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Ask HN: Is this extreme cultural fit selection? - culturalfitt
I have interviewed at two dozen companies for a senior developer position and just had a weird experience at an Austrian company.<p>Two HR reps spent the first 12min talking about why they liked working there, their hobbies, friend and family, sports, etc,... | {
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The Battle of Waterloo: A Near-Run Thing - pshaw
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21651775-appallingly-bloody-yet-decisive-battle-waterloo-june-1815-deserves
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christkv
If you have a deeper interest in Napoleon I heartily recommend the Napoleon
podcast
[http://napoleonbonapartepodcast.com](http://napo... | {
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} |
Big iPhone 3GS numbers come from pre-existing Apple addicts - abennett
http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/69606/big-iphone-3gs-numbers-come-pre-existing-apple-addicts
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JunkDNA
This is not all that surprising to me given the huge difference in performance
and capabilities between the iPhone 3GS and the or... | {
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} |
Dropbox Passwords - madspindel
https://www.dropbox.com/features/security/passwords
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AnonHP
> Who can get Dropbox Passwords?
> Passwords is currently available to Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Professional
> users.
Dropbox could’ve done better by offering this to the users on the free tier
too. Segment the features ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to find the right startup to join - curt
My problem, I don’t fall into a neat little box. Been doing it on my own for a few years but have been thinking about joining a team for quite some time. Started a company recently from a side project, did all the design and programming work myself but it failed t... | {
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Ask HN: Any hackers meet or Hackathon in bay area for long weekend? - Pola
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jackbean
This isn't specific but saw a post about weekendhacker.net last week. You
might be interested in that.
If you find one, please let us know.
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Ask HN: What is eBay buyer feedback for? A++ fast payment. - stefan_kendall
Does anyone have any idea why eBay lets sellers rate buyers? Other than the positive/negative count, what is the point of the 80 character rating system?<p>I've only <i>ever</i> seen "A++ fast payer." It's prisoners dilemma - a negative revi... | {
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Show HN: Made an App for Coders to stay up-to-date with their coding languages - romeoonisim
https://codenews.app/
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evnix
now I need another App to stay updated?, could have been a good PWA website.
~~~
romeoonisim
:D thanks for the feedback! We are growing day by day, maybe we will create a
PWA website also if... | {
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} |
British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet - cockpitherald
https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/07/16/british-airways-announces-immediate-retirement-of-747-fleet/
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Ambroos
One of my playlists is called "64K", after the seat I had on my first BA 747
flight two years ago, AUS>LHR, my second ever trip in ... | {
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The Twelve-Factor App - sidcool
https://12factor.net/
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cocktailpeanuts
Holy shit i first read it as something like "The Twelve-Factor Authentication
app" and thought this was some sort of sick proof of work based authentication
system that makes you go back and forth 12 times through multiple parties just
to sig... | {
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} |
Software executive exploits ATM loophole to steal $1M - LinuxBender
https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-exec-jailed-after-exploiting-atm-loophole-to-steal-1-million/
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mikece
Sounds like a call-back to Office Space.... which also gives a clue as to what
type of prison he's headed to.
~~~
vernie
Does it? Is pr... | {
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Don’t Use Mozilla Persona to Secure High-Value Data - zobzu
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2014-02-11/dont-use-mozilla-persona-to-secure-high-value-data/
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callahad
Hi, I hack on Persona at Mozilla. Persona is not a panacea, but this post is
disingenuous.
Benjamin is concerned about user impersonation by id... | {
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Google Glass app identifies you by your fashion sense - wcoenen
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729075.600-google-glass-app-identifies-you-by-your-fashion-sense.html
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enemtin
I would love to see how this pans out with someone who has completely
unpredictable style...
