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Notes on Epic Games - aml183
https://www.arilewis.com/aris-posts/notes-on-epic-games
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Farbklex
The part about digital goods (read as: in game purchases) being potentially,
easily transferable in the future stuck out to me so I looked it up in the
original article:
"However, an increasingly large portion of the ... | {
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Programming on a Piano Keyboard - yuriyguts
http://elekslabs.com/2014/06/programming-on-a-keyboard-a-piano-keyboard.html
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JoshTriplett
Fun idea! The note mappings shown at the end of the article seem quite
specific to producing the code written for the demo, but I could imagine a
more general mapping. Velocity a... | {
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Neanderthal 'skeleton' is first found in a decade - cesis
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51532781
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use-net
Those Germans from Neandertal were happy to travel even back in the day,
right...
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A native code to C/C++ decompiler - fla
http://derevenets.com/index.html
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userbinator
No source? The first thing I did was try it on itself... which I suppose is
somewhat of an "acid test". It took a few minutes and an enormous amount of
memory, but finally it told me that the function at the very beginning of t... | {
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Don't Shave That Yak (2005) - vsrev
https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
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opportune
Yak shaving is an inevitable, unavoidable part of working in a large company
with mature (or rather: conservative and safe) engineering practices.
A feature I’m working on right now involves a ridiculous amount of knowled... | {
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Carbon Fated: We’re Built This Way for a Reason (2013) - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/blog/carbon-fated-were-built-this-way-for-a-reason
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acjohnson55
I read this piece, but it ended rather abruptly without providing any real
information. Kind of surprised out made the front page.
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They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside - pstadler
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/
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kens
I suspect there's a second code hidden in there. From the article, describing
the code symbols that are Roman letters:
These unaccented Roman l... | {
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Go to All the Meetups, they said… - DinahDavis
https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/go-to-all-the-meetups-they-said-f4c52d41dc30#.6nr1x3wue
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x1798DE
> As a woman coming from a non-technical background (physics)
That's a new one for me. I guess she means her connections aren't in software,
but physics is like the... | {
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Ask HN: Review my startup idea, Algonaut - abhijitr
http://www.algonaut.com - a hosted platform for algorithmic trading<p>We are still circling in on what the MVP should be, would love to hear feedback from any quant-types out there.
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HardyLeung
I do algorithmic trading myself since 2006, with Interactive Brok... | {
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Ask HN: Is there a company logo web service? - cwisecarver
Is there a web service that can look up a company logo by SEC CIK number, ticker symbol or some other unique ID?<p>ex: GET http://log.os/{{CIK_NUM}}/100/100 returns a 100x100 px logo for company matching {{CIK_NUM}}<p>If not, am I the only one interested in ... | {
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Ask HN: What is your best method to learn new things? - tmaly
I have traditionally used book, and now some blogs. During my drive to work, I use audio books and podcasts.<p>I am looking for rapid techniques to learn new things. What are some of your best methods?
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dontJudge
Reading a book is a recipe for procr... | {
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Ask HN: Recommend a freelance job board - speric
Can anyone recommend some good freelance job boards that are not eLance/oDesk etc.?
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ryanwaggoner
I've been doing contract work for three years; 95% of my work has come from
Craigslist or from referrals from people who I connected with through
Craigslist. You ha... | {
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Java is the slowest of all - wiradikusuma
http://onlyjob.blogspot.com/2011/03/perl5-python-ruby-php-c-c-lua-tcl.html
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rhnet
Well they didn't use StringBuffer in java...
[http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-0324-javape...](http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-0324-javaperf.html)
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A quick and lightweight service for creating disposable email accounts - tonerdo
http://disgui.se
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edoceo
Neat but, these accounts are already blocked by the user verification service
I use for my SaaS offering. Another service I have to explicitly whitelist :(
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Arnt
What service is that? I mean the user v... | {
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Balancing Scooter Version 2 - soundsop
http://www.tlb.org/scooter2.html
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pbhjpbhj
Sounds fun, no indication of cost to make it though, nor details of the
dealers he used to get all the parts on the internet (and not have to talk
to!).
