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How I made $2,000 in 20 seconds - nate
http://okdork.com/2013/04/30/2000_dollars_by_asking/
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bradddd
Great example of the old adage: you'll never know if you don't try.
Interesting title as it's slightly misleading at first, but ultimately
truthful.
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Why designers hate Powerpoint - 2pointsomone
http://blog.varunarora.com/2012/5-reasons-why-designers-hate-powerpoint/
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michaelpinto
I'm a designer and I don't hate PowerPoint, I hate the fact that most users
abuse PowerPoint by cluttering up the screen with endless novels and too many
graphics that don't illus... | {
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} |
Bitcoin: Investment or Bubble? - ry4n413
http://buckinghamadvisor.com/bitcoin-investment-or-bubble/
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cjbenedikt
"...we cannot make any recommendation on whether or not purchasing bitcoin is
a good investment..." But we give it to you anyway.
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My Non-Technical Co-Founder Horror Story - danaseverson
https://startupsanonymous.com/story/co-founder-horror-story/
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spitfire
When business guys start saying "you can be replaced" or that they'll "start a
competing company" the correct answer is /always/ "Fantastic! Please do,
you'll make me look good.".
This ... | {
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Are Tiny Nuclear Reactors The Power Plant Of The Future? - alanedge
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679004/are-tiny-nuclear-reactors-the-power-plant-of-the-future
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sdoering
Quite interesting read. Have to think a little bit more on this topic, as it
popped up thrice in my life now. and I am interested in the energy-... | {
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Amazon Offering Cremation Online, Who'd Have Thought? - techiediy
http://www.techieinsider.com/news/13353
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rpikencal
Interesting idea, but morbid
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Ask HN: Advice for a first-time DBA on a self-built e-commerce app? - aerovistae
I've been a developer for 7 years, primarily front-end, and have managed to avoid doing any work with databases up until now because they're just not something I personally find interesting or enjoyable.<p>But now I've buil... | {
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Hackers Are Coming for Your Tap Water - jskhfjkds
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/chinese-hackers-attack-trend-micro-honeypots
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coldtea
I call BS for most of the so called "attacks". Bored foreign teenagers maybe.
Hostile governments, not so much.
Do people seriously believe that third world count... | {
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What is the future of Python - pythonbull
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webmaven
Needs an "Ask HN:" added to the title.
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shpaker
shining
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Nichooo
Bright. I m learning the machine.
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The programming language that is fastest to implement features - deltrem
Slashdot said that programming has a political axis with conservative and liberal programmers. Liberal programmers worry about how fast you take to implement a feature. Liberal programmers need the answer to this question. (1)<p>Paul Graham sai... | {
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Want Smarter Kids? Space Them (At Least) Two Years Apart - mikeleeorg
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/17/want-smarter-kids-space-them-at-least-two-years-apart/
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abscondment
If time and attention really are the determining factors, maybe we parents
should just chuck our smartphones and tablets for the first 5... | {
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Julian Assange Reddit AMA on Thursday Morning (1/5/17 9am EST) - saycheese
https://www.reddit.com/r/iama
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deepnet
It is now revised to be on the 10th of January at 9am according to the sidebar
of [http://reddit.com/r/iama](http://reddit.com/r/iama)
and
[https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/8169761115319... | {
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Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using? - simonmales
I feel my team was way more productive when we all were whiteboarding together when designing new solutions.<p>Recently I have been day dreaming about VR whiteboards and tablet assisted whiteboards as I feel the tactile sense of a pen would help.<p>What... | {
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What Americans Buy - xxpor
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/05/149997097/what-americans-buy?sc=fb&cc=fp
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lmkg
I would like to see those bar graphs, without them being normalized to % of
income. For example, a huge difference is the fraction of income spent on
food: how much of that is food costs going down... | {
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Jim Mellon and high-profile partners roll the dice on an anti-aging upstart - discombobulate
https://endpts.com/british-billionaire-jim-mellon-and-high-profile-partners-roll-the-dice-on-an-anti-aging-upstart/
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easytiger
An interesting area investment wise. Really don't know what to make of it as I
do see a great... | {
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} |
Hands on preview of Nvidia's new handheld system that can stream Steam games - hybrid11
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3846624/nvidia-project-shield-hands-on-video-preview
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waitwhat
A "hands on preview" of a games console where "I didn't get a chance to
personally try out gaming with the console"?
