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Hello ECMA-408, the new official Dart Programming Language Specification … - priteshjain https://plus.google.com/+dartlang/posts/DnCSv8jrXMF ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dart+specification#!/story/forever...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dart+specification#!/story/forever/0/dart%20specification)
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Leaving Ljubljana Vegas: A Retrospective - tomp http://blog.samsandberg.com/2012/10/25/leaving-ljubljana-vegas-a-retrospective/ ====== MattBearman Ljubljana (and Slovenia in general) is an awesome place, it was definitely the one of the highlights of my Summer European motorcycle tour. If you ever find yourself in ...
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Marc Andreessen says Snowden is a traitor - sabelo http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893#_gus ====== tptacek I would not under almost any circumstances, including the revelation that he was working directly with the FSB† when he decided what to leak, use the word "traitor" to describe a national security leaker. In additio...
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Ask HN: Will e-ink laptops be a thing soon, or ever? - Kluny I&#x27;m a writer by night and a programmer by day. I have to stare at bright LCD all day for work because I don&#x27;t have a choice right now, but when I&#x27;m writing, an e-Ink display would be more than enough, and much, much easier on my eyes.<p>My dre...
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Education Inflation, Technological Advancement, and Cognitive Surplus - tedlee http://www.lisazhang.ca/2011/04/education-inflation-technolgoical.html ====== yummyfajitas One possible way to mitigate this problem is a Pigouvian tax on signalling (perhaps compensated for by a reduction in income tax). Signalling is a...
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Python for Ruby Programmers (LA RubyConf 2013) - facebiff https://speakerdeck.com/mleone/python-for-ruby-programmers ====== masklinn To add to other comments, things the author could have expanded upon: * vararg keyword arguments ( __kwargs) * Keyword-only arguments (Python 3) * help, vars, a few other nice intro...
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A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes - lanceweatherby http://blog.weatherby.net/2008/10/a-ceos-sequoia.html ====== jmatt There are bigger things in the global economy than the opinions of Sequoia. This may not be very popular to say here. It is likely companies like Sequoia got burned worse than many other businesses. Mone...
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The state of computer science education in California’s high schools - kalengallagher https://medium.com/p/1953dba5d36b ====== gms7777 First, are statistics about AP Computer Science classes actually reflective of the "state of computer science education"? If they're the only computer science courses being offered, ...
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Ask HN: How would you build a startup to last 100 years? - keiferski According to Wikipedia, most of the oldest businesses in the world seem to be inns or breweries&#x2F;alcohol producers:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F; wiki&#x2F;List_of_oldest_companies<p>If you were starting a company today and wanted ...
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Minima processor - Nokinside http://www.minimaprocessor.com/ ====== justaaron what is it? a licensable core? an interconnect? a risc-v implementation in silicon? the website says nothing about what the actual product/service is... am I being silly? ~~~ Nokinside It's a new processor technology that can be used in d...
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A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs - moneil971 https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-highly-efficient-real-time-text-to-speech-system-deployed-on-cpus/ ====== thelazydogsback Personally, I find I dislike any "emotion" added to TTS -- I find Alexa's emo markup, a la: [https://developer.amazo...
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Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions - prostoalex https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brain-uses-a-not-so-instant-replay-to-make-decisions/ ====== rjf72 Often when I read papers on neuroscience, I find it difficult to dismiss an analogy. It feels much like we're trying to analyze how dif...
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New Genetic Risk Factors Associated with Major Depression Have Been Identified - dpflan https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0090-3 ====== brudgers A preprint, [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/24/167577](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/24/167577)
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Bill Watterson's Speech – Kenyon College, 1990 - tim_sw http://www.serverunderground.com/archive/bill_watterson.html ====== GHFigs I am reminded of one of Taleb's aphorisms: "You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept", and of Glenn Gould's interview with himself: "G.G.: I simply...
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Silk Road: The Untold Story - Libertatea http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/ ====== Nemcue I kind of feel uncomfortable reading this. We fight for our privacy, and for others to not in secret take part of our lives — but then we gobble these kind of articles up; frothing at the mouth for every explici...
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DDecode – Hex,Octal,HTML Decoder - steeples http://ddecode.com/hexdecoder/ ====== whitten Seems to be a useful tool based on a research project, but very little example of what it expects for input. I tried it with some HTML entity notation, and didn't see the letters represented, but was disappointed. Maybe my use...
