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The 6 Minute Pitch - spanishcurls http://blog.spanishcurls.com/the-5-to-6-minute-pitch ====== spanishcurls Really curious as if it's missing anything big.
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A Question Over the Reach of Europe’s ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ - dap http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/questions-for-europes-right-to-be-forgotten/ ====== aroberge I wonder what will be the reaction in the EU when Turkey will ask that all links to criticisms of their president be removed from Google's index wo...
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Ask HN: Please critique my idea - CobraKai This idea is not commercial, but we need this information and I'd appreciate input from the HN'ers about how to make this better, areas where I'd have trouble, etc.<p>So I'd like to collect data on patient satisfaction after anesthesia for my group. Right now we have no ide...
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Why I have migrated from Ruby on Rails to Seaside - duck http://www.codingforhire.com/2010/07/why-i-have-migrated-from-ruby-on-rails-to-seaside/ ====== DanielRibeiro One of the things that troubles me is that even Seaside's creator (Avi Bryant, who sold his company to twitter recently) mentioned how this way of doing ...
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In China and India, men outnumber women. The consequences are far-reaching - deegles https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-men/ ====== karmakaze The article expresses the difference in numbers instead of percentages for sensationalism when the imbalance pressure is the ratios. We've had the rever...
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Amazon will lower Whole Foods prices right away - tosh https://www.recode.net/2017/8/24/16198716/amazon-whole-foods-lower-prices-prime-discounts-benefits ====== oblib Well... I went to a Whole Foods store in Destin, FL last week and was stunned at how much they're charging so I'm pretty sure they've got a lot of headr...
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A New Tack to Stave Off Alzheimer's Years Before the First Symptom - mrestko https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/a-new-tack-to-stave-off-alzheimer-s-years-before-the-first-symptom/ ====== helloworld _[W]e know there is little relationship between the amount of amyloid in one’s brain and your memory funct...
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Worst practices in ad design on iOS - xonder http://www.pocketnext.com/stories/the-hard-sell/?utm_campaign=jason&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter ====== elicymet I agree with near everything in the article, but think even interstitial ads prove disruptive in a way that I can't get behind. I don't begrudge a game ...
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OSARA: Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application - jarmitage https://github.com/nvaccess/osara/ ====== brudgers Link to the Reaper digital audio workstation: [http://www.reaper.fm/](http://www.reaper.fm/) ------ jarmitage Fund this! [https://www.gofundme.com/2nbes8s](https://www.gofundme.com/2nbes8s)
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Why does array[i++%n] += i+“ ” give different results in Java 8 and Java 10? - dpflan https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50683786/why-does-arrayin-i-give-different-results-in-java-8-and-java-10 ====== saurik (For anyone who is like "that looks inherently undefined due to using i++ and i in the same statement", that i...
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360° Oculus rift music video: Steye and the Bizonkid – What do we care 4 - MeProtozoan http://www.surroundvideostream.com/api/2/staff/videos/986/preview ====== MeProtozoan Proof of concept made by a few friends of me. Install the Surround Video app ([https://appsto.re/nl/QdvDL.i](https://appsto.re/nl/QdvDL.i)) and ...
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Next generation perovskite solar cells with new world-record performance - upen http://exactlyscience.com/archives/11845.html ====== DrScump Blogspam of [http://news.unist.ac.kr/next-generation-perovskite-solar- cel...](http://news.unist.ac.kr/next-generation-perovskite-solar-cells-with- new-world-record-performance/...
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NEWS: Generate SSH Keys Even More Faster - pixelbuster https://github.com/Gururaj26/ssh-generator ====== dClauzel There you go: ssh-keygen -t ed25519
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Create a minimal Wiki in Python+Django in 15 minutes (screencast) - danielha http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/archives/27 ====== danielha This supplements lucks' submission on creating a Wiki with Python+TurboGears (http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1981)
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Show HN: Quickly enable popups that support any HTML - madprops https://madprops.github.io/Msg/ ====== davchana Nice one. Starred :) Also opened two issues..
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DadHacker » Blog Archive » Dead Newt - marcus http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1120 ====== plaes Ha.. another trick to try out...
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Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously - elorant https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-starting-to-take-warp-drives-seriously-especially-this-one-concept ====== mellosouls _Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously_ No they aren't. This is just a fluff piece for a highly speculative b...
