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JustFab.com JustFabulous Class Action Lawsuit (2011)
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This thread and the companion thread about justfab.com have just been flagged straight from the homepage. Too bad, this sort of thing is well worth discussing. Being successful should not translate into 'get money from the customer at any cost'.
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DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list
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While it's a great case to bring attention to this kind of abuse, it seems very likely the DHS will just say "Due to a classified terrorist threat..." blah, blah, it's all kosher.
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Python Language Features and Tricks
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Great list, I do several mini-tutorials of python at http://runnable.com/u/mamcx. I try to pick several tricks for each theme
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MH370: A different point of view
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How many (remote?) airports in the Maldives are good enough to land a 777? Seems like the perfect remote spot for landing a plane! Torsten @ http://www.mightytravels.com
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Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects
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This is a really cool idea!An issue I noticed: After loading a lot of examples, the page seems to slow down a lot, like everything else is still in the background somewhere.
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Common Python Mistakes
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Regarding circular imports and #7:
The main problem in arises when using the from mymodule import mysymbol notion.The example solved this by properly using import mymodule, although this might cause some more problem if your design is wrong, as see in the example. Calling f() from the module ("library") code itself is a very bad idea. Instead one should do this:a.py: import b
def f():
return b.x
b.py: import a
x = 1
def g():
print a.f()
main.py: import a
a.f()
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Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
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@kapeli : I am trying to buy Dash, but when I click the green "Purchase Dash" button, nothing happens. Is it normal?
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How to Ruin Your Company With One Bad Process
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Currently in a project situation with no budget and blue sky dreams. I can't say how much I love this article enough.I think one of the unspoken insights here is: give your projects a budget.I've been with two startups now that didn't do this and see them either think there is no budget or there is infinite budget. Ultimately both CEOs would say "Just come ask me" which means that you now have to pester the busiest person at the company to get a budget. It is effectively giving the project no budget.
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The Matasano Crypto Challenges
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Got through the first 4 of set 1. This was emailed challenges though from a while ago. I'll check this out now.
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How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA
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Isn't this a case of a bad HR rather than of 'feminism' ?
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The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp
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I recently read a similar case in Simon Singh's book Fermat's Enigma http://www.amazon.com/reader/0385493622?_encoding=UTF8&query... about the 14-15 puzzle. It was similarly unsolvable and provable the same way.Interestingly, his account is rather different than that on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle
Singh claims that Sam Lloyd created the puzzle, secretly proved it was impossible, and offered rewards to anyone who could solve it.
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The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics
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> Oh, and in the middle ages, it would be expected that all of the inside sleeves would be finished.What does this mean, that the "inside sleeves" be "finished"? And is an "inside sleeve" different from an "outside sleeve"?
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Show HN: Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization
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This library is fantastic. These patterns are essential in the production of print-ready and print-like contents.With the high resolution screens available today these make for stunning graphical presentation.
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Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity
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Most of it comes from hydro which is considered environmentally unfriendly. Its still very interesting even if the "greenness" is somewhat debatable.
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Take the Money and Run
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I've used Rally and don't care for it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if you've come up with something that's actually better. I'll take a look at AgileZen... though now that Rally owns it, I don't know that I'd use it because I'd be concerned they would screw it up.
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How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops
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The article embedded a short video. Here's longer video with explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ88ny09ruM
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Fukushima
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Many great photos of this and other locations. Got intrigued in this site looking at photos and essays for quite a while. I appreciate seeing photos from less-visited areas.
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Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8
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Gosh... java is getting uglier by these weird syntax.
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Project Rider – A C# IDE
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It is a pitty they do not have a Dlang IDE, an deprecate C++ options.
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This is why people fear the Internet of Things
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There was a talk at an event I work for (that's the full disclosure done) on building security into the IoT. It was made by a Hardware Manager of the original iPhone, a patent holder for NEST and is now CEO at Electric Imp.
