFC7169 – No Secrecy Afforded X.509 extension silently published (on 2014-04-01) - mykhal http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7169 ====== HCIdivision17 The simplicity of the signal is refreshing: TRUE if the key is shared, FALSE if the key is shared but the signer doesn't want to explicitly say so. Elegant. ~~~ ealexhuds...
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Metacrap: The problems of metadata and how to solve them - pcr910303 https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm ====== bryanrasmussen It seems every few years I end up at a job/task where this essay is useful. ------ sovok_x In short: use unsupervised AIs and algorithms to generate metadata because humans suc...
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Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization - jimarcey https://code.fb.com/ai-research/nevergrad/ ====== oteytaud To the best of my knowledge, Hyperopt is limited to random search and Parzen variants. We have more algorithms, and include test functions, deal with noise. On the other hand...
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The Cognitive Style of Unix - adambyrtek http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3339907908/the-cognitive-style-of-unix ====== jaylevitt In case you find the graphs as confusing as I did: In the first graph (predicted results), the dotted line is "internalized" (command line), the solid line is "externalized" (GUI), and the...
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Facts about Android - jaywalker http://www.androided.me/5-interesting-facts-about-android/ ====== mda He is playing with words. "Fact 1: Android runs Linux. But it’s not “the Linux.”" No, It IS "the Linux". A lot of distributions do not use vanilla Linux kernel. You are free to change whatever part you want. It doe...
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How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller - recoiledsnake http://www.cultofmac.com/how-apple-almost-got-microsofts-kinect-game-controller/67951 ====== fname Maybe it's just me, but I'm not quite sure I follow how they "almost" got it. Perhaps if they were negotiating numbers and figures and it just fell ...
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GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP - Grauwolf http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=18 ====== viraptor Does anyone know why is it "next gen"? And how does "peer-to-peer" mean in this case? The only description of sip witch with some actual content (that I could find) is here: <http://www.slides...
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The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads - mightybyte http://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/ ====== LukeHoersten Doug Beardsley (mightybyte) is a very prominent Haskeller. A maintainer of the Snap Web Framework for Haskell and Co-organizer of the NYC Haskell group. Definitely worth reading ...
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Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency - ccamrobertson https://kong.cash/ ====== ccamrobertson Hi folks, I’m one of the contributors at Kong — [https://kong.cash/](https://kong.cash/). Kong is a physical cryptocurrency that looks, feels and works like traditional cash. You can think of it as an ultra-secure, time loc...
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Powering the Cell, Mitochondria - stunning new animation - hfinney http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/ ====== hfinney Here is possibly a better link: <http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_mitochondria.html> This is a sequel to the Inner Life of a Cell animation that came out a few years ago. It shows what happens...
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A very creative 404 - zuu http://www.nosh.me/404 ====== ColinWright Discussion on an earlier submission: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835820>
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DOS vulnerability in Silverlight 5s 3D (similar to WebGL DOS vulnerability) - patrickaljord http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/676134/dos-vulnerability-in-silverlight-5s-3d-similar-to-webgl-dos-vulnerability ====== kkowalczyk I'm glad that someone demonstrated Microsoft's FUD and their double...
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Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody - w1ntermute http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-remains-locked-up-without-charges-120930/ ====== Peer Typical sensational TorrentFreak article. This is normal procedure in Swedish courts. The Swedish legal system is different and what would be called "charged" comes much...
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ValidatorJS/A quick validator implementation - pharzan https://github.com/pharzan/validatorJS ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines and want feedback, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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UFO: A Drone/UAV Programming Library for Rust - formalsystem https://github.com/ajmwagar/ufo ====== bri3d Is anyone working on flight controllers in Rust? Now that the STM targets are maturing it seems like a perfect target. I can only find stub projects and blog posts right now. ~~~ blt A low level flight controller...
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New Zealand glaciers turn brown from Australian bushfires' smoke, ash and dust - DyslexicAtheist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/new-zealand-glaciers-turn-brown-from-australian-bushfires-smoke-ash-and-dust ====== rbanffy Can they expect floods from the decreased albedo?
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Ask HN: Best place for a professional to get a computer science degree? - alexrbarlow I&#x27;ve been working professionally for about 6 years in Ruby, iOS and UNIX but I never attained a degree.<p>Recently I&#x27;ve been wondering if anywhere does good ones online that I could do in my spare time or whether it&#x27;...
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Try node.js in the browser - MeProtozoan http://jsapp.us/#! ====== anatoly I hope someone does "Try Javascript in the browser". ------ tomjen3 anybody using node for their startup? I am not sure if it works for larger projects, but that opinion may well be tainted by my dislike of javascript. ~~~ simonw We have some...
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This Doctor Diagnosed His Own Cancer with an iPhone Ultrasound - agrothberg https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609195/this-doctor-diagnosed-his-own-cancer-with-an-iphone-ultrasound/ ====== nicodjimenez Congrats to the Butterfly team! Amazing team and amazing product. Really excited to see the impact on the medical pro...
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17 Layouts Almost Used for Phone Buttons - shawkinaw http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-17-designs-that-bell-almost-used-for-the-layout-of-telephone-buttons/279237/ ====== CrunchyJams A friend of mine recently brought up the idea of a curved smartphone design to maximize thumb reach. My head n...
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How the Apple Watch Ejects Water in Slow Mo - vladoh https://youtu.be/EIEwy8rPik4 ====== OtterGauze I have reservations about Apple, but ill never deny that their product engineering for both the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch continue to impress me. Now if only they could get engineering like this into the Macbook lin...
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Hunch Hasn't a Clue About My Intentions - cyunker http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=556&doc_id=189349 ====== bhattisatish To me hunch is not a recommendation system. To me it seems to be more of a data collector. I have a strong feeling they are just collecting the data generated by us and re-se...
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China Hints at Use of Force in Hong Kong and Says U.S. Is Undermining Stability - hker https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/world/asia/china-military-hong-kong-taiwan-protests.html ====== geowwy I always think it's better to go back to the original source material, so here's the white paper mentioned: [http://english.go...
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Self-Feeding Robots: Robots that Plug Themselves Into Wall Outlets - pufuwozu http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/01/03/self-feeding-robots-robots-plug-themselves-wall-outlets ====== pufuwozu I am impressed that Intel has used the <http://ros.org/> stack to offload a lot of the work. I think it shows that open-source in...
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