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95% Dreamhost Hosting Discount: Last Day Today - timy2 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/01/dreamhost-new-year-hosting-sale/ New Year hosting sale at Dreamhost offers $214.80 package for $10.74 only. ====== DanHulton Dreamhost is unprofessional, has more downtime than I've seen from other hosts, and has wi...
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How the PlayStation-Powered New Horizons Probe Flew to Pluto - jrepin http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/technology/1403583/how-the-playstation-powered-new-horizons-probe-flew-to-pluto ====== zimpenfish Slightly disingenuous headline since it's not "PlayStation-Powered", it's "(rad-hardened version of the same CPU the P...
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Small business banking - omarish All- Who do you use for your small business banking purposes? Any recommendations/important features to watch out for? Thanks. ====== run4yourlives Credit Unions are pretty good if I were to give my opinion. Mine has pretty good deals like this: [https://www.coastcapitalsavings.com...
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What is Spam? – Visualized | Search Engine Journal - zoowar http://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-spam-visualized/25796/ ====== JamesDB So 35million emails led to 28 purchases. Got to wonder how much their overheads are, presuming sending those emails is minuscule.
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Frogs Evolve Teeth - Again - iuguy http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2011/02/110209-frogs-teeth-evolution-science/ ====== iuguy I thought this was an interesting article to submit, as it seems that amphibians have changed many times over the years, evolving new features, having them disappear then re-evolving ...
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism - dhirajd https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/24/facebook-government-silence-dissent-authoritarianism/ ====== AlexandrB Nor should it be. The way discussions about Facebook policing content are framed rubs me the wrong way. Facebook _should not_ be put in a p...
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Windows’ “Active Hours” shows you’re not in control of your devices (2016) - throwaway888abc https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-active-hours.html ====== mrjin It was simply arrogance and stupid: How would they know when the user is going to be inactive and the computer can be restarted? A couple of years ago, one of ...
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Ask HN: Anybody willing to take on a quick study for the summer? - alwaysthenewguy Hey HN,<p>I decided to take up iOS development earlier this year and I&#x27;m at the point where I understand objective-C, object-oriented programming, and M-V-C. I read the Kochan books and Apple docs, so I understand properties, mem...
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Building a visual language for the 99% - apz http://occupydesign.org/ ====== rick888 Otherwise known as propaganda.
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Former Microsoft CEO Ballmer Does About-Face on Linux Technology - petethomas http://reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSKCN0WC2RA ====== alexkavon "Former Tech CEO Agrees That Company That Gave Him Everything Still Makes Right Decisions"
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Microsoft Azure IoT Hub - dstaheli https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-hub/ ====== nielsbot I totally read this as "Azure Hot Tub"
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Taking PHP Seriously - throwaway-hn123 https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329#.28p8bbfkj ====== samuellb Duplicate of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702845](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702845)
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Collection Pipeline - chillax http://martinfowler.com/articles/collection-pipeline/ ====== rikkus Half my code looks like this, these days: return products .Where(p => p.Type == ProductType.Bean) .OrderBy(p => p.Group) .ThenBy(p => p.Name) .Select(p ...
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Show HN: Ritza: quality articles for your company's technical blog or community - sixhobbits http://ritza.co ====== sixhobbits Hey HN! I'm Gareth. I've been writing technical tutorials for years and next month I am going to start focusing on it full time. My hope is that I can solve the "readers don't want to pay for...
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EC2 Neighbour Caught Stealing CPU - aritraghosh007 http://blog.sematext.com/2013/04/22/ec2-neighbour-caught-stealing-cpu/ ====== sehrope > What we see is that somebody, some other VM(s) sharing the same underlying > host, is stealing about 30% of the CPU that really belongs to us. That's not how it works. CPU steal t...
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65 Accomplished Writers and Marketers Reveal Their Secrets to Productivity - stickhandle http://www.focusalot.com/blog/accomplished-writers/ ====== robertaoliu thanks for posting our article =D - rob from focusalot
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Ask HN: Does web language/framework affect acquisition chances? - hella Let's say I'm choosing between learning and coding a web app with RoR or Python/Django.<p>Does the choice affect acquisition chances? For instance, would google be more likely to acquire a Python/Django startup? ====== bigohms If your goal is to...
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How we improved performance on Google Code - bootload http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-we-improved-performance-on-google.html ====== konsl These are some pretty basic improvements; this is a more complete list: <http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html> You can also use the YSlow plugin...