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Hyperlinking Reality via Camera Phones - simonb http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/research/hyperlinking-reality-via-camera-phones/ ====== onreact-com This is obviously the future.
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The Brain vs the Mind - bennesvig http://bennesvig.com/the-brain-vs-the-mind/ ====== zoba What is talking about are called more technically called second order desires. (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_volition>) From his example he "wants cheese cake" but he "wants to want to focus on his work" and inst...
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Four year old's commit in linux kernel - xg15 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0 ====== jfjfjfkkkfjj Bullshit, Just some parents want to be famous. ~~~ omosubi Way to suck the joy out of a very innocuous change
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Why NULL is Bad? - yegor256a http://www.yegor256.com/2014/05/13/why-null-is-bad.html?2014-19 ====== kazinator It's a blub language issue: (defun get-by-name (name) (let ((id (database-find db name))) ;; return NIL or employee instance (if id (make-instance 'employee id)...
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BlackBerry PlayBook takes the lead to Apple iPad? - mark01 http://www.ihelplounge.com/blackberry-playbook-takes-the-lead-to-apple-ipad/ ====== bbguitar Flawed article. Misleading Headline. How many of those Playbooks were returned after christmas and swapped for a Kindle Fire that actually works? "PlayBook managed...
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A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] - gshrikant https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf ====== mrcactu5 This is how people think of Math class: "Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different ke...
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Epidemiologist: Social Distancing Guarantees Second Wave of Covid-19 - giardini Dr. Knut Wittkowski: &quot;at the Rockefeller University for 20 years, Head of the Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology and Research Design, and before that, I worked for 15 years with Klaus Dietz, one of the leading epidemiologists in...
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Ask YC: euro vs dollar vs export? - Tichy Just read in the German newspaper: german businesses are worried that the high euro will hurt their foreign sales. Now I am wondering, naively trying to understand economics: isn't a high Euro a result of high demands for European goods? In other word, is that another exampl...
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“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.” - chumchum http://florian-michahelles.blogspot.com/2015/04/information-is-not-knowledge-knowledge.html ====== MichaelCrawford Data is not Information.
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How to cause utter chaos on Facebook - thomasdavis https://gist.github.com/968060 ====== program It all began when a user pasted the value of the _jsText_ variable in the address bar. The script create a new _script_ DOM element and append it to _head_ injecting the malicious links (so that there is no more need to ...
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No Code - severine https://vas3k.com/blog/nocode/ ====== kleiba The second sentence ("First, you work all month, and then you give half of the money to those who didn't work.") is already so blatantly wrong and reactionary that I almost have to force myself to read on - after all, if the premise is already flawed what...
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PSA: Apple's $29 iPhone battery replacement program ends soon - Varcht http://zdnet.com/article/psa-apples-29-iphone-battery-replacement-program-ends-soon/ ====== herogreen PSA = public service announcement ? ~~~ tqkxzugoaupvwqr Correct. ------ dzhiurgis Mine broke camera, good luck proving that to Apple.
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Two Charts For Anyone Who Thinks Skipping College Is A Good Idea - maigret http://www.businessinsider.com/pay-gap-high-school-and-college-graduates-2011-6 ====== mgl The conclusion is completely wrong. If you have a potential to go to college but you consciously decide to skip it/drop out, that's somehow different f...
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Smart scale goes dumb as Under Armour pulls the plug on connected tech - close04 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/smart-scale-goes-dumb-as-under-armour-pulls-the-plug-on-connected-tech/ ====== _Microft Only half a week ago we had a thread that _Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kill...
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Quikly Jump to Your Favorite Directories with HyperJump Shell Script - x0054 http://sdbr.net/post/HyperJump/ ====== cpbotha Similar to the tool written about here, FASD is also awesome! [https://github.com/clvv/fasd](https://github.com/clvv/fasd) It remembers where you go and which files you open. These days I just...
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Ask HN: How can people use N95 masks effectively? - quietthrow We can’t rely on CDC at this time given they are still trying to get their act together along with the fed govt. Their advice is often conflicting and&#x2F;or confusing. Eg: ordinary people should not use n95 masks. But medical professionals should. I und...
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Show HN: My startup for book collectors - pmtarantino http://www.shelfproud.com ====== semanticist This seems to be an online/social version of Delicious Library. We have just under a thousand books in our library - and the only reason they're in Delicious Library is the barcode scanning feature, which makes adding ...
