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Facebook has hired the Patriot Act's co-author as a general counsel - Jerry2
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/22/mass-surveillance-r-us.html
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javagram
“Jennifer Newstead helped craft the Patriot Act, a cowardly work of treasonous
legislation foisted on the American people in the wake of the 9/11 attacks;”
Source ... | {
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CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients and countries - edu
https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-secretly-bought-encryption-company-crypto-ag-spy-countries-report-2020-2
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ekimekim
Original Washington Post article discussed here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963](https://news.y... | {
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Passive solar glass home: watching the sun move - kirstendirksen
http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/passive-solar-glass-home-watching-sun-move/
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jbrun
If you are keen on this, see Amory Lovins talk on buildings: Short version:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvmHJNeif24> Long Version:
[http://www.youtube.com... | {
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Google SSL Search - jamesbkel
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=173733&hl=en
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wladimir
This was available for quite a while already, though in beta/labs. I'm not
sure what is new.
~~~
JonnieCache
Yeah, it doesn't seem any different to how its been in the past year. The
_beta_ sigil ... | {
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Copper - Data analysis toolkit for python - dfrodriguez143
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=copper&version=0.0.2
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johncoogan
Looks awesome, always love seeing my favorite tools wrapped up in new ways.
Thanks a lot for posting.
Quick note, since PyPi doesn't seem to parse markdown, the more inf... | {
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Zebrello only delivers news which is tailored to your personal interests - zebrello
http://www.zebrello.com
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qsymmachus
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble)
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We are starting WebKit modularization - robin_reala
http://markmail.org/thread/fkiibwrwv3xporxx
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dhx
_> We hope this will make it much easier to develop vendor-specific features._
DRM[1]? Flash/"ActiveX 2012"[2]?
We've seen a great deal of recent discussion about the harm vendor-specific
CSS properties[3] an... | {
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} |
Doom on GLium, in Rust - hansjorg
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TjWba0CR9RHFm47rvW1nFUlmouaR55Xt235aHyLPf9U/edit#slide=id.p
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outworlder
Are my perceptions clouded from being inside the Hacker News echo chamber, or
is Rust really picking up steam really fast?
It seems to have more libraries and the one... | {
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} |
Communication blackout is forcing young entrepreneurs out of Kashmir - amrrs
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-a-land-without-internet-how-the-communication-blackout-is-forcing-young-entrepreneurs-out-of-kashmir-valley/article30219792.ece
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amrrs
For some context on Internet Shutdown:
[https://news.ycombi... | {
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Namecoin - rfreytag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
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JacobAldridge
At the risk of hijacking yet another cryptocurrency thread, this is an
opportunity to note how valuable I believe HN to be when it highlights primary
sources.
Secondary sources - whether it's lazy journalism, blog-jacking, or Wikipedia,
e... | {
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} |
Tag Clouds For Every App Store Category - dbachelder
http://bustedloop.com/blog/2009/7/2/iphone-app-tag-clouds.html
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andrewljohnson
This is kind of fun to look at, but I wish tag clouds would die the innocuous
death they deserve. They are basically a useless, and worse a distracting, UI
element. If you have a ... | {
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Last of the Neanderthals - robg
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-text
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biohacker42
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306927>
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robg
Cool man, thanks. Usually I'd delete the dupe, but in this case I'd rather
have the unpaginated version in my personal archive.
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Four Reasons Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums - SQL2219
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-16/four-reasons-taxpayers-should-never-subsidize-stadiums
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masonic
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832975](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832975)
600+ points
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Contents of the Voyager Golden Record - tosh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_Voyager_Golden_Record
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tosh
The content is quite fascinating. Unfortunately the information in the article
is quite sparse. Shouldn't all the content be available in the public domain?
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A $277 million navigational error - uvdiv
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/world/asia/us-navy-to-scrap-vessel-stuck-on-philippine-reef.html
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uvdiv
_[US Navy Rear Adm. Jonathan] White's message states, "initial review of
navigation data indicates an error in the location of Tubbataha Reef" on the
digital map._... | {
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} |
Wikipedia - Thank You for stopping SOPA - justhw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CongressLookup?new=yes
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carlsednaoui
Yesterday's blackout was simply incredible. When I woke up and saw all of the
sites that were protesting I got chills down my spine.
