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Goodbye to an old friend: 1-800-GOOG-411 [duplicate] - nikosdimopoulos
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/goodbye-to-old-friend-1-800-goog-411.html
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icey
Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772609>
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nikosdimopoulos
Curious why it wasn't picked up by the submission script.
Mods could you please ... | {
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Putting a Speed Limit on the Stock Market - dcaisen
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/high-frequency-traders.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=tw-share&pagewanted=all&
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madmax96
Keep in mind all of the Micro Recessions that are caused by High Frequency
Trading.
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transfire
Tobin tax on all stock trans... | {
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Why It Sucks To Be A VC - peter123
http://www.pehub.com/39801/why-it-sucks-to-be-a-vc/
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davidw
The 12 hour days, the dust that cakes all their clothes and that causes a
wracking cough at night, the crippling heat in their workplaces, the risk of a
cable snapping and taking off a limb (or worse), combined with lo... | {
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Lihkg, forum used by most Hong Kong protesters, under DDoS attack - baylearn
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1477922-20190831.htm
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hardmaru
LIHKG is asking users to access it via the mobile website and not the app,
which still works. I think since they are using cloudflare their core services
will be d... | {
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} |
Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds - kkleiner
http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/09/cant-miss-videos-of-japans-3d-hologram-rock-star-hatsune-miku-in-hd/
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BjornW
Wow! This reminds me of the book Idoru by Willam Gibson.
Idoru on Wikipedia: "In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake worl... | {
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Psy Curve - jellyksong
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY+curve
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lubos
PSY curve vs Ellen DeGeneres curve
[http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY%20curve%20vs%20Elle...](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY%20curve%20vs%20Ellen%20DeGeneres%20curve)
~~~
antoni
PSY curve vs Ellen DeGeneres curve vs... | {
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How a Blind Person Programs - am391
http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/01/a-vision-of-coding-without-opening-your-eyes.html
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lovelearning
Starting today, every time I feel like ignoring accessibility in my
applications because "no blind person is likely to use them", I'll remember
this blog and punch myself in th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Where/How do I find a good salesperson? - ashraful
I am a freelance web designer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.<p>Since I am in Bangladesh and most clients are in the US, I find it difficult to find and negotiate new clients. Email is not really as good as face-to-face interaction.<p>To help me out in this rega... | {
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How a Chinese National Gained Access to Arizona’s Terror Center - Torgo
http://www.propublica.org/article/lizhong-fan
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shrike
I read the article and as near as I can tell a Chinese person worked in
Arizona's 'Intelligence Fusion Center' and then left suddenly.
That's it. No evidence of any impropriety, no cha... | {
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} |
The Acronym School of Software Design - coderholic
http://www.coderholic.com/the-acronym-school-of-software-design/
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edw519
The Acronym School of What NOT To Do:
NIY - (Not Invented Here) - Only use your own libraries because nothing else
can be trusted.
CYA - (Cover Your Ass) - Instead of fixing it, just do... | {
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} |
Collaboration just got a lot easier, see how... - csallen
http://taskforce.posterous.com/collaboration-just-got-a-lot-easier-see-how
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ryandvm
We use Google Apps (Premier) for our work. It still boggles my mind that
Google hasn't even bothered applying a thin layer of enterprise social to the
Tasks list. It wou... | {
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} |
Can someone explain to me advantage of the Ipad over ASUS EEE multi-touch - perokreco
I looked at both, and Asus tablet seems infinitely more capable, having things like memory-card readers, USB, a proper OS, a keyboard, and all that at approximately the same price. Can someone explain to me, why the Ipad deserves a... | {
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} |
Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 2 - mblakele
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bits_of_destruction_hit_book_publishing_part2.php
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mblakele
Part 1 at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=707554>
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NixOS NixCon 2015 talks (recorded by CCC video team) - iElectric2
https://media.ccc.de/c/nixcon2015?sort=date
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manveru
Really some inspiring stuff, especially disnix is something I'll have to try
soon.
