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Cortana: The spy in Windows 10 - CrankyBear
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3106863/microsoft-windows/cortana-the-spy-in-windows-10.html?nsdr=true
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Someone1234
> When it’s working as your virtual assistant it’s collecting your every
> keystroke and spoken syllable.
So is a Google Search.
Whenever you type... | {
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Ask HN: Personal Library Manager? - polm23
I have a lot of books. In particular I have a lot of doujinshi, or self-published amateur magazines, that don't have ISBNs or other universal identifiers.<p>I would like to take photos of the covers of these, keep track of what box/shelf they're stored in, and ... | {
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I Just Made My First Sale Woooooooooh - motyar
I just made my first web script sale,
http://motyar.info/draw/<p>Its the code to draw like on canvas like ms paint. User can download the drawing.<p>I placed the "Buy It for just $10" one week ago.
Here are more statics from Google analytics:-<p>467 Pageviews<p>327 Uniq... | {
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Windows could be required to use some Linux apps (Embrace, extend, extinguish) - greatgib
https://twitter.com/greatgib42/status/1262820102300479492
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greatgib
My comment, copied from the other thread on the same subject:
Here is how I would sum it up:
* They create a new kernel file descriptor: /dev/dxg
* With... | {
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Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Performance - rayshan
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-performance/view-all/
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emn13
The methodology is questionable on several fronts:
\- you can't use the load event to compare advert-heavy vs. advert-free load
times. The load event does _n... | {
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Not All Queues Compose - bothra90
https://www.notion.so/whole-sum-parts-099504c4e4234b55b9d5189704ff3fc8?p=9c2bfcf2910f46ceae4af6ba4fada83b
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brudgers
Traditionally, last-in-first-out data structures are called "stacks" to
distinguish them from queues. In this tradition, "queue" only refers to first-
in-first-out... | {
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} |
Intel caught with misleading marketing for its latest chips by TheVerge - mtgx
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3856050/intel-candid-explains-misleading-7w-ivy-bridge-marketing
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CyberFonic
Looks like ARM is getting to Intel!
When a company resorts to gimmicks to make its products looking better than
their mai... | {
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} |
Show HN: Quixotry - my multiplayer word game - joelanman
http://playquixotry.com/
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molsongolden
Would it be difficult to make the game keyboard responsive? Cool stuff other
than that.
~~~
joelanman
It's on the to-do list, thanks for playing!
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joelanman
It uses node.js and socket.io in the back end, htm... | {
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Ask HN: What are some high-impact books on leadership you've read? - yogrish
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evolve2k
5 Dysfunctions of a Team (a leadership fable) as well as the related leaders
field guide to help you run a strategic weekend offsite are both amazing.
[http://www.betterworldbooks.com/Five-dysfunctions-of-a-
team-...](http... | {
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} |
Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times - premek
https://gist.github.com/premek/6e70446cfc913d3c929d7cdbfe896fef
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kelnos
Something like this isn't really necessary. I do something like this (bash)
all the time when I want to change a part of a filename (renames "foo-bar-
baz.txt" to "foo-bar-quu... | {
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On HTML 5 Drag and Drop - mgcreed
http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/08/16/on-html-5-drag-and-drop/
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adamhowell
This is a case where I think it would've been good to edit the title.
This post is about how they used HTML5 to enable drag and drop between browser
windows. Pretty nifty.
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puredemo
Great previ... | {
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Surviving the SSHpocolypse - Kenan
https://github.com/blog/1212-surviving-the-sshpocolypse
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akira2501
Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you patch SSH instead of just using
something like pam_mysql and nscd?
