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What's My Color IQ? - curtis
https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
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userbinator
Alternatively: how good is your monitor's colour accuracy?
I find it a little odd that they didn't mention that as being one of the main
factors that can affect the outcome of the test.
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neom
Farnsworth Munsell is based on a subset of ... | {
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USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit - ArtDev
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-usda-idUSKBN1582OB
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slg
Could anyone here make a legitimate argument why these gag-orders are a good
idea?
I am consistently baffled how a political party can make so many decisions
that are objectiv... | {
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Scientists Reconstruct "Movies" from Brain Activity - aasarava
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2811%2900937-7
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aasarava
A reporter's account, for a lay-person's description:
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/brain-scan-movie-
sc...](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/brain... | {
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Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched? - dexxter
Fellow Hackers, I am bored and want to learn something new.<p>Have you watched any interesting/useful online courses recently on Coursera/Udemy/edX/OpenUniversity/others?<p>It can be free/paid and I am open to any di... | {
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Gab Supports Your Right to Choose - rvcamo
https://medium.com/@Torbahax/gab-supports-your-right-to-choose-a57f157c77b9#.5ek1pe2px
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minimaxir
Upvotes on this HN submission may be manipulated:
[http://i.imgur.com/OqSQJfd.png](http://i.imgur.com/OqSQJfd.png)
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sheraz
Not my upvote.
I'm on gab.ai and thoroughly ... | {
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Ex-Uber employees are being surprised by big tax bills - sikim
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ex-uber-employees-are-being-surprised-big-tax-bills-they-n1233699
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paxys
This story completely misses what the lawsuit is actually about. It isn't just
a bunch of employees who are pissed that the stock went dow... | {
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Extreme Netflix? Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies - coffee
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/extreme-netflix-some-users-have-rated-50-000-movies/62988/#
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qjz
I love Netflix, and streaming movies has been a big improvement over the
experience of renting DVDs. But I'm disappointed in the r... | {
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Ask HN: grad school vs full-time founder? - BadassFractal
I'm currently in my 2nd year of part-time master's at a top 3 US CS school. Also recently after half a decade working in the industry I left to pursue high tech entrepreneurship full time (I saved up for years just for this). We have 0 revenue at this point i... | {
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Light Table needs a community - azeirah
I really want to get into Light Table (http://www.lighttable.com/), but even after 3 days of being interested in Light Table, I barely figured out how to usy any of its magical features. I need a place to ask questions, I need great documentation, I need many ma... | {
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High Sierra broke AFP searching on our server - idorube
http://www.idoru.be/notes/dear-tim/
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hnarn
Firstly, Apple has never been a respected actor in the server market. If
you're investing heavily into Apple servers, you're investing in a niche.
Presume accordingly. Secondly, converting/reformatting 300 Tb of di... | {
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Ask HN: Why isn't rspec the default in Rails 5? - whatnotests
I'm personally of the opinion that rspec[0] is the greatest thing to happen to unit tests since the Test Anything Protocol.<p>I'd like to know: why doesn't `rails new <path>` default to using `rspec-rails`[1]?<p>Why isn't `factory_... | {
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I.MX7 M4 Atomic Cache Bug - luu
https://rschaefertech.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/imx7-hardware-bug/
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fest
I've never personally encountered a bug like this but I have hit my fair share
of weird/hard to track down bugs over my embedded software career.
Almost always, they leave me a) longing for the blissful ignor... | {
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I met with 26 startups for my birthday, and here's what we learned - thauburger
https://writehub.io/people/thauburger/pages/public/535d18e2bab6ec000100006e?t=4254
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elwell
Thanks Tom, for giving WeSawIt one of those hours. Really appreciated the
advice and feedback!
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thauburger
Thanks, Chris!
