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FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S
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Just to make the farce complete, FIFA and Qatar donated to the Clinton Foundation
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%245...as well as this:
http://www.fifa.com/sustainability/news/y=2010/m=9/news=fifa...
http://sportanddev.org/en/connect/userprofile.cfm?894/FIFA-J...
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Six years of Go
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呵呵
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Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared
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If what they say about lead levels decreasing IQ is true not there is not much left for Flint to do.
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I wrote a small piece on planned death
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thank you for writing this. #respect
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We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom
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I see a lot of promise in distributed Turing Complete blockchains like Ethereum giving a nonproprietary and decentralized alternative to centralized services. There is a positive feedback loop where the more smart contracts are uploaded to the blockchain, the more useful it becomes, and the more people upload their programs to it to utilize that functionality. All of these smart contracts necessarily make their code accessible to the public, in being hosted on a public blockchain, and are copyleft, since there's no way enforce IP law on their use.It could conceivably neutralize the forces that enable big government and big business.
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AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go
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Or run LeoFS http://leo-project.net/leofs/
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Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both
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Polyglot programming. That's wild.
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Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
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Auto-playing audio? Are you kidding me?
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Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
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I am surprised (and a little embarassed for my race) to see so many Indian names in the About page of http://www.mlooper.comMost appear to be "Web Developers". Ex: See this Conversation: http://www.mlooper.com/conversations/2912/Is this common? Do a lot of you get spammed with Indian companies / individuals claiming to do web development? I have received a few, and the funny thing is, NONE of the ones I received even had a Web Site?! How does that work?!!
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Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
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The internet can really blow things out of proportion.1980's: long distance company has employee(s) poking around messaging system and sells to newspaper. Few know. All voice over network is stored "searched" for "key" phrases. Very few know. Moreover there are no blogs or places to tell ones story.Now one little confessional outing becomes widespread and thus assumed to be happening all the time.I am sure (without facts) that uber is no worse than AT&T back in the day but now so so so many people can read and tell their stories.Does anyone really think or expect communication via electricity is truly protected?
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Show HN: Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes
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I wonder how this plays with the 5th amendment issues mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629728.
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Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents
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More advancements in computational biology and genetics will allow us to more precisely determine the effects of glyphosate on public health. Until we have better tools, there isn't enough evidence to make a judgment against Monsanto. However, the moment we are able to make the connection between poor agricultural practices and damages to health, a multi-billion dollar industry will be created for lawyers, and they will hold these companies acccountable.
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Two years of Rust
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Congratulations to the Rust team for the great work!The impact of Rust on the programming safety community has grown so big that even hardcore Ada developers are getting really nervous about Rust's powerful competition.https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.ada/H35QcY...Although Nim and Lisp are still more productive than Rust for my use cases -- Rust really needs a convenient edit-compile-debug cycle, and also an easy bootstrap from source mechanism -- I am watching Rust's development with pleasure.I am pretty convinced that within the next ten years Rust will not only cause a serious decline of C++ but also eat a big portion from Ada's lunch in safety critical applications.
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New Surface Pro
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At $899 USD, there are a lot of options besides the Surface Pro. Our organization will buy it though because they take a corporate approach to purchasing and they always buy warranties. I never understand that... but whatever. Just buy 10 more Surface Pro and swap 'em out if want "warranty". Still cheaper that way.
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Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
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Thank you. I've now had a similar discussion with my two girls (Aged 11 and 4). Was a far better way to spend the evening than a typical night of Netflix.
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Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan
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My main disappointment with most businesses that implement open office plans has been the lack of choice. Everyone (except management) is expected to work in the open environment regardless of personal preference or the negative way such a setup impacts them.I personally struggle to be productive in an open office environment, but time has proven that there's very little that I as a non-managerial employee can do about it. I've tried:- Using noise-cancelling headphones. They kind of work, but I don't want to listen to music all the time (hurts your hearing after too long of exposure) nor do I want to wear them all day (uncomfortable for 8+ hours).- Moving to quieter locations around the office. Yes things are quieter, but my assigned desk is set up the way I like it - HD monitor, RSI-preventing keyboard + mouse, my Varidesk, etc. If I move to a different location, I lose all of the above and my productivity and happiness suffer.- Asking for changes (i.e., 1/2 height cubicles). "We'll see," or, "We can't afford that" were the two responses our team got from management despite numerous requests from multiple employees.In the end, I decided to lobby against open offices the only way I could - by voting with my feet. I quit my job, making sure to share my dissatisfaction with the work environment during my exit interview. I now enjoy a fully-remote development position where I can work from the comfort of my home office.However, I know there are only so many such jobs and that they're not ideal for everyone, so I come back to my original point: The fact that the vast majority of businesses don't make at least some sort of effort to provide their employees with options for their work environment that will allow them to do their best work is sad. Doing so just seems like common sense, which I guess is really not all that common after all, especially when it comes to open offices.