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zck
I'm guessing Octopart (<http://octopart.com/>) might've helped with g... | {
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An Open Letter To Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) - kunle
http://www.messagefortony.com
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dangrossman
Is HipMob funded? How do bootstrapped startups handle huge companies like
Zappos? Would they be able to take on a client whose resource usage (in terms
of hardware and people) would outstrip all the startup's current ... | {
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Spanish startup will let you remotely control a human avatar - ForHackernews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/04/a-spanish-start-up-will-let-you-control-a-human-avatar-remotely-like-the-sims-but-for-real-life/
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dkersten
With the backlash that Google Glass got for having a camera, I c... | {
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Five Techniques To Help You Think More Deeply - irrationaljared
http://jaredcosulich.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/five-techniques-to-help-you-think-more-deeply/
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TrainedMonkey
Blog post is interesting, but is kind of not organized. Almost like author did
not spend enough time "deep thinking" about it before doing ... | {
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Amazon's internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed - ethanpil
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-ratings-exclusive/exclusive-amazons-internal-numbers-on-prime-video-revealed-idUSKCN1GR0FX
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vxNsr
>But a person familiar with its strategy said the company credits a specific
show for luring someone to sta... | {
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Show HN: E-Book Site for Classics - kermittd
http://www.bookeyes.co/
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mc42
Though the site is visually appealing, I fail to understand why nearly 550kB
of JS is needed (548kB to be specific). A site like this could get away rather
well with just using on-hover and some elegant links.
Overall a decent idea, but ... | {
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LLVM 4.0.0 - zmodem
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2017-March/000073.html
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bajsejohannes
> thanks to Zhendong Su and his team whose fuzz testing prevented many bugs
> going into the release.
[http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/](http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/) claims 1228
bugs found (counting both LLV... | {
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Ask HN: Resources for getting started with NoSQL / Big Data - desigooner
I've read quite a few articles posted here and else where about Data startups and some tools to work with such data.<p>Are there good resources out there for beginners to learn more about NoSQL data stores and use case scenarios for each soluti... | {
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An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA - koenrh
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002651.html
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Goopplesoft
Knew his name was familiar. Mikko Hypponen has some great Ted talks as well:
[http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_how_the_nsa_betrayed...](http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_how_the_n... | {
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How we found the missing memristor - mhb
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/7024
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MaysonL
dupe
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Open source Evernote replacement based on Electron - randomor
https://github.com/Laverna/laverna
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randomor
Since the Evernote announcement, I've been trying to find an open source
alternative. This one is the closest I could find. Notable features:
\- Markdown \- Image in Markdown \- Notebooks and tags and sear... | {
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Consumers Cut Food Spending Sharply - peter123
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123448606475780133.html
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patio11
The spending is down about 4%, blamed on two factors: substitution from more
expensive to less expensive food sources, and people consuming food stores
(i.e. goods in pantry). The second has to be temp... | {
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Georgetown study: To succeed in America, it’s better to be born rich than smart - pseudolus
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/29/study-to-succeed-in-america-its-better-to-be-born-rich-than-smart.html
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esotericn
The article here is largely a statement of a tautology because it defines
success as financial success.
If... | {
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Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries - _of
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive
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tssva
The title of the submitted article is deceptive. No countries have accused
Google of GDPR violations. Consumer groups in 7 countries ha... | {
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} |
Comparing Speed of ToUpper, ToUpperInvariant, ToLower, ToLowerInvariant in .NET - cincura_net
https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/233748-comparing-speed-of-toupper-toupperinvariant-tolower-and-tolowerinvariant-in-net-framework-and-net-core
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sick_of_web_dev
hmm what's the point of this comparison though? The implement... | {
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MegaProcessor (2017) [video] - pseudolus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNa9bQRPMB8&app=desktop
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ruslan
I admire people who designed and assembled this machine. So much of fine
scrupulous work multiplied by enless hours of debugging.
