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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 ====== 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&#x27;t have ISBNs or other universal identifiers.<p>I would like to take photos of the covers of these, keep track of what box&#x2F;shelf they&#x27;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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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! ------ 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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. ------ puredemo Great previ...
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Surviving the SSHpocolypse - Kenan https://github.com/blog/1212-surviving-the-sshpocolypse ====== 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 ====== scott31 Will probably be discontinued in 2 years
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HIDDEN FIGURES - ymgch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo ====== 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&#x2F;~tenshi&#x2F;Killer_000.htm ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== dmfdmf Excellent.
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Where do start to learn Cyber Security? - jypepin Hi HN!<p>I&#x27;m a web engineer working mostly with Rails&#x2F;Phoenix&#x2F;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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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...
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Is the Metric System Better? [video] - caiobegotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hid7EJkwDNk ====== 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...
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Corporate profits continue to increase, while wages continue to languish - doener https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1018239133578194944 ====== Findeton If it was that easy, everyone would be creating their own companies... ------ 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ------ 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>)...
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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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;hallo.business&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hallo.business&#x2F;</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 ====== 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...
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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/ ====== 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! ------ altuzar MAMP is from the past, agree. And nice site. ------ 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-...
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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 ====== 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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ------ 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....
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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/ ====== 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&#x27;t have the option to comment on it. ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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...
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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 ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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...
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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/ ====== 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 ====== known As per #SaveJournalismFromBrahmanism 70% Editors are Brahmin who are just...
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Gameboy emulation library in JavaScript - arcatek https://github.com/arcanis/virt.js ====== 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...
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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 ====== 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/ ====== vpanyam The source is up here: [https://github.com/VivekPanyam/RottenTomatoesSample](https://github.com/VivekPanyam/RottenTomatoesSample) ------ 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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&#x27;m a Computer Science Under-Grad (3rd year) who finally got an ACM DL subscription. It&#x27;s a big library, are there any notable go-tos that anyone who has a subscription should take advantage of? ====== 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 ====== EwanToo It doesn't do that, it's just a generic explanation of routing. ------ 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 ====== 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/ ====== 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/ ====== bhashkarsharma Can someone open it in IE and confirm whether it works better than on other browsers? That'd be a first. ~~~ 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/ ====== 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/ ====== 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 ====== 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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