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Best Way to Sort Lego? - alanjay https://marquisdegeek.com/lego_organisation ====== alanjay A modest proposal to best organise LEGO - is this the most efficient way of doing it? If not, what is?
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The decline of the art generation gap - occam http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/generation_gap/ ====== msie In the midst of reading this article I had the feeling I was reading something from a conservative blog: _In the arts, perhaps the most important change since the 1960s is the decline in what had then be...
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American Born Mos Def Barred from entering the U.S. - davidcoronado http://www.bet.com/news/music/2014/05/21/report-yasiin-bey-barred-from-re-entering-the-u-s.html?cid=facebook ====== sologoub The story seems very incomplete... they quote him saying that he lived in NYC for 33 years and that for someone like him to...
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Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript - bevacqua https://github.com/bevacqua/fuzzysearch ====== lorenzhs "fuzzy" is a bit of an overstatement, all it does is match substrings with missing letters. If you type "orrange", it won't match. If you type "otange", it won't match. All it does is match the "...
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Apply HN and Feedback: Kaleidoscope Corp (Centralizing Health Database) - rampage24life I would love some input from the HN community about this idea we are purposing as of now. Maybe in my head I feel this is a need in the world, but I might be wrong. With some feedback, we can improve on what we are making.<p>Curre...
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Perfect Competition Is Bad for Growth - brownbat http://growthecon.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/perfect-competition-is-bad-for-growth/ ====== bediger4000 This article is slanted to an owner's point of view: the firm can't make huge profits if there's perfect competition. The rest of us do want perfect competition, and t...
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Regulators may punish Deutsche Bank for its Jeffrey Epstein ties - AndrewBissell https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/business/jeffrey-epstein-deutsche-bank.html ====== AndrewBissell Most interesting part is the last two paragraphs: "While Mr. Epstein was a client of Deutsche Bank, his main business was Southern Trust ...
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Why the Chinese Military Is Only a Paper Dragon - 11thEarlOfMar http://theweek.com/article/index/264774/why-the-chinese-military-is-only-a-paper-dragon ====== cowardlydragon I've read of certain things (such as a fleet of diesel submarines to defend against the much more expensive american naval fleet), drones, and ...
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Ask HN: Why are lenders allowed to discriminate against the self-employed? - boldpanda ====== Alupis you did not provide any details... but usually it's due to the difficulty you have in proving a reliable and steady income. It's not "discrimination", it's viewing you as an unknown and/or higher risk. When you hav...
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Unsupervised Learning with Even Less Supervision Using Bayesian Optimization - Zephyr314 http://blog.sigopt.com/post/140871698423/sigopt-for-ml-unsupervised-learning-with-even ====== Zephyr314 One of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15) here. I'm happy to answer and questions about this post or the methods used. More in...
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Ask HN: Data science bootcamps false claim - atulcst How these data science bootcamps claim that they can teach a person data science who don&#x27;t even know programming. I would suggest there should be a standard specified by industry experts and every bootcamp has to follow it. Its really sad to see how these bootc...
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Show HN: Smartmockups – Create product screenshots with just a few clicks - iamlukaszajic http://smartmockups.com ====== iamlukaszajic Hello guys, I'd like to show you our new project. It's a curated collection of product mockups for all designers, marketers and developers. All mockups are free and ready for personal ...
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Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 4 – Alignment and pipelining - benaadams https://mijailovic.net/2018/07/20/alignment-and-pipelining/ ====== zvrba Further optimization potential: the four lines sum = Avx2.Add(block0, sum); sum = Avx2.Add(block1, sum); sum = Avx2.Add(bloc...
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Soylent Really Green: Meal-Replacement Startup Raising at $100M Valuation - jrkelly http://recode.net/2015/01/07/soylent-really-green-meal-replacement-startup-raising-at-100m-valuation/ ====== jghn Maybe they can use this money to speed up the turnaround time
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I can do better: I will pay $10,000 for you to build your side-project/MVP - mvpproject Proposition HN: I will pay $10,000 for you to build your side-project/MVP<p>Premise 1:<p>Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups.<p>Premise 2:<p>An MVP built by a lone, but talented techie is ...
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Ask HN: How many side projects do you have going at one time? - mise When setting up my first site, it wasn't called a "side project". It was my full-on hobby that I spent all my weekends on. It was split up into three separate niche sites in 2002.<p>Since then, I've launched some side blogs, and then two more real ...
