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Ask HN: Best resources to to understand BTC/Blockchain and its implications? - jrudin
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tai_hn
I find these three books entertaining.
[Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott, Alex
Tapscott]([https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-
Chan...](https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Ch... | {
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Free Graphics Software Vectr 1.4 Launched - NickFromVectr
https://vectr.com/blog/updates/vectr-1-4-brings-grouping-of-layers/
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NonEUCitizen
If you download, does it run completely offline or does it still rely
partially on your servers?
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IPad MiFi Conversion - hanskuder
http://dishtvhdstore.com/ipad-mifi-conversion-for-verizon/
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acgourley
Wow that's an impressive hack.
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hanskuder
Here's hoping this starts a vibrant community of HackenPad enthusiasts. Void
your warranty, lose a bit of bass from your sound, and you've got Verizon for
your... | {
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OpaLang: Concise language for writing distributed webapps - xtacy
http://opalang.org
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saiko-chriskun
this is seriously the coolest language I've seen come out in a long time.
super excited :D
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"Make people want something" - counterpoint - Domenic_S
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIjuNDECYAAjPzt.png
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Domenic_S
In response to <http://alvybrooks.com/ycposter>.
An interesting counterpoint by @pricklynettles on twitter.
How much startup failure is not making something people want, and how much of
it is fa... | {
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol - synesso
https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-consensus-protocol-423409aad32e
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1053r
The authors of this protocol made a valiant effort to defend against sybil
attacks by requiring intersecting quorums. However, it's not clear to me that
they suc... | {
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Chinese Textile Mills Are Now Hiring in Places Where Cotton Was King - danso
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/business/chinese-textile-mills-are-now-hiring-in-places-where-cotton-was-king.html
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kelukelugames
Reminds me of the episode of daily show where the overseas call center
outsourced to Americans who had... | {
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Drop Dropbox - PhilipA
http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
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grellas
Think about what it means to the HN culture to have a subject that normally
would have been flagged out of existence as overtly political suddenly be
featured front and center in the apparent belief that ideological purity is
now a litmus test for who ... | {
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Show HN: Diceware Passphrase Lookup and Generator - iamben
http://www.diceware.net/
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iamben
After reading The Intercept article posted on HN earlier this afternoon I
thought I'd stick this together. Comments welcome!
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YC Winter Application Notification - LiveTimeCards
So, we are getting close to the deadline for YC choosing the groups for this winters session.<p>Does anybody know if they e-mail both the `chosen` ones and also the groups that were not picked all on the 29th? Do they ever make phone calls?<p>Thanks.
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pg
We'll... | {
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Qt Creator 2.1.0 brings enhanced Qt Quick and mobile applications support - Tsiolkovsky
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-creator-2-1-0-released/
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MrUnderhill
Most people I talk to seem to think QtCreator is only any good if you're
developing Qt applications. Not so! It's imho actually a marvellous IDE fo... | {
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} |
Time travel: Light speed results cast fresh doubts - gps408
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14289114
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btilly
It should be noted that this result was completely expected. It turns out that
light traveling through a medium can have 3 different velocities: phase, group
and signal. Typically the latt... | {
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Atrium lays off lawyers, pivots to tools - janeshmane
https://www.axios.com/law-firm-startup-atrium-lays-off-most-of-its-lawyers-e4637120-27a7-44c5-8a52-37e2b0194928.html
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tempsy
I think anyone considering a job at a company founded by a serial entrepreneur
should heed this as a warning.
These founder raise pre... | {
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The only laws on the Internet are assembly and RFCs - atestu
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=65&id=6&mode=txt
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markup
Too bad the tor server for elettra looks dead -- or is it just me?
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A new type of book - aen
http://aenism.com/end-of-passive/
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Vaskivo
I don't believe that reading is a "passive" activity.
"[Tom] saw a new girl in the garden--a lovely little blue-eyed creature with
yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered
pantalettes." (Tom Sayer, by Mark Twa... | {
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} |
Promoting your iPhone app in print - alex_c
http://blog.indieiphonedev.com/2010/01/27/promoting-your-iphone-app-in-print/
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patio11
I love people trying to innovate, but this is going to run into the brick-wall
reality of conversion math.
