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Hello ECMA-408, the new official Dart Programming Language Specification … - priteshjain
https://plus.google.com/+dartlang/posts/DnCSv8jrXMF
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dang
[https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dart+specification#!/story/forever...](https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dart+specification#!/story/forever/0/dart%20specification)
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Leaving Ljubljana Vegas: A Retrospective - tomp
http://blog.samsandberg.com/2012/10/25/leaving-ljubljana-vegas-a-retrospective/
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MattBearman
Ljubljana (and Slovenia in general) is an awesome place, it was definitely the
one of the highlights of my Summer European motorcycle tour.
If you ever find yourself in ... | {
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Marc Andreessen says Snowden is a traitor - sabelo
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893#_gus
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tptacek
I would not under almost any circumstances, including the revelation that he
was working directly with the FSB† when he decided what to leak, use the word
"traitor" to describe a national security leaker. In additio... | {
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Ask HN: Will e-ink laptops be a thing soon, or ever? - Kluny
I'm a writer by night and a programmer by day. I have to stare at bright LCD all day for work because I don't have a choice right now, but when I'm writing, an e-Ink display would be more than enough, and much, much easier on my eyes.<p>My dre... | {
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Education Inflation, Technological Advancement, and Cognitive Surplus - tedlee
http://www.lisazhang.ca/2011/04/education-inflation-technolgoical.html
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yummyfajitas
One possible way to mitigate this problem is a Pigouvian tax on signalling
(perhaps compensated for by a reduction in income tax).
Signalling is a... | {
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Python for Ruby Programmers (LA RubyConf 2013) - facebiff
https://speakerdeck.com/mleone/python-for-ruby-programmers
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masklinn
To add to other comments, things the author could have expanded upon:
* vararg keyword arguments ( __kwargs)
* Keyword-only arguments (Python 3)
* help, vars, a few other nice intro... | {
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A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes - lanceweatherby
http://blog.weatherby.net/2008/10/a-ceos-sequoia.html
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jmatt
There are bigger things in the global economy than the opinions of Sequoia.
This may not be very popular to say here. It is likely companies like Sequoia
got burned worse than many other businesses. Mone... | {
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The state of computer science education in California’s high schools - kalengallagher
https://medium.com/p/1953dba5d36b
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gms7777
First, are statistics about AP Computer Science classes actually reflective of
the "state of computer science education"? If they're the only computer
science courses being offered, ... | {
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Ask HN: How would you build a startup to last 100 years? - keiferski
According to Wikipedia, most of the oldest businesses in the world seem to be inns or breweries/alcohol producers:<p>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
wiki/List_of_oldest_companies<p>If you were starting a company today and wanted ... | {
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Minima processor - Nokinside
http://www.minimaprocessor.com/
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justaaron
what is it? a licensable core? an interconnect? a risc-v implementation in
silicon?
the website says nothing about what the actual product/service is...
am I being silly?
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Nokinside
It's a new processor technology that can be used in d... | {
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A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs - moneil971
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-highly-efficient-real-time-text-to-speech-system-deployed-on-cpus/
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thelazydogsback
Personally, I find I dislike any "emotion" added to TTS -- I find Alexa's emo
markup, a la:
[https://developer.amazo... | {
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Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions - prostoalex
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brain-uses-a-not-so-instant-replay-to-make-decisions/
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rjf72
Often when I read papers on neuroscience, I find it difficult to dismiss an
analogy. It feels much like we're trying to analyze how dif... | {
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New Genetic Risk Factors Associated with Major Depression Have Been Identified - dpflan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0090-3
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brudgers
A preprint,
[https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/24/167577](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/24/167577)
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Bill Watterson's Speech – Kenyon College, 1990 - tim_sw
http://www.serverunderground.com/archive/bill_watterson.html
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GHFigs
I am reminded of one of Taleb's aphorisms: "You are rich if and only if money
you refuse tastes better than money you accept", and of Glenn Gould's
interview with himself:
"G.G.: I simply... | {
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Silk Road: The Untold Story - Libertatea
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/
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Nemcue
I kind of feel uncomfortable reading this. We fight for our privacy, and for
others to not in secret take part of our lives — but then we gobble these kind
of articles up; frothing at the mouth for every explici... | {
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DDecode – Hex,Octal,HTML Decoder - steeples
http://ddecode.com/hexdecoder/
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whitten
Seems to be a useful tool based on a research project, but very little example
of what it expects for input.
