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Don't comment your code. Refactor it. - mcrittenden https://critter.blog/2020/09/15/dont-comment-your-code-refactor-it/ ====== jfengel The most important "comments" in your code are names. Taking a chunk of code and giving it a name gives you a small bit of free text to explain what it does. The function signature giv...
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The Myth of Multitasking - robg http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/article_detail.asp?id=414&css=print ====== bryarcanium If you are interested in time and multitasking, look at some of anthropologist Edward Hall's stuff. Monochronism and Polychronism have been co-opted to apply to individuals but they were...
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Fuck-That Money - joshuap https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/f-ck-that-money/ ====== JohnFen This essay is spot on. I'm a big believer in having "fuck that" money. When I have less than that, I feel trapped for obvious reasons. When I have more than that, then the money itself brings additional headaches and pains that a...
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HTML5 Scorecard: Chrome for Android Beta - mariuz http://www.sencha.com/blog/html5-scorecard-chrome-mobile-beta/ ====== ypcx "This item cannot be installed in your device's country." Whoever did that - I'd deny them access to any cafe or restaurant not located on their home street, because you know, it's not on the...
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How choosing the wrong cloud provider could kill your SaaS startup - ponderatul http://blog.howtoweb.co/2015/11/cloud-infrastructure/ ====== stephenr Not a single mention of the biggest risk that apparently no one considers anymore: Vendor lock in. If your business is tied specifically to Amazon or Google or Azure "c...
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Docker and Security - mwcampbell http://blog.docker.io/2014/02/docker-and-security/ ====== kogir Containers are great for isolating trusted applications from one another to ease deployment, but using them for multi-tenant security is ill advised. Since all containers share the same kernel, any local privilege escalat...
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Bill Ackman Scored a 10k% Return Amid Coronavirus Market Meltdown - spking https://observer.com/2020/03/hedge-fund-bill-ackman-profit-coronavirus-market-crash/ ====== cjbenedikt Let's not jump to conclusions before we can see the losses on his portfolio which he will have to net off. After all it was a hedge...
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What Is Apache Beam and How Is It Used? - johnson_mark1 http://www.talend.com/blog/2016/05/02/introduction-to-apache-beam ====== ericand Google's take: [https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/why-apache- be...](https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/why-apache-beam-a- google-perspective) Data Artisan'...
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A Nixon Deepfake, a 'Moon Disaster' Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk - LinuxBender https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nixon-deepfake-a-moon-disaster-speech-and-an-information-ecosystem-at-risk/ ====== mellosouls Currently being discussed in another thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23...
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Business Card Ray Tracer (2013) - harel http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/index.php ====== eat_veggies Also see this one: [https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/03/miniray.html](https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/03/miniray.html) which generated the logo for the IOCCC! ~~~ mroche Andrew Kensler d...
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Show HN: Nabaroo, discover and collect media from social networks - rtrankler http://nabaroo.com ====== mercnet What exactly does this do? Does it crawl my social networks for pictures, videos, and links? Please add more information, a demo, or a video to the landing page. Also, the background is straining my eyes. ...
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Show HN: Golang Websocket Chat Room Server - starlineventure https://github.com/dafinley/websocket ====== starlineventure There's an ios and android app setup to work with it: [https://github.com/dafinley/twilio-video-app- android](https://github.com/dafinley/twilio-video-app-android) [https://github.com/dafinley/twil...
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Umami, the fifth basic taste - nyellin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami ====== metafunctor ...which doesn't actually exist: [http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2008/07/scienceofflavo...](http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2008/07/scienceofflavor)
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Ask HN: I am turning 20 today.Got some advice?(as an entrepreneur or a developer) - pvsukale1 I am a newbie web developer. and a wannabe entrepreneur . I am confused about a lot of things .like grad school , to focus on studies or some idea. I am asking for some advice you got for me as an developer or entrepreneur....