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Two ways to keep a language lean (2015) - buzzybee
http://comp.lang.modula2.narkive.com/GgnXF0Ab/the-two-ways-to-keep-a-language-lean
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mhd
I know that it's one of IT's hard problems, but one of the best ways of
keeping a language lean is renaming it after it accrues a certain amount of
changes, or at least attac... | {
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} |
Ask HN: No Profitability and Raises why the guilt? - djmill
In short I work for a start up who underpays me. This company is ~5 years old and every time I bring this up, they throw a small amount of money at me to shut me up and remind me that the company is "not yet profitable".<p>Well, Amazon isn't pr... | {
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Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner - h43k3r
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/01/boeing-787-dreamliner-software-bug/
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anderspitman
Might be time to remove working on the 787 from my resume. I feel like the
poor thing has been one disaster after another in the news.
I can't speak to the quality of the A... | {
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} |
What Sort of Exercise Can Make You Smarter? - robg
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/what-sort-of-exercise-can-make-you-smarter/?hp
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donw
My vote is for rock climbing. A lot of tech people do it, and it takes serious
problem-solving skills. Figuring out how to contort your body to be able to
extend your r... | {
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} |
High-reproducibility and high-accuracy method for automated topic classification - jestinjoy1
http://amaral-lab.org/publications/high-reproducibility-and-high-accuracy-method-automated-topic-classification/#.VMzwjSiN1WU
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matt4077
I had some sort of violent dopamine release just reading the headline.
I'm working... | {
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House arrest for doctor who molested, photographed patients at free Calif.clinic - binjoi
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/28/house-arrest-for-doctor-who-molested-photographed-patients-at-free-calif-clinic/
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od2m
Not defending this guy... but RCC is a death sentence. He got his.
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Ask HN: Why is Google Analytics free? - ClosureCowboy
What does Google gain by offering Analytics for free? Do they harvest each users' sites' usage information?
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staunch
Google Analytics is a way for Google to buy massive amounts of web traffic
data in exchange for some pretty charts.
They use the data if shar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
HBGary emails expose law firm Hunton & Williams - jonmc12
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/02/hunton-williams-gets-wikileaked/
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makethetick
Will be interesting to see how Hunton & Williams come out of this one..
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billturner
Well, at the moment, it appears their site is suffering from a DDOS. It's
unreachable fo... | {
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Email Validation: Why and How to Do It - RomanProofy
https://proofy.io/email-validation-why-and-how-to-do-it/
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RomanProofy
Looking forward for this article (team@proofy.io)
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Is Kaspersky Lab a Victim of a Cold War Witch Hunt? - Stillraging
http://www.cbronline.com/news/cybersecurity/protection/cold-war-kaspersky-lab-security-software-us-government/
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ElectronShak
True, I agree with the statement that Kaspersky "is caught in the middle of a
geopolitical fight where each side is attemp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Epic’s stunning new Unreal demos show off high-end ray tracing and photorealism - Alupis
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273832/epic-unreal-engine-demo-troll-rebirth-ray-tracing-gdc-2019
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justfor1comment
Looks absolutely gorgeous. Just imagine another 30 or 40 years of advancement
in gaming. I think at some... | {
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} |
The ins and outs of research grant funding committees - danieltillett
https://theconversation.com/the-ins-and-outs-of-research-grant-funding-committees-49900
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p4wnc6
In the spirit of "betting is a tax on bullshit", this seems like an
interesting opportunity to try it out.
Why not find some way to make panelist ... | {
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Confirmed: Nasa Has Been Hacked - Elof
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/20/confirmed-nasa-has-been-hacked/
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ktpsns
What terrifies me about cyberwar is that it happens silently between three-
letter-agencies. We may have a world war III threat or may be "right within
WW3" without knowing it. One c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Major US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy - tiXi
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/14172643362/apathy-isnt-business-model-major-us-telcos-teeter-toward-bankruptcy.shtml
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triceratops
The headline refers to multiple companies, but the article itself discusses
only one: Frontier. The reason for Frontier's p... | {
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} |
Venezuela Tries to Silence Critics - iKenshu
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/opinion/venezuela-tries-to-silence-critics.html
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PauloManrique
And this is what socialism is bringing to Latin America. Brazil is about to
explode, Argentina's president is accused of murdering the prosecutor on Iran
case, Chile is ... | {
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} |
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - bouncingsoul
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
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drewolbrich
If you know the diameter of the observable Universe and you want to calculate
its circumference with the accuracy of the diameter of a proton, the number of... | {
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} |
Which jobs could a 100-year-old do? - SimplyUseless
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34465190
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Tepix
The obvious answer would be non-physical jobs. Administrating obscure obsolete
boxes running ancient Linux kernels such as v4.3 perhaps? :-) Who will still
know these systems by heart 20 years from now?
