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Ask HN: File format for declarative language? - mchahn I&#x27;m in the process of developing a pure declarative language. The source consists of simple JS-like data structures that would be at home in a JSON file. I have two questions ...<p>- I&#x27;m naturally considering using JSON, but I don&#x27;t think it is gre...
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Show HN: Videoloupe for Mac – A new video player and editor for macOS - kennycarruthers https://www.videoloupe.com ====== kennycarruthers Developer here... Two years ago, the Hacker News community helped kick off my indie-developer "career" with Fileloupe for Mac. Now I'd like to share my second app, Videoloupe for M...
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Show HN: My humble little side project to support OSS and developer happiness - sleight42 http://rubypair.com ====== damncabbage Just a heads-up: signing in with GitHub automatically puts you in _both_ the Remote and In-Person lists if you just cancel out of the form that pops up after you authenticate. ~~~ sleight...
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[iOS] Create a Protocol-Oriented Animations Library in Swift 3 - kalub92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AySlYrel7fc ====== fish111222999 I saw this video a while back. Pretty good stuff. Any good protocol-oriented book suggestions? ~~~ kalub92 Hmm... The Packt Publishing POP book is good and actually it looks like t...
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The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design - SirLJ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs ====== mattlondon Just out of curiosity, am I the only one that seems to be happy to just sit on a dining chair when at my desk? When the WFH wave hit, people seemed to be going mad buyi...
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A Field Guide to the 'Weapons' of Hostile Architecture in NYC - pseudolus https://gothamist.com/2019/08/14/hostile_architecture_nyc.php ====== ng12 Skateboarders destroy things. They wax concrete edges and repeatedly grind them with metal trucks -- it doesn't take long at all for the edge to be worn away. If you've sk...
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Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal - aaronharnly http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/business/international/volkswagen-chief-martin-winterkorn-resigns-amid-emissions-scandal.html ====== jeromeflipo In July, France 2 (the #1 public national television channel in France) released a documenta...
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Google Drives Towards Microsoft and Adobe With Gears - ideas101 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/13/google-drives-towards-microsoft-and-adobe-with-gears/ ====== ComputerGuru Only problem: Google doesn't support x64 Linux installations. [http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=83194...](http://code.goo...
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Ask HN: Managed VPS or shared hosting? - maxraz For a non-server guy, I&#x27;m quite comfortable with cPanel on shared hosting (I can add domains, set up an email and SSL). So I want to ask you if a managed VPS with free cPanel included can be also easy to handle for a simple designer?<p>I don&#x27;t even know what is...
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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2011) - kevinburke Did I miss this thread somehow?<p>Full time positions only and please lead with the location.<p>Thread for remote workers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2216921<p>Thread for internships: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273865<p>Thanks! ====== robinwarren T...
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State.of.dev – Explore the current state of development - carlio https://stateofdev.com/home/ ====== BrandiATMuhkuh Your SEO chart pretty much confirms my strategies. It's all about the incoming links and disavow links. Looks like really useful info overall, thanks.
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Real-time sentiment analysis of the debate - nikita http://election.memsql.com/ ====== grzm Interesting! I wonder how well VADER handles tweets. Is there a lot of sarcasm in 140 characters? Reminds me of the vector space mathematics post from a a couple of days ago. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12714406](http...
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U.S. Warms Up Its Own Old Spy Stories to Bash Putative Chinese Espionage - cribbles https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/02/us-warms-up-old-spy-story-to-warn-of-foreign-espionage.html ====== java-man This is the _real_ story.
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Surfing, Schools and Jets: WeWork’s Bets Follow CEO Adam Neumann’s Passions - terryauerbach https://www.wsj.com/articles/surfing-schools-and-jets-weworks-bets-follow-ceo-adam-neumanns-passions-11551787200 ====== kolbe [https://outline.com/tWd8Z4](https://outline.com/tWd8Z4)
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Idea for the structure of a tutoring site - andrewmech55 I don't have any real coding ability and I certainly don't have time for a side project but I was hoping to get some feedback on an idea of mine:<p>Upon visiting the site you would be asked to register as a student or as a tutor. Upon registering as a tutor yo...
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Employee retention rate at top tech companies - throwaway40483 http://www.businessinsider.com/employee-retention-rate-top-tech-companies-2017-8 ====== mgiannopoulos These seem very low, but how do they compare with other industries?