In short, he argued that security has to be layered into every stage of the design process. The current paradigm is to make something and try to retrofit security features into it.http://iot.thebln.com/2016/02/building-security-into-iot-int...
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How a Car Engine Works
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How a gun works is also an amazing piece of artwork: http://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/
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Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists Wasn't Told About Tor
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Obviously running a TOR node will attract interest. It can be debated whether acting as a TOR router/carrier should impose on the operator at least some requirements to divulge connection logs to the authorities -- not that TOR would actually produce any meaningful logs in the first place. That's roughly what physical ISPs need to do if one of their IP addresses is associated with child porn. There's also the argument that if TOR nodes were given a guaranteed free pass when it comes to illegal content then why wouldn't people just run a TOR node and an open wifi on their home network just to cover their ass should they intend to use a torrent of shady network services.However, the question that pops into my mind is that given how easy the trigger finger on child porn actually is in the current climate, then why are the producers and consumers of child porn still on the regular internet and not in the TOR darknet? If consumers are already willing to use TOR to access these sites there's no barrier to switch at all. The producers could even offer a legit site with no illegal content hosted there but which just redirects the browser to the (current) TOR address. I suppose there's a market for consumers who aren't using TOR but I would suspect that segment to be continuously shrinkin in the form of being prosecuted.
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Clojure, the Good Parts
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The Thread/setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler code! I read that and went, Oh! Is that how you do it! Why is this not the default? I've found the silent exception raising in futures to be one of the warts of Clojure. I had resorted to a macro that I used instead of future that caught the exception and reported it.+1 for the pro tip!
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Learn Docker by building a Microservice
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Nice tutorial!For those following along, I've noticed a few errors/typos, and maybe others in the thread caught them...* Container ports are exposed like so, HOST_PORT:CONTAINER_PORT, or YOUR_MACHINE:DOCKER_VM. If you already have a mysqld instance running, then try using 3308:3306* The /search route needs a "next" parameter in users.js:"app.get('/search', (req, res, next) => {"
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Four common mistakes in audio development
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It kills me that it's 2016 and pulseaudio stutters when I move a window (at least on my system).
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Phoenix 1.2
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Does anyone know if Programming Phoenix will be receiving an update for 1.2? Are there any backwards incompatible changes in 1.2 or Ecto 2.0?
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4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?
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Can't we do away with all the complexity by just having 4 electric motors and a gas engine as a generator? Then each wheel can be computer controlled independently.
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IPFS is the Distributed Web
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ipfs is fantastic, but it is half the solution. We also need a distributed p2p application framework, with which nodes can securely communicate and allow building distributed apps, like search.We can think differently with ipfs. Traditional web allows everyone to publish content somewhere, hoping that search engines will index it.With ipfs, the same file (with the same content) is only indexed/stored once and then you reference the hash to get to the content.This fact changes the problem of search.Take all the world's movies. With ipfs + p2p network, you only need one back end in the form of a distributed search index, which can index all the movies in the world.Same with the world's music. You only need one back end which can index all the music.The index can be as simple as {"movie title": [sha256]}, where the array contains the hashes of different 'encodings' of the same content (eg. 'dvd rip', 'blue ray' or 'mp3').Content can be indexed by all kinds of properties of course and it can grow organically over time to include more and more details.With ipfs plus the p2p network we'll build 'apps', not 'pages'. People can have a list of 'apps' running on their machines - which are node instances in various distributed applications, sharing the same p2p network and using ipfs as storage.Apps can have 'backend' and 'front end' parts - the back end is the part which participates in the p2p network, while the 'front end' provides a human interface to the back end, were users can search/browse/view the content.Apps are distributed as git repositories stored in ipfs, while the 'core' running on the user's machine compiles the sources (inside a build vm) and loads the resulting binaries into containers running in virtual machines.This would make it easy for devs to write and publish new distributed apps, making the network totally decentralised and virtually unstoppable.Ps. If you feel that this insanity could work, then I'd love to discuss it in more depth - [email protected]
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Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
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It's awesome to see all the discussion here regarding eero and mesh networking as a whole!If you have been waiting to update your home WiFi, there is no better time than now. I'm excited to share that from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, you'll be able to find eero at a discount, including $100 off a three pack. For those that already love Apple products, I'm confident that eero will be a very comfortable networking solution for you.We have thousands of happy Apple customers. Plus, if you already use a Time Capsule for backing up your data or an Airport Express for Airplay, you can bridge these to an eero network so you can continue to use these features that may be essential to your current home network.Let us know if you have any questions! Feel free to give us a call at 1-877-659-2347 or email us at [email protected].
