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Ask HN: What would you like to understand more deeply? - diehunde
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Gustomaximus
How a computer first starts. How does a computer when switched on go about
understanding on/off or 0/1 is anything more than that and start executing
commands?
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ForrestN
The intersection between politics and technology.
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Ask HN: Upcoming API Days/ Hack-a-thons? - jdavid
Between now and say January 1, what are the best hackethons coming up?<p>- In the Bay Area? #sf<p>- In the world? #world<p>like 2-3day ones.
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stanleydrew
Twilio (#sf) is hosting API Hack Day on October 24th. It's just one full day,
but should be really good: <h... | {
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10 Articles Every Programmer Must Read - abhaybhuva
http://www.improgrammer.net/10-articles-every-programmer-must-read/
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greenyoda
The identical article on a different site was posted recently, with extensive
discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743952](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77439... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: what chair are you using for coding and how comfortable is it? - bib971
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teh_klev
IKEA Volmar [1] with arms and headrest. Very comfy and I've even nodded off in
it after an all night debug session. It's also good value for money.
This is my second IKEA chair in the GBP170 to GBP220 price range - I don't
... | {
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San Francisco Has a Plan to Hit Its New IPO Millionaires Where It Counts - tasoeur
https://gizmodo.com/san-francisco-has-a-plan-to-hit-its-new-ipo-millionaire-1834306853
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IXxXI
Politicians waging war against finance and the private sector is the origins
story to venezuela's impressive economy today. What could g... | {
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Ask HN: What happens when your startup fails? - pilom
I keep hearing that only 10% (if that) of startups succeed, but what happens to the other 90%? What happens to you personally? Do you just start looking for a new job or do you have baggage for the rest of time?
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tptacek
When Sonicity failed, I was the seco... | {
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} |
'Disabled' Gamer Banned from Twitch.tv After Standing Up Mid Stream - JDGM
http://www.gameskinny.com/yca32/disabled-gamer-banned-from-twitchtv-after-standing-up-mid-stream
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jareds
As someone who’s blind and who has a friend that was recently paralyzed I have
no problem with the ban and have nothing but contempt ... | {
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} |
How Zoom works [slides] - Spidery
https://builtformars.co.uk/how-zoom-works/
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aardvark291
This isn't "How Zoom works". It's a 72 slide deck of complaints about the Zoom
UI.
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robsws
I was surprised they didn't mention that after clicking 'Leave Meeting', a
popup comes up with a 'Leave Meeting' button in it... | {
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XSS Filters can be used to bypass clickjacking (scroll down to point 3) - simonw
https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/08/lessons-from-facebooks-security-bug-bounty-program/?
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simonw
It took me a while to understand what's going on here.
Modern browsers (Chrome, Safari and I believe IE as well) include additional
p... | {
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Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space - pseudolus
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8vg7/scientists-discovered-a-gigantic-structure-in-a-hidden-zone-of-space
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airstrike
Not an expert, but it seems to me that calling it "structure" in the headline
without context is extremely cli... | {
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} |
Democrats propose new federal agency to fight back against tech privacy scandals - kmod
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20950171/democrat-privacy-bill-data-agency-dpa-eshoo-lofgren
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g82918
I would like the article better if there was a link to the actual legislation.
As is it seems a bit like fearmongering to... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Someone wants to buy my site How much is it worth? - adzeds
So, this opens up the question of how do you value a website?<p>If someone wants to buy my site, how do I work out a reasonable selling price? Is there an easy formula to follow?<p>Interested to hear peoples thoughts?
