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SCO and Novell square off at oral argument: Groklaw weighs in - grellas
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110120171030983
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anigbrowl
I can't decide whether SCO's argument is brilliant or awful…
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Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone - applecore
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/obama-after-dark-the-precious-hours-alone.html
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themartorana
Makes me feel a bit better about my late nights. I'm also a night person,
usually work after the rest of the family has gone to bed. Sometimes I feel
g... | {
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iRobot Roomba Serial Command Interface Specification [pdf] - omnibrain
http://www.irobot.com/images/consumer/hacker/roomba_sci_spec_manual.pdf
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mng2
Having worked with Roomba SCI a while back, a few things come to mind. First
is a lack of integrity checking. The default baud rate of 57600 is too high
(at least... | {
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The Hard-Luck Texas Town That Bet on Bitcoin–and Lost - realshadow
https://www.wired.com/story/hard-luck-texas-town-bet-bitcoin-lost/
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anm89
It doesn't appear that this town bet or lost anything minus some
administrative time which is a fairly standard risk for any big development
project.
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jraedisch
Seems a... | {
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Gizmodo: We're done with Kickstarter - learc83
http://gizmodo.com/5897449/were-done-with-kickstarter
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jeffool
"I can't trust myself around Kickstarter. Kickstarter, please do quality
control for me."
Conversely... This is the perfect opportunity for someone to buy
IndieKicks.com and start blogging about cool ... | {
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Forget Bribery – The Real Scam Is Pretending That Degrees Have Value - pseudolus
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-28/admissions-bribery-scandal-pretending-degree-has-value-is-a-scam
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stirfrykitty
I've come to believe that many degrees are overrated, including my own CS
degree. I could have lear... | {
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Show HN: ShaderGif, like ShaderToy, but with gifs - antoineMoPa
https://shadergif.com/
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antoineMoPa
Hello HN, I had created a shader editor with gif generation maybe a year ago.
I recently decided to build a rails app to allow users to post gifs. I'd like
to add other social features (likes, comments, etc.) when... | {
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Facts about the military empire of switzerland - philip1209
https://www.philipithomas.com/switzerland/
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carsongross
"Facts about the military _exact-opposite-of-the-word-empire_ of Switzerland."
The Swiss have been quietly and patiently demonstrating to the rest of us how
a sane nation-state acts for hundreds... | {
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} |
Banking malware in Brazil may be responsible for billions in losses - PaulSec
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/brazilian-boleto-bandits-bilk-billions/
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aylons
So many comments asking why people don't use credit cards. The easy answer,
already told, is that many Brazilian people don't have bank accounts or cr... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What Is the Alternative to Google Ads? - speeder
I own a company that sell parts for the construction of industrial machinery.<p>Most of our current sales comes from people that found our Google Ads.<p>Problem is... Google keeps removing more and more features we use, and adding features that are detrimental t... | {
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The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights - antiterra
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/tpps-attack-artists-termination-rights
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antiterra
This portion of existing US copyright law is a bit curious. On the one hand,
letting artists 'have a second bite of the apple' if their work turns out to
be so luc... | {
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Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# - nxzero
https://cheatdeath.github.io/research-bittorrent-doc/
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jabstack
Former admin of DC# here (forgive the sourceforge hosting-- it was a long time
ago! [https://sourceforge.net/projects/dc-
sharp/](https://sourceforge.net/projects/dc-sharp/)). Great write-up! ... | {
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Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs - Adrock
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-your-time-in-crappy-startup-jobs/
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heliodor
Stock options expiry: One important point that was not mentioned by OP is the
typical contract clause most startups use that changes the expiry of your
veste... | {
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A "relatively close" alien planet that may be habitable - justinY
http://news.yahoo.com/super-earth-alien-planet-may-habitable-life-000948317.html
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mooism2
Although not habitable in the sense that a human could just walk around on the
surface. 7 _g_ is a bit much for us.
