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Lisp and the Jedi Masters - macmac
http://tagide.com/blog/2014/10/jedi-masters/
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macmac
Staying with the Star Wars theme here is a great quote:
On Mutation and Programming: Assignment leads to mutation. Mutation leads to
pointers. Pointers lead to suffering! \- Anton van Straaten
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Why Great Designers Steal—and Are Proud of It - hugoahlberg
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/04/why-great-designers-stealand-are-proud-of-it.php
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alabut
This is a great article on _why_ designers should seek visual inspiration from
pre-existing work and I know exactly one on _how_ to do it:
<http://cam... | {
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BleedingBit: Exposes Enterprise Access Points and Unmanaged Devices 2 Undetectab - based2
https://armis.com/bleedingbit/
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based2
[https://cert.europa.eu/static/SecurityAdvisories/2018/CERT-E...](https://cert.europa.eu/static/SecurityAdvisories/2018/CERT-
EU-SA2018-028.pdf)
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T-Mobile makes free tablet data offer: 200MB monthly for the life of your device - palidanx
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/23/4947704/t-mobile-makes-free-ipad-data-offer-official
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skyjedi
Tmobile just stabbed wifi-only devices in the heart. The slow painful death of
wifi only starts today. Soon LTE will be as... | {
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} |
Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec - clouddrover
https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-leap-frogs-h-264-video-collaboration-with-real-time-av1-codec
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CWuestefeld
In my experience, the weakness of current conferencing systems isn't in the
software - it's a hardware problem.
... | {
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Breakthrough: US Military Files Patent for Room-Temperature Superconductor - sahin-boydas
https://futurism.com/room-temperature-superconductor-patent/
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seren
Another patent from the same guy is a gravitational wave generator. Maybe I
missed something but I don't think that was possible. So I would take that new
... | {
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How not to deal with customer feedback - jancona
http://attepicfail.tumblr.com/
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paulgb
What did he expect? He contacts the CEO, knowing that it's _not_ going to be
read by the CEO, but his support staff at best, and _directly insults_ the
support staff ("$12/hour Executive Relations college students")
They d... | {
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Genetic analysis of tiny mummified skeleton from the Atacama Desert - snake117
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/science/ata-mummy-alien-chile.html
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sampo
Just noting that the mummy is very recent, perhaps 50 years old. (Not a 50
years old person, but born and mummified about 50 years ago.)
"Ata was stillborn ... | {
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Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO - jhonovich
http://recode.net/2014/09/18/larry-ellison-will-step-down-as-ceo-of-oracle/
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chollida1
Interesting that they name Co-CEO's in Catz and Hurd. I wonder how that will
work, especially given Hurd's "tough to work with" reputation.
Interes... | {
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Email Etiquette - hiltmon
http://www.hiltmon.com/blog/2012/10/24/email-etiquette/
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Snapps
Bob,
Thank you for the thank you card.
With warmest regards,
John
\-----
[Insert Unnecessarily Long Email Signature]
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Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords? - Pfhreak
Perhaps I'm just more aware of it, or perhaps it's happening more frequently, but it seems like every couple of weeks a major service demonstrates that they have exposed some user data or passwords.<p>Intellectually, I know I <i>should</i> be using a different pass... | {
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Harvesting The Biosphere: Book Review - mrfairladyz
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Energy/Harvesting-The-Biosphere
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Pro_bity
I really enjoyed the look and feel. Much like the NYT Snowfall. Finally some
innovation in publishing.
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robertnealan
I'll agree it's somewhat refreshing compared to the standard ... | {
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Measuring YouTube Content Delivery Over IPv6 [pdf] - okket
http://vaibhavbajpai.com/documents/papers/proceedings/youtube-ccr-2017.pdf
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okket
Abstract:
We measure YouTube content delivery over IPv6 using ∼100 Sam-Knows probes
connected to dual-stacked networks representing 66 different origin ASes.
