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China’s Three Gorges Dam faces severe flooding as Yangtze overflows [video] - throwaway888abc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp74CTV5m9g
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mytailorisrich
The Yangtze is notorious for overflowing and the geography does not help. If
you visit towns along its course you are struck by the huge safety margin
between ... | {
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Readability and Naming Things - princeverma
http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/readability-and-naming-things/
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akkartik
My favorite aesthetic on naming things is to try to avoid it. Evidence that
this is on the right track:
\- Refactoring is often for eliminating temporaries, or for segregating them
into thei... | {
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Companies are using webcams to monitor employees working from home - joeyespo
https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-picture-5-minutes-monitor-video-2020-3
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gabrielsroka
Do companies let employees know about this? What if you put a camera cover on?
I know there's no expectation of privacy at... | {
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Cisco's Layoffs Are Just the Tip of the Spear for Tech - eande
http://fortune.com/2016/08/18/expect-more-tech-layoffs/
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niftich
This "analysis" isn't much of one, and makes little sense.
I get that the move to the cloud lessens the demand for datacenter hardware by
smaller players who run datacenters for themse... | {
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Ask HN: How do you find a good progra... uhh.. I mean lawyer? - diminium
Quite a lot of comments dealing with company formation or IP says "find a good lawyer".<p>If finding a good lawyer is anything like finding a good programmer, how do you find a good lawyer?<p>In this case, your the pointy haired boss who doesn'... | {
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Show HN: Blanket, an attempt at an anonymous, secure, trusted messaging app - josecastillo
https://github.com/josecastillo/blanket
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waynerad
Does it have to use QR Codes? Any more usable way of exchanging keys? NFC?
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josecastillo
You could use NFC, sure; QR codes just seemed more accessible since every
pho... | {
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Open Guide to AWS CDK - kevinslin
https://github.com/kevinslin/open-cdk
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kevinslin
author here - been working with the framework for the better part of the year
and have had repeated discussions about conventions and best practices. this
guide is a collection of learnings thus far. feedback and contributions
wel... | {
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} |
A chatterbot using reservoir computing to process and generate natural language. - neur0mancer
Reserbot is a small project of a chatterbot using reservoir computing to process and generate natural language.<p>This project is looking for colaboration or discussion.<p>Link: https://github.com/neuromancer/reserbot<p>Al... | {
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Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud - howard941
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/ajit-pais-ex-advisor-gets-five-years-in-prison-for-lying-to-investors/
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btown
Wow, pretty blatant stuff here. Forged signatures! But some of this could have
been prevented. For instance... | {
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Ask HN: German considering hiring a US designer (remote), got some questions - codesuela
Hey HN,
I am considering hiring a US based freelance designer and have some questions about that:<p>1) I am willing to pay a reasonable but not excessive amount so I think wont be able to find someone from LA or NYC due to the c... | {
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5 Top reasons why “webmasters” are doing Google’s dirty job - theoswan
http://www.ipsojobs.com/blog/2008/02/18/5-top-reasons-why-webmasters-are-doing-googles-dirty-job/
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airhadoken
So wait, webmasters are working for Google because... Google works for them?
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wmf
Maybe this post came from Soviet Russia.
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Does your startup use MSFT technology? - bootload
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bootload
_'... One thing that causes me more alarm, is that I see a lot of startups
using MSFT technology these days. See, startups give you early warnings on
trends of what people use. Something is going here. Startups are the early
warning signs of on-coming ... | {
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Anna: A KVS for any scale - shalabhc
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/27/anna-a-kvs-for-any-scale/
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homarp
Earlier discussion
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072)
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laurentoget
I could not find any information about plans to release or distribute it... | {
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Show HN: A usable, fast Gitlab CLI written in Rust - bradwood
https://gitlab.com/bradwood/git-lab-rust
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bradwood
I've been using GitLab for a while, and just started learning Rust, so I
thought I'd have a go at putting together a user-centric cli tool for Gitlab
as a personal project. It's still under heavy deve... | {
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} |
Portugal's anti-euro Left banned from power - andmarios
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11949701/AEP-Eurozone-crosses-Rubicon-as-Portugals-anti-euro-Left-banned-from-power.html
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rkwasny
This is serious: "Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of
euro rules and membership."
