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Privacy Tools: Encryption against global mass surveillance - DyslexicAtheist
https://www.privacytools.io/
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tptacek
It's fine if you don't want to use privacy tools run from the US. I wouldn't
use a privacy tool run from the People's Republic of China, for a bunch of
reasons.
But the logic this post uses to make... | {
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Genghis Khan's success was in due to his ability and willingness to innovate - delancey
http://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=2905
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bediger4000
But did he respect intellectual property when innovating? I'm told this is
Very Important. Also, did he have a process? I'm told that's Super Important.
| {
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Building Maintainable Software – Free O’Reilly Ebook - ingve
https://www.sig.eu/en/building-maintainable-software/
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antouank
This is also a great book, from the creator of ESLint, with similar topic
[http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025245.do](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025245.do)
.
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Chr... | {
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Google solved Android fragmentation and forgot to tell everybody - jnedum
http://ishouldhaveknownthisbefore.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/google-solved-android-fragmentation-and-forgot-to-tell-everybody/
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OriginalAT
I chuckled when I got to the bottom of the post and saw the Windows Phone
fighting wedding commercia... | {
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Thursday was terrible, but I'm still smiling - rcavezza
http://bobstarted.com/startup-stories/thursday-was-terrible-but-im-still-smiling/
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snitko
Reading this I was thinking how important it is to be able to run the demo
from any computer, but that's probably not always possible.
| {
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If (big if) the world was ending, how would you know? - mooseburger
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/c7wmkq/if_big_if_the_world_was_ending_how_would_you_know/
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AnimalMuppet
That writer is a kind of a jerk (more in the replies than in the original
post). "I know, you don't, I'm smarter than you, y... | {
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Lyft losing as much as $50M a month, president confirms - prostoalex
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/07/12/lyft-losing-much-50-million-month-president-confirms/
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liquidise
What shocks me about both Lyft and Uber's enormous burn rates are that they
suggest the companies are heavily subsidizing their drivers. This... | {
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Andreessen Horowitz Backs SkySafe, Which Wirelessly Grounds Your Drone - cpeterso
http://recode.net/2016/04/20/skysafe-uses-a-wireless-signal-to-take-down-drones/
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viperscape
So this might not work with totally custom drones, and that's a huge market in
done world. They'd have to continually track and build a da... | {
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} |
Facebook - Broadcasting live video to millions - s4chin
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1653074404941839/under-the-hood-broadcasting-live-video-to-millions/
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carterh062
I'm curious why Facebook was willing to sacrifice delivering adaptive stream
to get better latency. I guess they explain that for "Live for Peop... | {
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MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers - bjonathan
http://mailchimp.com/pricing/
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lukestevens
Probably worth relinking their excellent blog post "Going Freemium: One Year
Later" <http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/>
Their 'reverse freemium' approach is really interesting -- rather than ... | {
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Spanish actor detained after ridiculing 'God and the Virgin Mary' in FB post - paganel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/spanish-actor-detained-after-ridiculing-god-and-the-virgin-mary
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tropo
This is a shock. In modern times, this sort of enforcement is normally only
done for other religions.
Try it... | {
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Mercure: Server-sent live updates – protocol and reference implementation - based2
https://github.com/dunglas/mercure
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based2
[https://linuxfr.org/news/mercure-un-nouveau-protocole-web-
po...](https://linuxfr.org/news/mercure-un-nouveau-protocole-web-pour-mettre-
a-jour-les-navigateurs-en-temps-reel-push)
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Show HN: Find the best time and place for a get-together - thomasskyt
https://www.campstarter.io
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thomasskyt
I created this free site to help you find the best time and place for any kind
of event.
Create the poll and all the participants can vote for time and place.
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RAM instead HDD/SSD. - Sloven
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk
I don't pursue any promotional purposes, but never heard about such drive before.
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phamilton
Aside from the seek times, this guy gets destroyed by the latest crucial SSD
drive.
[http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...](http:... | {
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Is Data Visualization Art? - co_pl_te
http://blog.visual.ly/is-data-visualization-art/
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kordless
Yes, because it can bring joy!
