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IRS SSL problems - heyyeverybody
https://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof-efp/start.do;jsessionid=vNun6wfS+l+xKLt39TSDaOfF
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heyyeverybody
It appears to only give you a warning when using Windows, Chrome, and on a
desktop. Says they are using SHA1 and RSA.
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The Commentaries of Julius Caesar [audio] - tosh
https://archive.org/details/Commentaries_Gaius_Julius_Caesar
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DrScump
Interesting! This is an audio series (think audiobook) authored/translated by
Henry Stuart Jones[0]. _Commentaries_ , _The Gallic Wars_ , and _The Civil
Wars_ are included, broken down by books/... | {
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus - mot2ba
https://www.businessinsider.com/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-president-coronavirus-test-positive-2020-3
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gberger
He met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. This might escalate very
rapidly.
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tantalor
Who is the "he" in your com... | {
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Searching For Online Video's Holy Grail - myoung8
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/04/technology/kirkpatritck_iamplify.fortune/index.htm?section=money_latest
Guesses on what happens when you get people from Random House and McKinsey running a company, plus a CTO from Accenture?
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myoung8
Guesses on what happens when... | {
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Fee-free payments with the Droplet API (UK only) - wgx
https://dropletpay.com/blog/fee-free-payments-with-the-droplet-api
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marvc1
So how does this work? Someone must be paying for it somehow right?
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wgx
Our business model is based on making revenue from other products which we
sell to our merchants. Our co... | {
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Comment on my 10^100 submission: Reddit on cellphones for geotagging interesting news - mad44
Community voting (a la reddit) using cellphones to promote (and subsequently view) interesting news/stories within a vicinity<p>The news to be voted on are tied to a specific location and time. You are allowed to upvote/d... | {
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We think in graphs - bholdr
Now that Facebook said it, it must be true! "designers and developers thinks in terms of graph of data"<p>I agree! We need a global and open network, graph-based service abstraction to make it easy for everyone (not just Facebook) to build great information apps.
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t2015_08_2... | {
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The Loneliness Epidemic - paulpauper
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-loneliness-epidemic-is-so-bad-world-leaders-have-been-forced-to-intervene
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dexwiz
The Screen and the Job have displaced almost everything else is our lives.
Loneliness is just a primary symptom.
The Screen, whether it’s TV, computer, o... | {
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Home Office - SamWhited
https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/06/home-office-setup-design-history-remote-work-furniture/612889/
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ghaff
I'd never given a lot of thought to it but even the fairly large house I grew
up in during the 60s/70s didn't have a dedicated office although there... | {
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} |
Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof - CrankyBear
https://www.dmnews.com/data/data-management/data-privacy/article/21047138/dont-be-stupid-3-lessons-from-googles-geographical-gdpr-goof
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ggm
We (staffers) wanted to consider google g suite for integrated mail/calendar.
We couldn't because as an Asia-Pacifi... | {
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The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It - personjerry
http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-web-is-dying-apps-are-killing-it-1416169934
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SiVal
Just yesterday, I was reading about the theory of "Peak App", which is based
on surveys of leading app publishers showing that being #N in Apple's App
Store (for very high-r... | {
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Deep Diesel: Machine and Deep Learning for Diesel Car Detection - rhiner
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2018/10/deep-learning-detection-of-diesel-cars/
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WestCoastJustin
I bet you could do this via engine sound too. Diesel's have a pretty
distinctive sound and you could probably do some type of real-time analysis... | {
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AngularJS 1.4x and ES6 application boilerplate /w testing practices using Webpack - ziyasal
https://github.com/ziyasal/ng-espack-boilerplate
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meat_fist
I'm not the hippest with the newest front-end libraries, but doesn't Webpack
replace Bower? And also Gulp?
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French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+ - Cynddl
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/french-journalist-fined-4000-plus-for-publishing-public-documents/
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steeve
The ruling is more complicated than that. If you can read french, I suggest
you read Maitre Eolas' take on i... | {
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} |
Is Lenovo Advertising Thinkpad Tablet as 4:3? - hcurtiss
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/tablets/thinkpad/
How I wish it was 4:3. Seems Lenovo does too. The pictures on the site are, to my eye, not 16:10. Why do you frustrate me so, Lenovo?
