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History of Windows Startup Sounds - showhndaily http://mashable.com/2012/10/24/windows-startup-sounds/ ====== showhndaily Followed by Blue Screens of Death - <http://mashable.com/2012/10/25/microsoft- blue-screens/> ------ showhndaily Brings back memorable moments of waiting on my old desktop PCs to boot up.
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Ask HN: How much time do you spend with your spouse or partner? - septerr How much time approximately do you spend with your significant other on weekdays and weekends? ====== mtmail Some will answer little, others with answer a lot, yet others 'it depends'. And all can be happy or complete unhappy with that scenari...
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Show HN: And now for something furniture and movie related - aswerty https://www.seenonset.com/ ====== aswerty Submitter here. Over the last number of months me and a friend have built a website (www.seenonset.com) for finding and buying furniture and decor that's found on the set of movies and TV shows. I have a tec...
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Task management software - celljunk-e I'm looking for a recommendation for a good hosted task management system. All I need to do is post tasks, notes with the tasks, file attachments and set priority. I found basecamp to be really annoying. Any suggestions? Paid is fine...not looking to be cheap. ====== adamtaa...
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Former CIA Director argued for more appropriate responses to leaks - Nokinside https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/sep/11/cia-leakers/ ====== tristanj This document was written in 1984 and was publically released in 2008. Meaning it was written during the Cold War in an entirely different political climate. It...
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Cutting edge: Just what is it about adding blades that makes a razor better? - boundlessdreamz http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/04/beauty.mens.razors ====== omgsean I get a better shave out of my single-blade safety razor, shave stick, and brush system than I ever got out of my five-blade shaving-cream...
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Online Collaborative Modeling; Still Sketchy - DanielBMarkham http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/online-collaborative-modeling-still-sketchy/ ====== DanielBMarkham Author here. If anybody has any other tools they'd like to share, I'd love to hear about them. Happy to update the grid.
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The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design - SirLJ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs ====== mattlondon Just out of curiosity, am I the only one that seems to be happy to just sit on a dining chair when at my desk? When the WFH wave hit, people seemed to be going mad buyi...
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Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface - prostoalex https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/01/play-a-video-game-using-only-your-mind/ ====== nabla9 [https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08632](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08632) If I understood the paper correctly, the results are totally unimpres...
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Can Universal Basic Income Achieve Economic Security? - UpshotKnothole https://daily.jstor.org/can-universal-basic-income-achieve-economic-security/ ====== Fjolsvith Why don't we just go a step further into fairness and say that everyone gets the same income regardless of their wealth. Have the government take all the...
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Ask HN: Should it be illegal to discriminate against poor writers/speakers? - amichail Should it be illegal to discriminate against people who are poor writers/speakers but who are good enough to be clearly understood?<p>Why should society penalize people who have not mastered a messy natural language? ====== rmah I...
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Ask HN: Declining NDAs - nxzero Really dislike NDAs for intro talks, always say no to them, but don&#x27;t have any reasoning beyond if I have to sign some secrecy agreement just to find out how you create value, how&#x27;re you going to explain it to customers, investors, etc. who also normally don&#x27;t sign NDAs.<...
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Uber Surge Price? Research Says Walk a Few Blocks, Wait a Few Minutes - ckurose http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/29/452585089/uber-surge-price-research-says-walk-a-few-blocks-wait-a-few-minutes ====== mw67 Or use this app: [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/surgeprotector/id925613132?m...](https://i...
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Ohio school districts sue Facebook for accepting ECOT ad purchases - Keverw https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190411/ohio-school-districts-sue-facebook-for-accepting-ecot-ad-purchases ====== adamiscool8 On a quick read of the relevant statute [0], seems like they'd have to show the Facebook ad buys were made with actual...
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Hillary PAC Spends $1M to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook - kushti http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac-spends-1-million-to-correct-commenters-on-reddit-and-facebook.html ====== 6stringmerc "It's not propaganda when we do it!" \- Every Politician, Ever Kidding aside, I'm not a fan ...
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A Sound Card Before Its Time - userbinator http://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-sound-card-before-its-time/ ====== rahimnathwani Did any of you, back in the 90s, build a parallel port DAC to use with Linux's PC Speaker driver? I never did, but was tempted. In the end I just splurged the 80 GBP for a SoundBlaster 16. It's a...
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Z Kombinator - hassy http://zkombinator.com ====== TazeTSchnitzel The sad thing is that the Samwer brothers are real people who actually do this, and they're quite successful at it too: [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the- germany-...](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany- web...
