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Ask HN: Developers: How do you explain to people what it is you do? - dclowd9901
I try to explain what I do to people in a way they can understand. Rather than go into rote jargon about writing code and making objects extensible, I tell them that I have puzzles and tell a computer how to solve them as efficiently as... | {
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Google Adds Song Lyrics to Top of Search Results Points Searchers to Google Play - jamesgagan
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/22/google-adds-song-lyrics-to-top-of-search-results-points-searchers-to-google-play/
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zarriak
It seems like this is a great example of the problem that Google faces. They
have built up a go... | {
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Ask HN: Widescreen or fullscreen monitors for programming? - codedivine
Which do you prefer for programming? Widescreens or fullscreens? I prefer a 5:4 monitor to wider resolutions like 16:10 or 19:10. I have found the excess width to be distracting.<p>What is your typical tool of choice? I typically use Vim which d... | {
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Instacart Customers and Workers Are Revolting Against the App - alistairSH
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmj938/instacart-customers-and-workers-are-revolting-against-the-app
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masonic
The obvious solution here is for shoppers and their best customers to hook up
off-platform and cut out the middleman altogeth... | {
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"Maybe" is one option too many - dk
http://www.zeldman.com/2007/06/20/remove-maybe-from-invitation-systems/
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iloveyouocean
For a really excellent, far more comprehensive and much better articulated
series of articles pertaining to ratings/rankings, check out
www.lifewithalacrity.com
Some of the articles include... | {
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Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) - s16h
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/
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wruza
>[boxed values...] The dynamic typing means that there are a lot more steps
involved with any operation. This is a primary reason that Python is slow
compared to C for operations on numeri... | {
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Compiler Warnings - ingve
https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2019/01/compiler-warnings.html
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deogeo
> If a warning message is considered not fixable, or not desirable to fix,
> it’s preferable to remove the associated flag from the build chain.
I like to use diagnostic pragmas
([https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs... | {
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Forget The Facebook Phone, Here’s Mozilla Seabird — An Open Web Concept Phone - stevederico
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/mozilla-phone/
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pavs
Dude, there is post right now on the FP about this. Even assuming you didn't
see it why would you submit a regurgitation of the original news source?
Please don't mak... | {
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C replaced Java at first place in Tiobe index - hamilyon2
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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legerdemain
Can anything really be gleaned from the fluctuation of a language on TIOBE?
Two years ago, Apache Groovy wasn't even in the top 50. Last December, it
ascended to #11. Now it's at #31. Whatever the story was,... | {
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Resource Compiler for Go (single executable deployment) - tebeka
https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/nrsc
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kingfishr
This is a cool idea, and I love the convenience of deploying a single-binary
app when using Go for servers.
When deploying web servers, though, I'd prefer to leave the images and other
static resource... | {
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Transcriptic for YC biotech startups - pouwerkerk
http://blog.ycombinator.com/transcriptic
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jkimmel
This is really remarkable.
I've used Transcriptic in a research setting for a while now. From a user's
perspective, it's like looking into the future, and it's awesome.
From the business side, this makes YC a mo... | {
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An API wrapper to Clarifai's image recognition demo - hackerews
https://api.blockspring.com/users/orliesaurus/blocks/d54a2e2c28aebab4fe079ff547cea495
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adamatclarifai
Adam from Clarifai here.
As tommoor pointed out, this is just a thin wrapper around our demo at
[http://www.clarifai.com/](http://www.clarifai.c... | {
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Making Music with Supercollider - subnaught
http://subnaught.org/supercollider
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subnaught
OP here. Starting a blog to help me learn supercollider. Each post contains a
finished track with the associated code, along with some musings on what I
learned making it.
