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Comcast to acquire NBC - shaddi http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/03/news/companies/comcast_nbc/index.htm ====== blahedo The vertical integration continues. It's always seemed dicey to me that a cable provider owns so many content stations, and this just exacerbates it.
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“Avatar” project aims for human immortality by 2045 - PhilipDaineko http://techandle.com/2012/07/30/avatar-project-aims-for-human-immortality-by-2045/ ====== AznHisoka I'm all for this as long as only the top .1% of people can afford this. We can't have everyone and their mom achieving immortality.
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Show HN: Yarnee for iOS - pow-tac https://itunes.apple.com/app/yarnee/id878999441?mt=8 ====== pow-tac This is an App we worked on for many months, it was released to the public yesterday. I was the technical project manager, what do you think about it? BTW: You can give me simple feedback by shaking your iPhone ve...
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How I Learned to Code Neural Networks in 2015 - mrborgen https://medium.com/@oslokommuneper/how-to-learn-neural-networks-758b78f2736e#.s0p5o4cxa ====== mrborgen It's been quite a discussion on Reddit on the article. Feel free to ask questions here as well and I'll answer as best as I can. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Py...
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Ask HN: Interesting Lisp/Clojure articles for experienced programmers? - rustc HNers, are there any interesting articles (or short books, or chapters in a book) that would show me the power of Lisp/Clojure, and make me really want to learn it?<p>(Better if a free resource, but not really necessary.) ====== car54wher...
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Two Approaches to Learning Programming: Top-Down and Bottom-Up - boyakasha http://www.programmingforbeginnersbook.com/blog/top-down-bottom-up-approaches-to-learning-programming/ ====== tannerc Most of the engineers I know learned to program via "top-down", as did I (though I'm a designer). Whenever anyone asks me how...
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Ask HN: What happens to society if we run out of oil? - taw55 ====== diafygi We won't. Over 80% of oil we pull out of the ground is burned for energy, and we are switching to alternatives at a rate that should have us fully transitioned before we run out. And thank god, too. We can only pull up a quarter of our proven...
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Unito – Export GitHub issues to GitLab and Bitbucket and keep them in sync - ronjouch https://unito.io/blog/how-to-export-github-issues-to-gitlab-and-bitbucket/ ====== ronjouch Hi HN! OP here, and developer at Unito. We've been featured/mentioned a couple of times here (see our founder's Show HN at [1]), and this blog...
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$stdout – Hell.js - alexgrcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6k6WR8GRs ====== FutureSpec So good.
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Using Mechanical Turk to hide a surgeon's domestic violence charge - evan_ https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1143583269730082816 ====== sunkensheep It's just "blackhat" SEO. Reminds me of a scheme in China where a company sold fake medicines and astro-turfed their way into appearing as a major supplier. So long as ...
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Apple delays FaceTime bug fix until next week - harshulpandav https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18206721/facetime-bug-fix-delayed-apple-ios-group-chat-eavesdrop ====== united893 Brilliant strategy on Apple's part -- picking a fight with Facebook and Google (banning them for a few hours) to generate global headlines wh...
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A Beginners Introduction To Metrics and Analytics For Data-Driven Growth - liamgooding http://blog.trak.io/a-beginners-introduction-to-metrics-analytics-for-data-driven-growth/ ====== liamgooding This is one of the introductory chapters to the book, so it's intentionally aimed at people who are either new to modern ...
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PH Launch Who is going to share feedbacks? - DamlaYildirim Hello Guys, MoovBuddy has launched on PH: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;moovbuddy<p>Please share your feedback and upvote if you like. Cheers ====== gus_massa Please change the title to something like: " _MoovBuddy: An exercise app for ...
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As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy - moh_maya http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-find-as-clocks-get-more-precise-time-gets-more-fuzzy ====== M_Grey I understand some of the subject, but I didn't understand the point this article is trying to make. There's a lot of the usual popsci about QM, and then ...
