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Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08) - sgupta http://ohlife.com/ ====== aw3c2 Quick first glance feedback on the page, take it or leave it: a) "the easiest way to" lowercase start and then "Write your life story" uppercase start. Seems weird to me. The other way around or both upperca...
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Kinect automation controller, sparked by HN, adds WebGL, available for purchase - nitrogen http://nitrogen.posterous.com/webgl-new-features-added-to-kinect-powered-ho ====== carbon14 Watched the video. Looks very solid. I'm interested in getting this setup for my HTPC/server and lamps. It could certainly save some ene...
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New data supports finding that 30% of servers are ‘comatose’ [pdf] - r721 http://anthesisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Case-Study_DataSupports30PercentComatoseEstimate-FINAL_06032015.pdf ====== dang Url changed from [http://www.computerworld.com/article/2937408/data- center/1-i...](http://www.computerworld.co...
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Amazon S3: New pricing model - unfoldedorigami http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/05/01/amazon-s3-new-pricing-model/ ====== vlad Additional info (from the e-mail I received) in case anybody cares: "P.S. Please note that the reduced bandwidth rates shown above will also take effect for Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS. The ba...
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The Secret Lives of NYC Mega-Projects - aaronbrethorst http://gizmodo.com/the-photographer-who-documents-the-secret-life-of-nyc-m-1697968505 ====== partisan I recently spoke to a few people who have worked on these large scale municipal projects. We think we have a hard time managing active software projects. These pr...
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First photograph of light as both a particle and wave (2015) - ThomPete http://m.phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html ====== msimpson This article is much more clear on what the image actually represents: [http://www.livescience.com/50019-image-light-wave- particle.h...](http://www.livescience.com/50019-image-light-wav...
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Ask HN: What are the best Bay Area programming meetups? - fuqted Specifically for someone looking to learn. I&#x27;m in Oakland and pretty open as far as languages go.<p>What meetups do you guys go to? ====== dhruvkar The east bay python meetup is pretty relaxed, and has grown quite a bit in the last year. It's at Lo...
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Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites - diafygi https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041087 ====== codezero There have been a few times when I've got a legitimate red icon for bad certificates and what not. Pushing this to the rest of the web will mean I'll miss real errors through th...
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Michael Arndt to Write Screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII - jwallaceparker http://starwars.com/news/michael-arndt-to-write-screenplay-for-star-wars-episode-vii.html ====== lazugod ...you posted this eleven times. ~~~ dfc Twelve times. I flagged 11 of them.
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The New Mind Control: How the Internet Flips Elections and Alters Our Thoughts - Jerry2 https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts ====== dc2 "Google and its top executives donated more than $800,000 to President Barack Obama and just $37,000 to his opponent, Mitt Romney." Did you...
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Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1? - zdw https://jakewharton.com/which-is-better-on-android-divide-by-two-or-shift-by-one/ ====== anyfoo Thorough work. Going back to the premise, I want to offer an alternative viewpoint by asking whether, in the case of binary trees implemented by arrays, “integer ...
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WinAntiRansom – Prevents encryption of your files - spaceboy https://www.winpatrol.com/winantiransom/ ====== eyer2016 Lol
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Leaked north korean documentary exposes western propaganda. - daralthus http://superchief.tv/leaked-north-korean-documentary-exposes-western-propaganda-and-its-scary-how-true-it-is/ ====== draq How do you imagine a world without "propaganda"? Mine would be one without this documentary. ------ stefantalpalaru It's pro...
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Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of - slinky http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/16/cloud-computing-for-the-rest-of-us ====== 51Cards I think this article is perfectly valid. What everyone here is forgetting is that we are a pretty focused demographic of technical people. If you ask the average CNN us...
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Ask HN: Living as a hacker in the bay area. - dvcat I will be moving to the bay area once I graduate in a few months. One of the big plus points for me to move to the bay area will be to try to interact and learn from a bunch of smart people by going to hacker dojos, user group meets and conferences (mainly in machi...
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Bringing improved PDF support to Google Chrome - jancona http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/bringing-improved-pdf-support-to-google.html ====== s3graham Oh sweetness. I was using this [https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhg...](https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhgmkedmbmed...
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The Systemd Project Forks the Linux Kernel - dezgeg http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community ====== hleszek Checking the calendar: not yet first april... ~~~ computer Looks like a weekly magazine, so this edition would cover April 1st. ------ sspiff This is not the real systemD repository. This i...
