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Ask HN: What happened to flutter? - sourabh86
There is this awesome app at flutterapp.com, I have been using this since some time now, but there have been no updates to it since they were acquired by Google. I thought now there might be frequent releases and many more supported gestures, but nope nothing! Anyone kno... | {
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Facebook & Twitter down? - philco
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com - I get a page with the following text on it "www.weblogsinc.com"<p>and on Facebook.com I get 404 not found...?
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jacobr
<http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com>
~~~
philco
Yeah, both twitter and facebook are down for ... | {
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CDN Comparison - turrini
https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/maxcdn-vs-cloudflare-vs-cloudfront-vs-akamai-edge-vs-fastly/
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havliktom
If you'd like a comparison from a customer point of view - here's a great
summary: [https://www.thetoptens.com/best-content-delivery-network-
cdn...](https://www.thetoptens.com/best-cont... | {
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Untangling the mechanics of knots - kercker
http://news.mit.edu/2015/untangling-mechanics-knots-0908
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Mithaldu
MIT has been confusing me to no end. Over the past year i've seen them act
like the worst scum of PR by using clickbait tiles, and weird actions like
disabling the fullscreen button so you don't leave t... | {
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The mystery of Google+ - pascal07
http://www.elezea.com/2013/07/google-plus-mystery/
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diydsp
Google Plus is like the movie Dark City. It's a group of technical aliens
picking apart the human experience, trying different scenarios in order to
find out what the human soul is.
Once per day, humans wake up and find... | {
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HOPE Conference Criticized for Allowing Far-Right Harassment - AndrewUnmuted
https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2018/hope-conference-criticized-for-allowing-far-right-harassment/
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sp332
A couple more details:
[https://twitter.com/zenalbatross/status/1021429246047158272](https://twitter.com/zenalbatross/status/1021429... | {
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Show HN: Breakapart: simple gestures on a physical keyboard - aehtyb
https://github.com/fanfare/breakapart/blob/master/README.md
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wingerlang
You should allow it to be any number of keys. Imagine if touchpads had you do
gestures exactly in dedicated areas, it would kinda ruin the experience.
E.g. I thought it wa... | {
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A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (2005) - danso
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/short-talk-about-richard-feynman/
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georgemcbay
Decent read but I vastly prefer W. Daniel Hillis' "Richard Feynman and The
Connection Machine" as it is actually more about Feynman (in his later years,
around the same time... | {
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Bypassing UAC on Windows 10 Using Disk Cleanup - djsumdog
https://enigma0x3.net/2016/07/22/bypassing-uac-on-windows-10-using-disk-cleanup/
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ocdtrekkie
Pardon if I don't understand something obvious, but how is UAC "not a security
boundary"?
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zamalek
That's news to me too. Fixing this should be as simple as c... | {
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10 Scientific Expeditions That Were Doomed From the Start - nickcobb
http://brainz.org/10-scientific-expeditions-were-doomed-start/
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infinity
The story of the expedition of Burke and Wills is also part of the History of
the camels in Australia - a story which is really something special.
In the year 1860 the ... | {
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Spring Hibernate Integration - javabuddy
http://java-diaries.blogspot.com/2011/02/spring-hibernate-integration.html
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DerekH
Did you reverse engineer your entities from a database? If not, you should add
that as well. That way, if the database changes, you can automate the creation
of those entities. I like to... | {
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Mentat Wiki - pmoriarty
http://www.ludism.org/mentat
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dunkelheit
These are useful techniques but they kind of miss the point. They all
concentrate on the question of how to do something, but completely ignore the
(much more interesing in my opinion) question of what to do. Besides raw
intellectual ability good a... | {
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RFC 2119: Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels - zaksoup
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119
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zaksoup
Was digging through the RFC for HOTP and came across this. Thought it was very
interesting that there are actual definitions for these terms, or that they
(the definitions) were apparently n... | {
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Experts Want to Give Control of America's Nuclear Missiles to AI - ForFreedom
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n3y5/experts-want-to-give-control-of-americas-nuclear-missiles-to-ai
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hacktember
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they
didn’t stop to think if they should."
