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Designing Fast and Programmable Routers [pdf] - lainon
http://web.mit.edu/anirudh/www/anirudh_dissertation.pdf
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cottonseed
Free association: Good talk by Sonja Keserovic (Facebook) from Strange Loop on
their programmable network switch infrastructure:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfWd-
Utcgo](https://www.yo... | {
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Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team - gok
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200127005141/en/Google-Tesla-Engineer-Chris-Lattner-Lead-SiFive
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159963](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159963),
which is currently on the f... | {
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Start a business with Kickstarter donors as angel group - tantalor
Wondering whether anyone had heard this idea, or thought about it?<p>Basic idea is, you pitch on Kickstarter and offer equity as prizes.<p>Any reason why this might be illegal, or too inherently risky for investors?
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TwiztidK
I actually thought... | {
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Flappy48 by Broxxar - asharpe
http://broxxar.itch.io/flappy48
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a_c
The gravity is a bit weird yet the idea is awesome. Blending the most played
games together. Nice.
| {
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Make any language “typed”, by changing your project structure - harryvederci
https://github.com/harryvederci/nothing-to-see-here/blob/master/content/idea_make_any_language_typed.md
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necovek
It's very ugly, but not crazy. Unfortunately, it misses the point: typing is
about having an automated tool report on type ... | {
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How to set up a local API for Home IoT Devices in your office using WiFi - oliver-thamm
https://xapix.io/post/how-to-set-up-a-local-api-for-home-iot-devices-in-your-office-using-wifi
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umbelisco
taking home office to the next level ^^
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Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry - cpeterso
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems
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wrs
This is the problem right here:
>The musician who was owed $40,000 missed out because a glitch between two
databases removed many ... | {
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Tesla raises $1.8B - rising-sky
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bonds-tesla-idUSKBN1AR28M
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11thEarlOfMar
Let's talk about Solar City.
Their product is intended to be a solar roof, indistinguishable from a typical
roof from street level. Costs look to be in the $50,000+ range. The marketing
is that homeow... | {
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10 years of gog.com - dsego
https://www.gog.com/10years
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manfredo
Wow, GoG is a decade old - it's hard to believe. GoG has always had the image
in my mind of a scrappy new startup competing against the big likes of Steam,
Microsoft Store, Origin, etc. I was probably a bit too young for the crowd
that it's games ... | {
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Diagnosing Yahoo’s Ills: Ugly Math in Marissa Mayer’s Reign - NearAP
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/dealbook/diagnosing-yahoos-ills-ugly-math-in-mayers-reign.html
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steven2012
You don't get paid $360M over 5 years and get to defend yourself from failure.
She was paid specifically to fix things, and if... | {
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Chinese rocket Long March-5 carrier launch fails after liftoff - yadongwen
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/asia/china-rocket-launch/index.html
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amiralul
It's not a blow, it's natural for a rocket's first flights. Check out Ariane 5
performance in its first 14 flights and remember that last week we had Ariane
5 80 ... | {
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} |
On finally learning to program at the age of 40 - nfrankel
https://github.com/Dhghomon/programming_at_40/
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susam
The Logo screenshot used in this article was created by me for my own blog
post here: [https://susam.in/blog/good-quality-dosbox-video-
capture/](https://susam.in/blog/good-quality-dosbox-video-captur... | {
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Ask HN: Is Stripe going to ban Onlyfans for processing adult content payments? - solaarphunk
Seems like onlyfans is primarily in the adult content business, however, they appear to use stripe to process payments. Most card processors have clauses against supporting this type of activity, but it appears that Stripe is ... | {
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Launch HN: Tress (YC W17) – Online community for black women's hairstyles - priscahazel
Tress (<a href="https://www.tressapp.co" rel="nofollow">https://www.tressapp.co</a>) is an online community for black women to discover and share hairstyle inspiration, information and tips.
