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New Startups Aren't Keeping Big Mattress Up at Night - prostoalex
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/new-startups-aren-t-keeping-big-mattress-up-at-night
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Scoundreller
They're merely in the early adopter phase.
The internet didn't destroy printed newspapers overnight, but one by one,
they're fi... | {
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I Do Not Want Your Stupid App - sagivo
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/03/with-apologies-to-theodor-geisel/
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greenyoda
Ironically, TechCrunch, the publisher of this amusing rant, has an app:
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mob... | {
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The Nano Membrane Toilet - ph0rque
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/research/research-activity/current-projects/research-projects/nanomembrane-toilet.html
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matt_wulfeck
Is residential water usage really a large problem? I assume that
municipalities have a decent ability to reclaim and reuse much of the water
flushed d... | {
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How easy did people find RTML to use? - omouse
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omouse
I'm thinking about using context parsing as in "I need to go to the store
tomorrow" will add the event "I need to go to the store" to the calendar for
tomorrow.
But for some things I need a certain structure like this: "Wait for Bob to
finish report, do wh... | {
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Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill - ukj
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/13517-language-aptitude-not-math-predicts-programming-skill.html
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0xff00ffee
I guess it depends who you are talking about. Computer Scientists are
generally great at math, but it doesn't mean they are g... | {
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Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter - weinzierl
https://www.troyhunt.com/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictions-and-why-they-dont-matter/
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mquander
_He turned to me and said, "Do you really think the only thing the bank does
to log people on is to check the username and password?" Ban... | {
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Show HN: How to stop iOS9 daily prompts for iOS10 upgrade - walterbell
iOS9 automatically downloads iOS10 and then prompts daily for permission to upgrade. The dialog only allows deferral of upgrade, no option to decline. Since it usually takes a few point releases for Apple to stabilize a new major version, you may... | {
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On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity - rbanffy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/on-the-moon-astronaut-pee-will-be-a-hot-commodity/
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nurettin
Does this mean that all this pee on earth is going to waste along with all the
water that carries it simply because we haven't thought long and hard en... | {
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Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power (2017) - mzs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-toshiba-nuclear-bankruptcy.html
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dang
Discussed at the time:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13987046](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13987046)
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epistasis
This arti... | {
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Facebook told by Belgian court to stop tracking non-users - denzil_correa
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34765937
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tdkl
Good, I hope they'll pay as much money as it gets until this is removed. FB is
a sleazy company by its core.
In other news, their FB Messenger app will scan the phones Camera roll for new
... | {
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Apache Mesos is not as reliable a we used to think - tailhook
https://medium.com/@paulcolomiets/evaluating-mesos-4a08f85473fb
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preillyme
Pretends to be a common standard for different solutions?
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tailhook
Ah.. yeah, my English is not very good.
I mean Mesos tries to be platform to build on top. Some commo... | {
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Why I like comments - brilliant
http://scripting.com/stories/2010/08/24/whyILikeComments.html
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aphyr
_But rebuttal, esp principled rebuttal, really doesn't add anything to a
comment thread._
Ever wonder why Winer's purportedly popular blog has so few comments? Now you
know!
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Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack - CalmStorm
https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/119
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23569524](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23569524)
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dicomdan
Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attac... | {
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Using Magnets to Reduce Beer Foaming - allisterk
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260877414003380
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allisterk
A much fluffier article with video is at:
[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/how-
to...](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/how-to-keep-beer-
fro... | {
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Ask HN: how to go about finding internships? - zxcvvcxz
How's it going HN.<p>It's summer time, and students much like myself are having a tough time finding interesting summer jobs. It's not that I don't enjoy waiting tables or anything, but at some point I think it's time to look for more meaningful employment.<p>S... | {
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Show HN: Personalize Every Article for Every Reader - sahadeva
http://sahadeva.com/interactive-article-experiment.html
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RyanHamilton
This is cool, I like it. Though I worry about a future where everyone reads
only what they agree with.