----... | {
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Super long-term kernel support - _emacsomancer_
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/749530/86a6011785a95659/
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znpy
> The first SLTS kernel will be based on the 4.4 LTS release and will be
> maintained by Ben Hutchings
That guy is a genius: he probably managed to secure a job for at least the
next twenty years.
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Token Fixation in Paypal - johnterry_cfc
http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/token-fixation-in-paypal.html
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pothibo
I'm annoyed every time homakov posts a vulnerability. He writes in a way that
belittle his target, like everyone is stupid except himself.
Also, I really dislike how he handles his disclosures.
~... | {
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FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email - rmason
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/06/fbi-foia-fax-march-2017/
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shawnee_
Previously-accumulated USDA data (that has already been paid for and is
technically a public good) has been blacked out also. Source:
[https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-u-s-governm... | {
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Ireland Lacrosse sacrifice place in 'Medicine Game' tournament for greater good - bryanrasmussen
https://www.rte.ie/sport/other-sport/2020/0905/1163463-iroquois-nationals-lacrosse-ireland-world-games/
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chrisbennet
Reminds me of Jack Sock vs. Lleyton Hewitt act of sportsmanship:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J... | {
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - aymenim
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/04/06/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-download-now-3/
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siscia
I am a little scared from the distinction we are start to make between
"computers" and "developers' computers"
In most computer nowadays you cannot code (tables and smart... | {
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Dead Coins – A list of dead cryptocurrencies - jurgenwerk
http://deadcoins.com/
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zekevermillion
Definition of dead should be "can't connect to a node" not based on market
cap. For example, BlakeBitcoin is alive as far as I can tell, bc merge mined
with Blakecoin. You can totally fire up a client and transact in ... | {
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Kaminsky, Mitnick pwned on Black Hat eve - madair
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/29/kaminsky_hacked/
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jacquesm
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730664>
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This app turns sketches into working computer games [video] - cdvonstinkpot
http://www.springwise.com/forget-coding-app-turns-sketches-working-computer-games/
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VPrime
PixelPress is really cool. Their OCR technology is a neat idea to making
levels. However users are not really making games. They're making level... | {
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Ask HN: How do you “own your private keys” for cryptocurrencies held Exchanges - justboxing
Context: In light of the Coincheck Exchange's hack in Japan, @VinnyLingham tweeted this
=> https://twitter.com/VinnyLingham/status/938830553477824512<p>Text of Tweet<p>> #1 most important... | {
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What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016) - pythux
https://remusao.github.io/posts/whats-in-a-parser-combinator.html
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ckok
Every few years I look at the latest parser combinators, parser generators,
compiler compilers. And every time they seem to lack in some huge vital way
(not always all of them, but always at lea... | {
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How China Turned a City into a Prison - sajid
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html
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mstaoru
I live in China for 10+ years now, and I believe it is turning the whole
country into a prison. Here are some of my observations from Shanghai:
\- while walkin... | {
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The MTHFR Gene Mutation and How to Rewire Your Genetics - amelius
https://www.bulletproofexec.com/the-mthfr-gene-mutation-and-how-to-rewire-your-genetics/
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diminish
Refactoring your DNA mayh help too..
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Wild IIlusions: 5 startups experiments I like to try - zaveri
http://ac-idealog.blogspot.com/2009/04/5-startups-experiments-i-like-to-try.html
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dmix
Startups or applications?
Scanning the list I see twitter, bit.ly tags, and firefox plugin.
These might be experiments in creating products but I don't see any co... | {
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How Fear Can Derail an Entrepreneur - T-A
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-fear-can-derail-an-entrepreneur-1440381701
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lglassop
As a mature female founder who started her business at age 55 I think I have
fear under control...NOT! I think fear is also a motivator, without it, you
could be a bit reckless.
