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Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
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Where I live, if you don't pay the ISP the same day the invoice arrives, next day you can only browse websites in an iframe, with ads from the ISP...They did this a couple of years ago, they doubled down on it since competition arrived...
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How to Make a Roguelike
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I'm one of the volunteer organizers of the Roguelike Celebration " rel="nofollow">https://roguelike.club/> where Josh Ge gave this talk. Thanks Josh for making it to the conference! For other readers, you might want to visit the conference website and stay in touch for updates about next year's event! :)
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Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
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A nice article to read while sitting here in a Marriott.
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Spectrum is joining GitHub
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If only I had a dollar for every time the word "community" appears in the article...
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The Internet of Unprofitable Things
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Man I really enjoyed your writing style.Got a huge kick out of that.
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
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$3.6m budget, I love this. For the impact they've made, this an extremely efficient. If a government program tried to do the same thing we'd be talking billions.
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Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission
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Justin Kan has a great post that is equally critical of startup compensation and management. He also makes positive points in favor of startups: as opportunities for non-FAANG candidates, for learning faster and (to some people) as a gateway to starting your own company.https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/In line with Justin's post, learning has been a key motivating factor throughout my career. In particular, working at startups has given me better insight to the business that drives the company. I've sat on calls with sales people to understand customer asks vs. needs, and I've developed strategy alongside BD teams for driving adoption of technical platforms. For engineers who are interested in learning more about other functions/roles at a company (product, business development, sales), startups are sometimes flatter and can offer more exposure.(That said, you can also get non-eng exposure/experience in larger companies. You may have to take a non-traditional eng role, such as sales engineering, partner engineering or developer advocacy. There are some perceived downsides of that path -- sometimes around compensation or building your core "engineering skill set" -- but it's a viable option.)
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The U.S. government is about to bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613725.
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HTTP Cats
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I immediately looked for "418 I'm a teapot", and the expectations were fulfilled :)
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Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
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I've semi-seriously been considering starting my own OS project to circumvent some of the IO latency issues with VR and AR applications.The big metric is motion-to-photon latency, which is a measure (in milliseconds) of how quickly a user's head motion is reflected on the display. Anything greater than ~10ms is considered insufficient, as you've missed a whole frame of rendering for VR headsets that run at 90hz refresh rate.Current XR applications need to wait for the USB or Bluetooth stack to return the head pose before modifying the view, then wait for the graphics stack to reflect that change. There are many ring transitions along the way. This leads to an absolute minimum motion-to-photon latency that can't be broken just because of OS overhead. This eats into your frame budget, as every ms of context-switching out of the IO drivers leaves you fewer ms to render a frame in time to get it back into the kernel for context-switching back to the graphics driver.
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Turn off DoH, Firefox
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I simply don't like DoH because I use a DNS provider that I have chosen - OpenDNS - specifically because they log my DNS queries and let me see that log. I don't mind DNS lookups from my network being logged, as long as the provider does accurate, uncensored DNS lookups. It's helped me find domains to block such as tracking domains used by IoT devices that I can't configure myself.I have my router directing all DNS traffic to OpenDNS so these devices can't pick their own servers, any outbound requests on port 53 will be redirected. If they start using DoH/DoT, I can't do that so easily. I'd have to start monitoring outbound traffic and do hostname resolution on the IPs.I think the privacy argument for DoH in the browser is fairly weak, since doing a DNS lookup is not really an indication of, well, anything really. No matter what domain it was, there's no indication that the user intended to visit a website or use a service on that domain, it could be as simple as a lookup to load an embedded image in a spam email. The only good usage of it is to prevent censorship via DNS.
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Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry
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The writer of the thread opened my eyes to an entire new perspective on the world. History, philosophy, humanity...Much more than about a video game...
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Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
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I grew up in a part of the US that some of the most polluted air in the country, back in the 70s and 80s. I recall waking up on a particularly clear day and being shocked by a mountain in the background, not realizing how close we lived to the mountains. I also recall feeling depressed about the continually yellow sky. While there may be a physiological effect of air pollution, I'm certain there is also a strong psychological effect, which could explain the immediate effects described in the article.
