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Tree-Hugger: Source Code Mining for Human - rcshubhadeep https://medium.com/codist-ai/introducing-tree-hugger-source-code-mining-for-human-b5fcd31bef55 ====== ManoSinkosika thanks! ~~~ rcshubhadeep Very welcome :) The original author here. If you have any comments please do share. Hope you will like this little one. ...
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Proper RFC 822 Email Address Validation (in Perl RegEx) - pooriaazimi http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html ====== pjscott And the worst part is, it _still_ doesn't fully match the spec unless you go through and strip out comments first.
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Facing Resignation - novaRom https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justin-trudeau-brownface-photo-shows-canada-prime-minister-west-point-grey-academy-college-party-2019-09-18/ ====== novaRom Appropriate moment, Trudeau faces re-election next month. Some time ago it was an Austrian PM, now it is a Ca...
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Making My Own Glasses - olieidel https://www.eidel.io/2019/04/24/making-my-own-glasses/ ====== emptybits Fascinating hacker story in an unexpected domain. Thank you! A side note about "getting your numbers"... The author remarks, "she’s not happy to share the measurements with me as she fears I’ll run off and get my ...
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Temperature monitoring with Arc + Arduino - krishna2 http://arcfn.com/2009/08/arc-arduino-arm-temperature-monitoring.html ====== joshu Seems expensive. Couldn't they just have used a USB temperature sensor? The Phidgets one is like $15. I've tinkered a bit with building a wireless temperature sensor network for my ...
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Kubernetes Security Tools Abound - bbrennan https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252475750/New-Kubernetes-security-tools-abound-as-container-deployments-grow ====== kerng I find it interesting that companies can convince auditors that security sidecars that add auth and encryption actually meet compliance re...
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IBM Acquires Butterfly Software For Data Analysis - rhufnagel http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/ibm-acquires-butterfly-software-for-data-analysis-and-advanced-storage-capabilites/ ====== sturadnidge I know one of the founders. A couple of guys working in megacorps saw an opportunity, each stumped up a smallish amount...
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Show HN: Boolean – a service for sending single question surveys - ranjithajay Hi HN,<p>I am the founder of Boolean <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.booleanapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.booleanapp.com</a><p>Boolean is a service for sending single question yes&#x2F;no surveys. I built Boolean with a hope ...
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Ask HN: Recommendations for a good immigration lawyer in the Bay Area? - anon0520 I've used SearchYC and read the Ask YC archives quite extensively, but I haven't run across many actual recommendations.<p>I'm exploring/trying to understand my options for working in the US. As a Canadian citizen, the easiest option ...
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Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent - tomslavkovsky https://melown.com/intergeo2016 ====== nathancahill The state of the art in open source 3D mapping right now is CesiumJS[0]. From browsing their docs, it looks like it's in a similar place, capabilities-wise. Unfortunately, the limiting factor...
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When should startups have to start paying employees? - siegel When do you think the law should require a startup to comply with minimum wage and similar laws? I ask this question because I see far too many companies run into serious problems for not complying with these laws and being devastated by the consequences. ...
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Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen - Luc http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40558067 ====== benzofuran When you're learning to cave dive, one of the first things that you learn is that you may very well die in there. Most of the training focuses on systems, skills repetition, and understanding and usi...
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What are some of the great insights that you got from your heatmaps? - cheekusm For example, I found that replacing animated user images with real user images in testimonial section has increased the attention span of the testimonial section by 3X. Looking for similar insights? ====== XCSme Using heatmaps from the [ht...
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Printing tiny, high-precision objects - rbanffy https://actu.epfl.ch/news/printing-tiny-high-precision-objects-in-a-matter-o/ ====== CosmicShadow This actually feels like the future. So much stuff comes out that's like "ok, that's cool", but it's really not that fast or great, and yes I know this isn't close to out, b...
