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Ask HN: Do you think the Passenger drones have a very serious design flaw? - supervillain
All the new passenger drones that are coming out have the propellers sticking out, which clearly is a design flaw, and have a serious safety hazard issues around people. Why don't they consider a passenger drone with the des... | {
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These charts show how the Edward Snowden story is overwhelming the NSA story - CrazedGeek
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/03/how-ed-snowden-became-a-bigger-story-than-nsa-spying-in-two-charts/
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skwirl
Just don't imagine that HN is sitting on some moral high ground. Any time
there is a sto... | {
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LSP Change char offsets from utf16 to codepoints - Avi-D-coder
https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/pull/709
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Avi-D-coder
Related: My survey distinct implementations shows 11 UTF-8, 10 UTF-16 and 6
codepoints.
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Infinity (life is short) - thibaut_barrere
http://www.awful-drawings.com/post/3502040865/infinity
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thibaut_barrere
My brother always has healthy reminders.
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Kanban beats SCRUM (at Mozilla) - _ciembor
https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2013/04/22/kanban-for-mdn-development/
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trcollinson
I don't know if this article actually claims that Kanban beats SCRUM but it
was a great example of someone moving away from SCRUM. One thing I have
noticed is that far too many people ... | {
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Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US - arayh
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/21/streaming-75-percent-music-industry-revenue/
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bilbo0s
1999 Revenue > USD40 Billion
If I'm understanding this article correctly, then the revenue for 2018
_should_ be somewhere around USD9.2 Billion.... | {
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Twitter announces Site Streams beta - abraham
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/10592ec9038be810?hl=en
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studer
I guess the fact that Twitter employees use bit.ly to map from short url:s to
slightly longer url:s even in mails means something, but I'm not sure what.
(the <... | {
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Ron Wayne, Apple's forgotten third founder - farmer
http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chap0411h.htm?
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far33d
dupe.
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Making Cloud a Reality on the ZSystems Mainframe - dsheynin
http://www.techbetter.com/making-cloud-reality-zsystems-mainframe/
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degilio
This is an awesome way of taking systems that have been around forever and
using them in a new and different way.
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Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube [YC S08] - RWilson
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/y-combinator-startup-fliggo-lets-you-build-your-own-youtube/
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anuraggoel
I know techcrunch is(are) full of shit and Arrington is on vacation, but their
posts aren't even spell-checked anymore? teh, athough, sItes, Wr... | {
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Stack Exchange tag correlations - mwsherman
http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-correlation/
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mholt
How do I correlate questions tagged "go"?
~~~
mwsherman
Should be good now: [http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-
correlation/#stackoverfl...](http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-
correlation/#stackoverflow/go)... | {
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ATS-Analytical Trouble Shooting, formal problem solving - dublinclontarf
http://www.itsmsolutions.com/newsletters/DITYvol6iss19.htm
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dublinclontarf
When I was at Sun as part of the Solaris testing team we all did Kepner Tregoe
(SGRT) Sun Global Resolution Troubleshooting training, which was a formalised
method... | {
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Continuations in Racket - MichaelBurge
http://www.michaelburge.us/2018/03/06/continuations-in-racket.html
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gus_massa
> _`begin` does not create a new continuation frame, so its expressions are in
> the top-level prompt._
Just a reminder. (begin ...) sometimes is too magical, specialy inside
modules. If someone ... | {
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Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dies aged 54 - okket
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44586238
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contras1970
__I 'm Broken __
I wonder if we'll smile in our coffins
while loved ones mourn the day,
the absence of our faces,
living, laughing, eyes awake.
Is this to... | {
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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care - primodemus
https://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-care
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shrike
About 8 years ago I broke my leg and eventually developed a methicillin-
resistant infection where screws had been inserted. Fighting this type of
infection in the bone is difficult. I... | {
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} |
Show HN: Optimized trading algorithms using IPython parallel and ec2 - twiecki
http://twiecki.github.com/zipline_in_the_cloud_talk/
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smnl
Cool technical presentation, but trying to optimize moving average trading
strategies is a fool's game - you might find a set of parameters that work in
all out-sample/cross... | {
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Ask YC: How do you project web traffic? - jon_dahl
As I raise funding for my startup, investors want to see pro forma financial projections. I think I can estimate our expenses fairly well for a year or two, and some of our revenue assumptions (e.g. subscription cost, ad CPMs). But our revenue depends on two unpredi... | {
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How To Get Startup Ideas On Demand - IonRocket
http://compxpressinc.com/startup_ideas.html
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darkmoon
This app may help get startup ideas.