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Nest: What's in the 4.3 software update - lordbusiness https://nest.com/blog/2014/11/04/whats-in-the-4-3-software-update/ ====== lordbusiness My nest paid for itself in the first 8 months of use. The difference in my utilities was that dramatic. And I was a person who had actually bothered to set his thermostat and ...
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Tipu's Tiger - Thevet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu%27s_Tiger ====== dct Also featured in Sharpe's Tiger ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe's_Tiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe's_Tiger)) ------ Camillo I love the British reaction.
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How to Get Personal and Professional Value from Idle Web Surfing - yters http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/05/15/how-to-get-personal-and-professional-value-from-idle-web-surfing/ The article's points are fairly obvious when you think about it, but I haven't seen enough emphasis on the <i>real</i> social network you...
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Civ game 236 years old - erehweb http://erehweb.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/civ-game-for-236-years/ ====== davewicket Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Spore: What happened? - mshafrir http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/spore-what-happened-/1387746 ====== patio11 One day Will Wright and Peter Molyneux got together and decided to settle, once and for all, who could ship the most awesome tech demo in a box declaring it was a game. Molyneux got the drop on Wr...
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Concurrent Programming Constructs in Multi-Engine Prolog - fogus http://logic.csci.unt.edu/tarau/research/LeanProlog/slides_damp11.pdf ====== wccrawford I'm starting to hate scribd more all the time now. When you advance to certain slides in that slideshow, it moves an ad from the bottom to the top, which moves the s...
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The Sustainability of Human Progress (John McCarthy) - DaniFong http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html ====== DaniFong Note that while I don't share all of his views, this webpage is a broad, reasoned, concise case for optimism amidst the obstacles we'll face.
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Another $1K App on the App Store - kushsolitary https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fleas/id519800737?mt=8 ====== coderholic My guess is that is to manipulate all of the app discount sites that scan the app store and report on apps that have recently been discounted. If the developers drop the app to $0.99 then all of...
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Bridgewater Makes $1.5B Options Bet on Falling Market (2019) - tristanj https://www.wsj.com/articles/bridgewater-bets-big-on-market-drop-11574418601 ====== tristanj Bridgewater bet over $1B that the stock market would fall by March. The article is from November 2019. If they're still holding their bet, it would have p...
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Plan to Turn Asteroids into Spaceships Could Spur Off-Earth Mining - ohjeez http://www.space.com/33079-turning-asteroids-into-spaceships-made-in-space.html ====== beamatronic Instead of lifting a lot of mass out of your gravity well and accelerating it, it does make a lot of sense to take advantage of this "free" mass...
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Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? - Jerry2 http://www.practicalstats.com/xlsstats/excelstats.html ====== avs733 A couple notes from a heavy Excel and heavy R (and heavy several other similar products) user... factories run on excel...terrifyingly so. I know semiconductor semiconductor fabs that basic...
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Chomsky, Valiant and the algorithmic mirror - petar http://www.maymounkov.org/chomsky-valiant-algorithmic-mirror ====== mrng Google Cache: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.maymounkov.org/chomsky- valiant-algorithmic-mir...
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htaccess tester tool adds GitHub action, CLI and more - andreascreten https://madewithlove.be/our-htaccess-tester-tool-has-new-features/ ====== andreascreten I built this tool years ago, recently my team took the effort to make it compatible with a modern workflow. We started by building an API and a CLI on top of tha...
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Any smooth cubic surface contains 27 lines - tokenadult http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/02/15/27-lines-on-a-cubic-surface/ ====== stephengillie The Wikipedia article might be more accessible: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_surface](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_surface) ~~~ johnhattan Ahh, tha...
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Help Internet Troll Get RV Back - sarciszewski http://www.gofundme.com/nrkx6c ====== sarciszewski If you don't know who Jaime Cochran is, the cliffnotes version of her story is: Incredibly smart, talented, and hilarious trans woman. ~~~ piffy I hear she loves Hacker News and posts here almost every day. ------ gre...
