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Ask HN: Is Go better off with or without generics? - philonoist
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coldtea
Well, it's 2017 already.
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Una Corda, a piano with one string per note - camtarn
https://www.klavins-pianos.com/products/una-corda/
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Sharlin
At first I was confused and wondered whether my understanding of how pianos
work is totally inadequate and whether normal pianos have _fewer_ than one
string per note (perhaps with some sort of a fre... | {
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Show HN: Get a phone call when a stock hits a certain price - TheStockAlarms
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stock-alarm-market-alerts/id1465535138
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_____smurf_____
nice! which technology do you use for Phone Calls (is it Twillio)?
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Ask HN: What are some ways of proving yourself to a startup? - djsamson
I'm a college senior, business development/marketing/sales background with a couple NY based startups and I'll be relocating to the Bay Area in May. I have two favorite startups (both YC funded) that I am extremely intrigued by. These products/s... | {
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I co-founded Vine. Here's my advice for TikTok on how to stay on top - gmays
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/perspectives/vine-tiktok-microsoft-innovation/index.html
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lovefeature
You could try the snapfeel web app.
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ObjectBox: Fast object-oriented database for Go - thomaslewis
https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-go
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zydeco
I don't like how it's a closed source binary that's downloaded as part of the
install process. Realm used to be like this too, but they open sourced their
core later, I wonder if ObjectBox has similar ... | {
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Ask HN: How does a parent with a day job participate in Y Combinator? - dpritchett
A share of $15-20k should certainly cover one's expenses for a YC season but at the end you're jobless and likely not yet profitable with your fledgling startup. Does a founder in the aforementioned situation have to set a personal d... | {
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The Sound of Code [video] - BobbyVsTheDevil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEI0wBkgf1w
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dsyko
This reminds me a lot of the sound of sorting algorithms
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg)
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DonaldFisk
Fascinating.
Some early computers, such as the Elliot... | {
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Kevin Rose regrets dropping out of school too early - rockstar9
http://www.inc.com/ss/6-ceos-share-their-biggest-regrets#3
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jmtame
I think the real part of regret comes in the last quote: "Sometimes, I’ll be
sitting around on a weekend and think, it’d be fun if I could just write up a
software app really quick... | {
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The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective - whalesalad
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem.ars
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nailer
BeOS and QNX remain to this day some of my favorite OSs, in terms of being
designed rather than grown (people often say this about BSD, but BSD is based
on Unix, and Unix wa... | {
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} |
Did a Big Bet Help Trigger 'Black Swan' Stock Swoon? - grellas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704879704575236771699461084.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews
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rfreytag
"Instead, the picture is one of a highly rare confluence of events, some
linked, some unrelated, that exposed weaknesses in the stoc... | {
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Cellphones, Tablets, Fitbits Could Be Banned from Pentagon Under Mattis Review - smacktoward
https://taskandpurpose.com/ban-cellphones-pentagon-mattis/
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sharemywin
wouldn't the lack of data leak the same kind of information? sound like
they'll eventually need to create false signals. maybe from some kind of AI
g... | {
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Why Steve Jobs can't stand Adobe - anderzole
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2010/02/05/apple-and-adobe-the-roots-and-reasons-behind-today-s-situation
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rodyancy
I would love Apple to create a Photoshop competitor. As powerful as Photoshop
is, there is a ton of room for simplification. You know there is a problem
whe... | {
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Planet-sized 'waves' spotted in the Sun's atmosphere - okket
http://www.nature.com/news/planet-sized-waves-spotted-in-the-sun-s-atmosphere-1.21704
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sqeaky
That is pretty cool.
Are we just now learning about these because the sun is hard to observe? I
understand its distance and brightness are both impediments.
... | {
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Starting An Airline - rickdale
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/startup/index.page
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fosk
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new
airline (Richard Branson).
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lutorm
That's a variation on an old aviation proverb: "How do you make a small
fortune in aviation? Start ... | {
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Pololu - Three and a half months to plug in our machines legally - wisesage5001
http://www.pololu.com/blog/26/three-and-a-half-months-to-plug-in-our-machines-legally
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RLG_RLG
This is a horrible situation for your business. I hope you get everything
worked out soon.
I won't explain the details, but I have extens... | {
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Mixtape of the Lost Decade (2011) - DiabloD3
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade.html
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rsync
A boingboing content piece _without_ an absolutely shameless amazon affiliate
link ?
That's incredible. Truly amazing.
