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Why ‘Buy’ Buttons Will Pose Challenges for Google, Facebook, Pinterest - prostoalex http://www.recode.net/2015/06/14/why-buy-buttons-will-pose-big-challenges-for-google-facebook-pinterest-and-twitter/? ====== sageabilly I have given the side eye to all of the "Shop right in the app!" functionalities that have rolled o...
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Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down - piratebroadcast http://irrationalgames.com/ ====== tibbon Maybe its just me, but there is something _deeply_ flawed with the game industry's hiring/firing practices. If a game does well, its time to lay off half (or more) of the team. Same result happens if a ga...
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Show HN: A website that calculates the % of your commutes that are in darkness - richev http://www.darkmornings.com ====== MichaelDickens The website can't find my location. It would be nice if it would let me manually enter my location. ~~~ richev If you're using a browser that supports geolocation (and you enable...
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Ask HN: What is there any Hackintosh of-the-self laptop? - sahin-boydas I am mac user since I am 6 years old and I really feel good if I use latest.<p>I am really done with Macbook for simple reasons.<p>1) Why do I need to wait 2-3 years and get 1-2 year old hardware for 2500 USD av.<p>2) I want everything to be usb-c...
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Open Source Bridge, an awesome conference in Portland, seeks proposals - reidab http://opensourcebridge.org/call-for-proposals/ ====== reidab I'm one of the co-chairs of the conference, so anything I can say is somewhat biased, but I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. We're in our fourth year now and o...
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Show HN: Simple, fast and fun communication over Websockets - macleos https://github.com/penalosa/epsilon ====== macleos A little project I made to make communication over websockets as easy as calling an async local function, using Proxies to "proxy" function calls to a node server.
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PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser - rayalez https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/?src=hn ====== littlestymaar This is really cool ! Framasoft is doing a great job with their project to «ungoogle the internet»[1]. I really wish Mozilla tried doing the same thing, with th...
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Change to IT - rjohnk In short: Is there a way to transition to IT without dropping everything and going back to school?<p>Long story: I initially went to college in pursuits of a Comp Sci degree. I had a difficult time and burnt out in one year, switching my major a full 180 to Psychology&#x2F;Social Services.<p>I&...
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Tony Abbott hacked after posting boarding pass on Instagram - RyanShook https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54193764 ====== dimtion Existing discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488224](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488224) ~~~ RyanShook Thanks. Just thought the original post was very lon...
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Ask HN: What keeps you from burning out? - kineticac Let's face it, nobody can code every minute of their lives without burning out too fast. What kind of stuff do you promote at the office / home office that keeps you motivated, loose, and happy?<p>We're setting up the office space now, and we're committed to maki...
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Get Tgethr: A Simple Email Collaboration Tool - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/get-tgethr-a-simple-email-collaboration-tool/ ====== gvb Looks like Mailman <http://www.list.org/> (except Mailman doesn't help with encryption, you have to figure it out yourself). FWIIW, my experience is that Microsoft Outlo...
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Understanding the Elm type system - jaxondu http://www.adamwaselnuk.com/elm/2016/05/27/understanding-the-elm-type-system.html ====== spion > For example, when writing an Elm program I might at some point decide that > users should have an admin flag. I will then try to use that flag in a > function at which point the ...
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A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Newspaper Articles on Web Sites - senthil_rajasek http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/business/media/07paper.html ====== pg Bizarre. It sounds as if they want to stop appearing in Google search results. Boy do these people not understand the web. ~~~ calambrac They want to stop appearing i...
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Using LaTeX to control a Mars rover (see page 5) - eru http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/8/85/TMR-Issue13.pdf) ====== pasbesoin The posted link has a trailing ")" that needs to be removed. ~~~ eru Oops, you are right.
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Trump's fast and loose trade policy endangers American jobs (Bunnie Huang) - swamp40 https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/17/opinions/american-china-tariff-war-fast-loose-bunnie/index.html ====== phendrenad2 Which does the US import more of (from China), in raw dollars spent: raw materials (chips, etc) or finished products...
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 Infographics - uptown http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/MH370/index.html ====== danso These are well-done graphics and Reuters Graphics has an excellent stylebook...but just to be a nag...this strikes me as a good example of how custom Web navigation can be counterproductive for the ...
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Show HN: How I built a trading signal by scraping Nasdaq for short interest - fawce https://www.quantopian.com/posts/ranking-and-trading-on-days-to-cover ====== tokenadult My comment in the last thread opened with a post from this source: _Past performance does not guarantee future results" is still the operative ...