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Jensen Huang Says Nvidia-Branded ARM CPUs Are a Possibility - ItsTotallyOn https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-hints-at-nvidia-branded-arm-cpus ====== nabla9 Squeezing AMD and Intel in server and laptop markets seems like logical next move. Surely Nvidia/Arm can produce similar or better processors as Apple...
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Create Crawlable, Link-Friendly AJAX Websites Using pushState() - jennita http://www.seomoz.org/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate ====== Gigablah There's a jQuery plugin for this: <https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax> Backbone.js has support for pushState as well. ~~~ Roedou PJAX...
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Hurricane Idai (the Southern Hemispheres worst disaster?) happened a week ago - sebmanchester https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/cyclone-idai-worst-weather-disaster-to-hit-southern-hemisphere-mozambique-malawi ====== sebmanchester ...and started 2 weeks ago. News from this part of the world often travels sl...
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It’s time for doctors to apologise to their ME patients - bloke_zero http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/12033810/Its-time-for-doctors-to-apologise-to-their-ME-patients.html ====== empressplay I've suffered with ME / FM for 25 years and it's my firm opinion there are no clean hands in this debate. Doctors, frustrat...
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Silk Road: caught by the NSA? - aespinoza http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/10/silk-road-caught-by-nsa.html#.Umldo_lea2B ====== aroch A 22day old blogpost that's light on details... If you're going to downvote, how about you explain the relevance of a 22day old post, with really no substance, that's speculating with lit...
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Should I Publish my App to Betalist? - henrykuzmick https://pine.io/blog/should-i-publish-to-betalist/ ====== henrykuzmick I've been coding for a while now, but making and growing a product is a whole new thing for me. I may not be alone here, hopefully these insights will help someone else too. ------ Tomte . ~~~ h...
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In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete - KKKKkkkk1 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/business/china-cash-smartphone-payments.html ====== thablackbull I think this is a good illustration of the different approach in how China and America approach the consumer economics space. In America, there is a very hea...
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Video tags reveal surprising details of blue whale feeding behavior - Thevet https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/11/blue-whales.html ====== nategri Totally thought this was going to be about an algorithm that tags videos of whales with text, and and how they noticed a pattern by looking at the tags. Title would be better serv...
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“Culture of workplace fear” leads to Covid-19 spread at Amazon, suit says - samizdis https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/culture-of-workplace-fear-leads-to-covid-19-spread-at-amazon-suit-says/ ====== merricksb Earlier discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23412532](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
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OpenVPN: Raspberry-Pi - DarthRa http://n0where.net/openvpn-raspberry-pi/ ====== AdrianRossouw heh, everybody seems to be getting into this now. i built mine a few weeks ago. when i find time i'm going to build a chrome extension to be able to toggle routing via the vpn or not. i also think i want to add 3g failove...
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Show HN: A new, clean, and concise look at weather from My-Cast - yellowbkpk We just released a new weather website using all sorts of awesome web technologies. We use ModestMaps to show tiled, animated radar and satellite data, Raphael.js to show historical averages and record high/lows, and MapQuest's new Nominati...
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The Protection of Information in Computer Systems (1975) - mataug https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs551/saltzer/ ====== dang A great post, but we changed the title from "Probably the most cited and least read paper in Computer Security" in accordance with the HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideli...
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Whitepaper on telemedicine trends, market research, and startups 2020 - DanaStartupNews https://www.byteant.com/blog/telemedicine-app-development-market-study-and-startup-opportunities-2020-whitepaper/ ====== DanaStartupNews We have done our research so you can get the full picture on telemedicine market 2020. Startup...
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Ask HN: Will prediction competitions become mainstream? - devchris10 Some examples:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oraclerank.com<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;facebook-tests-forecast-an-app-for-making-predictions-about-world-events-like-covid-19&#x2F;<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaggle.com<p>https:&#...
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HTTP/1.1 pipelining example: DNS-Over-HTTPS - textmode As a demonstration using only standard utilities, the three scripts below 1.sh, 2.sh and 3.sh will<p>1. accept a list of domains and output the required Base64URL-encoded DNS request<p>2. make a single HTTP connection to retrieve all the responses in binary format...
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The hacker method for game publishing: band together - tripngroove http://www.theindiebundle.com/ ====== tripngroove These guys are killing it. A variety of quality game content, bundled, cheap, and well marketed on the web, via platforms like steam and email (I open their newsletter every time it shows up, which sa...