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Headed To College? Design Your Dorm Lets You Build Your Pad In 3D - edw519 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/headed-to-college-design-your-dorm-lets-you-build-your-pad-in-3d/ ====== mcastner This is neat but I'd like to be able to try it out before having to register. The register popup should be when you wanna s...
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Drone used to save two swimmers caught in rough surf - SQL2219 http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/world-first-a-drone-has-been-used-to-rescue-two-swimmers-struggling-in-heavy-surf-20180118-h0kg9m.html ====== ColinWright Discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175512](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175512) ...
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uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions - tomse http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-becomes-ad-supported-to-rake-in-millions-120810/ ====== huhtenberg No surprise here, really. uTorrent went downhill steadily after it got bought by BitTorrent. The original uT was beautiful in its well-thought minimalist design...
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GNU RCS 5.9.2 - lelf http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-11/msg00014.html ====== comex I still use RCS occasionally for versioning single files, although the speed and ease of initialization of Git make it not so useful these days. Incidentally, having maintained RCS history for a large file that made it u...
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How to get enough protein without meat - petethomas https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/how-to-get-enough-protein-without-meat/2017/11/13/b6d139b4-c3d7-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html ====== spodek The article lists protein density in grams of protein per cup or ounce, but a more relevant measure is gr...
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Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care - mithunmanohar1 https://hackernoon.com/yes-python-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1 ====== scarface74 I was all ready to savage his opinion after reading the headline but I agree looking at my architecture that I designed for the company I work for, CPU isn't the bottleneck. E...
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Ask HN: Ways to make money on the side as a full time developer? - kace91 Context: I&#x27;m a European developer in my late twenties. I would like to make more money, as right now I&#x27;m barely able to save (just 100&#x2F;month or so, after cutting expenses). I have zero contacts to get small projects like websites...
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How to hire a good software development team? - meleshka Hi everyone!<p>I have an idea for a mobile app, but I haven&#x27;t got any coding skills. What is the best option for me: hiring a dedicated team of developers, trying to learn to code on my own, or looking for a freelancer? ====== raooll A software Engineer wit...
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Ask HN: Considering a move to the Bay Area with a family. Where should I live? - api I have what might be a very good job offer in the Bay Area. Not going to reveal with whom, but it&#x27;s in the vicinity of Mountain View.<p>It would involve relocation to Silicon Valley, so evaluating the possibility of living ther...
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Archy - stallmanite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy ====== stallmanite Defunct Textual User Interface which attempted to implement the ideas Jef Raskin had intended for use in the original Macintosh. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin)
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Super Mario Bros. is easy with lexicographic orderings and time travel - Swizec http://swizec.com/blog/week-2-level-1-of-super-mario-bros-is-easy-with-lexicographic-orderings-and/swizec/6392 ====== Choronzon I dont know why this isn't upvoted more.Its actually a beautiful visual illustration of the problems and chal...
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Startup School Speakers Rock the House - rms http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2008/04/startup-school-speakers-rock-the-house.html ====== sanj "And last but not least Kate Courteau for all her help with “afterparty logistics.” " There was an afterparty? And here I was feeling like one of the cool kids. ------ ...
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'Twisted light' carries 2.5 terabits of data per second - ytNumbers http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18551284 ====== nevster How could this boost wi-fi? (The article mentions wi-fi).
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Apple releases iOS 7.1 - davidbarker http://www.macrumors.com/2014/03/10/apple-releases-ios-7-1/ ====== baddox It looks like the evasi0n jailbreak has been patched as suspected. Based on the changelog it looks like there are far fewer new features in 7.1 that I want than features from my jailbreak that I would lose....
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Blank Touch Bar on MacBook Pro - codazoda http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/mac:blank_touch_bar_on_macbook_pro_late_2016 ====== codazoda Is it just me or are some of the rest of you having this problem?
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Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6B - alphadevx http://recode.net/2015/04/14/nokia-agrees-to-buy-alcatel-lucent-for-16-6-billion/ ====== pavlov Essentially this means that Nokia won't get back into consumer hardware for a good while. The mapping division (Here) will probably be sold soon. The mobile netwo...
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EU parliaments website in violation of GDPR - mgliwka https://medium.com/matthias-gliwka/eu-parliament-websites-violates-gdpr-200eb2c00e8f ====== deanclatworthy How is this news? Everyone is scrambling to be GDPR-compliant before the due date. Probably the people behind this site also. ~~~ candiodari Well, if the int...