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Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
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SQL is not beating NoSQL. NoSQL is evolving. https://blog.dgraph.io/post/sql-vs-nosql/
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If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
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It works! Replaced my battery now after this post and my score went from 810 to 1455, with a huge noticeable performance improvement and lower app loading time.
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Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own
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A lot of people here seem to conflate the pharmaceutical companies causing the issue with the entire pharmaceutical industry. Even in the article, the hospital reps say they are specifically targeting the handful of bad actors, like Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Martin Shkreli types, who specialize in buying up cheap/old drugs and jacking up the prices. This is not a group of hospitals trying to take on the entire industry. Nor is it an entire industry taking advantage of hospitals/patients.
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NSA encryption plan for ‘internet of things’ rejected by ISO
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Some more suspicious elliptic curves no doubt.
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Hair Ice
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Somewhere there's a commercial application or two for this waiting to be discovered.
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Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot
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If you need to map a uniform b-bit integer x into the [0, n) range, using ((x * n) >> b) will work just as well as the modulo in terms of (quasi-)even distribution, and it avoids integer division.The idea is just to imagine x as a b-bit fixed-point uniformly random number in [0, 1), and rescaling it by multiplication.This works great for hash tables whose size is not a power of 2, provided that you start from a good hash function.
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Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
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This is pretty great! This data is usually locked up in individual scraper-unfriendly county websites, sometimes behind a paywall, sometimes only by person, or even only by mail. And the data is often limited to parcel geometry, not building footprints.The other option is to use 3rd party services to purchase or lease the data. This data can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the entire US dataset.
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What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
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I'd be curious if there's any correlation between morning/night work and introversion/extroversion. For some reason I imagine extroverted people would be more likely to work at night than morning.
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Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'
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The big news is that Voyager 2 should be experiencing more interstellar medium than atmosphere from our star at this point. It will still be a while before it could be said to truly "leave the Solar System" if you consider gravitational influence to be a factor. There are objects still orbiting our star at more than a light year away for example (Oort cloud).
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Reasons Python Sucks
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How does this garbage make it to the front page of HN?
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EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
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Some of the comments here are a little too optimistic, although this is a victory.The fight is not over yet. The directive needs to be written, and ideally in a way that prevents this from being brought back to the table again.
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Our Software Dependency Problem
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Reducing the number of dependencies can avoid many of the problems, and makes it easier to examine the code, as well as less likely to cause problems (of several kinds). Many code has too much dependencies. Whether writing in JavaScript or C or something else, I will usually not use many external libraries; most commonly none at all.
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If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
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It is really helpful.
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Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
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i tricked the autopilot to drive in the right direction is that normal?
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SwiftWebUI
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This seems to me to have a serious architectural issue. If I read it right, the app is rendered in the browser but is processing state changes and doing HTML rendering of the state tree on the server side? How is that going to scale?This is a really neat adaptation of the SwiftUI API to the web but it seems like the guts of it needs to run in the browser to be practical.Perhaps we'll eventually see the Swift compiler support a WASM target?[edit] Like Qt is doing? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/wasm.html
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Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses
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Maybe we should create a comprehensive list of these bad companies / bad actors? Something like:https://gitlab.com/simonebrunozzi/dark-companies/blob/master...
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Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
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It's funny that in the very first image showing how it works, they have a wage calculation for four days worked, but there are five days."There are two hard problems in programming: naming, cache maintenance, and off-by-one errors."Not just in programming.
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Game Source Code Collection
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I bought and shared the "Space Funky B.O.B." source code (included in that collection) and the "Super Noah's Ark 3D" source code (not in that collection). Both came from 3.5" diskettes on eBay. Both are for the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom system.Space Funky B.O.B. is interesting due to the amount of swearing in the comments of the source code.Super Noah's Ark 3D is notable for many reasons. It is an unlicensed Christian game that used a pass through style cartridge. It is based on the Wolfenstein 3D engine, and actually included some emails from John Carmack and Rebecca Heineman from back in the day. A delightful insight into software development decades ago.https://eludevisibility.org/2018/super-noahs-ark-3d-source-c...
