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Why didn't JavaScript adopt the OO model adopted by C++/Java when it was designed? - bootload
https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-JavaScript-adopt-the-object-oriented-model-adopted-by-C++-Java-when-it-was-designed/answer/Brendan-Eich?share=1
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bootload
_" If JS didn’t make it into Netscape 2, we’d be speaking VBScrip... | {
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Facetime for the Mac - eddieplan9
http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/
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kgroll
I'm definitely not suggesting that Facetime is, or will be, a failure.
Thinking about it, however, reminded me of a passage from Infinite Jest about
the failure of video chat.
_(1) It turned out there there was something terribly s... | {
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Show HN: Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider - aeneasr
https://github.com/ory-am/hydra#
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simplify
If you're interested in this sort of thing, Doorkeeper[1] is a robust, open
source OAuth 2 provider that's been around for about 5 years. We use it as a
standalone app, and have many other node.js apps that ... | {
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What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools? - wallflower
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/15/what-if-finlands-great-teachers-taught-in-u-s-schools-not-what-you-think/
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edthrowaway
As someone with a spouse who has taught for over 10 years in an impoverished,
inner-city scho... | {
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Streaming application log events to the Cloud from the Docker fire-hose - viklas
http://www.emergingstack.com/2015/05/11/Cloud-Logging-and-the-Docker-Firehose.html
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viklas
SUMMARY: A kubernetes deployed 'logging container', running on every host,
streams every docker-hosted application event to AWS Cloudwatch.... | {
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Ask HN: What concepts in your field are the most difficult to explain simply? - Nuance
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drakonka
What I actually do. My job is super interesting, but I can't find a good way
to explain it to outsiders. I am a software engineer in the games industry. If
I worked on gameplay it would be a bit easier, but I work on ... | {
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Ask HN: Things to consider when choosing an investor? - jpd750
HN-<p>I don't even have a product yet, but did a quick pitch on the phone to an investor and he is potentially interested in investing in a MVP-level version of the product.<p>What are the most important things to consider with choosing an investor (cons... | {
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Bitcoin - The Internet of Money - WardPlunet
http://startupboy.com/2013/11/07/bitcoin-the-internet-of-money
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vovantics
Testing
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The Girls Next Door - not_paul_graham
http://www.5280.com/girlsnextdoor/?src=longreads&mc_cid=54948c4afe&mc_eid=99af5e345c
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reubenmorais
Took me a while to realize: you have to scroll down to see the content.
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fernly
In Chrome, it doesn't scroll. It appears to be only the image and the
headline. (Edit: nope... | {
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Show HN: Tabtation – A Chrome Extension to Manage Your 'Too Many Tabs Syndrome' - RishitKedia
Hey there, HN!<p>My name is Rishit, and this is my first post here on HN.<p>Let me start off by asking you a question.<p>How many tabs do you have open in Chrome right now?<p>If you said less than five or ten: Congratulations... | {
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List of All Current TLDs - manjana
http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
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mike_d
The IANA TLD list should never be used directly. What you really want instead
is the Public Suffix List [1]. It will help you determine the "effective TLD"
of domains like amazon.co.uk or sflawlib.ci.sf.ca.us, and gives ... | {
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It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released - ibdknox
http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/06/24/its-playtime/
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Cushman
Who thought "It's Playtime" was a better title for this than "Light Table
Playground released"? Why does this keep happening to Light Table posts?
Edit: Now "It's playtime - Light Table Playg... | {
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Is There Enough Meat for Everyone? - mhb
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Should-We-Eat-Meat
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msandford
Joel Salatin is one of the first people that comes to mind after reading the
article. He might not rub you the right way (as he's an evangelical Christian,
etc) but he sure does seem to have some interesting id... | {
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Apple in bidding war to acquire Toshiba’s storage business - dmmalam
https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/02/apple-toshiba-nand/
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thinkling
First news that Apple is developing its own GPU, now they're trying to buy a
NAND memory business. At least they're investing some of that huge cash hoard.
What's missing? The bigge... | {
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Show HN: Archie Botwick, WWI Veteran Facebook Chatbot that uses NLP - shnere
http://m.me/anzaclivearchie
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theazmeister
Is this like Siri?
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petagilbert
So awesome
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chitopunk
this is great
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96 Technology Blogs That Will Make You Stop and Think - buttercupsmom
https://www.sealights.io/blog/96-technology-blogs-that-will-make-you-stop-and-think/
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buttercupsmom
Hey y'all, so a few things about this list: a) I created it because most of
the roundups I've seen suck in my opinion. They mainly list obvious... | {
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Angel Problem - lukas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_problem
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nemo1618
This is the 1-Angel Problem on a hexagonal grid, yes?
