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The Aesthetic: Evolution of the arm sleevehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89c246ea3e4cbca19181e02fb8a0c2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yardbarker.com%2Fnba%2Farticles%2Fthe_aesthetic_evolution_of_the_arm_sleeve%2Fs1_13132_23173345&c=16389094069689907089&mkt=en-usIf it wasn't for a case of bursitis in Allen Iverson's right elbow, the arm sleeve might not have ever been the fashion phenomenon that it became. In 2001, with Iverson dealing with elbow pain, ...
Feb 7, 2017 12:55 AM
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Ask HN: Moratorium on threads related to the culture wars and identity politicshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659075The Hacker News guidelines permit "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".Now, even HN qualifies what isn't suitable for political stories: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Rest assured, most such stories do not satisfy this criterion, or wear off their novelty all too quickly.Be it the Millennials whose whining will immanentize the eschaton, the white heterosexual males and their original sin of mercantilism and colonialism, the feminists and Cultural Marxists who want to usurp Western values (whatever they are this month)... it is all grinding.The chief complaint, of course, is that threads on this subject are devoid of any value pertaining to debate. They instead serve as hubs for signaling normative dispositions. The inevitable result of such vacuous posturing is attrition. Discussions grow ever more primordial, threads on the subject increase and these elements spill over to other threads
Dec 1, 2015 9:48 PM
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I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorioushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88cdc94aea40bda18a4c6777d3c109&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2015%2F11%2Fi-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious%2F&c=11718921688328504438&mkt=en-usThere's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day. A web with no ads, no endlessly scrolling pages, and no ...
Nov 17, 2015 11:00 PM
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Ask HN: Staying Happyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104051I really remember it, back to the time when i was in college, i have so much tasks. I needed to attend campus club. Lots of assignment. But the fact i was happy still surprises me.It has been ~1.5 years since i graduated from my college and got to work as a software engineer. I got decent job with decent salary (at least pretty good in my area). The workplace itself considered as a "fun" environment: sleeping pod, ping pong table, coffee machine and no cubicles. Also, workload is lighter than class assignments. But it seems like i am not happy anymore -- i don't know why. (Btw, yes, i do love coding. I do some of my pet projects in weekend)I tried to do so much things (to try) making myself happier: Cycling around the city, playing some game with friends; but none of them seems to be working.After all, i want to create happiness, not to "do something" or "buy something" to make myself happy. I know happiness is intrinsic and subjective. Two persons doing a same thing may perceive that
Aug 22, 2015 10:41 PM
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Ask HN: Blockchainshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032099More and more noise seems to be appearing about blockchains. I see the small benefit of use in transactions between organisations, but am struggling for the case for private blockchains and some points of cryptocurrency in general. I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, but everything online is full of jargon and is inaccessible to me.I have a few questions:- What are the benefits of using a private blockchain (should I be thinking of it as a replacement to a General Ledger?)? Is this just another name for a ledger with auditable history?- Can a blockchain exist without mining or without a currency/coin? Will all private blockchains need a “coin”? (eg the Goldman Sachs coin or ABC plumbing coin?)And another couple of broader questions- What keeps people interested in a blockchain (and currency) once all of the easy mining is done eg, for people joining later?- I see that transaction costs for bitcoin keep rising, is that related to the size of the blockchain?- I thought bitcoin
Aug 10, 2015 12:27 AM
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MacOS is the new Windowshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816994I'm typing this on my late 2010 MacBook Air. Recently I was starting having problems with it (you know when you type your password and the system does not recognize your key presses, etc.). And I thought, “Oh, ok, I have to accept that we live in a world of planned obsolesce (how else faster-than-a-gigahertz multi-gigabyte-RAM machine could become slow? If it is capable of real-time response to user's actions, it should respond in real-time) and I have to upgrade to get my job done”.So I switched to this new aesthetically marvelous wonder: an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro. In 5 days I'm using it the machine restarted two (or three?) times "because of problems" though it has much less software installed than my old rock-stable-in-comparison MacBook Air. And now I'm installing an OS update which already restarted my system twice. First it restarted the system, than it said, “Ooops, I cannot verify the update”, fiddled with it for several more minutes, restarted-downloaded-restarted... W
Jul 2, 2015 5:20 AM
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Patriot Act Section Goes Way Too Farhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628531Via: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2015/05/29/letter-patriotact-sunset-senate-spying/28185561/"Section 215 of the Patriot Act is scheduled to sunset on Monday. This law was secretly interpreted to allow the mass surveillance of who you talk to on the phone. Such information can be deeply intimate and private: Consider, for instance, what you could infer from a record of numerous calls to a local oncology center and pharmacies. Section 215 is a pointless, expensive intrusion into the private life of every American. On May 22, the Senate voted against extending Section 215. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has indicated he will bring it up again for a last­minute vote on Sunday. I write to encourage local readers to ask their senators, especially McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, not to extend these surveillance provisions because they run counter to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Your say: Submit a letter to the editor (http://static.cincinnati.com/le
May 30, 2015 1:47 AM
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Ask HN: Finding a technical lead in Cambridge, MA?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675900Over the last several months, I have tested and validated a business opportunity in the legal space. Customers are very interested - 4 or the last 5 have asked to be part of a paid Beta as soon as possible. I'd like to get something workable into customers hands as soon as possible, but am hamstrung by my technical skills.I'm by background and skillset much more business than technically oriented. I know enough Python/Django to be dangerous and have built a working proof-of-concept / demo. However, I know when I'm at the limit of my capabilities, and to take it from POC to working product, would like to bring on someone to help buildout a real product.Some of the problems that need to be solved for (many of which I've been dealing with in one capacity or another): - web scraping. Done mostly with BeautifulSoup to date + lots of custom regexes. There are a lot of corner cases to deal with. - regularly scraping 10,000s of pages and watching for changes on those pages - entity and person
Nov 30, 2014 3:42 AM
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Ask HN: Does anyone get numbness in the pinky?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620337I recently started getting numbness in my left pinky. Here is a little background on me: An amateur coder who spends many hours every day on his laptop (although recently I haven't been doing enough coding practise). I'm left handed, mainly stick to ubuntu and tend to use gvim, I hardly ever use emacs. I looked up "emacs pinky", but this seems to be associated with pain in the finger (here's a nice picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielsaldana/4468068807/in/photostream/). I had a quick look at carpal tunnel syndrome, but this is associated with the median nerve. The pinky is innervated by the ulnar nerve, and I can't recall any injuries in the past few days. Also over the last few months I have made an effort to keep a reasonable sitting position when typing. Anyone with similar experiences? I am not asking for medical advice or an "online diagnosis", since I can make an appointment with the local witch doctor after the weekend finishes.
