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Is there any way to see blocked content in my chrome browser? - SabrinaMorris I can't browse youtube and facebook from laptop. there are no problem with internet connection. Can you help regarding this matter? ====== LillieAfleur To unlock all blocked sites in Chrome, you can use the best fastest and most secure ...
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What are some NYC firms which hire low level programmers? - coned88 I am a recent grad and am looking for work in low level system's, but am having trouble finding any in the NYC metropolitan area. Everything seems to be web based these day's, and I have absolutely zero desire to do any form of web programming, im ...
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3,000 marketing pros reveal the best conversion optimization tools - mrohrssen http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/19/optimizely-mixpanel-omniture-ga-3000-marketing-pros-reveal-the-best-conversion-optimization-tools/ ====== TheRealSJR Thanks for sharing this. If any HNers have any questions on the report at all, I'll be ...
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Angry Birds cross 500 million downloads - vilpponen http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/11/02/breaking-angry-birds-cross-500-million-downloads ====== technoslut I've never understood why or how Angry Birds had become such a phenomenon. It managed to really separate itself from a plethora of mobile games and seems like...
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Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information - pervycreeper http://slur.io/ ====== fabulist This is really disappointing and almost seems engineered to proliferate Bitcoin's reputation as a technology to service criminals. I also think that they misunderstand the needs of their potentia...
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Ask HN: Which Bookmarking software do you use? - julientm Since HN, has the feature to submit via bookmarklet,let&#x27;s hear how you all manage your bookmarks and history? https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;bookmarklet.html<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;del.icio.us&#x2F; is now deactivated for new users. https:&#x2F;...
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Man builds giant computer at home - alan_cx http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33237863 ====== alan_cx And there is a link to the site: [http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html](http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html) ~~~ teh_klev And was posted here ~6 months ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742](h...
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The SEO Dominance of Zillow - gordon_freeman http://priceonomics.com/the-seo-dominance-of-zillow/ ====== programminggeek Clearly Zillow is quite dominant, but I'm not sure that I agree with the final sentiment of all traffic becoming mobile traffic sooner rather than later. Mobile is growing like crazy, but there i...
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Quora Doesn’t Know What a Contract Is - sneak https://sneak.berlin/20200210/quora/ ====== Nuzzerino I'm very disappointed with how Quora turned out. It seemed to be on a strong trajectory a few years ago, but has now devolved into Yahoo Answers 2.0. There are still good answers here and there. But there are far, far ...
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Multiplatform GPU benchmark adds macOS/iOS Metal 2 support - apecat https://www.basemark.com/benchmarks/basemark-gpu/ ====== apecat As a starting point for real numbers, Guru3D has run Basemark GPU 1.2 on 20 GPUs, on Windows [https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/basemarkgpu- benchmark-...](https://www.guru3d.com/arti...
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Show HN: Investy.com - Portfolio Analyzation Tool - thematt Investy is a portfolio analyzation tool that allows individual or professional investors to breakdown a stock portfolio and see financial data across the aggregated investments. Investors can model hypothetical portfolios, leverage diversification and alloc...
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How teams using JIRA Software and Bitbucket release 14% faster - gitdude https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/04/05/how-teams-using-jira-software-and-bitbucket-release-faster-and-so-can-you/ ====== yowza And it means absolutely nothing.
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Microsoft brand in sharp decline - edw519 http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2421/microsoft-brand-in-decline-080328/index.html ====== mechanical_fish I well remember reading Peter Gutmann's "Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" [1], in which he said: "The Vista Content Protection specification could very wel...
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For NPCs and robots: Building character AI through machine learning - wbknox https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/building-character-ai-through-machine-learning-7a3159dc4940 ====== wbknox Hey, all. I'm the author of this Medium article. If anyone has feedback or questions, I'd be happy to take them here.
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OOP vs. Functional Programming (2014) - ruairidhwm https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/11/24/FPvsOO.html ====== lmm > Objects are not data structures. Objects may use data structures; but the > manner in which those data structures are used or contained is hidden. This > is why data fields are private. From the...
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The Strange Paradise of Paul Scheerbart - dnetesn http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/12/16/strange-paradise-of-paul-scheerbart/ ====== reasonattlm Technological utopianism is a great thing and we should have more of it as a thread in the great global conversion. It has a very interesting history if you're prepared to g...
