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MIT and IBM establish joint AI research lab - ffwang2
http://news.mit.edu/2017/ibm-mit-joint-research-watson-artificial-intelligence-lab-0907
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blueyes
IBM bought visibility with its ad campaigns, and it's trying to buy
credibility with this sponsorship, but I'll bet you anything that the only
part of IBM that MI... | {
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How to speed up LZ4 decompression - zX41ZdbW
https://habr.com/en/company/yandex/blog/457612/
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alesapin
Usage of multi-armed bandits for low-level optimizations looks fairly unusual,
I cannot remember any other examples in open-source codebases.
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kochetovnicolai
Have you considered other integer compressio... | {
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The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret: it's not really yours - tdrnd
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/12/12159766/internet-of-things-iot-internet-of-shit-twitter
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ankurdhama
Welcome to the "innovation" era of all time. Our innovations are cool.. yeah
that's it.
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Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - dwynings
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/01/is_entrepreneurship_a_manageme.html
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jbarciauskas
The mere title (but the article as well) begs the question, to what extent is
management a science at all? While there's a lot of pseudo-science in pop
business nonfiction, there... | {
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Calling it quits? When do you think enough is enough HN? - Stonewall9093
Hey HN. I'm a budding entrepreneur, with a team equally as enthusiastic as me. We're still in college, which makes things a bit different in various regards. Nonetheless, we've been working on a startup for about two and a half years now (www.c... | {
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Smart grid with time series and tick database Kerf - IDanceOnAPole
https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/kerf-meets-the-smartgrid/
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eggy
Kerf looks to be a more readable contender in the KDB+/Q market of time
series, columnar, in memory databases with built-in language. IOT, will and
already is providing, all... | {
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} |
The Day the MicroISV Movement Died - mtaber
http://www.singlefounder.com/2009/11/17/the-day-the-microisv-movement-died/
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gacba
Everyone likes to trumpet the VC-backed companies--the drama, the turmoil, the
exit strategy....but what about all those single-founder companies? Eric
Sink's experiment has a lot of l... | {
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Hacker Takes Responsibility for Wikileaks Takedown - tyng
http://mashable.com/2010/11/29/hacker-wikileaks/
11/29/10 by Stan Schroeder
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raganwald
_obstructing the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers,
facilitators, oppressive regimes and other general bad guys_
And there, in plain sight, ... | {
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Riak 1.1 Released - seancribbs
http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2012-February/007573.html
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rb2k_
I love to go back to Riak every now and then and throw one of the bigger
datasets I have sitting around at a single node using Ruby. It is one of the
most interesting databases out there ... | {
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Firebug Plugin: Illuminations for Developers - sroussey
http://www.sencha.com/blog/firebug-plugin-illuminations-for-developers/
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mustpax
This looks like a useful utility but also underscores a problem with
Ext/Sencha. Namely that it is a tad overengineered and does not work well with
other tools in the web dev... | {
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Ask HN: Coinbase alternatives? - cft
I have an account that I opened in 2013, with several BTC transactions per year. I am carrying a decent BTC balance there. My linked bank account has been the same. I tried to buy 2 ETC. The transaction got declined by Coinbase and my account got limited with no explanation: buys a... | {
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Ask HN: What kind of ad rates can I expect on mobile game apps? - sixQuarks
What kind of fill rates and CPM rates can I expect with mobile apps on ios? I'm particularly interested in your experience with full-screen video ads or interstitials.<p>thanks!
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nhangen
Don't have game app data, but I have a lifestyl... | {
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There Are Plenty of Jobs Out There, America - hourislate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/there-are-plenty-of-jobs-out-there-america
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twoquestions
As someone else has already said, the biggest shortage is skilled labor, not
unskilled.