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djmips
If this interests you, you'll probably really like or already h... | {
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Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API with SPA support - timqian
https://github.com/cloudfetch/cloudquery
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Jaruzel
Nice. I've been toying with the same idea, but with optional RSS formatting to
be able to generate an RSS feed from _any_ website.
What's stopping me though is the EUs Article 13... | {
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Apple and Google are launching a joint Covid-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android - marc__1
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/10/apple-and-google-are-launching-a-joint-covid-19-tracing-tool/
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959)
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towndrunk
No than... | {
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WolframTones – An Experiment in a New Kind of Music (2005) - weatherlight
http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/G16aF5KBayLGZqrbyXodKZNu6fmG6ANllrjanSNAPM
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mimixco
The music is just awful. Try the Dance or Hip-Hop buttons and tell me you hear
anything but 8-bit videogame music, not even remotely in the genre.
I lov... | {
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Online Free YouTube Video Downloader Websites - ycmember
https://twitter.com/myviralmag/status/1159428518381592577
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croh
check youtube-dl
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Referential Accessibilty - marvindanig
https://bubblin.io/blog/referential-accessibility
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cimmanom
Sorry, I like my e-reader in part because at the end of a long day it can
change font sizes to accommodate tired eyes with imperfect vision.
Yeah, this makes page numbers inconsistent.
BUT the reader also has a c... | {
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} |
What Will It Take to Solve the Student Loan Crisis? - elorant
https://hbr.org/2019/09/what-will-it-take-to-solve-the-student-loan-crisis
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UserIsUnused
To me , most college university major are just luxury, and you should only go
there if you have fine finances. It's has been proved that a college degree in
the r... | {
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Long player - bootload
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/long_player.php
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ralph
news.yc really needs the ability to add a descriptive sticky first comment
along with a URL otherwise the RSS feed, and this page, has bugger all on it
to know whether to click on the link or not. Yes, this is already on the
... | {
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If you could go back pre-startup and give yourself 3 tips, what would they be? - danm07
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stephenrowan
A debt of gratitude is in order for imparting this best stuff to us! Continue
sharing! I am new in the website writing.All sorts online journals and posts
are not useful for the readers.Here the writer is giving ... | {
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} |
Soundscapes of the JR Yamanote line - joshschoen
http://yamanote.style/
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lathiat
The JR Yamanote line plays a different "jingle" for each station. As I
understand it, the idea is to make it easy to determine when you arrive at
your station.
After visiting Japan in 2007 and taking the line from the hotel to the ... | {
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} |
Watch Google’s robot dog play with a real dog - cornellwright
http://news.yahoo.com/watch-google-robot-dog-play-real-dog-140843627.html
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kafkaesq
Groovy and testosterone-promoting, from a technical level, I guess.
But the bigger point, as someone pointed out in the comments below the
original, is:
_This dog i... | {
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Student wants a bit of direction - Jorslu
Hey,<p>I am currently finishing my second year of study as a Computer Science Major. About 12 credits away from my AA. Honestly... These programming classes suck. They don't teach me much other than printing out to the screen and getting a bit of input. Maybe a bit of manipu... | {
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Why doesn't Amazon deliver to this one street in Northern Ireland? - hywel
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Why-doesnt-Amazon-offer-express-delivery-to-this-particular-street-in-Northern-Ireland?share=1
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SteveWatson
Why do I have to 'sign in' to view the answer? It's much easier to hit the
'back' button on my br... | {
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} |
You will live for longer than 1% of the entire history of human civilization. - GraffitiTim
The first civilization started in Mesopotamia around 5000 BCE (more or less), which is 7,000 years ago. If you live until age 80, that's more than 1% of the history of civilization.<p>Just throwing it out there for anyone else ... | {
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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died - Andromeda101
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/apj-abdul-kalam-dies/article7470722.ece
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foolinaround
Many know of him as an alpha technologist and as India's Missile Man.