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Vue.js debugging in Chrome and VS Code - lobo_tuerto
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-recipes/blob/b906210b75e157b1e4138a5598758b87e15fab3b/vuejs-cli/README.md
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ramon
Nice job! I love the performance of VS Code, now with Vue debugging
capabilities it's rocking!
| {
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Scaling your application on AWS - roshanpaiva
https://medium.com/@roshanpaiva/scaling-your-application-on-aws-3f210ef18693#.44ac3mcej
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eugeneionesco
Spam, here's the talk this was taken from.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg5onp8TU6Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg5onp8TU6Q)
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chrisnorman
The link is ... | {
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David Foster Wallace on Life and Work (unabridged) - rms
http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html
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rogerthat
Essay in the Times on this address:
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Bissell-t.htm...](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/revie... | {
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Flaws in Tor anonymity network spotlighted - kmfrk
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/flaws-in-tor-anonymity-network-spotlighted.ars
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bengross
I wish the article's author had done a little bit of background work to find
references to the CCC presenter's research.
Here is the paper published last ... | {
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GDPR ante portas - liveweird
http://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/gdpr-ante-portas/
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_o_
There is also one point that he missed. The internet is full of advices that
are comming from half studying GDPR and are deadly wrong.
31 days to GDPR. I hope you at least understand it.
| {
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Show HN: Shakespearean Insult Generator Web App in Go - bruston
https://github.com/bruston/insulter
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MegaLeon
Love it! I'll send this to my Theatre buddies - we actually have the last
showing of a modern reinterpretation of Midsummer's night dream and as you
like it tonight - I'm sure they'll love it too!
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Ask HN: Why do I see jobs posting about Mino Games all the time? - phtrivier
Meta: I keep seeing headlines like "Mino Games is hiring developers in Montreal".<p>Am I the only one ? (I always assumed the frontpage was not personalized, is that the case?)<p>If it's the same for everybody... why ? Is there... | {
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SwiftTools: Find well maintained swift libraries - timkaechele
https://swifttools.dev/
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timkaechele
SwiftTools.dev helps you to find well maintained swift libraries for your next
iOS/macOS/tvOS project.
Just like the [https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/](https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/)
but for swift.
| {
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Google, a ‘school official?’ A regulatory quirk can leave parents in the dark - opheicus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/30/google-a-school-official-this-regulatory-quirk-can-leave-parents-in-the-dark/?postshare=2671451564669854
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golergka
Yes, if you use software to work on some sort of... | {
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Update on Internet Censorship in Iran - Tor Blog - cosgroveb
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-internet-censorship-iran
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jdp23
The number of directly connecting Iranian Tor users in Iran has dropped from
10000 or so to virtually zero -- they've blacklisted all the known Tor nodes
and bridges. It's the la... | {
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We Need Cruel and Unusual Punishment - whack
https://outlookzen.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/we-need-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/
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dalke
It starts with the false premise that a psychologist can say that someone "is
of no further danger to society."
If that were true, then the solution is easy - psychological evalu... | {
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::<> - JoshTriplett
https://turbo.fish/
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sp332
No Javascript, all the animation is in this CSS file:
[https://turbo.fish/turbofish.css](https://turbo.fish/turbofish.css)
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tmaly
is this like animated perl operators?
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JoshTriplett
Animated Rust operators. This is the Rust operator affectionately k... | {
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Announcing longjohn: long stack traces for node.js - mattinsler
http://www.mattinsler.com/post/26396305882/announcing-longjohn-long-stack-traces-for-node-js
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jameswyse
This is a great package and I thank you for it, but why not submit pull
requests to the original project instead?
