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Ask HN: Open Source Call Routing Software for Text Adventure Game? - germinalphrase
Greetings,<p>Simply for fun, I’m interested creating a basic choose-your-own adventure game inside of a regular push-button telephone. Premise is that after some simple directions the user would make decisions in the text-based adventu... | {
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The Sad State of Open Source in Android Tablets - angusgr
http://projectgus.com/2010/07/open-source-in-android-tablets/
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sprout
Couldn't the same sort of mass-lawsuit strategy recently used by certain
copyright holders work here? I mean, if it's really this widespread I could
see the FSF getting a court to iss... | {
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Bitcoin has a usability problem - abrkn
https://twitter.com/abrkn/status/911179354381574145
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nikcub
This is in need of a disclaimer or at least a bit more transparency.
The poll is part of an argument being made for support of the recent Bitcoin
fork Bitcoin Cash
The user submitting here is OP and he also paid... | {
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$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class - applecore
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/opinion/campaign-stops/250000-a-year-is-not-middle-class.html
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dragonwriter
Middle class is not principally about income, its about the method by which
you participate in the economy. If your primary means of support is applying
_you... | {
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Why don’t we fill bike tyres with helium? - wlkr
http://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/791/why-don-t-we-fill-bike-tyres-with-helium
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aurizon
go flat in minutes. Helium is the smallest solitary gaseous element, as does
not form molecular aggregates, like most other gasses. Hydrogen exists as H2 =
a far larger molecul... | {
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White America Is Dying, Literally - kushti
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/29/1518393112
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dang
Please do not editorialize the titles of stories you submit here.
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Nobody Understands Probability - kmod
http://jsteinhardt.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/nobody-understands-probability/
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frossie
For those who didn't make it all the way down:
_People often intuitively think of probabilities as a fact about the world,
when in reality probabilities are a fact about our model of the w... | {
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Mesosphere Turns Data Center into One Huge Computer - florianleibert
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/12/11/with-data-center-os-mesosphere-turns-data-center-into-one-huge-computer/
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florianleibert
Related articles:
GigaOM Jonathan Vanian [https://gigaom.com/2014/12/07/mesospheres-new-data-
cen... | {
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Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr - jbegley
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/
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nullc
This kind of surveillance is not very effective for preventing or solving
crimes.
It is much more effective at ... | {
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Vbot: a new player in virtual regression testing - katat
http://katat.github.io/2017/01/09/vbot/
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katat
A command line tool to do visual regression testings, support interaction
flows with JSON based configurations without needing to write any JS code.
Particularly helpful for testing SPA or complicated web apps... | {
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Ethereum: a decentralized software platform - dsr12
https://www.ethereum.org/
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bikamonki
Please explain this to me as you'd explain it to your grandma. Thanks!
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Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012 - FrancescoRizzi
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/09/summary-of-windows-azure-service-disruption-on-feb-29th-2012.aspx
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panarky
tl;dr
1\. On February 29, 2012, new certificates created with a one-year expiration
date by adding 1 to the year.... | {
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The cortex is a neural network of neural networks - curtis
https://medium.com/the-spike/your-cortex-contains-17-billion-computers-9034e42d34f2
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skywhopper
This is a good article for deepening the complexity model of the brain, but
mere physical structure and behavior of subcomponents of neurons is only a
tiny pi... | {
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Ask HN: Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail - octavdruta
Hello guys & girls, we are looking for a helping hand from the HN community (especially from people that run web apps that use the SaaS model)<p>We enable founders / CEOs to easily to track the financial performance of their web apps in order to make b... | {
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JSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml - henridf
https://github.com/facebookexperimental/JSCaml
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systems
Nice to see FB investing so much in OCaml, hope it is not just a phase like
how they did with D
And I sure hope Parallel OCaml gets done
I believe I saw a video for Yaron Minsky (jan... | {
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(Slashdot successor) What Have We Created? - ableal
http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/20/1936232
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davidcollantes
They created Slashdot, with a different name. At least, that is what it seems.
