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The DS GPU and its fun quirks - justinweiss
http://melonds.kuribo64.net/comments.php?id=56
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Jasper_
The DS "GPU" is indeed very bizarre and shares more in common with the GBA 2D
rasterizer than a modern 3D GPU architecture. That it's a scanline renderer
that can handle quads directly should be a pretty big tell ... | {
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Bulk Call Details Records Collection Ends: What That Means - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/bulk-call-details-records-collection-ends-what-means
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logn
The EFF really should do a better job of explaining what this means in
practice. Their last paragraphs hint at it, but they should make clear that... | {
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AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years - gphil
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/technology/31autodesk.html?_r=4&src=busln
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tedkimble
A step in the right direction, I suppose. But as a hacker and an architecture
grad student, no industry infuriates me more than the architectural soft... | {
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Tragedy Of The Social Gaming Commons: A Blueprint For Change - dwynings
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/03/tragedy-of-the-social-gaming-commons-a-blueprint-for-change/
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mohitk
Rampell is correct in calling for some sort of regulation and its just a
matter of time before someone steps up to the plate. Just l... | {
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NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own - tortilla
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/
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fabulist
This is a classic story that gets repeated again and again, and security
professionals should ... | {
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Clojure + Processing + Live-coding at the REPL - phren0logy
http://automata.cc/live-processing
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octopus
Can you use the OpenGL bindings from Processing in your application ? This
would be an interesting application for doing some OpenGL graphics on JVM.
I didn't used Clojure, how difficult will be for a Schem... | {
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NASA's research into intelligent life support simulation - zeristor
http://traclabs.com/projects/biosim/
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zeristor
Last time I looked at this it was Java/CORBA code, with a GUI front end.
I'd love to run 10k simulations headless to test for robustness, as I
recollect they model small environments and have the h... | {
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How I discovered I have the brain of a psychopath - danso
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/03/how-i-discovered-i-have-the-brain-of-a-psychopath
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api
Two possibilities here: (1) this adds fuel to the neuroskeptic fire, or (2)
the author is a high-functioning psychopath.
I've often wondered if ... | {
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Duped by Innocence Project, Milwaukee man now free - whbk
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/duped-by-innocence-project-milwaukee-man-now-free-b99386015z1-281852841.html
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ajdusiejdbd
This is the kind of thing that happens when the victims family members are
forced to rely on the prosecutors office and the ... | {
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} |
We Have The Grammar Police. Why Not The Math Police? - tokenadult
http://www.creativitypost.com/education/we_have_the_grammar_police._why_not_the_math_police
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zwieback
The reason we have the grammar police but not the math police is that grammar
is somehow encoded in our brains at a more fundamental level than... | {
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How to Deal with Startup Failure (Reload) - wilschroter
http://www.forbes.com/sites/wilschroter/2013/06/21/how-to-deal-with-startup-failure-reload/
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dmor
$30 million in sales to bankruptcy in 6 months? That's crazy, I didn't realize
that was even possible.
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wilschroter
If you get over your toes in operatin... | {
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Apps are trouble for apple - williamldennis
http://blog.willdennis.com/2013/02/08/apps-are-trouble-for-apple/
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pedalpete
This is a bit of a double edged sword. Competitors will always make apps to
compete, and with the app store, Apple is competing with other app makers. If
apple is able to always make better ... | {
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500Startups invests in 9 additional Mexican companies - diego
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/28/500startups-invests-in-9-additional-mexican-companies/
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griscuevasz
Congratulations guys!
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Space station pilots 'interplanetary internet' - vaksel
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/149945,space-station-pilots-interplanetary-internet.aspx
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pavel_lishin
And thus begins the network of the Qeng Ho.
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zandorg
It's a shame I don't have this system to cope with the disruption of 45 second
adverts.
