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Pathod: A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software - cesther
http://cortesi.github.com/pathod/
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cortesi
Drat - this story is just a tad premature. A brand new release of pathod will
be out next week, including a publicly accessible pathod instance, pathoc
(pathod's evil client-side eq... | {
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} |
FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes - JumpCrisscross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/hurricane-laura-fema-grants-aren-t-focused-on-climate-change
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D13Fd
In the abstract, this doesn't bother me. The potential attack surface for
terrorism is huge, and there is a lot of poten... | {
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} |
Networks give you an unfair access to success - aqeel
http://www.gigpeppers.com/networks-give-you-an-unfair-access-to-success/
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mindcrime
There's no question that networks help, although I guess you could quibble
over whether it's "unfair" or not. But what comes up here on HN sometimes -
and this is one place ... | {
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GM to hire 3,000 workers from HP - narad
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-gm-hire-workers-hewlett-packard.html
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gvb
Cue one of my favorite Dilberts: <http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-02-22/>
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Ask HN: Should I learn Python? - ApplaudPumice
And what about Rust?
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orionblastar
[https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python)
[https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/python-
prog...](https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/python-
programming/46820274900... | {
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Worlds Most Expensive Burger: 1/4 million euros - jkuria
http://www.economist.com/node/21548147
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gfodor
Almost as important as the technology is the marketing. They need to get on
message for this even at this early stage. Calling it "Artificial Meat" is
already conceding the battle. It's not artificial, it's re... | {
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} |
Preference for youth in tech recruiting (aka ageism) - Pyrrhuloxia
https://twitter.com/mm/status/294179421462609920
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salgernon
I had submitted a link to a story about this tweet:
[http://brianshall.com/blog/does-morgan-missen-have-thing-
rea...](http://brianshall.com/blog/does-morgan-missen-have-thing-really-... | {
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The Frightening Power of Ransomware Done Right - elorant
http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/the-100-million-bot-heist
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dmos62
I've recently learned that OpenZFS has effective counter-measures for
ransomware and data corruption in general. Quote from here [0]:
> As a copy-on-write file system, OpenZFS provides ... | {
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} |
The Secret of Great Bread - Let Time Do the Work - phreeza
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html
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dminor
I've used this technique and works great (article is from 2006). There's a
video of it somewhere too, which is helpful for seeing how "wet" the dough is.
If you want to make bread on a regular... | {
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} |
“During the investigation we noticed that you placed a shell into our web root” - dogecoinbase
https://hackerone.com/reports/136169
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benmcnelly
His argument makes sense to me as to why that was needed, however if they want
to take that stance, thats understandable, as is people being less likely to
run things do... | {
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} |
PLA Signals Intelligence & Cyber Reconnaissance Infrastructure - skygear
http://project2049.net/documents/pla_third_department_sigint_cyber_stokes_lin_hsiao.pdf
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Signals Intelligence and Cyber Reconnaissance Infrastructure
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mmaunder
Anyone know about the idealogical leanings... | {
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} |
BOSS – The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem - ajbatac
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/07/boss_the_next_s.html
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malpern
Hi, my name is Micah Alpern and I work with the Yahoo! BOSS team. If you have
any questions about BOSS or ideas for how we can make it even better please
feel free drop in ... | {
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If Elected, Barack Obama Would Name a Chief Technology Officer - jkush
http://venturebeat.com/2007/11/13/exclusive-barack-obama-to-name-a-chief-technology-officer/
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kajecounterhack
The government tends to...mess things up like this...
Just saying.
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jkush
You're right, of course. What I DO like about this ... | {
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Ask PG : is company culture a priority from day one - lauremerlin
9 months into my startup project, I've been working on and off with quite a few (expert accountant, famous author, cartoonist, developer and web designer), all volunteers. I feel now I'd better wait and find a really fitting match for me (=d... | {
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Advancing Android Development with Kotlin - ingve
https://realm.io/news/oredev-jake-wharton-kotlin-advancing-android-dev/
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on_and_off
haha, how many times did he gave that talk already ?