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More than 600k UK workers lose their jobs amid lockdown - dustinmoris https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53060529 ====== gregory194 Pandemic has changed our lifestyles,Many people became poor and many startups has to shut their business. The prices in the market has increased, People don't have money to pay for their...
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StratifiedJS: Javascript + structured concurrency - danh http://onilabs.com/stratifiedjs ====== olegp If you prefer vanilla JS and are only working with Node, you should check out <https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers>. I use it in my <https://github.com/olegp/common-node> package to address the same issues as th...
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How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018) - Qaphqa https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html ====== okine Gerald Sussman, co-inventor of Scheme and author of SICP, was my undergraduate advisor. The last several times I visited his office, he was usually with Jack Wisdom either programming or deep in t...
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Some lessons from building a personal finance startup - justhailsatan https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1286027801963896832 ====== dencodev Twitter is such an annoying format for this sort of content
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Code Golf at Google - antichaos http://blog.zmxv.com/2015/07/code-golf-at-google.html ====== nate_martin Fun fact: there has been a problem with Googlers calculating hash functions that pass all the test cases for certain questions. ~~~ Retra If you think about it the right way, that's what everyone is doing: calcula...
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Ask HN: Is a multiple monitor setup significant to you when writing code? - crudx It seems like everywhere I read people keep mentioning how important it is for them to work on multiple monitors (usually it's two or three) or one very big monitor (such as a 27" or 30"), and often I hear them saying "the bigger the bet...
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AMA: Self-Employment, Remote Work – Gregory Brown (Programming Beyond Practices) - j_s https://mobile.twitter.com/practicingdev/status/771065320228421632 ====== practicingdev Oh hi! I wasn't expected this to be posted on HN, but I'm happy to discuss in the comments rather than having folks head over to Twitter. I as...
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Show HN: Facetflow – Hosted Elasticsearch for Windows Azure - nordbergm https://facetflow.com/ ====== jmparki
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Show HN: A curation of SaaS resources for developers - nicolasracchi https://github.com/nicolas-racchi/SaaS4Devs ====== nicolasracchi Hey HN, I've been learning a lot about SaaS & bootstrapped businesses in the past year, and I've collected a long list of resources, stories, links, and advice about this topic, coming ...
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VCs Look to Royalty-Based Financing to Fund Startups - gbookman http://blogs.sun.com/sun4startups/entry/vcs_look_to_royalty_based ====== ramsh Payments start with revenue. No revenue, no payments. People say revenue starts "immediately" assuming that the royalty-based VC funds a business that already has some revenu...
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Mechanical Turkers Consider Alternative Platforms - tomcam https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-turker-crowd-has-had-enough/ ====== twobyfour The premise is interesting, but the article reads like an ad for a specific alternative service.
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Tertill Weeding Robot - akeck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTWhMbnq9g ====== jelliclesfarm [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oWl6FD-7c](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oWl6FD-7c) : there are many mechanical weeding robots for field cultivation. France’s Naio Technologies is my favourite. They are coming to North Am...
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Cloud Computing Makes Servers Obsolete - lmacvittie http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2009/07/31/cloud-computing-makes-servers-obsolete.aspx ====== TrevorJ Because the "cloud" is made up of something other than servers? Am I missing something here, or is this just semantics? ~~~ jshen Yes you are....
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Ask HN: sensors that export data? - petervandijck I'm trying to manage the humidity in my new house, and have a humidity meter. But it doesn't export data over time. I'd like it to have a usb port so that I can get data over time and put it on my computer. I can also imagine wanting to do this with other data (tempe...
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Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development - jasonbourne1901 https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/35293 ====== Afforess How is lemmy going to avoid the fate of the last reddit alternative (voat)? Voat attracted the communities banned from reddit, e.g the worst of the worst: jailbait, creepsh...
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Mac OS X for .NET developer? - goorion http://foreverframe.pl/mac-os-x-for-net-developer/ ====== tracker1 Grr... looks like this doesn't work in any of the major caching engines I've tried, and can't get to tfa. :-/
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What are your favorite about:config tricks for Firefox? - known Mine are layout.spellcheckDefault = 2 ssl_domain_display = 2 browser.search.openintab = true ====== jmount network.prefetch-next = false (stops sites from being able to tell your browser to pre-fetch links, which seems like a large possible vulnerabilit...
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Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives? - bd http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026841.800-would-eating-heavy-atoms-lengthen-our-lives.html ====== pg It's kind of funny that the related articles include another one with a completely different thesis: Has universal ageing mechanism been foun...