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Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue - abhijitr http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on-why-banks-are-base-not-acid-availability.html ====== jeremyjh >If an ATM is disconnected from the network and when the partition eventually heals, the ATM sends sends a list of ...
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Java update kills most online games/emulators. Few still work, like Javatari - gkarness http://javatari.com ====== ppeccin Yes... New security requirements. Only software that is still maintained with new releases to implement the restricted protocols will work. ~~~ cintiapersona Also, only projects that can afford...
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WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam - bjonathan http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/woome-techcrunch40-finalist-20-million-in-funding-and-one-huge-scam/ ====== elliottcarlson There is a huge industry going on on these kinds of sites - not necessarily done by the site owners... Genera...
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Computación cuántica, circuitos cuánticos - neomatrix https://medium.com/@josueacevedo/computaci%C3%B3n-cu%C3%A1ntica-compuertas-o-circuitos-cu%C3%A1nticos-27910f5338c8 ====== gus_massa [Hi from Argentina!] I think this is on topic, but this is an English speaking forum, and posts in other languages are usually ignor...
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Three students build $100 device that blinds attacker and takes picture - fraqed http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/29/three-students-built-a-100-device-to-blind-you-and-take-your-picture-before-you-can-get-away/ ====== kombinatorics that's useless.
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Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler, has been optimized - eranation https://plus.google.com/103744906976128830230/posts/9CyznVM9ULT ====== eranation The original Github comment by the way: [https://github.com/lampepfl/scala- js/issues/4#issuecomment-2...](https://github.com/lampepfl/scala- js/issues/4#issueco...
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Gitlab 13.2 Released with Planning Iterations and Load Performance Testing - doener https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/22/gitlab-13-2-released/ ====== samanthalee233 Just want to take a second to point out the highlight post I added to the story about the release yesterday, for anyone who missed it: [https://ne...
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Announcing SSH Access Through Cloudflare - webmonkeyuk https://blog.cloudflare.com/releasing-the-cloudflare-access-feature-that-let-us-smash-a-vpn-on-stage/ ====== devereaux > When you attempt to reach a web application behind Access, we instead > redirect you to your identity provider. Once you login, we generate a J...
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CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife - onion2k https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ ====== octosphere It's funny looking at some of the contributors to this. Some of the accounts seem to be vague, single-duty accounts made for the express purpose of contributing code to CyberChef and nothing else. I admire their OPSEC (Fr...
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Facebook's unethical experiment manipulated users' emotions - cmrivers http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/06/facebook_unethical_experiment_it_made_news_feeds_happier_or_sadder_to_manipulate.html ====== mabbo 155,000 users for each treatment of the experiment, says the paper. Let's presume ra...
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Why I Don't Use PowerPoint For Teaching - neilc http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-dont-use-powerpoint-for-teaching.html ====== xirium From the article "One person (the presenter) is presenting information to other people (the audience). The flow of information is one way, from the presenter to the audience. ...
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Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership - MikusR https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-foundation-open-membership ====== jongalloway2 Hi, .NET Foundation Executive Director here, happy to answer any questions. Also, check out Miguel de Icaza's post here for details and background: [https://tir...
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systemd-networkd DHCP performance - tbrock https://plus.google.com/114015603831160344127/posts/eztZWbwmxM8 ====== dsr_ The most interesting bit, to me, is actually in the comments. You don't have to recognize Ted Lemon's name, or know of his work, in order to read the tag that G+ put next to his query. But even if yo...
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Autodesk's Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber - bcn http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-31/autodesks-idea-to-knit-the-hyperloop-out-of-carbon-fiber ====== pudquick I think one thing they missed here is pointed out by this statement in the article: _" [...] in less than two years, and, says Bra...
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What Happens When Judges Pull the Plug on Rural America - mirandak4 https://backchannel.com/when-judges-pull-the-plug-on-rural-america-304533928fd#.rq6xtbons ====== jenkstom "What U.S. president will make sure we make a national upgrade to competitive, last-mile-fiber-plus-advanced-wireless connections?" Al Gore. :-(...
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Show HN: Upstart.me – Promote your startup in other people's newsletters - pixelfeeder http://upstart.me/?tb ====== bob_theslob646 What is the ROI on something like this? I could be wrong but it just seems like another form of advertising. ------ danschumann This is great, thank you! It this a new service? ~~~ wing...
