Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Show HN: Ploi.io – Stop the hassle. Start deploi'ing
Article URL: https://ploi.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651137
Points: 1
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Show HN: Simpli – Beautiful, functional home page for Google Chrome
Article URL: https://getsimpli.app/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651131
Points: 1
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Hynix to Invest $3.1B in New Fab
Article URL: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333524
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651126
Points: 1
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ScienceTake: Lassie Got Help, Would Your Dog?
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/science/lassie-help-dog.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651115
Points: 1
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Lennon or McCartney? Can statistical analysis solve an authorship puzzle?
Article URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/asa-lom072718.php
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651107
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New comment by throwawayjava in "Computer science as a lost art (2015)"
Self-driving cars (controls, perception, planning, safety, sensor design, localization, mapping, integration, security, etc.), human-competitive NLP/image classification, advanced robotics (repeat list from cars here but for things in the air, off-road, on the water, in the water, in orbit, in deep space, ...).
Those are all examples of real things that real people get to work on every day.
Operating systems topics don't even scrape the top 20 of stuff I think of when I think of deep expertise.
And even if we limit ourselves to the sort of things you mention, most people who work deeply on languages, tools, and standards view these as manifestations of their deep exploration rather than the focus or subject of the dive.
For example, TensorFlow. The framework very much is the product. But even if some other framework won the day tomorrow, the people who worked on TensorFlow would not have "wasted" their time thinking deeply about how to build the system.
This is why researchers whose original contributions were made in the 70s and 80s none-the-less continue to establish themselves as desired experts in new technology trends (e.g., Leslie Lamport and cloud computing or Martin Abadi and ML frameworks). Because they were focused on ideas and fundamental problems. The problems never disappeared, just changed form. And ideas have a lot more staying power than their manifestation in code.
Most people working deeply on systems today are not "revolving around POSIX in some way". See the proceedings of OSDI. And most deep experts choose other topics, most of which your post doesn't mention: graphics, programming languages (making them and analyzing programs written in them), compilers, security, robotics, user interfaces, NLP, ...
Your definition of "expert" seems to revolve around using things, mostly things based on ideas and techniques that were well-understood already 20 years ago and that are related to building a particular type of software system. Which, if anything, seems to deepen the author's point.
Someone gets to fill the AI research labs, staff the self-driving car companies, work at NASA, build core infra at large tech companies, and build the foundation for the next 20 years of trendy growth areas.
It's possible to get to those places without a degree, of course, but a degree is by far the path of least resistance. And in most of these cases, learning the material from the degree isn't optional; you're probably going to have hard time doing that controls engineering job at a self-driving car company if you never made your way through a calc sequence, some physics, and an algorithms course.
It's also worth noting that very often, building wordpress plugins pays more than doing all of those things I mentioned. I guess it's all about what you want to spend your life doing, which is exactly what the author says at the end of the article.
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New comment by Tomte in "How to read Plato (1995)"
But that‘s exactly the point behind the footnotes remark that you seem to dislike.
Plato owned philosophy so completely that everyone, even centuries later, still referenced him.
You coming across ideas first via some more recent source does not invalidate him any more than Wordpress invalidates the importance of Movable Type.
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New comment by goatlover in "Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast"
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New comment by JayNeely in "Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History"
If you really want to make this model sustainable long-term I might even make the recommendation paragraph dynamically customized based on referring source (here's a WordPress plugin that would let you do this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-so/). History enthusiasts are likely to be intrigued by a different set of things from the book than HN's business & systems-thinkers or an RPG community interested in world-building inspiration.
Lots of people will read a general-interest article (quick & no cost), but to get conversions to an actual sale, you need to target specific interests.
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New comment by smt88 in "Java will kill your startup. PHP will save it"
The value of popularity for PHP comes from larger talent pools, better libraries, etc. WordPress doesn't contribute to those.
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New comment by icc97 in "Java will kill your startup. PHP will save it"
You can't just say "... if I ignore the ~30% of the internet that WordPress powers".
But anyway, after that... Wikipedia, Laravel, Symphony, CakePHP.
