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Ask Patrick McKenzie (patio11) anything - jroes
http://www.anyasq.com/227-i-made-bingo-card-creator
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bh42222
I used to poor, like seriously, food was an issue, poor.
Both of my parents and other close relatives started many businesses. They all
failed. They are all intelligent people but they all suck, and I me... | {
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} |
Steven Pinker Will Be Just Fine - pseudolus
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/steven-pinker-will-be-just-fine/614323/
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Miner49er
I guess my view is probably a devil's advocate on HN, but I actually view
cancel culture as (mostly) good. I believe that that power should always be as
decentralized a... | {
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} |
Top Real-Time Web Products of 2010 - rwwmike
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_real-time_web_products_of_2010.php
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rwwmike
What I really want to know is, what did I leave out? And how long is it until
"real-time" is a given? Sorta like calling something "social"?
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Jan '11 H1b/International Edition) - agentx
I <i>honestly</i> didn't want to add to the clutter on the frontpage, but once again, I didn't see anything specific for those in need of visa sponsorship (H1b).<p>So if you're hiring (and sponsoring H1b), perhaps you could say so in this thread, or ... | {
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} |
Show HN:jQuery Signature - Getting a unique signature for a dom element - arunoda
http://dokeeno.com/v/blog/jquery-signature:-getting-unique-signature-for-dom-element/getting-started
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rcsorensen
I just wrapped up some code I've used in similar situations:
<https://github.com/rcs/jQuery.relativeSelector>
Inst... | {
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Show HN: SnapPrint – Design your t-shirt in less than a minute - gerry_shaw
https://snapprint.com
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gerry_shaw
I was frustrated that I work on a T-shirt printing platform but had no way to
easily design shirts for myself so after pitching the idea and a couple of
months of work we managed to ship this fun app.
I... | {
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} |
Collaborative Editing in ProseMirror - espadrine
http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html
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josephg
Hi! Joseph Gentle here, author of ShareJS. You quoted me in your article.
You're right about OT - it gets crazy complicated if you implement it in a
distributed fashion. But implementing it in a c... | {
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} |
Show HN: Notegraphy, write and publish with style - meerita
Dear fellow hackers,<p>Before submitting this, I wanted the app I've been working on posted on the App Store. Notegraphy it's a simple tool that help you to produce beautiful texts for sharing as you want.<p>We've made it with rails, AWS and ... | {
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Here’s an unpopular opinion: We’re lucky Mark Zuckerberg is in charge - rmason
https://medium.com/swlh/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-stock-drop-shouldnt-step-down-a4277737152e
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archevel
Interesting angle. Makes me ponder: What if Oracle owned Facebook?
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1996
What if government agencies p0wned facebook?
For all w... | {
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John Carmack's First Game - santaclaus
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2015/04/game-183-shadowforge-1989.html
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brey
... similarities I found between me and John Carmack ...
We both experimented with burglary as teenagers (he was caught; I wasn't).
That's a curious phrasing - echos of 'experim... | {
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} |
Millions of routers allegedly backdoored with malware that can’t be removed - Liriel
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3147958/security/millions-of-routers-allegedly-backdoored-with-malware-that-can-t-be-removed.html
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PuffinBlue
The writing in this article was so spectacularly unclear that it warranted
this u... | {
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} |
Top Android Apps (or "why is there so much garbage on the Android Market?") - stevenwei
http://www.stevenwei.com/2010/05/18/top-10-android-apps-or-why-is-there-so-much-garbage-on-the-android-market/
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ZeroGravitas
I'm not really familiar with Android, but one look at that site suggests that
it's not an official... | {
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} |
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface - blackswan
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000869.html
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swombat
Hmm, another exaggeration from Jeff Atwood. He's getting good at these.
