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What the game 'Werewolf' teaches us about Trust and Security - gwern
https://eaves.ca/2013/11/07/what-werewolf-teaches-us-about-trust-security/
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mindcrash
For those of you who want to see how 'Werewolf' plays out, there's a great
implementation of the concepts of this game on Steam in a indie game called
'Town o... | {
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The Tau Manifesto - acjohnson55
http://www.tauday.com/
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fdej
Both tau and pi are inconvenient because you often need fractional multiples
like 1/6 or 3/4.
We should instead take the fundamental unit of angle measurement to be pi
_divided_ by a highly composite number, say 2 * 2 * 3 * 3 * 5 = 180. Most
common an... | {
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Mystery in Wuhan: recovered coronavirus patients test negative then positive - ceejayoz
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive
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eanzenberg
Literally false positive and false negatives. In other words, if you test
... | {
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Elon Musk and Bezos used to be just like you, says Y Combinator’s Daniel Gross - rahulshiv
https://www.recode.net/2017/12/6/16728982/daniel-gross-y-combinator-cue-apple-ai-machine-learning-kara-swisher-casey-newton-decode-podcast
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dwaltrip
They both likely have IQs of at least 145, it seems, which is in the top ... | {
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Ask HN: Do you use Wolfram Alpha? - raphar
I'm curious about the usage of Wolfram Alpha. How frequently do you search with it?<p>I think I'll use Wolfram Alfa<p>a) once a month
b) once a week
c) dayly
d) hourly!!<p>[have you found a killer application of the engine???]<p>(also have you found a use to it?)
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rap... | {
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Two bills target video games following Sandy Hook tragedy - mbenjaminsmith
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/184997/Two_bills_target_video_games_following_Sandy_Hook_tragedy.php
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ck2
I don't personally care for the existence of video games and movies that are
super violent just for the sake of being violent.
... | {
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Boyfriends are more popular than Girlfriends on Social Media - austin_e
http://blog.gochime.com/boyfriends-are-more-popular-than-girlfriends
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jiggy2011
Not that surprising, I think it's the same in real life.
When my girlfriend sees her female friends they seem to just sit around and
gossip about their boyfri... | {
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The Future of Television - robteix
https://www.cringely.com/2019/06/07/the-future-of-television/
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tapanjk
> 5G wireless networking, [...] has pretty much nothing to do with mobile
> phones. It has to do with replacing every other kind of data network with 5G
> wireless. No more land lines, no more cable systems,... | {
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BlackBerry Bold Touch previewed in leaked tutorials: prepare to pinch-to-zoom - evo_9
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/04/blackberry-bold-touch-previewed-in-leaked-tutorials-prepare-to/
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jrsmith1279
Anyone else feel like RIM is grasping at straws here? As an ex-blackberry user
I feel like the more that RIM tries ... | {
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Solving the Traveling Tesla Salesman Problem with Python and Concorde - _dps
http://mortada.net/drafts/the-traveling-tesla-salesman.html
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jordigh
I was excitedly reading through this article eager to learn how the solution
worked. Instead, there was a bunch of (to me, as a mathematician)
uninteresting detail abo... | {
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SF restaurants are suffocating - tarr11
https://medium.com/@azhar.hashem/why-sf-restaurants-are-suffocating-795392211c66
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freyir
> _the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment at an insane $3,447,
> according to a 2018 rent report by Adobo. The U.S. Census revealed in March,
> the median rent in San Fra... | {
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TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds an US audience - baylearn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/
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core-questions
Facebook et. al. implement a ton of censorship. You can be banned in seconds
for... | {
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Demonstrations to protest NSA spying planned for July 4th - pvnick
http://restorethefourth.net
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mtgx
If Brazilians can create a 1 million strong protest over a 0.1$ bus fare
increase, I'd hope Americans from the "land of the free, home of the _brave_ "
would be able to do the same over the revealing of a massive... | {
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Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a genius - NicoJuicy
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-genius.html
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singhrac
This is a pretty stupid article. No one is pretending that they're a genius,
but this guy is just full of inaccuracies. Let me break it down to save other... | {
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Show HN: ZodiacGraph – A general-purpose, circular node graph GUI - cornibies
http://www.clemens-sielaff.com/the-zodiacgraph/
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f4q
Looks visually Impressive. Is there a Demo of how to use it programmatically?
