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The revival of sensory deprivation tanks (2014) - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/postcards-from-the-edge-of-consciousness ====== Kristine1975 The headline is click-bait, the article itself interesting. As it says, sensory deprivation is nothing new (there was even a Simpsons episode about it; Lisa in an...
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Ask HN: What do we do about the leap second? - briandear Really basic question: do we need to do anything about the leap second coming up on June 30? I am specifically referring to typical web apps running on platforms like Heroku, etc. Does it make sense to just put our apps into maintanence mode for that particula...
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A/B test case study: call to action button increases conversions by 62% - paraschopra http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/cta-button-increases-conversions/ ====== courtneypowell I find it hard to believe that adding a CTA that resulted in an increase in conversions would come as a "surprise" to an e...
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Show HN: Releasy is a semver CLI tool to release versions - gadr90 https://github.com/vtex/releasy ====== gadr90 It's based on the also excellent grunt-release. [https://github.com/geddski/grunt-release/](https://github.com/geddski/grunt- release/) It was kinda abondoned, though. ------ uchoa Good work.
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How to Delete Your Data from 23andMe, Ancestry, and Other Sites - pfarnsworth https://www.consumerreports.org/health-privacy/how-to-delete-genetic-data-from-23andme-ancrestry-other-sites/ ====== IfOnlyYouKnew As some recent stories showed, the problem (if any) isn’t so much your DNA, as that of relatives. Deletion req...
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Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell - jacobscott http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514111/software-predicts-which-companies-are-an-easy-sell/ ====== sjg007 Proud to be the 4th comment on team jacob's HN posts. ------ xynny lawl
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Former MUNI mechanic proposes sailwing engine design to replace windmills - waster http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-06-19/news/mike-cheney-muni-sailwing-san-francisco-examiner/ ====== waster What I'd like to see is a review of his plans, i.e., is this truly feasible? And also, I'd like to see the critique balanced agai...
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James Altucher: Claudia Is Worried I Will Be Killed For Posting This - kanamekun http://jamesaltucher.quora.com/Claudia-Is-Worried-I-Will-Be-Killed-For-Posting-This ====== patio11 Apropos of nothing: One of the classic elements of successful frauds is making the mark believe that they are pulling one over on the fraud...
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Ask HN: Share your audio programming knowledge? - eagerNewb Hello Hacker News,<p>I have been learning programming for 4 years now, primarily involved in the field of web development. Have some decent knowledge working with php, javascript, ruby, css and html.<p>I&#x27;m self taught. The main disadvantage of this is ha...
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Pilots reveal safety fears over Boeing’s fleet of Dreamliners - truemilk https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/15/boeing-dreamliner-b787-safety-fears ====== nwmcsween > ...900 quality control inspectors with smart technology. Does Boeing just think people are dense? Considering the various news articles with ...
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A general technique for automating NES games - milesf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/ ====== madethemcry Wow! Thanks! Watched the video, glimpsed through the source and now reading the paper- so entertaining! ------ jstanley This is really awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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Read your Standard Libraries - bcjordan http://blog.codingforinterviews.com/reading-code-standard-libraries/ ====== unwind This is great advice, since in general you would like to assume that the standard library is implemented well, i.e. by people who know the target language. Unfortunately, for C this is pretty har...
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What is a good book for learning math from the ground up? - felipellrocha http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/69060/what-is-a-good-book-for-learning-math-from-the-ground-up ====== Iamahippie A school book, like holtz, or something, i have a few books from highschool, like math books
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Static presentations of sorting algorithms - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.hatfulofhollow.com/posts/code/visualisingsorting/index.html ====== RiderOfGiraffes I've picked this out of the item on animated presentations of sorting algorithms because I think it's right on the money. The static presentations give you real i...
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Storm courts I/O lovers with 96GB, 32-core cloud server - bbr http://gigaom.com/cloud/storm-courts-io-lovers-with-96gb-32-core-cloud-server/ ====== swombat At over $986/m, it's a damn sight more expensive than a Hetzner box. Granted, Hetzner's €89 servers only have 24GB of RAM, not 96, but you can basically have 7 ...
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A Conversation about Artificial General Intelligence - dchacke https://soundcloud.com/doexplain/11-a-window-on-intelligence-with-dennis-hackethal ====== dchacke Full disclosure: I'm the interviewee. I'm interested in critically discussing the interview.