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Ultralight IKEA-Bag Backpack
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I'd like to ask a related question I've been meaning to get to doing some research on for a while but have been a little stumped on where to start with. Thought I'd borrow this thread to get the chance to ask HN.Public transport in my area is really awesome so it's how I get about the most, and I occasionally carry a couple of reasonably heavy items (20kg+ / 44lb+) on short trips. I'm currently using a medium-size Macpac bag for almost everything, but it has no spinal support and I tend to hunch when it's full, and on the occasions all my items go beyond 10kg I have to split everything into an extra bag.I'm currently wondering if there are unicorn backpacks out there that are reasonably light (not ultralight), reinforced to handle 20kg+ loads, and built to last for years.I know the military use industrial carrying frames to handle their crazy 50kg+ (110lb+) loads, and I think I'm looking for something similar to that, since that's a situation where you have to provide good support or you risk serious spinal damage, and the thing has to last for a while while it's out in the field where it can't be easily replaced. That said, I don't want to be stick out like a sore thumb carrying a massive camo-fabric sack around.
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Why recursive data structures?
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Wait, the way he defines the quad tree color property requires that you manually input the color for each region. If you wanted this to be part of a general purpose algorithm in real software then you'd need another algorithm that determines the color of each region - a very expensive operation if you wanted the maximum benefit.
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WordPress on .NET
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No.
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Paypal Horror Story 40k Frozen No Answers
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Queen Victoria supposedly told her daughter on her wedding night, "Just lie back and think of England." Whenever I have to deal with PayPal, I think to myself "Just lie back and think of SpaceX." If Paypal helps Elon Musk take us to Mars, maybe it's worth putting up with at least occasionally. (You can think of Tesla if you prefer.)
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Bad SSL
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Just noticed that this is an unofficial google product, part of chromium github repository.
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Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid
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Terminal and shell performance
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It would also be great to see how these scale with terminal size. I personally use iterm2 but after switching to a new Macbook pro this year with two 5k displays it's noticeably slower. I'm assuming some O(n^2) scaling behind the scenes but I haven't measured anything myself. Still, @gnachman I love your term especially with terminalplots.jl and drawing Julia repl images inline.
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Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space
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Howis this "20% energy savings" product different from their original "all passive" pitch[1] from 2014?https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/solar/passive...
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Things learned while running your own self-funded startup
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Wow, this matches 101% my experiences self-funding my company and product. I made a lot of mistakes that I recognize in the advice given here. Kudos!
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Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
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Orca successfully baiting birds with fish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_t89NgVCk
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Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012)
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It should also have one called "Think Markov Chain Monte Carlo" - even the simplest reference is intractable and others began very simplistically and ends incomprehensible enough to disgust the subject altogether.
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Evolution Is the New Deep Learning
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Schmitt, Lothar M (2001), Theory of Genetic Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science 259: 1–61Schmitt, Lothar M (2004), Theory of Genetic Algorithms II: models for genetic operators over the string-tensor representation of populations and convergence to global optima for arbitrary fitness function under scaling, Theoretical Computer Science 310: 181–231
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Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit
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Having run a very large enterprise channel in the past, I'm a big fan of powering new businesses this way. Good luck
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Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed
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Not quite "immediate" but I've noticed I feel far more awake when I go for a run or swim in the morning before work. Days I skip the morning workout I find myself drinking way too much coffee trying to clear the head fog.