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Trump’s Tough Talk on NAFTA Suggests Pact’s Demise Is Imminent - TuringNYC https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/business/economy/nafta-trump.html ====== igravious Whoops. Somebody should tell the Brits. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/britain-could- joi...](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/britain...
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Security At Coinbase - barmstrong https://coinbase.com/security ====== tedivm I'm honestly not that impressed by this. They're basically picking some basic types of exploits and are claiming to guard against those, which is nice and all but it seems like they're targeting the buzzword issues and aren't talking about a...
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Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa” - herohamp https://hamptonmoore.com/posts/weird-wifi-name-display/ ====== mitchs Fun story about one of the devices mentioned there that I worked on. We used to store the saved wifi creds in a file named exactly what the SSID was. Some user manag...
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The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos - llambda http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_concept_videos ====== rjd I've worked for a few companies over the years, and there is a type of manager I run into a lot. I can summarize them by a statement they make "Just get it done." The t...
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How You Know - _pius http://paulgraham.com/know.html ====== nilkn There's also a danger associated to this phenomenon. If the source of your mental model is later debunked, you may not realize that you need to revise your model precisely because you don't remember what your source was. You may even read about the debu...
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Makeitopen.com – new Open Source learning site from Facebook - mjohnston4 http://makeitopen.com/ ====== thrusong Does anyone know why Facebook never followed through with open sourcing Haystack, the photo storage tool which I believe is now powering inbox attachments as well? ~~~ captn3m0 Had never heard of Haystack ...
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We Know Exactly Who Strong Arms a Free Press - MediumCool https://medium.com/@davepell/we-know-exactly-who-strong-arms-the-free-press-1c8d1d4bbe39 ====== MrZongle2 TL;DR: Trump == Hitler. Edit: don't downvote, _debate_. How is this article not a dog-whistle about Trump being a democracy-destroying authoritarian?
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Apple LZFSE open source reference implementation - dcohenp https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse ====== mtanski A more direct comparison would be with zstd. zstd started zhuff which was the lz4 authors work of putting lz4 & FSE together. [https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd](https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd)
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A Photographer Rediscovers The Crumbling Remains Of Tatooine - c_schmitt http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672518/a-photographer-rediscovers-the-crumbling-remains-of-tatooine#1 ====== jgrahamc Most of these locations in Tunisia are very easy to find. You ask a tour guide and they will take you there in a 4x4. When you ge...
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Tips for Succeeding in a CS. PhD - Nalta https://sybrandt.com/posts/2020_03_30_tips_phd_cs/ ====== johntiger1 Very insightful article! I like how you retrospectively analyze advice you were given. Maybe I will do a meta retrospective analysis in a few years :)
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Signed distance field raymarching. Procedural elephants - rinesh https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dKGWm ====== strangecasts If you're interested in graphics programming, Íñigo's articles are absolutely worth reading: [http://www.iquilezles.org/www/](http://www.iquilezles.org/www/)
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Hands on with Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC - jszumski http://johnszumski.com/blog/hands-on-with-apple-pay-competitor-currentc ====== jimkri I really don't understand what the companies involved with MCX are thinking. They build an app that is going in the opposite direction of where the market is heading and limit th...
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Habits of Mathematical Minds - phreeza http://mathteacherorstudent.blogspot.com/2010/09/habits-of-mind.html ====== stonemetal >>I've decided not to use the term "problem solving" because I believe this term is often misused to include solving problems Best line of the whole article.
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Show HN: Debbit – Automate spending requirements for high-yield bank accounts - jakehilborn https://github.com/jakehilborn/debbit ====== jakehilborn Extremely low interest rates have cut high-yield savings account interest rates from over 2% to ~1%. Most folks would be better off with a high-yield checking account, wh...
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Paradoxes of Material Implication (1997) - olooney https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/mat-imp.htm ====== tr352 Let me copy/paste my reply from the same discussion yesterday ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650)): There's another "solution" to this ...
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Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor - yurylifshits http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lockheed-martins-new-fusion-reactor-design-can-change-h-1646578094 ====== zimpenfish Isn't it fairly standard for anyone having a new idea about fusion to claim they'll have a working model "in 10 years" once they've ironed out the "few sm...
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application - jasonswett http://www.angularonrails.com/ruby-on-rails-angularjs-single-page-application/ ====== ewoutkleinsmann We (10KB) have built our own CMS combining Rails and AngularJS. Our main goal for our CMS was to turn every website made with it i...
