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America’s love affair with uniformed men is problematic - secfirstmd https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21730738-it-also-leads-lot-fuzzy-thinking-about-armed-forces-americas-love-affair ====== AndrewStephens As a foreigner in your fine country, the amount of influence the military has in the US is amazing an...
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Sudont: like sudo, except doesnt do what you tell it to - xtat http://github.com/xtat/sudont/tree/master ====== Zev _This program is useful for when you dont want to do something._ Why not just, uh, not do whatever you don't want to do if you really don't want to do it? ~~~ xtat because we don't have that feature....
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Ask HN: Who used tech to enjoy their wedding more? - reggiepret Could be planning phase (project management) or information (static website) or invites (dynamic website) or gifts (wedding registry/stripe) or any other wonderful ways that tech could help out on the wedding day itself :-D ====== thiagooffm Maybe ho...
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Ask HN: Interested in a Boston Meetup? - wtvanhest Is anyone on HN interested in working with me to start a quarterly Boston meetup? I have been successful in starting an alumni association here and could lead the effort but it would be a lot better to have people to bounce ideas off of.<p>Let me know if you are in...
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What we talk about when we talk about singularity - bdfh42 http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/06/singularity_eco.php ====== eyudkowsky With a few bright exceptions like Robin Hanson and Paul Wallich, the IEEE Spectrum issue follows the usual pattern: People who have no engagement with the serious Singularity ana...
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Quitting Chrome: Because Google+ - badloginagain This weekend I made a fairly major change to how I interact with the web- I consciously switched default browsers. Fed up with Google&#x27;s constant ramming of G+ down my throat, I&#x27;ve decided to hit &#x27;em where it hurts: their marketshare. So I&#x27;ve switched...
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Show HN: Freebie finding site using interesting algorithm - tectonic A little while ago I built an automated website that finds free stuff while filtering out scams. It works in an interesting way. Most freebie sites on the web contain a mix of real, useful free stuff and scammy affiliate and pyramid schemes. I r...
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A programmable controller for connected devices (YC S13) - twald https://medium.com/@senic/developing-for-the-nuimo-controller-7292becfacff ====== gyuriy Wonderful!
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Twitter behavior can predict users' income level - jimsojim http://phys.org/news/2015-09-twitter-behavior-users-income.html ====== Vexs I can't say much of this is surprising, except for the bit about fear. Any thoughts about what would cause this? ~~~ realquick81 Yes. > for example, those who earn more tend to expr...
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Falluja’s Strange Visitor: A Western Tourist - soundsop http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/world/middleeast/07falluja.html?hp ====== jacquesm this so reminds me of Terry Pratchett... Amazing story, not too sure what the hacker link is but I found it a quite interesting read, thanks for sharing!
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Researchers: We can detect life on other worlds through its vibrations - whyenot http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/12/researchers-we-can-detect-life-on-other-worlds-through-its-vibrations ====== Houshalter This sort of reminds me of the voyager experiment that some people believe confirmed the existence of life on...
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Why Agile should focus on Problem Statements instead of User Stories - jdubray http://www.b-mc2.com/2013/04/25/refocusing-agile-from-value-to-solutions/ ====== dragonwriter The consistent use of "solution" as a verb in place of "solve" makes this hard to read; especially things like saying "every problem must be sol...
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Samsung Announces TecTiles, Brings Programmable NFC Tags to the Masses - kul http://www.droid-life.com/2012/06/12/samsung-announces-tectiles-brings-programmable-nfc-tags-to-the-masses/ ====== sturmeh ... or you could get them here: <http://www.tagstand.com/> for a third of the price and use an app that ties in with ...
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Ask HN: Is Linked in Worth It? - dfxt8 Whenever i hit Linked in, i get this long list of different people spamming certificates of courses they just completed, some machine learning project to detect masked and unmasked face or even machine playing dino on chrome, it really irritates me, is it really that important to...