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Show HN: RegularText – Turn frequently used texts into web forms - jevin http://www.regulartext.com/ ====== fiatjaf This is nice, but kinda useless in its current form. Why would anyone want an API for rendering super basic templates? Every programming language already does this. Perhaps you should do something for t...
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China has tens of thousands specially trained spin doctors posting blog comments - vaksel http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7783640.stm ====== andreyf This not true! Everyone loves China anyway, and nothing bad ever happens here, so why would the government ever need to pay people to do this? Silly nonsense! ~~...
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A new model of school in Sweden - Misha_B http://www.economist.com/node/11535645 ====== gahahaha The experiences that were made from privatizing Swedish schools were: * generally worse results and increased inequality * 5 companies dominate the market, and makes huge profits * Sweden has fallen from 3rd to 19th o...
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How can a robot express emotion without a face? - hhm http://www.robotworldnews.com/100390.php ====== naish R2-D2
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The Horror of setting up a Google+ account for my mom - _ankit_ https://plus.google.com/114289448591067978562/posts/2QoEnp3LyEH ====== PaulHoule I've been a social media programmer since 2001 and personally I think Google+ needs a paper book to explain how to use it. I always have people trying to get me to join th...
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Why was "goto fail;" added without any other change to that part of the code? - 0x006A Looking at the diff between the two versions of sslKeyExchange.c released by Apple http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.apple.com&#x2F;source&#x2F;Security&#x2F;Security-55471&#x2F;libsecurity_ssl&#x2F;lib&#x2F;sslKeyExchange.c and http:&#x2...
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Ask HN: book suggestions in non-tech fields (e.g. psychology, philosophy…) - Timothee I&#x27;ve realized that I&#x27;d like to read some good timeless wisdom about something other than the best JavaScript design patterns, the Go documentation, or the 10 best ways to engage with VCs. Subjects like psychology, sociology...
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Become a Vim Master - plessthanpt05 http://www.howtogeek.com/115051/become-a-vi-master-by-learning-these-30-key-bindings/ ====== addisaden Thanks for sharing this great article. In my opinion, it would be nice to get more information of how to combine commands. There are a lot of ways to do that and i think when an...
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Android Spyware Can Record Almost Anything on Infected Devices - hackwarenews https://hackwarenews.com/powerful-android-spyware-can-record-almost-anything-on-infected-devices/ ====== dopamean The phones we carry around freak me out a lot when I think about what they can do. In many ways they really are a worst case sc...
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Newspaper thinktank predicted the iPad in 1994 - jamesjyu http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/futurist-predicted-the-ipad-in-1994-video/ ====== joezydeco Seven years earlier, a team from the University of Illinois won an Apple competition to "design the computer of the year 2000". Their design? A tablet. <http://cs.illino...
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Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth - ammon https://triplebyte.com/blog/want-hire-best-programmers-offer-growth ====== chrissnell It's a little peculiar how this blog post really pushes the inclusiveness angle despite the numbers showing clearly that it is not a big priority for prospective employees. They...
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Chinese scientists admit to tweaking the genes of human embryos - jonbaer http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-scientists-genetic-modification-human-embryo-crispr-2015-4 ====== Errorcod3 I am totally for genetic modification of embryos! Only downside I can foresee is the possible unknown long-term side effects.
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JP Morgan May Take Over Bank Of America - chailatte http://www.marketwatch.com/story/jp-morgan-may-take-over-bank-of-america-2011-08-23 ====== jesseendahl This scares me, because if the U.S. ends up in a situation where the entire country is relying on even fewer financial institutions than it is now, then the gover...
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Ask HN: Is React Native worth learning? - bnchrch The recent thread on Xamarin (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12948611) gave some great insights into the pitfalls of that platform.<p>I was hoping to gather the same kind of insight on React Native from those currently using it. ====== skibz If you...
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YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures' - smacktoward https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/youtube-ceo-on-facebooks-video-they-should-get-back-to-baby-pictures.html ====== steve-benjamins YouTube has been an incredible place for building an audience for me. I started publishing vide...
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Someone Created a Startup Just like Mine and Here Is Why That Is Awesome - jv22222 https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/someone-stole-my-startup-idea-and-why-it-doesnt-matter/ ====== cdiamand Hey Cory from Opps Daily here! Just want to preface this by saying Nugget.one is an incredible product that essentially inspired Op...