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AboutUs Secures $5 Million in Funding - qhoxie http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/aboutus_wiki_five_million_series_a.php ====== Dilpil What? The economy is not completely dead? Potentially profitable ventures are getting funded? Blasphemy! We are in a HORRIBLE DEPRESSION which will end the age of American dominance,...
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The JavaScript Packaging Problem - cbhl http://jamie-wong.com/2014/11/29/the-js-packaging-problem/ ====== edwinnathaniel GWT solves some of these issues via Code Splitting: [http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodeSplitting.h...](http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodeSplitting.html) Step 1: GWT...
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Zurmo, an Open Source CRM - grobmeier http://www.grobmeier.de/zurmo-open-source-crm-03012013.html ====== raysto Great article
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Laid Off ISO vs. NSO Options - takklz Hey all,<p>I was recently laid off from DataRobot. Womp womp.<p>Anyways, they gave me the option to extend all my ISOs excercise date for a year, but to do so they will be converted into NSOs.<p>Is the tax benefit really worth that much more that I should exercise them now? Coul...
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Don't Stay Hungry - chrisyeh http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2014/01/dont-stay-hungry.html ====== utkarsh_apoorva I think you have misunderstood the 'Stay Hungry' part. It doesn't mean 'Don't Eat'. It means don't get satisfied with success and keep striving for more. There, now I can go have my food with a clean consci...
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Ask HN: Would it cost less for a large scale company to use mainframes? - techdominator Very large scale companies, such as Google and Amazon for example, relies on hardware servers infrastructure to support the running of their services.<p>It is in my understanding that these companies use x86 and ARM based rack-moun...
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Ask HN: Hacker News wants to know your location” - MattyMc So... what&#x27;s up with that? Has HackerNews always had location popups, or is this new?<p>And if new... why? ====== rubbingalcohol I haven't seen this. What browser?
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Show HN: Cloning the Voices of Alan Rickman, Carl Sagan and Robin Williams - voiceclonr http://www.voiceclonr.com ====== FatalLogic It sounds terrible and inhuman, but there is definitely some similarity to the target voices. It's much easier to detect the similarity when you compare the different voices to each oth...
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Vue.js vs. React: Which JavaScript Framework to Choose for Your Project - eugeniyakorotya https://da-14.com/blog/vuejs-vs-react-which-javascript-framework-choose-your-project ====== onion2k _Vue.js has also displayed an ability to handle higher frame-rates (10 frames per second as compared to 1 frame per second typica...
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Is Virtualization Worth It? - gaius http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/is-virtualization-worth-it/ ====== gaius Interested in anyone's thoughts on this...
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Zombie Chaser: A graphical interface for mutation testing - chrislloyd http://andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/zombie-chaser-its-alive/ ====== woid Plus bonus points for new Thriller version. Next time do also some dancing please :-) ~~~ weilawei Definitely, the accompaniment was a great idea. Also, who _doesn...
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BMW, VW, Ford, Daimler team up for electric vehicle charging network in Europe - laktak http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/11/bmw-vw-ford-daimler-team-up-for-electric-vehicle-charging-network-in-europe/ ====== mtgx Before even reading the article I was about to say that I hope they chose the 350 kW charging standard. If...
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The state of SIEM: How to rock security ops in the age of DevOps - whichwaytogo https://tracking.feedpress.it/link/16145/6935183 ====== mtmail When submitting use direct URLs, not tracking URLs or URL shorteners. Those will be blacklisted on Hackernews.
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Algolia raises $110M Series C - vvoyer https://blog.algolia.com/algolia-series-c-2019-funding?2 ====== redox_ Congrats Algolia! ~~~ papa_ogre GG \o/ ------ Julie90210 Boooom
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Ask HN: How to handle sales tax for SaaS side projects? - billconan I just realized how complex sales tax is. It seems to be a huge overhead for small projects. How can I handle it with ease? ====== billconan I asked this also on Reddit, and got this really nice answer: Pasting it here hoping it will help others too ...
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Startups Spend with Abandon, Flush with Capital - gdilla http://online.wsj.com/articles/startups-spend-with-abandon-flush-with-capital-1412549853 ====== ChuckMcM I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it is impossible to tell how someone will react so a sudden change in their financial status, prior to that chang...