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The coming automation of propaganda - donara
https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-coming-automation-of-propaganda/
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im3w1l
Imagine you go to an online forum and that there is a 99.99% chance that a
given message was written by a bot. Imagine further they are sufficiently well
written you can't tell from the pos... | {
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Ask HN: what costs more? a 1 kB email or an SMS? - dotcoma
Does it cost more or less to GMail to send a 1 kB email compared to what it costs a mobile operator to send an SMS? My guess is that a 1kB email is cheaper, but does anybody know how much cheaper? (or more expensive)
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ismarc
The cost is all about scale... | {
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Apple just unveiled its second wearables platform - kevbin
http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/9/13/airpods
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MrLeftHand
Oh my god, this article can't be more wrong.
A wearable extends your capabilities without compromise. Like a smartwatch
gives you much freedom the be connected, monitor your health, organize... | {
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} |
MeetingBurner Debuts Sleek, Webinar Platform To Rival WebEx - aresant
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/meetingburner-debuts-sleek-webinar-platform-to-rival-webex/
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aresant
We just launched MB out of BETA this AM after signing up around 25,000 users
over the past 6 months and load testing like crazy for a week.... | {
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Ask HN: Why I can't upvote on a comment? - Slashed
I asked this question yesterday in a comment and someone pointed me to read FAQ.<p>Well, I did. There's something about 'preventing from abuse'. How come all of my up-votes considered as abuse? I mean, I can't upvote <i>any</i> comment here.
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ErrantX
I had thi... | {
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Ask HN: Is there any good OSS for interactive Windows automation? - danscan
I am hoping someone who is more familiar with Windows can make a software recommendation for me that's central to a new project I'm starting.<p>I'm working on a gaming app that involves automatically installing games on Windows.... | {
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Texture is a toolset for the production of scientific content - matthberg
https://github.com/substance/texture
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okket
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12663274](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12663274)
(8 months ago, 39 comments)
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radarsat1
> It has first-class support for ... | {
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Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width? - sathyabhat
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/148677/427
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hsmyers
The way I remember it was a bit more complicated. IBM initial card size was
originally based on the size of a bank note. To say the IBM just had 80
columns isn't enough, they also toy... | {
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} |
Microsoft Makes World's Most Ethical Companies List - sytelus
http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/aapl-msft-sbux-ge-pep-tgt/3/16/2012/id/39943
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codgercoder
for some meanings of "ethical"
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For anyone doing Coremetrics dev: A tool for Chrome. - dialmaster
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coremetrics-bar-for-chrom/llegcghmokaemodgdddnchiijfdbfnlg?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=ha-en-na-us-webapp-collections-editors_picks&utm_medium=ha
I got really tired of being tied to the official Coremetrics tagb... | {
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On being an AI in a box - lisper
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2008/10/reflections-on-being-ai-in-box.html
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gizmo
I don't think it can be done.
First of all, I'm assuming that Eliezer started this experiment because he
realized that the Transhuman AI would be able to convince him in the function
of gatekeeper to... | {
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OpenGov Got Seat at White House Roundtable and Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family - masondixon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-that-got-a-seat-at-white-house-roundtable-is-part-owned-by-kushner-family-1500045800
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abhv
Which scenario is more likely:
(1) Thrive capital becomes the top firm for supporting startu... | {
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Tampa Criminal Lawyer - cdenmon
http://denmonlaw.com
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bediger
Total spam.
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CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People - aakarpost
http://blog.cloudfactory.com/2012/09/cloudfactory-raises-growth-capital-to.html
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bishwas
1 million jobs! glad that its happening in the land of Himalayas :)
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karmath
Congratulations
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jitubutwal144
great!!
