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Western Medical Flyp Portable Vibrating Mesh Nebulizer - cpapusa
https://www.cpapusa.com/flyp-portable-vibrating-mesh-nebulizer.html
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chmaynard
Plus, it doubles as a sex toy.
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New Firefox beta is much better than old (esp gmail) - netpenthe
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/
i always found firefox would be laggy when you tabbed to gmail<p>new beta firefox has no lag!
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ComputerGuru
_New Firefox beta is much better than old (esp gmail)_
Can someone get rid of the super-editori... | {
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SimCity-like visualisation of real-world cities in the works - Petersmart
http://vizicities.com/
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Petersmart
Early screenshot: <http://imgur.com/TCG3itK>
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arethuza
How does this differ from cities that already have 3D building data in Google
Maps/Earth?
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robhawkes
3D building data is only part of this,... | {
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Two bytes are better than one - iamelgringo
http://allfunny.net/pics2/oldcomputerads/old-computer-ads-2.jpg
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Hexstream
Feature Request: Automatically append " [pic]" at the end of the title of
submissions that link to a URL with an extension known to denote a picture
(such as jpg).
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Why We Removed Our Phone Number From Our Website - mvaxelaire
http://wistia.com/blog/scaling-support-why-we-removed-our-phone-number-from-our-website
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JoshTv
No number is better than a fake number. Even though having a phone number on
your website makes it a little more credible but if its non-existing then it... | {
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} |
Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos - brettwelch
http://switchcam.com/
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angusgr
Wow. Many thoughts arose:
\- Is this more, less, or equivalently legal (copyright-wise) to just posting
the youtube videos on youtube in the first place? It seems like the act of
compositing ... | {
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The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble - petethomas
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/virtual-currencies?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/burstingofthebitcoinbubble
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joelthelion
It's going [back up](<http://sd-12155.dedibox.fr/~joel/btc/mtgox_weekly.png>)!
Seriously, bitcoin is simply too new and too revolutionary... | {
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3D Bezier Curves on Canvas - binarydreams
http://cssdeck.com/labs/bjiau4dy
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chinchang
very cool 3D feel. A little tweak in line widths as they come and go would
made them look better.
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SEJeff
Impressively smooth on my iPwn
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Telix clone - sysoleg
http://www.ath0.net/
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zorked
Well, as good a time as any to remember an old exploit.
Back in the old days, to put the modem back in command mode, you had to send
it +++ and wait one second without sending anything.
Hayes, a modem manufacturer, owned a patent on this "and wait one second"
... | {
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How can a guy from Western Europe start a life in Russia/Ukraine? - boeien
I want to find a job in Russia or Ukraine. I have been fascinated about this part of the world since I was 10. It's my dream to live and work there for at least a couple of years of my life.<p>I'm willing to go to great lengths to rea... | {
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JavaScript Allongé is free - raganwald
http://braythwayt.com/2013/10/01/javascript-allonge-is-free.html
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etrinh
Go. Read. This. Book. Now.
This is a must-read for any developer who wants to know Javascript better.
This is the book that taught me everything I know about prototypes, method
decorators, and functio... | {
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} |
The top ten mistakes made by n00b car buyers - kirpekar
http://autolicious.posterous.com/the-top-ten-mistakes-made-by-n00b-car-buyers
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stretchwithme
I bought my last car by calling the various dealerships and asking to speak to
the fleet manager. I had the exact model, options and color all decided
beforehand.... | {
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Should I use a QR code? A bot can help you decide - HipstaJules
https://www.messenger.com/t/shouldIuseaQRcode/
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Piskvorrr
1\. No.
Tada! A botless, static solution. No-server! ;o)
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HipstaJules
That's lean!
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Piskvorrr
And mean! Finite-state machine!
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Don't Let Congress Order Internet Companies to Spy on You - zoowar
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=497
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cjboco
Instead of our government trying to spy on us, perhaps we should try to turn
the tables and enact some more laws and rules that lets the citizens spy on
them.