It is a worthy cause though, Kotlin is ridiculously better thought out than
java (which is expected for a language release 20... | {
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} |
Headphones and Coffee - zdw
http://www.marco.org/2014/02/03/headphones-and-coffee
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dognotdog
What makes these headphones an order of magnitude more expensive than
venerable work horses like the HD-25 ([http://en-de.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-
headphones-hd-25-1-ii](http://en-de.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Browser Detection without Javascript - e1ven
http://documenta.rudolphina.org/cond-css-demo.xml
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axod
Why would you use this? And why would anyone disable javascript? Nothing makes
sense anymore...
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heyadayo
Its not necessarily about disabling javascript... its that js is often a poor
way of detecting brows... | {
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} |
Carol Bartz: Yahoo "f---ed me over" - taylorbuley
http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/carol-bartz-fired-yahoo/
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wccrawford
Any (ex) CEO that doesn't know why they got fired by someone reading a
lawyer's script obviously doesn't have a clue how things work. A firing of
that magnitude has to go by th... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What to do when the .com is too expensive? - hartator
We have found a new name for our company, the .com is parked (I mean do you know any good .com that's not?).<p>We have exchanged maybe 10 emails with the domain broker and he is asking us almost $20,000. We have make a proposal for $1,400 (Similar do... | {
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} |
Google Self-Driving Car Project – Monthly Reports - alcubierredrive
https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/
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brudgers
Past discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843539](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843539)
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Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations - patmcguire
https://investor.yahoo.net/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-5897&CIK=1011006&soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
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riemannzeta
For those confused, this filing is reporting a name change because the
operating business (including its brand, dom... | {
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} |
Angry iPhone Owners Twitition for Lower 3G S Upgrade Prices - transburgh
http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/iphone-twitter-petitions/
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brk
A) Online petitions are generally worthless
B) Twitter and twit-[foo] words are becoming beyond fucking annoying
C) This is no different than when Palm Treo's were hot and peop... | {
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} |
Second Startup Syndrome - jayliew
http://bhorowitz.com/2010/06/14/second-startup-syndrome/
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manderson2080
Jack Dorsey and Square, much?
| {
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Fifty Developer Tools of 2018 - octosphere
https://stackshare.io/posts/top-developer-tools-2018
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Pinbenterjamin
Very bizarre...
Just reviewing some of the categories and runners up;
Application & Data Tool of the Year Javascript was pitted against frameworks
made in Javascript? It was also judged against HTML5... | {
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} |
Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (2013) - jbernardo95
http://semver.org/
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mmebane
This appears to be from 2013:
[https://github.com/mojombo/semver/commits/v2.0.0](https://github.com/mojombo/semver/commits/v2.0.0)
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SimonPStevens
I've been at so many companies where someone is pushing to adopt semantic
versioning ... | {
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Mt. Gox's Bitcoins are being sold on Bitstamp? - Andrew_Quentin
http://pastebin.com/c2qWB3nU
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nwh
Bear in mind that the connection between these addresses is tenuous at best.
There's very little to suggest that the same person owns all of these
transactions. The paths are fairly convoluted, it could be a norma... | {
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} |
The kilogram standard is shrinking - binarymax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/24/scientists-weigh-up-shrinking-kilogram
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Jun8
Hmm, on a practical level, 50um loss may not be that bad :-) Take, plutonium,
which was the most valuable substance I could think of, it's around $4K a gram
(<http://www.cryst... | {
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U.S. warns Americans to leave Japan amid significant increase in Covid-19 cases - bookofjoe
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-japan-spread-draws-warning-us-embassy-americans-get-out-2020-04-03/
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ceejayoz
And go where? Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
| {
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David Heinemeier Hansson: 'Apple Has Approved Hey Without In-App Purchasing ' - MilnerRoute
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275066259801923584
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MilnerRoute
The tweet leads to a blog post that begins:
_Late Friday night, on June 19th, Apple’s App Store Review Board surprised us
by approving the pending bug fixe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online - sdomino
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/famed-hacker-kevin-mitnick-shows-go-invisible-online/
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retox
Shamed 0-day peddler Kevin Mitnick.
