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Car color&risk of car crash injury: population-based case control study (2003) - bookofjoe
https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1455.full?hits=10&FIRSTINDEX=0&SEARCHID=1110070404449_14968&VOLUME=327&gca=bmj%253B327%252F7429%252F1455&FIRSTPAGE=1455
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bookofjoe
[https://www.bookofjoe.com/2005/03/how_do_minimize.htm... | {
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What hourly rate should I charge as a freelancer? - Meshed
http://www.logicalbacon.com/what-hourly-rate-should-i-charge-as-a-freelancer/
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eljayuu
What are you freelancing in?
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A tiny Python exception oddity - luord
https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-tiny-python-exception-oddity.html?m=1
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mherdeg
I'm impressed by the humility here from someone who (a) is writing a library
to replace core traceback behavior in pypi; (b) has doubtless read both
cpython and pypi code; (c) nevertheles... | {
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Quizé – WordPress Plugin That Triples Your Ad Revenue - Quize
http://quizeplugin.com
======
Quize
Quizé WordPress plugin is a tool for creating engaging Trivia and Personality
quizzes for your website as a way of generating additional revenue through
increasing page views, paid ad impressions, driving traffic, increas... | {
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Use BERT to get sentence and tokens embedding in an easier way - garylai1990
https://github.com/imgarylai/bert-embedding
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garylai1990
BERT was one of the most exciting NLP papers published in 2018. Instead of
using BERT to build an end-to-end model, using word representations from BERT
can help you improve your ... | {
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After Oranges: Following John McPhee to Florida - Vigier
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1233-after-oranges
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sizzzzlerz
I went to the article hopefully expecting to read something new by McPhee
(after all, he's only 86) only to be disappointed that it's an excerpt of a
prior work. Even so, just about... | {
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} |
Any evidence that iTunes Genius (incl. Mixes) does what it claims? - MikeCapone
By that I mean, is there any evidence that it actually picks "songs that go great together"?<p>I get the feeling that my mixes are mostly made up of random songs from the same genre (or closely related ones), probably with an emphasis on... | {
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Sleep Science: In the Era of Screens, Rest Is Crucial - gpresot
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/science-of-sleep/
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quantum_state
The info design of the site is horrible .. playing video when there is no need
and makes the reading experience one of the worst ...
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graeme
Does anyone know... | {
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Fedora 16 To Use "Btrfs" Filesystem By Default - dkd903
http://digitizor.com/2011/06/09/fedora-16-btrfs/
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rwmj
This is not definite. The feature has to go through a bunch of hoops
first[1][2]. It was only conditionally approved in the meeting yesterday,
assuming everything works by the time F16 comes around. P... | {
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Meet the Firehose Seven Thousand Times Bigger Than Twitter's - coffee
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/meet_the_firehose_seven_thousand_times_bigger_than.php#
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nostrademons
1000 tweets/second seems quite low. IIRC, when I was still doing financial
software (2007), the markets threw off about 50 GB/day, and a... | {
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Pakistan causes YouTube outage for two-thirds of world - denzil_correa
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4344105
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x38iq84n
Deja vu February 2008.
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Why Twitter Rocks the House - buckpost
http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/10/why-twitter-rocks-the-house/
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hunterjrj
This article does not convince me that Twitter is useful... yet.
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DoX: DNS Queries over XMPP - moparisthebest
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0418.html
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Boulth
Cloudflare has a nice page for various fun ways to query DNS (via Twitter,
Google Sheets, email, etc.): [https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/fun-
stuff/](https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/fun-stuff/)
It s... | {
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How Snapchat Built a Business by Confusing Olds - peterkrieg
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-snapchat-built-a-business/
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yomly
For the non-believers of Snapchat, here is where I think its value lies:
For the past 50 years brand strategy has largely been (fairly) well
characterised. Conventional wisdo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Kickstarter for designs? - JCB_K
Is there some kind of website where you can upload a design (poster/t-shirt), and get people to pre-order, but it'll only go into production at X amount of orders?<p>Of course I could just get people to pay via Paypal and refund if I don't reach my goal, but that looks a bit ... | {
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Forthcoming OpenSSL releases - okket
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-September/000076.html
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Bino
I'm happy (odd response to security issues, but normal these days) to see
there are no critical issues this time.