Like for example for a visual scene graph like threenode.js?
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fiatjaf
Wow, it seems amazing.
~... | {
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Estonia publishes its e-voting source code - duggieawesome
https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine
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duggieawesome
Relevant article: [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/estonia-
publishes...](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/estonia-publishes-
its-e-voting-source-code-on-github/)
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Verizon to offer daily deals based on tracking your phone data - trendspotter
http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2012/12/verizon-selects.html
see GigaOm to learn more about this phone-tracking twist: http://gigaom.com/mobile/att-verizon-offer-daily-deals-with-a-phone-tracking-twist/
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trendspotter
GigaOM has a... | {
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Detecting electoral fraud - martingoodson
https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0741
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martingoodson
Figure 1b is very striking.
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Solving Big Startup Problems With Email: The Square Case - elie_CH
http://blog.mailjet.com/post/64682818912/solving-big-startup-problems-with-email-the-square
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wbeckler
I don't see how it solves a bigger problem: no use cases. Paypal started out
trying to make it easier for people to give each other money. Tha... | {
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Ask HN: Anyone else going to the AWS S3 Conference in London next Thurs? - mcdowall
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mcdowall
Myself and a few colleagues are going along, would be cool to meet up with
some fellow HN members for a beer or two.
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Strcat Linux kernel bugdoor - DyslexicAtheist
https://twitter.com/bleidl/status/943714277403357185
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tinus_hn
I think 'strcat' refers to the handle of a person the author is talking to,
and not the system call.
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Sean Spicer: ‘Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’ - Bud
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/sean-spicer-hitler-didnt-even-sink-to-using-chemical-weapons/#.WO0iPn5f_Lw.facebook
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antman
He didn't use them because he was hit by mustard gas in the WW1 trenches and
was blinded and lost his voice for some t... | {
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Giant magnetic fields in the universe - upen
http://exactlyscience.com/archives/11632.html
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DrScump
Blogspam of
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2017/4](http://www.mpifr-
bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2017/4)
with research team credits and contacts removed.
| {
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Zillow prices IPO at nearly $400mm valuation, to raise $55 million - slapshot
http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/06/zillow-prices-ipo-now-has-nearly-400m-valuation/?source=facebook
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slapshot
Net income is negative, so it's another growth-plus-revenue deal, with the
hope that the revenue line will cross above the e... | {
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Red Gate is sending a DBA to space - neilgd
http://dbainspace.com
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dasmoth
It's a suborbital flight. At first glance, I assumed Virgin Galactic, but
actually looks like it will be an Armadillo spacecraft. Interesting...
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Storklancer.io FeedBack - sylarruby
Built with Ruby on Rails and Reactjs, Storklancer aims to bring anyone who needs help with a project with developers, programmers and business partner together etc.<p>Functionality:<p>* ReactJs Live Search
* Sendgrid email notification (disabled)
* Twilio Integration – SMS notificat... | {
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Thinking of Travelling to Europe This Summer? - prawn
https://www.lawfareblog.com/thinking-travelling-europe-summer
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junto
We have a common jovial saying in Europe, "Thank God only 4% of Americans have
passports".
In all seriousness, we should actually be thankful that the vast majority of
that 4% are genuinely... | {
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Simpson's Paradox - mmaia
http://vudlab.com/simpsons/
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tlb
The Omitted Variable Problem is part of my mental framework that causes me to
not believe most epidemiological studies, especially ones that confirm a
popular belief.
The almost universally omitted variable is health-consciousness. Some people
are healt... | {
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Meteor framework moves to NPM - nkoren
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3048806/javascript/meteor-javascript-framework-moves-to-npm.html
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lollipop25
Finally. After struggling with their own package manager, they ultimately
moved to npm.
