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bing.com• Jul 10, 2019• 1 min read

Does Smith and Wesson beat Glock in a 2.0 battle?Glock was the king of the polymer pistol game for decades. But only because there were no other polymer pistols to challenge Glock’s claim to the throne. But things changed. In the early 2000s, Smith ...

news.ycombinator.com• Feb 20, 2019• 1 min read

Enough of Upwork ShitWhen you are the largest in the market or have monopoly in the market, there is nothing you can’t do. You can:Charge excessively high prices Force down the fair price of a gig to less than minimum wages Block people’s access to their own hard earned money Stop taking new accounts Scam your clients and customers Abandon existing contracts by blocking clients or freelancers Violate your own policies Force to use a bad service on high price Apply algorithms to scam more people and make more money Exploit clients and freelancers by imposing highest commission Block anyone who raises voice Stop providing actual customer service Stop giving sh That is exactly what the gig economy giant upwork.com is doing since a long time. Online freelancing communities and chat rooms are full of people upwork has exploited and robbed. Few references:https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.upwork.com http://upworkfraud.byethost4.com/?i=1 https://hackernoon.com/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-5c62848bdf4

bing.com• Jan 10, 2019• 1 min read

Worn Again Transforms Old Clothes Into Raw MaterialsThis goes beyond recycling. Worn Again Technologies, headquartered in London, says it's developed a chemical process to turn used polyester and cotton clothing, along with PET plastic bottles and ...

news.ycombinator.com• Dec 24, 2015• 1 min read

The inhuman side of Facebook, or other giant tech companiesPosted from a friend's Facebook page. It really makes me think about the power corporates hold over people. As more and more tech companies gain relative monopoly in their field, these kind of inconveniences are doomed to happen more often."Need help from friends working at Facebook. I recently opened an account for my new mobile game on Facebook, to do some Facebook ads. But after configuring for 3 hours in the bug-ridden ad system and finally successfully launched a campaign, Facebook sent me a message saying my account has fraudulently activities and shut it down without giving anything specific. I appealed but they responded with nothing specific, only saying that they are not confident re-opening it. This level of bureaucratic behavior is just really hurting Facebook and its developers. So if anyone working at Facebook sees this please please help me out here. Thanks!PS. It is unbelievable that Facebook could just do this, shutting down your account, without giving a why. In a wor

bing.com• Mar 20, 2014• 1 min read

Solar Joos Battery Charger ReviewThe Solar Joos Orange is a portable solar battery charger. It’s designed to charge cell phones, tablets, GPS units, MP3 players, digital cameras and more. It’s a very rugged unit with a polycarbonate ...

bing.com• Jan 21, 2013• 1 min read

Height matters—from monogenic disorders to normal variationHeight is a classic polygenic quantitative trait with a high level of heritability. As it is a simple and stable parameter to measure, height is a model for both common, complex disorders and ...

itunes.apple.com• Sep 25, 2012• 1 min read

New iPhone App encourages Classroom Activity for Stats/MathThe Aakkozzll app is a substitute for throwing dice. Players can see the probability distribution on each throw (unlike dice which have a similar pattern, but you just can't see it).The app is great for high-school to college level stats and data-management classes, and simple enough to serve as a primer for elementary-aged students. It gives them a physical / visual way to appreciate the normal curve. Can be used in a classroom activity of Craps or even monopoly, using the Aakkozzll instead of dice. Games like Craps will take on a whole new meaning when students can actually see the chances of getting a 7.Will give students an intuition for the binomial distribution, frequency graphs, and the normal curve. As the balls fall down, they randomly go left or right (its about 50/50) depending on how they land. Its like having a series of 50/50 coin tosses which determines the final position of the balls. Only the red ball actually determines your "roll" (it blinks red).The original inspira

bing.com• May 24, 2012• 1 min read

Person: IffraajThe once-raced Witty Repartee can land the Follow Dundalk On Facebook Maiden on the polytrack tonight. Winner of his maiden in heavy ground over course and distance three weeks ago, the John ...

news.ycombinator.com• Jan 4, 2012• 1 min read

Ask HN: How to grow after 6 years of work?I started my professional career more than 6 years ago. I started at a small company (less than 10 people). We were mainly a mobile development shop. I was known as 'polyglot guy' and 'Moving MSDN' working with the various technologies (C++, C#, Python, Java) on various platforms (Symbian, Windows CE, Windows, Java ME).Then the company met a lot of management and financial problems. The manager made a lot of mistakes and later closed the company. This was very hard for me considering that I'm responsible for my mom & younger sisters after my father died. I worked there for 1.5 years.Then I moved to another small company, working on ASP.net. I was able to learn it very fast & become productive with it, performing very well at the beginning & used my good points (learning fast & using various technologies well) but I met some problems when I was responsible for a whole project for the first time. We ran very late & the quality was very low. Adding to this that the company was really bad

news.ycombinator.com• Dec 25, 2010• 1 min read

Controversial hack to effect change in US Copyright systemHey Hacker News.I guess I often think like a hacker or a mathematician, in that I consider the simple component parts, and imagine them in different combinations, and try to extract general principles of things.Something about copyright has always seemed very anachronistic to me. I mean, I know it's the law, and yet it's so hard to enforce, ever since the means of copying has become electronic.In fact, a monopoly over intellectual property seems somehow inherently wrong to me. Never mind the fact that long-lived software patents are harmful in such a fast-moving industry, or that worked composed after 1930 will likely never enter the public domain, thanks to lobbying of the Congress every few years by special interests to extend the term of copyright. Never mind the efforts by the RIAA that bear a resemblance to extortion. The very principle that someone should have absolute say over who in the world can make a copy or derivative work of something they have released, seems to be flawed

bing.com• Jul 15, 2009• 1 min read

'Sloppier copier' surprisingly efficientThe "sloppier copier" discovered by USC biologists is also the best sixth man in the DNA repair game, an article in the journal Nature shows. The enzyme known as DNA polymerase V (pol V) comes in when ...