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About the “Security Issue” on VLC
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gizmodo.com.au still shows "You Might Want To Uninstall VLC. Right Now. Immediately." in their title. This highlights the untrustworthiness of most "news" today, be it software, politics or business related. It's unbelievable how poorly researched articles can damage people and businesses alike. I think is this is one of the biggest pain points of today's world, and it needs solving fast.
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A developer goes to a DevOps conference
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A question to ponder: is devops a niche created by developers who can't sysadmin, or sysadmins who can't code?“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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So can once and forever tell me someone why I can be tracked by a 3rd party app when I explicitly disable location services in my android phone? I'm not.talking about the device vendor or OS maker.Can it really be so many people are so god damn stupid to leave that service on all the time or is it me here being goddamn stupid and naive :)
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250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web
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And with zero consequences I suppose?
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Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
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Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122044/google-photos-pri..., which copies from this.
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Zoom monitors activity on your computer
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/03/25/zoom...Still seeing loads of red flags in mainstream media. This is not a Secure business tool
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Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
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The thing about Amazon though, was the luxury of being able to order stuff and have it by my door the next day. This was especially great for products where the traditional brick and mortar retail died out a long time ago for that industry (i.e. electronic components) or stuff that you want / need regularly but isnt carried in stores near you.
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The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper
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Hi, this was fantastic but it doens't work anymore. Any reason why? Victim of success ?
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Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds
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I hope they find the textbooks unimpressive as well.
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Take care editing bash scripts (2019)
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I had always assumed that bash first read the whole script into memory (unless it was huge), then parsed and interpreted it. Guess I was wrong. Thanks.
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You can't tell people anything (2004)
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It is hard to explain something which is in your mind and haven't implemented. But, for my day-to-day talk with something who don't know my situation, I explain by jumping in her situation and give the feel by comparison.For example, if I have to explain her about how I feel today at work when I was assigned with front-end task that I don't know as I'm back-end developer and just spent complete day to solve that small problem. I usually use her context like, you're tailor and you know how to make shirt but now you assigned to do some alter work on pant because you know tailoring.
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NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]
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Undocking stream ran earlier and can be found at https://youtu.be/13OkD0C_TWU, with the undocking procedure beginning 2 hours 14 minutes in. The actual separation is at 2 hours 19 minutes.Currently there is a live stream of the autonomous “return coast” phase while the crew sleeps: https://youtu.be/zMsxviPT2CwThe splashdown stream is at https://youtu.be/tSJIQftoxeU and starts at 4:25 AM PDT, with deorbiting expected around 10:55 AM PDT.
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
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If you haven't read "Liking What You See", a short story by Ted Chiang, do yourself a favor and check it out. It is one of the most interesting works of fiction focused entirely on this subject. It is part of the book "Stories of Your Life and Others".
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Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
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Nice work! This is def gonna be useful for a lot of people.
Companies can benefit from using something like this too. It helps when all your people use the same tool to build and run models and just need to share yaml/json files. The alternative is each group has its own scripts and sharing is harder.The simplicity of such tools has a tradeoff though. It takes away some of the flexibility. Also, actually writing code helps people learn about ML so there's benefit of doing the hard code when building ML models. But that's not the target audience of this project so that's OK.Good luck!
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Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
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I'm happy everything worked out for you Ryan. But I was left so queasy by this whole read.This is presented as a victorious journey. By the end of it he's got his health back, his kids, an easy job, lots of money. The company's in good shape - everyone's a winner.And you're telling readers - it's GRIT! I'm a super Gritter! I never give up!Mate, you got so lucky, to be alive, to have kids.Yet you lost years of your life, plus all your kids' early childhood fretting over terrible bosses. And by the end of it you're still wondering whether in future VCs will find you worthy of investment.And in our day and age you're considered a winner!You're the person YC points to and says - See him, you could be like him one day!"Life, if you know how to use it, is long.But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless;one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth;one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain;some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own;some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great;many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own;many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new...Ask about the men whose names are known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks that distinguish them:A cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master."-Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
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The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
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> Opponents of DRM like the slogan, "You bought it, you own it."Not really. Capitalist opponents of DRM like that. Many of us are against ownership and property as such - but do support autonomy, privacy, decentralization of power and the breaking of the dichotomy between user and designer/programmer, between producer and consumer.