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diegorbaquero
Great decision. After NPM's policy update I can see th... | {
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iOS Bug – crash iphones with a simple text message - hoare
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/27/iphone-crash-bug-text-imessage-ios?CMP=fb_gu
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ljk
earlier thread
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609129](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609129)
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Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system - ploggingdev
https://www.qubes-os.org/
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magnat
Joanna's (Qubes OS Founder) blog [1] is a gold mine when it comes to hardware-
software boundary security. Especially "State considered harmful" [2] and "x86
considered harmful" [3] papers are eye-openers.
[1] [https:... | {
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Startup advice: When to hire professional branding/logo design - mellavora
We're building an eHealth startup marketing to individuals. The team is three engineers/scientists, so we have great tech-- and limited graphic design or marketing skill.<p>We're getting ready to push out a beta version, and real... | {
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Alike: light kNN library for Node - mck-
https://github.com/axiomzen/Alike
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yid
I can see two problems with this:
\-- A naive linear scan for a lookup will not scale as the size of your
database grows larger. You should be looking into space-partitioning trees, or
approximate methods like locality-sensitive h... | {
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600 days of postmarketOS - ollieparanoid
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2019/01/16/600-days-of-postmarketOS/
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priansh
Congratulations! This is one of the most amazing projects I've seen on here
and I can't believe I haven't heard of this earlier, especially since you got
the phones to boot it as well!
Amazing ar... | {
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Fresh idea for about page. Move mouse and enjoy - UE
http://userlook.com/about/
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UE
Don't forget to place mouse over cheese.
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Project Bloks: Making code physical for kids - runesoerensen
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/project-bloks-making-code-physical-for.html
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edtechdev
There are some more kid-friendly programmable robots/hardware and coding tools
listed here:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1b2CM1uTdST47IbWa7zlZYm...]... | {
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Steve Blank: The Sharp End of the Stick - lrm242
http://steveblank.com/2009/05/04/the-sharp-end-of-the-stick/
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swombat
How does this argument mutate when considering "self-service" applications
like, say, a lot of SaaS out there?
My feeling is that the product development team (with a focus on optimising
for ... | {
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Show HN: A device simulator that cycles through many mobile device simulations - magicmouse
https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/tree/master/Example%20-%20cycler
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magicmouse
This is an example of an open source program called cycler that you can
customize to run a program inside a simulator that shows wh... | {
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Getting your heart rate using R and Ruby. - benarent
http://blog.airbrake.io/guest-post/exploring-everything/
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sadga
Apps that do this using your phone:
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.andr...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.android.instantheartrate&hl=en)
Sim... | {
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30 years for the TJ Maxx hacker (copied 40 million credit cards) - opticksversi
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3772.html
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opticksversi
From the article:
_one man found to be guilty of the crime, a 25 year old Ukrainian by the name
of Maksym Yastremskiy, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Yastremsk... | {
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Russell’s Paradox and Frege’s Mistake - anacleto
http://cs.smith.edu/~jhenle/sr/Files/russ06.pdf?trk=object-title
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mcguire
Rather overwrought, in my opinion (and I'm a very big fan of Frege). That
second paragraph is especially sketchy. (Check out Augustus De Morgan, Georg
Cantor, Mr. Boole, and another of my ... | {
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How to say nothing in 500 words - irahul
http://web.archive.org/web/20101124040620/http://www.apostate.com/how-say-nothing-500-words
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Cyranix
If I ever go back to language teaching, I think I've just come up with an
engaging and rewarding lesson:
* assign students the task of writing an N-word... | {
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An Intro to the Plan 9 OS [video and slides] - jff
http://sse.se.rit.edu/programs/tech-talks/plan-9
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jacquesm
Every now and then a _really_ new thing comes along, and Plan 9 is one of
those things. It's been quietly waiting in the wings for its moment to shine.