[http://llerrah.com/cattrap.htm](http://llerrah.com/cattrap.htm)
Surprisingly tricky, even with a 1-angel!
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mmanfrin
Managed to find a strategy pretty quickly: begin from the _ou... | {
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AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol - wyclif
http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2016/03/alphagos-ultimate-challenge.html
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jamornh
Wow, Lee Sedol just resigned. First game goes to AlphaGo. I wasn't sure who
would win the 5 matches, but I never expected AlphaGo to win the first gam... | {
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WIndow 7 virtual XP is a marketing stunt - daniel71l
http://design-to-last.com/Technical/windows-7-virtual-xp-solution.html
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jodrellblank
1\. Was a reason people went back to Win98 too; it didn't last forever.
2\. Don't argue about win7's projected speed and resource use buy extension
from vista when those ar... | {
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Introducing A/B testing + Cross Browser testing rolled into one - paraschopra
http://www.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/multiple-browsers-preview/?source=hn
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cloner
Looks great. Still wish you had a pay-as-you-go plan though. E.g. buy testing
of 10,000 visitors, 50,000 visitors etc.
Its not all... | {
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Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger - pseudolus
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-14/regulating-facebook-twitter-and-instagram
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throwawaysea
I would definitely not want the government to be able to control what
ideas/speech is allowed on these platforms and what isn't. No... | {
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Google is now a certificate authority? - gary4gar
http://i.imgur.com/waCb4.png
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gary4gar
It seems google is using self-issued SSL certs which do not generate
warnings/promts to the user.
Domain: plus.google.com Browser:Google Chrome 14.0.835.202
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sp332
The "Certification Path" goes to Google Internet Auth... | {
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Mou is one year old - chenluois
http://chenluois.com/blog/mou-is-one-year-old/
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alexcabrera
Mou is the single best purpose-built Markdown editor I've ever used. I've
tried all kinds of Markdown-centric workflows, but keep coming back to Mou.
Split-screen editing and preview windows make all the difference, and... | {
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Would you publicly call out an non-paying client? - jentulman
I just found this via twitter..<p>http://bsglogistics.co.uk/<p>Here a developer has suspended hosting and publicly called out a client for non payment of bills.
Personally, whilst I might suspend a clients service, I don't feel that this kind of name and ... | {
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Hackers dump data for 2.3M Patreon users online - wymy
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9439077/patreon-hack-user-database-2-million-users
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sigmar
>Patreon revealed earlier this week that it had recently been hacked,
compromising the email addresses, usernames, and shipping addresses of its
users.
Were passwor... | {
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Gödel and the limits of logic - ColinWright
http://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic
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jaysonelliot
As an aside, if you look at the photo credit on that great color photo of
Einstein and Gödel, it was snapped by Oskar Morgenstern, one of the fathers of
game theory.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os... | {
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‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs - rbanffy
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/02/413236/virtual-pharmacology-advance-tackles-universe-unknown-drugs
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daddylonglegs
When I see a paper like this one of my first thoughts is "What will Derek Lowe
say about this?" He is a chemist in the dru... | {
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} |
Show HN: Visualize positions of a string - Thimo
https://github.com/ThimoKl/StringViz
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welder
You shouldn't be using character offsets when parsing HTML or XML...
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silentOpen
Your lexer emits buffer positions which you then put into error/diagnostic
messages. Afaict, this tool makes it easier to visualize ... | {
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Arbitrary Code Execution on Pokemon Stadium for the N64 - pizza
https://github.com/MrCheeze/pokestadium-ace
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dimodi9
I see a pipeline error message on the bottom left.
| {
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Ask HN: Help I need advice on fraud - eam
I run a web site (side project) where users can use their credit card to send money to a friends checking account as a gift. It seems a user created multiple accounts with fake names then proceeded to send money from stolen credit cards. All the charges to the stolen credit ... | {
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Building an HTML5 WebGL game with GLGE, Part 1 - statico
http://statico.github.com/webgl-glge-game-part-1.html
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statico
The game itself is here: <http://statico.github.com/webgl-demos/ducks/>
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What Programming Languages Engineers and Employers Love and Hate - rbanffy
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/what-programming-languages-engineers-and-employers-loveand-hate
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JohnFen
Apparently I'm an unusual engineer, because I dislike Python.
