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Software Predicts Which Companies Are an Easy Sell - jacobscott http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514111/software-predicts-which-companies-are-an-easy-sell/ ====== sjg007 Proud to be the 4th comment on team jacob's HN posts. ------ xynny lawl
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What is a good book for learning math from the ground up? - felipellrocha http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/69060/what-is-a-good-book-for-learning-math-from-the-ground-up ====== Iamahippie A school book, like holtz, or something, i have a few books from highschool, like math books
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A Conversation about Artificial General Intelligence - dchacke https://soundcloud.com/doexplain/11-a-window-on-intelligence-with-dennis-hackethal ====== dchacke Full disclosure: I'm the interviewee. I'm interested in critically discussing the interview.
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Pareto Principle-Based User Research - adamfard https://uxmag.com/articles/pareto-principle-based-user-research ====== helph67 Anyone operating any business should be aware of the importance of this principle. It's also relevant to those of us merely trying to survive `normal' life.
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Yishan Wong hypothesizing(?) on the Reddit saga - ub https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled/cszjqg2 ====== AndrewKemendo Archive in case these guys recant: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150711233921/https://www.reddi...](https://web.archive.org/web/20150711233921/h...
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CBP says traveler photos and license plate images stolen in data breach - tlrobinson https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/cbp-data-breach/ ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150688](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150688). ------ jolmg more commented duplicate: [https://news.yc...
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In some areas, USPS will soon email you scans of envelopes you get in the mail - cipherkittens http://www.wired.com/2015/12/the-us-postal-service-will-now-email-you-scans-of-your-mail/ ====== Albright Can I click a button to immediately send junk mail to the trash? Will the system heuristically learn which mail is ju...
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Lenovo UEFI Only Wants To Boot Windows, RHEL - mtgx http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg ====== Munksgaard That's unfortunate, but judging from Lenovos tweet[0], it could be a mistake, and they're looking into it. [0]: <https://twitter.com/lenovo/status/268962425917816832>
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Itertools in Python 3, by Example - dbader ====== brettkromkamp I presume this is the URL: [https://realpython.com/python- itertools/](https://realpython.com/python-itertools/)
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Google Ventures' Copious Launches Social Marketplace For The Facebook Era - snikolic http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/google-ventures-backed-copious-launches-a-social-marketplace-for-the-facebook-era ====== amac This is similar to a marketplace website I co-founded, Lifemall.com. The relationship between social and...
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Similarities between Musicians and Entrepreneurs - earbitscom http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/5-similarities-of-musicians-and-entrepreneurs/ ====== seiji People struggling to succeed are all the same. Startups, writers, script producers, musicians, ... See how much of this write-up rings true with you: <http://m...
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Google is working on a new AI-enabled messenger, its answer to Facebook M - chlestakoff http://www.businessinsider.com/report-google-is-working-on-a-new-smart-messaging-app-2015-12?op=1 ====== thebladerunner So much hype and confusion in this space!
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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory - j_b_f http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8Ads&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_source=direct-on.ted.com&utm_content=site-basic ====== j_b_f The speaker argues that your memory of an event is based l...
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Show HN: Polar 1.5 /w Cloud Sync. Manage your reading /w annotations and tagging - burtonator https://getpolarized.io/2018/12/16/polar-1.5-with-cloud-sync.html ====== burtonator This is a big release for us. You guys really liked our first release: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960](https://news.ycombin...
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What Does Sound Look Like? - choult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3oVGXr4mo ====== JoeAltmaier Air currents are not 'what sound looks like'.
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Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection - simonb https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/08/13/mimesis-violence-and-facebook-peter-thiels-french-connection-full-essay/ ====== carsongross Girard will be looked back on as a Father of the Church: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzF2OG2ejI...
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Ask HN: Far UVI breather instead of filter face mask? - bwilli123 Would a portable far-UVI breathing apparatus be a better approach to virus proofing than particulate filter face masks or respirators? Background info links https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hepacart.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;effective-uv-disinfection-lights-4-benefits-o...