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s... | {
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Basic Chessboard with Angular Material CDK - ezracode
https://chess-ec7ad.firebaseapp.com/<p>and the github repository<p>https://github.com/ezracode/grandmaster
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ezracode
The code is on the following path
[https://github.com/ezracode/grandmaster/tree/master/chessboa...](https:... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Genetics may explain up to 25% of same-sex behavior, giant analysis reveals - drocer88
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/genetics-may-explain-25-same-sex-behavior-giant-analysis-reveals
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drocer88
Actual paper here :
[https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/eaat7693](https://science.sciencemag.org/c... | {
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Navy to Drop All-Caps Communications - duck
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/12/navy-to-drop-all-caps-communications/?mod=e2tw
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aroch
OK, this earned a chuckle out of me. When I was in college I had a professor
who used to be in the Navy who would also send ALL-CAPS emails to us.
| {
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The end of dynamic languages? - tazjin
https://www.tazj.in/en/1448375823
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dudul
I have to say, it is always quite comical to see all dynamic languages trying
to shoehorn some form of static type checking.
Like the author I like Clojure a lot and somehow agree with Bob Martin who
calls it "the last programming l... | {
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Everyone's A VC - brlewis
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/everyones-a-vc.html
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devmonk
I'm not saying that it isn't exciting for sure, but Diaspora as the sole
namedrop product out of that?
Not that Diaspora isn't cool, but it is an unhosted, alpha-grade, open-source
project with no apparent business model co... | {
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} |
How Not To Sell Out: Talk by Matt Haughey of MeFi on growing a site into a small business - halo
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16577/How-Not-To-Sell-Out
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halo
I think this is a good antithesis to some the hype that you read about growing
a big business on the "next big thing", people taking millions from vent... | {
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} |
Big Brains, Small Minds - Futurebot
http://chronicle.com/article/Big-Brains-Small-Minds/236480
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CuriouslyC
The process of trying to unravel the gordian knot of cultural evolution may
develop the ability to think critically, but it is surely a sub-optimal method
for doing so. Imagine if people learning science we... | {
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} |
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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} |
Apple's Mac Mini Is Now Three Years Old, No Refresh Date in Sight - bangonkeyboard
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/16/mac-mini-now-three-years-old/
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pippy
The lack of effort on the Mini line demonstrates Apples focus on profit over
its customers. Boosting desktop market share, gaining new customers, while
stil... | {
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} |
Apollo – A modern CISC CPU design compatible with the Motorola M68K - doener
http://www.apollo-core.com/?
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glitch
Digging deeper under the Forums, some random tid-bits...
• Releases: [http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6](http://www.apollo-
core.com/knowledge.php?b=6)
◦ FPGA image: [http://www.apollo-
... | {
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Moto X Feature Video Leaks - thezach
http://technow.info/2013/07/moto-x-feature-video-leaks-from-rogers/
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cromwellian
I'm going to guess that it is a little fancier than that, because simply being
"always on" would kill the battery, the CPU would have to be constantly
running hotword detection. It needs to have ... | {
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Dominant players over time - b_emery
http://xkcd.com/
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b_emery
This is so awesome. I'd like to see similar for golf, cycling, baseball ...
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Jakob Nielsen responds to responsive mobile criticism - j_c
http://www.netmagazine.com/interviews/nielsen-responds-mobile-criticism
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micheljansen
In the article, Dr. Nielsen has this to say about Responsive Design:
> JN: Because I was writing about user experience, not implementation
This is _exactly_ why so... | {
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With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube - minimaxir
https://waxy.org/2020/04/jay-z-orders-deepfake-audio-parodies-off-youtube/
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crazygringo
So if I understand this correctly...