Women upload photos ... | {
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Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions - leftnode
https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done
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adnam
I once wrote a similar script which was configurable and it installed as a
service. It would periodically scan /etc/hosts to check I wasn't cheating.
$ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl s... | {
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Let your customers do the selling - acoyfellow
http://sendgrowth.com/blog/let-your-customers-tell-the-story-of-your-brand/
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jmzbond
This reminds me of the tips and tricks I've read about when you have customer
complaints.
Especially in the early stages, really engage the customer. Get the customer
involved in... | {
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} |
Donald Trump's voicemails hacked by Anonymous - dineshp2
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trumps-voicemails-hacked-by-anonymous-a6913861.html
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leereeves
What they found matches what Trump himself said:
_“I gave to many people before this -- before two months ago I was a
busi... | {
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} |
Steve Wozniak's First Dance on "Dancing with the Stars" - zeedotme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiGJMZjs0o&eurl=http://thenextweb.com/#
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coglethorpe
OK, I'll admit to watching The Woz dance. I think he moved pretty well for a
big guy, but the judges didn't agree with me.
It was great to hear him go on about ... | {
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Women in Science (Science as a career) - philf
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
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araneae
Nice story, but how do you then explain the massive numbers of women in
sociology/anthropology/English lit? The pay is even worse in those fields.
I totally buy that guys are more willing to sacrifice pa... | {
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} |
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone - nkurz
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
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leot
Elsevier and others can go something themselves.
Their behavior over the last two decades has been little more than
reprehensible rent-seeking. Whatever goodwill they had disa... | {
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} |
Predict the Output Challenge in C#, part 3 - bursurk
http://www.volatileread.com/Wiki/Index?id=2092
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koyote
These are quite good and definitely result in quite surprising output in some
cases.
I would have liked the descriptions/answers to be a bit more detailed though.
For example, why is the static construc... | {
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Ask PG: Could YC admissions be replaced with a very small shell script? - dfranke
If you train CRM114 (or some other classifier) on all but the most recent batch of YC applications, how does it fare at distinguishing interview vs. no-interview applications in the most recent batch? How well would it have to do in o... | {
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} |
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer Says Amazon and Google Are Xbox’s Real Competition - adrian_mrd
https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/5/21124148/phil-spencer-microsoft-xbox-xcloud-amazon-google-competition
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dixintri
I hope not. What we've seen so far with Google Stadia is not exciting to say
the least. Sony has the right idea... | {
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} |
2BRØ2B by Kurt Vonnegut [pdf] - evo_9
http://mrbockholt.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/4/8/22487060/vonnegut_2br02b.pdf
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carter_harwood
A create short story. Read it back in high school
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High Performance Networking On The JVM - diggerLogger
http://normanmaurer.me/presentations/2013-jax-networking-on-jvm/#/1
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brokenparser
AFAIK, section headers should be used sequentially, e.g. <section><h1>First
level</h1><h2>Second level</h2>
< p>Foobar</p><h2>Another second level header</h2>
< p>Quux</p></... | {
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Ask HN: Agtech has become a data play,how can farmers commoditize/monetize it? - jelliclesfarm
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jelliclesfarm
1\. Farmers are bearing the cost of implementing tech. 2\. They own field data
but in fragmented data sets. 3\. Data is valuable when it’s collected over
contiguous fields and when in large datasets.(thin... | {
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} |
Horrible Things I Found Out When I Made A Video Game - smacktoward
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-you-learn-when-making-modern-video-game/
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jondubois
The media keeps telling us over and over again that to be successful
financially, you have to be passionate about what you do. This is he biggest
lie ever.