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Stop Trying to Hire with Titles Like ‘DevOps Engineer’ or ‘Cloud Engineer’ - mrmondo
https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/08/08/camels-and-unicorns.html
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cgraham
100% Absolutely this. When I hear companies talking about their "devops" team
I cringe. The entire concept of DevOps is lost when we throw up even more
silos.... | {
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A tiny Python exception oddity - luord
https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-tiny-python-exception-oddity.html?m=1
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mherdeg
I'm impressed by the humility here from someone who (a) is writing a library
to replace core traceback behavior in pypi; (b) has doubtless read both
cpython and pypi code; (c) nevertheles... | {
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How recreational marijuana in California left chemists in the dark - Tomte
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/22/16808964/california-weed-laws-legal-prop-64-safe-labs
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staunch
> _“It’s not like people are dying from pesticides in cannabis... "_
It's entirely possible that many people are dying from carcinogenic p... | {
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The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving - brownie
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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keeptrying
You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on
TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:
What I ... | {
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Notepad++ 6.0 Released - kefs
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.0-release.html
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LVB
This personal favorite from their About page lives on:
"By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness,
Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using
less C... | {
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Python Internals: PyObject - kercker
http://www.gahcep.com/python-internals-pyobject/
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harrisi
Although it's been posted here (only twice, though!) before, Philip Guo put up
a 10-hour series of lectures on CPython internals[0]. I am nearly done with
them, and have found them very useful and well-paced. Posting h... | {
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Why IQ matters more than grit - wslh
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11683192/iq-testing-intelligence
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CuriouslyC
The frustrating thing for me with IQ as a measure is that realistically, it
conflates a couple of factors. Specifically, it is testing both the efficiency
of your thought process (which is _extremely_ t... | {
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In Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade -- altogether - robg
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-utah-school15-2010feb15,0,906102.story
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dsplittgerber
Instead of cutting public employees numbers, their salaries or pension plans,
they're focusing on cutting the actual benefits the state provides for its
... | {
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} |
Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time - pseudolus
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02054-5
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koeng
I used to be a mitochondrial engineer. This advance is fantastic, and not
surprising. In 2006[0] they showed that you could get zinc fingers (similar to
TALENs, which is what th... | {
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} |
A Primer on Quantitative Easing (QE) and Its Inherent Limits - joshuafkon
https://medium.com/@joshuafkon/a-primer-on-quantitative-easing-qe-and-its-inherent-limits-391a0c2a3cbc
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jacoblk1
>QE is essentially an asset swap where the amount of money in circulation
remains unchanged. It does not increase or decrease ... | {
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Most Requested Languages for Games - kris-master
https://www.gamedev.net/tutorials/business/production-and-management/the-top-ten-languages-for-game-localization-r5255/
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RenRav
That website looks horrible on mobile, I can barely even see the content
behind the banner and navbars. "Let's make games" is such an un... | {
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} |
Save Net Neutrality in Europe - ashitlerferad
http://savenetneutrality.eu
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blatant
Except Britain.
~~~
fattire
They're still EU members for a while...
~~~
daenney
Yap. Once they invoke article 50 of the Lisbon treaty they're still a member
of the EU for at least another year or two, bound by the same rules and... | {
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} |
Python Gangsta Rap - gar1t
http://shardingdevnull.com/python-gangsta-rap
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mdg
kewl, if we r lucky then ppl will do this for other languagez 2!!!
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Stop Focusing on What You Don't Have - fourspace
http://timcheadle.com/posts/2013/08/06/stop-focusing-on-what-you-dont-have/
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mattm
Like a lot of good advice, this is easy to say but sometimes difficult to
implement. But it's good to be reminded of this. When you say "If I only had
X, I could do Y" what you ar... | {
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} |
Imgur XSS - tetrep
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/3lutoo/imgur_is_doing_fishy_things_with_4chan_screencaps/cv9lqrt
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mgo
This was a pretty major exploit.
