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Ask HN: Internet Service Plans, upload = download? - cmdlinerambo
Why do ISPs offer internet service plans that don't offer equal uploads and downloads?
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centdev
Because it's easier to regulate knowing more people download / stream than
upload. Only people in general uploading significant data are busines... | {
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A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades - jseliger
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-first-tmsr-experiment-in-over-40-years-started
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philipkglass
Better explanation here (linked from Technology Review):
[http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-
fir... | {
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Ask HN: Looking for a HN that's not tech-focused - JDiculous
I'm looking for a site like Hacker News, except without the tech focus. Basically a HN/Reddit-like forum focused on current events, important societal issues, etc. where the quality of content/discussion is high.<p>8 years ago Reddit was amazi... | {
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How to launch Pied Piper - christinang89
https://medium.com/@christinang89/how-to-launch-pied-piper-part-1-17c9071f6850
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skidoo
I remember when Twitter launched, thinking how much better a name Pied Piper
would've been. "Following" would make more sense, but also I like the concept
of piping messages into the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas” - mmastrac
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/eff-asks-appeals-court-to-shut-down-the-eastern-district-of-texas/
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grendelt
Hello from the "Eastern District of Texas" (I live 27 miles from the US
Courthouse in Marshall). The lack of educa... | {
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} |
Cuba opts Linux for technological independence - socratees
http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/cuba/2008-11-11/cuba-opts-for-linux-to-guarantee-technological-independence/
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gaius
Not unless they're fabbing their own processors they're not.
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Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can’t Be Corrected - petethomas
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/business/dealbook/downside-of-virtual-currencies-a-ledger-that-cant-be-corrected.html
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twblalock
This is a pretty big downside if you want to use the blockchain in commercial
banking, where laws require that the ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Security vulnerability in deployment – what to do? - erlehmann_
Around 1.5 months ago, I found a security vulnerability in a web page I developed, which was deployed by another person: A GET to an easily-guessable URL gives away a file containing a password with which one can login and modify content.<p>I repo... | {
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Rure – A C API for the Rust regex library - yberreby
https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/regex/tree/master/regex-capi
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gpm
Also go bindings with some impressive benchmark results:
[https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go](https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go)
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AT&T Phones Adding Unknown Recipients from Different Area Code to Group Texts - dwringer
https://forums.att.com/t5/Apple/Unknown-number-added-itself-to-my-group-text/td-p/5293588
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pavel_lishin
It's marked as "solved", but the solution is just an AT&T rep apologizing and
asking users to report more information if... | {
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} |
Show HN: First "Move your Body" game on iOS (face recognition) - myprasanna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIq47P97fpI
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benmlang
Very impressive, about time someone invented a game controlled by head
movement.
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} |
Why CPUs aren't getting any faster (2010) - michael_nielsen
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/421186/why-cpus-arent-getting-any-faster/
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delroth
CPUs are getting faster. Sandy Bridge is a 15-20% IPC improvement on Nehalem
for some heavily integer and memory access based workloads. On the same
workloads, Haswe... | {
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} |
VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT - signa11
https://vignat.github.io/
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runeks
> Our proof applies directly to the C code of a network function, and it
> demonstrates the absence of implementation bugs.
Isn’t this just like a type system? You specify what you want in types, and
the type checker complain... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where do you, personally, go to learn mathematics online? - trcollinson
I am an engineer and entrepreneur with a fairly broad but not terribly deep understanding of mathematics, mostly in the are of number theory. Deep down I really enjoy learning about and discovering more about mathematics. It's such ... | {
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} |
Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup - lucraft
http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/
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ladon86
Yes, this is what's needed. I like the line about the banks. My biggest peeve
with the UK scene is that we lose so much talent to banks and consultancies,
especially among graduates; anyt... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (2006) [pdf] - dfc
http://www.brothersinbattlellc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fdny_fe.pdf
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ludicast
Interesting seeing this posted here.
I've spent the past decade+ as a firefighter with the FDNY and this is always
a go-to book (at least for monday-morning-quarterbac... | {
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} |
Apple Should Buy Hollywood - senjamin
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/apple-100-billion-buy-hollywood/
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oldstrangers
If Apple buying Hollywood means I can look forward to more interaction with
iTunes, then no thanks.
The last thing we need Hollywood to turn into is an even more walled garden.