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Startup Time for Fukushima's Frozen Wall - sohkamyung http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/startup-time-for-fukushimas-frozen-wall-heres-why-it-should-work ====== Mithaldu Excellently calm and informative article. I wish all Fukushima reporting was like this.
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Ask HN: I got my dream job and now I'm depressed - newjobhelp Hi HN,<p>I recently got a new job. It&#x27;s my dream job and at a company I&#x27;ve wanted to work at for a very long time.<p>I applied once straight out of college but didn&#x27;t make it through the interviews - so I worked somewhere else, building up my...
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Rivals can create copycat software through testing and user manuals: UK court - epo http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/november/rivals-can-create-copycat-software-through-testing-developers-software-and-interpreting-their-user-manuals-rules-uk-court/ ====== antimagic Heh. Funny story - I was once asked to clone t...
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Your Intuition is Wrong – A/B Testing Results that Surprised the Experts - lsh123 https://vwo.com/blog/ab-testing-results-that-surprised-experts/ ====== QuantumGood It's interesting that I seem to be in the minority, and the "winners" are the ones that make intuitive sense to me. People bounce away from complicatio...
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Ask HN: Help us structure our ready-to-launch content discovery Android app - kiberstranier Hi there,<p>We&#x27;re in the final steps of preparation for the launch of our new content discovery Android app and wanted to ask the community&#x27;s help in finding what content categories &#x2F; sources you think would ma...
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Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) Quick Start guide - Scramblejams http://lfe.github.com/quick-start/1.html ====== craftman This is a great awesomeness. It provides all access to rock solid erlang vm/otp/library with lisp nice syntax. If you look at the source code, you will see that it is quite small, meaning you can expec...
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Average American inheritance: $177,000 - codegeek http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/13/retirement/american-inheritance/index.html?source=cnn_bin ====== officialjunk for the purpose of comparing with other countries, i would also like to know the average income for each country. just comparing the dollar amounts isn't the...
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Show HN: Find your perfect (AU/NZ) job - peterwallhead https://talenthunch.com ====== DrScump One has to enter all employment/skills info first without seeing a single job or employer. ~~~ viraptor Yeah, this is bad. It looks like info collection site which doesn't actually have much to offer after signup. I'm not sa...
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How to Save CNN from Itself - hvo https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/how-to-save-cnn-from-itself.html?src=trending&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Trending&pgtype=article ====== nodesocket CNN used to be my absolute go to for news. However more and more, especially dur...
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Ask HN: Are you lonely? - omarshammas A couple years ago I found myself lonely, overweight, and unhappy. I had neglected to build a life outside of work, and it finally caught up.<p>It hasn&#x27;t been easy and I still struggle with it from time to time but thankfully I&#x27;m in a better place now.<p>How did you get...
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Ask YC: AIR or HTML/JS or Obj-c for visualizing data? - confused I'm developing an app which is going to have a visualization component. The data will be shown in a graphical manner, somewhat like Gapminder.<p>I'm confused about which platform to choose for development of the client. Html/javascript, Flash/AIR or Ob...
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Ask HN: How to make more money? Adsense isn't working - thatusertwo Built a product and its getting some traction, at last check it had over 11000 page views, but with google adsense we only got like 10 clicks.<p>Clearly this method is not working very well, what other options do we have? ====== djloche My suggestio...
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Do you use dynamic connection strings? Is there a better solution? - fatdeveloper Do you change connection string manually while deploying to different environments or do you create connection strings dynamically based on URL?<p>I check URL to see the environment and use the connection string accordingly. Is there a b...
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Why is everyone a bank? - kaushikktiwari https://medium.com/@kaushikktiwari/why-the-f-k-is-everyone-a-bank-6576de9d262d ====== tlb Another answer: because regular banks are awful to deal with. They don't have nice APIs to just move money around. They apply velocity limits at surprising times. They can terminate your a...
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Update on the Swift Project Lead - mkh https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170109/030063.html ====== sctb Latest discussion of Chris leaving Apple to join Tesla: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369510](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369510). ------ fataliss Good for him. He...
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Show HN: A simple markdown sharing site - stevekemp https://markdownshare.com/ ====== stevekemp This site has been running for the past couple of years, and has recently had an overhaul & refresh to make it a golang-powered site, via the source here: [https://github.com/skx/markdownshare/](https://github.com/skx/mark...
