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Show HN: Clinical Trials Watch – Automated Clinical Trial and Sponsor Monitoring - batub
https://clinicaltrialswatch.com/
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batub
Hello,
This service was created for anyone who wants to keep track of specific
clinical trials or sponsors without having to manually look them up everyday
or every couple days.
Indi... | {
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Ask HN: How to approach the annual perf review in a political environment? - thefastlane
i work in a highly political organization.<p>it's a typical performance review process: first i submit my comments about my work and my "goals" for the next year, then my boss adds their comments, then it gets filed... | {
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GoToMeeting uses competitor’s name in search ads to trick people - ifficiency
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/09/gotomeeting-uses-competitors-name-in-search-ads-to-trick-people-into-clicking-through/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=GoToMeeting%20uses%20competitor%E2%80%99s%20name%20i... | {
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U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls - zt
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=US_UIS_20130606
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joelrunyon
What happened to this being the most transparent administration "committed to
creating an unprecedented level of o... | {
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LLVM backend for DCPU-16 - codezero
https://github.com/krasin/llvm-dcpu16/
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sp332
Just a suggestion: there's a lot of cool stuff going on with this project, and
it would be a shame if interested people missed out on it. At the same time,
posting every cool thing to HN could flood the front page for months :) S... | {
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Match-making thread - itmag
Let's hook founders up with each other!<p>Please list:<p>* Location<p>* Desired location<p>* Technical or business?<p>* What kind of stuff do you want to work on (ie e-learning, dating sites, social networks, whatever)<p>* Optional: some of your ideas
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itmag
I'll begin:
* I am in S... | {
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What Are the Best Technology Advancements of 2015? Here's Our List - Oxydepth
http://stemmatch.net/blog/2015/december/28/best-technology-of-2015/
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theseok
Definitely number 15. DJI Phantom baby!!
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imamachine
Samsung Gear - Virtual Reality is my personal favorite. I love mine. I want
more VR in the future.... | {
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A Conversation With Julian Assange, Slavoj Zizek & Amy Goodman (Live) - genesiss
http://www.livestream.com/democracynow
Ok, it's over - here is whole conversation: http://www.livestream.com/democracynow/video?clipId=pla_b539748a-c5e0-4525-b3ca-570594482d97&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
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genes... | {
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Mark the Spot: Tell AT&T where the iPhone sucks - novicecoder
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/12/07/mark-the-spot-tell-att-where-the-iphone-sucks/
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Entlin
This is completely unnecessary. AT&T already has a very good idea where calls
are dropped by looking through their logfiles. Plus, these logfiles encompass
e... | {
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} |
Researchers Say WSJ’s WikiLeaks Copycat Is Full Of Holes - pessimizer
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/05/05/researchers-say-wsjs-wikileaks-copycat-is-full-of-holes/
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lhnz
“We reserve the right to disclose any information about you to law enforcement
authorities or to a requesting third party, withou... | {
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ENCOM Boardroom - privong
http://www.robscanlon.com/encom-boardroom/
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arscan
Thanks for posting a link to a project of mine :) Too bad it didn't gain any
traction here.
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Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code - 2arrs2ells
http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/10/28/codecademy-and-the-future-of-not-learning-to-code
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2arrs2ells
This blog post makes me wonder if Codecademy will end up dealing with the
setup type issues that plague beginning coders - i.e. setting up a web... | {
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Mojolicious + Bootstrap = Awesome - fuzzix
http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2012/03/mojolicious-bootstrap-awesome.html
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kokey
I've been doing stuff with Mojolicious with the YUI App Theme, but it sounds
like using Bootstrap instead is the way I really need to go.
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The Best Code Is No Code - mooreds
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/04/01/the-best-code-is-no-code/
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mig4ng
I love to code and create new things yet the more I learn and grow the more I
agree with this article.
For personal projects and hobbies it might make sense to code more and do
random stuff, that i... | {
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} |
Elon Musk Wins 2012 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award - MikeCapone
http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/elon-musk-wins-2012-pm-breakthrough-leadership-award-11976048
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Nevaeh
Just 3 weeks ago, Elon received the Mars Pioneer Award from the Mars Society.