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Don't Use VPN Services
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This is focused purely on people who think VPN is for privacy/security. I use a VPN to get around geo-fencing - in Australia there is a lot of media agreements that mean you can't watch stuff here that is free elsewhere without paying for cable or a local streaming company. A small VPN with multiple exits so I can watch content that is free in the US and EU markets.
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One Page Dungeon Generator
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Is there the source code of this available somewhere?
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Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for 'final solution'
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The irony... ADL is against free speech.
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Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
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And nothing will happen because no one in the US government has the cajones to do anything about it.
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Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
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This one is a shameless plug (I created the app) while it's still in early stages of development, the core features are working, I use https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp to automate demos, whenever I have to present a demo in front of people, I just record it before and replay, but the app can have many use cases beside this. You're only limited by your imagination.
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Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support
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Small world, the committer is one of the main contributors to MPC-HC (RIP)
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Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp
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There is already a JANET in the computing place, please rename your project:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANETNext time, actually Google your proposed name before you use it.
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Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text
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does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking between notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but org-mode is too heavy for my purposes.
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The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions
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As a Python programmer, I've found that since I started using `mypy` I've written a lot more classes - I generally like using multiple small functions, but classes have two big benefits for me:1. I don't have to repeat / import type signatures as much2. I can collapse a bunch of related functions more easily in my editor.So functional programming (in python at least!) has a few things to solve regarding ergonomics for me to return to it.
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I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
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It looks as though this (https://earlybrd.io/) is down. I was headed there to sign up since I see this as very useful after reading the blog post. I use Upwork at times myself.
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What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines
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Design consistency is great. But imo, it’s too friendly and too many colors
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Dynamic linking
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The main problem I have with dynamic loading is that my app crashes without any sensible error message on runtime, if I misspelled a single symbol.
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What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days
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I'm one of those people who apply like at two, three jobs and get offers from all of them. The phone screen is the most important IMO, that and a good recruiter.People get all pissy about it and treat their recruiter poorly, which is highly unprofessional.The biggest problem right now from the hiring viewpoint is that there are a lot of "senior engineers" with 2-3 years experience expecting a high salary, when you can easily find good remote programmers working in other countries who are not going to be asking that sort of money.I think now that remote will become the rule, then it's an even bigger disadvantage for those who are looking only to code and that's it. What I think will happen more and more is that the only developer who will work inside the company is the lead developer, and the rest of the team will be all remote.Soft skills are King.Of course, you could go live abroad and work contracts. Not a bad life honestly. I think about it a lot these days. For those junior devs and mid level devs, highly recommend this, especially if your first language is English.
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Applebot
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On a related note, since there are video podcasts, I've always wondered why they haven't been positioned as an alternative/competitor to YouTube by now.A lot of YouTube channels and types of content could be replaced by video podcasts, and be more convenient for viewers.As for monetization, Apple wouldn't even have to build an ads platform; content creators could embed ads themselves into the content, as they currently do for audio podcasts.
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Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens
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This reminds me of when I was in San Diego in 2000. A neighbour (African American) told me how in the early 90s he was in Sydney and decided to see how he could support the "people of colour". He went to Redfern and found that all the dark people were giving him the hate stare. He found this confusing.I pointed out to him that to our Indigenous people, being coloured didn't make him a brother (usually "cousin" amongst Aboriginal Australians), in fact he was just another invader.Assumptions about colour don't always apply in different countries.