Trouble is, it's unwise to dedicate months/years of trainin... | {
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The Putnam Mathematical Competition’s Unsolved Problem - alexyes
http://inside-bigdata.com/2014/07/20/putnam-mathematical-competitions-unsolved-problem/
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chriscool
I think it starts like this:
1) at most nb of stone increase by one each time one player plays
2) nb of stone cannot decrease unless the board is... | {
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Fixing Mobile Platforms - vnorby
http://philosophically.com/8-ideas-for-fixing-mobile-platforms
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georgemcbay
"No default apps on a new phone"
Speaking as a user and not a developer (though I am a mobile app developer),
this is a horrible idea.
I would be so pissed if I bought a new Android phone and gmail/Goog... | {
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Getting Your Video in Google News - wisdomtalks
http://wisnetsol.com/blog/getting-your-video-in-google-news/
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wisdomtalks
Videos are one of most important tool of SEO
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An open letter to Techcrunch editors - agentbleu
http://startupcrunch.org/an_open_letter_to_the_techcrunch_editors_0
This is an open letter to Techcrunch in a last-ditch attempt to bring some sanity back to the main blog in the startup sector!
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imsteve
Really great advice.
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Ask HN: Should I charge for my product (20k Users) - sabbakeynejad
Hi HN,<p>I am looking for some advice, I am the founder of http://veed.io/ an online video editing platform. We have around 20K Monthly users and we have doubled that month over month for the last 3 with no marketing.<p>The site has been... | {
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Show HN: Branded QR Code Generator - irunbackwards
http://qr.thinglet.com
Release Post - http://thinglet.com/releases/branded-qr-code-generator<p>It's in extreme alpha form, showing off and taking feedback on utilitarian usage right now. Hope you guys enjoy and find some use out of it. Design coming soon, I promise!
... | {
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FDA releases 20+ years of medical device data - drewvolpe
https://open.fda.gov/device/event/
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minimaxir
Under the Devices headings, most of the sample queries have "null/no value" as
the most frequent type of device in adverse events reports, which isn't a
positive sign for the data integrity.
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dang
[ht... | {
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Ask HN: Why can't coders code? - exBarrelSpoiler
Jeff Atwood has been sounding the alarm about interview candidates who can't Fizzbuzz since nearly a decade ago (https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/)<p>In today's discussion about the usefulness of HackerRank, and co... | {
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Do you hate JavaScript? - rbanffy
https://dev.to/reverentgeek/do-you-hate-javascript
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megamindbrian2
I love javascript.
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Web Design is 95% Typography (2006) - volument
https://ia.net/topics/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period
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HocusLocus
Choose the right typeface, then
\- put too many columns on the screen so that content scrolls down for a mile
and the right side is always clipped
\- after 'mobile' users complain, replace th... | {
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Flynn 101% Funded - danielsiders
https://flynn.io/?funded=
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jaytaylor
Shameless plug:
In search of folks who'd like early access to my open-source Heroku-esque
PaaS: ShipBuilder
ShipBuilder is a freely available open-source project which aims to make it
fast and easy to deploy arbitrary web-applications. Get t... | {
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IndieWeb - pandatigox
http://indiewebify.me/
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mawburn
> _What is the IndieWeb?_
> _We should all own the content we 're creating, rather than just posting to
> third-party content silos. Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to
> silos. This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement. ~IndieWebCamp_
So..... | {
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Ecuador Spikes Halts Snowden's Asylum Because Julian Assange Is a Fame Hog - cobrausn
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/ecuador-snowden-asylum-julian-assange/66704/
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gee_totes
I hope this spurs Snowden to take a step back from having Assange and
WikiLeaks do his PR. I always thought this was a te... | {
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Amber Smalltalk 0.10 released - bromagosa
http://amber-lang.net/
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klibertp
Totally awesome!
Some time ago there was a Smalltalk for Java announced - I wasn't particularly
thrilled, because I have nothing to do with Java. This time, however, I'm more
than excited - I'm starting to play with Amber right now!
