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Oxford announces new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy - chrisaycock
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ugrad/Computer_Science_and_Philosophy
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mayank
Caveat: this is an anecdote, and your mileage may vary, but I think it
illustrates a point of contention in the "two cultures".
As a computer science m... | {
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Ask HN: Can you help out a blind guy by describing the look of an application? - jscholes
Screenshot below.<p>I didn't write this application, but I do use it every single day and it was developed pretty much exclusively for screen reader users. However I'll be giving a presentation involving some screensho... | {
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The unusual politics of Silicon Valley, explained - radmuzom
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/29/9411117/silicon-valley-politics-charts
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PaulHoule
The unusual politics of the Republicans have a lot to do with why they get
rejected by Silicon Valley founders. Look at the stupidity of shutting down
the government and may... | {
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Doxa: incentivized social media devoted to the highest quality - enodios
https://doxa.network
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felixgassner
Your website is beautiful, in near of perfection! I have one question: how
does one get paid exactly? Is it with ethereum itself?
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enodios
Yes, with ether itself.
Contributors will have the option of ... | {
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Large Collection of Free Data about Cities - jonmc12
http://www.city-data.com/
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jws
Their terms of use are pretty explicit that this data is not free. You can
look at the web pages though.
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Beware grannies on Facebook - wheels
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11052935&fsrc=RSS
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brlewis
Facebook, from my limited use of it, seems vastly inferior to a mailing list +
wiki for the purpose dscribed in this article. Or did the small investors want
to find photos where others in... | {
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Ask HN: What should you focus on in the first 2 weeks at a new company? - howtonavcomp
Hi,<p>I am starting my position as a software engineer at a big company next week and would like to know what to focus on for the first two weeks at a big company.<p>Previously, I worked at a small dev shop for 3 years and have neve... | {
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Ask HN: The most conflict situation you faced at work? - vakulaego
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accrual
A conflict I'm experiencing is planned obsolescence before I even get started.
I'm supposed to develop a novel system to accomplish X with the knowledge that
X will be replaced by vendor Y.
While I'm excited to work on the project and I'... | {
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Simple.com closed my $52k bank account without warning - pmarreck
They claim I violated their "personal use only" policy, which I presumably did by paying contractors to work on my house (this is only a guess, they have not been clear on exactly why). But that doesn't mean it's excusable to leave m... | {
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Couchfuse - FUSE filesystem exposes Couchdb databases as filesystem folder - adulau
http://narkisr.github.com/couch-fuse/
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seiji
<threadjack>
I made one for redis in January: <https://github.com/mattsta/redisfuse>
It's been very useful for bootstrapping a redis-only backed site until I write
web interfaces to ... | {
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Rsync.net extends a previous offer made on HN for the month of May - J_Darnley
http://www.rsync.net/products/10c.html
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J_Darnley
The previous offer was made here:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700>
10 cents (USD) per GB, per month, for life. Their only caveats are a minimum
of 50 GB and that you m... | {
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Ask HN: What key question would you ask a software engineering hiring manager? - white_eskimo
I have a software development offer from a late-stage start up for what could be my first job out of college.<p>I'm trying to assess the engineering organization to see if I really am a good fit. I got to ask questions duri... | {
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A 500M-year survey of Earth's climate reveals dire warning for humanity - pseudolus
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/500-million-year-survey-earths-climate-reveals-dire-warning-humanity
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unstatusthequo
This might be / likely is trollbait (that I will not engrave in discourse on),
but it looks like we are ... | {
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Deleted iMessages are accessible through iOS search - ozzzy
We noticed if you use the search functionality on an iOS device you can still access old deleted iMessages.<p>In order to reproduce, delete an iMessage. Then go to the search screen by tapping home button twice (you should make the search from the general s... | {
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Apple acquired German augmented reality company Metaio - wildpeaks
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/28/8682505/apple-acquires-metaio-augmented-reality-startup
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JacobKyle
This was a long time coming. It definitely shakes up the AR space. They were
one of the only real independent players in the industry.