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Social experiment - single thoughts on programming that made an impact - RiderOfGiraffes With the indulgence of the regulars, I'd like to try an experiment. Recently, as a result of an item here, I read an article from which a single line has stuck. It wasn't the most profound, it wasn't the most amusing, it wasn'...
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Show HN - SuggestMeLearn, My first web application - hhimanshu - After starting and quitting so many times, I finally decided to start small project and created SuggetMeLearn - This is my first ever attempt to a complete web application - The idea is to - let people suggest the way they learnt a particular language...
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The Facebook of China - GBond http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1715041/print ====== smoody formatted version of the article with photos: [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/152/the-socialist- networ...](http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/152/the-socialist- networks.html)
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The ad tech renaissance - taylorbuley http://bokonads.com/the-ad-tech-renaissance/ ====== oxymoron I'll concede that the analysis isn't completely without merit, but having spent the last few years in ad tech, I sincerely hope that there won't be a revival. It's a race to the bottom. Publishers are struggling and are ...
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Ask HN: Best encrypted cloud storage option? - kotrunga What is the best option for storing my files in the cloud, completely encrypted and secure?<p>Not like Dropbox, or other services where a government entity could force the company in giving up someone&#x27;s files. Completely secure.<p>If rolling my own from home...
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Show HN: Yet another Hacker News Reader for Android. - jamhed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ncom.yahn Hopefully doesn&#x27;t suck. ====== lumelet Switching between article and comments and display of nested comments are great.
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Is Artificial Intelligence Good? - Anon84 https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2019/10/14/is-artificial-intelligence-good/#6073e28e6f70 ====== motivic Are nuclear bombs good? In the end it largely depends on how they are used.
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How Google Deals With A Recession - nreece http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/how-google-deals-with-a-recession-goog ====== nostrademons I just tried the same query he has in the screenshot - no ads in the suggest box. Same with a bunch of other queries that I thought would likely come with ads.
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Things a text editor must do - davweb http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/11/verity_stob_text_editor/ ====== bcoates Before you all get too angry about the scandalous lies about your favorite editor note that this is a Verity Stob column. If you're reading it for a sober, fair-minded review of the various tradeoffs...
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Letters and Symbols: How I designed the Keen IO logo - micahwolfe https://keen.io/blog/43496487388/letters-and-symbols-how-i-designed-the-keen-io-logo ====== alexdevkar The more I hear from designers, the more I realize how much more thought I should be putting into design choices. ~~~ mwetzler no kidding. The bran...
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How Militaries Should Plan for AI - jonbaer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/how-militaries-should-plan-for-ai ====== CitizenTekk We cannot stop technology, for as we know, we'll heading to a star "war"-ish era if that happen. One thing we must do is, if military will use it to betterment of humanrace and not ext...
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Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness on 1956 Episode of I’ve Got a Secret - barredo http://laughingsquid.com/lincoln-assassination-eyewitness-on-1956-episode-of-ive-got-a-secret/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== JangoSteve This i...
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LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC - lispm https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/llvms-garbage-collection-facilities-and-sbcl-s-generational-gc-a13eedfb1b31 ====== pcwalton > I hope I explained why “one size fits all” does not really do it in garbage > collection. Great to see people acknowl...
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Android is Winning - speg http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/android-is-winning/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 ====== factorialboy Of course Android wins as a platform. Apple still makes good money for share- holders. Win-win?
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Coco Color – A coloring stylus for kids - hughnjbell http://cococolor.com ====== psychogenic Not sure what I think of a tablet "coloring book" but the tech is intriguing... According to [https://cococolor.com/pages/instruction#best- results](https://cococolor.com/pages/instruction#best-results) it seems the apps ju...
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Music streaming platforms' audience sizes compared - marcadam http://www.ventureharbour.com/which-music-discovery-platform-has-the-most-effective-marketing/ ====== quahada Among the bleeding edge tech community, Deezer and Spotify are considered the poster children. It's interesting how big Pandora's following is, a...
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Dallas Siren Hack Done by Radio, Not Computer – Dallas Observer - lightlyused http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-siren-hack-done-by-radio-not-computer-9358087 ====== lightlyused "By hijacking the signal going into the transmitter, the hacker seemingly managed to trigger all of the sirens at once." This sentenc...
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Pakistan blocks YouTube website - muriithi http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7261727.stm ====== Electro Hmm, I'd have thought the recordings of webcam girls and clips of porno's and people talking about sex would have been the reason. Go figure, religion doesn't censor on the basis of morals or the logic descend...