[https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/shopping/absolute-zero-
day-e...](https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/shopping/abso... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Just how important is an attractive UI? - peacemaker
I've been building a web application at home for a few months now and having a programmers design skills (i.e. none) means that while it works well, it doesn't look that great.
The design itself is using the standard blueprint css grid, has a top nav bar a... | {
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} |
What’s Next in Web Design? - kosofalla
http://informationarchitects.jp/whats-next-in-web-design/
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erikstarck
If the rumors surrounding the iSlate are correct we may see a new line of web
sites that are touch optimized, multimedia intensive and built for leaned back
browsing.
In general, web sites not built fo... | {
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} |
Soylent Update 1/21 - ph0rque
http://blog.soylent.me/post/74091082214/soylent-update-1-21
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raybeorn
Is Coeliac disease really that prevalent that they are worried about a gluten-
free version of soylent? (I personally know one person with this condition but
even he is annoyed about how everyone is going gluten-f... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Streamus updated to be compliant with YouTube terms of service - captn3m0
https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/releases/tag/v0.177
======
forgotpasswd3x
When I opened Streamus today, I received this message:
Hey everyone, Sean here.
So, good news for people who love bad news.
I've been working with You... | {
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} |
If you could pick a superpower what would it be? - sfrj
http://javing.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/if-you-could-pick-superpower-what-would.html
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krapp
I would have the superpower to pick superpowers. So basically I would be
Rogue. Only not as attractive and a dude.
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reiz
Being able to read and control other ... | {
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Ask HN: list of domains for university emails - jmtame
i'm trying to implement a way to restrict registration based on having a .edu account for specific schools, anyone know of a comprehensive list somewhere? i'm having no luck with my search
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fgimenez
Why don't you just check if the email ends with .edu? Ed... | {
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} |
Italian universities hacked (Story in Italian) - jeisc
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/07/06/news/hacker_di_nuovo_all_attaco_stavolta_delle_univesit_italiane-18761507/
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jeisc
Translated with Google: THE EVENT Extremely serious hacker attack at Italian
universities Stolen sensitive data of thousands o... | {
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} |
Tyndall F-22s, Left Behind Before Michael Hit, Possibly Damaged Beyond Repair - walrus01
http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2018/October%202018/Tyndall-F-22s-Left-Behind-Before-Michael-Hit-Possibly-Damaged-Beyond-Repair.aspx
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sdrothrock
I really love the statement from the colonel in charge of the base; i... | {
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} |
Top Financial Mistakes Every Software Developer Should Avoid - debh
http://www.acodersjourney.com/2016/04/top-10-financial-mistakes-every-software-developer-should-avoid/
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BerislavLopac
I don't see why is this particularly relevant to software developers -- it's
some good advice to anyone with relatively good in... | {
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} |
Unpacking HP Firmware Updates - sobermanman
https://jsof-tech.com/unpacking-hp-firmware-updates-part-1/
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rshnotsecure
This article is bringing to light a lot of stuff that needs to be said about
printers.
Also somewhat depressingly, HP is definitely the most secure printing company.
That's not a very high stand... | {
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} |
Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance' - secfirstmd
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/275567-senate-intel-encryption-bill-mandates-technical-assistance
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cant_kant
"A long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee encryption bill would force
companies to provide “technical assistance” to g... | {
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} |
Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings - szczys
http://hackaday.com/2015/10/20/the-curious-case-of-ultrasonic-power-transfer/
======
Someone
[http://ubeam.com](http://ubeam.com):
_" The most recent paper to investigate the safety of ultrasound was just
published [...] Of note is ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Birthkay – Celebrating every thousand days on earth - lopify
https://birthkay.com
======
lopify
Hi Hackers!