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Show HN: Progress Tracker iOS App with beautiful charts - jrudolph
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id974012022?mt=8
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jrudolph
This App is a side-project of mine as I was looking for a simple App that
would allow me to visually track a handful of things that I want to improve on
(e.g. my current 10 rep. max in ... | {
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My Dad Has Coronavirus. I Don’t Know If I Should Say Goodbye. - pw
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/coronavirus-family-grief.html
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soganess
This is my greatest fear at the moment. My grandfather is 93; my parents,
aunts, and uncles are all over 60. They keep asking me to drive home and WFH
with them, b... | {
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} |
HuffPo: Violence Against Trump Is Logical - zo1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-benn/sorry-liberals-a-violent-_b_10316186.html
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drdeca
This doesn't seem very well put into a single thing to me.
a paragraph by paragraph summary, which will be followed by why I disagree:
[summary starts here]
Trump is bad b... | {
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Ask HN: news.ycombinator.{com,org}? - SandB0x
What is news.ycombinator.org, and why does Google auto-complete that URL instead of news.ycombinator.com? E.g.:<p>http://i.imgur.com/pPwJX.png
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steventruong
I don't have that. I get the .com (tested on two different Google browsers).
It could be due to your browsin... | {
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Three Steps to Kickass Customer Service - the best investment a company can make - supaspoida
http://spreadsong.com/three_steps_to_kickass_customer_service_and_why_its_the_best_investment_your_company_can_make_
Another good tip is to actually respond to your customers, especially when they are trying to give you more... | {
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Software development: do good manners matter? - cpeterso
https://peerj.com/preprints/1515v1/
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nickbauman
People are less creative when they feel disrespected. If you're running a
military or places like UPS, where your work value can be boiled down to time
and motion studies, it makes a ton of sense to break dow... | {
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} |
"I am the Orson Welles of PowerPoint" - valgaze
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-orson-welles-of-powerpoint
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hdesuyo
I liked the way the author describe a Powerpoint. Excellent!
| {
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Mathematical Foundations of Computing (2015) [pdf] - lainon
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs103/notes/Mathematical%20Foundations%20of%20Computing.pdf
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zallarak
I took this class. Keith is a wonderful teacher. This class sparked a love of
math within me and was a mind expanding experience.
~~~
mturmon
These not... | {
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The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++ - NYCTech
http://www.anorexicstartup.com
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colig
I couldn't find anything related to anorexia or eating disorders in the story.
It is frugal, perhaps, but not anorexic.
What a misleading title.
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eraad
I read it completely to look for the C++ part. Did ... | {
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EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/effs-spying-students-report-highlights-tech-companies-data-collection-parents
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Icedcool
This is yet another example of a need for some level of a bill of rights for
our online lives/informat... | {
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} |
An Unauthorized Founder's Story - SparksZilla
http://refer.ly/an-unauthorized-founder-s-story/c/eeae5fc486d311e2bfbf22000a1db8fa
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peterjancelis
Has there been a rationale posted somewhere for the 'pivot' of refer.ly?
For some reason I see refer.ly and Danielle Morrill being featured again and
again on Hacker ... | {
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Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment - WickyNilliams
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/early-canid-domestication-the-farm-fox-experiment/
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MikeTLive
this is from 1999. I was hoping for an update as its 13 years out of date...
