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Bacteria Are Masters of Tai Chi - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/37/currents/bacteria-are-masters-of-tai-chi
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masonic
Dude. This is the _fourth_ time you alone have posted this in the last 2+
days.
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From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women (2013) - jimsojim
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/from-zen-buddhism-to-preying-on-vulnerable-women/281475/?single_page=true
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justnot4me
I guess this is a case of desire causing suffering.
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bonobo3000
Shimano may not have been a good guy,... | {
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EFF: Tell Us Your DRM Horror Stories about Ebooks, Games, Music, Movies and IoT - g1n016399
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/ebooks-games-music-movies-and-internet-things-tell-us-your-drm-horror-stories
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wodenokoto
I don't know if it is a horror story, but I bought a kindle edition of a
reference work to us... | {
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TDD brings little business value and isn’t worth it - agnieszkaczapla
https://www.thedroidsonroids.com/blog/tdd-part-1
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ColinWright
The title here is clickbait, pure and simple. It's neither the original title,
nor the conclusion.
The wrapup at the end says:
> _Now you see why developers insist on TDD. This is... | {
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White House looks to robotics for economic future - robotlaunch
https://medium.com/silicon-valley-robotics/white-house-economic-report-looks-to-robotics-for-the-future-429d66a6593#.sc1xco8vg
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robotlaunch
Focus is on two technologies - robotics and the internet - to drive future
productivity, innovation and labor... | {
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Off the Grid - decasteve
http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/
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uhtred
It's interesting that I was at an itunes free gig in London back in 2010 at
the Camden Roundhouse (band was Bombay Bicycle Club and they were very good),
and Stephen Fry made a pre gig speech (obviously paid by Apple) to say how
mar... | {
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The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes - Balgair
https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/the-brilliance-of-all-gas-no-brakes
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erulabs
All Gas No Brakes is fantastic - strongly recommend to anyone remotely
interested in journalism. This article sort of suggests he’s not a journalist
- which I have to take issue with...... | {
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} |
Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B - sgloutnikov
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/splunk-acquires-cloud-monitoring-service-signalfx-for-1-05b/
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deanmoriarty
Does anybody know if employees will end up actually making any money from this
massive acquisition, or if yet again board and inv... | {
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Sierra On-Line Documentary - D_Guidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_1TZoNiW6U&feature=youtu.be
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rococosbasilisk
Pharaoh was developed by Impressions Games which was bought by Sierra On-Line
in 1995. It remains one of the best historical strategy games ever made. Its
cinematics were extraordinary for a game tu... | {
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} |
How coding boot camps are filling the talent gap - dean
http://www.macleans.ca/work/jobs/how-coding-boot-camps-are-filling-the-talent-gap/
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acconrad
I have this theory that coding boot camps are an attempt at further increasing
the wage gap. Globalization has brought down developer prices, but the quality
droppe... | {
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} |
GOTO considered helpful - jmount
http://erehweb.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/goto-considered-helpful/
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CodeMage
I can identify with this article. My own experience makes me agree with it
completely.
At the age of 7, I learned BASIC on Spectrum 48. At the age of 9, I wrote a
program for my mom to use in her biology ... | {
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Don't take Investment Now: It's the Era of the Entrepreneur - ALee
http://thenextweb.org/2008/11/01/the-era-of-the-entrepreneur/
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wheels
I find a lot of these sort of articles a bit of an echo chamber. There's
limited value in advice that claims to be in response to the times, but is
exactly the same as it was b... | {
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Ask HN: Tools you use for remote working? - d0m
Hi, as remote working is becoming more and more common, I'm curious about tools/services startups are using. (Features management, bug tracker, video conferences, chat, tasks, knowledge center, etc.)
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WadeF
We use a bunch of tools at Zapier but some of ou... | {
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Summarizes what it's like working for most big companies (as a developer/engineer) - chaostheory
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071026.html
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mickt
Surprisingly like real life (in a big company where managers care more about
their fiefdoms that doing what's right).