Using a 34-mo... | {
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Ask HN: Can we persist hide YC job postings from the same company? - dpres
Frequent job posts by YC companies prioritized on front page:<p>ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer in SF - 1 hour ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508840)<p>ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Eng... | {
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Google’s GDPR Workaround - donohoe
https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/
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bluesign
I checked the sample log provided.
Below is the google_gid for different publishers, there is no proof of
overlap, they have different google_gid for same person. Which is exactly what
google describes. [1]
I don't understan... | {
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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays - elorant
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays
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dahart
> Utah has been using AI as the primary scorer on its standardized tests for
> several years. “It was a major cost to our state to hand ... | {
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"It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets." - jashmenn
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/12/shaun-donovan/hud-secretary-says-homeless-person-costs-taxpayers/
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bunderbunder
Great to see some attention going to this.
Speaking as a relative of someone who d... | {
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Genetically engineered moth is released into an open field - sigmaprimus
https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/world-first-genetically-engineered-moth-is-released-into-an-open-field-329960
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tmikaeld
I'm sure other have the same question [0]:
"But how does the self-limiting gene work?
First, let’s st... | {
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The Publicist Who Dreads Getting Caught for Her Illegal Airbnb - howard941
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/publicist-illegal-airbnb-pay-the-bills.html
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ackfoo
The problem with Airbnb is that it transfers the cost of the increased traffic
to the other residents. Some party asshat barfs in the lobby sofa and everyo... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API? - Jefro118
One can build cool projects on top of APIs like those of Twitter, Facebook, and so on. Which sites do you wish had an API?
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AznHisoka
Here are the data-related API's I wish existed:
1\. Indeed.com - analytics on how many job ads mentioned a specif... | {
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How I used Stack Overflow and GitHub to get dream job before 19 without degree - kuzirashi
https://hackernoon.com/how-i-used-stack-overflow-github-to-get-dream-job-before-19-without-degree-8cb5184e2bec
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magma17
Education system really works.
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Show HN: Icon Tryer Outer – easily try out icons on a mobile device - DanielDe
https://www.icontryerouter.com/
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ent101
Very useful! do you think you might add support for device simulation? i.e.
show how the icon will look on a variety of devices in the browser...
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DanielDe
Thanks! That's a good idea, but I ... | {
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Ask HN: How does saved submisisons work? - avinassh
I don't understand how this feature works. I searched and found that all the threads upvoted by me goes into saved submissions, but I tried, it does not seem to work that way.<p>I upvoted from front page or the submission page, but no difference<p>Can anyone t... | {
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LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation - feross
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-distributed-os-for-hardware-resource-disaggregation/
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slazaro
I wonder when will they start getting legal trouble from the Lego Company.
Using this kind of name seems lik... | {
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A therapist’s guide to staying productive when depressed or heartbroken - marojejian
https://qz.com/1089589/how-to-stay-productive-when-youre-depressed-or-heartbroken/
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alexibm
I am 35M terribly heartbroken after my most important relationship for which I
had great hopes, ended in a complete disaster almost 10 m... | {
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In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive - danso
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/nyregion/el-chapo-trial-witnesses.html
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bitcharmer
From the article [about how isolated he is now and how unable to threaten or
kill witnesses]:
“(...) unless the government is suggesting that the defense... | {
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Compiling MapD's Source Code - marklit
http://tech.marksblogg.com/compiling-mapd-ubuntu-16.html
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arnon
> "I was blown away when I recently heard MapD was going to make the source
> code for their GPU-powered database freely available on GitHub."
When'd you have the time to write this, Mark?
They literally only... | {
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Producing Open Source Software (2017) - federicoponzi
https://producingoss.com/
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wilsonrocks
> Producing Open Source Software > How to Run a Successful Free Software
> Project
I feel like mixing these terms up might put off RMS, amongst others?