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Ask HN: Is Twitter broken today? - alva Timeline and search aren&#x27;t showing anything newer than 45 mins. UK ====== napsterbr Can confirm that several people are experiencing issues with feed updates ------ sabelo Experiencing issues from South Africa
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What terrible treatment have you seen in the workplace? - jonthepirate Without calling out the identity of any companies or coworkers, I&#x27;m curious what bad treatment other engineers have seen in the workplace ====== steedsofwar When i graduated, my manager would often come over to me on a Thursday and say he need...
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New Microsoft Scroogled Ad Reveals How Google Is Corrupting Kids At School - Suraj-Sun http://microsoft-news.com/new-microsoft-scroogled-ad-reveals-how-google-is-corrupting-kids-at-school/ ====== lcasela That has seriously got to be one of the worst commercials I have ever seen. I highly doubt teenagers actually pa...
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PSA: InSight Mars probe is landing in about 8 hours - huhtenberg https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/ ====== huhtenberg InSight mission homepage - [https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/](https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/) Wikipedia page - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight) Mission Control...
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Robinhood app – free stock trading - auton1 https://www.robinhood.com/ ====== auton1 I wonder what people think of this? Seems like a good deal, but maybe less great when it comes to, for example, tax time? ~~~ sidko Hopefully they give all the documents required for tax on time. If they don't, you can always patch...
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Why Do We Need More Wikileaks and Cryptome? - adulau http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/2010-11-28_Why_Do_We_Need_More_Wikileaks_and_Cryptome ====== khatarnaak DOS Attack on wiki leaks [http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/28/wikileaks-were- under-cy...](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/28/wikileaks-were-under-cyber- a...
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Anonymous comments improve online debates - ssn http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4916 ====== motters There may be some situations in which the only way to get honest opinions is to enable people to post anonymously, but in the majority of cases where I've seen people posting anonymous comments, or comments under pseudo...
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Bitcoin Bubble Makes Dot-Com Look Rational - mfrw https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-11-27/bitcoin-crash-may-take-a-while-longer ====== 0bsidian The idea that you can value bitcoin via P/E, utilizing mining fees as the "E" is incorrect. It's akin to valuing gold through P/E, by utilising the cost of extrac...
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Disney Plus Streaming Service Unveiled - Reedx https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/business/media/disney-plus-streaming.html ====== Reedx Bummer, was hoping to see a mention of Studio Ghibli. Would be great to finally have a streaming option for those. They're the last movies that I still bother with physical copies fo...
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Ask HN: What are various incentive models on the Web? - gosuri I'm researching on various user incentive models on the Web (like twitter's follower count and foursquare's badges). Can you think of any interesting models that you've come across. ====== richardw Best reference I've found: <http://buildingreputation.c...
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Hikikomori - networked https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori ====== jawerty Anyone interested in this phenomenon should check out the anime "Welcome to the NHK."
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Philz Coffee Raises Eight-Figure Round From Summit, Angels - RougeFemme http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/philz-coffee-raises-eight-figure-round-from-summit-angels-as-specialty-coffee-market-heats-up/ ====== RougeFemme I'm convinced Phil is the puppet master behind all of the productivity in South Park(Slurp).
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The Unix system family tree: Research and BSD - jorgecastillo http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree?rev=HEAD ====== acc00 This list appears to be missing Plan 9, which is a direct continuation of Research Unix line (a successor to 10th Edition) ~~~ solarexplorer Plan 9 is not...
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Draftin' – A draft simulator for Magic the Gathering - shawndeprey http://www.draftin.co/ Hi there! It has been a hard fought alpha run, but Draftin&#x27; is finally ready to grow up a bit. You have probably never heard of this project because I have been intentionally keeping it off of message boards until it was re...
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Talk About Your Startup Idea with Paul Graham - DanielRibeiro http://www.stanford.edu/dept/bingschool/giving_harvestmoon_2012.html ====== jashmenn I love how it lists that a lunch with pg has an estimated value of $500. I'm sure that many in our community would gladly pay 10x+ for an hour of his advice. ~~~ ckluis ...