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ngrok tunnels: better, faster, stronger - inconshreveable
http://inconshreveable.com/09-25-2013/ngrok-tunnels-better-faster-stronger/
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RobSpectre
Ngrok is one of the best tools in my belt for debugging webhooks at Twilio.
Secure, fast, reliable and - above all - useful.
Stoked for the new features Alan - thanks... | {
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Stiffness of the human foot and evolution of the transverse arch - miobrien
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10371
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ice109
odd thing to be posted here... but I'll take this opportunity to pull ask for
advice: I run 30-40 miles/week, in 7.5 increments, and at the upper end of
that range my feet hurt almost unbearably b... | {
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New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums - mikro2nd
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/
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taftster
And here's the thing. These types of driving habit trackers (not necessarily
new in the auto-insurance industry) are touted as a means to reduce the cost
o... | {
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Responsive Web Typography With FlowType.JS - malij
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/09/18/introducing-flowtype-js/
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pedalpete
Checking out the source code
[https://github.com/simplefocus/FlowType.JS/blob/master/flowt...](https://github.com/simplefocus/FlowType.JS/blob/master/flowtype.js),
I was amazed t... | {
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Naming is an act of creation - joedunn
https://medium.com/coaching-notes/naming-is-an-act-of-creation-3510b3b16ef5
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asprouse
I find that while coding I practice lazing naming where I am able to start
writing `function foo` and which allows me to bypass the upfront naming
deliberation. Once I have my code written... | {
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... so THIS is where Apple tests our Apps - cburgdorfer
https://twitter.com/cburgdorfer/status/317652392726376448
Looks like a space ship...
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JCB_K
So this is a location sharing app, and a founder/developer posts privately
shared locations on Twitter? Seems like a good reason to avoid using it.
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mkr-hn
I wo... | {
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Being a Manager Is Lonely - platz
http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2015/01/being-a-manager-is-lonely.html
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smacktoward
This post is not so much about management being lonely (though it is, at all
levels) as it is about the special loneliness of _middle_ management.
If you're a top manager, a founder or C-level ty... | {
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} |
Unibox - A New Take on the OS X Mail Client - lassejansen
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/27/unibox-a-new-take-on-the-os-x-mail-client/
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phren0logy
I thought twitter didn't allow this kind of aggregation across services in
native clients anymore?
<https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api>
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The Rise and Fall of Cribspot - objections
https://www.tcbusinessnews.com/2018/04/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-cribspot/
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a_t48
How is this different from a property management company (say, Property
Force)? The fact that they have a website over just putting out on CraigsList?
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SlowRobotAhead
> The vision was... | {
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Announcing MongoDB 3.0 - meghan
https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-mongodb-30
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davidw
> a database so powerful, flexible, and easy to manage that it can be the new
> DBMS standard for any team, in any industry.
It's good to see they haven't sacrificed the hype while working on other
features :-/
~~~
... | {
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Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads - scott_s
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20687434/amazon-sellers-nomad-merchants-products-malls-walmart
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gumby
A fascinating example of arbitrage.