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Markdown CSS styles - bretthardin https://github.com/mixu/markdown-styles ====== jasonm23 Would be nice if Mixu had provided some credits for those who he's appropriated from.
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Don't make me choose my country: Add geolocation to forms with three lines of JS - ascorbic https://mk.gg/add-geolocation-to-form-elements/ ====== ascorbic I was inspired to write this by a comment on HN. It's super-easy to progressively enhance your address forms.
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How to Reinstall macOS on a Fusion Drive - kartickv https://medium.com/@karti/how-to-reinstall-macos-on-a-fusion-drive-73713b97183f ====== jjjbokma Related: [http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/06/08/clean-install-mojave- fu...](http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/06/08/clean-install-mojave-fusion- drive.html)
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Blog subdomain or subdirectory? Hint: one is 40% better - mymmaster https://buttercms.com/blog/blog-subdomain-or-subdirectory-hint-one-is-40-better ====== numberwhun The link is already down with a 502 error. I guess they are using the one that isn't 40% better. :) ------ mymmaster Ha. Looks like it's back up.
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Ask HN: Organizations keep trying to give me money for a thing I made - rianjs tl;dr- How do you engage with VARs in a way that will get their attention?<p>In the last two years, several organizations has asked to license a medical spell check dictionary that I made years ago. After exchanging emails, I lost two of th...
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Lambda Tutorial (2016) - ziyao_w http://www.nyu.edu/projects/barker/Lambda/ ====== eindiran The author of this tool is Chris Barker -- back in 2015, I took his course on "Continuations and Natural Language" at the LSA. He's working on a lot of really cool stuff, so its fun to see him pop up here. The class was a summa...
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Show HN: Remod, like chmod but for human beings - skainswoo https://github.com/samuela/remod ====== stephenr Really? What is hard about “u=rw;g=r;o=“ etc - literally no calculations involved. This “reinvent things that already work fine but in javascript” is getting old. ------ helb I've never felt the need for chmo...
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A Panoramic Tour of Factor (2015) - kencausey http://andreaferretti.github.io/factor-tutorial/ ====== polm23 I was under the impression Factor had been abandoned, but it seems things are pretty lively on git: [https://github.com/factor/factor/commits/master](https://github.com/factor/factor/commits/master) ------ ag...
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Summer of Design: "Design for Hackers," week by week - ph0rque http://summerofdesign.com/ ====== bbalfour I really like these week by week courses that are coming out. I have a lot of things I want to learn, so the cadence and content size of the weekly chunks is perfect. I'm looking forward to this one. I'd love to...
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MIT Expert Highlights 'Divergent Condition' Caused by 737 Max Engine Placement - chethiya https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/04/02/mit-expert-highlights-divergent-condition-caused-by-737-max-engine-placement/#697103940aab ====== cjbprime I agree that there should be three AoA sensors, as Airbus already has, ...
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US debt default and what it would mean - eande http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/01/what_a_debt_default_would_mean.html ====== eande Just reading that article turns my stomach. Personally I can not believe this will happen, but just the pure fact that the Congress is talking about it tells the story h...
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Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker with Large Screen - kjhughes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/amazon-said-to-plan-premium-alexa-speaker-with-large-screen ====== zitterbewegung I wonder how they are going to adapt the API for screens ? Maybe expand the card API ? ~~~ payne92 That's my guess...
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Microsoft brings Google war to Kansas - maudlinmau5 http://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-brings-google-war-kansas-010115788.html ====== eliben TL;DR Microsoft, who's forgotten what innovation is in the past 10 years and is hanging by a thread in a declining market, engages in the one thing it still knows and l...
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Washington Post Site Hacked After Successful Phishing Campaign - jessaustin http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/washington-post-site-hacked-after-successful-phishing-campaign/ ====== jessaustin Ha-ha, way to throw the sportswriter under the bus: "...I never entered any creds, I’m stupid, but not THAT stupid."
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Rebasing Is an Anti-Pattern - smartmic https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md ====== hinkley The elephant in the room with SVN was that merging two branches repeatedly was fraught with errors that just seemed to grow quadratically. It was part of why we were on the verge of assigning dedicated maintai...
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Google Eyeing 10% Market Share For Chrome. - edw519 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/google-eyeing-10-market-share-for-chrome-mac-version-due-by-the-end-of-the-year/ ====== buugs >While I think I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t like Chrome I have and they aren't always firefox extension users. ~~~ enomar W...