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danieltillett
2 to 4 times... | {
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5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you - abredow
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/5-subtle-ways-youre-using-mysql-as-a-queue-and-why-itll-bite-you/
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cellularmitosis
I've been met with looks of disgust for using a filesystem to implement a
queue, but I feel it's unjustified. A mode... | {
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} |
Show HN: My first webapp, a simple, very simple notepad. - udhb
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92126558/projects/ntpd/notepad.html
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mauro_oto
Simple and nice. As a suggestion, when saving to .txt through the save button,
the new lines are ignored. You could look into that and add them to the output
instea... | {
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Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming - ericelliott
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/lenses-b85976cb0534
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kccqzy
I love lenses and other optics like prisms and folds, but only in a statically
typed language like Haskell. It seems to me that it would be very hard to get
things right... | {
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} |
Does News.YCombinator.com load faster in IE for you? - wizlb
When I navigate to http://news.ycombinator.com/ in Firefox 2.0.0.17, it shows me just the main header (the orange bar) and then it takes an average of about 8 seconds for the list of stories to appear.<p>Doing the same in Internet Explorer 7, everything lo... | {
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Forget the iTunes LP, Apps are the New Album - Hagelin
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/forget_the_itunes_lp_apps_are_the_new_album.php
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zandorg
Yes, but what happens when the latest 'remix your artist blah' (Macromedia
Flash programmes written originally by Koan/Brian Eno and Coldcut), gets
tired, and they ... | {
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} |
Diminishing Returns in Humanities Research - rglovejoy
http://chronicle.com/article/Diminishing-Returns-in/47107/
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jsackmann
One of the many things I've read since I dropped out of a english lit PhD
program that I really, really, really wish I had read before I applied.
I know now that the information is there ... | {
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Harper's Index, April 2013 - pron
http://harpers.org/archive/2013/04/harpers-index-349/
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macchina
Thanks for reminding me about the Harper's Index. I love reading these things.
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dakrisht
Looks like the e-cigarette business is booming. And CEO's are psychopaths.
Good stuff.
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hayksaakian
Let me jus... | {
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Ask HN: A payment model similar to Google's App Engine? - sentinel
I'm building an application that will be able to register events from companies/bars/theaters etc. that are interested in exposing their events to a larger audience.<p>If a user finds an event interesting, he/she can favourite it or save it in their ... | {
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All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Linq vs Raw SQL) - pchristensen
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001281.html
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Maro
There's no way fetching IDs then fetching each row one-by-one is faster than
SELECT * with the the same WHERE clause, especially taking into account
roundtrip times and whatnot. H... | {
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“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” - f_salmon
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/maybe-the-most-orwellian-text-message-ever-sent
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kybernetyk
German police have been doing this for some time already with anti-nazi
protesters: [https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-dat... | {
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Ask HN: What is the origin of Baz Quux? - Floopsy
What is the origin of Baz Quux?
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EdwardCoffin
Check out the entry on metasyntactic variable in the hacker's dictionary:
<http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html>
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There is a blind spot in AI research - _lm_
http://www.nature.com/news/there-is-a-blind-spot-in-ai-research-1.20805
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hyperpallium
I wish HN discouraged clickbait titles, even when the article itself uses that
title. One solution is to append the answer to the original title, separated
by a "|", as used by:
[http... | {
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Austrian Minister Calls for a Constitutional Right to Pay in Cash - randomname2
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/austrians-need-constitutional-right-to-pay-in-cash-mahrer-says
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cesarb
Everybody in these discussions always mention privacy, but there's an equally
important consideration which seem... | {
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} |
Show HN: deemon, run a process in the background and attach to it - joaomoreno
https://github.com/joaomoreno/deemon
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joaomoreno
Hi HN, author here!
We use deemon in VS Code to improve development and minimize downtime. As
developers we like to run our build from within VS Code in order to get tasks
support and ... | {
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} |
Average value of YC founder after 5-9 years is $18M. Applies to top 22.5% - vinnyglennon
https://80000hours.org/2014/05/how-much-do-y-combinator-founders-earn/
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nabeenam
woah, not too shabby.
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Kids hack Canadian ATM during LUNCH HOUR - reitanqild
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/12/kids_hack_canuck_bank_atm_during_lunch_break/
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reitanqild
A note on the hacking part: "The 14 year old duo Caleb Turon and Matthew
Hewlett broke into a Bank of Montreal ATM during school lunch by following an
online m... | {
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Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On? - pius
http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/22/zero-sign-on-with-client-certificates/
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rcoder
This isn't "better" than Single Sign On; if anything, I would call it a
complementary, not competitive, technology.