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WWW 2007 Program (which papers do you like? which ones might make for compelling startups?) - amichail
http://www2007.org/program/alldays.php
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amichail
To get things started, here's one that I like:
A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia
<http://www2007.org/program/paper.php?id=692>
<http://www.... | {
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Necessary Vitamin D intake is 10x higher than currently recommended by the NIH - jtmarmon
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28768407/
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jmnicolas
I am weary of mega dosing vitamin D to 8000 IU as recommended in the article.
I am currently taking a bit less than 3000 IU a day and don't plan to increase
it unle... | {
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} |
Freelance programming - do I need to register or get a license? - freelancing
Do I need to do anything official such as register with the state or setup some separate bank account to be able to do freelance programming and accept payments?<p>I searched and read that unless you incorporate you will need to report ta... | {
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} |
Buffett-backed unicorn Snowflake nets $3.4B in record-breaking IPO - bishalb
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/snowflake-ipo-biggest-ever-software-listing-2020-9-1029593272
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nabla9
> Buffett agreed to invest upwards of $550 million
Berkshire. Buffet has delegated most of his investment decisions t... | {
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} |
EU Parliament recommends Jabber instead of WhatsApp and checks signal - tannhaeuser
https://www.en24.news/2019/10/eu-parliament-recommends-jabber-instead-of-whatsapp-and-checks-signal.html
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dbrgn
I don't think a centralized and by-default unencrypted XMPP server for all MPs
would be a good solution.
Signal isn'... | {
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} |
A conversation with Steph Smith, Growth Marketer, Writer and Indie Maker - mariedm
https://womenmake.com/posts/ZmVO1oHJUE/ama-with-steph-smith
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mariedm
Hi HN, we did an AMA for Women Make (the community I created to support women
in the tech industry). Some of the people here might already know her work [1]
[2].... | {
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The Virtual Accelerator – A place where anyone can plant the seed of an idea - lamito
https://medium.com/@hack.ether.camp/a-home-for-new-ideas-23ccffecf659#.d2edcwyaw
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EPB4
Please vote for our idea - Open Provenance
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lamalama
Nice animation video
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Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto - shazad
http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steven-wright-claims-be-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin
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nikcub
I don't believe this for a second - and i'm more interested in figuring out
how he duped two Bitcoin developers and some of the most notable n... | {
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} |
What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? - korethr
https://blog.plover.com/math/division-by-zero.html
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codethief
The author's explanation is based on how the rationals are defined explicitly
but this leaves the question open whether the rationals couldn't be extended
somehow, so that the inverse of 0 is sudden... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ke Jie (9p) to Challenge AlphaGo - thangalin
http://weibo.com/p/1008083ec48cfc1aa3aa0a3d2ab4aa04e9eed3
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thangalin
Loosely translated:
Just today, Jinli Guan Fang announced Ke Jie's endorsement contract and will
support Ke Jie's challenge of AlphaGo.
Also of interest is a Bayesian estimate that AlphaGo has a 58... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why we are registering the npm trademark - mavdi
http://blog.nodejitsu.com/protecting-npm
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mavdi
Here is Mikeal Roger's response
[https://gist.github.com/mikeal/9242748](https://gist.github.com/mikeal/9242748)
You guys make the judgement, but none of this can be good for node.
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tdumitrescu
Thanks for the ... | {
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Gone Google? Do yourself a favor: don’t. - aliebschner
http://www.indieloper.com/2009/11/18/gone-google-do-yourself-a-favor-don’t/
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aliebschner
If you want a short version of the story, here it is: it took 5 days
(approximatively 150 hours) to get the first reply from the so called “Google
Enterprise Support”.... | {
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} |
Power outage stops game at Super Bowl - DVassallo
http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2013/02/03/lights-out-power-outage-stops-game-at-super-bowl
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sixQuarks
America spends trillions overseas on unjust wars while the infrastructure at
home crumbles around us. Unbelievable.