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Pareto Principle-Based User Research - adamfard https://uxmag.com/articles/pareto-principle-based-user-research ====== helph67 Anyone operating any business should be aware of the importance of this principle. It's also relevant to those of us merely trying to survive `normal' life.
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Show HN: LeanSentry - Better Monitoring for Windows Server Apps - ivolo https://www.leansentry.com ====== btb Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions 1\. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the optional agent, how invasive is th...
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Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell - MichaelAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell ====== MichaelAO Of particular interest is the Stand Alone Complex: "Stand Alone Complex eventually came to represent a phenomenon where unrelated, yet very similar actions of individuals create a seemingly con...
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Death to Javascript Rock Stars - riklomas http://jquery.com/blog/2008/08/29/death-to-javascript-rock-stars/ ====== rglullis To me, this is just to show how nerds are kind of hypocrites when it comes about looks vs substance. They want to believe they are not affected by marketing and focus on actual value, but it al...
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Founders: Stop Pitching, Start Engaging - ccrystle http://diggingintwo.blogspot.com/2012/12/founders-stop-pitching-instead-of.html ====== dmor I agree, and I'd add that if you have some common ground (e.g. Your company is in a sector that is the investors expertise) say so. There is an initial "should I care" filter t...
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Yishan Wong hypothesizing(?) on the Reddit saga - ub https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled/cszjqg2 ====== AndrewKemendo Archive in case these guys recant: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150711233921/https://www.reddi...](https://web.archive.org/web/20150711233921/h...
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Sell to Teachers - Jarred http://blog.jarredsumner.com/2011/09/18/sell-to-teachers/ ====== patio11 As kind of an omnibus response to this and the comments: 1) A portion of teachers will spend money on software. Reports of teachers being universally poor and stingy have been greatly exaggerated. You may know a sting...
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Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' - gibsonf1 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-or-asbestos-802602.html?r=RSS ====== tptacek The best medical evidence is _always_ published "exclusively in the Independent on Sunday". ~~~ whallib...
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PlayPozz makes any game educational - jamesntoy http://www.playpozz.com/ ====== jamesntoy PlayPozz launches today! Solo non-technical founder and YC W13 reject, but rolled with it. Would love to know what everyone thinks. ------ ludicast I think it's a fantastic idea, congrats. My son is 1.5 yrs and loves playing w...
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If Women Were More Like Men: Why Females Earn Less - makimaki http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1847194,00.html?xid=rss-topstories ====== mkn The difference in pay between FTMs and MTFs was 1.5% in this study, and the article seems to suggest that this explains the 29% difference in pay between biological...
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Ask HN: Dialogue system – books to read and some advice for Python developer - frankyy Hello,<p>Me and my team were given financing for the project of building a system of dialogue assistant (narrow domain, non-English language, text communication). We have extensive experience with NLP from previous companies, and we...
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AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 - antoinefink https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31901625-New-BGW-210-700-Firmware-1-5-11 ====== jaas I'd say there is a 98% chance this is a bug in some firmware and a 2% chance AT&T is intentionally trying to block Cloudflare DNS. I get why people are paranoid about I...
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How did governments lose control of encryption? - abhi3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35659152 ====== progressive_dad What breaks my heart about this "cold war" becoming a "hot war" is it will probably stifle school age curriculum. If its a hot button political issue then teachers won't be encouraging little jo...
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Ask HN: How to get a music player to always play in mono? - yesenadam I recently lost my hearing in one ear..and discovered VLC can play stereo tracks as mono. But you have to manually turn it on for every track, it seems, no preference setting for that. Does anyone know a player that can be set to always play mono, o...
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MandarineTS. A minimalist, decorator-driven, MVC, TypeScript framework for Deno - ramirez001 https://github.com/mandarineorg/mandarinets ====== ramirez001 Mandarine.TS is a framework that allows you to create applications. Mandarine.TS provides a range of built-in solutions such as Dependency Injection, Components, OR...
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An appeal for unremarkable women - jgrahamc http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/03/appeal-to-unremarkable-women.html ====== davidw I don't know... these debates seem to go round and round, and at the end of the day, I grow weary of them. My resolve is to do what is in my power to help out other people, be they men or women...
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CBP says traveler photos and license plate images stolen in data breach - tlrobinson https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/cbp-data-breach/ ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150688](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150688). ------ jolmg more commented duplicate: [https://news.yc...
