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America’s First Direct Mail Campaign - 082349872349872
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/node/1912
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082349872349872
"In 1835, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AAS) took their campaign to a new
level with what could be called the first use of a direct mail campaign."
Direct mail being in its infancy, they did not th... | {
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Bitstamp Incident Report 2-20-15 - edward
http://www.scribd.com/doc/270137312/Bitstamp-Incident-Report-2-20-15
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edward
"The sender was offering Mr. Kodric the opportunity to join Upsilon Pi Epsilon
(UPE), the International Honour Society for the Computing and Information
Disciplines. The UPE site is hosted withi... | {
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Relentlessly focus on your customers: test usability. - jgershen
http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/relentlessly-focus-on-your-customers-test-usability/
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asolove
I would like to preempt the inevitable "but Apple doesn't do user testing"
argument by saying something.
There are two known ways to make good products.
... | {
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The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents - llambda
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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gojomo
Hey! I invented the magnet link, almost 10 years ago.
Great to see it still evolving and spreading, based simply on its loosey-
goosey merit... | {
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Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing” - ca98am79
https://avc.com/2018/05/is-buying-crypto-assets-investing/
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drcode
Any discussion of whether "X is Y" like this is kind of pointless. More than
that, it just devolves into sub-arguments. In this case, it will devolve into
arguing whether an "investment" requires pur... | {
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Using MySQL as NoSQL Store - posulliv
http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html
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trjordan
That's a really fascinating post. Definitely worth the time to read. Thanks.
One of the things I don't understand is how the ACID properties carry over.
InnoDB is fully transactio... | {
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xTab – Chrome extension to limit maximum open tabs - craigc
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xtab/amddgdnlkmohapieeekfknakgdnpbleb
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craigc
Just wanted to provide a little bit of context. This extension is NOT for
everyone.
It fulfills a very specific purpose. I have found that I constantly have way
t... | {
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FBI Memo Concerning Roswell Incident - 22nd March 1950 - smallwords
http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view
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smallwords
Just before anyone thinks this is a smoking gun. It is only from an informant.
The FBI has this disclaimer:
The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public... | {
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} |
Show HN: weekend project – Quant finance academic paper aggregator - dia80
http://quantpapers.com
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dia80
Hi all, thanks for taking the time to look would be interested your thoughts!
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Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC - sleepyshift
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-09/apple-plans-to-announce-move-to-its-own-mac-chips-at-wwdc
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Shank
Don't get me wrong. I love the potential native performance gains from this
transition, but I can't help but just be a tiny b... | {
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Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists - philjackson
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111209/10151917022/shockingly-unshocking-two-congressional-staffers-who-helped-write-sopapipa-become-entertainment-industry-lobbyists.shtml
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DevX101
You'll never find a politician wort... | {
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3 Apps for Guaranteed Dates This Autumn - xbuilderx
https://medium.com/@DineWithMike/3-apps-for-guaranteed-dates-this-autumn-dc31cdceb86a
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DrScump
This author should have investigated (and mentioned) basic privacy issues
first.
I immediately deleted Coffee Meets Bagel once they started _requiring_
Facebook auth... | {
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Climber Dean Potter Killed in Yosemite BASE Jump - eplanit
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/us/yosemite-base-jumpers-dean-potter-graham-hunt-deaths/index.html
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huac
Rest in peace Dean Potter. This CNN article doesn't do his life justice at all
- the NYT did a bit better: [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/sports/de... | {
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Show HN: asyncblock - Node.js async flow control built on fibers - scriby
https://github.com/scriby/asyncblock
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keyston
Impressive work.. Next time I work with node I'll keep this in mind. One thing
that would be nice is the ability to chain blocks. I can't think of a example
at the moment but didn't see any e... | {
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Intel Quark Runs on Roof, Raises Questions - ChuckMcM
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319447
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ris
"We looked at Freescale and ARM too but decided on using Quark"
Interesting that he doesn't say why here. There's no "it simply had better
performance", "it did more with the power budget" or other reas... | {
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} |
Termtosvg: Linux terminal recorder to create standalone SVG animations - nmstoker
https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg
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nmstoker
Interesting, as the advantage over
[https://asciinema.org](https://asciinema.org) is the SVG can just be placed
on a site and it should just work.
Currently seems like it is more limit... | {
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Why reading 100 books a year won’t make you successful - aytekin
https://medium.com/swlh/why-reading-100-books-a-year-wont-make-you-successful-1863dad5944d
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Maro
Reading is input. To be successful, you have to produce output. If you spend
too much time on input, there's not enough time for output.
