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Ask HN: What are the best resources to properly learn Scala? - godmodus Hello, I've started to work with scala and I think it's a beautiful language. that said, I'd like to be better at it. What are some good books to get thst teach about the nitty gritty details of the language and it's use in pro...
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Ask HN: What are your tips on becoming a better manager? - serbiruss ====== DVassallo The most powerful feature of a team of creators is their idiosyncrasies. The best way I found to build something as a team is to adapt the work to the strengths of the individuals. Job titles squash the peculiar strengths and differe...
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IPv4 addresses in the USA now have les than a year before exhaustion - AndrewDucker http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html ====== jstanley They had less than a year before exhaustion 3 years ago.
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Ask HN: Selling my Slack App - rgbasin www.pixibot.co<p>Don&#x27;t have the time to work on it currently. Maybe someone here will find it interesting. ====== O_H_E Very nice idea, about the money situation: maybe you could try make every user pay something as little as $½/month It would also be very kind move from yo...
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One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t - igonvalue http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/one-twin-exercises-the-other-doesnt/ ====== gwern Fulltext: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfch760k1ratwo3/2015-rottensteiner...](https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfch760k1ratwo3/2015-rottensteiner.pdf) / [http://sci- hub.org/downloads/045...
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PHP 5.3: `if (strcmp($passwd, $_POST["passwd"]) == 0) { login(); }` is broken - danielweber http://danuxx.blogspot.com/2013/03/unauthorized-access-bypassing-php-strcmp.html ====== danielweber It's not the correct way to compare passwords anyway, since people can do timing attacks on any kind of direct string compare...
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The end of the housing supply debate (maybe) - jseliger http://cityobservatory.org/the-end-of-the-housing-supply-debate-maybe/ ====== quotemstr That there was ever a debate at all is still astounding. Economics has fuzzy areas, but basic principles of supply and demand are very well-established. It's clearly nonsensic...
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Ask HN: Which service to use to show web-site design mockup to a client? - rusinov Hello. I&#x27;m doing WordPress development on the side, and usually clients provide their designs for web-pages themselves. However, new client wants me to come up with the web-page design. I&#x27;m curious, what is the go-to service t...
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Startup: give up? - tty123 This Q probably must have been asked several times; but as each situation is different, 'dare to ask this ;)<p>My situation: worked on my startup, so far self and little friends/family funded. Almost 3yrs; did some parttime jobs here and there. I am in a highly overcrowded but lucrative mk...
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Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine - subprotocol http://subprotocol.com/verlet-js/ ====== subprotocol Hi HN. I recently open sourced a verlet physics engine that I wrote for fun. Four example experiments are in there so far. I have a few other experiment ideas in mind that I hope to get implemented ...
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Ask HN: Re: $150K conv. debt for YC - what if company raises no more money? - yakto Just curious regarding the terms of the $150K debt from Yuri and RC: what happens if the company never raises a follow-on round, and a) there is plenty of cash flow to pay back the debt, or b) there is insufficient cash flow to pay b...
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'Digitize Your Inventory' – Would You Buy This Product? - sanna_inventory https://www.sanna-tech.com/ ====== rtag Cool product! I would totally use this for organizing my wardrobe.
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Apple approves Dogecoin iOS app - madeofpalk http://www.mydoge.co ====== Tarang From the page: >MYĐOGE is read-only. It can be used to monitor your Dogecoin at a glance, watch the markets or read about Dogecoin. So it can't be used for transfers. It still doesn't look like Apple is approving apps that send *coins -...
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An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores [OSDI'10 PDF] - yarapavan http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf ====== patrickgzill Summary: they found bottlenecks in many applications and found that by implementing various code changes to the kernel, about 3000 lines worth, they could greatly improve per...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - davidiach http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/press.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter_tweet ====== smharris65 I hope more people will become aware of her book "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster". ...
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My First Year in the App Store - trevmckendrick http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-store/ ====== dhruvmittal I was actually really excited by the "...you can get the next 9 posts delivered to your email by signing up here:" at the bottom. I like it. I like email, because I can read it anywhere an...
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Boeing unveils its brand new 777X airplane - wtf42 https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/boeing-777x-what-you-need-to-know/ ====== perilunar There's a tradeoff between passengers and fuel - the quoted range with a standard passenger load is not the maximum range. E.g. the 777-8 has a range of 16,090 km (8690 nmi) wi...
