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Show HN: TweetFull – an automated Twitter marketing and branding tool - dinwal http://tweetfull.com ====== seanrrwilkins Just put in a test, will check back with comments in a few days. ------ dinwal Would love to hear if you guys have a feature request.
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US Supreme Court Will Hear Case Re: Standards for Software Patent Eligibility - jakewalker http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alice-corporation-pty-ltd-v-cls-bank-international/ ====== leeoniya can you imagine if every RFC had been turned into a patent where we would be today? i think this alone should be t...
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Node OS - dhruvarora013 http://node-os.com/ ====== Havvy The main benefit they're giving is that you can use `npm` instead of `yum` or `aur` or whatever the package manager you use is. IMO, you're better off using Nix if you are tired of your package manager. ------ mrmondo That is disgusting, it's not even native (n...
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Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers - lifebeyondfife http://www.lifebeyondfife.com/82-f-sharp.html With the continuing popularity of functional programming, it doesn't look like it's ever going away. Here's is an introduction to functional programming in F# written with the object oriented (C#) pro...
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Ask HN: SMS vs Push Message? - chintan39 Which one is a better feature for a birthday reminder service for http://www.birthde.com? ====== mdewinter Not everybody has a smartphone, your target might be more than just techies, so an SMS would be good. Also, choice. Give people the option to choose an email, ...
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Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties - jamesbritt http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/pandora-and-spotify-rake-in-the-money-and-then-send-it-off-in-royalties/?ref=television&gwh=0E551F7612AEE5E7D138ABC9DBFC8F3F ====== pvnick As someone who was entrenched in the music sta...
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Danish Researchers: A Better Way to Line Up Than 'First Come, First Served' - ColinWright http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/lines-efficient-first-come-served/404218/?single_page=true ====== everyone It sounds to me like the researchers trials were ignoring the reason queues exist. You dont _choose_ t...
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Mat Dan: 'I became an accidental celebrity 6,000 miles from home' - amaccuish https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49466721 ====== propter_hoc See also the case of "Da Shan" [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashan), who is supposedly the most famous Canadian in the world by din...
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How A Reddit User’s Post Made Him A Hollywood Screenwriter - cpeterso http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/storyboard-how-a-reddit-users-post-made-him-a-hollywood-screenwriter/ ====== noonespecial I'm just thrilled we might get a movie without a "2" in the name or a "reboot" in the description out of the deal.
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The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale - GuiA https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2015/02/04/the-realities-of-installing-ibeacon-to-scale/ ====== verelo Personally my experiences with iBeacons have been horrible. For an app of any real scale, you want to control your own messaging, but most of t...
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Ask HN: Concurrency in Go vs. C/C++ - Ch3ck I know in C++ multithreaded programs share memory as to way to track resource access. However in Go this is done through channels. I'm trying to explore some subtle differences writing concurrent Go code the C/C++ way. My aim to find some bad practices in the proce...
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Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot - schachtecode https://github.com/Schachte/Git-Enforcer ====== dreyfiz I do like the idea overall. So, let me tell you why I instantly hated it and closed the tab. Your Show HN headline did a great job, I was excited to see what a github repo quality bot does! This is ...
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A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days - pera http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/13154/this-mysterious-military-spy-plane-has-been-flying-circles-over-seattle-for-days ====== coin > Nobody at the DoD seems to know who the aircraft belongs to or what exactly > it is doing flying...
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Ask HN: Remember if a user has completed a first-use feature tour? - aen Example: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebizroi.com&#x2F;Portals&#x2F;176237&#x2F;images&#x2F;new-facebook-share-message.jpg<p>By cookie? But he&#x27;ll be prompted to do it again when he logs in from another device. Database? Overkill? What&#x27;s a goo...
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Google BigQuery API: Interactively analyze large datasets - yarapavan https://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/ ====== dougb I applied for access to this months ago and I'm still waiting. Has anyone received access to this ? Can you comment on your experience with it ? I'm interested in how much data you were able to...
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Invalid SSL certificate for www.php.net, belonging to cu.be - ai_ja_nai https://www.php.net/ ====== ai_ja_nai they fixed that ------ ai_ja_nai Notice that this doesn't happen when heading to [https://php.net](https://php.net), only for [https://www.php.net](https://www.php.net). Bad vhost?