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3,000 marketing pros reveal the best conversion optimization tools - mrohrssen http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/19/optimizely-mixpanel-omniture-ga-3000-marketing-pros-reveal-the-best-conversion-optimization-tools/ ====== TheRealSJR Thanks for sharing this. If any HNers have any questions on the report at all, I'll be ...
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Angry Birds cross 500 million downloads - vilpponen http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/11/02/breaking-angry-birds-cross-500-million-downloads ====== technoslut I've never understood why or how Angry Birds had become such a phenomenon. It managed to really separate itself from a plethora of mobile games and seems like...
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Man builds giant computer at home - alan_cx http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33237863 ====== alan_cx And there is a link to the site: [http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html](http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html) ~~~ teh_klev And was posted here ~6 months ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742](h...
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Multiplatform GPU benchmark adds macOS/iOS Metal 2 support - apecat https://www.basemark.com/benchmarks/basemark-gpu/ ====== apecat As a starting point for real numbers, Guru3D has run Basemark GPU 1.2 on 20 GPUs, on Windows [https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/basemarkgpu- benchmark-...](https://www.guru3d.com/arti...
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Breaking the Seal on Drug Research - gruseom http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/business/breaking-the-seal-on-drug-research.html?pagewanted=all ====== tokenadult The previous submission [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970873](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970873) received minimal attention from the HN ...
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The cost of messaging - rayvega http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/02/09/the-cost-of-messaging.aspx ====== CalmQuiet No: topic is actually about demands of _writing_ message objects: [http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2009/02/09/cos...](http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2009/02/09/cost.aspx)...
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Skype down? - transburgh http://www.centernetworks.com/skype-down ====== transburgh Reports from US and Europe of outages.
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FreshDirect neglects to renew its domain - bobinator30 http://gothamist.com/2012/12/26/fresh_direct_fiasco_company_critici.php ====== bobinator30 and why wouldn't they just publish the IP address, so I can order food?
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Single-atom transistor discovered - prakash http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091206085833.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 ====== scottw It was also discovered on Saturday: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979559> and...
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The Appalling Stance of Rand Paul - d4vlx http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/opinion/blow-the-appalling-stance-of-rand-paul.html?hp&rref=opinion ====== rthomas6 This is off topic for Hacker News per the guidelines. [http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ~~~ drhayes9...
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Apple Sues Nexus One Maker HTC - budu3 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/technology/03patent.html?ref=technology ====== invisible The problem is Apple didn't really INVENT[1][2][3] the concept and technology for multi-touch. They just implemented the first realized product (in a phone). So what if they filed a paten...
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A Sampling of Anti-Decompilation Techniques - swalsh https://blog.ret2.io/2017/11/16/dangers-of-the-decompiler/ ====== DogestFogey I'm surprised the Movfuscator hasn't been mentioned yet. It compiles C code into unconditional MOVs, and if you watch the author's Derbycon 2015 video there are ways you can scramble the M...
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Freud and Cocaine - gnosis http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/cocaine/ ====== xijuan Freud, Freud, should I love you or hate you? ------ johndlafayette <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/freud03a.html>
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Linux plus CP/M plus assembly equals LASM - erickhill http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/259/linux-plus-cpm-plus-assembly-equals-lasm ====== userbinator A brief discussion on the differences in syntax would've been nice, so we can see exactly how different they are (my guess is, not that much.) Microsoft M80 can be fou...
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Caddy – The HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS - joshmanders https://caddyserver.com/?hn ====== bketelsen I use caddy for everything I serve on the web now, and have been for roughly a year. It's an amazingly stable server -- fast and easy to configure. The team has continuously updated Caddy, and been extremely r...
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Silk Road: The Untold Story - Libertatea http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/ ====== Nemcue I kind of feel uncomfortable reading this. We fight for our privacy, and for others to not in secret take part of our lives — but then we gobble these kind of articles up; frothing at the mouth for every explici...