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evan_
only half the lights... | {
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NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (1995) - LoganCale
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-12/news/1995346001_1_nsa-eavesdropping-listening-national-security-agency
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austenallred
The most interesting aspect of this is that immediately after the NSA seems to
agree that it lets... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Formula for better measuring improvements in SERP position over time? - forgot_password
Our startup is constantly focused on improving our SERP position for key, transactional terms. However, measuring progress on a weekly basis across thousands of terms can be a challenge. Moving from SERP position 45 to 4... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Covid Comply - ben-gy
https://covidcomply.com.au
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ben-gy
In Victoria, Australia the government announced a mandate for capturing
contact details for all customers entering a variety of businesses reopening
on June 1.
There weren’t any solutions that made the user experience for everyone
involved simple... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
When you can't (and shouldn't) unit test - atilaneves
https://atilaoncode.blog/2019/03/21/when-you-cant-and-shouldnt-unit-test/
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atilaneves
I, a unit test aficionado, posit that sometimes unit testing is a bad choice
for your code. AMA.
| {
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} |
Dell May Be Signaling New Type of Innovation With Lattitude-On - pchristensen
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/08/dell-may-be-signaling-new-type-of.html
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Alex3917
There is a rumor that Apple is going to add something extra to the Montevina
chipset, so it's possible that they will do the same by adding an At... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: please rate my failure: Heicos - DeusExMachina
Today I took off the frontpage of my website the link to the page of the first app I made: Heicos, a mac app to track Zone Diet. Zone Diet is an alimentary lifestyle that is hard to follow because it requires a lot of calculations. So I made this app to ease the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Better protection against Man in the Middle phishing attacks - guessmyname
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-against-man-in-middle.html
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sroussey
So, blocking Firefox on iOS, for example?
| {
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How to Become a JavaScript Badass - shawndumas
http://www.clientcide.com/deep-thoughts/how-to-become-a-javascript-badass/
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NZGumboot
If you want to really understand the language, do what I did, and write a
compiler (<http://jurassic.codeplex.com/>). You'll learn about fun oddities,
like why the lexical scope in... | {
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} |
First Test of Seismic Invisibility Cloak - tarunmitra
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510716/first-test-of-seismic-invisibility-cloak/
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ChuckMcM
Not sure when folks will start using meta-materials to shield their border
crossing tunnels from ground penetrating radar but you know its coming.
| {
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} |
Nature – The easiest way to analyze your data - gracehopper
http://www.nature42.com/
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cromulent
I'm finding your username disturbing.
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samedi
Pretty cool. Just signed up!
| {
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Vanadium redox battery - fpoling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery
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kumarvvr
These are fascinating batteries. Yes, their energy density is less than Li-Ion
but, are most suitable to cater to intermittent power sources such as Solar
and Wind.
Hopefully, with enough space, a solar or wind gener... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Attorneys Suspect Motel 6 Calling ICE on Undocumented Guests - leephillips
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/motel-6-calling-ice-undocumented-guests-phoenix-immigration-lawyers-9683244
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pavlov
_" We send a report every morning to ICE — all the names of everybody that
comes in. Every morning at about 5 o’clock,... | {
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} |
Ask HN: (how often) do you clear your cookies? - Someone
In light of the discussion w.r.t. Google working around Safari's "do not accept third party cookies" setting, I wonder whether people clear their cookies (web and Flash) regularly, and if so, how often. Related to that, do you use private mode as a means to fi... | {
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} |
Internationalization on the web – why is it so bad? - babelfisherman
http://www.planetjones.co.uk/blog/27-04-2014/web-internationalization-often-inconsistent.html
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lcedp
Totally agree. It's a shame few websites pay attention to the Accept-Language
header.