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Who owns copyright to Deep Dream images? - somerandomness https://plus.google.com/+AndreasSchou/posts/hspwf3iTqx8 ====== kolme This is just a neural network fed with some dog pictures, it's not really "thinking", it doesn't "create" anything. In other words, it's not (yet) artificial general intelligence. As I see it,...
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Breaking the Seal on Drug Research - gruseom http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/business/breaking-the-seal-on-drug-research.html?pagewanted=all ====== tokenadult The previous submission [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970873](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970873) received minimal attention from the HN ...
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PolarSSL is now a part of ARM - fcambus https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/blog/polarssl-part-of-arm ====== _stephan Congratulations! Who knows, maybe a part of the "exciting plans for 2015" is to release PolarSSL under a liberal open source license... ~~~ edent It's GPL 2 - [https://polarssl.org/how-to-get#open- s...
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Lyft ends electric scooter operations in Oakland, Austin and San Jose - MilnerRoute https://news.yahoo.com/lyft-ends-electric-scooter-operations-171711550.html ====== jay_wild What happens to all the old / retired scooters when something like this happens? I'd love to buy a "project" scooter and refurb it back to my s...
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The cost of messaging - rayvega http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/02/09/the-cost-of-messaging.aspx ====== CalmQuiet No: topic is actually about demands of _writing_ message objects: [http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2009/02/09/cos...](http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2009/02/09/cost.aspx)...
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Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution - vrdabomb5717 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/bitcoins-lightning-network-a-deep-dive/ ====== lalaland1125 Lightning appears to add more problems than solutions. It has a whole bunch of critical issues. Here is a short list. 1\. You need t...
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How Is Today’s Warming Different from the Past? - randomgyatwork http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php ====== randomgyatwork People always talk about the last 100,000 years as though that is a good scale to talk about this issue. Reality is, current global warming is part of a cycle that ha...
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100M Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research - kneth http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-million-creative-commons-flickr-images-for ====== GrantS One of the most incredible parts is that they've already run feature detection on all 100M images/videos and extracted 50TB of: "SIFT, GIST, Auto C...
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Ask HN: Do you have ADD/ADHD? How do you manage it? - vumgl Also, how has it affected your CS career? I feel that transitioning to management would help, as it does not require lengthy periods of concentration, but rather distributed attention for shorter periods. ====== westurner Music. Headphones. Chillstep, progres...
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Ask HN: Examples of things that are MORE successful due to coronavirus? - andrewstuart Some businesses&#x2F;events&#x2F;organisations have discovered they are MORE successful as whatever they morphed into due to coronavirus.<p>It would be great to read a list of them.<p>Here&#x27;s an example:<p>Melbourne Internationa...
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Ask HN: Application Security. - hislaziness I drew the short stick and have to develop a security strategy for an application my company is developing. Where do I start? The application is a web based J2EE application. ====== mh_ OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) has a host of resources (local & link...
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Highly Scalable LDAP, Alternatives - rishikeshg Folks, Any experience related to implementing a highly scalable (let's say directory has billion records), high performance( in terms of read latency) LDAP server? What other alternatives should I be thinking of? ====== rishikeshg Hi, I do not have a use case as such. ...
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Ask HN: Are Branches (SVN/Git) Evil? - tylermauthe Recently, I had a discussion with two colleagues (who are far more experienced than I am and whom I respect a great deal). The topic of the discussion was Branching Strategies and when to use them. They made the argument that good developers do not need branches, if...
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Artificial intelligence program that learns like a child - ryan_j_naughton http://www.gizmag.com/artificial-intelligence-program-imitates-child-cognitive-development/33972/ ====== guardian5x This sounds interesting. Is there any technical or in-depth information available? The idea itself doesn't strike me as new. ...
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Visual Rust 0.1 is out - wspeirs http://blog.piston.rs/2015/05/14/Visual-Rust-0.1/ ====== MichaelGG I can't wait to try this. If it can just get to the level of the first F# plugin, I'll be so happy. If MS picked up interest in Rust that'd be even more amazing. And it'd actually solve their security problems, unlike ...
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Why it's better to be hardworking than smart - kn0thing http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/e4ejp/dae_feel_like_being_labeled_a_smart_kid_set_them/c158f4b ====== jamesbritt "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising." -- Cyril Connolly
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Skype down? - transburgh http://www.centernetworks.com/skype-down ====== transburgh Reports from US and Europe of outages.