Here is his acceptance speech:
<http:/... | {
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LocustDB: Massively parallel, high performance analytics database - jinqueeny
https://github.com/cswinter/LocustDB
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samstave
Apologies if the following is completely naive to what youre doing with
LocustDB; How resource intensive is this?
Tried running InfluxDB on Rasberry PI with poor results as it pegged at 1... | {
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SpaceX Will Try to Land Rocket on Floating Platform Next Week - cryptoz
http://www.space.com/27955-spacex-rocket-ocean-landing-platform.html
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SEJeff
This will be truly groundbreaking if they manage to pull this off. Reusable
first stage rocket boosters completely flip the economics of a space launch on
its head.... | {
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} |
Researchers believe combining samples could speed up coronavirus testing - wslh
https://globalnews.ca/news/6989906/hamilton-researchers-combine-coronavirus-samples/
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wslh
If I remember well we see this concept in undergraduate classes in statistics.
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db48x
Journalists don't take statistics classes.
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Ask HN: Page flip effects on the web - navs
Hi HN, I have recently been asked to build an online/e-magazine in the same vein as those done by issuu.com with a non-flash based page flip effect. From articles and comments on the web, I've noted many have a dislike of such superfluous animations. At least I consider th... | {
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We can now edit the human genome – how far should we go? [video] - colinhb
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-nature/
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ImaCake
Unless I am unaware of something, CRISPR is not yet ready for medical usage.
Sure, it is an amazing research tool. But every gene editing trick built on
the back of this incredibl... | {
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} |
Mumbai call centre scam: ‘Nothing's wrong in duping rich Americans’ - giis
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/nothings-wrong-in-duping-rich-americans/articleshow/54729514.cms
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leecarraher
Heh, That's what i told the scammer, the scammer told me they had a refund
from the IRS for me and they just need... | {
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} |
The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything - rkudeshi
http://gizmodo.com/5927379
My jaw kept dropping lower and lower as I read this.<p>I know Tor encryption is good and all, but surely there must be SOME way of taking this site down?
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ricardobeat
Being able to buy much the same weapons legall... | {
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} |
Recent reports in the Washington Post are incorrect and based on a misreading - moultano
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-to-tech-companies/?s
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waterphone
So CNET has a source who says it isn't true and the NYT has sources who say it
is true. Who's telling the tru... | {
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} |
Will the world ever see Fair Trade iPads? - jrnkntl
http://techland.time.com/2012/01/27/will-the-world-ever-see-fair-trade-ipads/
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jakejake
I like this idea, but I have to agree it would be unlikely for most people to
pay $600 for a free-trade iPad when they can get the same thing for $500.
I think it would o... | {
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} |
2014 API year in review: last year’s API predictions - lleims
http://www.3scale.net/2015/01/2014-api-year-in-review-last-years-api-predictions/
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picsoung
Good bet on what happened in 2014!
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African Scrabble players pose a dilemma in the IQ debate - vixen99
http://www.unz.com/article/will-scrabble-have-the-last-word-on-the-iq-debate/
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vixen99
"A look at Gabon’s demographics makes the Scrabble achievement of Gabon
impossible to explain under the present racial hypothesis. Gabon has a
population of 1.... | {
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Ask HN: Does anyone actually like autoplaying of videos on websites? - jastingo
Genuinely curious about this. Just to be clear -
I'm referring to the autoplaying of videos on services like Netflix, Amazon Video, Udemy, and YouTube, as well as news sites and sports sites.<p>As a user, there are very few situatio... | {
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App that prepare anyone for any trip in 8 min: uPackingList - Tolstokoraya
Everyone has gone through this: you need to quickly get ready for that unexpected business trip, that last-minute weekend getaway or that long-awaited grand vacation. There are so many things you need to bring and chores you need to do that you... | {
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} |
Navigating the coming A.I. hypestorm - kawera
https://theoutline.com/post/2248/how-to-navigate-the-coming-a-i-hypestorm
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kwipkwip
No academic endeavor has been more disappointing for me than Machine Learning.