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SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video] - cjnicholls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4xR7LMCGY
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codeulike
Everyone is commenting saying how mundane it has become to see the landings.
Hence you might enjoy this official SpaceX Blooper reel from 2017 that shows
the numerous spectacular failures that they worked throu... | {
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} |
Found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth - pulisse
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-water-in-diamonds-20180308-story.html
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lamename
This is fascinating. I had no idea ice could take on so many crystalline forms
depending on the variety of conditions. Apparently there are ot... | {
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} |
Show HN: IMDB for YouTubers - smhtyazdi
http://www.rshiv.org/
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anigbrowl
This is a badly needed thing but there is no way I am signing up when you
don't even have a screenshot. Put something together first.
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smhtyazdi
Thanks, for your comment. I started to add some titles. Here you can find a
simple one.
[... | {
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Microsoft's little-screen, big-screen interactive future - clbrook
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57572163-75/microsofts-little-screen-big-screen-interactive-future/
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clbrook
Reminds me of Corning's day of glass videos:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38>
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The YOLOv3 Object Detection Network Is Fast - Qworg
https://medium.com/@Synced/the-yolov3-object-detection-network-is-fast-fcceae0ab650
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Qworg
Paper:
[https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf](https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf)
GitHub:
[https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet](https://git... | {
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} |
The Evolution of Trust - abhi3
http://ncase.me/trust/?
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shock
Nick Case has other awsome stuff you can play with. I quite enjoyed
[http://ncase.me/polygons/](http://ncase.me/polygons/).
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Facebook Code - GutenYe
https://code.facebook.com/
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GutenYe
Facebook Open Source 2016 year in review:
[https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t39.2365-6/15945710_1292506674...](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t39.2365-6/15945710_1292506674139589_2204580213088583680_n.png)
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Why is Apple only buying startups from Israel? - ForFreedom
Are there no startups in the US/EU/UK?
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jaachan
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple)
says they've only bought two Israeli companies so far.
... | {
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} |
How script kiddies turns Linux box into a Zombie - True Story - Andrew-Dufresne
http://blog.larsstrand.org//article.php?story=HollidayCracking
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DCoder
_"Let's execute command 382 to see what it does."_
Oy. Not the best idea, generally speaking.
Edit: I used to read the localized paper version of <http://xake... | {
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} |
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job - xcubic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795?single_page=true
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eindiran
Duplicate of:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120322](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120322)
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IronWolve
Go away or I will re... | {
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Secrets of BackType's (YC S08) Data Engineers - omakase
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtypes-data-engineers.php
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blantonl
This illustrates that a staff of _three_ highly skilled innovative engineers
can bring to market an innovative solution.
Jeeze, these guys developed their own _datab... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Learning Ruby + MooTools - sscheper
Compared to most people here, I'm a n00b when it comes to programming. I've had a computer since I was five, but I never really got into computing languages until this past year (I'm 23 now---yes, pretty old).<p>Without ever taking one class in computer science, I managed ... | {
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} |
ASCII art animations in the URL bar - qbonnard
http://glench.com/hash
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gus_massa
Really interesting but I hope this doesn't become popular and appear in every
site. A few comments:
* Wave2 is broken in Chrome (in Windows)
* The title should change, it's always "I'm sorry".
* I'd prefer that this doesn't des... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amazon Should Acquire Netflix - Here's Why - dell9000
http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2009/01/02/why-amazon-should-acquire-netflix/
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catone
The argument I've always heard against Amazon acquiring Netflix is that
Netflix has distribution centers in something like 45 states, whereas Amazon
only has them in a handful. So... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code - corbet
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/672465/4c0bced62cb3e625/
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Kristine1975
Use memset_s, people. The compiler isn't allowed to remove calls to it:
[http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1381.pdf](http://www.open-
std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1381.pdf)
| {
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These genetically modified cyborg dragonflies could perform ‘guided pollination’ - preetish
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/these-genetically-modified-cyborg-dragonflies-could-perform-guided-pollination/
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LordWinstanley
>>we can make enough of them fast enough to counter the disappearance of
honeybees
Black M... | {
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} |
Uber Picks Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as New CEO - nbmh
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/technology/dara-khosrowshahi-uber-ceo.html?mcubz=0
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mwnivek
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113613](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113613)
| {
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Toki Pona - ColinWright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
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anonymfus
Conlang Critic is a fan of this language:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo)
I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show if you like an idea of
short text based video ess... | {
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} |
Node WebKit - gits1225
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit?