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System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware
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system76.. i recently dropped 2600 on one; after a few months of use I can't say i'm that impressed, and running linux on it is still not that great.. I've since put windows 10 on for better performance and functionality..which i didn't think would be something i'd end up doing.. but here i am.. next time it's unlikely i'll go with them again;one killer feature i bought this was for the nvidia card, and it's difficult to even type when that thing gets going because the keys get so hot my fingers are like touching hot coalsreally i wish i could get my money back
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Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
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As strong as I hate dealing with cash, it can't be dismissed in current society. In many places you don't want to use card as it's sketchy, in many places you don't want to have a log in your bank account (like going to a bar midday on a Tuesday).Not to mention a classic meaning of cash, or just money: you get things for it. If you are getting robbed one thing is to give $40 because that's all you had in the wallet and completely other getting robbed for all money in your account. That's just one scenario.I'm not sure I would want to live in a society without cash.
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Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems
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I recommend everyone read this article, as this is the best article to introduce how to learn CS in the whole human history. No kidding, thank me later.https://www.afternerd.com/blog/learn-computer-science
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Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
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Airtable is great - I use it every day. It's perfect for anything in-between document and spreadsheet; when you have to deal with database-like entries that are awkward to handle with a word processor or spreadsheet.I was hoping that Dropbox might acquire Airtable one day, and integrates it into Dropbox Paper. That would put them ahead of Quip, Coda and the like in an instant (for my use case).
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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health
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The article or the whole technique that sounds a bit para-scientific about normalizing the heart beat is dead wrong. The vagus nerve actually increases what is called heart rate variability which is a very good thing and even a longevity/cardiac health marker. The total opposite of making all heart beats equally distant.
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Moving from Go to PHP Again
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I stopped working with PHP about 4 years ago and I can't say I miss it. I moved to Python and never looked back.
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Intel Exiting 5G Modems
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I wonder if the timing of this announcement was determined by the timing of the Apple/Qualcomm settlement. In particular, if Apple encouraged Intel to delay this announcement until they reached a settlement with Qualcomm, to get better terms with Qualcomm.
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Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool
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Can I replace teamviewer with this? Their pricing is too expensive.
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The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
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Good quote:> One of the real lessons the study of the past has to teach us is – to quote L. P. Hartley, “the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” What I mean by that is that so much of how we assume all societies work and all people think is just how our society works and we think. Properly done, the study of the past can disabuse us of this silly notion and show us that smart people in different times and different places did things all sorts of different ways. But this lesson is ruined if we construct caricatures of the past wherein people living long ago were just big stupid brutes with big stupid weapons.
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New Cambridge Analytica Leaks
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One thing I notice often gets glossed over when Cambridge Analytica comes up is that they didn't really shut down at all. While CA ceased trading, a company called Emerdata was created around that time by the same directors [0]. Their Company's House filing documents can be seen here: [1].I'm not yelling 'conspiracy!' or anything, but it's notable that this isn't more widely reported. I'll be watching them with interest.[0] - https://www.newsweek.com/what-emerdata-scl-group-executives-...[1] - https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10911848/officers
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Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard
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Is this some kind of bloody joke? In how much of a deep sleep do you have to be to be caught "off guard" by Tesla?
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Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake
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I am old enough to have been writing software since 1976, and still do, although I am mostly a manager of managers now. My view is that dates are unfortunate (but sometimes unavoidable in the real world). But estimates are useful. They help flesh out risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. They provide a set of approximations against which you can plot a glide path. And of course they must be frequently updated in the face of a changing reality. But that constantly evolving glide path is the “current best known” ship date, and that is very useful information (actually you can go deeper and look at its rate of change to give a better approximation).It’s the job of engineering management to convey to upper management that these dates are projections only with certain levels of confidence.
