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IRS SSL problems - heyyeverybody https://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof-efp/start.do;jsessionid=vNun6wfS+l+xKLt39TSDaOfF ====== heyyeverybody It appears to only give you a warning when using Windows, Chrome, and on a desktop. Says they are using SHA1 and RSA.
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The Commentaries of Julius Caesar [audio] - tosh https://archive.org/details/Commentaries_Gaius_Julius_Caesar ====== DrScump Interesting! This is an audio series (think audiobook) authored/translated by Henry Stuart Jones[0]. _Commentaries_ , _The Gallic Wars_ , and _The Civil Wars_ are included, broken down by books/...
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus - mot2ba https://www.businessinsider.com/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-president-coronavirus-test-positive-2020-3 ====== gberger He met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. This might escalate very rapidly. ~~~ tantalor Who is the "he" in your com...
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Searching For Online Video's Holy Grail - myoung8 http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/04/technology/kirkpatritck_iamplify.fortune/index.htm?section=money_latest Guesses on what happens when you get people from Random House and McKinsey running a company, plus a CTO from Accenture? ====== myoung8 Guesses on what happens when...
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Fee-free payments with the Droplet API (UK only) - wgx https://dropletpay.com/blog/fee-free-payments-with-the-droplet-api ====== marvc1 So how does this work? Someone must be paying for it somehow right? ~~~ wgx Our business model is based on making revenue from other products which we sell to our merchants. Our co...
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Comment on my 10^100 submission: Reddit on cellphones for geotagging interesting news - mad44 Community voting (a la reddit) using cellphones to promote (and subsequently view) interesting news/stories within a vicinity<p>The news to be voted on are tied to a specific location and time. You are allowed to upvote/d...
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We think in graphs - bholdr Now that Facebook said it, it must be true! &quot;designers and developers thinks in terms of graph of data&quot;<p>I agree! We need a global and open network, graph-based service abstraction to make it easy for everyone (not just Facebook) to build great information apps. ====== t2015_08_2...
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The Loneliness Epidemic - paulpauper https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-loneliness-epidemic-is-so-bad-world-leaders-have-been-forced-to-intervene ====== dexwiz The Screen and the Job have displaced almost everything else is our lives. Loneliness is just a primary symptom. The Screen, whether it’s TV, computer, o...
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Home Office - SamWhited https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/06/home-office-setup-design-history-remote-work-furniture/612889/ ====== ghaff I'd never given a lot of thought to it but even the fairly large house I grew up in during the 60s/70s didn't have a dedicated office although there...
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Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof - CrankyBear https://www.dmnews.com/data/data-management/data-privacy/article/21047138/dont-be-stupid-3-lessons-from-googles-geographical-gdpr-goof ====== ggm We (staffers) wanted to consider google g suite for integrated mail/calendar. We couldn't because as an Asia-Pacifi...
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The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It - personjerry http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-web-is-dying-apps-are-killing-it-1416169934 ====== SiVal Just yesterday, I was reading about the theory of "Peak App", which is based on surveys of leading app publishers showing that being #N in Apple's App Store (for very high-r...
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Deep Diesel: Machine and Deep Learning for Diesel Car Detection - rhiner https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2018/10/deep-learning-detection-of-diesel-cars/ ====== WestCoastJustin I bet you could do this via engine sound too. Diesel's have a pretty distinctive sound and you could probably do some type of real-time analysis...
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AngularJS 1.4x and ES6 application boilerplate /w testing practices using Webpack - ziyasal https://github.com/ziyasal/ng-espack-boilerplate ====== meat_fist I'm not the hippest with the newest front-end libraries, but doesn't Webpack replace Bower? And also Gulp?
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French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+ - Cynddl http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/french-journalist-fined-4000-plus-for-publishing-public-documents/ ====== steeve The ruling is more complicated than that. If you can read french, I suggest you read Maitre Eolas' take on i...