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Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets - dberhane http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41915065 ====== colemannugent My summary of the article: An algorithm designed by Google engineers to promote upcoming stories does exactly what it was supposed to do, and people who don't understand why Google employees did not m...
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Affordable Care Act – Journal Paper by Pres. Obama - krapht http://ja.ma/29xgcBR ====== baisong Is it unique for a sitting president to publish a journal article?
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New Y Combinator startup: overhear.us - nostrademons http://overhear.us/ ====== myoung8 Is anyone else kind of dissapointed to hear that after what seems like a grueling application process (I didn't apply) this is the best YC can come up with? Maybe there aren't that many areas on the web that are still ripe for inn...
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Ordinary Income vs Capital Gains - cwan http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/05/ordinary-income-vs-capital-gains.html ====== spenrose The thrust of this post is wrong; while I'm looking for a good breakdown of tax burden by quintile I'll just observe: "We live in NYC and according to our accountants, we pay a marginal ful...
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React Demystified (by HN's haberman) - swah http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/react-demystified.html ====== swah _" How does introducing an extra layer make things faster? Doesn't that imply that the browsers have sub-optimal DOM implementations, if adding a layer on top of them can speed them up?"_ A great littl...
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Adventures in Sourcing and Building an ErgoDox - mafuyu http://edwardsh.in/ergodox/2014/12/29/adventures-in-sourcing-and-building-an-ergodox/ ====== thechut Interesting that you went it alone. I bought mine on mass drop and it cost me around $275 when all was said and done. I did get the full hand with metal tops th...
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A list of facts about Google - tedsanders https://www.tedsanders.com/on-google/ ====== tedsanders Another fun fact about Google: both Google and Domino’s IPOed in 2004. Since then Domino’s stock has done better. [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/25/dom...](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.co...
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Tim Cook is stepping down. Apple is looking for a new CEO in Barcelona (Spain) - soci http://www.jobsbcn.com/offers/apple-ceo-english-ios-mac-osx-d14801?result=0 ====== xae Although he definitely shouldn't be stepping down from his position he absolutely needs to come to Barcelona and open a development center in the ...
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Company claims to "track exactly who is visiting your website" - replics https://www.relead.com/ ====== tzaman Hopefully I'm not the only one feeling uncomfortable with this. I mean it's okay for advertisers to know some info about me - but _everything_? ~~~ rcush It looks as though this site is not able to track i...
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Short, Readable Deep Learning Implementation - jeremynixon https://github.com/JeremyNixon/oracle/blob/master/convolutional_neural_network.py ====== p1esk Where is max poooling layer?
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Get Well, Om (Om Malik suffers a heart attack) - nickb http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/03/get-well-om/ ====== Tichy And stop smoking...
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Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By - edw519 http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108903/rules-that-warren-buffett-lives-by ====== byrneseyeview _"Rule No. 1: Never Lose Money. Rule No. 2: Never Forget Rule No. 1."_ I wish he'd state this more clearly. It's not "Don't invest in anything that fluctuates...
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Portsmouth regulators vote to eliminate taxi regulations in response to Uber - sighsighsigh http://m.seacoastonline.com/article/20150121/NEWS/150129793 ====== greggyb A few key things: It seems like the cab companies are not happy about this move by the commission. Second, this portion of the proposal: > Replace t...
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Apple Watch Edition - jkestner http://www.newsweek.com/how-lose-friends-and-alienate-people-apple-watch-edition-331213 ====== cjoh I just don't buy this "Wearing the Apple Watch makes you a Pretentious Douchebag" argument. I bought it with Google Glass because it was ugly and ...
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Machine Reading at Web Scale - njrc http://videolectures.net/wsdm08_etzioni_mrws/ ====== shotgun Interesting lecture.
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Ask HN: Is there an E2E encrypted team chat like Slack? - Lxr I am wondering what security-minded folk use for team chat. In particular, I don&#x27;t like the idea of storing plaintext commercially sensitive messages on external servers.<p>I&#x27;d think this is a common requirement for most serious companies - what d...
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The Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin” - jstoiko http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin ====== Lazare Regardless of whether Craig Wright is Nakamoto, there's an interesting story here, and I'm looking forward to it coming out. Someone has spent ...
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Painless Merge Conflict Resolution in Git - aeontech http://blog.wuwon.id.au/2010/09/painless-merge-conflict-resolution-in.html ====== aeontech I spent an hour this morning trying to find this link again, because I was convinced I read it on HN yesterday. Turns out I didn't read it on HN, so here it is. I found thi...