Less known is the fact that he helped design a coronary s... | {
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} |
Tools to Bootstrap your Startup Weekend Idea - mikeknoop
https://zapier.com/blog/2012/10/10/how-zapier-can-help-bootsrap-your-startup-weekend-idea/
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cookingrobot
Showrapp.co won the last Seattle Startup weekend by having an actual app
running by the end of the event, complete with user accounts.
They used <ht... | {
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Looking for hacker roommate in Palo Alto - mike-
We're looking for a 4th roommate for our hacker-filled house in midtown Palo Alto. We are three male engineers aged 23-25: one works for Facebook, the other two are co-founders of a small web consultancy doing e-commerce, live video stuff, and analytics. We're into we... | {
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GitHub banned us without notice – Is Microsoft the risk we didn’t consider? - chrisdbanks
https://medium.com/swlh/github-banned-us-without-notice-is-microsoft-the-risk-we-didnt-consider-a153f11cb1b1
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harryh
Microsoft's acquisition of Github hasn't closed yet, so the company is still
operating independently. Ther... | {
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} |
Crazy iphone 4s launch in China - clementyu
http://pipi818.com/11916/
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jackhomeyxm
market with 1.3 bil people
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The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth -- Maybe - kenhty
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sun-will-eventually-engulf-earth-maybe
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ChuckMcM
The humorist in me wants to say "Now _that_ is undeniable global warming!" but
the real point here is that the existence of Earth as a habitable place to
... | {
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A Russian satellite seems to be tailing a US spy satellite in Earth orbit - Tomte
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117224/russian-satellite-us-spy-kosmos-2542-45-inspection-orbit-tracking
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ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207683](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207683)
... | {
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} |
New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns - smaili
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/new-planet-is-largest-discovered-that-orbits-two-suns
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_nalply
If that planet hosts a large moon live might have evolved on it («within the
so-called habitable zone – the range of distances from a star where l... | {
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Show HN: Your turn to buy the coffee? Coffee run can help! - jamesdhutton
https://coffeerun.azurewebsites.net
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CatsoCatsoCatso
Neat idea, I'd use it for our Friday McDonalds runs if I didn't enjoy going
round and personally asking people so much.
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jamesdhutton
Thanks!
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Show HN: Barebones Wordpress template with Bootstrap to save you a little time - bliti
https://github.com/bliti/basic-wordpress-template
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bliti
Nothing outstanding here. Just sharing this basic template to those who might
be starting out with Wordpress developing. It saves a little time and gives
you a blank s... | {
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} |
Shower Thoughts - DoreenMichele
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/11/shower-thoughts.html
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coderintherye
What are your thoughts on implementing paid showers in more places? We have
the free mobile showers in SF for the homeless, but they are few and far
between. Seems like having access to paid showe... | {
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} |
Will You Be Able to Run a Modern Desktop Environment in 2016 Without Systemd? - mariuz
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/11/25/1728238/will-you-be-able-to-run-a-modern-desktop-environment-in-2016-without-systemd
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JdeBP
... the embedded bug report in which is hyperlinked in Hacker News at
[https://news.ycombinat... | {
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Show HN: Hitchly, turn any URL into a phone number you can call or text - mcocaro
After struggling with failed QR codes and unmemorable bit.ly links to share our online assets in the real world, we thought on using the power of phone numbers to share links offline.<p>Take a look at it here: https://hitch.ly<... | {
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Matt Mullenweg: I’m Worried That Silicon Valley Might Be Destroying the World - diego
http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/24/matt-mullenweg-im-worried-that-silicon-valley-might-be-destroying-the-world/
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Zarathust
Yeah sure, there's this impending Euro zone collapse, millions of death due to
famine in Africa, rampant o... | {
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} |
mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files - karlicoss
https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
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michaelangerman
For me the testament as to the quality of this product is to look at the Rust
doc ecosystem. Anyone who has read the Rust docs knows how well done the
presentation of the material... | {
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} |
NASA 'alien life' announcement leaked - ljf
http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/12/02/nasa-announcement-leaked-nasa-arsenic-announcement-thursday-leaked/
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RiderOfGiraffes
Choose your news source for this story:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962894> \- go.com
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19628... | {
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Git: Grafting repositories - ben_straub
http://ben.straubnet.net/post/939181602/git-grafting-repositories
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tzs
There's no need for grafts for what they are doing. "git filter-branch
--parent-filter" will do what they want without any need to much around by
hand with anything in the .git directory. There's even... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Senators to Apple: Pull iPhone DUI checkpoint alert apps - pwg
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214928/Senators_to_Apple_Pull_iPhone_DUI_checkpoint_alert_apps
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jseliger
My reaction to this was to buy the app.