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Is Lenovo Advertising Thinkpad Tablet as 4:3? - hcurtiss http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/tablets/thinkpad/ How I wish it was 4:3. Seems Lenovo does too. The pictures on the site are, to my eye, not 16:10. Why do you frustrate me so, Lenovo? ====== hcurtiss How I wish it was 4:3. Looks like Lenovo does too. To m...
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Google Sets 10-user Limit for Free Access to Apps - johndbritton http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-tweaks-apps-pricing-for-smbs-sets-10-user-limit-for-free-access/47818 ====== bence If you are a current customer your limits wont be affected.
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What's new in Apache Solr 5.2 - jonbaer https://lucidworks.com/blog/whats-new-apache-solr-5-2/ ====== MichaelCrawford I tried to use solr once. Just once. Every time I had the slightest little error it threw an exception stack trace in its log file. At least I knew to enable the log file, the poor guy I inherited the ...
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Google's Project Zero researcher discovers “major” security issue in LastPass - aloukissas http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/lastpass-hack-security-problem-password-manager-a7658806.html ====== sp332 Previous discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13960097](https://news.ycombinato...
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Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On - donohoe http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/business/31twins.html?_r=1&src=twr ====== strlen The fact that this travesty continues (and how it is portrayed in the media) shows what society still thinks of as a proper place for geeks like Zuckerberg[1]: to implement some business guy's vi...
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Someone Just Found an Embeddable Google +1 Button - It Works - Jsarokin http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/omg-someone-just-found-an-embeddable-google-1-button-%E2%80%93-and-it-works/ ====== trotsky Good job keeping up your journalistic standards in your headlines, TC. ~~~ robinwauters I read somewhere that the more ...
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Fossil versus Git - noch https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki ====== i_feel_great Probably not going to entice companies stampeding out of github, but for solo and small groups, Fossil is an absolute godsend. The workflow and commands are similar enough to Mercurial and git to get going quic...
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Breakthrough Prize announced by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs - laurent123456 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/20/breakthrough-prize-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs ====== skosuri $3M each. Winners include Cori Bargmann, David Botstein, Lew Cantley, Hans Clevers, Titia de Lange, Napoleone Ferrara, Eric Lander,...
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Books with syntax highlighting, or why I prefer reading code from screen than paper - nailer I recently noted an odd phenomenon. Maybe it's just me, but I suspect it's not.<p>One case: I own the paper Book of DJango. But I keep noticing I prefer to read it from the screen of my laptop. I also read newspapers, but pr...
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Ask HN: Using other videos/music as footage - Copyright issue - huy me and friends are organizing a small TEDx conference and we're making a small promotion video for the event. Then suddenly all the copyright issues brought up when we try to use some other good existing videos on youtube as excerpts.<p>Then it gets...
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The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications - hhs https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170501 ====== Sam_Odio Interesting thesis, but... > The prediction that participants in the sleep condition would have greater > discriminability compared to participants in the wake condition was not > support...
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WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? - mikkokotila http://autonom.io/what-is-intelligence/ ====== dozzie INTELLIGENCE IS TO KNOW NOT TO USE ALL CAPS. [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ~~~ waterswaters I was just about to say the SAME THINGGGGGGG
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Ask HN: A web site that is vulnerable to a good competitor? - andrewtbham I have been thinking about how lots of successful web sites were late to the market, but were cheaper, or better designed. (stack overflow, plenty of fish, all the 37 signals products, etc.) Can you think of a site where a lean competitor co...
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The Biggest Legal Mistakes that Startups Make - icey http://walkercorporatelaw.com/ask-the-attorney/%e2%80%9cask-the-business-attorney%e2%80%9d-what-are-the-biggest-legal-mistakes-that-startups-make/ ====== grellas This is a nice summary of many of the legal issues affecting early-stage startups. Any entrepreneur or ...
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Muen Kernel: Trustworthy by Design – Correct By Construction - jervisfm http://www.muen.sk/ ====== aetherspawn Signed up just to comment on this. I've been wanting to do something similar for a while now (although, an exokernel). You should update your source to use the new 2014 tools. The verifications become part...