~~~
... | {
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} |
Behind the 'Bad Indian Coder' - Mister_Snuggles
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/behind-the-bad-indian-coder/280636/
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cratermoon
My impression of many of the 6-week coder camps springing up in the US is that
they will bring this rote learning but knowing nothing style of education to
U... | {
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} |
Electric Car Drives 375 Miles on a 6 Minute Charge - bishvili
http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1050863_electric-car-drives-375-miles-at-55-mph-recharges-in-6-minutes
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hugh3
Interesting, but severely lacking in technical details.
What kind of batteries does this car use? How expensive are they? What kind of... | {
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Failure-Oblivious Computing (2004) [pdf] - vezzy-fnord
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/osdi04/tech/full_papers/rinard/rinard.pdf
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stcredzero
Famous story from Kent Beck:
When asked to come onsite to the C3 project to optimize their daily payroll
batch process, which was taking 3 d... | {
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The Clock of the Long Now - ColinWright
http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/2013/07/31/the-clock-of-the-long-now/
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salgernon
I've always been fascinated by these functional time capsules, intended to
communicate ideas rather than just entertain people with the novelty of
historic artifacts.
One such ... | {
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AWS price reduction - kpras
http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-price-reduction-42-ec2-s3-rds-elasticache-and-elastic-mapreduce/?sc_ichannel=ha&sc_ipage=homepage&sc_icountry=en&sc_isegment=c&sc_iplace=hero1&sc_icampaigntype=pricing&sc_icampaign=ha_en_PriceDrops_2014_03&sc_icategory=none&sc_iproduct=none&sc_idetail=no... | {
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New Startup Sets Out to Bring Google-Style AI to the Masses - cyphersanctus
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/new-startup-sets-bring-google-style-ai-masses/
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xixixao
Having examples just executable from the website is invaluable, especially to
excite more people. For fun:
Relatedness of Sentences (beta)
1 - not r... | {
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Show HN: Markdown Calculator Builder - markyc
I made a calculator builder called TextCalc ( <a href="https://textcalc.com" rel="nofollow">https://textcalc.com</a> ) that uses:<p>- markdown text formatting<p>- markdown-like form elements<p>- excel formulas for the calculations<p>feedback welcome
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Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout - ingve
https://512pixels.net/2017/11/apple-begins-high-sierra-automatic-rollout/
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sarreph
It is a shame to see Apple using the same tactics as iOS with macOS, which in
my opinion a different beast when it comes to upgrades.
I really regret upgrading to High Sierra, be... | {
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} |
Pricing niche products - speps
https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/
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whack
When eBay first started, I loved the idea of auctions as a way to set market
prices. From an economic and game-theory perspective, it is so optimal!
Clearly as later examples like Amazon have shown, auctions don't make s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Crosswords don’t make you clever - nitins
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/08/quick-study-neuroscience
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peterwwillis
I went to a conference on Multiple Sclerosis with a friend who has the
disease, and one of the much-hyped research topics (this was a few years ago)
was how more and more papers are fi... | {
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} |
Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again - WalterSobchak
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/
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CompuHacker
I had strong objections to this behavior the last three times Mozilla and
Google did it.
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sieabahlpark
Google is ... | {
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Does lifecasting compete with religion as a way to keep you well-behaved? Does it also encourage people you meet to treat you better than they normally would? - amichail
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randallsquared
While you don't have any other responses yet, I think this is an interesting
question, though possibly somewhat off topic for... | {
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} |
Healthcare contractors point finger at Obama administration - acephd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24658892
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hga
I suspect there was a garble in here, HHS's CMS was the "quarterback" (senior
vice president of CGI Cheryl Campbell used that word in her prepared
testimony), specifically they took on t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Gaming Google Search Trends - x0ner
The other day I was on Google and noticed some amusing Google trending suggestions and it got me to thinking, is it possible to game that system? I know it's Google and all, but if you create a big enough (consistent) flow of searches, is it possible to get what you want t... | {
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“The worst factory reset process I've ever seen” - doener
https://twitter.com/security_craig/status/1141708213001293825
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justwalt
While I agree that the method is pretty bad, I think the video is about as top
notch as it could have been given the reset method choice.