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Australian startup Magikcraft set world record with 12-year old developers - sitapati Australian startup Magikcraft, which teaches kids to code in JavaScript using Minecraft, set a world record this week. In partnership with Microsoft and IBM they killed 13,854 Minecraft Zombies using JavaScript lightning in 10 minute...
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Apple Leaves iOS Kernel Un-Encrypted for First Time - finisterre https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601748/apple-opens-up-iphone-code-in-what-could-be-savvy-strategy-or-security-screwup/ ====== skygazer Oh, my ignorance and the questions I now have -- I wish there were some up votes on this, because I'd love the knowl...
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We should all just decide on JavaScript and solve interesting problems instead - evjan http://peterevjan.com/posts/we-should-all-just-decide-on-javascript-and-solve-the-interesting-problems-instead/ ====== lcedp Meh. We should all just decide on PHP and solve interesting problems instead. We should all just decide...
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France’s Combustible Climate Politics - Jun8 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/france-yellow-vests-climate-change.html ====== Jun8 Great opinion piece that deftly demonstrates government action for climate change in the EU and US contains a large aspect of political maneuvering and virtue signaling, with some...
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Ask HN: Best find-a-cofounder sites? - fjabre Any consensus on the best sites to find technical cofounders?<p>I've looked around a bit and most of these sites seem very young and/or don't have a lot of a traffic..<p>Any suggestions? ====== nickfromseattle HN Cofounder Wishlist - [https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...
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Google Maps Platform now integrated with the GCP Console - deesix https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Google-Maps-Platform-now-integrated-with-the-GCP-Console.html ====== dazbradbury " _Thirteen years ago, the first Google Maps mashup combined Craigslist housing data on top of our map tiles—before there was e...
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New Discovery Around Juniper Backdoor Raises More Questions (2016) - DyslexicAtheist https://www.wired.com/2016/01/new-discovery-around-juniper-backdoor-raises-more-questions-about-the-company/ ====== dec0dedab0de Over a decade ago I worked for a CLEC. One day one of our engineers was on a support call with our client...
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The Groovy project is looking for a new home - varmais http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/the-groovy-project-is-looking-for-a-new-home ====== bjfish I know and use both Ruby/Rails and Groovy/Grails and wanted to debunk a myth here: "Interest in Grails/Groovy is diminishing" \- I won't comment on trends but there is ...
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24% of Tweets Created by Bots - jasonlbaptiste http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-bots/ ====== jacquesm Compared to email that's not such a big percentage, but if you take into account how long twitter exists and how small it really still is the number is pretty scary. Maybe it should read 'already 24% of tweets ...
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Apple is listening (Yosemite) - tonteldoos https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home/ ====== Barnaby_Jones As long as you didn't find a keylogger, screengrabber or mousetracker everything is fine (or the software firewall is silently deactivated).
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48h HTML5 Game That Made $2k In A Week - ferno http://www.truevalhalla.com/blog/aquatic-my-48-hour-html5-game-that-made-2000-in-a-week/ ====== Mizza The 48H gamejam that he's talking about here is FightMagicRun - [http://fimaru.com](http://fimaru.com) run by good friend Evan Borchardt, author of the HTML5 Game Deve...
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Bye Bye Emojis: Emacs Hates MacOS - csmonk http://www.lunaryorn.com/posts/bye-bye-emojis-emacs-hates-macos.html ====== jordigh As one of GNU's flagship products, why shouldn't Emacs remind users that it is not in agreement with Apple's treatment of its users? GNU has an agenda, just like Apple does. Intel cripples icc...
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Tesla's Plan to Buy SolarCity Has Major Flaws - peterkshultz http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/business/dealbook/teslas-plan-to-buy-solarcity-has-major-flaws ====== greenyoda Broken URL. Looks like it should have ".html" added at the end: [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/business/dealbook/teslas-p...](http://www.ny...