I tried it with some HTML entity notation, and didn't see the letters
represented, but was disappointed. Maybe my use... | {
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Hyperlinking Reality via Camera Phones - simonb
http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/research/hyperlinking-reality-via-camera-phones/
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onreact-com
This is obviously the future.
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The Brain vs the Mind - bennesvig
http://bennesvig.com/the-brain-vs-the-mind/
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zoba
What is talking about are called more technically called second order desires.
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_volition>)
From his example he "wants cheese cake" but he "wants to want to focus on his
work" and inst... | {
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Four year old's commit in linux kernel - xg15
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0
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jfjfjfkkkfjj
Bullshit,
Just some parents want to be famous.
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omosubi
Way to suck the joy out of a very innocuous change
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Why NULL is Bad? - yegor256a
http://www.yegor256.com/2014/05/13/why-null-is-bad.html?2014-19
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kazinator
It's a blub language issue:
(defun get-by-name (name)
(let ((id (database-find db name)))
;; return NIL or employee instance
(if id (make-instance 'employee id)... | {
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BlackBerry PlayBook takes the lead to Apple iPad? - mark01
http://www.ihelplounge.com/blackberry-playbook-takes-the-lead-to-apple-ipad/
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bbguitar
Flawed article. Misleading Headline.
How many of those Playbooks were returned after christmas and swapped for a
Kindle Fire that actually works?
"PlayBook managed... | {
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A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] - gshrikant
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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mrcactu5
This is how people think of Math class:
"Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes
on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different ke... | {
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Epidemiologist: Social Distancing Guarantees Second Wave of Covid-19 - giardini
Dr. Knut Wittkowski: "at the Rockefeller University for 20 years, Head of the Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology and Research Design, and before that, I worked for 15 years with Klaus Dietz, one of the leading epidemiologists in... | {
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Ask YC: euro vs dollar vs export? - Tichy
Just read in the German newspaper: german businesses are worried that the high euro will hurt their foreign sales. Now I am wondering, naively trying to understand economics: isn't a high Euro a result of high demands for European goods? In other word, is that another exampl... | {
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“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.” - chumchum
http://florian-michahelles.blogspot.com/2015/04/information-is-not-knowledge-knowledge.html
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MichaelCrawford
Data is not Information.
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How to cause utter chaos on Facebook - thomasdavis
https://gist.github.com/968060
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program
It all began when a user pasted the value of the _jsText_ variable in the
address bar. The script create a new _script_ DOM element and append it to
_head_ injecting the malicious links (so that there is no more need to ... | {
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No Code - severine
https://vas3k.com/blog/nocode/
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kleiba
The second sentence ("First, you work all month, and then you give half of the
money to those who didn't work.") is already so blatantly wrong and
reactionary that I almost have to force myself to read on - after all, if the
premise is already flawed what... | {
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PSA: Apple's $29 iPhone battery replacement program ends soon - Varcht
http://zdnet.com/article/psa-apples-29-iphone-battery-replacement-program-ends-soon/
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herogreen
PSA = public service announcement ?
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tqkxzugoaupvwqr
Correct.
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dzhiurgis
Mine broke camera, good luck proving that to Apple.