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hcurtiss
How I wish it was 4:3. Looks like Lenovo does too. To m... | {
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Google Sets 10-user Limit for Free Access to Apps - johndbritton
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-tweaks-apps-pricing-for-smbs-sets-10-user-limit-for-free-access/47818
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bence
If you are a current customer your limits wont be affected.
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What's new in Apache Solr 5.2 - jonbaer
https://lucidworks.com/blog/whats-new-apache-solr-5-2/
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MichaelCrawford
I tried to use solr once. Just once. Every time I had the slightest little
error it threw an exception stack trace in its log file. At least I knew to
enable the log file, the poor guy I inherited the ... | {
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Google's Project Zero researcher discovers “major” security issue in LastPass - aloukissas
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/lastpass-hack-security-problem-password-manager-a7658806.html
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sp332
Previous discussion
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13960097](https://news.ycombinato... | {
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Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On - donohoe
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/business/31twins.html?_r=1&src=twr
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strlen
The fact that this travesty continues (and how it is portrayed in the media)
shows what society still thinks of as a proper place for geeks like
Zuckerberg[1]: to implement some business guy's vi... | {
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Someone Just Found an Embeddable Google +1 Button - It Works - Jsarokin
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/omg-someone-just-found-an-embeddable-google-1-button-%E2%80%93-and-it-works/
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trotsky
Good job keeping up your journalistic standards in your headlines, TC.
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robinwauters
I read somewhere that the more ... | {
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Fossil versus Git - noch
https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
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i_feel_great
Probably not going to entice companies stampeding out of github, but for solo
and small groups, Fossil is an absolute godsend. The workflow and commands are
similar enough to Mercurial and git to get going quic... | {
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} |
Breakthrough Prize announced by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs - laurent123456
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/20/breakthrough-prize-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs
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skosuri
$3M each. Winners include Cori Bargmann, David Botstein, Lew Cantley, Hans
Clevers, Titia de Lange, Napoleone Ferrara, Eric Lander,... | {
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Books with syntax highlighting, or why I prefer reading code from screen than paper - nailer
I recently noted an odd phenomenon. Maybe it's just me, but I suspect it's not.<p>One case: I own the paper Book of DJango. But I keep noticing I prefer to read it from the screen of my laptop. I also read newspapers, but pr... | {
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Ask HN: Using other videos/music as footage - Copyright issue - huy
me and friends are organizing a small TEDx conference and we're making a small promotion video for the event. Then suddenly all the copyright issues brought up when we try to use some other good existing videos on youtube as excerpts.<p>Then it gets... | {
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The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications - hhs
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170501
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Sam_Odio
Interesting thesis, but...
> The prediction that participants in the sleep condition would have greater
> discriminability compared to participants in the wake condition was not
> support... | {
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WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? - mikkokotila
http://autonom.io/what-is-intelligence/
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dozzie
INTELLIGENCE IS TO KNOW NOT TO USE ALL CAPS.
[https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
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waterswaters
I was just about to say the SAME THINGGGGGGG
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Ask HN: A web site that is vulnerable to a good competitor? - andrewtbham
I have been thinking about how lots of successful web sites were late to the market, but were cheaper, or better designed. (stack overflow, plenty of fish, all the 37 signals products, etc.) Can you think of a site where a lean competitor co... | {
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The Biggest Legal Mistakes that Startups Make - icey
http://walkercorporatelaw.com/ask-the-attorney/%e2%80%9cask-the-business-attorney%e2%80%9d-what-are-the-biggest-legal-mistakes-that-startups-make/
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grellas
This is a nice summary of many of the legal issues affecting early-stage
startups.
Any entrepreneur or ... | {
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Muen Kernel: Trustworthy by Design – Correct By Construction - jervisfm
http://www.muen.sk/
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aetherspawn
Signed up just to comment on this. I've been wanting to do something similar
for a while now (although, an exokernel).