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Billionaires vs. The Press in the Era of Trump - JumpCrisscross
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/magazine/billionaires-vs-the-press-in-the-era-of-trump.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20161122&nl=dealbook&nl_art=8&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1
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internaut
Alternative View:
The New York Time is at the heart of a... | {
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} |
Samsung core confirmed inside iPhone 4S - Garbage
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20122324-64/samsung-core-confirmed-inside-iphone-4s/
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Mordor
It's an ARM core on a chip manufactured by Samsung (i.e. not a Samsung core).
Also, if the "A5 is SoC including RAM", then the RAM is on the same piece of
silicon as t... | {
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} |
Beware of the Silicon Valley Cult - swimorsinka
http://thinkfaster.co/2015/12/beware-of-the-silicon-valley-cult/
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wayofthesamurai
In general I agree with the sentiment, but calling it a "cult" might be a
little too extreme.
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Unopinionated framework faster than everything (0kb raw and gzipped) - saddam96
https://github.com/undefinedbuddy/vanilla
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throwanem
"Unopinionated"? This is nothing _but_ the expression of an opinion.
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zelphirkalt
It's a terrible framework, but it works and many successful projects have been
built on top... | {
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} |
Google images get content, color filters - strangely useful - anigbrowl
http://images.google.com/images?q=bob+dobbs&imgtype=face&as_st=y&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS322US322&sa=N&um=1&imgcolor=red
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barrybe
Related:
Search Flickr by color: <http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr> . This one lets
you pick a palet... | {
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} |
Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber - billpg
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/ass_bomber.html
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byrneseyeview
Amazing. A reddit commenter (pica, for those who were there from the
beginning) once suggested doing exactly this as a way to mess with the TSA. He
also suggested forcing the TSA to do racial pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
32blit: Retro-inspired handheld with open-source firmware - jimmcslim
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/32blit-retro-inspired-handheld-with-open-source-fi
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jimmcslim
An alternative, of sorts, to the Playdate from Panic/Teenage Engineering...
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} |
Chrome for Mac now more resource efficient, lighter on battery consumption - acdanger
http://betanews.com/2015/06/12/chrome-for-mac-now-more-resource-efficient-lighter-on-battery-consumption/
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kolev
Chrome is a giant resource hog - compared to Safari or Firefox. I switched
back to Firefox Developer Edition aft... | {
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} |
‘I knew that a battlefield of suffering was in my eyes': Frida Kahlo - endswapper
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/01/13/i-knew-that-a-battlefield-of-suffering-was-in-my-eyes-the-many-faces-of-frida-kahlo/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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endswapper
NB: Title edited for space... | {
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Website outages and blackouts the right way - bhartzer
https://plus.google.com/115984868678744352358/posts/Gas8vjZ5fmB
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ndefinite
Repeat post, the earlier HN conversation is ongoing here:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470396>
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bhartzer
The most important point: Webmasters should return a 503 HTT... | {
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Outages at rackspace Email and App services - leejoramo
http://status.apps.rackspace.com/
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leejoramo
Nearly all of our clients called within minutes of SMTP being disrupted. So
much for the email is dead meme.
| {
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Ask HN: Do you use a pricing strategy based on a geolocation? - s-stude
Hello, hackernews-ers.<p>I'm interested in a feedback for a geolocation based pricing strategy for an online e-commerce application. Does anybody use that already? What do you think about the strategy?<p>E.g. I can market some items on the hi... | {
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} |
Tubes vs. Torrents: The Ethics of Piracy - rbanffy
http://graphicdescriptions.com/28-tubes-vs-torrents-the-ethics-of-piracy
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AnthonyMouse
That blog has a surreal intersection with the issues people talk about on HN.