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Machine Zone Having Players Revolt? - cindyb Machine Zone&#x27;s popular game, &quot;Game of War&quot; has upset players so much that players have started a boycott against them.<p>What does a company have to do that upsets players so much that they cease to spend, after previously spending over $500k?<p>The answer?<p...
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The five “Next Big Things” in open source - SD Times: Software Development News - hendler http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=35058&print=true ====== zhiel I'm so appalled by the design of this site that I'm not going to read this, although the topic is interesting...
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Europe heatwave: record high of 45C (113F) expected in France - ForHackernews https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/25/highs-of-45c-expected-in-france-as-heatwave-scorches-europe ====== pier25 This is the video that opened my eyes on climate change 7 years ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznsPkJy2x8](https:...
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Amazon announces 99c TV to own - AlexBlom http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/09/01/amazon-unveils-99-fox-and-abc-tv-show-rentals-apple-fanboys-say-wha/ ====== mhd And of course everything seems to be US only. Dang.
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Discussing Tradeoffs of TLS 1.3 (via Colm MacCárthaigh on Twitter) - evv https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/978430840198742016.html ====== evv Prior discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16666057](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16666057) What a contentious issue! I'm curious to see who will end...
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Show HN: CloudRail – API Integration Solution - gro_us https://cloudrail.com/cloudrail-api-integration-solution/ ====== cloudrail Wow, thanks for the post @gro_us. CloudRail team here... happy to answer any questions. ~~~ gregmac So on the surface, this is essentially just a library that implements an abstract interf...
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Reptyr – Reparent a running program to a new terminal - pmoriarty https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr ====== justincormack There was some discussion on the NetBSD list today as to how you might do this properly, ie with OS support not some hacks [1]. Although it is not clear it is worth bothering, as you just use scre...
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True Surprise - dmit http://www.docbastard.net/2019/05/true-surprise.html ====== killjoywashere One of my favorite ER patients was a guy who got stabbed in the chest by his girlfriend with a 10" serrated bread knife. Came in with the knife still in him, buried to the handle. Bellowing that this proved ... something ab...
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Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years - anon1385 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/03/ocean-acidification-carbon-dioxide-emissions-levels ====== moultano In a bit of cosmic irony, most fossil fuel was created from mass extinctions that accompanied changes in ocean chemi...
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Ask HN: Which Python IDE do you use and what do you like and dislike about it? - throw98987 ====== mindcrime PyDev[1]. I like it because it leverages my existing familiarity with Eclipse. Otherwise, it falls into the "it just works" category. It does what I need, no complaints. [1]: [http://www.pydev.org/](http://www....
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"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem - boopsie http://motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brogrammer-culture-sexist-sxsw?page=2 ====== jacobquick I actually like seeing this development in tech because it shows we're not completely isolated from the broader social shif...
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Ask HN: Most effective way to learn a new language (not the programming kind)? - philippnagel ====== stevekemp Honestly the only way that things stuck with me was when I was forced to use the language (i.e. immersion). Previously I persuaded my wife to only speak to me in her native language every Thursday afternoon/e...
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Ask HN: Design for a non-designer - Shankem Hello, I've been working on an app for android (game) in my spare time, learning android as I go, everything has turned out how I've wanted except the look and feel, UI, UX, I would consider all of those to fall under design. I plan on trying to build some websites/webapps...
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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users - b1naryth1ef https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b ====== iagooar This writeup make me even more convinced of Elixir becoming one of the large players when it comes to hugely scaling applications. If there is one thing I truly love about Elixir, it i...
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NASA Struggles Over Deep-Space Plutonium Power - known http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/within-nasa-a-plutonium-power-struggle/ ====== jtwebman It is sad we spend so much money on military yet can't give NASA more money. I hate politics! ~~~ baldfat Don't "I hate politics." Get more involved. There are peopl...
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Walking through a basic Racket web service - eatonphil http://notes.eatonphil.com/2016/29/walking-through-basic-racket-web-service.html ====== soegaard Hi Phil, A very nice article! I like that you show how to "remove the magic". I noticed you "aside" at the bottom and wanted to give you a tip. If you open a source ...