There are days I wished that Plan 9 had been rele... | {
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} |
Government study finds racial, gender bias in facial recognition software - anigbrowl
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/475350-government-study-finds-racial-gender-bias-in-facial-recognition-software
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anigbrowl
This is the underlying study: [https://www.nist.gov/news-
events/news/2019/12/nist-study-eva...](h... | {
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} |
El Chapo and the History of the Heroin Crisis - coris47
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/
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mjevans
It worked for marijuana, so do it for the other things too (but with more
regulation for the harder drugs).
Instead of reacting to the symptoms we need to look... | {
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Controlling interfaces in the browser with JavaScript and the Kinect - wesbos
http://blog.polarmobile.com/kinect-meets-mediaeverywhere/
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dmethvin
We got started down the wrong path when Apple defined touch events and
heuristics for faking mouse events from them. As a transitional measure a
library like this i... | {
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I'm flying tonight - are there any decent NodeJS PDFs/ebooks? - bdickason
I've been dipping my toes into learning Node over the past few weeks and have had alot of trouble finding great documentation. I generally learn best when coding, but will be on a four hour flight tonight with no wifi and would love to take a ... | {
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Mobile is eating the world - kevinbluer
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world
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mooreds
Loved the focus on retail and cars as future opportunities for software to
remake the world.
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Ask HN: What is your startup idea? - shubhamjain
HN has plenty of smart folks from variety of industries, backgrounds, and experience who can give valuable feedback and suggestions to a business idea. Even though the community's judgement has proven to be fallible (cue: dropbox launch thread), I think it's w... | {
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Malcolm Gladwell, Meet This Genius Called The Indian Parent - npguy
http://statspotting.com/2013/01/malcolm-gladwell-meet-this-genius-called-the-indian-parent/
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rikacomet
hmm, I would have loved to hear, more proof of the naming pattern, but from
what I read, it refers that naming your child with A, gives them... | {
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Video-to-Video Synthesis [video] - nakami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1OwOd-war8
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John_KZ
It's nice but I wonder why there's still nobody that tried to create a
spatially coherent 3D space from the input before re-synthesizing the output.
It's definitely possible and lots of work on this was done in late 20... | {
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Why Shamans Stand Apart - wormold
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/shaman-uncertainty-specialists/
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uptownfunk
This is one of those realms that is hard to penetrate with traditional
hypothesis-based scientific study. I doubt we will ever get to a point where
we can do some type of double-blind study as to the eff... | {
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} |
IPhone And Android Now Make Up 25 Percent of Smartphone Sales - Concours
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/19/iphone-android-25-percent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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potatolicious
From the article:
> _"Can Android sales catch up to the iPhone?"_
Yes, of co... | {
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Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by 2032 - prostoalex
https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/05/scotland-petrol-diesel-phase-out-ev/
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djrogers
Obsolete is a pretty strong term, as is the date:
"Come 2032, not all cars will be ultra-low emission, but Scotland hopes that
the majority will either b... | {
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} |
One-Third of U.S. High School Students Now Own an iPhone - fhoxh
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/03/one-third-of-u-s-high-school-students-now-own-an-iphone/
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PagingCraig
"extensive survey of 5,600 U.S. high school students"
So extensive...
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Saving Science - Hooke
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science
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lutusp
Quote: "First, scientific knowledge advances most rapidly, and is of most
value to society, not when its course is determined by the “free play of free
intellects” but when it is steered to solve problems."
But the history ... | {
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GoDaddy launches Flare, a community app for sharing and rating business ideas - barlog
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/26/godaddy-flare/
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alistproducer2
I suppose as long as you already have your product built before sharing it's
probably a good idea. I can't imagine just sharing an idea, having it get
traction, ... | {
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Ask HN: Any tips on finding short term consulting gigs? - phpnode
Help! I'm a struggling single-founder, I've been working on my startup(s) and doing freelance web development (PHP/JS/HTML/CSS etc) since my former employer folded around a year ago. I've been able to find a steady stream of clients through friends, f... | {
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Show HN: (lambda code) - martyalain
http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=lambdacode
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sova
Really cool! Reminds me of everything I love about Clojure. and Clojurescript.
