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Jeff Bezos at 30 - darrenlee
http://blog.darrenlee.net/2013/01/jeff-bezos-at-30/
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darrenlee
Unlike Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook at an early age and found great
success straight from his dormitory room at Harvard, Jeff discovered Amazon
when he was 30. It wasn’t easy from the beginning as he made a cro... | {
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Quantum at Microsoft Ignite 2019 - omiossec
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/quantum-at-microsoft-ignite-2019/
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carty76ers
Lots of Microsoft quantum posts all at once omiossec!
| {
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PeerTransfer Attracts Financing From Spark Capital - motvbi
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/peertransfer-announces-first-round-of-funding/?ref=technology
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motvbi
Link peertransfer.com. Sounds promising.
| {
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Cat and Cloud Coffee Told by Caterpillar Inc. To Stop Using “CAT” in Trademark - rdhyee
https://www.ksbw.com/article/cat-and-cloud-coffee-in-santa-cruz-facing-trademark-controversy-against-caterpillar-inc/27595279
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sathackr
They say: "Could anybody imagine a $54 billion machinery company coming after
a coffee co... | {
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} |
Creating a Radial Menu in CSS - msvan
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132864/circular-tooltip/13137862#13137862
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alanh
As another commenter here notes, this is in fact a “radial menu.”
Terminology is important. Language loses power when we use words incorrectly,
so please: Do not call this a “tooltip.” T... | {
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} |
Is Death Reversible? - LinuxBender
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-death-reversible/
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RcouF1uZ4gsC
Neurosurgeons have been using hypothermia (cooling down the body) and
circulatory arrest (stopping the heart) to treat complicated brain aneurysms
since the 1980's. Some of the outcomes have been very... | {
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} |
Show HN: Indexing video through content - steeve
https://manage.veezio.com/#!/videos/video_object:youtube.com:video:VLzKjxglNyE?q=nasa&demo
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julien421
I don't understand, so you sync the video with the transcript or do you
extract the transcript yourself from the video?
~~~
steeve
We "generate" it, through sp... | {
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Coding Interview Solutions Manual - cism
http://interviewsolutionsmanual.com/
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greenyoda
This is just an ad for a $20 e-book, posted by someone who created their HN ID
solely for this purpose.
| {
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A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3 - mightybrenden
http://spacecraftforall.com/comet-chase
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joegaudet
I'd love to see something like this for NASA missions, Cassini, New Horizons,
The Voyagers.
Really cool visualization of the missions.
~~~
jsiarto
Not exactly the same--but NASA has a pretty coo... | {
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} |
Elon Musk and Tesla sued over “funding secured” tweet - calcifer
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/11/elon-musk-and-tesla-sued-over-funding-secured-tweet
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barbarr
Well, it was bound to happen. Curious to see what comes of it.
| {
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Ask HN: Browsers' share of your site - conductor
The current whole-world statistics of browsers' "market" share are well-known, but it would be nice to know the situation grouped by region and site type. Please contribute.<p>Real example:<p>Region: East Europe
Site type: Entertainment, movies/music discussion<p>Goog... | {
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} |
Five Years, That’s All We’ve Got - Sodaware
http://www.subfurther.com/blog/2011/12/13/five-years-thats-all-weve-got/
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batista
_This isn’t the first time I’ve put an unpopular prediction out there: in
2005, back when I was with O’Reilly and right after the Intel transition
announcement, I I predicted that Mac O... | {
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} |
Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify - garrepi
https://sametunes.com/
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garrepi
Hey HN!
I'm one of the developers on the SameTunes team. We've spent the whole summer
working out of a house to build this platform. We're really proud of the work
we've done and hope you all enjoy using it... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Adsense banned me while owing me 30k. What could I have done? - m0dE
This actually happened last year. Google banned my Adsense account and never gave me a clear reason why.
I appealed twice, but they rejected both without telling me why.
At this point, I gave up after that reading about how notorious they... | {
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} |
Build It With Me Helps Connect Designers With Developers - transburgh
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/build-it-with-me
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rajeshamara
This one of the crapiest websites I have ever seen. Very slow and horrible
design
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freetard
You're right about it being slow, it's even slow on chromium. I hope it will
im... | {
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} |
As Artificial Intelligence Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential - tysone
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/technology/artificial-intelligence-evolves-with-its-criminal-potential.html
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hellofunk
You replace "Artificial Intelligence" in this title with nearly anything, and
it will remain true.