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pronoiac
Oh, the 19A0s. I'm surprised jwz doesn't have a tag for t... | {
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Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6 - iamd3vil
http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/bdr-is-coming-to-postgresql-9-6/
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ukj
Holy crap, I am scared!
Please, please, please read the fine print and ensure you understand the
design tradeoffs as well as your application's requirements before blindly
using thi... | {
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German Leaders at Odds with Industry Over Electric Cars - davidiach
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/german-government-at-odds-with-industry-over-electric-cars-a-1123436.html
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LeanderK
German here. My Problem with the German Car Industry is that they still see
the car as a product, not as a platform.... | {
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Swift: Close to greatness in programming language design - grandmczeb
https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/swift-programming-language-design-part-3/
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JaceLightning
LMAO it's just a rip-off of Kotlin. Talk about Apple fanboy piece
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vorg
... and Kotlin is a rip-off of Apache Groovy. But with static... | {
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The Boxee Remote - Flemlord
http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/01/05/by-the-pricking-of-my-thumbs-something-awesome-this-way-comes/
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g0atbutt
I really hope Boxee can gain some mainstream traction. I absolutely love the
software, and this remote is pretty slick as well.
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buro9
Am I the only one who thinks they woul... | {
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Show HN: Janine – your sexy generator and archiver of PDF invoices - gionn
https://github.com/ClouDesire/janine
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gionn
Technical details: it's a java 8 webapp built with spring boot, pdf
manipulated via Apache PDFBox, upload to the cloud via jclouds, packaged via
docker.
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Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats - DanBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39291279
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apetresc
I feel like the Hacker News hive mind is short-circuiting here, the "anti-
censorship" impulse is overriding rationality. This isn't some Orwellian
conspiracy to compromise language, it... | {
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House Grills State Department Over Wassenaar Arrangement - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/house-grills-state-department-over-wassenaar-arrangement
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wyldfire
Was ist "Wassenaar Arrangement"? It's an export restriction that impacts
software [1]
> In December 2013, the list of export restricted tec... | {
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Microsoft is Hiring Go engineers to work on Kubernetes - wilsonfiifi
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/6o2lc3/microsoft_is_hiring_go_engineers_to_work_on/
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hit8run
I was introduced to the Kubernetes source code by an Redhat Kubernetes Core
Contributor. He showed me the nasty parts how they solved the lack... | {
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In pace requiescat (On XHTML & HTML5) - sjs382
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jul/08/xhtml/
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ableal
Do not miss the third or so link:
[http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/07/06/this-is-the-
hous...](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/07/06/this-is-the-house)
Funny post, and good followup comments.
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Ask HN: How do you decide what to learn next? - vijayr
Let's say you have very limited time to learn and that you are not doing much learning in your day job. How do you decide what to learn? What is your process for picking up topics to learn (other than "this is interesting")?
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tedmiston
Somethi... | {
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A Warning about Microsoft Internet Explorer and too-short custom 404 error pages - archielc
http://www.404-error-page.com/404-error-page-too-short-problem-microsoft-ie.shtml
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clishem
Thanks for the heads-up.
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Cassandra 0.5.0 released - bootload
http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/01/cassandra-05.html
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xal
Olden but golden? In fact it looks like 0.6 realease is really far along. It's
read performance got so good that a bunch of sites are ditching memcached(db)
in favor of it.
Speaking of Cassandra, can anyone confirm t... | {
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} |
Ask HN: New interesting games for programmers suggestions? - viach
I mean like RoboWar, Ants from aichallenge etc.
I can use google, but it's just interesting to know someone personal experience.
Right now I'm reading the screeps.com documentation, looks interesting (and not, this is not a plug :))
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Ask HN: Ham sandwich theorem - weaksauce
What are your favorite famous/ridiculous theorems out there? I just stumbled upon this gem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem
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RiderOfGiraffes
Was this submission inspired by the earlier one here:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982247>
??
And wh... | {
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Show HN: My first website, an episode list for over 3000 shows - goldenkey
http://episodelist.org
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earless1
Congrats on putting something together, hope you had fun doing it. What are
your next steps for this project? Mine would be to polish the frontend design.
I'm not sure of your comfort level with frontend... | {
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} |
TensorFlow Implementation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks - carpedm20
https://github.com/carpedm20/DCGAN-tensorflow
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zappo2938
I have an idea for anyone who is interest in getting their hands dirty with
TensorFlow.