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Wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communication would be required in new cars - serg_chernata http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/13/13936342/wireless-vehicle-to-vehicle-communication-v2v-v2i-dot-nhtsa ====== blendo From the fact sheet [https://www.safercar.gov/v2v/pdf/V2V_NPRM_Fact_Sheet_121316_...](https://www.safercar.gov/v2...
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Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool - askari01 https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476?helpref=search&sr=1&query=cambridge ====== forkerenok The cynic in me keeps wondering whether this is a genuine attempt at getting some transparency points or FB wants to more precisely analyz...
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What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? - tyn http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire/ ====== whimsy Full list of links to the story. 1: [http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do- rea...](http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-...
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Yummy cookies across domains - Killswitch https://github.com/blog/1466-yummy-cookies-across-domains ====== ultimoo This is a great article. It is nice that github is comprehensively explaining how they are protecting user data to reassure their users. However, this is one of the rare blog posts that go on to educate ...
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Pretending it isn’t there: how we think about the nuclear threat - monort https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/pretending-it-isnt-there ====== qubex Like the author, I spend a significant amount of time pondering the utter horror that nuclear war would entail, the death and destruction it would rain upon innocent _h...
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Developers vs iphone - sinzone http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/12/facebook-please-back-developers-vs-iphone/ ====== bluebird Surprise, surprise... Yet another post against Apple on TechCrunch. ------ nikcub bad title, I know - and you mangled it further, but still, +1 from me.
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Show HN: Simple Binary Data Visualization in R - tincholio http://martin.varela.fi/post/simple-binary-data-visualization/ ====== rcthompson For the observation toward the end that compressed files seem highly uniform, this makes sense intuitively. If there were any visible patterns, that would imply that the data is f...
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Understanding Slices in Go - codezero http://www.goinggo.net/2013/08/understanding-slices-in-go-programming.html ====== AYBABTME Understanding slices : - slice.c, http://golang.org/src/pkg/runtime/slice.c - Dynamic arrays, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_array
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AVR support merged into Rust nightly - zargon https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/e91bf6c881dc8fa50dc18fc2f518a6c22424ddb5 ====== shepmaster Note that there is still plenty of work to be done in LLVM, Rust, and the ecosystem. For example, function pointers accessed in global variables have the incorrect relocati...
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An Interactive Quine in Clojure - tosh http://blog.klipse.tech/clojure/2019/01/08/quines-in-clojure.html ====== DannyB2 I think that using any kind of self-referential technique in a quine is cheating. If you learn how to write a quine in an 'ordinary' language, then the same technique works in Clojure or anything el...
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The Evil Within the Comparison Functions (C,C++,C#) - DmitryNovikov https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/the-evil-within-the-comparison-functions ====== jepler This is why you should use clever language features such as macros (C) and pointers to member data (C++). If your code looks like this, there's no scope f...
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Autify – driving UI overlay - zdedu https://www.producthunt.com/tech/autify-driving-ui-overlay ====== zdedu Hey guys, so I just launched my newest startup Autify. I’d love to hear your feedback. Autify about gesture based smartphone controlling.
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I hate Forth - dimitar http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20010731S0028 ====== gvb My observation of Forth is that it is used to write an _undocumented_ [1] DSL and then solve the actual problem using that DSL. This is great if you were the one that wrote the DSL and thus understand it intimately (having a prodigious...
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Vruby alpha – like virtualenv, but for ruby - joefiorini https://github.com/joefiorini/vruby ====== joefiorini For the last few months before I stopped doing Ruby full time I was using a workflow (on OS X) in which I downloaded a binary Ruby build (the one rvm uses when you do "rvm install --binary" on OS X) and ext...
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'Tap Tap Revenge 3' going free today as Tapulous bets on virtual goods - fromedome http://www.businessinsider.com/tap-tap-revenge-3-going-free-today-as-tapulous-bets-on-virtual-goods-2009-12 ====== cmelbye I want a version of Tap Tap Revenge that is $5.99 _without_ advertisements. Video interstitial ads? Guess which...