_YouTube_ took these videos down based on a copyright (DMCA?) claim. Which of
course isn't a cou... | {
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} |
Microsoft patents "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS - spking
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/06/microsoft-patents-avoid-ghetto-feature-for-gps-devices/
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prodigal_erik
EVE Online would seem to be prior art. The system keeps statistics on players
killed recently, and the autopilot has an option which avoids dan... | {
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} |
A drop-in replacement for Twitter’s deactivated unofficial share count API - franze
http://opensharecount.com/
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swang
So their decision is because of a tech-stack switch (Cassandra to their own
Manhattan)[0]. Redoing it in Manhattan apparently is too resource intensive
and not enough users care about it for them... | {
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} |
Why Apple won’t dump Intel x86 for its own ARM chips in MacBooks and the Mac Pro - nkurz
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/187513-why-apple-wont-dump-intel-x86-for-its-own-arm-chips-in-macbooks-and-the-mac-pro
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fidotron
It is amazing how defensive (perhaps necessarily) the Intel crowd are,
especially around... | {
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Windows 10 Goes to Shell - fezz
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/windows-10-goes-to-shell/
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fezz
They went all out with a snazzy video for terminal:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE)
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orcasauce
I can't tell if the embossed effect is part of the video, o... | {
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} |
MySQL is a Better NoSQL - yoava
http://engineering.wix.com/2015/12/10/scaling-to-100m-mysql-is-a-better-nosql/
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JonahBraun
Interesting that he advocates MySQL. PostgreSQL can index and interact with
the JSON stored in it's columns, which make it a better choice as a NoSQL
replacement.
[http://www.postgresql.org... | {
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Richard Stallman’s Disgrace - jmsflknr
https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrace
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bsaul
I’m sorry but people seem to forget what the archetypal geek looked like in
the 80s. Fat, smelly, eating burgers in front of his computer all day, awkward
and drooling at the sight of any woman.
From what... | {
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} |
bit.ly hackathon (NYC 10/20) and API contest (win a MakerBot) - aditya
http://meetup.com/hackabit
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aditya
In case the title doesn't make it clear, the API contest is open to everyone
(not NYC only!)
More: <http://blog.bit.ly/post/1307062006/its-a-bit-ly-api-contest>
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} |
Why airplane windows have round corners (2016) - smacktoward
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/why-airplane-windows-have-round-corners/
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gmueckl
Stress concentration, especially at sharp corners, is a well known phenomenon.
During the second world war, the US manufactured transport ships in an
assembly line fas... | {
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} |
Gabe Newell Is Doing an AMA - rinesh
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5o8fsy/gabe_l_newell_will_be_joining_us_tuesday_the_17th/
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gigatexal
WHY WONT WE GET Hl3!?!?
| {
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Getting users to tag the 166,000 patterns on Ravelry - pingswept
http://blog.ravelry.com/2010/07/09/its-time-for-a-ravelry-search-party/
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pingswept
~85,000 patterns tagged in the first day. Pretty effective means of organizing
content.
| {
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Ancient Beers - MaysonL
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=9000-year-old-brew-hitting-the-shel-2009-06-05
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wyclif
Dogfish Head (the brewery) is right here in little 'ol Delaware. Even if it
weren't my hometown microbrewery of choice and there was no bias, I think I'd
still be a fan after trying... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017) - Thevet
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-1600s-england-through-eyes-one-first-travel-writers-180963536/
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yesenadam
It's about Celia Fiennes' _Through England on a Side Saddle In the Time of
William and Mary_
"She trave... | {
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} |
Creating Children's Story Animations Using Inkscape and Animatron - pshapiro99
http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/blog/creating-childrens-story-animations
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rayalez
To anyone interested in doing 2D animation on linux, I highly recommend
TVPaint.
It's an incredibly awesome software, the best one available on any... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
What Musical Notes Can Look Like - tintinnabula
http://nautil.us/blog/this-is-what-musical-notes-actually-look-like
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JoeDaDude
So it sounds like these are effectively the same thing as Chladni Patterns [1]
using a liquid surface. It reminds of composer Stuart Mitchell [2] who
believed he saw Chladni patterns car... | {
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} |
Kernel analysis with bpftrace - Twirrim
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793749/a5a7c5282076c094/
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_wmd
The joy with bpftrace (and dtrace before it) for me is this ease with which
'synthetic' profiling events can be constructed from multiple underlying
events. This can be used to, for example, only record the late... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice - yummyfajitas
http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single
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Millennium
I believe the name to look up in this case is "Trofim Lysenko". This social
experiment has been performed once already, and its ... | {
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} |
Risk Aversion And The Perils Of Selling Too Early - quilby
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/28/risk-aversion-and-the-perils-of-selling-too-early-israeli-startups-part-ii/
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enjo
This brings to mind a really interesting story.