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Microsoft’s new ‘M’ programming language - nickb
http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/archives/74
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cosmo7
So you are imagining what this language is and then complaining about it?
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Show HN: Redux JSON Router – Declarative, Redux-First Routing for the Browser - mksarge
https://github.com/mksarge/redux-json-router
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mksarge
I started this project to learn about Redux middleware and client-side routing
in React/Redux. It's my first open-source library, so tips/suggestions are
greatly appreciat... | {
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Ask HN: Trigger finger and tendonitis - odammit
I tend to get extremely painful forearm tendonitis and trigger finger from my Mac's trackpad to the point my finger will stop functioning and I have to get cortisone shots every year or so.<p>I generally use shortcut keys, but inevitably I use my trackpad when I... | {
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Ask HN: I'm a contractor, how do I find good work? - Ixiaus
Short and simple: I'm a contractor, I'm not in dire straights, but I want better work that is stimulating and pays well. I also want to get out of the "PHP rut", I've been enchanted by Python (my favorite language second to Scheme) and also consider Ruby to... | {
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What does it take to get a PC with XP? - procyon
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1496591483;fp;2;fpid;2
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jasonkester
I ordered an XP "downgrade" box from Dell just yesterday. It was just a tick
box on the OS list, and didn't add any cost or force me to jump through hoops.
Speccing the same machine ... | {
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Wasted Creativity in the GNU/Linux Distribution Diversity - gnuarch
https://write.as/text/wasted-creativity-in-the-gnu-linux-distribution-diversity
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jlarocco
Not this self-centered, ignorant complaint again.
Even if this time really is 100% wasted, it's not _your_ wasted time, so it's
none of your business anyw... | {
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Tom Scott: How the First Ever Telecoms Scam Worked [video] - lifthrasiir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPeVsniB7b0
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lifthrasiir
I'm not a fan of video-first contents, but I'm linking to Tom Scott because he
commissioned various source materials and their translations just for this
video as it turned out that a... | {
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Incorporation and stock sharing dilemma - atiw
Hi everyone,
This is my first post here.
I have been just a silent reader all this time.
Finally I get to post something as well.
Hope this helps others as well.<p>So, let's get started.
(P.S. - I am avoiding mentioning names of stuff like university etc, since it will... | {
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Self-Driving Cars May One Day Face Decision of Who to Save or Kill - jaequery
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/driving-cars-day-face-decision-save-kill/story?id=40072003
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jaequery
"Would you get into an automated self-driving vehicle, knowing that in the
event of an accident, it might sacrifice your life if it m... | {
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Assessing a Company: Questions you need to ask in an Interview - mikeinterviewst
http://blog.interviewstreet.com/2011/12/assessing-a-company-questions-you-need-to-ask-in-an-interview/
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jacques_chester
Interviewers do "leak" information to interviewees. I once turned down a
lucrative job offer because, during the... | {
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Show HN: Team collaboration on anything on the web – Skarpline - Storbaek
https://skarpline.com/ref/hacker-news/
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Storbaek
Hi HN,
We built Skarpline after scraping a product we had built. We focused on
solving our own need and the challenges we saw in modern communication and
collaboration.
One of our early us... | {
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Is Amazon Unstoppable? - elsewhen
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/21/is-amazon-unstoppable
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wahern
> Amazon pays all U.S.-based employees at least fifteen dollars an hour—more
> than the minimum wage in many places—and full-time warehouse workers have
> access to the same health and retirement plans a... | {
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Ask HN: Who do you follow on Twitter? - goldbabelfish
I just got Twitter and thought this community would have a great selection of people who make great things or say great things.
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DrScump
I don't.