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Google Tech Talk: Erlang (2007) - coglethorpe
http://sysadmin.adnanwasim.com/2009/05/erlang.html
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joeyo
Can an admin please fix the title?
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kqr2
The misspelling occurs in the blog title too.
Since the blog doesn't add any more information anyway, here's the direct link
to the google tech talk on erlang:
... | {
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PXL: A Better Way to Prioritize Your A/B Tests - sujanpatel
http://conversionxl.com/better-way-prioritize-ab-tests/
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sujanpatel
TL;DR - ConversionXL developed their own method for prioritizing AB tests. You
can download for free (doesn't even ask for an email address) the excel
spreadsheet to use their method yo... | {
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Glen Green wall's First Look News Site is down? - secfirstmd
http://www.firstlook.org
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nodata
Then don't link to it. Flagged.
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Comparing C and Rust Network Protocol Exercises - signa11
https://ayende.com/blog/185859-A/comparing-c-and-rust-network-protocol-exercises
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hyperman1
It's hard to say anything without comparing the source code. I don't see a
github reference, so I don't know if it is available.
I know his pain of rust's type in... | {
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The N.S.A. and Your Buddies - Imagage_radio
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/the-nsa-and-your-buddies.html
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a3n
Metadata is data. There is no difference (obviously, because they deem it
worthy of collection), and no excuse.
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Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censor Users - CM30
https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/38065.html
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dang
The article is from April 2017. The title has been editorialized, which breaks
the HN guidelines
([https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.... | {
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Painting a better life through side SaaS hustles - sergiomattei
https://getmakerlog.com/stories/micah-iverson-founder-and-ceo-of-retrospect
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wisemanwillhear
Interesting to hear another story of someone finding space in a crowded market
segment.
> I was working for a company a couple of years ago and we needed a... | {
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2010 bug hits millions of Germans - jeffreyg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/06/2010-bug-millions-germans
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Timothee
Does anyone know what the nature of the bug is? The article lacked on this
aspect unfortunately.
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sp332
I thought this was discussed earlier this week, but I can't find a link
anywhe... | {
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Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake - sahillavingia
http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2011/3/14/apples-role-in-japan-during-the-tohoku-earthquake.html
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jaysonelliot
My father-in-law works in Tokyo, but lives in Kamakura. He wrote us a long
email about his journey home. Because trains were not running, ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Desktop application for fast saving anything without losing focus - silencerweb
https://taggy.pro/?ref=news.ycombinator
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silencerweb
Hi everyboddy!
My name is Maksim and I'm here to present you my second launched project -
Taggy. I was going to do the same with my first one, DailyQ, but
unfortunately, ... | {
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} |
Which Is Closer: Local Beer or Local Whiskey? - lelf
http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/08/19/which-is-closer-local-beer-or-local-whiskey/
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lumpypua
Around "In[115]" I became convinced that the wolfram blogging team has a meth
problem.
I'm always blown away by the wolfram blog visualizations and variety of data
sourc... | {
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} |
The problem with gmail.co - avian
https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2016/03/the_problem_with_gmail_co/
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mchahn
I have all my bad email addresses forwarded to me. This is better than a
bounce since I know immediately. The only issue might be that I accidentally
see private email intended for someone els... | {
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} |
Gene Editing in Embryos Not Safe or Effective for Clinical Use Yet, Report Says - bookofjoe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gene-editing-embryos-should-be-only-for-disease-prevention-report-says-11599145913
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bookofjoe
[https://archive.vn/hVIIT](https://archive.vn/hVIIT)
>Commission charts narrow path for editing h... | {
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Nothing Can Be Fixed Anymore - ableal
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405770,00.asp
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johnny22
It's just another hallmark of the era of ever increasing minuturization and
not much else.
I'm only against stuff like the macbook air/new mac book pro while they still
come at such a price premium.
