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Design Doc: Use JavaScript instead of TypeScript for internal Deno Code - rkrishnaan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_WvwHl7BXUPmoiSeD8G83JmS8ypsTPqed4Btkqkn_-4/edit#heading=h.cx5nx247bag ====== temporallobe This cones as no surprise to me, as TypeScript is a transpiled language. I know this is probably an unpopul...
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Why Ruby rocks - Skoofoo http://skofo.github.io/blog/why-ruby-rocks/ ====== nopal I'm sure it does, but I can write the same class in C# just as easily: class Person { public int Sanity { get; set; } public Person() { Sanity = 50...
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Mozilla Marketplace goes live, install web apps like native PC apps - cpeterso http://liliputing.com/2012/06/mozilla-marketplace-goes-live-install-web-apps-like-native-pc-apps.html ====== stewie2 people said "webapps are awesome, because there is no need to install."
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Attacking Z-Way Controlled Home Automation Devices - rwestergren http://randywestergren.com/attacking-z-way-controlled-home-automation-devices/ ====== jaytaylor This is a gaping security hole, thanks for sharing, OP! I'll have to play around with this and see if I can execute a PoC against my friend who has Z-Wave ...
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NYTimes uses Hadoop, S3, EC2, and some custom code to handle PDF generation for 4TB worth of data - nickb http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorated-super-computing-fun/ ====== andreyf I'd have imagined that a huge non-tech organization like the NYTimes would be too full of PHB's to let anything ...
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To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google - kushti http://www.wral.com/Raleigh-police-search-google-location-history/17377435/ ====== dwighttk Do cell providers not keep the data long enough for this? Or is this a way around having to request from multiple carriers? Does Apple get these requests? Would Google in...
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Autonomous driving's unsolvable deer problem - dev_cartoonist http://noblackmirrorthanks.blogspot.com/2018/03/autonomous-drivings-unsolvable-deer.html ====== coding123 Never thought of this one before... From what I understand, this is largely the reason Waymos had the brakes on public release.. they keep running into...
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Menlo Park Police used city funds to taxi homeless woman to SF - coloneltcb https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/11/08/police-used-city-funds-to-taxi-homeless-woman-to-sf ====== nkrisc Worth highlighting, probably: > As for why he intervened in the first place, he emphasized, "She wasn't > doing anything illegal wha...
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Ask HN: How much are we worth? - savoy11 We are a small startup with two founders and no employees. Bootstrapped, no external financing whatsoever. We are selling software and making approximately $200K per year in sales, but we are also growing rapidly, at about 5% each month. We have $0 marketing budget - meaning ...
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Most Money Advice Is Worthless When You’re Poor - paulpauper https://free.vice.com/en_us/article/ev3dde/most-money-advice-is-worthless ====== aw3c2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vimes#Boots_theory_of_soci...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vimes#Boots_theory_of_socio- economic_unfairness) > The reason that th...
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Is a visa required when working remotely? - lizardwalk5 I realize this might be case by case but I frequently see international companies listing a remote working option. If they are based in a different country from my citizenship, should I assume that a work visa is required to work for them? Sometimes the job menti...
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No More Fake News to Sway Your Views as 'Pants-On-Fire' Detector Comes to Rescue - tefo-mohapi http://www.iafrikan.com/2017/01/09/no-more-fake-news-to-sway-your-views-as-the-pants-on-fire-detector-comes-to-the-rescue/ ====== DoodleBuggy > "Experts estimate that in about two years, we'll have a perfect 'symbiotic' > re...
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Avalonia UI Framework - evo_9 http://avaloniaui.net/ ====== richardjam73 What is the difference between Avalonia and Xamarin?
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Show HN: OptKit – Enterprise Level Conversion Rate Optimization Kit - acoyfellow http://optkit.com/ ====== gk1 As a conversion optimization consultant, this is very interesting. It's not a new idea, but the execution is really great. The setup process was easy to do and understand. A few comments: 1\. Does the scr...