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Interview: Creating a FOSS printed circuit board design tool - Jefro118 https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/urban-bruhin-librepcb ====== redis_mlc FYI: KiCad is very good and is funded by CERN: [http://www.kicad- pcb.org/](http://www.kicad-pcb.org/) Licence is GPL3/AGPL3. KiCad has high-end drawing features, but th...
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Gitter – Chat, for GitHub - ejdyksen https://gitter.im/ ====== rileytg Looks really nice but you guys ask for too many permissions! SSH keys?? [http://cl.ly/U1pP](http://cl.ly/U1pP) ~~~ mydigitalself Hey, I've answered this numerous times in this thread, but I'll say it again, very loudly and very definitively: WE...
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Liked the Stripe CTF? The World's Largest Student-Run CTF is this Weekend - dguido https://csawctf.poly.edu/ ====== dguido There are 700+ teams currently registered. The competition is open to anyone, but only students are eligible for the over $200,000 in prizes and travel scholarships to attend the final round in ...
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The Uncertainty of Science by Richard Feynman (1963) - micaeloliveira http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-uncertainty-of-science ====== joaorico Feynman has another fantastic talk on "What is Science?" [1]. Among other things, at a certain point in that talk, this is how he lays out his "best definition of science": "Wh...
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The Truth About Rod Vagg - maxharris https://medium.com/@rvagg/the-truth-about-rod-vagg-f063f6a53557 ====== wolco "It is evidence to others that Node.js may not be serious about its commitment to community and inclusivity." When a project focuses on other things unrelated to the core reason why they exist things like...
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STF - Use commodity hardware to build your own scalable storage system - draegtun http://stf-storage.github.com/ ====== draegtun Daisuke Maki gave a talk on using STF at livedoor.com - _Serve Billions Of User Uploaded Media On PSGI and Commodity Hardware_ | <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SR4xAY7eno>
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Ask HN: How to handle Payroll for remote “employees” payroll outside the U.S.? - hichamin ====== raooll I work as a remote employee for a us based startup out of India. I raise and invoice every month corresponding to the salary account. For all legal purposes, I'm a consultant to the company. ------ thisone every ti...
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Frameworks vs. Libraries in PHP - pauljonas http://www.otton.org/2008/08/05/frameworks-libraries-php-zend/ ====== cousin_it Can't help but link to IMO the best piece on libraries vs frameworks: "I’d really like to give you this fork Jimmy, but you’re gonna need a knife and plate to use it." <http://an9.org/devdev/why_...
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Ask HN: Will cryptocurrency bubble as large as the dotcom bubble? - codewithcheese As the Ethereum market cap approaches Bitcoin and ICOs are going on sale every week. How would one compare the cryptocurrency bubble to the dotcom bubble in terms of scale? ====== airbreather Bubble will continue while there are still n...
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Blocklist Facebook domains - z0a https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporations/facebook/all ====== jiaweihli I highly recommend using uMatrix[1][2] if you're very privacy-conscious. It's the full-blown everything-at-your-fingertips console. By default, it blocks third-party scripts/cookies/XHRs/frame...
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Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes - desheikh http://wiki.github.com/petejkim/socks Introducing Socks. An easy to use javascript UI toolkit with Shoes (http://www.shoooes.net) like syntax. Build webapps quickly and easily with no knowledge of HTML or CSS. ====== Sephr IMO, a better MIME type would be a...
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Agent-Based Modelling for Hospital Resource Allocation in Viral Crises - floodedhere https://github.com/jetnew/COVID-Resource-Allocation-Simulator ====== MrK93 Having developed a discrete event simulator myself for my master's thesis I can guarantee that the usefulness of tools like this one depends heavily on the ver...
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Developer Bootcamp in Vancouver BC - jasonh1234 http://codecore.ca CodeCore is an intensive 8 week, full time course that will teach you the necessary skills to excel in the software development industry. ====== jasonh1234 It's about time Vancouver got one!