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Know what your competitors are doing in 5 minutes - tyherox https://webscanner.netlify.com/ ====== pettycashstash2 I hate this clickbait were coming soon. Instant delete ~~~ tyherox Fair enough. I simply wanted to test an idea efficiently but I respect your opinion.
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Linux EBPF Off-CPU Flame Graph - jsnell http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-01-20/ebpf-offcpu-flame-graph.html ====== planckscnst Off-cpu flame graphs are probably my favorite tool for discovering possible optimizations. They can also be created efficiently using SystemTap since you can do pretty much anything in-ke...
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Belgian team develops “LCD” contact-lens display - pwg http://optics.org/news/3/12/6 ====== nsxwolf What a mean trick that headline is. Everyone reading that thinks its going to be an awesome augmented reality enabling HUD, and instead we find out its only a "display" for everyone BUT the wearer. ~~~ cdooh Isn't th...
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Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge - smacktoward http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/07/the-beauty-of-zipper-merging-or-why-you-should-drive-ruder/ ====== malandrew That video explanation made no sense to me. Basically the "interface" presented to the drivers has not changed, so why ...
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Why You Should Be An Office Nomad - timjahn http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com/blog/3-reasons-why-im-an-office-nomad-2 ====== alokhar This is really cool. I've read a lot about ideal working environments, and it seems the general consensus is that working alone, isolated, and for long periods of time is the best. This...
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Windows Command-Line: Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer - ingve https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/11/15/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/ ====== ggm And remind me, which manufacturer of s/w is responsible for on-the-fly mis- encoding datastreams as latin1 and other misnomers...
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Ask HN: Anyone using Python 3 in production? - iamelgringo I'd love to make the switch over to Python 3 before I get tons of code written on my startup. Anyone using it in production? ====== justin_vanw Nobody is switching to Python 3. If you go first you get all of the pain and no advantages (plus switching late...
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Introducing SourceKit-LSP - mbroncano https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-sourcekit-lsp/17964 ====== peterkelly I've recently started adding support for the Language Server Protocol (LSP) in a language project I'm working on, and it's a godsend. If you're not familiar with it, it's basically an editor- and language...
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Show HN: Navigate text files in a browser and Node.js - anpur https://github.com/anpur/line-navigator ====== smt88 Does this avoid reading the whole file into memory? ~~~ anpur Exactly, it was initially created because FileReader.readAsText() from HTML5 File API loads whole file to the memory, so it crashes for files...
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Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute - uyoakaoma https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html ====== gnicholas The title of this HN post, like nearly every headline I've seen for this lawsuit, is misleading. The headlines makes it seem as if the company forgot ...
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Gmail for Desktop (unofficial) built using Electron - thfc06 https://github.com/drewbkoch/gmail ====== thfc06 Hi guys, Started playing around with Electron this weekend and threw together this Gmail desktop app. Would love feedback and pull requests to make it better! -Drew
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Ask HN: How do you handle mongodb migrations? - uptownhr So you wrote your app with mongodb and went live. Maybe some small changes to db structure aren&#x27;t that big of a deal but eventually, you need to migrate data.<p>How have you guys been handling migrations in mongo? ====== jwilliams For really deep, structura...
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Improve Your Technical Slides - sant0sk1 http://nubyonrails.com/articles/improve-your-technical-slides ====== johnm Some good basics that go a long ways. Though, I don't think most hackers really need to bother buying fonts. That's an extra. :-) Other good info: Presentation Zen (<http://www.presentationzen.com/>) ...
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Ask HN: Found an identical product to mine. Should I double down or refocus? - dolevyao Long time lurker, first time poster here - I hope this is not a stupid question.<p>I have been working on a SaaS B2B MVP for a few months, however I am self-taught and it&#x27;s taking some time. Initial feedback from potential cus...
