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Interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google: "You don't learn very much when you yourself are talking" - python_kiss http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/2007/03/eric-schmidt-ceo-of-google.html ====== python_kiss By Guy Kavasaki: The guys at iInnovate posted a lovely interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. Among the topic...
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Azure Stack – Azure On-Premises - mpweiher https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/ ====== polskibus This has been a recurring topic (with rebranding) for a while now. Has the pricing been released? I heard that they moved from supporting any hardware to just a select few certified (expensive) vendors....
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Show HN: Denso - An Instapaper for Video - stuti90 http://getdenso.com/ So I came across this really cool new service that works like Instapaper for video, and thought I'd share it with HN. Just got my invite today and I've been LOVING it so far. It lets me discover videos, bookmark them and watch offline on my iPad ...
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Fedora 32 has been released - cloudbalkan https://www.cloudbalkan.com/fedora-32-has-been-released/ ====== bitmage [https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing- fedora-32/](https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-32/)
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Code for America Apps for Detroit challenge - rmason http://appsfordetroit.org/ ====== Jwsonic Thanks for posting this. As someone who lives in the Detroit-metro area, Detroit certainly needs all the help it can get. ~~~ ronnier I've never been to Detroit, what's wrong with it? Is it as bad as the media makes it ou...
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Wireless mice you can buy - feross https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673096 ====== chrisbennet I'm hooked on Logitech "MX Anywhere 2S" mice. They are smaller and fit my hand better. The Logitech "ecosystem" is really nice: \- One USB "nub" serves up to 6 devices - mice and keyboards. The newest nubs are really low profile ...
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Bringing people back to the open web - ChrisHardie https://chrishardie.com/2018/04/rebuilding-open-web/ ====== superkuh >If the closed web is a place where hate speech, harassment and bullying thrives, the open web can be, needs to be an experience where it does not. I am strongly against this appeal to censorship. L...
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Insect: High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units - kiyanwang https://github.com/sharkdp/insect ====== based2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7v10po/insect_...](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7v10po/insect_a_small_language_with_firstclass_support/)
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Sugary Drinks May Trigger Early Puberty in Girls - DanBC http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26868-do-sugary-drinks-trigger-early-puberty-in-girls.html#.VNt67Gz47To ====== DanBC Submitting this because it talks about the problem of sucrose and insulin spikes, and sepcifically mentions the lack of an insulin spike ...
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Future of code editors for JavaScript: keeping it more DRY and easy Refactor - ttty http://www.webdesignporto.com/future-of-code-editors-for-javascript-keeping-it-more-dry-and-easy-refactor/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=post&utm_content=code-editor&utm_campaign=hackernews ====== pedalpete I've been struggling wi...
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Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? - eguizzo http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/iros-2013-should-quadrotors-all-look-like-this#.UoRAb7LvVFs.hackernews ====== neya Wow, readers, please do yourselves a favor and watch the linked video in that article! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8t41avFu...
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A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013) - rndn http://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-money-moves-around-the-banking-system/ ====== rebelidealist This is the problem that Stellar ([https://stellar.org](https://stellar.org)) can solve better than Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin...
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Sample Chapter From "Ruby Best Practices" - sandal http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/329554 ====== sandal This chapter is basically the meta-programming / DSL stuff if not by that name. It gives a good sampling of the overall feel for the book. Feedback is very welcome. The book will be rel...
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Ask HN: Dream setup for a “smart” home? - mgertner We have just closed on a new house which is a fixer upper that we plan to renovate from top to bottom. Since I am a programmer and technologist, my wife asked me to make suggestions for creating a &quot;connected home&quot; with modern security, climate control, etc.<...
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Ask HN: How to report Google Local Guide who is randomly down rating for points? - techaddict009 This guy: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;107035689799550788450&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;@26.9872123,70.0936697,6z&#x2F;data=!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1?fbclid=IwAR1v2yP8K1SWShFu2oYjCw5Dxd3ZTeD5LnLacoUY9Zc0QL_eD...
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Ask HN: Best mathematics courses for programming and intrigue? - bsima What college courses did you take that you found to apply to programming (e.g. algorithms, logic) or found to be genuinely interesting?<p>FWIW: I&#x27;m a philosophy major with many courses in medicine, but it turns out RIT doesn&#x27;t have a me...
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Build a Company for the Long Term - sinzone http://www.slideshare.net/Finance4Founders/financeforfounderfinal-090620191829-phpapp022 ====== finiteloop This is a great presentation. We ended up having a good set of terms when we did the FriendFeed Series A because we were fortunate to find good advice, but I wish I h...