My site, where 6 cents gets me a guaranteed visitor: ~20% download or si... | {
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} |
Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do - frostbytes
I'm absolutely lost. I have been coding for so long but I have never had a software development job, I've been self taught and been on this road for so long. Surprisingly I have been extremely active in sports, I'm extroverted, I ... | {
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Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham Issues New Warning to Start-ups - azazo
http://www.inc.com/kathleen-kim/y-combinator-advisor-sends-seed-funding-warning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
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pg
Just so everyone unde... | {
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Show HN: My Django book, Hello Web App, is now free online - limedaring
A couple of years ago I wrote Hello Web App (http://hellowebapp.com) to teach beginner Django web app development. It's aimed at non-programmers and designers, and walks folks through building and deploying a basic web app.<p>I'... | {
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Ask HN: What's the best way to learn how to create a font/typeface? - Kinnard
What're the best ways to learn how to create fonts/typefaces?
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spoonie
Knuth's Metafont book.
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WebM Decoder in Flash using Alchemy - robin_reala
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/01/15/webm-decoder-in-flash-using-alchemy.html
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alanh
Instead of using hardware acceleration like browser-native video decoders can,
this involves compiling C to ActionScript and running it on Flash’s VM.
So don’t expect his f... | {
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} |
Hyperloop | Blog | Tesla Motors - ghosh
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop
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gunshor
Here is the 57 page PDF for Hyperloop.
[http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop](http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop)
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Program diagnosing cancer more accurately than humans can - nopinsight
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/11/diagnosing-cancer
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nasmorn
Well it's back to some e-commerce programming for me. It's a good feeling to
know I make a difference in peoples lives.
| {
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Ask HN: How much do you charge your clients for mobile app development? - cronjobma
The numbers are all over the place, obviously because each type of app can be totally different. But how much have you been averaging per project, the last 12 months or so?
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niravbond
It totally depends on what client will get if... | {
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Freemium Model for Lawyers - MediaSquirrel
http://www.metamorphblog.com/2010/01/dear-startup-lawyers-please-blog.html
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grellas
This a very insightful piece, as I learned from experience when I began a
while back to add useful content for startups to my firm's website. We are a
smaller, boutique firm but have b... | {
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} |
Twitter Announces @Anywhere - mattwdelong
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/anywhere.html
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jasonlbaptiste
can someone explain this without the useless buzzwords?
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benologist
They appear to have made a javascript widget that lets you put twitter on a
page.
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orblivion
Specifically, I think it uses the visi... | {
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Qt Weekly #21: Dynamic OpenGL implementation loading in Qt 5.4 - koopajah
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/11/27/qt-weekly-21-dynamic-opengl-implementation-loading-in-qt-5-4/
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koopajah
I've encountered a lot of issues on Windows XP with QT/Angle but also quite a
lot on Windows Vista/7 where the graphic drive... | {
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Does Apple deliberately slow its old iPhones before a new release? - angadsg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2709502/Does-Apple-deliberately-slow-old-models-new-release-Searches-iPhone-slow-spike-ahead-launches.html
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lgas
Betteridge says no, others say yes.
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Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm - pierreneter
https://github.com/facebook/zstd
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pvg
Bunch of previous discussions:
[https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zstandard&sort=byPopularity&da...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zstandard&sort=byPopularity&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0)
... | {
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Facebook CTO Bret Taylor's Biggest Mistake? Buying Servers - alexwilliams
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/02/facebook-cto-bret-taylors-bigg.php?utm_source=ReadWriteCloud&utm_medium=rwchomepage&utm_campaign=ReadWriteCloud_posts&utm_content=Facebook%20CTO%20Bret%20Taylors%20Biggest%20Mistake?%20Buying%20Servers
=... | {
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America Is Flint - pavornyoh
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/opinion/sunday/america-is-flint.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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grandalf
The broader point is that incompetence and corruption plagues institutions
(public and private) of all sizes.