A client certificate is a statement of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Reminiscence, self-hosted bookmark manager and personal wayback machine - kanishkalinux
https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence
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dqv
I've needed self-hosted bookmarks for a while. There are some written in Java
and PHP, but they just don't seem very approachable.
This is a great project. Here ar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Created product in 2 hours and made $90 so far - hodaraadam
I have a cold so I can't surf or go out today so decided to come with an idea, make it and ship something in 2 hours.<p>I am happy that after 1 hour of launching I already made $90.<p>The site is <a href="http://thebitcoinhat.com" rel=... | {
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Ask HN: How can I donate/help Y Combinator startups? - drofnas
Let me start off by saying I personally had never heard of YC before reading an article in Wired Magazine today. I absolutely love what the program is doing.<p>With that, I'm interested in donating multi-year subscriptions to an online Information Manage... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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'The West' is, in fact, the world's biggest gated community - QuitterStrip
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/walled-world
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opwieurposiu
If I manage to hop the fence into a gated community, the HOA is unlikely to
offer me a free house and a pool key. Unfortunately that is exactly what the
west is doing now. Wheth... | {
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} |
Build - Polish - Polish - Polish - oscardelben
http://blog.oscardelben.com/build-polish-polish-polish
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jhrobert
This explains why 80 lines of code to make a "todo list manager" in your
favorite language can turn into 80K lines of code to make it a commercial
success.
Don't confuse the sketch with the masterpi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: RasberryPi & JavaScript Powered Pizza Ordering - corbett3000
http://istrategylabs.com/2013/11/whoa-piepal-lets-you-order-dominos-pizza-with-the-push-of-a-button/
We made this fun little button powered by RasberryPi, Arduino, Node.JS and Phantom.JS
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julian25
Awesome!
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rthauby
Love it!
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Fat Free CRM - Ruby On Rails-based open source CRM - jasonlbaptiste
http://www.fatfreecrm.com/
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Readmore
I've been looking at this software for a week or so. It has great potential
but it's not ready to deploy just yet. I've already found about a half dozen
bugs and crashes with the demo data that ships with the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Slack beats email, but still needs to get better - rezist808
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11417726/slack-app-walt-mossberg-stewart-butterfield-interview
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nunobrito
What is this? More disguised marketing for slack?
Now it claims to beat email, which is a non-proprietary and decentralized
protocol that is us... | {
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Scottish Independence Referendum Data Map - wf
http://vis.oobrien.com/indyref/
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mark_l_watson
I was talking about Scottish Independence today while hiking with two friends.
Both of them thought that independence was a bad idea, but could not provide
much reason for this. Maybe a slant in USA news media, with a p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth - DarkLinkXXXX
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth
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baldfat
If you are only looking and middle and upper class educated students in
America. The poor urban educated students are not given much in terms of STEM.
My local school district gives no regular... | {
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} |
Elizabeth Holmes Owes About $25M to Theranos - us0r
https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-owes-about-25-million-to-blood-testing-startup-1491435009
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CalChris
From the company's POV, this is a _cashless exercise_. Theranos has loaned
$25M to Holmes who paid it to Theranos. This is a commo... | {
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Show HN: If Elon Musk can do it, why can't everyone? - bhauer
https://elsegundo.brianstaskforce.com/blog/if-elon-musk-can-do-it-why-cant-everyone
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bhauer
Excuse my ignorance, I've never done a Show HN post before.
This is my web site. It's an experiment: is it possible that residents of a
city can exert measu... | {
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} |
Proposal: a Volition Tax - edwardy20
http://quant.am/politics/2016/08/27/proposal-a-volition-tax.html
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josho
I love the concept. However the variability in budget sizes due to changing
tax payer whims strikes me as a challenge for administrators to plan for.