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Future Node.js releases will be from the io.js repo - eknkc https://github.com/nodejs/node#cnv ====== mattkrea Future Node.js releases will come from what is current io.js. That is all. The name is not changing. This is nothing to get excited about--this has been the plan all along. ------ jessaustin This is a dumb p...
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Show HN: My dogfooded Bookmarking Site / rss-crawler / ... - NicoJuicy http://handlr.sapico.me/?SearchTerm=%5BARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE%5D+ ====== justboxing Nice work! Looks like HN / Reddit in terms of functionality and layout. Really impressed that you've built all the features like RSS crawler, taxonomy, user and r...
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Ask HN:Want to do Masters Comp Science,no science background in Bachelors. - BikalpT Background: Bachelors in social science. Would like to do Masters in Computer science related field. Is it possible? Road blocks? Been learning self-basic programming.<p>Any helpful link, titles suggestions? Words of wisdom? ====== ...
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Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? - cs702 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do ====== belorn A lot of people are pointing out that if you do not like something, don't use it. It's simple enough, and have a "sounds right" tone to it. As an implied statement with this, anyone complaining should just shut up ...
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Lesser-Known Pandas Tricks - expert7331 https://towardsdatascience.com/5-lesser-known-pandas-tricks-e8ab1dd21431 ====== HIP_HOP What is the difference between join and merge? ~~~ celias [https://stackoverflow.com/a/37891437](https://stackoverflow.com/a/37891437)
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Robot Workers and the Universal Living Wage - ph0rque http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/07/1184668/-Future-Politics-The-Automated-Workforce-and-the-Universal-Living-Wage?detail=show ====== dmix I fail to see in this article where the author backs up this claim: > automation is replacing both brawn and brains and ...
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Backdoor SOPA -- CISPA - K_O_G_I http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa/?akid=1306.1076593.HixRPH&rd=1&t=2 ====== kylemaxwell Totally false. There are no blocking provisions __whatsoever __in CISPA, no one has any right to the information from ISPs or any other provider or organization, and it does not supercede...
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Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes - bainsfather https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-disprove-conjecture-made-to-save-black-holes-20180517/ ====== habitue Ok, yes, _this_ is how you promote scientific research to a lay audience: 1) They don't bury the lede. The first paragraph says ...
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Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup - joelg87 http://joel.is/post/6687368692/startup-bootstrapping ====== rglover Good to hear these sorts of things when trying to develop your own plan for your startup. My approach (which MANY will say is a failure) is to build in the evenings and keep a day job to cover person...
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Meshing in a Minecraft Game (2012) - rocky1138 http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/meshing-in-a-minecraft-game/ ====== exemd In practice you need a texture atlas ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas)) to reduce number of meshes. But if you use texture atlas you ca...
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The only college that matters - breer http://cdixon.org/2009/09/06/the-only-college-major-that-matters/ ====== MediaBehavior Boils down to a two-sentence argument: "... much better to learn computer science in college (or before)? Because after college it’s very hard to find the time and discipline to teach yoursel...
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Gamification? More like Exploitationware - mikhuang http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6366/persuasive_games_exploitationware.php?print=1 ====== programminggeek I agree that what is often thought of as "gamification" is actually the simple adding of false incentives to create specified outcomes. However, in many ...
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Codota AI Pair Programmer - whadar https://www.codota.com/ ====== addcn What are people's impression of these kinds of tools?
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Amazon Machine Learning vs. Google Prediction API (and Competitors) - louisdorard http://www.louisdorard.com/blog/machine-learning-apis-comparison ====== byoung2 Do any of these services give you any insight into what variable drove the decision? I get that they can tell you the target variable (e.g. these people ar...
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Why is GoDaddy traffic being blocked by HN? - dclowd9901 Getting an error 324. We have our own internal traffic monitoring. What gives? ====== noahc It is possible that someone at your HQ could be using a system to scrape HN. I scraped HN awhile back (Sorry, pg!) and I suspect what happened is I got banned for ~48 ...