Shouldn't ... | {
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A SaaS Startup’s Journey to $100K a Month - smit
http://www.groovehq.com/blog/100k
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nikentic
I'm looking forward to the future posts. All luck to you!
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spencerfry
Best of luck to you guys.
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Google admits Android 'both open and closed' - barista
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/google_says_android_both_open_and_closed/
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Kylekramer
_Google never had any qualms with releasing phone-centric Android code that
anyone could squeeze onto a tablet. Why not release a tablet-centric version
that anyone... | {
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} |
Steve Ballmer Reboots - kenjackson
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/steve-ballmer-reboots-01122012.html
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kenjackson
Single page version: [http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/steve-
ballmer-r...](http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/steve-ballmer-
reboots-01122012.html)
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Craiggybear
... | {
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How Bitcoin Works – Explained Through The Turbulent Life Of Satoshi Nakamoto - CryptoJunky
http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/04/04/how-bitcoin-works-explained-through-the-turbulent-life-of-satoshi-nakamoto/
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CryptoJunky
This is one of the best explanations of Bitcoin that I've found. It manages to
explain a bit... | {
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} |
How to tame comment trolls - jeremyliew
http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/how-to-tame-comment-trolls/
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russell
The last suggestion from BoingBoing uses "disemvoweling", which gets my vote
for word of the day.
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A typo that almost crashed a plane - danso
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/FAA-safety-report-reveals-cases-of-pilots-mixing-14436212.php
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biswaroop
Tangentially related: In 1988, Iran Air flight 655 was shot down by an
American missile cruiser, killing 290 people. It was likely due to a UI
problem wi... | {
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} |
The Best Ways to Consume the Web - cjdarnault
http://claytonwrites.com/the-best-ways-to-consume-the-web/
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cjdarnault
The constant stream of digital content can be overwhelming sometimes and it
can be difficult to keep up with the Internet. As a writer and a power user of
said internet (as many of you probably ... | {
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First Blog Post, “Getting Started with a VPS” - kertof
https://kertof.com/posts/getting-started-vps
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mtmail
[deleted comment blog posts can't be Show HN]
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kertof
I fixed the title.
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Why don't we have an API for Experts? - pea
http://blog.talktousers.com/an-api-for-experts/
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ArekDymalski
I think it might be beneficial for you to reconsider what is the biggest value
of this service - quality or price?
The first part of your post starts with a list of problems with consultants:
costly, unre... | {
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} |
Show HN: Autohook – a single-file Git hook “framework” - nkantar
https://github.com/nkantar/Autohook
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l4nk332
This is awesome, can't wait to use this (^-_-^)
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Why 2 Crises May Finally Force NYC Schools to Integrate - japhyr
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-schools-admissions.html
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ng12
I would have longed for the privilege of testing into a good highschool when I
was young -- let alone some of the best schools in the country. It makes me a
l... | {
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} |
Maybe Go without dependency management can be a good thing - cgarvis
http://mwholt.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/maybe-go-without-dependency-management.html
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jsegura
or dependency management you can use external tools like godep[1]. [1]
[https://github.com/tools/godep](https://github.com/tools/godep)
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The Island of Lost Apple Products - nikunjk
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/lost-apple-products/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru&pid=3956
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6cxs2hd6
Link that's undecorated and goes to start of story:
<http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/lost-apple-products>
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Calling the Oregon Lottery's Bluff After Poker Machine Dealt a Strange Hand - pavel_lishin
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-24178-man_vs_machine.html
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hristov
Really bad article. Goes to great lengths to glamorize that Curzi person, yet
does not provide some of the most crucial information on the subject. F... | {
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} |
Millennials make 6 figure salaries but have no clue how to manage their money - tsrautde
Change my mind! Most people I talk to look at investing as if it's a liberty but growth of your spare income is as fundamental as managing your debt or costs, yet few people look at it like that. What is the biggest hurdle he... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
App-Powered Car Service Leaves Cabs in the Dust - MikeF
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/app-stars-uber/
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unwind
This:
_Even if all the world’s fastest supercomputers were put to work, they
couldn’t generate a perfect algorithm to solve this classic puzzle, which
computer scientists call the traveling-... | {
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} |
Ask NH: Why aren't you an organ donor? - latch
On average, eighteen people die every day because the organ they required was not available.