~~~
aytekin
I... | {
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Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information - jtwarren
https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
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fricat1ve
Electronic health records have been way oversold. Expecting every little
medical office to have industrial-grade data protection makes them far more of
a liability than they are worth.
... | {
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} |
3D Game Shaders for Beginners - lettier
https://github.com/lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
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60654
That's a very cool intro to a variety of shader techniques, especially post-
processing effects.
What's even more wild, is that modern engines include all of this stuff out of
the box, you just have to tick a... | {
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Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11 - feross
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/09/sign-in-with-apple-epic-games-disabled/
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aboringusername
This is something many people feared might happen, and now, it's become a
reality:
Apple can, at will, remove your entire foundation or busin... | {
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} |
Show HN: A little knowledge portal I've been building - tuvalie
https://tuvalie.com/fae/?q=Albert%20Einstein
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eric001
Regarding the UI, personally, I would shrink things down a notch. It feels a
bit "in your face" right now, if that makes sense. Besides that - love it!
Edit: even just changing font-size from 14... | {
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Show HN: Wox – an open source launcher for windows inspired by Alfred and Launchy - ishu3101
https://www.getwox.com/
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warunsl
I have been using this for a while. It is good. It is not a replacement to
GNOME Do yet (I am not sure if plugins bridge the gap) but I have found that
the application search is much fast... | {
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} |
Canadian robot melds brain surgery, rocket science (2007) - neurotech1
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-surgery-robotics-idUSN1742478220070417
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neurotech1
The recent news of Simone Giertz[0] (Queen of _something_ robots) diagnosed
with a brain tumor[1] made me wonder about neurosurgical robots.
neuroArm[2] is... | {
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The Man Who Saved Southwest Airlines with a '10-Minute' Idea - ghosh
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/28/418147961/the-man-who-saved-southwest-airlines-with-a-10-minute-idea
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Roritharr
A great example for lead bullets:
[http://www.bhorowitz.com/lead_bullets](http://www.bhorowitz.com/lead_bullets)
~~~
plq
> The issue ... | {
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Why your desk job is slowly killing you (2010) - zufallsheld
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39523298/ns/health-mens_health/
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ColinWright
There is an extensive, instructive, interesting, and useful discussion from a
previous submission:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834671](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite... | {
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Apple Airplay – Fix Sound Coming From Laptop Instead of TV - ninjakeyboard
http://refactoringfactory.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/airplay-fix-sound-coming-from-laptop-instead-of-desired-device/
======
sadanapalli
Thank you, that helps. I face this problem a lot.
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Beautiful PHP - ooooak
http://devpy.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/beautiful-php/
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bradwestness
Not exactly sure what the "tips" are in these, most of them just look like
cruddy PHP code.
In the 2nd part of Example 2, using "else if" instead of several "if"
statements to check the same value would result in fewer c... | {
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} |
List of unusual Wikipedia articles - infinity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_articles
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RevRal
WTF (A chandelier made of human bones):
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg>
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riffraff
I am surprised by the lack of the Brother Metal page, but I'm not sure if it
deserves being... | {
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} |
The CodeSprint Post-Mortem: Statistics and Lessons Learned - mikeinterviewst
http://blog.interviewstreet.com/2011/10/codesprint-post-mortem-statistics-and-lessons-learned/
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anrope
Useful as it is, I hope the high valued problems will become a bit more
diverse, involving topics other than graph theory.
Despite... | {
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Tell HN: Goo.gle's Certificate Has Expired - sharmi
google.com uses certificates issued by GlobalSign. Whereas, goo.gle uses Let's Encrypt. Is there a reason for using different providers?<p>Just curious, as I run sitefitnesshq.com and have seen a lot of sites being crippled by expired certificates.
======
HiryuS... | {
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San Diego: Join us for Hacker News meetup #14 (Fri 2/25) - ericabiz
http://anyvite.com/hkbggjx8u1
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ericabiz
Last month we had over 40 people attend. Can we top that this time? Let's find
out! (Please RSVP by clicking on the link above so we can tell our friendly
coffee shop owner exactly how many people are ta... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Corporations are refrigerators - piescream
http://www.lorrinmaughan.com/coaching-blog/corporations-are-refrigerators
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Karellen
I am reminded of Charles Stross' blog post "Snowden leaks: the real take-
home"[0]:
"A huge and unmentionable side-effect of the neoliberal backlash of the 1970s
was the deregulation of... | {
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How does music streaming websites earn money? - anbux
How do music streaming websites like spotify earn revenue? What is there business model?