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Cloud66 major service incident — "missing servers" - hopeless http://status.cloud66.com/ ====== hopeless Full text of their email to customers: ==================================== Today we had a major service incident on our site. As a result of this incident some of our customers lost their virtual servers. We ...
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Anomalous keys in Tor relays - aburan28 https://nymity.ch/anomalous-tor-keys/ ====== mirimir Thread to watch: [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor- dev/2017-April/01...](https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor- dev/2017-April/012161.html) ------ fluxist Targeted hidden services: 222222avk...
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Glacier Costlier Than S3 for Small Files - drue https://therub.org/2015/11/18/glacier-costlier-than-s3-for-small-files/ ====== raverbashing The real question is why are people glaciering small files? Tar everything and send it up. And then do an incremental backup Amazon charges per operation, reduce the number of o...
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Wall Street Is Obsessed With Snapchat - mikegreenspan http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/wall-street-is-obsessed-with-snapchat.html ====== billconan wall street is dumb
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Apple spends $700,000 a year to keep Tim Cook safe - ForFreedom http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-tim-cook-security-budget-2015-8 ====== stephengillie One way to look at this is that it's part of the CEO's overall compensation- and-benefits package. Instead of paying the money to the CEO and having her (or him) pu...
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Friedman After a Week in Silicon Valley: Third Party Rising - jaybol http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&src=tptw ====== pg Not likely. If he'd talked to people in SV at any time in the past he'd have found they despised politicians as much as they do now, and that did not turn out to be a p...
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Ask HN: How did your passion for computer stuff start? - 321yawaworht ====== ian0 As kids we embarked on a quest across a (small) country, to my cousins house, to collect a copy of Doom 2. We were so excited we took turns holding the floppy discs on the bus home. When we finally got there and installed it, it ran at a...
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OpenSSL 1.0.1f - 3 CVE issues fixed - ballard http://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.0.1-notes.html ====== ballard [http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz](http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz) [http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz.asc](http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl...
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It Is Surprisingly Hard to Store Energy - mhb https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/It-Is-Surprisingly-Hard-to-Store-Energy ====== nxzero Entertaining that Gates finds something so fundamental as the nature of something that wants to move does not like being contained a surprising idea.
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The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan - jackpotrnev https://gum.co/goplf ====== rdegges How did this only get 7 upvotes? The book has finally been released! This is awesome! The C Programming Language is my all time favorite book. I've read it cover- to-cover 3 times, and it single handedly ...
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For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare - louhike https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/youre-targeted-sexually-how-female-astronomers-are-being-hounded-out-of-work ====== danso Though the submitted article does link to the BuzzFeed articles, it's curious that BuzzFeed isn't mentioned by nam...
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Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math - lelf https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614929/facebook-has-a-neural-network-that-can-do-advanced-math/ ====== abc_lisper What about the confidence in the result? Math is never done willy nilly, and without the ability to show how it is done, this will go no wh...
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Hackers Meetup : Hyderabad , India - FameofLight How about 2nd July , 2011 ? Suggestion for a good place highly recommended :) ====== barlo I'll be visting Hyderabad the week of July 25th and would love to attend a meetup while I'm there. ~~~ FameofLight Are you here on 23- 24 July. As on 30 - 31 July Yahoo Hack da...
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A C64 Games Mashup - ingve http://level4.jojati.com/c64mashup/ ====== yodsanklai So many great memories. I used to play video games a lot from 7 to 15. First C64 and then Amiga. And then started the PC era and I totally lost interest. I didn't find the games and the platform as enjoyable. What kind of games do kids li...
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Constitution Compels Sessions to Dismiss Mueller Non Campaign Cases - tomohawk https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/constitution-jeff-sessions-dismiss-robert-mueller-non-campaign-cases/ ====== daly Interesting. So your claim would be that if the president was compromised due to money laundering, the special council would n...
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How Bacteria Eat Penicillin - tosh https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/52456/title/How-Bacteria-Eat-Penicillin/ ====== zaarn "Life finds a way." ~ Some dude from Jurassic Park IMO we should ban antibiotics use for farmers in the amount they use it today (probably overall, they shouldn't feed antibi...
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Ask HN: Why my post not getting up-votes? - Mehuleo Why my post not getting up-votes, when similar post by someone else is making front page? Does my initial karma matters? ====== lmm If this post is anything to go by, then I suspect your poor English is making more difference than your initial karma. But yes, init...