The best answer ... | {
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} |
Wikileaks Website, Pummeled by Attacks, Loses Home - hornokplease
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40455720
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trotsky
They're now sitting on bahnhof.net in Stockholm. If they were really getting
10Gb/s inboud DOS on AWS perhaps they just grew tired of paying the AWS fees -
0.10/GB - so $450/hr just in inbound traffi... | {
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} |
Strong passwords fine, but not necessarily necessary - j_baker
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tzink/archive/2010/09/13/strong-passwords-fine-but-not-necessarily-necessary.aspx
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pwg
One solution to have both different and strong passwords for all your sites is
to utilize Password Gorilla (<http://github.com/zdia/goril... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps - eudox
http://blog.tryolabs.com/2015/01/20/introducing-metamon-for-kickstarting-django-development/
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WestCoastJustin
Not related to Metamon, but in support of it. If you are looking for intros to
Vagrant, or Ansible, I have a couple scr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language - StylifyYourBlog
http://mikedrivendevelopment.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-incredible-rewards-of-creating.html
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t1m
I was hired (a long time ago) to write a language for a Very Large Telco
Equipment Supplier in Canada in order to support their automated regression
test... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again - rbanffy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-21/nobody-wants-to-let-google-win-the-war-for-maps-all-over-again
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akouri
lvl5 is a formidable contender in the race too. We're looking for talented
computer vision / 3D reconstruction enginee... | {
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} |
GFacet: A Browser for the Web of Data - wslh
http://www.visualdataweb.org/
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josephd
Quite surprised there has been no comment yet. Cool project.
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} |
Quantum gas goes below absolute zero - rosstex
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146
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gus_massa
The experiment is interesting, but the press article has a misleading title.
The problem is that negative (Kelvin) temperatures are hotter than positive
(Kelvin) temperature.
So the ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity - marioestrada
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/howto-opt-out-databrokers-showing-your-targeted-advertisements-facebook?ad
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clarkm
Even though I use ghostery and provide unique email addresses to websites I
don't trust, I still feel a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Any software to parse a PDF word by word? (maybe into SVG) - heliodor
I'm looking for a library or software to convert a PDF into SVG where the SVG renders the text grouped word by word.<p>I've seen the software pdf2svg produces an SVG where everything in the PDF is rendered into individual shapes. E... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why so much complexity in modern frontend development? - strangeworks
Today I've stucked with a question, am I doing it right in frontend? There a lot of abstractions on top of simple DOM, why do we need them? Why is it getting popular? For example, lets take Angular, it's a world full of abstracti... | {
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} |
Try out Stanford's CoreNLP natural language software - apsec112
http://corenlp.run/
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nl
CoreNLP is a _very_ good baseline for any NLP work. If you can build something
that beats it on a specific benchmark it's a pretty good bet you have
something that's pretty close to the state-of-the-art.
But.. there are prob... | {
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} |
Designing in the Open: My experiences with a transparent design process in Slack - dmalashock
http://duncanmalashock.com/blog/design/designing-in-the-open/
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neilmack
Great overview! We're just starting to use Slack for content/design work and
beyond the nuts-and-bolts processes the biggest challenge is working i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system - spchampion2
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-astronomers-undiscovered-9th-planet-solar.html
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Cactus2018
On the other hand, 'If Planet Nine Is a Tiny Black Hole, This Is How to Find
It'
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132488](htt... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Blockchain Curated – Listen to the best cryptocurrency articles - zosegal
https://www.blockchaincurated.com/
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zosegal
Hello HN! Blockchain Curated is a weekly cryptocurrency podcast with a twist.
I curate the top blockchain-related articles and convert them into audio (real
human narration, not text-to-... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you provide SSH access to developers in your infrastructure - prodicus
I am curious about how do you do it, keeping in mind<p>- different teams having access to only those boxes which belong to that team<p>- providing ssh access without hand smashing the server.<p>- revoking ssh access for someone as an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Uncoverly - The best stuff on Amazon - brensudol
http://www.uncoverly.com/
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jason_wang
What's the definition of "the best stuff"? Collaborative filtering with user
click data? Just curious.
| {
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} |
Poor New Yorkers Tend to Live Longer Than Other Poor Americans - Amorymeltzer
http://nytimes.com/2016/04/11/upshot/poor-new-yorkers-tend-to-live-longer-than-other-poor-americans.html
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morgante
In addition to the investments in social services which the government
provides, I suspect there's also a psychological ... | {
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} |
Organice – Using Org mode from a smartphone or browser [video] - preek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQKc0hcFXCk
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preek
This is one of two lightning talks I was holding at EmacsConf 2019[1].