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discard_account
People have festered a general level of hostility in my psyche that is only
overcome by personal attachment. I'd be willing to give my organs to someone I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Design for a developer? - dhaivatpandya
Here's my problem.<p>I'm basically a developer and math type of person (if you read any of abstract algebra posts), and I'm trying to learn design.<p>I can do UI design pretty well, it turns out to be quite usable and friendly and people can get around it, but, I can't get mys... | {
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CloudKick.com account takeover. - adam_baldwin
http://www.evilpacket.net/2009/sep/16/cloudkick-account-takeover/
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polvi
(Alex from Cloudkick) This XSS is no longer valid. Thank you for the bug
report. This was definitely a mistake on our end, and we deeply apologize for
the error. Will post another report shor... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Scratched my own itch. Is one week too soon to pivot? - chrisdew
Hi everyone,<p>I've written a bit of software that I needed. I have packaged it and attempted to market it. http://www.virtsync.com<p>With a few hundred dollars spent on LinkedIn and Google Adwords, there have still been no downloads of the e... | {
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} |
A Silk Road Renaissance - Thevet
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/386-2007/features/8756-a-silk-road-renaissance
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joveian
That was one of the most interesting things I've read here for a while, thanks
for sharing!
| {
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How Facebook helps Ad Scammers – “They go out and find the morons for me.” - rvnx
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them?1
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rvnx
Facebook’s newly installed executive in charge of fighting shady ads, Rob
Leathern, had invited him to the company’s L... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hunting the Hidden Dimension - bootload
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/hunting-hidden-dimension.html
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bootload
click on the "Transcript" link to read the article.
| {
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State paid $22K each for Internet routers - Lazare
http://wvgazette.com/News/201205050057
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ghshephard
To be clear, from the article, the routers themselves cost $7,800. And, if I'm
rolling out a state infrastructure, and wondering what I can put in place for
the next 10 years to serve as a foundation, you could ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Kubernetes Best Practices - shifte
https://medium.com/@sachin.arote1/kubernetes-best-practices-9b1435a4cb53
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thesandlord
This seems to be a straight copy-and-paste of one of my talks. With zero
credit to me :(
[https://speakerdeck.com/thesandlord/kubernetes-best-
practice...](https://speakerdeck.com/thesandlord... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bill Gates orders £500m hydrogen-powered superyacht - ciconia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/09/bill-gates-orders-500m-hydrogen-powered-superyacht
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smn1234
[https://www.inc.com/don-reisinger/no-bill-gates-didnt-buy-
wo...](https://www.inc.com/don-reisinger/no-bill-gates-didnt-buy-worlds-first-
e... | {
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} |
The Village Sin Eater - pepys
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-worst-paid-freelance-gig-in-history-was-being-the-village-sin-eater
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dghf
IIRC, one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels (a.k.a the Master and
Commander series) sees a former sin-eater among the crew: ostracised by his
crew-mates, he is... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OpenFit:open source bluetooth enabled smart digital scale - pinar747
http://opnfit.blogspot.com
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pinar747
Bluetooth \- easy to use, no wifi link or router required. \- use anywhere,
work/gym/home... works seamlessly with other scales. data is on your phone,
not on a scale \- simple connection to devices, no wi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Asqway – ask questions and get recommendations - pratim
https://itunes.apple.com/app/asqway/id1039694793?ls=1&mt=8
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pratim
Any questions on the App? email us help@asqway.co
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Facebook Hit With Lawsuit: Could This Spell The End Of The Social Giant? - Peroni
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140107133638-64875646-facebook-hit-with-lawsuit-could-this-be-the-end-of-the-social-network?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0
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dancryer
The link is broken. :(
~~~
ColinWright
I know this ... | {
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered - doener
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/dayofthetentacle_storefront
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atemerev
The memories!