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Wake – A Modern Programming Language - rspivak http://www.wakelang.com/index.html ====== nikolay The Hello.wk is missing an opening brace!
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Silly Rabbits: Google is for Spam not for Search - atularora http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/silly-rabbits-google-is-for-spam-not-for-search/ ====== gamble Spot-on. Google used to talk a good game about combatting search spam, but once Demand Media and the ilk called their bluff Google chose to fold and o...
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Apple Has Acquired Lala - novicecoder http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/04/apple-acquires-lala/ ====== psranga I'll be out $5 (and I was expecting to spend more this weekend) if they cease the streaming service. Just today, Etherpad abandoned their product. If Lala follows suit, I'll probably never pay money or comm...
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Node-os - fauria https://node-os.com/ ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8299523](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8299523) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7061338](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7061338) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275426](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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Facebook Messenger builds in Uber integration - reagan83 http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/facebook-messenger-transportation/ ====== fluxquanta >alerts those in your chat thread that you have indeed grabbed a ride…instead of you lying that you have whilst still in your pajamas Is this actually an issue for anyone? ~~...
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Ask HN: How many of C. E. Shannon's papers are still classified? - Kinnard How many of C. E. Shannon&#x27;s papers are still classified? ====== balazsdavid987 Though I'm not familiar with the workings of classification, that question sounds paradoxical to me. Isn't that equivalent to something like, "How many secrets ...
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Sanos Operating System Kernel - HighTraffic http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/index.htm Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 operating system kernel for network server appliances running on standard PC hardware. The kernel implements basic operating system services like booting, memory management, thread scheduling, local and r...
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Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences - andreyk https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/humans-not-concentrating ====== lostmsu Dupe [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251755](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251755) Also a copy-paste of [https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/2...
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IndexedDB: Indexing Problems - jorangreef http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JanMar/0762.html ====== jorangreef IndexedDB provides inadequate indexing and querying features: 1\. It cannot index JSON objects with array values or support compound indexes. 2\. There is no way to intersect or union...
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Matias Click Switches: Tactile mechanical keyswitches - arm http://matias.ca/switches/click/ ====== tylerjwilk00 This article is lying or perhaps I am misunderstanding. The article states: "Cherry switches are linear — by definition, not tactile. They lack a click leaf, which is required for tactile feedback." I hav...
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Solar Industry's Future Lies in Lightweight Technology - vaultcool https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-industrys-future-lies-in-lightweight-technology/ ====== jpm_sd Odd choice to feature Project Loon in the banner image. I designed the solar array for Loon, it's built from plain old mono crystalline sili...
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Startups at Scale: Make the abstract actionable - ksowocki http://owocki.com/2011/10/09/startups-scale-make-the-abstract-actionable/ ====== brendn You might want to check out Logstash (<http://logstash.net/>). It's an open source log aggregator, parser, and search tool. I haven't implemented it myself yet, but it wa...
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Optimal Waist-to-Hip Ratios in Women Activate Neural Reward Centers in Men - cwan http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009042 ====== waterlesscloud Translation of title - "Babes with curves are hot!!!" ~~~ gcb tl;dr there's no pics. ------ radu_floricica This is just a confirmation/refinem...
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Login.gov - mooreds https://login.gov/ ====== jlgaddis I'm a little confused. First, they say: > _login.gov implements the latest National Institute of Standards and > Technology (NIST) standards for secure authentication and verification._ Then: > _Two factor authentication requires that you login with your passwo...
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The Native-American Origins of Gumbo - DoreenMichele https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/native-american-gumbo ====== rmason There are few dishes that bring so much pleasure than gumbo. The best gumbo (and best Cajun music) is from Lafayette in the SW part of the state. Only found one chef in Michigan who could mak...
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What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets - wqfeng http://kunststube.net/encoding/ ====== mike See also: Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Un...
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AC/DC release recordings on iTunes - ghshephard http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20392390 ====== chrislaco Great. Now about Def Leppard...
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Ask HN: What makes Firefox OS better than webOS? - justinreeves I don&#x27;t understand why Mozilla chose to create Firefox OS, rather than pick up development of Palm&#x2F;HP&#x27;s webOS?<p>It seems like a lot of what Mozilla wants to do could be done easily with webOS, since webOS has been open-sourced, it would ...
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Foam cap on beer is actually good - unlearned what I learned in college - jingsong http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/columnists.nsf/adamjadhav/story/3F32B9542B478F90862575D600649043?OpenDocument ====== JimmyL >> we filled our red plastic cups to the brim with Bud or Miller Lite or Icehouse... I would say t...