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Two Charts For Anyone Who Thinks Skipping College Is A Good Idea - maigret
http://www.businessinsider.com/pay-gap-high-school-and-college-graduates-2011-6
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mgl
The conclusion is completely wrong. If you have a potential to go to college
but you consciously decide to skip it/drop out, that's somehow different f... | {
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} |
Smart scale goes dumb as Under Armour pulls the plug on connected tech - close04
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/smart-scale-goes-dumb-as-under-armour-pulls-the-plug-on-connected-tech/
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_Microft
Only half a week ago we had a thread that _Smart homes will turn dumb
overnight as Charter kill... | {
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Quikly Jump to Your Favorite Directories with HyperJump Shell Script - x0054
http://sdbr.net/post/HyperJump/
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cpbotha
Similar to the tool written about here, FASD is also awesome!
[https://github.com/clvv/fasd](https://github.com/clvv/fasd)
It remembers where you go and which files you open. These days I just... | {
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Ask HN: How can people use N95 masks effectively? - quietthrow
We can’t rely on CDC at this time given they are still trying to get their act together along with the fed govt. Their advice is often conflicting and/or confusing. Eg: ordinary people should not use n95 masks. But medical professionals should. I und... | {
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Show HN: My startup for book collectors - pmtarantino
http://www.shelfproud.com
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semanticist
This seems to be an online/social version of Delicious Library. We have just
under a thousand books in our library - and the only reason they're in
Delicious Library is the barcode scanning feature, which makes adding ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Trump’s Tough Talk on NAFTA Suggests Pact’s Demise Is Imminent - TuringNYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/business/economy/nafta-trump.html
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igravious
Whoops. Somebody should tell the Brits.
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/britain-could-
joi...](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/britain... | {
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Security At Coinbase - barmstrong
https://coinbase.com/security
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tedivm
I'm honestly not that impressed by this. They're basically picking some basic
types of exploits and are claiming to guard against those, which is nice and
all but it seems like they're targeting the buzzword issues and aren't talking
about a... | {
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} |
Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa” - herohamp
https://hamptonmoore.com/posts/weird-wifi-name-display/
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mitchs
Fun story about one of the devices mentioned there that I worked on. We used
to store the saved wifi creds in a file named exactly what the SSID was.
Some user manag... | {
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The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos - llambda
http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_concept_videos
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rjd
I've worked for a few companies over the years, and there is a type of manager
I run into a lot. I can summarize them by a statement they make "Just get it
done."
The t... | {
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How You Know - _pius
http://paulgraham.com/know.html
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nilkn
There's also a danger associated to this phenomenon. If the source of your
mental model is later debunked, you may not realize that you need to revise
your model precisely because you don't remember what your source was. You may
even read about the debu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Makeitopen.com – new Open Source learning site from Facebook - mjohnston4
http://makeitopen.com/
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thrusong
Does anyone know why Facebook never followed through with open sourcing
Haystack, the photo storage tool which I believe is now powering inbox
attachments as well?
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captn3m0
Had never heard of Haystack ... | {
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We Know Exactly Who Strong Arms a Free Press - MediumCool
https://medium.com/@davepell/we-know-exactly-who-strong-arms-the-free-press-1c8d1d4bbe39
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MrZongle2
TL;DR: Trump == Hitler.
Edit: don't downvote, _debate_. How is this article not a dog-whistle about
Trump being a democracy-destroying authoritarian?
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Apple LZFSE open source reference implementation - dcohenp
https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse
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mtanski
A more direct comparison would be with zstd. zstd started zhuff which was the
lz4 authors work of putting lz4 & FSE together.