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jlg23
Indeed, though it is just the logical extension of the status quo:... | {
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What happened to the inaugural class of travel startup Remote Year - aaronbrethorst
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/remote-year-promised-to-combine-work-and-travel-was-it-too-good-to-be-true?Src=longreads
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reustle
It's amazing how much money these people are spending on this trip, especially
with such inexp... | {
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Novel Laser-Based Method Effectively De-Ices Aircraft - rajnathani
https://optics.org/news/11/1/97
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blakesterz
Sadly it appears this is not a giant laser that shoots the plane when it's
covered with ice. It's a way to change the surface of the wings so that
ice/snow doesn't stick in the first place.
~~~
zwiebac... | {
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What's the best way to find UI/graphic design company for a $10,000 budget? - andrewstuart
Is there some site where you can say (for example) "I have a $10K budget and I'd like to choose a designer to work with"? And then designers respond with some expression of interest.<p>Note: not looking at crowdsourcing solut... | {
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The 4-hour workweek for startups - pius
http://www.mystealthstartup.com/2008/04/14/the-4-hour-workweek-for-startups/
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flux
The book is mainly about building a business that sits in the background
making a dependable but not necessarily huge income. It's not really
surprising that it's popular with internet marke... | {
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Harvard: The Class of 2013 Senior Survey - ekm2
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/5/28/senior-survey-2013/?page=1
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hkmurakami
I was going to comment on how only 5% of the class sees a permanent future in
the finance industry while 20% of the class sees a long term career in
health/medicine, and how it ref... | {
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Using the /proc filesystem to monitor progress of script - shanemhansen
http://www.whitane.com/blog/uncategorized/proc-filesystem-to-see-progress-of-script/
A tip for using the /proc filesystem to monitor file upload/processing progress.
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obfuscate
`lsof' is a nice front-end to this particular usage of /proc, a... | {
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The script Uber is using to make anti-union phone calls - Trombone12
http://qz.com/621977/this-is-the-script-uber-is-using-to-make-anti-union-phone-calls-to-drivers-in-seattle/
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hackuser
It's hard to imagine why the drivers wouldn't unionize. Why wouldn't you want
to increase your negotiating leverage? It's just... | {
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Apple axes 1,600 full-time retail positions - yvesrn
http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/24/apple.loses.1600.at.retail/
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electromagnetic
This is misleading, they lost 1,600 full-time (or equivalent) workers. This
could mean a lot of their part-time workers getting extra hours could no
longer get extra hours, i... | {
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XEP-0280: Message Carbons (2013) - dgellow
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0280.html
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imaginator
Background: XEPs are the protocol building blocks of XMPP.
The XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) are working hard to make XMPP more mobile
friendly. (disclaimer: I'm an XMPP board member).
There are three problems t... | {
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Our Software Dependency Problem - dmit
https://research.swtch.com/deps
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tc
The security of package managers is something we're going to have to fix.
Some years ago, in offices, computers were routinely infected or made unusable
because the staff were downloading and installing random screen savers from
the inte... | {
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We overcomplicated the hell out of both our products - joelle
https://medium.com/p/1816bd8a341a
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goldvine
It's interesting to hear from some people that the direction we've ended up
pursuing is the direction they originally perceived us to be pursuing.
#CommunicationFail
Anyone else experienced this?
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Ask HN: What technologies can we use to minimise data collected into PRISM - mark_ellul
We all now know the news about PRISM, so I was wondering on your thoughts on how we can stop the majority of our data going into PRISM.<p>So I thought this would be a good Forum to discuss the technical approaches to minimizing o... | {
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Lean Domain Search Adds 450 New Search Results; Now Checks 2,500 Domains/Search - matt1
http://www.leandomainsearch.com/blog/8-lean-domain-search-adds-450-new-search-results--now-checks-2-500-domain-names-per-search
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petercooper
I've seen a lot of projects like this come and go or, most often, sit around
getti... | {
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Do Difficult Job Interviews Lead to More Satisfied Workers? - gcz92
https://www.glassdoor.com/research/studies/interview-difficulty/
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at-fates-hands
I would think this is pretty obvious. I don't think it's a direct correlation
as much as it feels like a side effect of said process.