Back in 1995, in Russia, where nearly nobody even seen any legal software,
there were countless CDs with titles like "Best 100 adventure games ever",
thoroughly repacked by your frien... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fairphone 3 - 2muchcoffeeman
https://shop.fairphone.com/en/?ref=header%26amp;
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squeezingswirls
I really would want to buy a Fairphone 3 but it isn't possible to install a
free OS on it currently, so I'll stick with my Fairphone 2 running Ubuntu
Touch for now.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Is Node.js recommended in the long term? - applecrazy
I'm developing a side project using Vue, Express, and Mongo. I'm wondering whether this is the best idea, since I want the app to last 5-7 years before needing a rewrite. Is it a good idea to choose NodeJS for the backend or should I go with somet... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’ - drugme
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/magazine/salk-institute-discrimination-science.html
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iron0013
That's a provocative title, so I hope people will actually read this article
before dismissing the scientist who was quoted.
edi... | {
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} |
‘Anti-rape’ tech won’t stop violence against women - alexwoodcreates
http://www.thememo.com/2015/11/25/anti-rape-tech-domestic-violence-white-ribbon-day/
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coldtea
Did any tech ever stopped all violence against everyone?
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hassel
street lighting ?
~~~
coldtea
While they reduced it, they obviously didn't stop ... | {
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} |
Jim Gray lost at sea, 3 years ago. - eam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_%28computer_scientist%29#Disappearance_at_sea_and_search
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chaosmachine
_"On February 1, 2007, the DigitalGlobe satellite did a scan of the area,
generating thousands of images. The images were posted to Amazon Mechanical
Turk in ord... | {
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Visa Systems Issues - jpatokal
http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/news/technological-systems-issue.html
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karambahh
Does anyone else think that, all conspiracy theory aside, the information
published is only partly true?
If it's a purely hw issue, say a piece of highly specialized hardware (hw
crypto... | {
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} |
Millennials are sicker than Gen X, which bodes ill for the future economy - freedomben
https://www.deseret.com/2019/12/16/20997339/millennials-are-sicker-than-gen-x-which-bodes-ill-for-the-future-economy
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adamwong246
Don't the other generations feel the specter of dread hovering over us? Like
you are running on ... | {
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} |
Against TDD - roman-holovin
http://neopragma.com/index.php/2019/09/29/against-tdd/
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JMTQp8lwXL
For as much as I've heard about TDD over the years: in my education, articles,
and mentions of it in industry -- I have yet to see anybody I know use it.
You can't design your entire interface up front. Too much handw... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bill Gates not impressed with the iPad - anderzole
http://blogs.bnet.com/corporate-strategy/?p=101
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sullrich
And in other news, the Burger King CEO thinks the Big Mac tastes bad.
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Ask HN: Best use case writeups of SOA? - tmaly
Can anyone suggest some good use cases / whitepapers on companies that transitioned to SOA / microservices?
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austingunter
This is a post to my corporate site, but I created a list of case studies /
blog posts of folks discussing how they've moved over:
dat... | {
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} |
The High Cost of Technical Debt - samullen
http://pixelatedworks.com/articles/the-high-cost-of-technical-debt/
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mamaniscalco
An excellent article which speaks the obvious but all too often falls on deaf
ears.