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“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.” - chumchum http://florian-michahelles.blogspot.com/2015/04/information-is-not-knowledge-knowledge.html ====== MichaelCrawford Data is not Information.
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PSA: Apple's $29 iPhone battery replacement program ends soon - Varcht http://zdnet.com/article/psa-apples-29-iphone-battery-replacement-program-ends-soon/ ====== herogreen PSA = public service announcement ? ~~~ tqkxzugoaupvwqr Correct. ------ dzhiurgis Mine broke camera, good luck proving that to Apple.
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Smart scale goes dumb as Under Armour pulls the plug on connected tech - close04 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/smart-scale-goes-dumb-as-under-armour-pulls-the-plug-on-connected-tech/ ====== _Microft Only half a week ago we had a thread that _Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kill...
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Makeitopen.com – new Open Source learning site from Facebook - mjohnston4 http://makeitopen.com/ ====== thrusong Does anyone know why Facebook never followed through with open sourcing Haystack, the photo storage tool which I believe is now powering inbox attachments as well? ~~~ captn3m0 Had never heard of Haystack ...
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Apple LZFSE open source reference implementation - dcohenp https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse ====== mtanski A more direct comparison would be with zstd. zstd started zhuff which was the lz4 authors work of putting lz4 & FSE together. [https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd](https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd)
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Tips for Succeeding in a CS. PhD - Nalta https://sybrandt.com/posts/2020_03_30_tips_phd_cs/ ====== johntiger1 Very insightful article! I like how you retrospectively analyze advice you were given. Maybe I will do a meta retrospective analysis in a few years :)
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Signed distance field raymarching. Procedural elephants - rinesh https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dKGWm ====== strangecasts If you're interested in graphics programming, Íñigo's articles are absolutely worth reading: [http://www.iquilezles.org/www/](http://www.iquilezles.org/www/)
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Habits of Mathematical Minds - phreeza http://mathteacherorstudent.blogspot.com/2010/09/habits-of-mind.html ====== stonemetal >>I've decided not to use the term "problem solving" because I believe this term is often misused to include solving problems Best line of the whole article.
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Paradoxes of Material Implication (1997) - olooney https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/mat-imp.htm ====== tr352 Let me copy/paste my reply from the same discussion yesterday ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650)): There's another "solution" to this ...
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Is Virtualization Worth It? - gaius http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/is-virtualization-worth-it/ ====== gaius Interested in anyone's thoughts on this...
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Algolia raises $110M Series C - vvoyer https://blog.algolia.com/algolia-series-c-2019-funding?2 ====== redox_ Congrats Algolia! ~~~ papa_ogre GG \o/ ------ Julie90210 Boooom
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A hand gesture could be your next password - johnshades https://www.fastcompany.com/90214588/a-hand-gesture-could-be-your-next-password ====== Ezhik Can't wait to shoot Revolver Ocelot's finger guns to sign in.
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Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm - danso https://www.ft.com/content/faccc538-56f9-11e8-bdb7-f6677d2e1ce8 ====== psetq Somewhat off topic, but If you're interested in the history of modern computing and not already familiar with the Xerox PARC [0] story, you should know that Xerox has a fascinating history of com...
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Slides: Responsive web design from the future - bergie http://speakerdeck.com/u/kneath/p/responsive-web-design-from-the-future ====== kneath For the curious, here's a few extra links from this talk: <http://warpspire.com/talks/responsive/> Hope you enjoy! ------ jasonwatkinspdx I'm glad that designers are starting...
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Google pledges $2 million in prizes to hackers who exploit Chrome - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/google-pledges-million-in-hacking-prizes/ ====== DanielRibeiro Limiting Daniel J. Bernstein to _the creator of djbdns_ is quite an understatement. He is a very important cryptographer, to say the least[1]...
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Google Signs Deal to Buy Manhattan Office Building - siculars http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/nyregion/03building.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print ====== siculars Real-estate postering aside, this deal does not "a rebounding real estate market..." It is no coincidence that Google's East Coast offices are located in this...