There is a very large conservation group in Fort Lauderdale that works with... | {
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Hackers and Founders Meetup tonight in San Jose - iamelgringo
Please, feel free to drop by. We still have room.<p>http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737
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ph0rque
> <http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737>
ahh, if it was only <http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1337>
;~)
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Ask HN: Can my GPL webapp be a paid iPhone app? - roschdal
I have created a webapp which I'm wondering if would be possible to turn into a paid app on the iPhone app store?<p>My web app is an open source multiplayer strategy game for the web. The app is released under the GNU General Public License.<p>I would like t... | {
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TX police issue explosion warning ahead of SpaceX test - myrandomcomment
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starhopper-launch-sheriff-issues-explosion-risk-safety-warning-notice-2019-8
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aurizon
Show how PC and stupidity have riddled some police forces...
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Nim: –Gc:Arc - based2
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5734
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totalperspectiv
This is super cool ... are there any more detailed docs on it? It sounds like
it's borrowing a bit from Rust's ownership model?
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Should Farmers Give John Deere And Monsanto Their Data? - RougeFemme
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/21/264577744/should-farmers-give-john-deere-and-monsanto-their-data
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kfcm
This will be the second year where I've placed data ownership in my farm
leases. Essentially, any data directly describing the ... | {
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The Golden Age of Tax Fraud Is Upon Us - smn1234
https://www.gq.com/story/golden-age-of-tax-fraud
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masonic
"Trump is poised to cut the agency’s budget even further. The number of audits
has plummeted, with only .7% of all individuals audited in 2016."
Trump wasn't in office for _any_ of that "plummet" period. T... | {
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Bacteria in clouds - oscardelben
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud#Bacteria_in_clouds
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oscardelben
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/64122879.html>
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hendler
If you hadn't posted the national geographic link as well, I would have
thought it was an April fools joke.
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oscardelben
To be hones... | {
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Play Asteroids in Chrome - Thanks to HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript - dcawrey
http://www.thechromesource.com/play-asteroids-in-chrome-thanks-to-html5-canvas-and-javascript/
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JeffL
The arrow keys and space bar keep scrolling the page up and down in addition
to controlling my ship!
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geuis
doesn't work in the ... | {
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North Korea creates its own timezone - hamoperator
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/08/07/north-korea-time-zone/31275995/
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pavel_lishin
How many developers here will be directly affected by this?
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Brain Hackers Beware: Scientist Says tDCS Has No Effect - Expeditus419
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/brain-hackers-beware-scientist-says-tdcs-has-no-effect
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Iv
I had to get into the medical publications on this subject because a friend
approached me one year ago with the idea of commercializing tDCS... | {
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Japan's Stupid Robot Contest - r7000
http://gizmodo.com/379591/japans-stupid-robot-contest
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t0pj
Is the contest stupid or the robots?
English is really failing me right now.
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Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999? - donohoe
The person (or persons) deserve a medal.<p>All I can find is it was built for Outlook Web Access. Nothing more. No names, no nothing.<p>Who's idea was it, and who built it?<p>Anyone know?<p>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/123475/who-first-... | {
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2018 Google Scholar Top 100 Publication Venues - wei_jok
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues
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wei_jok
Information about how the metrics described in this blog post released today:
2018 Scholar Metrics Released:
[https://scholar.googleblog.com/2018/08/scholar-metrics-
provi...](https://schola... | {
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28,000-year-old mammoth cells have shown reactivity in mouse egg cells - PierredeFermat
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40546-1
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Mizza
Does anybody know why so much mammoth research comes out of Korea and Japan?
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PierredeFermat
It might be geographic proximity to Siberia and thus abundance of rese... | {
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Men would rather receive an electric shock than think - riaface
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/04/electric-shock-therapy-better-than-thinking
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robert_tweed
As far as I can see, it's not "being alone thinking" it's "being without any
mental stimulation".
