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Valve Talk at Harvard CS50 Course – Portal Problems - doppp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivyseNMVt-4
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nangtrongvuon
I find it really fascinating that one of the prevailing themes throughout this
talk was "in game development, good enough goes a long way." I wonder if it
applies to other fields of development ... | {
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Show HN: Sendfiles2.me - Getting files from others should be easier - makyol
http://sendfiles2.me
Hi everybody,<p>I'm delighted to share my latest little idea to make getting files from others easier.<p>It will be like having a public folder and letting people to upload you something.<p>Please check it out and let me... | {
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Economics is not a natural science - yarapavan
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/rushkoff09/rushkoff09_index.html
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Tichy
"In fact, thanks to their blind acceptance of a particular theory of the
market, most of these concepts end up failing to accurately predict the
future. "
Failing to predict the future does not... | {
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A bug I wish I hadn't caught - fagnerbrack
https://roganmurley.com/2019/06/08/the-bug.html
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striking
See also: A bug so cool that the development team was reluctant to fix it
([https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190603-00/?p=10...](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190603-00/?p=102534))
~~~... | {
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Ask HN: Is it okay to have a short gap of unemployment on your resume? - jressey
Here's my specific scenario: I'm moving to a new city with my spouse who just got a university position. I'm a Rails and Java developer with about 5 years experience. I have a job now at a large corporation and 1. they wo... | {
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Game Theory and Kickstarter? - heat_miser
http://www.therussiansusedapencil.com/post/4293798937/pay-what-you-wish
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masterzora
The headline here is very unfortunately chosen. The actual article is a very
interesting look at a project of which I hadn't previously been aware, but the
game theory discussed within ... | {
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Lenovo stole a fan's video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR - luu
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/17/lenovo-motorola-razr-promo-video-stolen-waqar-khan/
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bredren
What’s odd about this is how easily it could have been a fan engagement story.
Sloppy beyond belief or an intentional faux scandal.
~~~
colordro... | {
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Fireball – Chinese malware that has infected over 250M computers worldwide - suresh70
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/06/01/fireball-chinese-malware-250-million-infection/
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campuscodi
If the 250 million stat looks impressive, it's not. There is no malware named
Fireball, so don't go checking for IOCs and reports... | {
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} |
Show HN: Built a job board for people who lost jobs due to COVID19 crisis - akshaynathr
https://www.openjobs.live
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akshaynathr
Hi All, Couple of my friends lost their internships because of covid19 crisis.
I saw many others in my friend circle losing their jobs. I built this free job
board site so that people wi... | {
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} |
Show HN: Refer Me Please – Market network for job referrals - kjbosc
https://refer-me-please.com
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kjbosc
Hi Guys! My team and I just completely redesigned our website and changed the
UI/UX. We would love some feedback on it, and see how we could make it better.
The idea behind Refer Me Please is to give the oppo... | {
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Reserve Bank of India Cautions Users of Virtual Currencies Against Risks [pdf] - wsxcde
http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/PressRelease/PDFs/IEPR1261VC1213.pdf
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ShirsenduK
Its a feature, don't try to file it as a bug.
"Payments by VCs, such as Bitcoins, take place on a peer-to-peer basis without
an authorised cent... | {
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Truth Table Generator WebApp Written in Common Lisp - lerax
https://logic.lerax.me
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laszlokorte
I like the way you have equivalences and inferences defined as functions expr
-> expr. But it seems those are not exposed via the user interface, or am I
missing something?