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Effect of One-Legged Standing on Sleep - ph0rque http://quantifiedself.com/2011/03/effect-of-one-legged-standing-on-sleep/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+QuantifiedSelf+%28The+Quantified+Self%29 ====== Tyrannosaurs Methodologically isn't this close to nonsense? His measure of how well rest...
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Robots and Firms - quickfox https://voxeu.org/article/robots-and-firms ====== beisner This seems to be a fairly obvious finding, doesn’t it? Any change in business practices that gives you a competitive advantage gives you, well, a competitive advantage! The study seems to say: if your company automates jobs away, yo...
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Doing more with less: Apple's most controversial app to date - iMovie '08 - nickb http://no1s.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/doing-more-with-less/ ====== inklesspen It's either love it (because it lets you get things done easily and quickly) or hate it (because you were good at iMovie '06). But the goal for iMovie '08 was...
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Tourniquet - selenamarie http://zareason.blogspot.com/2012/07/tourniquet.html ====== selenamarie For those following the UEFI Secure Boot stuff, good read. Goes into why this is problematic -- specifically the rebranding of Linux on the desktop as insecure.
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Show HN: Large – Get anything for your team or office via slackbot - barisser http://hirelarge.com?hn=true ====== werber How much of the functionality is a person at a computer and how much is software? It looks like a really cool project ~~~ bitsweet It is powered by a distributed network of people but they're bolst...
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GAPuino (GAP8 / PULP / RISC-V MCU Development SBC) - peter_d_sherman https://greenwaves-technologies.com/product/gapuino/ ====== peter_d_sherman Excerpt: "GAP8 is uniquely optimized to execute a large spectrum of image and audio algorithms including convolutional neural network (CNN), with extreme energy efficiency, ...
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A Dust Over India - Arun2009 http://postmasculine.com/a-dust-over-india ====== photon137 The mistake the author made is that he lived in India for three weeks. Had he stayed for six months or a year, he'd have been able to figure out _what_ makes India tick - India is the very embodiment of clever innovation to surviv...
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Need salary advice; First time looking for a Rails job after a failed startup - Whitespace Hey all. I'm a self-taught, 28 year old in NYC, and I've been programming rails for 2 years now. I co-founded an education startup where I was the sole developer, but I can't keep eating hotdogs and ramen after 18 months and...
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How do you find high traffic websites for my private advertising network? - iworkforthem I am looking for a few high traffic websites for my advertising network. Right now, I am using quantcast.com to help me guess the traffic of my publishers' websites. It is a largely manual process right now, I was wondering if a...
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Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese - rmah http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/education/21chinese.html ====== Jd I spent several years of my life learning Mandarin and, although I am about ready to enter a Masters program so that I will become proficient in both Japanese and Classical Chinese, I strongly...
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Always. Be. Shipping. A lesson from Jacopo da Pontormo, circa 1545. - Brajeshwar http://blog.garrytan.com/always-be-shipping-a-lesson-from-jacopo-da-po ====== brudgers It's probably easier when one hasn't set themselves to the task of representing divine perfection. Commercial pursuits are driven by somewhat differ...
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Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015) - joeyespo https://www.thecut.com/2015/09/every-weekend-should-be-a-3-day-weekend.html ====== KineticLensman I’m in the fourth decade of my career and I switched to a three day week almost a year ago, taking a proportional pay cut. I work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to ...
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The LG Wing is a “T” shaped, dual-screen smartphone - elsewhen https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/the-lg-wing-is-a-t-shaped-dual-screen-smartphone/ ====== imposterr I love that LG is still playing around with new form factors. Between this and the V60 the line up looks interesting. That being said, I don't think...