Imgur has acknowledged the exploit:
[https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109742004224000](https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109742004224000)
Looks ... | {
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Ask HN: Open sourcing my project, how to enforce the “social” license I chose? - nfc
I've created a suite of products for restaurants<i>. I started this project to try new models of development with a positive social impact.<p>I'd like to license everything (code</i><i>, marketing and legal materials...) und... | {
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Why Slack is no longer using a cross-platform C++ library - felixrieseberg
https://slack.engineering/client-consistency-at-slack-beyond-libslack-c9cfbe778fb7
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mikece
"We were spurred to write an update when Dropbox published this post about why
they also decided to stop using a C++ library in their mobile apps."... | {
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Silicon Valley: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, by David DuPouy - ekianjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqfKvXvXXk&feature=youtu.be
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chmaynard
David Dupouy gives a very high-level presentation about Silicon Valley
business culture and why it is so unique and successful. By high-level, I mean
that he generaliz... | {
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} |
'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening - davewiner
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/
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bradly
It must have been weird for the workers in Korea to produce this opening.
~~~
mechanical_fish
I wouldn't know, but I would imagine that... | {
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Why Does Anyone Tolerate Skimlinks? - tpiddy
http://www.digital-dd.com/pinterest-skimlinks/
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tpiddy
Until sites like Pinterest can actually share affiliate revenue somehow down
to their users, these sites will "send exactly as much [traffic] without the
modified links."
This leaves no incentive for a merchant... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Schizophrenia and genius – TempleOS and the strange, sad case of Terry a Davis - MilnerRoute
https://steemit.com/computers/@winstonalden/schizophrenia-and-genius-templeos-and-the-strange-sad-case-of-terry-a-davis
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jetti
> but the America of the early 21st century is not kind to the mentally ill.
This line reall... | {
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Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae - Rifu
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/soylent-thinks-it-found-what-was-making-people-sick-algae
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old-gregg
Soylent's problem is not a seemingly overlooked ingredient. Their biggest
problem is inability to run the continuous food proce... | {
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Ask HN: YC & other programs - is this data correct? - jedc
As part of my master's dissertation (which I'm writing on YC & similar programs) I'm trying to collect data on all of the startup incubators/programs that exist and all of the companies that have been funded through them. I hope this is at least interes... | {
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Ask HN: Who is using Kubernetes or Docker in production and how has it been? - chirau
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penguinlinux
I worked at a company where they started using kubernetes very early on. It
was a mess, we configured it and provisioned with CoreOS and Ansible. it was
suck a Mess.
Then I moved to another company and we used ECS... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Acquires Wildfire Interactive and Zuckerberg's Sister - benblodgett
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/08/01/mark-zuckerbergs-sister-now-works-for-google/
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brk
No, this was Mark's long con to get more moles inside Google.
| {
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Ask HN: What's your favorite monitor for dev work? - whitepoplar
I use a 2016 13" MacBook Pro and I've been looking at the 21.5" 4k LG and 27" 5k LG Ultrafine displays that Apple sells, along with a Dell 27" Ultrasharp U2715H. I'm unsure what screen size/resolution would be best for ... | {
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WePay (YC S09) Launches WePay Stores For Easy, Embeddable Storefronts - revorad
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/20/wepay-launches-wepay-stores-for-easy-embeddable-storefronts/
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ChuckFrank
Congratulations WePay. Having carefully watched WePay's slow and methodical
exploitation of their much bigger, and better fun... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Does programming make you more creative in other artistic pursuits? - piyushahuja
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eesmith
No. The artistic pursuit I have done in most depth is dancing - primarily pair
dancing - and nothing from my programming experience has ever contributed to
my creativity in that field, other than funding.
------
bl... | {
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Microsoft files patent for augmented reality smart glasses - nealabq
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20462840
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nealabq
What I really want to know: What is Apple planning for this space?
Of course were this 1990 I'd ask What Would Sony Do.
~~~
meaty
Apple are planning: [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph... | {
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Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship - seapunk
https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872
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mocae
> 6/ The other thing I find disturbing, after all these years, is the
> willingness of my former colleagues to not only comply with the censorship
> but their enthusiasm in ration... | {
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} |
The end of Nvidia proprietary Drivers on Linux - webaholic
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/the-end-of-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-linux/15325
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ldng
Hum this has implications beyond Nvidia I suppose. Some WiFi driver will be
affected I guess. Not necessarily a bad move though. Might give a boost of
interest to the ... | {
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} |
The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities - jgwil2
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/pandemic-shows-what-cities-have-surrendered-cars/610423/
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jgwil2
Even the most pedestrian-friendly cities in the US (New York, DC, Boston) are
really fundamentally designed for cars. I would love to have s... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Have developers become a commoditised resource? - bdv500
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greenyoda
It depends a lot on what you're hiring developers for. If you need a developer
to add some new UI features to a web app, there will be thousands of junior
developers you can hire. On the other hand, if you need to reduce the time it
takes... | {
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} |
Apple Now Worth More Than Google - sant0sk1
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/13/apple-now-worth-more-than-google/
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martythemaniak
That's rather meaningless, but its interesting to compare the competitors
there: Apple, RIM and Nokia.