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Welcome to Powder Mountain – a utopian club for the millennial elite - Southworth https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/powder-mountain-ski-resort-summit-elite-club-rich-millennials?CMP=share_btn_tw ====== masonic [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=powder%20utopian&sort=byDate&p...](https://hn.algolia.com/?qu...
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Google Adds Voice And Video Chat to Gmail - dawie http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/11/google-adds-voice-and-video-chat-to-gmail/ ====== lowkey Okay, installed. Now need someone to video chat with. Requirements: Intel Mac, Gmail account, Video Chat add-on, a personality. ------ shadytrees This is a duplicate: <http:/...
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The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer - payne92 https://payne.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-10x-programmer/ ====== remmargorp64 10X programmers DO exist. They aren't just a myth, and they aren't just about knowing when to buy vs build, or when to use a particular framework or toolkit, or how to "mentor" ot...
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Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo - deegles https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-says-it-has-over-10-000-employees-working-on-alexa-echo-1542138284 ====== m0zg And those employees are doing a rather poor job on the AI side of things. Hardware itself is OK, it hears me better than its Google c...
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The “Vulgar Mechanick” and His Magical Oven - dang http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/the-vulgar-mechanic-and-his-magical-oven ====== speeder Sometimes I wonder, what magic still exists to be invented? I am glad for my world full of science, but sad that all my ideas have been done before, and better than I could do ...
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Ask HN: How you measure time to ramp-up for new engineers as a manager? - ahmadassaf How would we measure time to ramp-up for new engineers (i.e. time it takes before engineer is considered to be productive and on boarded) ====== s3nnyy It boils down to the question of how to measure the productivity of software engin...
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Turning Saltwater From Earth and Sea Into Drinking Water - iProject http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/science/earth/turning-saltwater-from-earth-and-sea-into-drinking-water.html? ====== hendler Interesting that there was no mention of Dean Kamen's "slingshot" <http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/colbert-and-kam...
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The quitting economy - acconrad https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters ====== wyc The most recent resource I've read on this was The Alliance by Reid Hoffman. In it, he postulates that both employees and employers are lying through their teeth: employers tell employees about the ben...
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Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger - essrand http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20581-genderspotting-tool-could-have-rumbled-fake-blogger.html ====== gaius But how is this affected by sexual orientation? Now I don't actually know about this mind, but sometimes I drink in a bar that is a local ...
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Microsoft's Holiday Disaster: PC Sales Shrank For The First Time In 5 Years - SlipperySlope http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-pc-sales-shrank-for-the-first-time-in-5-years-2013-1 ====== SlipperySlope essentially ... "Windows 8 wasn't going to be as big a catalyst," said Shaw Wu, analyst at Sterne Agee. "It's...
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Offer HN: Complete design with HTML/CSS for $999 - ashraful Hi. I am a freelance web designer and developer. I am going to give one startup a completely custom design for their entire website/app for $999.<p>My portfolio is at madebyargon.com<p>Email me at inlith@gmail.com if you are interested. ====== drats Clickab...
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10,000 year clock of the Long Now - put your name down for a visit - cormullion http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html ====== pavel_lishin Strongly reminds me of Anathem, which isn't surprising - The Long Now was apparently a big inspiration for Stephenson.
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VW accused of ruining Mexican crops with weather-altering technology (2018) - Tomte https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/23/news/companies/vw-volkswagen-mexico-drought/index.html ====== rmason Reached out on twitter to see if my friends in the car business know if any of the Big 3 are using these anti-hail cannons. If true, ...
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Student Startup Plan - jdavid http://www.sba.gov/startupamerica/student-startup-plan ====== wtvanhest This isn't new, and it still causes the graduate's debt to increase very quickly so the risk is very real. If the gov paid the interest that would cause both moral hazard and reduce real risk on the graduate. ~~~ f...