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Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool - dglassan
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/?v=2
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michaelpinto
It's important to keep in mind that when push comes to shove that Adobe isn't
afraid to eat their own — as someone who had a shop focused on Director and
Lingo I watched then adopt Flash and r... | {
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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Alien Skin Software - spencerfry
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2536-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-alien-skin-software
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patio11
_Don’t undercharge. Once you are confident that your product is great, don’t
be shy with your price. The smart people will pay for it. The whiners w... | {
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Praise as good as cash to brain - edw519
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2343219520080423?sp=true
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redorb
I always told my old boss, its great to know Im doing a good job, but I can't
pay rent with "Good jobs" ...
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Tichy
Are they also able to measure the degree of happiness people experi... | {
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Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent - allerhellsten
http://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/
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cm2187
So in Germany, the interest on a mortgage is non tax deductible. The article
doesn't mention it but I understand that property owners are also liable for
capital ga... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Crash-Only Thinking - zdw
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/10/29/crash-only-thinking/
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oretoz
I have been reading Ribbonfarm for sometime now and I really like how Venkat
analyses things. But to me, the problem starts after I finish reading those
articles as I really don't know what to do with that knowledge.
S... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's one change you'd make to up conversions on our startup's website? - jimmygatz
Hi,<p>I know this is my first post, so apologies if it seems I’m exploiting the HN community. I’ve been lurking for a while and it’s quickly become my favourite forum. I really enjoy the discussions here and I’ve learned a l... | {
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Will it happen one day: you open HN in the morning then... - victormustar
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s299/sh/a979e6e0-c79d-4123-af7e-09878a4728f4/a976d5f5204b42865784b0f607ef75c4
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victormustar
I'm sure I'm not the only one waiting for it :)
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julien_c
+1
PS: Hey victor :)
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Aung San Suu Kyi at Barcamp Yangon 2012 - jfxberns
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150599276797567.406584.189050577566&type=1
Some photos of Aung San Suu Kyi giving the opening speech at Barcamp Yangon 2012. That's all.
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jfxberns
Two years ago in January 2010, Yangon had t... | {
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A polite rant on mobile UX - toportyan
http://blog.hipwerk.com/a-polite-rant-on-mobile-ux/
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dr4g0n
> The so-called “ow zone” is a zone that is hard to reach with your thumb,
> like corners of the screen.
The image that goes along with this point demonstrates the areas that are hard
to reach for right-handed u... | {
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A good problem to have - escapegoat
I have a web app hosted on google appengine. I built it for folks who suffer from chronic disease (including myself). Anyway the app has grown to about 1100 users who visit every day and now appengine wants a couple of bucks every few days to keep the lights on. Right now the ... | {
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Pigeon Maps – Maps in React with no external dependencies - mariusandra
https://mariusandra.github.io/pigeon-maps/
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ramshanker
That was like Running maps locally. My first guess was it must be serving from
some super local cdn cache. So tried looking for the data serving domain. It
feels even more awesome after ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Keynote on memristors by R. Stanley Williams of HP Labs - modeless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
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modeless
This 45-minute keynote presentation has pretty much everything you could
possibliy want to know about memristors. If you want the 6-minute condensed
version instead, try <http://www.youtube.com... | {
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Hash_salt= - newsignup
https://github.com/search?p=2&q=%22hash_salt%3D%22&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
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emocin
another "hey i just learned that github has a search feature" post. what is
going on today?
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newsignup
I don't know what the trigger was but I was thinking of posting something on
this... | {
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} |
DNS hosting suggestion: Amazon Route53 vs Zerigo - ellie42
I would like to know pros and cons of each. That said I have used Zerigo (not free, DNS Essentials 1 plan) for a year and it acted pretty well.<p>PS: I'm not interested in other DNS hosting solutions except Route53, Zerigo and Rackspace DNS.
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ellie42
b... | {
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Ask HN - I need a greybeard mentor - factorialboy
I've done plenty of web and enterprise app development. Occasional stints with mobile and desktop apps as well.<p>I am getting bored.<p>I need a greybeard to help me keeping my programming career rewarding.
