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Google launches utility company: Google Energy - abraham
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10427993-54.html
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wmeredith
According to Google their intent is not to enter the utilities market, but to
be able to more easily manage their goal of becoming a carbon neutral entity.
~~~
sophacles
Right, thats why they... | {
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The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 - yankcrime
https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/
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_hardwaregeek
Is it just me or does this article feel kind of shallow? Like there's a lot of
fancy text boxes and nice big text, but it doesn't cover a whole lot of
information. Like how did the MTA build this in... | {
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} |
AR Sneaker Apps: Why the Future of Footwear Is Digital - bookofjoe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ar-sneaker-apps-why-the-future-of-footwear-is-digital-11580750963
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bookofjoe
[http://archive.is/rtE2D](http://archive.is/rtE2D)
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How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams - bberson
http://firstround.com/article/How-Stripe-built-one-of-Silicon-Valleys-best-engineering-teams
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nthj
> Stripe turns down candidates with outstanding engineering talent if they
> don’t fit with the team’s culture. Each candidate must pass the... | {
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Thoreau 2.0 - anu_gupta
https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm
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pixelmonkey
I thought this section was particularly good:
""" He was obsessed with how complexity can creep into unexpected corners of
your life, disguised as necessity. He gives the example of a farmer who
convinces himself he must eat ... | {
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16 Years with IPv6 - okket
http://teamarin.net/2017/06/12/16-years-with-ipv6/
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lwhalen
In Seattle and surrounding areas, Comcast is more or less the only game in
town (with Centurylink a distant, distant second) if you're not in one of a
dozen high-rise apartment buildings. For all their marketing around 'extens... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Impact: HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript Game Engine - bgar
http://impactjs.com/
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cnp
Just finished my first game using this framework and I am _very_ impressed.
Getting consistent 60fps on both android and ios, though strangely the one
browser that struggles is Firefox on desktop.
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} |
Show HN: SSH key deployment and account provisioning made easy (v2) - amrali
https://bastio.com
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amrali
Hi, one of the creators here. We got some really great feedback last time and
went back to implement a daemon-based service. We are interested to know what
server admins think of this tool, and what they fin... | {
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} |
Programming for Morons? - Jare
http://www.codingwisdom.com/codingwisdom/2012/09/programming-for-morons.html
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yvdriess
A bro-grammer's perspective.
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Top Tech Companies That Pay Engineers The Most - peter123
http://gigaom.com/2009/03/01/top-10-tech-companies-that-pay-engineers-the-most/
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likpok
I wonder what the variance on those numbers is. It can be important. For
example, the average salary of the 1984 class anthropology* majors from UNC:
Chapel Hill is se... | {
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} |
Pin-ocular - cyriacthomas
http://pin-ocular.blogspot.com/
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FatalLogic
Presented like this, it looks like a spam post, but actually it isn't.
Interesting design. Work on the presentation...
[http://reddyraveesh.blogspot.com/2015/05/pinhole-
camera-35mm...](http://reddyraveesh.blogspot.com/2015/05/pinhole-
camera... | {
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} |
Show HN: Wrish – A quick autosaving editor on the web - jajoosam
https://github.com/jajoosam/wrish
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jajoosam
Hey HN.
Wrish is an editor that saves text written every 3 seconds. It generates a 6
character alphanumeric hash for saving what you write, and it can be edited
again simply by copying and pasting the sa... | {
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What Happens Now That China Won't Take US Recycling - kilovoltaire
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/
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kilovoltaire
"America generated 262.4 million tons of waste, up … 60 percent from 1985.
That amounts to nearly five pounds per person a day."