There are a lot of horrible (Uber, counterfeiters exploiting Amazon's product
co-mingling etc etc) and horrifying (DoorDash)... | {
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Realistic rain drops in JS - vvnraman
http://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo1.html
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mgraczyk
Looks great! The biggest drops sort of spoil the illusion at times because
they pass in front of or behind other drops without absorbing them. Maybe a
cool tweak for v2 would be to add some simple collision resolut... | {
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First Evidence of Sleep in Flight - dnetesn
http://maxplanck.nautil.us/article/326/first-evidence-of-sleep-in-flight
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jfk13
While this may be the "first evidence" in the sense of measurements of brain
activity, swifts apparently sleeping at 10,000 feet were directly observed 100
years ago:
[https://www.rspb.org.... | {
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Ask HN: Why aren't phones software? - Toenex
I've recently started using my phone providers software app to make and receive calls and texts from other devices and it has wondering why we aren't phones purely software and the handsets generic? I can see we need to replace the sim card with a software key a... | {
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ShowHN: QRSplice - Use animated QR Codes to transfer data between iOS devices - rpledge
http://qrsplice.com
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rpledge
My QR code hack just went live, check it out. Send text data between 2 iOS
devices with an animated QR code. It works pretty well until the file size
starts to get big. Let me know what you thin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Said to Be Talking With News Corporation About Joint Yahoo Bid - gibsonf1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/technology/10google.html?ei=5065&en=d0335626b3163fd3&ex=1208404800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
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dcurtis
Why in the hell is Yahoo, all of the sudden, so valuable to Microsoft? Why
didn't they m... | {
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What I Learned from Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter - vinnyglennon
https://medium.com/@gsvpioneer/what-i-learned-from-reading-every-amazon-shareholders-letter-cdc35f309e8b
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jondubois
>> If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get
on.
I believe this is from Eric Schmidt. It'... | {
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Uber cracked two 80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory - rbanffy
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612470/uber-has-cracked-two-classic-80s-video-games-by-giving-an-ai-algorithm-a-new-type-of-memory/
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userbinator
Before I read the article, I thought it was about a different type of
crack... | {
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Google Analytics infographic presentation-ready reports - whatagraph
http://app.whatagraph.com
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sharmadwivid
Applied for report. Let's hope for good!!!
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Move over mod_python, here comes mod_wsgi. - benhoyt
http://blog.micropledge.com/2007/09/the-up-and-coming-mod_wsgi/
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mattculbreth
I've recently used nginx to reverse-proxy and load balance to both paste and
mongrel. Much easier setup. If you're doing a custom app I tend to think this
is better than running a ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Visual Design for Hackers - DanI-S
Take a look at the Rails Rumble 2010 entries: http://railsrumble.com/<p>There's a whole stack of apps there, developed within 48 hours by small groups of people. They're not all beautiful, but there is (to my eye) a pretty high standard of presentation for most of them.<p>I a... | {
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Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments - joshwa
http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/
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deathbyzen
I. Hate. Youtube. Comments.
I have hated them forever. It's the one thing I can't wrap my fucking head
around. How hard is it for a company valued at billions of dollars to hire
some MODERATORS? I hate t... | {
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Colour e-reader with video in development - AndrewDucker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8610962.stm
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Luyt
I am very interested in deveopments in eInk technologies. I wish I could buy
an eInk monitor with a DVI input so that I can use it for programming outside.
I like to sit on a terrace or... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Email provider for sending transactional emails? - lucaspiller
I run a website monitoring service, and send out email notifications to my customers whenever there is a problem. I'm currently using SendGrid with a shared IP, however a lot of my emails are being rejected due to blacklisted IPs. As the notif... | {
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Why Did Yahoo Buy Summly? - scholia
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30m-startup-2013-4
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theatraine
I would be interested to see the Summly summarization of this article! I think
it would read something like this:
Yahoo bought Summly, a startup with an app that not many people used, mad... | {
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This is the IPaddress(37.59.164.208) calling a hacked script file on my server - ziggrat
37.59.164.208 - - [09/Nov/2012:00:31:55 -0600] "POST /scripts/wp-trackbacks9.php HTTP/1.1" 200 183 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101
When i traced it i found the location as France and its going to Google ... | {
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Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily? - poiuz
What are some small scripts you use daily?
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macNchz
I wind up making lots of interim files when
importing/exporting/munging/analyzing data–to help keep track of these things
(CSVs, scripts and miscellany that I may or may not want to revisit in the
futur... | {
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Google maps cut prices by 88% - njx
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57459328-93/google-slashes-price-88-for-using-google-maps-api
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georgemcbay
$0.50 per 1000 maps is way better pricing than $4 per 1000 maps, yet still a
lot more expensive than using OpenStreetMap even if you factor in CPU and
bandwidth costs to... | {
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} |
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results - O_H_E
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-user-publishes-benchmarks-overclocking-results-ahead-of-launch/
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VladTheImplier
Lovely news! This is my next CPU after many years of my trusty FX8350@4.8 GHz.