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Radio 4 Interview with Adrian Bowyer, RepRap inventor (at ~20:00) - timthorn http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b015bqbr ====== JonnieCache On the subject of radio four - any opportunity to post the In Our Time archives: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/podcasts/> Like a warm bath in university ...
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The power of doing nothing at all - thecosas https://medium.com/swlh/the-power-of-doing-nothing-at-all-73eeea488b8b ====== sharemywin Not discounting focus. And if doing nothing is working for you by all means go for it. But, there's another old say that goes continue to do what you've always done and you continue to...
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Rubinius wants to help you make Ruby better - raju http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/rubinius-wants-to-help-you-make-ruby-better/ ====== ubernostrum Once again reminding people to be careful about how they interpret the LSP: [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7zy40/writing_u...](http://www.reddit.com/r/p...
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Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf] - jakewalker http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf ====== rvkennedy Does this mean that someone born with synthetic DNA is guilty of infringement if they have children? Do they need to buy a licence to keep living? Perhaps ...
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Show HN: Authian – Open Source 2-Factor Authentication Using Instant Messengers - authian https://www.authian.org/ ====== AdmiralAsshat One of the key features of something like Signal is not just security, but authentication: if I'm talking to my girlfriend over Signal and it tells me that her key suddenly changed, I...
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Google Analytics doesn’t show you 51% of website traffic - dazbradbury http://www.incapsula.com/the-incapsula-blog/blog-2012/114-what-google-doesnt-show-you-31-of-website-traffic-can-harm-your-business ====== toddkaufmann Shouldn't be surprising or news to anyone who has looked directly into an access.log, all serve...
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Chelsea Manning Asks President for Clemency and 'First Chance at Life' - endswapper http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502026384/chelsea-manning-asks-president-for-clemency-and-first-chance-at-life ====== doe88 Unlikely. I would be very surprised if president Obama granted this request. And that's just ...
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Ask HN: Are there many Australians well known for their open source work? - andrewstuart ====== schoen Yes, for example [https://ozlabs.org/](https://ozlabs.org/) (I've worked with several of these people, and one prominent example is Andrew Tridgell, original developer of Samba and rsync, among other things). ------ ...
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Ask HN: What are alternatives to Google products? - NinjaX ====== hashr8064 Besides using Apple or MSFT product suites which can get you out of pretty much everything from Google. There are the following 1\. Search: bing, Duck Duck Go. 2\. Android: Lineage OS 3\. Drive: Dropbox 4\. Cloud Services: AWS 5\. Email: y...
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DikuMUD 3 Is Released - bovermyer https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD3 ====== freediver I am thankful to Diku and it's derivatives for many important lessons in life. The situation when a mob kills you, takes your exp and all your equipment and you are faced with dire reality of starting all over again from nothing -...
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High Quality Ruby on Rails Example Applications - fogus http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/10/14/high-quality-ruby-on-rails-example-applications/ ====== mhartl I'm the principal author of one of these example apps (Insoshi, a social networking platform developed as part of YC Winter '08). It's a bit out of date (running ...
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ProtonMail is Open Source [webmail front-end] - e12e https://blog.protonmail.ch/protonmail-open-source/ ====== e12e Stil waiting for a full stack -- still I think this is great news. Having a look at their github page, it's also nice to see Free software working across "competing" companies, their html-editor si Squ...
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Norway mass murderer Breivik was 'already damaged by the age of two' - teslacar http://www.tv2.no/a/8241631 ====== Waterluvian I've seen this story a thousand times. Someone is abused in some manner, becomes an abuser, and the cycle repeats. I struggle with reconciling these cases because there's two drastically diff...
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Show HN: Intro.js Hints - afshinmeh http://introjs.com/example/hint/index.html ====== sourcd Good similar libs on github : [https://github.com/zurb/joyride](https://github.com/zurb/joyride) [https://github.com/heelhook/chardin.js](https://github.com/heelhook/chardin.js) [https://github.com/linkedin/hopscotch](https...
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Luck and Startups - csentropy https://medium.com/@csentropy/luck-and-startups-f93bce58b272 ====== manojdv Can this be done legally? ~~~ csentropy I did write it legally :)
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Ask HN: AI Sign Language translators - zunzun Can AI be made to translate between different sign language variants? I would think computerized avatars could easily be trained, and grant money for such projects should be easy to come by. Computerized vision should be able to read sign language - especially in specific,...