Regardless of one's politics, it's critical that we hold our institutions
a... | {
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How The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Us - wglb
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/20/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-us-a-detailed-timeline/
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mr_spothawk
> The editorial staffer, who had “super-administrator” privileges on Forbes’
> WordPress publishing platform...
facepalm
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coldcod... | {
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1+1=? - lwc123
http://larrycheng.com/2009/09/29/11/
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khafra
Critique which might be taken personally, please don't read unless you're
prepared:
You might want to run these blog posts past a proofreader before submitting to
avoid things like"1+1=5-4." Also, if you're trying to impress a site full of
hackers, y... | {
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Ask HN: What's your best marketing automation techniques? - rloc
I run an online SaaS business.<p>I discovered (as many before me...) that marketing is probably the hardest aspect of growing a business. It takes time, patience and perseverance.<p>I spend a fair amount of time everyday trying to be creative on how I co... | {
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NSA says it can’t search its own e-mails - philippelh
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/nsa-says-it-cant-search-its-own-e-mails/?fb_source=ticker&fb_action_ids=10201357828524764&fb_action_types=og.likes
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ColinWright
Previous submissions of this story:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093243](h... | {
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} |
What It’s Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class - dot
https://medium.com/travel-adventure/what-its-like-to-fly-the-23-000-singapore-airlines-suites-class-17d9f3fee0d
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dalke
Also posted about 9 hours ago at
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387276](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838... | {
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LinkedIn's new search architecture - rsumbaly
http://engineering.linkedin.com/search/did-you-mean-galene
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ksec
Why this never made it on to the frontpage?
| {
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Epoll is fundamentally broken - Philipp__
https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-12/
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ktRolster
The article explains how to use epoll() correctly to solve all the problems he
raises. That's not 'fundamentally broken,' because it works. The worst you can
say is _confusing and painful._... | {
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} |
Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer - estefan
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/2/e1601540
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mr-Chip
I wonder how many real entangled cubits it has
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Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/blog/-how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs
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nkozyra
> Except, of course, aside from its pre-set storyline, Grand Theft Auto
> doesn’t prescribe any of these things.
This is not a fair characterization of the game. Yes, you can avoid doing
tho... | {
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} |
Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer - german
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11cnd-yahoo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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alexfarran
I love the sprinkling of items from Mr. Liddel's resume throughout the
article:
a former banker from New Zealand
who calls himself Microsoft’s “gatekeeper of funding,”
who jo... | {
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So just what's going on with the DiggBar? - moses1400
http://www.centernetworks.com/diggbar-analytics-ads-pageviews
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Devilboy
I can understand how the DiggBar is going to benefit Digg but as a casual Digg
user this doesn't sit well with me. And you can disable it... but you need to
be logged in to Digg to have... | {
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} |
Disque: a distributed message broker - anikdas
https://github.com/antirez/disque
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bryanlarsen
Disque is being reimplemented as a redis module rather than a standalone
project. It's scheduled for the next redis release.
[https://gist.github.com/antirez/a3787d538eec3db381a41654e214...](https://gist.github.com/ant... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test - mzs
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/20/boeings-starliner-flies-into-wrong-orbit-jeopardizing-trip-to-the-international-space-station.html
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jacquesm
That is a very expensive mistake, but it could have been a lot worse, at least
they mad... | {
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? - d0mine
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/
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nkurz
On the advice of people here on HN, I've started reading Whitaker's "Anatomy
of an Epidemic", which is one of the books reviewed here. It's a solid book,
but not doing a lot for ... | {
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} |
On “White Fragility” - andrenth
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
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zdragnar
I am amazed that I work at a company full of extremely intelligent
individuals, some of whom are truly cream of the crop types given the work we
do.
Yet, during the Floyd protests, our equity committee sent out an email w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amazon solved the payload problem in drone delivery system - nitin_flanker
http://www.whatafuture.com/amazon-finds-creative-way-solve-payload-problems-drone/
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NicoJuicy
This already existed long before amazon filed this.
It won't hold in court
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Eridrus
I have a feeling that Amazon probably provides financia... | {
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From Shader Code to a Teraflop: How Shader Cores Work (2008) [pdf] - Tomte
http://s08.idav.ucdavis.edu/fatahalian-gpu-architecture.pdf
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DuckConference
This is excellent, this clarified things in a way past block diagrams hadn't
for me.
| {
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Shutterfly to acquire Tiny Prints Inc. - watchmaker
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110321006813/en/Shutterfly-Acquire-Tiny-Prints
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byrneseyeview
...for $333mm.