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Docker: Not Even a Linker - nkurz http://adamierymenko.com/docker-not-even-a-linker ====== btrask Fantastic article. We need more deconstruction of "fads" (which I don't mean in a pejorative sense) so that we can quickly understand them without sacrificing tens of thousands of man-hours slowly coming to terms with eac...
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Howard Schulz, CEO of Starbucks, joins Groupon's Board of Directors - mjfern http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/changes-to-the-groupon-board-of-directors/ ====== longarm It's more impressive when companies add people to their board who add a perspective other than the entrenched (dare I say evil) mindset of their co...
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Ask HN: Designing a Database - bgnm2000 I'm primarily a designer with a good amount of code experience (classes in school, messing around on my own etc.) I started to learn rails over the summer, and built one pretty messy app. That said, I'm gearing up to build my second app, this time around I've been thinking a lot...
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It's complicated: Facebook's terrible 2018 - sahin-boydas https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2018/dec/24/facebook-2018-timeline-year-in-review-privacy-scandals ====== ethiclub Does anyone have any good devil's advocate information on Facebook? \- The company does not seem to have an appropriate eth...
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File System Hierarchy 3.0 RC1 Proposal - JustinGarrison http://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/fhs/fhs.html#usrshareArchitectureindependentData ====== grigio I'm still waiting `/Users` `/Applications`. Only Gobolinux has it
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Name.com Responds to HTP Security Breach - Judson http://pastebin.com/We3xgT4J ====== 3JPLW Interesting that they don't talk about any action they have taken in response (beyond asking their customers to perform some action and implementing vague "security measures"). I would hope that they've identified and fixed t...
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How to get stuff done, automatically - acoleman616 http://www.alexpcoleman.com/productivity/get-stuff-done/?hn ====== digitalsushi I get a db error with the query string referrer [http://www.alexpcoleman.com/productivity/get-stuff- done/](http://www.alexpcoleman.com/productivity/get-stuff-done/) works for me ~~~ the...
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Lazy Loading in Java - twotriangles http://mlapadula.com/blog/2011/08/28/lazy-initialization-in-java.html ====== sidcool Getting 404 ~~~ chromejs10 same
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12 things I learned from pitching VCs this past week - scrollinondubs http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2007/12/12/lessons-from-vc-pitches/ ====== dhouston good stuff. sam altman told us the most important thing for him was to remember #8 -- they need you as much as you need them. they _want_ to believe that you're the ...
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Show HN: Bon – programming language designed for simplicity, performance, safety - FBMachine https://github.com/FBMachine/bon ====== ngcc_hk Have a quick look. Quite easy to read. Just not sure does it have an advantage over swift which seems quite easy to read, cross 2 platform at least (linux and macOS, the windows ...
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The State of JavaScript on Android Is Poor - megaman821 https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889 ====== voltagex_ > It just means over time you'll lose Android users as they get fed up with > the huge speed disparity (if they care, or notice) but you'll retain and > grow iO...
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Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels from E-Criminals - monsieurpng https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/27/americans-are-receiving-unordered-parcels-from-chinese-e-criminals-and-cant-do-anything-about-it/#4399dca873da ====== fapjacks I had an interesting experience recently. I ordered a cheap $20 mul...
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Are We Reaching the Limits of Silicon Valley’s Venture Model? - ot https://medium.com/@bryce/are-we-reaching-the-limits-of-silicon-valleys-venture-model-f7b7f3708a50#.tmp1sm3u2 ====== FiatLuxDave It seems to me that the big issue with the SV venture model is the geographic limitation of its current implementation. The...
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After a year of using Node.js in production - 0xmohit http://geekforbrains.com/post/after-a-year-of-nodejs-in-production ====== placebo I usually don't respond to anything which I feel is just another "language war" provocation, but whenever I see these type of reviews I'm mystified. I've developed in many languages a...
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BlogKeenja: Ready to post Blog images for your Startups - TahaKhan http://blogkinja.d5gravity.com ====== TahaKhan Free stock photos are great, however, they fall short on fulfilling the exact requirements of most of the startups. Let's say a startup wants to blog about A/B testing they will not be able to find a relev...
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The Most Powerful Sales Tool at Lowe's: Satellites - 1337biz http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-26/lowes-most-powerful-sales-tool-satellites ====== maxerickson The actual information is less exciting: _Laura Champine - Canaccord Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Your close rate performance was ...