I had the chance to work with a guy who had just sold his business. It turns
out tha... | {
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} |
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox - dochtman
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/12/20/mozilla-and-google-sign-new-agreement-for-default-search-in-firefox/
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gojomo
Some additional data points to help parse this:
• the agreement appears to be with the Mozilla corporation, rather t... | {
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} |
How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons - samclemens
https://longreads.com/2017/08/04/how-to-stop-apologizing-for-my-stutter-and-other-important-lessons/
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forthelove
Stutterer here. Was in speech therapy for a long time as a child; my sister
actually became a speech therapist b/c of t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Jazzroom, collaborative real-time music hack in Node.js - sthatipamala
http://nowjs.com/jazzroom
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alextgordon
Three suggestions:
1\. There needs to be a way to get a reference to a room (so I can give it to
friends) since I'm yet to find a room where anybody else plays anything.
2\. Would be nice to... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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TypeScript – The Myth of the Superset - jbandi
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2016/10/myth-of-superset.html
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BoorishBears
At work I needed a fast scripting environment for Android. Not everyone who'd
be scripting for the application knew Lua (or Squirrel) so I went with J2V8
(Java bindings for V8).
The first proble... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face - sofperseus
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23482-mindscapes-the-woman-who-cant-recognise-her-face.html
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lobster_johnson
I had an interesting case of momentary face blindness once. It was unnerving.
I was elbowing my way through a very busy bar area (it was early and... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Spolsky's Paradox - edw519
http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/05/Spolskys-Paradox.aspx
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tx
Splolsky's problem is that his software is even more pedestrian, boring to
work on, and useless than Microsoft's data synchronization products that he's
making fun of. I know there are FogBugz users out there but I have... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
A Maven plugin that creates merge requests for dependency updates - oweiler
https://github.com/helpermethod/dependency-update-maven-plugin
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moheb
Good
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oweiler
OP here: The plugin is in currently at a pretty early stage but already used
productively. It was developed because I wanted something like DependaBo... | {
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} |
Writing code that writes code with Hack Codegen - ctice
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1624644147776541
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nerdy
I would really love to use Hack, but I want to use it in the editor of my
choice, not the editor of Facebook's choice.
Because Hack isn't PHP all of the foundations are gone, consider this text
from t... | {
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} |
PiDrive 314GB Offers Power-Efficient Storage for Raspberry Pi - devNoise
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/data-storage/raspberry-pi-hard-drive-pidrive-187871
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gravypod
Are there any provisions for redundancy?
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} |
The Efficient Cloud: All Of Salesforce Runs On Only 1,000 Servers - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/the-efficient-cloud-all-of-salesforce-runs-on-only-1000-servers/
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ErrantX
Ive long respected the approach of Salesforce: whilst this is new info to me I
am not surprised at the efficiency.
Pretty impr... | {
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Startups Worry that Twitter and Facebook Are Blocking Their Way - iProject
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428691/startups-worry-that-twitter-and-facebook-are/
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Rhymenocerus
duh
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sulife
What is this fluff piece doing here?