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A Bitter Pill - hourislate http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/4/11581994/fmt-fecal-matter-transplant-josiah-zayner-microbiome-ibs-c-diff ====== goldhand That's awesome! He's real mad scientist! Super cool.
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How To Use Twitter and Not Be a Douchebag - twism http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2009/05/26/how-to-use-twitter-and-not-be-a-douchebag/ ====== jnorthrop Am I the only one who couldn't get past the author's tone. I'll paraphrase the way I read it: "Hey kids, I've been doing this a long time, and I know what...
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Ask HN: Working as part of an interview, for free? - meesterdude I recently applied to a startup for a development position. I was told I would do a &quot;trial interview&quot; which was really just a feature implementation they needed. I was sent an NDA which also talked of when to invoice and had &quot;rate: TBD&q...
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Ask HN: What is a good free alternative for Picasa for photo editing? - foo101 Now that Picasa is end-of-life, I would like suggestions about an alternative photo editor that is amateur-friendly. I am not a professional photographer. I am a programmer. But I do like to perform some quick enhancements on the photograph...
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AT&T Throttling Unlimited Plans after 2GB Data Use - mediamaker http://www.johncozen.com/2012/02/att-throttling-unlimited-plans-after-2gb-data/ ====== lpolovets One particularly nasty thing about automatically throttling the top 5% is that it is completely divorced from costs and level of usage. Over time, if heavy us...
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Ask HN: is http://www.fcc.gov/comments down for anyone else? - dmschulman So if I have this correctly, the FCC set up an app to get public comment on FCC related issues (most notably right now Net Neutrality) and the public comment period is something they&#x27;re obligated to do under law, yet the system they&#x27;...
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New Shepard's 8th test flight [video] - thibran https://www.blueorigin.com/#youtubeZUV53Nn3PhA ====== ChuckMcM Congrats Blue Origin Team! That was nicely done. I am always amazed when something so complicated is made to look "easy." With Virgin Galactic getting back into test flights after losing Spaceship 2, the pos...
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The best car in the world - cocoflunchy http://gearpatrol.com/2015/08/10/best-car-world/ ====== JoeAltmaier ...except for the 50-minute refuel time.
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Bauhaus: Last Rites - daddy_drank https://the-easel.com/essays/bauhaus-a-failed-utopia-3/ ====== eternalban And that is not "Bauhaus". The building in question definitively looks like a Corbu clone. [https://www.archdaily.com/806115/ad-classics-master-plan- for...](https://www.archdaily.com/806115/ad-classics-master-...
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Intercepting USSD calls in Android - scorpioxy http://www.codedemigod.com/intercepting-ussd-calls-in-android/ ====== scorpioxy Happy to answer any questions.
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The Making of Apple’s Emoji - Doubleguitars https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee ====== xwvvvvwx Must be an incredible feeling to have designed and drawn what is fast becoming a core part of our language. Although looks like the pile of poo a...
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This Is the First Known Image of DARPA's Submarine-Hunting Drone Ship - ourmandave http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/exclusive-this-is-the-first-known-image-of-darpas-subm-1759205822 ====== PhantomGremlin Weird. If it's unmanned and unarmed, whats to prevent pirates from boarding it and taking it over? Said "pirates" ...
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MetaLab's Andrew Wilkinson redesigns TED.com - alibosworth http://dribbble.com/shots/702217-TED-com-Rethink ====== eps Meh would be the word. TED has personality and vibe. This doesn't, or rather its vibe is that of an iPhone app site - generic and instantly forgettable. ------ oxwrist It's pretty, but that's about...
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Mudflap: Pointer Use Checking for C/C++ - nkurz http://gcc.fyxm.net/summit/2003/mudflap.pdf ====== tolmasky I really wish I could use Readability on all these Scribed PDFs. ~~~ chronomex Seriously. Why do people publish to PDF anyway? ~~~ _delirium In a lot of cases, like the one here, it's because they're publishi...