Are there any leaked information?
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Sdk for realtime tracking the head, hands and body in software - assaflehr
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/30/extreme-reality/
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assaflehr
if you are a game developer (indie or not), it`s worth looking into this one.
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S.F. startup Aardvark personalizes searching - gibsonf1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/13/BUG116DNLI.DTL
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aristus
How can you write a 1,000-word article about a new search engine and _not
include the flipping URL_?
"Using an algorithm program..."
"Ventilla said the service is more per... | {
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Testing and Tuning Market Trading Systems - netgate
https://itbook.store/books/9781484241721
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masonic
Every submit for this site is just a daily ad for Amazon affiliate linked
books (tag=itbook.store-20).
There is no "store". Even the descriptions are ripped from the Amazon pages.
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Bug 1283585 – Fix Intel's AES-GCM code to not depend on AVX - yuhong
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283585
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protomyth
Can someone give a bit of the why on this one? Is there something wrong with
AVX or is this a run on other chips thing? I'm at a bit of a loss on the
history.
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yuhong
AVX is no... | {
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Failure by WHO team to visit Wuhan sparks concerns over virus probe - abc-xyz
https://www.ft.com/content/f9dea077-66fb-4734-9d1d-076dc93568e1
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rapjr9
So they think there is one specific animal path from bats to humans? It's
already been shown that several types of animals can become infected, so why
not multiple... | {
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} |
Do you know of any software for the Mac for creating sounds from scratch? - amichail
This used to be a common thing to do in the days of the c64...
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jibiki
Surely CSound runs on the mac?
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yan
bloopsaphone? chuck? (google for them for urls)
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Twilio SMS price halved to a penny per message - jonknee
http://www.twilio.com/pricing/
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ccollins
First of all, I love Twilio, have used it in production apps, and will
continue to use it in production apps.
Just want to give a heads up about a very big limitation of Twilio SMS: It
only delivers to US and Can... | {
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} |
Nintendo says it doesn’t have plans for any additional Super Mario Run content - electic
https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/20/no-more-super-mario-run-content-coming/
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dpcan
Nintendo comes out and offers a game with a few free levels, then pay-once,
and you get the whole game. Seems like exactly what everyone ALWAYS as... | {
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} |
What it's like to wait in line for new iPhone - taigeair
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/iphone-5s-5c-launch-recap-2284480
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taigeair
this is really cool - i used to work above the apple store.
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Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema - yusufnb
https://github.com/yusufnb/verify-json
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tylerchr
Very neat. I had a similar need recently which led to a similar solution[^1].
Notably, I used a syntax nearly identical to yours, albeit without the very
handy pluggable validators yours has. Nice job.
What led ... | {
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Startup Takes a Risk on RISC-V Custom Silicon - spullara
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/07/11/startup-takes-risk-risc-v-custom-silicon/
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bedros
the main reason ARM CPUs are so popular is not only their low power usuage,
but also the eco system around the AXI bus. AXI bus is used inside the SOC to
connect third... | {
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} |
The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets - jonbaer
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212982-the-us-army-is-developing-ai-missiles-that-find-their-own-targets/
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ziddoap
How can we look at the error rates of current AI (especially the ones dealing
with human aspects) and subsequently t... | {
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} |
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do - x43b
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/why-trying-new-things-is-so-hard.html?