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A letter to my daughter, Augusta, in ruby - pacbard http://jpfuentes2.tumblr.com/post/39935683274/a-letter-to-my-daughter-augusta-in-ruby ====== sutro I once wrote a letter to my son in C++. We don't talk anymore. ~~~ alexkus and you got divorce papers from your wife written in Objective-C ? (Or maybe Go?) ~~~ cody...
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The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app: acts_as_edgy - wheels http://blog.directededge.com/2011/03/15/the-easiest-way-to-add-recommendations-to-your-rails-app-announcing-acts_as_edgy/ ====== tomkarlo They really need to port this to Rails 3. At this point, any new app I'm building is Rails 3, and a...
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Richard Stallman: A Discussion on Freedom, Privacy and Cryptocurrencies - op03 https://cointelegraph.com/news/richard-stallman-a-discussion-on-freedom-privacy-cryptocurrencies ====== suizi If a government is capable of abusing a capability, they can and will. The simple existence of cameras to monitor people is a thre...
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Dear Nature - jgrahamc http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/09/dear-nature.html ====== michael_dorfman It was (predatory) pricing policies like this that led Knuth and the entire editorial board of the "Journal of Algorithms" to resign en masse, and start a new journal with the ACM. For those interested, the statement from...
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Ask HN: What APIs are out there? (node knockout) - joshontheweb I registered a team for the node knockout and just found out that the api we were hoping to use can't be obtained for free. So now I'm looking for new ideas. I was hoping if I could find out what APIs are available out there for free I could come up w...
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When founders get overloaded with tasks - jkaljundi http://kaljundi.com/2013/05/22/when-founders-get-overloaded-with-tasks/ ====== onemorepassword Tip for all founders with employees from someone who's worked for start-ups for decades: fucking delegate! And I don't just mean the work, that's the easy part. Delegate...
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South Korea Legislature passes medical cannabis law, first in East Asia - pizza https://mjbizdaily.com/breaking-south-korea-becomes-first-country-in-east-asia-to-legalize-medical-cannabis/ ====== pizza Note: this was over a week ago but I hadn't heard anything about it until today. It was surprising to me because I he...
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Jeff Atwood: If I was starting StackOverflow today it would have runnable code - amasad https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1129176888088309760 ====== amasad Incidentally we, at Repl.it, just released this: A Q&A board with runnable and interactive code in both questions and answers: [https://repl.it/talk/ask](htt...
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Tesla owner says Autopilot automatically regained control after slide-video - heshiebee https://electrek.co/2019/01/05/tesla-autopilot-control-sliding-ice-video/ ====== natch I drove a Model 3 AWD to a snowy and icy area this vacation and have to say the traction control is phenomenal. I mean really astounding. I was ...
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Sinclair ZX81 1KB Chess vs. Stockfish Chess Engine (2018) [video] - cpeterso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3By_rdwxSg ====== lawrenceyan For a far more interesting matchup, with advanced long term oriented strategic play, consider watching a match between AlphaZero and Stockfish: [https://youtube.com/watch?v=JacRX6...
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InVision App launched, design high-fidelity functional prototypes - ericingram http://betacandy.com/invisionapp ====== user9876 I liked it with the exception it doesn't have assets built in, you will need another tool to build the screens and then upload. Doesn't powerpoint, slideshare or similar tools already do th...
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Ask HN: What is good book about hiring developers and team management? - 8draco8 ====== vladholubiev I highly recommend this one: [https://www.hello-startup.net](https://www.hello-startup.net) > This book will teach you how to build products, technologies, and teams in a > startup environment. It's based on the exper...
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6 Reasons to Stop Charging by the Hour - davidw http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/07/6-reasons-stop-charging-by-hour.html ====== davidw The suggestion of what to do instead: > "The alternative to billing by the hour is to pick a few things you’re > really good at”and that your customers ask for”and to come up with a > s...
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Rails 5 Released - haven https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v5.0.0 ====== okket No blog post yet, but it's on Ruby Gems [https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/5.0.0](https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/5.0.0) Update: Blog post [http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/6/30/Rails-5-0-final/](http://weblog...
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YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie - nickb http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000972.html ====== cstejerean Well, it's interesting what YouTube is doing. Their policy is simply there to cover themselves legally and shift the blame to the users. However this opt- out policy allows them to host the videos and continu...