It's a ... | {
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We called a secret MI6 phone number (2013) - CrazedGeek
https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/4903/we-called-a-secret-mi6-phone-number/
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pedrocr
Running a numbers station out of a phone number seems odd. With radio it's
hard to detect who is listening. With a telephone number it should be much
easier to... | {
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Ask HN: Thinking on creating a blog and need help (platform) - ncage
Hi everyone, i'm thinking on creating a blog and need some advice. It will be a programming based blog. I don't know if it matters but i'm primarily a .net developer. First, my main question, is about which blog platform to choose. H... | {
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Edward Snowden: Contact Tracing is "The Architecture of Oppression" - giardini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjnveyJo&list=PLdQ3f4qejD1j37Zjll6GiDJW-ljfCvh7f
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giardini
In this video interview Edward Snowden says contract tracing is useless for
this pandemic but good for surveillance.
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btilly
This dis... | {
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Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (1993) - espeed
https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/lambda.txt
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rbonvall
I took the liberty of converting this to LaTeX:
[https://www.overleaf.com/read/vbnkshcwhcyk](https://www.overleaf.com/read/vbnkshcwhcyk)
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headsupftw
Thanks for doing this. There's an error on page 2 thoug... | {
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Google Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results - btilly
http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q3_google_earnings.html
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smakz
I'm rooting for all the big technology companies to do really well: Amazon,
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Ebay, Apple. Higher market caps means more
flexibility in acquisitions, an... | {
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A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and failure - cindyceleste
http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/welcome-to-the-scarcity-games/?
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germinalphrase
Another attractive element of these games is the moral questions that
sometimes arise. I know this is particularly true in "This War of Min... | {
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Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs - userbinator
https://borncity.com/win/2019/04/21/microsoft-restores-deleted-technet-and-msdn-blogs/
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jiggawatts
Now if they could just clean up the widespread "duplicate comments" issue so I
won't get Deja Vu every time I read one of their blogs, that would be g... | {
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Naveen is Leaving Foursquare - uptown
http://naveenium.com/stream/next
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gms
Irrespective of Naveen's departure, Foursquare seems like one of those
companies that had its time, but it's clear now it won't have a place in the
future.
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asanwal
Two of the firm's investors are buying more shares in the company,... | {
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Marissa Mayer Wants To Give Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone - rkudeshi
http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-wants-to-give-every-yahoo-employee-an-iphone-2012-8
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signalsignal
Considering her background was Google, it is interesting that she is going
with Apple's products. Maybe it is a slap in the face to ... | {
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DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps - doener
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-apple-mapkit-js-update/
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burlesona
This is cool to see, and I think should be a virtuous cycle. As I understand
it, maps is the kind of thing where more usage really helps make the map
better, and while DDG doesn’t bring the scale... | {
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Ask HN: Where do you live? - csswizardry
I’m interested to know where fellow HN users live. I get the feeling that there’s a large US presence here, but I would love to learn a little more about where in the world folks are.<p>- - -<p>Rules:<p>1. Do a Find (Ctrl/Cmd+F) for the three letter code of the airport nea... | {
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Stone Age hunter-gatherers lived beside farmers, didn't interbreed - rfugger
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/stone-age-hunter-gatherers-lived-beside-farmers-didn-t-interbreed-1.1991430
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crazygringo
If it's anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural
tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes s... | {
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Ask HN: Tips for marketing a *good* app? - sarreph
Hi there,<p>I'm a student, and an iOS app developer; I've published a couple of apps in the past that have been mildly successful. However, nothing I've published has come close enough to making enough revenue to live off for when I leave college.<p>A... | {
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Why I think you should try dvorak - mtoledo
http://marcostoledo.com/why-i-think-you-should-try-dvorak/
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tome
I had a painful (in two senses) transition to Dvorak about eight years ago.
The first pain was RSI that I got through typing a lot. I decided to try
Dvorak to see if it helped.