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FreshDirect neglects to renew its domain - bobinator30 http://gothamist.com/2012/12/26/fresh_direct_fiasco_company_critici.php ====== bobinator30 and why wouldn't they just publish the IP address, so I can order food?
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Search Engine for Crypto Trading - shakks https://www.tradeplan.co/ ====== shakks Hi Everyone, I am working on creating a search engine like app for crypto traders. In crypto, traders have KPI called as technical indicators. I am working on making those Technical indicators used as a search query. I myself have been ...
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Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money - edwincheese http://torrentfreak.com/its-time-to-debunk-the-myth-that-copyright-is-needed-to-make-money-or-that-it-even-makes-money-121007/ ====== vibrunazo Imagine if, before intellectual property, you put 20 smart people in a room, and tell them to come up wi...
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Success with vpslink.com? - voidfiles This looks like a great deal 28$ every three months. They have a clone option so you can clone working hardware. Has any body had any experience with these guys. ====== rms That's a low monthly fee, yes, but it's a very small amount of RAM. By the time you get up to 256 megs it ...
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Facebook rolls out its Offers deals and discounts globally - lvalverde http://www.internetretailer.com/2012/09/21/facebook-rolls-out-its-offers-deals-and-discounts-globally?cid=FB-Article-2012 ====== impostervt We'll see if this actually turns into a viable revenue source for them. We aggregate every Facebook Offer ...
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Why antitrust lawsuits fail - tristan_louis http://www.tnl.net/blog/2012/10/13/why-antitrust-lawsuits-fail/ ====== zapdrive I think Apple is the new Microsoft.
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Matter – Beautiful UI - rhyco https://www.matterkit.io ====== je42 isn't this just some CSS design or am I missing something ?
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Ask HN: What's an inspirational pop book about Computer Science? - pgbovine A friend of mine just asked me: There are many popular non-fiction books addressing the harmony/beauty/philosophy of physics that really stir up the curiosity and imagination of readers. What's the best example of such a book for Computer S...
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Show HN: Base 60 Clock, a new date/time format - shinkarom https://shinkarom.github.io/clock60/ ====== nealpatil Where can it be used ? ~~~ shinkarom I have not given it much thought, but it's very concise.
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Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource/VMware - ExpiredLink http://blog.springsource.org/2012/07/03/oh-the-places-youll-go/ ====== andrewcooke that was corporate blandness personified (how far you've come, spring). any idea why he left or what he's doing?
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Single-atom transistor discovered - prakash http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091206085833.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 ====== scottw It was also discovered on Saturday: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979559> and...
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Show HN: US Hospitals Pricing Comparison - Immortalin https://github.com/PraecantatioLabs/Asclepius ====== pascalxus Getting pricing information on hospitals is a good start and encouraging lower prices is good thing as well. In addition, what we really need to get those insurance premiums down, is insurance programs...
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Ask HN: How has volunteering helped you grow? - kuro-kuris Hi HN, I enjoyed volunteering teaching children to code back at university and during the holidays I like gathering food for homeless people. What kind of volunteering has helped you grow the most? What kind of volunteering do you find the most fulfillment fro...
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The infernal semicolon (2012) - tilt https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/ ====== samatman I never tire of comparing Lua with Javascript, and this is another one of those cases. A semicolon in Lua is simply a character which is illegal to place anywhere but the end of a statement. There is no insert...
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Stop telling people to vote - fogus http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/11/stop-telling-people-to-vote/ ====== geuis I take a diametrically opposed viewpoint to this. Everyone should be _required_ to vote. In Australia, among other nations, if you don't vote you pay a fine. Voting in the U.S. should be as mandatory as jury d...
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Fully Abstract Compilation via Universal Embedding [pdf] - mpweiher https://www.williamjbowman.com/resources/fabcc-paper.pdf ====== nickpsecurity Alright, I have a hard time following some of these papers because of the wording. Does this basically mean the language is immune via the compiler to failures or attacks fr...
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What is Software Engineering? - stablemap https://research.swtch.com/vgo-eng ====== Jedi72 If your life really depended on the ok outcome of the nxt program you wrote, you would make SURE it worked. You test, re-test, try alternatives and compare outcomes, run experiments about what happens under certain conditions. T...
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Show HN: Our alternative to recruiter spam - bitsweet https://trypitchbox.com/ ====== bitsweet Hi HN. We were tired of recruiters so we built this because it was something we wish existed. We had "satisfying" jobs and liked who we worked with but we were not naive and knew there could be a better job out there. Either...