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Iran Not Cutting Off Internet Access, Bullet not Dodged - 3lit3H4ck3r http://pandodaily.com/2012/04/10/iran-not-cutting-off-internet-access-bullet-not-dodged/ ====== 3lit3H4ck3r Clarification: _Which is why this report from the International Business Times is distressing. Much like Mike Daisey’s false reports from F...
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Design Trend: Long Shadows (Flat) - Examples - SmeelBe http://designmodo.com/long-shadows-design/ A new trend is making its way through cyberspace – long shadow design. The concept, which borrows themes from flat design, is popping up in a big way in recent weeks. ====== Bradnerby While flat design done right is good...
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Ask HN: Are you looking for a founder? - hajrice If you're looking for a founder please post the description the role! :D<p>I'm interested to join a startup. ====== bgnm2000 What are your skills? developer/designer/other ~~~ hajrice Developer and designer AND business guy, and very efficiently. Experiance in UI de...
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Loudness Penalty: Find out if audio will be turned down by streaming services - zdw http://www.loudnesspenalty.com ====== janwh Interesting idea, but personally I like the Dynamic Range (DR) measurement developed by the Pleasurize Music Foundation more. It also provides a one- value output that has a direct relation t...
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How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? - omnibrain http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality ====== danieltillett Interesting. I picked the 320 Kbps mp3 for each of the samples. There really is not much difference with wav at this bit level. I would have like to see...
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Hardware Hacking: Tim O'Reily on Hardware Innovation - njyx http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/hardware-innovation-pdf-with-notes ====== njyx I like the "create more value than you capture" - I wonder how many companies genuinely think like that though. Wonder if Apple genuinely thinks about it like that.
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Theo de Raadt: "[heartbleed] does not affect SSH at all" - chrissnell http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140408063423 ====== bostik Well, duh. OpenSSH links to OpenSSL libraries, but only for the cryptographic primitives. SSH is a different protocol. It doesn't need TLS for anything. It's also a simpler ...
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Show HN: Live editing for native iOS and Android - peternash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpILSWEzrvU ====== alexjarvis This is awesome, especially like the part around 48 seconds after changing something -"You'll notice this happens... IMMEDIATELY" ------ stefanha Looks useful for development. Does live editing ...
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Technology Going Downhill - timf http://www.highway12ventures.com/2009/07/10/technology-going-downhill/ ====== HoneyAndSilicon "some interesting banter about how we (a VC firm) spent our weekends." ?¿?
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Python Fire: a library for automatically generating command line interfaces - nafizh https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/python-fire-command-line.html?m=1 ====== Groxx Convenient. I especially like that it has a completion-helper. The docs seem to go to great lengths to _not_ state this clearly, but it works fi...
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The Evolution of JavaScript Modularity - myshov https://github.com/myshov/history_of_javascript/tree/master/4_evolution_of_js_modularity ====== myshov Hi, everyone! I want to share with all of you my article about modularity in JavaScript. I know that there are a lot of other articles about the same theme, so I took ...
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Canadian judge: No warrant needed to see ISP logs - rewind http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/canadian-judge-no-expectation-of-privacy-in-online-tasks.ars ====== cperciva Just to clarify: The judge rule that ISPs are not _required_ to demand a warrant. Police can't walk into an ISP's head office and dem...
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Band-e Kaisar – “Caesar's dam”‎‎ - benbreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-e_Kaisar ====== benbreen Posted this because I found it fascinating that a Roman-built bridge and dam was being used as far east as Iran and for as long as the late 19th century. But on top of the that, the possibility that it was built by ...
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Tesla Model X autonomously crashes into building, owner claims - Foggydog http://www.computerworld.com/article/3079807/car-tech/tesla-model-x-autonomously-crashes-into-building-owner-claims.html ====== Matt3o12_ I'm very skeptical about it. A lot of accidents happen when people confuse the brakes and acceleration padd...
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Modern and Cross Platform Stack for WebRTC - todsac https://github.com/pion ====== gfodor Whenever these threads pop up I always ask: is there an erlang/elixir implementation anyone knows about? I check every couple of months and come up empty (there is one closed source one.) Being able to speak WebRTC natively to a ...
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Hotfixes: Fix iOS bugs live - nancyhua http://apptimize.com/blog/2014/04/hide-bugs-without-app-store/ ====== alook Does this only apply to UI changes? Or can i fix, say, a logic bug as well? Also, what kind of performance concerns might I see? ~~~ mikestew You don't "fix" anything, unless by "fix" you mean "turn o...