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tincholio
You're not alone, br... | {
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What Do Investors Look for in a Game Developer? - rocky1138
http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/182962/what_do_investors_look_for_in_a_.php
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sami36
if you're a decent game developer, in this age of digital distribution
(Steam), you should forgo the whole venture thing & look at Kickstarter.
Not only do you get ... | {
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Average product lifespan of Google products before it kills them - walterbell
https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
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jedberg
I noticed in the "recent deaths" section, YouTube for 3DS. This made me laugh,
because at Netflix, supporting the 3DS was always a big pain. Regardless,
Netflix still supports it t... | {
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Are You Lightest in the Morning? [video] - yincrash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI
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yincrash
Essentially a video form of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416062](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416062)
where the host investigates what the public thinks as well as animation of the
actua... | {
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If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too - rglovejoy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/05/science-climate-emails-code-release
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lutorm
I am not surprised that people find errors in code written by researchers and
grad students who have little training in software development a... | {
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ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend - terhechte
https://github.com/schani/clojurec
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mullr
This is neat.
What worries me about this and similar efforts (like
<https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme>) is that clojure's standard
library design assumes that the underlying runtime w... | {
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LibreOffice 5.3.0 - ronjouch
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3
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chrisballinger
> Firebird has been upgraded to version 3.0.0. It is unable to read back
> Firebird 2.5 data, so embedded firebird odb files created in LibreOffice
> version up to 5.2 cannot be opened with LibreOffice 5.3. Since a ... | {
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Tachyum Starts from Scratch to Etch a Universal Processor - rbanffy
https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/02/tachyum-starts-from-scratch-to-etch-a-universal-processor/
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rpiguy
Beautiful example of design driven by physics. I love it!
However, like all VLIW processors, no one knows how this will work on real
work... | {
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What's the most orthogonal programming language? - BlackJack
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/103567/27757
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johnm
Cracks me up that Lisp/Scheme have so many votes/comments when the Tcl entry
is getting none.
And nobody's even mentioned Io.
| {
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Collapse OS – Why? - ColinWright
https://collapseos.org/why.html
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ncmncm
I also am predicting collapse by 2030.
The mechanism follows from climate disruption. As the tropics become
uninhabitable and/or unfarmable, millions will migrate (mostly) north,
crossing borders and driving fascist / jingoist governments ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Appops reloaded – Istio, Kubernetes home-lab, Prometheus and pause-lab - alexellisuk
https://tinyletter.com/mhausenblas/letters/appops-reloaded-47
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alexellisuk
Absolutely packed with tech this week from Michael Hausenblas. Good read and
wanted to share.
| {
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Follow the White Ball: The torments of snooker’s greatest player - jonathansizz
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/follow-the-white-ball
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sakri
I've been a fan since 1992. Possibly the most beautiful video for me on
youtube :
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpeBugHSCnU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?... | {
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Need book recommendations for programmer to product developer transition - paperwork
Some friends, distributed across a few states and continents, are developers. They have one or two products being used by clients and a couple more in the pipeline.<p>It is becoming obvious that they are following into the same trap... | {
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Where can we find a cofounder for a promising & growing product? - razasaeed
We are a growing software consulting company and to fulfill our own hiring needs , we built a very simple & easy to use(inspired by 37signals) applicant tracking system called Simplicant for small to medium sized companies (especially s... | {
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Apply HN: Hostable, Reskinnable, Domainable, Searchable, Forum Software - andy_ppp
So while hacker news is used in very flexible ways (like this!) and the community is amazing I'm really really exhausted with how badly the actual software used to host it works.<p>I see a lot of opportunity around a piece of forum... | {
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Are you running Windows XP? - neur0mancer
http://amirunningxp.com/
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Piskvorrr
No, but the page loads so slowly it brings memories of dialup. (What is it
with 20 MB backgrounds anyway?)
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Ask HN: Which companies are working with/on the coolest technology? - cjbarber
Also any thoughts on how I could capture this in a website?
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lanna
You have to start with a proper definition of "coolest technologies".
| {
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A Futures Site Coming to Bet on Movie Ticket Sales - unignorant
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/business/media/11futures.html?ref=technology
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chasingsparks
_"If the distributor shorts a $100 contract and the movie grosses $50 million,
the distributor will make $50, thereby limiting the company’s total losses
f... | {
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Why does flat Earth belief still exist? - RobertSmith
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/why-does-flat-earth-belief-still-exist/
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LinuxBender
Why does anyone believe it is round?