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Show HN: SvgVerlet.js a SVG-based physics library - miketucker http://mike-tucker.com/ ====== miketucker Github Repo: [https://github.com/miketucker/svg- verlet.js](https://github.com/miketucker/svg-verlet.js) All pages are based on an SVG file, such as: [http://mike- tucker.com/13/svg/hello.svg](http://mike-tucker...
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Tinker – Create duration-based goals on your iPhone - joekndy http://leef.io/tinker ====== carlaldrich It would be cool to track some history / time spent on different things. As it stands it does not seem differentiated enough from the native timer (or a watch, for that matter). ------ shadesandcolour I hope that ...
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NPM v5.7.0 - el_duderino http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171139955345/v570 ====== r1ch Beware that this release seems to destroy your filesystem if run via sudo. [https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883) ~~~ fabian2k This is a pre-release not a final one. But running npm update -g...
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Why “Growing the Economy” Doesn’t Even Make Sense - mindstab https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/why-growing-the-economy-doesn-t-even-make-sense-c2a3900d8403#.wxul8jcxb ====== AnimalMuppet The assertion is "growing the economy does not benefit the average person; the rich take all the gains". Well, let's think about mov...
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"This page is best viewed from the United States" - jodoglevy http://chronline.posterous.com/this-page-is-best-viewed-outside-the-us ====== morsch I thought this would be about content restrictions that prevent international users from seeing the same stuff as US users. Most of his arguments seem to apply to access...
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How I came up with my product name - infocaptor http://www.mockuptiger.com/mockuptiger-in-the-zoo ====== code_duck Thinking up names sure can be tricky. Name trends are silly for web businesses, no doubt - word+ ster, word +r, and now word + ly. MockupTiger actually fits a name trend I call 'adjective animal', which ...
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Thesis Theme is now using a split GPLv2 license - PStamatiou http://twitter.com/pearsonified/status/19288707443 ====== briandoll This has been really interesting to watch unfold. Starting with Andrew Warner's tweet (<http://twitter.com/AndrewWarner/status/18538556171>) "How can I get @photomatt & @pearsonified on Mixe...
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IEEE publishes draft report on 'ethically aligned' AI design - miraj http://www.zdnet.com/article/ieee-publishes-draft-report-on-ethically-aligned-ai-design/ ====== miraj the report :: (.pdf) "Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (AI/A...
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The EU's bizarre war on memes is totally unwinnable - jkaljundi http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-meme-war-article-13-regulation ====== DanBC Because most people on HN have never read this, here is article 13: Article 13 Use of protected content by information society service providers storing and giving access to l...
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SF Supervisor Pushes to Remove Zuckerberg Name from Hospital - Jerry2 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/SF-Supervisor-Pushes-to-Remove-Zuckerberg-Name-From-Hospital-501491461.html ====== mc32 You know what? I dislike Zuck's company and what he does as much as anyone, but this is naked revisionism and oppor...
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Testing a e1/t1 card before shipping to haiti - aaronzinman Hi friendly HN peoples,<p>We're shipping a server to Haiti, ideally Friday for an MIT project (konbit.media.mit.edu). It is a voice-based service that interfaces with the public via ordinary telephones. The goal is to make it easier to employ Haitian nation...
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Progressive Enhancement Makes Me Sad - oliverdunk http://www.heydonworks.com/article/progressive-enhancement-makes-me-sad ====== fishtoaster This is a weird piece, since it's clear by the end that it's satire, but he has a few good points (whether he knows it or not): 1\. "But who’s to say there’s going to _be_ any u...
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Uruguay's president at Rio+20 saying what needs to be said - gcmartinelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQgONgTupo ====== pitiburi It's a pity the translation is so, so bad.. The speech is just brilliant, the thoughts are deep, and the guy is just amazing. He is a south american Mandela, he has been prisioner for...