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Comcast neighborhood WiFI - antiffan
https://wifi.comcast.com/hotspots.php
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ljk
not sure if this is the same thing, but i've seen something like this a few
months ago. To connect to the interwebs, just select the "xfinitywifi" network
to connect to, then sign in to xfinity account in the landing page! ..
..BU... | {
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} |
Mass Shootings Are a Bad Way to Understand Gun Violence – FiveThirtyEight - rbanffy
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-shootings-are-a-bad-way-to-understand-gun-violence/?ex_cid=story-twitter
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celticninja
> Gun violence isn’t one problem, it’s many. And it probably won’t have a
> single solution, either.
... | {
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TransferWise - aaronsnoswell
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-13/london-s-lonely-unicorn-two-frugal-expats-and-their-billion-dollar-startup
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aaronsnoswell
30s in to the video the narrator explains how TransferWise works. Am I correct
in thinking that this problem is very NP-hard?
| {
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Goldman Sachs asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?' - belltaco
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
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cmurf
If companies are in fact amoral and are not compelled to be moral, and the
only good is profit, then it is rational to conclud... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: my website seemingly sucks, but I'm not sure why? - x03
Hi there,<p>I've developed a website to act as "an ad hoc perpetually published online journal of publication-worthy essays written by a global community of (egotistical) undergraduate International Relations students to act as a platform for the dissem... | {
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Why Developers Are Flocking to Amazon’s Alexa - johnwheeler
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/amazon-alexa-developers-echo-skills
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vanattab
How much did amazon pay for this article? I know it's a tough market for news
out there but this shit is not the answer.
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ketralnis
Are they? The list of skills availa... | {
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} |
EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-media-conference-call-today-announce-lawsuit-over-warrantless-phone-and
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ironix
I'm going on a trip to Canada within the next month, from the US, as a US
citizen.
I want to be let into Can... | {
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} |
Building your own apps with Zengine - ca98am79
http://research.gigaom.com/2014/09/building-your-own-apps-with-zengine/
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lazylizard
minor nit: Plugins allow you to customize or extend a Zengine applicatoin by a
| {
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} |
Why Google Yanked YouTube Access From Microsoft’s Windows Phone App - samspenc
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/15/why-google-yanked-youtube-access-from-microsofts-windows-phone-app/
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mmariani
Same happened to iOS which once had a nice youtube app written by Apple in
ObjC. Now we have a crappy youtube app written... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Regenerative stem cell identified and isolated in planaria flatworms - assblaster
https://www.hhmi.org/news/searching-source-planarians-regenerative-powers
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program_whiz
the deadpools of the animal kingdom. I want to be able to chop off a tiny
piece of skin, then make a clone to do my bidding.
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assblaster... | {
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PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python - programnature
http://pytorch.org/
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Smerity
Only a few months ago people saying that the deep learning library ecosystem
was starting to stabilize. I never saw that as the case. The latest frontier
for deep learning libraries is ensuring efficient support ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What do people use for managing a software project at the beginning? - matthewcarriere
Its easy to reason about tickets/issues/stories for something that's established. Maybe in JIRA, Basecamp etc... what about the very beginning? Do you create JIRA tickets? straight to Github issues? TextEdit&#... | {
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} |
Show HN: I've been making one HTML5 game per week. Here's my 10th game - lessmilk
http://www.lessmilk.com/10/
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sillysaurus3
Not sure if you're looking for critique, and giving critique has sometimes
been discouraged on HN, but:
It's pretty good for a week of work. Though there's a difference between being
chall... | {
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} |
Regular Payments in 20 minutes with GoCardless - hcm
http://blog.gocardless.com/post/15733539109/implement-gocardless-in-20-minutes
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jamesmoss
This looks like the first UK alternative to Stripe however it appears you
can't accept cards from outside of the UK:
Can I charge non-UK customers? You can charge anyo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why is everyone's privacy policy changing? - unethical_ban
I notice Trulia, Square, and just now CNN Money are all in recent days sending privacy policy update notices. I intend to research soon, but in the meantime, is this tied to the recent legislation holding site operators responsible for user content? Or... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WikiLeaks wins case against Visa - Kenan
https://rt.com/news/wikileaks-visa-court-case-040/
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asdfasdghasdf
This is a pretty poor article, unsurprising coming from an arm of the Russian
government that employs Julian Assange. Here's a summary without any politics
or conspiracy theories.