~~~
martyalain
Thanks :)
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martyalain
(lambda code) is focused on code, {lambda talk} on text. Your opinion is
welcome.
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Gmail Weird Login Page - gouggoug
http://www.gmail.com
Am I the only one seeing "nee" at the top of the gmail login page? Did someone at google forget to remove a debug line?
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gabrielprioli
I saw it too, just before the last <style> block.
Edit: the string that is showing is "nee".
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Your Code is Not Self Documenting - darthdeus
http://progfu.com/post/2668280164/your-code-is-not-self-documenting
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wccrawford
Every comment there disagrees with the post. Were you hoping to come here and
find people who will agree?
I also disagree with it. Good code is as self-documenting as possible. Any
got... | {
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Catching Gamma Rays with a Raspberry Pi - monsieurv
https://blog.ytotech.com/2016/03/04/radiation-watch-raspberry/
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gravypod
If you like Geiger counters then you should check out the ultramicron[0][1].
It is a small build using a soviet Geiger-miller tube for detection.
I really want one, but I have no solderin... | {
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} |
Remote-control your Slack bots with JSON - gliechtenstein
http://blog.jasonette.com/2016/01/17/build-a-slackbot-with-jasonette
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gliechtenstein
Update: This is not from 2016, but actually a Fresh New post I published this
morning (in 2017!) but messed up the timestamp with jekyll, sorry for the
confusion!
Hi guy... | {
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Fake pictures of faces are getting much harder to detect - dd36
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/deep-fakes-which-face-is-real/
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dd36
I wonder if these aren’t faces the algorithm has seen before? Has anyone
reverse image searched the training database for a “made up” face.
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London bans cars for a day in the fight against air pollution - known
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-bans-cars-for-a-day-in-the-fight-against-air-pollution-npr5jtts5
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Jonnax
The Great Smog of London in 1952 was a 4 day smog that potentially killed
12,000 people. [1]
Today things are much better but l... | {
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} |
How Many Friends is Too Many? - markbao
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_many_friends_is_too_many.php
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neilc
_Human beings ought to live in groups of around 150 people, judging from the
logarithm of our brain size_
The "logarithm of our brain size" meaning what, exactly? I'm curious as to how
Dunbar arr... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best Online Course for Distributed Computing or Systems? - nikentic
I have worked through 6.824: Distributed Systems at MIT and it has been truly eye-opening! Learned much about existing systems, building new ones and limitations that exists.<p>Which others exist that are worth finishing in combination with 6.... | {
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Cascade – A library for creating modern user interfaces - stevelacy
https://github.com/sjohnsonaz/cascade
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icc97
I think the benefits you're trying to provide are not in the CSS. But the
major importance of any modern framework is to look beautiful - Apple's been
proving this for decades.
I'm sorry to say the s... | {
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CentOS 7 for ARM (Raspberry Pi, Etc.) - api
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/
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api
Had to Google a bit to find that the default login is "root" password
"centos". Read the /root/README file for info on how to get it to resize the
disk image. Other than that it's stock CentOS and works great.
No EP... | {
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Ask HN: Those working remote, do you use your own laptop for work? - samblr
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skilled
From the job listings (remote) that I have seen in recent months, a lot more
companies are getting comfortable with hooking up remote employees with
company gear.
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The Chopped Cheese’s Sharp Rise to Fame - samclemens
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/nyregion/chopped-cheese-sandwich-harlem.html
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douche
Looks delicious, like a low-rent cheesesteak.
