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Robpike.io - gouggoug http://robpike.io/ ====== notdonspaulding Wondered how this was working and it appears to just leave your connection open and continuously send a response of poo. Here's a toy Node.js server that does the same thing: [https://gist.github.com/donspaulding/224edec0232d13e32f33](https://gist.github...
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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 ====== 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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The format of strings in early (pre-C) Unix - fcambus https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixEarlyStrings ====== Thomas_Lord Slightly off topic. The article doesn't call it out but there's a lovely assembly hack here. In: bec 1f / branch if no error jsr r5,error / error in file name ...
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The Norwegian Method of Tunneling (2012) - JimmyM http://www.tunneltalk.com/Discussion-Forum-Sep12-NMT-definition.php ====== dstyrb I wish there was a way to put the text in the middle of my screen.
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How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails - konklone https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/04/08/how-we-get-high-availability-with-elasticsearch-and-ruby-on-rails/ ====== shockzzz I have no idea why the phrase "high availability" is in this post. ~~~ mburns >We call these extensions "high availability" bec...
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Show HN: Cyberspace — an iOS browser that fits in your workflow - quanganhdo I posted about my Cyberspace web browser back in November, and received tons of helpful feedback from HN users. My third release is out today, and I'd love to hear your take on it: http://cyberspaceapp.com<p>If you haven't heard about Cyber...
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The Plot Against George Soros - coverband https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-soros-conspiracy-finkelstein-birnbaum-orban-netanyahu ====== identity_zero There's also a "Plot Against Steve Bannon" but that won't be written on BuzzFeed because he supports the other side. Both are political strategi...
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Show HN: An ad-free news website with crowdsourced summaries - thekyle https://news.hoxly.com/ ====== thekyle Hey folks creator here. I often find on sites like HN/Reddit that I tend to mostly just read the headlines/comments and not necessarily the articles themselves. I wanted to build a site that is more aligned w...
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Take A Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway (1993) - iamelgringo http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,978216-1,00.html ====== izaidi "The same system will allow anybody with a camcorder to distribute videos to the world -- a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmm...
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Facebook Privacy Policy Vote Fail - sparknlaunch http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112551484/lack-of-participation-makes-facebook-privacy-policy-vote-non-binding/ ====== kitsune_ What a load of horse shit. Who has actually heard of this vote taking place? If you require 30% of your user base to participate, f...
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Ask HN: How can I use my software development skills to help people with Cancer? - max0563 I am a childhood cancer survivor myself, and I have recently been trying to find ways that I can use my software engineering skills to help people currently going through the disease.<p>I am wondering if anyone knows of any comp...
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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals by Their Faces - doener https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602955/neural-network-learns-to-identify-criminals-by-their-faces/ ====== stewbrew A Nazi's wet dream. In the submitted article, they say that 10% of the data was used as test data set. I cannot find that info in th...
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North Korean defector fights Pyongyang with thumbdrive-laden balloons - mrmaddog http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/north-korean-defector-fights-pyongyang-with-thumbdrive-laden-balloons/ ====== codezero I have a feeling that almost nobody in North Korea would even know what a USB drive was, let alone have a ...
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Competitively Decentralized Internet - elisk https://docs.google.com/document/d/1osU8vnuOW1eV3hdYMxg8hDh7E6kZLvf05uKvgYAE6SU/edit?pli=1# ====== bstpierre It seems ironic that a document that wants to avoid a "small group to have oligopolistic control" is hosted on Google. The primary problem with a "completely dece...
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Nyan cat built in 3D with WebGL and three.js - Aissen http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6213850/WebGL/nyanCat/nyan.html ====== tuananh YES YES
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Musician’s Jamming Software Makes the World a Slightly Better Place - elblanco http://pavlovskitchen.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/jamming-software/ ====== dbEsq Interesting way for the software developer to engage its users and promote collaberation.
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Show HN: my evening project - "Urgency-Addict"-Style toDo-list - philfrasty Getting a real productivity-boost from being short on time, I built a mashup of a toDo-application meets built in countdown-timer.<p>Hope it'll be useful to some "urgency-addicted" ;-)<p>Link: http://www.apps.bitsimple.net/urgency-addict/<p>...
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What's the best font for the Web? - tpimental http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/200806/1494/ ====== tpimental Sadly, Verdana and Ariel are winning. Sadder still, there aren't any better options. :-)
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Data-Driven Flowcharts in R Using DiagrammeR - sonabinu https://mikeyharper.uk/flowcharts-in-r-using-diagrammer/ ====== mbostock Shameless plug, but here’s a live Graphviz editor in Observable: [https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/graph-o- matic](https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/graph-o-matic) And here’s ...