Related: A few years ago I wrote a proposit... | {
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Ask HN: What kinds of help are open source projects looking for? - windsurfer
What kind of person are you looking for? What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project? Is there anything simple you would like people to help with?<p>(inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... | {
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The Antagonism of Human and Nature in Factorio - erlend_sh
https://molily.de/antagonism-human-nature/
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sbergot
I think the developers are really smart about those design choices. Pollution
and alien relations are not something you can control in the game. They are
just an effect of playing the game. You are focu... | {
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} |
Aaron Swartz's father thinks he'd be alive today if he were never arrested - jseliger
http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/27/technology/aaron-swartz-father/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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jseliger
No one is innocent:
[http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/no-...](http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolutio... | {
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Simple Way to Lower Your Energy Bill Using "Granola" - cbarnsdale
http://www.unfinishedman.com/lower-your-computers-energy-bill-with-granola-personal/
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SEMW
TLDR: someone's trying to sell their version of cpufreq_ondemand to people who
don't realise it's built in to the OS.
If anyone's wondering how they got ... | {
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The Rarest Pig - another
https://ultraphyte.com/2016/04/10/the-rarest-pig/
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nefitty
The breeding strategies of this species might be having an effect on its
gender ratio, as well as its conservation status. Males in other species of
the pig family have been observed to be solitary at maturity. This solitary
life... | {
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} |
Linux clusters in cars using Power CPUs - CyberFonic
http://linuxgizmos.com/automotive-grade-linux-update-clusters-up-and-ibms-openpower-opens-up/
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CyberFonic
It will be interesting to see whether the open sourcing of the Power ISA will
impact upon the RISC-V efforts. Having the choice of too many open-source IS... | {
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Ask YC: Are merit-based ads a good idea? Appearance probability proportional to karma/score/etc. - amichail
I've added this feature to Numbrosia:<p>http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=puzzle_p
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dkokelley
This is a very interesting idea. In fact, a concept like this may very well go
beyond the game itself.
Please keep... | {
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Show HN: Føcal Releases OpenCV Benchmark Tool - jrf0cal
https://app.f0cal.com/benchmarks
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rhardih
Wow, I literally wrote down an idea for a tool like this, just a couple of
days ago.
I'm running OpenCV on Android for an app project, and gauging pipeline costs
at different steps is a pain. Right now I'm resortin... | {
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Type A and Type B personality theory - vinchuco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_theory
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malanj
Interestingly the entry doesn't mention that the original finding was linked
to an observation about the worn out chairs in the doctor's reception.
The cardio patients (type A's) wore out th... | {
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} |
Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks - ootachi
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/21/nintendo-games
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gergles
Hobbyist developers to Nintendo: "We don't care, we're going to develop for
your platforms whether you want us to or not."
"Also, in doing so, you're going to force us to completely rever... | {
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Academic Kakistocracy - yarapavan
http://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/academic-kakistocracy/
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yardie
This doesn't just apply to academia. You can always see it in the workforce.
And, more visibly, in the primary, secondary schools. Good hackers rarely make
good managers, and good managers get promoted... | {
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Why Everyone Is Fighting About CSS/UX and JavaScript - spking
https://dev.to/ulitroyo/why-everyone-is-fighting-about-cssux-and-js-4cpp
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httpsterio
Great article, I don't know how I've managed to miss Chris' essay on the
issue, but overall a good read. Mirrors a lot of my sentiments as someone who
has been doing ... | {
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} |
Want to know what mice in labs are saying? Try DeepSqueak - petethomas
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/deepsqueak-reveals-what-mice-are-saying-
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masonic
"Alexa, reorder cheese and peanut butter."
| {
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Show HN: Metachat – encrypted, feature-rich group chat - kenforthewin
https://metachat.app/
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Zekio
I don't see any benefits over services such as discord where you can do the
same more or less using a prefix and a word like that, and then just search
for the prefix and word
Edit: Aside from the end to end encry... | {
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New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists - dylan604
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/new-faa-drone-rule-is-a-giant-middle-finger-to-aviation-hobbyists/
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golem14
I still don’t understand how this is supposed to work in areas without
internet coverage.
If the drone loses connec... | {
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Promo video for setNight.com - Plan your night - setnight
We are a group of 8 (and growing) hungry, foolish, dedicated and hard-working individuals that are curious for market trends, intrigued by simplicity, eager to make a difference, creative and ambitious. We take criticism positively, so we'd love to hear some ... | {
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Ask HN: What service do you wish existed - raooll
What service do you wish existed for which you'll be ready to pay atleast $5 per month.