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Stephen Colbert gets ahold of an iPad during the Grammys - anderzole http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56646 ====== jsz0 Brilliant PR by Apple. Not sure how many people actually watch the Grammy's but I bet you this cost a lot less than a commercial spot. ~~~ iamwil Actually, Colbert's been asking for an i...
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Ask HN: How can one take advantage of the rumored transition of Macs to ARM? - krtkush I have never developed software for Mac or any Apple product. However, I feel that if the rumors about Apple moving from Intel to ARM are true then there will be a huge opportunity for software developers to make new stuff and in tu...
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Show HN: Ameelio – Free and Open Source Prison Communication Platform (Part II) - jessehorne A couple of months ago I made a post here announcing the launch of Letters, the first application developed by Ameelio (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ameelio.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ameelio.org</a>), a non-profit or...
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Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots - exogeny https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygnwz/if-youre-talking-about-coronavirus-on-twitter-youre-probably-a-bot ====== exogeny >A spokesperson for Twitter told VICE News that they’re “prioritizing the removal of COVID-19 content when it has ...
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Ask HN: How to transform/distort screen in Linux Ubuntu? - autorun I have a projector, which doesn&#x27;t come with horizontal keystone correction built in, only vertical correction.<p>I&#x27;ve seen that it is possible to do it with xrandr, using the --transform parameter, but needs matrix coordinates and I&#x27;m lo...
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Is HN wrong about timing of stories? - gudnm http://themworks.com/hacker-news-is-wrong-about-timing-of-posts/ ====== minimaxir Posts that are "rescued" have their timestamps reset, which may explain the behavior.
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Show HN: Recommendo – Get personalized recommendations from the people you trust - BenJammin81 https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/recommendo/id932405753?mt=8 ====== BenJammin81 Free mobile recommendation app turning your friends into your remote eyes and ears on the hunt for great brands, products and events.
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New, Bigger HN RSS Feed - pg http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#5oct2011 ====== snprbob86 > HN now gets over 120k unique ips on a weekday, and serves over 1.3 million > page views. Still off just one server? What are its specs? How up to date is the news.arc file in the Arc distribution? I'm considering using the...
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Couple hosting Tor exit node raided by cops investigating child abuse - jackgavigan https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/07/couple-hosting-tor-exit-node-raided-by-cops-investigating-child-abuse/ ====== joncp SPD. What a bunch of Barney Fifes. ------ 2ifrgtmypss lol tor... why even bother, you'll be lumped in with...
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Promiscuous Cookies and Their Impending Death via the SameSite Policy - kkm https://www.troyhunt.com/promiscuous-cookies-and-their-impending-death-via-the-samesite-policy/ ====== AndrewDucker Firefox is planning likewise: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604212](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?...
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Is a 4 digit password with a predictable username secure? - Nullificus There is a company I am with that has decided to keep my personal information (Full Name, Phone number, Email, DoB, Address, Full phone history, and billing information) behind a web system protected by only a 4-digit PIN.<p>They can&#x27;t remove ...
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GraphJet: a real-time graph processing library - emilong https://github.com/twitter/GraphJet ====== johnymontana Is this actually being used in production at Twitter? Skimming the paper it's not quite clear to me. ~~~ squarecog Yes: [https://twitter.com/aneeshs/status/773547228694589440](https://twitter.com/aneeshs/s...
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Ask HN: What's the best referral bonus you have ever got? - pythoncloner Recently I heard from my friends that companies started giving referral bonus of $10k for eng hires. I used to get $5k per referral. Just wanted to know what&#x27;s the cost of hiring today and how referrals save money to the company? ====== ro...