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Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole
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I recently bought a dumb TV (Proscan something or other, 4K) where I watch Netflix, Prime Video, Youtube and Crave TV in a modified version of Chromium (https://blog.vpetkov.net/) on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Additionally I stream my Steam Library using the Steam Link deb in the raspbian repos and a set of Steam Controllers via the dongle (the SC bluetooth connection kinda sucks on the RPI4)For best perforance, use a wired ethernet connection, and a bluetooth dongle for your non-Steam controllers and bluetooth headset.Works flawlessly and it's a delight to have a full Linux distro on my TV.
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EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
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Regulate or shake down?It's a proxy war against Irish tax independence. Tax harmonisation and geo revenue targeting are the goal.
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Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
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I've noticed that the term "thru-hike" is being stretched in its meaning. Not that this is especially egregious. A more global term would be to call these "treks". And some of these aren't exactly "long-distance" either.I've done the Paine Circuit (which includes the "W"), and would never call it a thru-hike or long-distance. It sounds weird to me to call any loop hike a thru-hike.
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Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc
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Thanks for making this - great for displaying diffs in dicts for unit test assertion failures.
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PHP's Git server compromised, moving to GitHub
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commits history have following: - 8d743d5 Revert "Revert "Revert "[skip-ci] Fix typo"""
- 2b0f239 Revert "Revert "[skip-ci] Fix typo""
- 046827a Revert "[skip-ci] Fix typo"
- c730aa2 [skip-ci] Fix typo
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Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]
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Does anyone have a good source describing if and how American space program changed after Gagarin? What I'm interested in is to know how the US reacted and if they assimilated bits and pieces of Soviet technology/processes for their own purposes, seeing as they were now field-tested and successful.
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Why has no one made a better Goodreads
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I tried making their Quotes section better. Contains 1m+ quotes. but since goodreads has lot of backlinks my site never comes on Google.http://satya.co/
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Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
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Love it! That’s really cool
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“AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
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Nobody'll see this, but totally offtopic: see the weird random horizontal line in the margin off to the right? It's a bit of injected spam. The site seems to have been slightly hacked.
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Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
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what's the moore's law of general performance? How many months/years did we lose?anecdotally, my next amd cpu+gpu upgrade at the same price point is about +30% 3dmark
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What Went Wrong?
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I agree with the article, though this doesn't quite sit right with me:> And no, it is not "self-incrimination" unless you did something criminal.People (in the US) are allowed to remain silent to prevent self-incrimination. While arresting someone, why don't we just say "talking right now can't be self-incriminating if you did nothing criminal?" These are in the same family as "why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?" and I just don't think it was well thought out.
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The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
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Why don't excel and all the things that can read excel kill the old xls (2^16 limit) format? I mean still let excel read the file, but don't allow changing the file. Only allow saving the old file to the new format.
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Interactive introduction to game theory and trust
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In the sandbox, if you change the payoff of both parties cheating to -5, the angelic cooperator seems to win in most simulations.In a way, this makes sense: if the penalty when both parties cheat is harsher than the upside of swindling your partner, "trust at all costs" wins out!But on a societal level, I suppose this means that if you want to optimize for do-gooders, you should punish failure harshly, no matter which party is responsible...
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Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)
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I can't even figure out which email to reply to first in 4 minutes. Larry Page, wow
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Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux
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when "Add discrete GPU pass-through"
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New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
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Well, that was akward. Silly me clicking the screenshot thumbnails expecting a higher resolution picture to pop up.
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How to programmatically find out if computer is on
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My new favorite review comment on while(true) : prefer system.isOn() which is more reliable to detect computer off.
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Google says iMessage is too powerful
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Don't forget carriers got us here by charging PER text.I remember when iMessage came out, and for some people it was a way to get away from getting charged for texts. Especially international! Things have changed so much it's hard to see the original inspiration in 200x.As for interop, in 2020s it looks like platforms are the style du jour, things like XMPP didn't quite cut it. I'd be happy to see that change, but for google to lay this claim sounds lazy to me.