You’re meant to use the video at the same ti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers - evo_9
http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/06/yelp-advertising-is-a-rip-off-for-small-advertisers/
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_sentient
As the owner of a small business, I can confirm that this happens purely as
the result of ignorance on the parts of business owners. I've been advertising
... | {
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Manned Orbital Laboratory: the Pentagon's cold war plan to put spies in orbit - EwanG
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/31/real-story-of-the-secret-space-station.html
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rjsw
The Soviet Union did put spies (and a gun) into orbit [1].
[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/w... | {
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Microsoft Releases Bing for iPad - thankuz
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/04/07/microsoft-releases-bing-for-ipad/
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thankuz
Official Bing Post:
[http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20...](http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/04/07/bing-
for-ipad.aspx)
Also, Tech... | {
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I'm doing contingency planning in Japan. Would you guys like an AMA? - niels_olson
I'm a Navy doc and at lunch a couple of weeks ago was told to be on a plane for Japan in the morning. We've been working 24/7 for a while now. I'm ostensibly here as the doctor, for anyone who has a sniffle, hernia, breaks a leg, etc,... | {
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Show HN: Magic Name – Find the name of every email subscriber, without asking - samtoday
https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/magic-name/
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petercooper
I don't know how _this_ system does it, but I've done this with FullContact
before (and [https://clearbit.com/](https://clearbit.com/) will do it too). I
have a few... | {
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} |
Show HN: placezombies.com - rhaydon
http://www.placezombies.com
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rhaydon
We used a node.js implementation behind a varnish server. Also, we made a fun
little launch video here:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQKq7HH5pzo>
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mbijon
Zombies?
Where are the ninjas?!? That's right, you can't see the ninjas ... | {
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Why aren't there more women in tech? Wrong question - Mystalic
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57402766-276/why-arent-there-more-women-in-tech-wrong-question/
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gamechangr
Maybe because women aren't as interested??? It seems like that gets missed.
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Develop a Node.js app with Docker - abh1nav
http://blog.abhinav.ca/blog/2014/06/17/develop-a-nodejs-app-with-docker/
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Human_USB
Would this not be cleaner?
[https://gist.github.com/JasonSwindle/15a380eb707488dffd77](https://gist.github.com/JasonSwindle/15a380eb707488dffd77)
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rphillips
Check out nave [1]... | {
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Lab colleague uses cracked software. Should I report it? - lightonphiri
http://academia.stackexchange.com/q/79603/6023
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jarnix
If I reported every time a company where I was working was using cracked
software...
I hate using cracked software to make money but I don't think that we should
"report" though.
| {
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Karnataka state elections 2013 - Consolidated results in one csv - raghava
Karnataka state elections 2013 - Consolidated results in one csv (https://github.com/rghv/kar2013election-results/blob/master/Karnataka_2013_election_results.csv)<p>Wanted to go through the consolidated list of Karnataka (a state in India) 2... | {
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Boston-area hackers looking for work? - jsomers
I've spent the last three months working at PHOTON Consulting, a photovoltaic market research firm based in Boston, and I've been asked to help find a replacement before I leave. They're looking for a smart young hacker with an interest in renewable energy (and maybe f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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AMD Ryzen 3000 announced - DuskStar
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14407/amd-ryzen-3000-announced-five-cpus-12-cores-for-499-up-to-46-ghz-pcie-40-coming-77
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zanny
No mention of it, but the pressure should still be on AMD to open source or
allow firmware disable of their Platform "Security" Processor.
I would re... | {
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} |
Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 (PBKDF2) -- A JavaScript implementation - shawndumas
http://anandam.name/pbkdf2/
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pixelcort
Cool! This produces compatible output to node's crypto.pbkdf2 API[1].