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How a Bug in My Ruby Code Cost Code School $13,000 - dyogenez https://www.codeschool.com/blog/2015/06/04/how-a-bug-in-my-ruby-code-cost-code-school-13000/ ====== shanemhansen I'd add an additional safeguard. When retrying failed jobs, make sure to have exponential backoff. Numerous queueing systems have this feature...
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Ask HN: Encouragement as a Service? - bambax Does &quot;Encouragement as a Service&quot; exist?<p>It would be a number that you can call as an entrepreneur, when you feel a little down or discouraged.<p>It would not offer advice per se, but &quot;quality listening&quot; (relevant questions) and comforting&#x2F;encoura...
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New medical procedure could delay menopause by 20 years - HillaryBriss https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/04/medical-procedure-delay-menopause ====== teslabox There used to be a paper from a Harvard Law student on the school’s website about the Estrogen scam. As I recall, the paper told of how a drug company...
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Lectures) (1986) - tosh https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FE88AA54363BC46 ====== tosh """ These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professi...
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The Appalling Stance of Rand Paul - d4vlx http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/opinion/blow-the-appalling-stance-of-rand-paul.html?hp&rref=opinion ====== rthomas6 This is off topic for Hacker News per the guidelines. [http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ~~~ drhayes9...
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Senior Software Developer Syndrome - dlagillespie http://www.flock3.com/personal/senior-software-developer-syndrome/ ====== adziki When I started my job as a fresh-out-of-college SW Engineer, one of the more senior guys there suggested I read The Psychology of Computer Programming (I later went on to find out that t...
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On open-sourcing existing code - luu https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-03-19-cant-even-throw-code-across-the-wall/ ====== stormbrew I think a lot of the time when people at companies look at this sort of thing they get trapped in a somewhat unnecessary chicken and egg problem. Yes, that project is full of c...
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How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (2013) - dsr12 http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ ====== elcapitan This is a good addition to the original Bitcoin paper ([https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) [pdf]), which is already very concise and readable...
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Show HN: The Shanti Fund is investing $200 per project in startups - sbraford http://theshantifund.com/ ====== jordancampbell This is cool - well done to you. Even more than the money, just having someone tell them that their idea isn't terrible will be a great help. ------ sbraford Hi. Shanti here from The Shanti F...
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How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends - dpapathanasiou http://lifehacker.com/357666/how-to-stop-checking-email-on-the-evenings-and-weekends ====== jdueck Another useful trick I've found is to automatically delay my email responses. Rather than replying right away, I purposely let email sit for 48 h...
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A Newly Discovered Memory In Which People Remember Every Day Of Their Lives - jamesbritt http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/29/hyperthymesia-%E2%80%93-a-newly-discovered-memory-in-which-people-remember-every-day-of-their-lives-video/ ====== wallflower I remember a hypnotist at our college orientation taking an audien...
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Startup hustle: Why two men decided to sleep together in a van for months on end - playhard http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/13/startup-hustle-why-two-men-decided-to-sleep-together-in-a-van-for-months-on-end/ ====== bobisme Unfortunate headline wording. ------ spacecadet I lived out of my VW Vanagon while starting my bu...
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Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate - uvdiv http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/business/media/anti-surveillance-activist-is-at-center-of-new-leak.html ====== doe88 I think Glenn Greenwald is a damn good writer, I used to read his articles a lot when he was writing for _Salon_ , he really rea...
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Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39 - 98codes https://blogs.igalia.com/compilers/2020/06/23/dates-and-times-in-javascript/ ====== tzs I'd like to see the JavaScript people, the Java people, the PHP people, the Perl people, the Python people, the C people, the C++ people, and the people for ev...
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Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC - EEGuy http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/germany-takes-the-lead-in-hvdc ====== EEGuy Until recent news such as this, I didn't know it was the "conceptually simple" but practically difficult ability to switch (interrupt) a GW or so of DC energy flow preventing the implementation...
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Show HN: Open-source project management system for small teams and startups - leantimesystems https://github.com/Leantime/leantime ====== shivawu I'm curious about why you chose to open source it. For me personally, I would be happy to pay for the hosted version if it's useful, and not worry about hosting my own. ~~~...