At some point I realized it was just statistics, it was prediction, it was
regression... So why not just... | {
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} |
Why isn't there a software union or guild? - face_mcgace
We (software developers) wield an extraordinary amount of power inside organizations - but why haven't we banded together to harness this? With sexism, ageism, etc. we have a real chance to influence the workplace. I know that we find ourselves in a comfort... | {
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Google Comparison Ads: Mortgages - condor
https://www.google.com/comparisonads/
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kakooljay
Google hints that it may introduce the format for some other categories,
saying it will “increase ... the number of advertisers able to participate.”
[http://news.ebrandz.com/google/2009/2939-google-debuts-
compa...](ht... | {
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} |
Show HN: Couple, a shared diary for you and the one you love - kunle
http://www.getcouple.com
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petenixey
If I were running one of these apps I have to say I would be terrified of
being hacked. There will be a lot of explicit pictures exchanged between
couples, including teens and a lot of people who will spend... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is it safe to post pictures of my kids on social media? - nvr219
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blastbeat
Depends on your definition of "safe" and "social media". I would certainly not
post pictures of myself to Facebook/Instagram, let alone flaunting my kids.
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moviuro
Discussed not 2 days ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/ite... | {
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What Browser am I Using? (from Google) - cleverjake
http://whatbrowser.org/
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mcpoulet
This was launched in 2009.
| {
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Uber launches on-demand grocery delivery in Latin America and Canada - champagnepapi
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315159/uber-grocery-delivery-launch-cornershop-latin-america-canada
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anonms-coward
Why does uber think they can do a better job that focused companies whose main
business is grocery retail. Ub... | {
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} |
Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors - minimaxir
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/motionloft-jon-mills/
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saumil07
Founders of early stage startups (as in, not AirBnB or Square or other
companies clearly in torrid scaling mode) heading to Vegas frequently on
chartered pla... | {
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} |
Evernote Architecture - 9 Million Users and 150 Million Requests a Day - alisson
http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/5/23/evernote-architecture-9-million-users-and-150-million-reques.html
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mosburger
Cool to see that they use Stripes as their Java web framework. Stripes doesn't
get anywhere near the attention/re... | {
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} |
Davos Interviews: Etsy Founder Robert Kalin - mqt
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/01/davos-interviews-etsy-founder-robert-kalin/
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vaksel
did this guy piss off Arrington somehow? Why is he being an asshole to the
guy?
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ahoyhere
Wow.
Kalin is actually a really interesting guy, and has lots of stuff to sa... | {
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} |
Why do BA and PM get higher salaries than programmers? - dsego
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/45776/why-do-business-analysts-and-project-managers-get-higher-salaries-than-programme
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bediger4000
I hypothesize that the reason is that BA and PM are more like upper
management, in terms of wh... | {
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} |
Internet addiction' linked to depression, says study - mixmax
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8493149.stm
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RiderOfGiraffes
Earlier link here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1097476>
That links to an article at the institution that did the study rather than a
media report, and contains a link to the actu... | {
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} |
Show HN: Browser MMORPG 7 years in the making - marxdeveloper
https://data.mo.ee/index2.html?hackernews=2
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paraxisi
Congrats on shipping! Although I don't have time to play right now, a perusal
of your rules has me scratching my head... why allow people to have alt
accounts if they can't do anything with them be... | {
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} |
ES7 brings two new features - kiyanwang
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-could-es7-be-called-es2-4c5f094ccef7
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nkg
I will welcome ".include(a)" into my code in place of the awkward
".indexOf(a)!== -1". Better late than never, I guess.
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tomatsu
Too bad it was renamed. "Contains" was a much better name.
"C... | {
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Features of Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - technogist
http://www.technogist.com/2013/01/5-exciting-features-of-samsung-galaxy-note2.html
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lostlogin
A "Best of XXX" on a single page. I was just commenting recently how these are
always over several pages. I stand corrected Technologist.