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Unemployment Is About to Fall a Lot Faster than Predicted - mathattack http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/unemployment-is-about-to-fall-a-lot-faster-than-predicted/ ====== alttab Ctrl+J; $('.blockUI').remove();
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KLOS: Kernel-Less Operating System Architecture (2005) [pdf] - vezzy-fnord http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.59.2606&rep=rep1&type=pdf ====== ridiculous_fish Reading and trying to understand this: 1\. The address space for each process has an unprivileged "user-level" segment (DSAPP), and a pri...
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Ask HN: Going freelance as a data scientist - mthwsjc_ I&#x27;m a financial data scientist living in the Netherlands and I&#x27;d like to go freelance.<p>Should I use an agency, or avoid them? Are agencies like UpWork or Toptal particularly good?<p>How do you find your first clients? ====== mtmail "Ask HN: How to get ...
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Ask HN: Can a smart meter be made to lie to the Grid? - Cherian_Abraham Maybe some among here might be working in the Smart Grid ecosystem and could help answer this question:<p>As Smart Meters become ubiquitous, for the sake of argument Can someone maliciously (using whatever exploits applicable at the moment) gain...
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Twitter Rolls Out Search And Trends And A Business Model? - Anon84 http://blog.socialmedia.com/twitter-rolls-out-search-and-trends/ ====== ctingom Hmmm, I'm not seeing it on my Twitter page.
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Turning Water into Watts - sohkamyung https://physicsworld.com/a/turning-water-into-watts/ ====== steeve According to the article, one station is rated at ~100kW (that's maximum power output). A typical nuclear 3rd generation nuclear reactor outputs ~900MW-1GW. Assuming an impossible 100% charge (ratio between rated...
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Disqus Hijacking Links in Comments. Redirecting to Ad Networks - LordWinstanley https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-discussdisqus/bug_reports_feedback_url_replacement_in_comments/ ====== LordWinstanley If you're either using Disqus to provide commenting on a website you run, or leaving comments on other sites, ...
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Ask HN: Anyone else upvote HN comments to track comments they have already read? - zubairq ====== yesenadam That sounds like a terrible idea, polluting voting on HN. I hope you are asked or made to stop doing that. ~~~ zubairq Thanks. Makes sense what you say, so I have written to the HN admins to ask them to disable ...
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Tools for Data Visualization - jlemoine http://codegeekz.com/30-best-tools-for-data-visualization/ ====== ISL Seeing nothing similar, here's a shoutout for Gnuplot, a tool I use daily. [http://gnuplot.info/](http://gnuplot.info/) It'll even plot in your terminal. ------ minimaxir No R? This list is a list of too...
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U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high - monort https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/23/call-off-the-bee-pocalypse-u-s-honeybee-colonies-hit-a-20-year-high/ ====== floatrock There's a little bit of dodging going around in this article... What's really going on is we still have a high amount of ch...
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If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down - chillax http://joyent.com/blog/if-i-was-your-cloud-provider-i-d-never-let-you-down ====== anonymouz With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up. [1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment...
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India is drying up - akbarnama https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/india-is-drying-up-fast/789376.html ====== Arun2009 Monsoons have been a dud so far. Our well nearly dried up, and we were planning to shift should water run out. The municipal water supply is useless. The irony: my state (Kerala) receives around...
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Unlike Immigrants, Robots Will Permanently Drive Down Real Wages - cwan http://modeledbehavior.com/2011/01/04/unlike-immigrants-robots-will-permanently-drive-down-wages/ ====== danielson Unless... " _Sleep Dealer_ tells the story of a young _campensino_ named Memo whose DIY radio draws unwanted attention from a U.S...
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Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own - epi0Bauqu http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html ====== jbrun This is amazing, been wanting something like this for a while. I just wish there was software that allowed me to put notes on parts of websites and keep track of c...
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Herbert Dow, the Monopoly Breaker (1997) - swampthing http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=31 ====== axus This only worked because it was a commodity that could be resold without much extra expense, and the cartel wasn't willing to sell at a loss everywhere. Great history lesson! ~~~ rallison That, and in the US (...
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Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation - auvi https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp ====== KenoFischer Used to implement the parser/lowering for Julia! It's probably on the way out at this point, but it's served us very well this past decade.
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MIRI's Approach – Machine Intelligence Research Institute - deegles https://intelligence.org/2015/07/27/miris-approach/ ====== idlewords Are there any examples of substantive AI work to come out of MIRI? And have they succeeded at all at engaging the actual AI research community? The last time I looked at them, they ...
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Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time - pkiller https://internalregister.github.io/2019/03/14/Homebrew-Console.html ====== kgwxd This is the coolest thing I've seen posted on HN in years, very cool work. I've been playing with Atari 2600 programming on and off for the past few years...