======
philipkiely
By my understanding, Spotify has two major sources of revenue: advertisements
on unpaid accounts and subscription fees on paid accounts. The subscription
fee... | {
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} |
iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions - CameronBanga
https://github.com/CameronBanga/iOS-Developer-and-Designer-Interview-Questions
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kalyan02
Majority of these questions seem to be Trivia, which can be looked up. I don't
see any need to learn them. They are probably nice to know but are not helpful
in objec... | {
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A Story of O(racle) - bjonathan
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/08/31/A-Story-of-O
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j_baker
Much as I dislike this as a developer, this is a smart business strategy for
Oracle. Let's face it: at the companies that use Oracle, the developers aren't
the one making the call as to what database to use.... | {
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} |
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – ICLR 2017 Discoveries - amund
https://amundtveit.com/2016/11/12/deep-learning-for-natural-language-processing-iclr-2017-discoveries/
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nl
A few brief notes:
Not at all sure the recommendations system papers should be grouped with QA
papers. The techniques used aren... | {
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} |
iPhone X - interconnector
https://www.apple.com/iPhone-x
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zaroth
They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I'm still waiting for the
ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should
see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should
unlock it and see.... _... | {
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} |
Global warming of 1.5 °C: An IPCC special report - wewake
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/
======
wewake
It's main highlight - global warming must be limited to 1.5°C rather than the
previously agreed 2°C to avoid extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty
around the world. This is especially alarming given that US (on... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What happened to Tim Hortons? The downfall of Canada's brand - pseudolus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/09/tim-hortons-canada-coffee-brand-popularity-downfall
======
throwaway5752
Didn't read the article, and this post is likely to slide off into obscurity,
but here's what happened: they combined with Burg... | {
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} |
What We Learned from Pivoting into a DTC Business in Two Weeks - torinrittenberg
https://www.branchfurniture.com/blogs/turn-key/pivoting-to-a-d2c-company
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startupinmotion
branding and quality look on point. wish there were some more options
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jasonbate44
this is impressive
~~~
torinrittenberg
thanks jason... | {
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How to Get Lucky - ericvanular
https://ericvanular.com/how-to-get-lucky/
======
swellconstell
In my experience, getting repeatedly lucky seems to be more a function of how
often you put yourself out there rather than anything else
| {
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Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year - pcr910303
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/wrongly-assumes-1900-is-leap-year
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sloaken
This was to be compatible with the spreadsheet program called Lotus 123. At
the time microsoft made excel, Lotus was very popular. As such ... | {
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} |
Show HN: github-mirror, syncs every repo in an org. locally for faster deploys - mmelin
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/githubmirror
======
Tobu
I like github-backup[1], which I think does something slightly different; it
mirrors github issues and the rest of github's non-git metadata.
[1] [https://github.com/joeyh/gi... | {
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Verizon to allow unlimited Skype calling over 3G starting next month - mshafrir
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/verizon-to-allow-unlimited-skype-calling-over-3g-starting-next-m/?s=t5
======
wmf
"You cannot use the Skype client to make any calls to U.S. PSTN numbers."
according to GigaOM <http://gigaom.com/2010/02/1... | {
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} |
Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? - fern12
https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2017/09/01/why-are-some-countries-rich-and-others-poor/
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sumedh
As someone who migrated from a developing country(India) to a developed
country(Australia) and observing the difference in quality of life ... | {
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} |
On the Polish Paradox - pimeys
http://www.booksandideas.net/How-to-Live-in-a-Hostile-World.html
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basicplus2
"Neoliberal globalisation has exploited or demolished local economic
resources, impoverished large fractions of population, increased social and
economic inequalities, introduced the ruthless law of the fi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Musician and synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla has died - tokai
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/arts/music/don-buchla-dead.html?_r=0
======
justincormack
Previous thread
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523042](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523042)
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Show HN: Jot – a terminal note taking app - termusr
https://github.com/int3rlop3r/jot
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termusr
A terminal-based note taking app I use everyday.
| {
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Drafting your first investment round. - andreasklinger
http://klinger.io/post/49773016181/drafting-your-first-investment-round
======
andreasklinger
OP here.