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Evernote is down - arthurcolle https://maintenance.evernote.com/maintenance.html ====== arthurcolle Frustrating when the whole point is to "stay connected." I have a critical meeting where I prepared notes and they didn't sync and now I have to just deal with that.
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Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad's Manifesto - aschepis http://adamschepis.com/blog/2011/09/15/why-i-go-home-a-dads-manifesto/ ====== gruseom Sorry, but this is getting a little unctuous. I don't think the trend in our time of parents organizing their lives around their children is very good for anybody, especially t...
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Spacemacs: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim - Garbage http://spacemacs.org/ ====== lorenzhs This comes up fairly frequently on HN (mostly in comments, but also submissions) - most notably perhaps [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394144](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394144) an...
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Ask HN: open source Posterous-style email validation? - davi Does anyone know of an open source library for validating email headers a la Posterous? I think their model strikes a great balance between usability and security, and wonder if there's anything out there that would facilitate building a similar feature i...
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A Look Inside AOL's Platform Strategy; My Conversation with Userplane's CEO - shayan http://mashable.com/2007/11/05/aol-platform/ "AOL may not be totally clueless after all. " ====== joeguilmette AOL has a strategy? ~~~ mrtron Not really. Their general strategy right now is to reduce costs since the money coming in ...
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AMA with COO of Stack Exchange - gloves https://plus.google.com/events/c8nurjg4aqpihup1bqhhl67mjjk ====== NKCSS Maybe add a (video) tag? I am not in a position to watch videos at this time; others might appreciate it as well.
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Show HN: domain - musiic703 Hey guys I've seen people selling domains. And well I think I want to sell it. How do I go about doing that. If anyone interested just email me<p>Domain : workzstation.com<p>Ruben.leija@me.com ====== samstave $25.00
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The Apollo 11 Journey in Photographs - andyjohnson0 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-apollo-11-journey-in-photographs/260125/ ====== rogerbinns There is a wonderful HD video showing the first 30 seconds of launch from a high speed camera, taking 8 minutes. It is incredible the details just f...
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America’s Housing Affordability Crisis Spreads to the Midwest - jseliger https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/america-s-housing-affordability-crisis-spreads-to-the-heartland ====== jseliger The many bad laws and policies in coastal cities (mandating single-family houses with large lots and subsidized par...
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Ask HN: How do we help students that are stuck at home? - Areading314 I can&#x27;t even imagine how disruptive it must be for students to be stuck at home trying to learn everything they are going to need for their college and future. What are some things HNers can do to help? ====== pshapiro99 Use your social media t...
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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics - digital55 https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170202-math-and-the-best-life-francis-su-interview/ ====== 110011 As a counterpoint to the overly exuberant article let me chime in as a graduating theoretical computer scientist. Math is hard and despite its beauty and allure academic...
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Apple Flips the Switch, iCloud Goes Live - digiwizard http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_flips_the_switch_icloud_goes_live/ ====== pohl I was able to successfully log on from a linux machine (1.73GHz quad-core i7 with 8G of RAM, using chrome). Unfortunately, the interface could well be the slowest web interf...
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Clearbit - dankohn1 http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/clearbit ====== dankohn1 Congrats on the promising-looking service. I found it ridiculous that LinkedIn has killed their API, and am thrilled to see alternatives. I just recommended you to a document-serving service I really like called DocSend, which lets me monitor who ...
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Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa - bookofjoe https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dgreelish/before-macintosh-the-apple-lisa# ====== mimixco Thank you for starting out with props to Doug Engelbart. He doesn't get enough credit for inventing the GUI.
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No One Likes Levi’s Stadium - coloneltcb https://theringer.com/san-francisco-49ers-levis-stadium-santa-clara-c29a140a1726#.cjfcad11e ====== DrScump This article gets a lot wrong. (There is plenty _genuinely_ wrong with the stadium without going fictional). To wit: 1) "the 49ers are averaging 70,178 fans per game" As...