By now, organice has naturally evolved even further - for example it features
WebDAV support. With that, organice can p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
RSS feed still broken. Thought pg said it was fixed? - ralph
<p><pre><code> $ date
2008-01-22 13:17:24 +0000 Tue
$ wget -qO- http://news.ycombinator.com/rss |
> tr \> \\012 |
> grep -c comitem
29
$</code></pre>
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ralph
Still broken.
$ date
2008-... | {
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} |
LinuxKit: A Toolkit for Building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems - eloycoto
https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/introducing-linuxkit-container-os-toolkit/
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jdub
To filter out some of the buzz words: It's a new minimal Linux distro designed
to run containers, with a build system that supports various image... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Rediscover 80s and 90s Movies - offsky
https://www.movienight.tips/
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offsky
Being stuck at home this summer has inspired my wife and I to show our kids
the classic movies that we grew up with during the 80s and 90s (Goonies, Back
to the Future, Indiana Jones, etc). After going through the obvious ones, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hong Kong protest: What is mainland China hearing? - onetimemanytime
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-49354507
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xster
> "The fastest-growing period of Hong Kong has already passed, so the young
> people there find no way to climb up the social ladder. They feel choked in
> an environment of expensive ho... | {
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} |
Stripe's API was down again - klinskyc
Hasn't hit their status page yet, but our error rates are spiked up again, and they just posted a tweet -> <a href="https://status.stripe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.stripe.com/</a><p>5:35 Eastern -> Their status page has been upd... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Airmen who surveil the Islamic State never get to look away - stablemap
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-watchers-airmen-who-surveil-the-islamic-state-never-get-to-look-away/2017/07/06/d80c37de-585f-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html
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peterkelly
> The number of allowable civilian casualt... | {
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} |
What's happened to Webnotes? - ysoh
Hi, who is using webnotes currently? I discovered their service was down since yesterday. WHY??<p>http://www.webnotes.net/
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ysoh
It gets alive again.
| {
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Microsoft offers developers 95% of app revenue to compete with Apple, Google - walterbell
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-offers-developers-95-of-app-revenue-to-compete-with-apple-google/
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eberkund
This is meaningless without some kind of guarantee they won't increase their
cut in the future. It's... | {
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} |
Utah Teapot - jlas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Teapot
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bhouston
Here are these models in interactive WebGL:
The classic Utah Teapot.
[http://clara.io/player/8d9a8181-f1ce-4340-b24f-e36bbaf318f7](http://clara.io/player/8d9a8181-f1ce-4340-b24f-e36bbaf318f7)
Blender's Suzanne:
[http://clara.io/player/fdcb... | {
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Show HN: Open source tool for watermarking social videos and photos - formeranomaly
https://github.com/Remixee/RMXNews
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formeranomaly
Made with the usual suspects youtube-dl, ffmpeg and electron.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Using Native Python Libraries in Lambda - Apes
http://codrspace.com/apeschel/using-native-python-libraries-in-lambda/
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Apes
Hello, just put up this quick walkthrough on how to use a native library with
Amazon Lambda. Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
| {
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} |
Univac 490 – 1963 Computer – Gallery Talk - broswell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7aVCc2GP810
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broswell
The Univac 490 was an early Real Time Computer System. One installation was at
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland.
Our museum is currently closed due to COVID-19, so we are making some vid... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments - zyfo
http://edweissman.com/i-turned-my-hacker-news-comments-into-an-eboo
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edw519
Original author here.
This was a little side project to have some fun and maybe spread a little
value.
I frantically threw this together over the weekend to be ready for the tra... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets - tsneed290
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html?referer=https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/75kszo/how_israel_caught_russian_hackers_scouring_the/
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arkitaip
Regardless if Kaspersky k... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
CDC staffers say White House putting politics ahead of science - notRobot
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/20/politics/coronavirus-travel-alert-cdc-white-house-tensions-invs/index.html
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nck4222
This has been painfully obvious for the duration of this administration,
nevermind just recently.
The danger is that at... | {
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} |
HN comments are underrated - ingve
http://danluu.com/hn-comments/
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pavlov
I second Dan's advice of blogging more.
I'm a very average HN commenter. I do put in effort in writing here, trying to
be civil above all and sharing my experience where it could be of interest.