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Russian startup Dream Industries is raided on by its investors - andreypopp
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/19/russian-startup-dream-industries-claims-to-be-raided-on-by-its-investors/
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andreypopp
I work for this company — there's a story by my colleague on what's happened
at the start of the raid — <htt... | {
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} |
Murder suspect asks Siri where to hide a dead body - spidersilva
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2464546/smartphones/murder-suspect-asks-siri-where-to-hide-a-dead-body.html
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seren
If this is indeed a true story, and if the question is correctly quoted in the
article, I really wonder why and how it happened... | {
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} |
2011: The Year Android Explodes - dave1619
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/26/2011-android/
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mortenjorck
_I can’t help but think sometimes that it looks as if Google actually did the
carriers a huge favor in the long-run because they’ve taken many of the bells
and whistles that drove users to the iPhone in the f... | {
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} |
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth - lnguyen
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth
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z_open
Disclaimer: I'm vegan
I really don't know how to help attitudes move towards a plant b... | {
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} |
Rackspace CDN finally adds HTTP Compression - dashr
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/03/04/cloud-files-cdn-compresses-at-the-edge/
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dashr
rCDN started offering http compression on text/html _,text/css_ , and
application/x-javascript*. Its enabled by default. Along with last weeks CDN
edge purge, this i... | {
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} |
Instagram Lite Offers Photo Sharing on Android for 1/55th the App Size - anastalaz
https://petapixel.com/2018/06/28/instagram-lite-offers-photo-sharing-on-android-for-1-55th-the-app-size/
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kup0
At such a small size, is it just a web view?
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Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU - rayuela
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-07/macron-set-to-defeat-le-pen-to-become-france-s-next-president
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orf
Further discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286630](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286630)
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nafi... | {
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History of Lisp Editing - lemming
https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-editing
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gumby
D-Edit was already around when I got to PARC in late 1983. The first thing I
worked on was an Emacs in Interlisp-D.
I think ITS Emacs (written in TECO) had paren matching before the CADR Lisp
machines (what you call ... | {
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If you're wondering why your "D" cell batteries don't last long... - nickb
http://www.newstarget.com/PhotoTour_Energizer_Batteries_1.html
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cstejerean
I was pretty disappointed with both the content of the article and the fact
that it was just a plug for Powerex. If the idea is that battery companies
purposeful... | {
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} |
Dear Google, am I pregnant? - cstross
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/03/dear-google-am-i-pregnant.html
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patio11
_Side note: In the USA, doing this would be a federal offence under Title II
of HIPAA._
It would probably depend on whether the consultancy got a BAA signed by
Google. That would obl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury - VladRussian
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-planet-sized-object-spotted-near-mercury-154443870.html
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VladRussian
they say it is an image processing artefact.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6...](http://www.youtube.co... | {
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North Carolina sues FCC for right to block municipal broadband - paralelogram
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/north-carolina-sues-fcc-for-right-to-block-municipal-broadband/
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duncan_bayne
I don't think you can describe the situation as 'competition' when some of the
'customers' are forced to pay at ... | {
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Ask HN: What recurring meetings do you have? Are they useful? - mavsman
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tombert
This is not a "meeting" exactly, but I have it scheduled as one.
Every morning, I have a half-hour (sometimes extended to an hour) blocking
meeting to check and reply to my emails, where I'm the only one invited. I get
a ton of emai... | {
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} |
The first place to start when marketing your startup - cezinho
http://www.cezary.co/post/79977288955/marketing-fundamentals-canvas
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shortsightedsid
A marketing plan or sheet as outlined is similar to a business plan. You can
even incorporate in the business plan. End of the day, as Eisenhower said -
plans are ... | {
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} |
Two Trains Puzzle - jimsojim
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.html
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dalke
The oldest telling of this puzzle I know of is Wigner's account of Max Born
posing the question to von Neumann in the 1920s:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS9O0CoVng&feature=youtu.be...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS9... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Elon Musk teases June news on Hyperloop, his rapid transit system for the future - glymor
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/29/4378468/elon-musk-teases-june-news-on-hyperloop-rapid-transit-system
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FD3SA
The concept is now fully fleshed out. His idea is a Maglev train which uses
ram-air and/or a lifting body to ge... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Law of Late Projects - adamo
http://www.commonsense4commonpeople.net/2009/11/the-law-of-late-projects.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CommonSense4CommonPeople+%28Common+Sense+4+Common+People%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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GrandMasterBirt
my co-worker one said "programmers are... | {
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This SAT Math question got no correct submissions - strategy
http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2015/07/05/everyone-got-this-sat-math-question-wrong-can-you-solve-it-sunday-puzzle/#.VZrxi_lVhBc
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lexcorvus
This is a corollary of the _coin paradox_ :
[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CoinParadox.html](http://mathworld.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: Play-test the most popular models in ML, directly from browser - aliabd
https://hub.gradio.app
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aliabd
Hey HN! Thanks for all the great feedback on our library yesterday:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901834](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901834)
We just launched interfaces for 12 of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Obama Owes us an Apology and an Explanation - danielrm26
http://danielmiessler.com/blog/obama-owes-us-an-apology-and-an-explanation
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d23
> with the failure to close Gitmo
He tried and was blocked by congress. On the rest of the points, I agree.