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Better Kernel#require profiling information - wwarneck
https://github.com/ruby-prof/ruby-prof/issues/159
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vidarh
While this is interesting, for every Ruby app I've worked on where startup
times became an issue, the culprit was trivially found with "strace" to be
caused by excessive pollution of the load path t... | {
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Migrating from OS.PATH to PATHLIB Module in Python - amitness
https://amitness.com/2019/12/migrating-to-pathlib/
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RMPR
Didn't know about the division operator, when I used the pathlib module to
resolve the correct paths, I almost always ended up Frankensteining with
os.path.join, thanks for making this.
~~~
ami... | {
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Google’s AMP Poised to Take the Lead from Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens - webdisrupt
http://www.mondaynote.com/2016/01/18/googles-amp-poised-to-take-the-lead-from-facebooks-and-apples-walled-gardens/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20Daily%202016-01-19&utm_term=Digiday%20UK%20Newsletter
==... | {
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume - ggonweb
http://www.cenedella.com/leonardo-da-vincis-resume/
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angersock
tptacek had (perhaps still has?) a clever riff on this in his profile.
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Trump’s FCC: Tom Wheeler to be replaced, set-top box reform could be dead - distantsounds
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/trumps-fcc-tom-wheeler-to-be-replaced-set-top-box-reform-could-be-dead/
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hood_syntax
Just kill me now: "Top down power grab" my ass. The one guy punching up for
consumers is gonna ... | {
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Running Kubernetes Example on CoreOS, Part 1 - kohlerm
https://coreos.com/blog/running-kubernetes-example-on-CoreOS-part-1/
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kohlerm
doesn't work for me:
< -h [http://127.0.0.1:8080](http://127.0.0.1:8080) -c kubernetes-
coreos/pods/redis.json create /pods F0711 00:42:59.424059 03183
kubecfg.go:182] Got request... | {
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The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital - buboard
https://theweek.com/articles-amp/885308/weird-criticism-that-big-tech-digital
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snowedin
I think there are real improvements made by the tech industry. For example
cellular and smart phones are brand new and overall have improved quality of
life and produ... | {
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} |
A Baccarat Binge Helped Launder the Bangladesh Cyberheist - rayuela
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-03/a-baccarat-binge-helped-launder-the-world-s-biggest-cyberheist
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Retric
$81 million seems small potatoes to call it the worlds biggest Cyberheist.
By comparison: £650 million
[http://www.telegra... | {
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It’s A Facebook World … Other Social Networks Just Live In It - sammville
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/its-a-facebook-world-other-social-networks-just-live-in-it/
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nvictor
inception.
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Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly active users - askafriend
https://blog.pinterest.com/en/celebrating-200-million-people-pinterest
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stevesearer
I've been a happy recipient of their growth as my readers pin thousands of
images to their boards each month netting millions of impressions on Pinte... | {
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} |
Spore: Open source, Open standards encrypted VOIP client and network for Android - mooneater
https://myceli.al/projects/spore-android-client?
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freeborn
Mycelial dev here.. full disclosure: Ive been working with guardian project on
a few things including the Open Secure Telephony Network. This project and
beta ... | {
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US Patent: Method of Recording and Saving of Human Soul for Human Immortality - caustic
http://www.google.com/patents?id=CS20AAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
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nudge
It's a patent application, not a patent. The difference is important.
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caustic
Thanks for pointing out, I cannot make the title any ... | {
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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters - samfriedman
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/world/asia/hk-twitter.html
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dirtyid
What is stopping Twitter from releasing server logs for others to
independently authenticate attribution? Facebook, Google have not declared.
The... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to get first Dev Job with no shipped code - gremlinsinc
I've got a ton of starts, startups I had ideas for... even working on some projects on Assembly.com as lead dev, but my problem is I make 30k per year now(Tech support), and I get depressed and lose focus.. If I could just up to 60k I'd be... | {
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VeryNginx – OpenResty-Based Nginx with WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards - nikolay
https://github.com/alexazhou/VeryNginx
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nodesocket
The web UI looks solid, I wish there was a translated version of the README
into English. Currently I am using NGINX Plus for load balancing and love it.
The NGINX Plus web inter... | {
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Virginia's $40 Toll Road Better Be the Future of Driving - em3rgent0rdr
https://www.wired.com/story/virginia-i66-toll-road/
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tomohawk
The Northern Virginia traffic situation is more the result of a failure to
follow the projections put out in the 60s and build the required roads for the
expected growth. I66 was ... | {
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Show HN: Mobile Version – Tracking Covid-19 Cases and Testing by State - gboesel
http://virustracking.net/track-covid-19-by-state.html
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gboesel
I quickly hacked a website together last weekend based on the COVID Tracking
Project[1] data because I wanted to see how much COVID testing was being done
at the state l... | {
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Pentium Appendix H fiasco - yuhong
http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=82
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Locke1689
If you go into to the ISA for hardware assisted virtualization, they just drop
all semblance of compatibility. The memory models just work completely
differently. When you're writing a VMM you'll need to write two se... | {
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Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009) - julianpye
http://ru-submarine.livejournal.com/17486.html
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ge96
Man phenomenal.Engineering. Metal. I used to be obsessed with submarines.
Russians have some nice ones, Akulla class... the g Americans and their
Seawolf. Of course the iconic German... | {
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Movies from the Cloud - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/stupid-patent-month-movies-cloud
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james143dotcom
is 143movies.com safe to use?
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Samsung Galaxy Tab or iPad? - shashank261
I am planning to buy a tablet. Should I opt for Samsung Galaxy Tab or iPad?
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SquidLord
Me, I'm a Google fan so the Galaxy Tab running Froyo (Android 2.2) is always
going to be a winner unless you want to get seriously into iPad synthesizer
aps (where it has a huge adva... | {
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Show HN: Coffee Chats – Schedule virtual coffee chats without the back and forth - chptung
https://www.trycoffeechats.com/
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chptung
Problem: I wanted to host virtual coffee chats to help others with their
careers during this time but scheduling over emails / DMs is a huge pain and
wastes a ton of time. Calendly ... | {
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Tornado tracks - xyzzyb
http://flowingdata.com/2012/05/26/tornado-tracks/
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xyzzyb
I'd love to be able to step through this graph year by year. An animation
tracing each tornado would be fantastic too.
| {
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The world’s losers are revolting, and Brexit is only the beginning - walterbell
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/27/the-losers-have-revolted-and-brexit-is-only-the-beginning/
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sremani
I have not read beyond the head line(which is revolting), and I can guess the
contents. This is new low for Wa... | {
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Google Translate proxies others, why can't we all do it? - marichards
http://accessify.com/visit?domain=onlinebanking.usbank.com
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marichards
On mobile I get an alert to move me on. On desktop I get an online banking
page.
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Ask HN: How should I report my gender when applying for a job? - cyorir
Sometimes a job application will request certain demographic information - race, gender, etc. In the gender field, I most often find that there are only 3 options: male, female, and decline to self-identify. There are almost never alternatives lik... | {
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6 Great Ways for Programmers to be more Effective at Work - pstepin
http://10clouds.com/blog/6-great-ways-for-programmers-to-be-more-effective-at-work/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=HackerNews&utm_campaign=HackerNews
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espressodude
Planning the work day works well for me too. Great list in here by the way.