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The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity
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Uighurs and the other 50+ minorities are an integral part of China, which regardless of ruling body, has 5,000yr history of integrating minorities within its civilization state, hence its enormous population.If Uighurs were in fact being persecuted as the west claims, there would be mass protests, terrorism, and refugees fleeing across the border--something that would be impossible to conceal and highly publicized by the west.The reality is Uighurs live all over China and are well integrated into society. In Xinjiang, many are afforded the opportunity to get additional education and job training to be productive citizens, as those with a bright future are less likely to be disenfranchised and resort to violence.The US/western led smear campaign against China is nothing more than a poorly conceived containment strategy to demonize a country that has succeeded against all odds, while in the process, has made western govts look incompetent by comparison--despite their 'democracy and freedoms.'China is being alienated and used as a scapegoat, largely to distract public sentiment in the west from the failings of their own govts. In the case of the US, China poses a threat to post WWII hegemony which is nothing more than a euphemism for maintaining white supremacy via the 5 Eyes Anglo alliance with CAN/UK/AUS/NZ.The US led west has been indiscriminately bombing innocent civilians suspected of terrorism for last 20yrs, while renditioning known terrorists to offshore black sites where they can mete out any form of torture/punishment with impunity and zero consequences. Is it rational to believe theyre sincerely concerned about the well being of Uighurs...
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Ask HN: Are you depressed?
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What I would suggest is reading a book that have helped me a lot and may help you as well. "Man's Search For Meaning" from Viktor Frankl.The author is an austrian therapist that founded the "logotherapy" (healing through meaning) after surviving WW2 concentration camps.Is a very small book, and very easy reading, and at the time that I've read it, it helped me find the inner tools within myself to go on and achieve happiness.The best thing about being at the very end of a big, long, dark whole in the ground, is that you can only go up.I know that it's not easy to be you right now. But sometimes the worst things that happens to us, turn out to be blessings in disguise.The bad news is that the healing needs to come from within you, nobody can help you from outside. Not therapists, not family or friends. They can only support you and help you reach your inner voice again to move forward.Reading a book in itself is not going to help you either, but the thought process that come from it may help you start a different, happier path.Think of this time as a turning point: There's the old you, and the new one, that needs to start over and reboot himself into something different and better.
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SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
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As someone who's not knowledgeable about this...will SpaceX or a private space company ever begin sending satellites, probes, rovers to planets besides NASA's current planning or does the reduced cost of the reusable rockets not help that much given the lack of financial payoffs and amount of time needed to maintain.Always bums me out that we aren't sending probes off to all the inner and outer planets every year given the length of time it takes for them to even get to their destination.
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Why Jira Sucks
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As someone who's stuck on Gitlab for ticket/issue management I'd give my right nut for a JIRA instance.
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Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
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A very interesting form of steganography.Has anyone run GOL on "random" noise images to see if they result in any decipherable output? :)
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The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
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Simple explanation if anyone needs it.The problem is suppose you have 4 neurons that need to understand a memory and present experience at the same time to make a decision (for example that you see a hot stove and memory that hot stoves hurt). The incoming neurons from memory and experience each have 4 neuron connections, which fire at some rate. Lets represent this as the firing rate of the neurons per second in a 4d vector:experience: (1 pulse per sec on axis 0)
memory: (1 pulse per sec on axis 0)If you "add" these together at the downstream neurons, you won't be able to tell which was a memory and which was sensation. A simplified explanation of how neurons work is by combining voltages from their incoming neurons. Example:downstream sees: upstream could be a memory with and experience , or memory experience , or memory and experience . There are many possible vectors that could "add" to produce the downstream effect, so it makes it harder for those neurons to "learn" the pattern.As a math equivalence, if I ask "what two numbers sum to 10", there are many solutions (its impossible to disentangle the original numbers).To make it easier to learn these patterns, what if we used only separate elements of the incoming vectors to represent this information (so the elements of memory and experience could be seperated)?So some intermediate neurons can transform the representation. We can constructor orthogonal vectors (since the vectors above are sparse):experience:
memory: =>
experience + memory: The "memory" must undergo a "rotation" which moves data into an "unused" portion that won't conflict with the experience neuron firing pattern.Now downstream neurons can use the data from each (its effectively merging memory and experience without confusing the signal). There is only a single memory and a single experience that combined will give the firing pattern, so the pattern can be learned.Due to the way linear algebra works, its possible to do this with more complex numbers along arbitrary axes in an n-dimensional space (instead of doing it with a single axis/neuron and all others being zero).For a physical corollary, imagine two images super-imposed on each other. If they are very distinct, you might be able to infer what the two source images were, but if they are similar it would be difficult. Now imagine a "lenticular" image that clearly displays two images by printing them at orthogonal angles on the medium. You can easily determine what content belongs to which image, but only having a single "print" to store the data (this isn't a perfect anology, but it illustrates the idea):https://images.app.goo.gl/3dCH7Txigh1adTd66
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Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library
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It’s amazing how consistently broken our legal and social systems are when it comes to dealing with public goods. You’d think we would have found some way to make all these papers easily accessible in a sustainable way by now.Torrenting or hosting on ipfs solves a part of the problem, but it pushes the social and legal norms even farther apart. But perhaps the path towards a longer term solution is to lead with that social fix, and then let the law catch up with society? Feels gross, but it also feels substantially more feasible than fighting by someone else’s rules.