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Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders - bdotdub http://www.exitstrategynyc.com/ ====== bdotdub Hi HN! My buddy and I just released an app in the App Store for all you NYC Subway hackers. If you like saving a few seconds to a few minutes on your subway rides, take a peek at our app :) We figured some of yo...
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Prynt – Smartphone case printing pictures instantly - humpt http://www.pryntcases.com/ ====== simonguigue awesome project. just wonder why any serious prototype has been release for the public? ~~~ clemfeelsgood Hello Simon. You can follow our Instagram account to see live pictures and more of our product!
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How to build your own neural network from scratch in Python - vikingo9 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-neural-network-from-scratch-in-python-68998a08e4f6 ====== a_bonobo Too often you see articles like this and they start with $ import a_whole_bunch_of_stuff Good to see that this is not the case...
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Hopper: Stop emailing yourself notes, files, and images - endtwist http://gethopper.com ====== georgemcbay On the one hand, this is cool... on the other hand, I'll never use it (sorry). I email stuff to myself on gmail because I can have thousands of things in there that I can instantly find via powerful search. And ...
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PEP 0501 – Translation ready string interpolation - Sami_Lehtinen https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0501/ ====== svieira I like the general thrust of PEP 498 (`f""` is explicit, unlike Ruby or Bash's magic `"` vs. `'`). That said, I think it would be much improved if it went the way of Scala and JavaScript (2015+) ...
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CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time - ra http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites2 ====== jsmcgd If you're interested in using a sprite technique without Javascript here's a tutorial video: <http://css-tricks.com/videos/css-tricks-video-7.php>
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Ask HN: Why you do what you do? - lnalx Hi Hackers,<p>We all have project and reasons&#x2F;motivations why we are on it. For some people it’s just money, but is it sustainable on the long term ? For others it’s charity project, to see people going better.<p>On what project are you right now and what is fueling you ? ...
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Steinway’s New Piano Can Play a Perfect Concerto by Itself - scottcha http://www.wired.com/2015/04/steinways-new-piano-can-play-perfect-concerto/ ====== sandworm101 Anyone else get sense the desperation in this? Once upon a time every middle-class home had to have a piano. Now they are relics. Sales of home pianos ...
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Synack Raises $7.5M Putting Bounties on IT Security Threats - wickedcoolmatt http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/synack-raises-7-5-million-putting-bounties-on-it-security-threats/ ====== cyphunk Just wanted to point out... Kaplan and his co-founder chief technology officer Mark Kuhr previo...
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Ask HN: Review my coming soon page, SettleIt.org - BentleyDavis ====== laurabw Hey, I have some thoughts for you: \- it's a bit cluttered. People don't have time to read through all the stuff to understand what the page is about. I'd make it simpler with a couple of graphics. \- If your goal is to sign up customers...
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Google Widget factors current time (based on XKCD comic) - byrneseyeview http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=xkcdtime.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xkcdtime.xml ====== byrneseyeview Based on <http://xkcd.com/247/>
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Executable Models in Software Engineering - brlebtag Dear colleague,<p>We are Brazilian academic researchers investigating how software engineering professionals understand and use executable models in their practice.<p>We invite researchers, professors, industry professionals, undergraduate and graduate students to a...
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Show HN: GIF Directions - jack_riminton https://gif.direct ====== jack_riminton The problem I was trying to solve is the difficulty/speed of finding places relying on 2D tech of maps and GPS. For some scenarios (unmapped areas, indoors, congested environments, no address system) a gif makes finding a place much easie...
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Is the Party Over at Google+? - bhartzer http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/07/28/google.plus.traffic.falls.mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 ====== blackboxxx Google+ is too late to win the social media throne. It's boring and only superficially different. The only way Google+ can survive and not shrivel up like...
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Law firm bosses envision Artificial Intelligence to replace young lawyers - hvo http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/law-firm-bosses-envision-watson-type-computers-replacing-young-lawyers/ ====== a3n Where will old lawyers come from? Or are they next? And if we don't have old lawyers, where will judges come fro...
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Only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ global warming - drallison https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/31/we-only-have-a-5-percent-chance-of-avoiding-dangerous-global-warming-a-study-finds/?utm_term=.4bae9019b9dd ====== jamez1 I don't know how anybody can take models like thi...
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Stop using strncpy already (2013) - ohjeez https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/stop-using-strncpy-already/ ====== AdmiralAsshat In principle, I feel like "Ignore the language-provided standard libraries and use this little macro I wrote in all your code" is bad advice. If the standard libs are _that bad_ , t...