~~~
kijin
Previous, but still inconclusive, discussion about the same matter:
<https://news.y... | {
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Googie Architecture - spking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture
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scott31
Will probably be discontinued in 2 years
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HIDDEN FIGURES - ymgch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo
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ymgch
HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji
P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle
Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the
brains behind ... | {
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} |
Creating the innocent killer - mlevental
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
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brudgers
clickable,
[http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm](http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm)
~~~
mlevental
oh man how the hell did i mess that up
~~~
dang
We'v... | {
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MapReduce II (followup to "MapReduce: A major step backwards") - neilc
http://www.databasecolumn.com/2008/01/mapreduce-continued.html
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jimbokun
This is the article they should have written in the first place. Much more
detail, much better qualified arguments. And the point about each generation
of computer sci... | {
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} |
UK Wind farms outstrip nuclear power - RobAley
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29715796
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NickPollard
Relevant quotes:
* The energy network operator said it was caused by a combination of high winds and faults in nuclear plants. * The situation is caused by windy conditions boosting the output from turbines... | {
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} |
Demand Media (Richard Rosenblatt, from MySpace) preps IPO - FluidDjango
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/technology/demand_media_ipo_goldman/index.htm
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patio11
We will now see whether Google considers Demand Media too big to fail or not.
(Demand Media is the biggest, most sophisticated search engine spammer in
... | {
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} |
Discrete Differential Geometry: Helping Machines/People Think Clearly Abt. Shape - espeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcal5Cy7r4E
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dmfdmf
Excellent.
| {
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Where do start to learn Cyber Security? - jypepin
Hi HN!<p>I'm a web engineer working mostly with Rails/Phoenix/Node and React. I want to learn more about security to be able to 1. build more secure applications, and 2. help client secure their existing apps.<p>What are good resources for this?
======
n... | {
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Robots will not take your job - twowo
https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/
======
crdoconnor
The "robotjobpocalypse" was pretty much always just a politically expedient
way of scapegoating aggregate job losses caused by outsourcing and austerity.
It's also something that some companies (notabl... | {
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} |
The first asteroid we've seen from outside our Solar System is totally bizarre - nathanielc
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/20/16679890/interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-pan-starrs-solar-system
======
nathanielc
Link to draft paper on Nature
[https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...](https://www.e... | {
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} |
Python Tools for Visual Studio - johndcook
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/08/29/python-tools-for-visual-studio.aspx
======
silverbax88
Awesome. Now I can do my robotics programming in the best IDE in existence.
Sorry, Eclipse, I love you and we're great together, but you're no Visual
Studio.
~~~
franc... | {
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} |
From birth to 18, the brain stores 1.5 MB of information to master language - ClarendonDrive
https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/27/younglanguagelearners/
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nostrademons
This is slightly ridiculous - if it were only 1.5MB of information computers
would have a much easier time with it. Google trains their voice-reco... | {
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} |
The death of Myspace: A former employee looks back - bootload
http://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/news/the-death-of-myspace-a-former-employee-looks-back/31505.htm
======
bootload
_"... Look at the odds against Facebook, Myspace had music, videos, local
partnerships, mobile integration, millions of bands, four tim... | {
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Charity parties in 170+ cities, based around Twitter - ahoyhere
http://twestival.com/
======
dmolnar
They're using tipjoy to encourage donations and visibility via tweets, which
should also allow measuring how much money was raised directly by the event.
Wonder what they are doing to measure the other impacts, such ... | {
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} |
Jigsaw - hsnewman
https://jigsaw.google.com/
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013
Trying not to sound too pessimistic, but none of these projects seem to be
revolutionary or add anything to existing solutions.
There's DDoS protection, A phishing extension, VPN, an android app for DNS?
The machine learning of comments could be useful for mach... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Is the Metric System Better? [video] - caiobegotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hid7EJkwDNk
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dgellow
Yes
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} |
Bitcoin faces regulatory crackdown, Bank of England warns - oldcynic
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/02/bitcoin-faces-regulatory-crackdown-bank-england-warns
======
dom96
The quotes in the article mention anonymity as one of the problems, but all
Bitcoin transactions are public. Is it really that difficu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Corporate profits continue to increase, while wages continue to languish - doener
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1018239133578194944
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Findeton
If it was that easy, everyone would be creating their own companies...
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Mr_Miner
The concept of profit maximization rules most of the corporate sector.