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UK regulator clamps down on Binance
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"Brunt, FCA!"I'm just picturing Brunt from ST:DS9 walking in and shutting them down.
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112 Gripes About the French
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I'm intrigued by the choice to conclude with this:"France is a decadent nation"How does one measure decadence? The Germans said, "Democracies are decadent".
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It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record
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https://i.redd.it/gdra4d4cl5h71.png2065, 4 plus Celsius projected by the ipcc. And usually they are very very Conservative to not be labelled alarmists. So.. It's likely going to be 5 or 6.
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Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
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I've got a few letters which looks handwritten but obviously automated. i appreciate the effort but if the content is an obvious sales tactic it kinda diminishes the appeal.
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Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
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Serious question: what about Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and quite oddly, Pakistan???
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Defensive CSS
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You know I was thinking of creating a text-only website and setting the mime-type to text in Apache. I'm only interested in the text of a website. CSS is added for flair and a sort of 'Look at what I can do with CSS!' virtue signal (for either potential employers or just to show off to your visitors). The amount of times I have to hit Reader View just to read a webpage is astonishing.When creating a website I start with text first, and bolt on CSS where it's needed, but having a site which is primarily text would be an interesting experiment to run.Edit: I know having text-only would mean not having hyperlinks, but you could keep everything on one page, and link out to articles via the usual channels (social media, etc)
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Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
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In your place I wouldn't accept that. If the client has such requirements they should be shipping their hardware to you.
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Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
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So long as there will be leetcode, people will continue to debate about its usefulness.
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AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button
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Lol this post hits close to home.
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Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
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Someone should probably just come third-party CSS/JS to emulate the tweet look that twitter had without importing twitter's JS.
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Drone footage of Tesla factory
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the drone pilot's skills are pretty impressive. Some of the racing drone pilots are incredibly good.
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Guest WiFi using a QR code
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The cross stitch community has been doing this for years! 10/10 craft idea.
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What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
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Love this! The format for some reason made me flash back to using Telnet for IRC. lol
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Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling
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This all is highlighting the dangers to public companies about political positions potentially destabilizing the business. Part of the responsibility of C level execs is to shield the shareholders from such uncertainty. AAPL should not be dependent on any single region for product and the political climate & COVID restrictions are prime examples why businesses now need to dramatically shift their supply chain dependencies to dilute the risk.
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Write a note to your spouse every day
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Author here - I recorded an interview with my wife to get her perspective on it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJP-4f7AnAk
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Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
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What’s the best way of monitoring suites? The built in report tool is amazing, but would love a solution that makes for easier analysis and maybe a closer integration with jira.