Last time I waited for the second revi... | {
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Dripping water turned into a standing wave. Amazing. - derrida
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/05/02/dripping-water-turned-into-standing-waves/
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ColinWright
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864994>
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rsanchez1
Honestly can't people check that someone else didn't already post the same
story?
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steph... | {
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SWIFT - a Free, Open-Source alternative to Adobe Flash - skykooler
http://swift-swf.blogspot.com/p/about-swift.html
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skykooler
This is the alpha release.
| {
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Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use - jzb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/11/5-problems-with-gmails-new-des.php
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awakeasleep
There should be a publication archiving the superficially thoughtful, hate-
filled tirades that occur in reaction to every change that happens to public
facing things... | {
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Ask HN: What happened to those guys from Infinite Detail? (voxel graphics) - sergiotapia
I remember seeing a video from them early 2012 and haven't heard a peep since.<p>They touted being able to provide infinite detail in computer graphics, but many people argued that animation is extremely difficult, if not imposs... | {
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You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more - jlgaddis
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxNoNightly
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zaarn
It seems people simply _want_ to be outraged at Mozilla. The shield study
isn't even running yet and several people have raised concerns over the opt-
out policy in the mailing ... | {
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Scalable ACID - ithkuil
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/problems-with-acid-and-how-to-fix-them.html
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jlgbecom
From a development standpoint, I don't quite understand the advantages of
NoSQL over SQL. I get that you don't have to have a rigidly defined table
structure, and that your data structure can cha... | {
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} |
'Second Life' is frontier for AI research - alexk
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24668099/
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LPTS
I wonder if you could make an AI research project where instead of making
computers smart like people, you tried to get computer users to act like
machines, entirely predictable. I bet there would be something to lear... | {
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} |
You know a site has its shit together when… - bubble_boi
https://medium.com/@david.gilbertson/you-know-a-site-has-its-shit-together-when-8ee21040d0bc#.kfqcjq5qu
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ChoHag
> I’m sure there’s some historical reason for valuing short variable names.
> ... Maybe in the past our ancestors had to pay by the letter
Yes ... | {
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It's time to rewrite Java from scratch, security expert says - Garbage
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025160/its-time-to-rewrite-java-from-scratch-security-expert-says.html
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reirob
When seeing this title and before reading the article I had the reaction:
"This is already done. Google already rewrote Java. For A... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Medium abruptly cancels membership programs of 21 subscription publishers - ilamont
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/medium-abruptly-cancels-the-membership-programs-of-its-21-remaining-publisher-partners/
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rainbowmverse
Hitting random paywalls was why I stopped clicking Medium links. Some of the
stuff on there w... | {
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} |
Rubyhunt.org – Best articles, news, gems and videos about ruby everyday - eyupatis
http://rubyhunt.org/
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lutfidemirci
It looks cool to stay up to date.
Just a little thing: You may change the top icon to a flat ruby icon (maybe
something from the projectnoun).
Is it open source? If it is open source, can you... | {
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} |
Bytecode features not available in the Java language - henk53
http://stackoverflow.com/a/23218472/472792
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malft
Didn't see my favorite on the list: creating the bool 2. I believe there are a
couple of methods in the JDK that do
if (dangerousFlag == true) doCheck();
...
foo(da... | {
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Ask HN: Do you know any huge-bandwidth case that using Cloudflare free/pro plan? - Elect2
And what is the bandwidth?
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foobarbazetc
Their sales people start emailing you at ~4Tb/month on the business plan.
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Announcing Yeoman 1.0 beta 4 - cleverjake
http://addyosmani.com/blog/yeoman-update-announcing-1-0-beta-4/
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_pius
Congratulations on the new release. Ironically, I tried Yeoman in earnest for
the first time yesterday.