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seiji
As a start, read and understand [http://www.ama... | {
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} |
Russian Video Game Industry is booming and you should know why - xsolla
http://blog.xsolla.com/2014/02/13/russian-video-game-industry-2013-overview/
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xsolla
Find out all about the Russian Video Game Industry in our feature post.
| {
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Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday - happy-go-lucky
https://leigh-annegalloway.com/myspace/
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apostacy
Myspace was an XSS playground. You could embed javascript into anyone's
profile, by leaving a flash applet (or for that matter a java applet) in a
comment, and having it do... | {
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} |
Guide to Photo Metadata Fields - rolph
https://www.photometadata.org/META-Resources-Field-Guide-to-Metadata
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rolph
OK facebook is ?injecting? metadata into images uploaded by users, so reuse
reshare or original can be distinguished, and the chain of transmission can be
logged, as always to serve you better, but ... | {
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Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike - jbegley
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1joUIg5O5pRS_R2OqXoJzbuCXcQ0trL9ki8XO2aO0prg/
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michannne
Is this a Silicon Valley thing? People becoming far too attached with what
their company is doing. Even if I had been working there for 5 year... | {
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Banker confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, but was he hiding a bigger crime? - zeveb
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-18/he-stole-100-million-from-his-clients-now-he-s-living-in-luxury-on-the-c-te-d-azur
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itsmemattchung
I must admit that, before reading this article, I made an quick (and wrong)
a... | {
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Oii Instant Messenger - Adywheels
http://www.oii-messenger.com
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Adywheels
try recording embarrassing messages so there shouted from your friends phones
| {
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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz - payne92
http://blog.payne.org/2013/01/30/letter-to-carmen-ortiz-about-aaron-swartz/
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betterunix
Hm...
"It is clear Swartz did something wrong and should have been punished"
"He didn’t access something he wasn’t supposed to"
"Swartz did not destroy or damage data or ... | {
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Show HN: Five Things Today – a super simple to-do list - iamben
https://fivethings.today
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iamben
Hey HN.
Before you go ‘not another to-do list’; I wrote this for myself much earlier
in the year, after using the “only set yourself 5 things to do every day” hack
on paper for a few weeks, and it works quite well.
... | {
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IBM blamed for Australian online census debacle - thedays
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/census-debacle-laid-bare-malcolm-turnbull-to-decide-which-heads-will-roll-20161025-gsacqc.html
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rpeden
There have been some high profile instances over the past few years of
consultants (IBM, Accenture... | {
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.htaccess for Word Press - data6057
Do you have any good resources to understand how to best configure .htaccess files for WordPress? Knowing that the .htaccess is highly configurable AND I come from a Microsoft background.
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terrellm
Why not leave the defaults until you are directed otherwise? Wordpress and
so... | {
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} |
Show HN: A Vue webapp to build Vue webapps with API data - F117-DK
https://jig.gy
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F117-DK
Questions are more than welcome! :)
| {
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Google to ban 'stalkerware' apps that secretly transmit people's location, info - onetimemanytime
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-to-ban-stalkerware-apps-that-secretly-snoop-on-people-2020-9
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mjangle1985
So they're going to delete their location transmitting and tracking app Maps?
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onetimemanytime
Kil... | {
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Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models - dmitri1981
http://blog.asmartbear.com/cancellation-rate-in-saas-business-models.html
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dpcan
If anybody wants years of insight into the SaaS business model, look at
reseller web hosting.
People have been reselling web hosting for more than 10 years now and... | {
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} |
DreamIt Ventures SeatGeek founder on Mixergy - shedd
http://mixergy.com/russ-dsouza-seatgeek-interview/
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aditya
Wow, the mixergy sponsorship message was so long, I killed it at 1:08
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famfam
I'm happy to listen to it. Andrew's work is incredible.