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OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
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W skrócieWideoTekst
Deemz ma ten sauce
Kiedy zaczyna się noc, to wychodzą tu wszystkie bestie, bestie, bestie
Kiedy wchodzę na dance floor to
Pojawia się ich więcej, więcej, więcej, więcej
Jestem z moją bestie, chcecie zrobić sobie selfie
Chodzą jak zaklęci, to już dawno nie są dzieci
Wierz mi, wierz mi, wierz mi, wierz mi
Kiedy wychodzę z klubu to jest to pościg
Mordko nie mam prawka, bo i tak codziennie jazda
Nawet jak nie piję to się czuję skołowana
Może to dlatego, że znowu rolluje blanta
Może to dlatego, że nie jestem tak odważna
I tak wiecznie na życiowym zakręcie
Odpalam się przy litrze, odpalam się przy setce
Na mojej ulicy to nie ja się wożę Mercem
Chociaż pewnie siana stąd na kontach mam najwięcej
Dlatego chodzę jak młoda boss
W sercu mam ziomali i jak Deemz mam sauce
Lay low, zawsze, lay low, lay low, lej to
Bo to już nie jest hip hop
Puszczam Afro House i Puerto Bounce
I leci Żab i leci Jaś
Widzę większy kadr, bo chcę rozbić bank
Kiedyś zwiedzę z nimi, kurwa cały świat
Kiedy zaczyna się noc, to wychodzą tu wszystkie bestie, bestie, bestie
Kiedy wchodzę na dance floor to
Pojawia się ich więcej, więcej, więcej, więcej
Jestem z moją bestie, chcecie zrobić sobie selfie
Chodzą jak zaklęci, to już dawno nie są dzieci
Wierz mi, wierz mi, wierz mi, wierz mi
Kiedy wychodzę z klubu to jest to pościg
Jutro jadę do innego miasta (o tak)
Nasze fury nie Volkswagen Passat (nie Passat)
Siedzę w nowym Audi, a ty Opel Astra (bieda)
Siedzę luksusowo, a ty jak hałastra
Wchodzę na DJ-ejkę, robią hałas (zróbcie hałas)
Zawsze gotowa na te wystąpienia dla mas (dla Was)
Gotowa, żeby zagrać jak najlepiej dla Was (dla mas)
Gotowa pozamiatać tę scenę na szałas (rozpierdalać)
A potem spierdalać
Jak będzie trzeba to przez Kanał La Manche
Może moim domem kiedyś będzie Anglia
Może moim domem kiedyś będzie Francja
Na razie nie uciekam, bo mnie cieszy sława
Cieszy mnie Pinacolada, pita na Dominikanach
Rejon Wyspy Punta Cana, już za dużo opalania
Już za dużo swagowania, zaraz wybuchnie mi bania
Nie mam więcej do jarania, nie mam więcej do gadania (puff, puff)
Kiedy zaczyna się noc, to wychodzą tu wszystkie bestie, bestie, bestie
Kiedy wchodzę na dance floor to
Pojawia się ich więcej, więcej, więcej, więcej
Jestem z moją bestie, chcecie zrobić sobie selfie
Chodzą jak zaklęci, to już dawno nie są dzieci
Wierz mi, wierz mi, wierz mi, wierz mi
Kiedy wychodzę z klubu to jest to pościg
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FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
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why was there never a Warcraft 4? Were the World of Warcraft expansions effectively continuations of that franchise?
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Show HN: We’re open-sourcing our session replay tool
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Tools like this are super creepy when used without informed consent. Please don't.
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Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored
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I think Mysk just described "sync the secrets to your Google account." E2E would rather imply that there's a second E, but that's not the use case here.If you already have a second E, just use the QR export/import feature.
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Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
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What’s that you say?
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Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
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I mean, an ICP instrument can be found in a lot of the better municipal water quality labs these days, this isn’t like a particle accelerator.