At the bottom of that pile... I built a CakePHP front end for a startup that after 8 years and was sold for $50m. Didn't require massive scaling, but the code had to be released on Windows servers in internet disconnected sites. The PHP code didn't require a single fix to production in the last 6 of the 8 years.
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New comment by smt88 in "Java will kill your startup. PHP will save it"
I feel qualified to say the following:
- Java will not kill your startup. Bad coding MIGHT. But it also might not.
- PHP will not save your startup. Good coding MIGHT. But it also might not.
- You can write good/bad software in Java. I've seen both.
- You can write bad software in PHP. I've never seen good software in PHP (including my own). At this point, it's becoming hard to believe it is possible to write good software in PHP.
Mostly this is a problem with the awful design of the language. Adding better typing is helping, but at that point, why not just use something else?
Also, most arguments in favor of PHP mention its popularity. I suspect that if you removed WordPress, Drupal, etc. from the calculation, you'd see PHP plummet to the bottom. I don't know any young people who learn it anymore, and I haven't met a startup building their product in PHP in many years.
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New comment by Torwald in "Ask HN: Can anyone explain what incentivizes handcuffware?"
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New comment by daxterspeed in "A new security header: Feature Policy"
Suppose if these security changes would slowly get imposed over all https traffic in a coordinated fashion among the major browser vendors over a large time span? https requires some periodic maintenance anyway, so it shouldn't add an unreasonable workload.
I worry that this isn't happening because the ad industry (including Google) doesn't want to take responsibility over distributing untrustworthy and insecure code.
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New comment by kirankn in "Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?"
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Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days in Palo Alto
Article URL: https://medium.com/@WIRED/sex-beer-and-coding-inside-facebooks-wild-early-days-in-palo-alto-7b447c143d52
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UI Sources – Curated Interaction Design Patterns from the Best Apps
Article URL: https://uisources.com/
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Points: 3
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How to Save Money Using Your Own Infrastructure
Article URL: https://kruschecompany.com/blog/post/how-to-save-money-using-your-own-infrastructure
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Mastering Go in 7 hours
Article URL: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mastering-go-golang-7-hours-steven-li/
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Birds-Of-Paradise Project: Female Choice
Article URL: http://www.birdsofparadiseproject.org/content.php?page=112
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Gold Leaf as Thermal Interface Material (TIM) Tested (reddit)
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/939glu/gold_leaf_as_tim_tested/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651024
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ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG
Article URL: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/zfs-boot-environments-at-pbug/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650988
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A new report questions “viability” of plan to privatize the space station
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/a-new-report-questions-viability-of-plan-to-privatize-the-space-station/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650970
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Vertical video sheds its black bars on YouTube, Android app adds dark mode
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/youtube-picks-up-dark-mode-on-android-loses-black-bars-on-the-web/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650969
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Darpa has an ambitious $1.5B plan to reinvent electronics
Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611725/darpa-has-an-ambitious-15-billion-plan-to-reinvent-electronics/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650956
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How Quantum Computers Could Kill the Arrow of Time
Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/63182-quantum-computer-reverse-arrow-time.html
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AutoCAD Course
Article URL: https://learnonlineschool.com/autocad-course/
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SQL: Finding a String Anywhere in Another String
Article URL: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/174811/
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How Service Mesh Addresses 3 Key Microservices Challenges
Article URL: https://devops.com/how-service-mesh-addresses-3-key-microservices-challenges/
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Blockchain project Civil turns to Asia with fund to kickstart 100 media venture
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/blockchain-media-project-civil-turns-to-asia/
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Reinforcement Learning for Stock Prediction
Article URL: https://github.com/llSourcell/Reinforcement_Learning_for_Stock_Prediction
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Seattle passes legislation including a $250K annual fee for bike-share companies
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Ask HN: Native alternatives to common Electron apps?
Currently I use: - VS Code (text editor) - GitKraken (Git frontend) - Postman (API testing) - Hyper (terminal emulator for Windows Subsystem for Linux)
Hyper alone takes nearly a gigabyte of RAM. Interested to hear HN's alternatives.
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Why CSS Selectors are the most useful Selenium WebDriver locators?