Last new year's eve I tried to reflect on the year 2016that just passed by and
I realized that nothing major did really happen, I was one year older but
that's about it.
I went to my photo library and... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Pimp My Tweets - suggests better words for your tweets. - jalada
http://pimp-my-tweets.herokuapp.com/
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jalada
This was a Friday project at work (<http://labs.newsint.co.uk>). It uses a
couple of word of the day sources, thesaurus APIs and part of speech tagging.
If you use a word that is a synonym for... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Why do we capitalize letters? - jmtame
can i stop capitalizing?
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parenthesis
We do actually capitalise a lot less than was done in the past. Find some
unmodernised English writing from circa 1600, say, and you'll find lots of
capitalisation of (non-proper) nouns, for example.
The contemporary conventi... | {
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} |
Show HN: Quod.us – Building an open database of misinformation - newman8r
https://www.quod.us
======
newman8r
I'm trying to validate this concept, so any feedback is greatly appreciated.
My goal is to create a nonprofit organization and make everything free and
open source.
I have a small amount of experience in NLP... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: A weekly newsletter curating great Wordpress guides - foundersgrid
http://wpstack.io/
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coreymaass
I tried to subscribe using the top form. It opened a new window, redirecting
me back to the homepage, and I never got a confirmation email. I just tried
again using the form at the bottom, and it seemed to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nvidia CEO Reveals New TITAN X at Stanford Deep Learning Meetup - bcaulfield
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/07/21/titan-x/
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cs702
Great news all-around for deep learning practitioners.
Nvidia says memory bandwidth is "460GB/s," which will probably have the most
impact on deep learning applications (lots of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Death by Cloud - How Amazon is Killing Open Source Software - Garbage
http://www.keeneview.com/2011/04/death-by-cloud-how-amazon-is-killing.html
======
JoachimSchipper
The author is essentially arguing that platform-as-a-service companies like
Amazon reduce the need for e.g. MySQL support contracts. This is probabl... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Mac OS X Portal Performace - manvsmachine
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3726/quick-look-mac-os-x-portal-performance
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zweben
Their screenshot comparison is inaccurate. It didn't look right to me, so I
duplicated their screenshot on my own Mac at 2560x1600. My Mac Portal
screenshot matches their PC screenshot in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
dot.dom: A feature-rich JavaScript template engine in 510 byes - icharala
https://github.com/wavesoft/dot-dom
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icharala
I created a codepen where you can try it in action:
[https://codepen.io/anon/pen/Kargex?editors=0010#0](https://codepen.io/anon/pen/Kargex?editors=0010#0)
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hubert123
What is this syntax?... | {
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Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out - Tomte
http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/
======
jbarrow
Gwern wrote a good overview of spaced repetition and how to apply it [1]. If
you're interested in going deeper, it serves as a good starting point as he
prov... | {
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} |
Google Street View logs WiFi networks, MAC addresses - ableal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/
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hesselink
I'm guessing they do this to provide location on phones without GPS, or to
improve it. Apple uses this as well on the iPhone (I think) and the iPod
Touch. I think they ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Proposal for New RGI Emoji Sequences: Washing Hands - matthewmayer
https://lemiwashmyhands.org/proposal
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matthewmayer
While a regular emoji could take years to get approved, vendors are free to
implement ZWJ sequences. We've had some tentative interest from Facebook,
Twitter and Whatsapp already.
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louise6... | {
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Show HN: First platform with stock and crypto trading in the same account - tgoldenberg
https://www.commandiv.com
======
tgoldenberg
After months of hard work, Commandiv is proud to announce that we’re the first
platform to trade both stock and cryptocurrencies in the same account.