I've got deep respect for the authors, but I've had a pretty miserable
experience with Yeoman s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Shorter Workweeks Would Wipe Out the Much-Hyped Threat of Robots Stealing Jobs - azuajef
http://www.alternet.org/economy/why-shorter-workweeks-would-wipeout-much-hyped-threat-robots-stealing-our-jobs?akid=14343.2563486.j-rsgB&rd=1&src=newsletter1058194&t=22
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qbrass
It increases the cost of human labor, giving mo... | {
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} |
Caching NoOp for use in JavaScript | Randomized - honyock
http://matthewbjordan.me/2013/09/25/noop-caching.html
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tantalor
[http://jsperf.com/noop/2](http://jsperf.com/noop/2)
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honyock
[http://jsperf.com/nooptest](http://jsperf.com/nooptest)
| {
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Am I getting Craigslist scammed? - tech-historian
https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/126350/am-i-getting-craigslist-scammed
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caymanjim
There's a YouTuber by the name of "Kitboga" who makes a living messing with
refund scammers. It's not exactly the same scam, but it's similar enough: they
convince people ... | {
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} |
Worlds Most Feared Financial Sanction 311Act Challenged and Beaten David V Goliath - jayjay1010
http://bpabankclassaction.com/index.php?p=/discussion/14/fincen-fuks-up-so-badly-they-resort-to-retreating-and-pretending-they-never-existed#latest
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jayjay1010
This matters to tech startups because as many grow intern... | {
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Our 36 Hours on Show HN - justinlaing
https://medium.com/@justinlaing/our-36-hours-on-show-hn-34d47b6b56ee#.k9a8i7pt4
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minimaxir
Hmm, this is the first "I Hit The HN Front Page" humblebrag posts that's not a
humblebrag, and as a result is interesting.
Being successful is not a binary get-on-front-page or not; r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms - brycehalley
http://m.nautil.us/issue/79/catalysts/best-screenplay-goes-to-the-algorithms
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throwawaylolx
>Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms
No, it doesn't, according to the article itself:
>The judges at the film festival placed Sunspring in the top 10, though it di... | {
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} |
How to Make the Switch from Android to iOS - iProject
http://gizmodo.com/5943175/how-to-make-the-switch-from-android-to-ios?tag=iOS-6
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endyourif
Boo! I love my Android and I have no plans of every joining the Apple family.
| {
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The Leica Q: A six month field test - Tomte
http://craigmod.com/sputnik/leica_q/
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brotherjerky
I love how thorough and thoughtful this article is, especially since it's on a
personal web site. Reminds me of what the web used to be, before big clickbait
sites took over. Just someone writing at length about someth... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Let's talk gpt-3 hype. overblown or justified? - hejja
I've counted between 3-5 GPT posts on the front page all today and yesterday<p>Not to mention 74% of my twitter feed.<p>Don't get me wrong, I was at peak hype. Top 10% of gpt-3 hypebeasts.<p>But now I'm thinking: "it's good, but wh... | {
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More than 1000 drug plants never inspected - sndean
http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i5/1000-drug-plants-never-inspected.html
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Cerium
This is not really surprising. The FDA has to be very careful with how they
manage their resources. Before being allowed entry to the USA, the company
must file information about wh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Anyone ever tried a hackathon while water fasting? - cvaidya1986
I want to specifically know if it helped with speed of execution and creativity.
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allwein
Can you ask your real question? Obviously you're not looking for just "yes" or
"no". I'm assuming that you're considering doing a hackathon while fast... | {
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Dead Slow Ahead is a transcendent sci-fi documentary (2016) - crtasm
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/14/11223298/dead-slow-ahead-movie-review-sxsw
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fiiv
It does not seem to be easy to obtain a copy, legally or not. Looks
fascinating.
~~~
crtasm
I really liked it, the sound design especially.