... | {
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This Is What the GOP's War On Science Looks Like - Kroem3r
http://io9.com/this-is-what-the-gops-war-on-science-looks-like-1556202056
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tinalumfoil
So now republicans asking questions about how science is furthering humanity
in a hearing about funding science programs is a conspiracy to stop the
progression of s... | {
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Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy - DvdGiessen
https://www.protocol.com/mozilla-plan-fix-internet-privacy
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walrus01
Firefox on Android has become my go to choice now, because it supports the
full set of desktop firefox plugins, including the essential ublock origin. I
can't even imagine mobile browsing with... | {
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Ask HN: What was the first site to use “karma” voting? - gitgud
Some of the best sites on the internet use the concept of crowd-sourced rating of content and comments by/from the users. It probably doesn't matter anymore, but I'm interested to know who came up with the idea? Or who did it first?<p>- Hac... | {
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When is a ‘travel hack’ unethical? - dribel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/when-is-a-travel-hack-unethical/2015/11/19/694b455a-88a0-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html?h
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JoeAltmaier
I disagree with everything in this article. The assumption is that Americans
should be scalped for airline tickets ... | {
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The Immediate Future of Jekyll - parkr
http://blog.parkermoore.de/2012/12/18/the-immediate-future-of-jekyll/
Had a chat today with Tom Preston-Werner about the future of Jekyll. Here's what is in the works.
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laktek
While Jekyll is cool to run a blog, it could be a PITA if you want to run a
marketing site or som... | {
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We’re supposed to be so damn “passionate” that we’d do this work for free - cygnus
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other-half-works-an-adventure-in-the-low-status-of-software-engineers
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edwhitesell
This has some great pieces of information. Though, it might flow better if it
was written... | {
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Ask HN: How do you choose a good font for your next project. - cschmitt
I need to start by saying that I'm not a font guy. I know people who are, and they can wax poetic about the differences between two fonts that look almost identical to me. That being said, I do recognize there is a difference between the righ... | {
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Tell HN: Creators of Chef offering to help start-ups w/infrastructure - thesethings
I thought this was interesting. Opscode, the creators of Chef, are offering to help a start-up or two design and automate their infrastructure.<p>If your startup runs on Ruby or Java (their requirement), you should strongly consider ... | {
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TypeScript vs. PureScript vs. ReasonML vs. Elm - tirumaraiselvan
https://hasura.io/blog/why-we-chose-typescript-for-hasura-console/
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samhh
I think it's unfair to categorise TypeScript as the easiest for interop if
you've asserted that static type safety is important to you. If the typings
aren't already availabl... | {
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Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49 - adamnemecek
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/03/04/uk/keith-flint-prodigy-dead-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
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daveslash
I discovered The Prodigy in an odd way. I was walking down the sidewalk in
2003 in northern Utah. and a car drove past me on the road. They hit a pot-
hole... | {
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The Problem with RELRO/ASLR in Statically-Linked Executables or Lack Thereof - alyptik
https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/aslr-protection-for-statically-linked-executables
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wahern
AFAICT OpenBSD already does RELRO (inc. GOT RELO) and ASLR for static PIE, and
has for several years. (Maybe since 2015?)
I thin... | {
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What do founders do once they hit 35 and are officially over the hill? - Aloisius
http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silicon-Valley-plan-to-do-once-they-hit-35-and-are-officially-over-the-hill
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pedalpete
Amazing to see the number of Founders of VERY successful start-ups who have
responded to... | {
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Linus Torvalds, Creator Of Linux, Shows Off His Home Office - yiedyie
http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2014/07/linus_torvalds_creator_of_linu.html
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schrodingersCat
His desk is so cluttered he "need[s] to burn it down someday."
In other news from the Linux world, Linus's Mercedes is so dirty, h... | {
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} |
The assault on neurosurgeons’ privileges by software and bureaucrats - soundsop
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/12/07/brain-surgeon-tortured-by-software-developers-and-hospital-bureaucrats/
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vonklaus
> Fuck Off 45. He hates computers.’
> ‘Why forty-five?’