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Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks - cwan http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1182 ====== Anon84 There's a nice commentary in Nature about this paper: [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7291/full/464984a...](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7291/full/464984a.html) (Sorry, paywall)...
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Office Chair Is Hurting You - jaden https://elemental.medium.com/your-office-chair-is-hurting-you-882e07c20ff7 ====== m463 This makes me think about Wolfram's blog post about his "personal infrastructure" He found that for some reason typing while walking outside gave a much lower heart rate than typing on a treadmil...
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Diaspora - Moving Forward - sahillavingia http://blog.joindiaspora.com/2011/05/16/moving-forward.html ====== JoelSutherland "For the past few months, we’ve been pretty quiet, because we’ve been hard at work." They are building a product whose success requires overcoming network effects. 90% of what they need to work ...
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A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes - RodgerTheGreat http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63518 ====== 3rd3 ; Wolf128 by Baudsurfer/rsi 2014 aka olivier.poudade.free.fr ; A 128 bytes interactive intro tested on XPSP3 and DOSBox ; Presented at Outline demoparty in Eersel/The Netherlands ...
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Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science - GeorgeOrr https://medium.com/@zsupalla/processed-meats-as-bad-as-cigarettes-bad-reporting-on-good-science-ac43a97be603#.7t8gqi8xu ====== angdis When these stories discuss "processed meat" they always show bacon. But is bacon really processed? It is...
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Dropbox (YC 07) announces mobile API (and apps for iPad, Android) - jrnkntl http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=492 ====== minouye Just downloaded the Android app and I'm reminded of why I like Dropbox to begin with. It's simple, straight-forward, and does what I want it to. This app is no exception. ~~~ e40 How do I put al...
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Ask HN: How do you start your morning? - alehul It&#x27;d be interesting to know HNers&#x27; morning routines, both in terms of exercise and also reading, listening to a podcast, or whatever else.<p>How do you start your day, and why? ====== PaulHoule I wake up to the sun, get in line for shower, food, etc. after my s...
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A Fish Story (The Washington Monthly) - jayzee http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2012/features/a_fish_story037074.php ====== duncanbojangles This statement in the article really upset me, and I'd like HN to let me know if I'm over reacting: _"at a time when constitutional arguments for states’ rights...
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Ask HN: Has Apple announced a language whose name clashes with an existing one? - ColinWright ====== 27182818284 Yes, but so did Google years ago. The author even filed a bug report. [https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9](https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9) ------ loumf There are many lan...
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Ask HN: How are HN's comments rendered at scale (server-side)? - gigatexal HN, as we all know, is a super popular website. I heard, randomly, that it&#x27;s hosted on rather low-end hardware but somehow it is capable of handling all the load we rabid HN checkers give it. So without something like disqus how are the co...
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Ask HN: Why is Quora popular all of a sudden? - senorgusto It seems like Quora has been popping up in Google searches more and more lately, and it&#x27;s doubled in popularity in the last year [0]. Does anybody have any idea why? They recently pushed out a snazzy new design (at least for Quora.com), but this can&#x27;...
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Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle - peter_d_sherman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqwXt90ZqA ====== peter_d_sherman Note to future self: This video contains some super-important concepts, re- watch... ~~~ Ozzie_osman Thanks for resurfacing. I watched this a couple years ago but it's always a great reminder.
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Show HN: Turn your browser into a Supermachine - ondrejzabojnik https://moonkit.io/turn-your-browser-into-a-supermachine/ ====== ondrejzabojnik Hi! I'd be grateful for any feedback. I am building a tool that replaces cloud servers with your own browser capabilities: Rapidly analyze websites and augment existing webs...
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How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all - ilamont https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-glasses-lenscrafters-luxottica-monopoly-20190305-story.html ====== jerf It's articles like this that make me wonder how much of our middle class burden comes from hidden rent se...
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More HTML5 APIs - davidwalshblog http://davidwalsh.name/more-html5-apis ====== pygy_ From an advertiser'a point of view, the visibility API is a boon. For users not so much. I've recently noticed several sites that pause their video ads when the tab is hidden. I don't look at adds. I have several ad jingles/slogans ...
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Scientists Make Mice Immune to Radiation - miles http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/10571/ ====== Udo As has become standard in science articles, this one too is highly sensationalistic and potentially misleading. NO is, in low doses, a signaling molecule used by the body to facilitate intercellular communication. Si...