But I'm not Alan Kay, I've never rewritten ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Good payment provider in Europe? - sxsde
What is a good payment provider in Europe?
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ColinWright
Some recent discussion of this over at hackful: <http://hackful.com/posts/370>
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sxsde
Thanks!
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Sander_Marechal
I have worked with Ogone (<http://ogone.com/>) several times. No complaints so
far.
... | {
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} |
HyperDex: Hashing in Hyperspace for fast (really fast) key value store searching - peterhajas
http://hyperdex.org/
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joshu
There's no actual documentation on the site or in the tarball :(
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rescrv
I've uploaded a simple tutorial (<http://hyperdex.org/tutorial/>) on how to
get started. The tutorial covers eve... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine - moomerman
http://olabini.com/blog/2009/04/jruby-on-rails-on-google-app-engine/
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zacharypinter
App Engine might just be the push that JRuby needs for larger adoption within
the Rails community.
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oomkiller
Thanks alot for this!
| {
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} |
To Design or Not to Design in the Browser - Annet
http://www.htmlcut.com/blog/designing-directly-in-browser.html
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create028
Personally I will always start any design within photoshop, or actually really
back to basic's with pencil and pad to start off with. It is this raw
creativity and freedom that distinguis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Coronavirus-tracker-CLI: Track conronavirus cases from command line - sasvari
https://github.com/sagarkarira/coronavirus-tracker-cli
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chmaynard
The README needs to explain if the data is coming from the CDC or some other
source. We all know how unreliable this data can be, especially in the USA
where testing is ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pork grown in laboratory - dc2k08
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece
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jamesbressi
This will answer your first question:
"[b]So far the scientists have not tasted it[/b], but they believe the
breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made
from laborato... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
WiFi-hacking neighbor from hell gets 18 years in prison - evo_9
http://arstechnica.com/#!/tech-policy/news/2011/07/wifi-hacking-neighbor-from-hell-gets-18-years-in-prison.ars
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helmut_hed
The neighbor from hell "spent _two weeks_ cracking the Kostolnik’s WEP
encryption"? I thought this was supposed to take only s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Predictive World analyses your future based on data - _azerty_
https://predictiveworld.watchdogs.com
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_azerty_
The site actually shows what your data say about you, not necessarily your
_real_ profile or future. It's based on demographic and psychological data
calculated from your Facebook likes.
University of ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What would you do if you were RIM's new CTO? - stevewilhelm
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yanivtal
RIM's lost the ecosystem war already so they need to abandon the burning
platform. I would either use Windows Phone or fork Android depending on
Microsoft's willingness to give up source. After deciding on the OS I would do
deep int... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
In Chicago, ‘bomb trains’ hidden in plain sight - wglb
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2015/04/09/in-chicago-bomb-trains-hidden-in-plain-sight/
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wglb
And a related story from Wisconsin: [http://www.wisn.com/news/milwaukee-
residents-express-concern...](http://www.wisn.com/news/milwaukee-residents-
express-conce... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apply HN: Booksauce – Episodic Videobooks - booksauce
Problem: People are reading less, specially younger ones, and attention span has declined from 12 to 5 mins in the past 10 years. 63% of people believe books are important, and wish they read more but they don’t because they don’t like reading.<p>Product: We will p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: How I visualize my apartment search - quan
http://clusterize.com/compare-apartments
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AceJohnny2
How do you establish "distance to work"?
While searching for an apartments, I've always wished I could have a "heat-
map" overlay of distance-to-work, taking into account traffic at given commute
hours.
I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple relents, begins selling "old" Final Cut Studio again - k33l0r
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/apple-relents-begins-selling-old-final-cut-studio-again.ars
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burrokeet
Apple has the resources to own a big piece of the pro media market too - Mac
Pros, Final Cut Pro, Color, Shake, Final Cut Server, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on licensed Software Engineers? - mlwarren
I came across this article from 2012 that talks about some states in the US now offering a licensure examination for Software Engineering. The idea is to bring standards to the software field similar to the ones that exist for other branches o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Skeuomorphism: The Opiate of the People - pchristensen
http://www.andymangold.com/skeuomorphism-the-opiate-of-the-people/
======
flyosity
There's a difference between "looking like something I'm familiar with" and
"working like something I'm familiar with". The problem with bad skeuomorphic
design is when it _looks_ f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Bicycle hacks? - ANH
I'm a software engineer, but also a committed recreational cyclist. I'm sure there are others out there like me, and I'm wondering what kind of cycling related hacks members of the community have performed. Whether it's to increase performance, augment carrying capacity, find better (ie,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
UK refuses entry to far-right activists - RickJWagner
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43393035
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travmatt
>"The irony is that the far right have long called for the British government
to take firm control of our borders. Now they are doing just that."