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SixSigma
I don't quite understand what this is. Is it a Web browser that runs Npm?
Is it a server side html renderer?
~~~
general_failure
Desktop software using HTML and node.
~~~
SixSigma
I still don't quite understand.
How is it different ... | {
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} |
DNC warns 2020 campaigns not to use FaceApp 'developed by Russians' - smacktoward
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/dnc-warning-faceapp/
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bifrost
I was discussing this (faceapp) earlier today, and I really don't feel like
its a big deal aside from the russaphobia it drums up. We shouldn't condemn
all of th... | {
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} |
HumanPredictions – Bootstrapping a SaaS app to $18k/mo in under a year - csallen
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/humanpredictions?utm_source=hacker-news&utm_campaign=interview-promotion&utm_medium=social
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hiou
He basically gets a spot in the family business which he uses as a launchpad
to creating a SaaS... | {
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} |
Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis - thomasahle
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2180406
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ColinWright
There is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many
submissions:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804... | {
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} |
Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach - henning
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=books
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jcranmer
Pedagogically, the challenge to teaching linear algebra is that you start with
"here's systems of linear equations, we can put them into matrices and now
her... | {
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} |
Blockupload.io: Upload Files to Bitcoin Cash Blockchain(LZMA and OCB3-ChaCha20 - MCCCS
Hello HN community,<p>I'd like to present you my tool (https://blockupload.io) that allows embedding files up to 1 MB in Bitcoin Cash transactions. The tool uses WebAssembly to compress files using LZMA, and optionall... | {
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} |
Barclays Center freight elevators: each can carry a loaded semitruck (2015) [pdf] - owenversteeg
http://www.meielevatorsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/BARCLAYS-CENTER.pdf
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couchand
Very interesting read.
I was confused about the specific location the document desribes. "They enable
semi-truck or bus dr... | {
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} |
Worse Than China? U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers - sdizdar
http://act.demandprogress.org/act/protectip_docs/?source=fb
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jgershen
This article, like the headline, is light on facts and high on sensationalism.
However, the bill (full text available at [1]) does look pretty ugly.
[1]... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can you posit some examples of civil discourse? - ahdroit
I understand this is not a political forum and am not looking for your political opinion rather examples of effective communication.<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvmLMUfGss
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Vietnam and the In... | {
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} |
HN Being Fair - unimpressive
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=%22to+be+fair%22
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niggler
To be fair, "to be fair" is a common phrase that many of us use in face-to-
face conversation
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unimpressive
It is, I just find these little quirks in language fascinating.
| {
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} |
Google Zeitgeist 2012 - sethbannon
http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world
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chrisacky
Op op op op oppan. So, I was browsing through the source of the Zeitgeist
pages (as you do), and I saw some pretty cool stuff.
I started off by just wanting to know how the explore map was done [1]
But then I saw #eas... | {
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} |
Do you remember TJ Holowaychuk? - volument
TJ (https://github.com/tj) used to be a significant JavaScript contributor and could easily be labeled as the "rockstar" of the time. In 2014 he switched from Node to Go (https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why I'm Learning Node - b14ck
http://rdegges.com/why-im-learning-node
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wickedchicken
Not many people know this, but Javascript: The Good Parts is available online
as a PDF, for free! [http://www.rose-
hulman.edu/Users/faculty/rickert/OldFiles/Cl...](http://www.rose-
hulman.edu/Users/faculty/rickert/OldFiles/Cl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Whats your favorite YouTube tech channels but not famous? - giis
Recently came across this relatively little known channel[1]. Though it has only 6 videos and <50k users, its good. Do you know such channels?<p>[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/PieterExplainsTech/feed
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rafzzz
Je... | {
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8 Steps Two CS majors Took to Becoming Powerful Speakers - ciscoriordan
http://bases.stanford.edu/2010/04/07/8-steps-two-cs-majors-took-to-becoming-powerful-speakers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+stanfordbases+%28StanfordBASES%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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ciscoriordan
Copy and past... | {
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} |
90% of software developers work outside Silicon Valley - douche
http://qz.com/729293/90-of-software-developers-work-outside-silicon-valley/?imm_mid=0e5d09&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20160716
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ratfacemcgee
>90% of the world lives outside the United States
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brudgers
I agree the submission could use a title chan... | {
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} |
Pikini just launched – App to find your friends' bikini pictures automatically - mosselman
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pikinis/id715969584?utm_source=Launch+%28wave+13%29&utm_campaign=b3a794a37b-Launch+email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aa9fcb934b-b3a794a37b-79962533
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jaegerpicker
Jesus, and people in this ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Page of HN links - kgermino
http://hnlists.pen.io/
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kgermino
I wrote this up after the earlier discussion at
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496527> It's nothing fancy, but I figure
it might be a nice reference.