In my experience the metaphor doesn't stretch to RIAs. My start-up's main
application is precisely one of those "RIA ... | {
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} |
Humble Indie Bundle 9 released - makepanic
https://www.humblebundle.com/#9
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jerf
I've slowly been transitioning to Linux-only gaming, because the whole reboot-
into-Windows just to play is a pretty steep bar. (Steeper than it even sounds
in practice, as now, basically, every time I boot into Windows I have to ... | {
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} |
Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016) - curtis
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/why-are-so-many-base-jumpers-dying/
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chrissnell
I had a close call this summer whitewater rafting on the Upper Animas River in
Colorado and it has caused me to re-think every serious risk I take ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Testimony on HB552, to Legalize Bitcoin for Payments of Taxes and Fees - kauffj
http://blog.lbry.io/testimony-to-subcommittee-on-hb552-to-legalize-bitcoin-for-payments-of-taxes-and-fees/
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umeshunni
While I agree with nearly everything he says in that testimony, being less
flippant/hyperbolic and more factual mig... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there room for a new ‘curated’ search engine? - keiferski
Google results seem to be getting progressively worse, and even if they aren’t, there are too many relevant websites to accurately display on a single search results page. It seems to me that a return to the original Yahoo model might actually have a... | {
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} |
Mars – a tensor-based unified framework for large-scale data computation - jonbaer
https://docs.mars-project.io/en/latest/
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silicaroach
Is this intended as a competitor to Dask?
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Show HN: Webcam + Favicon = Face-icon - paulkaplan
http://paulkaplan.me/Experiments/Favicon/favicon.html
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steeve
Nice idea, but in Chrome when you activate WebRTC, the favicon will blink with
a "recording" icon, ruining the effect.
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paulkaplan
I don't think so, it works fine for me.
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cleverjake
Im seei... | {
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FirePython: Firebug for Python - bdotdub
http://github.com/darwin/firepython/tree/master
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tlrobinson
Why does it need to be a Firebug plugin? If it were just JavaScript it could
work in any browser.
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Erwin
It's mostly about sending additional headers with the response which your
Firebug-plugin plugin inter... | {
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} |
Show HN: Concurrent Wifi Users - jftuga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YnGlV0MnFg
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jftuga
This shows wifi user locations throughout a day with each room having one AP.
Devices consists of laptops, tablets and phones using various 802.11 wireless
standards. Data was collected throughout the day from a pair of C... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Coverity Scan Update - fcambus
https://community.synopsys.com/s/article/Coverity-Scan-Update
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danielhochman
Coverity Scan regularly goes down for hours or days.
In February of 2018 it was down for over a month with no word or ETA on when
it would be fixed. I hadn't thought about it since then (we discontinued u... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Resource Revocation in Apache Mesos (2012) [pdf] - ch
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs262a-F12/projects/reports/project9_report_ver4.pdf
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haosdent
This looks like inverse offer in Mesos
[https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/07/mesos-inverse-
offers/](https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/07/mesos-inv... | {
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} |
Your Résumé Won't Get You Hired - tghw
http://hicks-wright.net/blog/your-resume-wont-get-you-hired/
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jusob
In my experience in hiring, this is the opposite: we don't get may cover
letters (if any), and never require one. There are not too many reason a
candidate wants the job: more money, bad work environment at... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How much equity for first employee? - Murkin
Hey guys,<p>Was wondering if there are any rules of thumb for equity share of first employee(s).<p>Our specific scenario:<p><pre><code> Two founders with track record (sold companies in the past).
Have great connections.
Already raised seed money.
</code></pr... | {
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} |
How to learn anything you need about medium in 7 minutes - despinaexad
https://medium.com/@Xrysomalloysa/how-to-learn-anything-you-need-about-medium-in-7-minutes-c25e9ebe30fc
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masonic
This article is perfectly representative of _Medium_ content.