E... | {
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Favoriting A Tweet Can Say So Much - mrtnkl
http://martinkool.com/post/51497453404/favoriting-a-tweet-can-say-so-much
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mkandler
I always wonder how changing "Favorite" to "Like" would affect the frequency
of the action on Twitter. To say something is your favorite is kind of
extreme, right? - you can like lots... | {
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Using ES6 with D3.js - philipcdavis
https://learningd3.com/blog/using-es6-with-d3/
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josiahjd
Concise and to the point. Well done!
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Scary: Plane Crash Caught on Dash Cam - nashequilibrium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfVsql38oc&feature=youtu.be
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nashequilibrium
This just shows that you have no chance of survival in this situation! It
happens so quick.
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Parsing continued-multiline data in Python - flittr
http://iswwwup.com/t/d1934baf95dc/parsing-continued-multiline-data-in-python.html
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dalke
This links to a StackOverflow mirror. The original is at
[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29337063/parsing-
continue...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29337063/pa... | {
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) available on Linode - uggedal
http://blog.linode.com/2010/04/29/ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-lynx/
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megalogeek
For anyone pondering upgrading their existing Linode to Lucid, we published an
article in the Linode Library that explains a couple of thing you need to do
for it to work.
[ht... | {
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Smalltalk in small talks: The Setup - Autre
http://blog.redline.st/2010/12/15/smalltalk-in-small-talks-the-setup/
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joev
I have high hopes for this series; I really enjoyed Peter Michaux's "Scheme
from Scratch" series, from which the author says gained inspiration for his
series:
[http://peter.michaux.ca/artic... | {
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SIRC Guide to Flirting - nostrademons
http://www.sirc.org/publik/flirt.html
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pkaler
I'm not the greatest looking guy around, but I've dated some very hot women by
breaking most of these "rules".
When you can sit down at a table of 4 gorgeous women without being invited
you've hit gold. I'm ballsy, bordering on ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Plainflow, behavior-based customer journeys for your SaaS - anacleto
https://www.plainflow.com/
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anacleto
HN, this is a simple way for SaaS companies to integrate SaaS services and
create behavioral based customer journeys.
Some examples:
\- Send onboarding emails when you have new signups
\- Send a ... | {
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Ask HN: Tea or Coffee? - lewisflude
I'm a coffee man myself!
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loungin
Tea... the taste/smell of coffee is so disgusting to me that it makes me
nautious for as long as I can remember. Even as an ingredient in food, there
is something about coffee that is completely repulsive.
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victorhn
Used to be coffee,... | {
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Show HN: Spy on Optimizely customers' experiments - zjgreen
Here is a bookmarklet you can use you browse or spy on an Optimizely customer's experiments!<p>javascript:window.jQuery && jQuery.getScript("//gist.github.com/optimizelyspytool/7a7f573ec1657fb7db97/raw");<p>(h... | {
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CSS Triggers - callum85
http://csstriggers.com/
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onion2k
What the site fails to explain is _why_ these things are important. Changing a
property that effects a layout change means the browser will need to redraw
that element and anything that the geometry has pushed around. A full repaint
is _slow_ so if you'r... | {
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Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.' - laumars
http://h4ck.in/g/a/14/Ceefax-Final-Broadcast%3A-%27Goodbye%2C-cruel-world.%27#.UIcBm60drmg.hackernews
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ashleyblackmore
This is what I would play around with before I had a computer. You could only
use it with a certain remote (with coloured buttons) and m... | {
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Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.? - pzaich
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/upshot/where-are-the-hardest-places-to-live-in-the-us.html
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valar_m
I am from Bell County, Kentucky, ranked 3110 out of 3135 counties. I no longer
live there, but my parents do. I was there just yesterday for Thanksgivin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: Tcpkit – A tool to analyze TCP/UDP packets with Lua - git-hulk
https://github.com/git-hulk/tcpkit
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benkillin
How does this differ from scapy other than lua vs python?