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Google Video Quality Report - bradly http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport ====== nysv So, what does it show? I only get "Results from your location are not yet available." ~~~ jchulce It's only available in Canada right now
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New frontiers in text editing - gandalfgeek http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/31970017734/new-frontiers-in-text-editing ====== gexla Same way I feel. What does it matter what your text edit looks like? It's just text. Text editing is solved for the keyboard. If you want to create something new, then do it for the tou...
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Speaking JavaScript - rauschma http://speakingjs.com/es5/ ====== eddd I hate books with contents like: Variables and Assignment Values, Booleans, Numbers, Operators, Strings,Statements, Functios, Exception Handling, Strict Mode, Variable Scoping and losures, Objects and Constructors, Arrays etc... there are milions bo...
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The Demise of Chrysler - sown http://www.newsweek.com/id/166659/page/2 ====== sown And I meant to post this: <http://www.newsweek.com/id/166659> ------ sown Sometimes I wonder if this will ever happen to silicon valley. The tone of the article is very ... final.
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UK Parliament publishes 250+ pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents - burtonator http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-05/seized-facebook-internal-emails-published-by-u-k-lawmakers ====== mtmail discussed in [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608658](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608658...
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StackExchange site for Freelance Developers - needs your votes - tomsaffell http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/11624/freelance-developers ====== kylec It now has enough followers, but it still needs 5 "on topic" and 5 "off topic" questions. A question is considered "on" or "off topic" when it reaches 20 of th...
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Is anyone using Google Drive? What's the take? - webwanderings It seems the buzz over Google Drive have disappeared. What is the take on it over Dropbox? I have yet to install the client to check what its all about. ====== sidcool I am actively using Google Drive and I like it so far. It's faster than Dropbox. The o...
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Show HN: Browsergram, a one hour Chrome extension that Instagrams everything. - hazelcough https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/browsergram/nfimhjenbdbaofikdffcinpepgpmcmcb ====== jeffehobbs Haters gonna do the thing that haters are naturally best at.
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Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome - jasonlbaptiste http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/google-turns-internet-explorer-into-chrome-yes-seriously/ ====== scotty79 I think someone should write internet worm that upgrades IE on the computers it infects, spreads for after a while then clo...
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Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, and Jews - ojbyrne http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/human_nature/2012/09/mohammed_movie_embassy_attacks_don_t_let_internet_videos_drive_you_to_violence_.html ====== Zenst Given religion has had a history of insulting non-religious people I can't help feel that some do...
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Card Shark - far33d http://www.foundread.com/view/card-shark ====== jamesbritt "My 27th birthday is right around the corner, so while I'm still young, that youthful feeling is fleeting." Only if you let it be that way. ------ aston Matt Maroon is a new entrant on my cool people list.
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Show HN: Emoji Image URL Generator - miyuru https://tools.beeimg.com/emoji/ ====== brudgers Is there a story behind the project? ~~~ miyuru when I had the idea for this project, I searched and found most of the emoji libraries had hosted on github, with their file names in written codepoint. so I wanted to just put t...
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HappyEdit: A Vim-inspired, modern, open source text editor - pkkm http://happyedit.se/ ====== jlgreco I am wondering in what way a "modern vim" isn't "vim". GVim exists, and plugin management is a problem frankly solved years ago. I also wonder how he is going to support modern features that Vim currently has with ...
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MongoDB 3.2: Now powered by Postgres - buffyoda https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-32-now-powered-postgresql-john-de-goes ====== preinheimer tl;dr: There's a new "BI Connector" which will allow you to connect your business intelligence tools to MongoDB using the Postgres wire protocol (which many speak). This is s...
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Largest quantum computer yet: 14 qubits - SoftwarePatent http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-quantum-bits-physicists-limits.html ====== michael_nielsen I once asked one of the leading quantum computing experimentalists how many qubits he could completely control in the lab. He immediately and emphatically replied "n...
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Google Voice gaining users? First invites. - proexploit I've been using Google Voice for a long time and never had any invites to give to other users but as of today they've added a few to my page. I remember Gmail starting up this way. Is it just me or are more people experiencing this? ====== raimondious I have 3 ...
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How the Apple Watch Ejects Water in Slow Mo - vladoh https://youtu.be/EIEwy8rPik4 ====== OtterGauze I have reservations about Apple, but ill never deny that their product engineering for both the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch continue to impress me. Now if only they could get engineering like this into the Macbook lin...