Let me know if there is any pages/links you want added.
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A Breakdown of Selected Government Surveillance Programs (2013) [pdf] - cmurf
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/Government%20Surveillance%20Factsheet.pdf
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cmurf
Decent three page summary from Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University School of Law.
Are They Allowed to Do That?... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Science for the very young? - timwiseman
My son is just about to turn 5 and I am looking for "science experiments" or projects we can do together to help get him interested (and give me an excuse to do some of them).<p>Any suggestions, especially on a budget?
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zoba
I think anything that "looks cool" wi... | {
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} |
Show HN: Mobile consumable HackerNews cards - prats226
http://web.cubeit.io/web/index.html?id=7ee8b2b5-4aa9-49db-b054-b8cd1a9c28780
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brudgers
Related: [http://cubeit.io/blog/2016/03/29/understanding-why-people-
sh...](http://cubeit.io/blog/2016/03/29/understanding-why-people-share-
screenshots-how-that-led-to-ou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The FTC's PrivacyCon Is *Today* in DC (free to Public and Webcasted) - Dowwie
".. to discuss the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security"<p>event url:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/01/privacycon<p>research submissions ... | {
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} |
Why do Google ads point to adware? - jakepoz
http://jakepoz.com/why_do_google_ads_point_to_adware.html
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djnliung
Google is a web company, why would Google invest significant money and
engineering effort into filtering out things that only harm competing
platforms? Google's own platforms (Chrome + the web and A... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Evercookie used by NSA to track TOR users across browsers - grhmc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
======
sp332
That edit was made a year ago. It's not news.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evercookie&diff=5...](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evercookie&diff=577190307&oldid=568209885)... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died - esalazar
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/since-2016-half-the-coral-in-the-great-barrier-reef-has-perished/558302/?single_page=true
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Qworg
Corals are fascinating creatures and incredible symbiots. Vulcan (where I
work) has been... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ski Resorts Exaggeration of Snowfall Reduced Sharply Because of iPhone App - dean
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122084539&ps=cprs
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s3graham
My Dad used to work for IDRC (www.idrc.ca) and he told me a story about one of
his earliest (and happiest) development projects. It's very simple: b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The $1bn hostage deal that enraged Qatar’s Gulf rivals - forkLding
https://www.ft.com/content/dd033082-49e9-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43
======
kristianp
Archive version: [http://archive.is/LqMos](http://archive.is/LqMos)
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bradknowles
Paywalled.
| {
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} |
Cicada 3301 challenge: partial solutions [video] - vinchuco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJF_FoSI9o&t=25s
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vinchuco
Extensive previous discussion
[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularit...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cicada%203301&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches - qwph
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.36.6379&rep=rep1&type=pdf
======
Hexstream
This provides good insight into some of the techniques used to make
intuitively slow dynamic operations very fast in practic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A New Game I Built in Two Months - felipemora
Sorry for using a brand new account. I've lost access to my old account of several years.<p>This is a game that I spent the last two months working on: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.shooter<... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Evaluating potential co-founders? Try going camping. - jesselamb
http://notmylawyer.com/post/745869535/evaluating-potential-co-founders-try-going-camping
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hnote
Vladimir Vysotsky, Song about a friend
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0YzyUEhbo>
Original version, without subtitles
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... | {
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} |
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