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tlrobinson
I'm curious t... | {
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Inside the haywire world of Beirut’s electricity brokers - sygma
https://www.wired.com/story/beruit-electricity-brokers/
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pboutros
I grew up in a village 20 minutes outside of Beirut. We had 3 different power
sources: (1) the 'baladiye' (local municipality), (2) the 'dawle' (regional
government), and (3) the die... | {
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No More Boilerplate Code - corecoder
http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/no-more-boilerplate-code
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vmorgulis
Linq is a good alternative to reduce SQL noise.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query)
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Facebook "Open Compute Project" nothing but hot air - gnufs
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2011/04/09/#20110409-facebook_opencompute_hot_air
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randall
Anyone share the same perspective? As someone who's only casually seen the
project, I'm curious to know what EEs think.
~~~
wcsun
I think Facebook does not ... | {
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LinkedIn launches incubator to turn employees into entrepreneurs - turoczy
http://www.fastcompany.com/3003818/linkedin-launches-incubator-turn-employees-entrepreneurs
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mooreds
I think this is a great idea, though I would have loved for the article to be
more in depth and actually had some quotes from one of th... | {
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Making the case for that payrise the hacker way - mdisraeli
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
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mdisraeli
While reading <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591225> about asking for a
payrise, there was lots of talk of finding your market worth before asking.
This is the tool I use for that (Not mine, obviously).... | {
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Ask HN: are there any good reads on how to motivate others? - nathankot
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ch00ey
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie has been recommended to
me several times
[http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-
People/dp/06...](http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-
People/dp/0671723... | {
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The Republican Party Isn't Really the Anti-Science Party - JDulin
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-republican-party-isnt-really-the-anti-science-party/281219/
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MaysonL
Maybe not, but it sure does play one on TV.
| {
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Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? - curtis
https://www.eejournal.com/article/fifty-or-sixty-years-of-processor-developmentfor-this/
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nostrademons
Wonder what this means for system software and application development.
There's a factor of 10-40x speedup by going from an interpreted language... | {
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Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG - jonah-archive
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/nonprofit-community-stands-together-protect-org
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jonah-archive
Here's the initial letter being sent from EFF & others to ICANN and the
Internet Society: [https://www.eff.org/document/coalition-letter-sale-pu... | {
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Misfortune - runesoerensen
https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/misfortune
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chollida1
If you've never used the Tesla autopilot its a weird feeling.
It's not a fully self driving car and its obviously not strictly human
controlled. Unfortunately it ends up being more mentally taxing to use this
hybrid approach than ... | {
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Java.next() - Clojure: The Return of the Lispers - bozhidar
http://batsov.com/Clojure/Java/2011/05/12/jvm-langs-clojure.html
The third chapter of Java.next() series. A glance at the Clojure programming language, a modern Lisp-1 dialect for the JVM and .Net.
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efsavage
I'd love to be sold on a new language, but u... | {
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Ralph McQuarrie Remembered - voodoochilo
http://www.starwars.com/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered.html
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samstave
Such amazing art in that slideshow. Its amazing how tightly the live action
scenes of the movie matched those pics. Were all of these drawn prior to the
movie?
~~~
commieneko
The paintings for the f... | {
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Looking for a Bluetooth stack hacker - explorer9
Dear YC hackernews members: We are looking for a bluetooth Guru to join our team, either as a consultant or a full time employee. Please let me know if you might be the one or have a lead. We are a medical device startup based in Los Gatos, trying to build a device th... | {
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Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less - daniel_rh
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-broccoli--syncing-faster-by-syncing-less
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daniel_rh
Hi folks, I'm Daniel from Dropbox, and I am happy to answer any questions
about this tech.
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Osiris
When are you going to offer a cheaper plan with less storage for peo... | {
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How to use GitHub effectively for your project - franckcuny
http://lumberjaph.net/dancer/2011/03/06/how_to_use_github_effectively_for_your_project.html
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thurn
Feature and Review branches are a great idea. It just makes it so easy to work
in parallel on different things, and to context-switch when you get block... | {
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Tornado Web Server - ajbatac
http://www.tornadoweb.org/
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andreyf
While relevant on its onw, right now, this is also linked to from both the top
two stories...