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Underhanded C: The Leaky Redaction - signa11 http://notanumber.net/archives/54/underhanded-c-the-leaky-redaction ====== some1else This reminds me of how some government redacted .doc files by using a virtual "black marker", which of course leaves the text in tact. ~~~ viraptor Like in BALCO case? [http://www.sfgate...
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Why cars went from boxy in the 80s to curvy in the 90s - Hooke http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8762373/car-design-curves ====== ryandrake I hate how all cars on the road look like identical bars of soap. I realize a lot of this is due to aerodynamics and safety regulations, but it's a shame. You don't see too many cars a...
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Nice and simple mac cli - rgcr https://github.com/rgcr/m-cli ====== 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)
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JavaScript fetch API - sconxu https://davidwalsh.name/fetch ====== nness Why would you want to "cancel" a request, instead of just ignore the response from the server? I feel like I'm missing a use-case here. ~~~ sconxu You might want to stop the processing of an expensive task on the server ~~~ nness But if HTTP is...
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Yahoo's Flickr Takes on Google's YouTube - danw http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/05/yahoos_flickr_t.html ====== bootload Not surprised, heard this a couple of weeks ago listening to Caterina Fakes talk on ITConversation (The History of Flickr) where Fake didn't rule flickr out for hosting video ~ <http://www.itcon...
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How 3 Women Would Hack Tech’s Diversity Problem - DinahDavis https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/how-3-women-would-hack-techs-diversity-problem-118b5cf8f05c#.7gjpcr3i3 ====== unimpressive >Despite an impressively vast sample size, the survey received some flak for the inherent bias it produced by surveying its own, le...
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'Cash cow' sales model for a macOS app - walterbell https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda-138a11995595 ====== ezekg > In principle, it’s all pretty straightforward. Of course, the devil’s in the > details. I was quite surprised how much work was involved in getting it all > working. Probably 3–...
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NASA skips Titan Explorer to go back to Mars in 2016 - ck2 http://www.space.com/17195-nasa-mars-landing-mission-2016-launch.html ====== ck2 I was really rooting for this project: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Mare_Explorer> Robotic boat over liquid sounds far more interesting with life potential? Maybe a fe...
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Immersive journalism uses VR to insert viewers directly into the story - maxufberg http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/journalisms-new-reality ====== aaron695 Ain't going to happen before AI. As a 'just so' story think of the radio play 'War of the Worlds' and how hard that is to do in video, then take that ag...
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Active vs Passive investing - udkl http://avc.com/2016/07/active-vs-passive-investing ====== udkl Tldr: Investors must choose to be either active and concentrated or passive and diversified; big gains require investments of time, energy and intellect, in addition to capital; truly active investing limits the number o...
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Think Google Fiber's fast? Nokia to show off tech that's 1,000 times faster - vezycash http://www.zdnet.com/article/think-google-fibers-fast-nokia-to-show-off-tech-thats-1000-times-faster/ ====== matt_wulfeck This is great news on the bandwidth front. Unfortunately we're so pitfully far behind on Fiber-to-the-home tha...
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Humans were once an endangered species - soundsop http://www.physorg.com/print183278038.html ====== hga The Earth is a rather hostile place when you use a megayear scale. Paleontologists and geologists have also found a variety of events (e.g, megacaldera such as Yellowstone cutting loose, meteor impacts) that are cor...
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RPC and Its Offspring: Convenient, yet Fundamentally Flawed (2009) [pdf] - emmanueloga_ https://web.archive.org/web/20110629071740/http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2009/slides/SteveVinoski_RPCAndItsOffspringConvenientYetFundamentallyFlawed.pdf ====== emmanueloga_ The ending notes are appropriate remarks given th...
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NY Times halves free views of news stories - taylorbuley http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/03/20/ny-times-halves-free-views-of-news-stories/ ====== jfasi Wait. We do all realize that you can read the article just by removing the arguments from the address, right? ------ stock_toaster In a related story, ra...
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Show HN: iOS App Discovery Using Homescreen Screenshots and OCR - sfalbo https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/homescreen-genius-learn-about/id884502115?mt=8 ====== sfalbo Hi, I just released Homescreen Genius and I'd be thankful for any feedback. The app is pretty simple. You take a screenshot of your device's homescree...
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Ask HN: sensors that export data? - petervandijck I'm trying to manage the humidity in my new house, and have a humidity meter. But it doesn't export data over time. I'd like it to have a usb port so that I can get data over time and put it on my computer. I can also imagine wanting to do this with other data (tempe...