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Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like') - jackshepherd http://jack-shepherd.co.uk/experiments/Fake-Mouse-Cursor/ ====== duopixel A much more straightforward abuse would be pointer-events: none. Just position an element over the 'like' button and let clicks pass through it: <http://jsfiddle.net/rV...
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NYC Police union slashes number of ‘get out of jail free’ cards issued - aaronbrethorst https://nypost.com/2018/01/21/police-union-slashes-number-of-get-out-of-jail-free-cards-issued/ ====== greenyoda _" The city’s police-officers union is cracking down on the number of “get out of jail free” courtesy cards distribute...
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Ask HN: I invented this but don't know how to market it. Any suggestions? - adsheltask http://youtu.be/H1W20rcUxlc ====== anigbrowl You're going to have a hard time convincing people to use their $500 phone as a hardware handle. I guess it means carrying only a phone instead of a phone and a pocketknife, but most pe...
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Simple Dynamic Strings library for C - antirez https://github.com/antirez/sds ====== dmunoz I think the library is great, and don't have a whole lot to say about it, but wanted to mention one tangentially related thing: The README on this repo is awesome. Opening up with advantages and disadvantages? Awesome. Plenty ...
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Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance - rcurry http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/house-bill-end-warrantless-stingray-surveillance-jason-chaffetz ====== JustSomeNobody Why aren't there anti-stingray ROMs or apps yet? In my, admittedly naive, understanding is that cel towers ha...
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Padrino 0.10.0 Released Rubinius support, speed and much more Check it out - DAddYEz http://www.padrinorb.com/blog/padrino-0-10-0-routing-upgrades-rbx-and-jruby-support-and-minor-breaking-changes ====== kaylarose I find it surprising that Padrino hasn't gained more popularity. For me, it's perfect for the times when...
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Stream time-lapse images in minutes from a Raspberry Pi or any other platform - lipis https://pss-camera.appspot.com/lipis/green-plant/ ====== lipis While you can download the executables for OS X or Windows from the downloads page, you can also run it from the sources ([https://github.com/lipis/timelapse](https://git...
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Marketing Recommendations for 2019 from an Industry Insider - standrews https://outfunnel.com/8-marketing-recommendations-from-industry-insider/ ====== visakanv > If you look at the features pages of providers, most tools appear the same. > But in practice, there are meaningful differences. Each email-sending tool > h...
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Hacker Dosed with LSD While Restoring Historical Synth (2019) - wglb https://hackaday.com/2019/05/28/hacker-dosed-with-lsd-while-restoring-historical-synth/ ====== Stratoscope Related discussion, including a story of how I met Art Garfunkel on the way to visit Don Buchla: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999203...
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U.S. Navy Tests Robot Boat Swarm to Overwhelm Enemies - srikar http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/us-navy-robot-boat-swarm ====== JoeAltmaier Cool in principle. But in another more-informative article (posted on HN) they mention each boat has sailors monitoring their activity 1-on-1 to prevent...
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Why We’re Biased About Being Biased - dnetesn http://nautil.us/blog/-why-youre-biased-about-being-biased ====== golemotron > The “moral credential effect” describes this compensation in the context of > moral reasoning. When study subjects were given an opportunity to disagree > with sexist statements, for example, th...
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Dung Beetles Navigate via the Milky Way - komuW https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-an-animal-kingdom-first/ ====== pavlov Ancient Egyptians considered dung beetles sacred, and believed that they were responsible for rejuvenating the sun during the night. Egyptians ...
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Fish are eating lots of plastic - petethomas https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-bad-news-is-that-fish-are-eating-lots-of-plastic-even-worse-they-may-like-it/2017/09/01/54159ee8-8cc6-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html ====== userbinator I really wish plastics were recycled/reused a lot more, beca...
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My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition - suraj https://jacobian.org/2019/nov/11/python-environment-2020/#atom-entries ====== marmada Does anyone else think this reflects badly on Python? The fact that the author has to use a bunch of different tools to manage Python versions/projects is intimidating. I don't...
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Ask HN: Can someone please review my code? - saq7 I recently did a work sample in Rails for a company which I will not name. I felt pretty good about it when submitting it, but I was ultimately rejected. They did not provide any feedback because they wanted to keep the hiring process under wraps, and I respect that. T...