~~~
benjohnson
Gitmo is part of our military - as Commander in Chi... | {
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Ask HN: How to get a consumer social app off the ground? - teehfb
Let's say I was building a something like snapchat, how do I start getting users for the app? This is a classic chicken and egg problem, so I would love to see some actionable advice on how to get users. Considering the target demographic is 13 to ... | {
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Amazon may soon provide free video streaming for all - ozh
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/report-amazon-is-prepping-a-free-video-streaming-service/
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Tmmrn
free video streaming for all*
*limited to customers of microsoft and apple. Excluding everything that is not windows or mac os. Also, android.
| {
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A hacker challenge - shiroyasha23
http://shiroyasha.github.io/a-challenge.html
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joshtronic
That was fun!!
[https://gist.github.com/joshtronic/427d0591379dc4255673](https://gist.github.com/joshtronic/427d0591379dc4255673)
| {
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Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands - GW150914
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html
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coleca
Isn't there an inaudible tone that you can use to disable the assistant? I
recall reading somewhere that Amazon used it in their commercials for Alexa so
that ever... | {
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} |
So your ARM hardware is ServerReady? - pabs3
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2020/08/05/so-your-hardware-is-serverready/
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pabs3
Similar tools for other architectures:
[https://firmwaresecurity.com/2020/07/19/intel-arm-
microsoft-...](https://firmwaresecurity.com/2020/07/19/intel-arm-microsoft-
apple-platform-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: Madworld.tv – Vine, Instagram video-based internet TV - marpi
http://madworld.tv/noseguitar
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mykerberos
I am unable to use it because all your videos are MP4 and Firefox doesn't play
MP4
~~~
marpi
I know, that's what Vine/Instagram serves. Only solution is getting a backup
Flash player for that. It'... | {
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} |
A man who drives around collecting leftovers from tech companies - lazyjeff
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/11/leftover-food-tech-lunches-google-juul-linkdin-food-runners-pantry-waste/
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0b0001
The "Too Good To Go" app became quite popular in Germany now. Restaurants,
hotels and alike offer leftovers... | {
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} |
Travis Kalanick's ultimate hacking guide to CES (2008) - rmason
https://swooshing.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/bootstrappers-guide-to-ces/
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rounce
His second 'hack' made me chuckle though:
> Hack #2 – Rent a car
> * $20/day (huge savings over taxi costs)
> * No taxi lines (massive time savings over taxi line)
> ... | {
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Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI Is Limited - grej
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/science/news/elon-musk-vs-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-artificial-intelligence-stance-1728970
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jnwatson
I'm personally not a huge Facebook fan, but I was impressed with Zuckerberg's
AI assistant project he did as a sid... | {
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} |
Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation - anon1385
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/25/dea-riverside-wiretaps-scaled-back/80891460/
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edc117
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see this was stopped, but how long until the
DEA is simply drinking from the same firehose the NSA is? We've al... | {
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} |
Need Canadian health care? Too bad you're not a dog. - pchivers
http://www.macleans.ca/science/health/article.jsp?content=20080501_103008_103008
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sanswork
Not sure why this is here, I'd really expect to see it on Reddit instead.