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Marissa Mayer: The Visionary - PeterRosdahl http://www.glamour.com/women-of-the-year/2009/marissa-mayer ====== Shana You aren't going to get a good article about her aesthetic push in Google without a mention of either her upcoming marriage or her taste in ODLR. Vogue's article was worse. They post her in women's ma...
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Nokia to cut thousands of jobs, Google reminds it is hiring - ainsleyb http://www.techspot.com/news/42379-nokia-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-google-reminds-it-is-hiring.html ====== tommi Positions available in Finland: Engineering Operations & Management (7) Enterprise (5) Marketing and Communications (1) Sales (6) ...
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Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr - igrigorik http://www.igvita.com/2010/10/22/open-source-search-with-lucene-solr/ ====== fizx For anyone who would like to take Solr for a spin, I invite you to check out nzadrozny's and my startup: <http://websolr.com/> We are a bootstrapped startup providing managed Solr host...
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High throughput Java actors--much faster than Akka - blaforge I worked in Scala for 2 years and was constantly frustrated with the speed of the actors. So I rolled my own, in Java. Orders of magnitude faster, though the speed increase really has nothing to do with the choice of language.<p>Most of the speed gain com...
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Ask HN: How to scrape Google's similar searches? (challenge) - gbachik Alrighty guys! I&#x27;ve been at this for about 4 hours straight with no dice!<p>I&#x27;m hoping some genius here can help me out. Open a new tab and type in a band name like: &quot;All Time Low&quot;<p>You&#x27;ll notice a box on the righthand s...
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Facebook introduces in-app subscriptions - justindocanto https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/06/19/introducing-subscriptions-and-local-currency-pricing/ ====== rdl Aka "facebook is shutting down Credits". I still don't understand why Facebook is sticking to the virtual currency/crappy online games ghetto...
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The left fold: week in review: API design, branching, and Basic - alec http://www.foldl.org/issues/2009-12-21/ ====== mkyc Great, I'm finding it readable, and pretty well-selected. I look forward to seeing the next issue.
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Using Redis Pub/Sub and IRC for Error Logging with Python - alexis-d http://charlesleifer.com/blog/using-redis-pub-sub-and-irc-for-error-logging-with-python/ ====== gregr401 Why not leverage logstash: <http://logstash.net/docs/1.1.0/> ? It doesn't have an irc output at the moment, but would be easy to add one. Very ...
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High Energy Electron Confinement in a Magnetic Cusp Configuration - kristianp http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0133 ====== kristianp Discussion on talk-polywell.org here: [http://talk- polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5425](http://talk- polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5425)
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Ask HN: So, Bitcoins - would you still buy them? - jagermo I am fascinated by Bitcoins. I set up my wallet last year, but never bought them (yeah, I know. Idiot). But I am still fascinated by the whole concept and I'm thinking of buying one or two. The only thing is - I have no experience in trading stocks and this ...
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Ask HN: What do you use to blog? - philippnagel What does your company use? ====== andyjohnson0 Its a personal blog rather than company one, but I use Wordpress hosted on Azure [1]. Very easy to set up. [1] [https://azure.microsoft.com/en- gb/documentation/articles/web...](https://azure.microsoft.com/en- gb/documen...
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Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to block BitTorrent - craigc https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/22/16691794/net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-comcast-block-bittorrent ====== imglorp Oh boy, all the market forces are lined up against the consumers on this one. BT implies content holders have a teensy bit o...
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Coding for Entrepreneurs – Learn to Code and Build Real Projects Step by Step - Osiris30 https://www.codingforentrepreneurs.com/ ====== eble Thanks for practical youtube videos
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[XSA-148] x86: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests - yuvadam http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-148.html ====== mrwizrd Here's some analysis by the Qubes team: [https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes- secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs...](https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes- secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-022-20...
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Create your own programming language in JavaScript - fogus http://nathansuniversity.appspot.com/ ====== emeraldd I ran through something like this a couple of years ago and found it to be one of the most entertaining side projects I had worked on in a long while. Scheme from Scratch - [http://peter.michaux.ca/article...