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Maximizing ‘bang per bit’ to achieve state of the art results - RKlophaus https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00792 ====== fheinsen Hi HN, I'm the author of this paper. As it turns out, I posted it and answered a few questions about it on HN a few days ago, on this thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397444](http...
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Ask HN: Jingle/Sound purchasing - BrianPetro I want to add some sound to my app. Does anyone have suggestions for purchasing audio tracks? ====== needleme Hello, I could do something, if you want contact me. What kind of app it is and what kind of music/soundss you'r looking for? ~~~ BrianPetro I am actually doing ...
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Top 400 Individual Income Tax Returns with the Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes - ddeck http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Top-400-Individual-Income-Tax-Returns-with-the-Largest-Adjusted-Gross-Incomes ====== ddeck 2009 is latest reported year. For comparison: 1992 5.7 1993 6.2 1994 ...
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Hackodex.com - Chatroulette for Hackers - rajan_chandi http://www.hackodex.com ====== bodegajed Awesome idea. Poorly executed design though and I see a chicken and egg problem. How do you plan on solving this? ~~~ rajan_chandi Thank you. We're just building this for connecting hackers. It seems to be getting attent...
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Who Needs College? The Triumph of Young Web Founders - jazzman http://mashable.com/2007/06/13/the-triumph-of-young-web-founders/ ====== willarson Building a Web 2.0 website for a computer scientist is like building a doghouse for an architect. Neither needed to go to college to learn how, and therein is certainly not ...
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Wealthy sixteen year old teen spared jail after killing four people - legacy2013 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wealthy-16-year-old-killed-4-drunken-crash-spared-jail-article-1.1544508 ====== swalkergibson Affluenza? Seems like a huge teaching moment just slipped by. My heart goes out to the victims and t...
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The Lost City of Heracleion - diodorus https://daily.jstor.org/the-lost-city-of-heracleion/ ====== caymanjim This article is light on content and even lighter on photos. I poked around for some better articles, and there are some out there, but I didn't find anything worth linking. I'd love to see an extensive article...
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Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test - ohjeez https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/firm-uses-theranos-patents-to-sue-company-making-coronavirus-test/ ====== TheFiend7 Unbelievable. This was the patent they were able to get. It comes with graphs describing an "architecture" of thei...
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Half A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp - joshbert http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/half-a-billion-blog-posts-later-google-to-give-blogger-a-revamp/ ====== qwertymaniac I hope they also get rid of 'Blogger' profiles and make Google Profiles more unified instead, amongst all Google-provided ...
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Detecting Currency in Photoshop - hootx http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/ ====== DrStalker When this feature was first added to photoshop it caused a noticable delay when opening files or pasting content from outside photoshop. It was possible to disable the check by removing a DLL from photoshop and ...
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Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and the butterfly effect, dies at 90 - rglovejoy http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-lorenz-0416.html ====== weezus "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" If Schrödinger masturbates, does the kitten in the box die?
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Facebook's David Marcus on Brian Acton's Departure - AndrewKemendo https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-marcus/the-other-side-of-the-story/10157815319244148/ ====== natch >the people and company that made you a billionaire Way to try to take credit for all the value the WhatsApp founders created. I think this FaceBoo...
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Show HN: Create React/Navi App – CRA@2 with routing, mdx and static rendering - jamesknelson https://frontarm.com/navi/create-react-navi-app/ ====== yodon I just switched a moderately complex personal project from Next.js to Navi. The use cases aren't precisely identical but are more than close enough for my needs. I'...
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Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system - ulrikrasmussen http://patoline.org/ ====== jwr I'm very glad people are doing this. The local maximum created by TeX (and its surroundings), while producing impressive output, has kept many people from developing any typesetting software. It was usually easier to learn h...
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Implementing Traceroute in Go – Blog - rbanffy https://blog.kalbhor.xyz/post/implementing-traceroute-in-go/ ====== alrs > Its a script that traces the path to a host No, it's not a script. ~~~ Groxx What is a script, but a miserable pile of code. I mean, really, wherever criteria you use to draw the line, there wil...
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All the Ways You Can Dispose of a Dead Body - smb111 https://lifehacker.com/here-are-all-the-ways-you-can-dispose-of-a-dead-body-1836055910?rev=1562106963868 ====== lecarore Title feels clickbaity, this is about your options for your own body ~~~ nmc Title feels clickbaity because it is missing "(Legally)" between "C...