That said, this is only true if you're lucky enough to live very close to one
of ... | {
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} |
Why You Should Never Use a Supply and Demand Diagram for Labor Markets - rhizome
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/07/never-use-supply-demand-diagram-labor-markets.html
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qubex
Economist here. I concur. Much woe is caused by applying supply and demand
reasoning to situations where other constraints are prevalen... | {
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} |
“We would like to offer you 7 days to export data and cancel your Hiveage.” [pdf] - ValentineC
http://s.natalian.org/2015-06-17/7days.pdf
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mdekkers
I think hiveage acted professionally and remained polite to what, by all
accounts, appears to be a bit of a dick with a chip on his shoulder: "Build
your product t... | {
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} |
What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.com - kiyanwang
https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/13/what-i-learned-by-bringing-down-linkedin-com/
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goodbyehorses
A great read, thanks for sharing. I've been a junior front-ender for two and a
half months now, it's not much but I've been working extra hours daily and on
wee... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Syrian rebel commander eats dead soldier's heart on video - salimmadjd
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/human-rights-watch-outraged-by-video-showing-syrian-rebel-commander-abu-sakkar-cutting-out-government-soldiers-heart-and-eating-it-8615112.html
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leephillips
I have nothing useful to say, b... | {
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} |
Personalized Hacker News Frontpage - riffer
http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/hnitems/
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riffer
This is a tool to tilt the Hacker News frontpage towards a particular user.
As HN grows, there is more interesting content added to it. What if there was
a way to get this content that would be interesting to you... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Oracle Separation of BQP and PH - eboyjr
https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2018/107/
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eboyjr
A more readable editorial can be found here:
[https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-
only-q...](https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-quantum-
computers-will-ever-be-able-to-solve-20... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Is there an immutable and decentralized database out there? - ncodes
Hi Guys,<p>I am in need of a database that is decentralised and would allow one or more privileged users perform only INSERT and READ operations. This means data stored in it would be replicated across all nodes and are immutable. Immutable i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Videogames under fire, Hollywood lays low after school shooting - 001sky
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/19/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-entertainmen-idUSBRE8BI1LU20121219
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stewie2
In my opinion, video game is a good thing, especially the GTA kind. it's a
good way to relief, so that people won't become m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What are all the good launch platforms for an Internet startup ? - jarsj
It should be global, themed around internet and competitive like Techcrunch 50. Absolutely no charging money from participants. An award is a plus.
Sadly, I know only Techcrunch 50.
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coryl
Why do you need a "platform" to launch o... | {
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} |
Short writing exercise closes gender gap in university-level physics [2010] - evolve2k
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/
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Jun8
It's interesting that the writing exercise did nothing for men's performance
o... | {
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} |
The most cliched movie tagline opening words... - spxdcz
http://amorphousblog.com/2010/the-story-of-a-man-who-wrote-awful-movie-tag-lines/
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spxdcz
Looking through the data (I wrote the post), there are some classics in there:
"Valentine's Day is the work of Satan" "When bad things happen to good
dogs..." "Thr... | {
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} |
Lessons from running a Code Club for Kids - edent
https://thelab.o2.com/2014/04/lessons-from-a-code-club/
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namanyayg
While I started reading I was meh-ing to myself and thinking that it's nothing
special, but I love points 3 and 4, asking peers for help.
Those points quickly changed my perspective around. Lea... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why should I study computer science? - mklappstuhl
Hey dear HN-fellows,<p>I asked this question on Quora some time ago but didn't get much from it.<p>I'm not sure whether I should copy the text or paste the link so I'll do both:<p>––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Original question:<p>Currently I'm ... | {
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The Problem with IRC - scrollaway
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeromeLeclanche/posts/icC6gDToBsQ
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rakoo
> So why are the basic problems not getting fixed?