Although I'm not fluent in English I do always prefer ... | {
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} |
Xbox Sphinx Protocol - Danieru
http://multimedia.cx/eggs/xbox-sphinx-protocol/
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bpicolo
I love reading about things like this because it's so far from my realm of any
sort of expertise with programming.
| {
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} |
Brazil’s Love Affair with Uber Has Been Ruined by Kidnapping, Robbery and Murder - MilnerRoute
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/brazils-love-affair-with-uber-has-been-ruined-by-kidnapping-robbery-and-murder
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soneca
I dont like Uber as a company, but I feel this journalist is trying to hurt
the Uber bra... | {
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} |
PaaS Stackato v3.0 just released - Nassfyr
http://www.activestate.com/blog/2013/12/activestate-stackato-v30-now-available
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nickstinemates
Congratulations to Stackato on a great release. I love seeing more and more
Docker-based PaaS being built.
| {
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Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice? - anononpurpose
I'm really sorry for creating a new account to stay anonymous. Feel free to ban this one if it is considered misbehavior.<p>Having that said, you can read the full story on my first comment below.
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anononpurpose
I'm in... | {
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} |
Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments - daegloe
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/15/520118310/3-women-blinded-by-unproven-stem-cell-treatments
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aresant
The word "treatment" in the headline made me think that this was some kind of
formal study.
But in reality this is literally some... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why I Didn't Apply to Y Combinator - bendrucker
https://medium.com/on-startups/ebb45a310757
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intelliot
Reminds me of something I learned at a Startup School:
"Jack Dorsey & Ben Silberman are successful bc they don't care about the
outside world...don't care about press." \- @RonConway
| {
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Falsely implicated Boston bombing student found dead - coopdog
http://www.theage.com.au/world/body-identified-as-student-falsely-implicated-in-boston-bombing-20130426-2ii9k.html
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cleverjake
See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5610833>
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itsmequinn
Kind of misleading headline since he was missing(an... | {
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} |
Bolt launches an Amazon-like checkout experience for the rest of online retail - Sujan
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/23/bolt-launches-an-amazon-like-checkout-experience-for-the-rest-of-online-retail/
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namelost
> It does things like track where the mouse is moving on the page, whether
> someone is copying and pa... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Will not programming in my spare time hurt my career? - agracey
I am increasingly finding job postings requiring a github account or sample projects. I have an account but all of my projects are startups I'm helping and are private. (The one project that is public is easily some of the worst code I've ever w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spreedly Pricing Change - timf
http://blog.spreedly.com/2009/11/12/improved-spreedly-pricing
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bluebird
Spreedly seems great, as soon as they get PCI compliance they will be an even
better option.
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ntalbott
It's in process - goal is to have certification by year's end. We know it's
important!
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there a database of Hacker news posts that I can download? - rgovind
I want to download hacker news posts and support instant search on top of it. I saw that there was one such database before...but downloading is disabled now.<p>Do hacker news TOS even allow downloading and making a copy of the database?... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Inside Walt Mossberg’s gadget museum - sohkamyung
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15779450/walt-mossberg-original-iphone-ibm-thinkpad-amazon-kindle-video
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sohkamyung
I am so happy that Walt Mossberg still has the Creative Nomad II mp3 player
(to the right of the Pilot). I played a part in creating it. :-)
| {
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} |
How to permanently solve homelessness / a simple model - moereza
https://medium.com/@mohammadrezaghaemi15/how-to-permanently-solve-homelessness-a-simple-model-5938ee3f0cb8
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sigmaprimus
Great idea, assuming the only cause of homelessness is lack of homes. I'm
pretty sure this was tried in 1950s in the form of hou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What do you think of my e-commerce dashboard? - ansonparker
http://flic.kr/p/7V9yur
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sfall
I really like the "New vs Return customers. Number of past orders. Time since
last order." section. It's a really nice way to see how well acquiring and
keeping customers, and how often those customers are going ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Saturn's hexagon in motion - awqrre
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/4up9cw/saturns_hexagon_in_motion/
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gus_massa
Nice. The original source is
[https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-
motion...](https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion/) Do
the reddit discussion have som... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Can you recommend books about Machine Learning for non-techies? - bkfh
I'm currently deep diving into ML. I'm not a techie and my intention is not to learn how to code actual ML algorithms but to apply them in a business context.<p>Are there any books you can recommend?<p>I was going through the &quo... | {
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} |
Show HN: Arch Mac – pacman on macOS - lloeki
https://www.archmac.org
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phren0logy
Looks interesting, but I'd love to see a bit more info on the landing page. Is
the idea that this would replace something like the homebrew package manager /
repos on MacOS?