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Ask HN: What kind of scoring algorithms exist? - esflow
Hi HN, in my project I need to sort apartments and there is a lot of data about each of them. I give each parameter score, f.e. to the size of the apartment I give some certain score, to location as well, but it doesn't really work well because I don't ... | {
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How to keep your customers from abandoning your software - jsullivandigs
http://dipperstove.com/design/Apps-have-abandonment-issues.html
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amerine
I love thoroughly referenced blog posts like this. It's nice to discover some
of the inspiration behind the ideas.
Though I do have a question. He mentions the foll... | {
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Facebook: Why Applications Suck - ajkates
http://www.alexkates.com/2007/10/facebook-why-applications-suck.html
My take. Let's hear what you guys think.
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utnick
The article seems kind of bitter.
Obviously some people find value and fun in facebook applications plus they
generate pageviews and ad dollars so eve... | {
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} |
Rust in Production with Docker - kgraves
https://jstoelm.com/episodes/40-rust-in-production-with-docker
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vkjv
I highly recommend using multi-stage builds to move the rust binary to a clean
container. The rust build tool chain is fairly heavy and is unnecessary at
runtime.
It can be as simple as adding something... | {
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} |
WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users - randomname2
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-end-encryption-its-1bn-users
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ianpurton
It's great that WhatsApp can't see my cat pictures anymore. But there are 2
privacy and free speech issues that are not met.
Firstly ME... | {
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Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners - lainon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03719
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hannob
The way this starts seems to tell a story that I feel is quite disconnected
from reality:
> As quantum computers have become available to the general public, the need
> has arisen to train a cohort of quantum progr... | {
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Ask HN: Legal implications of launching a file sharing service? - mantazer
I'm looking towards launching a file sharing service, and I was wondering what I'd be getting myself into, legally.<p>Am I responsible for users using my service to share illegal and malicious files?<p>What else should I be worried ... | {
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Who Cares? Crowdsourcing Your News Intake - johnkary
http://johnkary.net/who-cares-crowdsourcing-your-news-intake/
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smoody
don't you see any irony in writing that post and then posting it to a news
aggregation site? it's very much a "do as i say, not as i do" post.
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More young men dropping out of job market to spend time in an alternate reality - zerogvt
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world
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Sileni
Is anyone really surprised?
"We're not going to pay you enough to ever actually own anything, so you'll
have to rent most things for the rest of your li... | {
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Studies.Show – 140 character summaries of interesting research papers - brahmwg
http://studies.show/
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tedmiston
Great work. What's it built with?
P.S. Reminds me of (a slightly more serious version of) the wonderful Tumblr
blog "lol my thesis" ([http://lolmythesis.com/](http://lolmythesis.com/)).
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Unfair comparisons - bhauer
http://tiamat.tsotech.com/unfair-comparisons
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sker
Benchmark Nazis will always complain about _any_ benchmark, no matter what.
Don't let them dissuade you from continuing work on this amazing project.
Personally, this project has prompted me to change my career path from C# to
some... | {
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} |
Show HN: Teamodoro, pomodoro timer for teams - a12b
http://teamodoro.com/
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a12b
We built Teamodoro because we figured out that the Pomodoro techniques works
well for individuals but not so much for a team. A team willing to use this
technique must synchronize in order to prevent interruptions. Interruptions
ki... | {
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} |
Good navigation starts with good content organization - one2many
http://www.emediavitals.com/content/media-navigation-bar-design-content-classification
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one2many
Just received an email from someone at my company with the link to a section
on nav bar design page:
[http://www.emediavitals.com/content/navigatio... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Blackberry captures 10.6% of US cell phone market - martythemaniak
http://www.rcrnews.com/article/20080811/WIRELESS/799815845/-1/rss01
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martythemaniak
I thought this was notable for several reasons.