The second pain was tou... | {
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PEG.js - parser generator for JavaScript - dmajda
http://pegjs.majda.cz/
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grayrest
There are a couple other parser generators for JS:
* <http://zaa.ch/2k> \- Jison
* <http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/peg_first_release> \- another Packrat (has an es5 parser as an example)
Plus a few more that work but produce ... | {
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In a social networking world, what's the future of TV? - bootload
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-jenkins/in-a-social-networking-wo_b_292014.html
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kierank
TV emphasising its difference and its production value compared to social
networking. The things people do on social network sites are either worthless
... | {
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SVG can do that? - funspectre
http://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that#/
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mikekchar
One of funnest projects I worked on at Corel was called "Smart Graphics
Studio" (I'm guessing most of the people who worked on it also read HN, so
"Hi!"). It was an absolutely _stupid_ idea: Some insane PGM read that XSLT
could... | {
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The Toughest Companies for Job Interviews - cwan
http://www.fins.com/Finance/Articles/SB130826852769924133/The-Toughest-Companies-for-Job-Interviews?Type=0
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flyt
No-Hiring somebody after they get one wrong answer is ridiculous. A wrong
answer during an interview and how it's followed up on is one of the most
... | {
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FindHotel Is Hiring a Senior Back End Engineer in Amsterdam - FindHotel
http://careers.findhotel.net/o/senior-backend-engineer
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verdverm
HN is not a job board. Please see the FAQ w.r.t. job postings
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What Kate saw in Silicon Valley - albertcardona
http://paulgraham.com/kate.html
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edw519
_9\. What a solitary task startups are._
This is the hardest thing for me to explain to others. And still one of the
hardest for me to get used to myself. It takes a lot of time working alone to
get anything done.
It may al... | {
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Motorola's Messy Ice Cream Sandwich Speaks Volumes On Android - DaveMebs
http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/232600995
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teovall
"I think smartphone owners need to simply get used to the idea of owning
outdated software."
Or... they could buy iPhones.
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orangecat
Or Nexuses.
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Building an LTE Access Point with a Raspberry Pi - kingsomething
https://snikt.net/blog/2019/06/22/building-an-lte-access-point-with-a-raspberry-pi/
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tjohns
Not mentioned in the article, but I'd also recommend force-setting DHCP Option
43 to "ANDROID_METERED" to let Android clients know you're on a metered
conne... | {
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In Defense of Chrome OS - hornokplease
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/14/chrome-os-future/
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tygorius
So the "defense" as I read it boiled down to:
1) Just because it isn't ready yet doesn't mean it won't be someday,
2) It has a better chance of being improved because it's closer than other
Google projects to ... | {
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Cross-Platform In-App Subscription Management Service - jschell215
I've been trying to find a service that allows a business, such as one that I work for, manage in app purchases (mainly for subscriptions). It would be great if this was done cross-platform and not just on the web. Most services like Recurly or Ch... | {
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Ask HN: How to leave my country? - speeder
I am from Brazil.<p>For many years I've been wanting to leave, now I think I finally can, because I finished last month paying all my student debt.<p>I have no assets, no money, no job, no friends here or abroad, I want to start a life somewhere safer than here and som... | {
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ASK HN: 300k engineers How do you get there? - codesternews
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quickthrower2
They got a job at FAANG and stuck around.
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muzani
Yeah I think part of the prerequisite is that they either contribute more than
300k of wealth or are plausibly a threat that can statistically do more than
300k in damage.
~~~
julienre... | {
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Inside the gPhone: What to expect from Google Android - bfioca
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202805720&pgno=1
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stillmotion
This article makes out that there will be a gPhone. They denounced it, the
machine doesn't exist, nor will it in the near future. Google is an
application co... | {
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37 Signal's moment of remorse or slap in the face? - mattreport
http://mattreport.com/2011/05/37-signals-selling-sortfolio/
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wccrawford
This reminds me of the Groupon lesson: Just because a company offers a service
is no reason to believe that service is right for you.