[1]:
[http://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_crypto_pbkdf2_passw...](http://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#cr... | {
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Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2012) - dodders
http://blog.stephenwyattbush.com/2012/04/07/dad-and-the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming
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greggman
> Critique code instead of people – be kind to the coder, not to the code
A fellow co-worker taught me by example to try to always phrase... | {
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Ghostly Compatibility: Cross Browser Transparancy with CSS - simplrdes
http://www.cherrysave.com/web-design/ghostly-compatibility-cross-browser-transparancy-with-css/
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hellotoby
"-khtml-opacity is used in Apple’s Safari, and in other KHTML-enabled
browsers."
This is factually incorrect. Safari has supported t... | {
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} |
Mid-stack inlining in the Go compiler - dcu
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wcblp3jpfeKwA0Y4FOmj63PW52M_qmNqlQkNaLj0P5o/edit#slide=id.p
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throwawayish
In case someone else is wondering: What is being called "mid-stack inlining"
here is what is generally understood by the term "inlining".
~~~
CUViper
The ... | {
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Wordpress on a Retina Display - tathagata
http://tatx.me/wordpress-on-a-retina-display/
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lwhi
Is there any benefit to providing specific customisation beyond pleasing a
subset of users who have a proprietary retina display?
I feel slightly at odds with providing something that can only be enjoyed by
people wh... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there anyone here who has sold software via Gumroad? - thesoonerdev
1.What do you sell?
2.How did you promote it?
3.How was the overall experience?
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vram22
I haven't sold any yet, but am going to try. Just setup my Gumroad page and
uploaded a first product, mainly as a test:
[https://gumroad.com/pr... | {
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} |
Solar power is now cheaper than nuclear - brkumar
http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/NCW-SolarReport_final1.pdf
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rvcx
No, it's not. The position paper (from an organization whose whole mission is
to push solar and get rid of nuclear) simply makes up a bunch of number.
<http://v.cx/2010/07/lying-abo... | {
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Engineering the Extinction of 40 Species of Mosquitoes - olalonde
http://rockstarresearch.com/engineering-the-extinction-of-40-species-of-mosquitoes/
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zachrose
This links to Janet Fang's article in Nature:
[http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html](http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/4664... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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“In exchange for my honest and unbiased review” - apsec112
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:amazon.com+%22in+exchange+for+my+honest+and+unbiased+review%22
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ColbyJackRat
I like that reviewers are required to put this on Amazon now, it lets me know
which products no... | {
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} |
When bad UX is good - _4bcr
https://herebeseaswines.net/essays/2020-05-02-when-bad-ux-is-good
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eyelidlessness
There is a wide range of intentionally "bad" design in vogue, where "bad" may
be one or more of:
\- Opaque, confusing, vague or misleading
\- Garish, over the top or ugly
\- Ironically reminiscent of ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Version Control and Higher Education - jsiarto
https://medium.com/education-today/78dc8e3f66f1
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greenyoda
I haven't met any developer who was incapable of learning a version control
system on the job. Why should universities spend the student's _very
expensive_ class time to learn about this? That time would be ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Pirate Bay - Take-Down Notices from Apple, Microsoft, Dreamworks and more. - aolczak
http://thepiratebay.se/legal
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stephenr
they are very big in the letters back to lawyers/companies - do you think
they're still so "f*ck you, we are invincible" from their jail cells?
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ChuckMcM
Well since their humorous... | {
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I Am The Guy Getting Screwed By The Affordable Care Act - csdrane
http://kiddynamitesworld.com/horses-mouth-guy-getting-screwed-affordable-care-act/
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gee_totes
This is a confusing article to read because the author never makes clear _why_
he is the guy getting screwed; what his particular circumstances are, ho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
28,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis - doener
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html
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beamatronic
There's enough different people in different industries, counting various
things, that you can't really hide the truth for very long. ... | {
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Ask YC: Anyone want to make a website? - breck
I'm bored. I've got some skills. Ideas?