Eg. How do you set multi year goals when there is an ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Anyone using a Desktop-as-a-Service product that can recommend? - quotz
Also, what are you using it for?
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tannerbrockwell
I've used Workspaces [1] for simple browsing and admin because a jump server
was needed for access due to latency. It is amazing that some websites
actually do not work for a global a... | {
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} |
Mike Arrington's Smartest Move Yet: Bailing On The CrunchPad - fromedome
http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-arrington-crunchpad-ipad-2010-2
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brk
What a horrible deluded spin on reality.
Arrington didn't bail on anything. He got dumped, and cried foul for it to
anyone who would listen.
He _may_ have gotten l... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Your experience with PyImageSearch Gurus training - kelvin0
I'm an experienced software dev, and very familiar with Python. I am currently working on a vision project and looking further my knowledge in this field. Has any one of you taken 'PyImageSearch Gurus' training? Do you recommend it, or ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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U.S. Sues Facebook for Housing Bias, Citing Ad and Data Practices - Eduardo3rd
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/facebook-hud-discrimination.html
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sctb
Most comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19511813](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19511813).
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abhinai
It is a heart... | {
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GNU/Linux Is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations with Their Agenda - Supermighty
http://techrights.org/2019/04/16/soft-coup/
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Ericson2314
There is no doubt something interesting here, but this is rather poorly
written.
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BentFranklin
Agree. Extended quote of email rant is hard to appreciate.
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craft... | {
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Why JavaScript Will Become The Dominant Programming Language Of The Enterprise - awwstn
http://readwrite.com/2013/08/09/why-javascript-will-become-the-dominant-programming-language-of-the-enterprise#awesm=~oe2Kb9a42Rs5h9
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mcphilip
TL;DR
Node.js is really popular. Also, JavaScript related job postings are shar... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Help plan the next HN One Day App event - kineticac
http://browseology.posterous.com/help-plan-for-one-day-app-ii
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HeyLaughingBoy
Excellent idea, but drop that comment about holding it on a weekday unless
you're only interested in college students/high schoolers participating. Some
of us have jobs we c... | {
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} |
HTML5 Canvas + JS Fireworks - jpadilla_
http://jackrugile.com/lab/fireworks-v1/
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joshmlewis
I'm no physics expert, but it seems like in real life the take off velocity is
stronger at first and gets lower the higher it goes instead of vise versa like
it is here. It gets faster the higher it goes instead of slow... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Different Tricks on How to Make Bootstrap Columns All the Same Height - scotchio
https://scotch.io/bar-talk/different-tricks-on-how-to-make-bootstrap-columns-all-the-same-height
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scotchio
Are there other better methods?
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Even Elon Musk May Not Be Able to Make an Electric Truck Work - scientific_ass
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/elon-musk-tesla-semi-truck-battery/
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beat
Another possible, more green solution would be to move to biodiesel to replace
the existing fossil diesel. If electric cars more or less fully replace
gasoline ca... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MailBug lets you send email without a “computer”, and it's still running - jonmb
https://mailbug.com/
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jonmb
A friend mentioned this to me the other day and I think it's a cool piece of
Internet history. It's still operational and I wonder how many people are
using it. The fee is $15.95 per month. It has an asso... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Post-Jobs Apple 'has nobody to say no' - Brajeshwar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/post-jobs-apple-has-nobody-to-say-no-1073607
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swombat
My first thought was "oh god, here we go, someone _had_ to make this argument
eventually..."