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Huawei abandoned by Google and major US chipmakers - yashwt07 https://medium.com/@yashwate07/huawei-abandoned-by-google-and-major-us-chipmakers-bf1e085d957a ====== hn45oye Could turn out as a big problem for Huawei
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Anonymous Money needs Anonymous Exchange (Bitcoin) - kiba http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/anonymous-money-needs-an-anonymous-exchange ====== hugh3 kiba, do you think there's some kind of limit to how many bitcoin articles you can reasonably submit? ~~~ kiba As long it is not spam and it is interesting content. ~...
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Why Quora Will Never Be as Big as Twitter - kingsidharth http://mashable.com/2011/01/06/quora-growth-not-twitter/ ====== StavrosK "Why apples will never be as tasty as oranges." ------ kleinsch I'm personally not sure if Quora will ever be bigger than Twitter, but I do think they have a potential advantage in the fac...
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Where rump kernels are heading - mrry http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.rumpkernel.user/416 ====== valarauca1 History lesson: The earliest "Operating Systems" as we call them today were developed at General Motors. The system was a standard stack of punch cards that would be executed with every program to take ar...
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RIAA Wants to Cut Artist Royalties to 9%, Apple Wants Them at 4%, Artists Just Want to Eat - nickb http://gizmodo.com/352762/riaa-wants-to-cut-artist-royalties-to-9-apple-wants-them-at-4-artists-just-want-to-eat ====== dkokelley A broken industry? Greed? Starving artists? I smell a decent startup brewing.
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Microsoft Edge extensions support delayed until 2016 - wslh http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/22/9596298/microsoft-edge-extensions-support-2016-release-update ====== mschuster91 As much as I like the direction the new MS is heading, I can't think of literally any person wanting to use a browser which does not support ad...
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Association between gifts from pharma group to drug prescribed by French doctors - hokkos https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6015 ====== techaddict009 Its pretty open in India. Drugs prescribed by a Doctor can be bought and is mostly available only from the store he mentions in the prescription. Big doctors have t...
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Paul Graham: Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) - tosh http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt ====== tosh Interesting comment on evolving code (& keyword parameters): > Rtml even depended heavily on keyword parameters, which up to that time I > had always considered one of the more dubious features o...
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The longer passwords in the Last.fm database - ProfDreamer https://www.leakedsource.com/i/lastfmlong.txt ====== pilif At first I was really impressed by `1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6yhn7ujm8ik,9ol.0p;/`, but then I watched my keyboard and all became clear. These brute force tools are getting better and better at trying usefu...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Paved the Way for Bad Silicon Valley Housing Ideas - rbanffy https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb3w3y/frank-lloyd-wright-paved-the-way-for-bad-silicon-valley-housing-ideas?utm_source=mbtwitter ====== oldmancoyote The trouble with the command solution approach (public or private) is that it'...
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'Lucky' Woman Who Won Lottery Four Times - jc123 http://www.businessinsider.com/4-time-lottery-winner-not-exactly-lucky-2011-8 ====== ColinWright Same story: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861390> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868747> ======== Related - breaking the Massachusetts State Lottery: <...
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Show HN: Monitor websites for changes and send scraped data to a webhook - omneity https://monitoro.xyz/?ref=hn ====== omneity Hello HN, Monitoro is a service I built to watch websites for changes, scrape data, and whenever the data changes, send it to a webhook of your choice. 2 months ago, I shared this project on H...
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How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (2014) - headalgorithm http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html ====== joncrane The problem is, in order to operate as human beings, we have to assume the vast majority of our assumptions about the world are solid. For example, gravity will continue to push objects down in a fairly pr...
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MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database - anc84 https://www.mapd.com/blog/2017/05/08/mapd-open-sources-gpu-powered-database/ ====== ccleve I would very much like to see a blog post or some other explanation of how a GPU speeds up a database query. Most traditional SQL databases are I/O-bound, meaning that the cost of ...
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Navigating the Postmodern Python World - freyrs3 http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/postmodern.html ====== bsaul i've been coding in python professionally for 4 years now, and i'm currently working on the biggest project i've ever worked on. to me, being scared of changing the signature of a function because the static...