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The traveling German carpenters - luccastera http://blog.intellum.com/2011/04/traveling-german-carpenters.html ====== dylanz My good friend is a journeyman, and I always wished there was a US equivalent, especially in the realm of software engineering. I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy coding with brilliant program...
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McDonald's Europe: Computers to Replace Cashiers - chailatte http://www.thestreet.com/story/11122512/1/mcdonalds-europe-computers-to-replace-cashiers.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN ====== IanMikutel "The touch-screen platform will be implemented in around 7,000 McDonald's restaurants in the United Kingdom, according to reports...
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Pin your friends - edwardliu http://www.hellol.com ====== edwardliu we're the pinterest for people. Right now our theme is focused on dating. Check it out and give us some feedback :)
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Resources for Learning Graphics Programming - ingve http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2019/3/25/resources-for-learning-graphics-programming ====== renholder Simplygon[0,1] has an SDK[2] - migh be worth a look, as well? [0] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplygon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplygon) [1] - [ht...
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Air Force Blocks Media Sites That Posted Leaked Cables - shrikant http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576019944121568506.html ====== DupDetector Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007332> \- wsj.com - no comments Additionally, same story, different sources: <http://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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Highly mutated cancers respond better to immune therapy - pseudolus https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00143-8 ====== apathy That’s not the important conclusion of the primary article. Highly mutated cancers _of certain types_ respond better to checkpoint inhibition and so forth. Melanoma, lung adeno, colorect...
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QuickStart for a SQL Database with Blockchain Features - auxten https://testnet.covenantsql.io/quickstart ====== daniel-l Great work, I have Stared your project, so what's the difference between u and bigchain? ~~~ auxten First, we have SQL support, Bigchaindb is MongoDB. CovenantSQL is written in Golang and C. Bigch...
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Y Combinator - Startup Library as Single pdf (12 MB) - Chirag http://ff.im/776I7 ====== davidcc This is handy! But embedded flash adverts? Not for me. ------ danw What's in the pdf? ~~~ jcl It appears to be a capture of the articles on this page: <http://ycombinator.com/lib.html> ------ sid Freaking awesome, than...
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A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering - 3lit3H4ck3r http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29 ====== joshuahe...
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Run Ruby on Rails on Apache Mesos - tknaup http://mesosphere.io/learn/run-ruby-on-rails-on-mesos/ ====== film42 I've never seen this before: [https://elastic.mesosphere.io/](https://elastic.mesosphere.io/) Seems like an awesome idea to onboard people to using Mesos. I'm definitely gonna play with it this weekend! ...
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Apple Security Update released, fixes several serious vulns - lvh https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 ====== Someone That's not the best HN story title (it currently is "Apple Security Update released with several serious vulns"). From what I can tell, this update doesn't _have_ several (known) vulnerabilities, i...
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Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign - rbanffy https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/breitbart-other-conservative-outlets-escalate-anti-spacex-campaign/ ====== marksellers This new flavor of conservatism is so strange in light of how bound to free market ideals most flavors of conserva...
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Ask HN: What is wrong with my Launch Page? - psg Hi everyone. I'm working on a project and have created a launch page with the hope of compiling a list of early adopters. As with many other websites that have launch pages, the hope is that these early users would provide valuable feedback and would allow me to itera...
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T-Mobile CEO to users hiding their hotspot tethering activities: “It's over.” - atomical http://www.zdnet.com/article/t-mobile-ceo-to-hackers-stealing-hotspot-data-its-over/ ====== brandon272 I always find it amusing when these issues come up and people need to remind us all that "UNLIMITED SHOULD MEAN UNLIMITED!" ......
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A startup’s plan to sell solar like cell phones - FluidDjango http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-startups-plan-to-sell-solar-like-cell-phones/ ====== amalcon From a marketing perspective this seems absolutely genius. From an engineering perspective, it seems completely backwards. The coupling between the actual cost of th...
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Interview with "The Founder's Dilemmas" Author Noam Wasserman - tmflannery http://startupharbor.me/2012/09/17/the-founders-dilemmas/ ====== tmflannery Fred Wilson asked for it a long time ago in this post: [http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/moneyball-for- startups-1.htm...](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/moneyball-fo...
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Ask HN: How to get a programming job as a twice exceptional? - twExceptional https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Twice_exceptional<p>I have a CS degree. I have been unable to get a job for 2 years. I have obvious symptoms of being 2e. I usually fail the communication portion or get rejected due to low GP...
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AresDB: Uber's GPU-Powered Open Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine - Recovery2020 https://ubere.ng/2HzMPVK ====== uberemployee When I worked at Uber, this project was openly mocked. One of the CTO’s biggest failures was implementing a promotion scheme where you needed to create a new service in order to be considered ...