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New Facebook rollout commences - sanj http://blog.new.facebook.com/blog.php?post=30074837130 ====== furiouslol I guess I'm one of the crazy guys out there who prefer the old design. The nice Newsfeed aside, i find the redesign unintuitive.
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Ask HN: Concurrency in Go vs. C/C++ - Ch3ck I know in C++ multithreaded programs share memory as to way to track resource access. However in Go this is done through channels. I&#x27;m trying to explore some subtle differences writing concurrent Go code the C&#x2F;C++ way. My aim to find some bad practices in the proce...
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A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days - pera http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/13154/this-mysterious-military-spy-plane-has-been-flying-circles-over-seattle-for-days ====== coin > Nobody at the DoD seems to know who the aircraft belongs to or what exactly > it is doing flying...
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A list of facts about Google - tedsanders https://www.tedsanders.com/on-google/ ====== tedsanders Another fun fact about Google: both Google and Domino’s IPOed in 2004. Since then Domino’s stock has done better. [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/25/dom...](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.co...
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Get Well, Om (Om Malik suffers a heart attack) - nickb http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/03/get-well-om/ ====== Tichy And stop smoking...
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Ask HN: Is there an E2E encrypted team chat like Slack? - Lxr I am wondering what security-minded folk use for team chat. In particular, I don&#x27;t like the idea of storing plaintext commercially sensitive messages on external servers.<p>I&#x27;d think this is a common requirement for most serious companies - what d...
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Google Video Quality Report - bradly http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport ====== nysv So, what does it show? I only get "Results from your location are not yet available." ~~~ jchulce It's only available in Canada right now
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The Demise of Chrysler - sown http://www.newsweek.com/id/166659/page/2 ====== sown And I meant to post this: <http://www.newsweek.com/id/166659> ------ sown Sometimes I wonder if this will ever happen to silicon valley. The tone of the article is very ... final.
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UK Parliament publishes 250+ pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents - burtonator http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-05/seized-facebook-internal-emails-published-by-u-k-lawmakers ====== mtmail discussed in [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608658](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608658...
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Card Shark - far33d http://www.foundread.com/view/card-shark ====== jamesbritt "My 27th birthday is right around the corner, so while I'm still young, that youthful feeling is fleeting." Only if you let it be that way. ------ aston Matt Maroon is a new entrant on my cool people list.
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Ask HN/YC: Please suggest me some good books I can gift a 8 year kid - known ====== tjr I was about 8 when I saw my mom's copy of this: [https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer- Inter...](https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer- Intergalactic-ebook/dp/B01AYWADB4/) It was years before I s...
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Show HN: WP Pluginator – A WordPress Plugin Development tool - outsourceappz Hello All,<p>We&#x27;ve created a WordPress Plugin Development tool called as &#x27;WP Pluginator&#x27; which makes its super easy to create WordPress Plugins. It integrates quite a bit of functionality right off the bat. Here is the link - h...
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Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg's Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website? - rkudeshi http://gizmodo.com/5993535 ====== fatjokes What's embarrassing about it? It's a 15-year-old's website and it looks cleaner than most of the web from that era. Plus, at least he didn't mention his Asian fetish on this one (unlike...
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Goldman downgrades Microsoft, blames iPad - lotusleaf1987 http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/04/goldman-downgrades-microsoft-blames-ipad/ ====== Groxx 145 words[1] of blogspam. Article it links to: [http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/goldman_downgrades_...](http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/goldman_downgrades_...
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Court limits liability for using tainted code (innocent customer absolved) - grellas http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202457477366&Intel_Off_Hook_for_Buying_Tainted_Software ====== JabavuAdams Judge: "Seldom have so many trees died for so little." ------ ableal I was going to ask for your (grellas) opinion on...
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused - gyger https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1210662988828442624 ====== reeddavid What a total waste. Apparel companies are starting to participate in the secondary market for their used gear, why can't Sonos do something similar? Example...