That is actually pretty funny.
| {
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} |
The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889 - pmoriarty
http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/the-hobo-ethical-code-of-1889.html
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jlg23
A friend once gave a talk at the chaos congress whose title, IMHO, captures
the essence of those laws: If you want to live outside of the law, you have to
be honest.
To this day, words I live b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Yahoo lost its way - ciscoriordan
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8592114
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wave
Why did Yahoo management decide not to own a search engine? I mean that is
their core business.
~~~
pg
They didn't think it was their core business in 1998.
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} |
Swift versus Java: the bitset performance test - deafcalculus
http://lemire.me/blog/2016/09/22/swift-versus-java-the-bitset-performance-test/
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simophin
I think it's a bit unfair to compare Swift with hotspot jdk. Try Android?
(don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Java, I just want to see the real world
comparison... | {
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Boy survives tetanus. 57 days in hospital. Parents refuse further vaccinations - wjossey
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/well/oregon-child-tetanus-vaccine.html
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DanBC
> This month, a teenager who defied his mother’s antivaccine beliefs and
> started getting shots when he turned 18
Just in case any young peop... | {
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Why the Return Trip Feels Shorter Than the Way There - prostoalex
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/06/why-the-trip-back-always-feels-shorter/395714/
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mseebach
I wonder if the destination matters: Going to a fair or theme park, actually,
even going to work, most people would be preoccupied with anticipation an... | {
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How Sweden Became a Thriving Base of Neo-Nazi Ideology - wslh
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3_MSHOVAs4sJ:https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-1.831763+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ar&client=firefox-b
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basicplus2
Full version didn't work, have to be really quick to click on text ve... | {
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} |
Career advice from Terence Tao - michael_nielsen
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/
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mattheww
Especially good was Gian-Carlo Rota’s “Ten lessons I wish I had been taught”
which is linked near the bottom of the post.
| {
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Lab-grown food is about to destroy farming - olalonde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet
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stubish
I find it interesting that they have flour, but don't seem to be interested in
selling it as flour to consumers. Instead targeting the processed food mar... | {
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} |
Open Source Hardware and the Law - neeee
http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/open-source-hardware-and-law
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noonespecial
I know his focus was on cheaters unfairly profiting off the work of the
community and how copyright can stop this but patents can't. But there's
something else that current patent law does au... | {
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} |
How to not fuck up your manufacturing startup - johnnybowman
http://johnnybowman.org/post/153644788496/how-not-to-fuck-up-your-manufacturing-startup
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Strangework
So wild! Such a surprise to find this on the front page of Hacker News. If it
weren't for the author's username, I might have missed this gem.
I had w... | {
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication - peter_d_sherman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kPINNhHGNw
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peter_d_sherman
Quote:
1:15 - 1:25 (approx):
"Search engines on the Internet _are the epitome of confirmation bias_ \-- and
you're going to use that as evidence that you're correct?"... | {
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You have a better chance of achieving the American dream in Canada than America - joeyespo
https://www.vox.com/2019/8/15/20801907/raj-chetty-ezra-klein-social-mobility-opportunity
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Bostonian
Steve Sailer has explained that Chetty's mobility numbers tend to be higher
for mostly white areas, because the incomes of... | {
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} |
Amazon was Down - crc321
http://www.amazon.com/index.html
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gkoberger
A while ago, someone claiming to have worked at Amazon said that downtime
doesn't really affect things as much as you'd think. He said most people
simply just come back later.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147461>
[Edit: That being s... | {
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} |
Why I Left Google - cangencer
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-left-google.aspx
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arkitaip
I think people here are being ungenerous towards the author. Too me this story
sounds genuine and not like a pr move dictated by Microsoft. It strikes me to
be a personal account by someone who's ... | {
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} |
GNU libavl - kia
http://www.stanford.edu/~blp/avl/index.html
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tzs
Note that it is GPL, not LGPL.