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IOS app store has created unrealistic pricing expectations - kgutteridge http://appcubby.com/blog/5-is-the-new-10/ ====== jeremymcanally I think I prefer an open market with prices that have naturally fallen to this point than something with artificially inflated prices. There are two things at play here. One, the ...
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Show HN: Unskew My Search, a web extension for peaking into the Google black box - Unskew https://www.unskewmysearch.com/ ====== Unskew Unskew My Search is an experimental browser extension that seeks to help you discover how your personal search results are being skewed by Google recommendation algorithms. Problem: ...
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What will robocars actually be like? - cstross http://singularityhub.com/2015/10/07/robocars-are-at-peak-hype-heres-what-theyll-actually-be-like/ ====== ph0rque Personally, I'm looking forward to owning (or even building) a self-driving tiny house sort of vehicle.
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Google tweaked algorithm after rise in US shootings - marvindanig https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/02/google-tweaked-algorithm-after-rise-in-us-shootings ====== entropea Is there any way to know this is being used only in positive-to-society ways? When Google has a near monopoly, is them having the abil...
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Maze62: a dense and speedy alphanumeric encoding for binary data - DenisM http://blog.altudov.com/2011/05/16/maze62-a-dense-and-speedy-alphanumeric-encoding-for-binary-data/ ====== andfarm I'm having trouble thinking of any situations where you're free to use any alphanumerics, but you absolutely can't use anything el...
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Automated Invoicing for BaseCRM - peritusnyc https://paycove.io ====== peritusnyc Paycove allows your sales team to automatically generate and collect invoices from your deal-flow on BaseCRM. We've worked carefully with our clients to build a product that saves time and reduces your invoice collection timelines. Once...
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How I got into Y Combinator and fathered a child, almost simultaneously - antongm http://adgrok.com/pseudorandomness-or-how-i-got-into-y-combinator-and-had-a-child-with-a-woman-i-barely-knew-almost-simultaneously ====== abstractbill I enjoy reading posts like these for the perspective they give me on how differently...
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K-Nearest Neighbors from Scratch - craigkerstiens https://lettier.github.io/posts/2016-06-10-k-nearest-neighbors-from-scratch.html ====== Radim While the topic may seem trivial and the execution/implementation a bit too naive, it should be noted the author is a _graphic designer_! Check out David's homepage [0] -- ori...
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Automatic server hardening framework - dewey https://telekomlabs.github.io/ ====== allendoerfer Seems like a nice and comfortable way to set sane defaults for nginx, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL and some Unix stuff - but they really should have been set by each software in the first place. I like, the private touch the ...
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SimCity should do a galactic sim to design species - vtempest After playing SimCity, I think: Why not go galactic? Imagine a version where you are the god-like consciousness of the universe. You input various characteristics of how you want the universe designed and the species that live on various planets. You watc...
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New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year - rihegher https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-29/a-new-kind-of-male-birth-control-is-coming ====== WA This is big. This is the future of contraception, because it works, it's incredibly cheap, it has (almost?) no side effects. All curre...
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The Infinite Set: On '2001: A Space Odyssey' - prismatic http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2013/space_odyssey ====== GuiA What a great essay. Worth the read. _" Upon reaching Jupiter, Bowman is guided into a wormhole, triggering Trumbull’s bravura psychedelic sequence. On either side of a perpendicular line di...
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Three-Factor Authentication Using EEG Earbuds - johnnybaptist https://biosense.berkeley.edu/portfolio/brainwave-authentication-and-brain-computer-interface-using-in-ear-eeg/ ====== johnnybaptist Security overkill but a cool proof of concept for using brain waves as an authentication method. More technical details her...
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The Big Book of Bitcoin - An introduction - alphydan http://alvarofeito.com/articles/the-big-book-of-bitcoin/#.UUxY7MrTvGw.hackernews ====== willholloway This is a great intro to bitcoin. It made me feel more optimistic about the prospects of the currency. It highlights many of the risks and benefits but misses out o...
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Build An Animated Chart In 19 Lines Of Code With d3.js - louischatriot http://needforair.com/blog/2012/05/09/d3-tutorial/ ====== TwistedWeasel I've been learning d3.js myself lately, and i'm very impressed. As it's popularity increases it's worth reading this article from Mike Bostock, the creator of d3 proposing so...
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French CEO Prisoned After His Policies Resulted in Suicides of 35 Employees - chirau https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/12/23/french-ceo-sent-to-prison-after-his-policies-resulted-in-the-suicides-of-35-employees/ ====== akerl_ If 4 months in jail and a $16k fine is their idea of a severe punishment for an int...
