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Stop writing milliseconds and hating JavaScript's setTimeout & setInterval - avk
https://github.com/avk/jQuery-Chrono
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kragen
Why would I add 1.8K of possibly buggy minified code, compiled from 247 lines
of possibly buggy un-minified code, to my web app, just in order to avoid
having to write
... | {
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Search IRS 990 forms from non-profits - BruceM
http://lukerosiak.info/irs/
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BruceM
He's working through OCRing over 7 million of these documents. He could use
some help doing so, so contacting him would be great.
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Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) - joschi
http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.3-x86_64
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spkthed
Does Howtoforge actually have created content? Every time I see one of their
articles I see probably 5 absolutely identical articles on other sites. I'm
not sure which w... | {
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} |
The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art - bravura
http://adamcap.com/2011/05/19/history-of-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-album-art/
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NelsonMinar
This whole article reads like it's written by someone who has never been
inside a library. "it would be nice to have an original copy of those 3
af... | {
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All Your Fountains Are Belong To Us - jheitzeb
http://www.hackthings.com/all-your-fountains-are-belong-to-us/
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peteforde
My friend Jeff Chapman would have really appreciated this.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountaineer>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjalicious>
<http://www.yip.org/oases/>
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hndud... | {
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Django tests are now fast - forsaken
http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/jan/15/django-now-has-fast-tests/
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brandonkm
Best news i've heard about django recently. This will undoubtedly make many
'testing obsessive' developers very happy, not only from a performance view
but from a django feature set view as well.... | {
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} |
Jim Mattis: Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism - inflatableDodo
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-mattis-duty-democracy-and-the-threat-of-tribalism-11566984601?mod=rsswn
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inflatableDodo
The text is also up on MSN without the paywall [https://www.msn.com/en-
us/news/opinion/jim-mattis-duty-democ...](https... | {
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Ask HN: FAQ Pages useful? - kineticac
I just put together a FAQ page for http://browseology.com to help clarify the new technology. We found that people are often times associating real-time collaboration with signups, installs, and such, so that's what they keep looking for on our page, when all they need is to cl... | {
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Surveillance Capitalism as Threat to Democracy - jashkenas
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and-a-the-age-of-surveillance-capital.html
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AbrahamParangi
There are two points that I strongly disagree with:
1) The characterization of capitalism as a novel acquisitive behavior. This is
ridicu... | {
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} |
Post-Brexit Rumblings Spook U.K. Tech Boom - antouank
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-22/post-brexit-rumblings-spook-u-k-tech-boom
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muzz
Does this article literally start off mentioning the blatant age
discrimination in tech?
"If you are under 35, possess an entrepreneurial spirit, speak Python a... | {
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} |
Popular Science Writing: A Challenge to Academic Cultures [pdf] - lainon
http://ou.edu/content/expo/brainstorm/jcr%3Acontent/contentpar/download_37/file.res/Erickson-Popular%20Science%20Writing.pdf
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veddox
Alexander von Humboldt believed that a scientist never interacts with nature
in a purely rational manner,... | {
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Online M.Sc CS UT Austin, $10K - barry-cotter
https://www.edx.org/masters/online-master-science-computer-science-utaustinx
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barry-cotter
It seems that it is either at par with or inferior to the GA Tech OMSCS in
every way but the minimum time to completion. You can do it in 1.5 years
whereas IIRC the minimum for... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to impove in CI/CD - chaoz_
CI/CD concepts are crucial parts of each not-so-small software project. Proper automation and consideration of probable issues support team through the whole journey.<p>I've seen companies ignoring it or doing it wrong in their concrete case.<p>I want to improve in thi... | {
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} |
Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it - allenleein
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/27/16936922/pebble-smartwatch-hardware-button-physical-controls
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ElKoji
The author purposely ignores Garmin, who is one of the biggest player in Smart
watches, after Apple and among Samsung and Fitbit. They make a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment - laurex
https://tim.blog/2019/07/11/why-im-stopping-the-fan-supported-podcast-experiment/
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ar0
Of course, podcast ads are also the opposite of almost all the other ads on
the Internet: They don't send your personal data and web browsing history to
hundreds of sh... | {
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} |
Integer Factorization - subhendra
https://www.slideshare.net/SubhendraBasu3/a-method-for-factorizing-arbitrary-length-integers-in-real-time
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gus_massa
See the discussion in
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345059](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345059)
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Melbourne researchers uncover privacy lapses in transport dataset - rbanffy
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252468664/Melbourne-researchers-uncover-privacy-lapses-in-transport-dataset
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tastroder
> Continue Reading This Article Enjoy this article as well as all of our
> content, including E-Guides, news, tips... | {
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Seminal Work Or Sloppy Thinking? - ojbyrne
http://editor.blogspot.com/2009/09/seminal-work-or-sloppy-thinking.html
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pg
Man, these journalists are so nice compared to the Internet trolls I'm used
to. I barely feel goaded into responding. But...
