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What to do when your debugger lies to you

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Why I can't recommend Clean Architecture by Robert C Martin

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One of the coolest parts about the web is being eroded

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The Fundamentals of Security Every Developer Should Understand

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Homographs, Attack

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The Hawaii Missile Alert Was the Software Developer's Fault

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Is Bitcoin vulnerable to a “bank run”?

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Clicking a Facebook link logs me into another person's account

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The Ethereum-blockchain size will not exceed 1TB anytime soon

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It’s All in the Timing: Timing Attacks for Dummies

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Why you should work remotely

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Workspace grid for MacOS without external tools

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Pure functions, and why I like them

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Why Password Length Is So Important

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A first attempt at Bitcoin trading algorithms

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Golden Rules of Great UI Design

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Sentiment analysis on Trump's tweets using Python

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What do I have to learn to be hirable in Clojure?

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Wes Bos is doing an AMA on dev.to right now

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Stack Overflow “Trends” – popularity of programming terms over time

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An Overview of the Google Docs Phish Going Around Today

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Story of an epic hardware side project: building a giant pixel wall

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The Bootstrapping Mindset

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Onboarding New Developers

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State.of.dev: visualization of the current state of development

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The 4-letter-word word that makes my blood boil

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Our hiring process at Argo

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How much to never use a Google service again (search, gMail, YT, etc)?

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blogs.wsj.com 11y ago

Jet uses own affiliate links to earn extra commissions on “concierge” orders

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www.nytimes.com 12y ago

Terrorism’s Fertile Ground

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Brilliant idea honestly.

If someone wanted to use this for "opposition research" purposes, they could run this against any "up and coming" public figures...

* Regional politicians

* TV show contestants

* High school / college athletes

* White collar workers receiving major promotions

* etc.

Take screenshots / records of the tweet, then figure out what to do next. Could range from storing for a rainy day or building a SaaS that reaches out to those folks and helps them find/delete the old content.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A great reminder that showing a bit of gratitude goes a long way, especially to the the oftentimes-thankless builders and maintainers of the OSS we all rely on.

Bravo. In my view, this connection and upside was made appropriately-clear in the "Who are you and why did you build this?" section, and the context from the logo attached to the site.

Very clever marketing, good on you for managing this, and I hope you see a great return for your efforts.

Hi Kevin, we applied through the conventional application process for S2016 - would there be any merit to starting an "Apply HN" thread as a supplement and opportunity for public discussion?

This is really smart. I feel like it further establishes SeatGeek as the inarguably best destination to buy tickets: peer-to-peer at lowest fees in the industry, combined with the best prices on the web.

If you consider a marketplace to be (demand side) : (supply side), they already have a backstop in the supply side through price-comparison, and can now differentiate their service from other companies with a solid user-uploaded set of tickets.

I love this, simply genius. I think it'll make sense to focus on a few select tasks and scale those with great partners, instead of spreading too wide at first.

The pricing doesn't make all that much sense to me. Why not a simple per-request pricing model with a monthly minimum (after a # of free trials)? Or the ability to simply purchase larger blocks for discount pricing?

Reminds me of a 30 Rock bit where Jack is talking about Tracy's kooky investment:

(S03E15) "His video game made a fortune and he invested all of it in a company that dismantles bank signs. They're doing very well."

YC Fellowship 11 years ago

Another great initiative from YC, which I'm sure will yield incredible access to talented entrepreneurs. Surely there will be signal-to-noise issues, but if any group is equipped to sift through for (and help develop) talent, it's YC.

$12k is not a lot of money in the grand scheme, but it is a huge grant to many talented founders/teams who otherwise wouldn't be able to take this leap.

I think that that in addition to the price-setting / risk-spreading nature of the "monopoly," they're also trying to control new "experiences" as it relates to dating. OKCupid / Match offer a fundamentally different experience to Tinder or HowAboutWe.

IAC seems to be making a macro-bet: we don't know what online dating will look like in 5-10 years, but we want to control it.

Interestingly, they "incubated" Tinder via Hatch Labs (where I was an employee). Pretty impressive control of that vertical.

This is what many/most have overlooked. Victoria was the straw that broke the camel's back. Her firing was indicative of the lack of appreciation / recognition given to the moderator's, and was just another example of the disconnect and (perceived) exploitation of moderator time/effort without the proper support and tools.

This was an unexpectedly fascinating read. This blew my mind:

Rats are responsible for about half of all bird and reptile extinctions on islands, according to Gregg Howald of the group Island Conservation.

I live in the LES of NYC, and will routinely see 50+ rats in a 10 block span. They have massive burrows through a local park, with ample opportunity to live and breed, and a constant supply of trash and food (sometimes left "for the birds.")

One small benefit is that they prove a consistent supply of food for the local park's hawks, which can regularly be seen feasting on them.

Here's a cool video of hunting dogs attacking a rat burrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxQksEF2uso