Article URL: https://www.pineboat.in/post/css-selectors-selenium-webdriver-find-element-xpath-replaced/
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How we spent 30k USD in Firebase in less than 72 hours
Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/how-we-spent-30k-usd-in-firebase-in-less-than-72-hours-307490bd24d
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650836
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Fox News Breaking News Alert
Trump offers to meet with Iranian President Rouhani with “no preconditions”
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Rand Paul says he will support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
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Aid sector 'almost complicit' in sex scandal, say MPs
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North Korea 'working on new missiles', US officials say
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Tom Watson accuses NEC member of being a 'loud-mouthed bully'
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Dixons Carphone admits data breach now affects 10 million
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Women 'illegally buying abortion pill online'
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The battle to stop ex-IS fighters reaching Europe
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Corrie Mckeague: Airman 'somewhere in Suffolk waste disposal system'
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Andy Murray beats Mackenzie McDonald in Washington Open
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Love Island: Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham win ITV2 series
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Lombok earthquake: More than 500 hikers evacuated from Mt Rinjani
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IS claims fatal Tajik attack on foreign cyclists
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Brexit and your holiday: Five things that could change
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Durex recalls condoms over split worries
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The Papers: Manchester bomber was 'rescued by Royal Navy'
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News Daily: Aid sector abuse and North Korea missile reports
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Bruce Beach has built a 10,000 sq ft nuclear bunker
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Trekking to Everest: 'Challenging but rewarding!'
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Messi has a kickabout with his dog
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In pictures: Behind the mask
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Melinda Messenger: 'How do breasts have so much power?'
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Somalia's deaf footballers create their own league
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Intrepid French hunt for sunken warships Cordelière and Regent
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Will EU healthcare for tourists survive Brexit?
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What happened to the boy who chased away the lions?
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Would you quote Rick Astley in your out-of-office?
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Fast fashion: Inside the fight to end the silence on waste
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How will the Love Island contestants cash in following the show?
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Are UK trains the 'envy' of Europe?
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Monday, July 30, 2018
Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf]
Article URL: http://downloads.tor-lattimore.com/banditbook/book.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642564
Points: 2
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Hands on Bug Bounties for Penetration Testers
Article URL: https://handsonbughunting.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642367
Points: 2
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New comment by bradknowles in "Ask HN: Why is everyone so obsessed with serverless?"
However, "serverless" also comes with a heavy price to pay in terms of debugging your code. It works perfectly (more or less), assuming you can actually write perfect code. But can anyone in this world actually write perfect code?
The bigger and more complex your code base, the more difficult it will be to debug it, and the more difficult it will be to get it to work correctly in a "serverless" environment.
For some people, going "serverless" will make a lot of sense for them. Just like some people do fine with WordPress so that all they have to do is type out their content and outsource all the hard work for publishing a web site based on that content.
But you will also pay a higher and higher monetary cost for going "serverless", as you scale up. At some point, it will no longer make sense to outsource that to someone else, and you will want to bring that in-house.
Do you understand how locks work? Or plumbing? If you need to replace or rekey the lock on your front door, can you do that yourself? Or do you outsource that to a Locksmith? If you need to replace your toilet, can you do that yourself or do you outsource that to a plumber? What if your A/C unit goes out? What if your car breaks down?
There are going to be some things that some people are good at doing, and they're good enough at doing it themselves that they don't want or need to outsource that work to someone else.
And then there are going to be some things that those same people probably are not good at doing, and those should be done by someone else -- either outsourced, or someone else in-house who works in partnership with you.
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New comment by jimholcomb in "Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?"
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New comment by ronilan in "Ask HN: Have we hit peak JavaScript?"
But, on a historical note, 2018 will probably go down as the year of “peak WordPress”.
All “patch” releases, nothing else: https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/
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New comment by dsego in "The Thirty Million Line Problem"
Example: Chrome -> Linux -> openWRT -> router -> FreeBSD -> Apache -> PHP -> Wordpress -> MySQL
The 30-million-line problem:
Even with new web technology "hotness" we're stuck with an OS on either side. Stuck with a bloated mass underneath anything we do. Rewriting is not really an option.