[https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd](https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd)
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A Photographer Rediscovers The Crumbling Remains Of Tatooine - c_schmitt
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672518/a-photographer-rediscovers-the-crumbling-remains-of-tatooine#1
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jgrahamc
Most of these locations in Tunisia are very easy to find. You ask a tour guide
and they will take you there in a 4x4. When you ge... | {
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Tips for Succeeding in a CS. PhD - Nalta
https://sybrandt.com/posts/2020_03_30_tips_phd_cs/
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johntiger1
Very insightful article! I like how you retrospectively analyze advice you
were given. Maybe I will do a meta retrospective analysis in a few years :)
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Signed distance field raymarching. Procedural elephants - rinesh
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dKGWm
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strangecasts
If you're interested in graphics programming, Íñigo's articles are absolutely
worth reading:
[http://www.iquilezles.org/www/](http://www.iquilezles.org/www/)
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Hands on with Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC - jszumski
http://johnszumski.com/blog/hands-on-with-apple-pay-competitor-currentc
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jimkri
I really don't understand what the companies involved with MCX are thinking.
They build an app that is going in the opposite direction of where the market
is heading and limit th... | {
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Habits of Mathematical Minds - phreeza
http://mathteacherorstudent.blogspot.com/2010/09/habits-of-mind.html
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stonemetal
>>I've decided not to use the term "problem solving" because I believe this
term is often misused to include solving problems
Best line of the whole article.
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Show HN: Debbit – Automate spending requirements for high-yield bank accounts - jakehilborn
https://github.com/jakehilborn/debbit
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jakehilborn
Extremely low interest rates have cut high-yield savings account interest
rates from over 2% to ~1%. Most folks would be better off with a high-yield
checking account, wh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Paradoxes of Material Implication (1997) - olooney
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/mat-imp.htm
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tr352
Let me copy/paste my reply from the same discussion yesterday
([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650)):
There's another "solution" to this ... | {
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Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor - yurylifshits
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lockheed-martins-new-fusion-reactor-design-can-change-h-1646578094
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zimpenfish
Isn't it fairly standard for anyone having a new idea about fusion to claim
they'll have a working model "in 10 years" once they've ironed out the "few
sm... | {
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application - jasonswett
http://www.angularonrails.com/ruby-on-rails-angularjs-single-page-application/
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ewoutkleinsmann
We (10KB) have built our own CMS combining Rails and AngularJS. Our main goal
for our CMS was to turn every website made with it i... | {
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} |
AboutUs Secures $5 Million in Funding - qhoxie
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/aboutus_wiki_five_million_series_a.php
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Dilpil
What? The economy is not completely dead? Potentially profitable ventures are
getting funded? Blasphemy! We are in a HORRIBLE DEPRESSION which will end the
age of American dominance,... | {
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} |
The JavaScript Packaging Problem - cbhl
http://jamie-wong.com/2014/11/29/the-js-packaging-problem/
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edwinnathaniel
GWT solves some of these issues via Code Splitting:
[http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodeSplitting.h...](http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodeSplitting.html)
Step 1: GWT... | {
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Zurmo, an Open Source CRM - grobmeier
http://www.grobmeier.de/zurmo-open-source-crm-03012013.html
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raysto
Great article
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Laid Off ISO vs. NSO Options - takklz
Hey all,<p>I was recently laid off from DataRobot. Womp womp.<p>Anyways, they gave me the option to extend all my ISOs excercise date for a year, but to do so they will be converted into NSOs.<p>Is the tax benefit really worth that much more that I should exercise them now? Coul... | {
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Don't Stay Hungry - chrisyeh
http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2014/01/dont-stay-hungry.html
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utkarsh_apoorva
I think you have misunderstood the 'Stay Hungry' part. It doesn't mean 'Don't
Eat'. It means don't get satisfied with success and keep striving for more.
There, now I can go have my food with a clean consci... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Would it cost less for a large scale company to use mainframes? - techdominator
Very large scale companies, such as Google and Amazon for example, relies on hardware servers infrastructure to support the running of their services.<p>It is in my understanding that these companies use x86 and ARM based rack-moun... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Hacker News wants to know your location” - MattyMc
So... what's up with that? Has HackerNews always had location popups, or is this new?<p>And if new... why?