In this case, people paid $99/mo without... | {
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NodeUp:Ten - A Node.js Podcast - cjm
http://nodeup.com/ten
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dshaw7
NodeUp:Ten with @substack @mikeal @dshaw and @voodootikigod.
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First marketplace for mobile application templates is rising - olivetty
http://stockapps.net/
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tair
Looks awesome. Keep going!
| {
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Ask HN: How do you automate developer onboarding? - pageandrew
What tools do you use to automate the on boarding of new developers, and the setup of new machines?<p>We have a bunch of dependencies that need to be installed, scripts that need to be injected into their bash profile, configuration files to update, etc.<p... | {
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Ask HN: got a proposal to relocate from Europe to SF - yannski
I'm currently living in Strasbourg, east of France, near the german border. I've started Novelys, a small Ruby/Rails shop, nearly 6 years ago.<p>I've just got a proposal to get hired and relocated to SF. The proposal is valid for me and my team (we're 5)... | {
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Banks won't take Fort Hood shooting suspect's paychecks - pinksoda
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/banks-wont-take-fort-hood-shooting-suspects-paychecks-831173.html
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adolph
"'I think it's just another example of the prejudice that he's been exposed
to,' [his civilian attorney John] Galligan said. 'It's money... | {
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Regulating Technology - kkm
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/7/23/regulating-technology
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timsneath
The challenges for regulation are two-fold, in my opinion:
1\. It just doesn't work. Legal and regulatory solutions are too slow and
poorly designed to be effective, see for example the EU browser cons... | {
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How to make Firefox lightning fast on linux - ertug
http://karamatli.com/pages/tips/3_Tips_For_a_Lightning_Fast_Firefox_on_Linux/
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kunley
What to you think about vmtouch'ing the ~/.mozilla dir periodically in order
to keep it in a fs cache, instead of artificially having it on a shm fs?
Btw, vmtouch: <http://... | {
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The codes and codswallop surrounding Leonardo da Vinci - prismatic
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/the-codes-and-codswallop-surrounding-leonardo-da-vinci/
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cafard
Some years ago at the Louvre, one could see quite a few visitors hurriedly
walking past walls of Italian Renaissance art, any hundred square feet ... | {
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A Python script that saves Google Reader unread items to Markdown files - tslmy
https://github.com/tslmy/Grum
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phasevar
How about saving starred items?
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tslmy
That's easy to achieve:
[https://github.com/tslmy/Grum/tree/starredItems](https://github.com/tslmy/Grum/tree/starredItems)
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Musk explains why SpaceX prefers clusters of small engines - BerislavLopac
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/musks-inspiration-for-27-engines-modern-computer-clusters/
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mhandley
There are two other reasons which SpaceX has mentioned before:
\- When you're landing a rocket, you need to be able to throttle ... | {
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Becoming fully reactive: an explanation of Mobservable - mweststrate
https://medium.com/@mweststrate/becoming-fully-reactive-an-in-depth-explanation-of-mobservable-55995262a254#.h1ihbtorr
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teleclimber
This looks really interesting but there are a few caveats wrt Arrays:[1]
"Due to limitations of native arrays i... | {
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RethinkDB re-licensed to Apache License, version 2.0 - joaojeronimo
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/b0ec8bc5a874d5241d8af1166d664083edc5f750
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molecule
Ongoing discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579544](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579544)
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The way we think about charity is dead wrong - jb1988
Apologies if you have seen this but I saw this Ted Talk on this site (http://www.getinspired365.com/21501270) last on Non for Profit's. I thought it was excellent and given Y Combinator have taken on their first 'non for profit' in Watsi (http://ycombinator.com/w... | {
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Intel declared war on general purpose computing and lost - AdmiralAsshat
https://boingboing.net/2017/05/09/management-engine.html
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astrodust
It wouldn't be a Cory Doctorow headline without hyperbole.