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grzm
Apparently the author (based on the username and author n... | {
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Debian admins demote developer Norbert Preining for using wrong gender pronoun - karlschlosser
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html
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karlschlosser
The amount of unnecessary drama this has created is astonishing. Ian Jackson
even deemed it necessary to start a public call for reports on P... | {
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} |
What programming languages do mathematicians use? - KonaB
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/11084/what-programming-languages-do-mathematicians-use
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jimfl
Statisticians commonly use SPlus or R. Applied mathematicians use some flavor
of Fortran, in part because of numerical libraries available in that language.
... | {
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When Mummies Were the Life of the Party (2015) - Thevet
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/2015/when-mummies-were-the-life-of-the-party
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pluteoid
You don't have to travel back in time, as the article suggests, to find
societies where the dead are accorded a physical presence among the livin... | {
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} |
Forget Money, This Startup Wants You to Invest Time - exolymph
http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/crowdraising-crowdfunding-time.html
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ccvannorman
Login or sign up to view article? I clicked the HN "web" link but it's still
login-walled.
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exolymph
It shouldn't be, that's weird. Can you try again and let me know w... | {
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} |
World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency - X4
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.html
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TheLegace
"These solar cells are used in concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), a technology
which achieves more than twice the efficiency of conventional PV power plants
in sun-rich locations. The terres... | {
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} |
If Earth Was 50% Larger, We Might Be Stuck Here - sjcsjc
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/07/06/if_earth_was_50_larger_we_might_be_stuck_here.html
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rthomas6
How close are we to a feasible space elevator? Once we have something that can
withstand the forces involved, we can just ride up to space for a f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Meet DARPA's Humanoid Robot - wikiburner
http://www.fastcompany.com/3014203/fast-feed/meet-darpas-humanoid-robot-that-could-someday-save-you-from-a-crumbling-building
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hedonist
Or could be used to "humanely" incapacitate your daughter if she gets mixed up
in the wrong kind of campus protest, not too far down t... | {
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} |
Why there's nothing quite like iPhone - k-mcgrady
http://www.apple.com/iphone/why-theres-iphone/
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imd23
The storytelling, the design and the animations are just sick.
| {
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} |
Launching Your First App (from someone who has) - ryno2019
http://sixrevisions.com/tips/launching-your-first-app/
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melling
Getting the word out seems to be the hardest part. Articles typically scroll
through HN so fast that it doesn't really help, plus it's probably not the
audience for many apps. Reddit has s... | {
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} |
Someone Stole Sherlock's 300,000 Likes - veb
http://spottedsun.com/someone-stole-sherlocks-300000-likes/
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goodside
The moral of the story here is that you shouldn't invest your time and
emotional energy into things that actually belong to other people.
You didn't own a website here. You didn't write code, you d... | {
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} |
Remotely installing Debian using a web browser - known
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WebInstaller/
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mseebach
Hmm, I see a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue.. How do you configure the IP
address if there's no monitor or input devices? Most colocated sites I've
worked with requires static IPs. Perhaps it c... | {
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} |
Tell HN: Obscurity is a valid security layer in your defense strategy - DyslexicAtheist
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ReptileMan
as long as you don't count on it.
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Philadelphia passes a law banning “cashless” retail stores - zymhan
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/sorry-amazon-philadelphia-bans-cashless-stores/
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el_duderino
Yesterday's discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547)
| {
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Why the Motorola Android is a sure-fire hit - PatrickMorrell
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4335459.html?nav=RSS20&src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=pop
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haseman
No such thing as a sure-fire hit, especially in the mobile world. Verizon's
Droid looks like the best Android phone to date, but that won'... | {
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} |
Say Hello to the New WordPress Editor - gmays
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
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benbristow
I enjoy how the article is actually displayed using the editor. No better way
of showing technology by showing it actually working!