~~~
exciteabletom
It is probably easier to list the things that _w... | {
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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (2013) - randomname2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
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datamoshr
The thing that bothers me most abo... | {
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To Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun - kushti
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/06/to-sell-weapons-defense-contractors-make-war-seem-fun/
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arkad
I'd love to see how George Carlin decodes this 'war is fun' language.
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The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age - ph0rque
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/the-next-napster-copyright-questions-as-3d-printing-comes-of-age.ars/
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noonespecial
_That’s the future lawmakers, inventors, and designers need to start thinking
about, because it’s coming.... | {
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Seattle restaurant jobs have fallen -900 this year vs. +6,200 in rest of state - zackliscio
http://www.aei.org/publication/minimum-wage-effect-seattle-area-restaurant-jobs-have-fallen-900-this-year-vs-6200-food-jobs-in-rest-of-state/
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sharemywin
So from my calculations the 900 _9.5=81k versus 135,000_ 1.5=202500... | {
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Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail - foxh0und
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-blackmail.html
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personjerry
This was already posted, original article (by Bezos) discussion here:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109474](https://news.ycombinator.com/it... | {
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The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - billswift
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2010/10/singularity-institutes-scary-idea-and.html
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Udo
The problems begin with this concept of a "provably friendly architecture",
which probably doesn't exist. Heck, humans aren't exactly... | {
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Ask HN: Do you us any Hacker News extesions? - arunsathiya
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thinkingemote
Nope but I want one for Firefox mobile to make certain things more thumb
friendly like upvoting or collapsing threads
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arunsathiya
I had added a text to the `url` field when creating this post, but it appears
it's not included. Let m... | {
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Coin Card Teardown - monkeypod
http://www.bitsofcents.com/post/124593977646/coin-card-teardown
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joshstrange
I had the beta and a final Coin and neither one were reliable enough to to
trust. You HAVE to carry backup cards which more or less defeats the purpose.
Then there is the slightly embarrassing, extremely a... | {
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Review my Startup. Help a guy out. - pghimire
http://helpaguyout.com
With my own experience, and others, I always thought there is a market for a service where an otherwise socially awkward guy could ask a girl a question (about anything) and get genuine advice. I wanted to make the service paid, so the women actua... | {
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Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm in JavaScript - apl
http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/flatland/
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ugh
The web is now twenty and browsers are still incapable of something as basic
and commonplace as hyphenation and justification. It’s a real shame that this
problem has to be solved with JavaScript ... | {
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Ask YC: How do the Karma points work? - senthil_rajasek
How are some comment points negative?<p>What is the difference between new and newest?
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brlewis
When you get more karma you can vote comments down. That's how they go
negative.
New (in the title bar) and newest (in the URL) are the same.
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senthil_... | {
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Show HN: I made an artsy protest website - patientplatypus
http://www.thedailyblech.com
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h2odragon
no calls for immediate action through generous donations? no "it's all the
fault of evil white Republicans?" your prophecies of doom are on a 10 year
clock? where's the urgency in that?
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How many great minds does it take to invent a telescope? - Hooke
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-many-great-minds-does-it-take-to-invent-a-telescope
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DanAndersen
It's fascinating to learn about the transitional period of the Scientific
Revolution and just how all these various advances and changes in thinking
actually... | {
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} |
Twitter All Your Bash Commands - kirubakaran
http://blog.unixdaemon.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.pl/geekstuff/twitter_and_bash_bad_ideas.html
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byrneseyeview
Finally, a use for Twitter: exercise Orwellian oversight on sysadmins.
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tdavis
Does the script have the ability to remove all my typos and those sets of
comma... | {
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Walk Faster and Ignore the Roses - yubrew
http://summation.typepad.com/summation/2007/09/walk-faster-and.html
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run4yourlives
That's horrible advice.
Listen, as much as we all want to get rich and be ultra-productive, none of
our accomplishments are coming with us on that fateful day.