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Give me some list of movies about Entrepreneurship and Technology... - gembird
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hansy
Check out these threads:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450702](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450702),
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4060887](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4060887)
Als... | {
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} |
Remember It Reminds You That Your Didn't Pay Your Bar Tab - fapi1974
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/remember_it_reminds_you_that_your_didnt_pay_your_b.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4db5d4c99293191a%2C0
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fapi1974
There's nothing like a bootstrapping project to get the blood flowing. I got
this app organized i... | {
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} |
Effect of Chloroquine Diphosphate as Therapy for Patients with Coronavirus - pseudolus
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2765270
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tomohawk
So, this treatment doesn't look so good for patients with severe cases, but
says nothing about non-severe cases.
> The preliminary findings of thi... | {
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} |
Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades - rfreytag
http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/
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Cerium
Three blades is the smallest number that reduces the vibrations due to the
blades crossing the support structure. When a blade crosses the support its
applied force is reduced because the wind is slower around the su... | {
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} |
How to get a developer job when you're blind - miki123211
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/blind-developer-sighted-team/
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JoeMayoBot
This is inspiring. As then author said, he gets tired of people making a big
deal of it. I've heard this sentiment in other types of communities where
people get tired of teaching... | {
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} |
Show HN: Under the hood ReactJS - bliashenko
https://bogdan-lyashenko.github.io/Under-the-hood-ReactJS/
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daliwali
There was a previous discussion on how do you know when someone is addicted to
over-engineering, and looking at this giant UML diagram, I think this might be
the case.
The amount of complexity I'm w... | {
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} |
Tired of capitalism? There could be a better way - djrobstep
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/30/tired-of-capitalism-lets-try-basic-income/
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mindcrime
This reads like it was written by an undergrad who just took Socialism 101.
Flagged for being tripe as much as for being off-topic.
------... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Should I keep building my current business or seek new ideas? - valachio
Some background info about me. I'm 22 years old, college dropout, based in Toronto. Over the past 2 years I built a solid Internet business.<p>I will call my current business "B".<p>B is currently making $500k / year... | {
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} |
Nicholas Tse, a HK actor, has some surprising insights on running startups - chewxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STgR9hlYFDw
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rosenjon
I really like the part where he talks about how companies have forgotten that
employees are human beings. So true in so many cases.
| {
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} |
Wired already written about PRISM last year. - Dnguyen
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/
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captn3m0
>According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA
made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to
cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably compl... | {
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} |
CleanRL: RL library focusing on experimental research (beginner-friendly) - vwxyzjn
https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl
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vwxyzjn
Hi everyone,
Author here. I have created a yet another reinforcement learning library.
[[https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl](https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl)]
This repository focus... | {
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} |
Guide to Slack import and export tools - larrik
https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-guide-to-slack-data-exports
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tvanantwerp
As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY.
Don't get me wrong--it's not like I _want_ to read your messages and very
likely won't. But there are times when I have no... | {
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} |
MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis performance test - _pius
http://timyang.net/data/mcdb-tt-redis/
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codahale
These benchmarks don't seem to take HotSpot compilation into account, which
means some of those numbers are for interpreted Java bytecode and some of
those numbers are for native code and you don't know whic... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Open-Source Version of Quartz Compositor Look-Alike? - mucholove
Hi!<p>Reading about Quartz on the Mac I became super interested in Quartz Compositor and how the Mac renders windows. The linked article says the Mac is a able to render windows with holes whereas Windows (at least at the time) couldn't do t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: DigitalOcean Droplet Issues? - codegeek
So one of my droplets in NYC1 region was not responding to pings and had 100% packet loss. Anyone else had this happening around 40 mins ago ?
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sergiotapia
Internet is miami is borked in general right now. strange
| {
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} |
IPFS Companion 2.2.0 brings window.ipfs to your Browser - lidel
https://blog.ipfs.io/35-ipfs-companion-2-2-0/#hn2
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asymmetric
Is it possible to completely/selectively prevent websites from _knowing_ I
have IPFS running in my browser?
Or does this extensions have the same issues as Metamask[0], which means
there... | {
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} |
As Trump Tightens Legal Immigration, Canada Woos Tech Firms - samsgro
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/nyregion/trump-legal-immigration-canada-tech-jobs.html
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horsecaptin
Isn't his ultimate goal to create an immigration system in the US that is more
like the Canadian one?
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craftyguy
Uh, Canada seems somewh... | {
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} |
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