Put aside the politics of pornography. She's a content creator trying to make
a living, trying t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Sun Microsystems’s Plan Of Revival Failed - dsr12
https://mobile.twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1196557401710837762
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streetcat1
Sun would have lived today if they had not open-sourced java (or at least have
tiered pricing).
Not unlike docker (the company) today.
Solaris was probably the best OS ever made.
... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to implement a versioning schema - uptownhr
I have always wondered how versioning gets implemented on a project. I have started on a new open source project http://github.com/uptownhr/hackathon-starter-lite and want to implement a versioning schema. Any good resources for me to look at?... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Cloud Cost Calculator - dataviz
http://blog.scalyr.com/2013/11/11/cloud-cost-calculator/
Direct link to the calculator -- https://www.scalyr.com/cloud/
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dataviz
Direct link to the calculator --
[https://www.scalyr.com/cloud/](https://www.scalyr.com/cloud/)
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Should I develop my new ios app as Hybrid or native? - mandeepj
I have technical background and very good hold on asp.net mvc and overall Microsoft stack. I like to develop a new iOS app. I do not have any development experience with ios. I can learn xcode and objective c but i think it will get me side trac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
[2002] Distel: Distributed Emacs Lisp - swah
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19746944/distel-3.1.pdf
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jonjacky
Pertinent recent project: pie, "Emacs written in Erlang", "Text is stored as a
tree of binaries ... Buffers are small servers"
[https://github.com/5HT/pie](https://github.com/5HT/pie)
| {
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Shepherd-js manage Javascript modules, your files are your modules. - jenhsun
http://xcambar.github.com/shepherd-js/
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rationalthug
I had a negative reaction when I first saw the string literal syntax, but
after reading through your docs I can see the appeal. Using the Harmony syntax
seems like it could be a bi... | {
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} |
Macpaint for the web written in Erlang & Erlyweb - vikram
http://vimagi.com
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nickb
What a giant letdown! Not only did this POS app force me to register, the UI
looks NOHTING, and I mean NOTHING like Macpaint! It's made in Flash and has
ONE TOOL! have you ever seen Macpaint?
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dbrush
Great, another compet... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last - raleighm
https://aeon.co/essays/how-emotionally-focused-couple-therapy-can-help-love-last
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mlthoughts2018
> “Real love stories reflect the wisdom of attachment science, which states
> that love is an ancient survival code designed to keep a few precious oth... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Quotably now has a reddit/hacker news-style view of links on twitter - btucker
http://quotably.com/popular
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btucker
Hi All- I'd love any feedback on this. Thanks for checking it out!
| {
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} |
The Internet of Things - arnauddri
http://avc.com/2014/05/the-internet-of-things/
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jacquesm
> So my bet is that most “things” will be dumb and the smarts will be in the
> phone or in the cloud. At least that’s what I woke up thinking about today.