Because it's a protocol, not a service. There is nobody in charge of IRC or
its evolution, there is no single entity in charge of dealing with spam, so as... | {
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} |
Pioneer: A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world - siberianbear
https://pioneer.app/
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ggm
On the homepage list of experts page Marc Andreessen looks like a conehead. Is
that Photoshopped to add some humour or does he have microcephaly?
~~~
hsikka
he definitely has strange head shape in reality. its pret... | {
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Ask HN: Which Macbook is best for development? - stasy
I need to get a Mac for iOS development (and some ruby on rails). I have limited amount of money, so something below $2000. Should I get a 13 inch Macbook pro with 4gb of ram or is retina something I should get. Is a desktop Mac better than laptop?
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dougba... | {
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Calacanis on Ellen Pao and Fixing the Gender Issue in VC - rsobers
http://calacanis.com/2015/03/23/mansplaining-the-ellen-pao-trial-fixing-the-gender-issue-in-venture-capital/
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foobarqux
> Venture capital used to draw the best of the business-school crowd, but
> today it’s being taken over by 30- and 40-year-old... | {
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A breakdown of how I was talked out of $100 - dskang
http://dskang.com/post/35828532133/a-breakdown-of-how-i-was-talked-out-of-100
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tzs
Even better than talking someone out of money is to get them to pay you
without even knowing they are paying. A landlord I rented from once did this
with the rent, managing to r... | {
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} |
Git-recent: Quickly check out your favorite branches - cool-RR
https://github.com/cool-RR/git-recent/
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cool-RR
OP here. This is my new open-source project. I made it to scratch an itch I've
had for years. I'll be happy to get any feedback.
Shameless plug: I've quit my job recently and I'm looking for my next ho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why I gave up my private office - vitakis
http://vitakis.com/2013/05/12/why-i-gave-up-my-single-office/
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doki_pen
I once worked in a place where the size and location of someones office was so
important that it seemed more important then getting work done or the success
of the company. It was really sad and my... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why don't I like objects? - throwawayplz
I have been writing programs for 17 years, a 'professional developer' for 13 years, an academic computer scientist, a hacker, and a systems guy. I have never admitted it, but despite years of professional OO development, I have never really "gotten" the object model, nor do I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nurses to carry out surgery under NHS plans to slash waiting times - RickJWagner
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/24/nurses-carry-surgery-nhs-plans-slash-waiting-times/
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planetzero
You mean the waiting times that the proponents of Universal healthcare say
don't exist?
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RickJWagner
'Slash' waiting ... | {
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Announcing CodeConf 2011 (GitHub is putting on a conference) - kneath
https://github.com/blog/780-announcing-codeconf-2011
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jonursenbach
I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive.
~~~
acgourley
I recently got a "exhibitor kit" packet that lists the costs of renting
certain items for your conference displ... | {
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Ask HN: Is there rss for HN new articles? - gaiusparx
Would be nice if there is rss feed for HN new articles http://news.ycombinator.com/newest.
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aj
<http://news.ycombinator.com/rss>
There you go. It's the top articles and not newest. The link is in the footer
link list
For the newest article (firehose) I'm ... | {
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I Think I Want To Make A Game - jcvandan
http://www.iamjcvandan.com/getting-started-in-game-development/
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steerj92
You do that. :)
| {
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When Does Your Intelligence Peak? - oblib
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-does-your-intelligence-peak1/
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kleer001
Right before you stop learning?