Apple and RIM seem to be on par - Apple is valued at ~2x compared to RIM, but
t... | {
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This Car Runs on Code (100 million lines of it) - timf
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb09/7649
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timf
From the article, kind of amazing:
\- "The avionics system in the F-22 Raptor, the current U.S. Air Force
frontline jet fighter, consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code."
\- "The F-35 Joint Strik... | {
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Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad - davidbarker
http://www.dringend.cc/
======
MarcScott
I'd like to point out that the developer of this application is 17 years old.
He's a student at the school I work at and a fantastic programmer.
I don't know whether he'd be annoyed at me for mentioning this or not,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OASIS -- Building 1000 citizen-sensors for the globe - a5huynh
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oasis-building-1000-citizen-sensors-for-the-globe
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wesvetter
Not one of the engineers here, but I hang out with them a lot. Exciting work
being done in the fields of machine-learning, hardware (potentiostats), and
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Uilicious Snippet – Catch, replicate and share website bugs - eugeneqin
http://snippet.uilicious.com
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eugeneqin
Hi Everyone, creator here.
The idea behind this, is to allow users to write clear test scripts, and bug
reports that can be easily understood, repeatable, and most importantly
publicly sharab... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Getting started with Solar Energy? - randuser34
I was looking into the solar technologies that stand out today that have the capability of being deployed and there is so much information out there that it is mind boggling.<p>For large scale deployment there are two companies that piqued my interest: eSolar[1... | {
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Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac - sinatra
https://namityadav.com/post/177983417975/dear-apple-we-need-an-affordable-and-upgradable
======
berbec
I hate to play the devil's advocate here, but why would Apple make an
upgradeable machine? Having everything built in drives sales and they've
obviously ... | {
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} |
A Bibliographic Miracle - benbreen
http://www.abaa.org/blog/post/a-bibliophilic-miracle
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mrec
Why scramble the title? The article has "Bibliophilic", not "Bibliographic"; I
was curious to see whether people really get that excited about a good list of
references.
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walterbell
> _" Charles Ralph Boxer was... | {
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A working video player built in Factario - synthecypher
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=37490
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detaro
(small typo in title: Fact o rio)
Is this using a mod, or are those newer vanilla elements? Even earlier
versions had lots of ways to do crazy logic if you wanted, but this seems a
lot more streamli... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An opinionated anthropology of the embedded programmer, its habits and habitat - eaguyhn
https://labs.spotify.com/2019/04/09/an-opinionated-anthropology-of-the-embedded-programmer-its-habits-and-habitat/
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NikkiA
> In short, the bar is set rather high and C is already awesome.
Haha. no, just no.
I can't speak f... | {
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} |
#pretzel2018 – Bootstrapping my first SaaS from 0 to 50$ MRR - pretzelhands
http://www.blechi.at/
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jay888
Best of luck with TaskZen.
| {
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} |
Representing Trees in PostgreSQL - mathie
http://woss.name/articles/representing-trees-in-postgresql/
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Todd
A good book on the subject is Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for
Smarties.
[http://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Edition-
Kaufmann-...](http://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Edition-K... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Piece of ethernet equipped art perpetually sells itself online - whalesalad
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190367275705#ht_2488wt_1167
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RiderOfGiraffes
Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1068575>
Many comments there.
| {
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QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote - 6ren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28&feature=player_detailpage#t=54m00s
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there
just make sure you don't do stupid things to quiet static code analyzers or
compiler warnings.
<http://digitaloffense.net/tools/debian-openssl/>
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World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism - cookingoils
http://pfw.guide/
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kthejoker2
Someone didn't get the memo
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093)
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This must be a Conspiracy - bane
http://datunnel.blogspot.com/2016/04/this-must-be-conspiracy.html?m=1
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gus_massa
This is the original title, but it deserves something more explanatory. I
couldn't find a version that use the subtitle or the first sentence of the
article following the extended guidelines, so I gi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Getting a Grip on GNU grep - obsaysditto
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/317617:getting-a-grip-on-gnu-grep
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bnoordhuis
From TFA:
grep '[[:punct:]]$' files
I suspect the author has grep aliased to `egrep` or `grep -E` because
[:punct:] is an extended regular expression and GNU grep d... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Clang reaches funding target - bjnortier_hn
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang?foo=bar
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pubby
I'm nitpicking, but it's CLANG, not Clang. One's a video game swords thing,
the other is a compiler.