~~~
smhenderson
Well to be fair it is a huge issue AFAIC. But, yeah, Cory; he did start out as
primarily a ficti... | {
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A better approach to determining gender from a first name - Stromgren
http://genderize.io
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AndrewDucker
Please just don't.
There is no point antagonising people by guessing information about them
wrongly - particularly if it's something they've become sensitised to by it
occurring frequently.
If you need to kn... | {
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Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? (2018) - tintinnabula
https://www.wbgo.org/post/where-did-jazz-word-come-follow-trail-clues-deep-dive-lewis-porter
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adfm
Daniel Cassidy's "How The Irish Invented Slang" (CounterPunch & AK Press,
2007) has an entire chapter dedicated to the etymology of "Jazz" including
repr... | {
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Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information - jlhamilton
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-further-reduces-control-over-personal-information
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fnid2
This weekend one of my friends (IRL) asked me why I wasn't on Facebook. She
was shocked, as many who know me are, when I tell them I ... | {
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L0pht Website Relaunched - tsally
http://www.l0pht.com/
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schwanksta
They're apparently launching a site called Hacker News:
<http://hackernews.com/>
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sanswork
It's actually another relaunch I think it was originally launched in the late
90s as hacker news network. Then after the @stake merger some stuff ha... | {
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Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later - taxonomyman
http://www.millionshort.com/about.php
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taxonomyman
Any feedback would be awesome.
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stephengillie
No HTTPS? Would that be difficult to add?
~~~
taxonomyman
We'll be adding https shortly.
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Snoddas
Search field after a serach doesn't handle internati... | {
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Microsoft posts anti-iPhone Windows Phone videos - JonFish85
http://www.youtube.com/user/windowsphone/videos
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coloneltcb
these are so bad, for so many reasons.
Although, it is funny to watch how Microsoft behaves as an underdog. So
desperate.
Companies with 4% marketshare on smartphones can talk all the shit... | {
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Time Wastes Too Fast - mhb
http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/
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riffic
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human
knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House – with the
possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." --... | {
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The MBA is being transformed, for better and for worse - pnr
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21587780-mba-being-transformed-better-and-worse-change-management
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bruceb
The top 10-20 business schools will do fine. Those that are specialized will
do fine. Very cheap ones will do ok but the middle and lower... | {
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Click Analytics- Ready-to-use analytics platform on cloud - vipulmehta13
http://www.clickanalytics.co.in
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vipulmehta13
Feedback survey
[https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K96ZP6F](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K96ZP6F)
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Ask HN: Why PHP over Java? - manasnutcase
Hi,
Why are most Webapps developed in PHP while enterprise apps use Java?
I am asking this because I want to build a team for our next web app. We were recruiting PHP guys but I realize that most PHP guys have only done work on customizing OSCommerce, Wordpress, Drupal or Jo... | {
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Tell HN: The day that lasted 25 hours - finchisko
I wonder how many people using MomentJS are aware of this.<p>http://jsfiddle.net/mauron85/aujyeacc/
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dangrossman
A version for the US DST:
[http://jsfiddle.net/j7tf54xn/](http://jsfiddle.net/j7tf54xn/)
It's the test spec that's wrong. On... | {
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Conversion Optimizer: AdWords, Done Right: MicroISV on a Shoestring - rfreytag
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/11/10/conversion-optimizer-adwords-done-right/
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patio11
Wow, a blog post of mine from late 2007. Wasn't expecting that on HN this
morning.