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A Generational War Is Brewing over Coronavirus - bookofjoe https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-generational-war-is-brewing-over-coronavirus-11584437401 ====== bookofjoe [https://archive.is/oHewA](https://archive.is/oHewA)
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Modeling wine preferences by data mining from physicochemical properties [pdf] - martian http://www3.dsi.uminho.pt/pcortez/winequality09.pdf ====== Alex3917 This would be a great startup. It would be amazing if I could walk into a restaurant with an app that told the somelier that I not only prefer my vinho verdes w...
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Why fundraising is a terrible experience for founders: Lessons learned - jenthoven https://www.kapwing.com/blog/the-terrible-truths-of-fundraising/ ====== paulddraper > _Blatant unfairness:_ VCs rely on their network for meeting, evaluating, and > closing deals with entrepreneurs. Founders need “warm intros” to the > ...
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Ask HN/YC: Please suggest me some good books I can gift a 8 year kid - known ====== tjr I was about 8 when I saw my mom's copy of this: [https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer- Inter...](https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer- Intergalactic-ebook/dp/B01AYWADB4/) It was years before I s...
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WakeMate Warns Users Of Major Safety Issue - wensing http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/31/wakemate-usb-fire ====== invisible "...isn’t specific about what the exact problem is..." I would presume it saying "the power brick is defective" is a really, really good specification about what the exact problem is with regard ...
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A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute - lsr7 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?hpw ====== pessimist “The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that’s ridiculous.” In my experience this may be empiri...
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Twitter’s stock hits record low as takeover rumors heat up - nordic_nomad http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/03/twitters-stock-hits-record-low-as-takeover-rumors-heat-up/ ====== dimbirol >[...] Twitter is the acquisition target of two separate companies, possibly Google and Facebook. What's Google going to do with Twit...
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A Possible Signal from Dark Matter? - saticmotion http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/su201432 ====== saticmotion Research paper: [http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2301](http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2301)
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Measuring UX with Google HEART Framework - tigranhakobian https://uxplanet.org/how-to-effectively-measure-ux-with-google-heart-framework-4a497631d224 ====== unabst There is this disturbing trend of mixing the service/product and the interface and calling it "the experience". This is good for marketing maybe (of UX des...
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Google Hangout Alternative that i built in last 30 days :) - rajanchandi http://telech.at ====== eslachance Some semi-constructive criticism: \- Try to get a video up, or at least a couple of actual screenshots (and not an obviously fake/photoshopped one), so we know a little more about how it looks and reacts. \-...
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Ask HN: Business models for single dev OSS - chuhnk Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;ve been working on an OSS project called Micro (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;micro&#x2F;micro) for over a year now which has seen production use by a number of companies. I was fortunate enough to get an enterprise company to sponsor the OSS dev...
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Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl - Tsiolkovsky http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2070 ====== jilebedev Programming started for me as "hey, check out what I can do with BASIC" and turned into "now defend your algorithm using the O(n) notation." There was never any time to play with the things I had learned, to fall in...
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GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source - thefilmore https://akr.am/blog/posts/gitlab-isnt-really-open-source ====== amingilani There's honestly nothing new here. GitLab calls itself open core because only the Community Edition (CE) is open-source and the Enterprise Edition is source-available. Anyone, after five minutes of ...
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John Perry Barlow has died - schoen https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018 ====== viksit My JPB Story (from ~1998): I grew up in New Delhi in the late 90s on a steady diet of 2600, phrack, BBSes and the EFF/internet. Two of the people I'd read a lot about and was very inspi...
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Ask HN: How a C/C++ dev. can learn Javascript? - joseflavio I am a experience developer in C, C++, Java, etc. Does any one know a good book to learn Javascript? My concerns are not the language syntax or how to do OO, but more how to properly develop: How to pack your application and deliver, best approach to organi...
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Ask HN: Internship ended early, two more months until school. Work available? - FinishedIntern My summer internship in San Francisco ended early and I still have two more months until school starts (University of Washington). I plan on working on my own projects while I&#x27;m still here, but would rather meet some ...
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Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless for Pixel 4 facial recognition - SREinSF https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-targeted-homeless-people-for-pixel-4-facial-recognition ====== Doxin Seems like google is trying to do a good thing in a bad way. They are trying to get the...