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nailer
I'm really enjoying these minimal editors - Ghost has a great one too. It's... | {
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HackThis CTF 2013 - BoomBass
http://www.hackthis.co.uk/ctf
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BoomBass
This is great little series of levels which I am currently working my way
through. It appears there will be prizes awarded so it's worth having a go.
| {
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Luna visual programming language beta release - kryptiskt
http://www.luna-lang.org/#
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cs702
Duplicate:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163769](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163769)
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sytelus
I'm looking for visual language that does not require ability to read (except,
say, knowing numbers... | {
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} |
Fine grain Cross-VM Attacks on Xen and VMware are possible - pronoiac
http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/248
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p4bl0
It is not the first time that the possibility of Cross-VM side-channel attacks
is shown. Previous paper on the subject:
\- Flush+Reload: a High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack
[http... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MI6 (SIS) Is Developing a Node.js, Angular, NoSQL, Hadoop System on Cloudera - haser_au
https://recruitmentservices.applicationtrack.com/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-2/brand-2/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/5/opp/495-Software-Specialists-and-Support-Roles-Ref-495/en-GB
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john42
5 buzzwords in a row, that's a bingo! :)
... | {
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} |
Newspaper moves into coffee shop, invites citizens to contribute. - larrik
http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/12/02/news/doc4cf7892cbcf12181311203.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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larrik
To summarize, they are moving to a new office that is a coffee shop (complete
with free wifi), library, and news room. Peop... | {
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} |
Airline industry divided over passenger electronics - jrnkntl
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/turning-off-iphone-critical-to-pilots-citing-interference.html
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DoubleMalt
So there are less than 100 reports of interference of radio devices with
planes. And then there is the study where 30% of the people sa... | {
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} |
How to Choose a Profitable Niche - trevmckendrick
http://www.trevormckendrick.com/how-to-choose-a-profitable-niche/
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BigBalli
Hey Trevor,
great second post.
I agree with most of what you say but have to point out that you left out a
big technique: search trends.
what you describe is finding apps that are alre... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration - eatonphil
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration
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eatonphil
Their actual evaluation (including Gitea, Pagure, and Sourcehut) is here [0].
[0]
[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation](https://li... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Faqt – a lightweight, knowledge base (now for teams) - siavosh
https://faqt.co/
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siavosh
Co-founder here: we posted an individual version of Faqt on HN about a year
ago, and we got a lot of great feedback. Chief among them was a collaborative
version of the app. After a whole bunch of iterations and a f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Vampiric Charger: Any Source to 5VDC - crankylinuxuser
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/29/vampire-charger-is-a-rugged-anything-to-5vdc-converter/
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zaarn
That's quite an interesting project.
I've recently discovered the OKI 78SR. It handles about 1.5A of power at 5V
and accepts a very wide input range from 7 to 36 ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Do Social Rights Affect Social Outcomes? - barry-cotter
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12421
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barry-cotter
> While the United Nations and NGOs are pushing for global judicialization of
> economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCRs), little is known of their
> consequences. We provide evide... | {
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} |
‘Serial’: inside a podcast phenomenon - antr
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/aeb8d37c-7af1-11e4-8646-00144feabdc0.html
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freshhawk
Who would complain about a new outlet for long form investigative journalism
that's actually massively popular? This podcast is as great as the
commentaries/communities that treat it l... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Reflections of an “Old” Programmer - speckz
http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2016/reflections-of-an-old-programmer.php
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delinka
I'm a bit older than the author. Every time I feel like I'm "out of touch"
with the hip new thing, I take a weekend to look into it. I tend to discover
that the core principles are the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: DocHUB – An easy way to create dynamic project docs with Markdown - knutmartin
https://restdb.io/templates/dochub-markdown
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srpeck
Interesting. I had not seen FlatDoc
([http://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/](http://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/)) before.
Similar purpose to what I was aiming for with Benchpress CMS... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: HN'ers / startup scene in Chicago? - mindcrime
I'm going to be staying in Chicago for a good portion of the new few months.... while I'm here, I'd love to meet any Chicago based fellow HN'ers, as well as getting to know the local startup scene. If anybody would like to meet for a drink, I'll definitely buy ... | {
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} |
Vuvuzela: private messaging system that protects metadata - 0xmohit
https://vuvuzela.io/
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mi100hael
> To hide metadata, messages are routed through multiple servers, and each
> server adds noise. This makes the metadata incomprehensible, even to
> powerful nation-state adversaries.