My two cents:
1\. Code reviews are to developers what proof reading is to writers. A person
could read... | {
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NASA's Voyager spacecraft nears exit of solar system - cwan
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-nears-exit-of-solar-system/story-fn3dxity-1225971341350
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DupDetector
Same story:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003511> \- universetoday.com - 29
comments
<http://new... | {
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Boating startup closes $13M Series A round - JSeymourATL
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2016/12/13/boating-startup-closes-13m-series-a-round.html
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CalChris
$13M for boat timesharing?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlA9bNk3b5Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlA9bNk3b5Q)
| {
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The story of the Slovak national top-level domain - thomasdd
https://medium.com/@Oskar456/stolen-sk-domain-717e070f6735
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dandare
Unfortunately this story is archetypal for a post communist country like
Slovakia. The state is essentially captured by mafia-like groups and oligarchs
and many public services are irr... | {
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} |
Lastronaut: My first game and why I'm giving it away for free - dhenein
https://medium.com/@darrinhenein/lastronaut-a-love-letter-adec05cdbee6
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chainsaw10
Nice game! I've played it for a half hour today :)
Not to complain (it's free), but you might want to consider increasing the
interval between asking for r... | {
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The fault-tolerant Auragen file system from pre-history - vyodaiken
http://www.yodaiken.com/2016/01/25/the-auragen-file-system/
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strictnein
What's the "pre-history" bit about? I don't think 1989 qualifies as pre-
history, and the linked post is just titled "The Auragen file system".
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sitkack
Link to menti... | {
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Microsoft: “Time for Mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower” - sirwitti
https://twitter.com/auchenberg/status/1088587621721231361
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msl
The title is wrong: this is not a statement by Microsoft, but by a single
individual, as explicitly pointed out by said individual.
~~~
sirwitti
You're right, ... | {
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The Slave Ship That Ran from Kerala to New Orleans - deskamess
https://in.news.yahoo.com/the-slave-ship-that-ran-from-kerala-to-new-orleans-085329807.html
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jakewalker
I have had the great pleasure of helping represent a group of these workers
(not the folks who just recently went to trial, but another related ca... | {
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Minecraft developers (Mojang) announce second game - pufuwozu
http://www.scrolls.com/
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Skywing
The most impressive thing, imo, is that he got scrolls.com. :P
| {
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Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing - maayank
http://extroverteddeveloper.com/podcast/2012/8/30/extroverted-developer-18-gayle-laakmann-mcdowell.html
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rckclmbr
She's spot on. I consider myself a competent developer (6 years experience,
"big fish in a small pond"), and I don't really intervie... | {
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} |
Why Every Movie Looks Sort of Orange and Blue - vinnyglennon
http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue/
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swalsh
In The Matrix, you could tell which "world" you're in by the general grade of
color. When in the Matrix, everything had a greenish overtone, and when in the
"real world" it ... | {
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} |
Network Instability in NYC2 on July 29, 2014 - retrodict
https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/network-instability-in-nyc2-on-july-29-2014/
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donavanm
So an RE failed and flipped to the secondary. They run mlag from the agg layer
to their tors. Said mlag had a grey failure. The time to recovery was
predomin... | {
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} |
How to store data for a billion years - robg
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tm/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13853129&source=hptextfeature
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trjordan
> To switch spontaneously from a “1” to a “0” would entail the particle moving
> some 200 nanometres along the tube using thermal energy. At room
> temperat... | {
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Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing - ColinWright
http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/hey-yahoo-youre-optimizing-the-wrong-thing/
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cbsmith
It's unfortunate that the person who wrote this article didn't consult with
someone more informed about the online advertising world.
As someone who has been in the bel... | {
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Fans angry over 'missing' iPhone 7 headphone socket - edward
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36606220
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stephenr
When did summarising twitter opinions about a tech industry rumour become
news??
| {
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Asking for a raise – and getting it - zsolt777
http://devcareermastery.com/asking-for-a-raise-and-getting-it/
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gragas
This website seems so gimmicky.
>What secret message are interviewers looking for?
>How can you get the perfect resume within a day?
>According to scientific research, which 4 skills help you ... | {
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Snap to choose NYSE for IPO - t23
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/snap-to-choose-nyse-for-ipo-source.html
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GFischer
I'm amazed with Snapchat's staying power.