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$1 Trillion Trove of Rare Minerals Revealed Under Afghanistan - givan http://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html ====== Cheyana "The mineral riches could lift Afghanistan out of poverty and fight crime and terrorism, said Said Mirzad, co-coordinator of the U.S. Geological Survey'...
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How Cassandra handles failures - koobe http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/How-does-Cassandra-handle-failure-during-synchronous-writes-td6055152.html ====== koobe TL;DR Disappointed to see Cassandra does not have Amazon Dynamo like eventual consistency. Or even acknowledge any lack there...
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A total rewrite: costly, time-consuming, but worth it? - vidarl http://www.webnodes.com/a-total-rewrite-costly-time-consuming-but-worth-it ====== tzs If you want to do a total rewrite, but think some people won't be onboard with the idea, just call it "extreme refactoring". That sounds cool and trendy, and then eve...
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Beautiful thumbnail hover effect using CSS3 - akashbhadange http://www.dzyngiri.com/index.php/beautiful-thumbnail-hover-effect-using-css3/ ====== mnicole Terrible UX. Not only does it make it nigh-impossible to hover over the other thumbnails, but transforms (scale most notably) often leave behind artifacts/borders ...
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Automated Visual Testing and Pixel Comparison - WebtestingIO http://webtesting.io/ ====== tluyben2 What value does Excel add here? I find JSON in Excel hard to read and further it feels like a kind of gimmicky feature (you use Excel, so you can use this!). Maybe I'm missing something. ~~~ gowan nontechnical buisnes...
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Palestine's unique stretchy ice cream [video] - MiriamWeiner http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180815-palestines-secret-stretchy-ice-cream ====== js2 It’s stretchy due to the addition of mastic gum. I had to look that up. _Mastic is a resin obtained from the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). In pharmacies and nature...
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Switching.social: ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives - dredmorbius https://switching.social ====== wishinghand We may need a category for Reddit one day too. I'd love to recommend an app for messaging, and a few for Adobe. Messaging: Wire. It's always secure by default, not a setting you have to...
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SLAyer - Tomte https://github.com/Microsoft/SLAyer ====== rochacbruno If a successful metal band tries to change its name to e.g: "Active Directory of Hell", "SQL Server No More" or something like this, for sure Microsoft lawyers would do something against. Now I think Tom Araya from Slayer should do it against micros...
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Comcast Says It Wants to Charge Broadband Users More for Privacy - Rondom http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-Charge-Broadband-Users-More-For-Privacy-137567 ====== kevincox This actually makes quite a bit of sense if you look at it backwards. "Comcast provides customers a discount if they allow...
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Uber Hasn't Had an Effect on Drunken-Driving Deaths, Study Finds - mdagostino http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/29/487906925/uber-hasnt-had-an-effect-on-drunken-driving-deaths-study-finds ====== seibelj I live in Boston. Until uber, the minimum taxi fair was $6, they always had broken credit card machines...
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Turn your browser into a notepad with one line - bitsweet https://coderwall.com/p/lhsrcq ====== tikhonj This is what the _scratch_ (EDIT: read _scratch_ as * scratch * without the spaces--is there any way to escape that properly on HN?) buffer is for in Emacs, and I find it extremely useful. Also, unlike using a diffe...
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Show HN: My first iOS game released - jason_slack My first iOS game is released. It took me 2 weekends to develop and 9 day approval time.<p>Here are a few promo codes. If you take a promo code, can you please also leave a review?<p>Happy to answer any questions. An update is already being prepared for iPhone suppor...
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Einstein letters reveal a turmoil beyond science - known http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/07/11/einstein_letters_reveal_a_turmoil_beyond_science/ ====== denglish It must have been hard for him and his family to have their private lives scrutinised by the world - it's not like he chose a prof...
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Show HN: Weekly Robotics Podcast Project Ep1 – BioRobotics with Auke Ijspeert - msadowski https://weeklyrobotics.com/podcast-ep-1 ====== msadowski Hi HN! I've recently decided to branch off my robotics newsletter slightly and start recording podcasts when I have some spare time. In this episode I've interviewed Auke...