~~~
git-hulk
tcpkit offer embedded Redis/Memcached/DNS latency monitor, and export
latency's data to the user, you can store it to influ... | {
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Cheap Arduino Wireless Communications - profquail
http://www.glacialwanderer.com/hobbyrobotics/?p=291
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proee
The wireless modules in this article are pretty weak sauce (In fact they make
me cringe)
If you're going to do anything that requires reliable data transfer or data
rates higher than a few k, consider ... | {
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C Language Resources - RBerenguel
http://www.mycplus.com/featured-articles/top-ten-c-language-resources/
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svag
Today I was trying to find some resources(sites, books, etc) in order to keep
up to date with some programming languages. One of them was C and I found the
following site:
<http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cpr... | {
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We Mailed 100K Stickers Around the World, Made a Million Mistakes Along the Way - rbanffy
https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/sending-100-thousand-stickers
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F_r_k
I still don't know why companies insist on only accepting a specific address
format. As they said, every country has its own format: some with the house
nu... | {
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Welcome to the New Techno Feudalism - deevolution
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/24/the-new-feudalism-silicon-valley-overlords-advertising-necessary-evil
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jrepinc
Also
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-2TEwdRnX0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-2TEwdRnX0)
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In California, It’s U.S. vs. State Over Marijuana - ghshephard
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/us/14pot.html?hpw
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nestlequ1k
Looking forward to another 4 more years of this "hope and change".
For the record DOJ is directly under the President's control. You can't blame
Republicans for this one. If we can't ... | {
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Wikipedia links to HN - lelf
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=news.ycombinator.com
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nonchalance
Some of these make perfect sense:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeScript)
links to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037801]... | {
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Ruby On Rails – Services vs Object Classes - enricribas
http://infinitemonkeys.influitive.com/services-vs-objects/
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mercurial
When I look at the "good" enterprise codebases, I see more and more
functional-style code written in non-functional languages. Dumb entities,
service layers which would be single functi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pirate Bay Founder: “Future copy fights will need something better” - llambda
http://torrentfreak.com/shut-down-the-pirate-bay-founder-says-130708/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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area51org
What he actually said seems to be more along the lines of "shut it down and
replace it with something better." I t... | {
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H1-B petitions drop - perseusprime11
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/H-1B-visa-applications-drop-for-first-time-in-11078751.php
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ziszis
The numbers in the headline measures the # of H-1B petitions that were
received before the USCIS decided to stop accepting more because they can meet
the "mandated 6... | {
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Enough with the dead butterflies - mjn
http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
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syphilis2
I'm glad to have this pointed out to me. It's so "obvious" now that live
butterflies don't look that way, I'll never not notice this now. It's similar
to all the tricks video media uses for aesthetics a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War - samclemens
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/the-merry-pranksters-who-hacked-the-afghan-war-60873/
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drpp
World is small. I spent a winter there, working with the Synergy Strike Force.
One thing led to another and I ended up coaching the regional bas... | {
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} |
Ask HN: HIPAA Compliant Hosting Providers? - USNetizen
I have over a decade of experience in medical application development and support. Recently, I've been exploring the possibility of establishing my own company based on an idea and prototype product I've developed for the medical community over the years.<p>Lon... | {
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MadMen Inspires HubSpot's New Vacation Policy - nate
http://www.hubspot.com/blog/bid/5455/MadMen-Inspires-HubSpot-s-New-Vacation-Policy
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brk
I'm interested in seeing how this works out for them.
We had the same policy at another startup I worked at years ago (Ucentric).
The problem was that while the idea was... | {
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Has asking for a raise ever ruined your relationship with your employer? - dm03514
Has asking for a raise ever ruined your relationship with an employer? I have a good job, generous benefits, stock options, lots of PTO. I have 5 years experience in open source technologies. I believe in the company I work for, it... | {
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The Virtual Currency of Social Media: Gratitude - messel
http://messel.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/virtual-currency-of-gratitude.html
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gengstrand
Reciprocity is a strong driver in an abundance economy but reputation is a
better one. Take a look at <http://stackoverflow.com/> for an example and
check out the ... | {
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MakerBot lays off 20 percent of its staff - Opossum
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/makerbot-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-staff/
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ChuckMcM
Seems significant, and they are closing their retail stores.