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The Russian Government Runs a Troll Agency to Flood the Internet with Propaganda - raku1234 https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-russian-government-runs-a-troll-agency-to-115389567389.html ====== rorykoehler So do the Israelis, Chinese, British, Americans and probably many more countries. It's amusing to read propaganda l...
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AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014 - skept http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-based-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014 ====== zdw AMD is no stranger to using busses and sockets that are compatible with "other" hardware. The original Athlon wa...
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Apps to Build in a Bad Economy - Readmore http://embought.com/blog/show/17?t=Apps-to-Build-in-a-Bad-Economy ====== timcederman Frugality apps are cringeworthy. Thankfully the article finished with "Maybe we should all start working on the "next big thing" that's going to change the world and usher in the new new era...
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How long until Apple is bigger than Microsoft? - nickb http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2850 ====== satyajit Actually, I would hate to see Apple in MS position. Let it remain small(er), yet churn out innovative, compelling products as they have been doing in past few years, and remain profitable!
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Ask HN: join YC for a non-US resident - csomar Hi, I have an idea in mind (which is very stupid and simple) but if implemented correctly, it can turn productivity on. So I'm a "geek", i worked mainely on C# and php/mysql/jquery; I thought of trying to apply for YC.<p>The problem is "I'm not a US resident"; YC doesn'...
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The Terrible Truth About Alexa - jbegley https://gizmodo.com/the-terrible-truth-about-alexa-1834075404 ====== mikestew "Why doesn't it work this way?" "Why doesn't Amazon do this thing?" "Why, why, why?" Umm, why did you buy one in the first place, and after such revelations, why do you continue to have one in your...
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Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf] - ngaut http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2020/CMU-CS-20-101.pdf ====== willvarfar A lot to digest. Presumably the compression schemes outlined in the paper would benefit columns generally, and not just keys, and would have a positive impact ...
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NoJPEG - danmaz74 http://nojpeg.org/ ====== atoponce Please don't put into a presentation what can be put into a single HTML page. ------ lcedp Why not .svg instead of .eps? ~~~ danmaz74 Personally, I would agree with you.
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EU privacy rules no obstacle to coronavirus fight; smartphone tracking a no-no - thg https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-privacy-explainer/eu-privacy-rules-no-obstacle-to-coronavirus-fight-smartphone-tracking-a-no-no-idUKKBN20X1LA ====== savolai Fun dark pattern on site : declining consent for trackin...
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Ask HN: Subscription Payment Gateway? - Slashed I have developed a webapp which I'm planning to release soon. Can you recommend any Subscription Payment Gateway?<p>I know about RBS WorldPay, Paypal and Amazon FPS. What do you use(or would use)?<p>Thank you in advance. ====== sync It depends on your demographic. I us...
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The CRAPL: An academic-strength open source license - budu http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/ ====== noelwelsh This is fantastic. The author is absolutely correct: academic software is crap. I've used software written by someone who wrote a well known tutorial on Haskell, and his code was a pile of junk. This is ...
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Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights - BWStearns https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/some-electronics-to-be-banned-on-some-us-bound-flights ====== KirinDave I see many people here trying to puzzle out why electronics are under a partial ban _from cabins but not from checked baggage_...
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When to Avoid Using A.T.M.’s - petethomas http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/when-to-avoid-using-a-t-m-s/ ====== albedoa I thought this article was going to be about how to properly punctuate and pluralize abbreviations. ~~~ greatreorx I thought this too at first, but now I think A.T.M.'s is okay in some edi...
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Replacing tech recruiters with a very small shell script - lsh I've just accepted a job offer from a company I think I'll be happy working for. The people are nice, experienced and the work sounds interesting. The pay is below average for the work, though. One of a few reasons I accepted this job was that I was abso...
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Ronald Sullivan Fired for Being Harvey Weinstein's Lawyer - mooseburger https://reason.com/2019/05/12/ronald-sullivan-harvard-fired-student-mob/ ====== who-knows95 what a bad precedent to set, if you ever have to defend a accused criminal, does that make you a criminal.
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Advice for Early-Stage Hardware Startups - bsmith http://blog.ycombinator.com/advice-for-early-stage-hardware-startups ====== L_Rahman Actually being in Shenzhen where the product gets made has been really important for us. I'm a biomedical engineer by training. My gut reaction in most phases of product development i...