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NSA snooping is hurting U.S. tech companies’ bottom line - Libertatea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/25/nsa-snooping-is-hurting-u-s-tech-companies-bottom-line/?tid=rssfeed
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junto
This doesn't surprise me. I'm hoping that a few non-US companies start to take
advantage of this faux-pas and... | {
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Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp - acconrad
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/wanted-weaponized-exploits-that-hack-phones-will-pay-top-dollar/
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Abishek_Muthian
Not just Signal & WhatsApp,
$500,000 - Messaging Apps RCE + LPE (SMS/MMS, iMessage, Te... | {
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Silicon Valley isn’t just disrupting democracy–it’s replacing it - dougb5
https://qz.com/1092329/mark-zuckerberg-and-elon-musks-quest-to-turn-the-whole-world-into-a-private-utopia-for-silicon-valley/
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neo4sure
Read it. Don't agree with it. Sounds like the same negative attack that seems
to be coordinated toward ... | {
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Launch HN: Charityvest (YC S20) – Employee charitable funds and gift matching - Leonidas243
Stephen, Jon, and Ashby here, the co-founders of Charityvest (<a href="https://charityvest.org" rel="nofollow">https://charityvest.org</a>). We created a modern, simple, and affordable way for companies to i... | {
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Has anyone here tried ad copy in the "Does Anyone Else?" format? - klbarry
On Reddit, DAE are commonly voted to the top because people like to associate with their identity, have nostalgia, and speak their mind. Has anyone ever done this with an outside audience? For instance, using a banner ad, targeting fashion pe... | {
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PGP and You - caleb_thompson
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/pgp-and-you/
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ColinWright
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539935](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539935)
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YC Company stealing code from another YC Company - patriley
http://i.imgur.com/qQk2n.jpg
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relaunched
If you've been around the internet for more than 3 months, you'll realize that
this is nothing more than a compliment to the designer.
The net is collaborative. And using a popular, common layout is a way to d... | {
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} |
Using Vim as a JavaScript IDE - ausjke
http://www.dotnetsurfers.com/blog/2016/02/08/using-vim-as-a-javascript-ide/
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dozzie
Step one: install dozen of plugins, because you can't do sh*% with an editor
and command line alone.
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LCD makers in $553 million U.S. price-fixing accord - llambda
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/27/us-lcd-settlement-idUSTRE7BQ0KK20111227
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lincolnq
Does anyone with knowledge of the industry care to estimate how much money
these companies could make using such a scheme?
Considering how often these sorts o... | {
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Great Startup Engineers - mdenny
http://blog.derrickko.com/great-startup-engineers
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AngryParsley
So great startup engineers should have focus, compassion, balance,
responsibility, and openness. When would you ever _not_ desire these traits in
someone? The opposite is scatter-brained, indifferent, unbalanced,
i... | {
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} |
An Interview with OEIS's Neil Sloane - jason_s
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/meet-guy-sorts-worlds-numbers-attic/
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jordigh
We like to include sequences that appear on IQ tests. It’s always
been one of my goals to help people do these silly tests.