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The Secret Life of Time - sergeant3 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time ====== empath75 It might be interesting to consider how and whether time is relevant to computation. For example-- does time have an arrow on a computer? It does, for at least two reasons: 1) Computation physicall...
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DNC Staffer got pop-up messages alerting of “state-sponsored actors” - Shank http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/dnc-staffer-got-pop-up-messages-alerting-of-state-sponsored-actors/ ====== tonysdg Putting aside the politics of the situation, how exactly does the DNC continue to get hammered by apparently-malicious ...
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Ask HN: Your stack of choice for web development? - glazskunrukitis I would like to know what <i>stacks</i> are you using for web development. Things are changing fast and new technologies are emerging every other day so it's interesting to watch what comes out of it.<p>Node.js + NoSQL? Go? LAMP? ... ====== mindcrim...
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Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler is Better - philf http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/mobile-banks-in-the-developing-world-prove-simpler-is-better.html ====== known Why don't we see mobile gas stations?
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Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for billions of years (2016) - elorant https://www.disclose.tv/these-5d-glass-discs-store-360-tb-of-data-for-138-billion-years-370041 ====== YayamiOmate I dunno, but it seems to me universities increasingly focus on press releases and marketing departments... 5D and ...
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Foxconn to employ 1 Million Robots - avjinder http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/30/2355258/Foxconn-To-Employ-1-Million-Robots?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29 ====== ColinWright There are two stories on this currently posted to HN, this one, and the...
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Our Best Entrepreneurs Should Be Solving Real Problems, Not Creating Apps - jsherry http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-should-be-solving-real-problems-not-creating-apps-2012-3 ====== talmand I would say the best entrepreneurs should be out doing whatever it is they wish to do. If they want to work on creat...
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Ask HN: Be honest; Why do you want to achieve something? - spartan37 According to George Orwell - Sheer egoism (be popular etc), Aesthetic enthusiasm (art), Desire to discover something and boast about it, Desire to change the world - are the only motives for achievements.<p>I will add a few more: Make lots of money a...
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House of keys: 9 Months later... 40% Worse - robotdad http://blog.sec-consult.com/2016/09/house-of-keys-9-months-later-40-worse.html ====== robotdad The initial report from last year has interesting, if sadly unsurprising, background on how/why so many of these embedded devices have wound up this way. [http://blog.se...
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Mastodon 101: A Queer-Friendly Social Network You’re Gonna Like a Lot - smacktoward https://www.autostraddle.com/mastodon-101-a-queer-friendly-social-network-youre-gonna-like-a-lot-390948/ ====== smaragd Mastodon is federated, not decentralized. There's nothing decentralized about it unless you're an instance admin, o...
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Is The World in a Technological Inflection Point? - azewail https://www.chaino.com/pulse/this-article-is-imo-extremely-important-at-this-time-the ====== azewail The world is experiencing an inflection point. It will emerge 10 years from now very different from the world we are in now. This article sheds a lot of light...
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Why 'noncompete' means 'don't thrive' (2007) - hga http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/12/30/why_noncompete_means_dont_thrive_/ ====== hga Echoing an observation from this interview by the chairman emeritus of Greylock Partners (the Boston area's premier? VC firm, first limited parter VC firm, etc.): <http:...
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Lunar Lander 3D in 5K - nreece http://www.sebleedelisle.com/?p=428 ====== madmotive Seb presented the story behind this at the 5K app competition final (<http://fivepoundapp.com/wiki/5kapp/>), held in our coworking space (<http://theSkiff.org>) in Brighton, UK last week. Absolutely brilliant!
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TextSecure is becoming Signal - qznc https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/just-signal/ ====== etiam In the short term, as someone running without Google Play Sevices, I'm curious to see whether this just gave me access to the functionality of TextSecure again or broke RedPhone. Regardless of which, I'm optimistic abou...
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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down - sxp https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/health/coronavirus-mortality-testing.html ====== DeonPenny This just means that testing was limiting factor before but thats not a surprise based on the papers coming out. We even see this is data like cases/p...
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Startups: Get Funded with Extreme University - AlexBlom http://alexblom.com/blog/2010/05/startups-get-funded-with-extreme-university/ ====== faramarz Thanks for the reminder Alex. Maybe I'll catch you at the next Sproutup, good to see locals here. ~~~ AlexBlom No problems. Shoot me an e-mail /w the details listed in...