Make sure you enjoy life... | {
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} |
BountySource campaign to modernize the AVR back end in GCC - cbmuser
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/84630749-avr-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases
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cbmuser
This is a BountySource campaign I created that aims at funding the work on the
AVR backend in GCC so it can be convert... | {
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} |
Identifying Arbitrage Opportunities with Graphs - nicolewhite
http://gist.neo4j.org/?7331087
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TheAlchemist
Besides the fact that you don't take into accunt the spread (the buy / sell
prices, which are never equal), the big risk associated with this kind of
'arbitrage' is the fact that the transactions won't oc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Deep Learning with JavaScript: Neural Networks in Tensorflow.js - memexy
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-javascript
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memexy
There is also a discount code you can use, "42foryou", for a 42% discount.
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How do you delete your Hacker News account? - antrover
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arkitaip
You can try emailing pg, but that's more of a rumor as it's unclear what
account deletion would do. Certainly it would not remove your contributions on
HN.
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antrover
It'd be nice if there were a terms of service stating this when signing up.
~~... | {
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Productised services: #1: Product companies - joshuacc
http://swombat.com/2011/12/12/productised-services-products
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j_baker
Am I the only one who finds the designation "product company" useless? To me,
it's as meaningful as "wet water". _Every_ company has a product. Now
certainly some companies have more tangib... | {
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} |
New mobile version of NYTimes is awesome - uladzislau
http://mobile.nytimes.com
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adamjernst
Agreed—mostly because it's SIMPLE!
| {
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Where's the highest impact place to donate this giving season? - BenjaminTodd
https://80000hours.org/2015/12/where-should-you-donate-to-have-the-most-impact-in-giving-season-2015/
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chei0aiV
I donated to the Software Freedom Conservancy:
[https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/](https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/... | {
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World’s first anti-ageing drug could see humans live to 120 - evo_9
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12017112/Worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120.html
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DKnoll
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23900241](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23900241)
[https://clinicaltr... | {
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Everyone’s waiting for the Azure ascension - ridruejo
https://cote.io/2016/07/06/everyones-waiting-for-the-azure-accession/
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sharemywin
you wonder how much of that is exchange moving to the cloud. Then, existing
sql server and sharepoint deployements.
~~~
tracker1
Possibly quite a bit... If I were moving to the... | {
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Mashups Are Breaking the Mold at Microsoft - bootload
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/business/10slipstream.html?_r=1&ex=1360386000&en=60296335da445fc7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
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altano
I tried to play with Popfly. It wouldn't work in Safari so I downloaded
Firefox. Then I had to register an... | {
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} |
Show HN: OpenAPT first release – Automate your APT repositories layouts - rmedaer
https://github.com/ALLOcloud/OpenAPT
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djsumdog
This looks awesome. I'll need to try this out. I've used aptly to create repos
before. Here are my ansible scripts:
[https://github.com/BigSense/vSense/blob/master/ansible/roles...](h... | {
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What is going to happen in 2015 - kernelv
http://avc.com/2015/01/what-is-going-to-happen/
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jorgecastillo
I more or less agree with everything except this points:
>2/ Xiaomi will spend some of the $1.1bn they just raised coming to the US.
This will bring a strong player in the non-google android sector into the ... | {
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The nicest cease-and-desist ever (Jack Daniel's) - boredguy8
http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/26/more-proof-if-proof-were-needed-that-jack-daniels-mellows-you-out/
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ColinWright
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4279063> <\- Many comments
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280953>
<http://news.ycombinator.... | {
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Breaking News: Box Secures $150 Million in New Funding - vcexperts
https://vcexperts.com/reference/buzz
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shrig94
There's a redirect back to the home page when clicking on this link.
| {
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HN cyclists: How about a new cycling forum? - paulsingh
I've been cycling for a number of years now (~150 miles/week these days) and have been getting a little annoyed with some of the existing cycling forums out there.<p>I pulled a little something together over the past few days (yay, for open source stuff!) and, ... | {
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The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed - nickb
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10303
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jwilliams
Another problem - change for change's sake.