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Apple looking to douse Kindle Fire with 8-inch iPad - evo_9
http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/14/apple-looking-to-douse-kindle-fire-with-8-inch-ipad/
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casemorton
Based on Apple's previous releases I just don't see this going through. It
seems a bit excessive to create a product that fits in between the size of an
... | {
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98-year-old tenant who paid rent on time for 50 years evicted by a loophole - jaysonelliot
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/10/san-francisco-landlord-uses-loophole-to-evict-98-year-old-who-paid-rent-on-time-for-50-years/
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dangrossman
I wasn't aware that if you decided to rent some of your property, that you ... | {
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Gini coefficient - sbolt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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wodenokoto
One of the most interesting uses of gini coefficient I've heard of, was
counting messages, winks and likes received on a dating site as money or
wealth and measuring the gini coefficient for men and women.
Apparently the distrib... | {
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A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world - shaki-dora
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/the-case-against-retweets/554078/?single_page=true
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russellbeattie
I read Twitter almost exclusively via my custom personal news reader that I
developed like 5 years ago. It allows me to do a var... | {
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How Writing To-Do Lists Helps Your Brain - prostoalex
https://www.fastcompany.com/3063392/your-most-productive-self/how-writing-to-do-lists-helps-your-brain-even-when-you-dont-comple
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ktamura
Over the years, I've tried many digital to-do lists, including one I wrote
myself. Today, I just use a notebook.
The tri... | {
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Intelligent brake lights for Motorcycles - keithwarren
https://gearbrake.com/
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dmckeon
Look good. Almost any increase in visibility would be useful to motorcyclists.
Earlier attempts include the Vovedesky Cyberlight from the 1980s and more
recently:
[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vololights/vololights-... | {
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Ask HN: How to build a test harness for a legacy system? - marsrover
I'm working with a legacy system that has no automated testing. I have a section of code that I need to refactor or it is going to get increasing more coupled. First, I tried going through the Legacy Code Change Algorithm but when trying to brea... | {
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Virginia Woolf kept her brother alive in letters - lermontov
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-virginia-woolf-kept-her-brother-alive-in-letters
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angel_j
Lost to the article writer that Virginia may have done that to keep her friend
alive, who had caught typhoid along with her brother.
~~~
nikla... | {
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Stripe and Wufoo Join Forces to Power Payments in Online Forms - kurtvarner
http://www.wufoo.com/2012/10/11/wufoo-and-stripe-join-forces-to-power-payments-in-online-forms/
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ryan_f
Stripe is developing a lot faster than I ever expected. I was really happy
with the initial product when it became available. Easy ... | {
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Ask HN: Any place where you can get paid for writing about technology? - febin
Except medium, it is not open for all countries
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deadcoder0904
For writing blogs about Tech -
CSS TRICKS - [http://css-tricks.com](http://css-tricks.com) \- They just say
they pay on their website
SMASHING MAGAZINE - [http://smashin... | {
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Discern Neural Networks for Ubuntu - mekarpeles
http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/2011/07/discern-neural-network/
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mekarpeles
Looks like Dan Cote [https://github.com/terminationshok/Discern-for-Ubuntu-
based-...](https://github.com/terminationshok/Discern-for-Ubuntu-based-
Linuxes) forked and cleaned up th... | {
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Facial hair trends over time - linux_devil
http://flowingdata.com/2014/01/08/facial-hair-trends-over-time/
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Jeremy1026
Without labels on the X Axis these are worthless. Did someone shave their
mustache off a few days ago which caused the sharp drop in the middle of the
chart?
The bottom of the article mention... | {
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Where can I rent a cheap small startup place in the US? - tiatia123
Preferably East coast
Nothing fancy.
Should allow for assembly of some tech hardware.<p>Suggestions?
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rman666
If you can’t google this on your own you have zero chance of a successful
Startup, IMHO.
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tiatia123
Why not rely on crowd intellige... | {
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IRC client in 135 lines of code - huydotnet
https://github.com/huytd/nodirc
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laveur
The headline is a bit misleading. The wrote a client sure but it uses someone
else's library to communicate with the IRC Server.
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FroshKiller
Welcome to basically every "do x in y lines of code" post.
| {
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Ask HN: Post verbal discussion, unsure about signing shareholders agreement - startupman
Apologies for the throwaway account.