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wccrawford
I can't say I've ever had a problem trying something so easy as a new soda. In
fact, I've switched sodas a lot for various reasons including taste, often
trying new ones wh... | {
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} |
Apple and Amazon cut a deal that upended the Mac resale market - ProAm
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18624846/amazon-marketplace-apple-deal-iphones-mac-third-party-sellers-john-bumstead
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crispinb
Wow this is nasty stuff.
| {
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Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, and Activity-Based Playlists - areski
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/spotify-introduces-video-clips-podcasts-and-activity-based-playlists/
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disposition2
I feel like Spotify is regressing in terms of music discovery and usefulness
in general. It's still nice to be able ... | {
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} |
Stimulus Checks To Have Trump's Name printed on Them - downshun
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coming-to-your-1200-relief-check-donald-j-trumps-name/2020/04/14/071016c2-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html
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A4ET8a8uTh0
Whatever you say about him, he sees it as part of his personal branding. And
he lov... | {
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Locals reportedly frustrated with Alphabet's Waymo self-driving cars - gok
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/locals-reportedly-frustrated-with-alphabets-waymo-self-driving-cars.html
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russellbeattie
My son is 16 and just got his driver's permit. We live in Mountain View, and
so driving with Waymo vehicles is basica... | {
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} |
Design, and why I don't do it - codeoclock
http://hughrawlinson.me/post/49636781678/design-and-why-i-dont-do-it
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demian
In my opinion, we are having some serious problems with the words we are
using.
We are mixing aesthetics and stylizing with things like ui flows and product
design. Just becasue it's called ... | {
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} |
Bowie's Blackstar Artwork Open Repository - bubuanabelas
https://github.com/BubuAnabelas/BlackstarArtwork
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brudgers
Related: _David Bowie 's 'Blackstar' Art Free For Fans to Use_
[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowies-
blacksta...](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowies-blackstar-
art... | {
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} |
Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL - gouggoug
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410
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parliament32
Considering a subdomain "trivial" is ridiculous... there's a difference
between "www.example.com" and "example.com". Not only can they serve different
sites, they can even have diffe... | {
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Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015) - gloftus
https://joearms.github.io/published/2015-03-02-Waking-Up.html
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JoeAltmaier
Nope. I slept in a common room with 3 brothers. If my alarm went off (half an
hour before they needed to get up) I got a whopping. So I would wake up
moments before the al... | {
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Thanks Apple, You ruined my day - nanoERA
For those who don't know what happened today .. please read this subject:<p>http://www.graphitas.co.uk/blog/2013/10/ios-7-activation-required-error-on-iphone-and-ipad/<p>Apple did it again, they destroyed my iPhone with their stupid d... | {
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Sorry, Blue Apron. The Joys of Cooking Can’t Fit in a Box. (2015) - edward
https://newrepublic.com/article/122959/sorry-blue-apron-joys-cooking-cant-fit-box
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nlawalker
Blue Apron is the cooking version of a LEGO kit or a coloring book, the former
of which has been popular for decades and the latter of which is a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission - neya
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2053241/iphone-5-scorns-standards-promise-to-european-commission?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook
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mtgx
I'm not an Apple user, so I might not fully understand how Apple's connectors
work, but it seem... | {
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Ed Felten: Finding and Fixing Errors in Google's Book Catalog - billswift
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/finding-and-fixing-errors-googles-book-catalog
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billswift
The best part, I think, is Jon Orwant's response
(<http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1701#comment-41758> , link is from
the 3rd ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Poker Pro Ivey Asks U.K. Court to Decide What Is Cheating - anonu
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-13/poker-pro-ivey-asks-u-k-appeal-court-to-decide-what-is-cheating
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Falcon9
I have to say I agree with the casino's lawyer:
"Baccarat is a game of pure chance," Christopher Pymont, Genting’s lawyer s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Good design critiquing sites? - jmduke
Besides /r/design_critiques, Google hasn't revealed any that seemed respectable/functional: anyone with experience in this area have a few links to offer? I'm looking for feedback on my redesigned personal blog.
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diggan
Behance is a portf... | {
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A system that pours a glass of wine without opening the bottle - appplemac
http://www.coravin.com
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tacostakohashi
Drinking the whole bottle seems like a much better solution to this problem.
~~~
jnks
Way more fun, at least.