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Netflix is down. Some tweets say scheduled maintenance on Sat Evening. Wtf? - BIackSwan https://twitter.com/#!/search/netflix ====== hollerith Was up for me first time I saw this submission, but a few minutes later it went down, saying "Streaming is temporarily unavailable." ------ chokolad Up and running for me righ...
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Is this research on Roundup as damning as it looks? - aethertap I started reading this paper [1] on the effects of glyphosphate and quickly realized that I'm way out of my depth here. The claim they make is very bold, basically that glyphosphate inhibits a critical enzyme (Cytochrome p450), ultimately leading to man...
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AWS Costs Cheat Sheet (Updated) - edbyrne https://cloudvertical.com/cloud-costs ====== pixeloution This is a very nice tool, although it should really have "include upfront amortization cost" checked by default, otherwise the "75% savings" for a 1-year heavy reserve is very misleading. I'd previously done the same ...
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The Hidden Co-Founder - remyt http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/the-hidden-co-founder/ ====== rifung It's fascinating that some founders will always post things like this, "I don’t think true work/life balance is possible in the day-to-day reality of startups" and yet others say that there's really no need to sacrifi...
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The Economy According To Mint - bd http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/30/the-economy-according-to-mint/ ====== vaksel if their average user spends $4,000 a month(before savings etc), wouldn't this mean that this data is pretty much useless? I mean sure it might help you identify some middle class families trends but th...
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Sublime Git is a clean code editor for merge conflicts - bedros https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/09/21/sublime-git-is-a-clean-code-editor-for-merge-conflicts/ ====== mockindignant The product is called Sublime Merge.
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Getting Started with Algorithmic Cryptocurrency Trading - jaynagpaul https://jaynagpaul.com/algorithmic-crypto-trading ====== brndnmtthws If you want to lose money, this is a good way to do it. You're better off buying what you believe in and holding it. It's easy to fit a perfect model to historical data, but it rar...
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Show HN: An ATS with smart requirements, digital profiles and more - micael_dias https://www.mropus.com ====== micael_dias Hi guys, I've developed Mr. Opus in the last few years (with big breaks in between) but I feel it's now in a good place to see the world. Features: \- smart job requirements include professional ...
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MSBuild is now open source on GitHub - pauljz http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/03/18/msbuild-engine-is-now-open-source-on-github.aspx ====== jammycakes The problem with MSBuild is that it tends to get used for things for which it is not really designed. MSBuild was originally designed as a file format for ...
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Japan's second highest volcano erupts - oska http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-27/several-injured-in-volcanic-eruption-in-central-japan/5773890 ====== oska Good collection of photos in this Guardian piece: [http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/sep/27/escape-...](http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/20...
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Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets - Garbage http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/20/mozilla-launches-preview-of-firefox-for-windows-8-tablets/ ====== isaacwaller I just tried this on my Surface Pro and although performance is really lacking and pinch to zoom does not work, I am excited about the possi...
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Extend the life of threads with synchronization (C++11) - indatawetrust http://stackoverflow.com/q/15252292/3986712 ====== obi1kenobi My two cents -- just use Cilk Plus: [https://www.cilkplus.org/tutorial-cilk- plus-keywords#spawn_a...](https://www.cilkplus.org/tutorial-cilk-plus- keywords#spawn_and_sync) Why I like ...
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Building software to identify trends in unsolved murders - adventured https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-08/serial-killers-should-fear-this-algorithm ====== e28eta Does anyone know why MAP focuses on the clearance rate? It seems to conflate arresting someone with "solving" the murder. I can think of some...
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Why Google allows target.com to spam search results - madars http://www.goodroi.com/why-google-allows-target-com-to-spam-results/ ====== codexon This is a result of Google's reliance on domain authority over relevance and pagerank now. [http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-spam-illuminates-the- algos...](http://www.seom...
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Meeting Technical Cofounders in SF? - absamer Hey guys - I will be in San Francisco between Aug 22 - Aug 24 and was wondering if I could meet technical cofounders who are interested in building the following tourism mobile app:<p>What is Tropoo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=I4SJHPOrk_g<p>How it works...
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Uber Data and Leaked Docs Provide a Look at How Much Uber Drivers Make - impostervt https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/internal-uber-driver-pay-numbers?utm_term=.ncJOK7YoA7#.tsrdRXW7rX ====== danso > _Rather than relying on Uber 's figures, BuzzFeed News conducted an > independent analysis of the raw trip data ...