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What Product Companies Can Learn From Consulting Companies - rdudekul https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/products_vs_services ====== bdunn _(I loved phrasing this as "You could certainly have your engineering team do this, if you want to write a $10,000 payroll check with the memo 'Reading free infor...
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Any South African news.YC'ers? - iotal Are you from SA? If so, have you submitted an application for YC? Your thoughts on getting to Silicon Valley?! ====== markcpt Yes, I'm a fellow South African, and while we've not submitted an application, I'll be heading to Silicon Valley shortly to have a second go at launchin...
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2379 of the Alexa top 10,000 sites use gzip compression - uggedal http://twitter.com/uggedal/status/1850089849 ====== uggedal Did not have the time to whip up a blog post and found the results interesting. They were obtained using 200 Python threads issuing get requests with httplib2. Took 4 and a half minute on a $20...
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I Put In 5 Miles at the Office: Walking Workstations - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/health/nutrition/18fitness.html?ref=fashion ====== michael_dorfman Has anyone here actually tried this? It sounds interesting, but I'd sure like to suss it out further before making the investment...
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Whirlpool told to recall dryers in 'unprecedented' government move - onetimemanytime https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48603753 ====== deng From the article: > The fire report states that it's an internal wiring fault in the machine, > and all of this was caused - approximately £8,000 worth of damage - when the > machine w...
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Has the time come for a physics notation standard? - another http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/01/your-g-is-my-e-has-time-come-for.html ====== oddthink I doubt it, to be honest. In my experience, universities are locally consistent: the E&M class isn't going to contradict quantum, at least by much. And once you'...
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Show HN: Skeleton Reactjs - danilowoz http://skeletonreact.com/ ====== onion2k You can make really nice skeleton loading elements using CSS. [https://css- tricks.com/building-skeleton-screens-css-custom-...](https://css- tricks.com/building-skeleton-screens-css-custom-properties/)
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I work in tech and pester Jeff Bezos' inbox weekly - megamindbrian2 https://medium.com/@megamindbrian/i-annoy-jeff-bezos-weekly-and-he-still-doesnt-want-to-be-friends-ef40e6e86686 ====== indigodaddy 1) How did you get Bezos' inbox? 2) Even so, you know it's 99% likely that Jeff has never actually read even one of your...
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Urban heat island - onetimemanytime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island ====== gavia1 London is regularly 3-4° warmer than the towns and village that border the M25 ring road. You can genuinely feel the difference when you take a train into the city and vice versa. ~~~ quickthrower2 Is that allowing for t...
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Google Docs now runs offline with Gears - bdfh42 http://ajaxian.com/archives/google-docs-now-runs-offline-with-gears ====== mattmaroon Yeah, I've used gears (or tried to) with Google Reader many times since its inception. It doesn't work. It is probably the worst product they've yet invented. ------ prakash Zoho di...
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Running Bitcoin uses a small city’s worth of electricity - sizzle https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/the-ridiculous-amount-of-energy-it-takes-to-run-bitcoin ====== BoiledCabbage I'll repost the same comment I made previously on an Etherium thread. I think We're really under appreciating the pandora's box we've op...
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Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code - october_sky https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html ====== djhworld I've given up with trying to find The One True Note Taking Tool, so have ended up writing my own thing that I tinker with now and again to tune it to exactly what I need. It's essenti...
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Random street view - kirchhoff http://www.mapcrunch.com ====== Muzza Very cool.
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Disney Streaming Service to Feature Marvel and Star Wars Spin-Off Series - digighoul https://digit.fyi/disney-plus-streaming-service-launch/ ====== RedBee I'll just sit here praying that they won't ruin them. No hard feelings, it's just that it always makes me nervous when it comes to something really classic and Disn...
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Foreign buyers crushing home dreams in Vancouver as Canada, B.C. do zip: study - kspaans http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/foreign-buyers-crushing-home-dreams-in-vancouver-as-canada-bc-do-zip-study-378549955.html ====== jrnichols This has been happening in other US cities as well, and probably on the same scale....