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Ask HN: Which JavaScript framework to choose - thatgerhard Currently I feel it&#x27;s time to upskill and the JS frameworks route seems like the way to go. The three choices are Angular (2&#x2F;4), React or Vue.js In your opinion, which one will be the most widely used in the next say 5 years? ====== dehef If you chec...
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How do you deal with a pessimistic co-founder? - dakrisht The title kind of says it all.<p>How do you deal with a pessimistic co-founder? You can't get rid of him because he's vital - and he's a friend.<p>But every conversation with an investor or advisor or etc. is taken too literally by him. Sure, the positive is ...
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Duplicity in the Double Vowel: From Taazr to Proxino - unignorant http://blog.proxino.com/post/8694310609/duplicity-in-the-double-vowel-from-taazr-to-proxino ====== wccrawford It's more memorable if you say 'Tee Double-Ay Zee Arr'. But it really sounded foreign, and that's a bad thing. When people think something i...
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What Happens When Apple Features Your iPhone App - PStamatiou http://blog.return7.com/what-happens-when-apple-features-your-app ====== patio11 As an aside: developers often cite ongoing costs as a reason to charge in an ongoing fashion for services like, e.g., push notifications or web applications. It doesn't part...
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Scalable C – Writing Large-Scale Distributed C - ingve https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/scalable-c/content/preface.html ====== jasode _> The more C++ you know the worse you become at working with others. First, because your particular dialects of C++ tend to isolate you._ So why is using something non-standard and non-un...
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How to Allocate Memory (2016) - tosh https://geocar.sdf1.org/alloc.html ====== ShroudedNight I don't like this article. It comes across as being written with the intent of highlighting the elevation the author's status as a 'low-level wizard', while conveying as little as possible to the ignorant reader. From the scat...
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Top 50 Tech Visionaries - edw519 http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,145290/printable.html# ====== jpeterson This list is just silly. Herbie Hancock?? ~~~ jamesbritt Lists like this are no fun unless there is at least one WTF item. (Though I do think an argument could be made for Hancock.) ~~~ rms Definit...
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‘Forgot your password?’ may be weakest link - ajbatac http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/almost-everyone.html ====== linhir There might be some selection bias here in Thompson's friend. Despite our narrow view that everyone has a blog, and a ton of personal information out there, most people's favorite middle school tea...
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BigTable and Why it Changes Everything - edw519 http://jetfar.com/bigtable-and-why-it-changes-everything/ ====== tx How old is the blogger? You've got to be 11 holding "Python in 21 days" to claim that multi-dimensional map is an "alternative" to RDBMS. Besides, how reliable is that infrastructure? There is only on...
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Who cares if languages become extinct? - abie http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/02/who-cares-if-languages-become-extinct/ ====== mechanical_fish Let me translate for programming.reddit readers: There's a lot of hard-won, specialized human knowledge encoded in CPAN, but if you don't have a Perl hacker around ...
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Global secondary indexes - r4um https://lethain.com/global-secondary-indexes/ ====== r4um Spanner secondary index link is broken correct one [https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary- indexes](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary-indexes)
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Theres a Campaign to Rename the Software “RuboCop” Because “Cop” Is Offensive - TerracottaEggs https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop/issues/8091 ====== cmdshiftf4 It seems that, as a rule, modern open source communities devolve into an utter shitshow. Well done to the voices of reason, thumb voters and the maintainer ...
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The myth that programming experience does not matter - IvoGeorgiev http://blog.linvo.org/post/20220382539/the-myth-that-programming-experience-does-not-matter ====== alex3t Point me please discussion where talking "programming experience does not matter". It's completely stupid. Who in normal mind talking about this...
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The Curious Case of the Fortnite Cheater - kelukelugames https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17333292/fortnite-cheater-lawsuit ====== anigbrowl Interesting, but please the edit the headline to not be all caps. Thanks!
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Why computer programmers need to stop calling themselves engineers already - gukov http://www.businessinsider.com/why-computer-programmers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-engineers-already-2015-11 ====== DrScump Original article posted days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513371](https://news.ycombinator....