With the growing interest in crypto... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Andrew Warner’s 3 tips to giving interviews for founders and entrepreneurs - g0atbutt
http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/22/andrew-warners-3-tips-to-giving-interviews-for-founders-and-entrepreneurs/
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g0atbutt
Really great tips from Andrew. Andrew’s three key points in giving an
interview: 1\. Practice – The ... | {
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} |
Fastest internet in the world can download everything on Netflix in one second - rustoo
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/with-a-speed-of-178-tbps-fastest-internet-in-the-world-can-download-everything-on-netflix-in-one-second-71598083166098.html
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refresher
I assume the entire Netflix library is more than... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Recommendations for affiliate programs (clothing/fashion industry) - n1c
Hi everyone! I run dressed.so which I built for /r/malefashionadvice. Currently I'm using ShopSense/ShopStyle (for the 'shop this look' links on the post page and some other spots) and it's going alrig... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Murder detectives sought Amazon Echo data - sorokod
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38450658
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dbg31415
This is a dupe. This story was posted like 20 times in the last few days. Here
are the most popular discussions...
* Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case | Hacker News || [https://news.ycombinator.co... | {
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2.4 Kernel Releases Come to an End - Swifty
http://lwn.net/Articles/491245/
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andyzweb
should we have a funeral for it?
| {
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} |
Show HN: I built a fully ReactJS/Redux WPAPI theme - jackreichert
https://www.jackreichert.com
======
jackreichert
There is a link to the github repo in the footer of the site.
Still a work in progress, but I was itching to go live with it.
I look forward to your thoughts.
| {
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} |
Wikipedia Zero - _pius
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
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itcmcgrath
I haven't looked at the details, but at initial glance - I love the direction.
While Wikipedia my not be the shining-light of data accuracy, it definitely
fits the bill for achieving good: "Perfect is the enemy of good" [1]
I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What's your favorite embedded system? - timtrueman
I'm looking for something rugged, capable of running Linux, and cheap if possible. I'm just curious what you guys have actually used and liked as I evaluate which one would work for me.<p>I've used this in the past but I'm curious what else is out there: htt... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Vulcand – Proxy for microservices and API - alexk
https://github.com/mailgun/vulcand
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alexk
Hi All! I've built Vulcand to support Mailgun's micro services infrastructure.
I think of it as Hystrix + Zuul embedded in the proxy. Let me know if you have
any questions or comments!
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chatmasta
Very ni... | {
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} |
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf] - tim_sw
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03044.pdf
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phreeza
I have to say it is very entertaining to see all these innovations in the
field coming in at this rapid pace. Its also great that most papers are there
for everyone to read o... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
North American cloud IaaS providers benchmark [pdf] - alexkon
http://cloudspectator.com/reports/2017-cloud-iaas-providers-benchmark-pdf-download.pdf
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QuinnyPig
I'm sure that 1&1's previous sponsorship of CloudSpectator reports in no way
contributed to their multiple perfect scores.
BRB, telling a CTO to move fr... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Do you use kettlebells - epalmer
I'm 64 and finding that I need a whole body experience at the gym. I have foot and ankle problems and can't jog. I take a beta blocker so getting my heart rate up is hard.<p>I've just started doing kettlebells and think this might be the answer. But I only have... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
We need worms (Gut worms may be a cure) - ks
https://aeon.co/essays/gut-worms-were-once-a-cause-of-disease-now-they-are-a-cure
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zeristor
An interesting idea, that we've come to understand the need for bacteria,
fungueses, and virus in gut flora; next stage are gut worms.
| {
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} |
For 8 years a hacker operated an IoT botnet just to download Anime videos - deathgrips
https://www.zdnet.com/article/for-8-years-a-hacker-operated-a-massive-iot-botnet-just-to-download-anime-videos/
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bediger4000
I'm skeptical of the "hobby project" designation. The botherder demonstrated
decent operational secur... | {
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} |
Longevity may lie in a gene called REST - dazosan
https://massivesci.com/notes/longevity-gene-rest-mouse-worms-brain-tissue-genetics/
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abjKT26nO8
Or it may speak the truth in SOAP.