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Drone sets world record for lifting 134 pounds over 37 seconds - ck2 http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/20/drone-sets-a-record-for-carrying-the-heaviest-cargo-ever/ ====== ck2 I wonder if this relies on ground-effect for lift? Didn't someone make a drone that could carry a person? And then there is the "hoverboard" tha...
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Another TechCrunch Hit for Justin: Build Your Own Justin.tv With Ustream - staunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/26/build-your-own-justintv-with-ustream ====== pg This is exactly why we nagged them incessantly to launch. Other people had to be working on it. But if you launch first, the latecomers are described as...
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Young Business (Brad Fitzgerald on young people starting a business) - tomh http://aptdesignonline.com/blog/young-business-part-1 ====== bootload _"... Brad Fitzgerald on young people starting a business ..."_ Not this <http://bradfitz.com/>
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What differentiates a “senior” programmer from a “regular” programmer? - acidfreaks https://www.quora.com/What-differentiates-a-senior-programmer-from-a-regular-programmer?share=1 ====== hoodoof It is arbitrary, up to the people involved.
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Computer chips made of wood promise greener electronics - Fjolsvith http://www.infoworld.com/article/2926806/components-processors/computer-chips-made-of-wood-promise-greener-electronics.html ====== ars "cellulose nanofibril" ... "The researchers coated the CNF with epoxy" So it's not actually wood then. It's cellu...
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Covid-19 Crude Fatality Rates, Media Freakouts, and Capacity Analyses - slowhand09 https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/covid-19-crude-fatality-rates-media-freakouts-and-capacity-analyses-8f50c58cfe00 ====== xenonite This certainly explains how a time-buffer can smoothen the workload in hospitals. However, the ar...
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When Unix Learned to reboot(2) - aquabeagle https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/07/when-unix-learned-to-reboot2.html ====== wahern > Linux's sync call is synchronous. You get the same guarantees as you do from > fsync. This behavior was introduced in 1.3.20, released in 1995. Prior to > that the same sync dance advice wa...
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Screenshots of upcoming Mega site: key generator, registration, and file manager - mtgx http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/07/kim-dotcom-posts-screenshots-of-upcoming-mega-site-key-generator-registration-and-file-manager/ ====== phpnode I think most of the responses here regarding the crypto are missing the point...
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Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment - aditya http://torrentfreak.com/twitter-uses-bittorrent-for-server-deployment-100210/ ====== Zev Actual link to code + detailed description that doesn't spend 3/4 the post describing what bittorrent is and instead discusses what the project is: <http://github.com/lg/murde...
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Mass-Scale Cold Fusion a Success? - andrewcross http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success ====== synctext If it sounds too good to be true...? No graphs, no public measurements, no scientific publication: no merit. Honest inventors want to be transparent and have their historical claim validated b...
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The metamorphosis of Escher - rbanffy https://escher.ntr.nl/en/ ====== NKosmatos One of my all time favorite or favourite(sic) artists ever. Here are some links to keep you busy/entertained Make your own Metamorphosis: [https://escher.ntr.nl/en/mmm](https://escher.ntr.nl/en/mmm) Create your own tessellations: [http:...
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Use the tools you already know – thats how Simple Analytics reached $5.7K MRR - randymonday https://www.blog.openstartuplist.com/how-using-the-tools-that-you-already-know-helped-simple-analytics-grow-to-5700-mrr ====== randymonday Adriaan from Simple Analytics shared tips on how to bootstrap your business to success a...
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Show HN: AwayTab – Chrome extension for cheap flights and travel inspiration - MvRemmerden https://awaytab.com ====== MvRemmerden Hey HN, I built a Chrome extension that displays a random travel destination combined with the cheapest flights from airports 200km around your current location. You can also test it out h...
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USB Typewriter - autumntraveler http://www.usbtypewriter.com/ ====== delish I'm glad that device convergence and device divergence are happening at the same time. I've said this here before, but I cannot recommend highly enough Alphasmart's Neo. 700 hour battery life, sunlight readable display (!), made in America, n...