Here's the update for 2009: everything I said earlier remains tr... | {
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NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world - jseliger
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/new-york-second-avenue-subway-phase-2
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hackuser
Imagine if someone asked you: Highly complex software project A costs $x/KLOC,
highly complex project B costs $10x/KLOC, and therefore isn'... | {
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} |
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: the 10 best new features - plurby
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16487760/microsoft-windows-10-fall-creators-update-features-review
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jakebasile
I really dislike the weird "named update" thing Microsoft is doing here. There
are now two "Creators Updates" and searching for inf... | {
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} |
My favourite interview question (2006) - danso
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-question.html
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hagmonk
So I tried a new approach inspired by this kind of interview question. In a
nutshell: it aims to simulate the interactions you'll have with the candidate
when they receive their first ... | {
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} |
GitHub released GitHub for Windows, version 2.0 - erming
https://windows.github.com/
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jamesbritt
Existing:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869018](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869018)
| {
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How good are Kim Jong-un's elite hackers? - SimplyUseless
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32925503
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escherize
Even the title of this piece seems like propaganda and fear mongering. As
humans we tend to over-react to outrageous scenarios, even if the chance of it
happening is very rare. Car crashes are routi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jotly, the new app for sharing everything with everyone. - alexismadrigal
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/arcahive/2011/11/jotly-the-ultimate-app-for-sharing-everything-with-everyone-psych/247866/
Damn, this is the correct URL:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/jotly-the-ultimate-app-for-sha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 visualised in HTML5 - samstokes
http://baroque.me/
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Todd
This is another beautiful piece by Alexander Chen, of mta.me (see the about
page).
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skykooler
I get no sound. Using Google Chrome in Kubuntu 32-bit.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram - alistairSH
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171113-the-toy-camera-that-inspired-instagram
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empath75
All of the articles talking about the genius of instagram’s filters seem to
forget one the earliest popular iOS camera apps — Hipstamatic. It was released
a year b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tesla Solar Roof: 9.85kW for $50k - cma
https://www.inverse.com/article/44778-tesla-solar-roof-8-things-to-know
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cma
> Tesla does not suggest ordering an all-solar roof. Solar tiles cost $42 per
> square foot, while non-solar costs $11 per square foot. Tesla recommends
> $21.85 per square foot, based on 35 perc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Qubes OS – Security by Compartmentalization - pykello
https://www.qubes-os.org/
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user8208
I've been using this and really like it!
The experience is very dependant on the hardware, so it's much more usable
with 8G ram, quad core and ssd than otherwise, but it can work on more basic
specs too.
It's really nic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Smart job interviews you've experienced? - eimieimi
I feel some employers don't train the job interviewer and it results in bad interviews. Some just copy interview questions from things they've read and throw coding challenges, which could be a turn-off. They don't think enough about the candidate's psychol... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors - secfirstmd
http://espresso.repubblica.it/inchieste/2016/02/22/news/wikileaks-reveals-the-nsa-spied-on-berlusconi-and-his-closest-advisors-1.251443
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dmix
Too bad the newspaper decided to go with the "NSA is spying on x president"
headline ra... | {
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} |
Guido van Rossum, John Resig, DHH, and Pamela Fox are Judges on CreateHS - eeirinberg
http://www.createhs.com/challenge
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aroman
This looks really, really cool. The challenge for this month, revamping a high
school's website, has been something I've poured many many loving hours into
over my sophomore and junio... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
On Radical Candor - gmays
http://firstround.com/review/radical-candor-the-surprising-secret-to-being-a-good-boss/
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kimscott
I agree with you there is a huge difference between candor and asshole. Sounds
like I could have been more clear about that in my talk, so this is helpful.
In my experience the difference ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lisdin: Life Is Short, Do It Now - lisdin
http://www.lisdin.com/
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lisdin
Over the past few days since launching Lisdin in beta, and being submitted to
hackernews we've got # of responses; mostly ideas of gibberish and few form
submissions asking questions, "What is this?", "Requesting Access", etc. In
summary,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NASA leak confirms galaxy full of Earth-like planets - kirubakaran
http://spectramagazine.com/10300/nasa-leak-confirms-galaxy-full-of-earth-like-planets/
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equark
This CNN article is much better account:
[http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/27/sasselov.earth.planets...](http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/27/sas... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What to ask to avoid corporate hell? - changingjobs
Hi all, I'm looking for some good questions I can ask at a job interview.<p>I know this is probably the opposite of what most people here want to do, but I work right now at a fairly small company (doing mostly development / deployment / have lots of this c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Twitter and Snapchat Should Form an Anti-Facebook Coalition - petethomas
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-12-06/twitter-and-snapchat-collaboration-may-work-as-facebook-defense
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spyspy
They should worry about making their own businesses profitable first. Sharing
snap videos on Twitter? Really? That’... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: An API that lets you power an e-commerce site with Uber-like deliveries - srikanthsrnvs
http://www.blip.delivery
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srikanthsrnvs
Im the founder, just looking to get some feedback from people on my startup.