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I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
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Something that really annoys me is a blob of code suddenly pushed to GitHub without a commit message, and then 10 random Update Readme commits. The repository holds no history.A rich git history a lot of the times imo is necessary to understand why some parts are written the way they are written, and is also enjoyable to read.
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CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
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I recently shared a thread [1] on Twitter with CRDT resources I found useful if you’re interested in that kind of thing.[1] https://twitter.com/ollermi/status/1279067350269124609?s=21
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Mozilla’s Uncertain Future
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Q: What do most regular people consume on the internet?A: Video.Q: What does Firefox suck the most at?A: Video.
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PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
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Wait until they ban you for life for a similarly random reason, then tell you “it cannot be appealed” lol.
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Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)
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This story hit me hard. I read his book today, its a deeply emotional and worthwhile story.Some stray phrases in the book led me to search some details of South African history that I didn't have a strong grasp on.Somehow the various internet wide analytics decided this meant I should see this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guLmA6dWKesIt probably requires some context (/research) to understand the context on this. (I certainly did). But I found the implications of this video utterly fascinating. There are a really quite large number of layers to analyze in this.
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United States vs. Google
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I'm old enough to remember the 'Look and Feel' and Microsoft vs. Netscape suits. By the time the antitrust actions against Microsoft and the whole SCO/Linux fiasco worked their ways through the system, the judgements were largely irrelevant or moot (in the colloquial sense). I think an additional value of actions like this are to enter some of the issues that the modern information economy---which operate on scales at least an order of magnitude faster---into the legal record and provide basic arguments and interpretations that can afford the development of new law and precedent. Even bad or silly decisions (hello, 'right to be forgotten' and cookie warnings) provide a foundation for legal challenge and new laws (viz. Section 230, although that last has also been serving as an illustration of how ignorant (hi, Donald) or cynical (hi, Joe) legislators can be about the law.)Minor dig at the generally very good article: complaining that something has become politicized in 2020 is almost quaint. Ya think?
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Shitlist Driven Development (2016)
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I love that C# supports deprecation as a language feature and allows to mark an obsolete method as only usable by other deprecated methods, which is the same as the shitlist approach here in the end
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Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtually every person
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This looks like a major environmental concern near manufacturing plants.However, as for myself, are things like teflon non-stick pans a serious concern? Do we have good data of the risk?I tried to quickly research this, and this cancer.org article leads me to believe I shouldn't be too worried: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/teflon-and-perfl...
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I received my first donation on my open-source side project
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kudos!
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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
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Kens: where do you see bitcoin mining in the next 5, 10, 50 years?
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How to Design Programs (2014)
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Matthias is an awesome professor. His blog/Thoughts page has a lot of great content.https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/index.html
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68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News
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I like that it's much easier to not click on these.Maybe it's just because the colour scheme somehow makes it less interesting.
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Technologies I thought my son would never use
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tech my child uses I didn't expect: robloxfpsunlocker and an autoclicker.
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PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
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That’s excellent news. The included scripting languages in macOS have always been a nuisance to deal with.I agree that they keep something like python2 around for scripting, but that’s about it. Having to get around the included languages is a bitch every time I’m trying to set up a development environment.
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LibreCellular
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If the open source community absolutely need a 4G baseband, just crowdfund and buy out Fabrice Bellard's company. The software quality is probably better than anything else out there.
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Pegasus spyware found on journalists’ phones, French intelligence confirms
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So it was the French. /s
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Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
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if you give me a million dollar for doing nothing. I would still go to work.
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The Niche Programmer
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You can gauge whether your niche language is, actually, dying by how many of the jobs you can find calling for $niche skills turn out to be to transcribe code from $niche to $mainstream.That sidesteps the difficulty of counting absolutely how many openings there are, and how many there ought to be
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Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
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Until a prohibition on investor owned single family occupancy residential property is put in place (basically make AirBnBs illegal), there is zero chance this will get better...