\- Do _Time_ and _The Economist_ actually switch lengths? It's true ... | {
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} |
Bringing search to Angular - iam4xzor
https://blog.algolia.com/bringing-search-to-angular
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brennanbl
I really like how they credit the contributors at the end
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Show HN: Sendfiles.online – Share, send, or recieve any file up to 2GB for free - lou_alcala
https://sendfiles.online
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cryo
"Our platform stores the files you want to send as you have uploaded them,
that is, we do not make any kind of understanding so that your files reach
their destination completely and as you... | {
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} |
A VC's perspective of NYC, entrepreneurs and PSDs (Poor, Smart, and a Desire to get rich) - ilamont
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/10/bear-stearns-and-psd-spirit
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sdurkin
This is an interesting account, as its contrary to most of what I've heard
about Bear. At my school, where the majority of students... | {
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} |
Why Everyone Is Talking About Node - andre3k1
http://mashable.com/2011/03/10/node-js/
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jasonkester
Does anybody else get a little question mark over their head whenever they
read about the "novelty" of being able to use javascript on the server?
Certainly everybody must remember ASP, which let you write all you... | {
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} |
MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs - elsherbini
http://news.mit.edu/2016/mit-announces-the-engine-for-entrepreneurs-1026
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Dangeranger
A) What is the application process expected to be like for The Engine?
B) It appears that the resources are spread out across Cambridge, Boston, and
South ... | {
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Googling stuff can cause us to overestimate our own knowledge - kostandin_k
http://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/10/googling-stuff-can-cause-us-to.html
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louisswiss
As a web dev (and not a very good one) I spend a lot of time googling coding
problems which normally turn out to either have simple solutions or to be
based... | {
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The Great Debate - deathanatos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
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SomewhatLikely
It's amazing to think this was less than 100 years ago.
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thunderbong
>> It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the
universe; Shapley believed that distant nebulae were relativ... | {
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China orders US consulate, Chengdu closed following US demands CN consulate shut - aspenmayer
https://twitter.com/i/events/1286518729052835840
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aspenmayer
If the US doesn’t close their consulate in Chengdu, things are going to get
_interesting_?
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23936665](https://news.ycomb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) - Tomte
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415
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SJSque
Here in the Netherlands, they tend to kick the mother out of hospital as soon
as feasible after the birth (typically after one night, or even on the same
day), but as soon as you get home, the home nurse... | {
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} |
DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper level - DyslexicAtheist
http://deepdive.stanford.edu/
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rstoner
This could be a huge value-add to the groups that have invested heavily in
human-directed knowledge graph construction (e.g. Project Halo/Aristo at the
Allen Institute for AI).
... | {
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} |
Open Source UAV projects giving comfort to the enemy? - ivankirigin
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/08/can-open-source.html
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Hexstream
I'd never keep myself from an Actual Good to mitigate a Possible Evil...
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ivankirigin
I think makers need to be proactive though. Regulators could start to treat
h... | {
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} |
(2012) – Epic 20,000 Dice Roll Randomness Test - programmingpol
https://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/
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laumars
I’d be interested to know how the test we carried out. Eg how randomly was the
die shaken? Was the die placed on the same side each time prior to shaking?... | {
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Ask HN: Which are some of the most expensive off-the-shelf sw products? - digamber_kamat
We all buy windows and at the most photo shop for few hundred dollars. But which are some of the most expensive software products around?<p>I have heard of SCADE suite and SCADE graphics each costing around $100k
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Shooter
... | {
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The trouble with exponential discounting and how we undervalue the future - gabaix
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-28/einstein-on-wall-street-time-money-continuum-commentary-by-mark-buchanan.html
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agalmicvinegar
Are people actually making long-term decisions based on that kind of
obviously-too-simple mod... | {
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} |
Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012) - ColinWright
http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html
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lemoncucumber
Be sure to read the appendix, which is an easy-to-miss link at the end:
[http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df-
appendix.html](http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5... | {
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How to Become a Successful Corporate Trainer - johnastuntz
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=521
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smiler
Ensure the participants can not have access to the web or their work e-mail
should be number 1. That way they can't get distracted by either and will pay
attention, thus ensuring the training i... | {
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} |
Why Groupon is not in Australia (domain squatter) - elvirs
http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/why-groupon-isnt-in-australia/
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phunel
Karma?