... | {
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} |
Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics - atomical
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/15/611225541/reluctant-psychonaut-michael-pollan-embraces-the-new-science-of-psychedelics
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Jedi72
Im a stable, sane, not depressed or anything person. I once took LSD (mixed
with oth... | {
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} |
Eight months to Brexit: what happens next? - okket
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/26/eight-months-to-brexit-what-happens-next
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Cypher
I can't wait for the Americans to come in and privatise the NHS. I'm really
enjoying the small chocolate bars after they took over Cadburys.
| {
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} |
Introduction to MCollective slides - ibotty
http://www.slideshare.net/PuppetLabs/mcollectiveintroductionsf
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ibotty
[http://www.devco.net/archives/2013/06/14/introduction-to-
mco...](http://www.devco.net/archives/2013/06/14/introduction-to-mcollective-
deck.php) announces the slide deck.
| {
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WebGL water simulation with raytracing and caustics - wgx
http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
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mtgx
Looks awesome. The OpenGL ES 3.0 standard should be announced this summer.
WebGL will be upgraded to that, right? (It's now using OpenGL ES 2.0).
| {
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Show HN: Comics - marvindanig
https://bubbl.in/book/intro-by-wenqing-yan/1
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marvindanig
Heya HN!
We started a webcomics on our modern day cyberpunk situation. Hope you like
it!
If you do, subscribe! :-)
Aaaaaaaaaand... it's also open source! :
[https://github.com/marvindanig/fisheye-placebo-
intro](https://gi... | {
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Show HN: EteSync – Secure, E2E sync for your contacts, calendars and tasks - groovybits
https://www.etesync.com/
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groovybits
A quick search has shown this has not been submitted since 2017.
EteSync now supports iOS, making it officially available on all popular
platforms. Self-hosted option is also available.
... | {
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} |
Lonelygirl15 team gets $5 million in venture capital - alex_c
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/17/lonelygirl15-team-gets-5-million-venture-capital
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aupajo
Read the tooltip of the second image in that article :)
I laughed.
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asmosoinio
This one?
[http://venturebeat.com/wp-
content/uploads/2008/04/lo... | {
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Ask HN: What to do during “wait” time at work? - gustanas
What do you usually do at work when you are waiting for example on a project to build? Or when you are in an unnecessary meeting? I'd like to find something useful besides reading articles on the internet
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steviee
We have a rule for attending meeting... | {
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Trimensional: 3D Scanner for iPhone - GrantS
http://www.trimensional.com/
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motters
This is a shape from shading approach, which will only work if you're in the
dark, with the phone as the only illumination source. If white dots are shown
in different places on the screen, and assuming the phone and subject don... | {
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} |
Säkkijärven polkka - luu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4kkij%C3%A4rven_polkka#Military_use
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Ndymium
The English Wikipedia page, to me, seems to suggest that the record was played
to explode the mines in a controlled fashion. In fact, according to Finnish
Wikipedia, it was used to scramble the Soviet radio ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Tech Companies Design Products with Their Destruction in Mind - mpbm
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-tech-companies-design-products-with-their-destruction-in-mind-1465351202
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mpbm
Just make everything as recyclable as possible so we can repair and repurpose
it in addition to recycling.
| {
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Apple threatens Palm Pre owners. In a support note. - technologizer
http://technologizer.com/2009/06/16/bye-bye-palm-pre-media-sync/
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stevejohnson
This article jumps to some pretty ridiculous conclusions. The support note
just says that since Apple never promised to support the Pre (for very good
reasons I mig... | {
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} |
Stop building client-side forms - tvararu
https://blog.vararu.org/stop-building-client-side-forms
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postpawl
It’s probably worth adding a sentence or two to describe when client side
forms are useful?
Once your form becomes very dynamic (“add another”, conditional
fields/choices, 15+ change events), a server sid... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Instant pages with HTML5 Visibility API & Page Pre-Rendering - igrigorik
http://www.igvita.com/2011/06/25/html5-visibility-api-page-pre-rendering/
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sbirch
"With the visibility API, you can gracefully pause or degrade the timer to a
much longer poll when the tab is in the background."
Note that this is already... | {
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} |
Show HN: FAS – C distributed Real-Time graphical audio synthesizer server - onirom
https://github.com/grz0zrg/fas
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person_of_color
<3 for C
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Developer banned from Andriod's open marketplace. "Open" platform? - pistoriusp
http://www.falsedichotomies.org/node/73
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BenFeldman
These questions should (rightly) be raised about the Market.