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Show HN: Htmlfetcher – No pain HTML fetching library - gaojiuli https://github.com/gaojiuli/htmlfetcher ====== karmakaze Title for HN could mention Python. README should say when/why to use this library over others. Is it just more convenient or is there more to handling pages with 'lots of Ajax?' ------ one87 Uhhhm,...
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Skeptical Berkeley Earth Surface Temp. study finds Earth is indeed warming - anigbrowl http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/21/berkeley_earth_surface_temperature_study/ ====== anigbrowl Incidentally, the dataset and code for the BEST study is freely available here: <http://berkeleyearth.org/> This is AFAIK the most...
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European Court of Justice declares “zero rating” to violate net neutrality law - mschuster91 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/eu-bestimmte-handytarife-verstossen-gegen-eu-recht-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-200915-99-568762 ====== Normille WARNING: modal face shitter
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Ask HN: Would you use this service? Video summarization/digesting - mrbird I've been thinking about a simple web/mobile app idea, and thought I'd throw it out there to the HN community.<p>The problem: Almost every day, I come across a video that I'd like to watch, but I don't have time. For example: Tech talks, co...
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The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest - mergy https://www.tides.org/impact/awards-prizes/pizzigati-prize/ ====== mergy Taking submissions for 2016. Please apply or nominate someone for the $10,000 prize. Application link: [https://tools.tides.org/forms/view.php?id=19109](https://tools.tides....
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Canada Needs Entrepreneurs - DuncanKinney http://www.financialpost.com/executive/story.html?id=3067469 ====== GiraffeNecktie Meh. Kind of a content-free article. And it repeats the old saw about entrepreneurs being risk-takers. The evolving wisdom seems to be that successful entrepreneurs are actually risk-averse. T...
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Drone Racing League – Racing Through an Empty Miami Dolphins Stadium - dpflan http://qz.com/602230/theres-now-a-drone-racing-league-that-feels-like-pod-racing-from-star-wars/ ====== dpflan I can certainly see collaboration between Major League Gaming and the Drone Racing League for large convention events. I would li...
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An Angel List for London - rayhano http://bamlondon.blogspot.com/ ====== rayhano Also interesting is how Sprouter have featured London-based Housebites today (and managed to spell their name wrong in their email blast...) If you have seen it, Housebites is awesome! <http://housebites.com>
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Ask HN: How can we prevent excessive force by police? - i_like_news What steps can we take to build a safer society for everyone regardless of class, race, religion, gender, disability, or anything else?<p>I think that police departments open sourcing their policies would go a long way. Or wearing body cams in more si...
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Salaries of government officials in Singapore - marcamillion http://www.yeocheowtong.com/Salaries.html ====== marcamillion FYI: The official exchange rate (according to Google) is: 1 Singapore dollar = 0.71623 U.S. dollars Perhaps it's no surprise that Singapore is the 3rd least corrupt country - [http://en.wikiped...
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Grid Collapse in India Leaves 360 Million People Without Power - akshxy http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-30/grid-collapse-in-india-leaves-360-million-people-without-power.html This is what can happen when you are in between an interesting conversation :\ ====== akshxy This is something can happen when you are i...
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Redesigning Hospital Signs - andrewl http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=11897 ====== andrewl There's a slide show at: <http://www.uc.edu/slideshow/signage>
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Consumers not waiting for Windows 8? - SlipperySlope http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57472324-92/consumers-not-waiting-for-windows-8/ ====== SlipperySlope An anecdote from the article ... On Friday, in the Microsoft store there was a small crowd checking out ultrabooks (on display were half a dozen new Vizio ultra...
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Restoration of defocused and blurred images (2012) - lobo_tuerto http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm ====== lpage Many aspects of CV and signal processing in general produce almost magical results. It's a little less magical when you think back to stats examples of fitting a curve to some signal...
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Shopify is Down along with tens of thousands of stores - asnyder Was just working on my store and lo and behold Shopify is down right when I was about to post things live. Funny, I was using Shopify instead of rolling my own so I wouldn&#x27;t have to worry about things like this... maybe it&#x27;s the universe tellin...
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30 pounds in 30 days - TheFullStack http://fullstack360.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/30-pounds-in-30-days/ ====== netcan "How long is a piece of string? It's impossible to answer that question. But, if I _had_ to guess... in my experience, the string is 19 inches long." This is the kind of thing a lot of consultants seem...