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Genetically Capitalist (.pdf) - byrneseyeview
http://econ.binghamton.edu/papers/clark.pdf
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daniel-cussen
Natural selection favors nerdiness...awesome.
| {
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Hypermedia, past, present and future - apievangelist
http://www.bizcoder.com/hypermedia-past-present-and-future
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brandonlipman
This is a terrific article!
| {
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Tell HN: Buenos Aires Meetup next Friday - fpereiro
I'm a developer based in Buenos Aires. I'd like to meet more people living here who are into startups and technology, to see what we can hatch together.<p>When: Friday Sept 30, 8PM<p>Where: the Starbucks at Malabia 1720, Palermo, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.<p>Just in c... | {
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Reddit is down for emergency maintenance - ORioN63
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
======
ichthis
As are linkedin, stumbleupon, thepiratebay and fark.
~~~
ichthis
And 4square.
~~~
sxtxixtxcxh
and yelp.com
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wglb
Let's not post when a site goes down. Not interesting.
In particular, check <http://www.dow... | {
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} |
Show HN: Just released the Beta of CraftStudio, my coop game-making platform - elisee
http://craftstud.io/?beta
======
elisee
I spent the last 4 months redesigning and improving CraftStudio and I just
launched the Beta last night. It comes with a physics engine, a HTML5 Web
player (<http://store.craftstud.io/games>)... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mika Mobile ends Android development - vwadhwani
http://mikamobile.blogspot.com/2012/03/our-future-with-android.html
======
MattRogish
I work for an app company and can verify his comments.
Apple has done a great job at getting its users to pay for apps. They've done
this via:
1) Encouraging Developers to not pric... | {
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} |
GoDaddy Acquires Uniregistry - amdixon
https://uniregistry.com/blog/post/better-together
======
batjoro
I recently saw an article ( [https://hostingchecker.com/research/the-most-
crowded-ipv4-ad...](https://hostingchecker.com/research/the-most-crowded-
ipv4-addresses-on-the-internet/) ) where Uni was mentioned and it ... | {
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Ask HN: Why don't people use SCRAM for password authentication? - thristian
Blog-posts about password authentication usually talk about encrypting passwords in your database, with the understanding that the user's password will be sent verbatim to the server (possibly over an encrypted transport). The usual alter... | {
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Exploit Prevention as a Service for Rails - tkellogg
https://hakiri.io/blog/grand-opening
======
jph
Take my money! :) Your service is super-useful for app security. I'm signing
up right now. Great idea.
My two cents for you: you're far enough along that you can start seeding your
market as fast as possible.
* How... | {
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} |
Show HN: Hallo.business Business phone for 21st century - jegan_hb
<a href="https://hallo.business/" rel="nofollow">https://hallo.business/</a><p>Hi All,
We help customers call businesses without typing phone numbers. Customers can simply speak or type which team they would like to speak ... | {
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} |
Lenovo leaked an AMD Ryzen 9 U-series chip - ekoutanov
https://www.techradar.com/news/lenovo-may-have-just-leaked-a-ryzen-9-u-series-chip-that-could-make-intel-squirm
======
pedrocr
X1 Carbon with 32GB ECC RAM, 4K screen, 2 M.2 slots and one of these Ryzen
APUs. That's pretty much my dream laptop. Will almost certainl... | {
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} |
Has Elon Musk's Tesla already won? - mlacks
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Has-Elon-Musk-s-Tesla-already-won
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mlacks
>We can debate the merits of this sense of corporate responsibility. The fact
remains, though, that Musk's operation is not hampered by this galaxy of
moving parts. By keeping many of these funct... | {
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} |
LibGDX 1.0 released - octopus
http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=3412
======
sdfjkl
For those as ignorant of the Java/Android scene as me:
_LibGDX is a game-development application framework written in Java with some
C /C++ components for performance dependent code. It allows for the
development of desktop an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
No One Tweets Like the Japanese, and That Was a Problem for Twitter - swohns
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/how-twitter-handles-traffic-from-the-japanese-who-tweet-like-no-one-else/
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josephschmoe
"built a new system—known as a software “framework,” in engineering speak"
Hearing the words "engineering speak" bothe... | {
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} |
Beautiful 3-D Brain Scans Show Every Synapse - bane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXuq9jRWKE&feature=youtu.be
======
Gravityloss
This is excellent. In my opinion, computer science oriented people interested
in AI should study brains as well - it's a totally different approach to the
problem.