But calling into question the openness of the platform itself may not be the
right approach, because anyone can distr... | {
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Biases Against the Creation of Wealth - dstowell
http://www.reason.com/news/show/122019.html
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thomasp
I am a libertarian capitalist, who has made a reasonable amount of wealth.
This article is good, but it ignores several _institutional_ sources of
"unfairness" in common parlance. The most obvious ones through... | {
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} |
Reddit Enhancement Suite - rayascott
https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
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sidkhanooja
Reddit w/o RES is like McDonalds without the Big Mac. Been using it for years.
Shame that most of its features are broken with the pathetic new redesign
though[1].
[1] -
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/7urcrp/r... | {
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} |
Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun - mnazim
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-takes-over-distribution-of-censored-3d-printable-gun-130510/
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ColinWright
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686403>
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The Lazy and Smarter Web - terpua
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/08/the-lazy-and-sm.html
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demandred
problem is, this only works for guys like Fred. How many hackers on here have
thousands reading your blog, twitter, etc.?
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d0mine
Popular blogs have a good page rank, therefore googling will bring better
resul... | {
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Learning a single-variable polynomial, or the power of adaptive queries - signa11
http://jeremykun.com/2014/11/18/learning-a-single-variable-polynomial-or-the-power-of-adaptive-queries/
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diego898
great read, surprising result! Id be interested to see what happens when
coefficients are in the reals
| {
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Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Berners-Lee - Tomte
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/mar/12/internet-not-working-women-girls-tim-berners-lee
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belval
While I do think that this is a very real problem that should be addressed
somehow, I think Tim Berners-Lee should stop making useless st... | {
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} |
This typeface could help dyslexics read - jonathanehrlich
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/09/christian-boer-dyslexie-typeface-dyslexia-easier-reading-istanbul-design-biennial-2014/
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davelnewton
Oh like
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671568](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671568)?
| {
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Startups that demoed at Y Combinator W16 Demo Day 2 - cjbarber
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/y-combinator-winter-2016/
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mkohlmyr
Looks like a much stronger batch to me, I take back some of what I said
yesterday. I would be hard pressed to choose between some of these!
I love that we are seeing less fad apps ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Dead Man Fund - chollida1
https://longreads.com/2017/11/09/ameritor-dead-mans-fund-charles-steadman/
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Mitchhhs
This is quite sad.
One thing i've been shocked by over the years is how often even well educated,
highly intelligent individuals have a very poor education in personal finance
and make terrible dec... | {
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} |
US forbids any device larger than cellphone on flights from 13 countries - prawn
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/20/us-forbids-devices-larger-cell-phones-flights-13-countries
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LordWinstanley
Deliberately (?) misleading headline. The devices are not banned from flights.
They are banned from being ca... | {
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} |
Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic - ernesto95
http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-alien-life-will-be-robotic
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tfandango
This seems obvious to me. Humans are not very durable. Most of the complexity
of space travel is derived from trying to keep squishy fragile humans alive,
and even then they die of old age befor... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Browser Wars: Is Internet Explorer 10 a Relevant Browser? - carusen
http://www.7tutorials.com/browser-wars-internet-explorer-10-relevant-browser
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Piskvorrr
Browser Wars: Does it matter any more? To my pleasure, I can say that it
mostly doesn't - modern pages will work in any modern browser. Hip hip hooray!