You should update your source to use the new 2014 tools. The verifications
become part... | {
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} |
$1 Trillion Trove of Rare Minerals Revealed Under Afghanistan - givan
http://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html
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Cheyana
"The mineral riches could lift Afghanistan out of poverty and fight crime and
terrorism, said Said Mirzad, co-coordinator of the U.S. Geological Survey'... | {
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How Cassandra handles failures - koobe
http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/How-does-Cassandra-handle-failure-during-synchronous-writes-td6055152.html
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koobe
TL;DR Disappointed to see Cassandra does not have Amazon Dynamo like eventual
consistency. Or even acknowledge any lack there... | {
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A total rewrite: costly, time-consuming, but worth it? - vidarl
http://www.webnodes.com/a-total-rewrite-costly-time-consuming-but-worth-it
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tzs
If you want to do a total rewrite, but think some people won't be onboard with
the idea, just call it "extreme refactoring". That sounds cool and trendy, and
then eve... | {
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} |
Beautiful thumbnail hover effect using CSS3 - akashbhadange
http://www.dzyngiri.com/index.php/beautiful-thumbnail-hover-effect-using-css3/
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mnicole
Terrible UX. Not only does it make it nigh-impossible to hover over the other
thumbnails, but transforms (scale most notably) often leave behind
artifacts/borders ... | {
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Automated Visual Testing and Pixel Comparison - WebtestingIO
http://webtesting.io/
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tluyben2
What value does Excel add here? I find JSON in Excel hard to read and further
it feels like a kind of gimmicky feature (you use Excel, so you can use
this!). Maybe I'm missing something.
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gowan
nontechnical buisnes... | {
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Palestine's unique stretchy ice cream [video] - MiriamWeiner
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180815-palestines-secret-stretchy-ice-cream
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js2
It’s stretchy due to the addition of mastic gum. I had to look that up.
_Mastic is a resin obtained from the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). In
pharmacies and nature... | {
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Switching.social: ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives - dredmorbius
https://switching.social
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wishinghand
We may need a category for Reddit one day too.
I'd love to recommend an app for messaging, and a few for Adobe.
Messaging: Wire. It's always secure by default, not a setting you have to... | {
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SLAyer - Tomte
https://github.com/Microsoft/SLAyer
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rochacbruno
If a successful metal band tries to change its name to e.g: "Active Directory
of Hell", "SQL Server No More" or something like this, for sure Microsoft
lawyers would do something against. Now I think Tom Araya from Slayer should
do it against micros... | {
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} |
Comcast Says It Wants to Charge Broadband Users More for Privacy - Rondom
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-Charge-Broadband-Users-More-For-Privacy-137567
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kevincox
This actually makes quite a bit of sense if you look at it backwards. "Comcast
provides customers a discount if they allow... | {
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} |
Uber Hasn't Had an Effect on Drunken-Driving Deaths, Study Finds - mdagostino
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/29/487906925/uber-hasnt-had-an-effect-on-drunken-driving-deaths-study-finds
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seibelj
I live in Boston. Until uber, the minimum taxi fair was $6, they always had
broken credit card machines... | {
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Turn your browser into a notepad with one line - bitsweet
https://coderwall.com/p/lhsrcq
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tikhonj
This is what the _scratch_ (EDIT: read _scratch_ as * scratch * without the
spaces--is there any way to escape that properly on HN?) buffer is for in
Emacs, and I find it extremely useful. Also, unlike using a diffe... | {
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Show HN: My first iOS game released - jason_slack
My first iOS game is released. It took me 2 weekends to develop and 9 day approval time.<p>Here are a few promo codes. If you take a promo code, can you please also leave a review?<p>Happy to answer any questions. An update is already being prepared for iPhone suppor... | {
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Einstein letters reveal a turmoil beyond science - known
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/07/11/einstein_letters_reveal_a_turmoil_beyond_science/
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denglish
It must have been hard for him and his family to have their private lives
scrutinised by the world - it's not like he chose a prof... | {
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} |
Show HN: Weekly Robotics Podcast Project Ep1 – BioRobotics with Auke Ijspeert - msadowski
https://weeklyrobotics.com/podcast-ep-1
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msadowski
Hi HN!
I've recently decided to branch off my robotics newsletter slightly and start
recording podcasts when I have some spare time.
In this episode I've interviewed Auke... | {
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Ask HN: Which JavaScript framework to choose - thatgerhard
Currently I feel it's time to upskill and the JS frameworks route seems like the way to go.