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In some areas, USPS will soon email you scans of envelopes you get in the mail - cipherkittens http://www.wired.com/2015/12/the-us-postal-service-will-now-email-you-scans-of-your-mail/ ====== Albright Can I click a button to immediately send junk mail to the trash? Will the system heuristically learn which mail is ju...
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Work has started on the next generation of Apache web server - Tsiolkovsky http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Work-has-started-on-the-next-generation-of-Apache-1203465.html ====== powertower The 2.3 branch is a testing branch (that was alpha before 2.3.11, now is beta after 2.3.11). What we will see is 2.4 (gen...
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Warming Up to the Officeless Office - orky56 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304818404577349783161465976.html?google_editors_picks=true ====== dsr_ Instant reaction: wow, I don't want to work for a company that would treat anyone that way. Second thought: why aren't these people working from home? Wha...
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Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1 - voidlogic http://blog.zmxv.com/2012/03/migrated-wordgap-from-python-to-go.html ====== waterside81 We're going through the same thing right now. Porting a few thousand lines of Python to Go. It's almost a line for line port, with the odd exception here or there. One thing I really...
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Ask HN: ARM micro server colocation in U.S.? - hoodoof I would like to buy an ARM based micro server that has a cable ethernet port and a 64GB SD slot and colocate it in the U.S.<p>Can anyone suggest such a machine (not a Raspberry PI please, I would like something with a case), and also if there are any companies t...
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Escher Waterfall Machine Solved - finemann http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/18/is-this-how-the-esch.html ====== MattJ100 Unfortunately the assertion that "liquid never touches B" is false (see a surge in the flow at 1:06 that does reach it). Therefore I don't reckon the break can be where they assume it to be.
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How Poverty Taxes the Brain - jonbaer http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain/6716/ ====== ritchiea I can speak to this. For a while in 2010 I was completely broke after leaving my first job out of college, which I hated, and having some other employment opportunities fall thr...
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Run Windows and Linux without virtualization - sant0sk1 http://www.linux.com/feature/131753 ====== t0pj I'm not able to reimage my desktop PC at work due to draconian IT policies (darned support and compatibility). I really would love to completely rid myself of WinXP and replace it with Ubuntu. However, this looks l...
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Lenovo UEFI Only Wants To Boot Windows, RHEL - mtgx http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg ====== Munksgaard That's unfortunate, but judging from Lenovos tweet[0], it could be a mistake, and they're looking into it. [0]: <https://twitter.com/lenovo/status/268962425917816832>
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Should LOPSA "lead the march" to DevOps? - MPSimmons http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2013/07/a-considered-reply-to-mark-burgess/ ====== beat Wow, that's a lot of different directions all in one discussion! Anyway, it seems to me that DevOps is more about management than technique. It starts with management ...
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Ask HN: Stripe Atlas alternative that's more suitable for lifestyle businesses? - arikr For example, one that allows LLC setup in your state so that you don&#x27;t have to pay Delaware state fees in addition to your state<p>Does it exist? ====== kjksf It's unclear what it is you think Atlas gives you and therefore wha...
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Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium - janvdberg https://gkbrk.com/2018/12/free-hotel-wifi-with-python-and-selenium/ ====== danilocesar There might be an easier workaround for this: Some hotspots only blocks new TCP connections when that time expires. So I used this workaround a few times in the past: You open a...
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A Better Way to Manage CSS and JS (+ source code) - legierski http://blog.gathercontent.com/combine-and-compress-css-and-js-on-the-fly ====== stinky613 While I don't mind the concept proposed, a few things immediately caught my eye: 1) How often are changes made to these CSS files? It seems to me that caching would...
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Itertools in Python 3, by Example - dbader ====== brettkromkamp I presume this is the URL: [https://realpython.com/python- itertools/](https://realpython.com/python-itertools/)
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Literacy may have stolen brain power from other functions - abraham http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/11/literacy-takes-over-the-brain.ars ====== jerf "Stolen"? Seriously? I suppose the next article I can expect to read is "Why Your Ability To Read Is Just An Illusion". (I dislike the titles that invoke the ...
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The Case for Calling Terrorists Nitwits - inmygarage http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-case-for-calling-them-nitwits/8130/ ====== GiraffeNecktie I liked this part of the article "... it’s fair to say that the Taliban employ the world’s worst suicide bombers: one in two manages to kill only hims...
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Google vs Romney - mikeland86 https://www.google.com/search?q=completely+wrong&hl=en&safe=off&authuser=0&site=imghp&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Grx1UNaxGqPOiwLMi4CoDw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=679#q=completely+wrong&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&authuser=0&site=imghp&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnsu&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r...