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I would like a job writing Haskell
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This is ridiculous. Of course there are no "haskell jobs". Nobody knows haskell. Looking for haskell programmers is like looking for a four-leaf clover. Actually it's more pointless because a four-leaf clover makes a nice instagram story. So if haskell is so great, why don't you teach a few of your friends to program in it, and increase the number of haskell programmers available?The only reason there are "python jobs" is because django exists. The only reason there are "ruby jobs" is because rails exists. The only reason there are "javascript jobs" is because browsers exist. The only reason there are "C++ jobs" is because algorithmic trading and video games exist. The only reason there are "scala jobs" is because the JVM exists (and concurrency is hard). What real-world problem does haskell solve that python does not, or what "killer framework" is implemented in haskell? Why not make it and prove that haskell is worth learning?All of that said, if you really want to program in haskell at a job, find a company that is all-in on microservices. They may allow you to write small services in haskell, as long as they know that if you leave the company, and they can't find one of the friends you taught a haskell for great good, they can find a java dev to rewrite it.
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You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough
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The problem with geothermal is there's no easy way to know where the "hot spots" are without drilling, which comes at a high cost.
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Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
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Doesn't work on Firefox iOS, even with enhanced tracking protection disabled. It only shows this single domain varun.ch.It does work on Firefox desktop.
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.NET Myths Dispelled
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I feel that the comparisons are quite one dimensional (crushes Rust, Go etc..) picking one or two metrics. Why is the memory footprint almost fully ignored in the article? Application speed is rarely the bottleneck in platforms I work with, but it does matter a lot how many instances you can run in a cluster where memory is often a limitation. For me personally it's also important how easy is to write concurrent code to work around IO bottlenecks.
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Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
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The irony for me here is that while I'd like to comment on this topic my HN account has been throttled because I've commented on these types of threads in the past.
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Tinygrad
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I fixed some spelling mistakes: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/pull/314
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U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts
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I hope everyone is maxing yearly I bond purchases ATM.
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Popcorn Time Is Back
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Could be possible to build Popcorn using IPFS for torrent file storage?
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Justice Department announces takedown of catalytic converter theft ring
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A neighbor and I had the cats stolen from our Priuses the same night in January 2021. It took over a month to get replacement parts. A real pain.
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Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide
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I'll look to work there instead of all the others, it's literally that simple.
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The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning
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I have none of these "The Little" books in my bookshelf, and I would gladly purchase a bunch of them. Are there any such deals anywhere?
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KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
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>As we also open the ability for applications to be uploaded in binary form, which is essential for low-friction compatibility with popular language-specific build systems such as Electron/Node, Rust, Go, etc - we also reduce the ability for users to scrutinise the source in the Flathub build system that was used to build their application.This is unacceptable. Open-source apps should always be built from source on a trusted infrastructure and ideally the builds should be reproducible. Otherwise, one of the main benefits of open-source software -- ability to verify its security -- is completely lost.Fortunately, Flatpak != Flathub. There is also Fedora's flatpak repository and that's what I'm using. It doesn't have as many apps as Flathub, but their number is growing.I prefer flatpaks to RPMs because of the sandboxing feature. While it's not perfect yet, I like that I can forbid most of my apps to access the network and to limit access to the filesystem and other system parts for apps that require network as much as possible. As a result, the trusted base of my system can be reduced significantly (and the base system can then use other method to confine its processes which on Fedora is SELinux).Another benefit of Flatpak over traditional packaging systems is that it's a cross-distro package manager and the apps can be installed on any Linux distribution. Even if we end up with multiple Flatpak repositories like Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks with different approaches and philosophies, users of any Linux-based OS can then install apps from any repository they like, and OS developers can focus on the base system.So in general I like Flatpak and I think it's a step in the right direction, but I can't say the same about Flathub. For me it's unacceptable to install anything from Flathub unless they fix their supply chain security flaws.
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Google Search Is Dying (2022)
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Google has no motivation to improve Google Search until a runner-up makes serious inroads into its popularity.Running a search engine probably isn't like a marathon, where if you're a front-runner by 800 meters, you still care about setting a personal best or breaking a record.
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Cheating is All You Need
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Here’s another back of the envelope calculation: it will be possible at some point to automate 80% of coding. But according to the Pareto principle 20% of work takes 80% of time. So worst case scenario it will save you 20% of time. Still nothing to sneeze at. But not 5x productivity boost. Rather “plus one fifth”. But still - it’s much better than nothing!
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Why Janet?