~~~
skewart
True... | {
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} |
Want to use my wifi? - rishabhd
https://thejh.net/written-stuff/want-to-use-my-wifi?
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ivthreadp110
Cleaver Beavers :) Nice read!
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Show HN: A team management app you can call home - signalhill
https://hiburo.com/blog/2014/01/13/hiburo-ready/
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lauriswtf
If you have any questions, feedback or wonders, feel free to ask here.
// One of the co-founders
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Show HN: Pictorical, Crowd-illustrated books startup - cuchoperl
http://pictorical.com
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cuchoperl
Hello, we want to share with the HN community our startup, Pictorical.
We are two nomadic entrepreneurs from Chile, and a growing community of
artists worldwide. We illustrate classic stories, publish them as ebo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Are SF and NY the best cities for programming jobs? - Onixelen
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segmondy
All you need is one job. One solid reliable job. Find that job in any city you
like and you have found the best city for the programming job you like.
This is my own personal disclaimer, I don't believe in seeking "fun jobs." I
beli... | {
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} |
Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and percolate through sleep - robg
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/technology/28proto.html?ref=business
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SapphireSun
After spending 8 years not getting any sleep, I finally realized that I'm more
efficient with real sleep. I finally wised up. In retrospect, my du... | {
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} |
Hacker News Meetup Cologne Hostile Takeover - bitboxer
http://www.meetup.com/Cologne-Startup-Pitch-Night/messages/boards/thread/28544502
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blacktar
The backstory is that I, Vidar Andersen, the original initiator of the Cologne
meetup - initially make a mistake.
I made a mistake in not updating my payment detai... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Type of Dementia Identified - open-source-ux
https://www.nhs.uk/news/neurology/new-type-dementia-identified/
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JPLeRouzic
TDP-43 abnormal bodies are present in cytoplasm in almost all CNS diseases.
Other proteins bodies are present as well. Some publications tell TDP-43
bodies are not the cause of the disease... | {
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} |
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS - samueladam
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Operating+Systems&articleId=9133570&taxonomyId=89
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jganetsk
"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." -Rob Pike, circa
1991
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Predator Drones being used domestically against Americans - ck2
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/la-na-drone-arrest-20111211,0,5744305,full.story
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mindcrime
So, who wants to work on a project to build an open-source drone that can
shoot one of these things down? I mean, seriously, if the government can have
th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: let's build a list of reasons why startups fail - Lucadg
I am writing a business plan for a new idea of mine.
After all the reasons why this is the best idea ever and countless industries are going to be disrupted I am now writing "what could go wrong".
This is the sad part but it has to be done.
I have alre... | {
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} |
Run Google Play on an emulator and pretend to be any device - wallflower
http://blog.apkudo.com/2012/08/08/run-google-play-on-an-emulator-and-pretend-to-be-any-device/
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GooseEye3
The dastardly Error 491!
| {
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Neanderthal 0.9.0 – Clojure high-performance computing is getting into shape - dragandj
http://dragan.rocks/articles/17/Neanderthal-090-released-Clojure-high-performance-computing
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dragandj
The author here. I'll be happy to help you getting started, or answer your
questions here.
| {
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} |
U.S. student debt: $966B as of Q4, 2012 - Q6T46nT668w6i3m
http://newyorkfed.org/newsevents/mediaadvisory/2013/Lee022813.pdf
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pash
As of last December, there is another repayment option geared toward the
enterprising (or not) Hacker News sort, at least those not yet flush with
cash. The Pay As You Earn option [0]... | {
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} |
Get more out of your Netflix subscription - kirubakaran
http://feedflix.com/
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raghus
This is the site I am working on - I'd greatly appreciate feedback from HN on
what you guys think.