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Why Startups Are Helping The Economy More Than You Think - esharef http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/14/are-startups-empty-buzz-or-a-way-to-kickstart-the-economy/ ====== Sambdala I don't really like the fact that this article more or less accepts at face value the metric of "jobs" as being the relevant measure of "helpi...
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Ask HN: Anyone using an iPad Pro as your daily driver? - ethanpil I&#x27;m still not convinced its worth it to shell out $1500-$2000 for &quot;less than a laptop&quot; but perhaps I don&#x27;t have all the facts. Are there any HN users that have seen the light? Is a 12.9&quot; iPad Pro with keyboard&#x2F;pen truly eno...
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Are birds smarter than mathematicians? - rglullis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20175592 ====== andrewcooke That's interesting. Unfortunately the text isn't free. Do they have any guess as to why? My guess is that there's some fairly simple heuristic that gives the right answer, which birds are using but which ...
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WebAudioSynth - Web browser based synthesizer application - matsuu http://aikelab.net/websynth/ ====== postfuturist Very fun, needs a keyboard -> piano key mapping for maximum pleasure. Oh, I see it's open source, too bad I'm at work right now. ------ kevincennis Worth noting that this will only work in Chrome, sin...
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Could Apple become the next Comcast? - 001sky http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/could-apple-become-the-next-comcast/2015/03/18/a90a8e9c-ccc3-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html ====== yunyeng Apple is developing really slow after Steve Jobs, but if they play their cards smartly they will dominant this Onl...
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The Parents Who Give Their Children Bleach Enemas to 'Cure' Them of Autism - middleclick https://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311 ====== ars That's what happens when parents are so desperate to help their kids that they will try absolutely anything if someo...
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Ancient “su – hostile” vulnerability in Debian 8 and 9 - l2dy https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2018/06/13/ancient_su_-_hostile_vulnerability_in_debian_8_and_9/ ====== tedunangst For those unaware, ioctl(TIOCSTI) allows injecting characters back into the tty, where they will be read by the next process to read from t...
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Bank of America is looking for Ethereum developers - nestlequ1k http://careers.bankofamerica.com/job-detail/17051863/united-states/us/java-developer-card-and-payments-technology ====== j0e1 I can't in any way see how this ad means they are looking for 'Ethereum developers' other than it being a desired skill. Please r...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with managing cocky programmers? - tn_ ====== jonny_storm Adam Savage once said he distrusted anyone that hadn't failed, and I share this sentiment. It's likely that, if you haven't failed spectacularly, then you've not had the opportunity to internalize the lessons that come from failure: humil...
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Kids using Facebook is an issue, but how can network operators truly verify age? - gkwelding A good question. Apart from credit card verification methods (I'm sure that would go down like a lead balloon o n Facebook) what other methods are available to organisations such as Facebook (they claim a minimum age of 13 f...
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BrandColors – Official color codes for the world's biggest brands - qzervaas http://brandcolors.net/ ====== elasticode cool resource :) thanx!
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Google Ventures' Copious Launches Social Marketplace For The Facebook Era - snikolic http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/google-ventures-backed-copious-launches-a-social-marketplace-for-the-facebook-era ====== amac This is similar to a marketplace website I co-founded, Lifemall.com. The relationship between social and...
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The Elements - A Perfect Coffee Table Book for Nerds - 3pt14159 http://zachaysan.tumblr.com/post/315148493/the-elements-a-perfect-coffee-table-book-for-nerds ====== DrJokepu I thought he meant Euclid's Elements - now that's an awesome book. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclids_Elements> (the link doesn't work becau...
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Ask HN: How to solve remote engineers appearing lazy to other departments? - ngngngng A recurring issue I&#x27;ve seen throughout my career is engineers wanting to have more remote flexibility. Often the upper technical leadership is in favor of it but concerns throughout the company come up that other departments wil...
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Vermin Supreme - mmhsieh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme ====== Quequau This man's positive role in defusing tense stand-offs at political rallies and short circuiting bad faith discussion derailing with incredibly skilful humour is tragically underrated.
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OneWeb about to launch its first internet satellites to connect the unconnected - deanalevitt https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613043/oneweb-is-about-to-launch-its-first-internet-satellites-to-connect-the/ ====== deanalevitt _Today’s launch, scheduled for 4:37 p.m. US Eastern time_ There's a link to watc...