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Using Feature Queries in CSS - dwaxe https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/using-feature-queries-in-css/ ====== dvcc /* NOT IE */ @supports (@supports) {} IE does not support it so it's kind of pointless, no? If I ever actually make the user of a feature query, I would need to create a backup plan for e...
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ECB imposes negative interest rate - eplanit http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27717594 ====== onedognight The negative rate is only on deposits over a bank's minimum reserve requirements. _The negative deposit facility interest rate will also apply to: (i) banks’ average reserve holdings in excess of the minimum res...
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The creator of CoffeeScript actually merged my pull request to fix coffee steam - elwell https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3193 ====== elwell day was made.
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Penny Auctions - tonteldoos http://www.curiousgnu.com/penny-auctions ====== tominous This is like the old trick of auctioning off a $20 note with the twist that the two highest bidders must both pay even if they end up losing. I saw this play out in a Negotiation 101 tutorial once, for real money, and the bid got up t...
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Ask HN: I built a referral program for developers, would love feedback - geekjock Hi everyone,<p>Over the weekend I launched a referral program for my app Pull Reminders (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pullreminders.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pullreminders.com</a>). Here&#x27;s a quick summary with two screensh...
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Roadside textalyzer proposed to determine if a driver was distracted - Godel_unicode http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/first-came-the-breathalyzer-now-meet-the-roadside-police-textalyzer/ ====== Shivetya Oh hell no. They don't need access to your phone to know if you were texting. They could simply query the ...
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The NSA named one of its top-secret programs Skynet - milesf https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/9/8577515/nsa-skynet-program-is-real ====== tux "Google: Rise of the Machines" @ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QB9DW_0kM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QB9DW_0kM)
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Ask HN: Does anybody wants to show me what is going on in San Francisco? - wallunit Hi guys, I am a Software-Developer from Germany. I am am a skilled Python programmer, have a lot of experience with web development and I am involved in various open source projects. This week I am in San Francisco and I know that a ...
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How Target’s Bathroom Policy Killed TGT Stock - gamechangr https://cabotwealth.com/daily/dividend-stocks/how-targets-bathroom-policy-killed-tgt-stock/ ====== rmusial This is from 2017 and it's also very incorrect. The author says Target's April 2017 policy was bad for their stock. Let's look in hindsight. In March 20...
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Open Source DB for Web Apps that Syncs - akrymski http://dev.yathit.com/ ====== cwmma I've been involved with, [http://pouchdb.com](http://pouchdb.com), a similar project that replicates (aka syncs) with couchdb, vs this which implements master master replications (aka bidirectional syncing) with ... anything? ~~~ ...
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NAT Tunneling Without a Third-Party - devbug http://samy.pl/pwnat/ ====== Gys Earlier (6 years ago!) discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1224905](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1224905)
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Dynamodb emulator - sreeix https://github.com/ananthakumaran/fake_dynamo ====== mark_l_watson Thanks!, that looks useful. I am trying it right now. ~~~ mark_l_watson Works fine when I tested with some Ruby code and the Ruby aws-sdk gem. Thanks again.
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Healtch Check Response Format for HTTP APIs - ingve https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-inadarei-api-health-check-00 ====== bkmartin This is nice to see... I know we have been having internal discussions about how to best implement a system health check for our APIs as we migrate into a services based architecture acros...
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Ask HN: How do I as a programmer start contributing to gnome sequencing - udkl Been reading about genome sequencing and finding it rather interesting. But am lost about how programmers can learn and contribute to what is presumably a bio-tech field. ====== angersock It's all just pattern matching, strings being mapped...
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A New Look and Feel for Uber - pbathala https://newsroom.uber.com/celebrating-cities-a-new-look-and-feel-for-uber/ ====== achr2 Wow, this is painful. Definitely an early contender for worst rebrand of 2016. The video, oy-vey, pretentious does not begin to describe it. Their logo represents bits and atoms? What?.. but,...