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Please Stop Using Grey Text
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I can say it has been immensely helpful reading through the comments here and I thank you all for your input. If you want to read further regarding the readability research project, there's a catalog of resources and further articles at:https://git.myndex.com
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Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says
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Yes, and here's hoping that trend continues and Google searches become extinct.
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EU Open Web Search project kicked off
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> Free, open and unbiased access to informationHow can something be unbiased yet somehow stop showing illegal search results?
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Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console
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Why does this have to be ASCII art? Is there a technical limitation to terminals that prevents the full color space of the video sensor from being rendered?
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Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem – an interactive tutorial
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Is the essential similarity of the key trick in Godel's incompleteness theorem and the Y combinator well known? I finally "got" the incompleteness theorem when that relationship dawned on me. As a cute entry point, consider the standard lambda term with no normal form, "(lambda x. (x x)) (lambda x. (x x))". Now consider the Godel formula "Substitute(F, n)", which takes a number F, the Godel number of a formula with a single free variable, and another number n. It simplifies to a number M which is the Godel number of the formula F with n replacing all instances of its free variable. One might interpret F as function-like, in the sense that for any number n, F [free_var := n] simplifies to some other number m. So now consider "Substitute(F, F)", which is suggestive of "(x x)" in lambda notation. Let M be the Godel number of this formula, which has one free variable. Finally, use an analogy to the above self-referential lambda term to create the formula G, defined as "Substitute(M, M)". To what number does this arithmetic formula with no free variables simplify? The delightful answer is that it simplifies to its own Godel number! Just as it is a short step from the above simple self-referential lambda term to the Y combinator, so it is a short step from the above fact to the standard Godel formula for which neither it nor its negation has a proof.
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Tree views in CSS
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Best post this week on HN. Love it.
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Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
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I love football, sometimes called soccer.Messi is the greatest and purest player of football.I study Michaelangelo the same way I study Messi.Art
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Wine 8.0
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I like the format of the Wine Announcement
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Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
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I developed a simple read-later app called Readstack to tackle this problem. The idea is that it forces you to go through pages one-by-one, without postponing. So, if you want to read something, you will have one item on the top of the list, and you need to read it or remove it before you can go to the following items. It helped me reduce my read-later pule to zero.You can find it here: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/readstack-read-later/id1558413...
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Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers
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Scott Manley had some things to say on this matter that were not revolting, trite or giving nauseating tech-bro vibes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdz9vcSFBqw
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About GitHub’s use of your data
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you want to minimize trust.you have to trust linux and kind of trust aws, you don’t have to trust github at all.not your keys, not your coins. it’s really such a good catchphrase.for anything non-public, git data goes here:https://github.com/nathants/git-remote-aws
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Netscape Meteors
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I was devastated as a child by the plight of the 'lowercase n' and jubilant at its ending.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVGz294X0w
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Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
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I mean, that's not _too_ different from the way Discord "officially" sells user data in the shadows.
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JavaScript ( (__ = $ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] )
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This post makes me feel dumb. :(
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At least now we know why Color really got that funding
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If you ignore the photo-sharing capability for a moment, it sounds like they're trying to create a more accurate alternative to GPS. In the 1700s Britain awarded about £100,000 in "Longitude prize" money to people who contributed to the development of [accurate] longitude. I tried to figure out what that is in today's pounds and found a calculator that said it's £147,000,000.00 today. So if Color really can create an alternative to GPS for $41 million, it would be cheaper than what it cost to develop longitude :)No idea if they can actually pull this off, but thought the Longitude Prize story is cool (thank you, "Stuff You Should Know" podcast, for mentioning it earlier this year).