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mattgauger
Boredom relieving sites?
| {
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HN opinion: NetKernel - mml
http://www.1060research.com/netkernel/
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mml
Was recently asked to provide an opinion on it. I don't have one yet, but am
leaning towards "perfect for the architectural astronaut in need of further
layers of abstraction, which is, of course, the obvious solution to every
problem"
Wa... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thirst for stories that vilify Muslims has eroded basic principles of journalism - DanBC
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2018/09/the-times-muslim-christian-child-foster-care-tower-hamlets-court-ruling-ipso
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DanBC
One of theproblems in this case is the strict privacy given to children in
family courts... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Which is the best laptop for a programmer in the market today? - saching90
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LeoSolaris
"Best" is a very subjective term.
Depends on what kind of programming you're doing, what works well in my
opinion would be:
Web dev? Something with a big enough screen that you're comfy and a keyboard
you like.
A... | {
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} |
Five lists of six things about Rust - mmphosis
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/214016.html
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jumperjake
To me, the biggest improvement Rust brings to the table is its sane defaults.
This, coupled with its type system, makes handling outcomes something you opt
out of.
As I continue to use of Rust, I keep findin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amazon.com’s secret retail empire - aj
http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/08/amazon-com-multibrand-retailer/
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jonafato
How is this in any way a secret? Sure, they don't go and shutdown sites and
disrupt services for months while integrating acquired companies like Google
does, but the bottom of the amazon.com home p... | {
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} |
Preview your website on iPad - pmattos
http://ipadpeek.com/
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bkrausz
All it does is load your site in an iFrame...it does nothing with user agents
or zoom. Basically the same thing as resizing your browser.
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avgarrison
This is a neat little app, however I was able to see flash!!
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TheBranca18
It d... | {
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The Marshall Islands replaces the US dollar with its own cryptocurrency - vinnyglennon
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/23/17384608/marshall-islands-cryptocurrency-us-dollar-usd-currency
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jonfelske
Will be interesting to watch this become a trend.
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The View from Olympus: A 4GW Impeachment? By William S Lind - ScottFree
http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/guest-article-the-view-from-olympus-a-4gw-impeachment/
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a3n
> The military problem is really quite simple, and need involve virtually no
> shooting or destruction. You just put the cities under siege and wai... | {
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Pizza Effect - polm23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect
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svat
Wasn't expecting to see this here. I created this article about 10 years ago,
when I was a lot more active on Wikipedia. Every time I remember this article
I keep expecting it to get deleted sooner or later, but somehow it's made it
this long... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hey guys What do you guys think of this website me and my friend made? - erikbatista
http://bethemindset.com/
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SamPutnam
Erik, [http://bethemindset.com/app.html](http://bethemindset.com/app.html)
looks good.
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andrewclunn
So many videos at once made me think it was broken on my tablet at first.
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From zero to 1700 subscribers. 3 weeks. 7 growth hacks. $0 marketing cost - AladdinPS
https://medium.com/@happyaladdin/from-zero-to-1700-subscribers-3-weeks-7-growth-hacks-0-marketing-cost-5e212b5e9a61
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AladdinPS
These are my most favorite growth hacks of July.
Growth Hack #5 5 SEO hacks for the 2nd largest s... | {
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} |
Why Concatenative Programming Matters (2012) - jasondenizac
http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.mx/2012/02/why-concatenative-programming-matters.html
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Scaevolus
The elegant minimalism of Forth is inspiring-- how many other languages can
fit their REPL and development environment into a few kilobytes?
However, I fin... | {
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FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5 - ry0ohki
http://www.flir.com/US/
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hoopism
Relevant:
Turn cheap FLIR into expensive FLIR imager:
[http://hackaday.com/2013/11/04/manufacturer-crippled-
flir-e4...](http://hackaday.com/2013/11/04/manufacturer-crippled-
flir-e4-thermal-camera-hacked-to-perform-as-high-en... | {
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Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow - nickbilton
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/bend-it-charge-it-dunk-it-graphene-the-material-of-tomorrow/
The material has the potential to change the electronics industry, and recently researchers have focused on how to produce it commercially.... | {
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Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy - bemmu
https://customanim.com/
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solarkraft
Thanks to Captain Disillusion I know how this is done (obvious in hind sight,
but cool to learn):
The movement of the marbles is pre-rendered and you can color the marbles in
the end result right so at the beginni... | {
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"X for Y" Startups - mgirdley
http://girdley.com/2013/06/10/x-for-y-startups/
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IsaacL
I hear this a lot, but I disagree.