If someone says to me: "here's a really har... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do people get started in open source? - Mz
A recent comment to me suggested women should get more into opensource: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086552<p>I actually don't know much code. It's been a long standing goal of mine to learn to code. I know a little HTML and a l... | {
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In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates - kalvin
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stream.html
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skmurphy
thanks for posting this. I read his double-book "Dream Machines / Computer
Lib" when it came out: it changed my perspective on the future of computing
from numbers and mathematics to narrative an... | {
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If I get hit by a truck... - artursapek
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity
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sakopov
After reading a few of his blog posts from previous years, it almost seemed
like he saw it coming years ago. Depression is a terrible thing. Most
experience it in mild states. Only unlucky few contemplate suicide on daily
b... | {
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Organizing Data in Long Lived Applications - EvilTrout
http://eviltrout.com/2013/05/26/organizing-data-in-long-lived-applications.html
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dave_sid
Interesting. Using composition of objects like that is a sensible enough
approach. What about also just implementing lazy loading in your domain
objects. If you try t... | {
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SlideDeck 2 - The Web's Most Powerful Webslider - ZanderEarth32
http://www.slidedeck.com/
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tzaman
I think the license is way overpriced - I can get pretty much any type slider
either from github or codecanyon (for a couple of bucks).
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Ask HN: How does free compete with paid? - ecaron
Our free website makes money off of CPC revenue, but our chief competitor charges a monthly membership fee. This means they can run promotions saying "Hey! Sign up now and get your first 2 months at 50% off", while we can only say "Uhh... we're still free."<p>So they... | {
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95 percent of SAP systems were exposed to vulnerabilities - paganinip
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/36701/hacking/sap-systems-vulnerable.html
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eliaspro
securityaffairs.co/wordpress - isn't it ironic?
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How to survive 80+ hours a week coding - 0wl3x
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-survive-80-hours-of-programming-every-week-3cc1db75695a
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0wl3x
I just came across this article and I found it too obscene not to share. Do
people actually really do this?
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jbawgs
I was similarly aghast. I don't think I love... | {
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Book Review: PiHKAL - jmcgough
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/11/book-review-pihkal/
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pizza
Erowid hosts the syntheses and experience reports from the book online
[https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.sh...](https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml)
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Show HN: CloudWatch Dashboard for CodePipeline metrics - cplee
https://github.com/stelligent/pipeline-dashboard
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cplee
Simple dashboard built for viewing pipeline metrics in AWS. Built using
CloudWatch dashboards and metrics populated from CloudWatch events that
CodePipeline triggers.
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Free copy of Stroustrup - lisper
Doing some house cleaning and came across an extra copy of Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" that I don't need. Free to the first person who sends me their mailing address. ron@flownet.com
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atlantic
Thanks very much for the offer. I've just e-mailed you my mailing a... | {
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The Launch of the Mayday Citizens' SuperPAC - famousactress
http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/84419344732/the-launch-of-the-mayday-citizens-superpac
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rayiner
This is admirable, but I don't think the rhetoric is realistic or effective.
"Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the
inf... | {
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The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System - coderdude
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2010/09/design-and-implementation-of-log.html
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jacques_chester
LFSes also have the nice property that they have a smooth CPU usage profile.
Traditional FSes improve perceived performances by batching writ... | {
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} |
Screenshots of ecommerce sites before they became popular - allsop8184
http://www.shopify.com/blog/6464492-the-ecommerce-graveyard-how-37-popular-sites-used-to-look
Example:Dell, Apple, Netflix..etc..
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Mike_Williams
These arent all ecommerce sites. Apple looks so ridiculous.
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jackmicky123
Great list!
~~... | {
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Funny hack: “I'm a disgusting pig, and proud of it to boot.” – Linus Torvals - nichochar
https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/18/218
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signa11
this is also particularly relevant:
1\. anatomy of a syscall(part-1)
[http://lwn.net/Articles/604287/](http://lwn.net/Articles/604287/)
2\. anatomy of a syscall(part-2)
[http... | {
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The First Best Seller: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela - Petiver
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/first-best-seller
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illiilliiililil
As for myself, I found it a totally boring read. I understand its place in
classrooms though. And I'm glad the society depicted is dead and gone.
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The Flop Heard Round the World (2007) - smacktoward
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090301419_pf.html
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comrade1
I guess this is here as commentary on the Apple watch and the associated hype?
Personally, the thing that disappoints me about the Apple watch is that Apple
is ... | {
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Panel Wants Deep Space, Not Landings as U.S. Goal - edw519
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/science/space/31nasa.html?_r=1&hpw
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DanielBMarkham
_But it would also eliminate the possibility of astronauts leaving new iconic
footprints on the Moon or Mars for a couple of decades._
Translated: manned extraterres... | {
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Dear Twitter, help, I need a job - cyberomin
https://cyberomin.github.io/life/2018/06/26/twitter-i-need-a-job.html
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onion2k
What makes these suggestions better?