But then I glanced at the screenshot, and to be fair, it... feels... | {
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} |
Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) [pdf] - Tomte
http://oism.org/nwss/nwss.pdf
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cloakandswagger
I appreciate the way the book teaches the realities of nuclear war. Some
interesting things I picked up from the myth/fact section:
-Food & water isn't contaminated unless fallout particles enter into it. Thus any fo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bop.fm (YC S13) Links Together Music Silos Like Spotify, Rdio To Share Tracks - daredia
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/yc-backed-bop-fm-links-together-music-silos-like-spotify-radio-and-itunes-to-share-tracks-universally/
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mintplant
From the terms for embedding the player [1]:
> You agree to place a link (“... | {
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Show HN: Realtime collaborative heatmap hack for you to click - ericz
http://bench.nowjs.org:9000/
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pa7
Interesting demo, I did a similar one but with mouse movement:
<http://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/multiuser-heatmap/> but I think my server
wont handle lots of users since I'm using an early version of Aja... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft's Hypocrisy on DACA - feross
http://idlewords.com/2019/07/microsoft_s_hypocrisy_on_daca.htm
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Const-me
The article looks like BS. The main source is this link:
[https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&commi...](https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00193342... | {
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Philippe Starck: Why design? - ritonlajoie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PwHD7XKj0&feature=player_embedded#!
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joelmichael
He's a designer, why doesn't he have any slides or other preparation for a TED
talk? Does he put any effort into speaking English clearly? Why does he talk
about that bogus lightning/pri... | {
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} |
The X500 Pro computer case - doener
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505470364/the-x500-pro-computer-case
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rbanffy
The most expensive part of the build is the plastic injection mould. Compared
to that, a different keyboard layout, closer to what an Amiga used, requiring
a different board and switch placement... | {
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} |
Very Good Security - jaxondu
https://a16z.com/2018/08/28/very-good-security/
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tptacek
This doesn't say anything. They invested in a tokenization company. That's not
a new or interesting technology. What am I missing?
There are interesting data security companies happening right now. For
instance, Matthew Green ... | {
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} |
US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates - vinnyglennon
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Source-Leaked-Documents-Show-the-US-Government-Tracking-Journalists-and-Advocates-Through-a-Secret-Database-506783231.html
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Areading314
Duplicate of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325302](h... | {
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Git is already federated and decentralized - weinzierl
https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distributed.html
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felicianotech
Hey Drew, long time no see.
Good posts. I see your point and I don't disagree with it. It's been a clear
trend though that more and more people are moving away from email thou... | {
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} |
Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Serial Numbers Obliterated from Metals - ledgeditor
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/tech-beat/tb20150218.cfm#ebsd
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sfeng
Acids and etching solutions have been used to do this for many years. It takes
longer, hence the relevance of this discovery, but it does often work long
a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate - DanielBMarkham
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/youtube-bans-firearm-sales-and-how-to-videos-prompting-backlash
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DanielBMarkham
Related: [https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/mark-zuckerberg-new-
cornfie...](https://pjmedia.com/an... | {
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} |
Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (2012) - breck
http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/09/your-body-wasn%E2%80%99t-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9414176](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9414176)
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Denying Dystopia: The Hope Police in Fact and Fiction - jseliger
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7809
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avivo
Stories of dystopia are valuable because they help us build threat models.
Stories of utopia are valuable because they give us a vision to aim at.
Stories that assume new technology will lead to a bette... | {
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} |
Common Linux Misconceptions - MattRyanLG
http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2012/06/20/5-linux-misconceptions/
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Scribblepinch
Good read! My experience with Linux is very limited, but I wouldn't mind
tinkering around with it if I could set up a safety machine (i.e. not the one
I use for work) to make sure I could ... | {
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A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not - nickb
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/yourmoney/15proto.html/partner/rssnyt?_r=1&oref=slogin
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rchambers
excellent article on patents and the need for change in the process
| {
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Chinese Scientists Have Developed a Revolutionary Paste That Transforms Desert - peter_d_sherman
https://www.brightvibes.com/686/en/chinese-scientists-have-developed-a-revolutionary-paste-that-transforms-desert-into-fertile-farmland
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peter_d_sherman
Excerpt:
"The revolutionary technology behind the latest Chine... | {
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} |
Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets - fogus
http://shawnblanc.net/2009/09/yojimbo-and-anything-buckets/
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vlad
_Ultimately, without over-the-air syncing Yojimbo would not be the world’s
best info-management mobile app. The biggest need for me wouldn’t be having my
notes with me all the time, but having the... | {
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} |
Police Use Dog To Find Memory And Hard Drives In Search - superuser2
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/08/329501226/police-use-dog-to-find-memory-hard-drives-in-search?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140708
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AlyssaRowan
Do they realise yet how... | {
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} |
Braintree Ignition - The $50k boost for your business - pgr0ss
https://www.braintreepayments.com/ignition
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adamneilson
Wonderful. That's really great news!