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The Skills Poor Programmers Lack - geekrax https://gist.github.com/justinmeiners/be4540f515986d93ee12ac2f1980631a ====== chmaynard The first example is interesting. Suppose we have a smart compiler that emits the same machine language code in both cases. Which version is better? Perhaps the first, which is more verbos...
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Process Partitioning in Distributed Systems - craigkerstiens http://www.miyagijournal.com/articles/8-process-partitioning-in-distributed-systems ====== jpitz "Using queues also exposes you to the noisy-neighbor syndrome. If you have 25 jobs on the queue, all consisting of the same resource-intensive work, your queue c...
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Ask HN: Best free online collaboration tool for a startup? - havoc2005 What is everyone's preferred online collaboration tool for their startup? I know basecamp is popular but we are looking to save as much as possible because we are just getting our team together. ====== kiriappeee I'm surprised that no one replied...
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Show HN: Tinytracks – Makes Parenting Easier - george_dee https://www.tinytracksapp.com ====== george_dee Hey HN! George here. I've been working on an app (over the last couple of years) called Tinytracks which aims to make parenting easier. Tinytracks is a baby tracker app which allows parents to track their child’...
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Improve your REPLs with rlwrap - telemachos http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2013/01/20/rlwrap.html ====== larsberg This program is exactly what we usually recommend for people who aren't using SML/NJ inside of an Emacs inferior window (which is far and away the most common usage mode for experienced SML/NJ programmers - all...
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Global Unicorns ($250mm+ valued startups) - salar https://global-unicorns.silk.co/ ====== ddorian43 at least put a website link so we can know what they do
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Thats Why No-One Will Remember Your Name - spoiledtechie http://www.spoiledtechie.com/post/Thats-Why-No-One-Will-Remember-Your-Name.aspx ====== Allocator2008 History remembers the risk takers more or less. Even if you fail, lose, are dead wrong, etc., if you have dared or risked greatly you will be remembered for th...
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Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness - mutor http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/285149/Epic_Games_chief_pays_15M_to_protect_7000_acres_of_North_Carolina_wilderness.php ====== M_Grey This is the kind of action that can have long-term positive impacts. Maybe it won't change the ...
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A hand gesture could be your next password - johnshades https://www.fastcompany.com/90214588/a-hand-gesture-could-be-your-next-password ====== Ezhik Can't wait to shoot Revolver Ocelot's finger guns to sign in.
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Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm - danso https://www.ft.com/content/faccc538-56f9-11e8-bdb7-f6677d2e1ce8 ====== psetq Somewhat off topic, but If you're interested in the history of modern computing and not already familiar with the Xerox PARC [0] story, you should know that Xerox has a fascinating history of com...
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G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative - wx196 https://github.com/dtschump/gmic ====== patdavid It should be noted that the project CIMG/GMIC is _not_ built and billed as an IM alternative. It's an image processing framework that happens to have similar utility to IM for some folks and that is also available as ...
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Slides: Responsive web design from the future - bergie http://speakerdeck.com/u/kneath/p/responsive-web-design-from-the-future ====== kneath For the curious, here's a few extra links from this talk: <http://warpspire.com/talks/responsive/> Hope you enjoy! ------ jasonwatkinspdx I'm glad that designers are starting...
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Ask HN: What would be negative implications of HIV becoming a curable disease? - twidlit Would be interesting to explore how society will change and be affected since HIV is mostly tied to homosexuals. ====== carbocation Nothing that has been discussed on HN lately will, likely, lead to an HIV cure. HIV is notorious...
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Understanding Quaternions - njn https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/ ====== amai Sorry to spoil the party, but this is the old 19th century way of teaching quaternions (and also complex numbers). It is much easier to start with some [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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The One Way XML Beats JSON - impostervt https://medium.com/@john.titus/the-one-way-xml-beats-json-8613b9484463#.idj810skw ====== PaulHoule There are a lot of ways to add metadata to JSON or otherwise enrich it with XML-like capabilities. My favorite personally is JSON-LD [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD](https:...
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Show HN: Django-Chartit a Django app for plotting charts effortlessly - pgollakota http://chartit.shutupandship.com ====== pgollakota I created this Django app for making it really easy to create charts directly from database (Django models). This is my first django project and would really appreciate any feedback f...
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The Programmable Government - larrywright http://larrywright.me/blog/articles/213-towards-a-more-open-government ====== hendler Love this title - although the "APIs" are query only. But a '''programmable government''', run by optimization algorithms? I like this - as long as it's open source. No politicians, just g...