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A Woman Who Recorded 70k Tapes of American News - respinal https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/14/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project ====== marttt I imagine this would be a treasure trove for an artist like Kenneth Goldsmith [0]. He has a moving book consisting of verbatim transcriptions of broadcast shows that we...
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NSA mathematician shares from-the-trenches view of agency's activities. - ohjeez http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-cryptanalyst-we-too-are-americans-7000020689/?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer ====== bediger4000 In case "devx's" succint comment isn't clear... That NSA mathematician writes: _Do I, as a...
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Anyone want to buy Blurrb.com? - methochris I bought this a couple years ago but have since moved on to a more suiting name.<p>It is about to expire so I thought I'd throw it out there.<p>Please comment with offer price if interested. It goes to the highest bidder. ====== borderbandit $50 USD ~~~ methochris looks l...
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Rice Uiversity Announces Open Source Textbooks - aheilbut http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/07/rice-university-announces-open-source-textbooks ====== Cyranix The Connexions platform has been around for a while now, and as I recall students whose classes used it were happy with it, from both a price and usab...
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One Linux for all ARM systems - EwanToo http://www.zdnet.com/one-linux-for-all-arm-systems-7000005348/ ====== ansible The situation for Linux on ARM is better than it was 10 years ago, but it is still chaos at the low levels. Most of this has to do with cost. Each of the silicon vendors has their own IP which is bu...
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James Cameron Tells Hollywood To Stop Making Trash 3D Movies - ssclafani http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/11/03/james-cameron-tells-hollywood-to-stop-making-trash-3d-movies/ ====== mhd Matthew 7:3-5
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The Crunchies Are Coming, The Crunchies Are Coming - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/the-crunchies-are-coming-the-crunchies-are-coming/ ====== holdenk I got a permission denied error, don't know if its temporary.
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“But The Client Wants IE 6 Support” - billpg http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/03/%e2%80%9cbut-the-client-wants-ie-6-support%e2%80%9d/ ====== TamDenholm I'm a web developer, whenever a client asks me about IE6 support, i enthusiastically tell them i'll happily support it. I then show them usage statistics for IE...
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How to Retire On $500 Per Month - mhb http://jetsetcitizen.com/cheap-travel/can-you-retire-on-500-per-month/ ====== grandalf A better title would be "How to leverage your income far more effectively". How much money do most of us flush on rent, cars, overpriced houses, and other things. If you add it up over 10-15 ye...
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Donnfelker/android-bootstrap · GitHub - Kittynana https://github.com/donnfelker/android-bootstrap ====== Kittynana This basically wraps a bunch of useful libraries for android.
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Ask HN/PG: Leaderboard acting strange? - johns This morning I was about 100 short of the leaderboard and made two submissions that got me about 60 points. A minute ago I was 95th and the 100th spot was at 3900 but now I'm 98th with the last spot at 4072. Any idea what's up with the fluctuating numbers? ====== pg I j...
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Ask HN: Best way to do user authentication for web application? - thaweatherman A team of developers and myself are designing a web application and I am in charge of user authentication. I want to provide options such as Facebook Connect and OpenID via Google, Yahoo, etc., but we also need our own authentication met...
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What would you demonstrate to a kid to get him or her excited about programming? - practicalpants I&#x27;m going to be spending a bunch of time with my best friend and his 8 y&#x2F;o, and since I&#x27;m already talked about as the &quot;computer guy&quot; (I&#x27;m a software guy really), I think it&#x27;d be fun to...
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Ask HN: Why do uber drivers use iPhones exclusively? - fishcakes Its a very strange natural phenomenon and conventional thinking would expect Uber would have them use androids. ====== seanmccann The Uber kit includes an iPhone 4S and the UberDriver app is an enterprise "in house" app, not available on the app store....