Unless someone can demonstrate how effective each tweet is (maybe by retweets,
or by how quickly employers respond (if at all), or by actual hirings) t... | {
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} |
Dvorak: Don't Trust Web-Application Servers - gibsonf1
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295642,00.html
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Goladus
A big problem with the article is that they throw up "Trust" as this gigantic,
vague moral litmus test and anything you "can't trust" is evil and To Be
Avoided. In typical fox news fashion the artic... | {
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5 product design mistakes you need to avoid - daschaiek
https://mobile.twitter.com/tryaryforyou/status/460985000955875328
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karangoeluw
any reason why this a link to a tweet and not to the article directly?
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US Jobless Rate Fell in May as Hiring Rebounded - sjb_Live
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-jobless-rate-unexpectedly-fell-in-may-as-hiring-rebounded/ar-BB154ATi
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rodiger
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23428340](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23428340)
Dupe
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Adobe AIR launches on Linux - johns
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10042475-16.html
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pmjordan
Wow, now I don't even have to open my browser to run down my battery faster
with 100% CPU load.
Adobe has some severe quality problems with its Flash player already, pushing
out more badly written software is hard... | {
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Stock Picks from Space (2019) - johnny313
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-value-satellite-images-investing/586009/
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brenden2
> Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict retailers’ sales.
> Is that cheating?
This is no more "cheating" than using any other pseudo-publicl... | {
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Russia's secret space shuttles have been sitting in plain sight for 22 years - sakopov
http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-russian-abandoned-space-shuttles-by-ralph-mirebs-2015-6
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detaro
The link that actually matters:
[https://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/219949.html](https://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/2... | {
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1972 Solar Storm Detonated U.S. Mines in Vietnam - samfriedman
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018SW002024
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masonic
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18412594](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18412594)
70+ points
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Im Lainon. AMA - lainon
pg/dang/stcb are you here?
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gen_greyface
Who are you?
| {
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Mobile Apps That Reward Impoverished Students With Food, Medicine - danielharan
http://www.fastcompany.com/1771527/mpowering-rewards-impoverished-students-with-food-medicine
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danielharan
High-tech micro-managing paternalism? Feeding kids at school would achieve
much the same goal, minus the need for a cell-ph... | {
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} |
Teen hacks Pentagon websites, gets thanked for finding 'bugs' - OMG__Ponies
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-cyber-idUSKCN0Z32IU
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devnonymous
Click-baity title. The teen participated in a bug bounty and found some (know)
vulnerabilities.
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mtgx
A whole thank you?
~~~
ddworken
Well I did get ... | {
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A Bit of History about Bits - ingve
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/12/09/Dbtails.html
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eesmith
As usual with Bob Martin, this is a personal history, and not some broader
detailed history. It does not, for example, contain much in the way of
specific dates, people, or hardware models.
The general spir... | {
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Game Theory and the joy of shutting down Google Reader - rogueleaderr
http://rogueleaderr.com/post/46782448771/the-game-theory-of-google-reader
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anigbrowl
This is pretty bitter lemonade, but I have to agree with _If Craigslist would
just take a lesson from Google and shut down completely, it would be one of
th... | {
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New Ball Prototype - chaostheory
http://blog.gearbox.me/prototype/new-ball-prototype/
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run4yourlives
Cool... but here's how my evil military trained mind works.
1\. "Ball" has core of C4, surrounded by wire, etc. (i.e. it's a grenade with
a bigger bang)
2\. Add increased range.
3\. Add ability to "bounce" (fo... | {
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It's time to make your own face mask - bookofjoe
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/coronavirus-n95-mask.html
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foxyv
If you are having trouble finding elastic for the elastic bands, try looking
for stuff like elastic hair ties and even waists for underpants and bras.