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Does Africa Need More Cheap Smartphones? - afrikantechie https://twitter.com/africanroundup/status/635708160360079360 ====== henrixd How else are they going to track everyone?
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God's Lonely Programmer (2014) - gbear605 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-programmer ====== anonlastname It seems like he died recently... But it's hard to know for sure with Terry
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Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale - evo_9 http://news.mit.edu/2020/quantum-fluctuations-jiggle-objects-0701 ====== TranquilTurtle Link to the paper referred to in this article: [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2420-8](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2420-8)
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Cannabis listed 62 times as medicine in 1899 Merck Manual - mhkool http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/1899-merck-manual-shows-natural-medicines-cannabis-once-reigned-supreme ====== is_this_valid2 > _Cannabis listed 62 times as medicine in 1899 Merck Manual "_ Ask a physician today whether cannabis should be recommended...
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10 Lessons from 10 Years of AWS (part 1) - yarapavan https://medium.com/@adhorn/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws-part-1-258b56703fcf ====== yarapavan Slides: [https://www.slideshare.net/hornsby/10-lessons- from-10-years-...](https://www.slideshare.net/hornsby/10-lessons- from-10-years-of-aws)
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Ask HN: Is Techcrunch better post-Arrington? - cavalcade Is it me or Techcrunch became less tabloid-y lately and amped up the quality of writing since Arrington got pushed out? How do you find the blog's quality now? ====== al_james It seems to talk about watches more. ------ thigbee Seems the same to me.
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Ask HN: Critique my resume. Looking for a career change - jtd00123 Hello guys, I&#x27;m looking for a more traditional developer role. I was hired on my latest job in February but am realizing that I am learning skills that aren&#x27;t directly related to how I want to grow as a developer. I am being pruned into wha...
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2Q buffer cache algorithm - wkornewald http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/2Q-buffer-cache-algorithm ====== morgo FWIW, MySQL's InnoDB Storage Engine switched a few years ago from an LRU to something similar to what is described as the final solution here. The LRU is split to a hot (5/8ths) and cold (3/8ths) chain. S...
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Your auto-responder won't bind you to a contract - ChuckMcM http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/04/acknowledging_r.htm ====== ChuckMcM I'm always amazed at how people try to work the laws. This guy tried something I have always wondered about, he sends an email that says "if you respond to this you agree to be...
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Professional Software Engineer Exam coming in April 2013 - stephen http://ncees.org/About_NCEES/News/News_Pages/New_PE_Software_exam.php ====== spamizbad Looks like "How to do Waterfall" (62.5% of the test) with additional coverage of Security (15%), QA (7.5%), and Engineering process (7.5%), and Configuration Mainten...
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How to create a natural baseline in CSS - joecritch http://joecritchley.svbtle.com/bring-back-the-baseline ====== dancecodes very cool, thanks!
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The Elusive Universal Web Bytecode - joubert http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-web-bytecode.html?m=1 ====== CyberDildonics I heard about a project called Oak that was supposed to do this, never heard what happened to it... ~~~ DonHopkins It got renamed, then somebody made a backroom deal to bo...
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Morphology and kinematics in scaling hummingbird metabolic rate and efficiency - bookofjoe http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1873/20172011 ====== bookofjoe Video from same lab: [https://youtu.be/-2pfEbohsZM](https://youtu.be/-2pfEbohsZM)
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Show HN: Keep your customers informed and aware - missenlinx http://trakstat.us ====== halostatue Just tried signing up and I'm in a stuck position. • I generate very long passwords (50 characters by default) with 1Password. I usually include special characters—the one I used included ',{<' and the asterisk. • The...
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Common charger for all mobile phones on the way in Europe - zapshu http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20131219IPR31414/html/Common-charger-for-all-mobile-phones-on-the-way ====== danbmil99 The question to ask is this: if this law were already in place, would Apple (or any manufacturer) ever innova...
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Understanding TPP, ACTA's nastier, more secret little brother - DiabloD3 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120402/09551618327/where-tpp-goes-beyond-acta-how-it-shows-us-future-ip-enforcement.shtml ====== srl TPP is the "Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership". It does a lot of stuff outside of IP law (see [ht...