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Track Santa with Google Maps - flowerpot http://www.google.com/santatracker/#/tracker/dashboard ====== littlemerman This is pretty fun.
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Jade: A Desktop Environment Built with Webkit2, JavaScript and Python - djsumdog ====== pekim The link to the repo appears to be missing. I think that it is probably [https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop](https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop).
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There's nothing wrong with making a mistake (2002) - luu http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/10/ItsOKtobewrong.shtml ====== cableshaft But HN just told me yesterday that engineers should be held to a higher standard and should be executed, firing range style, when there are bugs: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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Burning Man Seeks to Change ‘Convenience Culture,’ Boots Camp for Wealthy (2019) - masonic https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/business/burning-man-tickets.html ====== masonic 2020 gathering cancelled: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839503](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839503)
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Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc - davidgerard https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/09/07/intel-cant-supply-14nm-xeons-hpe-directly-recommends-amd-epyc/ ====== gumby I really think Intel lost its way back in the Barrett era and never managed to find it (and I think AMD is really significantly exceed...
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Why didn't JavaScript adopt the OO model adopted by C++/Java when it was designed? - bootload https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-JavaScript-adopt-the-object-oriented-model-adopted-by-C++-Java-when-it-was-designed/answer/Brendan-Eich?share=1 ====== bootload _" If JS didn’t make it into Netscape 2, we’d be speaking VBScrip...
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Facetime for the Mac - eddieplan9 http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/ ====== kgroll I'm definitely not suggesting that Facetime is, or will be, a failure. Thinking about it, however, reminded me of a passage from Infinite Jest about the failure of video chat. _(1) It turned out there there was something terribly s...
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Bitcoin - The Internet of Money - WardPlunet http://startupboy.com/2013/11/07/bitcoin-the-internet-of-money ====== vovantics Testing
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Is There Enough Meat for Everyone? - mhb http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Should-We-Eat-Meat ====== msandford Joel Salatin is one of the first people that comes to mind after reading the article. He might not rub you the right way (as he's an evangelical Christian, etc) but he sure does seem to have some interesting id...
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Arbitrary Code Execution on Pokemon Stadium for the N64 - pizza https://github.com/MrCheeze/pokestadium-ace ====== dimodi9 I see a pipeline error message on the bottom left.
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Building an HTML5 WebGL game with GLGE, Part 1 - statico http://statico.github.com/webgl-glge-game-part-1.html ====== statico The game itself is here: <http://statico.github.com/webgl-demos/ducks/>
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Are You Lightest in the Morning? [video] - yincrash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI ====== yincrash Essentially a video form of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416062](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416062) where the host investigates what the public thinks as well as animation of the actua...
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Appops reloaded – Istio, Kubernetes home-lab, Prometheus and pause-lab - alexellisuk https://tinyletter.com/mhausenblas/letters/appops-reloaded-47 ====== alexellisuk Absolutely packed with tech this week from Michael Hausenblas. Good read and wanted to share.
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Follow the White Ball: The torments of snooker’s greatest player - jonathansizz http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/follow-the-white-ball ====== sakri I've been a fan since 1992. Possibly the most beautiful video for me on youtube : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpeBugHSCnU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Are you running Windows XP? - neur0mancer http://amirunningxp.com/ ====== Piskvorrr No, but the page loads so slowly it brings memories of dialup. (What is it with 20 MB backgrounds anyway?)
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Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google - charlieegan3 http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/16/jeff-dean-on-large-scale-deep-learning-at-google.html ====== hartator It seems to work fine for me, a link to the actual talk on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSaZGT4-6EY](https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops - davi http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/24/raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-head-a-mosquitos-lament/ ====== developer1 Of course the video doesn't show anything interesting, the mosquito's leg is hardly even grazed. I was definitely hoping for the version whe...