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Hive: Open-source Crowdsourcing Framework - danso http://blog.nytlabs.com/2014/12/09/hive-open-source-crowdsourcing-framework/ ====== pedrosorio "Hive is free and open source" Indeed: [https://hive.apache.org/](https://hive.apache.org/) ~~~ yarrel The link is in the article - [https://github.com/nytlabs/hive](http...
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When Node.js is the wrong tool for the job - vmware505 https://medium.com/@jongleberry/when-node-js-is-the-wrong-tool-for-the-job-6d3325fac85c#.gwnpqr3qs ====== klodolph It seems like a lot of JavaScript developers are repeating things like "more people know JavaScript so you don't have to learn a new language, which ...
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Staffed by mimes - ColinWright http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/11/staffed-by-mimes.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ====== zimpenfish If you use words, you have to have them translated into N languages. With pictograms, you likely don't need any translation. ~~~ ColinWright If you only use pict...
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Calliope mini - Tomte http://calliope.cc/ueber-mini ====== gus_massa Look interesting, but this is an English speaking forum and post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged. Do you know an official translation to English? How is this different from an Arduino? Autotranslation: [https://translate.google.co...
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8 secrets of success in 3 minutes - mariusc http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html ====== idlewan Has anyone read the book ([http://www.amazon.fr/Traits-Successful-People- Common-ebook/d...](http://www.amazon.fr/Traits-Successful-People-Common- ebook/dp/B003URRRT2)) ?
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Yelp casually exploits coronavirus with charity scam - Zenst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIYrjBEczE ====== Meph504 I like Rossmann, but I should have focused on staying on target here. He starts with the info about the shitty fundraiser scheme. But then drifts into a talking about them not removing fake negative ...
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Fcgi vs. gunicorn vs. uWSGI - jgalvez http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi ====== timf Make sure to look at this more comprehensive review: <http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers> ~~~ sibsibsib While gunicorn isn't necessarily the fastest according to Nicholas Piël's tests, I like it for...
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Elon Musk Q&A 'Hyperloop' on KQED - palidanx https://soundcloud.com/kqed/musk-mp3 ====== palidanx Starts at 1:00min.
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NBC Olympic Tape Delays - cisforcody http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/olympic-tape-delays-roil-fans-but-for-nbc-its-good-for-business/ ====== mynameishere I wanted to see some event online, but they wanted a cable-provider password. Umm, I don't have cable. If I had cable I wouldn't be watching TV on my comput...
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IPad Teardown - tomerico http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Teardown/2183/1 ====== tomerico The most interesting thing in my opinion was the fact that 80% of the space was taken by two large batteries. No wonder thae battery is irreplaceable. ~~~ jrockway Open the battery door of your phone and you'll see a simil...
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Microsoft Is on Its Way Bringing Internet to 3M People in Rural America by 2022 - rbanffy https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/12/microsoft-its-way-bringing-internet-3-million-people-rural-america-2022/153264/ ====== Bucephalus355 I watched a video of Nancy Pelosi speak to Google after the 2008 election. For ev...
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Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com - ecaron http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php ====== faramarz Obviously he's not a NYT reader. I love the times. It's not broken. Their website is fantastic in every way. You can spend hours upon hours on it and digest more content, in whatever style you wish to navigate. It has a...
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Your Product Needs a Soul - enra http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/02/12/your-product-needs-a-soul/ ====== skmurphy "Even with its limited use in actual warfare, the katana was the most valuable possession of a samurai, the customer." reminded me of a quote by Fred Brooks (of author of Mythical Man Month): ...
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An idea (to fix public transport schedules). - sahillavingia http://sahillavingia.com/blog/an-idea-to-fix-public-transport-schedules/ ====== andrewem Boston's MBTA seems to be leading the way with this kind of information, and with making it open to developers. <http://mbta.com/rider_tools/apps/> lists dozens of web s...
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Front Toward Enemy – When a “Killer Feature” Becomes Friendly Fire - tygertec https://medium.com/@tygertec/front-toward-enemy-when-a-killer-feature-becomes-friendly-fire-972021d00ab3 ====== tygertec For those without a Medium sub: [https://www.tygertec.com/front-toward-enemy- killer-feature-f...](https://www.tygertec....
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Ask HN: Register Delaware C corp electronically? - EleventhSun Clerky say that they can register Delaware C corps electronically, however on the site corp.delaware.gov, I can only find some pdfs to mail in, and those pdfs don&#x27;t seem to render correctly.<p>From the Clerky site: &quot;In order to ensure reliability...
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