Yessssss! Those damn "IQ" questions:
[htt... | {
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Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys - john4532452
https://daringfireball.net/2020/07/return_and_enter
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john4532452
slashdot discussion [https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/07/21/1539216/return-
and-en...](https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/07/21/1539216/return-and-enter-
are-two-different-keys)
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A revised Lisp interpreter in Go - suzuki
http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/golang/lisp4-en.html
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suzuki
This is a revised port of
Lisp interpreter in Dart [http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp-
en.html](http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp-en.html)
Lisp interpreter in TypeScript [http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/typescript/li... | {
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IPhone, MySpace, Facebook Race To Micropayments In 2009 - kleneway
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/02/iphone-myspace-facebook-race-to-micropayments-in-2009/
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flashgordon
i think for a true micropayment system to work it has to be usable across
domains instead of just within a social network... this means the... | {
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} |
Minimum viable view library, part I - pakastin
https://freezer.js.org/minimum-viable-view-library/
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pakastin
Hi guys! Let me know if you have any questions or comments about the post..
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On writers, 'digital rights management', and the internet - nreece
http://stevenpoole.net/blog/free-your-mind/
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tptacek
I think psychologically, a model that might work better for works like this: a
fixed up-front price ($5?), with a no-hassle no-questions-asked one-click
refund of all or part of the payment.
E... | {
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How to build a simple neural network in 9 lines of Python code - bryanrasmussen
https://medium.com/technology-invention-and-more/how-to-build-a-simple-neural-network-in-9-lines-of-python-code-cc8f23647ca1
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matt_wulfeck
How to draw an owl in two lines of code;
import owl
owl.draw()
~~~... | {
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Ask HN: Hackers that perform/love stand-up comedy? - danielzarick
I've been a little curious lately if there are others of you out there that love stand-up comedy like I do? I've been trying to write more and more lately when I get a chance between school and work. Hopefully I'll get the courage to do an open mic in t... | {
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Google Cloud sucks - rap
https://yourbunnywrote.org/2015/04/19/google-cloud/
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mark_l_watson
It would have been nice if the article had statistics on how often GC hosted
applications are offline due to infrastructure problems compared to
competitors like Azure, AWS, etc.
BTW, if an app fits nicely into the AppEn... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life - chinmoy
http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/homeless-to-hacker-how-the-maker-movement-changed-one-mans-life/
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Blinkky
This is a very feel good type article. A couple of things have glaring red
flags for me:
"His ideas are in various stages of dev... | {
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Coming soon: Flying car for $279k - deedub
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-03/a-flying-car-for-just-279-000
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wxl
Yeah, sure.
> Dietrich says, “a pilot of one of our vehicles—once issued a use permit—can
> just drive up, swipe through the gate, taxi, and take off. You don’t even
> have to talk to ... | {
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Why are you making money? - jayferd
http://jayferd.us/posts/2012-02-07-why-are-you-making-money
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mitchie_luna
When I was in grade school, life was so hard for us. There were times that my
teacher won’t allow me to take the final test because my tuition fee is not
yet paid. My family also experienced a Christma... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Adblock Plus offers workaround to block Facebook ads again - ailinykh
http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/11/adblock-plus-offers-workaround-to-block-facebook-ads-again/
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parent5446
Any word on when uBlock will have it?
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detaro
According to the article right now, if you use EasyList?
| {
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Game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play - molbioguy
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_5_111/ai_86684497/?tag=mantle_skin;content
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nhaehnle
The game is kind of weird:
_Each player of the pair begins with a set amount of money, say $5. Each puts
any part or all of... | {
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Bret Victor: The Humane Representation of Thought [video] - maryrosecook
https://vimeo.com/115154289
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784323](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784323)
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Michael Crichton on talent: "I just work hard" - henning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0bQnqD9dLA
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kul
If you're interested in more analysis of 'talent', read this:
[http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_col...](http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_colvin.fortune/index.... | {
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Panasonic's human blinkers help people concentrate in open-plan offices - bryanrasmussen
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinkers-concentrate-open-plan-offices-technology/
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ThrowawayR2
Though appropriate, since it serves much the same function, the choice of the
term blinkers seems rather u... | {
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Why California May Go Nuclear - Reedx
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/09/03/why-california-may-go-nuclear/
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ixtli
Conservationists need to really make peace with the fact that the only way out
of climate change involves building a very, very strong nuclear energy
portfolio. This is difficu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Fake News Is Unbelievably Cheap to Produce - smacktoward
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608105/fake-news-is-unbelievably-cheap
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CM30
Gets even cheaper if you:
1\. Remember that most people don't care about how 'well written' an article
is, and simply care that it tells them something they wanted to know abo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Roadmap – nginx - twapi
http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
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stingraycharles
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly should I be looking for that warrants a
frontpage of HN for this link ?