Btw, RWW covered FeedFlix a couple days ago:
<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedflix.php>
~~~
icey
1) This site really l... | {
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} |
Was the Flash Crash Apple's Fault? - drawkbox
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/apple-microsoft-flash-crash-market-capitalization/6/7/2010/id/28621?page=full
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wglb
No. Bad headline, article confuses correlation and causation, not thoughtful.
| {
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} |
The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone - barista
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/mf_android/
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barista
Now just replace Jha with Elop, Motorola with Nokia and Andriod with Windows
Phone. One thing lacking is the operator like Verizon.
| {
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} |
Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA - cft
https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA
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DannyBee
This is not surprising, but sad. Years ago, i was dragged (i was the only
engineer in the local office) into a whitehouse (or maybe it was state
department, i can't remember) sponsored working ... | {
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} |
List of DL topics with resources for a quick brief, especially before interviews - vlgiitr
https://github.com/vlgiitr/DL_Topics
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vlgiitr
Vision and Language Group, a deep learning group at IIT Roorkee, has made a
list of topics of DL with resources which one should be familiar with, and
that could come in handy ... | {
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} |
Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2 - kens
https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2020/04/deconstructing-segas-system-16-security-part2.html
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airstrike
Part one: [https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2019/10/deconstructing-
seg...](https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2019/10/deconstructing-sega-
system16-sec... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Under-challenged web dev looking for work - tommaxwell
Hi HN readers,<p>After spending 7 months building a startup with my friend that I subsequently chose to end development of, I'm looking for some work to make some extra money and keep my mind working.<p>Since moving on from my startup I've found myself... | {
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A simple and super awesome website - rokhayakebe
http://about.me. I am not affiliated with the site, but I like it's simplicity. It does one think and does it extremely well.
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rokhayakebe
Clickable <http://about.me> <http://www.about.me/directory/>
| {
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Signal Identification Wiki (VLF to UHF) - noyesno
http://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide
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blantonl
If you are looking for crowd-sourced localized frequency information, check
out [http://www.radioreference.com](http://www.radioreference.com)
~~~
nitrogen
Looking at the archive link posted in ... | {
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} |
It’s Time for Greece to Leave the Euro - juanplusjuan
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/jochen-bittner-its-time-for-greece-to-leave-the-euro.html
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antman
> A big part of the blame for this mess rests on the shoulders of the
> chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel herself. Her statement that “if the
> eu... | {
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} |
My next chapter - dorianm
http://chrishateswriting.com/post/140641275808/my-next-chapter
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c3534l
Moot has always appeared to me to be a very talented and bright person. I
think it's a mistake to judge him by what some people will say on an anonymous
image board. The influence of 4chan on internet culture cannot ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death for Atheism - snowy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=*Morning%20Brief
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greenyoda
See also this related article:
Sau... | {
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} |
Bank Theives Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash - yan
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/gps-spiked-cash/
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RiderOfGiraffes
Same story: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1037097>
No comments so far ...
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How Can I Be as Great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Richard Branson? - weeber
http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Steve-Jobs-Elon-Musk-Richard-Branson/answer/Justine-Musk?srid=iAix&share=1#
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byoung2
Determination, calculated risk-taking, a lot of hard work, a relentless
pursuit of gr... | {
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} |
How to Teach a Child to Argue - ed
http://inpraiseofargument.squarespace.com/teach-a-kid-to-argue/
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ColinWright
There was significant discussion when this was submitted four years ago:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632518](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632518)
It includes both unalloyed praise... | {
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} |
What is a coder's worst nightmare? - spiffytech
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answer/Mick-Stute?share=1
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JohnBooty
Understanding unfamiliar legacy code with a bunch of kludges and "domain
knowledge" or "business logic" baked into it, when the original authors are
uninterested/unavailable... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Should I drop out for an online CS degree? - throwaway19123
My current university is less than challenging and has a lot of Mickey Mouse courses that teach buzzwords like AI and integrated data platforms (in the first semester!) without actually talking about implementation or even the theory behind them. I do... | {
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} |
Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineering job? - jackallis
i guess i would like to meet these mythical self taught software engineers.
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otras
I just commented this on another thread, but it's also relevant here:
As someone who entered the field with a non-CS degree, I can tell you about my
own... | {
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} |
Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web - carsonfarmer
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentralisation-next-big-step-for-the-world-wide-web-dweb-data-internet-censorship-brewster-kahle
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sixdimensional
It strikes me that, if we are ever to expand the Internet into space on a... | {
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} |
France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative - kushti
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-internet-encryption-idUSKCN10M1KB
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Davidbrcz
I'm French and I can honestly say that we have the dumbest government the
world has ever seen.
| {
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VW Presentation in 2006 Showed How to Foil Emissions Tests - abhi3
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/business/international/vw-presentation-in-06-showed-how-to-foil-emissions-tests.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
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mjfern
Yes, the defeat device VW employed for emissions is an environmental tragedy,
but this is just a sym... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
New Amazon EC2 Feature: Boot from Elastic Block Store - jeffbarr
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-boot-from-elastic-block-store.html
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nethergoat
This is tremendously useful and lowers the barrier to entry for new adopters.