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jeremyw
Hackers don't need expository, they just want the goods. :)
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andreyf
Hehe, touché :)
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Hexstream
Why isn't most server software (... | {
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Skype 5 for Mac, but without the whitespace - roder
http://pongsocket.com/experiments/skype5mini
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jamesaguilar
A "before" image would be helpful.
| {
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Please Replace Credit Cards - seanmonstar
http://seanmonstar.com/post/81400378235/please-replace-credit-cards
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onion2k
I have a better solution: keep everything exactly as it is now, but have
credit card companies accept that the system is _slightly_ susceptible to
fraud, and consequently have them take the hi... | {
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Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations - meri_dian
http://m.genome.cshlp.org/content/11/6/994.full
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shanth
Why is the article biased more towards Hindi???? Even Telugu is cited more but
there isn't any word about Tamil?? Our history from literacy works says
different!
| {
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Resizing images before upload using html5 canvas - josefrichter
http://www.rubydesigner.com/blog/resizing-images-before-upload-using-html5-canvas
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oliwarner
It's cool (it is) but if you just want to deploy something similar and don't
want to get involved in the browser politics (IE/Safari/Opera don't support
d... | {
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InPulse (YC W11) Adds A Smartphone-Like Experience To Your Wrist Watch - citizenkeys
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/inpulse-adds-a-smartphone-like-experience-to-your-wrist-watch/
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erohead
In response to some of the comments from our post in Feb
(<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579>), we've updated o... | {
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Show HN: Member Since: Find out when you created your Yahoo account - quanganhdo
Http://www.membersince.pw
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quanganhdo
I made this over the weekend to answer a simple question: When did I create my
Yahoo account? For many, it was one of the first services they registered for.
I was able to look for that piece of... | {
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Facebook facing class action lawsuit from Kansas lawyer over tracking cookies - tilt
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/10/06/facebook-facing-class-action-lawsuit-from-kansas-lawyer-over-tracking-cookies/
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natural_order
Privacy 1 : Vanity 50?
It's a start I suppose.
| {
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Ask HN: How saturated is the market for offensive security/pentesting? - hd4
Answers relevant to the UK would be good, but if not then any info at all would be better than nothing.
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erikb
I don't think that's the right question. The better question is "How strong is
the competition in the <XYZ> market".
If the ... | {
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Artificial Intelligence, Poker, and Regret - matco11
https://medium.com/@RemiStudios/artificial-intelligence-poker-and-regret-part-1-36c78d955720
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Moncefmd
Well written and very interesting. There is a small typo in your article
(there is both positive regret and positive regret).
~~~
jbg_
There are many typos,... | {
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I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time - stevesalevan
http://www.parallella.org/2014/06/03/my-name-is-brian-and-i-build-supercomputers-in-my-spare-time/
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onalark
This is a misleading title. Brian builds Supercomputer Models, not
Supercomputers. It would be like if I had a model of a Ferrari I put together
at ho... | {
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CryptoPHP: Analysis of a hidden threat inside popular content management systems - arb99
http://blog.fox-it.com/2014/11/18/cryptophp-analysis-of-a-hidden-threat-inside-popular-content-management-systems/
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ecaron
Can someone tag the title [2014]?
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Why Apple doesn’t care about professional Mac users anymore (2016) - smacktoward
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/10/why-apple-doesnt-care-about-professional-mac-users-anymore/
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arthurofbabylon
A lot of people who complain about hyperbole in the press seem to enjoy
hyperbole applied to their favorite and least fa... | {
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Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - agrinshtein
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html
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russell
The article is a revisionist feel-good view of history. He talks about
Microsoft's vision of "a computer on every desk", but the reality was that
Gates always wanted to make mo... | {
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UK Announces the “Google Tax” - Robadob
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/12/03/latest-in-europe-vs-tech-co-battles-u-k-introduces-the-google-tax/
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nextw33k
Of course a 25% tax on profit leaves them in exactly the same position. The
tax scheme is to have no profit by pay it as IP rights to another company in a
lo... | {
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Three Reasons To Use Disqus - dshah
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/05/three-reasons-t.html
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mosburger
OK, this might be a really stupid question. If so, I apologize, but...