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LoonyPandora
Official support for WebSockets and SPDY in nginx is big news. WebSocket
support especially, as previously i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Google donates $6.8M to SF public transit amid bus controversy - Anechoic
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/02/27/google-donates-68m-to-sf-public.html
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MyNameIsMK
I didn't realize elementary school students like to ride MUNI all by
themselves. Publicity stunt.
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andymoe
Publicity stunt, sure. But... | {
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The Digital Human – Terry A. Davis and Temple OS - bkq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000b4r3
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sysbin
I’m skeptical of my assumption but I think this person died not only from the
illness schizophrenia but because of the religion that fueled his illness. I
theorize psychiatry isn’t wanting to approach religi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: I would make website for you for free - udhb
I want to work on some real projects like website for your product or company or business.
I am a student and I would do it for free...<p>Thanks.
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lsiunsuex
Student at what school / college?
What language? Framework?
Why for free? To gain experience? To ad... | {
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Insider's details about the Amazon Phone - Helvodka
Here's all I know about the Amazon Phone.<p>1- There are 2 versions, a cheap one that's being released by the end of the year with a basic software similar to the Kindle Fire software. The other version will be more expensive and feature a 3D UI but won&#... | {
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Upvote count was the "must read" buoy that helped me navigate HN - alain94040
A high upvote count meant that the comment was a "must read". It was my light that allowed me to navigate HN. And now it's gone :-(<p>Please bring it back.<p>Please.
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pjscott
It would also be possible to bring back the red dot, on hi... | {
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Is it ok to answer these screening questions for a programming job? - igauravsehrawat
https://twitter.com/Root3d/status/916640177891680256
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danielvf
Looks like pretty standard interview stuff. It’s just trying to get you
talking so they can see if you communicate well and if they like you.
| {
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Ask HN: What do you with customers' feature requests for your SaaS app? - hekker
I oftentimes get feature requests from my customers. Examples are customizing e-mails the app sents, GUI customizations ( so that they can upload their own company logo for example ), and so on.<p>Sometimes these features are useful for... | {
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Answers On-Demand: A startup turns to small business - maverik
http://sagefront.com
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bsears
your early access form on the front page is messed up, (the form sends to
[http://sagefront.co](http://sagefront.co) instead of
[http://sagefront.com](http://sagefront.com))
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maverik
Hey, thanks a lot for letting me k... | {
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PDP-11 Booting - rmason
http://trmm.net/PDP-11/Booting
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WalterBright
I had an LSI-11. It was a real sweet machine. DEC completely missed the micro
revolution - they could have owned it. So sad.
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imglorp
They tried. Remember the DECMate and Rainbow and all those? Our school taught
us MACRO-11, pre-standard C,... | {
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} |
How AI and copyright would work - chriskanan
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/09/how-ai-and-copyright-would-work
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IanDrake
Something I always wondered... if I train an AI using copyrighted material,
say Harry Potter, do I really own anything it generates?
| {
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The Engineer and the Artist - catpuppet
http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2011/05/engineer-and-artist.html
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rawsyntax
Fwiw, I'm a programmer and not attracted to artists. I think art is fine if
you want to do it, but it can be hard to make a living that way. I also don't
think going to college for art is a great i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Growth hacker? Bite me - dirktheman
http://www.dirktheman.com/rant/growth-hacker-bite-me/
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patio11
A rose by any other name...