> ‘It’s the forty-fifth month since we signed o... | {
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Ask HN: Any open source production react projects? - longsangstan
Like the reddit mobile site: https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile
Not examples/clones like some HN reader, sound cloud client.
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acemarke
Someone ran some queries of Github's data and generated a list of React-based
proj... | {
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Zynga CEO: "Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." - EvilTrout
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/?repost
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danilocampos
The "social" games space is ripe for revolution. There's no fun there, nothing
virtuous in what they consider gameplay. You don't even play with your
f... | {
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} |
Legislation to stop US border agents from demanding passwords is on the way - JoshTriplett
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/20/wyden-letter-dhs-passwords-warrantless-border-searches/
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blazespin
I stopped reading after "In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John
Kelly, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden called ..."
Unl... | {
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} |
October surprise - Nuance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise
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symplee
How can we avoid the disproportionate influence of late information?
What if we allowed people to voluntarily "lock in" their votes anytime after
the party candidates are chosen? These early votes could only be changed at
some cos... | {
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This is how you healthcare - buro9
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/this-is-how-you-healthcare
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tokenadult
Previous submission, with lots of discussion on the main page:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5245321>
(Hat tip to you for submitting the canonical URL.)
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Why only 57% of visitors to TPM are using Windows - jeffreymcmanus
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/11/the_changing_web_geeks_only.php
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bsphil
The word 'why' should be removed from the title. Usage statistics are fine,
and TPM admits to not being a representative demographic of the Internet at
large,... | {
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} |
The new, cheaper, MacBook Air includes ~35% slower SSD compared to 2018 model - dcu
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/15/cheaper-macbook-air-cheaper-ssd/
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duxup
>A 35% slower SSD does not automatically translate into an overall performance
loss of 35%.
Yeah I was wondering about this. For a MacBook Air... could it be... | {
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Danish board calls for retraction of controversial paper - tokenadult
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/citing-scientific-dishonesty-danish-board-calls-for-retraction-of-controversial-paper-on-decline-of-western-civilization/
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popularopinion
Here's a link I found to the paper in question:
[https... | {
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Ask HN: Review New Startup - Trafficspaces (its like having a Facebook Ads for your site). - DJN
I would like to get comments from the community about our startup - Trafficspaces.<p>http://www.trafficspaces.com<p>Trafficspaces is an ad management service that helps publishers create self-service user interfaces for ... | {
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A better namedtuple for Python - tjomk
http://benno.id.au/blog/2014/11/30/a-better-namedtuple
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dalke
Interesting article. The author asks "So, is the namedfields decorator better
than the namedtuple factory function?"
I have another observation. I like namedtuple as a quick-and-dirty class
constructor when th... | {
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Joi extension for validating mobile numbers ONLY - jhnferraris
https://github.com/jhnferraris/joi-mobile-number
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Fjolsvith
Would be nice if someone could write this into a $2 app and push it onto the
Google Play store.
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An Island to Oneself - 8_hours_ago
http://www.janesoceania.com/suvarov_tom_neale/index.htm
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samcheng
This reminds me of some awesome documentary footage of a man who built a cabin
in the Alaskan wilderness:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss)
Alone in the ... | {
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A Look at the Formula 1 Steering Wheel - dmmalam
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/formula-1-steering-wheels/?mbid=social_fb
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cl8ton
A Bit Off Topic: If anyone has interest in how it was before smart steering
wheels, here is a vid clip of the master Ayrton Senna at Monaco in real-time
as it happened.
[http://youtu.b... | {
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} |
A Tiny container to watch other containers on a docker host - omerh
https://github.com/omerh/gowatcher
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omerh
A Tiny container to watch other containers on a docker host, once the other
containers exits, gowatcher will terminate and reduce autoscaling group count
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Apple makes mobility data available to aid Covid-19 efforts - feross
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-makes-mobility-data-available-to-aid-covid-19-efforts/
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Grif_fin
"Maps does not associate mobility data with a user’s Apple ID, and Apple does
not keep a history of where a user has been. Using aggre... | {
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One Game A Month - lza
http://www.onegameamonth.com/
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lza
Make this your New Year's resolution. Visit the site and watch the keynote.