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Introducing Selmer: A new fast templating engine using a Django inspired syntaxt - llambda
http://yogthos.net/blog/48-Introducing+Selmer
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bhauer
I am really liking this. It's awesome to see performance given a priority in
template engines.
| {
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} |
Indian IT firms unfairly targeted in Boeing 737 Max fiasco, says industry - hef19898
https://m.economictimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/indian-it-firms-unfairly-targeted-in-boeing-737-max-fiasco-says-industry/articleshow/70018756.cms
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duxup
>According to a report by news agency Bloomberg, en... | {
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Foreign students have begun to shun the United States - sharjeelsayed
https://www.axios.com/international-students-are-staying-away-from-the-united-states-2509719080.html
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jmiller099
awwww
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Google Pixel phone leaked before unveiling - nyodeneD
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/03/google-pixel-phone-leak-carphone-warehouse
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lallysingh
It's a rectangle with a screen in the middle. Like an iPhone without the
button. I didn't need to see a leak to know that, and don't see why this is
news... | {
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} |
TypeScript 3.7 - nerdkid93
http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-7.html
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achou
I just did some refactoring on a medium size code base and here are a few
things to watch out for when adopting optional chaining and the new null
coalescing operator:
foo && await foo... | {
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Packet Radio on 27Mhz (2011) - projectmeshnet
http://youtu.be/eFu71XeM998
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tgs
I've had no experience with radio but find this stuff really interesting. You
never know what you'll need to do come the zombie outbreak when the internet
goes down.
Packet radio, HAM, CB... it is all a mystery to me. Is there a be... | {
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} |
How developers use API documentation: an observation study [pdf] - fanf2
http://sigdoc.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CDQ18002_Meng_Steinhardt_Schubert.pdf
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kaycebasques
I write the Chrome DevTools docs. "Empathy" is a buzzword in technical
writing. Recently I wrote a post [1] imploring technical writers to ... | {
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} |
Redraw state borders, see the election results - yoloswagins
http://kevinhayeswilson.com/redraw/
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yoloswagins
By moving Portland, OR into Washington, and OR flips red.
Move the three most western Florida panhandles out of Florida, and it flips
Blue.
With an intense amount of Gerrymandering, you can really mess... | {
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The trouble with text-only email - corbet
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/735973/17bdb163fddd41ae/
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makecheck
I don’t understand this sort of “right to track” that so many organizations
seem to have. I don’t care if modern technology gives them a way to do it, I
have a right to block or otherwise avoid loading wh... | {
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} |
Comparing Mesos and Kubernetes - mooreds
http://www.developintelligence.com/blog/2017/01/comparing-contrasting-apache-mesos-vs-googles-kubernetes/
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davelnewton
This report is written by a company that provides Kubernetes support. The
thing I found most offensive was that it implies Apache Mesos isn't an open
sou... | {
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} |
Unapologetically Plastic, Artisanal Buns - jordaninternets
https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/9655fd3ea2c7
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replicatorblog
If you want an amazing way to blow an afternoon, read some of the abstracts
published in the "Journal of Consumer Research"
([http://www.ejcr.org/](http://www.ejcr.org/))... | {
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Google and Facebook Team Up to Open Source the Gear Behind Their Empires - rey12rey
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/google-facebook-designing-open-source-data-center-gear-together/
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franciscop
Not only Google and Facebook [1]:
Facebook, Intel, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Rackspace, Cisco, Juniper Networks,
Goldman S... | {
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} |
Apple adds 192-room hotel to plans of Northwest Austin campus - ingenieros
https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-20-20-apple-adds-surprising-element-to-1-billion-campus-in-northwest-austin/
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karlkatzke
To add to the information in this story (because I live in the neighborhood),
there aren’t a ton of h... | {
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Ask HN: How does one form business partnerships with universities? - omginternets
I'm the co-founder of a small US-based startup. As an applied research company, we'd like to form a partnership with my a certain laboratory in my <i>alma mater</i> that would involve the following:<p>- Joint research projec... | {
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Is Amazon Cloud Drive Down ? - jbub
https://forum.rclone.org/t/acd-429-too-many-requests/1792/66
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jbub
[https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1351](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1351)
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Seth's Blog: Dewey defeats Truman - twampss
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/dewey-defeats-t.html
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aristus
This link you sent me... there is no flow, or thesis. What does it say? All
headlines. Trashed.