The three choices are Angular (2/4), React or Vue.js
In your opinion, which one will be the most widely used in the next say 5 years?
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dehef
If you chec... | {
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How do you deal with a pessimistic co-founder? - dakrisht
The title kind of says it all.<p>How do you deal with a pessimistic co-founder? You can't get rid of him because he's vital - and he's a friend.<p>But every conversation with an investor or advisor or etc. is taken too literally by him. Sure, the positive is ... | {
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Duplicity in the Double Vowel: From Taazr to Proxino - unignorant
http://blog.proxino.com/post/8694310609/duplicity-in-the-double-vowel-from-taazr-to-proxino
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wccrawford
It's more memorable if you say 'Tee Double-Ay Zee Arr'.
But it really sounded foreign, and that's a bad thing. When people think
something i... | {
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} |
What Happens When Apple Features Your iPhone App - PStamatiou
http://blog.return7.com/what-happens-when-apple-features-your-app
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patio11
As an aside: developers often cite ongoing costs as a reason to charge in an
ongoing fashion for services like, e.g., push notifications or web
applications.
It doesn't part... | {
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} |
Scalable C – Writing Large-Scale Distributed C - ingve
https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/scalable-c/content/preface.html
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jasode
_> The more C++ you know the worse you become at working with others. First,
because your particular dialects of C++ tend to isolate you._
So why is using something non-standard and non-un... | {
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} |
How to Allocate Memory (2016) - tosh
https://geocar.sdf1.org/alloc.html
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ShroudedNight
I don't like this article. It comes across as being written with the intent of
highlighting the elevation the author's status as a 'low-level wizard', while
conveying as little as possible to the ignorant reader. From the scat... | {
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} |
Top 50 Tech Visionaries - edw519
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,145290/printable.html#
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jpeterson
This list is just silly. Herbie Hancock??
~~~
jamesbritt
Lists like this are no fun unless there is at least one WTF item.
(Though I do think an argument could be made for Hancock.)
~~~
rms
Definit... | {
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‘Forgot your password?’ may be weakest link - ajbatac
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/almost-everyone.html
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linhir
There might be some selection bias here in Thompson's friend. Despite our
narrow view that everyone has a blog, and a ton of personal information out
there, most people's favorite middle school tea... | {
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} |
BigTable and Why it Changes Everything - edw519
http://jetfar.com/bigtable-and-why-it-changes-everything/
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tx
How old is the blogger? You've got to be 11 holding "Python in 21 days" to
claim that multi-dimensional map is an "alternative" to RDBMS.
Besides, how reliable is that infrastructure? There is only on... | {
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} |
Who cares if languages become extinct? - abie
http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/02/who-cares-if-languages-become-extinct/
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mechanical_fish
Let me translate for programming.reddit readers: There's a lot of hard-won,
specialized human knowledge encoded in CPAN, but if you don't have a Perl
hacker around ... | {
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Global secondary indexes - r4um
https://lethain.com/global-secondary-indexes/
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r4um
Spanner secondary index link is broken correct one
[https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary-
indexes](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary-indexes)
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Theres a Campaign to Rename the Software “RuboCop” Because “Cop” Is Offensive - TerracottaEggs
https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop/issues/8091
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cmdshiftf4
It seems that, as a rule, modern open source communities devolve into an utter
shitshow. Well done to the voices of reason, thumb voters and the maintainer
... | {
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} |
The myth that programming experience does not matter - IvoGeorgiev
http://blog.linvo.org/post/20220382539/the-myth-that-programming-experience-does-not-matter
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alex3t
Point me please discussion where talking "programming experience does not
matter". It's completely stupid. Who in normal mind talking about this... | {
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} |
The Curious Case of the Fortnite Cheater - kelukelugames
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17333292/fortnite-cheater-lawsuit
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anigbrowl
Interesting, but please the edit the headline to not be all caps. Thanks!
| {
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Why computer programmers need to stop calling themselves engineers already - gukov
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-computer-programmers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-engineers-already-2015-11
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DrScump
Original article posted days ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513371](https://news.ycombinator.... | {
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Apple blocking Google Voice blocking webOS App - davidcuddeback
http://flpalmdev.blogspot.com/2010/02/apple-blocking-google-voice-blocking.html
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boundlessdreamz
He is comparing Google not providing an API to AT&T redirecting google.com to
bing.com or apple blocking the voice app? Lost his argument, right there... | {
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} |
Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website - abraham
http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/things-you-should-do-immediately-after-launching-a-website/
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bill-nordwall
Be careful with these robots.txt suggestions.