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Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer? - techdemic Well, school's out for summer, but the learning doesn't stop. Jobs and internships aside, what personal projects/goals do you hope to accomplish during Summer 11'?<p>---<p>I just had my wisdom teeth (all four) removed, and to hel...
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The Purification of Web Development - johnjlocke http://cssconf.com/talk-gallagher.html ====== iends Talks without abstracts are a waste of time. Why should I invest 5-10 minutes watching to figure out what the talk is actually about?
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Show HN: Expounder – A small JavaScript library for more engaging tutorials - StavrosK https://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder/ ====== bart3r My advice would be to somehow indicate exactly the text that was expounded - maybe with a faint underline or something. When it expands out, it's sometimes difficult to track ...
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Ask HN: Examples of good writing in computer science? - chewxy Hey fellow HNers<p>I&#x27;m about to go off for a holiday and I&#x27;d have many hours to kill on the plane and I&#x27;d like to spend some time reading. I&#x27;ve started work on writing a book on virtual machines and ECMAScript, and I would like some e...
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One petabyte data loss at Australian Tax Office - juiced http://www.itnews.com.au/news/hpe-storage-crash-killed-ato-online-services-444490 ====== joshiej Corruption!
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Another awesome US immigration experience - nphase http://seldo.tumblr.com/post/39891584034/another-awesome-us-immigration-experience ====== jacquesm As long as you feel the benefits outweigh the downsides the only person you can complain to is yourself. You're still going there aren't you? I've had an episode quite ...
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Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones - smullaney http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-24/google-has-way-to-unclog-drone-filled-skies-like-it-did-the-web ====== Animats This is actually an FAA/NASA initiative.[1] They're trying to figure out how this can work. The FAA's first round is out, ...
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Ask HN: How Would you purposefully slow down a specific website? - source99 If you could configure a VPN or Proxy or ??? How would you create a setup so that all traffic for a specific url was slowed down?<p>For example if I went to www.example.com, the website would still load but it would load much slower than if ...
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The Day I Drove for Amazon Flex - clebio https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/amazon-flex-workers/563444/?single_page=true ====== spyckie2 The 'gig' economy reminds me very much of the state of factory workers in the early 1900s. For businesses, it was very clear that forcing workers to work in a ver...
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US contractor fined $3.1M for outsourcing work to India - known http://sakshipost.com/index.php/news/international/77667-us-contractor-fined-$3-1mn-for-outsourcing-work-to-india.html ====== esbranson For those who prefer primary sources: "STATE CONTRACTOR TO PAY MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN PENALTIES FOR ILLEGAL AND COVER...
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Ask HN: What is your favorite screen recorder? - franca To build video tutorial, what software and tools do you use? ====== lixtra [http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/](http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/) my version only works with X11, not wayland though. ~~~ oblib I took at look at this a...
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Securitas discriminates against Firefox users - afed If you use Firefox you are not allowed to apply for a position on Securitas's web site. Apparently they believe open source users are not trustworthy or reliable. By trying to start the online application, Firefox users are routed to a page stating that Internet...
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ReactOS 0.4.0 Released - setra https://www.reactos.org/project-news/reactos-040-released ====== orionblastar I've been waiting for this, I donated money so they can reach the 0.4.0 version. They have made a lot of improvements on it and added more hardware support like USB and Sound cards. Even added a virtual 16 bit...
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Substrata - A Responsive, Semantic Grided Front-End Boilerplate - Hirvesh http://shaunchurch.com/substrata/index.html ====== Hirvesh via: [http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/substrata-responsive- semanti...](http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/substrata-responsive-semantic- grided.html) [Check out <http://www.functionn.in> ...
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Visualise the shift to blockchain by big companies - flywithdolp https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shiftblock ====== verdverm Shift or experiment or say something in the media? This seems like a website / article aggregator for big co + blockchain
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How to Get PayPal To Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps - jamievayable As first-time entrpreneurs, we have of course hit many bumps and snags along our path to launch. But none have been more painful, irrational or bloody our perpetually-losing battle with PayPal. I have written the following to help other sta...