I was utterly bewildered by them turning down a reported 3 billion offer (and
so was most everyone else), but it seems it wasn't so wrong after all.
[http... | {
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} |
A quick overview of an app I built in 9 hours based on the new Twilio SMS API - cesarsalazar
http://screenr.com/69d
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progrium
The idea is to delegate responsibility of paying for infrastructure resources
(SMS) from the developer to the user. At $5/mo for 160 messages, that's
roughly what you would be pay using... | {
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} |
Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says - andrewhillman
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-snapchat-shut-down-iphone-20140207,0,3127301.story#axzz2sgFOyJTd
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abat
Details don't look as interesting as headline suggest. Snapchat doesn't
throttle messages, so you can "snapchat... | {
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} |
Markerless Augmented Reality. No app to install. No plugin. No special browser - leohart
https://8thwall.com/products-web.html
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jabbadabbadooba
That went as fluent as I expected it to go.
| {
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PHP-Queue - A unified front-end for different queuing backends. - coderkungfu
https://github.com/miccheng/php-queue
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arooaroo
"Job Queue is Backend agnostic"
This may be slightly tangental and I really don't want to come across as a
troll but 'agnostic' in its absolute loosest terms could be defined as
'unkno... | {
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RightJS vs jQuery Mano A Mano (clean test comparison) - MadRabbit
http://st-on-it.blogspot.com/2009/12/rightjs-vs-jquery-mano-o-mano.html
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etherealG
Sorry to say, but at least one of your tests still suffers from a non apples
to apples problem. Specifically the "make" tests. The jquery make test does
parsing o... | {
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} |
Most Corporate Blogs Are Unimaginative Failures - bootload
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/06/30/most-corporate-blogs-are-unimaginative-failures/
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mnemonicsloth
_Most Corporate X Are Unimaginative Failures_
For what values of X is the above not true? It can't be right to just assume
the empty set, but...
| {
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Harvard's debate team loses to New York prison inmates - spking
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
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pavornyoh
A copy of the transcript with both sides arguments would have been nice for us
to read.
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japadoggg
Yes would love to... | {
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Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA - bbgm
http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
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bhickey
The comments are great too. In particular I like what chemDroid had to say:
Hi. I have posted on many places, they shoul... | {
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Why a Better OpenType User Interface Matters - lispython
http://ilovetypography.com/2014/10/25/why-a-better-opentype-user-interface-matters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ILoveTypography+%28i+love+typography%29
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Animats
I refuse to take seriously a typography site that looks that awf... | {
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} |
Former CEO of Paypal, Intuit: “Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history” - DEFCON28
https://www.recode.net/2018/4/24/17275202/bitcoin-scam-cryptocurrency-mining-pump-dump-fraud-ico-value#
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DrScump
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914632](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914632)
80+ points
------
fr... | {
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A 14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina - tambourine_man
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/14000-year-old-campsite-in-argentina-adds-to-an-archaeological-mystery/
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curtis
_For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the
Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people._
It... | {
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} |
Airline passengers still concerned about paying extra to sit together - nhkssol
https://www.caa.co.uk/News/Latest-Civil-Aviation-Authority-review-finds-passengers-still-concerned-about-paying-extra-to-sit-together/
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dazc
Some people are willing to pay less because they don't care where they are
sat. But now it's... | {
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} |
The Past 2 Weeks in the World of Ruby - llambda
http://www.rubyinside.com/the-past-2-weeks-in-the-world-of-ruby-40-links-to-bring-you-up-to-speed-january-2012-5766.html?utm_source=wordtwit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordtwit
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bstar77
Not sure why this was posted to HN, but I think is is a good opportunity fo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is Fulfillment by Amazon worth it just to target Prime members? - p_k
My company already works with a fulfillment company and we're already a seller on Amazon.<p>I'm considering of using Fulfillment by Amazon just to target Prime members for our Amazon listings. Not surprisingly, Prime members spend more.<p>... | {
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