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The Point of Laziness in Programing Languages - gus_massa http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/the-real-point-of-laziness/ ====== ScottBurson _variables in a lazy language range over computations, including the non- terminating computation, whereas in a strict language they range only over values_ This i...
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Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and more - lynfogeek https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/03/kotlin-1-1/ ====== WkndTriathlete A few weeks ago I wrote the same application four times in four different JVM languages: Java, Groovy, Scala, and Kotlin, with a particular focus on the application u...
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Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on college campuses? - quinndupont http://chronicle.com/article/Getting-Medieval-on-Higher/126008/ ====== granite_scones I think there's some merit to this proposal, but it's too riddled with an infatuation with a certain brand of Christian monasticism for me to separa...
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Ask HN: What's your preferred method of learning something completely new? - rxsel ====== giantg2 I like to have a useful goal. It helps me find purpose and complete the task. Then I might do some reading or other research to learn the basics. Then I try to do whatever it is. I evaluate how it went and do more research...
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Business Insider Is Losing Money but Growing Fast - jhonovich http://recode.net/2016/03/05/business-insider-is-losing-money-and-growing-fast-thats-why-axel-springer-valued-it-at-over-400-million/ ====== jhonovich "Business Insider lost $11.9 million on $42.4 million in sales last year. Despite the loss, Axel says BI’s...
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Learnings from having Mailchimp ask me to kindly leave. - mise http://www.eteanga.ie/mailchimp-asked-me-to-leave/ ====== nopassrecover Sounds like there should be some recalibration of those figures for small lists. Typical on-target mailouts for small businesses (1000-3000) are usually accompanied by at least a cou...
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Apple Sues Nexus One Maker HTC - budu3 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/technology/03patent.html?ref=technology ====== invisible The problem is Apple didn't really INVENT[1][2][3] the concept and technology for multi-touch. They just implemented the first realized product (in a phone). So what if they filed a paten...
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Why does programming suck? - stepanhruda https://medium.com/@luisobo/why-does-programming-suck-6b253ebfc607 ====== icambron Here's the thing: everything sucks. Every industry, profession, even hobby is full of seemingly arbitrary limitations, poor tooling, quirky hacks you have to work around, little bits of required ...
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Advantages of monolithic version control - eadmund https://danluu.com/monorepo/ ====== erik_seaberg > Since atomic cross-project commits are possible, the repository can always > be in a consistent state – at commit #X, all project builds should work. At Google this regularly failed. We spent hours unable to commit c...
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Show HN: AI programming game - kronny https://www.bomberbots.com ====== mey [https://www.bomberbots.com/#/match/202081](https://www.bomberbots.com/#/match/202081) is very interesting to watch ~~~ starshadowx2 It seems like the bots have a self-preservation strategy when they start out trapped. They will stay stuck ...
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Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wild West - antr https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/drone-hobbyists-angered-by-congress-ending-the-aerial-wild-west ====== FundThrowaway Almost every time we have a BBQ or other outside event someone buzzes a drone overhead and just sits there watch...
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A Sampling of Anti-Decompilation Techniques - swalsh https://blog.ret2.io/2017/11/16/dangers-of-the-decompiler/ ====== DogestFogey I'm surprised the Movfuscator hasn't been mentioned yet. It compiles C code into unconditional MOVs, and if you watch the author's Derbycon 2015 video there are ways you can scramble the M...
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What You Can Learn from How Warren Buffett's Investment Process Evolved - gmishuris https://www.forbes.com/sites/garymishuris/2018/12/07/what-you-can-learn-from-how-warren-buffetts-investment-process-evolved/ ====== afrodc_ Interesting article. Thanks for sharing. > Buffett considered it exceptionally rare for a busi...
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Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware partners - Kynlyn http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/2/2840932/exclusive-valve-steam-box-gaming-console ====== fufulabs Here is what i hope will pan out: 1\. Steam OS will be powered by Linux + OpenGL 2\. It will have unparalleled gamer-bias and developer-bias in...
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Startup Founder Required - joelennon https://medium.com/@joelennon/startup-founder-required-635cd816b51d#.megt22xa0 ====== nickfzx lol
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Ask HN: What is your programming training schedule? - muzani Like athletes, there needs to be some time allocated to training yourself to perform faster, better. Time needs to be allocated to resting too, so it might not be optimal to learn more on weekends and nights.<p>Good training usually involves something tough,...