So, each payment that V... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Angular 4 server-side rendering made very simple - clbond
http://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-ssr
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clbond
I wrote this platform-server alternative to make it simple to render your ng4
applications on the server (on-demand in an HTTP server, or as part of your
build). You can use @angular/material, @angular/flex... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Evenly distributing points on a sphere - Signez
http://extremelearning.com.au/evenly-distributing-points-on-a-sphere/
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extremelearning
Author here. So amazed to find that my blog post got featured on Hacker news.
Happy to answer any questions that I can! :)
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gerdesj
I've seen the phylotaxis thing before but ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft: Could holograms soon be seen with Skype? - dewiz
http://us.generation-nt.com/microsoft-hologram-skype-news-4101592.html
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dewiz
[http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-is-creating-immersive-
te...](http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-is-creating-immersive-telepresence-
realistic-physical-body-double-or... | {
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Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing Video Archive 2006-2009 - niels_olson
http://iic.seas.harvard.edu/featured_events/featured-presentations
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pama
Thanks for posting -- this is an amazing resource. Here is the link to the
successor institute for computational science at Harvard:
<http://iacs.seas.harva... | {
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} |
Firefox Multi-Account Containers - nachtigall
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/introducing-firefox-multi-account-containers/
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ff_
I LOVE this feature, but it has only one problem: when I'm in a container and
I press Ctrl+T (new tab), the new tab opens in the default container. This
doesn't make sense, I want it ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS - acangiano
http://www.rubymotion.com/
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stephth
I love writing Ruby code, but today I'm finally at a point where I also feel
happy and productive with Objective-C. What made my eyes bulge is this:
[http://www.rubymotion.com/developer-center/guides/project-
ma...](http://www.rubymotion.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lock screen bypass already discovered for Apple’s iOS 12 - ccnafr
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/10/02/lock-screen-bypass-already-discovered-for-apples-ios-12/
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BetterCallMe
Isn't this a super easy way to bypass it? I think Apple should note this in
their manuals and make sure that everyone who has Siri e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bash Infinity: A standard library and a boilerplate framework for Bash - daenney
https://github.com/niieani/bash-oo-framework
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agentgt
I have wondered if there could be a CoffeeScript or TypeScript of Bash.
Basically a transpiler to Bash that is safer and more convenient to write in.
Then you just ship the bash... | {
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} |
DuckDuckGo included in Opera - exterm
http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera
As of Opera 11.52, DDG is included in the default search engine list.
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fleaflicker
Can you shed any light on the deal terms? That search box is a major source of
revenue for browsers. Did you undercut the other search engines?