We're also building an iPad app for brick and mortar stores without
e-commerece, to power with deli... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me - znt
http://www.sayafter.me/hacker-news
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gojomo
Coming this fall to the Mountain View Community Playhouse, a classic musical
updated for today's Valley:
_My Fair Founder_
Can master symbolicist Henry Higgins (played by Paul Graham in his first
musical-theat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Engineer creates a 3D metal printer prototype for $2 using electroplating - praptak
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20150301-low-cost-metal-3d-printing-made-possible-with-electroplating-technology-and-prototype.html
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dragontamer
> It is a 3-axis CNC machine combined with an electroplating head.
Erm... CNC Machine... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is there a way to search HN articles, by their content, than by title - sravfeyn
HN Search, I believe, only shows the results, those that match the title-string. Is there a way that we can search stories submitted in Hacker News?
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ColinWright
Speaking purely as a user with no privileged status ...
To ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype - ferrari8608
http://gizmodo.com/bulletproof-coffee-debunking-the-hot-buttered-hype-1681321467
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serf
I never got into it not because I don't care to try it, but because I don't
need any more steps between me and caffeine.
Hell, that's why I drink tea lately.... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
San Francisco cabbie attacks self-driving car - pmoriarty
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/7/17091412/taxi-cab-driver-attacks-self-driving-car-uber
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peterbraden
It's an interesting step towards the panopticon - self driving vehicles by
necessity have complete surveillance and store everything. Misdemeanors that
prev... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Zynga is PRINTING MONEY. Breakdown of how they got to IPO (infographic) - skotzko
http://namesake.com/blog/2011/07/infographics/road-to-riches-zyngas-path-to-ipo/
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edw
This article is basically a ginormous infographic. I'm a design whore as much
as the next designer, but I really don't see the point of most of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Easy User Authentication For Mobile Developers - janaboruta
http://www.stackmob.com/2011/10/easy-user-authentication-3/
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bigiain
"Also, we encrypt user passwords on our servers and we never return a password
in the result of any query."
Queue a link to _that_ bcrypt article...
I wonder if they've got a reaso... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: robots.txt as a service, check web crawl rules through an API - fooock
https://robotstxt.io
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dscpls
Why a service and not a library?
It looks like a great way for you to discover URLs but like a terribly slow
way for people to avoid implementing robots.txt rules.
~~~
fooock
The project have multiple s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What causes autism? Environmental risks are hard to identify - curtis
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/11/what_causes_autism_environmental_risks_are_hard_to_identify.single.html
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mhkool
I see so much misinformation about diseases that it makes me sad since the
public is so m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Best Color schemes for Far-sightedness? - multiversecoder
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detaro
Color plays a role with that?
| {
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} |
Why Groupon is Overvalued - phil_KartMe
http://www.philmichaelson.com/monetizing-content/groupon-is-overvalued/
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thomaspaine
I was talking to a VC the other day about Groupon. According to him, every
local business he's talked to that's used Groupon has universally had a bad
experience with it. Groupon customers... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Neuron – Electron, ES6, React, PouchDB, Sass, Webpack - JamesTheHacker
https://github.com/JamesTheHacker/Neuron
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dexwiz
This is little more than a few common npm packages in a package.json and super
basic folder structure. There isn't even a sample app in this. Why was this
posted? This is nothing more than some... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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