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Similarities between Musicians and Entrepreneurs - earbitscom http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/5-similarities-of-musicians-and-entrepreneurs/ ====== seiji People struggling to succeed are all the same. Startups, writers, script producers, musicians, ... See how much of this write-up rings true with you: <http://m...
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Google is working on a new AI-enabled messenger, its answer to Facebook M - chlestakoff http://www.businessinsider.com/report-google-is-working-on-a-new-smart-messaging-app-2015-12?op=1 ====== thebladerunner So much hype and confusion in this space!
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Dropbox handler on Amiga [video] - erickhill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6lFjQFg-I&feature=youtu.be ====== jeena The funniest thing is that he uses a fetish s/video/demo with half-naked bondage women in it to demonstrate running a program directly from dropbox. ~~~ djsumdog It had a file_id.diz file in the dire...
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Airlines Defend Dormant 737 Max Jets from Corrosion, Insects and Time - DamnInteresting https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/08/12/boeing-737-max-desert-storage/ ====== BitwiseFool Even after they re-certify the aircraft, stories like this make me want to totally avoid flying on a 737-Max. Despite the che...
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The WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Made Some Major Mistakes - taylorbuley https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-hackers-made-real-amateur-mistakes/ ====== draw_down We can laugh as long as we like, but maybe the next attackers won't make such simple mistakes. Or maybe this was just a test that got out of hand...
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Audio processing in TensorFlow - dariocazzani https://medium.com/towards-data-science/audio-processing-in-tensorflow-208f1a4103aa ====== rryan Anyone interested in machine learning for audio (or any other signals) should keep a close eye on tf.contrib.signal. I just checked in some code to do efficient framing, window...
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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory - j_b_f http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8Ads&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_source=direct-on.ted.com&utm_content=site-basic ====== j_b_f The speaker argues that your memory of an event is based l...
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Arbitrage Discovered (2015) - Tomte http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage-discovered ====== chollida1 If you haven't heard of this contract, its really amazing. It allows the holder to buy a portfolio of stocks up until the Wednesday of the following week based on last weeks prices. So essential...
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Choosing Ubuntu Fully Compatible Laptop Is Easier Now - tzury http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/makes ====== bmastenbrook tl;dr: don't believe it, at least not for any recent Intel ThinkPads. I have the ThinkPad T420 with Sandy Bridge graphics that they list as "Certified" under 11.04. This is at best highly mislea...
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Detailed analysis of a star’s orbit near supermassive black hole - furcyd http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/einstein-general-relativity-theory-questioned-ghez ====== idlewords This is a weird title given the content of the article, which is that researchers observing a supermassive black hole got a result completely c...
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How we track customer costs in Mixpanel - tdumitrescu https://mixpanel.com/blog/2018/06/14/how-we-use-mixpanel-to-put-a-price-on-our-data-usage/ ====== donavanm Nice take on granular cost accounting. Interesting that its per customer attribution, as opposed to per component. Need the latter to talk about efficiency an...
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Show HN: Polar 1.5 /w Cloud Sync. Manage your reading /w annotations and tagging - burtonator https://getpolarized.io/2018/12/16/polar-1.5-with-cloud-sync.html ====== burtonator This is a big release for us. You guys really liked our first release: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960](https://news.ycombin...
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The TikTok War - migueldemoura https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/ ====== kpennell I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pr...
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Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology - jgarmon http://people-press.org/2011/05/04/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology/# ====== viggity Not hacker news
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A Camera Lens Made from an Iceberg - tbgvi https://www.mathieustern.com/blog/2018/10/22/l437fjpq58g619vlkm6t1iwhk8s6dr ====== deanclatworthy > I needed to find pure ice. No you didn't. You could have done this with warm distilled water, then frozen, at home and had better results. But I suppose it's a good excuse to ...
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What Does Sound Look Like? - choult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3oVGXr4mo ====== JoeAltmaier Air currents are not 'what sound looks like'.
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Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research - datico http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-research-web-browser-tracking ====== samdk In public browsing (in Firefox) I'm unique. In private browsing I'm 1 in ~17000. Interestingly, removing some of the non-standard fonts I have installed made me unique, eve...
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Is China Taking the Lead in AI? - sarapeyton https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/is-china-taking-the-lead-in-ai/ ====== nick_meister scary
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Ask HN: what are some good companies to work for on the west coast? - quietthrow Looking to hear about innovative companies that take a keen interest in employee development abd have good employee development programs, well funded and stable. Basically what else is out there besides google amazon and Facebook? =====...