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GluePrint - Implement Designs Pixel Perfect - koenbok http://glueprintapp.com ====== avelis Slick tool. There are scenarios where this does work and work well (e.g. static layout) but for responsive web layout design involving transitions this falls a little flat. ------ killing_time This looks like a neat tool, wi...
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Xkcd 1110 high res PDF (moved away from dropbox) - reinierladan http://s.rlink.co/JZPY ====== reinierladan Dropbox says "This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!" so I put it on Cloud app as a backup.
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Rust 0.8 released - steveklabnik https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/005804.html ====== chrismorgan If you were wanting to use Rust but also wanted to use HTTP (client _or_ server), I've got [https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust- http](https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http) which has rapidly...
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Why I've built an alternative to Github - fnando http://blog.codeplane.com/why-ive-built-an-alternative-to-github.html ====== mechanical_fish I don't understand this use case: _These projects are mainly side projects, or small freelance jobs I've done through the years, and I want to save them for posterity; who kno...
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Lawyer who argued for Internet sales taxes admits he doesn't pay them - gnicholas https://medium.com/@nicklum/the-attorney-who-convinced-the-supreme-court-to-allow-internet-sales-taxes-just-admitted-that-hes-a7ef9ce8ae35 ====== edbaskerville I see this as a great argument for his side, actually. State governments need...
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Reaching and re-engaging users on the mobile web - cjdulberger http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/reaching-and-re-engaging-users-on.html ====== untog This is pretty interesting. I remember some time ago Vox Media (who make The Verge and Polygon along with Vox itself) declared that they were going web- only: [http://w...
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Ask HN: How to prepare for an interview at a startup - mmackh I've been contacted a few startups, who noticed the Open Source work I had done this year. They had requested to speak to me via phone to do an interview. What is the best way to prepare for such an interview? Is there a resource that I could refer to?<p>...
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Microbes that eat and breathe electricity - gnrlbzik http://www.popsci.com/node/223292/?cmpid=enews012215 ====== gnrlbzik Still can't wrap my head around this.
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Show HN: Txr – Transfer files/directories to others with WebSocket streams - whatl3y https://github.com/whatl3y/txr ====== cannedslime Interresting but it really doesn't seem that simple. I usually just use rsync whenever I need to move some stuff from one machine to the other. I can't really take your word for it th...
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Cooking in Silico: Heat Transfer in the Modern Kitchen [video] - phreeza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKSdQJrIWY ====== Synaesthesia All-round genius Nathan Myhrvold shows a classroom a preview on his new tome on the science of cooking, obtained with state of the art techniques. Great video thanks! ------ Synaesth...
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Librem 5 Hardware Update - kgwxd https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-hardware-update-2/ ====== zunzun Has any technical comparison been made of the Librem 5 and the Pine64 hardware or development kit performance? I know that Pine64 will also release a tablet- only version of their phone, but have not seen whether this is p...
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A year and a half with Alexa - raimundjoss https://medium.com/@sawaba/a-year-and-a-half-with-alexa-amazon-echo-9d04e0e2041b#.7m710asve ====== esthermun The key to get _magic_ from Alexa long term will be get unsupervised learning working on it, and then shared back across the entire Alexa user base. The Brazilian real...
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Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing? - isuckatcoding I am currently working in a position that felt like a great startup to work at during my interview. However, a few months into the job I realized my boss was a complete and utter asshole. Given this is my first job out of colleg...
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Strategy: Front S3 with a Caching Proxy - pbnaidu http://highscalability.com/strategy-front-s3-caching-proxy ====== jm4 I'm not sure this improves the situation much. In fact, it probably will only make things worse since you've got an additional point of failure. The proxy will keep your site up if S3 goes down, but...
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Show HN: How to integrate and automate iOS deployments in TFS environment - trvd1707 http://www.nonstandardsolutions.com/2014/07/my-quest-to-automate-mobile-deployments.html ====== trvd1707 I have a need to integrate my iOS development with TFS repository. The dev ops that only use Windows boxes need to be able to b...
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In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then? - atirip http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/08/7575/ ====== pan69 We took Apple's side since these sort of lawsuits are petty. It's the same reason we now take Samsung's side. ~~~ shimsham oh look, the wind just changed direction... ------ y2kenny What ...