Myself and 2 other developers are in a bit of a tough spot and wondered if HN had any advice. Here's the situation:<p>The optimistic start: We are part of a 5 person SaaS startup. we belie... | {
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HIV appears cured after stem cell transplant - dcurtis
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html#
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ntoshev
This story has been on HN before ~3 months (of course it is still news that
the patient is well and without any trace of HIV):
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=357144>
Also... | {
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Stephen Fry under police investigation for blasphemy in Ireland [video] - stringcode
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stephen-fry-blasphemy-god-utter-maniac-ireland-gardai-rte-meaning-of-life-atheist-a7722081.html
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brynedwards
The reason this law still exists is because blasphemy is included in the... | {
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How long are you going to keep your dirty business phone? - olivierpailhes
http://blog.aircall.io/post/79958613803/aircall-fun-facts-how-long-are-you-going-to-keep-your
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chimeracoder
I used to have two phones (one for work, one personal[0]). I appreciate the
appeal of consolidating that into one just out of conv... | {
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Ocean Cleanup Foundation - hswolff
http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic/
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hswolff
Other articles of discussion:
[http://robots.net/article/3556.html](http://robots.net/article/3556.html)
[http://vr-zone.com/articles/19-year-old-inventor-finds-way-t...](http://vr-
zone.com/articles/19-year-old-inventor-finds-way-... | {
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Trends.vc – Helping founders and investors discover new markets and ideas - rosiesherry
https://join.trends.vc/
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gczh
I'm a pro subscriber myself. Highly recommend giving this a look. It's the
best damn report out there on upcoming trends, put together every week through
dozens of hours of sweat and toil and lov... | {
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Ask HN: When will the first HN account appear on eBay? - tantadruj
In the times of World of Warcraft, virtual power positions quickly appeared on eBay and high point user accounts reached up to $2K.<p>Hacker News has its own karma based system, which gives high karma users a power to create destinies of stories and ... | {
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Ask HN:How is your perfect coding place? - jcslzr
Would you rather be around more coders? music? outside? text editor?
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fezzl
Dark, cool, quiet room with bright table lamp and coffee, plus snacks like
cookies and chocolates.
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messel
Backroom in my house, separate from yippin little doggies, connected to... | {
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Ask HN: how to get back after epic fail. - MK5
Hi HN folks,<p>first, here's the background: in 2007, with friends, we watched a lot of Korean Starcraft games on Youtube. And we became fan of this guy: http://www.youtube.com/user/KlazartSC. He basically commentates the match in English because we can't understand Kor... | {
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Some Rookie Mistakes in Go - rayascott
http://engineroom.teamwork.com/go-learn/
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csense
> Go has multiple returns from functions so a very typical scenario is a
> function that returns something and also an error, which would be nil if
> everything worked okay
This is one of the problems I have with C. You basi... | {
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Spotify Teams Up with Uber: Your Ride. Your Music - mvip
https://news.spotify.com/se/2014/11/17/uber/
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cbovis
I'm skeptical as to how popular this will be currently but it's a great
infrastructure to have in place should Uber decided to move towards driverless
cars in the future.
| {
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Tesla Co-Founder Sues CEO Elon Musk For Slander And Breach Of Contract - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/11/tesla-founder-sues-ceo-elon-musk-for-slander-and-breach-of-contract/
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vaksel
This is a good example of why you need to think twice about getting investors.
The guy suing him was actually the found... | {
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Google is kind of bad now? (Rather than finding answers it ranks SEO spam) - ALittleLight
https://medium.com/@4fbf2d0bfde1/e1c240fac6d9
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salawat
Goodhart's Law:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law)
Google is the same thing it always was, but their ... | {
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TC50: Short On Cash? Startups Can Trade Goods And Services - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/14/tc50-short-on-cash-startups-can-trade-goods-and-services-instead-of-money-on-theswop/
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patio11
I would be very scared about the long-term prospects of a company whose
customers were _defined_ by "inability to... | {
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Elite colleges fail half of the poor students they admit - betolink
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/17/18647250/privileged-poor-university-admissions-anthony-abraham-jack
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bitlax
Vox with the misleading headline.