I have no horse in this race. I'm merely suggesting that this could be a
simulation. We could all be in a space ship, plugged in... | {
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} |
Could ImGUI Be the Future of GUIs? - tokyodude
https://games.greggman.com/game/imgui-future/
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overgard
Really probably not. I love them and they're very handy in certain situations
(debugging tools, quick UIs) but once you need a lot of customization they
become extremely cumbersome. Also really kind of makes it... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google - charlieegan3
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/16/jeff-dean-on-large-scale-deep-learning-at-google.html
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hartator
It seems to work fine for me, a link to the actual talk on YouTube:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSaZGT4-6EY](https://www.youtube.com/watch... | {
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Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers - peterb
http://floatingsun.net/articles/thrift-vs-protocol-buffers/
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markkanof
For me the most important point in this article is that Thrift includes an RPC
implementation while Protocol Buffers does not.
This was very helpful while writing an iPhone application that records audio
... | {
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} |
Elon Musk inviting John Carmack to work on rockets - iffyuva
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/588167701069230081
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avmich
Wonder if JC will decide to make a comeback? I assume AA was suspended for
lack of funds to expand the development program - but, say, fuel tests were
wonderful.
What Mr. Mueller would say... | {
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Creating a Lightsaber with Polymer - Everlag
https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/case-study/lightsaber
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whoopdedo
I can't be the only person who's had just about enough of these cross-
promotions. We get it. There's a new movie. I almost feel like not watching it
out of protest for how over saturated the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is free college an existential threat to ISA-funded schools? - tempsy
Thinking from the perspective of an ISA funded school like Lambda, would free college effectively destroy, or at least severely limit the growth potential, of those types of schools?
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LeoSolaris
Theoretically, free colleges would elimi... | {
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Sweden closer to being the first cashless society with negative interest rates - ogezi
http://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-cashless-society-negative-interest-rates-2015-10
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draw_down
> Credit Suisse says the rule of thumb in Scandinavia is: "If you have to pay
> in cash, something is wrong."
I hope people don... | {
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} |
Meteor adding first-party support for GraphQL - sergiotapia
https://github.com/meteor/data/blob/design-overview/design/high-level-reactivity.md
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sergiotapia
MDG is currently discussing their initial approach integrating GraphQL support
in Meteor.
Once this lands the sky is the limit! Everybody is really excited... | {
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} |
My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB) - nazri1
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html
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fintler
I wrote a little copy program at my last job to copy files in a reasonable
time frame on 5PB to 55PB filesystems.
[https://github.com/hpc/dcp](https://github.com/hpc/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops - davi
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/24/raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-head-a-mosquitos-lament/
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developer1
Of course the video doesn't show anything interesting, the mosquito's leg is
hardly even grazed. I was definitely hoping for the version whe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The first ever accurate molecular simulation with quantum computing by Google - gri3v3r
http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-quantum-computer-is-helping-us-understand-quantum-physics
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selimthegrim
dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132700](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132700)
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25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools - SQL2219
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/reader-center/us-public-schools-conditions.html
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awat
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Both my parents were teachers. The
disparities that children face from day one neighborhood... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
As Tesla struggles to exit 'production hell,' buyers complain of delivery limbo - Aloha
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-sales-delivery-problems-20180912-story.html
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chmaynard
Is it legal for a company to require full payment before the product has
shipped? Most businesses don't operate that ... | {
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} |
The Optical Illusion That’s So Good, It Even Fools DanKam - cmrx64
https://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/17/mindless-equals-blown/
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cmrx64
I'd seen the optical illusion before, it was one of the more impressive ones
in my middle school design class. Very, very interesting to see how it "fools"
a computer program.
I w... | {
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} |
Firm fat-fingered G Suite and deleted data, escalates support ticket to lawsuit - gilad
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/05/musey_v_google_lawsuit/
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markgavalda
So let me get this straight: they deleted their own account and because they
didn't have any backups (because why would they) they're suing Google ... | {
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Dogescript - RossPenman
http://zachbruggeman.me/dogescript/
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steveklabnik
What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless,
yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit.
Utility is not the end goal of everything.