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Floating offshore regulation free tech incubator interests over 100 startups - leejw00t354 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/10/floating-city-attracts-more-than-100-startups ====== stephengillie One of the "secrets" is that all the above-ground space is already within someone's jurisdiction ;) ~~~ dgit No...
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Production Rails Tuning with Passenger: PassengerMaxProcesses - itsderek23 http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/12/08/production-rails-tuning-with-passenger-passengermaxprocesses ====== jeremyw _Generally speaking, you want to fill up as much RAM as possible with passenger processes without utilizing swap in order...
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Show HN: How we built our new Help site: API-powered, client-driven, responsive - progolferyo http://blog.chartboost.com/post/36221629171/web-3-0-help-site?hn ====== SeoxyS Hey guys, it's the author here. Working on this site, I really wanted to try all of the modern best practices and try to make something really ...
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Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (1982) [pdf] - tosh https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/1982-perlis.pdf ====== braythwayt Alan Perlis's own page listing the epigrams, in HTML for ease of readability, copying, and accessibility: [http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis- alan/quotes.html](http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis...
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NZ Auction Site Bans iPad-Lookalike Tablets - Semteksam http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/nz_auction_site_bans_ipad-lookalike_tablets/ ====== digiwizard lickspittle sycophant: awesomest description of the day.
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Takipi – Java debugging reinvented - nivstein http://www.takipi.com/ ====== steve_barham I want to test this product, and I'm in a position where I could spend real money on a purchase or subscription to this service in the event that it does what we need. Unfortunately, as soon as I see that data is sent off-site,...
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Ask HN: Do YC Startups Lack Spine? - villageidiot By that I mean the kind of business instincts that are needed to really make a killing in the marketplace.<p>There seems to be an abundance of admirable nobility in the aims of YCers but not a lot of ruthlessness.<p>Maybe this is a function of the relative youth and ...
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Responsible Disclosure Can Be Anything But - daeken http://daeken.com/responsible-disclosure-can-be-anything-but ====== sriramk I'm shocked he didn't even try to contact Onity. He's trying ascribe motivations and possible behavior just based on his reading of the lock market - we have no idea whether Onity would hav...
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Practicing Programming (2005) - luu https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programming ====== ntoshev I think practicing programming should be about: 1\. trying many new things 2\. in a very tight feedback loop So, code little ideas, but make sure you start from the essence of the problem - not the re...
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Ask HN: Best C Package Manager? - archivist1 Want to develop a cross-platform (win&#x2F;posix) project in C&#x2F;C++ for small binary size (and learning) and want to be as efficient and productive as I am in Node&#x2F;JS with npm.<p>I&#x27;m thinking a package manager can help me learn and avoid writing a lot of boile...
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Ipad security app - btechster3 So I just got an Ipad and thought to myself, I just spent $600 on this thing! What if someone steals it from me. Anyone interested in creating a security app for the ipad which sends you an alert if your ipad has been stolen and tracks it down for you? ====== gmac <http://www.orbicule...
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Will the increase in HB-1 visas mean lower wages for IT folks? - brohoolio Will the increase in HB-1 visas mean lower wages for IT folks? ====== bdfh42 As an external observer I have to say that this is what they would appear to be for. There does not seem to be a shortage of skilled developers in the USA - least of...
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Russians buy Yahoo! - darkduck http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-03/silver-lake-discussing-yahoo-with-alibaba-digital-sky.html ====== pavel_lishin Headline is patently false in at least two ways.
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Ethereum Constantinople protocol upgrade postponed until further notice - davidiach https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1085275971660509184 ====== lostctown Here's the EIP (Ethereum improvement proposal) causing problems. [https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1283.m...](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/b...
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EC2 High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance (244 GiB RAM) - jeffbarr http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/ec2-for-in-memory-computing-the-high-memory-cluster-eight-extra-large.html ====== michaelt Almost all the big EC2 outages have been due to EBS, and you have to pay extra for it as well. Netflix steers clear...
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Wall Street's Bailout Hustle - chaostheory http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32255149/wall_streets_bailout_hustle/ ====== btilly The sad thing about the banker's bonuses is that if they honestly tried to mark to market all of the bad debt that is still on their books they actually _lost_ money last year. The...
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How I got featured on TechCrunch (and many more) - sahillavingia http://sahillavingia.com/blog/2010/10/18/how-i-got-featured-on-techcrunch-and-many-more/ ====== lubos I think that email wasn't that good at all. tell me who cares your software was rewritten from the ground up. also most of those bullet points (searchin...
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