An example would be you find ... | {
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Advice for Startup CEOs - randfish
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/advice-for-startup-ceos
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mixmax
Some good advice in there.
But the best advice is this: be lucky
:-)
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igorthetroll
I am glad you are self analyzing yourself. Wag of the Finger at you, You got
me Wrong!
Igor The Troll
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Show HN: Stig – A CLI tool for searching GitHub from the terminal - octobanana
https://octobanana.com/software/stig
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octobanana
Hello there!
For a weekend project, I wanted to write a program that would use the C++ HTTP
client library I've been working on recently. I was curious to put it to the
test in a real ... | {
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Ray Dalio – The Changing World Order: Where we are and where we are going - Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chapter-1-big-picture-tiny-nutshell-ray-dalio
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chewz
This is the moron who said 'Cash is trash' just few weeks before market
sellout... and his alpha strategy is to sit out the losses
[http... | {
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Ask HN: Which stock market website/app are you using? - dodoflying
Im curious to know: Which stock market website/app are HN users using? What's the reason?
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pjd7
In Australia comsec.com.au, large financial institution. Solid financials.
Easy to transfer money in and out. Has a regular bank account with it tha... | {
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} |
Diabetes Gene Common In Latinos Has Ancient Roots - rosser
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/25/256832685/diabetes-gene-common-in-latinos-has-ancient-roots
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tokenadult
I read through the submitted article here to find the link to the scientific
journal article[1] that has just come out from this research g... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Going in circle – no traction, no investors - gab007
I am the single developer of a note-taking app. I've reached a point where the app needs a team and some funding to move forward. I would like to apply for seed-investment, but given the fact that investors like to see (among other things) traction, som... | {
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Ask HN: Someone ripped off my app, is there any recourse with Apple? - wacheena
I built a simple Android app:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tenromans.birthdaycake.free<p>And I discovered today that a developer has taken the graphics and rebuilt it for iPhone:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/make-birthda... | {
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This one guy is in every tech video - 0898
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141010151209-25388572-the-guy-in-every-tech-video?trk=object-title
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minimaxir
Linkbaity titles don't work if you're not BuzzFeed or Business Insider.
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5414h
fake title damn u
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razster
How is the title fake? I'm not awa... | {
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The 21st IOCCC Winners - dlowe
http://www.ioccc.org/2012/whowon.html
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hafabnew
The way the site is run really lets the contest down.
~~~
TazeTSchnitzel
Why? How? They have a single page with all the winners ever, and for each C
file they also have a hint.text/hint.markdown/hint.html file. They also have a
Twi... | {
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Brilliantly coded 64k pc demo by Approximate released at Revision 2012 - carlhblomqvist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kx66_i3ue4
Brilliantly coded 64k pc demo by Approximate released at Revision 2012 in southwest Germany (April 6th to 9th). All in a 64kb executable file.
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sp332
As usual, YouTube doesn't do th... | {
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Google readies its own chip for future Pixels and Chromebooks - rbanffy
https://www.axios.com/scoop-google-readies-its-own-chip-for-future-pixels-chromebooks-e5f8479e-4a38-485c-a264-9ef9cf68908c.html
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est31
In the north american phone market, Google has 2.3% market share. The other
two vendors with their custom ... | {
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[re]Designing the Nutrition Label - ajaimk
http://www.ajaimk.com/2010/11/03/redesign-1-nutrition-labels/
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charliepark
Red and Green are colors with an inherent value (at least, in the US),
suggesting good and bad. Unless there's a reason that they're the colors they
are, you should use a color (I'd suggest a dar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Programmer Is Bringing Bricked Flywheel Bikes Back to Life - elsewhen
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gxga/this-programmer-is-bringing-bricked-flywheel-bikes-back-to-life
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1f60c
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022751](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022751)
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Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing - domino
http://myprasanna.posterous.com/birth-and-death-of-microsoft-bing
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raganwald
Perhaps a bit OT, but... The post seemed to be riddled with formatting and
grammar errors. This rubbed my old-school English sensibilities at first, but
then I began to enjoy its rough feel.