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Google pledges $2 million in prizes to hackers who exploit Chrome - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/google-pledges-million-in-hacking-prizes/ ====== DanielRibeiro Limiting Daniel J. Bernstein to _the creator of djbdns_ is quite an understatement. He is a very important cryptographer, to say the least[1]...
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How To Write fanfiction: 10 ficwriting rules - pavelegorkin https://readandwrite.today/essay/10-ficwriting-rules.html ====== billyjobob This article is full of grammatical mistakes. I know usually we should focus on the content and not the presentation but it’s difficult to take seriously advice on writing from someon...
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HP's New Strategy and Firesale Fiasco - jameshicks http://www.thetechscoop.net/2011/08/21/hp-new-strategy-and-firesale-fiasco/#more-23527 ====== ddw Saturday morning I drove to some stores looking for one. At Staples they said that they weren't selling them and that corporate told them to return them. Waited outside ...
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Google Visualization API & R - john_horton http://r-ecology.blogspot.com/2011/01/r-and-google-visualization-api.html ====== instakill This is brilliant, thanks for the link. Busy wrapping my brain around R and knowing that you can export R graphics into interactive charts makes for interesting learning. ~~~ john_ho...
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How we built Dojo Learning - Planning and designing new features - lux http://www.dojolearning.com/siteblog-post-action/id.36/title.how-we-built-dojo-learning-part-5 ====== lux This is the fifth part of a six-part blog post I wrote talking about how we built our startup, Dojo Learning, from my perspective as co-foun...
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The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time - happy-go-lucky https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-busier-you-are-the-more-you-need-quiet-time?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits ====== 11thEarlOfMar > "the disadvantages of noise and distraction associated with open office > plans outweighed anticipa...
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Google Signs Deal to Buy Manhattan Office Building - siculars http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/nyregion/03building.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print ====== siculars Real-estate postering aside, this deal does not "a rebounding real estate market..." It is no coincidence that Google's East Coast offices are located in this...
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How to build a JavaScript package manager - cpojer https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/07/11/lets-dev-a-package-manager/ ====== zodiac It was making a lot of sense until the part about recursive dependencies. To my mind, once this happens it becomes a dependency graph instead of a tree, and instead of trying to satisfy depe...
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FreeBSD Bhyve WiFi PCI Passthrough - dddddaviddddd https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-bhyve-wifi-pci-passthrough ====== Seenso That's interesting, but wouldn't it make more sense to have a compatibility system that would allow Linux drivers to be used? Apparently there's one for Windows drivers: [https://www.fr...
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New Facebook rollout commences - sanj http://blog.new.facebook.com/blog.php?post=30074837130 ====== furiouslol I guess I'm one of the crazy guys out there who prefer the old design. The nice Newsfeed aside, i find the redesign unintuitive.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh):Hydrazine - rolph https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0329.html ====== chupa-chups Interesting, but way more information is found on wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine)
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Fordlandia - codyjames https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/ ====== nimbius Ah the paragon of american assembly line manufacturing, Henry Ford. As a millennial its taken me a while to get the real dirt on the guy, as in america highschools extol only his virtue. Did you know Ford had his own secret polic...
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Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/media/08digi.html ====== ars Such a strange article considering that nearly all of the web is text. The vast majority of internet time is spent reading. ~~~ gojomo _vast majority of internet time is spent reading_ Und...
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Ask HN: When will apple update their native apps? - davidmspi ====== pdenya Native apps receive updates during OS upgrades.
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Why You Should Ignore Every Founder’s Story About How They Started Their Company - howitworks https://medium.com/@trevmckendrick/what-reed-hastings-sam-walton-can-teach-you-about-how-to-start-a-company-d38cfe0eafce ====== randomerr Best line: The lesson is that there will be mistakes and problems on any path to succes...
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Computing Shortest Path in O(1) time - bjt2n3904 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLeWBswGgOE ====== meursault334 Is this actually O(1)? Because the electricity has to to travel the shortest path it seems like it is at best O(shortest path length). The constant factor is of course very small. ------ 8note if you have...
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A Stanford-born company is equipping India’s youth for well-paid tech jobs - happy-go-lucky https://qz.com/1061133/no-university-needed-udacity-a-stanford-born-company-is-equipping-indias-youth-for-well-paid-tech-jobs/ ====== happy-go-lucky Looks like sponsored content :$
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