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Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance - jonbaer https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16907238/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-cameras-security ====== vinchuco In other news: Technology will be used.
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Doctor Who-Style Wi-Fi With Sentient Captive Portal - bonyt http://blog.tonybox.net/blog/2013/03/31/doctor-who-style-wi-fi-with-sentient-captive-portal/ ====== lcampbell > OSX tries to automatically detect if there is a captive portal login screen, > like those commonly used by coffee shops and such, and open up a w...
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Controversial cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo - notsony http://www.foxnews.com/world/slideshow/2015/01/07/controversial-cartoons-published-by-charlie-hebdo/?intcmp=trending#/slide/controversial-cartoons-1 ====== notsony Note: A lot of people don't like Fox News but they are one of only a few mainstream media out...
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Ask HN: Your Amazon Glacier strategy with versioning and de-duplication on *nix? - balladeer Command line, or GUI (preferred).<p>Something that just sits in the background, monitors change and keeps backing up the change (while taking care of the de-duplication).<p>What do you use? (I know Arq which I believe has be...
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Simple Docker App Management for OS X - bill_bkr https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic ====== hackerboos Previous discussion from 4 days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246240](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246240) ~~~ pearknob Isn't there a policy against repeat posts? (although I get the url...
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Writing and Speaking - tlammens http://paulgraham.com/speak.html ====== apl It's a bit too easy and somewhat condescending to brush off public speaking as strictly inferior to written communication. In fact, I disagree strongly with Graham's stance. Sure, pure information transmission is enhanced in written form: ther...
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Ask HN: Why is HN Search not working? - rajeemcariazo Has anyone also experienced difficulties in using the HN Search? ====== ymra It seems to be working here. What symptoms do you have? ~~~ rajeemcariazo failed to load resource
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Ask HN: Is this illegal? ICO question - asia92 Creating an ICO that uses the generated proceeds to invest in US equities and distributing the dividends to coin holders. Sounds like a good idea but could get into trouble with the SEC? ====== greenyoda If you're creating a vehicle that invests in equities and distribute...
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Referential Accessibility is Critical for Experience of Books - marvindanig https://bubblin.io/blog/referential-accessibility ====== auggierose Interesting concept, but flawed. I've been reading through your concerns page, and it is very opinionated :-) Which is not bad per se, but I think in your case you just refuse...
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ML turns video of a 360° turn into 3D model of a person - mikeyanderson http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/watch-artificial-intelligence-create-3d-model-person-just-few-seconds-video ====== symisc_devel Link to the paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04758](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04758) ~~~ neonate And to the ...
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GlobalSign Root Certificate Problems - tempspace https://www.globalsign.com/en/customer-revocation-error/ ====== tempspace Dear Valued GlobalSign Customer, As most of you are aware, we are experiencing an internal process issue (details below) that is impacting your business. While we have identified the root-cause, ...
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Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School - 001sky http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/attention-disorder-or-not-children-prescribed-pills-to-help-in-school.html?ref=ushttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/attention-disorder-or-not-children-prescribed-pills-to-help-in-school.html ====== paulsutter ADH...
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Did you know that China is run by engineers? I didn't. - mtraven http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-chinese.html ====== est Chinese here. Did you know that China is run by assholes with an engineering degree? Seriously, Chinese officials tend to buy a degree to make themselves look...
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Jacob E. Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90 - ukdm http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/business/jacob-e-goldman-founder-of-xerox-lab-dies-at-90.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all ====== DaniFong It's really interesting to read this. I had no idea it was John Bardeen who was instrumental in setting this up. Who knows how th...
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Šta je danas? - bnisevic http://danasdatum.com/ Šta je danas? Koji je danas dan? Koji je danas datum? Pogledajte na http://danasdatum.com/ ====== tzaman Wow. It shows current date. And a couple of ads. Bravo.
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Ask HN: Sysadmin vs. engineering - 0x400614 To be a &quot;sysadmin&quot;, does it require a degree? Also, is system admin more like being a technician (electrician), rather than say an engineer. What profession is more respected? Like say Dr. vs Nurse, the Dr wins. ====== jeffmould I don't think this is a fair compari...
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City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source - SunShiranui https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/7pva50/city_of_barcelona_kicks_out_microsoft_in_favor_of/ ====== blackflame7000 I could have sworn I've heard this story before in Germany. It didn't work out: [https://www.techrepublic.com/a...