I have a Makerbot Replicator/Dual which was probably the last fully open
source printer they made, and i... | {
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Ask HN: Keeping a research/work log - SandB0x
I see a lot of discussion about to-do lists, but less about keeping a record of your work.<p>Sometimes at the end of the day I will sit and write up a few short paragraphs summarising what I've done and what I've learned. - technical notes and general thoughts about my ... | {
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Ask HN: Help my 11 year old sister not get put off of science - cvigoe
I'm an Electronic Engineer at a top US research school and I have an 11 year old sister (I'm 22). She is smart and quite good at math for her age and is a solid rational thinker. Unfortunately her teacher "finds science boring" ... | {
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Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals - nikunjk
http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/neither-the-will-nor-the-cash-why-india-wins-so-few-olympic-medals/260693/
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cinbun8
It comes down to whether you can make a living in India if you get into
sports. The economics a... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is it wrong to steal someone's design, but then change the theme? - nmaio
Ethically? Legally? I've already started building the front-end and it's pretty much complete. Even though the theme/idea of the site will be totally different, should I be having second thoughts?
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staunch
You shouldn't literally... | {
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} |
China will scrap limit on presidential term, meaning Xi Jinping can stay on - antman
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134624/china-will-scrap-limit-presidents-term-meaning-xi
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jacquesm
Did anybody seriously doubt this would pass? This vote was utterly
meaningless.
| {
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} |
I Know You’re Mad at United But… (Thoughts from a Pilot Wife About Flight 3411) - coryfklein
https://thepilotwifelife.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/i-know-youre-mad-at-united-but-thoughts-from-a-pilot-wife-about-flight-3411/
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taylodl
This "pilot wife" provided a better response than United's CEO. That's the
_real_ st... | {
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} |
At 97, lithium-ion battery pioneer says his work is not done - sohkamyung
https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Podcast-97-lithium-ion-battery/97/i35
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hwillis
I'm torn on Goodenough's (and his other main author, Maria Helena Braga)
academic contributions lately. They are doing a lot of investigation into
glass ele... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN? - nighthawk
Is it just me or are other people noticing that a lot of TechCrunch's content showed up on HN several hours before it shows up on TechCrunch?<p>Which leads me to wonder, how much longer will mainstream media outlets be releva... | {
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Are you an early adopter? - AndrewLeeMiller
Guys:<p>I do marketing and growth for a b2b SaaS company in the travel space. We're launching this really sweet concept that uses Big Data(in the form of millions of uncategorized traveler reviews) to match users to hotels...without them needing to search and sift thr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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FogBugz is Developer-Driven (Thank Goodness) - bmccarthy
http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2007/9/19/fogbugz-is-developer-driven-thank-goodness.html
Joel and his crew are so very user-driven in my estimation because they themselves are the users.
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nirs
Zed Shaw thinks FogBugs is junk:
<http://www.zedshaw.com/rants... | {
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Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing - jstanley
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html
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imhoguy
Sorry to hear, but you are not alone [0]. It was matter of time for a new tech
to be exploited like that. Providing IPFS gateway is like opening up public
HTTP proxy (popular back in 90s). Y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apricity beautiful Linux distro based on Arch - acd
http://apricityos.com
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dzsekijo
Why is Chrome, a proprietary software packaged when there is a practically
equivalent FLOSS software (Chromium)?
Or, the more general question -- how Pacman packages and Apricity apps relate
to each other? The answer seems to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Interviews with open source maintainers and developers - Jefro118
https://sourcesort.com
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Jefro118
Hey, "editor" here. When I started working as a developer a few years ago, I
barely considered that there were people devoting their free or paid time to
all of the open source software I depended on. Of c... | {
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10 Years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux - zhiping
http://www.redhat.com/10yearsofrhel/
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edwinnathaniel
I'm very happy to see Red Hat to grow every day.