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The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh's “Starry Night” - erkose http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/the-unexpected-math-behind-van-goghs-starry-night.html ====== acqq Relatively inaccurate, even if full of colors. The original work: [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606246](http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606246) ------ ted...
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Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices - adam http://news.stanford.edu/news/2004/june9/diaconis-69.html ====== gjm11 What an awful title. "Lifelong debunker": Persi Diaconis, an interesting chap who used to be a professional magician but turned to mathematics and is now a professor at Stanford. (His ...
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Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists - jobeirne http://jameso.be/2014/01/01/greenwald.html ====== salient Michael Hayden, former chief of NSA, recently said that the young people should give up on their "romanticized" idea of transparency (for the government). That's some irony for you, consid...
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What is the most elegant line of code you've seen? - rshlo http://www.quora.com/Elegant-Code/What-is-the-most-elegant-line-of-code-youve-seen ====== bdfh42 The link demanded a "sign up" so no way. Probably the most elegant (and eloquent?) line would be in BASIC: END says it all.
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GitHub repository to track cloud GPU offerings and promo codes for free credits - binga https://github.com/binga/cloud-gpus ====== sunnykgupta An interesting compilation. Are you planning to update this frequently yourself? Or relying on the ecosystem to maintain and update? ~~~ binga Thanks for your interest Sunny....
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Packt Publishing $5 eBooks and Videos - jsingleton https://www.packtpub.com/ ====== jsingleton Full disclosure - my book on making high performance web apps (in ASP.NET Core) is one of these: [https://www.packtpub.com/application- development/aspnet-core...](https://www.packtpub.com/application- development/aspnet-cor...
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Show HN: Rosa and I've created a project to help travelers fit into new culture - sergioruiz https://www.waysily.com ====== Kengomomichi00 Hi, What is your goal with this project? Your title is: travelers fit into new culture, but I can see that you offer only local schools and teachers. ~~~ sergioruiz Hi kengo, than...
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Freelancing – from nothing to 5 solid leads a week - juliankrispel http://reactrocket.com/post/from-nothing-to-5-leads-a-week/ ====== RickS TL;DR: Split test a niche website, slam it with paid traffic, network like a mofo, make it easy to get in touch with you. Good advice, in the abstract, but it feels like this pos...
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Ask HN: What do you use/do for keeping your eyes healthy - peyloride Especially those who are against the screen all day. I need some advice. ====== walterbell Move monitor further away, set brightness to match ambient light, adjust contrast, [http://www.clickonf5.org/hardware/adjust-brightness- contrast...](http://ww...
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New Drug for Eczema Is Successful in Two New Trials - salmonet http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/health/severe-eczema-atopic-dermatitis-drug.html?_r=0 ====== cycomachead I saw "drug" and "ec..ma" and my mind first jumped to "ECMAScript Drug". I have no idea what that says about me...
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Ask HN: Review our web app - onktak http://browsedit.com browsedit is a web application for designing web pages/web user interfaces directly on the browser. Currently supports firefox, chrome and safari browsers with other browser support coming soon. ====== _sh I have absolutely no idea what it is or how to use it....
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Falling through the holes in Texas' pro-life laws - stopinsanity16 https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/4c7fjx/my_nightmare_with_texas_womens_health_laws/ ====== stopinsanity16 The couple to whom this happened have now gone public: [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/31/texas- force...](http://www.theda...
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New ARM processor: 2.5 GHz, quad-core, with virtualization hardware - pjscott http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368924,00.asp ====== pjscott Of course their main market is smart phones and tablets, but this looks especially compelling for servers. Someone like Amazon could buy a bunch of these, attach a bunch of...
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Latency SLOs done right - camel_gopher https://www.circonus.com/2018/08/latency-slos-done-right/ ====== postwait I find this discussion fascinating. When I hear people advocate for SLOs (and SLIs) they are often quite rigorous in how they approach it... that is until the very last step where they hand-wave the math an...
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The Second Serve Problem - cwan http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/09/the_second_serv.html ====== Someone The numbers look conspicuous to me. "If they get their first service in, itself a 65%-ish probability for a top player, they will win the point with a roughly 75% likelihood." implies a probability of winnin...
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Open Source Developers: Don't Block Organizations You Don't Like - DarkContinent https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-developers-stop-blocking-organizations-you-dont-like/ ====== codeprimate The idea that one should be compelled or be obligated to support a group or organization that acts against one's mor...
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Colorado officials say it's too expensive to password-protect business data - freejoe76 http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_16149416 ====== freejoe76 "Colorado officials say putting password protection on corporate data -- where only a business owner or representative can make changes -- is prohibitively expensive...