| {
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Genes In Space: A Mobile Game that Helps Speed Up Cancer Research - littledot5566
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/02/04/download-our-revolutionary-mobile-game-to-help-speed-up-cancer-research/
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maqr
From a link in the article:
[http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/03/01/can-
the-p...](http... | {
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Follow the goal creep - creativityhurts
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3304-follow-the-goal-creep
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SatvikBeri
What I get out of all these different posts on motivation is that the amount
of motivation matters a lot, the type of motivation matters very little, and
motivation and come from very different places fo... | {
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Perceptrons from memristors - godelmachine
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04912
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zgao
I don't mean to be too negative here, but this is hardly a new development, so
can someone clarify the novelty in this paper? Neural nets have been
extensively demonstrated in memristor-based architectures [1] and several
memristor... | {
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How we can learn from a baby's brain - robg
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/26/inside_the_baby_mind/?page=full
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tokenadult
"'We sometimes say that adults are better at paying attention than children,'
writes Gopnik. 'But really we mean just the opposite. Adults are better at not
paying... | {
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Martin Fowler's paper on Continuous Integration - mshafrir
http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
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culix
It's interesting that he considers testing to be a normal part of CI - "Once
I'm done I carry out an automated build on my development machine. Only if it
all builds and tests without err... | {
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} |
Analyzing Diaspora - jchonphoenix
http://jonchu.posterous.com/analyzing-diaspora
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jackowayed
A few thoughts:
* I don't think that they are outsourcing the coding to Pivotal. I got the impression that Pivotal liked their idea and offerend to give (rent?) them office space and monitors and give (probably not fo... | {
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Ask HN: Are you a fast developer? - cwt
Why? What make a fast developer? Is it rarely having to learn new things? Is it learning a new technology before other people on a team? How do you measure your speed as a developer?<p>This concept has been bothering me lately. I've been working on a project for a few wee... | {
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} |
Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look - jfruh
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/214031/open-source-jobs-whats-hot-and-where-look
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Peroni
_What's hot_
Over 1,500 words and not a single programming language mentioned. Instead
_embedded, mobile, and cloud_ are the _three big fields of growth_. W... | {
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} |
Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold - wglb
http://gigaom.com/2012/08/11/malaria-is-no-excuse-for-patent-trolling-mr-myhrvold/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM:+Tech)
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kevingadd
This reminds me of violent criminals who 'find faith' while imprisoned, excep... | {
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} |
Run a Small Team? Don’t Just Look to the Big Guys for Advice - sidkothari
http://blog.15five.com/run-a-small-team-dont-just-look-to-the-big-guys-for-advice-2/
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laaurenlee25
Great insight for lean teams. Leaders of large companies have great advice but
not always on how to manage and make the most of your tight... | {
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} |
Elon Musk's Wealth Is Closer to Your Wealth Than Jeff Bezos' Wealth - DarkContinent
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hju9nw/oc_believe_it_or_not_the_wealth_of_elon_musk_is/
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pmdulaney
Not in the geometric sense -- which is more like how people tend to think of
these things, whether explicitly or... | {
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} |
Helsinki's Radical Solution to Homelessness - leksak
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness
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tom_mellior
So fed up with these stupid clickbait headlines for good, interesting, useful
articles. Here's the subtitle blurb in case you weren't sure whet... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A chrome extension to countdown the years until your death - stevenmiller888
https://github.com/stevenmiller888/focus
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lostmymind66
This is depressing.
| {
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How to build the world's most extraordinary town - hammerbrostime
http://omegaproject.us/
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Klonoar
The tone of this site comes across as if it was written by a bunch of hippies
with little knowledge of how the world (or people in general) work.
This is a process that will take _years_ to even get started proper... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
User Interface Programming in the (Near) Future - pragmatic
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=335011
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Aviwein77
I have seen a wide variety of opinions on this subject already with people
feeling strongly towards and against CoffeeScript. I have also read reasons
why it is unnecessary to use thi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cisco set to open new accelerator focusing on ‘world-changing’ ideas - yanivf
http://www.geektime.com/2013/08/14/cisco-set-to-open-new-accelerator-focusing-on-world-changing-ideas/
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mathattack
On paper this looks great. Get in on the startup game.