Hope to see many of the HN readers there:)
| {
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Ask HN: Fixed vs Dynamic pricing. - bobo82
Let's assume you've got a product that you can sell with two different pricing stratiegies:<p>A: three-level-pricing: basic - normal - pro<p>B: Custom pricing: The customer set the complexity (not the single features) on a horizontal slider, and the price adjusts accordingl... | {
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Ask HN: corporate IT stories & startup ideas? - petervandijck
From recent HN threads: "our corporate IT department blocks most foreign domains, such as .ly, .io, .tv, and .ng." and "What should I do, corporate IT has blocked Dropbox?"<p>Maybe we should share corporate IT war stories, and connect them with ideas for ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The secure smartphone that won’t get you beaten with rubber hoses - oldgregg
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/the-secure-smartphone-that-wont-get-you-beaten-with-rubber-hoses/
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oldgregg
This could be huge. The first messaging app that is user friendly and protects
message content and meta data is going ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is the next bubble in your opinion? - ooonotooto
It's been a while since financial systems in US and around the globe went through massive shock. We have massive supply of money and artificially boosted demand.<p>Murphy's law says that, "if everything seems to be going well, you have obviou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What kind of bussines is 'antifragile' during these times? - walclick
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tlb
An antifragile business should be antifragile period, not just in certain
times. N.N. Taleb would surely give you a vigorous public thrashing for mis-
applying his term :-).
Most online services will grow while people are stuck at... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tesla and other EVs will be overtaken by hydrogen cars by 2030 - Corrado
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-evs-will-be-killed-by-hydrogen-cars-continental-executive/
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jppope
I had to double check when this article was released... to my surprise it was
written in 2019.
I assumed it was from the early 2010s back wh... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: riak/luwak vs openstack swift for private S3 clone? - shedam
Hello,
what is the best choice for a private cloud storage between openstack's swift and a riak/luwak solution?
The purpose of the storage is long term archiving of files (1MB - 500MB), what would you choose and why?
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rzezeski
I know nothing ... | {
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Ask HN: Apple webserver hardware - mechanician
I am trying to decide what type of hardware to buy to use as a personal webserver. I am an Apple guy, so my initial thought was to go with a Mac mini. Is there value in going with a laptop instead? Yes it is more expensive, but it also seems like a more compartmental... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Bluetooth File Sharing App. Is the idea feasible? - anujkk
People carry their mobile phones with them 24x7. They may have various files such as music, pictures, videos that they don't mind sharing with even strangers. So I guess it would be nice if we provide them with a bluetooth file sharing app that allow... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New financial reform makes it harder to become an angel investor - joss82
http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2010-05-07-financial-reform-and-small-business_N.htm
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hga
" _We've had an explosion of entrepreneurial growth in this country over the
last 20 years, financed in large part by ... | {
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} |
My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein - Anon84
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apology-regarding-jeffrey-epstein/
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whowhatwhy
"I met Epstein in 2013 at a conference through a trusted business friend and,
in my fundraising efforts for MIT Media Lab, I invited him to the Lab and
visited several of his residences... | {
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} |
Damien Katz: CouchDB switching from Erlang to Java - iamelgringo
http://damienkatz.net/2008/04/couchdb_language_change.html
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brlewis
Best part:
_Developers in the US who've worked on a successful Erlang project probably
number less than 10. But the number of developers who've worked on a
successful Java projec... | {
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} |
Show HN: Looma – swipe to make personalized meal plans - somewhat_stoic
https://livelooma.com
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somewhat_stoic
Hi HN,
I'm Kyle, co-founder of Looma
([https://livelooma.com](https://livelooma.com)), a swipeable meal planning
app coming soon to iPhone. We want to spark inspiration by finding intriguing
new recipes... | {
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} |
Zawodny: Database Abstraction Layers Must Die (at least for PHP) - Shakescode
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002194.html