I would love to try something here. The goal is to have a good source for
early stage founders. And my advice - in the end - is also just one opinion. I
would... | {
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Dropquest - bjonathan
http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=659
======
nameless_noob
If you haven't finished it before, here's the old thread about it:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2107523>
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Compyx: creating a multicolor 8‑bit font for browsers - bpierre
http://pixelambacht.nl/2014/compyx-a-multicolor-8bit-font/
======
bane
Once again, another fantastic idea that sources its idea from the demoscene,
one of the two great alternative software movements (the other being the
opensource movement).
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SendHub (YC W12) Lets Businesses Text Their Customers, Teachers Text For Free - ashrust
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/12/yc-backed-sendhub-lets-businesses-text-their-customers-and-teachers-text-for-free/
======
idl
As someone on the founding team of an identical startup a year ago, I can
share experience:
\- This mar... | {
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Ask HN: What is the best example of data-heavy dashboards you've seen? - strimp099
I'm building some... data-heavy dashboards... and am completely lost in how to combine my various charts and tables to make them. I am not a designer and not creative and am looking for some inspiration!
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auslegung
I was a de... | {
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} |
Golang arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal library - dimva
http://engineering.shopspring.com/2015/03/03/decimal/
======
Okvivi
A library that seems to have been requested quite a lot by the golang
community [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-
nuts/decim...](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Engineer Calls Google+ a Pathetic Afterthought - bhartzer
http://gizmodo.com/5849061/google-engineer-calls-google%252B-a-pathetic-afterthought
======
yanw
He was referring to the platform not the product. Everyday it seems I find yet
another reason to hate the tech "press".
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Fruux buys sabredav - treve
http://blog.fruux.com/2013/05/02/fruux-acquires-sabredav/
======
treve
And the other post : <http://evertpot.com/sabredav-acquired-by-fruux/>
This latter is mine, and I was pretty excited about it :)
| {
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Co - MatthewPhillips
https://github.com/visionmedia/co?foo
======
MatthewPhillips
As always TJ pulls off something brilliantly simple.
| {
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IOS Nib helper for 3.5 and 4 inches - kirualex
https://github.com/kirualex/KANibHelper
======
fnayr
Nice. You should change the naming convention to match with the iPad default
nib naming convention (~ipad nib names will auto load on iPads).
What I do is:
iPhone 3.5 = nibName~iphone3_5
iPhone 4 inch = nibName~ip... | {
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Cat purr generator - kleer001
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/catPurrNoiseGenerator.php
======
audiosampling
Dev here. So surprised to hear my cat purring a lot this morning, and then
realised it was featured on HN today! :) To celebrate this, the Cat Purr IAP
on myNoise's iOS App has been set to Tier 0, so you can a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Island Generator - exupero
http://exupero.org/hazard/post/islands/
======
Lerc
A somewhat obscure piece of trivia.
There's code similar to this seen on a computer screen in digimon.
[http://i.imgur.com/gh3dK.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/gh3dK.jpg)
A translation from the Basic dialect into Javascript
[http://fingswotidun.... | {
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Serverless Docker Beta - Rauchg
https://zeit.co/blog/serverless-docker
======
andrewtorkbaker
And so ZEIT, my favorite serverless provider, keeps getting better.
Highlights:
\- "sub-second cold boot (full round trip) for most workloads"
\- HTTP/2.0 and websocket support
\- Tune CPU and memory usage, which means eve... | {
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Why the tech press is ignoring Zulily's huge IPO - creativityhurts
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/14/why-the-tech-press-is-ignoring-zulily-ipo/
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pedalpete
This ignores possibly one of the biggest reasons nobody is talking about it,
they don't have any PR.
Reporters don't go get news anymore, it comes to... | {
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} |
The Beatles: The Original Lean Startup - waxman
http://waxman.posterous.com/the-beatles-the-original-lean-startup
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jon_hendry
Oh good lord, this is just asinine. As if the Beatles were the first outfit to
start on a shoestring and then make it big.
I'm sure there are similar stories about early jazz artists, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pmarchive Returns - FictiveCameron
http://blog.fictivekin.com/post/50739463742/pmarchive-returns
======
shiflett
Direct link if you're in a hurry: <http://pmarchive.com/>
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} |
BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed - nextparadigms
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-throttling-internet-providers-exposed-111020/
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praptak
My pitchfork and torch is always ready but have they ruled out the possibility
that the measurements are a result of something other than ISP targetting P2P?
... | {
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} |
The deep sea diver who saved Winchester cathedral - putzdown
http://classicdivebooks.customer.netspace.net.au/oeclassics-diver-walker.html
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AstroJetson
Cool story. I love these history pieces that end up being men against the
problem and it gets brute forced.