Now if there was any way you guys could start offering your Marketplace
platform outside the US (UK specifically) I'll be all over that like a cheap
suit!... | {
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} |
Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds - grawprog
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/10/planet-ceres-ocean-world-sea-water-beneath-surface
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shadowprofile77
Nitpicking, I know, but to call it "Planet Ceres" in the title is more than a
bit wrong. This is a dwarf pl... | {
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} |
A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit - kynthelig
https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit-patent/
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kilburn
I am a bit surprised that most comments here focus on whether the guy's
genuine or not.
What surprised me, in a bad way, is that to challenge a patent you have to
ha... | {
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} |
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students [pdf] - xevb3k
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.full.pdf
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modbait
I'm reminded of the Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to
understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
| {
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} |
WSJ Europe: EU to trash non-European private equity firms? - hga
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22and+hedge-fund+managers.+This+is+not+the+way+to+revive%22+site%3Awsj.com
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hga
Anyone know how much EU startups depend on this source of capital?
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anigbrowl
I can only offer an anecdotal perspective, but would... | {
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} |
The Pirate Bay is online, waving a pirate flag - jpswade
http://thepiratebay.se/
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hakanito
Looks like the site is hosted on Binero[1].. which is a pretty cheap one-click
setup web hosting provider. I don't think it is likely they will open the
torrent site while hosting there. Probably a temporary solution if ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google is Building an Email List Instead of Asking People to Call Congress - Klondike
http://mill-industries.com/post/google-builds-an-email-list-rather-than-fight-pipa
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gkoberger
SOPA and PIPA are just one form of legislation involving the censorship of the
Internet. Even if they are struck down, new legislat... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Contributing to Servo - dbaupp
http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/03/24/contributing-to-servo.html
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ceronman
If you are interested in contributing to Servo. I also recommend the talk
"Servo and You: a beginners to contributing to Servo" given by Josh Matthews
at FOSDEM a couple of months ago. You can find the video... | {
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} |
Ask HN: when will property prices go back up? - phd_student
Having never actually worked in the real world, and always wondering "how to make money" in theory ...<p>why hasn't property prices gone back up?<p>it seems that in these days, rich people (like those with dynasty wealth) can easily buy up entire blocks ...... | {
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} |
Answers on Stackoverflow can't be edited just because they are dangerous - CJefferson
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/276496/how-to-deal-with-dangerous-answers/276577
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CJefferson
This is a question I myself asked on meta.stackoverflow, but I thought people
might be interested in the answers (I was). Ju... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
India to build world's largest solar plant - Garbage
http://www.nature.com/news/india-to-build-world-s-largest-solar-plant-1.14647/
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SixSigma
77 square kilometres of land
From the picture 75% of it is occupied by solar cells.
54 square kilometres of solar panels that need cleaning maybe once a month.
So 1.8 s... | {
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} |
Bold plan: opening 1,000 MHz of federal spectrum to WiFi-style sharing - boh
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/bold-plan-opening-1000-mhz-of-federal-spectrum-to-wifi-style-sharing/
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th0ma5
Beyond merely the frequencies themselves, there's a ton of logistics involved
in things like harmonic ... | {
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} |
FCC chair: An Internet fast lane would be ‘commercially unreasonable’ - Libertatea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/20/fcc-chair-an-internet-fast-lane-would-be-commercially-unreasonable/
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smutticus
Maybe Wheeler's plan is to keep making confusing nonsensical statements until
we get fed u... | {
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} |
Modern Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Games - beefman
http://ludeme.eu/project/
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autocorr
The principal investigator of the project, Cameron Browne, has invented many
very interesting abstract games himself [1]. He also investigated how
computers could create games with the program LUDI used to create Yaval... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting) - iveqy
I've been building a CRM/accounting system for my personal small company. It's still in an early stage and is lacking a few features. But it is finally usable.<p><a href="https://asciinema.org/a/0g9f8c00mrkm018p10r8p8km3" rel="no... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: My friend and I built an LDS dating site that we think is pretty great - istsehrgut
https://ldsmatch.com
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bramm
I like that it's free.