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Apple blocking Google Voice blocking webOS App - davidcuddeback http://flpalmdev.blogspot.com/2010/02/apple-blocking-google-voice-blocking.html ====== boundlessdreamz He is comparing Google not providing an API to AT&T redirecting google.com to bing.com or apple blocking the voice app? Lost his argument, right there...
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Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website - abraham http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/things-you-should-do-immediately-after-launching-a-website/ ====== bill-nordwall Be careful with these robots.txt suggestions. Disallowing your css/js files in your robots.txt is probably not a good idea ...
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With numbers as small as 2⁻¹²², consider what may seem impossibly unlikely - bemmu https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160114-00/?p=92851 ====== brudgers _Numbers that fool the Fermat test are called Carmichael numbers, and little is known about them other than that they are extremely rare. There are 255 Ca...
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Robert Scoble: I didn’t sexually harass women as I lacked power over them - briandear https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/robert-scoble-i-didnt-sexually-harass-women-as-i-lacked-power-over-them/?comments=1 ====== ColinWright [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Robert%20Scoble&sort=byDate&da...](https://hn.algolia.c...
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How to surprise your website visitors this Halloween? - darielnoel http://darielnoel.github.io/articles/how-to-sorprise-your-websites-visitants-on-halloween/ ====== alialkhatib This is unrelated, but if people using the HTTPS Everywhere extension are seeing a broken page, it's the extension's fault; the page's CSS a...
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Ogo, a new take on personal transportation - prawn http://ogotechnology.com/ ====== DavidSJ Looks very cool. One thing I noticed about the video introduction is the speaker is explicitly talking to the viewer as if he or she is not the target audience, e.g. "while you and I may take this for granted ..." and "the dis...
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New material mimics strength and toughness of mother of pearl - bookofjoe https://phys.org/news/2020-07-material-mimics-strength-toughness-mother.html ====== bookofjoe >Tough and Strong: Cross-Lamella Design Imparts Multifunctionality to Biomimetic Nacre [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c01511](https://pubs...
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Rosencrantz and Ethernet (2014) - DonHopkins https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2014/10/rosencrantz-and-etherne.html ====== gumby [http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/quux.poem](http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/quux.poem) I think that I shall never see A matrix lovely as a tree. Trees are fifty times as fun As structur...
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Tiny VPS Hosting - cdvonstinkpot http://www.97cents.net/ ====== 0x4a42 There are not much info about the service on the site but this doesn't looks like VPS to me. The "P" in VPS stands for Private. This looks like a very limited shared hosting with a Cpanel manager, not a VPS with SSH and full control other the vir...
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A look at the 10x paradigm - devupio https://devup.co/10x-or-not-youve-got-to-do-things-right-8e45311ecbcb#.pdul8uywo ====== wvenable Like others here, I don't consider 10x programmers to be someone who writes 10x the amount of code. In fact, most 10x programmers actually write less code but get more done with it. Pe...
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Facebook will filter 'fake news' in Germany - yskchu http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-tests-fake-news-filtering-in-germany-2017-1 ====== nom Oh man I'm so sick of this 'fake news' hype here in Germany. It's the internet. Get used to it! edit: I'm also very curious how Facebook plans to accomplish it. They pro...
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Weighing the Good and the Bad of Autonomous Killer Robots in Battle - evo_9 http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/28/476055707/weighing-the-good-and-the-bad-of-autonomous-killer-robots-in-battle ====== JoeAltmaier Overheated hype. There are already over 100 million land mines deployed around the world....
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Learning Morse code in the 21st century - hggh https://airfactsjournal.com/2019/12/learning-morse-code-in-the-21st-century/ ====== drmpeg I learned Morse code back in 1992 in order to pass the General class amateur radio license. Back then, the test was 13 words per minute. I practiced for a few months with cassette t...
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White House Drafts Order to Probe Google, Facebook Practices - Jerry2 https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/09/22/draft-order-for-trump-would-crack-down-on-google-facebook#gs.vJ6cFkE ====== orev I’m not seeing the connection here between “antitrust” and the alleged discrimination against conservative views. How...