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New comment by h1d in "Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian"
For instance, I try to search for "pass" hoping to dig out the password someone pasted and it shows results containing words like "wordpress" and "css" that petty much buries the actual matches even if they're somewhere way down in the result.
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Intermediated of the world, unite
Article URL: https://radiobruxelleslibera.com/2018/06/26/intermediated-of-the-world-unite/
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NASA: 60 Years and Counting
Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/60counting/index.html
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Have a Cryptocurrency Company? Bermuda, Malta or Gibraltar Wants You
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/technology/cryptocurrency-bermuda-malta-gibraltar.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642518
Points: 2
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ReactOS can now boot from Btrfs
Article URL: https://reactos.org/blogs/gsoc-2018-booting-btrfs-works
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Points: 1
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Robotex Has Just Expanded to Anguilla, Armenia, Japan, Mali and Monaco
Article URL: https://medium.com/robotex/welcoming-five-new-countries-to-our-global-family-bf67f3bf1d31
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642481
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How Fast Is Zold?
Article URL: https://blog.zold.io/2018/07/30/how-fast-is-zold.html
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Points: 2
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YouTube alternative that copies the YT 2007 design
Article URL: https://www.vidlii.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642450
Points: 2
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Wealth Builders World Wide
Article URL: http://www.joynerdiscountsgoldbythegram.com
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Points: 1
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Cataract (disambiguation)
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_(disambiguation)
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POC vs. MVP vs. Prototype: Which Method Is Perfect for Your Product Launch
Article URL: https://www.rockonit.com/blog/poc-vs-mvp-vs-prototype-which-method-is-perfect-for-your-product-launch
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Points: 2
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Analysis System for Movie Releases Based on Movie Trailer [pdf]
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04465
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Points: 1
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When is the best time to hire a salesperson?
Article URL: https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1082/when-is-the-best-time-to-hire-a-salesperson.html
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20th Century Fox uses AI to predict who will watch a movie from its trailer
Article URL: https://news.developer.nvidia.com/20th-century-fox-uses-ai-to-predict-who-will-watch-a-movie-from-its-trailer/
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EtherCalc – A Web Spreadsheet
Article URL: https://ethercalc.net/
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Points: 3
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New iPad Pro said to drop 3.5mm jack
Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/27/2018-ipad-pro-headphone-jack-more/
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Points: 3
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Is not going to college for a developer viable in the current year?
What do you think, and what was your experience with college or the lack thereof?
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Audio from the 1999 Shoot Down of F-117 “Vega 31” Over Serbia Is Chilling
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#metoo in China (Chinese language)
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Microsoft promises no more unexpected update reboots
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?
55 by msftie | 46 comments on Hacker News.
There’s an increasing interest in “dumbphones” these days, but it seems that options for a basic phone are fairly limited in the US market. If you have switched, what did you switch to? If you’re looking to switch, what are you considering?
Intel Drives New Bus for Future Chiplets
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processors/intel-drives-new-bus-for-future-chiplets
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I run a one-person company in the cloud / ops space and over the past year have gone from $0 to $200k in annual recurring revenue. I have not taken any funding. The major cloud providers (aws, google, azure) are starting to expand to my product space, however, and I'm increasing concerned with my long-term prospects. I think it might make sense to pursue acquisition/aqui-hire, while my product and expertise can still add value to these cloud providers. I would really appreciate advice from the HN community on how to achieve the best possible outcome, including how to proactively pursue acquisition/aqui-hire at a large company. Thanks!
Picture of the day for July 30, 2018
Male African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) with a red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) in South Africa. The buffalo doesn't mind the bird too much as it eats ticks and other insects that bother him. 30 July is the United Nations’ International Day of Friendship.. Learn more.
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New comment by dzhshnacct in "Indian warrior king's rocket cache found in abandoned well"
Indian Gunpowder – the Force Behind Empires
https://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/indian-gunpowder-th...
h/t
https://mobile.twitter.com/wiavastukala/status/1022469132871...
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New comment by girzel in "Django EAV 2 – Entity-Attribute-Value Storage for Django"
I suppose this was necessary or at least useful for a general-use web framework like Wordpress, where no one knows what kinds of attributes various users will want to create, and therefore table _columns_ are stored as table _data_, and no one ever has to do any migration.