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China's air pollution is causing at least 1 MILLION premature deaths a Year - gamechangr http://qz.com/69852/chinas-air-pollution-is-causing-premature-deaths-and-an-expat-exodus/ ====== anigbrowl Fix your headline. It's causing deaths, not killing them. ~~~ gamechangr Good catch! at first I thought I would go with...
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VersaPay Development Flow - christianbryant http://www.versapay.com/developer-blog/versapay-development-flow/ ====== christianbryant I appreciated this article for, while simple, it helped me solidify my own project "development" flow. I had already decided on a CI application, and after a recent interview, found th...
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Show HN: WP Pluginator – A WordPress Plugin Development tool - outsourceappz Hello All,<p>We&#x27;ve created a WordPress Plugin Development tool called as &#x27;WP Pluginator&#x27; which makes its super easy to create WordPress Plugins. It integrates quite a bit of functionality right off the bat. Here is the link - h...
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Bitcoin in America - _pius https://medium.com/@joyce/bitcoin-in-america-120ad2a2dd32 ====== 01Michael10 Here is my thoughts about this post while I patiently wait for my dogecoin from Joyce... It's understood a lot of poor people are not part of the banking financial system but I don't think it's just because they ar...
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Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg's Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website? - rkudeshi http://gizmodo.com/5993535 ====== fatjokes What's embarrassing about it? It's a 15-year-old's website and it looks cleaner than most of the web from that era. Plus, at least he didn't mention his Asian fetish on this one (unlike...
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Goldman downgrades Microsoft, blames iPad - lotusleaf1987 http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/04/goldman-downgrades-microsoft-blames-ipad/ ====== Groxx 145 words[1] of blogspam. Article it links to: [http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/goldman_downgrades_...](http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/goldman_downgrades_...
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Court limits liability for using tainted code (innocent customer absolved) - grellas http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202457477366&Intel_Off_Hook_for_Buying_Tainted_Software ====== JabavuAdams Judge: "Seldom have so many trees died for so little." ------ ableal I was going to ask for your (grellas) opinion on...
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Show HN: Popular Web technologies tracked on Twitter in realtime - varunsaini http://popularwebtech.herokuapp.com/ ====== varunsaini I created this project to learn Javascript and Node.js. This is a very basic implementation and I am tracking hashcodes only in lowercase form (#javascript, #css etc). Also lot of peop...
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused - gyger https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1210662988828442624 ====== reeddavid What a total waste. Apparel companies are starting to participate in the secondary market for their used gear, why can't Sonos do something similar? Example...
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How Python implements super long integers? – Python Internals - arpitbbhayani https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/super-long-integers ====== unmdplyr The right way to make that comparison would be using libgmp or libmpfr to begin with. No? Not by using machine integers/floats. This blog just compared apples to oranges and c...
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Ask HN: Better to use Javascript or CSS - dillon I have a lot of animations to fulfill on my website, right now I'm doing pure CSS for these animations. Is it better to use CSS or is it better to use Jquery? ====== karlclement Hello there, I would have to agree with symmet, you need both. This way if a user doesn't...
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Track Santa with Google Maps - flowerpot http://www.google.com/santatracker/#/tracker/dashboard ====== littlemerman This is pretty fun.
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Threewords.me is up for private auction - mhunter http://sale.threewords.me/ ====== BrandonWatson If anyone ever questions the value of the idea versus the value of execution, use this as a cuationary tale. Here's my post outlining this very idea from 2 years ago: <http://www.manyniches.com/n00b-notes/my3words/> 2...
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Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity - shawndumas http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity/# ====== edw519 The subject of this post may be the number one reason for a good programmer to stop being an employee and to start bein...
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HashiConf EU Amsterdam Call for Speakers - HashiCorpEvents https://hashiconf.com/eu ====== HashiCorpEvents HashiCorp is looking for speakers for the upcoming HashiConf EU in Amsterdam, June 8-10, 2020. If you have a technical talk showcasing how you used a HashiCorp product to solve a problem, what challenges you fac...
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MagicJack Home Cellular Service Could Spark Legal Battle - chaostheory http://www.pcworld.com/article/186732/ ====== anamax I'm curious. Suppose that you're AT&T and you see these packets crossing "your network" to provide cell coverage to folks who are not AT&T cell phone customers. Are you going to resist the temp...