They wanted to push a new product, so they changed stuff that was perfectly
fine. A lot of this ended up being cruft and eyecandy that was just
unnecessary and annoyin... | {
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} |
Bug Out Bag Essentials for Reasonably Rational People - mehdiyac
https://taylorpearson.me/bug-out-bag/
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peter_d_sherman
>"In the 1990s, the Argentine peso was pegged to the U.S. dollar. That meant
the Argentine government guaranteed that you could always change one Argentine
peso for one U.S. dollar. If you had ... | {
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Frank Talk About Site Outages - keyist
http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/09/17/frank-talk-about-site-outages/
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mcyger
Great overview. If I sold on Etsy, I would be more confident that they are
proactively striving to reach 100% uptime and quickly addressing actual
downtime.
I love the structure of their proble... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is AWS support worth it? - bqe
Have you gotten benefit out of AWS support? We're currently on the developer level paying $49/month, and our support bill is going to go up to over $2,000/month for the same level of service. Our experience with AWS support up to this point has been that they blame... | {
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Better than E-Ink: Tcl NXTPAPER – New Reflective LCD with no blue/backlight - tyler109
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzgij1q_W1Y&feature=youtu.be
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phonon
How is this different from a commercial transflective display, like
[https://www.winstar.com.tw/products/tft-lcd/transflective-
tf...](https://www.winstar.co... | {
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Metro and WinRT: Too early to call, but I’m paying close attention - atlei
http://www.pseale.com/blog/MetroAndWinRTTooEarlyToCallButImPayingCloseAttention.aspx
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atlei
Microsoft UI:Win32/MFC - WinForms - WPF - Sliverlight - WinRT ?
Which technology does MS Office use ? Which one will MS Office 2015 use ?
If y... | {
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} |
This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform - yrochat
http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/08/this-why-atlantic-media-is-funding-a-social-platform-for-sharing-links-one-at-a-time/
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a3n
> Each user can share just 1 link a day.
Sounds great, if you're an Ent.
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Tech tips for people who are going to die someday (2015) - tosh
https://medium.com/message/deathhacks-b767903b7c15
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fmajid
This is the legendary Tom West from Tracy Kidder’s “Soul of a New Machine”
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XorNot
I don't know what I learned from this, but it was as touching a eulogy as I
would ever hope to recei... | {
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} |
GnuBio launches as open-source genome sequencing startup - obsaysditto
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/05/31/daily32-GnuBio-launches-as-open-source-genome-sequencing-startup.html
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zeugma
From the article: "The company [...] has licensed a suite of intellectual
property from Harvard that, together with... | {
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Time since Opera Mini for iPhone was officially submitted to Apple - edd
http://my.opera.com/community/countup/
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jsm386
_Opera Mini requests web pages through the Opera Software company's servers,
which process and compress them before relaying the pages back to the mobile
phone. This compression process makes... | {
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} |
Client-Side Web Development Book - rammy1234
https://info340.github.io/
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rammy1234
Free so it’s worth reading
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GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out - haaen
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-powered-the-american-centurythen-it-burned-out-11544796010
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Aloha
The article gives the answer early on - the company is still in a phase of
change from selling GE Capital - for 20 years they were used to using Capital
as... | {
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Ask HN: What great (business) ideas do you have that you won't pursue? - mavsman
We've all got great ideas with either not enough time or not enough motivation to execute on them. Might as well toss them up here and hope someone else rides with it.