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rubbingalcohol
I haven't seen this. What browser?
| {
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Show HN: Cloning the Voices of Alan Rickman, Carl Sagan and Robin Williams - voiceclonr
http://www.voiceclonr.com
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FatalLogic
It sounds terrible and inhuman, but there is definitely some similarity to the
target voices. It's much easier to detect the similarity when you compare the
different voices to each oth... | {
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} |
Vue.js vs. React: Which JavaScript Framework to Choose for Your Project - eugeniyakorotya
https://da-14.com/blog/vuejs-vs-react-which-javascript-framework-choose-your-project
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onion2k
_Vue.js has also displayed an ability to handle higher frame-rates (10 frames
per second as compared to 1 frame per second typica... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is Virtualization Worth It? - gaius
http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/is-virtualization-worth-it/
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gaius
Interested in anyone's thoughts on this...
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} |
Zombie Chaser: A graphical interface for mutation testing - chrislloyd
http://andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/zombie-chaser-its-alive/
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woid
Plus bonus points for new Thriller version. Next time do also some dancing
please :-)
~~~
weilawei
Definitely, the accompaniment was a great idea. Also, who _doesn... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
BMW, VW, Ford, Daimler team up for electric vehicle charging network in Europe - laktak
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/11/bmw-vw-ford-daimler-team-up-for-electric-vehicle-charging-network-in-europe/
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mtgx
Before even reading the article I was about to say that I hope they chose the
350 kW charging standard. If... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The state of SIEM: How to rock security ops in the age of DevOps - whichwaytogo
https://tracking.feedpress.it/link/16145/6935183
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mtmail
When submitting use direct URLs, not tracking URLs or URL shorteners. Those
will be blacklisted on Hackernews.
| {
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} |
Algolia raises $110M Series C - vvoyer
https://blog.algolia.com/algolia-series-c-2019-funding?2
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redox_
Congrats Algolia!
~~~
papa_ogre
GG \o/
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Julie90210
Boooom
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Ask HN: How to handle sales tax for SaaS side projects? - billconan
I just realized how complex sales tax is. It seems to be a huge overhead for small projects. How can I handle it with ease?
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billconan
I asked this also on Reddit, and got this really nice answer:
Pasting it here hoping it will help others too
... | {
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} |
Startups Spend with Abandon, Flush with Capital - gdilla
http://online.wsj.com/articles/startups-spend-with-abandon-flush-with-capital-1412549853
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ChuckMcM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it is impossible to tell how
someone will react so a sudden change in their financial status, prior to that
chang... | {
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} |
The Skills Poor Programmers Lack - geekrax
https://gist.github.com/justinmeiners/be4540f515986d93ee12ac2f1980631a
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chmaynard
The first example is interesting. Suppose we have a smart compiler that emits
the same machine language code in both cases. Which version is better? Perhaps
the first, which is more verbos... | {
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Process Partitioning in Distributed Systems - craigkerstiens
http://www.miyagijournal.com/articles/8-process-partitioning-in-distributed-systems
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jpitz
"Using queues also exposes you to the noisy-neighbor syndrome. If you have 25
jobs on the queue, all consisting of the same resource-intensive work, your
queue c... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best free online collaboration tool for a startup? - havoc2005
What is everyone's preferred online collaboration tool for their startup? I know basecamp is popular but we are looking to save as much as possible because we are just getting our team together.
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kiriappeee
I'm surprised that no one replied... | {
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} |
Show HN: Tinytracks – Makes Parenting Easier - george_dee
https://www.tinytracksapp.com
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george_dee
Hey HN!
George here. I've been working on an app (over the last couple of years)
called Tinytracks which aims to make parenting easier.