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wvl
The Sweethome likes it, but it's expensive:
> "We tested the $300 Coravin s... | {
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Intel’s 6th Generation Skylake Processors Scheduled for 2H 2015 - nkurz
http://wccftech.com/intels-6th-generation-skylake-processors-scheduled-2h-2015-5th-generation-broadwell-spring-15-updates-2015-2016-mobility-roadmap/
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femto
Some interesting numbers:
In 1971, the 4004 microprocessor had 2300 transistors fab... | {
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Kevin Mitnick Can Steal an Identity in Three Minutes - heyadayo
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ehrlichfu/2014/08/15/renowned-security-expert-kevin-mitnick-can-steal-your-identity-in-3-minutes/
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HarryHirsch
You can't steal someone's identity, but you can go and impersonate someone.
The reason why it's so easy to i... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you follow people's submissions / comments on here? - merrick33
Increasingly finding myself wanting to "follow" certain people on here. I don't see it built into the system I am guessing you use RSS to do this?
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hs
<http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=merrick33>
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qhoxie
I use <http://y... | {
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College Kids Are Living Like Kings in Vancouver’s Empty Mansions - petethomas
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/college-kids-are-living-like-kings-in-vancouver-s-empty-mansions
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forkLding
I saw a similar article like this last month or so.
This is a more realistic article on the subject:
[https... | {
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} |
Losing Music - bdr
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/losing-music/
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varunsrin
"But what I’ve lost isn’t just a set of structured sounds, but the world those
sounds create, a world you can live inside: Bach on a snowy afternoon, hard
blues on a long night’s drive, the background mood in a restaurant or at a
par... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Covid Underdogs: Mongolia - viburnum
https://medium.com/@indica/covid-underdogs-mongolia-3b0c162427c2
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throwaway888abc
"On January 22nd, the Mongolian Health Ministry held a press briefing with the
WHO to announce that shit was real."
On January 22nd (!!!)
Mind blowing, they listened and took action based on s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GE Fridge DRM Workaround - crmrc114
https://gefiltergate.com/
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beloch
We're used to the idea of this happening when companies sell printers, game
consoles, etc. at the slimmest of margins and rely on the sale of associated
consumables (e.g. ink) to make a profit.
We're starting to see this kind of practice on a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fatal Tesla crash in China may have involved Autopilot - the-dude
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/09/14/fatal-tesla-crash-china-autopilot-lawsuit/
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6nf
This is the kind of accident that should not happen in a car with all those
sensors. Even without engaging autopilot the car should slow down and stop
instead of ra... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Open-source forums for 2015 - 10dpd
I'm looking for an open source forum to integrate with my community site that is built using Wordpress.<p>The forum must work well on mobile and either be usable/visually appealing out of the box or be customisable. Ideally it would be a wp plugin but willing to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What new wearable sensors can reveal from perspiration - Lind5
http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/27/wearable-sweat-sensors/
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jcr
The mentioned Nature paper: "Fully-integrated wearable sensor arrays for
multiplexed in-situ perspiration analysis", Nature, 529, 509-514, 2016.
[http://nano.eecs.berkeley.edu/publicat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
'Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data and He Never Used the Internet' - rahuldottech
https://slashdot.org/story/360610
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kinkrtyavimoodh
chrome://settings/addresses page is literally where addresses that Chrome
saves for Autofill are saved and can be deleted if necessary. He or someone on
his account accoun... | {
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} |
Devuan jessie beta released - nextime
https://beta.devuan.org/
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jhkaghjkga
I'm looking forward to Devuan going stable in 2020.