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Learning Elm has gotten me confused about static vs. dynamic typing - mrundberget http://rundis.github.io/blog/2016/type_confused.html ====== kazinator > _It’s hard to describe the experience of doing a major refactoring, having a > really helpful and friendly compiler guide you along step by step and when > finally e...
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Dream to Reality: How I Quit My Day Job - terpua http://thinksimplenow.com/happiness/dream-to-reality-how-i-quit-my-day-job/ ====== davidw Too much junk about 'pursuing your passion', and "Rich Dad" Robert K is always a warning sign, too. ~~~ mod_test "Rich Dad" is a good book and does illustrate why you should 'purs...
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Motorists are using video cams to avoid disputed accident claims - svepuri http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662646-dash-cams-small-video-cameras-film-road-ahead-are-being-used-motorists ====== erobbins I've been driving with a camera for over a year now. While I haven't needed it for evidence of an...
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Jade: A Desktop Environment Built with Webkit2, JavaScript and Python - djsumdog ====== pekim The link to the repo appears to be missing. I think that it is probably [https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop](https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop).
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CodeMirror: In-browser code editing made bearable - oskarth http://codemirror.net/ ====== oskarth I was taking the go tour [0] and got curious about their clean code editing interface. Looking at the source code it seems that they use codemirror. 0: <http://tour.golang.org/> ~~~ marijn For some reason, they didn't...
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There's nothing wrong with making a mistake (2002) - luu http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/10/ItsOKtobewrong.shtml ====== cableshaft But HN just told me yesterday that engineers should be held to a higher standard and should be executed, firing range style, when there are bugs: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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Ask HN: How do you take notes alongside code? - morbidhawk I&#x27;m reading code from one of the big open source framework and finding it hard to organize notes alongside the code. I haven&#x27;t found a good way to take notes alongside the code I&#x27;m reading so I can later come back and review it.<p>My preferred w...
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Burning Man Seeks to Change ‘Convenience Culture,’ Boots Camp for Wealthy (2019) - masonic https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/business/burning-man-tickets.html ====== masonic 2020 gathering cancelled: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839503](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839503)
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Who Really Found the Higgs Boson - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/who-really-found-the-higgs-boson ====== adam_d I worked on the ATLAS experiment for 6 years. The article gives a reasonable description of the management structure and the unique upsides of that way of working. However it mostly skipped over t...
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Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc - davidgerard https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/09/07/intel-cant-supply-14nm-xeons-hpe-directly-recommends-amd-epyc/ ====== gumby I really think Intel lost its way back in the Barrett era and never managed to find it (and I think AMD is really significantly exceed...
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A co-founder's guide to Biz Dev - robfitz http://soundboy.tumblr.com/post/35768510187/a-co-founders-guide-to-biz-dev ====== fab1an Very sound advice by someone who's accomplished A LOT in this field. #6 strikes me as particularly important: > 6\. Make sure you’re talking to the ultimate decision maker. > It’s ofte...
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First Release of the Ada++ Programming Language - 0xDEEPFAC http://www.adapplang.com/ ====== cable2600 As of this posting the Github is empty and I cannot download the Ada++ Compiler. I learned on Janus Ada for DOS in the late 1980s, it sure has changed since then. ~~~ kjs3 Janus was a good Ada-83 compiler. Late mode...
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Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns? - apgwoz http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327955/does-functional-programming-replace-gof-design-patterns ====== gruseom Looking back, I'm amazed at how long it took me to awaken from the dogmatic OO slumber. One of the things that snapped me out of it was real...
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Seemore: Physically Based Rendering in WebGL - wildpeaks http://blog.playcanvas.com/seemore-physically-based-rendering-in-webgl/ ====== nthState Awesome! Reminds me of Luigis Mansion/Resident Evil - oh, and the graphics engine is amazing! - You're going places. ------ wildpeaks It seems to be a good week for PBR in...
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Google Researchers Introduce System to Rank Web Pages on Facts, Not Links - rejfyl http://searchengineland.com/google-researchers-introduce-system-rank-web-pages-facts-not-links-215835 ====== sparkzilla The increasing co-dependency between Google and Wikipedia, has basically has turned unwitting Wikipedia editors in...
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Ask HN: Why are forums not populair for company collaboration - klaaz0r I like slack for sure but I hate it for more in depth conversations and I can&#x27;t really backtrack any discussions being made at a certain point of time.<p>Some companies I worked had a forum and I loved it, why do forums get used less and are ...
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