| {
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} |
Is Nathan Myhrvold/Intellectual Ventures a patent Troll? - ashbrahma
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/12/intellectual-ventures-sues-nine-tech.html
======
steveklabnik
Yes.
| {
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Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration - kumaranvpl
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/numba-python-cuda-acceleration/
======
pavanky
I'd also like to shamelessly point out something I work on:
[https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-
python](https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-python)
It is... | {
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} |
MNPP - A high performance web server in a one-click installer - hmart
http://getmnpp.org/
======
viktorino
Mac + Nginx + Percona + PHP love them all!
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altuzar
MAMP is from the past, agree. And nice site.
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thwarted
_Install a world-class PHP_ development environment _on your Mac. Unleash the
speed of th... | {
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} |
What does an idea person without software skills or business education do? - arpit
A very good friend of mine is an idea person and we spend a lot of time discussing our different ideas for web/iphone apps. I am (thankfully) a programmer so I can prototype my own ideas and put it on the www to get feedback and see i... | {
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} |
Tips and tricks in using Webpack - yedakesom
https://github.com/rstacruz/webpack-tricks
======
nnq
I'm more interested in an up-to-date "webpack for complete newbs with hairy
hybrid-modern-legacy projects" resource, that would introduce you to
everything from scratch with real examples.
Hopefully including more real-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Slashdot Effect - Digg_mov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHLkw558v4
======
Digg_mov
have fun
| {
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} |
The future of CAD and 3D printing will arm citizens - xkcdfanboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZAaxYwhOo
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lifeguard
People will be sad when they realize the barrels are not rifled. That means
these are plastic zip guns.
~~~
xkcdfanboy
It's not hard to add a rifling to the model is it? It seems like they ar... | {
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} |
Tell HN: Major bug in Chrome - mtgx
I tried sending an e-mail in G-mail and it was saving and sending it as "undefined". At first I thought it might've been a weird Gmail bug, but now I see others mentioning that it saves their text as "undefined" in Wordpress, too, when using Chrome.<p>This seems to have started ha... | {
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} |
Facebook And The Future Of Competition - colortone
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/last_week_i_discussed_why.html
======
colortone
I hope everyone here is continuing to follow this meme. It's an incredibly
powerful way to design businesses.
I _strongly_ recommend John Seely Brown & John Hagel's 2005 ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Goodbye – Findx is shutting down - __ka
https://privacore.github.io/
======
tannhaeuser
I'm loving it how Fb makes a campaign about open data, yet blocks indie search
engines like findx.
Very informative post mortem; also includes the obligatory "incredible"
phrase.
Edit: didn't know Github, too, only allows Google ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Vitamin C and Immuno-Oncology - daddylonglegs
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/02/vitamin-c-and-immuno-oncology
======
pazimzadeh
Here's the original article:
High-dose vitamin C enhances cancer immunotherapy
[https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/532/eaay8707/](https://stm.sciencemag.org/conten... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Git Confirm. Git hook to catch accidentally committed code (TODO/Skip) - pimterry
https://github.com/pimterry/git-confirm
======
themckman
There isn't a lot that peeves me more than working with developers with poor
git commit habits. As someone who takes every commit they make seriously, it
can really demoti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code - egraether
https://www.coati.io/blog/why_working_on_chrom_made_me_develop_a_tool_for_reading_source_code/
======
farhanhubble
What you're doing has the potential to change the quality and speed of
software development. We most often end up building ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Debugging using system calls in Mac OS X - bryceneal
http://bryce.is/writing/code/macosx/debugging/udp/sockets/dtruss/dtrace/eaddrinuse/2016/07/30/debugging-using-system-calls.html
======
danieldk
One thing that the article does not mention is that dtruss is also just a
DTrace script (well, a DTrace script in a shell ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Zynamics acquired by Google - sp_
http://blog.zynamics.com/2011/03/01/zynamics-acquired-by-google/
======
sp_
My former boss (I left the company in October 2010) just announced that
zynamics was acquired by Google. zynamics is a boostrapped German startup that
never took any VC capital. We specialized in building re... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Particle raises $40M Series C to enable the Internet of Things - dcschelt
https://blog.particle.io/2019/10/30/particle-raises-40m-series-c/
======
mdorazio
Would like to see them use some of this to put out a LoRa board as an
alternative to cellular / WiFi.