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SEC approves 200+ million Americans as Angel Investors - RedditKon
http://www.lawgives.net/blog/equity-crowdfunding-what-does-regulation-a-mean-
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osirisr
This is huge! Imagine if this existed during the time when Facebook was
becoming a big deal and individuals could invest in it. Imagine, for example,
if instea... | {
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} |
Google finally puts the Google into Google App Engine - sudhirj
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/overview
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sudhirj
Here's the official announcement:
[http://googleappengine.blogspot.in/2012/05/looking-for-
searc...](http://googleappengine.blogspot.in/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-
i... | {
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Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease - davedx
http://apex.run/
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cdnsteve
Isn't this an anti-pattern? I mean, Lambda is suppose to eliminate the need
for servers and server admin work. However, working with their services, like
Lambda, are so tedious that solutions like Apex and ... | {
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} |
Show HN: A portal to share mnemonic learning hacks and tricks - nanospeck
http://www.spellogram.com
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nanospeck
@zoidb I agree, there could be multiple answers. I'm eager to know if there
are any other frameworks that you suggest I can use. My intention is to have
the voting and badge system of SO and the easy ... | {
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} |
Global warming could cool down northern temperatures in winter - J3L2404
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101117114028.htm
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iwr
This reminds me of an old episode of South Park.
[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155014/learning-the-
tr...](http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155014/learning-th... | {
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Who Owns Facebook? The Definitive Who's Who Guide to Facebook Wealth - angadsg
http://whoownsfacebook.com
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postit
No one listen to the same artist over and over for the rest of their lives,
facebook is living its hype moment what's great, see what happened to many
internet companies. Nobody rules forever.
If... | {
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Hands down, this is the best contact form online. - darvy
http://realart.com/contact.php
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throwaway420
Define best.
Is it the most creative? There might be an argument for that.
Is it very interesting and memorable? Sure, you've succeeded from that
perspective.
But is it the most easy to use? Not a chance, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Windows on ARM needs more support from developers - kristianp
https://andregarzia.com/2020/01/windows-on-arm-needs-more-support-from-developers.html
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dblohm7
Part of the problem IMHO is that Windows 10 ARM64 devices are shipping in S
Mode by default. In other words, Windows Store apps only unless users change
it... | {
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} |
Dr. NakaMats: The World's Most Prolific Inventor - rpruiz
http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/3/dr-nakamats-patently-strange-the-world-s-most-prolific-inventor
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greenlblue
"Starving your brain of oxygen makes for better inventions" - I have no idea
what to make of this. I think he's trolling.
| {
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The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram - JumpCrisscross
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/fashion/facebook-instagram-luxury-brands.html
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spectramax
When I was growing up, my father used to say "Why do you want to pay for a
shirt and then have them turn you into a billboard with the logo on the chest
pocke... | {
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} |
Transit of Venus - sol1_sc
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/2012-venus-transit.html
A sight that probably no one currently alive will see again, the next is 2117.
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ColinWright
I watched the transit in 2004 - fascinating. Sadly, pretty much the whole of
the UK is forecast to be completely covered ... | {
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} |
Show HN: spaceuncharted.com - wizzo
I was tired of games like Mafia Wars and wanted a phone-based MMO Strategy game where hundreds of players could actually engage each other on a 2D map, so I made one.<p>I track the state of the game each night so we can display a visual timeline of territory controlled by each all... | {
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Tesla reaches Model 3 production milestone and record 7,000-car week, says Musk - rmason
https://electrek.co/2018/07/01/tesla-model-3-production-milestone-record-total-production-elon-musk/
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atombender
More comments here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436604](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174366... | {
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Blockchain-Enabled Kiosks - bootload
https://www.fastcompany.com/40405379/these-blockchain-enabled-kiosks-make-coffee-farmers-more-money-and-let-you-verify-your-beans
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bootload
_" Bext360 has spent the last 18 months training its algorithms to identify
dozens of cherry details. The unit makes an offer for the pr... | {
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} |
Physijs - Physics plugin for three.js (bonus: jenga example included) - minikomi
http://chandlerprall.github.com/Physijs/
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mrcharles
That's pretty cool, but their framerate tracker doesn't work correctly in
chrome. Not sure what it's measuring but the rendering of the shapes on some
demos visibly starts to tan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Judge Unexpectedly Imprisons Goldman Programmer - donohoe
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/judge-unexpectedly-imprisons-goldman-programmer/?src=twr
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radicaldreamer
Funny how this guy's up for 8-10 years for stealing GS's high-frequency
trading algorithms while the people partially responsible in the deriva... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Caddy (web server) - maxt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(web_server)
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tscs37
I've used Caddy for my Nextcloud instance. After some initial problems (how to
translate nginx config to Caddy) it's been probably the single best webserver
I've had the pleasure to use.