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AndrewWarner
Thanks for the support famfam. I'll try weavi... | {
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U.S., in Shift, Sees Marriage Act as Violation of Gay Rights - akitchell
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/us/24marriage.html?_r=1&hp
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burgerbrain
I've never really gotten why _any_ marriage needs to be recognized by the
government. Yes, I understand it's for tax purposes, and yes, I think taxing
'married' peo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Should we have a “Who is hiring?” for non-profit volunteer positions? - secfirstmd
We are a non-profit (http://www.secfirst.org) currently looking for a volunteer copywriter to help us with some content and PR stuff for the launch of our app, Umbrella - which helps journalists/aid workers/... | {
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JavaScript Frameworks[survey] - akarambir
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlKclJYX0V4MW9fVFRfUklaUTczTHc6MQ
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karambir
some of these frameworks are very good specially Sproutcore but i still prefer
writing my own code.
| {
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Ask HN: Free trip to Angola. Why is nobody interested in this offer? - seven
Hi.<p>First, sorry for the link bait. I'm posting this for the third time and I really expected more feedback.<p>I am trying to find a developer who is interested in the following:<p>Job description:<p>Python developer with a verve for adve... | {
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Traffic flow measured on various junctions - ckvamme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITr127KZtQ
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ckvamme
Originally saw this on reddit:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dvqt8a/traffic_flow...](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dvqt8a/traffic_flow_measured_on_various_different_4way/)
| {
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HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet - aundumla
http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2009/02/html5-canvas-cheat-sheet.html
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webXL
The cheat sheet has been around for a while, but the interactive Super Mario
background is pretty sweet!
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orofino
I recommend finishing the level. Funny ending
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tim_church
For anyone interested in... | {
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Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years prison - craigferg501
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/bill-cosby-81-is-sentenced-to-three-to-10-years-in-state-prison-for-2004-sexual-assault.html
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andriesm
Defense lawyers tried to keep the 81-year-old out of prison while he appeals
his conviction, saying he's frail and leg... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST - howard941
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/488/3/2989/5528327?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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mavdi
Forgive my ignorance, can someone please explain what this potentially means?
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ianthiel
The three bursts 1ms apart don't appear to be na... | {
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Microsoft's “Love” of Linux - pedrocr
http://pedrocr.pt/text/microsofts-love-of-linux/
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juliangoldsmith
Microsoft loves Linux because it makes them money. I'm not sure why anyone
would expect differently.
They won't release products like Office for Linux (though a web interface is
possible), and they won't move... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Walking Dream – single-player adventure game for the Oculus Quest - simonpure
http://walkingdre.am/
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gfaure
The most interesting thing here for me is the use of redirected walking
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirected_walking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirected_walking)).
I saw the video accompanying ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How do you recall and apply insights from non-fiction books? - dwightgunning
I really enjoy books about human behaviour and how the mind works. For instance, I'm currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.<p>As is often the case with these types of books, I get the feeling I'm not absorbing ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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The limit of The Semantic Web - jmorin007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_limit_of_The_Semantic_Web
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karzeem
There's a grain of an argument somewhere in there, but the writing is
astoundingly unclear and confusing. It needs a serious overhaul.
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bsaunder
Yeah, it felt like I was reading a SCIgen paper
(<htt... | {
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One man feeds Western Media on Syria - jdmitch
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/england-one-man-feeds-western-media-syria
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Jugurtha
One man feeds western media on Syria .. That's one hell of a fast-food: The
Media doesn't even bother digesting it, but they don't forget to wipe with
news-papers they produce and ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: I versus We - maguay
When writing a post, newsletter, or really anything for your site, startup, or freelance job where you're the only author/worker/employee, is it best to use I or We? I struggle with whether to use <i>I</i> or <i>we</i> in blog posts when I'm the only writer on the site. On other sites ... | {
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House Opens Inquiry into Proposed U.S. Nuclear Venture in Saudi Arabia - noobermin
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-saudi-arabia-nuclear-power.html
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gwbas1c
Article without paywall: [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-
canada-47296641](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47296641)
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Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement - ad_hominem
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/federal-judge-says-embedding-tweet-can-be-copyright-infringement
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sfifs
The ruling actually seems very reasonable. Someone took a photo and posted it
on his social media account. The platform lic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How We Use Make - ianstormtaylor
https://segment.com/blog/how-we-use-make/
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seanwilson
I avoid Make at all costs now if I can.