Unfortunately, it's also a temptation to make poor design decis... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) - Anon84
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231373-human-level-intelligence-or-animal-like-abilities/fulltext
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mensetmanusman
Surprised I haven’t come across this analogy before. Thinking about it now,
‘Animal-like abilities’ is a much better analogy ... | {
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} |
The Fallacy of Chesterton’s Fence (2014) - Tomte
http://abovethelaw.com/2014/01/the-fallacy-of-chestertons-fence/
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Lazare
Chesterton's Fence is always worth keeping in mind when maintaining code too.
Sometimes you'll come across some crazy nested conditional that seems to be
checking for cases that can't even h... | {
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} |
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (2012) - pmarin
http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html
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abruzzi
Im a dabbling electronic musician, so I understand a lot about keeping very
old technology functional in the modern world... | {
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} |
Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (2008) - prajjwal
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/why-doesnt-anyone-give-a-crap-about-freedom-zero.html
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icebraining
I hope the irony of asking about the _Free Software_ "Freedom Zero" and then
only talking about Open Source was not lost on Atwood.
Peo... | {
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} |
Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005) - grujicd
http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html
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Razengan
Watch it. Wars were started for less.
The Spectrum was my first ever computer, and the Commodore 64 my second.. Or
rather, _our_ computer, as it was shared by the adults in our famil... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
CMSC389R: Introduction to Ethical Hacking - woodruffw
https://github.com/UMD-CS-STICs/389Rspring18
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rman666
How does one sign up for this course?
~~~
woodruffw
We're currently teaching it at the undergraduate level at the University of
Maryland, so there's no online sign-up. You can, of course, follow along wit... | {
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} |
Twitter trouble - handling 11,000 requests per second w/ Rails! - joshwa
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html
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felipe
I totally agree with the concept that speed does not really matter because
hardware is cheaper than programmers. And I never understood the criticism
towards Ruby being slow... If it impro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Does Bitcoin/Blockchain make sense for international money transfers? - propter_hoc
https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-money-transfer/
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MrMorden
Goods/services purchased from a business? Given the fees for completing a
Bitcoin transaction, I'd say no unless you start getting into at least mid
thr... | {
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} |
Marissa Mayer's life as a working mom has nothing to do with you - dsr12
http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/30/attention-women-marissa-mayers-life-as-a-working-mom-has-nothing-to-do-with-you/
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dennisgorelik
Unexpected quote from Marissa, mentioning "God":
[http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/11/28/15509672-for-
ma... | {
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} |
WebAudioFont – 400 musical instruments for JavaScript - sss1024
https://github.com/surikov/webaudiofont
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sss1024
Bunch of musical instruments for web applications. Guitars, pianos, drums etc.
| {
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} |
Of Courics and User Experience - jakequist
http://quist.co/post/6112422007/the-fundamental-theorem-of-user-experience
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jlind
I've lost count of the number of times that I have left a website simply
because they wanted me to provide some sort of information before I saw what
they actually had to offer.
Also a ... | {
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} |
AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail - turoczy
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/appfog-wants-to-do-for-developer-platforms-what-google-did-for-email/
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redslazer
Im really not sure about the pricing model. Here are a couple of points:
There are tons of people looking for $5 vps th... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook Live: Now You Can Never Leave - keiferski
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebook-live-now-you-can-never-leave
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wallflower
From the article about Facebook Live
> If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable
> thirst for more ways to become the middleman in you... | {
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} |
The Great Jeff Dean, who is he? - webdisrupt
http://www.quora.com/Jeff-Dean/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
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ahazred8ta
Technically, that should be 405 Method Not Allowed O:-)
| {
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} |
Snapchat has reportedly filed confidentially for its massive IPO - coloneltcb
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/snapchat-has-reportedly-filed-confidentially-for-its-massive-ipo/
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taytus
I'm a professional photographer with about 16K + Instagram followers.