A... | {
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Do we still need photoshop to create great website? - damaru
But even further, do we still need proprietary software in our workflow to create the best web design, now that we have tools like css3, saas compass and a plethora of javascript tools ?
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robotys
It is the same with hand sketching, nothing beats fast... | {
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Kramera - samlassman
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kramera/id753155884?mt=8
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samlassman
seinfeldify your life!
| {
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Show HN: Kickstarter project for snap-together, desktop trebuchets - carpdiem
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803756771/trebuchette-the-snap-together-desktop-trebuchet
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vnchr
This guys need 1600 pre-sales to make this happen? (their unit price of the
smallest product divided into the fundraising minimum ... | {
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Show HN: Borg Voice Generator - dsteinman
https://jaxcore.github.io/jaxcore-say/borg-example/
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agucova
I've always wondered if there is something like this for the voice of Majel
Barrett-Roddenberry (Computer). I know her voice was recorder phonetically
before she died ([https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-voice-of-star... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Learn Echolocation like a Dolphin - wglb
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/echolocation/
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wglb
When I was in high school, I had a blind friend who used something similar to
do some rather amazing things. He would follow me on his bicycle (!), tracking
by the sound the bike made. Solo, he could turn int... | {
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File sharing is for everyone. With Dropshare Cloud - tisba
https://dropshare.cloud/
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tisba
That service is actually a batteries included hosting service for the very
well made desktop file sharing tool Dropshare
([https://getdropsha.re/](https://getdropsha.re/)).
| {
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New theory explains the origin of Saturn's rings - japaget
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/12/science/AP-US-SCI-Saturn-Rings.html
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DupDetector
If you like that, you'll like this:
"Elegant New Theory Explains Origin Of Asteroid Belt (technologyreview.com)"
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991448>... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Polygonal Map Generation, HTML5 Version - signa11
https://simblob.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/mapgen2-html5.html
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indescions_2017
"New algorithms" for tilemap generation?
Maxim Gumin’s WaveFunctionCollapse is fast and produces nice results. A recent
paper has been published outlining its technique.
WaveFunctionCol... | {
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} |
Rockset does to Elasticsearch, what Snowflake did to Redshift - ssb006
https://rockset.com/press/rockset-shatters-operational-barriers-for-real-time-analytics/
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tarun_anand
Amazing stuff. We have been investigating for a few years and wondering why
someone has not done this.
Congratulations.. Looks exciting.
A... | {
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Keybase launches encrypted Git - aston
https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone
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malgorithms
Keybase team member here. Interesting fact: git doesn't check the validity of
sha-1 hashes in your commit history. Meaning if someone compromises your
hosted origin, they can quietly compromise your history. So... | {
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On the detection of quantum insert - ingve
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/on-the-detection-of-quantum-insert
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noinsight
Well, who actually does packet-level analysis of every connection they make?
Maybe some troubled/paranoid individuals are constantly running tcpdump and
analyzing all the traffic to/from... | {
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} |
Cache eviction: when are randomized algorithms better than LRU? (2014) - signa11
http://danluu.com/2choices-eviction/
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ordinaryperson
Related: the author, Dan Luu has, IMHO, one of the best IT-related Twitter
feeds out there: [https://twitter.com/danluu](https://twitter.com/danluu)
Highly recommended.
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Countly | Mobile Application Analytics - basil
http://count.ly/
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nickpresta
Awesome demo! However, I seem to have trouble finding the "docs" section for
developers.
I see:
* <http://support.count.ly/kb/sdk-installation> (but there is nothing about how to call init(), etc).