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Recruiting is Broken - Flopsy http://fetchrecruiting.com/2015/02/24/recruiting-is-broken/ ====== kilimchoi There are actually a lot of startups out there solving the problems that you mentioned. Try entelo or sourcing.io if you want to free yourself from retained search and search on your own. They've actually don...
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Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their FOSS project? (Nov 2018) - DyslexicAtheist I am wondering who is currently seeking help with their FOSS project. Please share your information if you are looking for help. I have some time to spare maybe there are other folk like me here lurking.<p>Please use this format:<p>- D...
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RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything - tvvocold https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ ====== cyborgx7 How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you shoul...
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My First Facebook App - I Want One - djworth http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2389878632 This app provides you and your friends the ability to vote on different Amazon.com products. You can add products via an Amazon Search or an Amazon Wish List.<p>Please feel free to check out the app and provide fe...
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Programmer's Calculator - gregorymichael https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1061.php ====== kazinator POSIX syntax, entered into BusyBox shell (not even Bash or anything), running __on__ an ARM embedded system: # echo $(( (0x0110 << 14) & 0xDEADBEEF )) 262144 # printf "%x\n" 26214...
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Python Application Dependency Management in 2018 - hprotagonist https://hynek.me/articles/python-app-deps-2018/ ====== neokya Excellent article. I think `poetry` is future as it seems to take fresh approach to Python packaging hell. However, I am currently still sticking to pipenv as it seems to be closer to pip/venv...
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Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes - pmoriarty https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan ====== yzzxy There's a great talk from Defcon 22 on using Massscan for security research: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM) ------ ianremsen Note: you...
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Features Of SQL Server 2012 - KarenLopez http://mcpmag.com/articles/2012/03/14/top-12-features-of-sql-server-2012.aspx ====== stevear SQL Server has been one of my favorite software products of all time. As an admin it has been rock solid and not produced any headaches that weren't our own fault. With that said, to...
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30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact - jgwil2 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/can-an-unloved-child-learn-to-love/612253/ ====== dankohn1 Available at [http://archive.vn/CMY0C](http://archive.vn/CMY0C) A compelling read, and a good excuse to go hug your kids.
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The world split into 7 equal areas of population - sohkamyung https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/993772391200411648 ====== personlurking And the US split up in various ways of equal population: [https://i.imgur.com/jyHGZhl.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jyHGZhl.jpg) I forget where I originally saw this (perhaps Reddit). ...
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Facebook autobot going berserker - ZeroC00l http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355270 ====== eugenez Hey guys, I am a Facebook engineer working on this. We've been getting a lot of user feedback recently, spiking significantly over the past week, on the amount of application spam people are seein...
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Ask HN: Does YC Have an Active Request for Startups (RFS) for W20 Applications? - ncizek Does YC have an active Request For Startups (RFS) for the Winter 2020 application process?<p>Is there a place in the Winter 2020 application to identify as a startup in one of these categories?<p>Or is this best accomplished in th...
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Ask HN: Can we create a free platform for restaurants to do takeout? - palidanx With the restaurant industry suffering, is there any way of helping the industry by crating a free platform where people can order takeout online, but let restaurants keep 100% of the order (except for the credit card transactions of cours...
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Python Without GIL. The Gilectomy Branch of CPython - merqurio https://github.com/larryhastings/gilectomy ====== robotarchitect 17:05 -> Would someone please explain to me how is that not breaking C extensions? Isn't it possible to create a system that implies an "auto-lock arround c extensions" (29:53) on the current...
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Ask HN: Has anyone had a dispute resolved by Airbnb? - dazc I recently rented an apartment via Airbnb, the host was an agent - not the owner.<p>At the end of my stay we agreed an extension of a few weeks but outside of Airbnb.<p>There was, however, a dispute about the figure agreed which I refused to accept.<p>I offer...
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US pushing local cops to stay mum on surveillance - ser_ocelot http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENSORING_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-12-14-47-09 ====== bediger4000 Does anybody else get the feeling that there's still quite a bit left of the warrantless, dragnet surveil...
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Ask HN: Don't understand vesting/ownership offer, how do I make money off it? - giltleaf Brief: If I am offered vested ownership of a company, how do I eventually make money off of that?<p>I am being offered a job where I start out with .25% ownership to increase to 2% in 3 years. Salary will shoot up along with that ...