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Novell (yes, Novell) ports Xbox 360 game to the iPhone - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2010/03/12/xbox-games-on-your-iphone-yes-but-not-from-microsoft/ ====== benologist This is really no surprise, Novell's been working really hard on building a simple bridge for developers to use Mono and C# for building i...
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Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection - simonb https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/08/13/mimesis-violence-and-facebook-peter-thiels-french-connection-full-essay/ ====== carsongross Girard will be looked back on as a Father of the Church: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzF2OG2ejI...
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Show HN: OhMyBet – AI predictions of professional tennis - samfromshire https://ohmybet.com ====== samfromshire OhMyBet! is an information service with AI-driven predictions of the outcomes of professional tennis matches given by machine learning algorithms not human experts. The core of the system is a self-improving...
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Robocallers Target Chinese Speakers in Latest Phone Scam - JumpCrisscross https://www.wsj.com/articles/robocallers-target-chinese-speakers-in-latest-phone-scam-1528128363 ====== tonyquart Well, I can just suggest everybody to hang up or even ignore calls if they don't know the numbers. I personally always look up the ...
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Open source, open markets - cadalac http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=39c69e41-bf90-4925-925f-c9dde6e7bfec&p=1 ====== rw The summary at the beginning of the article reads: "Michael Whitehead is selling the idea of collective software wisdom. The Goal: be quick and cost-effective. blah" Notice the f...
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Spreadsheet on Google doc to help victims of Mumbai attacks - zalthor https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?hl=en_US&key=tE-okpwwYgQavia5opgZSEA&hl=en_US&f=true&gid=0 ====== poojanichani123 Pls let me knw if any sort of help needed .. If short of blood... ready to donate... my blood group is b+ve... Contact...
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Ask HN: Far UVI breather instead of filter face mask? - bwilli123 Would a portable far-UVI breathing apparatus be a better approach to virus proofing than particulate filter face masks or respirators? Background info links https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hepacart.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;effective-uv-disinfection-lights-4-benefits-o...
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Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin (1987) [pdf] - gcv http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ago820/cs395/Papers/Heckbert_1987.pdf ====== kens This article is by Paul Heckbert, who is also known for writing a raytracer that fit on the back of his business card. [http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/](http...
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How to Digitize a Graph - jeffmiller http://bendeaton.me/2010/11/15/how-to-digitize-a-graph/ ====== celias The program is actually named GraphClick. I am a happy user. One nice feature is the ability to adjust the coordinate frame to work with graph images that are distorted.
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Ask HN: Functionnal programming for UI? - yogsototh Hello,<p>I wanted to make a complete javascript web client. The standard usage with imperative language is to use the MVC pattern. I used object oriented programming but the javascript syntax for OOP was a really poor experience. I had the feeling that using a func...
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Show HN: RSS/Atom Feed Reader in Go - nergal https://github.com/Lallassu/gorss ====== themacguffinman Looks like this feed reader is a CLI application. OP, you might want to mention that in the title to attract the greybeards. ~~~ nergal True, can't change that now though :/ ------ nergal Just a quick update, I've f...
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How I changed the world in 2013 - sherm8n http://planscope.io/blog/how-i-changed-the-world-in-2013/ ====== gexla > As an example, today my admin dashboard popped up with a notice that Fred > had closed an estimate for about $30k. I tabbed over to GMail and wrote Fred > a quick congratulatory note and asked him if th...
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Tell HN: Moniker increased the price of .tc domains from $28 to $140 - tinyProton I&#x27;ve a couple of &#x27;.tc&#x27; domains bought through Moniker. Up until very recently the price for &#x27;.tc&#x27; domains were only $28. They increased the price of this domains from $28 to $140 without sending any notice. The...
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Ask HN: What are the best marketing resources as a developer running a Startup? - cnivolle ====== quahada Best resource in my experience is a business cofounder who will do all that for you. Marketing is more than just getting the word out, but also who to get the word out to, want to say, etc. There isn't enough ...
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Day 18: Pong - PurpleRose http://www.nicolewoo.ca/2015/05/day-18-pong/ ====== dpcan Going back to day 1, it looks like she's doing 180 games for 180 days. I love watching these unfold! My only suggestion is that with every game you make, try to stray from the norm a bit, and a splash of creativity, or a twist on th...
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