Automatic TLS from LetsEncrypt is basicall... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GitHub removes the ability to create anonymous gists - reimertz
https://blog.github.com/2018-02-18-deprecation-notice-removing-anonymous-gist-creation/
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Jaepa
Well this is a bummer. While its not mentioned this sound like a casualty of
SESTA.
| {
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Learning the Language of Mathematics (2000) [pdf] - mutor
https://wac.colostate.edu/llad/v4n1/jamison.pdf
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jostylr
This was written in May 2000, but the following bit sounds like it was written
May 2017.
> In conclusion, I want to confess what my real goals are in teaching this
> material. In a society in which... | {
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} |
Automatically Generating Commit Messages from Diffs - ece
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09492
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jjuhl
No, no, no. What I want to see in a commit message is what _the person who
made the change_ thought the reason behind the change was.
Anything generated based just on the basis of the diff (what actually changed)
i... | {
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} |
University of Tokyo lab suspected of altering data in 43 scientific papers - denzil_correa
http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2013/07/forty-three-university-tokyo-papers-are-tainted-says-japanese-news-report
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greenyoda
Duplicate:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102208](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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My Conversation with Peter Thiel about Apartheid… and Its Unfolding Aftermath - jhonovich
https://medium.com/@JulieLH/my-conversation-with-peter-thiel-about-apartheid-and-its-aftermath-3fdf4249b08d#.wqhkrtnq6
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arkitaip
I totally believe that the younger Thiel would support Apartheid and
absolutely deny it years ... | {
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} |
An illustrated guide to our collapsing Antarctic glaciers - srikar
http://qz.com/209528/an-illustrated-guide-to-our-collapsing-antarctic-glaciers/
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jcr
If you haven't seen it, the following video is amazing. The glacier that's
falling apart is about the size of Manhattan.
"CHASING ICE captures largest glacier c... | {
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} |
PHP Developers - Wake up - hybrid11
http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1m64m0/phpdev_wake_up/
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wat0
why post a link to lebbit when you could have just posted the link to the
actual post...
this is bait
~~~
ameoba
Linking to a Reddit submission that links to a blog that links to a tweet that
links to a blog... | {
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} |
Grimwire.js: A RESTful Browser OS that does Peer-to-peer over WebRTC - wesray
http://blog.grimwire.com/#2013-04-04-grimwire.md
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nkoren
Very interesting! I've long dreamed of an architecture which does exactly
this, and is geared towards implementing fully distributed social networks.
P2P and social networking ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bob Lutz Talks Tesla and Panel Gaps - 11thEarlOfMar
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/amp28008116/tesla-model-3-build-quality-bob-lutz/
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DeonPenny
The Bob lutz praising tesla?
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} |
Run SQL queries against MetaFilter's database - thorax
http://mefi.from.bz/
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thorax
Can we see some more sites do this? Really cool stuff.