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SocialCoin: A Cryptocurrency for a Global Basic Income - llSourcell http://llsourcell.svbtle.com/socialcoin-a-cryptocurrency-for-a-global-basic-income ====== woah Any 'SocialCoin' scheme pales in significance to the prospect of a decentralized network that can prove individuality, which the author brushes off with a...
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Stockfighter's Jailbreak CTF trainer is live - alt_ https://www.stockfighter.io/#jailbreak ====== j4pe I rarely want to like a product more than I want to like Stockfighter, because of both the people involved and the underlying concept. But there are a million other things I want to sink time into improving. Music, ...
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Ask HN: Is there something better than screencast? - saadalem I&#x27;m wondering if there is a way better to do communication rather than screencast ? ====== nolok What specific requirements or improvement would you like ? What itch doesn't it scratch for you ? ~~~ saadalem I'm just asking if there is a better soluti...
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Win customers and improve products with HTML prototypes - seanjohnson http://digintent.com/prototyping-in-html.html Why HTML prototypes can improve customer development and lead to better products. Includes a demo HTML prototype with some good pointers for improving workflow. ====== wushupork I think HTML prototypes ...
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Bernie Sanders helping American workers would hurt the world’s poorest - baron816 http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11139718/bernie-sanders-trade-global-poverty ====== sharemywin What is Trump supporting on trade? And if Cruz wins how quickly do millions of federal workers get put out of work? I sure an american depression ...
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UI Trends - restruct http://uitrends.com/ ====== stingraycharles Why do people always feel the need to overgeneralize things ? From [http://uitrends.com/2009/09/03/command-line-interfaces- dont-...](http://uitrends.com/2009/09/03/command-line-interfaces-dont-call-it- a-comeback/) : _command line interfaces are ba...
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Is a one word .co domain worth a few thousand dollars? - Spinosaurus Looking to purchase a domain&#x2F;name for a new product, and have been in contact with a domain broker for a cool 1 word .co domain. I&#x27;m being quoted several thousand dollars.<p>Would it be worth it, compared to a longer two word .com domain? =...
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UK engineers have completed the build of the novel Quantum satellite - gyre007 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46825269 ====== portillo That headline is quite misleading, as there are several re-configurable "software-defined" satellites active in orbit, each one presenting different degrees of flexibilit...
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Engineering Habitats for the Moon and Mars - ggcdn http://www.structuremag.org/?p=12389 ====== avar A much more cost-effective way of dealing with radiation on Mars is to construct shelters out of something that doesn't shield against radiation at all, then only pick astronauts who are smokers, and send them to Mars w...
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How to Become a Silicon Valley Mogul in 10 Easy Steps - pathik http://www.aialex.com/2007/07/23/how-to-become-a-silicon-valley-mogul-in-10-easy-steps/ ====== betaPass you could have put a disclaimer: Step -1: Get hold of Steve Job's creditcard Step 0: Stand 10 steps away from the Bank, with a gun in your hand NOW,T...
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Ubuntu – Steam Client Installation and Review - pinehead http://pinehead.tv/linux/ubuntu-steam-client-installation-and-review/ ====== claudius I still don’t quite understand why they litter one’s $HOME with this – creating a small setuid binary that checks the signature of a given .deb and then installs said Debian ...
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Nvidia Turing Architecture White Paper. [pdf] - ibobev https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-visualization/technologies/turing-architecture/NVIDIA-Turing-Architecture-Whitepaper.pdf ====== acoye As I understand the paper they caught up with AMD's GCN async compute as Turing features a hardware sche...
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VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality - gammarator https://thebolditalic.com/vcs-have-a-well-known-black-founder-problem-but-really-they-have-just-forgotten-about-people-2e8452029793 ====== graeme This post would be a lot more persuasive with the pitch deck, or some growth numbe...
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Programmers Are Hipster Librarians - throwaway344 http://omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/09/19/programmers-are-hipster-librarians/ ====== dalke For comments, see [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341158](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341158) from 6 hours ago.