I'm interested to learn more ... | {
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} |
Game of War: Fire Age Translates Players’ Chat - solarmist
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/arts/video-games/game-of-war-fire-age-translates-players-chat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
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solarmist
This game is launching on the 24th.
| {
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} |
Thoughts on Ada and Language Technology in Our Times (2012) [pdf] - plumeria
http://www.ada2012.org/files/Thoughts_on_Ada.pdf
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Animats
I received the green postcard announcing that "Ada is Green", meaning that of
the four candidates for Ada, the Green design had won. That was a long time
ago.
The big problem in... | {
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} |
Historical Computers in Japan - mmoez
http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/index.html
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ArtWomb
Amazing historical resource. Interesting how intimately the evolution of
Supercomputing was tied to Japan's Aerospace Lab, precursor to JAXA. We often
think of automobiles, not airplanes, when we think of Japanese indu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Startups in Myanmar - wyclif
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21647318-startup-culture-germinates-unlikely-place-land-temples-and-tech
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rmm
As someone who is in the mining (ore not data) industry, the changes I have
seen in Myanmar in the past 2-3 years is remarkable.
I have been over with a variety of mi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What are the most challenging problems in the world today? - jayamohan
What are the biggest problems of our society today?<p>Insofar as mathematics or natural sciences are concerned, one can easily identify unsolved problems. But, what about
social sciences and our daily life? The answers may remain rather subjective ... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What landing page do you love? - richardreeze
I saw this question today on Indie Hackers and thought it would be interesting to ask the HN community.<p>For me, the answer would be Stripe Atlas (https://stripe.com/atlas)
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theclaw
[https://www.lingscars.com/](https://www.lingscars.com/) \- y... | {
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} |
Dear ICO, Sue Us - colinscape
http://nocookielaw.com/
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gavinlynch
Every time I hear this cookie debate, I feel I must be missing something.
If you don't want to be tracked. TURN. COOKIES. OFF.
There is a reason all web browsers come with per-domain cookies policies. We
don't need a cookie law. We need some c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: DebView, a platform for sane and constructive debates - martincastin
http://debview.eu
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martincastin
Debates on social networks and on the net in general are often getting
unconstructive and overwhelmed by trolls.
That's too bad because the internet could be a great tool to bring people
together to dis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Web Startups with a subscription based business model - psaccounts
Are there any founders here who are building Web Startups with a business model to sell subscriptions (or at least a free+premium model and not an advertising driven business model)?<p>* How difficult was is to acquire paying customers?
* What type o... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How are the new Google Drive/Dropbox plans so cheap? - christiangenco
Several months ago, Dropbox dropped their price[1] to $10/month for 1 TB, matching Google Drive[2].<p>But cloud storage providers charge a multiplier more than this:<p>* S3[3] is $0.0220 per GB at scale for reduced redundancy, or $22.53... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Hard Truth About Socialism (Stefan Molyneux) - GyYZTfWBfQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RNZ2LjpEl4
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cphoover
Why is this on hacker news?
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GyYZTfWBfQw
For the same reason any other submissions concerning political philosophy,
economics, etc. are.
Quite many of those "off-topic" submissions climbed up... | {
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} |
The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda (2012) - signa11
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303404704577305581227233656
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duncancarroll
If you're interested in someone who both loves Yoga & meditation, and tends
toward a rational bent, you should also check out Gopi Krishna.