* [http://support.count.ly/kb/web-in... | {
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Abusing Contributors is not OK - joeyh
http://www.curiousefficiency.org/
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polemic
Let's add: flag killing [the original, multi-upvoted front page] links to
articulate and well reasoned pieces about why abusing contributors is not OK,
is not OK.
~~~
dang
We've unkilled that post and are burying this one as a d... | {
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} |
The Bonfire of the Humanities - benbreen
http://www.thenation.com/article/195553/bonfire-humanities
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aridiculous
As a lover of the humanities and social 'sciences', I am always cheered up
when a postmodernist snaps out of it, so we can actually have intelligible
conversations again.
Paraphrasing famous modern... | {
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} |
On Silos - panarky
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/12/31/silos/
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marak830
A little offtopic, but that minutes left counter on scrolling is a little
disquieting. I cannot put my finger on exactly why, but rushing to read an
article didnt feel right (i prefer to take my time).
| {
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Show HN: Parametric Activation Pools greatly increase performance in ConvNets - clmcleod
http://blog.claymcleod.io/2016/02/06/Parametric-Activation-Pools-greatly-increase-performance-and-consistency-in-ConvNets/
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Ono-Sendai
What does 'loss' mean on your graphs? Error fraction?
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Jack Abraham (Milo.com) on being an entrepreneur and why to drop out of school - wesleyzhao
http://wesleyzhao.com/2011/02/17/inspiring-words-from-jack-abraham-pdf/
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yoshyosh
wow great read, especially liked the last part, just goes to show how easily I
give up when acquiring new clients
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Rebol is back - neuro
http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r
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Garovix
Where was it?
| {
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub - jseliger
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k
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jmtame
Loved Tom's social hack for finding cofounders, from Startups Open Sourced. He
also has a really good outlook on the role of design in startups.
Q: So, the best ... | {
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The Inconvenient Truth About Dynamic vs. Static Typing - redshift1010
https://blog.jooq.org/2014/12/11/the-inconvenient-truth-about-dynamic-vs-static-typing/
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oldandtired
Since static typing systems use dynamic typing to determine the static types,
his comment about dynamic types languages being dead is simply w... | {
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} |
Using Travis-CI with Python and Django - craigkerstiens
http://justcramer.com/2012/05/03/using-travis-ci/
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pydanny
Time to switch to Travis-CI!
| {
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Ask HN: Should I pay programmers I hire per hour or per task? - MavropaliasG
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ToFab123
It depends on if it is possible to make precise time estimate of how long the
task is expected to take for an developer with same level as your dev. It also
depends on the quality of the specifications you have written. If you ... | {
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3D images of tissue may help spot and treat cancer - ximeng
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17817146
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ximeng
Paper (abstract, paywall for full text):
[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002944012...](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000294401200168X)
Press release:
[http://ww... | {
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Zenefits Scandal Highlights Perils of Hypergrowth at Startups - tpatke
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/zenefits-scandal-highlights-perils-of-hypergrowth-at-start-ups.html
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throwaway-zcs
It's so convenient for everyone if this is all on Conrad. Mr Sacks did an
excellent job of throwing Conrad under t... | {
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Harmony OS and Compatibility - ingve
http://commonsware.com/blog/2019/08/10/harmony-compatibility.html
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roca
> Simply making an operating system open source is insufficient on its own to
> guarantee success. If it were, Ubuntu Phone and Firefox OS would be
> significant players. Unfortunately, neither “crossed t... | {
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Show HN: Minimal and clean ordinal date utility - pngmangi
https://julian.today
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pngmangi
I need the 'julian date' frequently at work, and got tired of searching a
table, or clicking through a site filled with lots of other 'stuff' looking
for it, so I created this instead.
My intent was to make it as single-fo... | {
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LispyScript - amelius
http://lispyscript.com/
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lighthawk
Neat!