I kno... | {
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} |
The Founder Dilemma: Risk, Equity Dilution, And Term Sheets - oguz
http://tech.li/2012/02/the-founder-dilemma-risk-equity-dilution-term-sheets/
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flom
I have a question for the more experienced HN users: is the author correct in
asserting that in the "real world," being a co-founder of a startup is
considered u... | {
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} |
Bloom distributed programming language released - gammarator
http://www.bloom-lang.net/
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3dFlatLander
I think I'm a distributed computing fanboy. I'd like to pull a few EC2 (or
GPU) instances and see how quick brute forcing different encryption/hashing
would take, how big of a prime number one could compute in a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: HackerRank's app guarantees an interview call after a coding challenge - rvivek
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/hackerrank-jobs-takes-the-mystery-out-of-technical-recruiting/
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sakopov
Are there actual licensed engineering professionals (ie electrical,
mechanical) who resort to some made up ranks to sep... | {
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People don't care how your product is built - dopeboy
http://dopeboy.github.io/people-dont-care/
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Finnucane
They may not care about the particular technology you use, but they do care if
your product does not work very well. They may not know one framework or
library or language from another, but they do know wh... | {
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} |
Who Writes Wikipedia? (2006) - luu
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
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quanticle
Wales is right about one thing, though. This fact does have enormous policy
implications. If Wikipedia is written by occasional contributors, then
growing it requires making it easier and more... | {
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} |
Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week - dvydra
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/threadless/id428853321?mt=8
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dhendy
Hi. I lead the Digital team at Threadless and we're shutting down the app
because doing so allows us to spend developmental energy making the experience
of our main app better for ever... | {
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Show HN: Mlist – a better way to read email newsletters - noahtovares
Hey everyone! I want to share an app I released called mlist - a better way to read email newsletters. I built mlist because I found a bunch of awesome newsletters that I loved, but didn't like having extra stuff in my in my inbox.<p>Here&#x... | {
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NAT66: The good, the bad, the ugly - qalmakka
https://mcilloni.ovh/2018/01/20/oh-god-why-NAT66/
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saywatnow
> This is without considering the false sense of security that address
> masquerading provides; I cannot recall how many times I’ve heard people say
> that (gasp!) NAT was fundamental piece in the security ... | {
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Swapfiles by default in Ubuntu - reddotX
http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2016/12/swapfiles-by-default-in-ubuntu.html
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pixl97
Eh, I remember years ago on the LKML that Linus gave a few reason why you
should run a swap file. Those were much older kernels then we are using now,
so the question is, have the reasons changed... | {
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} |
Ask Career HN: Go back to employer or start fresh? - thesisist
Dear Hackernews, I need some career advice from people that would know: After High School I interned at a small startup, at that time it was just me and the three founders. About a year later I went to College, but continued to do work for them, mostly d... | {
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} |
Show HN: Daily Coding Problem – Get a coding interview problem every day - lawrencewu
https://dailycodingproblem.com/
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applecrazy
Not to be overly critical here, but don't you think your pricing structure is
completely disproportional to what you're offering? Have you ever asked anyone
whether they would be will... | {
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} |
Y Combinator Introduces Safe, Its Alternative To Convertible Notes - hackhackhack
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/06/yc-safe/
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ccmoberg
This is really interesting. My company is currently funded with convertible
debt, and we have had to modify the conversion date at least three times thus
far as we progressed thro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: When does a story get flagged? - MichaelMoser123
I noticed that the moderators are flagging a lot of stories lately, are there any guidelines that should tell if a story should be flagged? Is there a way to appeal the process?
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Tomte
Most flagged stories were flagged by users, not moderators.
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gus... | {
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Show HN: BountyHiring: Refer friends and earn money - manuganji
http://bountyhiring.com
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manuganji
Please share any feedback or objections. :)
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JSeymourATL
I’ve got friends in LOW Places...
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manuganji
Sorry, I don't understand :)
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Ask HN: Replacement backend for RRD - crad
I am currently re-engineering an stats tracking, analysis, and alerting application which is based upon rrdtool. There are currently roughly 20k data points being monitored every minute and pushed to rrdcached. I'm seeing a substantial performance impact as the quantity of d... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Technology enables better User Experiences - ddispaltro
http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/03/technology-experiences/
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keeperofdakeys
I've had a similar experience with a Samsung laptop and the consumer
electronics store I bought it through. The touchpad had stopped working, so I
took it to the sh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Two-thirds of Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet may disappear in 80 years, says IPCC - elorant
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/15/tibetan-plateau-glacier-melt-ipcc-report-third-pole
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deftnerd
The IPCC has historically released "worst case scenarios" that line up with
the worst case that all of the p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Life Course Dynamics of Affluence - apsec112
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0116370
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elbigbad
Abstract
Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real
economic gains over the past four decades is the top 20 percent of the income
distribution. Th... | {
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} |
Why do most programming languages use commas in argument lists? - miked
Does anyone know the answer to this? I've been looking at these things for over thirty years, and it just occurred to me to ask this question. Note that argument tokens are (almost) always either composed of contiguous dark space or enclosed in ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Were people as skeptical in the early Internet days as of blockchain? - maxencecornet
Inspired by this reddit thread:<p>https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7rego7/were_people_this_skeptical_in_the_early_days_of/<p>For those of you that are in their 40's, do y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Evolving Java Without Changing the Language - fogus
http://www.infoq.com/articles/evolving-java-no-lang-change
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10ren
The article links to this example of support for XML literals:
[https://rapt.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/api/index.html?net/java...](https://rapt.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/api/index.html?net/java/dev... | {
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} |
How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? - jensv
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/younger-vs-older-tech-entrpreneurs
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denzil_correa
Previous Discussion :
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794228](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794228)
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vonmoltke
What is the threshold these day... | {
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HackMIT - Hackathon for students from any school, Oct 4-6 - epenn
http://www.hackmit.org/
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vex
From someone who has to pass through Stata on the way to work every day, oh
god.