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Kagi raises $670k
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I tested out Yagi's search results real quick and they are truly excellent. I was actually remarking to my girlfriend yesterday that I wish search engines would surface personal special interest blog posts and stuff like that when I search for things, because personal blogs usually have significantly better content then articles from major websites, and certainly better than the clearly AI generated SEO shit most of the search results on major search engines are clogged with, and sure enough, the example search results on Yagi's homepage are exactly what I wish search results were! Many of the top results in the python exceptions example search were personal blog articles from software engineers talking about the actual theory and practice of using exceptions in Python, and the rest were just links directly to relevant parts of Python's actual documentation or stack overflow. It was amazing, incredibly refreshing. It makes me really want to subscribe to them honestly. It seems like Yagi would give me access to the internet I wish I could spend all my time in, the one I thought was gone but maybe was just lurking under the surface this whole time, the internet where it's just a bunch of people writing about subjects they care about, stuff that makes them excited or whatever, just for their own enjoyment and the enrichment of others.The problem is, I really don't want to be searching using an account that's linked to my credit card and thus my legal identity. That's a massive possible breach in privacy. And yeah, they say they don't log searches or link them to any account, but the thing is, even if I believe they don't right now, the fact that accounts are set up this way means that they very easily could start logging your searches to your legal identity in the future. It's like giving someone your social security number because they promise not to do anything nefarious with it. Maybe you trust them right now, but it's still a bad idea because of the opening it creates. Maybe they end up doing it to comply with some government regulation. Or maybe because it makes it easier to count searches. Or maybe because they start running ads.Why would they start running ads? Well, because under capitalism, where everything is supposed to grow in profits and size every year so that the shareholders can get their money, just having a source of income outside of ads isn't enough to guarantee a company won't decide to also run ads, as a source of extra income. Why would any capitalist company every turn down an opportunity to make more profit, just because it already has another profit source? Obviously the constant need for growth creates an incentive to vacuum up every possible way to make profit, not an incentive to be satisfied with a stable, reliable source of income that's enough to keep the lights on and everyone employed. That isn't how capitalism works.
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Wikileaks: Something is up
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WikiLeaks update: "We are fine" - http://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/10993931099
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Solving The Hacker News Problem
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Almost all sites that have comments and user moderation concentrate on the comments and up voting / down voting them. Normally, when dealing with people, I don't remember the individual quote that made me think they were brilliant / a troll, I wrap that up into my sense of them. If I'm flipping channels and see someone who has struck me as a brilliant commentator, I stop based on the visual cue of their face. Names are kind of hard (is this the guy who called me a $%$% or was he the one who really knows python?).I guess I wonder if the same thing keeps happening on
"comment moderation" sites, isn't it time to look at the ways your view could be based on your (not the group's) opinion of your fellow commentors? I don't have a technical suggestion, but I will probably think a lot on it.
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How to hire an idiot
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Anyone who will work for free may not be worth the price.
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Stop the E-Parasite Act
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can anyone else not log in to sign this?
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Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site
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great stuff, lavishbootstrap is great too. hope that maybe the kuler color schema or the colourlovers api get inside!
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Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You
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Its not always about the money I earn now, or over the next two weeks. Looking at thing from that perspective is not just a narrow minded way of looking but a very destructive thing over the longer run.I push 16 hours work day packed with productivity at the extreme, why? Sure I don't get paid for all that immediately. But bear in mind incrementally over the years I have learned tons more than the average guy. I am also better trained to perform on my current job than my peers. The chances of me doing some thing big are higher, I am better aligned to a good job/promotion or a raise.Basically when somebody is talking of career development and over time this is what they mean.I joined this industry 5 years back. Without fancy degrees, Ivy league brand, marks and grades. Today I'm far ahead of most of my peers who joined with me then. Ofcourse I have faced a lot of ridicule, mockery as to why like a fool I do so much work for free. I am not doing anything for free, I am just ok with temporary loss in compensation for a premium later.In you and your research by Richard Hamming - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html , This point is mentioned:Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!What Bode was saying was this: ``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime. I took Bode's remark to heart; I spent a good deal more of my time for some years trying to work a bit harder and I found, in fact, I could get more work done. I don't like to say it in front of my wife, but I did sort of neglect her sometimes; I needed to study. You have to neglect things if you intend to get what you want done. There's no question about this. And trust me this incremental learning and productivity give mindblowing results over time.
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Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads
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I have been running facebook ad campaigns for over a year now and consistently found that by hand writing something in paint on a relevant image, i get much better ctr than just the relevant image.
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Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?
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we can see the websites?
Where started your startup?