-This figure is for the entire cell phone market, not just the smartphone market.
-There has been a lot of hyp... | {
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} |
Writing Skills - __Joker
http://xkcd.com/1414/
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throwaway000002
The problem is that much like with Joyce, we'll end up with _Finnegans Wake_.
| {
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Good-Bye Paper - Say Hello to Paperless Employment References - getreference
http://www.getreference.co
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getreference
Get Reference solves the problem around seeking employment references for
employers, by letting them obtain and manage paperless references. It also
allows applicants to pro-actively seek and s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Introducing Projector - gotwalt
https://www.projector.com
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bb01100100
Great, a page full of words with no content.
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minimaxir
Modern Silicon Valley is where the company's founders are the first thing a
prospective customer sees on the product page.
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soyiuz
projector of empty possibilities
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Tried creating a node http client that's closer to english grammar - rvnlj
https://github.com/ravenjohn/cuddle
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brudgers
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".
Guidelines:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity (free ebook) - TriinT
http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/sethna/StatMech/
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aswanson
Humanity has generated too much information for me to absorb. I'll never be
able to learn it all. There, I finally admitted it.
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TriinT
Same here :-( I would ne... | {
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} |
Hachikō - shibafreenu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachikō
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supernova87a
Isn't it interesting how, when a dog shows such extreme and unquestioning
loyalty, we find it so adorable and endearing. When a person shows such
loyalty, it can almost be off-putting!
Is it that people have so many hidden motivations you... | {
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} |
“Women invented computer science. WWhy are they behind?” - aaditya001
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/519426/how-did-tech-become-so-male-dominated/?single_page=true
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Oxitendwe
>Women invented computer science.
Please stop pinkwashing history. Women did not invent computer science. Also,
the gender gap o... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Review my site, nice-entity.com - shawn_allison
http://www.nice-entity.com<p>Longtime reader, first time submitter.<p>I've just launched Nice Entity. Basically, it's a resource for web designers and developers to quickly and easily look up character references.<p>Yes, there are already a lot of sites out the... | {
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It's time to pray for global warming - gibsonf1
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/flint/index.ssf/2009/01/its_time_to_pray_for_global_wa.html
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gregatragenet
I counter with data. World ocean temps were higher in 2005 & 2006 than in
1998. Every year after 2000 has been higher than all of the 90's except 1998.
<http://... | {
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} |
Mina: Really fast deployer and server automation tool - esolyt
http://nadarei.co/mina/
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cookrn
I haven't used Mina before, but by looking at its Github issues and pull
requests, it seems like the project is not well maintained or supported. I
would probably stick with using something else like Capistrano or An... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones - JayXon
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/11/astrophotography-with-night-sight-on.html
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emptybits
This is amazing. Now just FYI, for those curious, some recent "old guard"
innovations by pro camera makers for astrophotography include:
1\. Leveraging the multi-axis... | {
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} |
ES6 in Depth – Symbols - jansc
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/es6-in-depth-symbols/
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nni
It is my understanding that symbols were going to be a way to have private
methods. This aspect of them - the reason they were going to be introduced in
the first place - was dropped, and so you are left with its curren... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel - JumpCrisscross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/rolls-royce-pitches-nuclear-reactors-as-key-to-clean-jet-fuel
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nradov
In the long run this will also be the future of merchant shipping. We can't
generally install nuclear reactors in c... | {
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} |
Has Swedish feminism gone too far? - drucken
http://www.euronews.com/2013/03/08/has-swedish-feminism-gone-too-far/
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SZenith
Honestly, I think it's the natural course of things for feminism to go too
far. It's society finding its bounds. When too far is reached, people will
revolt, and we'll go the other way ag... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: what SaaS do you currently pay for? - subpixel
My list.<p>/mo.<p>Basecamp
Backpack
Campfire
GetExceptional
GitHub
Tender
Lighthouse
DropBox<p>/yr.<p>MobileMe
Flickr
Vimeo
Pandora One
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danudey
MobileMe and Flickr for me. For my previous company, we used Hoptoad, GitHub,
and Lighthouse for a while.