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marpstar
Someone to come and sift through all the crap I have laying around my house
and ask me what can be thrown out / donated while I'm doing other work and
handle ... | {
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007) - S4M
http://marktarver.com/bipolar.html
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bshimmin
This has been submitted many, many times, most recently about three weeks ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801608](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801608)
I think this submission of it has the most comments, t... | {
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} |
Show HN: Running Commentary – A Chrome extension to listen the text commentary - udayrddy
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/running-commentary/hlkolgejaenicoeckonajgnajfmafodp
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udayrddy
Hello All,
Developer here,
I'm a cricket sport fan, used watch most of the competitive matches live,
unless I'm in of... | {
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California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 - dsr12
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-29/california-moves-toward-requiring-100-clean-power-by-2045
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jwr
I think another great move would be to start dealing with excessive energy
consumption. Compared to what I'm used to in Europe, Cali... | {
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} |
Official KISSmetrics Response to Data Collection Practices - joshuacc
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/official-kissmetrics-response-to-data-collection-practices/
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bbatsell
Their explanation of the universal cookie ID issue is rather silly. If you're
a client of Kissmetrics, your visitors have a cookie scoped to your... | {
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} |
Finding the most depressing Radiohead song with R - kevlar1818
http://rcharlie.com/2017-02-16-fitteR-happieR/
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3chelon
So presumably the purpose of this experiment was to quantify just how bad
algorithms can be at inferring meaning?
Trying to measure the sadness of lyrics with an algo is tantamount to the
early... | {
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} |
Google Ends Support for Glass Explorer Edition - enonevets
https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/06/google-ends-support-for-glass-explorer-edition/
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rvz
The Google Glass is (almost) dead. RIP in advance. Long Live the Apple/FB/Snap
Inc/North AR Glasses!
| {
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Show HN: Poto – leave Facebook, keep in touch with your friends and family - agd
https://poto.app/
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agd
Hi everyone,
Poto lets you easily share contact details with friends and family.
It's difficult to leave Facebook as it's often the only way to reliably
contact people. I created Poto to change that, to act ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What tools/apps do you use in your team to manage feedback? - sidcool
The cycle of continuous Feedback is oft broken in the chaos of a high speed tech organisation. What are your goto effective tools for actionable and trackable feedback within team members?<p>What tools provide one to one and team level feed... | {
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"Living in a Trailer” by James Jones – July 1952 - Mz
http://holidaymag.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/living-in-a-trailer-by-james-jones-july-1952/
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Mz
It seems nomads have been around forever. Being a digital nomad just has
benefits in terms of portability.
Excerpt:
_One of the things about writing that lends i... | {
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Tetris coming to Julia language for long-awaited v1.0 release next week - djsegal
https://julialang.org/blog/2018/04/tetris-and-you
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djsegal
You can play online at:
\+ [http://juliatetris.com](http://juliatetris.com)
| {
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Why I wrote my own UIKit and the end of the platform wars - newhouseb
https://medium.com/p/f466467d9a25
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macrael
Impressive how much faster open gl is.
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newhouseb
Yeah, when I dug into instruments, the biggest impediment is that if you have
a bunch of OpenGL surfaces you establish needless sync points each... | {
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Error messages in Haiku? - boredgamer2
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html
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prakashk
Normal error message in Perl:
$ perl -Mstrict -e 'say $x'
Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $x"?) at -e line 1.
Execution of -e abor... | {
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Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela's lawless roads - smacktoward
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy-trucks-widerimage/mad-max-violence-stalks-venezuelas-lawless-roads-idUSKBN1FT1G9
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indescions_2018
Regime change is currently on the table. In the event of further economic
collapse.