Only until the pendulum swings once more.
| {
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} |
Apple Taps Bob Mansfield to Oversee Car Project - okket
http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-taps-bob-mansfield-to-oversee-car-project-1469458580
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kalleboo
My pet theory is still that the Apple Car project is all just to keep Jony Ive
around - he's bored of designing square rectangles, and every day when he gets
in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple still hasn't fixed a Safari bug that's been known about for 2 years - piratesahoyahoy
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/347741/two_years_later_apple_still_won_t_fix_safari_hole/
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andrewtj
The "carpet bomb" attack that the article refers to is scripting the browser
to download a lot of files, knowing ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Evaluation of 18F’s Information Technology Security Compliance - jamessantiago
https://www.gsaig.gov/content/evaluation-18f%E2%80%99s-information-technology-security-compliance
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danielvf
This is an epic bureaucratic smackdown. Somehow in the bowels of The GSA,
Moradoc, the preventer of information technology is ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ouya Android game console gets VC-funded, torn down - nikai
http://linuxgizmos.com/ouya-android-game-console-gets-vc-funding/
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kayoone
This is slightly offtopic but i really like the funding road theyve taken,
after going through a Startup Accelerator and ultimately failing with the
original product after 2 ye... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Redirects Traffic to Avoid Kazakh Demands - pwg
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/08/google-redirects-traffic-to-avoid-kazakh-demands/
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MichaelApproved
Yet another reason why you shouldn't use domains from other countries who
could change the rules and block traffic to your business. The .ly and ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Stan Lee has died - edward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee
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toyg
I know Stan wasn't a CS personality, but I would argue that his impact on
hackerdom at large deserves the black bar. Please.
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wafflesraccoon
Man, I just thought he would live forever. Rest in peace.
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yumiya
I wrote an article t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Six hours in: launching a niche microsite - newmediaclay
http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/how-to-market-your-company-microsite
======
ryanwaggoner
That's actually a pretty interesting idea for a website. It held my attention
for longer than I thought it would. I voted on probably 10 of the random
races.
~~~
ne... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Advice using Stoicism/Meditation/Zen Buddhism,etc. to buildup resilience - forkLding
I'm still relatively young (20-25) and have launched a side project while working. Its been quite stressful and I have seen a lot of negative energy come out especially with those who work with me on the project.<p>So I h... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to Limit Sales of Cellphone Location Data - mcenedella
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/technology/verizon-att-cellphone-tracking.html
======
mkempe
In Switzerland there is a concept of the "private sphere" [1] and it basically
implies that others do not have the right to pry into nor track ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tech Razer - Voltaic
https://www.techrazer.com/
======
Voltaic
TechRazer is that gathering that you can call home. At TR you can hang easy in
the anteroom, talk tech with different individuals, hotshot your GFX work,
truly anything you would need to do! You can join numerous usergroups, or
purchase one and lead it y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Verizon MiFi Device Hacked - there
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/verizon-mifi-device-hacked-020310
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DenisM
More accurately they found a way to quickly crack the default WPA key.
Workaround? Change the default WPA key.
~~~
jnorthrop
Unfortunately the device does not allow you to change the key. I wish it d... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Molecular Computer That Mimics the Brain - coreyrecvlohe
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/nanotechnology/a-molecular-computer-that-mimics-the-brain
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RiderOfGiraffes
Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360847>
(although now that I've checked, there's no discussion there)
| {
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IOS Tutorial: Creating a chat room using Parse.com - tikhon
http://attila.tumblr.com/post/21180235691/ios-tutorial-creating-a-chat-room-using-parse-com
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ZitchDog
I've been using parse for the last 3 weeks. One thing I've discovered is that
it works very well for situations like a chat room, where the app is ex... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MAMR Breakthrough for Next-Gen HDDs - vanburen
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-storage-industry-with-mamr-breakthrough-for-nextgen-hdds
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otakucode
Mechanical storage is only efficient for bulk storage because NAND chips are
still being price-fixed just like LCD panels and RAM chips bef... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
US generates more electricity from renewables than coal for first time ever - rm2889
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/26/energy-renewable-electricity-coal-power
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claymav
True but misleading. Natural gas has taken over, not renewables. Either way,
hope to see an article declaring renewables make m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Reader - RIP. Now go try something new - BenStroud
http://www.thewhatnoise.com/2013/03/google-reader-rip-now-go-try-something.html
======
buddylw
I'm actually getting a bit tired of having to evangelize google reader and RSS
in general. I personally don't believe that this is the end of the world, and
I believe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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