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Ed Mastery (Is This a April Fools Joke) - joelinuxyx https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=ed ====== cperciva It's a real book.
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Cornell professor driven to convey beauty of mathematics - tokenadult http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20130114/NEWS02/301140061/Cornell-professor-driven-convey-beauty-mathematics ====== pcurve Old video, but in case anyone wants to see metronomes syncing in action. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysnkY4WH...
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The Sound of Pixels - myth_drannon http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/ ====== a-dub Interesting. I wonder how well a logistic regression that spits out masks would perform in the source separation task. Also a bit surprising to see that they had to STFT the audio before feeding it into a convnet. I thought half the...
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Dragscroll – a tiny JS library which enables scrolling via mouse drag - xpostman https://github.com/asvd/dragscroll ====== atesti Even before having a mouse with wheel I used to scroll stuff with by dragging: I just selected text and when the selection reached the border, it started to scroll. I bet I'm not the only...
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Tracking Cirrus: Is This the Silk Road 2.0 Mole? - r721 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/tracking-cirrus-is-this-the-silk-road-20-mole ====== pstuart Why was Homeland Security involved in this? One of their charters[1] is to "Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace", which they state is: * analyze and reduc...
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How one SV engineer benefitted from the tacit acceptance of entrenched sexism - gregleffler https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-one-silicon-valley-engineer-benefitted-from-tacit-faye-keegan ====== a_puppy I agree Haseeb's comment was sexist, and I'm glad that Keegan called him out on it. But I think the punishment she...
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Google BigQuery Service: Big data analytics at Google speed - Anon84 http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-bigquery-service-big-data.html ====== epaulson It has joins now, but Google says this: "Joins have size restrictions due to implementation details. Essentially it means that the data on both sides of...
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Bootstrap 3 - bauerpl http://getbootstrap.com ====== saurabhnanda Is it just me or do flat styles actually have worse usability? There's absolutely no visual cue for what's clickable and what's not. ~~~ wiremine Yeah, I agree. A good case-in-point is the new button groups. Here is 2.3.2: [http://getbootstrap.com/2.3...
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Show HN: Deb-simple, a no fuss/frills apt repo server - johnnycarcin https://github.com/esell/deb-simple ====== justinsaccount Shouldn't createPackagesTar be createPackagesGz ? ~~~ johnnycarcin Probably ;) fixed!
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The Substance Found in Pencils will Speed Up our Computers One Thousand Fold - cwan http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/toys-tools/graphene-next ====== vl As it quite often happens it's better to read wikipedia article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene> than to suffer through things like "substance found in pe...
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Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution - lelf https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/security/2963983 ====== eps Mitigated by EMET. If you are on Windows and you are _not_ running EMET, you should really drop everything right now and install it. [http://www.microsoft.com/emet](ht...
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Karma Is Coming - mitko https://dimitarsimeonov.com/2019/08/20/karma-is-coming ====== Causality1 I disagree. Call-out culture is not karma. Karma is equal reward for good as punishment for bad. Call-out culture is informational natural selection that benefits the most outraging story, whether or not it's even true.
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Custos is using Bitcoin to turn digital pirates against each other - eddyg https://qz.com/1028528/custos-startup-uses-bitcoin-bounties-to-make-pirates-rat-on-one-another/ ====== badosu > _Custos embeds imperceptible bitcoin private keys in the digital files, with > different keys for different advance copies of a movi...
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Compiling to CPS Javascript (part 2): stepping debuggers, no callback hell, etc - jlongster http://jlongster.com/2012/05/18/cps-results.html ====== mahmud Very interesting. Seems like you're having heckova time, cheers! :-)
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Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed - dismal2 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/spain-is-running-out-of-workers-with-almost-5-million-unemployed ====== knocte > Pimentel’s client asked him for list of candidates trained in “Agile” > project management techniques for helping companies bo...
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Ask HN: Best Object-Oriented Programming Book - Kinnard What&#x27;s the best book for getting a handle on object-oriented programming? I&#x27;m an experienced web dev but new to OO. ====== rahimnathwani I was looking for a similar thing a while back. I don't remember why, but I decided on Practical Object-Oriented Des...
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Ted Ts'o: For those who believe systemd developers are reasonable - dredmorbius https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/K7ijdmxJ8PF ====== dredmorbius Linus Torvald's commnt provides some additional context (on the link above): _I think what you (and others) seem to miss is that the systemd people made t...