What Would a ... | {
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} |
Western surge in obesity may have been caused by a virus - vl
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/western-surge-in-obesity-may-have-been-caused-by-a-virus-2084737.html
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VBprogrammer
I'm disinclined to believe this study purely on the basis that I've yet to
meet an heavily ov... | {
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An easy to follow design course for programmers - thecosas
http://hackdesign.org/
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fasouto
I tried to watch the first video but I cannot use netflix in my country. No
problem, let's watch the youtube playlist"The uploader has not made this video
available in your country." Ok, I will rent it on youtube: "This mo... | {
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} |
305 Russian GRU operatives unmasked because they registered their cars to GRU HQ - rreichman
https://www.snip.today/main/post/personal-info-of-305-russian-intelligence-operatives-leaked-because-they-registered-their-cars-to-gru-hq/
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aurizon
This makes me wonder if they are stalking horses, and the real agents ar... | {
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} |
Job loss due to AI – How bad is it going to be? - andreyk
https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/ai-automation-job-loss
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pbtpu40
Honestly i don't think it's going to be that bad. I work in a group where we
do end to end IoT to AI. AI and statistical significance is a BFD. I'm not
seeing anything indicating that ... | {
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Show HN: Tech Education. Done Right. For Free - dhandalanawaz
https://hackerbayuniversity.com/
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jbucaran
I am almost sure "in fact" is always two words.
| {
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SJWJS - li4ick
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/12/14/SJWJS.html
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heyjudy
Equality of outcome collective punishment/self-confidence destroying identity
politic advancement and self-righteous, vindictive chip-shouldering fall under
the category of: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
I still ponder... | {
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Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis - mikeyk
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12202313862/storing-hundreds-of-millions-of-key-value-pairs-in
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moxiemk1
The the code the article links to for zipmap.c
(<https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/zipmap.c>) is _rather_... | {
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Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists - kkleiner
http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chinas-top-nine-government-officials-are-scientists/
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lionhearted
But, but, but... they're not democratic! If only they'd put more power in the
hands of the common man, they too could en... | {
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} |
Molecule-sized motors that drill through the surface of cancer cells - chmod775
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-chemists-cancer-killing-drill.html
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LifeLiverTransp
What happens in the lab, stays in the lab
| {
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Streaming video contributes to climate change - microdrum
https://www.dw.com/en/is-netflix-bad-for-the-environment-how-streaming-video-contributes-to-climate-change/a-49556716
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plink
It isn’t absurd in the sense that it’s untrue. It is factual that using
electricity generated by carbon emitting processes affects... | {
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} |
Alaska’s universal basic income problem - Ygg2
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/5/20849020/alaska-permanent-fund-universal-basic-income
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mojomark
"[Author] Robyn Sundlee is a research fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on
Communication Leadership and Policy. She was the campaign manager for Alaska
State... | {
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Ask HN: What is minimum viable product? - pyeu
Share your thoughts on finding and executing viable ideas.
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x0hm
It's the minimum set of requirements to have a fully functional, usable
product.
The MVP has to be customer-ready, so it has to be as minimally feature-
complete as possible.
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BjoernKW
It's the... | {
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German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection - kkm
https://www.zdnet.com/article/more-than-38000-people-will-stand-in-line-this-week-to-get-a-new-password/
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myself248
Honestly, I think this is pretty smart.