... | {
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} |
Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how we should solve it - maartenba
http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2014/04/11/Building-NET-projects-is-a-world-of-pain-and-heres-how-we-should-solve-it.aspx
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jeswin
Building .Net projects cannot really be solved in a way that compares well
with nix syste... | {
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MVC Podcast Episode 13: Tech Mentorship; MS Vis Studio; Bitcoin; Gigster; More - martystepp
http://mvc-the-podcast.github.io/2015/12/22/episode-13-secret-santas-secret-identities-mentorship.html
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martystepp
MVC Podcast Episode 13 is up! This is a geek podcast where a university CS
instructor (Marty) and a develo... | {
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Ask HN: Projects and applications for e-ink displays - jeanlucas
What are some interesting projects and applications for e-ink displays?
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Artemix
\- Ebook-like reading tools
\- Watches, low-power embedded displays
\- Low-cost screens
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LivingSocial Financials: $2.9 Billion Valuation, $50M In Revenue Per Month - McKittrick
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/15/livingsocial-financials-exposed-2-9-billion-valuation-50-million-in-revenue-per-month/
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rebelidealist
How come news media never talk about profits when it comes to tech startups?
Profits shoul... | {
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Ask HN: How do you do off-site backups? - jkamdjou
What services or tools do you use for automating and securely backing up your personal and work systems?
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benologist
I use Synology Drive, a program like Dropbox, all my work is in that and it
backs up to my NAS and that backs up to Dropbox.
~~~
mister_hn
+1 me... | {
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Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night - ra5cal
http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-formal-programming-training-hes-a-marketer-who-learned-to-code-by-night/
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louhong
This is very misleading - his Quora answer (below) means that been involved
(if at a limited capacity) wit... | {
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GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon - ayberk
https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/gce-vs-aws-in-2016-why-you-should-never-use-amazon/
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sudosteph
I'm always extra-skeptical about devs who choose to use click-baity titles to
explain why a widely used piece infrastructure is useless. The merits and
d... | {
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} |
Lessons of the McAfee False Positive Fiasco - there
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363018,00.asp
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hga
Who tests the testers?
According to Wikipedia, XP is the most widely used OS and SP3 shipped two
years ago.
It's pretty unforgivable not to test against this configuration, although as I
read it XP SP... | {
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} |
Roundup may cause half of all children to have autism by 2025 (2014) - maxwell
https://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mit-researcher-glyphosate-herbicide-will-cause-half-of-all-children-to-have-autism-by-2025/
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jareds
The link should be changed to the following. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-
check/glyphosatan/](https... | {
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} |
Performance in Factor, Java, and Clojure - prospero
http://ideolalia.com/performance-in-clojure-and-factor
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chrisduesing
Clojure "beating" Java performance seems like an odd claim, since they both
compile to the same thing. Doesn't that simply imply the approach/algorithm is
better?
~~~
prospero
The differenc... | {
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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (2003) - hboon
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
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xefer
I get the same feeling about Google Glass that I got from Segway: cool
technology, but who the heck is going to actually use it?
~~~
sajid
I never understood what problem the Segway was supposed to solve. Same w... | {
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} |
Patch for critical privilege escalation flaw in Kubernetes - rapathak
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/GVllWCg6L88
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coleca
Shame they aren't updating anything older than 1.10. 1.09 was released just a
year ago.
The commercial K8S vendors seem to be doing the patch all the way back. ... | {
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[Update] Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account - jpadvo
Yesterday afternoon I posted about the disaster that happened to my Facebook account: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2256150<p>Someone at Facebook responded extremely quickly -- yesterday evening they updated documentation (... | {
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When Will the Last Line of Code Be Written? - josh_carterPDX
http://blog.brightwork.io/when-will-the-last-ever-line-of-code-be-written/
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RyanCavanaugh
As systems evolve into higher levels of abstraction, things that we used to
consider to be "code" become "data" instead.
For example, in 1950, you would write a ... | {
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} |
.in ccTLD domain name list - over 600k domains listed - hughesey
http://viewdns.info/data/?yin
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sp332
So?
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The Fed is Now Pumping $200 Billion Per Month - chailatte
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fed-is-now-pumping-200-billion-per-month-2011-4
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tnt128
I have trouble understanding the term 'adjusted US Monetary Base', is it m0,
m1, or m2?