| {
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} |
New Chrome for iOS scans for beacons broadcasting URLs - jimiasty
http://blog.estimote.com/post/124778667895/google-services-on-ios-now-work-natively-with
======
jimiasty
Estimote founder here.
Few days ago Google released their new, open beacon format - eddystone and
today just updated Chrome for iOS that can scan... | {
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} |
Replacing Skype with SIP using Plivo (YC S12) - bevenky
http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/05/18/replacing-skype/
======
nishadmusthafa
Great tutorial. I see that you've mentioned "non intuitive". We'd love to hear
how that can be remedied.
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fakeer
I am thinking of switching to them(personal usage). I've had a Go... | {
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} |
People overestimate their ability to recognize fake news - newman8r
https://www.quod.us/article/people-overestimate-ability-to-recognize-fake-news
======
joeblow9999
News about fake news. So meta.
| {
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} |
Show HN: Analyze contents of your videos with Dextro's API - sanchitarora
http://www.dextro.co
======
chatmasta
Nice, boola boola. ;)
I think I remember talking to David about this in SF a few years ago, or at a
YEI event or something. I interned at Numenta and he was aking me some ML
questions. Looks like y'all ha... | {
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} |
Goodbye R scripts, hello R packages - RA_Fisher
http://statwonk.github.io/blog/2013/11/03/goodbye-scripts/
======
vikp
I love R, and it was actually the first language I really learned to program
with (for obvious reasons, I wouldn't ever recommend this). I can identify a
lot with the "one-off scripts" problem of R.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Greatest shortcoming of human race: inability to understand exponential growth - chupa-chups
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-15/albert-bartlett-on-message-about-exponential-growth-to-the-end/
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chupa-chups
Sorry for the edited title, but the original title was too long.
The article is from 2013, but, ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why can't I comment on an article I submitted? - ttonkytonk
I noticed that when I submitted an article today, I didn't have the option to comment on it.
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ColinWright
Which one, and when?
_Edit:_ OK, I've turned on "Show dead" and there it is. My guess is that it
was DOA. Lots of submissions are DO... | {
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} |
Airing: the first hoseless, maskless, micro-CPAP - dsego
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airing-the-first-hoseless-maskless-micro-cpap#/story
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DrScump
What percentage of those who rely on CPAP now breathe exclusively through
their noses in the first place?