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GPU Accelerated Voxel Physics Solver - gableroux
http://www.00jknight.com/blog/gpu-accelerated-voxel-physics-solver
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gableroux
A very good example of Compute Shaders for the recent release of Unity 5.6
that supports Metal for MacOS and iOS. This is just awesome, grab the project
on Github and try it! It's not pe... | {
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Ask HN: Lead asked about corporate accounts. - grinnick
I started a "startup" 3 months ago and I've been plugging away at coding and marketing it on the side. I've got a couple of paying customers but things are still pretty raw.<p>Today a person reached out to me to ask who to contact about corp... | {
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Hurting For Cash, Online Porn Tries New Tricks - uladzislau
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/17/276897125/hurting-for-cash-online-porn-tries-new-tricks
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beloch
Porn has long been at the forefront of internet technology, driving next-gen
solutions that eventually trickle down to many other secto... | {
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Xkcd: Dress Color - stevekinney
http://xkcd.com/
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rullgrus
Permalink to the specific comic:
[http://xkcd.com/1492/](http://xkcd.com/1492/)
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wodenokoto
It still doesn't look white.
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Chip industry had worst sales year since dot-com bubble burst - baybal2
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/chip-industry-had-worst-sales-year-since-dot-com-bubble-burst
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ksec
>Revenue fell 12% to $412 billion in 2019, ....That’s the biggest drop since
2001, when industry sales slumped 32% as the ... | {
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Show HN: The Breezy Button, Easy Secure Printing - jamgraham
http://blog.breezy.com/announcing-the-breezybutton-easy-secure-print
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jaredhansen
Hey folks, Breezy CEO here.
We built this button (which allows devs to integrate robust print
functionality into any iOS/Android app) because there are basically no PC... | {
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How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks - rooshdi
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/third-party-resources-nsa-leaks
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hobs
This is what I said about gravatar when it first came out, the ad
networks/analytics software are just obvious.
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TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide Transactions [pdf] - nayuki
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7Evijay/papers/atc18-txfs.pdf
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nayuki
Additional links: [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TxFS-
Tex...](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TxFS-Texas-
Transactional-... | {
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Study Suggests Lower Mortality Risk for People Deemed to Be Overweight - credo
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/health/study-suggests-lower-death-risk-for-the-overweight.html
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tallanvor
BMI was never even meant to be an individual indicator of health. It was an
attempt to classify larger groups. It also uses ... | {
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Ask HN: Are you a part-time stock investor? - zhangela
If so, how do you test your stock investment strategy? Do you rely on intuition?
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bryanwbh
Hi Zhangela,
Yes I am. I utilize value investment methodology which is the brainchild of
Benjamin Graham.
On the few aspects on stock evaluation, among them are: \... | {
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Yodlee|Envestnet Risk Insight Report - baus
http://www.yodlee.com/products/data-analytics/risk-insight-report/
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baus
I don't know much about this space, but the description sounds a bit scary:
"With Risk Insight Report, lenders can see a complete view of consumer account
and spending activity while maintaining ... | {
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Emoji and Deep Learning - wxs
http://getdango.com/emoji-and-deep-learning.html
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KennyCason
I have to say this was one of the more "fun" ML articles I have read lately.
Excellent visualizations as well. Great job!
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wxs
Thanks! I was tempted to go _way_ more technical but we decided it would be
fun to let more... | {
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A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane – Nobody Knows What's Causing It - ctoth
http://mic.com/articles/91091/a-mysterious-sound-is-driving-people-insane-and-nobody-knows-what-s-causing-it
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panarky
Maybe the mysterious noise is from one's own living body, like what you hear
when you put your fingers in your... | {
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Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data - daegloe
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/mystery-of-the-universe-s-expansion-rate-widens-with-new-hubble-data
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ncmncm
So there are three numbers: the expected expansion based on Planck
measurements of a historical value based on cosm... | {
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Ask HN: As of 2017 – best PDF/academic paper reader? - caycep
I guess its a sad state of affairs that the landscape has changed so much over past few years, but wondering what people were using to read/organize academic papers, i.e. from PubMed or ArXiv?<p>Mendeley - still developed, owned by Elsevier
ReadCube?