| {
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German police will be able to hack WhatsApp encrypted messages by end of 2017 - ayi
https://www.rt.com/news/397504-germany-state-hacking-whatsapp/
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swerner
The headline and the rt.com article are a bit misleading, German speakers
should rather read the original source:
[https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheimes-doku... | {
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} |
Show HN: Play Go Against a Deep Neural Network - c-clark
https://chrisc36.github.io/deep-go/
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thaumaturgy
It was OK. I'm only about 6k, and I slaughtered it pretty badly (32 for black
to -47 for white), but it did a respectable job of playing fuseki and there
was an exciting semeai that pretty well decided the g... | {
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} |
A toy generational garbage collector - devshorts
http://onoffswitch.net/toy-generational-garbage-collector/
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obl
at first glance it seems to be missing a write barrier to catch new references
from old gen to new gen, which is a very important part of any generational
collector
~~~
devshorts
It's a simplified to... | {
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An open, more distinctive BBC - paublyrne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/more-distinctive-bbc
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paublyrne
I suspect that were they to open up access to the iPlayer for non UK users and
charge a fee in the region of Netflix's, the Beeb would fix their funding
crisis. And as they would circumven... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A potentially fatal blow against patent trolls - donnemartin
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3153924/technology-law-regulation/a-potentially-fatal-blow-against-patent-trolls.html
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Fjolsvith
Dupe:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311737](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311737)
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Indexes Beat Stock Pickers Even Over 15 Years - dsacco
https://www.wsj.com/articles/indexes-beat-stock-pickers-even-over-15-years-1492039859?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170413&utm_campaign=ritholtz
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nabla9
Recent paper giving new insight why indexing works so well.
Why Indexing Works, Heaton... | {
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Submittable Releases Vimeo & YouTube integration for Film Festivals - mfitzerald
http://blog.submittable.com/2012/08/new-feature-custom-form/
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waterlesscloud
I wish someone would shake up withoutabox a little. It's hard since they have
such a lock on the market, but everyone would benefit from them being pushe... | {
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Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question - etr71115
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/game-theory-calls-cooperation-into-question1/
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nosuchthing
Pack animals like dogs naturally discourage fighting amongst themselves [1].
Strife weakens the pack.
Consider the effort it takes 1 person to build a house... | {
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Plan Your Digital Afterlife with Inactive Account Manager - hornokplease
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-digital-afterlife-with.html
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intopieces
Still confused about why I should care, given that I will be dead. I'm not
sure my Google Voice text messages will be of any use to anyone. M... | {
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"The Chaos" poem catalogues English word irregularities. Can you read all of it? - sumeetjain
http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php#caos
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dmlorenzetti
The poem actually misses a word with multiple pronunciations, that's already
embedded in the poem: console (line 9). I can console you if your co... | {
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“Architect” should be a role, not a position - bozho
https://techblog.bozho.net/architect-role-not-position/
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mehh
I disagree :)
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What FourSquare needs to do to fend off Facebook - ry0ohki
http://www.startupdetails.com/2010/05/what-foursquare-needs-to-do-to-stay-relevant/
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brk
This has some well thought out points, but the headline is a little
misleading. Facebook could implement these same ideas (none are patentable) to
"fend off" Fours... | {
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A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise - ins0
https://github.com/blog/1918-a-faster-more-flexible-github-enterprise
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peteretep
Is it still a bazillion times more expensive than BitBucket?
~~~
FireBeyond
$5,000 per 20 users per year.
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Stop the music money stream scream: C.R.E.A.M. - rogueleaderr
http://rogueleaderr.com/post/42695281885/stopping-the-music-money-stream-scream-c-r-e-a-m
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hipsters_unite
Pretty well-balanced article. Like in the 'bad old days' the mega-artists that
appeal to the mass market are the ones reaping the rewards of ec... | {
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David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages - teklaperry
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages
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philipkglass
Are there languages that have first-class support for repres... | {
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Show HN: Tax, CLI Task List Manager - netgusto
https://github.com/netgusto/tax
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netgusto
I coded this as I needed a simple tool to help keep track of my things to do.
The hard requirements were:
* command line operated
* keep state in a standard markdown file
* display the current task in my shell prompt and... | {
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Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data - seshagiric
https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data?PC=EMMX01
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rmc
Microsoft has allowed the OSM community to trace from Bing aerial imagery for
almost 10 years now. That's be... | {
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Ask YC: Is the Bay Area Much Better than Seattle for Startups? - arooni
Long time reader, first time poster. Thanks in advance for reading this post and extra thanks if you can reply with your thoughts. <p>I'm working full time in a software company in Seattle area and will be leaving soon to work full-time on my star... | {
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Amazon pulled an Apple on the smart home - imartin2k
https://staceyoniot.com/amazon-just-pulled-an-apple-on-the-smart-home/
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Tloewald
If there’s one thing Apple did, with Steve Jobs, other than build fantastic
user experience out of mature but unapproachable technologies, it was
communicating the fact that it ha... | {
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Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson - eliotpeper
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tracking-realitys-fuckedness-quotient-an-interview-with-william-gibson/
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pmoriarty
Is anyone here a fan of Gibson's post _Neuromancer_ trilogy work?