1\. Firstly, take startups where the founders had an original idea, but they
pitch it as "X for Y". Is this a bad thing? Many people will say that they
should pitch it on its own merits. Th... | {
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OWASP Developer Guide - arunc
https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide
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tptacek
The "Cryptography Guide" under the "Build" section of this work is truly a
work of... some sort.
[https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/blob/master/DevGuide3.0/03...](https://github.com/OWASP/DevGuide/blob/master/DevGuide3.0/03-Build/0x11-Cr... | {
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I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday - wmf
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.0
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kwantam
The poster makes some good points about the inconsistencies in Mt. Gox's
handling of things, but it seems to me that he's ascribing to malice what is
well explained by incompetence on ... | {
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Imagotag – Electronic Shelf Labelling - speeq
http://www.imagotag.com/
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n0rm
Biggest product killer for these is the need for IT management.
Prove to retailers that your product is install-and-forget or they'll shy away
from the unpredictable maintenance costs.
| {
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Ask HN: Project Management tool for dev teams. What's the word these days? - badbanana
I've had experience with Jira (which has all the schnazzy charts, customization and integrations, but slowness and usability seems to be a common complaint) and a bit of Trello for personal stuff.<p>There's Trello, Github ... | {
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Cloudflare Makes It hard to access website to promote it privacy pass extension - Nitishshah700
Cloudflare new techniques to promote there privacy pass extension, make it very irritating to surf the web.<p>Every single site i visit that use cloudFlare, i have to submit google ugly recaptcha, which is a real PITA
===... | {
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Ask HN: How do you keep up the energy to work on side-projects after work? - eddieschod
Curious about what other people do to maintain the energy (and money) to work on side projects after work. What's your side project working schedule like?
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parallel_item
An omnipresent underlying sense of anxiety and rag... | {
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Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service - mr_toad
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/huawei_enterprise_router_backdoor_is_telnet/
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DevNullDevice
I long for the day when security is the default state. I wonder if legislation
could help address the never ending stream of things li... | {
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Gaming like it’s 1979 - shawndumas
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/ion-icade-hands-on-gaming-on-the-ipad-like-its-1979-video/
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sdfx
It's great to see how ThinkGeek uses April Fool's day as a way to gauge
customer interest. They did this before with their Tauntaun sleeping bags
which they produced/sold after a... | {
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} |
Fixing Pay to Win - stcredzero
http://www.emergencevector.com/blog/2015/6/10/fixing-pay-to-win
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sharemywin
I didn't realize this was about games at first.
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emergencevector
It's about MMOs in particular. I'm writing one.
| {
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Research team has isolated the Covid-19 virus - 52-6F-62
https://sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2069&f=covid-19-isolated-2020
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jrace
One step forward. Hopefully a positive outcome of this pandemic will be better
global corroboration.
| {
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Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make Incentives Work - thomaspun
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/10/harvard-researchers-find-a-creative-way-to-make-incentives-work/
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bking
I can see where this would be effective. The question is whether you can
convince a company to believe the hype, pay money up fron... | {
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I'm a business guy with a prototype looking for a hacker - dowork77
Throw away account for privacy.<p>me:<p>* I'd consider myself a business guy or a product guy.
* I taught myself just enough Ruby on Rails to create a prototype.
* I'm looking for a hacker to help me iterate to the next level.<p>you:<p>* intereste... | {
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Jobs for an AI undergrad - aiundergrad
I will shortly be graduating from a top UK university with a BS in Artificial Intelligence. The skills I have aquired are very diverse within the field, spanning machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, with a healthy dose of programming (parallelism etc)... | {
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The new archive.org - bpierre
https://archive.org/v2
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aw3c2
Awww why... This looks incredibly cluttered. Infinite scrolling is a terrible
idea in an _archive_. If you use the list view instead, you get a very hard to
scan "3 narrow lines for 1" design.