The sandwich I wish would grow some legs is the ham hoagie. Apparently this is
a sandwich that only exists in north-western Ma... | {
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The Story of Metal Gear Solid’s English Translation - danso
https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/18/20696081/metal-gear-solid-translation-japanese-english-jeremy-blaustein
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sunaurus
I love Japanese entertainment. I'm not a native speaker of either, but I often
use English subtitles with Japanese audio, because my Engl... | {
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} |
When to Buy Your Own ISBNs - janvdberg
https://mwl.io/archives/3982
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cwmma
Fun fact: the 13 digit ISBNs are actually UPCs (aka bar codes) but with the
country code set to "Bookland"
1:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland)
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amelius
Does this scale? What are the cou... | {
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The Puzzle of Indian IQ: A Country of Gypsies and Jews - ghosh
http://akarlin.com/2012/08/the-puzzle-of-indian-iq-a-country-of-gypsies-and-jews/
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webhat
At first glance this looks racist, at second glance it looks anti-semitic too.
Can you explain the value of this article?
| {
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Dart's Macro Language - tosh
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-We05W0xsd5hTWGsTDCY6pibf2EmmTAsm-4EhIFZoOA/
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randomfool
I disagree that Dart's code transformers are comparable to Macros- their
intent is runtime optimization- take valid code which runs fine in the VM and
optimize it for dart2js compilation.
Th... | {
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Please quit posting pictures of your debit cards, people. - ceejayoz
http://twitter.com/needadebitcard
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zephjc
Some people just have to learn the hard way I guess
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raikia
Wow, this is hilarious! Never knew it was so easy to get free money! :-P
| {
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Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb - rglovejoy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/science/09bomb.html
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bootload
_"... In the six decades since Oppenheimer’s warning, the nuclear club has
grown to only nine members. What accounts for the slow spread? Can anything be
done to reduce it further? Is there a chance fo... | {
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Questioning electric vehicles' green cred - yitchelle
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160316-questioning-electric-vehicles-green-cred
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dalke
In short, the questioning finds that electric cars have a lower carbon
footprint then gasoline ones. Here are the most relevant quotes which address
that:
"If you get an ... | {
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} |
Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff - prawn
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3063935/sweden-wants-to-fight-our-disposable-culture-with-tax-breaks-for-repairing-old-stuff
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jernfrost
This is beginning in the wrong end IMHO. One of the big problems today is that
products are:... | {
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} |
Canvas-sketch – A framework for making generative artwork - hunvreus
https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch
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mattdesl
Hello! Cool to see my framework here on HN frontpage.
I’ve been using this for some time now for all my production work — including
generative art (prints, laser cuts, 3D printed models, plot... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WordPress vs. Wix – The Story Behind the Headlines? - velmu
https://hostadvice.com/blog/wordpress-vs-wix-story-behind-headlines/
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123qwe123qwe
WOW
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RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images - pella
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2018/02/rfc-ubuntu-1804-lts-minimal-images.html
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fotcorn
I did a short comparision between this and alpine by installing nginx inside
the image (I used nginx-light inside ubuntu):
CONTAINER ID IMAGE SIZE
... | {
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Inc.com | 30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs - horatio05
http://www.inc.com/slideshow_INC/slideviewer.cgi?list=30under2007&dir=&config=&refresh=15&scale=0&design=default&total=22
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zaidf
A guy by the name of Ryan Allis ought to be on that list.
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jl
Congrats Sam Altman!
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Show HN: Lens Battle – Make comparing lenses easier (with leaflet.js) - bwang29
https://www.polarr.co/lens/50mm
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bwang29
OP here: some of the misalignments are caused by distortions and slight camera
movement. Those are the hardest to control and require repeated try. The Sigma
lens is also overly heavy that poi... | {
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} |
Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking - Scramblejams
https://www.howtogeek.com/342871/hey-microsoft-stop-installing-apps-on-my-pc-without-asking/
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sofaofthedamned
For the last 15 years or so i've earned my money doing Linux stuff. Before
then I was doing VB/.NET/SQL Server etc.
January 201... | {
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} |
Citron Exposes the Dark Side of Shopify - base
http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-the-dark-side-of-shopify/
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netrap
Is Shopify really $11B valuation? We're screwed...