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Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry - sahat
https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-broken-bb8f3a48d324#.yankhfx9h
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sagichmal
Hiring isn't broken, dude. You just don't interview well, and you seem
antagonistic even to the idea that your cachet and skills, insofar as... | {
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Does working at home make you more productive? Yes (with data)! - ojbyrne
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/11/18/does-working-from-home-make-you-more-productive-yes-with-data/
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mark_l_watson
I have mostly worked from home for the last 12 years. There is a real trick to
it: identify projects that are mostly self... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Have a Happy Christmas - vinnyglennon
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harianus
You too
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Managed Kubernetes Node Groups for EKS - groodt
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/eks-managed-node-groups/
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verdverm
Still waaaaay behind GKE and never likely to get closer.
GKE supports multiple versions of nodes and today began offering release
channels to further simplify version management. There pool... | {
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} |
French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy's computers - rpm4321
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/europe/268995-us-accused-of-hacking-into-french-presidential-computers
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mtgx
US just loves making friends.
| {
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Array Vs. Linked List - neduma
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/166884/array-vs-linked-list
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DenisM
Reposting my own answer here, maybe it will spark a discussion:
Suppose you have an ordered set, which you also want to modify by adding and
removing elements. Further, you need ability to retain a reference ... | {
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The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age - okket
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth
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lagudragu
Related Nature link regarding this interesting topic:
[http://www.nature.com/news/anthropoc... | {
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Calvin and Jobs (comic) - nickb
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2723090810_6501c93ae2_o.png
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Prrometheus
I hope that I am so famous and successful one day that people find it amusing
to lampoon me using classic cartoon remixes.
~~~
adnam
"Calvin and Prrometheus" doesn't ring, but you might pass as an extra ... | {
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What every programmer should know about memory - haskellito
http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/
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klochner
Does every programmer really need to know the physics behind dynamic ram?
What every programmer _should_ know is the latency of the various memory types
(cache, RAM, virtual) and their respective sizes.
Here's... | {
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Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem - aaron-lebo
http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/25/anOpenTwitterlikeEcosystem.html#theresBeenALotOfDiscussionLatelyAboutWhetherAForpayOrAdsupportedModelWorksBetterWhatsBeenOverlookedIsThatTheresAThirdOptionUseTheWeb
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michaelpinto
I wish more people would embrace what ... | {
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Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/apparently-bing-is-something-of-a-hit/
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calambrac
I've been using Bing as my default search in FF all day today, just as an
experiment. I can't tell if what frustration I am experiencing is just due to
not being used to it, but I... | {
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Child geniuses: What happens when they grow up? - MikeCapone
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/15/child-geniuses-prodigies
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tokenadult
"an IQ that is, at 160, the same as Stephen Hawking's"
[citation needed]
I'm not so sure that there is an attested IQ figure for Stephen Hawking, based
on this ... | {
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Ask HN: Site That Parses “Who's Hiring?” Thread Replies for Keywords/Buzzwords - myrloc
Do any of you know of a site that does this? Something even as simple as a table organized by keyword (e.g. blockchain) and posts that include the word.
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IlyaStam
somebody built shared this a few months ago:
[https://hnjobs.e... | {
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Ask HN: Best way to get started freelancing? - k00b
How did you or someone you know get started? Why did you choose freelancing (so I can see if I'm doing it for the right reasons)? If you could go back would you pick that career path again?
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imsky
I got started on Freenode IRC channels - someone had a ques... | {
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How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary - hhm
http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html
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aceregen
I pay my due respects to all programmers if this article summarized what you
have all went through.
| {
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Ask HN: Rideshare’s obligations to notify passengers of C-19 affected drivers - hindsightbias
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hindsightbias
Lyft: If we are notified of a rider or driver testing positive for COVID-19,
they will be temporarily suspended from using Lyft until they are medically
cleared. In this event, we will also follow guidance... | {
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} |
First app for audio transcription base on your mobile and speech recognition - comprobot
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agile-dictation-audio-file/id979463309?mt=8
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comprobot
It is a first app to let people convert the wav, mp3 which more than 3 minutes
to text!