From Andrew's Mixergy interview, <http://mixergy.com/andrew-mason-groupon-
interview/> -
Talking in regards to the original British owner of Groupon: "...We’re doing
somet... | {
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} |
How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll - sohkamyung
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gandhara-scroll-library-of-congress
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hprotagonist
By 2016 we had figured out how to take very high resolution microCT scans of
things with ink on them and "unroll" them virtually. This was succ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: C/C++ adjusting variables at runtime - scraft
I recall hearing of a library that can be linked into a C/C++ program that allows you to register variables. When your application is launched, the library would start a webserver, which you can then connect to. The displayed webpage would then show you all ... | {
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} |
Recurse Center switches to online-only until at least May - tosh
https://www.recurse.com/blog/152-RC-is-online-only-until-at-least-May
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epoch_100
A silver lining: this is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to
attend RC but can’t pack up and move to NYC for three months.
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optimaton
Isn’t the prim... | {
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} |
How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1 - gecko
http://hicks-wright.net/blog/how-to-get-a-job-at-fog-creek-part-1/
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henning
The question presents itself: why would someone that good want to work on
project management software with such a funky user interface and oddball
feature set?
~~~
epall
That's the same se... | {
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} |
Ulas family is a Kurdish family of 19, five of whom walk on all fours - doener
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulas_family
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doener
BBC documentary about this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwiz-
yhLpT0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwiz-yhLpT0)
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Strategy HN: How to choose an area for launching my social netork? - starter
My new social network can be ready for launch just after school begins this September.<p>Should I launch at school(s) in the Northeast first?<p>Or, should I choose a launch location based on how many people I know in that specific network?
... | {
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The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments - sinak
http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments
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nopinsight
> The minimum average points score of any given comment was about 2 points,
> meaning that all comments received atleast 1 upvote on average. This trend
> has been incr... | {
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} |
I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare - ytNumbers
https://nypost.com/2018/05/28/i-wrote-a-negative-yelp-review-and-it-made-my-life-a-nightmare/
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jastanton
I was nodding along until this:
> They posted my entire medical record, including notes about my mental
> health, my bills, my insur... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Pricing: How would you price Code Pal? - sshrin
Our product is Code Pal: http://www.codepal.me<p>It is a way to learn programming in a fun and engaging way. Basically, we allow students to learn programming by using their own social data (imagine writing a for loop to print out the names of all your Facebook... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fly Straight, Dammit (2019) - lelf
http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2019/08/12/fly-straight-dammit/
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wruza
a_a =: 1 + +
a_b =: [ % +.
py (a_b ` a_a @. has_gcd) y
I know it is math and all that, but when we commit something like this at day
job, it doesn’t give you applause. Can the ide... | {
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} |
The RAMCloud Storage System - bluejekyll
http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/01/18/ramcloud/
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tyingq
Apparently from John Ousterhout, creator of Tcl/Tk.
~~~
jzelinskie
Also, the Raft consensus protocol was designed to power the LogCabin project
which was designed to manage the configuration for RAMCloud.
------
akeck... | {
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} |
Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript. - tuxychandru
https://github.com/felixge/faster-than-c
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tabbyjabby
I am _extremely_ doubtful that optimized C is going to be equally performant
as optimized JavaScript. There is innate overhead when using an interpreted
language, no matter how advanced the interp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Improving Linux networking performance - sciurus
https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/
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zelos
I love reading articles like this: _" So, for example, a cache miss on
Jesper's 3GHz processor takes about 32ns to resolve. It thus only takes two
misses to wipe out the entire time budget for processing a packet."_
Then I ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Fair buyout price for my partner? - buyingout
I'm using a shadow account but I've been a member of HN for a while. My partner has asked me to buy him out of our business, and we're trying to come up with a fair buy out price.<p>Details:<p>- launched an app mid 2010 with a partner (50 / 50 split, not incorporat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Next Wave - chermanowicz
http://edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave
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mcshicks
I really enjoy John Markoff's writing and happened to read that article before
this was posted. If you really want to understand more of where he is coming
from with respect to this article I would recommend reading hi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Horsey – Progressive and customizable autocomplete component - bevacqua
https://github.com/bevacqua/horsey
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fiatjaf
Needs to autocomplete with tab.