| {
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Modular Moto Z Android phone supports DIY and RPi HAT add-ons - leephillips
http://hackerboards.com/modular-moto-z-android-phone-supports-diy-and-rpi-hat-add-ons/
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dharma1
I looked into adding GPIO to an Android/Ubuntu phone a while ago.. Something
like this should work with many phones for about $20 -
[http://w... | {
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} |
I like to try an experiment on HN. Have your say - faramarz
I have a web app idea I would like to see come to reality.<p>I want the very first step to be an HN post explaining my idea, and then calling for talent/partners from this community to build a team around the idea.<p>Next, produce a prototype and finally ap... | {
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Ask HN: Should I stay or should I go? - XXthrowawayXX
I've been the sole developer with a startup for about 2 months now. I have serious doubts about the team and am doubtful that the product will be successful (right now all the money is coming from one of the co-founder's pockets).<p>No one else on the team seems ... | {
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Human Echolocation Allows People to See Without Using Their Eyes (2013) - Mz
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-human-echolocation-allows-people-to-see-without-using-their-eyes-1916013/?no-ist
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panglott
Saw Daniel Kish give a lecture a few months ago, and this amazing ability is a
lot more accessib... | {
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} |
The Faculty of 1000 - robinhouston
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-faculty-of-1000/
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_delirium
The physics approach seems to be doing something pretty close, through the de-
facto combination of traditional journals and arXiv. As the post says, the
arXiv isn't itself peer reviewed, but many ... | {
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Forget About the Mythical Lone Inventor in the Garage - polymathist
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/05/argonne_national_lab_director_on_the_myth_of_the_lone_inventor_in_the_garage.single.html
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ajdecon
Well, like so many other things, it's field-dependent. :-)
If you're working in soft... | {
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} |
Collected List of New JavaScript Features (ES6 and ES7 and ES8 and ES9 and ES10) - stnp
https://github.com/daumann/ECMAScript-new-features-list
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stnp
I couldn't find any repo that lists all the interesting features of newer ES
releases, so I collected individual ES release feature list examples into a
single rep... | {
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} |
Programming at the REPL (2018) - tosh
https://clojure.org/guides/repl/guidelines_for_repl_aided_development
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piercebot
The REPL is still something that I haven't quite mastered, but what I enjoy
doing right now is working in files and using a REPL connection to evaluate
expressions within the file. It feels like... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads - ahiknsr
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-will-stop-reading-your-emails-for-gmail-ads
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jikeo
I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it seems weird that the reporter nor any
of the 140+ comments so far seemingly don't mention the recently ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Python 3 ... - lifthrasiir
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2013-May/011394.html
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jumblesale
The same functionality in Perl: [https://www.inkling.com/read/programming-
perl-christiansen-4...](https://www.inkling.com/read/programming-perl-
christiansen-4th/chapter-4/the-ellipsis-statement)
It's a fun ... | {
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} |
Alexander Grothendieck’s Mathematical Archives at University of Montpellier - fermigier
https://grothendieck.umontpellier.fr/archives-grothendieck/
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fermigier
18000 pages of mostly manuscript notes were released today by the University
of Montpellier, following an agreement with Grothendieck's heirs.
These note... | {
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} |
Cicada 3301: The web's most baffling and eerie crypto-puzzle is BACK - ronaldsvilcins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/11/cicada_3301_2014/
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valarauca1
This years challenge seems more difficult, breaking an RSA-400+ bit length key
is no easy task for most people to do at the drop of a hat, and normally the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amazon Signs Climate Pledge to Advance Paris Climate Accords Goals by 10 Years - CitizenTekk
https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/19/amazon-signs-climate-pledge-to-advance-paris-climate-accords-goals-by-10-years/
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Zhyl
>I don't know about you people but I don't want to live in a world where
someone else makes the wor... | {
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} |
ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan - ingve
http://2ality.com/2018/12/nodejs-esm-phases.html
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apo
Meanwhile, Deno (alternative server-side JS built from scratch by the creator
of Node) keeps chugging along:
[https://github.com/denoland/deno](https://github.com/denoland/deno)
It will be interesting to s... | {
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} |
Mt Everest: Why the summit can get so crowded - mpweiher
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48401491
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wirthjason
When I was studying in Japan in college a Japanese friend and I climbed Mt.
Fuji.