| {
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} |
The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed (2003) - ableal
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031027.html
======
ableal
Also, 2009 predictions for the 2013 cycle peak:
[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-
nasa/2009/29...](http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-
nasa/2009/29... | {
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} |
Looking inside a Linux powered slot machine - buovjaga
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2018/02/looking-inside-linux-powered-slot.html
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moondev
Awesome! Would be interesting to know more about the software and how they
test it all. I wonder what percentage of slot machines run linux? I would
assume most due to no... | {
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Salesforce releases language model bigger than GPT-2 large - strin
https://github.com/salesforce/ctrl
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minimaxir
I am working on a guide (should be released tomorrow) to easily get it up and
running for personal use. Here's my Twitter thread of current experiments with
the model:
[https://twitter.com/minimaxir/s... | {
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} |
Show HN: Camelot – PDF Table Extraction for Humans - NavyDish
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/camelot-2
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okket
See current discussion
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708)
| {
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Maybe Agile Is the Problem - signa11
https://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-agile-blah-blah/
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zbentley
The core issue, I think, is that software development remains unpredictable in
many very common situations (for a whole lot of reasons, most of which are not
technical). Management and planning requires predictab... | {
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} |
Life After Being Acquihired - uglyzigzag
I co-founded a company for 4 years with 2 other cofounders. Early this year, we decided to pursue acquisitions because our business went on the trajectory as a lifestyle business and we wanted to have the best outcome for our investors.<p>We basically went to all the possible c... | {
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Make it up as you go along - ntlk
https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/cae042ffb171
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zrail
"It unlocked a part of my brain I didn't know I had". I've felt this way about
games like D&D since I started playing in 8th grade. Yes they involve a game
structure but the most fun I've ever had has been telling rid... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Presenting Doesn’t Have to Be as Scary as Halloween - mauricedecastro
http://mindfulpresenter.com/mindful-blog/presenting-doesn-t-have-to-be-as-scary-as-halloween
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WorldTour
Very Nice.
| {
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The US military is trying to read minds - howard941
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614495/us-military-super-soldiers-control-drones-brain-computer-interfaces/
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laurex
Ed Boyden's work is fascinating. He has been involved with many things I'd
expect to directly impact the future of the brain on a consumer lev... | {
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} |
System and Method for Validating Video Gaming Data - bytematic
https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=10463971
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bytematic
Abstract: The present specification describes systems and methods for
filtering a video game user's match performance data or loadout data through
validation mechanisms. For the perfor... | {
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} |
The Developer Marketing Guide - craigkerstiens
https://www.devmarketingguide.com/
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siddharthdeswal
Here's how in-depth this link is, presented in (hopefully) easier to
understand context for most people here:
"The Web App Development Guide for Marketers"
1) Get a database because they are the where all your da... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years - jseliger
http://www.sfexaminer.com/solve-affordability-crisis-bay-area-housing-stock-must-grow-50-percent-20-years/
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gojomo
_News from 2029:_
Skylynr, the 'Uber of nanoassembled highrises', last night replaced 44 San
Francisco Vic... | {
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} |
Why Indian TV news ignored the first ever caste discrimination lawsuit in the US - akbarnama
https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/07/29/ignorance-or-design-why-indian-tv-news-ignored-the-first-ever-caste-discrimination-lawsuit-in-the-us
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known
As per #SaveJournalismFromBrahmanism 70% Editors are Brahmin who are just... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gameboy emulation library in JavaScript - arcatek
https://github.com/arcanis/virt.js
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azeirah
That actually looks really promising. The performance of the pokemon demo is
really bad on Firefox unfortunately, but near perfect on chrome.
~~~
arcatek
I would love to talk with someone understanding Spidermonkey's i... | {
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Ask HN: What is hnhackers.com? Is this cool or not? - dotBen
I've started getting emails via a site called http://www.hnhackers.com/ - which appears to have been created from the spreadsheet many of us put our details in for contracting..<p>http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJYi0yYVBka181Z0ZK... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Micro-Habits Changed My Life - formorefours
https://medium.com/@peter.e.schroeder/micro-habits-changed-my-life-47f572bfc153?source=linkShare-7043335c1240-1495047102
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CardenB
These are not "micro habits". These are just habits.
Secondly, the willpower cost of stacking on all these habits can easily eat
away at w... | {
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} |
Show HN: React Canvas Example App – Rotten Tomatoes - vpanyam
http://vivekpanyam.com/samples/reactcanvas/
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vpanyam
The source is up here:
[https://github.com/VivekPanyam/RottenTomatoesSample](https://github.com/VivekPanyam/RottenTomatoesSample)
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vpanyam
It works best on mobile! Try adding it to your hom... | {
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} |
Cardboard Standing Desk - dragthor
http://healthydeveloper.com/cardboard-standing-desk/
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dragthor
It's been two weeks of standing. Zero weight loss.