But it was dog-slow. The switch to Django halved the number of tables in the site, and the whole thing went about three times as fast (plenty of other reasons for that, though).
Granted, now I have to do Django migrations rather than Wordpress web-console manipulation, but as someone said in a different post, Django migrations aren't that hard these days.
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New comment by andypants in "ActivityPub could be the future"
If you don't want any comments from the fediverse in general? Well then activity pub doesn't benefit you at all and you have no need for it.
> Is this essentially just the same as the trackbacks I already get from other Wordpress posts that link to my page, but with every single tweet (or rather, “toot” (oh, pardon me, how rude. Can you please tell me where the bathroom is?)) generating a trackback?
You can interact with people's content from any interoperable website/service/client basically. It's not just a link on some site or a meaningless metric that gets bumped up. The comments may very well be from people who actually did read your blog post and genuinely want to interact. They just don't have to actually visit your site to do any of those things.
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New comment by jtbayly in "ActivityPub could be the future"
And will all of your followers’ comments show up too?
Is this essentially just the same as the trackbacks I already get from other Wordpress posts that link to my page, but with every single tweet (or rather, “toot” (oh, pardon me, how rude. Can you please tell me where the bathroom is?)) generating a trackback?
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New comment by severine in "ActivityPub could be the future"
There's some info here:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-06-06-minutes#AS2_impl...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitystream-extension/#desc...
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New comment by jessriedel in "Welcome to the New Space Age"
There are a few excellent specialist blogs, like Resonaances for particle physics,
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/
but they are not very accessible to outsiders. Sean Carroll, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Peter Woit are pretty good and accessible
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
but they aren't neutral; that's fine since they are personal blogs, but it can be difficult for laymen to get an objective picture of the field.
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[1] https://KanbanWP.com
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New comment by pmlnr in "Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?"
- synthing for file sync
- miniflux for RSS
- WordPress for friends/family websites
- prosody for XMPP
- wallabag for bookmarks
- centralized rsyslog & collectd
- radicale for calendar/tasks/contacts sync
- gammu for sms sending
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New comment by pwaai in "Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serverless workloads"
here's my pain point. I built a serverless REST API with token authentication on Lambda. However, if many people aren't using it all the time it will sleep and then the next sucker who calls the endpoint is stuck with waiting for the serverless instance to wake up.
In some cases even getting a token from a simple POST request would take an awful long time. This was a few years ago and I stopped using serverless since then.
But now I'm interested in serverless because I've been hearing that the cold startup problem is being reduced.
I wonder if in the future developers will be just taking core logics from serverless repository and wiring up the components, sort of like how wordpress does it without the crazy layers of PHP and bloat.
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New comment by Theodores in "Crazy Image EXIF Orientation Bug (or Feature?)"
As for Wordpress people using third party services to remove bloat from images in a paid for, tediously manual way - don't! Configure your server to do it with Google's mod_pagespeed. You can serve src_set images whilst you are at it that way making the web quicker and more eco friendly.
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New comment by aulrich in "Show HN: Chrome Extension Displaying Social Media Link Previews"
After that, I wanted it for "ALL THE SITES" - and so a little Chrome Extension fell out of it :)
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New comment by tonyarkles in "Ask HN: As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?"
Then the question becomes: is it more effort to backport this fix into a codebase I don't know? Or is it more effort to bring everything else up to using the new version. Either way, it's going to suck :)
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Fear of Macros
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Indonesia earthquake: 10 dead on tourist island Lombok
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Don't Underestimate Chinese Automakers
Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyshih/2018/07/25/dont-underestimate-chinese-auto-makers/
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Facebook Isn’t Going Anywhere
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Photos: Hubble Space Telescope Gets Gorgeous Shots of Mars and Saturn – Vox
Article URL: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/7/27/17621488/hubble-telescope-photo-mars-opposition-saturn-rings
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750 Raspberry Pis Turned into Supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory
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R: Lessons Learned, Directions for the Future (2010) [pdf]
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Multimodal embeddings for interleaved text and images
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