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victorf
I recall when LOL Cats were actually pretty funn... | {
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Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe - zrail
http://www.petekeen.net/introducing-payola
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aculver
Congrats, Pete! You literally wrote the book on Stripe integrations and it's
awesome seeing you embrace open source as a way of sharing your knowledge. I
_love_ how well thought through everything you've done is. I can... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day - pepys
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/what-we-lose-by-reading-100000-words-every-day/2018/10/04/72dea000-b212-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html
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dpark
> _“My grafted, spasmodic, online style, while appropriate for much of my
> day’s ordinary reading, had b... | {
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Verifications.io Leaks Personal Records of 2B Users - cybarrior
https://cybarrior.com/blog/2019/03/28/verifications-io-leaks/
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jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
Why are so many MongoDB databases left unsecured? Are they extraordinarily
hard to secure? I imagine the people who are working with these databases must
be aware of the ... | {
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} |
What Is Functional Programming? - asp_net
https://thomasbandt.com/what-is-functional-programming
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rajman187
The author quotes a definition
> A functional language is a language that supports and encourages programming
> in a functional style.
Seems rather circular
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hans1729
> Seems rather circular
* recur... | {
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Ask HN: Can I learn to be a programmer/developer without going to university? - lookitzpancakes
I've been wondering lately if there are any comprehensive resources (oustide of a formal college or university) that can take you from being a computer enthusiast to a fully knowledgable developer/programmer? Figured this... | {
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Music Icon Prince Dead at 57 - aaronbrethorst
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prince-dead-dies_us_57190013e4b0c9244a7b2a5b
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kintamanimatt
As tragic as his death may be, HN just isn't the venue for mainstream
celebrity gossip or news.
Oh, and downvoters, is this really what you want HN to become?
~~~
Jaruze... | {
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Why did Quora choose Python for its development - Alex9762
http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choose-Python-for-its-development
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waiterZen
Python is good choice
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Postmortem from getting kicked out of college for hacking - getbackto
https://medium.com/@wololodev/fdd85b99e0c5?hnattempt=2
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lun4r
The encryption method is a simple XOR cypher. It uses the key
"581fad87738939".
<?php function encryptSID2($sid) { return dechex(0x58 ^ $sid{0}) . dechex(0x1f
^ $sid{1}) . dechex... | {
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Need to list related videos along with their published date in YouTube? - divyumrastogi
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-video-list-dater/mbaflkdlneldejanggphlhcepncjfaco
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divyumrastogi
check it on github: [https://github.com/divyum/youtube-
dater](https://github.com/divyum/youtube-dater)
| {
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Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook - Deestan
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fnyheter%2Finnenriks%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10104089&act=url
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belorn
Be you a lawyer talking privileged to a client, a... | {
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} |
N2O: Erlang Web Framework - andreygrehov
http://kukuruku.co/hub/erlang/n2o-erlang-web-framework
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rdtsc
This framework is really out there. It is well ... different and interesting.
Here are some not so conventional things going on:
* Write your page in Erlang.
* Even translates Erlang to JS as a parse transfo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What are some good developer portfolios? - mattm
I'm setting up a personal website and want to include a portfolio page to showcase the work I've done. Does anyone have any good examples of portfolio pages for developers? I'd like to look through some to gather ideas for setting up mine.<p>I've come across... | {
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How to focus amongst all the noise - mashhoodr
https://medium.com/@mashhoodr/how-to-focus-amongst-all-the-noise-47d75f8dae44#.dpyt3qkva
======
mashhoodr
Focus is a thing hard to come by in our offices these days. We are constantly
badgered by people and apps, and this is my take on how we can control a bit
of the app ... | {
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} |
So What If New York Is Unaffordable? That Helps the U.S - linkregister
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-22/so-what-if-new-york-is-unaffordable-that-helps-the-u-s
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linkregister
It might benefit the rest of the U.S., but the rate of job expansion outside
the Bay Area is excruciatingly slow compared ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Make a Computer Operating System - hitr
https://github.com/SamyPesse/How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System
======
joelg
Another great free OS resource is MIT's 6.828: Operating System Engineering.
"This course studies fundamental design and implementation ideas in the
engineering of operating systems. Lectur... | {
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} |
Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete - retupmoc01
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150721-famous-fluid-equations-are-incomplete/
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vhffm
If you are interested in some of the details:
The Navier-Stokes equations can be derived from the Boltzmann equation by
applying a slight perturbation, expanding the result as... | {
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} |
HN Jobs: NYC startup Minus (min.us) is hiring - mindotus
Minus is hiring! We are on a mission to simplify sharing and to create the simplest universal sharing platform. We are seeking tech fanatics, passionate enthusiasts and self-driven individuals in our New York City midtown office.<p>Positions include full-time,... | {
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Skype IP Lookup - lobovkin
http://skype-ip-finder.tk/
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zhovner
Ok, so I'm develop this.