As much as I disli... | {
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} |
Sparrho: personalised recommendation platform for scientific content - fitzwatermellow
https://www.sparrho.com/
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nl
This seems nice, but wow the whole process of setting up a channel seems like
a return to 2000 technology. Enter keywords, choose sources, click some weird
icon? Hmm.
The Allen AI institute's Sema... | {
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} |
In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament - vimy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/12/china-industry-manufacturing-cold-war/
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lefrenchy
> They show the peril of ceding control of vast swaths of the world’s
> manufacturing to a regime that builds at home, and exports abroad, a model
> of governan... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's a cool old/vintage computer to buy? - arduinomancer
Are there any cool computers from the 80s/90s you'd recommend picking up that aren't super expensive or rare?<p>Just want to have some fun messing around with an old system to see what its like and get a better understanding of what comp... | {
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} |
To Reduce Inequality, Let’s Downsize the Financial Sector - howard941
https://org.salsalabs.com/o/967/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1391935
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towaway1138
We could also reduce inequality by blowing up the planet. Instead, how about
trying to raise the quality of life for those at the bottom?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What are the biggest problems you think need fixing? - philco
Im tired of seeing "yet another ___ app" being thrown around.<p>What are the biggest problems you face? If you're not facing anything significant, what are the largest problems you see the world facing?
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jstanley
I'm really bad at parking m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters - urs2102
https://basecamp.com/shapeup
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aarondf
Would love this as a PDF
~~~
williamstein
Or any format at all that can be easily downloaded to my phone for offline
reading.
| {
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} |
I Accidentally Invented Electronics in 1906 - razorburn
http://gizmodo.com/5550365/i-accidentally-invented-electronics-in-1906
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hartror
I would have enjoyed a bit more explanation of how he came to the Audion than
"Without quite knowing what he was doing".
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video] - dang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN--t9jXQc0
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dang
This is the only talk online by the visionary who conceived and funded the
Internet. It's quite amazing, though it needs a bit of patience at first;
stick with it. Licklider was everyb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft announces new Windows 10 Start menu design and updated Alt-Tab - Tomte
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/1/21310597/microsoft-windows-10-start-menu-design-new-alt-tab-features
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PaulKeeble
The messing around with stuff that adds no value or makes things worse
continues. The new alt tab behaviour for edge ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ant engineering captured in slow motion detail - zck
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22604193
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arh68
The original paper (and movies!) are available at
<http://crablab.gatech.edu/pages/publications/index.htm>
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: know an industry well? - haliax
I'm looking for startup ideas, and feel like there's a nice market to be had in many of the industries that aren't consumer facing or household names - and hence get less attention from the tech community. Does anyone on HN know a specific industry - and its technical/technica... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Browser Permissions on Android: What No One Is Talking About - CyberSkys
https://snapsearch.online/general/browser-permissions-on-android/
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foepys
Why do I need to enable JavaScript to read this text post? What exactly does
JavaScript do here except unhide the content? Especially when this post talks
about priva... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google should allow for the sharing of email filters. - vishaldpatel
Just a thought.. for all you gmail employees reading hacker news =). A lot of problems can be solved for my friends if I could somehow share my e-mail filters with them =).
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koeselitz
But Gmail already _does_ allow sharing of email filters. I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Error in RSS produced by Hacker news - ivan
slash which should be placed after .com in item link address is placed after 'item'
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a-priori
I just noticed this. The feed is generating links like this:
<http://news.ycombinator.comitem/?id=100946>
... when they should read this: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision - cedricr
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/gene-patents-probably-dead-worldwide-following-australian-court-decision/
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ihodes
An odd title; this patent was already struck down by the Supreme Court of the
USA in 2013[0]. Now it's no... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Business Can Pay to Train Its Own Work Force - petethomas
http://chronicle.com/article/Business-Can-Pay-to-Train-Its/231015/
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learc83
The worst class I had in college was Software Engineering. It was the
university's attempt to prepare us for the work force, and it was taught by an
adjunct who had plenty of indu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Comparison of S3 and Rackspace/Mosso Cloud Files - timf
http://blog.mosso.com/2009/02/a-quantitative-comparison-of-rackspace-and-amazon-cloud-storage-solutions/
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mdasen
The comparisons they use are quite contrived. For example, Mosso charges $0.01
for every 500 PUT requests (vs. Amazon's $0.01 for every 1,000 ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The App of the Summer Is Randonautica - aspenmayer
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/randonautica-app-tiktok-body-reddit-quantum/614401/
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aspenmayer
[https://www.randonautica.com/](https://www.randonautica.com/)
[https://bot.randonauts.com/](https://bot.randonauts.com/)
[https://www.reddit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists - kirubakaran
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Gmail_may_hand_over_IP_addresses_of_journalists
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tumult
Great, love being reminded my local court system are a bunch of shills.