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Unlike Moroccan ISPs - alexandrerond http://unlikes.oudy.works/ ====== alexandrerond Context: Moroccan operators have started blocking VoIP services on their Networks (mobile a few weeks ago and landline DSL recently). Includes WhatsApp, Skype etc. Therefore a campaign to "unlike" the companies in Facebook has been l...
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RIP SYNHAK: How a midwestern hackerspace tore itself to shreds - tdfischer https://medium.com/@tdfischer_/rip-synhak-7093ade6b943 ====== esbranson Forget Roberts Rules; The law is the most important set of books everyone has memorized, yet no one has ever read (and cannot easily access even if they wanted.) A few of...
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Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet - jalan http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/review-mint-17-3-may-be-the-best-linux-desktop-distro/ ====== mattlondon +1 to Cinnamon being great. I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of ...
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Help Pay My Bills: A HN Experiment - bendauphinee http://bendauphinee.com/paythebills ====== skowmunk Have you tried odesk.com, elance.com, rent-a-coder.com? You might find some good competition from East European, Russian and Asian Coders on these sites- some of them are terrific coders/developers, but you also have...
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Mast Brings You Two Numbers on One Phone with No App - jkingsbery http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10914764/mast-mobile-carrier-two-phone-numbers ====== solfrombrooklyn Hey, Jamie, Can you talk a little more about how this works? ~~~ jkingsbery Mast Mobile acts as a mobile network provider (MVNO), but we've integrate...
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The difference between top-down parsing and bottom-up parsing - zniperr http://qntm.org/top ====== carsongross I really didn't understand grammars until I started doing hand-rolled top-down recursive descent parsing for Gosu. It's a shame that parsing in CS schools is taught using theory and lex/yacc type tools when ...
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The Process of the PhD - yewweitan http://scrivle.com/2010/11/26/the-process-of-the-phd/ ====== naithemilkman I've always felt academics and entrepreneurs are really cut from the same ilk. As entrepreneurs, we try to increase the overall wealth of the economy and if we are able to push it out by a little, we've su...
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Ask HN: Guest lecture feedback - AlexBlom G'day HN Folk,<p>I was asked to Guest speak at the local University last night on how to start / run a technology company and add a little on social media.<p>The students were first year with only basic understandings of tech and business.<p>I've been asked to go and speak a...
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Apple is ditching its iconic startup chime with the new MacBook Pro - ricardolopes http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/31/13472920/apple-macbook-pro-chime-gone ====== daughart Sure it's a nostalgic sound, but I can't tell you how many college lectures are punctuated at some point by this sound.
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Hacking behavior: use the stairs instead of the escalator - wgj http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUoA5slRX4 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Previously submitted ... <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=873059> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872759> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871721> ~~~ wgj Really I should h...
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Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works - itafroma http://allthingsd.com/20131010/google-cio-ben-fried-on-how-google-works/ ====== eshwarramesh Ask a Roman how Rome works?
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Facebook’s Political Rule Blocks Ads for Bush’s Beans, Singers Named Clinton - moonka https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-28/facebook-s-ad-transparency-rules-caused-delays-for-advertisers ====== Eridrus This should be completely unsurprising; the implementation of rules/laws is always imperfect, even befor...
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To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case - awqrre https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-against-child-porn-suspect-rather-than-disclose-fbi-hack/ ====== moomin So, let's see now: a man is going free who should probably be going to jail for a long time, because the state d...
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Virgin Galactic pilot defied the odds to survive crash - danso http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-virgin-survivor-20141105-story.html ====== hangonhn If you're interested in the extraordinary characteristics that are needed to be a test pilot or an astronaut or the early history of the space program, check out To...