~~~
bevacqua
And break navigation? No thanks
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} |
French Government Looks To Create Great Firewall Of France - nextparadigms
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110616/01431614712/french-government-looks-to-create-great-firewall-france.shtml
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d0ne
This already happens in almost every major country, US included, with the use
of various Gag order like methods. E... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
K-means clustering is not a free lunch - __Joker
http://varianceexplained.org/r/kmeans-free-lunch/
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darkxanthos
On the one hand the article is saying, "Look at your data." On the other it's
saying, "Visualizing data is hard in more than two dimensions." It doesn't
really offer any suggestions to fix that.
I i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi with WebGL demos - mariuz
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/oleg-romashin
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nitrogen
I look forward to one day getting my hands on an Rpi. That is, if Allied ever
ships the board I ordered _ages_ ago (the page I ordered from no longer exists
on their site).
Seriously, with all... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript - drob
https://heap.io/blog/engineering/migrating-to-typescript
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AriaMinaei
I was looking at some of my old repos today. Enjoyed the nostalgia. Lots of
CoffeeScript there. I had to switch to ES and then TypeScript because
CoffeeScript was abandoned at the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image - groar
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01164
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jeeceebees
I think the approach is really cool but the processing time required is too
much for this to be very useful at the moment.
On a 1080 Ti it takes 45-90 minutes to train networks for the various ta... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Trin Trin: Text That Rings - bharath_trin
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trintrin.app&hl=en
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bharath_trin
Trin Trin is a social messenger which let's you text your friends in most
alerting way. Tap on a contact, type and TrinTrin - Your friend receives a
flashing text with ringtone an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Drogon becomes one of the fastest web frameworks - an-tao
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=26a79c95-5eec-4572-8c94-dd710df659d7&hw=ph&test=update
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an-tao
[https://github.com/an-tao/drogon](https://github.com/an-tao/drogon)
| {
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} |
Why You Should Put Your Content on Both Medium and Your Own Domain - michaelbuckbee
https://sendcheckit.com/blog/why-you-should-put-your-content-on-medium-and-your-own-domain?rel=hn
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fiatjaf
Well, you should do a lot of things. The difficult part is to know what is
worth doing.
~~~
michaelbuckbee
In general, wr... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Gmail spam filters acting up? - laurenia
I just checked my Gmail spam box, and there have been over a dozen emails in the past month that were incorrectly sent to spam. Most were promotional (Yelp, Taskrabbit, a couple of hotels I've visited and newspapers I subscribed to), but some were personal -- a re... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gasper, Your Cloud in a Binary - alphadoze
https://github.com/sdslabs/gasper
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alexellisuk
Have you seen OpenFaaS?
[https://github.com/openfaas/faas](https://github.com/openfaas/faas)
It seems like it covers most of your use-cases and with more modularity and
scale-out on Kubernetes if needed. For single node us... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AT&T Discussed Idea of Takeover in Time Warner Meetings - JumpCrisscross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/at-t-said-to-discuss-idea-of-takeover-in-time-warner-meetings
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warrenm
TWC is already merging with Charter (interestingly, it's the _smaller_ company
(Charter) who's "buying" TWC)
So .. ho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon - deviantkt
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4671
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DanAndersen
Made me think of some sort of bloody monument a species of spacefaring
conquerors might leave.