If someone has compromised your electronic systems, they can probably solve
wha... | {
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Ask HN: Getting accepted into a top level CS program. - ncarlson
Hi everyone,<p>I'm about to receive my BA in Mathematics from a lowly state university. Eventually, I'd like to continue on and work towards a masters and PhD at a top school like Stanford or MIT. However, I'm not interested in applying to one of these s... | {
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Note on Syntax - fogus
http://olabini.com/blog/2012/02/notes-on-syntax/
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75c84fb8
I'm not an expert on programming language design, so I was hoping someone can
help me understand. When people talk about syntax, do they mean how bits of
text are strung together to make programs; kind of from a down-and-dirty,
i... | {
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Isaac Newton's Recipe for Magical 'Philosopher's Stone' Rediscovered - samclemens
http://www.livescience.com/54162-newton-recipe-for-philosophers-stone-rediscovered.html
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nonbel
The titles of the papers back then are... notable:
'A smart Scourge for a silly, sawcy Fool, an answer to letter at the end of a
pamph... | {
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All XKCD cartoons, now in 3D - paol
http://xkcd.com/880/
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RiderOfGiraffes
Related previous submissions:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2395373> (1 comment (as of writing))
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2395501> (dead)
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396615> (dead)
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th0ma5
his post ... | {
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Britain has abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy - socalnate1
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/news/economy/uk-france-biggest-economies-in-the-world/index.html
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krona
Since the IMF is measuring in Dollar terms, Britain became the 6th largest
economy the day after Brexit, solely as a result ... | {
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} |
How do you save a million people from a cyclone? Ask a poor state in India - jjsb
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/world/asia/cyclone-fani-india-evacuations.html
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eesmith
Or, as the article mentions, Bangladesh.
For that matter, ask Cuba about hurricane preparations, eg,
[http://accuracy.org/release/cubas-hur... | {
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} |
Adobe + Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web - niyazpk
http://blog.typekit.com/2010/08/16/typekit-and-adobe/
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zokier
<http://zokier.net/stuff/minion_pro.png>
Firefox does really badly with Minion Pro at smaller sizes. Well, maybe
someday.....
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tptacek
So don't set running type in "exotic" faces; ... | {
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} |
Spotify Enlists Its Users to Add Music Metadata - nmalloc
http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/spotify-line-in-music-metadata-1202723757/
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solarkraft
For no compensation? Sure.
| {
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IBM Data Science Experience: Whole-Cluster Privilege Escalation Disclosure - wyc
https://wycd.net/posts/2017-02-21-ibm-whole-cluster-privilege-escalation-disclosure.html
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jamesblonde
I am very familiar with the product, as we are developing a peer-to-peer
alternative for sharing large datasets for machine learni... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
UACME: Defeating Windows User Account Control - pykello
https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME
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cmdrfred
very nice.
| {
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} |
Show HN: Qbox Releases QES Elasticsearch Connector for Magento - qboxio
http://blog.qbox.io/qbox-releases-qes-elasticsearch-connector-for-magento
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karansikh
Interesting tech
| {
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White House Drone Crash Is Tied to Drunken Spy Agency Employee - aaronbrethorst
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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jccooper
It's pretty easy to lose one of those things "up" if you are over-eag... | {
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} |
Hacker News: Happy Holidays - mattbgates
Ladies, gentleman, hackers, entrepreneurs, daily readers, occasional readers, and seldom readers alike:<p>Whatever you celebrate... enjoy yourself, enjoy your time with family, enjoy time off from work, enjoy the holidays. Relax, be merry, eat good food, and it is certainly oka... | {
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Sub-3-hour weekend project: How much wine do I need? - bendtheblock
http://www.howmuchwinedoineed.com/
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kbob
I read the headline as, "How much wine do I need to create a sub-3-hour
weekend project?"
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dasht
That's cute but are you concerned about liabilities that might result if what
you are doing can be... | {
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} |
Raspberry Pi Clones Match the Connectors, But Boost the Firepower - jonrx
http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/771048-raspberry-pi-clones-match-the-connectors-but-boost-the-firepower
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Al__Dante
It would have been interesting to see the power consumption compared. The
Raspberry PI model A ca... | {
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EnvKey (YC W18) is a smarter place to store API keys and credentials - danenania
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/envkey-wants-to-create-a-smarter-place-to-store-a-companys-api-keys-and-credentials/
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squiguy7
This article didn't dive too deep into what this service offers but every
company I have been at has th... | {
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Project Jengo Celebrates One Year Anniversary by Releasing Prior Art - jgrahamc
https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-celebrates-one-year-anniversary/
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codetrotter
> After Blackbird filed a lawsuit against Cloudflare alleging infringement of
> a vague and overly-broad patent (‘335 Patent), we launched Projec... | {
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The importance of having your own inhouse technical team - keiretsu
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cwilbur
The core of your business should be in-house. If the technology sits at the
core of your business -- as it does for most web companies -- then outsourcing
it is foolish. If your business is actually something else, like plumbing, and
t... | {
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Apple's Market Cap now bigger than Citicorp's - raganwald
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYDmSu.TmOrU&refer=home
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raganwald
As FSJ put it, "Which would you rather own: a portfolio of sub-prime mortgages
or a portfolio of iPhone patents?"