The site is very broken if you don't have Javascript enable... | {
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} |
Bilingual Babies Get Head Start -- Before They Can Talk - dangoldin
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090413-bilingual-babies.html?source=rss
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tokenadult
Thanks for submitting the interesting article. I was surprised to read that
parents in Europe are wary of bilingualism.
It is TIME-CONSUMING t... | {
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} |
Greenhouse gas emissions from the largest US industrial plants fell 2.7% in 2017 - DoreenMichele
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-emissions-carbon/u-s-greenhouse-emissions-fell-in-2017-as-coal-plants-shut-idUSKCN1MR2J4
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jphalimi
Bottom line, clean energy is getting cheaper so it cuts emissions of bigger
em... | {
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} |
NASA will send a balloon the size of a football field to study how stars form - pseudolus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/us/nasa-balloon-asthros-scn-trnd/index.html
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RunningDroid
NASA's press release:
[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7712](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7712)
| {
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Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap - akandiah
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/unheralded-mathematician-bridges-the-prime-gap/
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ColinWright
Discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734480>
Also submitted many, many times:
[https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/al... | {
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Spolsky - Where there's muck there's brass - wmorein
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/06.html
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fauigerzigerk
There are two types of muck though: Muck that cannot be avoided and becomes a
hard problem that must be solved => brass. Muck for which there is a known way
to avoid it, and solving it is jus... | {
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Dark Patterns are designed to trick you (and they’re all over the Web) - robin_reala
http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/07/dark-patterns-what-are-they/
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brudgers
Recent discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180072](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180072)
~~~
robin_reala
Huh, missed that... | {
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A couple’s elastic dance in Brutalist Berlin [video] - brudgers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5WwTQikJI7U
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Zenst
I like watching these types of things twice, once with the soundtrack and
again muted. Certainly changes perspective more in some things than others and
I'd recommend try watching it without the audio f... | {
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} |
Startup lessons learned after two and a half years - dcancel
http://blog.latentflip.com/post/33902095607/startup-lessons-learned
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Alan01252
First I really enjoyed the post. I'm even more intrigued now though, you have
100 paying customers at a maximum of £12 pound a month, this is only £14,400 a
year. Between tw... | {
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} |
Natural selection has trouble explaining this bugs horns - commonskangaroo
https://www.popsci.com/natural-selection-doesnt-tell-whole-story/
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dogdigdig
Maybe it has altogether some ither function
| {
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A Working Programmer's Guide to Type-Indexed Values - Hank_Lenzi
http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/37
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mgreenbe
A neat trick, but---as one of the commenters points out---manual dictionary
passing is a bit much. I would love Haskell, but for laziness...
| {
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Guess programming language by „Hello, world“ snippet - krasnoukhov
http://helloworldquiz.com/
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nxn
Trying to pick between omgrofl and lolcode with one life left can be likened
to deciding which color wire to snip.
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qbrass
They look nothing alike, but I saw the LOLs in Omgrofl and instincively hit
the LOLco... | {
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} |
U.S. Hopes "Internet in a Suitcase" Will Offset Internet Censorship - curthopkins
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/us_hopes_internet_in_a_suitcase_will_offset_intern.php#.TfakikNi4ds;hackernews
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ChuckMcM
I sure hope you can buy these that work inside the US :-)
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ltamake
It's funny to see the US govern... | {
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Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy - dnetesn
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-iceland-drills-km-volcano-energy.html
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chris_va
I'd be careful about getting too optimistic.
Conventional geothermal is about 4-5 cents/kWh, on par with natural gas in the
US. The dominant capital cost is drillin... | {
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} |
What Ever Happened to Google Books? - jeo1234
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books?intcid=mod-latest
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chippy
The reminds me of people's attitudes towards reCAPTCHA - started by
researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. "Stop spam, read books."
Everyone was supportive of... | {
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} |
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