You basically take a bus about half way up, then hike 80 or 90% up to summit
then spend the night in a cabin. Since ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Can anyone recommend any good ASP.NET blogs? - piers
There are some good blogs about PHP, Ruby and Python out there, but I haven't come across many good ASP.NET ones. The ones I know about are Scott Gu and Scott Hanselman, but I haven't found any other really good ones. Anyone here either have one, or can recommend ... | {
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} |
Opera 10 Browser UA string format changed to accomodate bad applications - aj
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/
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niyazpk
This is the take away from the article:
"Browser sniffing — unless you’re writing a web stats application — is always
a bad idea. It’s a misguided attempt to send ... | {
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} |
Blockchain Tech Can Save Banks $20B a Year - cdvonstinkpot
http://www.coindesk.com/santander-blockchain-tech-can-save-banks-20-billion-a-year/?utm_content=buffere8f19&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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NeutronBoy
As someone who's worked in banking tech, I can assure you the banks kno... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Assembly 2015 demo party results - zaf
http://www.assembly.org/blogs/2/posts/24/
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onion2k
As a web dev doing 3D stuff, I'm seriously impressed that the 6th place entry
in the demo comp (I Want To See Small Worlds[1]) was created with three.js.
They're doing great things with it.
[1] [http://archive.assembly.o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Why does it cost $1.4B to take the US census? - jedberg
I was reading an article today about the head of the census quitting, citing lack of funding from the Trump admin. In the article, is says they requested $1.4B to take the 2020 census, $936M of which was for "computer system upgrades".<p>I unde... | {
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} |
Show HN: SUPERCLASS – The business plan for Target Audience - MrJonesEdition
https://mrjonesedition.com/superclass
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MrJonesEdition
Hi HN! I made this. Here's some info on the data before everyone goes berzerk
:)
Use 'HN' to have access, good luck on your projects :)
I built this to help individuals and profess... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Build this Scheduling App, Please. - JoelMcCracken
I always find that setting meeting times is really inefficient. I would this simple solution:<p>I go to a web and say "request new event scheduler", which then simply gives me a url to share. Anyone who visits the url can add themselves to the calendar, add availabl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
FreeBSD 10.3 - jlgaddis
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-April/001713.html
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dallbee
Of particular note: This release brings 64 bit support to the Linux
compatibility layer.
I suppose when windows caught up Bash on Windows, FreeBSD needed to do
something to keep one step ahead =].
~~~
a... | {
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} |
Fojo.us - Open Drive : Show HN - hoogaguy
http://fojo.us
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reubensutton
It would be great if there was a page explaining what it does, or if you could
post on here.
I'm assuming it's like a browser based Dropbox, which anyone can access if
they have the path and key right?
~~~
hoogaguy
Yup, thats it. Basic ph... | {
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} |
Save $ on gas, reduce traffic jam: share rides (hosted on google app engine) - tt
http://www.ride4all.com
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truebosko
The implementation kind of sucks but good idea. I'm in Canada but tossed my
commute up there to see if anyone wants a ride.
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noelchurchill
Really basic. Not bad.
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The Radium Girls - vilda
http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/
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tzs
For those who want more on this, there's a recent book on this subject: "The
Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore [1]. ... | {
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} |
So Long, Bill Gates, and Thanks for the Monopoly - edw519
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2008/06/gates_monopoly
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pg
"But the upside was enormous because the monopoly created a stable environment
where entrepreneurs could develop new companies and new products around a
common platform."
This is false... | {
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} |
Google search algo: downgrade pages bloated with ads above the fold - zalew
http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html
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p0wn3d
Remember back in the 70's and 80's before cable TV? We only had channels 3,6,
and 7. We loved TV but couldn't stand the commercials every 5 minutes... | {
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} |
I create a sweet React progress bar - obraz_TOR
https://github.com/abraztsov/react-sweet-progress
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tonybaroneee
Well done!
| {
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} |
Nanofluids increase the efficiency of Nuclear Reactors by up to 20% - karamazov
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/spotlights/nano-nuclear.html
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cincinnatus
Pure water is used to prevent radioactive isotope contamination. It seems
unlikely this will not be a problem here.
| {
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} |
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