What happens if Disqus goes out of business? Do all of your comments
evaporate? Or are the comments stored locally somehow?
~~~
bootload... | {
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Being a Musician and Writer Fucking Sucks So I’m Going to Learn JavaScript - 6stringmerc
https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/being-a-musician-writer-fucking-sucks-so-im-going-to-learn-javascript-8e02ed2cf382#.ouru49ol0
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vogt
Good luck to you.
I gave up on the dream of being a FT touring musician at 24 after a handf... | {
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YouTube Launches Site Specifically for Teachers - tilt
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/09/youtube-launches-site-specifically-for-teachers/
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JonnieCache
The video at the bottom of that article is amazing. There's several rap covers
about biology on their channel, obviously made originally for the purposes of
the... | {
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} |
Air Force Looks for ‘Core Algorithms’ of Human Thought - vaksel
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/air-force-looks-for-core-algorithms-of-human-thought/
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russell
The article is skeptical and superficial, but if I were to assemble a research
program to create real-world, operates-out-in-the-wild intelligence... | {
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Why Singapore has yet to produce a truly innovative startup - williswee
https://www.techinasia.com/talk/innovation-where-art-thou
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lazylizard
there was creative..and that popiah skin manufacturer?
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Ask HN: I'm a startup founder with 2 near deaths, what do I do? - anononyc
http://inetpro.org/pastebin/10964/view/raw<p>Expires on may 11th
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ColinWright
<http://inetpro.org/pastebin/10964/view/raw>
I've been trying to work out how I can best help, what advice I can offer,
because I'd like to help. However, I ... | {
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves - prostoalex
https://qz.com/work/1541822/the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-is-backtracking-on-year-long-parental-leaves/
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simonsarris
> [heading] How do they manage in Canada?
> In Canada, companies have had no option but to make 52-week p... | {
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How we do coding assignments (hiring engineers) - digitalbase
https://medium.com/@gijsnelissen/how-we-do-coding-assignments-dad420e0573e
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coreyp_1
It should probably be pointed out that, even if you are paying them for their
time, you must also have some sort of IP agreement for the code that they
produce.
~~~
... | {
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Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language would you recommend? - tiuPapa
Note: Not the fb with millions of LOC but the initial one with a few thousands that started it all.
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taprun
Whatever you are best at writing. Scale doesn't matter much compared to
traction early on.
~~~
hellbreaker
By far the be... | {
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Show HN: Cliplingo – turns YouTube into spaced repetition language learning - Ondrej72
https://www.cliplingo.com
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Ondrej72
What was originally a simple tool for my own learning and memorising, turned
into a real project for everyone.
Youtube is full of great content for learning videos. But there hasn’t been a
... | {
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Ask HN: What is the quickest way to implement user management for my SaaS - cs747
Implementing user management functionalities such as<p>- user registration
- email/phone number verification
- user login
- forget username or password
- account deletion
- etc
For SaaS is a common requirement. What are the best wa... | {
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A Better Vim – How to Configure Neovim - superskierpat
http://patrickmarchand.com/posts/neovim-tuto.html
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superskierpat
My first blog post after a request on lobsters. Commentaries, suggestions and
insults welcome.
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Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite - davedx
https://time.com/5779315/russian-spacecraft-spy-satellite-space-force/
======
ColinWright
Discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207683](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207683)
Other sources for the story:
[https://news.ycombinator.... | {
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Paint the earth - tosh
https://what-if.xkcd.com/84/
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qubex
My family business is in the paint manufacturing sector. This is quite
amusing. Paint is literally one of the most boring things in the universe.
However, I must point out he has not thought of manufactured objects that need
to be painted.
| {
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} |
CoffeeScript and Progress - focusaurus
http://peterlyons.com/problog/2012/03/coffeescript-and-progress
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dustingetz
he's missed the point. people aren't saying that "CoffeeScript is a priori
somehow wrong or inferior or a bad choice". Coffeescript is an abstraction,
and abstractions have potential to leak, so som... | {
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ToyJVM: An Experimental Java Virtual Machine - sagartewari01
https://github.com/ozy/ToyJVM
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DannyB2
It's not immediately obvious, but what class library does it work with? Gnu
Classpath? Something else?