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London Stock Exchange goes open source - wglb
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2568
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roder
Big loss for MS. They touted the London Stock Exchange as a case-study for
awhile.
Now where can I find the source for the exchange?
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wglb
And a little more detail
[http://www.ibsp... | {
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Show HN: 90 hour project to learn Rails: Roomiies - 'OKCupid for Roommates' - davj
http://www.roomiies.com
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sonicjohnson
Damn, how has no one thought of this before! Such a good idea. Nice site too.
| {
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How do you protect your IP in beta stage? - SycamoreSavage
I am building an app and I want to launch as quickly as possible so I can get some user feedback, but I am paralyzed by fear that someone "bigger" with more money will scoop up my idea/methodology and build the same thing more quickly than I can... | {
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Open Source Software as a Service List - nikhilrayaprolu
https://github.com/nikhilrayaprolu/awesome-open-saas
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nikhilrayaprolu
Here at Awesome Open SaaS, we have created a list of Open Source SaaS
products. Built with a vision to bring awareness of these products and as a
list for beginners to contribute and lea... | {
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.su - gyosifov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
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wildylion
For me .su is a kind of historical curiousity. Not sure if I like it or not,
or if it should be phased out, but there are a bunch of Soviet Union related
sites in there too and sometimes these are pretty amusing (how about a site of
the CPSU?)
Also the... | {
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Penny Arcade web dev / sysadmin job posting - harto
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov
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mattdeboard
> We’re terrible at work-life balance. Although work is pretty much your life,
> we do our absolute best to make sure that work is as awesome as possible so
> you at least enjoy each and ever... | {
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Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS? - beaucronin
http://teetotality.blog/posts/why-ipfs/
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nullstyle
IPFS still has a long way to go until it is useable in my opinion. The default
configuration for the desktop client will gladly keep open 1000+ peer
connections and will happily degrade your usual internet ... | {
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Code Style: A Key Ingredient to Developer Bliss - radialdevgroup
https://medium.com/@radialdevgroup/code-style-a-key-ingredient-to-developer-bliss-44e2d4c8e170
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thermodynthrway
Where I work we have agressive linters and auto-format-on-build in every
project. I'll never ever go back. God knows how many bugs the l... | {
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Ask HN: Your favorite resources for learning Rails - bsmith
I recently took a job as a PHP developer at a web shop, and—to my delight—they said they would pay me to learn Rails.<p>What were your favorite resources when you were starting out, even if they weren't free?
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jsnk
In my case, I learned Rails from Rub... | {
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Create CON folder in Windows operating system. - sinu9i
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/03/create-con-folder-in-windows-operating.html
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jgrahamc
This is documented: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx> These names are reserved names from DOS which
got them from CP/M. Back in the CP... | {
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Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word - kgrin
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_bi_ge/us_microsoft_patent
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riferguson
I have absolutely no opinion about the validity of this particular patent, but
I want to forestall a bunch of random griping.
Please, please don't post commentary that involv... | {
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Two women quietly reading books in an SF bar started an introvert revolution - hodgesrm
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Silent-Book-Club-women-reading-bar-San-Francisco-14954269.php
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tempsy
After spending the holidays in Hong Kong and Taipei I realized how annoying it
is in the US to find anything to d... | {
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Wanted: First reaction to a math question - ColinWright
Polls are currently temporarily disabled, so I'm having to put this in as a simple question.<p>I'd like your first reaction to this question, without you thinking about it too much, and before you read the comments:<p>What's the value of √9?<p>When (if?) you an... | {
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Offer for Chinese Repos on GitHub Trendings - syny
https://github.com/us/english-please
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MrFinch
To me, I like surfing on GitHub's trending page but for two or three weeks
there are some repos in the trending but their readme files are other than
English. Therefore, I support this project and I believe repos in ... | {
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Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect solar and wind subsidies. Is he right? - rmason
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614331/bill-gates-says-its-time-to-redirect-solar-and-wind-subsidies-is-he-right/
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mikece
He’s been a big proponent of nuclear in the past. Does he still have a stake
in TeraWave?