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Creating Read-Only References to Objects in JavaScript - bolshchikov http://blog.bolshchikov.net/post/70680524646/creating-read-only-reference-to-object-in-javascript ====== TazeTSchnitzel ES6 will add proxies, another approach. ~~~ bolshchikov Yes, that would be great. However, the approximate arrival time of ES6 ...
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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written by Just 1 Percent of Its Editors - sds111 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-elite-diversity-foundation ====== zbentley The title of the article is a bit vague. "Nearly all" means 77%, which would potentially be a more accurate title for this submissi...
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Ask HN: Pharmaceutical BigCo wants to acquire my iPad app. Advice? - luckyclueless Hey HN, throwaway account here.<p>My partner and I created an iPad app and it's been pretty successful (especially considering it was only a 4 week investment). The app is in the top 100 US &#38; China, covered by NYT, ABC, Gizmodo, e...
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A call made by computer descends sheriff's helicopter at home - monsterix http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/7/7172827/destiny-swatting ====== Someone1234 You notice so called "SWATTING" hasn't taken off in other parts of the world, and that certainly isn't down to those parts having less internet trolls or crazies onli...
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Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying - pseudolus https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/28/academics-uk-universities-accused-bullying-students-colleagues ====== colllectorof At this point it's pretty much impossible to read such articles and figure out whether there is an actual ins...
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Scientist grow dinosaur leg on chicken - esalazar http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3487977/Scientist-grow-dinosaur-leg-CHICKEN-bizarre-reverse-evolution-experiment.html ====== tkinom We can, but should we?
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When the makers of Grand Theft Auto raid your house - CPAhem https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-11-08/grand-theft-auto-cheat-crackdown-house-raid/10472358 ====== BoorishBears Eventually you cross a line with anything. Once you’re making hundreds of thousands of dollars selling cheats, you’re just begging for po...
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Show HN: Detect which iOS devices are used on your site - dieulot https://www.dieulot.fr/idevice ====== valgaze Not device-type, looks famous.co can infer battery mode from Safari: [https://imgur.com/a/XvAGvWS](https://imgur.com/a/XvAGvWS) ~~~ dieulot They’re trying to autoplay a video, which Safari blocks if the dev...
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Open source tools - dsc http://www.socialbrite.org/2010/07/16/12-open-source-tools-you-should-be-using/ ====== Mongoose It feels like this same article could have been published 3 years ago. Most of these (Firefox, Wordpress and maybe VLC and Handbrake aside) have been great apps that no one uses for years. ------ ...
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Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor - J3L2404 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ancient-life-millions-of-years-old-and-barely-alive-found-beneath-ocean-floor/2012/05/17/gIQA3zIRWU_story.html ====== rickyconnolly From a shrewd entrepreneurial point of view...
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A Mysterious Explosion Took Place in Russia. What Happened? - yread https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/russia-mysterious-explosion-arctic-putin-chernobyl/ ====== detritus My only hope with this is that Russia are contriving to give the impression they're actually proceeding with this madness, without actually doing ...
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Scientists decode breast cancer DNA - codedivine http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/08/2709016.htm ====== prat There have been a number of targeted sequencing experiments of breast cancer cells before: using next gen sequencing platforms and microarrays. Comlpete sequencing is by no means a breakthrough. A c...
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Climate change skeptics/deniers pay better - jgrahamc http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/12/climate-change-skeptics-deniers-pay.html ====== jrmurad > I wonder if this implies something about gullibility. I wonder if this implies that skeptics/deniers are more productive (and have more money to spend.) I wonder if this i...
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How can there be collisions in Hashing functions? - robzyb https://np.reddit.com/r/algorithms/comments/6bidyg/how_can_there_be_collisions_in_hashing_functions/ ====== CarolineW I'm curious as to your reasons for posting this. It's clearly a conversation between people who don't understand something and people who can'...