| {
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Ask HN: Email client alternative to Nylas N1? - sreenadh
I am currently using Nylas N1 and I did see some alternatives last month. I decided to try them after I was done trying out N1. Well, now I cannot find the links and I think my browser messed with my bookmarks ;). So, kindly list the alternatives any of you are ... | {
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Finding deserialisation issues has never been easier: Freddy the serial(isation) - based2
https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2018/june/finding-deserialisation-issues-has-never-been-easier-freddy-the-serialisation-killer/
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based2
[https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/8p9gqy/fredd... | {
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Brew stopped accepting custom options for packages and installing from source - ChrisCinelli
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510
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ChrisCinelli
This started be a problem when I could not compile curl anymore with --with-
http2 option. See [https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-
core/commit/7f9bf... | {
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Show HN: Socks, a super-light WebSocket wrapper - maemilius
https://github.com/chall8908/socks
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jprince
What happens when they get dirty?
~~~
maemilius
I usually wash mine.
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RE42927: System and method for obtaining and using location specific information - caf
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=RE42,927.PN.&OS=PN/RE42,927&RS=PN/RE42,927
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caf
Reading through the claims, the requirements for ... | {
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Personal Reason for Hating Facebook (2015) - renegadesensei
https://righteousruminations.blogspot.com/2015/06/hating-facebook.html
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brianfitz
I remember reading this when it was originally posted years ago and have had
time to think about the implications. I am just over 40, so most of my class
reunions were org... | {
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Serverless Scope: Get a customizable bird's eye view of your GitHub projects - AlaskaCasey
https://serverless.com/blog/scope-the-open-source-serverless-status-board/
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josh_carterPDX
Curious what the difference is between Scope and using something like
Waffle.io.
~~~
pmelendez
Functionally speaking, probably are... | {
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Cobra Effect: Lionfish-style - kaptain
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/science/earth/10fish.html
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blackboxxx
I don't like the editorial slant on the title kaptain. You're declaring it a
bad idea when you likely don't have anywhere near the credentials to make such
a call.
Either we continue to eat the same ... | {
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} |
BritRuby conference cancelled due to gender equality outrage - relix
http://2013.britruby.com/?hn
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relix
Apparently the non-profit conference had thus far a 100% white male line-up
and got a lot of negative tweets about that recently. Example:
<https://twitter.com/joshsusser/status/269863520135421952>
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Ruby vs. Python, the Definitive FAQ - choult
https://hackernoon.com/ruby-vs-python-the-definitive-faq-5cb0046292be
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informatimago
Not a serious comparison.
The point that matters for me (if I'm to avoid the subject of significant
whitespaces), is that in Ruby there are only expressions while in Python
there's a... | {
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Ask HN: Your primary source of inspiration? - pizza
Gah, I feel like I know Python 2.6.2 enough to make something I'm proud of, but I lack so much inspiration it's fairly pathetic.<p>Thus, HN, where is your prime source of inspiration?
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riffer
What would you do more of on the web if it didn't take so long, and... | {
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Ask YC: Where to order business cards? - BenS
Hi, I'd like to pick up some simple, but good looking business cards for meetings. Does anyone have suggestions? (Note: I don't care for Moo cards)
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timr
I've used both vistaprint.com and overnightprints.com.
Overnightprints has better paper stock and printing opt... | {
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} |
How did a business get a .edu TLD? - Gabrielfair
https://www.academia.edu/advertise
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Gabrielfair
I meant to submit this as an "Ask HN" post.