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An Amazon patent stops you checking prices online while in a physical store - jrs235
http://www.businessinsider.com/an-amazon-patent-stops-you-checking-prices-online-while-in-a-physical-store-2017-6
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PaulHoule
Remember that a patent is not a license to do something, it is a license to
stop others from doing it.
... | {
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Berlin now home to soaring rents and rising tensions - mrzool
https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-berlin-property-20180424-story.html
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collyw
Isn't this happening to everywhere where jobs are? Barcelona rents are soaring
but the salaries aren't going up much.
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zerr
Yes, Barcelona is even worse... | {
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The Problems With My Startup - joe
http://awmf.blogspot.com/2007/09/problems-with-my-startup.html
I typed this up in order to collect my thoughts, in hopes of eventually showing them to my coworkers. I am totally open to questions, comments, and suggestions, especially from YC readers.
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staunch
I think the solu... | {
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Microsoft plan to split OS from shell takes shape - mfritsche
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-yields-more-secrets-microsoft-plan-to-split-os-from-shell-takes-shape/#comments-fc9984be-5a89-4ec6-a980-496937d746e4
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ebg13
Hasn't this always been the case already? Explorer.exe is just an executable.
It has a... | {
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Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3 - traviswingo
https://www.postacard.io
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Animats
As a fun thing at steampunk conventions, I have the Aetheric Message Machine
Company, Ltd. People at steampunk conventions can send in SMS text messages,
which are printed on an antiqu... | {
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Ask HN: Freelance web developer advice - shire
I'm a young 22 year old guy I work at a warehouse by my house which pays $12/hr and feels like slavery work. Honestly I want something better than this I was in college for 2 years but I wasn't sure what I wanted to major in or my passion so I took time t... | {
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Peer Community in X: A free recommendation process of scientific papers - eternalban
https://peercommunityin.org/
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dibanez
One of the problems with the current peer review system is the ease with which
a reviewer can recommend rejecting a manuscript based on personal conflicts of
interest (for example, viewing t... | {
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Cascading Shit Show by fat [video] - moeamaya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iniwPUEbPUM
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bluejellybean
This is by far the most fun tech talk I've ever seen!
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BrowserRemote, debug your user's browser remotely via Chrome DevTools - auchenberg
https://github.com/auchenberg/browser-remote
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joshribakoff
I created a similar proof of concept recently. We need to inspect the webpage
displayed on a Chrome based "kiosk" running behind a firewall. We have an
existing socket (... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: Georgia Tech MOOC MS/CS Experience - lscore720
I'm curious to know about the quality Georgia Tech's online Master's program in Computer Science. Generally speaking, is this degree considered as valuable as the traditional Georgia Tech MS/CS. If not, what would you say are comparable tradi... | {
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How Some College Kid Beat the Stock Market by 100 Percent - skadamat
http://jayshah.me/blog/signaling-how-a-ut-student-org-beat-the-stock-market-by-100
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azmenthe
Really? It looks like a portfolio with a greater than 1 beta. It's net net
return over the period is about the same as the rest of the market.
Also ... | {
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Kim Dotcom, The truth will come out - aadlani
http://kim.com/
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s_henry_paulson
I like the video, and the fact that it includes a relevant summary of what's
going on. Lots of viral potential.