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michaelneale
I love the term "sub prime" - its su... | {
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} |
The Nerdiest States In America - ejain
http://blog.estately.com/2014/04/the-nerdiest-states-in-america/
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ejain
Discussion of flawed statistical methods in 3... 2... 1...
| {
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Ask HN: What is the issuer of the icloud.com certificate by you? - acqq
What do you see when you view the certificate of icloud.com? At this moment, I see this chain: "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" " DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA" "www.icloud.com" Valid from "07 ... | {
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Efficiently Generating Python Hash Collisions - ssully
https://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2019/07/23/efficiently-generating-python-hash-collisions/
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svat
Although this article is about collisions in the hash function applied to
strings, for numeric values Python uses a hash() function that is not only
easy to genera... | {
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} |
Hallucinogen in ‘magic mushrooms’ might have helped smokers quit - Libertatea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/12/hallucinogen-in-magic-mushrooms-might-have-helped-smokers-quit/
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darkFunction
Mushrooms can be extremely introspective, I would imagine this could easily
lead people to re... | {
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} |
Why the U.S. Government Never Has to Pay Back All Its Debt - cawel
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/why-the-us-government-never-ever-has-to-pay-back-all-its-debt/272747/
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snowwrestler
The first thing to understand is that the U.S. government does not have to
ever run a surplus in order to pa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
APNG-canvas – Display animated PNG files in the browser - X4
http://davidmz.github.io/apng-canvas/
In case you want native APNG support on Chrome, you can install this chrome addon from the same author: https://github.com/davidmz/apng-chrome
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TheZenPsycho
I've been wondering about the point ... | {
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Francis Crick Institute's £700m building 'too noisy to concentrate' - tomduncalf
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/21/francis-crick-institutes-700m-building-too-noisy-to-concentrate
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elymar
I found that some earplugs from Walmart really make a night and day difference
in concentration for me in noisy ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft - gortok
http://paulstovell.com/blog/re-next-decade-of-open-source
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noen
The whole article paints a picture of Microsoft eating OSS OSS projects, but
the author begins by clearly stating that the project he is going to reference
(Octopus Deploy) is not OSS.
Inste... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Twilio alternatives? - bkovacev
Does anyone have any experience with other Twilio like services?<p>We've now started implementing the twilio app in one of our project and I'm slowly getting aggravated by the outdated docs, incomplete/no concrete examples, awful dashboard and non-meaningful error... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Flint OS – Chromium OS Based System for ARM - type0
https://flintos.io/
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RubyPinch
having "[...] open source [...]" in your tag line, for a closed source
project, is a bit disingenuous.
"Project A has beneficial aspect X, we forked project A's work and removed X,
but we just thought we should mention that it us... | {
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} |
We are posers. This is how hacking actually works. - skcin7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39CRw7zH_2A
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ropman76
I am not worthy. That makes want to weep then die :)
| {
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Mental Models Box – A collection of models useful in everyday life - thugger
https://www.mentalmodelsbox.com/
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paulgerhardt
The nice thing about mental models is you have so many to choose
from[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8].