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Dust: A Blocking - Resistant Internet Transport Protocol [pdf] - conductor http://blanu.net/Dust.pdf ====== conductor Brandon Wiley quote: "The Dust paper is actually old and documents Dust v1, which only makes the traffic look random. Dust v2 includes the polymorphic layer, which takes the randomized output and sh...
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Pandora: From near-death to profitability in a year - jrwoodruff http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/25/pandora-from-near-death-to-profitability-in-a-year/ ====== skolor Pandora is the only service that I regularly think "I should be paying these guys money". In fact, a while back I decided that the next time I hit the ...
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Why conferences need a code of conduct - telemachos http://jacobian.org/writing/codes-of-conduct/ ====== jsavimbi > This is a charged issue, and I don’t have the energy to deal with comments. I cannot take people like this seriously. They spend x hours of energy thinking about a statement that they want to communic...
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Save Bletchley Park - ccraigIW http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/archives/2008/12/save_bletchley.html ====== jgrahamc Bletchley Park is one of the 128 places in my travel book for geeks and an absolute must see for anyone who's interested in computer science or code breaking. It would be tragic if it was ...
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XE.com launches new site in React - herpderperator https://www.xe.com/ ====== amacalac unfortunately nobody told the designer to expect ads as part of the design, given the unfortunate position of the first ad right above what looks like an otherwise really nice design.
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New Recurly website launched this morning - what do you think? - danburkhart http://www.recurly.com ====== ameyamk Seems like new design comes with major hike in pricing.
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A tiny step in Android app development and business - revolz http://appbrood.blogspot.com ====== JacobIrwin Thanks for sharing your story. As a side, my ex-roommate is an Objective-C hacker that funded his move to the Valley from Pennsylvania (my guess is that he netted $10k+ on the app in about 2 months - based of...
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Show HN: GitPitch 2.0 – Markdown Presentations on Git.* - gitpitch https://medium.com/@gitpitch/announcing-gitpitch-2-0-27b10627a984 ====== Dowwie GitPitch looks very useful. Love the code walkthrough feature. This reminds me of a similar project, remarkjs: [https://github.com/gnab/remark](https://github.com/gnab/rem...
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We are in an abusive relationship with our phones - pavel_lishin https://conversationalist.org/2019/09/13/feminism-explains-our-toxic-relationships-with-our-smartphones/ ====== ryanolsonx > “Put up your hand if you like or maybe even love your smartphone,” I asked > the audience of policymakers, industrialists and stu...
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Concurrency is not Parallelism (it's better) - noloqy http://concur.rspace.googlecode.com/hg/talk/concur.html ====== noloqy For the video of the presentation: <http://vimeo.com/49718712>
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Google's Hybrid Approach to Research - Anon84 http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/7/151226-googles-hybrid-approach-to-research/fulltext ====== denzil_correa How many other companies follow a similar model?
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Towards practicing differential privacy - Cynddl http://blog.mrtz.org/2015/03/13/practicing-differential-privacy.html ====== noisydonut Nice tl;dr written by Nobel prize winner Al Roth: [http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2015/03/reflections-on- pr...](http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2015/03/reflections-on-practi...
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Donald Trump meets with tech leaders - Jarred https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/donald-trump-meets-with-tech-leaders/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook ====== delegate Strangely how this is not top news on HN - however...
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Text particle android - mosh_java http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twkDyQby1eI ====== mosh_java i made a code for android similar to previous web text particle was submitted here, what should i do next ?
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Ask HN: Will AI disrupt education and traditional teaching? - hsikka ====== ocean_child One of my core beliefs for AI/automation is that by removing the need to do menial custodial and service tasks, society can focus on cultivating more artists, philosophers, and programmers. If anything I think that we will put a muc...
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WorkerDom – The Same DOM API and Frameworks You Know, but in a Web Worker - guifortaine https://github.com/ampproject/worker-dom ====== MatthewPhillips I worked on a similar project a few years ago: [https://github.com/canjs/worker-render](https://github.com/canjs/worker- render). It could render jQuery apps in a web ...