~~... | {
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} |
How Ning made me a chump and how you can avoid it - skorks
http://www.morelightmorelight.com/2010/01/15/the-problem-with-software-as-a-service-is-you-dont-own-shit/
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Mc_Big_G
The sad fact is that most users don't care about vendor lock-in and it is not
in the interest of these companies to make it easy to expo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Better Way to Share Links in Email - bengross
http://www.messagingnews.com/onmessage/ben-gross/better-way-share-links-email
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frossie
In case people have an unsolved problem in this area, you can also check the
"Email This" Firefox add-on. It's an easy way of getting non-techie family
members to send you links.... | {
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} |
Email transparency - xal
https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency
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greggman
I've known companies that had pretty good email policies....until they got
sued and every email debate was turned into the evidence that they knew X or
considered Y or thought about Z and were therefore guilty. :-(
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jzieger2
Hi (I'... | {
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Show HN: I coded the division algorithm on bit arrays - 19eightyfour
https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/bitmath/blob/master/index.js#L222
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19eightyfour
Happy 4th of July, people of USA!
| {
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Let’s Remember Exxon’s Extremely Wrong Response to Its Catastrophic Oil Spill - dsr12
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/lets-remember-exxons-extremely-fucked-up-response-to-its-catastrophic-oil-spill
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hdhzy
I don't know why but I'm thinking about Symantec right now...
| {
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Robinhood (backed by a16z) started offering free equity trading platform - ivom2gi
https://www.robinhood.io/
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salient
Will this work only for Americans? Is there a minimum deposit amount?
| {
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} |
Colorffy – Resources and tools for designers and developers - giancarlosgza
https://www.colorffy.com/
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giancarlosgza
Hi Hacker News! Here are some features from Colorffy:
1\. It's a design website, where you can search for color gradients and
palettes, get color codes like hex, rgb, hsl and cmyk
2\. Preview UI... | {
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A Teenager’s View on Social Media - dpflan
https://medium.com/backchannel/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6#.tgc3a48px
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greenyoda
Note: This article is from a year ago.
Original discussion on HN:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8851902](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8851902)
A respons... | {
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Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business - prakash
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/something-impor.html
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henning
I'm really getting tired of all these pundits who have a magic crystal ball.
Services can stay irrationally bad for a very long time. He's making
ridiculous speculations about th... | {
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} |
Show HN: A message board with anonymous, open moderation - sqifb
http://www.qxczv.pw
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sqifb
Notably, delete is not broken, but you have to refresh the page first, as an
anti-spam measure
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sova
Please change the colors oh lord
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clishem
Maybe change the rest of the CSS while you're at it.
This is not g... | {
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Making Sense of Complexity - robg
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02segal.html?ref=weekinreview
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Gibbon
Is it just me or do others get peeved when the words complex and complicated
are used interchangeably?
To me they mean very different things:
A complicated problem is one that is difficult to ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Hottbox – Higher-Order Tensors Toolbox - IlyaKisil
https://github.com/hottbox/hottbox
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ktpsns
Being a physicist in computational (general) relativity, when I read about a
"tensor toolbox" I would think about a code implementing some kind of tensor
algebra, such as a syntax to do tensor contractions.
~~... | {
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} |
Why I'm leaving Linux - JeanCarloM
http://jeancarlomachado.net/blog/why-i-left-linux.html
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JepZ
During the years since I use Linux I experienced some of those issues too. But
many times when I came in contact with mainstream operating systems like
Windows and MacOS I saw similar problems and thought many times: ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Simple, safe, and fund anonymous chat - adamlieb
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/18/reveal-chat-for-ios-helps-you-build-real-social-connections-via-anonymous-chat/?ncid=twittersocialshare
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schars1
awesome app
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The cult of design dictatorship (2012) - tapp
https://alexcabal.com/the-cult-of-design-dictatorship/
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knowtheory
This post is unfortunate. This post is so extremely unfortunate because first,
it is wrong, and second, it highlights the wrong problem (and the post's
author even admits it in the post).
The problem... | {
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Outraged eBay sellers plan boycott - dcurtis
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/07/smbusiness/ebay_boycott.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2008021009
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iamelgringo
When, oh, when will someone develop a decent competitor to Ebay? The site is
awful and is ripe for a startup to carve away market share. They've already
proven ... | {
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} |
7 YC startups find success in the heartland - kochb
https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/09/7-yc-startups-find-success-in-the-heartland/
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sharemywin
A lot of products I think find initial traction and then flop because SV is a
shitty test city.