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Hi HackerNews - IceyEC http://maps.chrismacnaughton.com/Hi%20HackerNews! ====== IceyEC Probably should make sure that bad geo location doesn't make the whole thing break :) ------ IceyEC It's amazing what you can accomplish while waiting for a Windows 7 install!
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Writing Your Last For-Loop - Beautiful Code - nickb http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/10/writing_your_last_forloop.php ====== cperciva Before criticizing a language, understand it. In this case, the author can't even write a for loop correctly: for(int n = 0; n < size; ++n) sum += ele...
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Resume: 30 seconds to impress - Jaminh http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/02/25/a_glimpse_and_a_hook.html ====== wallflower As someone who has been at the same software company for 8+ years, reading articles about how you need to have a professional presence / a dossier on the web (blog, LinkedIn) frankly fr...
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Ask HN: Is there a Canva for mobile UI/UX? - febin I am a devleoper who don&#x27;t know to design. I struggle with CSS and XML too. Instead of designing from scratch, I was wondering if there&#x27;s any tool that can help me use existing UI templates to develop apps faster. Sketch, Figma, etc needs the user to have kn...
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iTunes Store Japan labels all purchases as Title “” by Artist “null” - kalleboo https://twitter.com/search?q=itunes%20null&src=typd ====== kalleboo Anyone who let through a massive Unicode bug into production, you can feel _slightly_ better now that the world's biggest music retailer broke sales in their second bigg...
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Generation Y Internet users aspire to become rich and famous rather than work for their country - tim http://www.hero.ac.uk/media_relations/18020.cfm ====== shogunmike It's a shame that so many people will not attempt to follow on with their "dream job" goals. At my UK University there is a strong culture of gettin...
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Sharing Is (Still) Hard - ivankirigin http://blog.kirigin.com/sharing-is-still-hard ====== apaprocki I understand your specific pain ;) I suppose a quick "hack" would be to allow creating "managed" accounts where you can easily have management access over a sub-section of family/friend accounts without knowing their p...
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NoMansSky: Update 1.3, Atlas Rises - based2 http://www.nomanssky.com/atlas-rises-update/ ====== Jare After being massively in love with the original game (first Steam game I get 100% achievements), I just started a new save. So far it feels mostly the same amazing and self-guided experience, just a bit deeper, so I'm ...
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Show HN: Slingring – Chroot-based development containers powered by Ansible - vlowrian https://github.com/vlow/slingring ====== tyingq Curious why schroot instead of something like "systemd-nspawn -D /the/chroot/dir". Might offer a little more flexibility in configuration. I guess, though, schroot allows for full non-...
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Did Team Oprah Rig a Contest Against Zach Anner? We Investigate (thoroughly) - interesse http://www.geekosystem.com/zach-anner-rigged-votes-oprah/ ====== camworld About 10 years ago I was approached by Oprah's producers to be on her show. I showed no interest but they were very persistent. They called me every day a...
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Becoming a better developer (2014) - ooooak https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb ====== scarecrowbob "Musicians get better by practice and tackling harder and harder pieces, not by switching instruments or genres, nor by learning more and varied easy pieces. Ditto almost every other specialty inhab...
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With Yelp Knockoff, Groupon’s Still Searching for Magic Bullet - orin_hanner http://recode.net/2014/10/22/with-yelp-knockoff-groupons-still-searching-for-magic-bullet/ ====== rjf1331 So more small businesses can be coerced into selling their products at 25% of retail value in the name of "getting their name out ther...
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Worn Out EMMC Chips Are Crippling Older Teslas - slowhand09 https://hackaday.com/2019/10/17/worn-out-emmc-chips-are-crippling-older-teslas/ ====== jacquesm That's clearly a manufacturing defect, warranty expired or not. You should be able to expect a car to function for many years beyond the warranty, to have a time-b...