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Visual question answering using CNN+RNN - abhshkdz https://github.com/abhshkdz/neural-vqa ====== n0us Amazing. I only had a chance to read the README.md but my question is this. What happens if you ask it questions that it could not possibly answer, as in if it were given a picture of the man playing tennis and you as...
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Why Does Exploding Dots Work? - dwohnitmok https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/why-does-exploding-dots-work/ ====== romwell FWIW, the answer to the question in the article (why you always end up with the same set of coins if you don't use quarters) is "Diamond Lemma"[1]. The author does mention it in a footno...
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Machinima, one of YouTube’s biggest and oldest channels, goes dark - Tomte https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/19/18189611/machinima-youtube-fullscreen-warner-bros-multi-channel-network ====== sattoshi Finding dead links to YouTube videos is increasingly becoming a frustration of mine. Whether it is because someone decide...
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Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron - keven http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/16/nassim-nicholas-taleb-economics-cameron ====== jkuria Taleb needs to find something new to talk about. In his book Fooled By Randomness, he takes a paragraph and makes it a chapter. Takes a chapter and ...
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Show HN: Matlock Extension – Discover the Open Source Libraries Pages Are Using - onassar https://getmatlock.github.io/ ====== njn I just received this email: Hi Nikolas, My friend Oliver and I have included d3 in our chrome extension https://getmatlock.github.io/, which works by ...
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Suggest a new name for my Smartwatch startup - bonbon http://irisgear.com/ ====== therobot24 So it's basically a month or so after the prototype phase, what's the progress? I see some nice photoshop mock-ups, but where's the tech demo. I can say from personal experience, the heart-rate monitoring from the wrist is v...
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Writing Maintainable Tests for Backbone Views - kjbekkelund http://open.bekk.no/maintainable-tests-for-backbone-views ====== e12e Very nice writeup! Anyone have tips on similar write-ups for other frameworks? Angular? ~~~ kjbekkelund Thanks. I would love to see more "experience reports" with testing Angular and Emb...
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How Sugar and Fat Trick the Brain into Wanting More Food - daegloe http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-sugar-and-fat-trick-the-brain-into-wanting-more-food/ ====== norea-armozel Most of this article reads like the summary of "You on a Diet" from Oz and Roizen. I'm glad much of the science hasn't changed. It'...
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An independent crew is taking control of a NASA satellite - nkurz http://betabeat.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds-seize-control-of-wandering-space-satellite ====== mturmon There are so many half truths and lies in this story. I wanted to mention just this one: "Until now, when NASA wanted to conduct re...
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Lug-Nut Driven Development - belisarius222 https://medium.com/@belisarius222/how-to-start-a-software-project-ad51373c1510#.rcl1ppk83 ====== hcarvalhoalves > Build the whole thing badly. It doesn't have necessarily to be _poorly_ written code though - you can start with lots of constant functions and later replace wit...
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AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors - t4h4 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/amds-7nm-ryzen-4000-laptop-processors-are-finally-here/ ====== Roritharr So Anandtech has this to say about Thunderbolt 3 support: "Display support for the CPUs allows for two 4K monitors through DisplayPort over Type-C, an addition...
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Show HN: Snitch.io – SSL auditing and alerting - yourabi https://snitch.io/ ====== _asciiker_ I think you're trying to solve a non-problem since the company that sells the certificates warns you (sometimes even more than those intervals), afterall, they want you to renew as well. As for checking for quality, that shou...
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Zero Knowledge Protocols without Magic - cossacklabs https://www.cossacklabs.com/zero-knowledge-protocols-without-magic.html ====== sulam As someone who knows very little about subject, initially it appeared to me as if they were going to present some method to authenticate users without any shared knowledge, which se...
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History Must Be Curved - bdfh42 http://www.popehat.com/2013/10/09/history-must-be-curved/ ====== DanielBMarkham People continually underestimate the power of the narrative. Humans want to see things in terms of _stories_ , of drama, heroes, and so forth. Even if the underlying history doesn't fit the narrative, allow...
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