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lloeki
Precisely. It's definitely working well enough... | {
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} |
A simple webapp to get slack token with “client” scope access - andrewfromx
https://github.com/andrewarrow/easytokens
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andrewfromx
this is running at utc24.org if anyone wants to try
[https://github.com/andrewarrow/ises](https://github.com/andrewarrow/ises) and
needs tokens
| {
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} |
How to stop brain cancer–with rabies - vezycash
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/how-stop-brain-cancer-rabies
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apathy
This (and dendritic cell vaccines, and inactivated poliovirus, and...) all can
be traced back to an observation that the only people with good outcomes from
glioblastoma were those with lis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Let's talk about buttons, like on a UI - swayvil
Buttons need identifying. A label or icon. To this end we have several devices.<p><pre><code> Verbose descriptive label.
pros : guides nooby 1%.
cons : clutters ui for nonnooby 99%.
Shortened descriptive label. Effects proportional to shortness.
p... | {
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} |
Investing in an open mobile development platform - erikstarck
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2010/02/investing-in-open-mobile-development.html
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raganwald
I flagged this article because I think the headline "MySQL-Monty about the
importance of open in mobile & why Apple can not win" is over-editorializing.
I th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Open Source Hospital or ER Systems - Inquisitiveone
Hi all,
Are there any open source systems for Hospitals or Emergency rooms or anything related to Health Care management?
please share if you know of anything like that. I was searching a bit but i thought let me also ask just in case
Thanks<p>Edit:
use case... | {
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Reasons Not to Become Famous (Or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”) - rnernento
https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
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siberianbear
That was quite interesting, and a bit scary. Especially the kidnapping scam at
the airport with the fake sign.
| {
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} |
Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data - G5ANDY
https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data
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cjoh
It's easy to imagine the kind of data government has, imagine its ability to
process that data, and easy to interpret that they will do it. But it's ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Binstar: Create and manage PyPI or Conda repositories - apples2apples
http://continuum.io/blog/binstar
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apples2apples
My favorite part of this service is the Continuous Integration of your build.
[http://docs.binstar.org/continuous_integration.html](http://docs.binstar.org/continuous_integration.html)
One st... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Forbes misses the point of the 4-day work week - terpua
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1209-forbes-misses-the-point-of-the-4-day-work-week
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swombat
Well, that's not really a fair criticism of Forbes, in this case.
Yes, Forbes "misses the point" of the "4-day workweek" as preached by
37-signals... but there'... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Changing our legal entity from Ltd to GmbH - JdeBP
https://transloadit.com/blog/2019/03/changing-our-legal-entity/
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ElBarto
British limited companies have been tremendously popular across the EU because
they are so simple and cheap to setup and manage.
The UK is really hurting itself with Brexit here.
Of cours... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why doesn't the "threads" link on HN include submitted stories too - rythie
Why doesn't the "threads" link on HN include submitted stories too
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tokenadult
A good question to put in the feature requests thread.
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363>
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rythie
ok done
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yan
Use submitted for ... | {
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Loopstack - 4-track Android Looper - bane
http://www.singlecellsoftware.com/loopstack
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bane
The author also makes Caustic, probably one of the best music apps on any
mobile platform.
[http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=317623&pos...](http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=317623&postdays=0&p... | {
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Please Stop Using Ruby - MagicPropmaker
https://dev.to/jimsy/please-stop-using-ruby-4lf1
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hinkley
I did one rails project a number of years back. When I had to learn NodeJS it
wasn't that surprising because so many things in Node borrowed ideas from
Rails (and part of why the module ecosystem developed so fast).... | {
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Javascript SetInterval With Context - jQueryIsAwesome
http://javascriptisawesome.blogspot.com/2011/11/setinterval-with-context.html
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igorw
The reason why `this` is set to the window is because of the way the `this`
keyword is bound in JavaScript. It is bound at call time.