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Calendar Era - peter_d_sherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_era ====== peter_d_sherman Look at the list of different calendars on the right hand side of the page... i.e., Gregorian calendar, Ab urbe condita, Armenian calendar, Assyrian calendar, Bahá'í calendar, Balinese saka calendar, Bengali calendar, Ber...
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Freud and Cocaine - gnosis http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/cocaine/ ====== xijuan Freud, Freud, should I love you or hate you? ------ johndlafayette <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/freud03a.html>
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Ask HN: Does anyone read those O'reilly animal books from cover to cover? - alg0rith ====== phillipseamore Back when I still spent time reading books, definitely. There's still a lot of knowledge I have from those books. Keep in mind I was reading those book some 20+ years ago, times have changed, and I get everything ...
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Show HN: Vespene – My new Python CI/CD and automation server written in Django - mpdehaan2 http://docs.vespene.io ====== markovbot > Unlike some other CI tools, pipelines in Vespene are easily and graphically > configured, and there is no custom DSL (“Domain Specific Language”) to learn > and debug. Does this mean th...
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Python Performance Tips - dhotson http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips ====== sophacles These tips are ok. Particularly the ones about profiling. I have a few more that I have found over time. First tho, as always a good algorithm improvement can help over any of these. Trick 0 is about that, the ...
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BadgerDB Implemented AES Encryption - mrjn https://blog.dgraph.io/post/encryption-at-rest-dgraph-badger/ ====== sneak > _A user provided AES encryption key, called the master key, is used to > encrypt auto-generated data keys. Data keys are used to encrypt and decrypt > data on disk. Each encrypted data key is stored ...
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Improving CSS text decorations - joxie http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/02/19/improving-css-text-decorations/ ====== bbx It's always hard to get excited by such new 'fancy' CSS features when the examples (espcially the gradient and pattern ones) look like Word Art renderings. But I recall such kinds of post ...
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Show HN: Weekend project: Sticklet: A simple, HTML5 sticky notes application - azylman http://www.sticklet.com ====== prknight would make a nice replacement for what is shown on an empty new tab in Chrome.
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Linux plus CP/M plus assembly equals LASM - erickhill http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/259/linux-plus-cpm-plus-assembly-equals-lasm ====== userbinator A brief discussion on the differences in syntax would've been nice, so we can see exactly how different they are (my guess is, not that much.) Microsoft M80 can be fou...
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Ask HN: Interesting (offline) iPad apps for hackers? - ssamuli Going to travel away for a 2½ weeks soon, and I'm going to take only an iPad with me for my basic computer needs (+ an android phone). But what if I get an itch to hack something? Any suggestions on apps that I can get my daily fix of hacker/geek life wi...
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E-Book Price War Has Yet to Arrive - iProject http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/technology/e-book-price-war-has-yet-to-arrive.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1356382553-nDwmZT11xS/9qZqgGxJmRw ====== johnrgrace The price war will come in 2013. Contracts have only just been put in place under the DOJ settlemen...
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Ask HN: Will software engineer salaries go up, down or stay the same? - ngngngng Recent shakeups at large companies going remote first and the ensuing discussions have me thinking about this. I&#x27;ve mostly heard that &quot;we are paid too much&quot; in my career and this is in a lower cost of living area where we a...
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Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup - RandallBrown http://fredandrandall.com/blog/2012/04/01/why-im-working-for-the-man-and-not-doing-a-startup/ ====== BadassFractal After working for several years in a similar environment to the one the author is in right now, I had the exact opposite experience. Wro...
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The Algorithmic Is Political - lilrhody https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/annette-zimmermann-elena-di-rosa-hochan-kim-technology-cant-fix-algorithmic ====== mtmail Please keep the title as in the article "Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice" unless it's linkbait or misrepresents the content.
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iPhone logs my complete movement profile - ladino http://board.protecus.de/t42771.htm#360301 ====== tsycho That's how the iOS core location API works (and it has been this way since iOS 5 atleast, if not earlier). In particular, there is a |startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges| method ([https://developer.apple.c...
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Show HN: Arima – A Q&A site for mass opinon - winstonl http://arima.io/?utm_source=hacker%20new&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=hn ====== diminish correct the title, "opinon".
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Caddy – The HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS - joshmanders https://caddyserver.com/?hn ====== bketelsen I use caddy for everything I serve on the web now, and have been for roughly a year. It's an amazingly stable server -- fast and easy to configure. The team has continuously updated Caddy, and been extremely r...
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