If this doesn't have a good deal of the rest of the built in Java ecosystem,
then does it have much value or ... | {
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} |
On being a woman linux kernel developer - tathagatadg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dro2v44wvs0
Linux developer Sarah Sharp shares her story about how she became a Linux kernel developer, as well as what it means to be a woman today in the open source software community.
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eknuth
Cool, I saw her garden automati... | {
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Ask HN: I think my co-founder is freaking out about getting sued. - gitgo
I think have a serious problem with my co-founder and I’m not sure how to handle it. We just launched an adaption{1} of the popular Yo App and we are getting lots of downloads. But now, he is freaking out about getting sued for using a similar... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Agent - Go-like concurrency in Ruby - dpaluy
https://github.com/igrigorik/agent
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dpaluy
<http://vimeo.com/49718712> Concurrency is not parallelism by Rob Pike
~~~
dustybenshee
It's true that concurrency is not parallelism... but why did you bring it up.
This project is about concurrency. Nobody has confused i... | {
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} |
Will Banning Cryptography Keep the Country Safe? - lanecwagner
https://qvault.io/2020/02/05/will-banning-cryptography-keep-the-country-safe/
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bediger4000
Article does not answer the question posed by its headline, but it is a short,
yet good discussion of moral panics, and legislation driven by moral panics.
| {
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} |
Remote freelance jobs - kaizensoze
https://github.com/kaizensoze/remote-freelance-jobs
======
kaizensoze
If you know of any additional remote friendly dev shops or sites with direct
clients, feel free to submit a pull request!
| {
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} |
Searching for Dark Matter with Cloudant, part 3 - mbroberg
https://cloudant.com/blog/searching-for-dark-matter-with-cloudant-part3/
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vonnik75
So, have you found dark matter yet? :) what's up with that?
~~~
gadamc
Ha! That would be a much bigger headline. Well, in a sense, its already been
detected, but just n... | {
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} |
HyperRogue 11.2: Thurston Geometries - mathgenius
https://zenorogue.blogspot.com/2019/09/hyperrogue-112-thurston-geometries-free.html
======
db48x
Hyperrogue continues to surprise me. The price ought to be going up over time,
but it never seems to.
~~~
zenorogue
It does. The first version on Steam was $0.99 (it was a... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Lyrics generator for over 40 artist styles - mrkarezina
https://www.freshbots.org/lyrcis-generator
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mrkarezina
I made this web app for generating lyrics in the styles of over 40 artists.
Why? I had two goals with this project: 1\. I was curious to see if the model
will be able to generate entertaining ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What is the best way to handle student loans as an entrepreneur? - the_watcher
I dropped out of law school after year after hating it. It left me with roughly $40K in loans. My monthly payment is manageable with my current income, and I could reduce it by changing my repayment plan to one of the lower mont... | {
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} |
New gene found: helps prevent heart attack, stroke; may block effects of aging - evo_9
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160517094208.htm
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cjbprime
Please (everyone) stop posting scientific press releases regarding a single
study. They are always massively suspect. If this work is correct then there
... | {
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} |
Your phone number is becoming the online identifier of choice - lgomezma
http://blog.messagebird.com/2015/12/your-phone-number-is-becoming-the-online-identifier-of-choice/
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henningpeters
> Hacking someone’s phone number is almost impossible to do, as someone would
> need to steal the physical SIM card or clone i... | {
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} |
HN Discusses: Lets talk about replacing HTTP in the browser. - bradhe
HTTP has been a solid workhorse for, what, 20 years? It can pretty much be considered ubiquitous -- any platform worth its salt has a robust HTTP client. HTTP is reasonably light weight and extensible and is generally well understood.<p>But is it ... | {
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} |
Create website in easy way using simple Drag and Drop tools - amritsinghlotay
http://www.codelator.com/blog/2014/aug/webflow-create-website-in-easy-way-using-simple-drag-and-drop-tools.html
======
amritsinghlotay
Webflow is one of the best website builder tool available on the internet. It
uses simple drag and drop ... | {
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} |
Verisign Buyout of Thawte Consulting Challenged (2000) - yuhong
https://slashdot.org/story/00/01/11/1029235/verisign-buyout-of-thawte-consulting-challenged
======
yuhong
I believe Mark later used this to fund Canonical (it was worth $575 million).