I used snapchat to stream behind the scenes photos and v... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
NSA Chief: Terrorists Using Leaked Info [video] - wikiburner
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp=52539269�
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jacquesm
If there is one thing these leaks have done then it is to register in the mind
of the general public that these institutions are not just benign clubs of
mathematicians that boldly crac... | {
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} |
The merger of Dell and EMC stems from the rise of cloud computing - jimsojim
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21673523-clouded-marriage-merger-dell-and-emc-more-proof-it-industry-shifting
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motdiem
Although this merger seems to be mostly about infrastructure, I wonder how it
will impact applications groups ... | {
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} |
Money Creation in the Modern Economy (2014) [pdf] - rfreytag
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q102.pdf
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cs702
IMHO, the easiest way for an engineer to understand "money" is as a _network
of debits and credits_.
Forget theory, ideology, and politics for a moment. L... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What’s the hardest part about learning and using mental models? - febin
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doomerjk
Learning them is bloody hard, personally - there are a ton of established ones
to keep track of and I at times find myself trying hard to remember them vs.
just moving forward and building my own.
That said this book has he... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Canada's Quiet Weakening of Communications Encryption - fraqed
https://citizenlab.org/2015/08/canadas-quiet-history-of-weakening-communications-encryption/
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tptacek
_As a result, DUAL EC DRBG has been incorporated into a range of products,
including those from security company RSA, in operating systems such as
M... | {
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Sticker shock over Seattle's new sugary drink tax - Shivetya
http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/sticker-shock-over-seattles-new-sugary-drink-tax/677490924
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smoyer
I broadly agree that we americans consume too much sugar but I'm worried that
many will find drinking artificial sweeteners as detrimental as I have.
Som... | {
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} |
Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams - rglovejoy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093987596650197.html
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tokenadult
"After I wrote my book, I lost a good chunk of my retirement savings to Mr.
Madoff, so I know of what I write on the most personal level."
Now there's a backhanded endorsement of a book by its... | {
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} |
Wind Shortage? - lilbarbarian
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/is-there-a-wind-shortage.html
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JorgeGT
All that wind farms weren't free, we were robbing Earth's angular momentum!
| {
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} |
Ask HN: How can I make Hacker Newsletter better? - duck
Last year I doubled the subscriber count for Hacker Newsletter[0] to 14,000 and my goal for 2013 is to double it again. To accomplish that, I have several ideas I'm working on, but thought I would check here as well since the newsletter exists because of this c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How to Reject Engineering Candidates - tacon
http://code.dblock.org/2013/05/26/how-to-reject-engineering-candidates.html
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morgante
Please don't do this. I actually find these example emails much _more_
insulting than the generic "we're going in a different direction" emails.
The reason I prefer the generic emai... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away from Your IP Address - ca98am79
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-box-puts-mile-away-ip-address/?mbid=nl_070115
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noonespecial
I'm sure there's plenty of use cases for this... but I personally can't think
of anything I can do online that would make the autho... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
“Return of the Obra Dinn” Development Log - mercer
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0
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sp332
I know it's in giant letters across the top, but because of "banner blindness"
I missed the link to the preview build:
[https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg123810...](https://forums.ti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ruth Porat Brings Wall Street Discipline to Google - gwallens
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-23/google-cfo-ruth-porat-brings-fiscal-discipline
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pcurve
I'd be very curious to know from Googlers, at what cost this was achieved.
There is always price for everything. $65 billion wasn't pulled out o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Art of the Interpreter -- Steele and Sussman [pdf] - johnm
http://www.scribd.com/vacuum?url=ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-453.pdf
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soundsop
This is the sort of ugly typesetting that spurred Knuth to create TeX.
~~~
cheponis
Is this your opinion, or do you have evidence of this (for e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Sharing Fortune Android Game Source Code - dm991
https://github.com/dm-notroll/fortune-game-android
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dm991
Feel free to download and unzip, this is source code of a very famous app of
the biggest company in Japan.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Battle for the Internet - anigbrowl
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
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Clanan
Can someone please respond to the actual pro-repeal arguments (in a non-John-
Oliver-smug way)? Everyone is focusing on "woe is the unfree internet!" which
seems like a spoonfed, naive response with no content. And just having Google
et... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Learning CSS - mrmrs
http://xn--h4hg.ws/2015/07/20/learning-css/
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kzisme
Nice post! It's cool to see someone I follow on Twitter actively writing blogs
- and posting on HN. I've reached out to you in the past about CSS & vim
before.