~~~
chatmasta
You registered an account just to say that?
~~~
vex
You checked my user page just because I wrote a comment?
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D3... | {
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Is Microsoft no longer unstoppable? - AndrewWarner
http://www.breakingviews.com/2009/01/22/Microsoft.aspx?sg=nytimes
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russell
Segal argues that Microsoft should abandon marginal and unprofitable ventures
(Xbox, Zune, search) and concentrate on its cash cows, Windows and Office, I
presume. Segal's advice is off b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Download HTC Home Time and Weather Gadget for Windows 7 - riteshtechie
http://beingpc.com/2010/10/download-htc-home-time-and-weather-gadget-for-windows-7/
HTC Home – is a free open-source widget for Windows. It shows time and weather on your desktop, like on HTC communicators.
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riteshtechie
Which widget are you... | {
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} |
Diagrams That Changed the World - ghosh
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/21/100-diagrams-that-changed-the-world/
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xerophtye
Those are some really interesting pictures. Amonsgst the many, these few
really caught my attention: 1) The Rosetta Stone (so THAT's how historians got
an idea how to decipher... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Help me to find Hackernews alternative for Economics - dprophecyguy
Everybody who is on Hackernews knows already what hackernews is for.<p>For Science and Math, I found the community on Brilliant.org pretty enthusiastic and passionate. But as I am highly interested in Economics and Psychology I want a communit... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Phone credit low? Africans go for "beeping" - bootload
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4211.asp
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paulgb
Sounds similar to using collect calls requests to convey a message.. "Press
one to accept a collect call from <meetmeatthebusstop> _click_ "
I remember a TV commercial that involved this a few year... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bitter Pill - DeusExMachina
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/05/bitter-pill
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brad0
> One important strategy that allows women both to create a safer exit for
> themselves and to increase their bargaining power going into a marriage is
> to develop relatively more market earning power—more market-rewarded... | {
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} |
Daily Standups That Don't Suck--With Slack - milest
https://medium.com/@MilesThibault/daily-stand-ups-in-slack-for-free-9828f75abc0e#.8y31q4vvw
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cjbprime
Our team has remote members; having a standup where everyone gets to see each
other once a day is a feature, not an annoyance.
~~~
JoeAltmaier
We used Sococo ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why can I not record a mediation meeting? - jelliclesfarm
I have been asked by the board of the non profit managing the land I license for a mediation/dispute resolution meeting.<p>There are four on their side and just me representing my farm. I asked permission to record the meeting on audio as I won’t b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do telephone networks operate? - GaryNumanVevo
A curiosity I've had of late, particularly due to a bunch of spam calls. I was wondering what protocols telecom networks use and how my call (or a spammer's call) get routed from beginning to end.<p>I'm pretty familiar with the TCP/IP stack... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
As packages get hidden in pkg.go.dev, Go communit aim to keep godoc.org alive - soroso
https://groups.google.com/forum/
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networkimprov
Already posted here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22241357](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22241357)
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