But seriously, Devuan had some success with its core mission (drawing away the
trolls and conspiracy theorists from Debian). They are now well integrated and
discover most fascinating t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook suppressed right wing stories - chris_wot
http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/careers/careersnews/9117323/facebook-suppressed-right-wing-news-stories
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659565](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659565)
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chris_wot
Thank you :-) sorry about that, I posted bec... | {
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Facebook Dating: This Site Rounds Up Single Friends of Friends - rafikech
http://mashable.com/2012/07/05/thedatable-facebook-dating/
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spitfire
Isn't this was friendster and orkut were for? I remember one of those two, at
first, was all about dating your friends friends.
| {
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Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment - lutesfuentes
https://casetext.com/posts/hawaii-bans-non-compete-and-non-solicit-clauses-in-high-tech-employment
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jacobheller
A really good book to read on the subject is AnnaLee Saxenian's Regional
Advantage: Culture and Competition in Sil... | {
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} |
Cisco AnyConnect for the iPhone - ciscozine
http://www.ciscozine.com/2010/09/23/cisco-anyconnect-for-the-iphone/
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logic
Sadly, a few issues:
\- Requires iOS 4.1. For those of us who jailbreak, that's a showstopper (for
now).
\- No iPad support. See above. :)
\- Requires an additional license on the ASA side... | {
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} |
Skype can't fix a nasty security bug without a massive code rewrite - nautical
http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-cannot-fix-security-bug-without-a-massive-code-rewrite/
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user5454
From the disclosure
([http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Feb/33](http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Feb/33)):
> An unprivi... | {
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Bitcoin Versus Electronic Money - cryptonews
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18418
Source : http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=8832
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cryptonews
Source:
[http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=8832](http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=8832)
| {
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No Free Lunch Theorem - mgh2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
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s_Hogg
This paper is great. Every beginner data scientist should be forced to study
its implications, because they can be summed up to "anyone acting like a man
with a hammer is actually an idiot with no clue". Not surprising it ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016) - dlazar
http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html
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jdietrich
Drawing and painting is almost entirely a visual skill. The mechanical skills
of wielding a pencil or mixing paint are almost trivial; the hard part is
being able to _see_ what's ac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Mall of Shame - replicatorblog
https://medium.com/@foundercollective/the-mall-of-shame-5c9de67df34
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crushcrashcrush
This piece is hilariously out of touch.
“Middle-class staples like Williams & Sonoma, Coach, Lush, and an Apple store
(along with the obligatory food court Sbarro) help account for $1.8B in an... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
We've Launched... - blored
http://www.clutterme.com
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jey
That is a horrible front page. You don't want your users to see that right
away. I do understand that you want your users to see right away that your
service is "OMG SO EASY" and everything, but throwing them right into the
empty personal page is very co... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Skype server took a short break - dotpot
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/
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lapusta
On Win7 Deleting "C:\Users\\{Your Username}\AppData\Roaming\Skype\shared.xml"
solves the problem.
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fogus
And on OSX it's `~/Library/Application Support/Skype/shared.xml`
~~~
phatbyte
Thank you, that fixed it ! Love HN :D
----... | {
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Resurrecting impl Trait - nercury
http://aturon.github.io/blog/2015/09/28/impl-trait/
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arthursilva
This would be a great addition. After non lexical lifetimes this is probably
the most awaited post-1.0 feature.
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pornel
What's OIBIT?
And why is a new sigil required, instead of:
fn prod... | {
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Should YouTube Charge a Fee to Upload Video? - peter123
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/should-youtube-charge-a-fee-to-upload-video/
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DanielStraight
Sure, if they want to lose 99.9999999999999999999999% of their uploaders.
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Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance - pseudolus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/18/ring-nest-surveillance-doorbell-camera/
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kwillets
The drama on this is just getting out of hand.
Let he who has not posted a picture on social media cast the first stone.
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DeedsMoraine
_thro... | {
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Gravity’s Kiss: The third ripple - dnetesn
http://mitp.nautil.us/feature/159/gravitys-kiss
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Camillo
I'm going to save you some time, having lost mine. The article consists of a
sociologist listing the mentions of gravitational waves he has seen in the
media. But it has no meat to it, and there is no payoff: it j... | {
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Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater - prostoalex
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html?_r=0
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sathackr
So the city is sinking many inches, even feet per year(due to excessive ground
water withdrawals). With all the problems the city has, how does... | {
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} |
Don't Quit Your Day Job to Start Something New - daveambrose
http://adage.com/talentworks/article.php?article_id=131219
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kschrader
I've done both the "work and start a start-up" and the "quit and start a
start-up" thing, and I wouldn't ever do the double work thing again.