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Max Levchin Awards 2nd Annual Prize for Advancements in Real-World Cryptography - tptacek http://press-release.levchinprize.com/ ====== tptacek The prizes went to Joan Daemen, for AES and SHA-3 (on stage, Levchin pointed out that his interest in cryptography had been piqued by a xeroxed copy of DES when he was in scho...
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New Social Media Network Launches Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter - Groupinit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/742350565/change-the-way-you-socialize ====== sachindevji How is it different from Facebook?
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Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video] - pius http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2008/01/16/richard-stallman-cranking-dat-soulja-boy/ ====== Alex3917 "Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need ...
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Ask HN: Should HN require you to click on the story link before commenting? - coderdude I don't think it's a huge issue here, but I know it happens. (I know I do it occasionally.) You get people who just click on the comments and read them and then based solely on the title they begin to jerk their knee. You can't a...
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Ask HN: What book are you reading? - pibefision Years ago, I discovered many great books to read here in HN. I wonder if asking this question again, some new books or interesting lectures can pop up. TKS! ====== tomcam "Start Small, Stay Small" by Rob Walling. Discusses how to get a one-person business going for the l...
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The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play - llambda http://thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com ====== eropple Eh. I've ascended in NetHack four times. It is a good game. It might even be a great game. But to call it "the greatest game you will ever play" is hubris; the game has really serious problems once you figure out ho...
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Barobo launches the Mobot – a low cost modular robot - FEBlog http://www.barobo.com/ ====== FEBlog My first take on this, more to come. [http://flexibilityenvelope.com/barobo-launches-the-mobot- a-l...](http://flexibilityenvelope.com/barobo-launches-the-mobot-a-low-cost- modular-robot)
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An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket - incanus77 https://justinmiller.io/posts/2019/09/21/pi-gadget/ ====== rcarmo I’ve been doing this via Bluetooth for a good while now - works great from the iPad, too. Here’s my notes: [https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2019/06/27/0713](https://taoofmac....
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Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge - randomname2 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/politics/military-reviews-us-response-to-isis-rise.html?_r=0 ====== jimrandomh People tend to think of there being a unified "US government", but the reality is that there's a large number of mostly separate org...
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Modern Language Wishlist - pchristensen http://www.lispcast.com/modern-language-wishlist ====== Dn_Ab Most languages have most of the listed features. The most interesting uncommon idea on that list to me is model of time. But only when it allows reversible computing. I don't know how practical that is though. Anyways...
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Op-Chart - How Green Is My iPad? - asnyder http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/04/opinion/04opchart.html ====== nnutter How the heck does this guy come to the conclusion he does? E-reader is somewhere between 40 and 100 (N) books so that means books are more environmentally friendly? The conclusion I draw is th...
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Ask HN: How do you handle jealousy of well-compensated software engineers? - oefrha This post is mainly targeted at HN readers who are good at programming but are not professional software engineers, with a focus on academics and aspiring academics. I know there are plenty of us here.<p>Say you were exceptionally smar...
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Cheerleaders and the NFL - enitihas https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/18/nfl-nba-cheerleaders-lawsuits-sports ====== mark_l_watson Another good reason to enjoy sports from local school teams. I still watch the super bowl and a few World Series games, but for me watching professional sports is not interesting....
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Use GitHub as your Blog - sant0sk1 http://github.com/blog/164-use-github-as-your-blog ====== mrtron Just a warning because I always fall into this trap: When you hold a large hammer, everything looks like a nail. ------ there is there a contest going on to see who can have the biggest rss icon on their site? ~~~ ax...
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Free to Play [video] - bowmanb http://store.steampowered.com/app/245550/ ====== markus-rogue yea yea yea
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Company in Oz replaces lightbulbs with CFLs for free - makes money selling carbon credit - jwilliams http://www.lowenergy.com.au/eshd_index.html ====== netcan These guys must be making a mint. They caught me on my way out, scheduled a time to come back, then when I cancelled at the last minute, came again. All they ...
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Subsidiary for startups - danielzenchang My cofounders want to establish a subsidiary company to spin off a new service. The only reason for doing that is to satisfy existing investors because we used their money to build the new service. I want more opinion about this issue... Personally, I don&#x27;t think that is...
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Computational science: ...Error - solipsist http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/full/467775a.html?ref=nf ====== b_emery Lots of good advice for scientists in there. The only new info for the typical CS grad is the utter lack of _any_ programming training in most scientific disciplines. This is pretty classic: > "...