Oct 27, 2013 1:23 AM
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CheapAir.com Releases Holiday Cheap Flights Index™http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dfe4e6ad4e9c969ef1b9e677bb89&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.edn.com%2fcheapair-com-releases-holiday-cheap-flights-index%2f&c=5895763186634003321&mkt=en-us“Holiday airfares can fluctuate dramatically and it's not too early to start thinking about your travel plans,” said Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAir. “Our goal is to give travelers the data and knowledge ...
Sep 18, 2013 3:41 AM
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Ask HN: What makes the perfect office? I'm building one.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739458I run a web development agency with 18 people. The building we're looking at moving to will need extensive refurbishment, so we have a chance to spec out our office 'wish list' and then build that!So: If you could completely design your office space (aesthetics, layout, furniture, lighting, flooring), how would you want it to be?(We're a Rails agency, working in scrum teams of 2 or 4, doing some pairing but not full-time, based in London).
Nov 4, 2012 10:58 AM
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Seabiscuit and "The money problem"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158975Hello world!I'm not exactly sure the right way to approach this, I've never been much for doing things in an orthodox way, so I'll just be straightforward about it. I need to find an investor.I believe that I have all of the necessary ingredients to be successful at what I'm trying to accomplish, but I realize that I need others to believe in me to help me to achieve my potential; few people ever get there alone.I hear prominent figures say that they invest in the people more than the ideas and I wonder how true that is. Do you care more about me or my actual startup? In this case I think both are awesome, so maybe it's your lucky day (or mine).So, yes, I've got a startup. That's a lie, I've got two startups, but one is my baby. We'll get back to that later, for now I want to talk about who I am and why I am writing this.Maybe I suffer from the Dunning–Kruger effect, but I think I might be just the right mix of crazy, creative, and calculated to accomplish something fairly impressive.I
Jun 25, 2012 10:03 PM
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The End of the Road for the actual American pastime…TVhttp://technovisions.wordpress.com/The Grim Future for our Favorite Pastimeby Evan CTelevision. For most, it seems like the most basic of technologies, something people have been living with their entire lives. However, discussing the future of such an important and (dare I say) essential technology is no easy task, for you and I both know that change is not something people are always open to. My purpose for writing this is to not only inform people of the revolution at our doorstep, but to also encourage others to seek alternative viewing methods and explore the existing technology that is already out there.Now, the things I am about to explain may seem obvious at some points and entirely unrealistic at others, but you must remember to think outside the box and understand that the future is not always simple to explain. For example, think about trying to explain e-mail (or e-mail on your iPhone) to somebody from 1988. To them it would seem impossible, but little did they know that only a decade later, AOL would have o
Jun 6, 2012 2:04 AM
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Ask HN: How should I go public with a security hole?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050901We're evaluating an expensive software system for a certain industry. We've found public facing exploitable holes in the login system (default passwords, improper firewalls, SQL injection), which is directly translatable into profitable fraud.That is, if we used this system and someone exploited it, they could cause direct financial harm. These systems are almost always exposed to the public internet.I spoke to the company, and they seemed rather apathetic about the situation, although they said they'd fix the SQLi. Despite the codebase being in C, they report they've had no RCE security issues, "just crashes". I find that highly unlikely, more no one bothered investigating.How should I handle this? I'm worried for my own company which is at risk, and I'd also like to publish this info, as this market tends to sweep things under the carpet. In the past, with another vendor in the same market, I've privately reported, and found the vendor lied about fixing things and did not explain the
May 31, 2012 11:04 PM
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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0aa9f634d5da3365ab6b0fba611&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...
May 21, 2012 3:20 AM
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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ec39e475431c812df0980b6420b3&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...
May 21, 2012 3:20 AM
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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca9f01cb4da69b4ab2269fc2fe55&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...
May 21, 2012 3:20 AM
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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cc88714f418f9c8f3b8acdb5312e&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...
May 21, 2012 3:20 AM
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The Advantages of Using Multiple Hard Drives in a PChttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7244a0d4673928e79b7654f32f5&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fadvantages-using-multiple-hard-drives-pc-47340.html&c=8313012356115776584&mkt=en-usMost business PCs come standard with a single hard drive that's more than large enough for the typical user at work. However, in some cases, a single drive may not be the best choice for your ...
May 21, 2012 3:20 AM