Tinytracks is a baby tracker app which allows parents to track their child’... | {
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Improve your REPLs with rlwrap - telemachos
http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2013/01/20/rlwrap.html
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larsberg
This program is exactly what we usually recommend for people who aren't using
SML/NJ inside of an Emacs inferior window (which is far and away the most
common usage mode for experienced SML/NJ programmers - all... | {
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Global Unicorns ($250mm+ valued startups) - salar
https://global-unicorns.silk.co/
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ddorian43
at least put a website link so we can know what they do
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Thats Why No-One Will Remember Your Name - spoiledtechie
http://www.spoiledtechie.com/post/Thats-Why-No-One-Will-Remember-Your-Name.aspx
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Allocator2008
History remembers the risk takers more or less. Even if you fail, lose, are
dead wrong, etc., if you have dared or risked greatly you will be remembered
for th... | {
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Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness - mutor
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/285149/Epic_Games_chief_pays_15M_to_protect_7000_acres_of_North_Carolina_wilderness.php
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M_Grey
This is the kind of action that can have long-term positive impacts. Maybe it
won't change the ... | {
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A hand gesture could be your next password - johnshades
https://www.fastcompany.com/90214588/a-hand-gesture-could-be-your-next-password
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Ezhik
Can't wait to shoot Revolver Ocelot's finger guns to sign in.
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Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm - danso
https://www.ft.com/content/faccc538-56f9-11e8-bdb7-f6677d2e1ce8
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psetq
Somewhat off topic, but If you're interested in the history of modern
computing and not already familiar with the Xerox PARC [0] story, you should
know that Xerox has a fascinating history of com... | {
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G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative - wx196
https://github.com/dtschump/gmic
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patdavid
It should be noted that the project CIMG/GMIC is _not_ built and billed as an
IM alternative. It's an image processing framework that happens to have
similar utility to IM for some folks and that is also available as ... | {
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} |
Slides: Responsive web design from the future - bergie
http://speakerdeck.com/u/kneath/p/responsive-web-design-from-the-future
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kneath
For the curious, here's a few extra links from this talk:
<http://warpspire.com/talks/responsive/>
Hope you enjoy!
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jasonwatkinspdx
I'm glad that designers are starting... | {
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Ask HN: What would be negative implications of HIV becoming a curable disease? - twidlit
Would be interesting to explore how society will change and be affected since HIV is mostly tied to homosexuals.
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carbocation
Nothing that has been discussed on HN lately will, likely, lead to an HIV
cure. HIV is notorious... | {
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} |
Understanding Quaternions - njn
https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/
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amai
Sorry to spoil the party, but this is the old 19th century way of teaching
quaternions (and also complex numbers). It is much easier to start with some
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... | {
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The One Way XML Beats JSON - impostervt
https://medium.com/@john.titus/the-one-way-xml-beats-json-8613b9484463#.idj810skw
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PaulHoule
There are a lot of ways to add metadata to JSON or otherwise enrich it with
XML-like capabilities. My favorite personally is JSON-LD
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD](https:... | {
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} |
Show HN: Django-Chartit a Django app for plotting charts effortlessly - pgollakota
http://chartit.shutupandship.com
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pgollakota
I created this Django app for making it really easy to create charts directly
from database (Django models). This is my first django project and would
really appreciate any feedback f... | {
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} |
The Programmable Government - larrywright
http://larrywright.me/blog/articles/213-towards-a-more-open-government
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hendler
Love this title - although the "APIs" are query only.
But a '''programmable government''', run by optimization algorithms? I like
this - as long as it's open source. No politicians, just g... | {
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} |
Google pledges $2 million in prizes to hackers who exploit Chrome - evo_9
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/google-pledges-million-in-hacking-prizes/
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DanielRibeiro
Limiting Daniel J. Bernstein to _the creator of djbdns_ is quite an
understatement. He is a very important cryptographer, to say the least[1]... | {
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} |
How To Write fanfiction: 10 ficwriting rules - pavelegorkin
https://readandwrite.today/essay/10-ficwriting-rules.html
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billyjobob
This article is full of grammatical mistakes. I know usually we should focus
on the content and not the presentation but it’s difficult to take seriously
advice on writing from someon... | {
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} |
HP's New Strategy and Firesale Fiasco - jameshicks
http://www.thetechscoop.net/2011/08/21/hp-new-strategy-and-firesale-fiasco/#more-23527
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ddw
Saturday morning I drove to some stores looking for one. At Staples they said
that they weren't selling them and that corporate told them to return them.