I'd pa... | {
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} |
The Country That Stopped Reading - sazpaz
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/the-country-that-stopped-reading.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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pavel_lishin
I wish the article had linked to the Unesco study. I wonder who Mexico beat
out.
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Improving Stack Overflow jobs search with machine learning and R - slashdotdash
https://medium.com/@aurelien.gasser/a-dive-into-stack-overflow-jobs-search-62bc6e628f83
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rattray
I found it got off to a bit of a slow start, but was a fun, rewarding, and
very real-world read.
In particular, I appreciated admission... | {
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ObamaCare is No Starship Enterprise - skmurphy
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-25/obamacare-is-no-starship-enterprise.html
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crazy1van
Very insightful points about non-technical and technical personnel's
interactions in business. In my experience the "illusion of omnicompetence" is
pretty pervasive within... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Top open source apps for Mac OS X - abennett
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/81060/top-10-open-source-apps-mac-os-x
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makecheck
One-pager. <http://www.itworld.com/print/81060>
~~~
colbyolson
I was just about to do the same. I hate when they break up an article,
especially just a list, into multiple pages.
UG... | {
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} |
How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking - edmorley
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-research-how-effective-is-basic.html
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bradknowles
The actual title on the page is “New research: How effective is basic account
hygiene at preventing hijacking”.
Dropping words like “account” ma... | {
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} |
Treble: A modular base for Android - chickenbane
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes-treble-modular-base-for.html
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sorenjan
Finally, can't believe it took them this long. The sorry state of the update
situation is one of the worst things about Android. Next step would probably
be to prov... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Question answering on the Facebook bAbi dataset using RNN - vkhuc
http://smerity.com/articles/2015/keras_qa.html
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Smerity
Minor note for anyone wanting to re-run all the experiments, there's a one
line change that needs to be done such that it will run on QA19[1]. I'll be
pushing the updated code to Keras main... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How an accident revolutionized guitar sound - shawndumas
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2013/08/04/peter-cooper-on-music-how-a-happy-accident-revolutionized-guitar-sound/
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drcube
> The distorted sound of rock ’n’ roll guitar aggression was born in
> Nashville, in 1960.
That's not the way I heard it. Snoddy ... | {
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} |
Handling Overflow condition in calculating p-Norm - rehanguha
How can we handle overflow condition when we tr yo calculate p-norm.<p>https://rehanguha.github.io//articles/2019-03/overflow-p-norm
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gus_massa
Clicky: [https://rehanguha.github.io//articles/2019-03/overflow-p-
nor...](ht... | {
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Ask HN: Am I the only one lost interest applying YC? - brokenhope
Applying YC is time consuming and soul crashing at the end. More like a lottery now, what do you think?
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snake117
In my eyes, the application is free and has a lot of benefit in just doing it.
It makes you think about your idea in depth and asks q... | {
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} |
Fli4l (flexible internet router for linux) - Tomte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fli4l
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brudgers
Homepage: [http://www.fli4l.de/en/](http://www.fli4l.de/en/)
| {
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Germany to ban anonymous SIM cards[German] - Bouncingsoul1
https://www.pressetext.com/de#news/20160415021
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arviewer
And again, a new measure that will affect everybody except criminals, who pay
a drug addict to register hundreds of these cards.
~~~
fab13n
But then, the simple fact that you're using a SIM card b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook to Open Startup Garage at Station F in Paris - programLyrique
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/facebook-to-open-startup-garage-at-station-f-in-paris/
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muse900
I don't know why, it might just be me, am thinking of startups as a bad thing.