Do you believe there are short dev projects which make meaningful, compounding
improvements in core areas of concern for the business? If so, holy cow,
right? That is really, really, RE... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move - __david__
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00005.html
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hyperpape
I went back and looked at the older discussion, and it doesn't paint Stallman
very well as the head of a project. He pins the question of whether to keep
using bzr not on whether it is go... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What's your favorite code editor? - rukshn
http://tally.tl/BwG2O
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smt88
This is way too broad. For what kind of code?
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simonblack
joe with wordstar key-bindings <grin>
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Joyfield
Ultraedit.
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beyondcompute
TextMate 2
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What's so special about being a designer? - sandrobfc
It's a simple question for which I am trying to get a clear answer to: can everyone be a designer?<p>It's a fact that everyone has opinions when it comes to design - clients, partners, mothers, grandmothers, uncles, cousins, etc. However, I don't thi... | {
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A more balanced reading list? - forgotmypasswd
As an avid user of reddit and hn, I read a good amount of technical blogs. This stuff is great, but I realize now that its ALL I read. While I enjoy the posts, (and I learn a lot) I feel like I'm becoming disconnected with the average user.<p>Do you know any good blogs ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS - lkrubner
http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in-7-months-using-clojure-and-aws
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lkrubner
To me, this was the big surprise, and the big revelation:
"This led to Decision Two. Because the data set is small, we can “bake in” the
entire cont... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to convince my coworkers to ship imperfect code? - artpi
We’ve heard mantras many times. Mark Zuckerberg urges to „Move fast and break things” ( although it’s „move fast with stable infrastructure” now. ). Reid Hoffman says, that „If you are not embarrassed with first version of your product, you are too ... | {
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If it has lots of comments, it’s probably buggy - fogus
http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/05/byron-cook-sla/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ezyang+%28Inside+245s%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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tobylane
I'm not a heavy commenter, mostly because I'm yet to work in a team, but there
are many re... | {
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} |
About 41% of Kickstarter Projects Fail - zoowar
https://mashable.com/2012/06/12/kickstarter-failures/
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rsingla
I think a lower goal and lower duration leading to higher success makes sense.
As the article says, the lower goal average is just more realistic which I say
resonates with people who are looking to ba... | {
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} |
No YC for you? Drinks on StyleSeat - danlevine
http://stylese.at/drinks4devs
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citizenkeys
I'll be there, man.
Where you from Dan Levine?
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danlevine
Lovely! SF Bay, born and bred...
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The 3n+1 problem - denzil_correa
http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/10/the-3n1-problem_4990.html
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dollarpizza
Funny how now matter where they start out, just about everybody who attempts
to take on the 3x+1 problem eventually ends up in pretty much the same place:
<http://xkcd.com/710/>
~~~
DanielRibeiro
And it ... | {
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} |
What I Learned at SXSWi 2010 - jcsalterego
http://blog.dogster.com/2010/03/17/what-we-learned-at-sxsw-2010/
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kadavy
"The amount of data created by humans in 2009 exceeded that of all data
created by humans prior to 2009."
Wow, cool. Also nice to see a post on the front page that isn't bashing what
is overall ... | {
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} |
How Canada’s Health Care System Helped Create a Killer - fern12
https://thewalrus.ca/how-canadas-health-care-system-helped-create-a-killer/
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52-6F-62
The Walrus is normally a magazine with high standards, and very good quality
content, but I find the headline a little misleading or at least sensational.