Disallowing your css/js files in your robots.txt is probably not a good idea ... | {
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} |
With numbers as small as 2⁻¹²², consider what may seem impossibly unlikely - bemmu
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160114-00/?p=92851
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brudgers
_Numbers that fool the Fermat test are called Carmichael numbers, and little
is known about them other than that they are extremely rare. There are 255
Ca... | {
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} |
Robert Scoble: I didn’t sexually harass women as I lacked power over them - briandear
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/robert-scoble-i-didnt-sexually-harass-women-as-i-lacked-power-over-them/?comments=1
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ColinWright
[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Robert%20Scoble&sort=byDate&da...](https://hn.algolia.c... | {
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How to surprise your website visitors this Halloween? - darielnoel
http://darielnoel.github.io/articles/how-to-sorprise-your-websites-visitants-on-halloween/
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alialkhatib
This is unrelated, but if people using the HTTPS Everywhere extension are
seeing a broken page, it's the extension's fault; the page's CSS a... | {
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} |
Ogo, a new take on personal transportation - prawn
http://ogotechnology.com/
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DavidSJ
Looks very cool.
One thing I noticed about the video introduction is the speaker is explicitly
talking to the viewer as if he or she is not the target audience, e.g. "while
you and I may take this for granted ..." and "the dis... | {
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} |
New material mimics strength and toughness of mother of pearl - bookofjoe
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-material-mimics-strength-toughness-mother.html
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bookofjoe
>Tough and Strong: Cross-Lamella Design Imparts Multifunctionality to
Biomimetic Nacre
[https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c01511](https://pubs... | {
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Rosencrantz and Ethernet (2014) - DonHopkins
https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2014/10/rosencrantz-and-etherne.html
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gumby
[http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/quux.poem](http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/quux.poem)
I think that I shall never see A matrix lovely as a tree. Trees are fifty
times as fun As structur... | {
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} |
Tiny VPS Hosting - cdvonstinkpot
http://www.97cents.net/
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0x4a42
There are not much info about the service on the site but this doesn't looks
like VPS to me. The "P" in VPS stands for Private. This looks like a very
limited shared hosting with a Cpanel manager, not a VPS with SSH and full
control other the vir... | {
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} |
A look at the 10x paradigm - devupio
https://devup.co/10x-or-not-youve-got-to-do-things-right-8e45311ecbcb#.pdul8uywo
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wvenable
Like others here, I don't consider 10x programmers to be someone who writes
10x the amount of code. In fact, most 10x programmers actually write less code
but get more done with it.
Pe... | {
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Facebook will filter 'fake news' in Germany - yskchu
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-tests-fake-news-filtering-in-germany-2017-1
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nom
Oh man I'm so sick of this 'fake news' hype here in Germany.
It's the internet. Get used to it!
edit: I'm also very curious how Facebook plans to accomplish it. They pro... | {
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Weighing the Good and the Bad of Autonomous Killer Robots in Battle - evo_9
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/28/476055707/weighing-the-good-and-the-bad-of-autonomous-killer-robots-in-battle
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JoeAltmaier
Overheated hype. There are already over 100 million land mines deployed around
the world.... | {
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Learning Morse code in the 21st century - hggh
https://airfactsjournal.com/2019/12/learning-morse-code-in-the-21st-century/
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drmpeg
I learned Morse code back in 1992 in order to pass the General class amateur
radio license. Back then, the test was 13 words per minute. I practiced for a
few months with cassette t... | {
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} |
White House Drafts Order to Probe Google, Facebook Practices - Jerry2
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/09/22/draft-order-for-trump-would-crack-down-on-google-facebook#gs.vJ6cFkE
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orev
I’m not seeing the connection here between “antitrust” and the alleged
discrimination against conservative views. How... | {
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} |
SocialCoin: A Cryptocurrency for a Global Basic Income - llSourcell
http://llsourcell.svbtle.com/socialcoin-a-cryptocurrency-for-a-global-basic-income
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woah
Any 'SocialCoin' scheme pales in significance to the prospect of a
decentralized network that can prove individuality, which the author brushes
off with a... | {
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} |
Stockfighter's Jailbreak CTF trainer is live - alt_
https://www.stockfighter.io/#jailbreak
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j4pe
I rarely want to like a product more than I want to like Stockfighter, because
of both the people involved and the underlying concept.