~~~
batista
Thought the exact same thing! I clicked to read about new developments funded
for Clan... | {
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} |
Observations from a 4 year old's first interaction with MS Surface - nebula
http://blogs.conchango.com/richardwand/archive/2008/11/19/breaking-down-traditional-barriers.aspx
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decode
I thought this was interesting: "She found selecting, moving and orientating
the photos very intuitive using natural gestures. She ... | {
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} |
Setting the Record Straight on Jedi - caution
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/setting-the-record-straight-on-jedi/
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ENOTTY
Its been kind of entertaining watching random VPs in Microsoft and Amazon duke
it out in passive aggressive blog posts. Undoubtedly, many of the same VPs'
jobs are on the line. For... | {
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MongoDB will not prevent NoSQL injections in your Node.js app - ecares
https://blog.sqreen.io/mongodb-will-not-prevent-nosql-injections-in-your-node-js-app/?utm_content=buffer25729&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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starptech
"NoSQL means Not-injectable, right?" makes no sense for me. ... | {
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Ask HN: Convincing someone that constraints are useful? - staunch
Some people don't believe in the idea that putting pressure/constraints on yourself can be helpful.<p>That raising $500k can be better for you than raising $2 million.<p>Or that paying yourself $75k can be better for you than paying yourself $150k (ev... | {
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Using the Unix Chainsaw: Named Pipes and Process Substitution - jlkinsel
http://vincebuffalo.org/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.html
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turnersd
Awesome - I never new about process substitution. I wanted to convince myself
I knew what it was doing, so I started kicking this around a bit. I expected
the first c... | {
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Google is changing the rules of email. Here’s what you can do - dhruvkaran
http://blog.outbound.io/post/56850779286/so-google-pulled-a-panda-on-email-heres-what-you-can
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tbrownaw
If you're sending emails that most recipients aren't interested in, don't you
have bigger problems than whether they had to waste te... | {
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D.C. court rules tracking phones without a warrant is unconstitutional - DINKDINK
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-court-rules-warrant-is-required-for-stingray-cell-phone-tracking/
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bhhaskin
This is a big win, but it is going to be a long road ahead to gain back basic
personal privacy.
| {
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Ask HN: Best uptime monitor? - evertonfuller
Looking around for uptime monitoring systems. What do you guys use? Thanks!
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mariocesar
I made my own service with a free Google App Engine instance, using this
script as a base → <https://github.com/danawoodman/python-uptime-monitor>
mainly to use the SMS gateway a... | {
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} |
Tesla owner almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident - evo_9
https://electrek.co/2018/04/02/tesla-fatal-autopilot-crash-recreation/
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eddyg
Previous discussion from a few hours ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436)
Also wort... | {
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} |
Inside Microsoft’s surprise decision to work with Google on its Edge browser - dfabulich
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527550/microsoft-chromium-edge-google-history-collaboration
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dfabulich
These interviews with MS executives are quite revealing. I was especially
shocked to see them on the record bad-mouth... | {
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Responsive design puzzle game - shacharz
http://resize.thatsh.it/game.html
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shacharz
sigh, level 2 is broken
| {
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F-35 hit with damning reports as Pentagon eyes full rate production - clouddrover
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28488/f-35-hit-with-cluster-bomb-of-damning-reports-as-dod-eyes-full-rate-production
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169191](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id... | {
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Flash will be EOL by 2020 - Manishearth
https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848786](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848786),
which has the original source and was submitted a bit earlier.
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scott_karana... | {
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Monitoring and Architecting for Failure - mmcclure
https://mux.com/blog/monitoring-and-architecting-for-failure-at-mux/
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therealwardo
I'm the author of this post.
Here are a few things I highlight in this post as things to consider when
architecting for failure: Retry, Backoff and Rate Limit. Use a Cache. Add
R... | {
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} |
How to awaken a generation of lost mathematicians (Exploding Dots) - fjmubeen
https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/how-to-awaken-a-generation-of-lost-mathematicians-44c267e3e4ca
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schoen
I just learned about the Exploding Dots thing for the first time from this
article.