[http://healthydeveloper.com/weekly-
checkin-05-29-2016/](http://healthydeveloper.com/weekly-checkin-05-29-2016/)
vs.
[http://healthydeveloper.com/weekly-
checki... | {
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} |
Facebook Events Suck - jasjitsingh85
http://hotspotapp.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/facebook-events-suck/
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lesiki
Facebook events are fine, it's the writer's FB friends that 'suck'.
~~~
jasjitsingh85
Hey Lesiki. Even if your friends don't 'suck', the fact that its spammy still
makes the platform far less effectiv... | {
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} |
Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs - raleighm
https://quillette.com/2018/09/22/narrow-roads-of-bozo-land-how-we-came-to-be-governed-by-online-mobs/
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tomlock
> Governance-by-online-mob raises all sorts of questions, such as how many
> members does such a mob need to contain befor... | {
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} |
In Unix Everything Is a File - mutor
https://ph7spot.com/musings/in-unix-everything-is-a-file
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pjmlp
Any UNIX old timer knows that actually:
In UNIX everything is a file, except when it is not.
~~~
majewsky
> In _Plan 9_ , everything is a file
Fixed that.
~~~
rdtsc
> > In Plan 9, everything is a file > Fixed... | {
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} |
Refund policy for digital products - yani
https://help.servmask.com/2016/04/07/picking-the-right-refund-policy/
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bangelov
Very helpful and it covers all of the refund areas
| {
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} |
Ask HN: What Are Your Recommendations from the ACM Digital Library? - 0_gravitas
I'm a Computer Science Under-Grad (3rd year) who finally got an ACM DL subscription. It's a big library, are there any notable go-tos that anyone who has a subscription should take advantage of?
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akg_67
Subscribe to TOC (T... | {
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Reddit user bgog explains why the US Internet traffic is so slow right now - dglassan
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/of0lu/wtf_is_going_on_with_the_internet/c3gqvi2
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EwanToo
It doesn't do that, it's just a generic explanation of routing.
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toyg
Well, it's a generic description, we don't reall... | {
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} |
Comp.lang.c Infrequently Asked Questions - garret
http://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html
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ars
Painful to read. Definitely should not be read by beginners.
| {
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Do Startups Create Jobs or Destroy Them - jonbot
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/03/do-startups-create-jobs-or-destroy-them/
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justin_vanw
Without having read the article, the answer seems quite apparent to me. They
create jobs in one place and destroy them somewhere else.
Startups are really just businesses. ... | {
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} |
Bad scrolling by Microsoft - bhashkarsharma
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/AstonMartin/
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bhashkarsharma
Can someone open it in IE and confirm whether it works better than on other
browsers? That'd be a first.
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mattkrea
It is somewhat better but still not very smooth in IE11
| {
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A first look at Dell's 'Sputnik' Ubuntu Linux developer laptop - tanglesome
http://www.zdnet.com/a-first-look-at-dells-sputnik-ubuntu-linux-developer-laptop-7000001166/
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sequoia
"Developer profiles"? What does that mean? It will install node && jshint &&
vim for me or what?
What I want out of a linux ready lapt... | {
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} |
PRISM data used to to help the entertainment industry tackle pirates - smsm42
http://www.sodthe.net/prism-data-used-to-help-the-entertainment-industry-tackle-pirates/
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greenyoda
This article is just blogspam, and it even manages to mangle the link to the
original article. Here's the correct link to original ar... | {
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} |
Nonprofit modifying snorkel masks into safety gear for clinicians - sanj
https://maskson.org
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sanj
I am leading this effort. Happy to answer questions.
| {
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} |
How Do You Work On The Google Autonomous Vehicle Team? - toomuchtodo
Title speaks for itself.<p>I'm 30, have been doing IT for 12 years, and want to be on the forefront of self-driving cars (and am willing to work for free!).<p>I looked for job postings that would be specific to that division at Google, but didn't f... | {
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} |
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