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Anyone here fans of the good place? https://thegoodplace.fandom.com/wiki/Janet
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OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
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dudes. if none of you see it, it's because you're turning a blind eye, is the best way I can say it. the future of the 50's is about to show up, if, and only if, we're not so dumb as to ignore it. flying cars, killer robots, we can help decide, if we're only aware enough to do a bit of research, and say anything. your voice does matter :Dwatch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A&ab_channel=LexFr...then, think, and then, think again, and then comment
be optimistic, but be forewarned, and speak your voice
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Ancient Earth Globe
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How might we better visually present a heterogeneous block of time?Consider "today"'s coastline. Earlier today, a mere 15 kya towards Last Glacial Maximum, Florida was twice as thick, and the Boston coast was down past Long Island NY. So how do you non-deceptively show a coastline for "today"? Perhaps use such low resolution that these differences aren't visible? Use an aphysical elevation color scheme which deemphasizes water height? Use timelapse averaging (if a single frame was exposed for 100 ky, then ...)?Years ago NASA did a global clouds-removed monthly image set. You can see the snow line advancing and retreating with the seasons. See changes in vegetation. Months look very different. What best represents the year? An average of them? The preceding year had different weather. How can the preceding decade be nicely represented? The preceding 100 y, 1 ky, 10 ky?Clouds are a major visual component our planet. Their patterns change with seasons, with years, with climates, with topographies. How might you show this year's clouds? This decades? This 100 ky? This 1 My?Climate. Consider the insanely desiccated Pangaean central equatorial desert. In OP, it's colored green based on height. I've seen it shown overlayed with swirls of seemingly cumulus clouds.Science education graphics have the unfortunate property of combining some aspects done with great care, with many others done with great artistic bogosity, and students left with no way to sort what is which. How might paleoglobe visuals be improved?
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The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
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I thought it was referring to Hayes AT and I was agreeing 1000%. I guess some names may be cursed.
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Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old
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I dream of the day when the archiving of the web is no longer a problem: bandwith, storage, tagging, search, etc. All the videos, all the tutorials, all the books, everything archived and retrievable for posterity.
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The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?
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I won $2000 in a programming competition they held at the embedded linux conference, and they never paid me, even after asking twice. Can't say I've been rooting for them since. Never again will I accept a giant check and be told that the real one will come in the mail!
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So Long and Thanks for all the Bits
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I hope now you can concentrate better on your other endeavours. Good luck!
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Requests: HTTP for Humans
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The example written in urllib2 instantly reminds me of Java and the classy query joke [http://ejohn.org/blog/classy-query/]. Just a thought: are most Java-related APIs over-engineered, and does Java have a bad influence on many API design work?
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This Homemade Headphone Amplifier Is A Work Of Art
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Very nice, but seeing that made me wonder whether this can be improved as follows: instead of soldering, drill holes in the copper wire that are slightly smaller than the thickness of the component wires you want to attach. Then, heat or cool both enough for the component wires to fit through the hole (thermal expansion factors will hopefully be different enough for this to work), put them in and let the device go back to room temperature.
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Live air traffic of the world
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Would be really awesome to see a write up about what powers all this on the back end.
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Washington voters approve legalized marijuana
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It's interesting to consider how much of the legislative and voting process actually impacts the act.A lot of voters probably view marijuana as positive/neutral, though how many were actually swayed by the 25% tax?In the end there's a larger systemic problem, where you compromise and are either hurting consumers of a neutral/positive product or benefiting as a governmental system by feeding off of a negative product. Either way, regardless of your views it's a forward step for society, though with somewhat perverse implications.
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The YC VC Program
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I like the 20k from each. It's always good to have a diversity of opinions.
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What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
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35 years? means we won't hear about any entertainingly silly patent claims?
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Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
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This doesn't put me off heroku very much. Seems a pretty meager list of complaints.
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Stellar Wind (code name)
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." -- Nuremberg Principle IVThose that perform traitorous deeds to prevent traitorous deeds are traitors to their nation and themselves. -- Me
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Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Sheremetyevo airport
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Next few days will be interesting to see what Russia will do there.They do not have the best track record in terms of privacy or human rights, but helping him will make them look good internationally.
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HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
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I learned about 9/11 from Slashdot. If Slashdot had refused to cover the events of 9/11 out of some misplaced desire to not cover "real world" news, I rightly would've been deeply disappointed in them.I learned about wiretapping from HN. Likewise, if HN refused to cover wiretapping the entire Internet, I would have a very solid reason to give up on them as a useful news source.I do not believe HN is in any serious danger. People are obviously pushing back against the less relevant stories.
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Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
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new hardware coming soon :-)
But what about the drivers,optimus technology still not officially supported.
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