After enjoying _Neuromancer_ and loving... | {
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Show HN: CurlMail – Quickly send email notifications using cURL - mrmattyboy
https://www.curlmail.co/#?pk_campaign=hN2
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humbleMouse
This is cool, but does it scale? What happens if 10,000 people start using it
daily?
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For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” - tintinnabula
http://www.dancohen.org/2016/01/04/for-what-its-worth-a-review-of-the-wu-tang-clans-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin/
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roywiggins
> This is like someone having the scepter of an Egyptian king
The point of a scepter is that y... | {
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Internetarchive.bak - edward
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK&hn
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sp332
Current status: [http://iabak.archiveteam.org/](http://iabak.archiveteam.org/)
Helping out is super easy: On Linux or Mac, git clone
[https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK/](https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK/... | {
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} |
How to teach informatics in 3 months (german satire) - chupa-chups
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Migration-in-die-Industrie-4-0-Fluechtlinge-als-Software-Entwickler-gegen-4310106.html
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chupa-chups
[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...](https://translate.google.co... | {
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} |
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016 - 11thEarlOfMar
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/income-povery.html
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electrograv
How is "all time high" income surprising, given that inflation essentially
guarantees perpetually increasing dollar amounts of everything?
... | {
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Join Thinklab’s $1M effort to crowdsource a biomedical data translator - jspaulding
https://thinklab.com/blog/join-thinklabs-1-million-effort-to-crowdsource-development-of-a-biomedical-data-translator/217
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jspaulding
Hey folks. Thinklab founder here. Would be happy to answer any questions you
have.
~~~
brudgers... | {
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Introducing Realm React Native - porsager
https://realm.io/news/introducing-realm-react-native/
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kristiandupont
I think this is a very exciting match for both eco systems. I look forward to
seeing where it will go.
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bleonard
Congrats to the team. We've been really happy trying it out. It's a drop-in
repla... | {
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Ask HN: How do you manage freelance projects when clients only want to email? - bennythomson
I've been developing websites for businesses for a few years now, and like many freelance web developers, the people I work for are not particularly tech savvy. As such, email has been the prime way of communicating proje... | {
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The Emerging-Semantics Web ("The Semantic Web is Dead") - bootload
http://yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/2007/05/16/the-emerging-semantics-web-the-semantic-web-is-dead/
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bct
The Semantic Web and tagging, etc. aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, if
Flickr's machine tags are machine parseable then they're part o... | {
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How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - jlees
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?pagewanted=all
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guelo
The only way to stop these large criminal enterprises is to legalize the
stuff. Just like alcohol prohibition created some of the most notorious
... | {
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Probabilistic Machine Learning: Foundations and Frontiers - blopeur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEq96wib5tw
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blopeur
Slides: [http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/frontiers-
of...](http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/frontiers-of-machine-
learning/ghahramani-ppt.pdf)
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Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor - mnemonicsloth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
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cousin_it
I don't see how the linked article supports your editorializing in the
headline.
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mnemonicsloth
It would have been more precise to say BCD explains why most artists have
troubl... | {
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“Create so much they can't ignore you” for coders - dillonraphael
Just finished reading this post<p>https://artplusmarketing.com/create-so-much-they-cant-ignore-you-230012615efe#<p>It sparked something in me, and made a serious point.<p>I'm mostly a frontend dev. I'm looking for ideas that wil... | {
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When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (2017) - bryanrasmussen
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/
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pmoriarty
By far the most terrifying movie I've seen on nuclear war has been _Threads_.
If you can find a good copy of it, wat... | {
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} |
Predictive Optimizing Code Loading - avodonosov
https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl#readme
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khc
sounds very similar to [https://www.instartlogic.com/blog/dont-buy-the-
javascript-yo...](https://www.instartlogic.com/blog/dont-buy-the-javascript-
you-dont-use)
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avodonosov
Indeed, very similar! This confirms I... | {
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} |
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