(Did some back-of-the-envelope calculations out of curiosity and found that
the amount of blood... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MacOS VPN architecture from System Preferences down to nesessionmanager - Timac
https://blog.timac.org/2018/0717-macos-vpn-architecture/
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teilo
What boggles me about the VPN implementation on Mac is the massive amount of
functionality that is not accessible unless you are using Apple Configurator
to create a pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Chariot for Women is a new ride sharing service for women only - gberger
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/chariot-for-women-is-a-new-ride-sharing-service-for-women-only/
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slg
A premium ride sharing service that puts safety at the forefront and targets
women sounds like a viable business. This doesn't. Not only a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How would you pick a uniform random element in linked list with unknown length? - polm23
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9401375/how-would-you-pick-a-uniform-random-element-in-linked-list-with-unknown-length
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bediger4000
Seems like a job for Reservoir Sampling:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampli... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x - doctorshady
http://james.bertelson.me/blog/2014/01/level-3-are-now-hijacking-failed-dns-requests-for-ad-revenue-on-4-2-2-x/
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skymt
Seems reasonable. Those servers were never intended for widespread public use,
so they may as well make back... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NodeMCU v2 – Lua-based ESP8266 development kit - kfihihc
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/NodeMCU-v2-Lua-based-ESP8266-development-kit-p-2415.html
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TD-Linux
I have been avoiding the ESP8266 because of the toolchain - when it was
released, it was essentially a complete (buggy) proprietary firmware with the
abil... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Macroscopic quantum objects cannot exist if P ≠ NP? - sleepysort
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-astounding-link-between-the-p-np-problem-and-the-quantum-nature-of-universe-7ef5eea6fd7a
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Dunnorandom
For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper:
[http://www.scottaaronson.co... | {
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iKe/oK/k5 Livecoding Demo - srpeck
https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike
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brudgers
Recent discussions:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310842](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310842)
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048046](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048046)
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F.lux - satyampujari
http://justgetflux.com/
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aroch
I, and I'm sure the rest of HN, loves F.lux...but is there a reason why this
needs to be posted every month or two? There hasn't even been an update (and
the promised OSX update is no where to be seen)
~~~
crazygringo
Honestly, for most things I would agree...... | {
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The African Hacker News - drethemadrapper
There used to be a news website like the HN for Africa-related stories/news sometime ago. I ran a search for it a lot of times in the past but no luck. Any news about it?
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jkuria
Yes, I was the creator/host of the site but decommissioned it because there
was no wa... | {
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Managing "Unproductive" Meetings - tortilla
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/06/managing-unprod.html
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terpua
* But there is a lot of serendipity in this world and you never know when an unproductive meeting turns into a productive one.*
"Money!"
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George Bell - MIT Startup Bootcamp (video) - venturefizz
http://venturefizz.com/blog/george-bell-mit-startup-bootcamp-video
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ijreilly
George Bell at Excite: Decided not to buy Google for $1M. Decided to buy Blue
Mountain for close to $1B. Flipping a coin for each decision would have
yielded a better result wit... | {
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Please, Java. Do Finally Support Multiline Strings - javinpaul
http://blog.jooq.org/2015/12/29/please-java-do-finally-support-multiline-strings/
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PaulHoule
That's what resources are for!
| {
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“Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself” - cwyers
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1143925272464506880
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freehunter
My business does a lot of posting on Facebook of sometimes controversial
things (we're a news site and we sometimes cover local politics). By far the
most engaged stuff ... | {
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RockMelt: Netscape's Andreesen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser - peter123
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rockmelt_netscapes_andreesen_backing_stealth_facebook_browser.php
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figital
It's more likely that Facebook (or Ning) would begin to dig into your desktop
(or Jetpack) versus the other way around.
(unle... | {
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At least one Vim trick you might not know - appleflaxen
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/intermediate-vim/
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ilvez
Thanks. Found vim-swap and and vim-surround from there. Undotree also, but
this is some corner case when I usually need that.
Obviously I'm not a purist.
| {
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Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's - whyleyc
https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/07/13/life-before-the-web-running-a-startup-in-the-1980s/
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martin-adams
I think what really makes me appreciate building a startup today compared to
the 80's is the low cost of entry.
They had to travel to editors of ma... | {
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} |
Show HN: iOS game teaching kids about Personal Finance - freshrap6
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindblownlabs/mindblown-life
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Killah911
The Project is pretty awesome, and the guys/gals on the project are hardcore
believers and doers. I just pitched in a little, hope this project and ones
like it gets lo... | {
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} |
The risks of someone calling you smart and how to avoid them - spodek
http://joshuaspodek.com/risks-calling-smart-avoid
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arscan
Awhile ago I realized that it was extremely detrimental to think of myself
first and foremost as a "smart" person. Not because that self-image was
directly harmful to me in business/the... | {
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} |
World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Announced - willwill100
http://3dprint.com/worlds-first-carbon-fiber-3d-printer-announced-the-mark-one
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542458
Count me as skeptical. The strength of high-quality carbon fibre comes from
having many pieces of fibre woven together over the surface omnidirectionally
(Okay, I'm... | {
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Mongoose - embeddable 40KB web server written in ANSI C - valyala
http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/
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alperakgun
a tribute to d ritchie, the inventor of C and unix along with others.
| {
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Fast request routing using regular expressions - nikic
http://nikic.github.io/2014/02/18/Fast-request-routing-using-regular-expressions.html
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sjtgraham
Are regular expressions are good choice for routing? A trie seems like a
better choice than a sequence of regexps. O(n) vs O(log n).