| {
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} |
Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong - 6ren
http://splashcon.org/2011/program/dls/245-invited-talk-2
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fmstephe
My reaction to this is that I am sure he is right that embracing
nondeterminism and relaxing synchronization will allow us to scale up to these
many core PCs. However, this does not... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What customer support-related topic should I do a talk on? - fapi1974
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nnn1234
Excellent idea. Where are you doing this? If its in NYC I can help work on
this. Topics 1\. Cost v efficiency v customer satisfaction triumvirate 2\. Do
you use Customer support as a cost center or lead in to future customers 3... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Thoughts on DEC - njrc
http://seeknuance.com/2015/05/27/thoughts-on-dec/
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gumby
O Ozymandias. Once a titan astride the minicomputer world. What companies of
comparable size today could have the same fate?
Dropbox? Github? They are so much smaller than DEC. HP perhaps.
~~~
ddp
DEC had about 200,000 employees ... | {
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} |
Show HN: VidGrid – A large-screen news channel viewer with simple audio control - MattieTK
https://vidgrid.tk.gg
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MattieTK
Hi HN!
When I was at university (early 2010s) I worked a lot on student media, and
got really into what the future of news would look like. Around the same time
Microsoft backed a company c... | {
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} |
Text-only NPR - mrzool
http://thin.npr.org
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ComputerGuru
My first, knee-jerk reaction was “God, that loaded fast!” even though I
already knew going in what to expect.
Text-only doesn’t have to be _ugly_ though. Once you embrace minimalism, you
realize that aesthetics are primarily a concept of white space and t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book - zenorocha
https://14habits.com/
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zenorocha
Hello HN friends!
I never thought I'd say this, but - yes - I just published a book!
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers is now available for everyone.
It's everything I know about productivity, te... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual - zzaner
https://blog.nuclino.com/brown-m-ms-or-why-no-one-s-reading-the-manual
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DoubleGlazing
A few years ago I left the company I was was working for. We had an internal
doc wiki that hardly anyone used. I was one of the ones who did and I would
document code changes ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bayesian Networks – An Introduction (2016) - rfreytag
https://www.bayesserver.com/docs/introduction/bayesian-networks
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mark_l_watson
Nice demos. Too bad they don;t have non-commercial licensing- a bit too
expensive if it is not being used commercially.
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hessenwolf
The hammer that is still looking for a na... | {
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} |
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive - joelg87
http://joel.is/post/3271058182/world-changing-thoughts-not-productive
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DanielBMarkham
This is the one thing that I constantly struggle with. I'm glad it's not just
me.
One of the most difficult things I faced when moving from commercial... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Our Responsibility As Developers - wattson12
http://kylerichter.com/our-responsibility-as-developers/
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jokull
Hi Hacker News. I’m one of the developers at QuizUp. We’re very proud of the
product, but obviously we missed the mark when it comes to privacy and user
data. On a cultural level we take these things to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How do you read books like 'Clean Architecture' or 'Clean Code'? - neuroticfish
I have poor memory retention so unless I'm working through exercises in a book it's difficult for me to commit to memory good practices. How do you read books like Clean Architecture and apply those practices in your dai... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A designer’s perspective on a Groovy and Grails meetup - sabrinamach
http://blog.feralabs.com/2009/04/a-designers-perspective-on-a-groovy-and-grails-meetup/
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sabrinamach
"... I am not a programmer at all. My background is in design and HCI. The
thought of a geek programmer meeting was slightly disheartening, a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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