Let's hope one day Red Hat could supplant the dominance of Microsoft/IBM in
the "enterprise" area (so instead of the expensive .NET tools, we could use
JBoss wit... | {
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From the Brains Behind TiVo, a New Vision for Internet Video - superchink
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/guys-behind-tivo-trying-revolutionize-tv/
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zoowar
"Brains behind TiVo"? TiVo just modernized video recording by digitizing it.
| {
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Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM - pron
http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-pulsar
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zmmmmm
Ignorant newbie here, but would love to hear views on this: I always treat
with great skepticism claims that you can implement an inherent operating
system function (eg: thr... | {
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} |
Foobar2000 - the ultimate audio player - shin_lao
http://www.foobar2000.org/
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buster
I loved that player a few years ago, it's great. Ever since changing to Linux
i have missed it :(
~~~
iamdave
Wine.
| {
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The Story of the GnuTLS Bug - bqe
http://blog.existentialize.com/the-story-of-the-gnutls-bug.html
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tunesmith
Is that first snippet accurate? It makes it look as if it would never return a
positive value. It returns only 0 or a negative value.
~~~
mpyne
It's accurate, but the calling convention of the top-leve... | {
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} |
Responsive Web Design is bad for performance - craigkerstiens
http://www.guypo.com/technical/responsive-web-design-is-bad-for-performance-there-i-said-it/
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jfaucett
Personally (probably dreaming here), I'd just like to have a standard http
header like "Screen-Width: 958", that I could then parse on a per request... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Should one give honest feedback after quiting a job? - DrinkWater
You quit your job because management sucks. Do you give honest feedback?<p>Imho, i dont know what to do in that situation. I feel that it will gain me nothing, but brings me in a risky situation concerning my future.<p>Be completely selfish fo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Do Developers Need Free Perks to Thrive? - conductor
http://www.datamation.com/careers/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive.html?
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conductor
Related discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007750>
| {
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} |
Show HN: Deskzero – Find inspiring spots to work remotely with wifi and coffee - lorenzobr
http://deskzero.co
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lorenzobr
Hi HN! I and a friend of mine made this in our spare time just for fun and
because we need it.
The whole website is powered by WordPress that seemed to us the easiest
solution to do things ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Dealing with Burnout - dlikhten
Hi, I have been dealing with the issue of programmer burnout for the last few weeks. The problem is that I cannot just stop working for a week or so.<p>I think its affecting my productivity on all areas and am looking to make adjustments in my life to help cope with the burnou... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Percentages for New Hires... - far33d
Engineer, 5 years experience. Product close to launch, series A finished, in a specialized field. What option percentage should this engineer expect?
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cperciva
It depends.
A company such as you describe ("Product close to launch, series A finished,
in a specialized field... | {
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} |
IPhone fantasies, Android phones realities: Android outsells it - CrankyBear
http://www.zdnet.com/iphone-fantasies-android-phones-realities-7000004154/
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mtgx
Google pulled off what Microsoft couldn't with Windows Mobile. They made it
the "Windows" of smartphones.
| {
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} |
Faster pathfinding using Jump Point Search - harada
http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/jump-point-search/
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praeclarum
"speeds up pathfinding on uniform-cost grid maps"
How useful are uniform-cost grids? Every implementation of A* I've ever used
has been applied to varying-cost grids.
~~~
jemfinch
Any g... | {
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} |
Solo – Time Tracking and Invoicing for Individual Professionals - activis
https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1169529109?pt=118068070&ct=HackerNews&mt=8
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activis
Last weekend I published my new app for time tracking and invoicing on
AppStore.