~~~
skj
Or, O(n^2) vs O(n l... | {
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What To Do With Failed Startup IP? - terpua
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/06/what-to-do-with-failed-startup-ip/
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wheels
This is something that I've debated a lot personally. I've thought of setting
up an arrangement similar in spirit to the FreeQt agreement between KDE e.V.
and Trolltech (<http://www.kde.org... | {
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All Your Tomcat Are Belong to Bad Guys? - SanderMak
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-tomcat-are-belong-bad-guys
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bediger4000
Another clickbait title. All the article describes is a JSP with a backdoor,
and maybe some worm-like features.
I think all the "X is a Brand New Malware!" type articles, ... | {
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Memento: Adding time to the web - coderintherye
http://www.mementoweb.org/
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lucasjung
If widely adopted, this could be very useful for holding politicians,
corporations, government agencies, or other powerful/influential/public
individuals/groups accountable for their statements. It is common practice for
such e... | {
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GIMP development - What’s the point? - unwind
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html
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pmoriarty
People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don't appreciate what life
was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first
came out.
GIMP has... | {
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} |
Hard Problems – The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (2006) [video] - jimsojim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvroykxedDw
======
heinrichf
Here is the website of the movie for background information
[http://www.hardproblemsmovie.com/](http://www.hardproblemsmovie.com/).
------
xyz09
Funny how most guys in t... | {
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I've used Amazon's text-to-speech API to create voice-over for my video - rayalez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGx-IVI3Cg8
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rayalez
I have trouble speaking, I don't really like my voice and accent, so I decided
to try using Amazon Polly and see if it helps me to create a watchable video.
It ended up working ... | {
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Responsive Dashboard - tilt
http://ehesp.github.io/Responsive-Dashboard/
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marco1
Compare this to any admin template from WrapBootstrap and you know why this is
at the top.
If you look at a WrapBootstrap template, it generally looks nice -- but as
soon as you look at the code, your opinion will change. They li... | {
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} |
Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017) - Dowwie
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##
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hobofan
I would say that this has been known for quite some time in philosophy, but I
guess it's good to have some real-life verification for it. This article on
Belief Merging and Judgem... | {
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Ask YC: How do you handle locking in your app? - edw519
A simple scenario:<p>At 1:00, Jane pulls a record into her browser: Lakeside High School, 123 Main St., 555-1111.<p>At 1:05, Fred pulls the same record into his browser.<p>At 1:06, Fred changes the address to 123 Oak St.<p>At 1:08, Mary changes the phone number... | {
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The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses (2017) - devy
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-illuminating-geometry-of-viruses-20170719/
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blueboo
High-brow pop science can be so precious.
> Mathematical insights into how RNA helps viruses pull together their protein
> shells could guide future studies of viral behavior... | {
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Why Learn Perl? - eCa
http://perlhacks.com/2016/01/why-learn-perl/
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dozzie
From my experience, companies that want Perl programmers are mostly big ones
with plenty of inertia, that have some legacy build code slapped together
years ago by a clueless guy that thought he can write Perl (though he really
couldn't),... | {
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} |
Nexo - Free and Easy Online Groups - gibsonf1
http://www.nexo.com/
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papersmith
Looks like this site has an edge over meetup.com, considering that meetup
charges $19 per month and this one is free.
| {
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Tips for Alternative Funding (by Sean Murphy) - dennykmiu
http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2009/10/19/8-tips-for-evaluating-funding-alternatives/
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dennykmiu
Short and sweet article.
Bottomline is that entrepreneurs must bootstrap their companies through the
R&D phase by forgoing salaries. By recruiting a small nu... | {
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} |
Why So Many Millennials Experience Imposter Syndrome - jrs235
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecarter/2016/11/01/why-so-many-millennials-experience-imposter-syndrome/#54cb7c663d40
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DrScump
It's bad enough that HuffPost can't spell "impostor" correctly, but _Forbes_?
_Nine times?!_
| {
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The Department Of Homeland Security Is Now Bitching At Me On My Blog - achalkley
http://uncrunched.com/2013/02/23/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-now-bitching-at-me-on-my-blog/
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lutusp
I love it when government representatives, who in principle have the right to
shoot you on the spot if you break their ... | {
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} |
Elon Musk exercises Tesla options, pays $50M tax bill with own cash - SCAQTony
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-buys-tesla-shares-cheap-pays-hefty-tax-bill-with-own-cash-2016-01-29
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Havoc
>priced at $6.63, according to the SEC filing. That is less than 3.5% of the
current going rate for Tesla shares
B... | {
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