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Apple, Samsung Agree to End Patent Suits Outside U.S - dannynemer http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-05/apple-samsung-agree-to-end-patent-suits-outside-u-s-.html ====== Zikes Because as their rampant patent trolling gets called out and smacked down in more sane courts, the US will become the lone lunatic and doub...
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Ask HN: Is there a website, which analyzes UX of Products? - noobplusplus I came through this awesome site useronboard.com which does a teardown of how different services onboarded different users.<p>Is there a similar site, which does a teardown of features of webapps or SaaS Apps? ====== ASquare There's one that d...
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Ask HN: Real-world experience importing from China? - mistermann Is anyone familiar with the site alibaba.com? "Global Trade starts here" they say. As far as I know, alibaba is basically a hub for overseas manufacturers to contact overseas buyers....you buy products in minimum lots of 100, etc.<p>It seems logical ...
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Confirmed: Amazon RDS Mysql is not vulnerable to the Password Exploit - mark_ellul https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=353148 ====== mark_ellul Sorry my last post had a funky char after the URL
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Take a screenshot every minute and see how you're spending your day - knes https://github.com/tjluoma/screenshot-journal ====== Semiapies This is just like some spyware my employer used to put on everyone's computers, years back. Weirdly, this was not a feature they seemed to be aware of - everyone was taken by surp...
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Whatsapp changed their emoji styles: added gloss - abhas9 http://imgur.com/gallery/WvvLC ====== clydethefrog Can you check if they also edited the gun emoji? I wish Unicode enforced their rules better, nowadays Apple decides how emoji look. Edit: They did. ------ flukus As a mere programmer, they look identical to ...
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Spotify’s Love/Hate Relationship with DNS - yarapavan https://labs.spotify.com/2017/03/31/spotifys-lovehate-relationship-with-dns/ ====== jlgaddis What Spotify calls a "stealth primary" has typically been referred to as a "hidden master" for 15 years or so. Googling that term will turn up more relevant results, for an...
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Deep Learning might not be a silver bullet - cjauvin http://lemire.me/blog/2017/01/27/deep-learning-the-silver-bullet/ ====== webmaven _> everything evolves by a process akin to natural selection. Nature acquires an ever growing bag of tricks that are being constantly refined. In effect, there is an overarching proces...
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Show HN: Web Based Chat – Anonymous / Historyless / Loginless / $Topic-Ed - rahul_vagadiya http://holaa.io/ ====== fs2 Looks cool and it works pretty well so far. But why no https? ------ rahul_vagadiya Any feedback is welcome guys :)
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Spy with Openvpn - mr-cribo hi guys I wanna know that is it possible to spy with openvpn in the arch linux ?? I got a openvpn file from my pal and it was related to a project , but I don&#x27;t have trust to it . based on your opinion Do think is it possible ? I mean is that buy a dns server and monitoring the sit...
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Introducing Facebook Shops - davidbarker https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/introducing-facebook-shops/ ====== saadalem Small businesses operated either individually or by less than 10 people. A bunch of customers buy products/services from these businesses. So they need a better way to: Engage with their customers S...
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When your data science activities can send you to prison - vincentg64 http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/doing-illegal-data-science-without-knowing-it ====== tgflynn This is a very strange article. The first set of activities would usually be considered to belong to the fields of cryptography or informa...
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Show HN: A Tinder-style app for deciding where to eat - kelvinfan https://github.com/kelvinfan001/findalicious ====== kelvinfan Covid restrictions are loosening up and restaurants are starting to reopen. Can't wait to finally eat out with your friends and family, but not used to the plethora of options out there anymo...
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Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation - Lilian_Lee https://pingcap.com/blog/10x-performance-improvement-for-expression-evaluation-made-possible-by-vectorized-execution/ ====== gameswithgo I have an 'art/game' project in Rust that uses vectorized expression evaluation to draw ...
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