Now look at:
[https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript](https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript)
And try it:
[http://himera.herokuapp.com/index.html](http://himera.herokuapp.com/index.html)
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zupatol
Clojurescript has to be compiled by the goog... | {
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Sniff browser history for improved user experience - skorks
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html
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tptacek
Respectfully, this is a batshit crazy idea. History sniffing is a gaping
security flaw. The thing we need to do with it is eliminate it. What we don't
need to do is arm unscr... | {
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Show HN: ChargeBack.cc - Get your money back - myotherthings
https://www.chargeback.cc/
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aristidb
That seems a bit sketchy to me - black-mailing merchants into signing up for
your "service" of not sending them chargebacks?! Maybe you should explain why
it's not.
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mario1900
Merchants don't need to sign up to ... | {
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Comcast Is Threatening to Cut Off Customers Who Use Tor - bndr
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/comcast-threatening-cut-off-customers-092817979.html
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ufmace
I know it's popular in tech circles these days to hate on Comcast, and I'm not
saying they don't deserve the hate or that they wouldn't do something like
this,... | {
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} |
Why does Facebook change my link to translate.google.com? - szeldon
Hi.<p>Maybe it's just me, but whenever I try to put any link to translate.google.com (for instance http://translate.google.com/#en|cs|asaasa) I see this link on my board: http://translate.google.com/#en|cs|Suck%20my%20balls<p>Maybe I'm doing somethi... | {
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Baggage Handling System – Schiphol Airport [video] - curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-Y0-ruzi8&feature=youtu.be
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masida
This reminds me of one of my first programming jobs as external consultant for
the Baggage Handling System at Schiphol in 2000/2001, I was 17 years old.
My employer at that time was u... | {
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} |
Introducing Bloom: The Future of Credit - el_duderino
https://blog.hellobloom.io/introducing-bloom-the-future-of-credit-3b0d6ee04f24
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sschueller
A little thin on details how this exactly works. Does anyone have a TLDR as I
can't open the white paper in my phone for some reason?
| {
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Eric Schmidt's book is wrong about how Google works - mandeepj
http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/30/why-eric-schmidt-doesnt-know-how-google-works/
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gilgoomesh
If we take this article at face-value (that Google is as big as it is because
of its monopoly in search) a related question is immediately raised: why is
Goo... | {
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FPGAs for Dummies [pdf] - vonmoltke
http://www.altera.com/literature/misc/FPGAs_For_Dummies_eBook.pdf
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asynchronous13
I've been using an embedded system based on a combination of FPGA and DSP for
about ten years now. If I could go back in time and start over, I would ditch
the FPGA. The reason I say that is beca... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Missing the point about microservices - zbb
https://erikbern.com/2018/06/04/missing-the-point-about-microservices.html
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ankurdhama
IMO the idea of micro services makes sense when you have a bunch of services
and they don't call each other. If they do call each other then they are
coupled and that bring whole sle... | {
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} |
6 MAC Apps. 6 Design Goodies. 1 Shokingly Low Price - sourabhmca14
http://bundlehunt.com/?holidaybundle
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Udo
How is this not spam?
| {
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Sad to see Google Reader go? Come on, folks...it's 2013. - christopheraden
http://www.zdnet.com/sad-to-see-google-reader-go-come-on-folks-its-2013-7000012596/
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phasevar
Twitter and social sharing doesn't fit my use case.
I want to be able to scan all the articles on Hacker News even if I can't log
onto Hacker... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: A List of HN-esque TV Programs - DarrenMills
I'd like to get a list all in one place. I'll edit this post with your suggestions as they come, then migrate to a google doc. I'll add my ideas shortly.
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DarrenMills
The complete lack of response I got from fellow hackers today was surprising,
if not dishea... | {
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Show HN: Converspace, kinda like what blogs should have evolved into - sandeepshetty
https://github.com/sandeepshetty/converspace
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mikkel
The one big issue I see is lack of a small concrete goal.