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Sharethebus becomes Bus.com and raises $5M for event shuttle management - mstats
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/sharethebus-becomes-bus-com-and-raises-5m-for-event-shuttle-management/
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loceng
I personally feel they should keep the sharethebus.com brand.
The opening of the TechCrunch article states "It’s actu... | {
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} |
Google gets patent for software that can identify any object on the planet - rohit89
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2195722/Indexing-world-Google-receives-software-means-intelligently-identify-object-planet.html
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dragonbonheur
In how many ways can someone implement a multi-layer perceptron or o... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How did you get past the analysis paralysis for startup ideas? - gyani95
A few friends and I have been talking about doing a startup as far as I can remember. After University all of us took jobs and now we feel fairly comfortable to start a business/something on the side. Only problem : Can't decide... | {
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Ask HN: Social commerce with a hyper-local spin. www.reppio.com - man_bear_pig
It's my first startup to launch. Would love to get HN's feedback.<p>www.reppio.com
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LA_livin112
love this idea- it is a hard one to execute. i like the direction that you
took with this though- giving each of the cities a ... | {
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} |
Europe’s Economic Suicide - motti_s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/opinion/krugman-europes-economic-suicide.html?_r=2
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dimitar
Yes! A Paul Krugman column. I think its worthwhile for anyone to try to
understand his economic assertions on the crisis.
The most important part is understanding what is aggregate d... | {
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} |
Polyisocyanurate#Fire_risk - delhanty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyisocyanurate#Fire_risk
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delhanty
I submitted this in relation to the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, London 2
days ago.
Also relevant is the article referenced by Wikipedia:
[http://www.probyn-miers.com/perspective/2016/02/fire-
risks-f...]... | {
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} |
W/ Fedoracoin: Dedicated payment platform for Fedoracoin restores faith in coin - withfedoraco_in
https://pay.withfedoraco.in/
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theklub
Join us on drevil.com and discuss your app!
| {
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} |
Henrietta Lacks - i_feel_great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
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i_feel_great
I have worked with the HeLa cell line, but I never knew where it came from or
what HeLa stood for.
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The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trump’s databases - mxfh
https://medium.com/@pdehaye/the-dis-information-mercenaries-now-controlling-trumps-databases-4f6a20d4f3e7#.nqbrob3xs
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Lintaris
They expand from having third-world customers to having first-world customers.
| {
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} |
Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core - nonbirithm
https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/iot/introducing-alexa-voice-service-integration-for-aws-iot-core/
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tlrobinson
Somewhat related project I came across recently, Almond "The Open, Privacy-
Preserving Virtual Assistant":
[https://almond.stanford.edu/](htt... | {
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} |
Jeff Bezos on the Founding of Amazon (1998) - _pius
http://web.archive.org/web/20081120140522/http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/98/98-07bezos-speech.html
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mdaniel
What an interesting coincidence, the Now I Know newsletter this morning was
about a neat Bezos story and contained a link to this talk:
[http://... | {
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} |
The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil - blasdel
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html
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wglb
Great story, particularly in regard to the balance required to make the whole
thing work, and to push the oil companies to innovate. It also brings to mind
the essay "There are no Mom and Pop O... | {
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} |
Little Stories Told with Numbers - hypertexthero
https://github.com/postlight/account
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hypertexthero
My favorite line in the documentation:
> Paragraphs were a wasteful orthographic indulgence by lazy monks and we
> don’t allow them here.
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HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive - Amorymeltzer
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/hgst-releases-helium-filled-10tb-hard-drive-seagate-twiddles-shingled-fingers/
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rsync
As a provider of cloud storage (who actually owns the infrastructure) this is
both exciting an... | {
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} |
Religious Believers Are Nicer Say Researchers - nreece
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/gods-truth-believers-are-nicer-20110908-1jzrl.html
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getonit
It's easy to be nice when the world you live in is warm and fluffy.
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