~~~
detaro
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia.edu#Domain_name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia.edu#Domain_name)
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The Commercial Satellite Imagery Business Model Is Broken - jofer
https://medium.com/@joemorrison/the-commercial-satellite-imagery-business-model-is-broken-6f0e437ec29d
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aurizon
Cube sats are about to shake this business up. In the past the cost of entry
was very high = few entrants, that went to fewer by predat... | {
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The psychological appeal of charismatic political candidates - anigbrowl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/15/i-asked-psychologists-to-analyze-trump-supporters-this-is-what-i-learned/
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anigbrowl
This is ostensibly about Donald Trump for the hook value but goes on to make
general observations... | {
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Show HN: Yet another “Pocket to Kindle” service - oboroten
https://pocket2kindle.petprojects.space
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adibalcan
Not working :( I have an error after link at pocket
~~~
oboroten
:( Try again, please. UPD: I found a problem :)
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The Secret of Success: Suck Less - e1ven
http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/suck-less/
======
ilyak
I wonder if the crashing software he mentioned towards the end of essay was
amaroK.
~~~
ilyak
"Hahaha, it wasn’t."
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Now you see it, now you don't (Google rolls out fade-in homepage) - andrewpbrett
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont.html
======
thaumaturgy
Hah! A couple of weeks back I was working (face-time) with a client, trying to
figure out some bizarre website behaviors on a project.
Every tim... | {
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Simulation class: 2D wave equations (in browser) - jedp
http://encinographic.blogspot.com/2014/05/sim-class-wave-equation-in-2d.html
======
gballan
Love it. Perhaps you'll like this nonlinear wave equation (in browser)
[http://puzlet.com/m/b00f0](http://puzlet.com/m/b00f0) .
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SeanDav
I wondered what language ... | {
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With MP3 patents seemingly expired, Fedora to begin shipping MP3 encoder - kibwen
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KM557DP7OR2UEEPYQRNHJU7T45XDSXYJ/
======
kibwen
Given the uncertainty regarding whether or not MP3 is truly patent-free at
this point, I figured that this... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you find interesting companies to apply to? - 666lumberjack
I monitor StackOverflow Jobs, HN Who's Hiring and a few language-specific sites already, but I'm aware that a lot of the most interesting jobs never go up on aggregators. I'm wondering if there's a good list of interesting s... | {
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Innovative technology for better decision-making - hpereira
http://www.d-sight.com
======
deniseadeva
Interesting indeed! Useful insights.
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juanp
Very interesting technology :)
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C64 Keyboard Prototype - erickhill
http://www.breadbox64.com/blog/c64-keyboard-prototype/
======
vardump
Keyboard is pretty amazing for C64 preservation efforts. Perhaps lessons
learned could be applied to other same era systems.
There's one part in C64 that's becoming more and more rare — the amazing SID
sound chip.... | {
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} |
Show HN : Slogan Generator [weekend fun project] - rk0567
http://slogangenerator.co/
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mjhoy
Silly, but made me think: what words are the most slogan-like in my life?
_We build peanut butter._
_fatwood is fully of joy!_
Couldn't think of much.
~~~
rk0567
sorry for the typo! ( _fully_ ). I'll fix that.
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Show HN: Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks - borski
https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new
======
chrissnell
A couple of things that I'd like to see in this script:
1\. Go ahead and apply all of the software updates. The RAX Ubuntu images are
behind on a lot of security updates.
... | {
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NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid - rythie
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/
======
ComputerGuru
My problem isn't just the delay, it's the fact that they were pretending the
rest of the world does not exist.
The NBC "newscasters" were _lying_ on air, saying ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Lego, a fast static site generator built in JavaScript - misterxi
https://astronomersiva.github.io/lego/
======
misterxi
Released v3 of lego, a JavaScript based static site generator.