I have a hard time getting my arms around the voting thing though. The sad
state of the two party system in the US leav... | {
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} |
Donald Knuth's First Computer - pkrumins
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/donald-knuths-first-computer/
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michael_dorfman
The latest volume in Knuth's "Selected Papers" series, "Selected Papers on
Design of Algorithms" is due out any day now. (According to Amazon, it was
supposed to be released on the 15th, but my ... | {
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Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines - toumhi
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/reports-facebook-users-seeing-private-messages-pre-2009-showing-up-on-timelines-as-posted-by-friends/
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arunv
Hey guys - I work on Timeline here at Facebook and just wanted to chime in
here. I've ... | {
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A podcast for new Rust programmers - steveklabnik
http://www.newrustacean.com/
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steveklabnik
I enjoyed the first episode here, but I also _really_ like the aesthetic: they
use rustdoc, our documentation tool, to do show notes!
[http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/](http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/)
| {
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Antivirus software could make your company more vulnerable - r721
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3020459/security/antivirus-software-could-make-your-company-more-vulnerable.html
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hiram112
I avoided AV software for most of my life. Though, when I worked as a student
admin, I would always install AV for the majo... | {
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Ask HN: Can I trust Tor? - eof
...
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MacsHeadroom
It is literally funded by the federal government. Says so right on the
website. If you want to know who pulls the strings, follow the money.
While Tor theoretically can be secure (as long as you don't use it to access
the clearnet), there are a few known vulner... | {
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} |
EFF's 2011 Holiday Wish List - llambda
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/effs-holiday-wish-list
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davorak
Not a security expert here but it seem like akamai should also be required to
use a root CA that does not use md5 for it's encryption. It am under the
impression that md5 based encryption has been broken ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: CSS/JS/SVG game IDE? - stuartjmoore
Does there exist an IDE for making games using open web standards (read: not flash)?<p>Do you think there is a market for a website to allow users to create, host, and share these (presumably free) games?<p>Of course, the adoption of the newer standards is what really stan... | {
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} |
Will designer brains divide humanity? - codeodor
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227083.700-will-designer-brains-divide-humanity.html?full=true&print=true
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aarongough
Wow. One of the links in the article lead to this:
[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14000-robomonkeys-
use-...](http://www.newsci... | {
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} |
Why go to the Moon? (John F. Kennedy at Rice University, Sep 12th 1962) - tosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXqlziZV63k
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082349872349872
No wonder JFK got cancelled:
[https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-
f-k...](https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-
speeches... | {
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} |
MySQL Sharding at Quora - jinqueeny
https://www.quora.com/q/quoraengineering/MySQL-sharding-at-Quora?share=1
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bcassedy
Is Quora really big outside the US or something? I find it difficult to
reconcile their scale challenges with the fact that I don't know a single
person that uses Quora outside of when the come ... | {
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} |
Is speed reading really possible? - saurabh
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229
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critium
At around 7 or 8 years old, my reading level was several grades ahead of
schedule. I was consuming large (for my age) novels with no sweat.
My parents noticed this and gave me a speed reading book. I incorporated each
an eve... | {
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} |
Why You Should Never Skip Flossing Your Teeth - raymondduke
http://www.raymondduke.com/2013/01/why-you-should-never-skip-flossing-your.html#.UP68Hyc7Z8E
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w0utert
FTA: _Just recently I decided that I would give myself another dental check
up. I seemed to have forgotten my horse racing lesson because I was expecti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Firefox announces Panasonic as a partner CES - hardwaresofton
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/01/05/firefoxosces2015/
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hardwaresofton
Super excited to see FFOS get some more momentum. Glad to see that they're
making their way into the TV space, and have grand plans (and are finally
getting a little limelig... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SellABand Music Model Gaining Traction - pg
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/29/sellaband-music-model-may-be-working/
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BrandonM
I am very happy to see all of these music startups. My startup idea is one
which should help to change the current structure of the music industry for
the better, but I'm glad to see t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: YC Schedule for Spring Round - melusafint
Hi, I'm planning to apply for the spring-round of YC funding, but I can't find any information about the schedule. I'm sure they'll post it when the time gets nearer, but I'm currently living outside of America, and want to have moved back by the time they call peopl... | {
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} |
Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering - breadbox
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/bure.html
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peteforde
This one is going on my permanent list of links to recommend.