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Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of documents - colinprince https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-documents-leak-courts/ ====== spinningslate It’s difficult not to see the potential for divine retribution in this. Facebook, alongside Google, spearhead the “privacy is dead consumers, all yo...
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MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language - bjourne http://www.minizinc.org/ ====== Macuyiko Every time some OR or constraint programming language comes up, Håkan Kjellerstrand is an obligatory mention. He has a whole page dedicated to problems and examples for those, including MiniZinc: [http://www....
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My Personal Hero: Robert Sapolsky on Rudolf Virchow - allthebest http://nautil.us/blog/my-personal-hero-robert-sapolsky-on-rudolf-virchow ====== m0llusk It is worth noting that Professor Sapolsky has many informative lectures from his popular Stanford courses and various public appearances on YouTube mostly on the Sta...
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The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted - zerny http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/ ====== rdtsc The thing here that what was being exploited is irrationality of the system that uses these made up "Wars On <X>". Whatever this <X> is, it will always be boon for psychopaths and will be a exploited. War on...
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1st NYC CoderDojo Meetup - This Saturday - carlsednaoui Hi HN,<p>For those that don't know, CoderDojo is a free non-for-profit movement to help young people (ages 7-17) learn how to code.<p>We will be hosting the 1st NYC CoderDojo this Saturday. If you know any youngsters that may be interested in joining us for an ...
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The Internet vs. Hollywood - kposehn http://www.theinternetvshollywood.com/ ====== ewillbefull Calling the megaupload seizure a "backdoor SOPA/PIPA" will instantly lose you credibility.
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Want to see Twitter + iTunes in action? Here it is - stevederico http://twitter.com/#!/twitter/status/2856041305866240 ====== stevederico Really excited about this, looking forward to seeing what other applications are integrated in the future. Recommending new artists and people to follow based on my music taste woul...
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New York Times website/email back up after two hours due to ‘internal issue’ - larrys http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-times-website-hour-article-1.1426640 ====== larrys Story in the times: [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/new-york- ti...](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/medi...
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Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off - kingkawn http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/sunday-review/26leonhardt.html ====== bugsy This article is a very annoying piece of propaganda. The worst fallacy is the poisoned well ad hominem at the end where he claims that those who advise against college have degrees and theref...
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Time management tips that actually work - jamesclear http://jamesclear.com/time-management-tips ====== zwieback Dang, just got distracted from my work by looking at this website!
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Image hoster pushes 1.8 PB per month through Cloudflare CDN - sheraz http://postimage.org ====== ChrisNorstrom Yeah unlimited does have it's limita....OMG you're funneling 1.8 petabytes?!?!! That's like 1,800,000 gigabytes or 1,800 terabytes every month. EVERY MONTH. Unlimited does not mean you can serve the bandwidth...
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Russia 'targeted chemical weapons watchdog OPCW' - cornedor https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45746837 ====== Latteland I always wondered how common it was for spies to use diplomatic passports as a cover. It could be so easy, you could bring in anything, guns, electronic devices - and I guess on a commercial flig...
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Show HN: Reciprocal marketing for independent content creators - peacemaker https://wecombinate.com ====== peacemaker Hi guys, recently finished my side project MVP and looking for feedback and suggestions. I created this after realizing how difficult it is to get visibility as an indie software developer and autho...
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Show HN: Simple File Hosting on a CDN - redm https://fast.io ====== drfuchs First time I’ve seen a Terms of Use clause like this one: “Light patterns, like those which might be displayed when using the Services, may result in epileptic seizures in some people. Discontinue use of the Services, if advised by your physic...
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Google Answers Microsoft :Chrome Frame is safe. - buluzhai http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/google-answers-microsoft-chrome-frame-security-criticisms---1915 ====== incomethax So I looked at the NSS Labs methodology and how they define a successfully blocked connection: The resulting response is recorded as either ...
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Nibbl.it – Share and learn coding tips - phawk http://nibbl.it/ ====== smcnicholl Nice.
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Ask HN: As a political candidate how would you campaign online for election? - kumarski What tools would you use? What wouldn&#x27;t you do? How would you minimize your costs?&lt;p&gt;Are political campaigns overpriced?&lt;p&gt;I wonder if hackernews has any politician readers. ====== mindcrime I've run for public...
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Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware - cpeterso https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/mozilla-debuts-webthings-gateway-open-source-router-firmware-for-turris-omnia/ ====== tialaramex This the closest we have so far to an answer to the point raised in the IETF 105 Technical Plenar...
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