When you're first starting a tech start... | {
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} |
Finding links between the Standard Model of particle physics and the octonions - knv
https://www.wired.com/story/the-peculiar-math-that-could-underlie-the-laws-of-nature/
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_Microft
The original article at Quanta Magazine has been discussed here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585](https://news.ycombi... | {
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} |
IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP - quantisan
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8eccqb/im_dane_jasper_cofounder_and_ceo_of_sonic/
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Permit
I especially enjoyed the story of Sonic's founding
[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8eccqb/comment/dxu0km...](https://w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Treehouse – Social Done Right - brandonpindulic
http://brandonpindulic.co/treehouse-social-done-right/
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pskittle
they're good ,but can be better. Seamless video transmissions would help.
| {
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Why Apple stock is down today? - ilhackernews
http://www.thestreet.mobi/story/12881012/1/why-apple-aapl-stock-is-down-today.html
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Jiloko
non-mobile link if anyone is looking for it:
[http://www.thestreet.com/story/12881012/1/why-apple-aapl-
sto...](http://www.thestreet.com/story/12881012/1/why-apple-aapl-stock... | {
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} |
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals [video] - lambada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWA
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lambada
As a European this astounded me. The idea of combining the brake and turn
signals is something I've never come across before.
| {
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} |
You can now play Pacman anywhere in the world using Google maps - ReviewDeeper
http://www.reviewdeeper.com/2017/04/google-maps-introduces-pacman-and-you.html
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camillomiller
Am I the only one who finds all these April fools from google a tad annoying
and unprofessional?
~~~
laumars
It's unfortunate that you've b... | {
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Give me examples of C++ work I can do to land me a junior C++ position - sedeki
Give me examples of C++ work I can do to land me a junior C++ position. Please. :-(
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trcollinson
If you are just trying to get a junior or intern position in a c++
environment, then a basic understanding of c++ oo principles should... | {
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} |
Programmers should know R - jsavimbi
http://www.r-bloggers.com/programmers-should-know-r/
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etrain
Love the headline, but the article doesn't do the tool justice.
Have been using R off and on for the last 5 years or so, and very heavily for
the last year. For data analysis tasks that fit in memory, it simply c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Obama Is Hiring a Twitterer - raju
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/02/12/obama-is-hiring-a-twitterer/
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JCThoughtscream
While arguments can be made that Twitter, Facebook et al encourages only
superficial coverage of weighty governmental concerns... hey, at least it acts
like a gateway.
Seriously - what do you ... | {
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} |
A C# Reading List by Eric Lippert (Principal on C# compiler team at MS) - shawndumas
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1769249
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gjulianm
It's a nice list. I would add _C# In A Nutshell_ , it's a pretty good
reference book for both beginners (in the language, not in programming) and
experienced de... | {
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} |
Fired Google memo writer draws scorn, cheers and a job offer (from Wikileaks) - pseudolus
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-diversity-idUSKBN1AO1WY
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moxious
This guy touched a nerve, and now he is the latest football in a really toxic
culture war being waged right now. All of the various culture warriors ... | {
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} |
Can we put a stop to all the irrelevant gender politics articles on HN? - animus9
I am a long time Hacker News reader. I have never posted before today (even had to sign up) but here goes:<p>Hacker News is one of my favourite websites and I am bothered by the way in which certain demographics are poisoning its cont... | {
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} |
The land that no country wants (2016) - kawera
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil
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bjourne
> On Egyptian maps, Bir Tawil is shown as belonging to Sudan. On Sudanese
> maps, it appears as part of Egypt. In practice, Bir Tawil is widely believed
> to h... | {
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} |
If the moon were only 1 pixel - _Microft
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
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cannedslime
I am very grateful that I have a mouse that can unlock the scroll wheel so it