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Davertron
I think this is just ridiculous. I'm not necessarily gung-ho about using
database abstraction layers myself, but the author only argues against it on
the basis of one of th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AirBnb is a rental economy, not a sharing economy - atmosx
http://www.thepressproject.net/article/68073/AirBnb-is-a-rental-economy-not-a-sharing-economy
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beyondcompute
And quite expensive for that sake. As people seemingly charge travelers much
more than what locals are paying for renting the same level apartm... | {
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} |
IPhone is flush down the toilet... then (awesomely) retrieved - christangrant
https://plus.google.com/110703832132860599877/posts/HwkciwGK5Bt
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tantrumSeeker
Nice try on trying to convince us that this REALLY happened, the Iphone was
clearly TOO LARGE to fit into a small toilet opening...points for creativity
t... | {
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} |
See? Nobody Buys on Facebook. Nobody Cares - fezzl
http://blog.zuupy.com/see-nobody-buys-on-facebook-nobody-cares
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grovulent
For every person who wants to believe that facebook is the biggest thing since
word-of-mouth, there is someone equally hoping the whole thing collapses in on
itself.
Each party wants th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Failure of Understanding - A response to "The Start-Ups We Don't Need" - blasdel
http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/failure-of-understanding/
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voidmain
The entire argument of this article is the broken window fallacy.
The original article is not that great either, but I'm sure it's true that
government pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is? - usea
http://serverfault.com/questions/496139/something-is-burning-in-the-server-room-how-can-i-quickly-identify-what-it-is/
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yardie
You can tell from the responses who has a real DR plan and who are just
winging it. The DR-backed c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Highest quality resources about anything? - bry_lnd
What is just the outright best material out there on any topic? The most effective, straight-to-the-point material where anyone can dig in and learn something quick. Or it's just high-quality content that you can't miss if it is in your field of int... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The four year vesting schedule doesn't make sense - groth
http://stuckinthevalley.tumblr.com/
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tptacek
I don't invest in companies, but if I did, having nonstandard vesting schemes
would be a no-deal red flag, at least for any team that didn't have a mile-
long pedigree starting and successfully building compani... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Best way to recruit developers during a conference? - orbyone
We are platinum sponsors in a major software developer conference, which means we have unlimited freedom (and for the sake of argument, budget) in order to come up with ideas to approach candidates during the conference.<p>What is the best way to re... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Everything you need to know about Loading Animations - LisaDziuba
https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/everything-you-need-to-know-about-loading-animations-10db7f9b61e
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JoeAltmaier
Cute!
I personally object to loading progress bars that don't actually show
progress. They just start over. I'm waiting for the ... | {
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} |
UC system's global rankings slip amid funding cuts, international competition - SemiEarlyGoogle
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/higher-ed/la-me-uc-global-rankings-20180228-story.html
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purplezooey
Thanks Howard Jarvis
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Ask HN: To employees of a startup that later got acquired/IPO'd - ccdev
How do you figure out you picked a "winner" startup before joining?<p>Let me preface this with saying, I'll be so upset if the majority of answers boil down to having a lot of luck :D I've been burned out through a few early st... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Our 1st startup video. Any thoughts? - gqgy
https://vimeo.com/54126768
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kevinconroy
Great voice over, sound effects, and animation, but still doesn't show me why
this will make me better.
What happens when the product is released? What's the pain that you're taking
away from me in the future so that ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NYTimes paywall easy to circumvent with bookmarklet - jrnkntl
http://euri.ca/2011/03/21/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-limit/
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ultrasaurus
As much as I appreciate the link directly to my site, the discussion from the
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard ( submitted as
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235... | {
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} |
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