[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1137953...](http:/... | {
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Positive review of Disqus on Uncov - gabrielleydon
http://www.uncov.com/2007/11/8/disqus-ok-now-we-re-getting-somewhere
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brlewis
When I saw the title I thought it had to be fake, but it's true. This may be
the first time I've seen "positive" and "uncov" used together.
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tlrobinson
Yeah I thought the two wer... | {
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Police Force Suspect to Unlock Phone with Face ID - kposehn
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/face-recognition-iphone-unlock-police-force/572353/?single_page=true
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jshevek
Since the FBI got a warrant and were responding to allegations of a sexual
assault, I can respect the argument for doing... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why nobody cares about good engineering rather than how to reduce costs? - svett
For the last 6 months, I have been running consulting business with not so much great success. My initial goal was to build small 5+ boutique company and that's it. However, the expectations met the reality. Right I just have... | {
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Jeff Dean Endorses New AI Powered Healthcare Platform - jmarty
https://plus.google.com/+JeffDean/posts/V1LeP3Pnhrt?sfc=true
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dbdriscoll
Mike Ng is excelllent
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kevin_lin0
jeff dean + healthcare + AI....makes sense
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talliehuang
WHAT
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r_allen023
god has spoken
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iOS App Store now allows legacy downloads to support older OSes - cleverjake
http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/17/ios-app-store-now-allows-legacy-app-downloads-to-support-older-hardware-and-software/
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jaysonelliot
It's a wonderful half-measure, but also serves to highlight a problem with
cloud-based installs that I'm n... | {
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} |
Atul Gawande: University of Chicago Medical School Commencement Address - absconditus
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/06/atul-gawande-university-of-chicago-medical-school-commencement-address.html
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timf
Fighting this problem from the doctor's side is noble (this is an uplifting
speech) but ... | {
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} |
Komodo IDE adds collaboration a-la-gdocs. Good for remote pair programming - urlwolf
http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/04/komodo-7-alpha-code-collaboration
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rbanffy
I have used Emacs this way - you just open another window (frame, in Emacs
parlance) on the other guy's X server.
I works even if both of you ... | {
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} |
Companies valued at $1B or more by venture-capital firms - onderkalaci
http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
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Chmouel
There is so many of them there i had no idea they existed
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Gunsmith Uses 3D Printer To Make A Rifle - jessicaSFNY
http://www.webpronews.com/gunsmith-uses-3d-printer-to-make-a-rifle-2012-07
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ef4
Any competent machinist can make functional semiautomatic weapons. This is
just the next step in making it even easier.
If the United States ever got serious about banning firea... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How to transition from academic programming to software engineering? - fdsvnsmvas
I taught myself how to code and ended up doing a PhD in a computational discipline. Programming has been a big part of my life for at least the last decade, during which I've written code almost every day, but always by mys... | {
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US Apple iPad to be released in April - computinggeek
http://thecomputinggeek.com/us-apple-ipad-to-be-released-in-april/
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ktf
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169343>
Or:
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html>
| {
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Bootstrapping Your Startup: Do You Really Need Early Investment? - ndemoor
http://blog.woorank.com/2014/01/bootstrapping-woorank/
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tomblomfield
There are lots of startups that simply couldn't exist without early investment
- anything with high upfront costs combined with economies of scale. I founded
a payments ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: the link to the article ``what makes a good teacher'' - plmday
Hi, I still remember that I read a blog article submitted by someone of you talking about ``what makes a good teacher'' alike, but I can not find the article now. I googled the title, but all the results are not the one I read before. Anyone re... | {
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} |
Late applications for YC S16: any news? - afonya
Has anyone who submitted late applications for the upcoming batch received any responses or interview invites yet? Thanks.
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fatimafouda
I submitted mine on April 11th, and just received a rejection email. Better
luck to you though!