But there are a million other things I want to sink time into improving.
Music, ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there something better than screencast? - saadalem
I'm wondering if there is a way better to do communication rather than screencast ?
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nolok
What specific requirements or improvement would you like ? What itch doesn't
it scratch for you ?
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saadalem
I'm just asking if there is a better soluti... | {
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} |
Win customers and improve products with HTML prototypes - seanjohnson
http://digintent.com/prototyping-in-html.html
Why HTML prototypes can improve customer development and lead to better products. Includes a demo HTML prototype with some good pointers for improving workflow.
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wushupork
I think HTML prototypes ... | {
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Bernie Sanders helping American workers would hurt the world’s poorest - baron816
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11139718/bernie-sanders-trade-global-poverty
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sharemywin
What is Trump supporting on trade? And if Cruz wins how quickly do millions of
federal workers get put out of work? I sure an american depression ... | {
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} |
UI Trends - restruct
http://uitrends.com/
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stingraycharles
Why do people always feel the need to overgeneralize things ?
From [http://uitrends.com/2009/09/03/command-line-interfaces-
dont-...](http://uitrends.com/2009/09/03/command-line-interfaces-dont-call-it-
a-comeback/) :
_command line interfaces are ba... | {
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} |
Is a one word .co domain worth a few thousand dollars? - Spinosaurus
Looking to purchase a domain/name for a new product, and have been in contact with a domain broker for a cool 1 word .co domain. I'm being quoted several thousand dollars.<p>Would it be worth it, compared to a longer two word .com domain?
=... | {
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} |
UK engineers have completed the build of the novel Quantum satellite - gyre007
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46825269
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portillo
That headline is quite misleading, as there are several re-configurable
"software-defined" satellites active in orbit, each one presenting different
degrees of flexibilit... | {
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} |
Engineering Habitats for the Moon and Mars - ggcdn
http://www.structuremag.org/?p=12389
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avar
A much more cost-effective way of dealing with radiation on Mars is to
construct shelters out of something that doesn't shield against radiation at
all, then only pick astronauts who are smokers, and send them to Mars w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Become a Silicon Valley Mogul in 10 Easy Steps - pathik
http://www.aialex.com/2007/07/23/how-to-become-a-silicon-valley-mogul-in-10-easy-steps/
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betaPass
you could have put a disclaimer:
Step -1: Get hold of Steve Job's creditcard Step 0: Stand 10 steps away from
the Bank, with a gun in your hand NOW,T... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ubuntu – Steam Client Installation and Review - pinehead
http://pinehead.tv/linux/ubuntu-steam-client-installation-and-review/
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claudius
I still don’t quite understand why they litter one’s $HOME with this –
creating a small setuid binary that checks the signature of a given .deb and
then installs said Debian ... | {
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} |
Nvidia Turing Architecture White Paper. [pdf] - ibobev
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-visualization/technologies/turing-architecture/NVIDIA-Turing-Architecture-Whitepaper.pdf
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acoye
As I understand the paper they caught up with AMD's GCN async compute as
Turing features a hardware sche... | {
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} |
VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality - gammarator
https://thebolditalic.com/vcs-have-a-well-known-black-founder-problem-but-really-they-have-just-forgotten-about-people-2e8452029793
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graeme
This post would be a lot more persuasive with the pitch deck, or some growth
numbe... | {
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} |
Programmers Are Hipster Librarians - throwaway344
http://omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/09/19/programmers-are-hipster-librarians/
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dalke
For comments, see
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341158](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8341158)
from 6 hours ago.