This is a good example of the debt based economy being flawed, includin... | {
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} |
Effective A/B Testing - luu
http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/
======
bgun
There may be useful information here but the presentation format is
incomprehensible. And do the images on the right bear any relationship to the
content?
------
caminante
Is there a way to advance by complete slides and not have to... | {
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} |
Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU - wglb
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=512
======
Luc
Well, this is going to be an awesome talk (on the 28th in Berlin), but other
than the title and a pretty picture, there's nothing in the link...
~~~
alanthonyc
Click the picture and you get this:
[http://events.ccc.de/congress/201... | {
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} |
NASA wants your help with a simulated lunar mission - novas0x2a
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/desertrats/vote
======
novas0x2a
More information about the Desert RATS project:
<http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs/desert_rats.html>
| {
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} |
T. Rex Might Be the Thing with Feathers - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/t-rex-might-be-the-thing-with-feathers-rp
======
themartorana
I feel silly even writing this... but I wanted more pictures. I know the
imagination is a powerful thing, but an artist's rendering based on a
scientist's descripti... | {
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} |
Show HN: Coronamaison - vvoyer
https://coronamaison.now.sh/
======
vvoyer
Hey HN!
Here's my second covid19 related project: #coronamaison
I got really impressed by all the art drawings of the #coronamaison project
where, starting with a blank template, you then draw your ideal
#staythefuckhome place.
It all started... | {
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} |
What is the next big thing after 'Big Data'; 'Big Sensor web Era' - abdullahisham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_web
======
abdullahisham
The idea is that sensors will transmit data at the speed of light (taking into
account delay on networks). If an earthquake was to have its epicenter 20
miles away, you could... | {
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} |
The Dilemma of Anti-Semitic Speech Online - Pharmakon
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/internet-you-can-scream-fire-all-you-want-unless-something-burns/574243/?single_page=true
======
xkcd-sucks
Apparently China's figured this one out
| {
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} |
The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Office in 2018 - ericdanielski
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/entry/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60
======
nonbel
Be careful, there are lots of people passing themselves off as scientists who
aren't these days.
It is all over the place. F... | {
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} |
Performance comparison of CUDA and OpenCL on Nvidia FERMI Tesla C2050 - dgibsontx
http://blog.accelereyes.com/blog/2010/05/10/nvidia-fermi-cuda-and-opencl/
======
anateus
That's quite promising as far as OpenCL is concerned. I've seen a lot of
scientific packages that run on CUDA, but not many that use OpenCL, but I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How the NASCAR-like experience of new PCs hurts customer confidence - terrellm
http://www.keepingitrural.com/nascar-pc-experience-hurts-customer-confidence
======
noonespecial
All those decals are there on your windows pc for the same reason they are
there on the racing cars. To subsidize the cost of the machine. Yo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Build a Compact Cryptocurrency System Purely Based on PoS - YAYERKA
http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/330
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josephagoss
The paper should be titled "POS Cryptocurrency with no blockchain" as that is
the most innovative idea they are talking about.
There already exist pure POS coins, Nxt through a concept called transpa... | {
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} |
Understanding Memory Usage in Docker Desktop on Mac - pooya72
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZiQC1Tp9iH320K-uqVLyiJmk4DHJ3c4zgQetJiKYQM/edit
======
chmaynard
> Activity Monitor in MacOS Mojave has a double-counting bug, causing it to
> report double the actual memory allocated.
Ouch. Assuming this bug was intro... | {
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} |
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