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Is Apple ceasing to report unit sales because the iPhone has peaked? - evo_9 https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/06/aapl-stock-2/ ====== mtmail Last paragraph: "Have iPhone sales peaked? In the short-term, maybe; in the long-term, not at all."
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Nirvana's Nevermind Swimming Baby - perfunctory https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/06/kirk-weddle-best-photograph-nirvana-nevermind-swimming-baby ====== panpanna $1000 for everything including expenses? That doesn't even buy you a hello in New York.
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Hypothetical Explanations for the Fermi Paradox - rococode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_explanations_for_the_paradox ====== 100011 [https://www.unz.com/akarlin/katechon/](https://www.unz.com/akarlin/katechon/) "A corollary of the Simulation Argument is that the universe’s computational cap...
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Uggc: URL Obfuscation Service - xirium http://www.rushy.com/cgi-bin/uggc.cgi ====== xirium You can nest obfuscated references: [http://www.rushy.com/cgi- bin/uggc.cgi?action=link&url=ug...](http://www.rushy.com/cgi- bin/uggc.cgi?action=link&url=uggc:%2F%2Fjjj.ehful.pbz%2Fptv- ova%2Fhttp.ptv%3Fnpgvba=yvax%26hey=http:...
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Linux shell tips and tricks - lintips http://www.techbar.me/linux-shell-tips/ ====== pwr cached version: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.t...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.techbar.me%2Flinux- shell-tips%2F&rlz=1C1SVEE_enDE423DE423&oq=cache%3Awww.techbar.me%2F...
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On Being a Bastard (Cultivating online communities) - jrockway http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/on-being-a-bastard/ ====== houseabsolute Not impressed. I'm pretty sure being an asshole is more frequently harmful than helpful. I myself have been one from time to time and I understand the motivation to pai...
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Desmond Tutu's genome sequenced as part of genetic diversity study - tokenadult http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/17/desmond-tutu-genome-genetic-diversity ====== tokenadult "'On average there are more genetic differences between any two bushmen in our study than between a European and an Asian,' said Webb M...
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As VCs look for liquidity, private-company stock exchanges are emerging - gcventures http://vator.tv/news/show/2009-05-31-the-rise-of-the-secondary-markets ====== Dilpil Is this enough evidence that the public stock markets have become so over regulated as to make the costs of being a public company outweigh the ben...
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Learning is possible only where free, reasoned and civil speech is respected - jseliger https://www.wsj.com/articles/middleburys-statement-of-principle-1488846993 ====== pklausler TLDR: WSJ wants students to be nice to racists.
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10 Lessons from an Olympic Athlete - jkush http://functionalpathtraining.blogspot.com/2007/05/really-good-stuff.html ====== jkush If you consider startupping as competition, these lessons apply.
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Show HN: Simple, but powerful domain agnostic sentence (& word) embedding models - jowiet https://github.com/jwieting/charagram ====== jowiet This builds upon earlier work (which is included in other projects in the same account, complete with demo scripts.) ------ brudgers Related paper: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607....
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Java 8 Library for Building High-Performance, Thread-Per-Core Applications - xedin https://github.com/xedin/windmill ====== crudbug How is it different from Netty [1] / Reactor [2] ? [1] [http://netty.io](http://netty.io) [2] [http://projectreactor.io](http://projectreactor.io) ~~~ xedin It uses Thread-Per-Core arc...
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Handbook of Constraint Programming (2006) [pdf] - espeed http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/CSP/papers/CP_Handbook-20060315-final.pdf ====== kriro For anyone interested in playing around with constraint logic programming I can highly recommend Eclipse (not to be confused with the IDE): [http://eclipseclp.org/](http://eclipseclp...
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OBS the new iPhone security update - punnerud OBS! The new iPhone security update remove all: - WiFi passwords - All app logins ====== anonymous_iam My WiFi passwords were not removed with yesterday's update.
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IPlayer Performance tricks behind the scenes - danw http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/iplayer_day_performance_tricks.html ====== gaius Look, BBC, you haven't done anything clever here. The British taxpayer OWNS you. We own every programme in your archive, we're already paid for them. Rather than wasting t...
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How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be - Thevet https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/bring-him-home ====== keiferski If you ever get sucked into the vortex that is reading about Napoleon's incredible life, I highly recommend _The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast._ It's something like 100 hours long and c...