If at call time it is being called on... | {
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The Rise of DOS: How Microsoft Got the IBM PC OS Contract (2011) - bemmu
https://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/software/286148-the-rise-of-dos-how-microsoft-got-the-ibm-pc-os-contract
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valarauca1
Every discussion of Microsoft and the IBM PC Contract seems to gleam over the
fact that Bill Gate’s mom was on the Board ... | {
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Ikea's Minimum Wage Hike Was So Successful, It's Raising Wages Again - jrs235
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/ikea-minimum-wage_n_7648804.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
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thrillgore
What do you know? A lot of problems get solved by increasing the wages!
| {
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Scott Adams Blog: The End of Capitalism - Anon84
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_end_of_capitalism/
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ryanwaggoner
This is perhaps the most poorly-thought out post on economics I've read in a
long time. Adams is essentially arguing for a completely unrealistic set of
draconian regulations to manage every aspect... | {
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Learning to Predict Where Humans Look [pdf] - meseznik
http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/wherepeoplelook.pdf
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meseznik
mirror: [http://spotidoc.com/doc/744813/learning-to-predict-where-
hum...](http://spotidoc.com/doc/744813/learning-to-predict-where-humans-look)
| {
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Firefox 12 Running in a Win2K VM in WebAssembly in Firefox 63 on MacOS 10.6.3 - kibwen
https://twitter.com/justindarc/status/1033115285950275586
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DerekL
The title has a mistake. The actual version is “macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra”.
I'd be very impressed if a modern browser ran on an operating system from
2009–2011.... | {
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Online Cassette Tape Museum - noonespecial
http://www.tapedeck.org/index.php
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Gormo
Reminds me of the 5.25" disk sleeve gallery: <http://www.cyberden.com/dsa/>
Edit: I pasted the link in without realizing that the maintainer of the site
had recently defaced all of his images with a visible watermark. It's a b... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Does a decent non-YouTube video discovery aggregator exist? - anderspitman
I've been thinking a bit about decentralized video hosting lately. I think to see innovation in this space we have to get past YouTube's stranglehold on search/recommendations and discovery in general.<p>I think a lot of ... | {
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Ask HN: Is There a Door Lock with an API? - oellegaard
We're couple of developers who made a company around a year ago and we've now grown to around 8 people and moved into a brand new office.<p>We've been trying to use modern and integrated solutions for everything (e.g. integrating our sonos with aler... | {
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Microsoft Patents Office Spying System - justinwhitefoot
http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/technology?type=technologyNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B82x9Ksc5UNVzDjpITcIrRbi&src=blogBurst_technologyNews&bbPostId=CzBctWMo5VGUZCz2f5oUDvDa1FCz36SjVoWOHOOB7AG9YaSS6Bp&bbParentWidgetId=B82x9Ksc5UNVzDjpITcIrRbi
==... | {
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Tell HN: I wrote a Ruby lib to access Hacker News. - timmorgan
http://github.com/seven1m/hackernews
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timmorgan
Not sure how unique this is (there are probably dozens of these), but it was
fun for learning to deal with submitting forms and handling session cookies.
Feedback welcome.
Edit: I should say, the re... | {
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Online Typing Practice for Programmers - less_penguiny
http://www.speedcoder.net/
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less_penguiny
I recently realized (when pair-programming) that I spend a rather obnoxious
amount of time dealing with the fallout from typos. I have known how to touch-
type since school, but this was only good for the non-symboli... | {
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Coronavirus and Credibility - Rerarom
http://paulgraham.com/cred.html
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crusso
Do people appreciate that denial of the severity of this virus came from all
political quarters?