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What are successful startups that raised a seed round from family and friends? - TheAntiEgo ====== nux1093 HYPR Corp just raised $3M in VC and apparently have some large enterprise customers. Their first round of $800k was entirely friends and family.
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Google unveils 'Solve for X' website, hints at TED-like think tank - paulsilver http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/6/2774727/google-solve-for-x-think-tank ====== benologist Why give The Verge the traffic for summarizing Android Police's story? [http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/06/the-secret- google-x-...](http://ww...
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Number of neurons doesn't explain superiority of the human brain - FiReaNG3L http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/08/origins.brain ====== niels_olson See, this is a major problem with fee-for-article access to journals. 10 journalists talk to the author (or does the author contact the journalists?), the journali...
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“No handshakes, please”: The tech industry is terrified of the coronavirus [Feb] - exolymph https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fears-contagion-how-infection-spreads ====== dekhn I knew a (very, very) prominent VC who hasn't been shaking hands for years (he did fist bumps, kind of funny to fist b...
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What are programming languages for? - lisper http://rondam.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-are-programming-languages-for.html ====== andreyf Is this not sniping from the sidelines? Paul has proposed program size as a metric for the power of programming languages. Ron criticizes, but doesn't suggest anything better (other ...
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Ask HN: How to determine company valuation? - mailarchis We are a technology start up in photography domain based out of Europe. Our target customer segment are professional and semi professional photographers.<p>The team comprises of the CEO (Senior Executive with more than 15 years experience in Sales/Marketing) a...
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Go server starter - AquiGorka https://github.com/AquiGorka/go-server-starter ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) ~~~ AquiGorka I will definitely share it that way as soon ...
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Hows my first site (Studentg homepage for digital design) - fally http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17301683/index.html ====== fally thanks this is a good reference. i guess my page is on the right track then ------ fally i made everything myself, no copy paste! ~~~ aksx i made something similar <http://homepage.ep.io> (no...
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Valleywag: Bow down and Worship Xobni's Party Throwing Skills - gaborcselle http://valleywag.com/tech/party-report/bow-down-and-worship-xobnis-party+throwing-skills-291473.php There's no such thing as bad press. ====== staunch Can't miss these two, they're damn funny: Part 1) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/86921622@N...
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Ask HN: How do you make your website mobile friendly? - iworkforthem I am working on the css for my new website, one of my consideration is that it has to be mobile friendly, much like posterous.com and avc.com ... Their website look awesome on my iPhone. Here's something I dun quite get.<p>At AVC, they include mult...
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Google OAuth API Is Down - iooi This is the only Google status page I can find and it&#x27;s all green still: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.cloud.google.com ====== Japhy_Ryder Google only hires the best of the best. Looks like all of that algorithm memorizing is working out really well. ------ aaronharnly My go-to sources...
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Why 37Signals misunderstands 'Fail Early, Fail Fast' - marcamillion http://marcgayle.com/2010/06/03/fail-early-fail-fast-explained/ ====== ecaradec I definitly agree, people disagreing with fail fast are taking it too literaly, ignoring the spirit of it. It's not about failing, it's about confronting to reality.
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It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux - yigit http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1 ====== ramy_d Valve Corporation has today rolled out their Steam Mac OS X client to the general public and confirmed something we have been reporting for two years: ...
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Ask HN: Why did I get printed the wrong boarding pass? - passenger09 I took a flight from Montreal to Frankfurt. Today i checked my printed boarding pass (apparently the first time) and noticed it is completely wrong.<p>things which seems to be in common: Flight number: AC 8742 (printed flight) AC 874 ...
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Official Statement Regarding BitGrail Insolvency - dsr12 https://medium.com/@nanocurrency/official-statement-regrading-bitgrail-insolvency-ed4422bf274b ====== rtdaly This is exactly why hardware wallets are so very important when dealing with cryptocurrencies, don't keep funds on an exchange that you can't afford to l...
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DeepMind moves to TensorFlow - hektik http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/04/deepmind-moves-to-tensorflow.html ====== aab0 This is great news! One of the most intimidating things about getting started with deep learning if you want to understand and extend cutting-edge work is the Tower of Babel situation: aside f...
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Nokia and Microsoft: good for Finland, risky for Redmond - yungchin http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/nokia-and-microsoft-good-for-finland-risky-for-redmond.ars ====== ZeroGravitas This guy's like a John Gruber for Microsoft. If you believed everything he writes you'd think that Microsoft was selflessly sa...
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