If I ever decide to build my own app or solution or something I w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook algorithm found to actively promote holocaust denial - elsewhen
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algorithm-found-to-actively-promote-holocaust-denial
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lipstone
Surely the tech-minded folks of HN understand that this doesn't actually occur
under any reasonable definition of "active.... | {
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} |
Show HN: Nerdy Content All-In-One Place (Just for Fun) - frankel0
http://nerdmash.com
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frankel0
This is just a weekend project for fun. It is mainly for my own use but I
thought I would post it here to see if anyone had good sources of content that
I could add into my daily reads. Thanks!
| {
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Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart - jwcooper
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/07/08/spark-io-raises-4-9-million-to-help-engineers-make-their-devices-smart/
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100k
Congrats to the Spark team. Sad to see the Twin Cities lose another IoT
startup, but I hope this positions t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Steganography done with JavaScript - eigenschinkpete
http://www.peter-eigenschink.at/projects/steganographyjs/
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0x09
Unfortunately alpha-channel steganography is one of the simplest and most
trivially detected of image steganography algorithms, making it not very
useful. For an example of what goes into a seri... | {
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} |
New Project: JDK Ports to Modern Mobile Platforms - javinpaul
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2015-September/000200.html
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based2
[https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/3mfgix/new_project_jd...](https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/3mfgix/new_project_jdk_ports_to_modern_mobile_platforms/)
| {
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Cloudera and Hortonworks merger means Hadoop’s influence is declining - wenc
https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/06/cloudera-and-hortonworks-merger-means-hadoops-influence-is-declining/
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philippeback
The move makes sense. Cloudera has cash on board and Hortonworks has excellent
technical chops and associated vision.... | {
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} |
WebFPGA: Rapid FPGA Development System - peter_d_sherman
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanmjacobs/webfpga-rapid-fpga-development-system
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jacobush
"Our cloud-based toolchain performs synthesis on our backend"
Last time I looked into doing something like that, the software licenses
prohibited exporting th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Point-Free style: What is it good for? - bkudria
http://buffered.io/2009/06/27/point-free-style-what-is-it-good-for/
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mbrubeck
I just like point-free style because it leaves me with fewer things to name,
and fewer choices to make. Placeholder names like "xs" are just noise. The "x"
has no meaning here:
... | {
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} |
Ask HN: If ideas are so cheap, why can't we think of better ones? - entangld
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mechanical_fish
You don't understand. Ideas are cheap the way DNA is cheap. It is extremely
inexpensive to generate one million different strands of DNA. What is
expensive is to test them all and figure out which one, if any, might ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017) - whoishiring
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process wo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Best Buy Uses WebGL to Create Interactive Appliances - relaunched
http://esd.bbystatic.com/3d/1540319/
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relaunched
This is a project my team has been working on a very long time and I'm really
excited to see it in the wild.
All the 3d urls:
* 4-Door Refrigerator - http://esd.bbystati... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tcl: a brief overview of language design gone wrong - yan
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/495
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bch
Where to start...
I guess we can start w/ the age of the last version that was used (clue: had
no namespaces). That places it squarely pre-8.0 (8.05 was released early
1999). Rehashing a twelve year old language... | {
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} |
Networking on AWS (2018) - petercooper
https://grahamlyons.com/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-networking-on-aws
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becauseiam
There's quite a few things you've missed that are significant and should have
been included, maybe one for part two:
* Network ACLs, which describe the ruleset (consider it like... | {
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Unseen 9/11 photos bought at house clearance sale - hhs
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48689783
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merricksb
Different article about same subject discussed a few days ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20199667](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20199667)
(60 points/59 comments)
~~~
hhs
Good to k... | {
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Ask HN: Good introductory article on source control - jasonkester
I've recently joined a new project owned by a developer who has never used source control. I've suggested moving the project onto Subversion, but am starting to get the first signs of pushback.<p>I think we're still at the "what's in it for me" stage... | {
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How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? - thamer
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/820
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anonymousiam
Who says it's reliable? Software is shit.