(Probably want a new pair!) Materials... | {
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} |
Four Big Banks to Create a New Digital Currency for Inter-Bank Transactions - minamisan
https://news.bitcoin.com/four-banks-create-new-digital-currency/
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andr
Sounds more like a digital currency than a blockchain currency. When this is
just between a few banks, which inherently trust each other, there's no need
... | {
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} |
Dropbox confirms that a bug within Selective Sync may have caused data loss - ghuntley
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ghuntley/42803b4cabb181098063/raw/2e06230c31018cefbc706dca5e7b12ef9692d87e/gistfile1.txt
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ghuntley
Additional info from Dropbox support:
We received several reports from us... | {
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Most(ly Dead) Influential Programming Languages - weinzierl
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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merricksb
Active discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22690229](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22690229)
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wu.js -- A lazy, functional Javascript library - mnemonik
http://fitzgen.github.com/wu.js/
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jashkenas
One interesting idea (for JS) is defining functions as pattern matches on the
arguments. Here's a factorial from the docs:
>>> var factorial = wu.match(
... [ 0 ], 1,
... | {
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Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’ - Anon84
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00505-2
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monkeynotes
AI is like a mountain. No matter what humanity does, someone will summit just
because it's there. We can control businesses to an extent, but a curious
person in the basement, no one has contro... | {
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} |
Redshift CI/CD – How we did it and why you should do it too - dvainrub
https://medium.com/big-data-engineering/redshift-cicd-how-we-did-it-and-why-you-should-do-it-to-e46ecf734eab
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masonic
[https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dvainrub](https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dvainrub)
| {
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Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy? - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/34/adaptation/can-a-living-creature-be-as-big-as-a-galaxy
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lazaroclapp
The article makes the argument that intelligent life a couple orders of
magnitude larger than human would think very slowly, since the time for a
single message to ... | {
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} |
The Death of Hype: What's Next for Scala - epelesis
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/TheDeathofHypeWhatsNextforScala.html
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melling
"compiler itself is massively sped up, with code compiling literally twice as
fast as it did just three years ago"
Scala always looked like a nice language. The slow compilation was a hu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Subscribing to GraphQL events in a React client - nareshbhatia
https://medium.com/naresh-bhatia/graphql-concepts-i-wish-someone-explained-to-me-a-year-ago-3b84203fb0b9
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nareshbhatia
You guessed it–the last step, described in Part 7 of my GraphQL series, is to
subscribe to events in our React client.
Thanks to t... | {
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} |
India will become number 1 source of PHP developers soon - palehose
http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/99-India-will-become-number-1-source-of-PHP-developers-soon.html
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embeddedradical
hey, hey...don't pick on india, they're still emerging - they'll make it
through this php problem. we still have a lot of peo... | {
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} |
YC Fall 2015 College Tour - katm
https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fall-2015-college-tour
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BinaryIdiot
It would be really cool if YC came by UMD (University of Maryland). There is a
start-up shell where a whole bunch of companies work out of, some of which has
raised money and some not quite yet but it's a cool sp... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film - breck
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/11/23/503134502/ok-gos-new-video-for-the-one-moment-is-another-mind-blower
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sleepychu
Title is inaccurate. >How long did the routine take in real time? The first
three quarters of the vid... | {
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Facebook in legal fight for its future - wumi
http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci_9682260
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falsestprophet
"The worst case scenario is that Facebook doesn't own its core code and that
it's been using someone else's code for the foundation of its company. That
could lead to damages that are catastrophi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stale Code - vinnyglennon
https://eng.uber.com/piranha/
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ublaze
One of our internal experimentation systems handles this by capping rollouts
to 95%. So the author is forced to clean up their code if they want a full
rollout.
~~~
ThouYS
I'm sorry, but I don't ... | {
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Twitter Halts User Verification Process, Saying It's ‘Broken’ - Varcht
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-09/twitter-halts-user-verification-process-saying-it-s-broken
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msravi
Hmm.. if they claim that the blue tick is the sign of a verified account (not
an important or exclusive account), then they ... | {
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HTML to CMS - saoronxxx
http://vemo.me
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saoronxxx
For a test drive : [http://vemo.me/html2cms](http://vemo.me/html2cms)
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saoronxxx
This platform will take 70% of valid HTML5 templates and will convert it to a
super easy CMS just like that..
| {
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Switchboard Is Like Craigslist Without the Creeps and Flakes - seanslerner
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/switchboard/
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kazinator
When I navigate to switchboardhq.com, it wants my browser to run Javascript
from about ten different sites (as reported by the NoScript FF extension).
Yuck! Craigslist only requires J... | {
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} |
While we're on the subject of Rails security, should this be of concern? - rubypay
https://github.com/search?q=Application.config.secret_token&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1&type=Code&language=Ruby
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skimbrel
I presume this is not strictly a Rails problem.
You can check in things that shouldn't be checked i... | {
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The Illusion of Life: Disney's principles of animation - mike_h
http://the12principles.tumblr.com/
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GuiA
Those animation principles absolutely apply in UI work, and I wish digital
designers were more exposed to it. There is still a lot to be explored with
what can be done with quality animation in UIs, and digit... | {
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} |
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