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One Year After Quitting My Job
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Congratulations Nathan. I've been a customer since 'The App Design Handbook' - and have never had an ounce of buyers remorse. I wish you all the best going forward.I do have one question regarding consultancy though - how did you crack this one? How did you make the transition from web designer to consulting for clients and what does 'consulting' entail? (thanks to Swannie for providing a nice outline initially)Thanks again for the transparency and inspiration Nathan.
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JSTOR torrent
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So is this safe to dl? Newbie here. I don't even know what these papers are.
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Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us
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Foreign citizens have a very powerful ally when being spied on by the U.S. government: your own government. When the U.S. government is spying on its own citizens, who do we have to turn to?
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As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
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The whole cert structure has always been a house of cards. As evidenced last year, e.g, with the Turkish provider ...Since I first looked through the original Netscape, I've never had -any- reason to put so much trust in the hands of these Blue-Ribbon names. Or any ISP, for that matter. If US intelligence goes through with this, then only end-to-end (which has been deliberately stalled off and roadblocked and stonewalled for decades) will be left.At that point we'll find out just how much power we've left to defend the privacy of our communications, our relationships, our finances and our movements. The Cryptocat guy may yet become a legend... or someone like him.
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Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
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This had me suspicious. The methods of propagation ranged from the difficult-but-plausible all the way into Stieg Larsson territory. And all the Google results pointed to Dragos Ruiu. There was no other researcher who had encountered or studied this malware; all the major ones were just saying "check out Dragos Ruiu's research, this is serious" or similar.For now the signs point to the very first case of computer Morgellons. I suspected at first that this was an elaborate troll in order to convince the netsec community to get serious about fact-checking and research-doing before propagating BS, but the theory that he is paranoid is beginning to sound increasingly likely the more I find out.
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How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web
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Cool. But isn't his (Raspberry Pi) ethernet adapter a far more powerful computer than the computer it's adapting ethernet for?
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How not to write an API
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My opinion is that any company building an API should run at least one bug bounty on it before releasing it to the public.
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Moving Atom to React
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I would love to switch from Sublime Text to Atom, but the two main things holding me back are the noticeable performance issues (compared to ST), and vim keybindings.ST's vim support is good enough for me, and when I need more I'll just switch to Vim for those things. But Atom unfortunately is still too limited, although it's good to see progress.Happy to see the performance issues being worked on, though, and as a big fan of React, I'm happy with their choice.
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Google+ now lets you use any name you want
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Twitter = Perceptions,Facebook = People,Google+ = Passions.Each have their respective place. I like G+ and I actually get quite a lot out of it. It took some real time investment to fully appreciate it. I hope it doesn't go the way of the dodo or reader though.
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RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
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Congrats guys! I've been looking forward to using Rethink.Is windows support coming anytime?
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Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
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I use CodeMap[1] which is a kind of google maps but where the countries are the code, and CodeGraph[2] which helps to understand code dependencies at different granularities (package, module, files, functions).
[1] https://github.com/facebook/pfff/wiki/CodeMap
[2] https://github.com/facebook/pfff/wiki/CodeGraphdisclaimer: I am the author of those tools.
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A View of the Entire Netflix Stack
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So which part of this stack is to blame for their slow clunky website? (NB their website used to work well enough on my devices the newer one is the problem.)
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Juniper screenOS authentication backdoor - master ssh password posted
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If you follow good security practices and restricted your SSH access, you were safe against it:https://twitter.com/danielcid/status/678907293770059776If you are managing any login system, try to implement ip white listing whenever possible.
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So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
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Nice. To the author, is there anyway to change the simulation to try programming 2 elevators in the same shaft ( http://www.thyssenkruppelevator.co.uk/new-installation/eleva... ) or Double-decker elevators ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-deck_elevator )?Because, you know, I really have no work I need to accomplish this year...
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“Subject: Urgent Warning”
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Dear Sir/Madam,You have contacted the software design company that licenses these commerce systems to merchants. We do not deal with the merchants' customer service. Please directly contact the merchant instead.This is an automated message and you cannot reply to it.