The cathedral site has some good history on it.
... | {
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} |
Fake news and false rumors reach more people than truth - yegor256a
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/?single_page=true
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tlb
"By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on
Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false ru... | {
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} |
Getting initial traction - commaander
Hi guys,<p>I am building a website but launch will be not within the next 4 weeks. However I already try to get some information on how to get initial traction to my website without any marketing budget. What are the best sources to post my website to get some people trying it o... | {
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} |
Show HN: A jenkins job template system (named francois) - cipherzero
https://github.com/paradoxical-io/francois
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cipherzero
This is really a front-end for jenkins to manage jobs, in a templatized way.
Everywhere I've worked, we've always ended up copying jenkins jobs from
"known-good" jobs when we bring up a ne... | {
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Google Summer of Code Wrap-up: Twitter - ddispaltro
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/09/google-summer-of-code-wrap-up-twitter.html
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hagonzalez94
Has anyone on here participated in this before? What was your experience like?
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Here's how you really use your iPhone - perplexes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzQLRPwZjIo
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harisenbon
More than how you really use your iPhone:
This is the way you really make a commercial for the iPhone.
That was absolutely amazing. I have no beat-box skills, no rhythm and no
music, and I still want to b... | {
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How Silk Road Bounced Back from Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack - rickdale
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-silk-road-bounced-back-from-its-multimillion-dollar-hack
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Aqueous
Pretty easy : they are selling drugs.
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iMac Pro - salimmadjd
https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/
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tcarn
"As you’d expect from a pro machine, there are plenty of high-speed ports to
create a high-performance workstation."
haha, just like my Macbook Pro!
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Ask HN: A data structures book - deathflute
I know there is CLRS but I am not particularly fond of its style, so I am looking for an alternative. Something similar to Algorithm design manual but with more focus on data structures.<p>Thanks
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aaronbrethorst
(I used Cormen as my algorithms textbook in college, to... | {
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I'm sharing all of my app income and how I did it $28,660 so far - joeallenpro
http://backstage.joeallenpro.com/category/income/
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OafTobark
Those posts are quite uninformative and lack any details from what I can see.
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'A Terrible Slaughter Is Coming' – The Atlantic - fillskills
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/a-terrible-slaughter-is-coming/381157/
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genwin
"9,000 ISIS terrorists". Geez, I wonder how many it would take before it'd be
called an army.
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An American thanks Australia for its gun laws - andrewstuart
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/thank-you-australia-20160615-gpjn0r.html
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gozur88
Not everyone is going to be happy everywhere. I'm glad this guy has found a
place where he fits in.
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PV Magazine: Solar Tsunami - toomuchtodo
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/01/01/solar-tsunami/
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toomuchtodo
> Developers have applied to build 139 GWac of large-scale solar projects in
> the territory of six grid operators – around five times what is currently
> online across the country – and that figure doesn’... | {
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ZeroCater (YC W11) Takes the Pain Out of Ordering Your Company Lunch - abstractbill
http://www.7x7.com/tech-gadgets/zerocater-takes-pain-our-ordering-your-company-lunch
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davidu
I have no experience with ZeroCater but I can tell you that providing food on
any regular schedule for my 60 person company is a night... | {
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How many AMAZON EC2s should I start with for a Facebook Application? - badmash69
So I am in the midst of doing a very private MVP type of roll-out of an application: I need to run Apache + Glassfish + PostGre + MongoDB + Memcache + ActiveMQ ( a java messaging server). I fully realize that I might have gone overb... | {
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As much as the scandal with Linode is worrying their support is second to none - andyhmltn
http://i.imgur.com/Kiw9QWt.png
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threeseed
Their support is terrible when you have a real problem and non existent during
an incident.
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andyhmltn
I would say that's completely wrong. I've never had a bad support exper... | {
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How Not To Pitch Techcrunch - robjama
http://i.imgur.com/4AxFN.png
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mikerhoads
I actually met Sam Bensalem at the last TechCrunch50. He's a nice guy.
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A mathematical trick allows people to scatter their computer files - eru
http://www.economist.com/science/tm/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12081445
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jlouis
Reed-Solomon coding is an old fella. Whenever you have a link which is
unreliable and you can't afford to retransmit packets on the link w... | {
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Bloomberg Anchor Quickly Robbed Of Bitcoin After Displaying It On TV - eplanit
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/12/24/bloomberg_anchor_robbed_of_bitcoin_after_displaying_it_live_on_air.html
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ColinWright
Previous reports:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6955861](https://news.ycombinator.com/it... | {
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China steams ahead with world's fastest train - cwan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7230137/China-steams-ahead-with-worlds-fastest-train.html
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rsuttongee
Just like Dubai is rising ahead with the world's tallest building?