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mavsman
A car hookup (e.g. OBD2) that tracks your driving ... | {
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What do you think of my startup's newly redesigned landing page? - akos
http://www.chilledlime.com/sorry.php?source=hn
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asto
Doesn't look very good on chrome. Even if you fixed the cross browser issues,
it would look amateurish. I'm not trying to be rude, my websites tend to look
amateurish at first go too. Yo... | {
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} |
Calpers CIO made false disclosure, resigns 2 days later - rsj_hn
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/calpers-chief-investment-officer-ben-meng-made-false-felonious-financial-disclosure-report-more-proof-of-lack-of-compliance-under-marcie-frost.html
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silexia
Finance used to be a boring but scrupulously honest... | {
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} |
Oracle Pits GraalVM Against Google Go - ekoutanov
https://www.javaworld.com/article/3440103/oracle-pits-graalvm-against-google-go.html
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Strum355
If it didnt have such awkward "support" for reflection and missing support for
key methods in Java, GraalVM would be much more likely to be adopted
| {
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Gitlab 13.3 with coverage-guided fuzz testing and a build matrix for CI/CD - ipm42
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/08/22/gitlab-13-3-released/
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lindsayolson
Hey all - GitLab's 13.3 release is live today. Quick preview of what is
inside:
Coverage guided fuzz testing: You can now run coverage-guided fuzz t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tell HN: On Skype for Mac, you now have to do Cmd+Q twice for it to quit. - mindfulhack
I'm a little paranoid and skeptical of Silicon Valley companies and their dirty tactics to surveil on and profit from our data as much as possible, so I thought I'd report a small observation to HN which is probably overb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Study: Blue light from screens can steadily blind us - dtien
https://www.fastcompany.com/90216977/blue-light-from-screens-can-steadily-blind-us
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sp332
_Some people._ People with normal levels of alpha-tocopherol (an antioxidant)
have the damage repaired and don't go blind. People over 60 should watch out
for thi... | {
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} |
The human brain can create structures in up to 11 dimensions - touristtam
https://www.sciencealert.com/science-discovers-human-brain-works-up-to-11-dimensions
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sharemywin
Wouldn't feature be a better term? or Am I missing something?
| {
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} |
Show HN: Font Combiner Unicode Kickstarter - emily_b
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/876222823/font-combiner/
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emily_b
A Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for full Unicode support, code
refactoring and other new features.
Font Combiner is an application that allows easy drag-and-drop font
supplements, ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Broadband left out of infrastructure goals, and how the FCC wants to fix it - SmkyMt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/15/the-crucial-service-trump-left-out-of-his-massive-infrastructure-goals-and-how-the-fcc-wants-to-fix-it/?utm_term=.17dfebd7ece9
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theandrewbailey
I'm cynical that this w... | {
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} |
Why is it difficult to remember things from before 3-5 yrs? - sambeau
http://www.quora.com/Human-Memory/Why-is-it-seemingly-more-difficult-to-remember-things-from-before-3-5-years-of-age
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sambeau
The first answer to this is really cool…
| {
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} |
With 737 Max, Boeing Wants to Win Back Trust. Many Are Skeptical - pseudolus
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/business/boeing-737-max.html
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salawat
>Boeing will not be relying solely on its executives to win back the public’s
trust — a recognition that its leadership has lost some good will.
That's putting it... | {
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} |
The Uno: a Segway-like motorized unicycle - hyoogle
http://www.maximizingprogress.org/2008/05/ben-gulak-uno-inventor-in-mit-class-of.html
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mechanical_fish
From a link in the story:
_Gulak first applied to MIT last year, but was waitlisted and decided to take
a year off rather than settle for another school._... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
BBC Worldwide partners with Thoughtly - marveloustiger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/worldwide/2016/BBC-Worldwide-partners-with-Thoughtly
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visarga
Is BBC still sitting on 1 million hours of archives locked under copyright,
collecting dust? In the meantime cats and kids playing video games flood
You... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Life of a Freelance Dancer - wallflower
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/arts/dance/18dancer.html
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marketer
One of my friends from high school is a freelance dancer in SF. I'm amazing by
what those girls are capable of. It takes so much determination to keep going.