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serve_yay
Not mentioned: read a book
| {
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} |
I'm (Re)Learning C Before It's Too Late - RawData
http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-relearning-the-c-programming-language.html
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dguaraglia
Back in the day I used LCC-Win32 as my main development platform. It was
rather cool to have such a nice compiler/IDE for free. Extremely fast,
produced small binaries, had... | {
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} |
How to Criticize with Kindness: The Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently - lwhsiao
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/
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kp1
An alt to this would be reading "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by
Dale Carnegie
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Could you build a startup around this "crowdfunding" model? - callmeed
http://crowdfunding.trampolinesystems.com/
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callmeed
OP here. Read about this company on TC and found what they did interesting.
Just wondering if you could build a simple startup around this model. I have a
friend in finance who ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spacex to Send Privately Crewed Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year (2017) - themakermark
https://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year
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themakermark
[https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14754404/spacex-moon-
miss...](https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/2... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Using Trello to Keep Track of Ideas - feint
http://feint.me/articles/keeping-track-of-ideas
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nathos
Personally, I've found Workflowy
[[https://workflowy.com](https://workflowy.com)] to be indispensable not just
for keeping track of ideas, but for then turning those ideas into something
real.
Loads in any brow... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Longreads Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing - stablemap
https://longreads.com/2017/12/27/longreads-best-of-2017-science-technology-and-business-writing/
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dang
Lists are rarely interesting in their own right, so it's much better to pick
the best article or two and submit those. Some of them ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
KDevelop 5.3.3 Released - cullmann
https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-533-released
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dTal
A bugfix release, so not that interesting. However it's an opportunity for me
to express my gratitude to the KDevelop team for producing such a fine IDE.
Its Python static analysis plugin is first rate and extremely conv... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: I Want To Buy a $1k-5k/yr SAAS Business. Where Do I Start? - Terpaholic
Flippa has been okay for browsing niche websites, but I'm interested in buying a SAAS business and there doesn't seem to be much on the market.<p>Are there any other good places to look for buying a small (like $1K-$5K in reven... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Flickr censorship - abstractbill
http://thomashawk.com/2007/05/flickr-censorship.html?repost
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abstractbill
Apparently though, it was a mistake rather than censorship:
<http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/40074/#reply212150>
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Has Cosmology Run into a Creative Crisis? - benbreen
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/has-cosmology-run-into-a-creative-crisis/
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robinsloan
This is fantastic:
"When you read that word cosmos, you might begin to imagine the most expansive
physical world your mind can build. Deep fields of glittering, star-filled
... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Time-lapse: Package shipped with a hidden camera - morphics
http://flowingdata.com/2013/04/18/time-lapse-package-shipped-with-a-hidden-camera/
======
ColinWright
The original post, containing more details and more commentary, and by the
person who actually did it, is here:
<http://www.rubenvandervleuten.com/AtoB.ht... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks (2012) - jonbaer
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical-sessions/presentation/bojinov
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cbd1984
It's interesting, but it opens up a rather unsettling counter-countermeasure:
If I'm Mallet, I don't want people using passwords I c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Custom splash page & personal analytics dashboard - sumeetjain
http://about.me
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petervandijck
Prefer that on my own domain, like this <http://petervandijck.com/>
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wccrawford
I agree. Some kind of API to put this on your own domain would be really nice.
| {
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} |
Ember.js Live Collections - wycats
http://awardwinningfjords.com/2011/12/27/emberjs-collections.html
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moe
_Assuming that Bocoup simply chose Backbone.js for familiarity's sake_
The tone of this post seems a bit dishonest.
There are plenty obvious reasons for not choosing Ember today: It's young,
it's not pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Arnold Renderer - boulos
https://www.solidangle.com
======
boulos
After years of working on Arnold and saying it could use a website, it's
finally up. If you're unfamiliar with Arnold, the about page has a useful
history:
https://www.solidangle.com/about
and of the 5 movies up for the VFX Osca... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices - nickb
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/adobe-drops-lic.html
======
swombat
This was published back in April??
Weird, I hadn't heard of it.
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tuukkah
The Flash Player is still proprietary, and Gnash is far from being a full
replacement. Hopefull... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A True Story - benbreen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
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OscarCunningham
Lucian also wrote the earliest known version of _The Sorcerer 's Apprentice_,
which I view as the ur-example of an "AI rebellion" storyline. A programmer is
harmed by their creation not because it goes against their orders but be... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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