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Opinion: Google Is Still Bad at Selling Phones - wbsun https://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/www.droid-life.com/2017/10/26/opinion-google-still-sucks-at-selling-phones/_index.html ====== dovdovdov This is just market research, when they asked the community what they see in the competitor, people s...
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Making a commit with the Github API - swanson http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/07/23/digging-around-the-github-api-take-2.html ====== zmanji Very fascinating, a static file blog backed by git is powerful, back by github would allow for a lot of features. I can see the power I get with editing code easily applied ...
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Threats to macOS Users - heshiebee https://securelist.com/threats-to-macos-users/93116/ ====== taylodl Phishing is an extremely effective attack vector. My company's security group regularly and randomly sends out phishing emails. Those falling for it are sent to training for how to identify a phishing attack. I've he...
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Sex and Gor and open source - healsdata https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/sex-and-gor-and-open-source/ ====== netaustin I spent a good portion of my early career working with Drupal on large-scale media sites and got to know some folks central to the movement. I liked almost everyone I met, including Dries, but after ...
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Sad state of cross platform GUI frameworks - s9w https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/sad-state-of-cross-platform-gui-frameworks ====== thomaszander Its a great overall look, but I'd like to add some details to the Qt parts. * he reviewed the QtWidget parts, and the designer for such. This is by now 15 years old tech tha...
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Online PSD to Sketch file converter - helloiamvu http://avocode.com/convert-psd-to-sketch ====== helloiamvu Hi everyone! I'm very excited to show you our new tool. It's a free online PSD to Sketch Converter. If you're manually re-creating designs from Photoshop into Sketch, now you don't have to. It converts named ...
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Yet another massive Facebook fail: Quiz app leaked data on ~120M users for years - benryon https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/facepalm-2/ ====== john58 Tough time for Facebook
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TSP in real life: Researchers Tell Umpires Where to Go - ColinWright http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=researchers-tell-umpires-where-to-g-11-08-18 ====== bumbledraven Original paper: <http://moya.bus.miami.edu/~tallys/docs/umpires-inte.pdf>
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The essential startup team: content, analytics, design, engineering - ColinWright http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/startup-team.htm ====== NameNickHN The article lists marketing almost as an afterthought whereas it's probably more important than analytics and at least equally important as the other team me...
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Show HN: Harness.io - Create Automated Tests for Your Web App in 60 Seconds - ralfthewise http://harness.io ====== ralfthewise Hey everyone, I'm one of the developers that worked on this, and am happy to answer any questions or discuss feedback.
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500 Lines or Less - divkakwani https://github.com/aosabook/500lines ====== debo_ Hi, I'm the editor of 500Lines. Thanks for posting this! A few notes: \- Code golf was strictly discouraged throughout the review process. When authors were faced with implementing functionality poorly to fit more in, we generally cut sc...
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One of the ways I am approaching the crowded iPhone Twitter client space - hboon http://motionobj.com/blog/the-conversation-view-in-simplytweet ====== hboon There are many Twitter clients on the iPhone at the moment. Most of seem to be focused on implementing the API and offering integration to other services. Some ...
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WARR Hyperloop pod hits 284 mph to win SpaceX competition - 0xbxd https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/22/17601280/warr-hyperloop-pod-competition-spacex-elon-musk ====== eden123 Here is a video of the WARR pod going through the tunnel: [https://www.facebook.com/WARRHyperloop/videos/67189321983076...](https://www.facebook.c...
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Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – Three Expressions of a Single Essence - kuwze https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00485 ====== PetitPrince Previous discussions on HN: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993330](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993330) ------ peatmoss At various points in my life, I’ve done all three of these t...
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Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture - tszymczyszyn https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/?fbclid=IwAR0BPxtpnc90jI4kBO9HJaWyZ7jyOPnRrayA4Ynuo35yq3QoTJfusuhu8Hg&amp;single_page=true ====== detaro previously: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1821521...
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