However, before you burst into flames, note:
_To comply with the law, unless you provide us wi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Patent trolls want $1,000 per employee for using scanners - blackhole
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners/
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api
I personally hope the patent law abuse gets to the point that it destroys the
entire patent system. So go for it. Sue schools, the elderly, whatever.
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
10 Communication Secrets of Great Leaders - EREFUNDO
http://www.linkedin.com/share?viewLink=&sid=s1016258766&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eforbes%2Ecom%2Fsites%2Fmikemyatt%2F2012%2F04%2F04%2F10-communication-secrets-of-great-leaders%2F&urlhash=o42f&pk=member-home&pp=5&poster=4447702&uid=5593551856501522432&trk=NUS_UNIU_SHAR... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses - ftrflyr
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html
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rileymat2
"Robert D’Andrea, a retired Army major and Iraq veteran, was told to return a
$20,000 bonus he received in 2008 because auditors could not fin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What to do when stuck on a problem? Sleep. - zackyap
http://www.zackyap.com/post/30716510801/what-to-do-when-stuck-on-a-problem-sleep
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mtkd
Anything that takes you away from the problem will help.
Take a shower if you don't have long.
I recommend walking before taking on a big problem - even if you're not st... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Body Count Rises as Philippine President Wages War on Drugs - Archio
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/world/asia/philippines-duterte-drug-killing.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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hitokx
I don't know much about the subject,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech? - thom
With a particular interest in systems that might be run offline on mobiles!
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zip6
I don't know what the current state of the art is, but you should take a look
at WaveNet if you haven't already -
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf](https://arxiv.o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I created Wire Storm, an Electronics Themed Puzzle Game for iPhone/iPad - sprite
http://www.wire-storm.com
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sprite
I recently released this game for iPhone and iPad. It was developed 45 days
and is written in Objective-C and using the Cocos 2d framework. My inspiration
came from my interest in electronics. I w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Slacker: RPC by clojure and for clojure - sunng
https://github.com/sunng87/slacker
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lbt05
seems interesting and expect lazy-seq support in future
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GitHub's Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden Costs - oBeLx
http://readwrite.com/2013/07/16/githubs-wild-west-approach-to-licensing-has-hidden-costs
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BWStearns
I wonder how they weighted a repo. If I have a toy project up on GitHub that I
never really intended to do anything with or have anyone use, is t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Dell in talks to merge with EMC for $50bn - roymurdock
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/07/dell-emc-in-talks-to-merge-dj-citing-sources.html
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QUFB
Michael Dell in 2002: [http://www.cnet.com/news/dell-apple-should-close-
shop/](http://www.cnet.com/news/dell-apple-should-close-shop/)
~~~
melling
1997
[http://youtu.be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
BlackRock bulks up research into artificial intelligence - thisisit
https://www.ft.com/content/4f5720ce-1552-11e8-9376-4a6390addb44
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thisisit
Non-paywall link:
[https://outline.com/CsWtYW](https://outline.com/CsWtYW)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America - reddotX
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/banana-fungus-latin-america-threatening-future/
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disillusioned
Fun banana facts:
Bananas are the most-sold item at most grocery stores and, notably, Wal-Mart.
Banana... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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