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Survivorship bias – Wikipedia - rbanffy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias ======
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Daylight Saving Wastes Energy - muriithi http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120406767043794825-UOLcfJA8x9Gw9ozbCz77MiLmtaE_20080327.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top ====== gcv Fascinating stuff. I wish a northern state, like Montana, would try a similar experiment in half of its counties, and ditch daylight saving time...
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Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing - megacorp https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/business/media/facebook-ad-boycott.html ====== salimmadjd Am I the only person who has a problem with this headline, "Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing" am I overreacting here or others feel the same? For me at the face of it's not ...
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Tell HN: I'm giving 4 domains away to a good home - andr http://alek.posterous.com/4-domains-free-to-a-good-home You could also post your pitch as a comment here. ====== petercooper I gave away a bunch of domains a few months back (I posted about them here). Of what I gave away, I don't think any has been put to good...
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Show HN: Visualizing the ACLU Twitter matches as campaigns - ccorda http://match.patronage.org/campaign/11 ====== ccorda This is just a proof of concept, but it's pretty close to being usable. We built it with real time data via Twitter's streaming API and Firebase. Converting the attachments into data was done via Go...
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Is formal education important? (not for 37signnals) - terpua http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/700-ask-37signals-is-formal-education-important ====== richcollins It is only important for pedigree and networking ------ sriram_sun <http://norvig.com/21-days.html>. Search for "degree".
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FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules - oori http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39973787 ====== oori quote: "Americans have until mid-August to share their views with the FCC"
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Ask HN: Does anyone make a lot of animated gifs? - njoglekar How do you make them? Would love to chat with you. ====== Peroni Took me about 10 minutes to learn how to create gifs using this guide: [http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs-in- pho...](http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs...
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Ask HN: How much equity for first engineer when there is no salary involved? - goostavos How much equity should you ask for if you&#x27;re an engineer joining a company for <i>exclusively</i> equity? I would be the first engineer and present from day one (though not a founder).<p>This would be a part-time moonlighting...
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U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (1998) - mmhsieh https://www.historynet.com/us-torpedo-troubles-during-world-war-ii.htm ====== jandrese > Because of this logistics fiasco, veteran submariner and historian Paul > Schratz said he ‘was only one of many frustrated submariners who thought it > a violation of New ...
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Show HN: Django Front End Validators – form input validation using transpiled JS - franey https://github.com/johnfraney/django-front-end-validators ====== franey Hello! This is a little plugin I threw together after wondering how I might be able to use Transcrypt[1] alongside Django. It's in its early stages (no tests...
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Show HN: How to Setup Node.js App Automated Deployment and CI with PM2 for MVP's - niftylettuce http://niftylettuce.com/posts/automated-node-app-ci-graceful-zerodowntime-github-pm2/ ====== nodesocket pm2 is by far the best node process manager. It is excellent. Though I don't use pm2 for deployments. I create new ser...
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Darpa Builds A 1.8-Gigapixel Camera (Six-Inch Targets From 20,000 Feet) - acremades http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/28/darpa-builds-a-1-8-gigapixel-camera-that-can-spot-six-inch-targets-from-20000-feet/ ====== Pr0 Previous discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129332>
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How not to implement a 25MB background movie: faradayfuture.com - Mojah http://www.faradayfuture.com/ ====== Mojah Open your network inspector and notice how the 25MB .webm file downloads again after each iteration of the movie. ------ coreyp_1 OUCH! If they make it to the front page of HN (or anything else big, real...
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Show HN: ReactiveSearch – React and React Native UI Components for Search - reactivesearch https://github.com/appbaseio/reactivesearch/blob/dev/README.md ====== reactivesearch Hi HN! I am Sid, one of the authors of ReactiveSearch. We have built ReactiveSearch with the goal of providing cross-platform UI components fo...
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First FORTRAN program runs, September 20, 1954 - jamesbritt http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4396778/1st-FORTRAN-program-runs--September-20--1954 ====== _kst_ So the first FORTRAN program was run 3 years before the first FORTRAN compiler was delivered. Was the program manually translated to assembly/ma...
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Show HN: Umedoc – Find, visit and keep the perfect doctor for you - ghufran_syed https://umedoc.com/ ====== maryammouse Ahh...so as soon as we posted it seems like the site stopped loading and now it's acting strange. We're scaling it up now so the link should work in just a few minutes! Oops. Well, thanks for showi...
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Google's Web video could use pointless squabble - eplanit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101683.html?wprss=rss_technology ====== ZeroGravitas The title is correctly copied across, but the text of the article makes clear he means "end pointless squabble" not "use pointless sq...
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