P... | {
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Lavabit abruptly shuts down - cstuder
http://lavabit.com/
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lmkg
For the unfamiliar: Lavabit was a webmail service, that (claimed to) encrypt
emails in such a way that they literally did not have access to the content
stored on their own servers. The linked email would lend some credence to
those claims. It was o... | {
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Samsung to halt production at its last computer factory in China - whalesalad
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china-pc-idUSKBN24X3K4
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phkahler
>> amid rising Chinese labour costs, a U.S.-China trade war and the blow from
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Do companies think about the military situation over... | {
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Drones that can haul a 20-pound load for 500 miles and land on a moving target - spking
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/26/volans-i-drones-can-haul-cargo-for-500-miles-and-land-on-a-moving-ship.html
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haberman
What 20 pound load could have saved the Titanic? Why wouldn't such a
miraculous tool or part have been brou... | {
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} |
Trying to join a #JavaScript community in 2017 - akras14
https://twitter.com/akras14/status/890583088740261888
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inglor
We have a nice JavaScript room at
[https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript)
for the past 6 years.
Our only rule is "don't be a dic... | {
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Security researcher Cédric 'Sid' Blancher dead at 37 - bane
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/12/cdric_sid_blancher_dead_at_37/
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4rt
let me guess: bag, padlock, bath
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Building an electronic human brain - ronnier
http://www.israel21c.org/201005237948/technology/building-an-electronic-human-brain
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az
Go Israel!
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Theorists with a Swamp, not a Theory - chmaynard
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10460
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danharaj
Anyone have insight into how theoretical quantum field theory is developing
outside of string theory? Not just high energy physics but also condensed
matter physics. I'd imagine understanding quantum ... | {
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} |
When we ban begging we take away the first amendment rights of the poor - pavornyoh
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/26/when-we-ban-begging-we-take-away-the-first-amendment-rights-of-the-poor
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Camillo
When we ban stalking we take away the first amendment rights of jilted lovers.
When we ban play... | {
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} |
Tree.io - Open source Project Management written in Python and Django. - pajju
http://tree.io/en/tour
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schrodingersCat
Nice! This seems to be well thought out and visually impressive
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U.S. attorney: Criticism of Aaron Swartz prosecution is 'unfair' - declan
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57570635-38/u.s-attorney-criticism-of-aaron-swartz-prosecution-is-unfair/
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DamnYuppie
Those who are doing the oppressing always find it "unfair" when the persecuted
speak out against them.
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Ask HN: What are the '7 wonders' of the coding world? - vinnyglennon
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angersock
I'll only go with things you can read the source code of:
_The Quake 1-3 engines_. Truly groundbreaking for each one, and easily
understandable by mere mortals. They were critical in the adoption of consumer
GPUs and in network gami... | {
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} |
The Art of Assembly Language Programming - wyclif
http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~lockwood/class/cs306/books/artofasm/toc.html
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psykotic
If you aren't fluent in assembly language, the biggest marginal benefit you
get from learning it is the ability to read the assembly output from your C
compiler for debugging or lo... | {
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} |
Who wants cheaper books? (Help the Domino Project) - cgshaw
I've noticed many HN readers mentioning books of all sorts of varieties.<p>I'm a member of the Domino Project Street Team. Seth Godin along with Amazon is trying to disrupt the publication and book distribution process in a big way.<p>One of the things we'r... | {
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8 Companies That Shouldn't Make a Tablet - adeelarshad82
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375995,00.asp
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locopati
Short version: only Apple should make tablets (to which I say thpth!)
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tzs
They said Amazon should make a tablet. For most of the rest the reasons given
were not because they aren't Apple,... | {
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} |
Show HN: Slide Decks from Linux Kernel Tel Aviv Talks - kerneltlv
http://www.slideshare.net/kerneltlv/presentations
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kerneltlv
Hi HN!
We're a Linux Kernel meetup group based in Tel Aviv, Israel. A new community
(a few months old), our aim is to give people the opportunity to discuss their
Linux work, listen to ... | {
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