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Push notification click-through rates - andrew_null http://andrewchen.co/2014/09/16/new-data-on-push-notification-ctrs-shows-the-best-apps-perform-4x-better-than-the-worst-heres-why-guest-post/ ====== pornel Apps that abuse it for ads have 100% immediate furious uninstall rate with me. ~~~ dale386 Yeah exactly this...
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What hardware and software would you pick to take your startup to IPO? - reilly3000 Suspend MVP frugality for a moment. What platforms scale best for training people, TCO, security, etc as you grow from 3 people in one office to 350 people in 12 office locations and more remotely?<p>Machines, servers, phones, produc...
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Dynatable.js: HTML5+JSON interactive table plugin - tilt https://github.com/JangoSteve/jquery-dynatable ====== JangoSteve Hey, author here. I've been working on this on and off for a couple years and finally just released it this past week with new documentation. Please let me know what you think and if you have any...
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Haptix Lets You Transform Any Space Into a 3D Multitouch Surface - Cpt_Monac http://mashable.com/2013/08/15/haptix-3d-multitouch-surface/ Edit: The kickstarter available here:http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;haptix&#x2F;haptix-multitouch-reinvented ====== Cpt_Monac The kickstarter is available ...
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Ask HN: Corporate vs Startup Programming Jobs - nateguchi Has there been any programmers here that have worked in both a corporate and a startup setting? If so which did you prefer and why? ====== proexploit I think all businesses and startups might differ enough that it's hard to generalize, but here's my experien...
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Show HN: The concept of hover on touch devices - mcarter http://mcarter.me/movver/ ====== mcarter I built this in my spare time to solve a problem I was having with pre-loading content behind tappable tiles on a web-app. It's easy to know when a user is hovering over a tile with a mouse, less so when they're on thei...
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State Department Announces Great Firewall for the US - mreome https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200805/22310845056/state-department-announces-that-great-firewall-us-blocks-chinese-apps-equipment.shtml ====== justSayin000001 They want to safeguard “America” which basically means the government. If they want to safegu...
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Learning Python – day three. - sahillavingia http://sahillavingia.com/blog/2010/10/20/learning-python-day-three/ ====== kqueue File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/datastore_types.py", line 1324, in ValidateProperty prop_validator(name, v) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions...
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A Proper End of the Year on Linux [Gaming] - ekianjo http://boilingsteam.com/a-proper-end-of-the-year-on-linux/. ====== vog Although the article is great, the title should somehow contain the word "game", so it is clear that this is about Linux games. When clicking on the HN entry, I was expecting something like th...
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Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment - wheresvic1 https://portacle.github.io/ ====== flavio81 Portacle is a god send, it basically allows you to directly start development in Common Lisp without having to install separately (and configure): \- SBCL (very fast lisp implementation) \- Quicklisp (l...
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Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp? - streakerbee In 3 months you are guaranteed placement into top 30 companies or you get money back. (Google, Facebook, Quora, Palantir, etc)<p>The program lasts for 12 weeks. You need 2 hours per day commitment, everyday.<p>Any takers? ====== nadocrew Why not gi...
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Ask HN: How many monitors do you use while coding? - forrestbrazeal Personally, I use two - a big one for my code editor and web browser, and my laptop screen for terminal windows, chat and other stuff. I know a lot of people use three, and some even more, but I find that it&#x27;s more distracting to work with three ...
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EU Copyright Reform – CREATe - gnomewascool https://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/ ====== gnomewascool It's an analysis of the evidence regarding the controversial parts of the EU copyright reforms (link tax etc.).
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IPAS: November 2019 Intel Platform Update (IPU) - based2 https://blogs.intel.com/technology/2019/11/ipas-november-2019-intel-platform-update-ipu/#gs.jw3kdq ====== based2 [https://linuxfr.org/news/automne-saison-chaude-chez- intel](https://linuxfr.org/news/automne-saison-chaude-chez-intel)
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