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Verizon fined $1.3M for supercookie header injection [pdf]
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A lot of threads here are focused on the miniscule fine, but the larger impact is that this is another case study that can be used in the next net neutrality debate. Verizon is giving evidence to the argument that they can't be trusted with network communications, evidence that will surely come back to bite them in the future.
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Please scan my towel
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Disney has a pretty neat use for RFID that was featured in a previous HN post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9177105
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Thank you for ad blocking
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Who wrote it? And when?
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Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms
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jandmor
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DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
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gfd
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Oh right, about those LEDs
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I put his conversion kit in my X61t and it is whoa-Nelly bright and the colors are spectacular. I recall that it also costs a fifth what a genuine ThinkPad CCFL backlight module costs.
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Visual Studio Code 1.8
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I I worry that it will eventually be a bloated IDE.
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Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014)
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Our legs and arms are pumps, as we all learned in high school, with valves in the blood vessels that facilitate that function.
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UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway
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Man, I really need to move to the U.S.Canada is becoming hostile to speech and the family with M-103, C-16, and Ontario Bill 89. Britain had to choose between a man who doesn't understand the nuclear deterrent and who would screw them in their biggest negotiation for decades, who would probably end up controlling the internet for antisemitic causes rather than ostensibly counter-terrorism causes; and a lady who doesn't understand any of the technical implications of the whoops-tyrannical policies she presents (in the middle of a campaign no less, are they all daft?). And because the UK Tories didn't do the smart thing and hang on to their popular moment for dear life to secure a supermajority, there's a hung parliament, which is only slightly better than the probably-antisemitic national socialist labour party getting a majority.Prime minister doesn't even pretend to be meritocratic, denigrates his cabinet by saying that they were picked for their gender. The Social Justice Tribunals (actual name of the institution, not hyperbolic slur) are out of control. At least the U.S. has a real constitution, which at least purports to protect freedom of speech, the right to petition, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms.Britain and Canada are sinking into the earth's core under smiling faces, and DJT is somehow making America better despite being a rough buffoon. Every day is opposite day.
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Apple’s Guidelines Now Allow Executable Code in Educational Apps and Dev Tools
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Good step in right way !
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Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?
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https://blog.regehr.org for undefined behavior lovers.
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iPhone X Teardown
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It is interesting to observe that this teardown has been carried out down under (in Australia). Maybe it had something to do with the timezones and release date.
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Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? (2016)
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Bankers aren't the cause of the financial crisis. Societies have always had a scapegoat to conveniently break societal tensions, previously with physical sacrifices, and presently with sacrificing the money of scapegoated individuals.It's unlikely that a single sector of economy could suddenly cause a widespread collapse, especially without unrecoverable failure. A more cogent explanation is the behavior of the Federal Reserve. Similar to the Great Depression, the growth rate of the M3 was reduced by around 10 percent during the peaks of the recessions.Reading: https://iea.org.uk/blog/a-monetarist-explanation-of-the-grea...
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From Bootstrap to CSS Grid
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There were some good links in the article but my no. 1 resource for CSS grid is https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
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Microsoft MakeCode
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I ran a code club at my local primary school last year using the micro:bits. They're awesome little devices, super simple to get some pretty effective results with. I had 15 kids aged 7 - 11, some of whom were there only because they went along to every after school club it's cheaper for working parents than a childminder, and all of them absolutely loved it. We did some great little projects - making 'musical instruments' with speakers and the gyroscope, making those buzzy 'steady hand' games, sending messages to one another via bluetooth, etc...
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D3.js 5.0 is out
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I'm looking to get my team into using D3 more as we begin to do more graphing and data visualization. Do any of you have recommendations on tutorials, classes and other learning aids?
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Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes
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Reminds me a lot of the attrs module.
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The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
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I want to like this laptop, but the lack of a Right Ctrl key is a dealbreaker for me. There are many keyboard shortcuts that I need to press on the right side, like Ctrl+I or Ctrl+L, using only one hand.
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California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045
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I’d bet 10x harder than 99% and 100x harder than 95% and 1000x harder than 66%
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