I will be happy to get some feedback.
| {
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} |
Show HN: Marketplace for programmers that have contributed to open source - rhc2104
https://www.codedoor.com
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zackmorris
This might be a good place to list some issues I have encountered while being
a contractor online:
* I've been burned a few times charging by project or by milestone instead of hourly. So I... | {
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} |
Latest Ebola Statistics - natural219
http://ebolastats.info/
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lotsofmangos
Donation pages for Médecins Sans Frontières:
[http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation](http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation)
[https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/](https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/)
I have been posting thes... | {
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} |
Mayor Bloomberg Unveils New York City Venture Fund (NYC Seed) - fortes
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/mayor-unveils-new-york-city-venture-fund/
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johnrob
One has to wonder, if a government institution gets involved in a fund, what
kind of regulations would be at play? Quotas for race/gender ratios... | {
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} |
Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story - MBCook
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/reporter-google-successfully-pressured-me-to-take-down-critical-story/#p3
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sctb
Yesterday's discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145176](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How did Microsoft hold back the Internet for 6-7 years? - biznerd
I binged (jk googled) and couldn't find anything.<p>This was in a comment located here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673760<p>And it piqued my interest.<p>How did this happen? Or did it happen?
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wrs
The very sh... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's the job market like in Alaska? - xzatious
Thinking of making a drastic switch and moving to Seward, Alaska. A lot of puzzle pieces are falling into place making it seem possible. Just wondering about the IT market there. I'm specifically a BI and database developer in the Microsoft stack, not sur... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facts No One Really Checks (2012) - aburan28
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/facts-no-one-really-checks/
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llull
What a strange statement/article. I had to check all three of those as an
undergrad, associativity of matrix multiplication was definitely first year
linear algebra, and I think elliptic curv... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Computer animation software from 1969 - GENESYS - aeontech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIPKLxoTcQ
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aeontech
So amazing, I had no idea they were doing anything this advanced at that time.
| {
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} |
Show HN: My two Linux tips – terminal titles + local wiki - NY_hudson
http://vsido.org/index.php?topic=1040.0
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NY_hudson
Just to give a little motivation, the first is changing your titles on a
terminal when you use man, less or vi...so instead of having 5 terminals open
all with the same cryptic title of "som... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Complex tech idea with no coding experience - what to do? - stocktradr
As my name suggests, I do a lot of stock trading. In my past experience, I've ran website development divisions and what not. I have a lot of tech experience but minimal coding experience.<p>I have an idea uses a lot of principles fr... | {
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How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in the Army - terpua
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080301/how-hard-could-it-be-lessons-i-learned-in-the-army.html
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xirium
Dup. See <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125572>
| {
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Watch Out Facebook Connect, Apple Pushes Twitter Sign-Ins In iOS 5 - fjabre
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/06/watch-out-facebook-connect-apple-pushes-twitter-sign-ins/
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ignifero
Excellent choice, but a little odd. Is Apple planning to buy twitter? They
could use a few extra servers ....
| {
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} |
The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes - pat2man
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes
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mcv
Not only is it bizarre that crash tests are done only with male dummies, it's
also bizarre that they're only done with average du... | {
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} |
Elon Musk is now richer than Warren Buffett - heshiebee
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/business/elon-musk-warren-buffett-billionaires/index.html
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SCAQTony
His spectacular monetary gains are unrealized.
~~~
xkjkls
So are Warren Buffett’s
| {
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} |
On the prowl for local startups - itsa_phire
Hi, all. I'd like to introduce my "ugly baby", Startupolitan; a site bridging local startups with the people in their community. From launch date, local startups will have exposure to the crowd that matters most. Users can select their location and browse t... | {
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} |
What are you using to track sales leads and customers? - wensing
What are startups using for CRM these days? I just started a 14-day trial with Salesforce.com, but perhaps I'm missing out on a cool alternative? My main reason for wanting some sort of CRM is as an organizational tool--Gmail + labels isn't cutting i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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