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Using Chef to automate setting up a Rails Server (including sample code) - talkingquickly http://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2013/09/using-chef-to-provision-a-rails-and-postgres-server/ ====== bradleyland This is a total side-topic question, but I've always been unsure about this usage of openssl to generate passwords:...
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Ask HN: Should large networks/companies be democratic? - sharemywin As companies and&#x2F;or networks become as large as countries should they allow users to vote? ====== cocktailpeanuts Interesting idea for non-profits, but for-profit companies work fundamentally different from nations so irrelevant in that case. "u...
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Why hasn't Google created their own IDE? - GoofyGewber Apple has their own for iOS Development. Why wouldn't Google want to create their own for Android development? ====== sprizzle I think Google prefers to support existing open source projects that are successful. Internally, a lot of Java engineers at Google use ...
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Sort order preserving serialization - wooola https://www.activesphere.com/blog/2018/08/17/order-preserving-serialization ====== dekhn Does anybody know if this has a common name, and is used commonly? I've used this technique frequently, it's quite useful, but wasn't sure if it was available outside the environment I ...
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Ask HN: What are you biggest complaints with search on GitHub? - jglovier ====== simplehuman The code search is very poor. Case sensitivity, whole word, regexp search... ------ sprobertson Sometimes nobody has made what I'm looking for.
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How's the page looking? - dhaivatpandya http://poincare.github.com/Hydroxide/ ====== dhaivatpandya I'm not a designer by a long shot, but, its an open source project, and I don't want it to look atrocious. Feedback would be awesome :) ------ ricardobeat very nice, but where's the demo? :)
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Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on OS X - mpweiher http://blog.metaobject.com/2018/01/meltdown-patch-reduces-mkfile8.html ====== ghostcluster I have a suspicion that APFS is partly to blame. When I saw benchmarks of APFS vs. HFS+ [0, 1], it appeared that Apple had managed to transition to ...
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Apply HN: Nuyolk – A smart curator and aggregator for digital retail - lovetteregner What we&#x27;re building: We are building an aggregator for e-commerce products. We bring together millions of products from thousands of brands in one place. We then personalize the user’s feed and search results based on their profi...
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Ash HN: Mobile Mesh Networking Framework, what Would You Use It For? - CLei There&#x27;s a new mobile framework coming in April (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hypelabs.io), that allows any developer to build apps that can communicate even without internet. This is what the framework does:<p>* Automatically creates interoperabl...
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Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need - bigge http://www.lonelypage.io ====== peterpan31 I don't want this to be intended as harsh criticism of your idea, but let me share my experience with website builders: \- The market is extremely tough. Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace and Wix do. Th...
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Outgrow.Me is Where Kickstarter Projects Go When You Can Actually Buy Them - ivanbrezakbrkan http://www.domain.me/blog/outgrow-me-kickstarter-indiegog-5098 ====== shloimtothee Great article. Thanks for the coverage :)
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How we break things at Twitter: failure testing - r4um https://blog.twitter.com/2015/how-we-break-things-at-twitter-failure-testing ====== donkeyd Seems a lot like the Chaos Money at Netflix. It's a way of testing I always like to share with colleagues, because it's pretty awesome.
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Pioneer spacecrafts' anomalous acceleration solved - cpeterso http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce-betts/3459.html ====== ColinWright Submitted a few days ago with a small amount of discussion and context: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3865881> The story has been discussed many times: [http://www.hnsearch....
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How Ansible Took Down Our Servers - heartsucker https://www.heartsucker.com/blog/how-ansible-took-down-our-servers ====== nasalgoat In the olden days, before AWS, you'd just log into your console as root and fix it. Now there's no console. ------ flippyfloppy I love a good ansible horror story. That said, why you de...
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James Cameron: BP Oil Spill Is Just Like 'Avatar' - rblion http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/james-cameron-bp-oil-spil_n_695556.html ====== aaronbrethorst Incredibly expensive, something everyone talks about, obnoxious, and it just won't go away? Oh, wait no. Apparently BP, Halliburton, et al. are just like ...
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Sunset District house receives 18 offers, goes for half-million over asking - kyleblarson http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/S-F-real-estate-over-bidding-Outer-Sunset-25th-Av-11102327.php ====== ajoy Even more insane : [http://sf.curbed.com/2017/4/26/15439048/silicon-valley- teard...](http://sf.curbed.com/2017/4...
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