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Show HN: Designer School Relaunch - joshuahornby http://designer-school.com/# ====== arturbelico Hey Josh. Maybe you could put the message a bit more clear. Is that a blog that has a newsletter or is there something more? Do I get something extra if I sign up? The site looks nice. ~~~ joshuahornby Hey, yes correc...
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Paper on Ni-H Fusion by Focardi - mrb http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSlargeexces.pdf ====== mrb I posted about the history of nickel-hydrogen fusion on my blog: <http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=61> Let's just say that I did enough research that I am now convinced that the E-Cat device is not only possible, but ...
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Ask HN: Is the semantic web still a thing? - sysk A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about the semantic web as the next big thing. What happened? Are there still startups working in that space? Are people still interested? ====== irickt The semantic web is now integrated into the web and for the mos...
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Tesla Replacement battery modules for model 3 between 5-7k - aerophilic https://electrek.co/2019/04/13/tesla-model-3-longevity-claims-elon-musk ====== aerophilic If the 5-7k is current cost, explains why they are having difficulty reaching 35k price point...
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PayPal releases Kraken, Node.js framework - bluepnume http://www.krakenjs.com/ ====== moreproductive Maybe I'm a minority, but I can't really trust anything from a company with a login screen that says "logging you in securely" for 5000ms before loading me (sometimes) to my dashboard. ~~~ lighthazard You are not thei...
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Ask HN: Opinion of thinking of startup ideas vs. not thinking of startup ideas? - LeicesterCity Paul Graham states that not thinking of startup ideas leads to good ideas. Whereby, one develops a way of thinking of ideas unconsciously. Thus, the idea of working on side projects because they&#x27;re plain interesting.<p...
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Massive Breach in Panera Bread - pnrabrdthrwy https://pastebin.com/21H28TA1 ====== deft A similar flaw exists in the Denny's Canada app. Reveals usernames, email, full name and phone number. The API is entirely unauthenticated and account hijacking is very easy. The app is used for reward points that grant you free me...
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Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review (2012) [pdf] - dave446 http://www.argentumlux.org/documents/JEL_6.pdf ====== haylem OP's link is for a draft version. Final version can be found in several places (e.g. Google Scholar). Here's one of them: [http://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess- disseminate/1721.1/75360]...
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Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network - anigbrowl https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/03/twitter-analysis-identifying-a-pro-indonesian-propaganda-bot-network/ ====== Jsharm If it's possible to do this analysis why does twitter not routinely shutdown these networks? ~~~ scribu The analysis in this...
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Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number - ghosh http://esciencecommons.blogspot.ca/2015/10/mathematicians-find-magic-key-to-drive.html ====== crystalmeph Ramanujan was a genius, but he didn't just factor 1729 on the spot in the hospital bed. According to Wikipedia, he'd already known about...
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Smalltalk: Welcome to the Balkans - abyx http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=466 ====== dmlorenzetti This surely will sound like a troll, but the main thing that struck me here was the statement: "Just getting the code out of VisualWorks was a pain." How can anybody use a development environment that doesn't...
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Oculus Quest Review - dcminter https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/oculus-quest-review-2019s-best-new-gaming-system-is-wireless-affordable-vr/ ====== cynic_ > My biggest issue with Oculus Quest is its weight and fit. They should move more stuff off the front of the headset, it would help relieve the pressure on th...
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For those of you looking to break into programming - g0lden http://www.rdegges.com/how-i-learned-to-program/ ====== saldrix This is a great article of a person who went through the joys of programming coming from not know anything. ~~~ g0lden my impression as well
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Async-profile: A CPU Profiler for Node.js - geetarista https://bugsnag.com/blog/async-profile ====== jonstewart "You appear to have N cores, N-1 more than Nodejs can use." ~~~ elwell fails for n=1 ?
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Apple releases iOS 10.3 - zitterbewegung https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/27/ios-10-3/ ====== jordansmithnz I've been running the beta for a few weeks now. The thing that stands out the most? They changed the filesystem, and I haven't noticed a thing - the upgrade time wasn't even significantly longer. If anything, the bet...
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BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests - ingve http://juhakiili.com/box256/ ====== zokier Love it, very Zachtronicesque. If the author is reading, here are couple of improvement ideas: * Show the level number somewhere so its easier to discuss with others * Add some way to know h...
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US weighs up options in response to Russian hacking - gl338 https://www.ft.com/content/1de86910-9099-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78 ====== gl338 One of the things I find fascinating about this article is how cyber warfare deterrence requires that you publicly show force (and thus, your cyber capabilities), which also puts you...
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