[1] [https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-
use...](https://medium.com/@ye... | {
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} |
Explaining Shell Commands in the Shell (2014) - jap
https://www.mankier.com/blog/explaining-shell-commands-in-the-shell.html?hn=1
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tomkwok
So it's like a command line version of
[http://explainshell.com/](http://explainshell.com/) ...
And it seems like your site / API backend is not open source. Do you plan t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Send Me to Launch: Reason #1-Mix and Mingle with upcoming greats - redrory
http://sendmetolaunch.com/reason-1-mix-and-mingle-with-upcoming-greats
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sebg
One interesting thing you could do is along the lines of
<http://iwearyourshirt.com/> ... That is, you can have people sponsor you to
wear their companies t-sh... | {
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} |
Flight Shaming Isn't Just a Problem for Airlines - fludlight
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-25/conference-shame-isnt-just-a-problem-for-davos-jets
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el_dev_hell
Outline: [https://outline.com/bTcVm3](https://outline.com/bTcVm3)
| {
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} |
Show HN: What is your opinion on this online resume? – More info in comments - smartsystems
https://smchughinfo.github.io
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onion2k
When I'm looking for a dev I want to be able to _quickly_ see if they have a
specific set of skills. I literally can't read 50% of the skills on your
resume without some effort. That... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hot Chips – A California Startup Has Built an AI Chip as Big as a Notebook. Why? - Yuqing7
https://medium.com/syncedreview/hot-chips-a-california-startup-has-built-an-ai-chip-as-big-as-a-notebook-why-4d068429349
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coder4life
I want to know how many petaflops the thing runs at, they're keeping mum on
compute perfo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VIM and Python – A Match Made in Heaven - plessthanpt05
https://realpython.com/blog/python/vim-and-python-a-match-made-in-heaven/
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brianclements
Most of these seem to just be general Vim suggestions that work in any
language, but they aren't bad.
The real lubricant for Python and Vim for me has been control ove... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary reviews - throwaway-sc
SoundCloud has deferred salary reviews until the next funding round is complete.<p>Over the last few years, travel between offices has been restricted to business critical travel only.
More expensive food items have started disappearing from ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Sweden’s highest court bans drones with cameras - mooseburger
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/camera-spy-drones-banned-sweden-highest-court/
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cordite
This would surely kill low cost autonomous drones, right?
Assuming other non identifying technologies were used, I suspect that having
multiple drones ... | {
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} |
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics [pdf] - mathgenius
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08416
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jonjacky
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics by Oliver Knill - Linked PDF is a
survey of modern math in 133 pages, in the form of the "fundamental" theorem
in each of 135 areas, all in the first 62 pages! Followed ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text - azsromej
http://gist.github.com/67060
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sqs
Great speech. I'd be interested to hear other people's opinions on the
consequences of his conclusion, the "do what you want" bit. I know he meant it
in a broader sense, but I see a lot of people (especially high school st... | {
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It should only take you a few hours... - The Hiltmon - hiltmon
http://www.hiltmon.com/blog/2012/01/11/it-should-only-take-you-a-few-hours-dot-dot-dot/
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asolove
Of course carpenters don't get this kind of nonsense, because you can buy
cheap, mass-manufactured tables. If you go to a carpenter to get a table
built,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Digital Signatures on the Blockchain – With Smart Contracts - avadhoot
http://dashboard.attores.com/?utm_source=hacker_news
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avadhoot
A. Digital Signing 2.0: Our uncluttered interface lets you easily sign
documents and secure them with blockchain technology
B. Smart Contract and Blockchain Secure: By u... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance - feross
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-performance-report
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gorhill
An note regarding the memory usage in Chromium and uBO specifically.
I have observed that even though the memory usage as reported by developer
tools under ... | {
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} |
Things to Know Before You Accept Another Privacy Policy - duzins
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6-things-to-know-before-you-accept-another-privacy-policy.php#.T6BBOvTSC9E.hackernews
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benologist
Those are 6 things that would be nice to know in a perfect world, some of them
aren't going to help you very mu... | {
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} |
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