It based on deobfuscated Skypekit runtime that write clear debug log.
Wrapper just make vcard refresh from p2p skype network and then parse debug
log.
Here is the sources of python wrapper <https://github.com/zhovner/Skype... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What do you use Google Sheet or Excel for? - daolf
It is often said that where there is a spreadsheet, there is a product waiting to be built.<p>The more complex the spreadsheet, the more needed is the product.
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plumsempy
I use Google Sheets a lot and I love it. From the common uses like task
management ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Free Cardiac Monitor Simulator (with embeddable plugin) - th3o6a1d
https://monitorsim.com
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th3o6a1d
Hey everyone,
I'm a physician who likes to code. For a while, I've thought it would be cool
to be able to pull up a free cardiac monitor simulator in a browser for
teaching purposes. Would be even better... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Man Trap - SirensOfTitan
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-man-trap
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dnautics
> Women who behave like their male colleagues may be disliked for being
> “pushy” or “bitchy”, but these penalties are offset by the fact that they
> are also likely to enjoy more power and greater financial rewards. When m... | {
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} |
For sale: an Enigma machine - epo
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5370959&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8
======
Robin_Message
Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers
and manuscripts, formed by Prof. Maxwell Newman, guide p... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Did posting your startup in HN give you users or only competitors? - thisuseristaken
I can't understand why anyone would want to post their startup in an early stage, when their codebase is probably quite small and easily clonable . Unless, of course, they want the professional feedback and brainstormin... | {
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} |
Extinct Startups Tees - signaler
http://extinctstartups.com/
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pstevesy
Clever. I'd like to see an Enron or Compaq tee.
| {
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} |
Hacker News Chicago meetup Wednesday 3/31 at 8pm - ccg
Chicago hackers: Please join us for the next Hacker News Chicago meetup on Wednesday, 3/31/2010, at 8:00pm at the Hophaus (646 N. Franklin, 312-280-8832, http://www.thehophaus.com/). Please join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago) for an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A wiki for anecdotal or useless informations - lawyearsdw
http://www.bt-wiki.net/Main_Page
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ende
How is this different from Wikipedia ?
| {
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} |
Bringing back the PC - ibrad
http://idiallo.com/blog/2014/05/bringing-back-the-pc
======
ivan_ah
The personal cloud built on FOSS is a very nice idea. We need this real bad.
I think the technological complexity of implementing this is quite serious---
setting this up for the average non-technical person would be an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Suggested backend(s) for JavaScript MVC tutorial? - eliot_sykes
I'm considering writing a tutorial on JavaScript MVC frameworks, and a large part of it would ideally use a backend for server dependent demos like signing a user in and making RESTful API calls.<p>What do you suggest as ways of making this... | {
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} |
Could the IPad make computer science obsolete? - Mongoose
http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/could-ipad-make-computer-science.html
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gprisament
This guy completely misses what computer science is about. Sure, nobody
studies "Toaster Science" just like nobody will ever study "iPad Science". But
plenty of peopl... | {
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} |
Yahoo Should Buy Microsoft - naish
http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/yahoo-should-buy-microsoft/
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gjm11
What he's actually claiming is that Yahoo! should buy _MSN_ , so that MSN gets
the benefit of Yahoo!'s alleged knowledge of how to make money online, and
Yahoo! gets the benefit of having MS as a significant min... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook is not worth $33B - abhi3
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000
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mikro2nd
Missing __[2010] __flare.
------
enjoyitasus
great look-back. Love reading these and putting things into context. you can
only connect the dots looking backward
| {
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Pokémon Go proves investors were clueless about augmented reality - jflowers45
http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/12/pokemon-go-proves-investors-were-clueless-about-augmented-reality/
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beat
I remember a friend of mine talking about a horror game working on the same
principle as Pokémon Go, three or four years ago. U... | {
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} |
Animals can inherit traumatic experiences, study shows - 001sky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-finds-that-fear-can-travel-quickly-through-generations-of-mice-dna/2013/12/07/94dc97f2-5e8e-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
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anigbrowl
This is pretty mind-boggling stuff. Also, an impre... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How are you keeping your kids occupied at these times? - imalolz
Dear HN parents,<p>With the current situation, our entire region is under strict lockdown.<p>Both my spouse and I are now working from home, and since there's no school and people are discouraged from going outdoors we have to find solutions... | {
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} |
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