just keeps on spinning :)
~~~
_Microft
In the bottom right corner there is a small icon making you scroll with the
s... | {
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} |
San Jose set to become largest U.S. city to enact natural gas ban - prostoalex
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/17/san-jose-could-become-largest-u-s-city-to-enact-natural-gas-ban/?te=1&nl=california-today&emc=edit_ca_20190918?campaign_id=49&instance_id=12464&segment_id=17113&user_id=ad1d38d7aeb88df9a49d1052fc4f5fba... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How to get started in Computer Security? - krmboya
I've been in software development for a while now. News on HBGary, Anonymous, Wikileaks etc shows there's a lot going on in the Computer Security field. For those already in the field, are there some good online resources or books that you would recommend fo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Troubled Teens Make More Successful Entrepreneurs - gmatty
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/08/14/troubled-teens-make-more-successful-entrepreneurs/?mod=e2fb&mg=blogs-wsj&url=http%253A%252F%252Fblogs.wsj.com%252Feconomics%252F2013%252F08%252F14%252Ftroubled-teens-make-more-successful-entrepreneurs%253Fmod%253De2fb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Excess Deaths Associated with Covid-19 (CDC Website) - hovden
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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lolc
It's sad to see what an effective early response could have prevented.
Especially bitter to know that that response didn't come because society first
had to see the effects to accept t... | {
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} |
200 Open Source Projects Later: Source Code Static Analysis Experience - AndreyKarpov
http://www.viva64.com/en/n/0104/
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AndreyKarpov
The PVS-Studio analyzer is a methodology of detecting errors in program code.
However, error is not an incorrect work of the program but also a potential
vulnerability. Everythin... | {
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} |
The Erlang Shell - strmpnk
https://medium.com/p/ab8d8bec3972
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rdtsc
> When systems have faults due to concurrency and distribution, debuggers will
> not work.
Those are very tricky indeed, mix in threads with pointers and a system
becomes haunted. "This one customer noticed a crash, on this hardware, after
runn... | {
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} |
Amazon Braket – Amazon Web Services - kiyanwang
https://aws.amazon.com/braket/
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onion2k
It's fascinating how we've come full circle in computing and we're back to
booking compute time and putting jobs in a queue to run on a big shared
machine again. My Dad used to tell me about how he'd have to wait to run
thing... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups - danshapiro
http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2011/05/open-letter-to-mike-arrington-please-stop-investing-in-startups/
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nextparadigms
Does anyone know if he has stock in Facebook? Or MG? I've watched them post
about every single increase in Face... | {
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} |
China may build an undersea train to America - protomyth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/05/09/china-may-build-an-undersea-train-to-america/
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ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718277](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718277)
Other sources for the same s... | {
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} |
InterState: A Language and Environment for Expressing Interface Behavior [pdf] - wslh
http://www.joelbrandt.org/publications/oney_uist2014_interstate.pdf
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zubairq
Interesting paper. I rea the PDF. I am exploring some similar state based UIs
here:
[http://connecttous.co/connecttous/connecttous.html?livedebug..... | {
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} |
Is Bitcoin vulnerable to a “bank run”? - rbanffy
https://dev.to/peter/is-bitcoin-vulnerable-to-a-bank-run-8g6
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troydavis
Matt Levine answers this better in
[https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-28/regulator...](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-28/regulatory-
doughnuts-and-fx-fees). The ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Are ERP's overpriced databases? - itsathrowaway
I have some limited exposure to SAP, which is an ERP. From my experience SAP is nothing but a database with a GUI. I haven't seen how SAP can do anything that any database (mysql, postgre) with a webframework (django, rails, etc.) couldn't do. Am I mi... | {
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} |
This Company Has Solved the Software Security Problem - arnieswap
https://www.tfir.io/polyverse-creating-security-through-diversity-alexander-gounares/
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verdverm
Skeptical of anyone who claims to have solved software security
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jiveturkey
garbage link. real link is [https://polyverse.com/](https://polyvers... | {
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} |
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