Waited outside ... | {
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Google Visualization API & R - john_horton
http://r-ecology.blogspot.com/2011/01/r-and-google-visualization-api.html
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instakill
This is brilliant, thanks for the link. Busy wrapping my brain around R and
knowing that you can export R graphics into interactive charts makes for
interesting learning.
~~~
john_ho... | {
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How we built Dojo Learning - Planning and designing new features - lux
http://www.dojolearning.com/siteblog-post-action/id.36/title.how-we-built-dojo-learning-part-5
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lux
This is the fifth part of a six-part blog post I wrote talking about how we
built our startup, Dojo Learning, from my perspective as co-foun... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time - happy-go-lucky
https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-busier-you-are-the-more-you-need-quiet-time?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
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11thEarlOfMar
> "the disadvantages of noise and distraction associated with open office
> plans outweighed anticipa... | {
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Google Signs Deal to Buy Manhattan Office Building - siculars
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/nyregion/03building.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
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siculars
Real-estate postering aside, this deal does not "a rebounding real estate
market..." It is no coincidence that Google's East Coast offices are located
in this... | {
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} |
How to build a JavaScript package manager - cpojer
https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/07/11/lets-dev-a-package-manager/
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zodiac
It was making a lot of sense until the part about recursive dependencies. To
my mind, once this happens it becomes a dependency graph instead of a tree,
and instead of trying to satisfy depe... | {
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} |
FreeBSD Bhyve WiFi PCI Passthrough - dddddaviddddd
https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-bhyve-wifi-pci-passthrough
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Seenso
That's interesting, but wouldn't it make more sense to have a compatibility
system that would allow Linux drivers to be used? Apparently there's one for
Windows drivers:
[https://www.fr... | {
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} |
New Facebook rollout commences - sanj
http://blog.new.facebook.com/blog.php?post=30074837130
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furiouslol
I guess I'm one of the crazy guys out there who prefer the old design.
The nice Newsfeed aside, i find the redesign unintuitive.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh):Hydrazine - rolph
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0329.html
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chupa-chups
Interesting, but way more information is found on wikipedia:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine)
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Fordlandia - codyjames
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/
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nimbius
Ah the paragon of american assembly line manufacturing, Henry Ford. As a
millennial its taken me a while to get the real dirt on the guy, as in america
highschools extol only his virtue.
Did you know Ford had his own secret polic... | {
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} |
Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens - robg
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/media/08digi.html
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ars
Such a strange article considering that nearly all of the web is text. The
vast majority of internet time is spent reading.
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gojomo
_vast majority of internet time is spent reading_
Und... | {
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} |
Ask HN: When will apple update their native apps? - davidmspi
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pdenya
Native apps receive updates during OS upgrades.
| {
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Why You Should Ignore Every Founder’s Story About How They Started Their Company - howitworks
https://medium.com/@trevmckendrick/what-reed-hastings-sam-walton-can-teach-you-about-how-to-start-a-company-d38cfe0eafce
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randomerr
Best line: The lesson is that there will be mistakes and problems on any path
to succes... | {
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} |
Computing Shortest Path in O(1) time - bjt2n3904
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLeWBswGgOE
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meursault334
Is this actually O(1)?
Because the electricity has to to travel the shortest path it seems like it is
at best O(shortest path length). The constant factor is of course very small.
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8note
if you have... | {
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A Stanford-born company is equipping India’s youth for well-paid tech jobs - happy-go-lucky
https://qz.com/1061133/no-university-needed-udacity-a-stanford-born-company-is-equipping-indias-youth-for-well-paid-tech-jobs/
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happy-go-lucky
Looks like sponsored content :$
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