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What SaaS Startups Need to Look for in an Online Payments Solution - kpgrio
https://blog.paymill.com/saas-startups-online-payments/
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kerro700
Cool input!
| {
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Comic book archive - fwn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive
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fwn
The reason I find this interesting:
> Comic book archive files are not a distinct file format; only the file name
> extension differs from a standard file of the given archive type.
It's a standard that emerged from the need to find... | {
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} |
Lyft Partners with Waze - ktamura
http://consumerist.com/2016/01/26/lyft-partners-with-waze-in-effort-to-be-faster-more-efficient-than-the-competition/
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samstave
Well, if they do a better job than Uber has been doing with whatever the heck
Uber has been doing with route finding - this will be good for Lyft.
I h... | {
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} |
The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup - danteembermage
http://www.newsweek.com/id/158587/
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elecengin
BATS does not only compete on price and speed. It offers many unique order
types tailored to it's main market - high speed traders. Targeting high speed
traders gave BATS an advantage because... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What alternatives to Symbolset? - abdophoto
Anyone know any good alternatives to Symbolset? I'm having some serious issues with it in FF and IE.
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charlieirish
Font Awesome: <http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/>
Although, if you're looking at icon fonts, you'll probably want to look at one
of t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: YC Intern- Housing in San Francisco? - loganfrederick
I am talking with one of the Y Combinator companies about interning this summer at their San Francisco office. I'm now looking for affordable living space in the San Francisco Bay area with transportation access to downtown San Francisco.<p>Does anyone ha... | {
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Poster: Napoleon's March - Tomte
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters
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pjc50
For a little background, Clausewitz writes about this in his famous book. When
wondering how the enourmous losses came about, remember:
\- the Grande Armee was walking from Paris to Moscow, and quartering in the
field along the way... | {
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The Fastest Growing Open Source Project? - maximesalomon
http://blog.codecombat.com/uid/137237
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mkal_tsr
How can they say they're the fastest growing when Popcorn Time nearly doubled
the unique contributors (95-ish to 40ish) in nearly the same time? Seems
rather disingenuous to include PopcornTime clearly showin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
BAE Systems reveals PHASA-35 solar-powered UAV with endurance for a year - farseer
http://www.janes.com/article/79777/bae-systems-reveals-phasa-35-solar-powered-hale-uav
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hjek
That will give the Saudis a more environmentally friendly way of bombing
schools and hospitals in Yemen.
| {
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Ask HN: Could a Basic Income Be Paid by Carbon Tax? - sharemywin
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wmf
Coincidentally, some Republicans just today proposed a carbon tax that would
be returned in the form of $2,000/person/year basic income. Because carbon tax
is regressive it makes sense to offset it with BI, although that may still
leave some pe... | {
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} |
Meditations on Moloch (2014) - elvinyung
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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elvinyung
I really like this article.
At its core, it's a really a critique of decentralized systems, and how
different actors making game-theoretically optimal decisions can make the
overall state worse.
I th... | {
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} |
How many languages/frameworks is too much for back end? - tmin
We started out with Python/Django monolith when we had less than 10 developers. Then the team chose Golang for a new service to have better performance. At that time we had about 25-30 engineers.<p>Then the company hired some people who have Erlang a... | {
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} |
MakerDAO’s Recent Trouble May Highlight Flaws in the Ecosystem - broomnap
https://forklog.media/makerdaos-recent-trouble-may-highlight-flaws-in-the-ecosystem/
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verdverm
The whole blockchain ecosystem has inherent flaws that the sweep under the
rug.
| {
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} |
Swarm of bees follow car for over 24 hours (2016) - howard941
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/24/swarm-of-bees-follow-grandmothers-car-for-over-24-hours-attempti/
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ergothus
Swarming bees are unusual creatures.
I've seen a tree that had three large (~8in/20cm) balls of bees hanging off of
branches. My g... | {
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} |
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