It's an approach to representing and playing with ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do I meet a co-founder? - thenerduk
TL;DR I'm 18 and I need a co-founder but have no connections or knowledge<p>Let's ignore the fact that I have no real experience, startups are hard etc. but I really need a co-founder. Problem is, I'm a fairly good programmer, I can happily sit down and code pretty muc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns - nickb
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12522-crash-destroys-rocket-ahead-of-x-prize-contest.html
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pfedor
And to spice things up a bit, it seems that the reason for this crash was a
bug in the vehicle's software: "Post-crash analysis has revealed w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Over 80% of online ad effect is on offline sales - manojr
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/10024.html
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MikeGale
The study isn't published yet so I withold my judgement. Given that the
results are beneficial to people selling adverts caution should be exercised.
(Two of their big problems are that click throug... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Proposed Chromium policy on JavaScript dialogs - r721
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/dialogs-policy
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kalleboo
The proposal says that Safari "dismisses dialogs when a tab is switched away
from" which clashes with what "dismissing a dialog" means to me. To me,
"dismiss a dialog" means hitting ca... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Age of Empires Definitive Edition Announcement Trailer - Ralfp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPlECHiXcM
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dakevster
wololo, the sound of my childhood
| {
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} |
Bitbucket Down - Major Outage - Jake232
https://status.bitbucket.org/
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ericfrederich
I've said it before and I'll say it again... It makes zero sense to centralize
something that was meant to be decentralized.
We need issues, pull requests, comments, milestones, wiki, etc... all to be
decentralized. No reason t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
For those that build web applications, do you use a framework - skcin7
I build PHP applications and have yet to use a framework. However, I am greatly considering to start. I was wondering what the general opinions here about using an existing framework.
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kingofspain
I never used to but I tend to for all but t... | {
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} |
PHP introduces "goto" - zain
http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php
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dflock
The first user contributed note on that page:
<?php
wtf:
echo 'For real!?';
echo 'Srsly!?';
goto wtf;
?>
Heh.
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jdp
Why is everyone jumping on this as a... | {
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} |
Team Behind Finnish Success Story Supercell Launches Nordic Startup Fund - dirtyaura
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/04/22/finnish-success-story-supercell-and-investors-launch-nordic-startup-fund/
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dirtyaura
"... Applifier, which was acquired by a bigger American software tool
developer Unity Technolo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Does your company renew option grants after initial ones vest? - equity-q-1212
Just hit four years at a startup and was expecting to receive another options grant to replace my now completed grant, but was disappointed to see it doesn't work that way. What does your company/startup do once your initi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
FBI Special Agent Thinks a MAC Address Indicates Apple Hardware - Splendor
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131220/07264325650/fbi-agent-connection-logs-show-suspects-mac-address-so-look-apple-hardware.shtml
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josephlord
Err, MAC addresses are allocated to manufacturers so certain values indicate
it probably[... | {
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} |
Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video] - jonnycowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng
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Rezo
It's all electric, and check out the fancy white armor at
[https://youtu.be/tf7IEVTDjng?t=117](https://youtu.be/tf7IEVTDjng?t=117)
Looks like they've taken the criticism from Google ... | {
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GitHub vs. bitbucket - jxr006
Hey folks, what do you guys use for source control in the startup world? Github, bitbucket or something else?
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SanDimasFootbal
Bitbucket which combines Trello, Pipelines, Deployment Management and Source
Control built in.
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maephisto
Github. Great integrations, familiar to mos... | {
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It's Not Capitalism That Causes Poverty, It's the Lack of It - ph0rque
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/12/19/its-not-capitalism-that-causes-poverty-its-the-lack-of-it/
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mempko
"We must go and exploit them as the ruthless, red in tooth and claw,
capitalists and free marketeers that we are. Simply bec... | {
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} |
Digital Ocean DNS Down for 2nd Time in a Week - exabrial
https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/c9wspjy7ktzv
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exabrial
Previous incident:
[https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/bmh4fb6p4mw6](https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/bmh4fb6p4mw6)
| {
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} |
Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX - leejo
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sylvain_colinet/2019/01/mis-using-perl-6-grammars-decompressing-zelda-3-gfx.html
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pornel
Perl grammars look awesome. There's a parser for Rust that allows parsing is
somewhat similar style:
[https://github.com/Geal/gif.rs/blob/... | {
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} |
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