Here's one showing the mistakes of left-leaning media I found in 2 seconds:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=wVDPVBZF2Xg... | {
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A throw-away project that became useful: minimalist node.js framework - gliese1337
https://github.com/gliese1337/e.js
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gliese1337
About a month ago, I decided I should finally familiarize myself with node.js,
so I went ahead and wrote a slightly-more-than-basic web server. A month
later, it turned out that my ... | {
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Show HN: Wake Me Up When It Launches - namuol
http://wake-me-up-when-it-launches.com/
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paraknight
All I see is a gray screen (Chrome 42 Linux).
Console errors:
Uncaught TypeError: Object.assign is not a function bundle.js:21
Uncaught ReferenceError: ___onError___ is not defined ... | {
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Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system - TekMol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
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smacktoward
Ah, Usenet, where we were grappling with all the problems that today's big
community unicorns like Facebook and Twitter are struggling with 20 years ago.
Those problems ended up strangling Usenet to dea... | {
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} |
Heroku Subletting – Share the cloud - timmillwood
http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog/heroku-subletting-share-the-cloud
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tlrobinson
April fools. _Yawn._
| {
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Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots - bdr
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/igbbh2/the_scots_language_wikipedia_is_edited_primarily/
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renewiltord
He genuinely seems like a guy who was just trying to help. You don't get to
that scale of edits manually without... | {
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} |
Using Data to Better Understand Climate Change - adenner
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=189519&preview=false
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josho
After reading this first blurb:
> The year 2016 is on pace to be the hottest on record, with each of the first
> six months setting new temperature records... Climat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife with Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix Them - tysone
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/virus-tracing-apps-privacy.html
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josephby
Which of these apps, if any, used the Google/Apple Privacy-Preserving Contact
Tracing approach? Why didn’t the Times mention that? Did I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend - kloncks
http://simplereach.com/blog/facebook-bots-are-not-stealing-your-ad-spend/
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gwern
> The first is that the traffic coming in had JavaScript disabled. If this was
> the case then the JavaScript analytics software would not detect the
> incoming traffic and th... | {
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Why do GIMP developers hate you? - C-Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBmdbipkbrk
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C-Rogers
You came, you saw, you complained! Pat David of the GIMP project takes you
through exactly why the GIMP project hates you! (new GIMP features walkthrough
at the end) Thanks to Mc for clipping this out of an 8+hour S... | {
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Ask HN: What do Germans invest their savings in? - scottmcdot
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tradersam
Why do you wanna know?
~~~
scottmcdot
Seems like they're generally averse to stock investing [1] and from my
experiences living there I never heard of anyone investing in property. Banks
are offering basically 0% interest - where are they p... | {
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} |
Chat Systems - kevlar1818
https://xkcd.com/1810/
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tominous
This was a solved problem 15 years ago with multi-protocol clients like LICQ,
Gaim/Pidgin and Trillian. Maybe it's harder these days to keep up with the
engineers at Facebook, Google and Microsoft but surely simple texting can't be
that hard.
I note tha... | {
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Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group - j_baker
http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/the-wheel-group/
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kwantam
A simpler explanation is that many Linux distributions discourage the use of
su altogether in favor of sudo, which gives you finer grained control over
this sort of thing than wheel ever ... | {
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} |
8 facts that explain Google's complex situation with Chrome OS - stevep2007
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3000670/mobile-wireless/why-google-is-committed-to-chrome-os.html
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stevep2007
This explainer puts Android and the Chrome OS into perspective and shows why
these Linux derivatives will both come togethe... | {
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} |
Med Student Rescues Body Part From Airport Security - colinprince
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/06/19/155301289/med-student-rescues-body-part-from-airport-security
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andos
I was reading this like any other ordinary story. Then I got to this part:
Amazingly, he doesn't do transplants ... | {
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Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser - szimek
https://www.sharedrop.io/
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skrowl
It sounded interesting until: Allow www.sharedrop.io to run "Adobe Flash"?
Then: We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported. Please use the
latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Op... | {
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} |
Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible Sidebar) Yourself - mixmax
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-11-25-n78.html
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NathanKP
Personally I think that the logo itself looks more professional. However those
bright blue buttons are too much. The old gray buttons were more attractive.
The sidebar, howeve... | {
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