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Visual question answering using CNN+RNN - abhshkdz
https://github.com/abhshkdz/neural-vqa
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n0us
Amazing. I only had a chance to read the README.md but my question is this.
What happens if you ask it questions that it could not possibly answer, as in
if it were given a picture of the man playing tennis and you as... | {
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} |
Why Does Exploding Dots Work? - dwohnitmok
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/why-does-exploding-dots-work/
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romwell
FWIW, the answer to the question in the article (why you always end up with
the same set of coins if you don't use quarters) is "Diamond Lemma"[1]. The
author does mention it in a footno... | {
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} |
Machinima, one of YouTube’s biggest and oldest channels, goes dark - Tomte
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/19/18189611/machinima-youtube-fullscreen-warner-bros-multi-channel-network
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sattoshi
Finding dead links to YouTube videos is increasingly becoming a frustration of
mine. Whether it is because someone decide... | {
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} |
Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron - keven
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/16/nassim-nicholas-taleb-economics-cameron
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jkuria
Taleb needs to find something new to talk about. In his book Fooled By
Randomness, he takes a paragraph and makes it a chapter. Takes a chapter and
... | {
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} |
Show HN: Matlock Extension – Discover the Open Source Libraries Pages Are Using - onassar
https://getmatlock.github.io/
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njn
I just received this email:
Hi Nikolas,
My friend Oliver and I have included d3 in our chrome
extension https://getmatlock.github.io/, which works by
... | {
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} |
Suggest a new name for my Smartwatch startup - bonbon
http://irisgear.com/
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therobot24
So it's basically a month or so after the prototype phase, what's the
progress? I see some nice photoshop mock-ups, but where's the tech demo. I can
say from personal experience, the heart-rate monitoring from the wrist is v... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Writing Maintainable Tests for Backbone Views - kjbekkelund
http://open.bekk.no/maintainable-tests-for-backbone-views
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e12e
Very nice writeup! Anyone have tips on similar write-ups for other frameworks?
Angular?
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kjbekkelund
Thanks. I would love to see more "experience reports" with testing Angular and
Emb... | {
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} |
How Sugar and Fat Trick the Brain into Wanting More Food - daegloe
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-sugar-and-fat-trick-the-brain-into-wanting-more-food/
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norea-armozel
Most of this article reads like the summary of "You on a Diet" from Oz and
Roizen. I'm glad much of the science hasn't changed. It'... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An independent crew is taking control of a NASA satellite - nkurz
http://betabeat.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds-seize-control-of-wandering-space-satellite
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mturmon
There are so many half truths and lies in this story. I wanted to mention just
this one:
"Until now, when NASA wanted to conduct re... | {
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} |
Lug-Nut Driven Development - belisarius222
https://medium.com/@belisarius222/how-to-start-a-software-project-ad51373c1510#.rcl1ppk83
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hcarvalhoalves
> Build the whole thing badly.
It doesn't have necessarily to be _poorly_ written code though - you can start
with lots of constant functions and later replace wit... | {
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} |
AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors - t4h4
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/amds-7nm-ryzen-4000-laptop-processors-are-finally-here/
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Roritharr
So Anandtech has this to say about Thunderbolt 3 support:
"Display support for the CPUs allows for two 4K monitors through DisplayPort
over Type-C, an addition... | {
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} |
Show HN: Snitch.io – SSL auditing and alerting - yourabi
https://snitch.io/
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_asciiker_
I think you're trying to solve a non-problem since the company that sells the
certificates warns you (sometimes even more than those intervals), afterall,
they want you to renew as well. As for checking for quality, that shou... | {
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} |
Zero Knowledge Protocols without Magic - cossacklabs
https://www.cossacklabs.com/zero-knowledge-protocols-without-magic.html
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sulam
As someone who knows very little about subject, initially it appeared to me as
if they were going to present some method to authenticate users without any
shared knowledge, which se... | {
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} |
History Must Be Curved - bdfh42
http://www.popehat.com/2013/10/09/history-must-be-curved/
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DanielBMarkham
People continually underestimate the power of the narrative.
Humans want to see things in terms of _stories_ , of drama, heroes, and so
forth. Even if the underlying history doesn't fit the narrative, allow... | {
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} |
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