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Frazzydee
China actually has a sufficient population to make th... | {
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How Unix Works - neilkakkar
https://neilkakkar.com/unix.html
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woodandsteel
This is a very good explanation. However, I think it would have been helpful
if the author had provided some comparisons with how other operating systems
do these sorts of things, and why its designers made their particular choices
for Un... | {
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} |
A Portable Cloud Experiment: SFTP Cloud Storage Sync - luu
http://www.evanjones.ca/portable-cloud-experiment.html
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stevenringo
Have you looked at [https://rclone.org/](https://rclone.org/)? Also written in
Go, and handles more cloud providers (and SFTP) than you can shake a stick at.
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lathiat
+1 for rclone, ... | {
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Git-R-Done - henrick
http://codetuple.com/articles/programming/SYrSnGSx7s5/git-r-done-1
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qwertyuiop924
Neat, but incredibly OO focused. What about us C, Haskell, and Lisp
programmers?
...Than again, we should all know OO. It's just that a lot of design patterns
work more simply using other paradigms and higher ... | {
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} |
Germany Managed to Outlaw Facebook’s Core Business Model - 5evOX5hTZ9mYa9E
https://promarket.org/2020/07/10/how-germany-managed-to-outlaw-facebooks-core-business-model/
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arpa
That's a good thing.
| {
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An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview - curtis
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2019/06/an-extraordinarily-severe-emergency-the-radioactive-leak-at-harborview/
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YeGoblynQueenne
The International Atomic Energey Committee who is tasked with investigating
this kind of accident h... | {
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} |
Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Google Android, called it a 'stolen product' - abstractwater
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/20/steve_jobs_vowed_to_destroy_google_android_called_it_a_stolen_product.html
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AlexV
This reminds me of Guy Kawasaki's mission statement from his Apple days:
"In 1983, when ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Best books you read in 2019? - dudurocha
Mine were the Three Body Problem and The Unicorn Project
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void_nill
Kozo Yamamura, Too Much Stuff - Capitalism in Crisis
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SQLite3 Hash Code 2018 - mingodad
https://github.com/mingodad/sqlite3-hashcode-2018/blob/master/hashcode2018.sql
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mingodad
Hello !
I've been looking ath the HASHCODE 2018 competition and got interested on the
problem proposition:
Task Given a list of pre-booked rides in a city and a fleet of self-driving
vehic... | {
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} |
Imaging Edge Webcam - woldemariam
https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/
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murgindrag
... and I'd love to have this if it just modified the firmware of my camera to
act as a webcam native webcam.
As is, this is a cumbersome kludge.
Perhaps future cameras will have this option. But I doubt it. My ex... | {
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} |
Mobile social network mig33 sends twice as many messages as twitter - tomh-
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/12/mig33-twice-messages-twitter/
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dnsworks
Is mig33 still around? I thought they laid off almost all of their staff and
took their assets back to Singapore where the founder was from.
| {
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The Top Five Supercomputers, Illustrated - joubee
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-top-five-supercomputers-illustrated/
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mrb
This article is from last year. It misses pictures of the new #2
supercomputer, Nebulae. They are very hard to find, but I did find some:
<http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=18>
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k... | {
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Ask HN: What are the less known HN-like forums? - soheil
With the rise of cancel culture and remotely offensive language being censored where can one go to find a community more tolerant of opposing views? Of course, I realize the moment the name of those communities are revealed, if any exist, they will be filled wit... | {
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Every Developer Needs a Rubber Duck and You’re the One - theglus
http://blog.workingon.co/every-developer-needs-a-rubber-duck-and-youre-the-one/
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drProton
great blog post!
| {
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Ask HN: Ways to support people losing their job by Covid-19 - Madrigal
As more cities across the US ban large gatherings, more and more businesses are being put either on reduced hours or being closed altogether, for we don't know how long. This will result in a lot of staff being at least temporarily being laid ... | {
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Microsoft will charge new fees to customers using AWS and other clouds - ycombonator
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-licensing-azure-google-cloud-amazon-web-services-fees-2019-8
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Corrado
The key quote from the article is:
"Beginning October 1, 2019, on-premises licenses purchased without Software
Assu... | {
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} |
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