Canada's... | {
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} |
Wiki.js - akandiah
https://wiki.js.org/
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Keyframe
I need one function in a wiki platform that I haven't seen so far. When I
write text, in its WYSIWYG editor, I need an ability to paste in an image (a
screenshot that I just grabbed, let's say) and for it to automatically upload
it and embed it into text. Does th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The “Why” of Electrolysis - nachtigall
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/11/the-why-of-electrolysis/
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brudgers
Two years ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349973](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349973)
[not very good] Five years ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2780952](https://... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: LevelStory – Manage remodel projects from start to finish - bunkat
https://levelstory.com
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bunkat
After going through two remodels that lived up to the old adage of 50% over
time and 50% over budget, my wife and I decided that there had to be a better
way. We created LevelStory to provide more transpare... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What is your favorite feature of an app/web that got cancelled/modified? - tdhttt
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maxharris
The Workspace Manager in NeXTSTEP. It didn't clutter your desktop with useless
icons, and it gave you a single, simple window with the column view and
nothing else. That holds up a lot better for today's needs tha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
TechCrunch.com uniques down by ~60% since its AOL sale - lawlit
http://loopplus.tumblr.com/post/7759980680/techcrunch-com-daily-uniques-down-by-60-since-sale-to
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petercooper
By the same measure, then, Hacker News is down about the same:
[http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com&...](http://tren... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
CIA Didn’t Trust FBI Created Bogus Update to Steal Data and Spy on Fellow Agencies - sjreese
http://wccftech.com/cia-didnt-trust-fbi-nsa-installed-fake-updates/
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willstrafach
Title is completely made up and not reflected in any of the published
documents. Liaison services are foreign agencies.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Philisophy of sexism? - ssivark
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/03/u-colorado-plans-change-culture-philosophy-department-found-be-sexist
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thenerdfiles
Just called their administration ENFP.
Oh snap.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Are Social Games like Farmville, Mafia Wars evil ? - code_devil
http://socialapp.posterous.com/are-social-games-evil
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matwood
I wondered the same thing awhile back, although the word 'evil' isn't
something I would attribute to a game like Farmville.
See my blog post on the issue, "Are Social Obligation Game P... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
More Than 35,000 Sign Petition In Support Of Aaron Swartz - apgwoz
http://blog.demandprogress.org/2011/07/more-than-35000-sign-petition-in-support-of-aaron-swartz/
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dlikhten
I'm sorry its a bit hard to have this knee-jerk reaction without at least
having some background into the matter. Did Aaron in fact break i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How your tech blog posts are ripped while you sleep - nickb
http://www.mikeduncan.com/tech-post-ripoff/
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naxxtor
This happened to me.
I wrote a post about setting up IIS 6 and PHP (oh, my misspent youth). It was
split into 3 parts; except I never got around to writing the third part: the
copy-paste author mad... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Anybody selling their side project? - WilhelmJ
Hi,
I've been looking around on flippa etc to see whether any real web app is for sale. My reason for buying is just to experiment with various things related to running a site, do lot of trial-error and gain some confidence before being able to eventually launc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bill on CA Governor's desk would ban mobile device searches without a warrant - tonywebster
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/smartphone-warrant/
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sneak
Doesn't much matter, all mobile devices worth using are constantly sending
their data up to "the cloud", which, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act's
provisi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
EFF promising intensified fight against bogus software patents - buzzblog
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/eff-promises-new-fight-against-software-patent-abuse
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CamperBob
FTA: "Every piece of software released to the world without legal protections
may leave open a door for someone else to attempt to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Open Source projects to join? - chimmychonga
Hey guys, I'm currently studying CS and I am Sophomore. I would consider my self an "ok" programmer, I'm not by any means amazing but with that being said I'm not horrible either. Is there any projects open source or other wise that you m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Not-GraphQL library that solve the same problems that GraphQL solves - mamouri
A few weeks ago I read about an alternative design to API that is not GraphQL but it solves the problems that GraphQL solves.<p>For example, it provided pagination, filtering, etc. out of the box. The author wrote a very long blog post on t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years? - hereiskkb
In relation to the Technological and Geo-political landscape.