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Response to Tim Bray's Departure - forrestbrazeal https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/response-tim-brays-departure-brad-porter/ ====== fsociety Interestingly Brad just proved Tim Bray's point by stroking his own ego and only talking about processes that Amazon is introducing in response to COVID-19 - instead of talking abo...
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I built a resume-padder and earned $700 in the process - polyfractal http://euphonious-intuition.com/2012/07/i-built-a-resume-padder-and-earned-700-in-the-process/ ====== potomak My side projects look like gifts to me, I feel uncomfortable to sell them. Maybe this isn't the entrepreneur way but I feel bonded with m...
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How the Biggest YC Companies Got Started - sachitgupta http://mixergy.com/ycombinator ====== AndrewWarner Raldi, I made a change in response to your comment: "I think it would be a lot more ethical if you presented it openly as such, right from the start. For example, the big button at the bottom of the page could s...
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Why do chocolate chip cookies have 37% (1/e) chocolate in them? - msvan http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/651823/is-there-a-mathematical-reason-why-chocolate-chip-cookies-have-37-1-e-chocola ====== pyduan This feels like pure numerology to me, with the entire argument being based on some vague numeric coincidenc...
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Black Hole Sun: a slight reversal of fortune for Apple - eiramanit http://siracusa.tumblr.com/post/513260338/black-hole-sun ====== tptacek (a) Apple was never in my recollection a huge gravitational force for engineering talent. Google was, almost from day one. I don't see what's changed. (b) There are high-profile...
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(Dis)Functional Bowling (FP/TDD debate) - fogus http://alaska-kamtchatka.blogspot.com/2009/07/disfunctional-bowling.html ====== akeefer There's nothing like a totally contrived example to prove absolutely nothing about the efficacy of any given methodology or programming paradigm.
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Minefold (YC W12) is powering down - Kenan http://blog.minefold.com/post/62013928578 ====== anthonyb For me it was the opposite - I was quite happy to pay, but didn't have enough control of, or visibility into, what was going on on the server. I set up a minefold instance for my daughter and her friends to play on,...
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Metis: MIT's Multicore MapReduce in C++ - snihalani http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/metis/ ====== pilooch The paper indicates good performance increase compared to phoenix. Very welcome and useful, thanks!
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Automatically Link Twitter Usernames In Content - paulund http://www.paulund.co.uk/automatically-link-twitter ====== ColinWright ... on WordPress - like that's the only system anyone ever uses.
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Compiling at Compile Time - luu https://blog.veitheller.de/Compiling_at_Compile_Time.html ====== ephaeton "At runtime, we could use cond for that, but since that is a macro as well, we can’t use it at compile time." D'oh. Who writes a lisp with macros where you can't use macros at macro- expansion-time?? ------ sans...
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Show HN: Opp.io – Meetings. Followed. Up - bujatt https://opp.io/frontpage/ ====== tixocloud Had a peek and love the concept! Having worked in many different environments, this could be a great tool to help everyone stay on track. ------ eecks You really need an example on the front page ~~~ bujatt Hi eecks, you mea...
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Developer/designer partner for a side project. - gianluka Hello Guys!<p>I am Gianluca Rispo, a hundred % Italian designer. Except that, I am a really great thinker with a lot of ideas.<p>I was wondering if there were out there, someone who has design (hybrid front-end, UI) or development skills who wanted to partner...
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Sneak Peek of PineTime Smart Watch and Why It’s Perfect for Teaching IoT - freedomben https://medium.com/swlh/sneak-peek-of-pinetime-smart-watch-and-why-its-perfect-for-teaching-iot-81b74161c159 ====== haspoken Twitter link for article so all can view it: [https://t.co/b6b5ctZSXd](https://t.co/b6b5ctZSXd)
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DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M - drchiu https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/digitalocean-raises-100m-in-debt-as-it-scales-towards-revenue-of-300m-profitability/ ====== cdolan This article had more detail and substance than I usually find on TechCrunch or startup coverage in genera...
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