~~~
eesmith
The metric is the number of deaths attributed to dependence on computers
compared to the (presumed) number of deaths that could have happened in
"safe... | {
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Why I Left Rackspace and What About OpenStack - garethr
http://dendrobates.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/rackspace-openstac/
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anotherjesse
Why I joined Rackspace: to make OpenStack awesome!
The folks I met at Rackspace share our (Anso Labs) vision of making OpenStack
the best cloud platform for themselves and othe... | {
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} |
My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter - grzm
https://severalnines.com/blog/my-favorite-postgresql-queries-and-why-they-matter
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da_chicken
> 6\. UPDATE multiple rows with a CASE expression
Oh, man, as a seasoned DBA/Data Analyst, don't do this unless you have a
really good reason to. This is prematu... | {
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Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's too bad for AWS - forrestbrazeal
https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/07/24/cloud-irregular-amazon-wont-spin-off-aws-and-thats-too-bad-for-aws/
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fred_is_fred
In a previous job I did consulting helping companies migrate apps to "the
cloud". Almost all of these companies, which spanned... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Outreach for Covid-19 longitudinal study proposal? - william-at-rain
I'm failing at finding development help for a COVID-19 study initiative. I could use your ideas and critiques.<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/williamflynt/a1595665b8bf4e30a2a493f5aea358e6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x... | {
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Single-atom transistor discovered - tengkahwee
http://www.tkk.fi/en/current_affairs/news/view/yhden_atomin_transistori_loydetty/
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tmvphil
This is remarkable, but these kind of things are only possible at extremely
low temperatures and in high magnetic fields, for example this was done at
100mK and in a 4T field,... | {
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Welcome to America (detained journalist in LAX) - Nitramp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/05/usa.weekend7
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cstross
Point of note: the USA is about the _only_ developed nation that currently
requires journalists to apply for a visa before visiting. (Which makes
Lappin's mistake a bit more understandabl... | {
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} |
The Scope of Unsafe - panic
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2016/01/09/the-scope-of-unsafe.html
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losvedir
Oh, that's interesting. I follow rust development with interest but have only
built a few toy projects in myself and was definitely under the impression
that these sorts of issues resided solely in `unsafe { ... }... | {
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Uber Hiked Taxi Fares During Terrorist Attack in London - znpy
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706041054303636-london-attack-uber/
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RubberSoul
Can someone who thinks Uber's pricing is unethical or bad please explain their
reasoning?
Why would the scenario without surge pricing be preferable to you?
The resul... | {
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} |
Snap framework 0.3 release (web framework in Haskell) - steveklabnik
http://snapframework.com/blog/2010/12/20/snap-0.3-released
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ChadHydro
This is certainly a framework to watch. Not much to work with yet but the guys
are building a solid back-bone before they put in the higher level work.
------
xarch
I hope... | {
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Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results - aj700
http://blekko.com/ws/+/topspam
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aaronbrethorst
Wow, I'm seeing tons of false positives. Why on earth is the co-written blog
of a nobel laureate and a 7th circuit appeals court judge making blekko's
bayesian classifier freak out?
#88 - <http://... | {
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Ask HN: How do you negotiate a job offer from big tech? - maybeiambatman
Any resources, heuristic or advice is helpful. Thanks!
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KuriousCat
It depends a lot on the leverage you would have. Having offers from multiple
companies at the same time usually helps...