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What is signals buissness model - egodestroyer Signal is run by the signal foundation. But what are the financial incentives behind all of this?<p>I want to create an open source, rake free poker client myself, and I dont know how to finance it, i also want to get rich in the process ;) (just being honest) ====== notk...
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The Quadshot: combining a quadcopter and a plane in one - jgrahamc http://thequadshot.com/ ====== unwind If you were confused by the logo's use of a coffee cop in the initial 'Q', that's a reference to espresso (each individual espresso is called "a shot"). A drink with four espressos would be considered very strong...
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Killing a process and all of its descendants - shiroyasha23 http://morningcoffee.io/killing-a-process-and-all-of-its-descendants.html ====== rlpb This is why cgroups were invented. They solve this problem. Start a process in its own cgroup, and you can later confidently kill the process and all of its descendants. Con...
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Ballmer sells Windows 1.0 - g0atbutt http://codesketch.com/2010/11/25-years-ago-this-was-the-future-of-computing/ ====== jimminy "Except in Nebraska!" Does anyone have a reason why Nebraska would be singled out? ~~~ beej71 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OfferVoidInNebras...](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/...
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Ask HN: How did you solve the "developing on multiple machines" problem? - Eduard I have several computers (a desktop computer, a laptop, etc.). I'm developing with Eclipse, using a bunch of plug-ins.<p>It's a time-waster to synchronize my development environment between all my machines. Usually, I develop on my des...
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What’s New with “The Rust Programming Language”? - doppp http://words.steveklabnik.com/whats-new-with-the-rust-programming-language ====== EduardoBautista I really like Rust. As someone who never had a formal computer science education, the early version of this book helped me understand how programs handled memory in...
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What the Public Knows About Cybersecurity - rrdharan http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/22/what-the-public-knows-about-cybersecurity/ ====== chha Non-IT friends tend to see me as somewhat paranoid when they notice me using 2FA or VPN's, but I was actually surprised people knew this much.
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Color e-book devices coming from E Ink in 2011 - waderoush http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/03/15/new-e-ink-leader-sees-colorful-future-for-company-under-taiwans-prime-view-international/ ====== Xichekolas E Ink's big problem is the Mirasol technology that Qualcomm has. Mirasol supposedly has better power usage c...
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Sharing Salary Figures on Facebook - chaostheory http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/27salary.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=slogin ====== jeremytliles When I was getting my MBA, one of my professors discussed the idea of a workplace where everyone's compensation was disclosed. The basic conclusion of the discussion...
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Safety Implications of Serialization Timing in Autonomous Vehicles [pdf] - blahblahblah1 https://polysync.io/download/polysync-safety_and_serialization.pdf ====== jjj777 I don't get the context for this paper. Normally in a mission/safety critical system you're looking to determine the worst-case latency from stimulus...
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Quickly review changed methods and functions in your pull requests - stablemap https://github.com/blog/2407-quickly-review-changed-methods-and-functions-in-your-pull-requests ====== zachrose This sounds like a step in a good direction. IMHO diff-based code review creates distorted incentives. Moving large pieces of c...
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Our first $100,000 Month and the Hacker News discussion from a year ago - localcasestudy http://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/1dy1i0/one_year_anniversary_of_my_first_post_and_we_just/ Thought it would be interesting to stop back and show what we've done. ====== josephagoss Impressive. Being open abo...
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Show HN: Shakti.sh: Arthur Whitney's latest K version (k9) - jloveless https://shakti.sh/ ====== jloveless Includes new FFI interface. node.js , C and python. See (limited docs) [https://shakti.sh/ffi/_.d](https://shakti.sh/ffi/_.d)
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Meditations on Moloch (Coordination Problems) - arikr https://archive.fo/Yiryp ====== arikr Using the archive.is link because the current version of the post has some edits from the original.
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Ask HN: How do you learn a new language or library? - eric-hu I've been reading through the Backbone.js source code this week. While it's been a good exercise for my javascript-fu, it does feel pretty dull at times. I'm forcing myself to power through all of it because I know that I can't really form ideas with to...
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Shapeoko forums and wiki hacked – obfuscated PHP found, we're trying to reverse - justinclift http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7659 ====== justinclift Is anyone around with experience reversing obfuscated PHP code? We're trying to figure out what the code implanted by some hacker types in our forum p...