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The first ever accurate molecular simulation with quantum computing by Google - gri3v3r http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-quantum-computer-is-helping-us-understand-quantum-physics ====== selimthegrim dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132700](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132700)
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Why did Quora choose Python for its development - Alex9762 http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choose-Python-for-its-development ====== waiterZen Python is good choice
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Need to list related videos along with their published date in YouTube? - divyumrastogi https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-video-list-dater/mbaflkdlneldejanggphlhcepncjfaco ====== divyumrastogi check it on github: [https://github.com/divyum/youtube- dater](https://github.com/divyum/youtube-dater)
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For sale: an Enigma machine - epo http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5370959&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8 ====== Robin_Message Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers and manuscripts, formed by Prof. Maxwell Newman, guide p...
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Extinct Startups Tees - signaler http://extinctstartups.com/ ====== pstevesy Clever. I'd like to see an Enron or Compaq tee.
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Bringing back the PC - ibrad http://idiallo.com/blog/2014/05/bringing-back-the-pc ====== ivan_ah The personal cloud built on FOSS is a very nice idea. We need this real bad. I think the technological complexity of implementing this is quite serious--- setting this up for the average non-technical person would be an...
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Google Sets 10-user Limit for Free Access to Apps - johndbritton http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-tweaks-apps-pricing-for-smbs-sets-10-user-limit-for-free-access/47818 ====== bence If you are a current customer your limits wont be affected.
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Google's Project Zero researcher discovers “major” security issue in LastPass - aloukissas http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/lastpass-hack-security-problem-password-manager-a7658806.html ====== sp332 Previous discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13960097](https://news.ycombinato...
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Someone Just Found an Embeddable Google +1 Button - It Works - Jsarokin http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/omg-someone-just-found-an-embeddable-google-1-button-%E2%80%93-and-it-works/ ====== trotsky Good job keeping up your journalistic standards in your headlines, TC. ~~~ robinwauters I read somewhere that the more ...
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WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? - mikkokotila http://autonom.io/what-is-intelligence/ ====== dozzie INTELLIGENCE IS TO KNOW NOT TO USE ALL CAPS. [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ~~~ waterswaters I was just about to say the SAME THINGGGGGGG
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Ask HN: A web site that is vulnerable to a good competitor? - andrewtbham I have been thinking about how lots of successful web sites were late to the market, but were cheaper, or better designed. (stack overflow, plenty of fish, all the 37 signals products, etc.) Can you think of a site where a lean competitor co...
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How Cassandra handles failures - koobe http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/How-does-Cassandra-handle-failure-during-synchronous-writes-td6055152.html ====== koobe TL;DR Disappointed to see Cassandra does not have Amazon Dynamo like eventual consistency. Or even acknowledge any lack there...
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Beautiful thumbnail hover effect using CSS3 - akashbhadange http://www.dzyngiri.com/index.php/beautiful-thumbnail-hover-effect-using-css3/ ====== mnicole Terrible UX. Not only does it make it nigh-impossible to hover over the other thumbnails, but transforms (scale most notably) often leave behind artifacts/borders ...
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Comcast Says It Wants to Charge Broadband Users More for Privacy - Rondom http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-Charge-Broadband-Users-More-For-Privacy-137567 ====== kevincox This actually makes quite a bit of sense if you look at it backwards. "Comcast provides customers a discount if they allow...
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Global secondary indexes - r4um https://lethain.com/global-secondary-indexes/ ====== r4um Spanner secondary index link is broken correct one [https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary- indexes](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary-indexes)
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The Curious Case of the Fortnite Cheater - kelukelugames https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17333292/fortnite-cheater-lawsuit ====== anigbrowl Interesting, but please the edit the headline to not be all caps. Thanks!
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Why computer programmers need to stop calling themselves engineers already - gukov http://www.businessinsider.com/why-computer-programmers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-engineers-already-2015-11 ====== DrScump Original article posted days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513371](https://news.ycombinator....
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Robert Scoble: I didn’t sexually harass women as I lacked power over them - briandear https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/robert-scoble-i-didnt-sexually-harass-women-as-i-lacked-power-over-them/?comments=1 ====== ColinWright [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Robert%20Scoble&sort=byDate&da...](https://hn.algolia.c...
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