| {
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We've Spent Billions to Fix Our Medical Records, and They're Still a Mess - prostoalex
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/epic-systems-judith-faulkner-hitech-ehr-interoperability
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MDNukem
I'm surprised I don't see any comments about the FHIR api here. It's a project
seeking to standardize a RESTful api ... | {
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} |
Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database - smartician
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/germany-facebook-must-destroy-facial-recognition-database/
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daveman
It's fascinating to watch how tech companies react to restrictive EU privacy
laws. Many of the EU requirements (e.g. 'right to... | {
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} |
Computers Are The Future, But Does Everyone Need To Code? - Taurenking
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/25/266162832/computers-are-the-future-but-does-everyone-need-to-code?live=1
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frostmatthew
I agree with Jeff Atwood's car analogy (everyone who drives shouldn't be a
mechanic) but I think it's beneficial to learn t... | {
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} |
How Facebook Copes with Scale: Three Approaches - Katydid
http://www.theplatform.net/2015/09/18/three-secrets-of-how-facebook-copes-with-scale/
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merb
I always wondered how much power could be saved if those platforms would be
implemented nearer to the metal. I mean I don't want to flame PHP, etc.. but I
think ru... | {
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} |
Kim Dotcom Sings: Are You Going to Fix This Mr. President? - sathishmanohar
http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-sings-are-you-going-to-fix-this-mr-president-120720/
======
debacle
At least he's enjoying his time in the spotlight.
------
jack-r-abbit
Well... that song was better than Rebecca Black's "Friday" song. No... | {
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} |
Erlang alterline - yrashk
http://wiki.github.com/yrashk/erlang
======
noss
This project is possibly a better choice to base private patches on:
<http://github.com/mfoemmel/erlang-otp/tree/master>
~~~
yrashk
may be yes, may be no — I didn't know about this repo existence when I created
my repo, anyway. thanks for po... | {
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} |
Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native - jhgg
https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-sticking-with-react-native-ccc34be0d427
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saagarjha
> In the React Native repo, we sometimes see hot issues with limited activity
> in response from Facebook. Lack of visibility into such a large company can
> bring about ... | {
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Language Matters - Thoughts on the Rspec debate - danielmorrison
http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/04/15/language-matters/
======
AndrewO
First off, I think this is pretty well-reasoned. This part struck me as
interesting:
"I believe tests should be written in the language most natural for the
problem...... | {
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Australian Bank Anonymizes and Releases Billions of Records - estromlund
http://peoplelikeu.com.au/
======
derrida
I punched in my details and there are approximately 100 people like me. What
has occurred to me is that people like me (20's, single) that live in rich
mobile areas of Sydney spend less than the national ... | {
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} |
New Names, Same Story: Another $100 Million SAP Failure - edw519
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6235776.html
======
mixmax
Somehow there seems to be an inverse correlation between the size of the
contract and the ability of the contractor in these large projects.
Very interesting.
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edw519
"undeveloped, u... | {
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Big Social Media Is a House of Cards Built on Fake Bot Accounts - rvcamo
https://medium.com/@getongab/big-social-media-is-a-house-of-cards-built-on-fake-bot-accounts-d362b68b33ef
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Finnucane
TL; DR: Here at Gab, we don't need no stinking bots to fill up our streams
with nazi crap.
~~~
rvcamo
TL;DR: You're a gull... | {
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Announcing Rust 1.24.1 - steveklabnik
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/01/Rust-1.24.1.html
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mkj
In case anyone else was wondering how longjmp() over the Rust code isn't a
problem regardless:
"There are only Copy types on the rust stack frame being jumped over."
[https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48251... | {
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} |
Google+’s Circle Logic - Serene
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/googles-circle-logic-07212011.html
======
code_duck
Much discussion of Google+ has focused on the differences of the way friends
and sharing works compared to facebook, and whether the difference is
attractive enough to bring prospective users over... | {
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} |
As e-book war rages, Microsoft invests in Barnes & Nobles - jamesbritt
http://dawn.com/2012/04/30/as-e-book-war-rages-microsoft-invests-in-barnes-nobles/
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jwoah12
I immediately skipped the article after seeing "Barnes and Nobles" in the
headline.
| {
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} |
Occupy protesters “branded” with UV ink - nextparadigms
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/30/occupy_protesters_branded_with_uv_ink/
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hactually
This is pretty bad. It's hard to tell as the protestor was unable to witness
the actual act but it sounds as if was applied with a tool designed to allow
the ink to permeate... | {
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} |
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