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How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
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What the author is trying to say is Dunning-Kruger effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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The Best
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Made me think of something that I havent in years. Kant's 'purposeful purposelessness' - a definition of the aesthetic purpose.Buying 20 sets of cutlery is most definately hyperbole (or no tit doesnt matter) - I think mapgrep is mistaken to link this idea to Steve Jobs and the couch... It is one thing to be an audiophile to have the best stereo; it is another altogether if you love sound.I like the idea from the article. Made me think of the process of selectign a 'go bag' but not for emergencies, for eternity.I am glad such madness exists and I am not insulted by it. I am no there but I get the impulse.
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LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI
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If these layervault dickholes really believed so strongly in this, they'd issue a DMCA against designmodo's webhost.But then designmodo would absolutely be forced to defend itself and layervault would be liable in court.DMCA is a bunch of bullshit.
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Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
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Very excited about the possibilities and convenience that Docker opens up. Will be taking it for a spin soon.Few questions regarding performance compared to running the processes directly on Linux (I guess this applies to LXCs in general - forgive me if these are due to a lack of knowledge about how LXCs work in general):- How much extra memory and CPU does each Docker process take?
- Is there any performance hit with respect to CPU, I/O or memory?
- Are there any benchmarks from testing available?Again, kudos to all the people at dotCloud behind Docker and extra props for open sourcing!!
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How three pacifists were convicted as terrorists
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With broad enough laws & proprietorial discretion; coupled with sufficient levels of surveillance and record-keeping, we are all effectively at the mercy of the whims of the agencies. The only missing piece is the capability for mass incarceration .... oh... wait a sec. ..
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New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data
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Here's an idea: If you don't want to make an anxious public even more anxious, don't name your NSA surveillance program "EvilOlive." Or really, anything starting with 'evil.'
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Using Voice to Code Faster than Keyboard
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Here's an open source Python script i wrote a few years ago that allows you to type with your voice. It's based off of CMU Sphinx. The accuracy is almost certainly not as good as Dragon, and it doesn't have a macro facility, so you cannot code as fast as typing. I haven't improved it much over the past few years because my hands got better and i don't need it anymore.https://sourceforge.net/projects/voicekey/ (tarball, includes language model)
https://github.com/bshanks/voicekey (repo, does not include language model)
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Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave
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I think the first question to ask yourself is "What do YOU want to do?"If you did the coding from scratch to bootstrap your product but don't see yourself as a developer in the long term, then it is all fine: you find yourself other responsibilities in your company (and there will be many to take care of) and let your CTO take care of the developments and hires in the tech team.On the other hand, if you did this to actually learn to be a good developer reuse that skill later (eg. launch another startup later) then you fall into the questions answered in other replies: is it political or is it only about code quality? (If it is about code quality, maybe your CTO is a jerk saying it this way, but for the sake of your product, it can be logical that you'd be out of its developments...)As from my own experience, my guess is that you are in between those two situations. In my case, here are the reasons why I was:- it was good fun bootstrapping the product with little constraints (small team, little production code, few processes, 100% reliability not mandatory etc.): I want to keep doing this- it can be useful to gain experience into the getting big (team, code base, user base etc.) even if it is less funAs for now, my best answer to this dilemma is to:1. know you skills really well to know your value2. keep innovating as much as possible: when being an entrepreneur (cofounder), your first required talent is not to make sure your code is 100% clean/safe etc. neither is it about having hard processes, but to create new things, to trust your ideas and to make them real. As a matter of fact, YOU cofounded your startup, not your CTO, so remember you have this skill and USE IT!
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Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
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There is a good book on this theme
http://aosabook.org/en/index.html, where the authors actually go deep into the design & architecture of selected well designed open source projects
e.g. llvm, git, freeswitch, etc.Highly recommended !
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The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback
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This is a really helpful article to learn about the early days of Google and the challenges in scaling your organization. Thanks for sharing.
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YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
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Congrats to Justin and co... including ycombinator. Big exit.
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