When it comes to learning these sorts processes, there is a hierarchy of
related phenomena required to succeed... | {
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} |
Japan scientists detect rare, deep-Earth tremor - jackgavigan
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-japan-scientists-rare-deep-earth-tremor.html
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Phithagoras
Paper at
[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6302/919](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6302/919)
For Sci-Hub users, DOI: 10.1126
| {
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Ask HN: How does project management work in your small / tiny startup? - akor
For some context I work for a tiny startup where I'm the only tech person. I am frequently handed a task that is unclearly defined and I work with the business owner to tease out the spec over time or am expected to come up with the &q... | {
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Between the Lines: LA parking spaces - davesailer
http://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281
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byoung2
_The garage—designed to serve the public good—instantly made the Metro
immaterial to concertgoers, placed several thousand cars on the road every
week, and pumped a few hundred tons of carbon dioxide ... | {
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} |
Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers - nickb
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/air-force-mater.html
======
brentr
I read this article because the headline made me think that Wired was outing
the Air Force as a means of taking away my civil liberties. After reading the
article, I realized th... | {
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} |
Save some money on those long night outs with this app, would love feedback - andresmax
http://drinklistapp.com/
We're a consulting startup who recently released our first iOS app to help you manage shared tabs and save some cash on those long nights out, check it out here http://drinklistapp.com/<p>I would l... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What new technology / software are you waiting for? - andrewstuart
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K0SM0S
I would say (profitable) fusion power (other than the Sun's...), but that may
be 20 or 2,000 or 2,000,000 years from now so...
I'll go with mind-controlling machines. I know the US military is already
quite advanced in that regard... | {
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} |
Guy solves over 200 CS exam problems in 4 hours - ryandougherty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ZdcHSFGv0&t=1s
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tromp
I stopped watching when he gets question 7 wrong, which should be C...
~~~
pxx
The person's logic is wrong: Clearly
(0*10*10*)*10*
can generate two ones next to each oth... | {
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} |
Ask HN: FOSS projects with bad UX? - oDot
All of our work at ShittyMVP.com is under an NDA, and we'd like to donate some of our UX resources to FOSS projects. We believe it's a win-win: we'll have something to show and the project will benefit from a UX improvement.<p>(P.S, not LibreOffice)<p>Thanks
===... | {
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SpaceX CRS-7 Launch, Count Down - MonCalamari
http://spacexstats.com/mission.php?launch=24
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sctb
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555).
| {
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Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty - de_Selby
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/rikers-island-plea-bargains-213223
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Asbostos
How is a plea deal not duress? Imagine if a cop pointed a gun at you and said
"I'll shoot you unless you confess". We wouldn't accept that confession but we
do a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where I can get free data? - matysanchez
I am looking to create some examples with D3, and I need some free data.<p>For example: historical price of oil, weather in X city, etc.<p>Is there any website with tons of free data?
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mindcrime
[http://datasets.reddit.com](http://datasets.reddit.com)
[http://o... | {
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} |
Square’s S-1: Ratchets and Unicorn Valuations - prostoalex
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/squares-s-1-of-ratchets-and-unicorn-valuations/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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dantillberg
I don't always believe in scare quotes, but we probably ought to... | {
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} |
Reddit account compromised: a lesson in passwords - freakball
One app. That's all it took.<p>Look, I'm not even sure if my device is rooted properly, or even how to check. What I do know, is that I have narrowed the loss of my password down to an app I got from TPB.<p>Trying to save $3 resulted in the loss o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: GSuite / Office365 Alternatives for Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits - andrew_
Please humor some quick background: I'm on the board of a very small neighborhood advocacy association in an incorporated city in Florida, and trying to bring them into the digital age. The association is voluntary, with minimal dues i... | {
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} |
Hacking Away at the Counterculture (1990) - tux
http://readtext.org/security/hacking-counterculture/
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cetacea
An essay about technology counterculture, now hosted by a tech startup on a
website that serves ads.
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tux
Not sure what you are trying to say here... If you're talking about ReadText,
first of all it... | {
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} |
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