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Is YC bold enough? (warning: possible linkbait) - Sam_Odio http://www.honorico.com/wordpress/?p=104 ====== ubudesign I don't think that YC is claiming to be a VC. Unless I am missing something? everybody knows that 10-20k is not worth much. People apply for something else. ~~~ hank777 Yes, but the question is wheth...
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Knuth's 2018 Christmas Lecture: Dancing Links - janvdberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9OcDYfHqOk ====== johnsonjo In Fall of 2017 I was still in school and had to write a sudoku solver in one of my CS classes. I ended up using dancing links to solve my sudoku problems. My implementation was in JavaScript and it c...
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A New Lawsuit from Microsoft: No More Gag Orders: A Legal Analysis - hackuser https://www.justsecurity.org/30583/challenge-microsoft-gag-orders/ ====== mirimir Modest proposal: Firms ought to refuse to do business in jurisdictions that do this authoritarian shit. Seriously. As it is, nobody in their right mind will do...
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The GNU Project Is Bleeding into Microsoft - davesailer http://techrights.org/2020/06/29/gnu-redirects/ ====== hannob GNU has their own code and project management plattform called Savannah. If you've ever interacted with it you know why this is happening. It's horrible in every way. I remember once trying to make som...
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Ask HN: What should I learn next? - enduu For the better part of the last 2 years I&#x27;ve been freelancing part-time as a Wordpress developer, focused mainly on building custom themes and modifying existing plugins. Naturally, this meant PHP was the thing to learn, since I was already familiar with HTML&#x2F;CSS, an...
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Making a GUI toolkit - asrp http://asrp.github.io/blog/gui_toolkit ====== asrp Maybe I should have used a different title. This is half about making a GUI toolkit and half about a GUI toolkit maker.
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Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/google-drops-the-axe-on-its-internal-renewable-energy-work.ars ====== patrickaljord Here is what Google said: > We will continue our work to generate cleaner, more efficient > energy—including our on-campus ...
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Ask HN: Looking for a 'how to hire' type-ish thread from a githubber - killnine I read a post discussing good hiring techniques on Monday (11/7) between 5:30 and 9:00 by a githubber and have been looking for it too long now -- hoping somebody can remember some better clues about it then I can .. please dont waste ti...
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Latest version of Chrome can't copy and paste urls to Outlook - DerekH https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/Sqv4fPmgztU/wpWF0HXXDQAJ ====== tssva This issue is only with pasting copied urls into Outlook. The title should be changed. ~~~ DerekH Thanks for pointing that out. I've been reading through the...
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Localization platform Phraseapp now offers Gengo powered translation - holdupadam http://blog.gengo.com/phraseapp-partnership/ ====== WolframHH Very cool!
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Logging is the new commenting - smikhanov http://www.mikhanov.com/2013/07/03/logging-is-the-new-commenting-297 ====== drKarl Logging is a powerful tool to debug a problem, but it comes with a cost, a high penalty in performance. So debugging should be flexible enough to have different levels (info, debug, warning, err...
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What’s Coming in Go 1.13 [slides] - dcu https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRo5urog_B76BcnQbIo7I391MZUKFj7l3gku6hypJ-WK1KCFw40A7BiM6NOVsqD17sA9jS7GyzCfnN4/pub?slide=id.g550f852d27_228_0 ====== cryptos This slide deck might be nice as a wallpaper for a presentation, but it is not a good read. Is there a b...
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RoR developers: looking for feedback on my portfolio - nickplace http://nickplace.github.io ====== nickplace I recently graduated and this is my first time looking for jobs using an online portfolio. Looking for any feedback I can get, I also appreciate "It's too boring" comments...
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Kontera Raises $15.5M For Annoying In-Text Advertising Technology - JournalistHack http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/kontera-raises-155m-for-annoying-in-text-advertising-technology/ ====== russell "Annoying" is certainly correct. The damned things pop up even when your mouse rolls over them. Now I know who to add ...
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