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Search engine submission? - Sealy
I'd like to know how the HN community submits their sites to search engines and gets them indexed? Besides DMOZ.org are there others which people would recommend?
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johnmurch
Search engines have changed. Although my 2004 response might be something like
goto www.go... | {
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Ask HN: Are There Any Startups Trying to Bring Us Cheaper Cell Phone Service? - rxl
Many of us pay $100 or more / month for our cell phone bills (or close to it). Your cell phone bill could be just as high as your monthly car payment. Does that make sense? How much value are we really getting for that price? Ar... | {
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Ask HN: What are the "big five" dedicated server hosts to look at first? - GigabyteCoin
I am after a basic entry level dedicated server and don't want to go with a fly-by-night operation.<p>What are the first 5 dedicated server companies I should take a look at before anyone else?
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dangrossman
I made up a char... | {
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The seeds of the next housing crisis have been planted - lisper
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-housing-crisis-is-pending-2016-05-04
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chubs
Some good thoughts on this topic I read recently: * Quantative Easing (eg
printing money) floods the economy with money, it has go somewhere. * Since
the real econ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? - flannell
Our company is at a technical cross roads. Upgrade current hardware to latest IBM Xseries running VMWare and a nice SAN disk array ($40k) <i>OR</i> start looking at Amazon EC2 ala cloud hosting? This will be a production system so no down time!<p>Can ... | {
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} |
Lisp hacker writes an outstandingly popular book - jk
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=2128
It's a novel!
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omouse
He has programmed in Lisp, Java, Perl and a few other languages. I don't see
the connection though.
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rglullis
Spam.
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Hexstream
I really don't get it...
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j... | {
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Want to make money with Android? Have questions? - kreci
http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-android/
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throwaway222
I need to warn the HN crowd. KreCi previously wrote an eBook on improving
PageRank. There were a few good reviews and everything sounded great. He sold
the site and the eBook on Flippa and ma... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What application would you create around "digital printing"? - rokhayakebe
If you had access to the NYT printing facility what application would you create around it?
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mechanical_fish
See how many editors it really takes to turn bloggers' open content into a
viable weekly magazine, nonprofit or otherwi... | {
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} |
Lucid Dreaming - jimsojim
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming
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roddux
This is a pretty comprehensive write-up! A helpful community (with more
guides, discussion and anecdotes) can be found on
[http://dreamviews.com](http://dreamviews.com). I also recommend anybody
learning to lucid dream to read the boo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google introducing Gmail Blue - peterkchen
http://gmail.com/blue/
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andymoe
It's a nice dig at Apple but part of me wishes they really would put that much
effort into their design. Gmail is pretty un-spectacular at this point.
| {
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} |
The Rise Of Functional Programming: F#/Scala/Haskell and the failing of Lisp - lackbeard
http://blogs.msdn.com/brandonwerner/archive/2008/09/16/the-rise-of-functional-programming-f-scala-haskell-and-the-failing-of-lisp.aspx
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greyman
Can someone please explain in basic terms, what exactly are the advantages of
fu... | {
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} |
Pythagorean Cup: Practical Joke Chalice Overflows with Ancient Greek Humor - misnamed
http://99percentinvisible.org/article/pythagorean-cup-practical-joke-chalice-overflows-ancient-greek-humor/
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amenghra
Cliff Stoll has a page about this. He calls it a Cup of Tantalus and it's part
of his Klein Bottle collection... | {
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} |
Show HN: Single Page Websites using Webbify - anilshanbhag
http://webbify.in
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wavewash
As a privacy concern I didn't want to give up my facebook information so I
backed out of trying it.
The point where I became hesitant and backed out was when it showed my picture
and said you wanted my public profile, friend ... | {
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} |
Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never - shawndumas
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/review-blackberry-10-is-better-much-better-late-than-never/
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manishsharan
I am not falling for BB again !
In my last iteration of smartphone purchase, I bought a latest-at-the-time
Iphone 3GS for my... | {
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} |
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