The skeptic in me asks:
\- Do you lose out on network effects... | {
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Project JMC - John McCarthy's new site - keyist
http://themagiclab.org/projectjmc
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sp332
Interesting that almost all the content on the page is hosted at uts.edu.au?
| {
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Ask HN: Friday Review - Ebay Sniper - PleaseSnipe.com - Judson
http://PleaseSnipe.com
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Judson
This started out as a fun proof-of-concept because all of the other ebay
snipers either weren't free or placed your bid with ridiculous time windows
(~1 min).
I think the major hurdle is going to be getting people to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Would buying dead YC companies be possible and worth it? - mchannon
Every demo day I see a few wallflowers that look like the runts of the litter. Maybe the team wouldn't take advice, didn't work hard, or fought amongst themselves.<p>Everyone looks at YC's success stories, but would it ever be w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Threaded messaging comes to Slack - hswolff
https://slackhq.com/threaded-messaging-comes-to-slack-417ffba054bd
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tabbott
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the problem of how to make threading
work as the lead developer of Zulip, an open source group chat application
where every conversation is threaded, and... | {
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} |
Complete X86/x64 JIT and Remote Assembler for C++ - nkurz
https://github.com/kobalicek/asmjit
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haberman
Interesting. This seems to be more or less a C++ equivalent of DynASM
([http://luajit.org/dynasm.html](http://luajit.org/dynasm.html)). Like DynASM,
it lets you generate machine code at runtime. The library ha... | {
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} |
Ask YC: What's the best solution for geotargetting by IP? - justin
My startup is interested in building a simple ad targeted ad solution for our site. What's the best geotargeting DB / server solution?
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bigbang
You are building the ad targeted site or you are looking for 3rd party
targeting? Or do you mean, yo... | {
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Ask HN: How do you come up with a good startup idea? - mrlase
I've been trying to unravel the process of coming up with an idea for a startup for a couple of weeks now but to no luck. Sure I have some ideas, but they're not targetted enough for my first startup.<p>I've read Paul Graham's essays and have lurked aroun... | {
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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store - reddotX
https://krita.org/en/item/first-krita-beta-for-android-and-chromeos-in-play-store/
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Youden
I'm not an artist myself but I follow David Revoy, who [0] uses Krita and
other open-source software extensively for his Pepper & Carrot comic [1]. His
blog... | {
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} |
Microsoft webdev survey on form controls - nailer
https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6GaNBiVAgxXZo7b
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nailer
Microsoft's looking for feedback on form styling, which seems relevant to HN.
I'm always recreating input/select widgets or trying to make date selections
widgets that don't suck - hopefully this... | {
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} |
Properties of the Correction Loop in David Gay’s strtod() - wglb
http://www.exploringbinary.com/properties-of-the-correction-loop-in-david-gays-strtod/
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nitrogen
Is testing random values sufficient to prove the worst case required
iterations, or was that just an initial pass before performing a rigorous
mathema... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What Is Amazon? - Brajeshwar
https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/?=hackernews
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Aloha
I think this raises an interesting point, the raison d'etre for Walmart is
providing _value_ to customers above all other metrics, low prices, wide, but
not infinite selection, and a modicum of convenience.
Convers... | {
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} |
Apple and Facebook Reportedly Negotiated Over Ping for At Least 18 Months - abraham
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/21/apple-and-facebook-reportedly-negotiated-over-ping-for-at-least-18-months/
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abraham
Apple and Twitter have both now launched new features integrating with
Facebook only to have them disabled ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why are you proud of your species? - bdr
On another thread, weavejester recently wrote, "Not only are we never satisfied, we're also very quick to criticize our society and species." I want to ask about the positive side. What have we as a species done that you're proud of?<p>A few I can think of are going t... | {
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} |
Researchers Track Online Sales of Invasive Plants - thehoff
https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2015/10/trade-in-invasive-plants-is-blossoming.html
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Chefkoochooloo
This ecosystem worldwide is already being mixed up through different channels.
I would think the US regulations not to bring foreign... | {
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} |
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