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Wada hacking scandal: debate turns to the use of powerful legal drugs - bootload https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/14/wada-hacking-abuse-debate-theraputic-use-drugs ====== supergirl > He points out a further worrying issue with TUEs: in the past some athletes, > such as Lance Armstrong, have been allowed TUEs...
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Covid-19 Vaccine Generates Antibodies and T-Cells in Phase I Trial - lowmemcpu https://www.biospace.com/article/astrazeneca-s-early-covid-19-vaccine-data-show-a-double-defense-against-the-virus/ ====== bobblywobbles This is promising news, nothing for certain, but promising. Thanks for sharing. ------ lowmemcpu The F...
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Zwift raises $450M investment; Series C round led by KKR - troydavis https://news.zwift.com/en-WW/191648-zwift-raises-450-million-investment-series-c-round-led-by-kkr ====== troydavis The VC arm of Specialized Bicycles is one new investor. Zwift plans to start making hardware: > The investment will be used to acceler...
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Think before you ask in mailing list - ronbeltran http://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_thread/thread/fe57d2abd72f49fa ====== chromejs10 I remember my AI Professor telling us about the teddy bear solution where, before you ask a question to someone else, pick up a teddy bear and ask it. More often than not, sa...
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Some hope for getting rid of patent trolls - FpUser https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/04/open_invention_network_will_pivot_to_take_on_patent_trolls/ ====== FpUser I wish software patents were eliminated as a whole but here at least something.
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Protolol Jokes - angadsg http://protolol.com ====== mirkules I once told an Objective-C joke, but nobody got the message. The thing about NTP jokes is you have to get the timing right. I broke up with Java last week, and I still couldn't get any closure. (I could go on, but I'll spare you - yes, I just thought of...
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Police sent warrant to Facebook for information on Philando Castile’s girlfriend - vezycash https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170623/06000037650/cops-sent-warrant-to-facebook-to-dig-up-dirt-woman-whose-boyfriend-they-had-just-killed.shtml ====== SwellJoe There are so many things I can't even believe about this case....
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Generative Adversarial Networks Code in PyTorch and Tensorflow - diegoalejogm https://github.com/diegoalejogm/gans ====== rasmi Take a look at TFGAN -- it might make these implementations much easier! [https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tfgan-lightweight- li...](https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tfgan-ligh...
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Ask HN: Know anyone who works at Facebook? Refugee aid group needs help ASAP - jtfairbank Hey HN! I&#x27;m in contact with a fairly major refugee aid group in Europe. Someone maliciously reported a bunch of their posts as spam, and their page was unpublished. They appealed this, didn&#x27;t get a reply for 48 hours...
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Location-Aware Load Balancing - lmacvittie http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2010/07/07/location-aware-load-balancing.aspx ====== moe Yet another piece from the f5 fluff factory. Flagged for lack of content. It's simply a bunch of buzzwords chained together for the sole purpose of collecting googl...
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SGI Unveils Octane III Personal Supercomputer - fogus http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/september/octaneIII.html ====== davepeck "Price: Ask A Sales Rep" In a past life, I was a full-time engineer at SGI. Have they learned nothing? ~~~ ams6110 _Octane III is immediately available with Inte...
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Why does Heap's algorithm work? (2016) - signa11 http://ruslanledesma.com/2016/06/17/why-does-heap-work.html ====== 8bitpimp I have converted the presented algorythm to a non-recursive yielding version for what its worth: [https://gist.github.com/8BitPimp/fb182d04f6c31cabdceb20f714b...](https://gist.github.com/8BitPi...
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My first experience on public transportation - quanticle https://medium.com/@sundaytakesbart/my-first-experience-on-public-transportation-4465409d023d#.3cidezkok ====== DrScump The attribution at the bottom says, "December 2009". If that account _is_ 6 years old, bear in mind that things are much, much worse now, giv...
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Senior Engineers need more than just “8 years of experience” - thailor3 https://levelup.gitconnected.com/8-years-of-experience-isnt-the-definition-of-a-senior-software-engineer-f3ed904e3bc9 ====== koyote I see this on a daily basis and have seen in at multiple companies: "Non-Senior" engineers who have to pretty much...
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The Second Amendment and the Insurrection Myth - cpeterso http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/01/brin-classics-jefferson-rifle.html ====== ChuckMcM I really like this essay, but it shows its age. Some remarkably 'under armed' rag tag militias have done a lot of damage to professional soldiers in Irag and Afghanistan. ...
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