Makefiles are far too difficult to read and write compared to alternatives in
my opinion when you're automating anything beyond a few simple tasks. You'll
inevitably have tasks that r... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions - jtangelder
https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-calls-for-european-firewall-against-u-s-sanctions-11577459502
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jplayer01
This is all about German politicians who've been bought out by Russian
interests trying to protect their pet project(s). Speaking a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
“There is no market” for VR that requires you to dedicate a room - evo_9
http://vrsource.com/gtas-strauss-zelnick-no-market-vr-1593/
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JoeAltmaier
But lots of folks fixed up their family room/rumpus room for WII. I guess they
may be in the minority.
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kinsho
The bulk of Wii games can be played from your couch.... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What tech stack do YC startups use? - johan_larson
What tech stack do the YC software startups tend to use these days?<p>I'm going to guess Ruby on Rails, AWS, Angular.
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nwenzel
Here's a broader look at tech stacks used by startups on Angel List:
[http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-u... | {
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Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform - alaaf
http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/friends-hue-program-update
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mdip
A point brought up in the replies to their forum post warrants repeating: They
claim that they were concerned about the quality of their brand being eroded
by third-party bulbs t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Baidu Won China - felipe
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_47/b4204060242597.htm
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quanticle
Didn't Baidu basically win China because they were the only search engine
willing to play ball right from the beginning with regards to censorship? It
seems that plus the fact that they were home... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Most common passwords list from 3 databases - Anon84
http://blog.jimmyr.com/Password_analysis_of_databases_that_were_hacked_28_2009.php
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jrockway
The passwords say a lot about each site's userbase.
singles.org users commonly use passwords with religious meaning, like "jesus",
"pastor", and so on. Apparently thi... | {
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} |
Notice of data breach at Teachable (formerly Fedora) - chaghalibaghali
I just received this email (to an address I'd used to sign up to a course on https://bitfountain.teachable.com/):<p>Dear <chaghalibaghali>,<p>We are writing to inform you of a suspected data breach involving accounts creat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers - FluidDjango
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57350464-245/facebook-hands-out-white-hat-debit-cards-to-hackers/
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danielmeade
I for one think this is a brilliant concept. As mentioned previously it taps
into the feeling of exclusivity and being part of the 'el... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google to ramp up AI efforts to ID extremism on YouTube - janober
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/google-to-ramp-up-ai-efforts-to-id-extremism-on-youtube
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tyingq
Earlier related discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583017](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583017)
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frenchie4111
"expa... | {
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The whale internet: communication over hundreds of miles - chadmalik
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/11/SP781EBM1P.DTL&type=living
"What's really incredible is how all these whales showed up overnight," Black noted in an e-mail. "We do know that blue whales have long-range communication. Thei... | {
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Show HN: Bucket Query – Automatically index and search your AWS S3 buckets - barefootsanders
http://www.bucketquery.com
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bdcravens
Why does the marketing on the site not make a comparison with Athena?
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barefootsanders
Founder here. Great thought. We had toyed with the idea of a comparison
chart/table aired o... | {
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If you're not writing tests first you're missing out - mokagio
http://www.mokacoding.com/blog/if-youre-not-writing-tests-first-youre-missing-out
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jondubois
I already tried writing unit tests first (TDD); it was a waste of time in my
case.