> Like a blog that allows publishing of content of any size or type (long-
> form, mirco-updates, videos & photos ... | {
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GPL version 2 is a bare license. Rescind.(Re linux Code of Conduct Bannings) - e67f70028a46fba
https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2909797.html
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throwaway5250
The whole thing is very sad, but this is not a useful response.
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__d
How is it sad?
~~~
throwaway5250
Linus has spent decades of his life creatin... | {
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} |
It's time for Slack to get physical - ahmadss
http://code.viget.com/slackalert/
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stopshinal
Hey everyone! I worked on SlackAlert (along with several other talented folks
at Viget), so I’m happy to answer any questions you might have. We were
itching for a screenless UI when we decided to make SlackAlert. It’s fu... | {
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} |
I'm a founder, I'm at Bootup Labs - domino
http://dshan.me/blog/2010/04/im-a-founder-im-at-bootup.html
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ghshephard
One of the events that comes to mind, as I read through the roller-coaster
that is Bootup Labs, was an event that happened about five years ago in our
company's early history. We had a tiny little... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Site calculates how long it takes famous authors to write books - batub
http://rabbitwriters.com/
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dalke
Out of curiosity I looked for Isaac Asimov, but he wasn't there. Instead, I
looked at Mark Twain. The site only lists his novels, and curiously one of his
short stories. Twain wrote a lot of short ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
If we work day and night, we can match our competitor's features within 12 mos. - kevindication
http://dilbert.com/fast/2009-12-09/
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nroach
I got a good laugh out of that comic, and it's frighteningly familiar for a
lot of enterprise developers.
But taken too literally, it sends entirely the wrong message to a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Lofi – A Minimalist Spotify Client with Better UX - dvt
http://www.lofi.rocks/
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dvt
Hi HN, a few weeks ago I made a "replacement" for the Spotify desktop app
because I wanted a tiny player instead of a whole window I need to bring up to
skip songs/etc. It's free & open source, works on Windows and MacOS... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: 3 months in - where should I take this project? - bazookaBen
A few months ago I made a prototype HTML5 game called Private Joe. Got tons of great feedback from HN.<p>I just released a radically improved facebook version of the game at http://bit.ly/rhoHkH . It has everything set up, social elements, invite s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming - StuntPope
https://easydns.com/blog/2018/11/02/a-heretics-guide-to-deplatforming/
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dleslie
> The tech giants today are by their own actions cultivating the motivation
> and the will to necessitate the creation of their own challengers and
> everybody is watching closely what w... | {
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} |
We have bought followers fo $5 and discovered 15M botnet on Twitter - investjtravolta
http://sadbottrue.com/article/15/
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MichaelGG
15M is nearly 5% of Twitter's active users, or all the growth they've had in
2015. Assuming these bots are "active".
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marak830
If it's true, I wonder what effect it will have on ... | {
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} |
How the Feds Took Down the Silk Road Drug Wonderland - hepha1979
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/silk-road/
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belorn
If this has not been posted before, its good to see that all the worries about
the tor protocol can be laid to rest.
They did not identify the server by some advanced technical hacks agai... | {
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} |
The Story of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 1 - sohkamyung
https://www.universetoday.com/142897/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-1/
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sohkamyung
Part 2 at [1], Part 3 at [2]
[1] [https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-the-
apollo...](https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
State of Startups - ValG
http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2016/
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GrumpyNl
“One of the problems with raising money is it teaches you bad habits from the
start,” said Jason Fried, the co-founder of the software company Basecamp, who
has written frequently on the perversions of the venture capital industry. “I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VuePress: a fully Vue-powered static site generator - tomcam
https://vuepress.vuejs.org/
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836394](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836394).
| {
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Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn - car
https://www.fastcompany.com/90539906/sex-lies-and-video-games-inside-roblox-war-on-porn
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Traubenfuchs
As an adult, it feels weird to say this, but it's probably the former child in
me speaking: This is absolutely beautiful. It sounds like the vibrant,... | {
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} |
Mega Man for TempleOS - robertelder
https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/megaman
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LVB
Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not
read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming
idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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