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Class-action settlement against Paypal - alphydan https://www.accountholdsettlement.com/ ====== teslabox Paypal closed my account a few years ago - my friend panicked when her own account was closed, and ended up taking me with her. Looks like I'll get $3 as a result of this class action lawsuit.
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Can American soil be brought back to life? - clumsysmurf http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/soil-health-agriculture-trend-usda-000513 ====== oldandtired Like a lot of things, soil infertility is a symptom of a much larger societal problem. Within society, there are many different competing groups that hav...
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From WikiChina - credo http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/opinion/01friedman.html ====== raghava >>America’s politicians are mostly lawyers; not engineers or scientists like ours Is that so? /* Am really asking an honest question! */ A google_search("chinese politicians scientists"); seems to be a s...
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This battery advance could make electric vehicles far cheaper - NicoJuicy https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610792/this-battery-advance-could-make-electric-vehicles-far-cheaper/ ====== demwitt Anode is negative??? Guess that explains hole flow....
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“Critical mass” vs “network effects” - olivercameron http://daltoncaldwell.com/critical-mass-vs-network-effects ====== dm8 I do agree that Twitter's asymmetric model works. And Google + also have same feature. I don't have to be "friend" with someone to follow them. Having signed up on Orkut in 2004, and used that so...
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An attorney suing Uber, Lyft, GrubHub and a dozen California tech firms - jackgavigan http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-class-action-lawyer-20160124-story.html ====== 100k The most recent issue of Mother Jones also has an article about Liss-Riordan and her employment law lawsuits. According to the artic...
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Bump stocks are turned in or destroyed as ban takes effect - oblib https://apnews.com/ea1b1c1b13194118b83a1f0d4aa08a2a ====== oblib "Anyone in possession of a bump stock from now on can be charged with a federal offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison." I may be wrong, but I don't think this is widely known ri...
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Statically Checking Web API Requests in Atom - allthingsapi http://www.apiful.io/intro/2016/11/30/ide-specification-checking.html ====== krsyoung All the more motivation for API Providers to publish their specifications so that IDE integrations like this are effective!
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Free O'Reilly Books - Cieplak http://oreilly.com/openbook/ ====== olefoo Managing Projects with Make 3rd edition <http://oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/index.csp> This is the definitive reference to the software that lifts you from writing software to building software systems. See also <http://bost.ocks.org/mike/m...
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Pyresto - A general REST based ORM for Python - berkerpeksag http://pyresto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html ====== alpb This would be great library -- only if they begin to support a wide range of commonly used APIs. Idea is good, so should be the execution. ------ gokmen Nice. i think to use it my django proj...
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For Bono and U2, Apple iTunes Partnership Finally Hits a Wrong Note - NaOH http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/business/media/for-bono-and-u2-apple-itunes-partnership-finally-hits-a-wrong-note.html ====== gph This is perhaps a bit off-topic but, >after all, the company is fresh off a hack that allowed strangers to stea...
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Yahoo! Pipes and the web as a database - Readmore http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_web_database.php ====== Readmore This is a really interesting idea, it would be cool to have an API for pipes but I supposed you could really do the same thing locally by just scraping the data sources. I'm pretty excite...
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Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars - Shivetya http://syonyk.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-tesla-building-throwaway-cars.html ====== ryandrake One of the things that makes a car valuable is having a healthy aftermarket. It looks like, from this article anyway, Tesla is doing anything they can to make sure there is ...
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Ad slowdown finally hitting Google, too? Revenue estimates cut. - pakafka http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081110/ad-slowdown-finally-hitting-google-too/ ====== josefresco If Google had more inventory I'd buy it. For those of us that have mastered our niche in AdWords Google is practically a money printing machine....
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Pyrex - tosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex ====== rini17 inbound: lamentations of USians that pyrex isn't borosilicate glass anymore... 1\. You can buy proper ISO 3585:1998 borosilicate glass kitchenware on amazon, just under another brands (Boral, Simax). 2\. The borosilicate glass is softer than lime glass a...
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Show HN: PJDL v2.0 – Single wire data link - gioscarab http://www.pjon.org/PJDL-specification-v2.0.php ====== gioscarab Here the repo: [https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/strategies/Softwa...](https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/strategies/SoftwareBitBang) This is a totally software emulated single wir...
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Line Notify Client SDK – Lotify - NiJiaLin https://github.com/louis70109/lotify ====== NiJiaLin Lotify is my first client SDK with my friend, It support developer use LINE Notify quickly, I referenced line-bot-sdk-python tests which I think so good! Welcome Issue or PRs if any problems :)
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