TDD doesn't help you at all in terms of designing the right architecture.... | {
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50 employees left Zappos before an important project was finished - MarlonPro
http://www.businessinsider.com/50-zappos-employees-left-before-super-cloud-project-finished-2016-1
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smt88
Important detail buried at the end: "...those who took the Super Cloud
extended buyout offer were mostly nontechnical managers wh... | {
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Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation - tormeh
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1743538
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sgift
Source article this is based on:
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1...](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1743538)
(Found it... | {
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California companies with 5+ employees must now provide pensions? - jalanco
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/california-is-first-to-offer-private-pension-management.html
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jalanco
"The law is aimed at businesses with five or more employees that don’t offer
pensions or 401(k) savings programs. The law re... | {
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Grok cassandra's data model - flazzarino
http://flazz.me/grok-cassandras-datamodel
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jdefarge
This column-family/column/super-column lingo that Cassandra pulls out just
makes it harder to understand its data model. In fact, it's quite simple:
Keyspace: a hash table that holds your application data. Okay, the t... | {
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Ask HN: Should a n00b learn front-end and work back, or vice versa? - webmaven
Someone I know is very interested in switching to web design and/or development as a career, but is uncertain about where to start, and I am uncertain what to recommend (my own experiences as a beginner are now 20 years in the past, ... | {
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Ask HN: My GCP Account Has been Hacked What do I do? - dkroy
I have had a number of GCP accounts over the past 5 years, but this last month I have appeared to have been hacked. As a result there are resources that I cannot remove that Google Support refuses to help with. What do I do? This hacker has run up a very lar... | {
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Only One of Six Air Force F-35s Could Actually Take Off During Testing - farseer
http://fortune.com/2016/04/28/f-35-fails-testing-air-force/
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PopsiclePete
I can _feel_ the kind of project this must have been. A giant cluster-fuck of
dozens of managers and dozens of teams "collaborating" (a.k.a. spending 60% of
t... | {
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Venezuela’s central bank holding Bitcoin is just crazy enough to work - euphemized
https://decrypt.co/9697/venezuela-central-bank-holding-bitcoin-just-crazy-enough-work
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hnghost
Accurate title!
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Ask YC: How did you name your startup? - rksprst
I've been having trouble naming my startup (or renaming). I'm wondering how you guys came up with your name, what criteria you used, and how long it took?<p>My criteria is basically this: http://alexkaminski.blogspot.com/2008/03/naming-your-startup.html
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tyohn
I... | {
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Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices - ecaron
https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/5476ab2ffe18a286a1476293276c3149c0c2d50d
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benologist
I don't really see how GitHub receiving a staggering 1 DMCA notice a month
from Sony is newsworthy ... the interesting number isn't that 50% (aka "6")
notices we... | {
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Advanced soccer analytics: building and applying a pitch control model in Python - rjtavares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1cSehLg6s
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rjtavares
This is a really niche topic (Football/Soccer analytics), although its reach
could be high, so let me contextualize a little bit (btw, I'm using the word
Football fr... | {
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Ask HN: Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? - amichail
There are dangers involved in gambling and smoking. Consequently, governments provide limits/warnings to mitigate those dangers.<p>But why do governments not do the same with entrepreneurship and stock trading?<p>For example, ... | {
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How Text Messages Change from Dating to Marriage - adamnemecek
http://adashofdata.com/2014/10/14/how-text-messages-change-from-dating-to-marriage
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derefr
> more recently I seem to have decided to no longer greet my husband
This is the most interesting part. When you're dating someone, there are
defined parts of... | {
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China’s Internet Controls Will Get Stricter, to Dismay of Foreign Business - danielmorozoff
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/business/international/china-cyber-security-regulations.html?ref=technology
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RcouF1uZ4gsC
The Chinese government actually has very little incentive to allow foreign
internet companies ins... | {
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Oculus Facebook deal could ignite equity crowdfunding - bernardlunn
http://bernardlunn.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/oculus-facebook-deal-will-accelerate-equity-crowdfunding-and-change-the-world/
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aaronbrethorst
The Oculus founders got $2.4m of free seed funding via Kickstarter.