Most girls can't make a living on danci... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Portraits on Camera Phones [video] - Ultramanoid
https://people.csail.mit.edu/yichangshih/wide_angle_portrait/#supp
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bitL
I always wondered why Zorin's original work [1] didn't make it to photography
nor 3D rendering/gaming; we basically had 2 decades of ugly perspective
distortions ev... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Drug firms fueled ‘pill mills’ in rural WV - joe5150
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20160523/drug-firms-fueled-pill-mills-in-rural-wv
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kbouck
For a street-level perspective, I recommend the documentary "Oxyana" [1] about
pill abuse in Oceana, WV
And for a more in-depth look at the origins check out Fr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why switching jobs is almost always a good idea - alexpotato
http://alexpotato.com/blog/why-switching-jobs-is-almost-always-a-good-idea/
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joelennon
If you're not happy in your current role, make your employer aware of that
fact. If you believe you are underpaid, say it. If you're overworked, say it.
I'm not sayi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
White House Names Google’s Megan Smith the Next CTO of the US - llamataboot
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/04/white-house-names-googles-megan-smith-the-next-chief-technology-officer-of-the-united-states/
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Someone1234
My first reaction was "I didn't know the US had a CTO" and after a qu... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
VLC cone (2005) - omn1
http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
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partomniscient
Interestingly it also became so popular it led to further memes [1]
[1] :
[https://politicalmemestoday.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/prot...](https://politicalmemestoday.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/protestor-
helps-cop-install-vlc-med... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista - ionela
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/technology/06soft.html?ref=business
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ionela
An advertising blitz intended to help Microsoft polish the tarnished brand of
its Windows Vista operating system began this week with a head-scratcher of a
commercial.
| {
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} |
“Google Drive” would like to receive keystrokes from any application - bathtub365
https://i.imgur.com/Gi60T9T.png
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dortmunder13
Lastpass says: "The app needs this permission to provide a global, system-wide
shortcut to bring up the search field, so that users can quickly locate a
vault entry and copy passwords o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Jay Walker's Library - aresant
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all
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grinich
Full article without pagination:
[http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker...](http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all)
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Luc
My l... | {
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A Beginner’s Guide to Optimizing Pandas Code for Speed - chasedehan
https://engineering.upside.com/a-beginners-guide-to-optimizing-pandas-code-for-speed-c09ef2c6a4d6
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stevesimmons
This is a good point to plug my talks on 'Pandas from the Inside' (A), 'Big
Pandas' (B) and 'Pandas 2.0' (C) that I presented at vari... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Apple buy map service to compete with Google? - edw519
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10364988-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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jgrahamc
That's a really annoying headline because it's not a question, so why's there
a question mark?
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ZeroGravitas
Apple buy map service.
To compete with Google... | {
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} |
What Is It to be Intellectually Humble? - jseliger
http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-it-be-intellectually-humble
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ScottBurson
The best definition of humility I have heard is: keeping in mind the
possibility that one might be wrong.
| {
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} |
Diversity Crisis in AI, 2017 edition - rmeertens
http://www.fast.ai/2017/08/16/diversity-crisis/
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anasayubi
I don't see how you plan on targeting diversity within AI by hosting classes
in a concrete location (that too in the US). You want diversity? Send your
employees abroad to 3rd world countries. I lead a uni... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Bootstrapping an Idea: the Paid Beta - WadeF
http://bryanhelmig.com/bootstrapping-an-idea-the-paid-beta/
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fudged71
This model might be great if you have a successful and well-researched idea.
But I'm concerned about validation, costs, and pivots.
What happens when your learnings pivot the app in a direction t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Weebly featured in Chrome Web Store - drusenko
http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2010/12/weebly-launches-as-a-featured-google-chrome-web-store-app.html
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drusenko
To answer the question that will inevitably come: It's more than just a link.
We're really excited about this for a few reasons. First and foremost, it
... | {
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} |
Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers - geuis
I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or great.<p>Please update all of our browsers so that no automatic video/audio can play without user interaction/permission.<p>Its getting ... | {
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