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virgilp
True story: inspired by some dude on the internet, I thought I'd try my hand
at "predictions". I made a post with my technology predictions for the next 10
or 15 years (not ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Compare Your Title to the Pros - amunategui
https://www.viralml.com/title-analyzer
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amunategui
Let me know if anybody had a chance to try this out - if you are a writer or
blogger, does this analysis make sense? thanks! @amunategui
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ejecta – A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas and Audio Implementation for iOS - hising
http://impactjs.com/ejecta
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pcwalton
One of the coolest things I learned from the original blog post [1] on Ejecta
was a trick that the library uses for drawing polygons on the GPU in OpenGL
without triangulating them first... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VERSUS IO Aims To Compare Anything - urgeio
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/versus-io-aims-to-compare-anything-has-its-fanboy-filter-dialled-high/
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Xavura
Absolutely love the "show original size" feature, very cool. Tested out with
my phone and it is for all intents and purposes exact.
------
brandoncapecci... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How I manage my e-books - input_sh
https://input.sh/how-i-manage-my-ebooks/
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gumboshoes
"Hoarded about 500 of them" I'm happy for you and your books but from this
book hoarder's perspective, that is a small number.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
I create fake videos. Here’s why people even believe the obvious ones - Vaslo
https://www.fastcompany.com/90404007/i-create-fake-videos-heres-why-people-believe-even-the-obvious-ones
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ZeroGravitas
This stuff is like spam but worse.
It's like if someone else could send your money to a Nigerian prince, so you
can... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Reducing a node Docker image from 2.4GB to less than 100MB - jlengrand
https://lengrand.fr/reducing-dockers-image-size-while-creating-an-offline-version-of-carbon-now-sh/
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dastx
Why use an image from a possibly unknown individual when you can simply do:
FROM: alpine
RUN apk add --no-ca... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
'System safeguards' lacking in Tesla crash on autopilot: NTSB - rgbrenner
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot/system-safeguards-lacking-in-tesla-crash-on-autopilot-ntsb-idUSKCN1BN1QP
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rgbrenner
This seems to be the accident :
[https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/HW...](https:/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health - jger15
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-may-hold-keys-to-anxiety-and-mental-health-20200810/
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wombatmobile
> The organelles are ancient invaders — the remnants of symbiotic bacteria
> that integrated themselves into host cells about 2 billion y... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Hackers Protect Themselves From Getting Hacked - giZm0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/hackers-security-tips_n_2333527.html
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giZm0
These are some pretty obvious advice, but some of the links provided is good
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Problem with Twitter Maps - lambtron
http://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2014/12/24/the-problem-with-twitter-maps
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datahipster
> Spatial statistics aren't the same as regular statistics
I've always been frustrated with the gap between statistics and spatial
statistics. For example, some of the methodologies... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Yammer is moving away from Scala - DanielRibeiro
https://gist.github.com/1406271
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johnbender
I've been playing around inside the closure-compiler in my free time recently
and the thing that struck me most after years of working in other languages
(Ruby, JavaScript, C#) is that Java is a relatively simple lan... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hydrogel process developed at Stanford creates transparent brain - theoutlander
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/april/clarity.html
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robot
This is a very impressive (yet simple) methodology in that before this there
was no understanding of where certain neurons were projecting in the brain,
due to the fat tissu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Freakonomics: Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? - cwan
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/do-we-need-a-37-cent-coin/
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kakooljay
Interesting post (I love Steven Levitt) but there's a _great_ lesson for
developers here: Efficiency is only one consideration. What about _usability?_
Do you really want to wait... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer - sp332
http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05724v1
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nickpsecurity
Interesting research. We won't know how impressive it is until the kinds of
people that break Tor give it a thorough analysis. Otherwise, it might be a
scheme that simply _de-anonymizes_ users faster th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hacker Jobs UK is rolling out to Europe & the US - Peroni
http://hackerjobs.co/
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Peroni
We've had enough interest from various companies in the US & Europe to launch
regional versions of hackerjobs.co.uk so we've almost completed both
iterations and you can use the link above to register your email to get
noti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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