Supports Liquid and Nunjucks for templates and Markdown for posts, and YML, JS
and JSON for data. Produces an optimised websi... | {
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} |
What Is Wireless Charging Good For? - vermilingua
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/technology/personaltech/wireless-charging-pros-cons.html
======
byoung2
If you have a waterproof phone and you get it wet (I am an avid jet skier),
the charging port will not work for several hours afterward (moisture detected
warning... | {
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} |
$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People - kyleblarson
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj89n/this-dollar2-test-identified-bird-shit-as-cocaine-cops-keep-using-it-to-arrest-people
======
Simulacra
There should be penalties for false arrests; mandatory payouts to victims for
start... | {
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} |
Problems looking for solutions - olalonde
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/unanswered
======
ultrasaurus
Some of these seem like genuine weekend problems:
[http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6841/is-there-
a-w...](http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6841/is-there-a-way-to-see-
tweets-from-only-people-... | {
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} |
Apple's Tim Cook says 'I'm sorry' to Chinese customers - nekojima
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21996134
======
nekojima
Whether Cook means he is "sorry" or not, this type of kowtowing is what is
required in mainland China in situations like this. Otherwise the corporate
harassment would continue until products... | {
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} |
San Francisco Hacker News meetup happening this Thursday - lowglow
Hi Everyone,<p>I'm organizing a SFHN meetup this Thursday, November 29th. It will be at the Coderwall offices on 480 2nd Street, Suite 302 from 6pm-8pm.<p>Refreshments will be provided!<p>-<p>Please RSVP at http://sfhn.eventbrite.com/
and join our FB... | {
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} |
FriendBinder Launched - rythie
http://blog.friendbinder.com/2009/09/friendbinder-launched.html
======
joshu
Adult FriendBinder?
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j2d2
What makes this one better than the similar services that already exist?
------
ssn
Is it like FriendFeed? What differs?
~~~
rythie
It automatically gets your friends from th... | {
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} |
Robert Scoble's Galaxy S II vs iPhone 4S camera test - nextparadigms
https://plus.google.com/photos/111091089527727420853/albums/5663472490008529457
======
obeattie
This a dreadful comparison. There is nothing to show depth of field; there's
no comparison between performance in low-light and harsh-light conditions; ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: My Android App - Quotes - europa
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quotes.app
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zethus
You should consider grabbing the 4.0 UI Kit
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Comments more like slander than libel - astrec
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/04/comments-more-like-slander-than-libel/
======
blogimus
One wrinkle in calling defamatory online comments slander rather than libel is
that even though the comment is made offhand and then the discussion "moves
on" (not formall... | {
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} |
AWS S3 Having Problems Again? (Monday 12PM Pacific) - RyanGWU82
We're seeing similar problems to last night -- lots of 503s from S3. Anyone else?
======
wbharding
Indeed. As I write this we're in the midst of our third S3 outage of the day.
The past two were eventually documented on the AWS Service Dashboard. The... | {
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} |
Open Sourcing Microsoft's C++ Standard Library Implementation - matt_d
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-msvcs-stl/
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moron4hire
>> As C++ Standardization accelerates, with more large features being voted in
every year, we believe that accepting major features as open source
contributions will ... | {
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} |
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology - diodorus
https://spectator.us/robots-ancient-greeks-loved-alexa/
======
psiops
All this further supports the theory that the gods of old were in fact a
highly advanced civilization quite apart from but meddling with nascent human
civilization. I love... | {
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} |
Show HN: Census – Sync your warehouse data to any app - borisjabes
https://www.getcensus.com
======
borisjabes
We're launching a service that helps growth/ops teams get data about customers
into go-to-market tools (a HN-worthy description would be "Fivetran in
reverse"). Census connects directly to your data warehouse... | {
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} |
I would never send my kids to school (2017) - garaetjjte
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/I_would_never_send_my_kids_to_school
======
NikolaNovak
Have to read more to be able to comment meaningfully, but an early red flag is
distilled in this statement:
"I am looking for a formula for mass-production of little Nobel Prize... | {
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} |
Stock-market legend who predicted 3 financial bubbles says this is Real McCoy - danboarder
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/guid/A157512A-B0D0-11EA-B693-BE36DDFAF8A6
======
magicnubs
> The great bubbles can go on a long time
What he said may be true, but that doesn't mean it's useful. By this logic,
you can just say... | {
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} |
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