No they didn't. They to... | {
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Ask HN: how to gauge my skill as a programmer - jwdunne
I was just wondering how I would objectively gauge my skill as a programmer. Obviously there is the effect where by everyone rates themselves as more competent than they are. Not so with me.<p>Sometimes I receive a confidence boost, I will feel like I'm fai... | {
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Two people fly jetpacks over Dubai [video] - gmays
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/5/11/8587941/jetpacks-yves-rossy-dubai-balloon-boy
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zeeed
That vid just makes you want to go afk and DO something.
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ListeningPie
Are they flying or falling with style?
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rm445
More towards the latter, it appears. They'... | {
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Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me To Use Ember Was Wrong - platz
http://www.wekeroad.com/2014/03/22/every-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-ember-was-wrong/
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greenyoda
Nowhere does the article say what problem the author was actually try to solve
by switching to Ember. It sounds like his only reason for this pai... | {
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GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub - icefox
https://github.com/icefox/GitHaven/
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augustl
I'd just like to add that since Git supports SSH, it's pretty easy to set up
git repos on any server. `cd ~; mkdir myrepo.git; cd myrepo.git; git init
--bare`. Then you can just `git push username@server.com:myrepo.g... | {
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If this is the beginning of the end of Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die - jarcane
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/10/8762839/jerks
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mechazawa
Comparing 8chan to the KKK is pretty low
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Rare book experts join forces to stop tome raiders - Thevet
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/17/rare-book-experts-join-forces-to-stop-tome-raiders
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hammerandtongs
A very ugly crime.
To me this also suggests that if you own or control one of these texts that
its literally your duty to the rest of humani... | {
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Yahoo's Flickr Takes on Google's YouTube - danw
http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/05/yahoos_flickr_t.html
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bootload
Not surprised, heard this a couple of weeks ago listening to Caterina Fakes
talk on ITConversation (The History of Flickr) where Fake didn't rule flickr
out for hosting video ~ <http://www.itcon... | {
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Off Book | Generative Art - Computers, Data, and Humanity Arts - spot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0OK1GiI83s
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jamesbritt
_... that delegates essential decisions to computers, data sets, or even
random variables._
No. What good generative art shows is that the essential decisions are made at
a higher level... | {
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Event sourcing, CQRS, stream processing and Apache Kafka: What's the connection? - nehanarkhede
http://www.confluent.io/blog/event-sourcing-cqrs-stream-processing-apache-kafka-whats-connection/
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srinikhil
Such a neatly elucidated article Neha! We have been building an event sourced
architecture for our app, usin... | {
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Notepad5 – a simple offline notepad webapp, distraction-free writing zone. - udhb
http://notepad5.me.pn/#
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udhb
blog -
[http://uddhabh.blogspot.in/2014/01/notepad5.html](http://uddhabh.blogspot.in/2014/01/notepad5.html)
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Meebo adds Facebook and MySpace chat for full chat goodness - moses1400
http://www.centernetworks.com/meebo-facebook-myspace-chat
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trickjarrett
Meebo is an impressive breakout from the past few years, they keep pushing the
envelope and are really doing an amazing job at finding their revenue stream
as well as ... | {
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Watch German Typhoons Intercept a Boeing 777 That Lost Contact with the Airport - mpweiher
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-german-typhoons-intercept-a-boeing-777-that-lost-1792530997
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guruz
Semi-related: There was a TV event/movie in Germany/Austria/Switzerland last
year about a (fictitious) court decisio... | {
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Ask HN: Any SaaS idea to share? - Im_a_throw_away
Recently we got 2 ask HN related to SaaS business [0] [1].<p>This time I'm curious if you have any SaaS business idea that you don't plan to pursue? And if so, feel free to share it here.<p>[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009<p>[... | {
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Mobile is Still in a "Pre-PageRank" Phase - applecore
https://medium.com/p/3f606bf985c6
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monsterix
It is. And it is the web _side_of_story_ that is super exciting.
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