~~~
oriel
RPC will never die
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Takeaways from the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims - vincvinc
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-muslims-detention.html
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wbraun
I don't understand why the BDS movement against Israel gets so much attention
when stuff like this, or worse, regularly occurs in China. I have been m... | {
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} |
OSTIF, QuarksLab, and VeraCrypt E-mails Are Being Intercepted - y0ghur7_xxx
https://ostif.org/ostif-quarklab-and-veracrypt-e-mails-are-being-intercepted/
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Kadin
While their emails may well be getting intercepted, I find it somewhat
implausible that a nation-state-level actor would go to all the work of
intercept... | {
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} |
Is $100,000 middle class in America? - smaili
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/25/is-100000-middle-class-in-america/
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DoodleBuggy
Obviously depends where you are located, and how you define middle class.
FWIW, this article offers a much better definition of middle class based on
histo... | {
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} |
Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee - sbisker
http://technorati.com/women/article/missing-person-tracy-williams-technorati-employee/
I saw this on Twitter and thought perhaps the HN community could help. My heart goes out to her family and colleagues.
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codedivine
Technorati people, in case you ... | {
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Don't trust nice people in business - dumbfoundded
https://www.atlassquats.com/post/don-t-trust-nice-people-in-business
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soneca
> _" Let's step back and define nice. A nice person is one who tries to get
> you to like them"_
That's not my definition of nice, so I realized there was no point in reading
the rest ... | {
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} |
reredd: think you've reddit before? - aquateen
http://reredd.com
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run4yourlives
This site makes me cry... reddit was so great in the past.
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aquateen
I can only get one mongrel instance running. Search also broke when I
deployed. Working on these, but just wanted to get it out there...
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iamwil
acc... | {
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} |
When Nginx becomes the bottleneck - wslh
http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/when-nginx-becomes-the-bottleneck
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snug
So it was just a misconfigured NGINX setup?
| {
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Having Trouble Getting Yourself To Write? Here are some tips - ColinWright
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/01/having-trouble-getting-yourself-to-write-xx-tips.html
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mitchie_luna
I like the tips of the author. If I may add, the writer should always have a
pen/pencil and notebook on his sid... | {
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} |
Fighting to Shut Out the Real India - mjfern
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/world/asia/07iht-letter07.html
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ankeshk
Here is a snapshot of India that is helpful to folks not living here.
The 2011 census just came out. What is the literacy rate? 75% only. That means
25% Indians can't read or write. Thats 300 m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
9 Timeless Business Virtues from a 19th Century Self-Made Millionaire - brucejaywallace
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/04/23/9-timeless-business-virtues-from-a-19th-century-self-made-millionaire/
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cynthiaherald
Loved this quote: “Mind your own business; own your own business and run your
own busi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Who Are The 5 People You Spend Time With? - philk10
http://leostartsup.com/2012/07/the-people-you-spend-time-with/
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stephengillie
_‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’ Jim
Rohn_
I see it backwardsly - the 5 people you spend time with are the ones most like
my average. I'm not w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance - baq
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
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dang
Submitting follow-ups is not a good HN practice. It's better to link to the
new article from the original thread (in t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Leading companies are trying to make powerful, low-cost Lidar - Tomte
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/the-ars-technica-guide-to-the-lidar-industry/
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derek_frome
Tim is one of the best informed journalists on lidar - and this is a pretty
solid summary of where the leading companies are (although Luminar cont... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
3. 2. 1. Contact. The Google Contacts API has landed - hwork
http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-2-1-contact-api-has-landed.html
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simianstyle
On a side note, I used to love that magazine and was disappointed when they
changed it to "Contact Kids". I think there was also a TV show.
~~~
wallflower
> I ... | {
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Why Failure is Good - bemmu
http://www.kimmosblog.com/2008/12/07/on-failure/
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jeeringmole
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." Alan Perlis,
Epigrams in Programming (#101) <http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html>... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Find Your Voice: Writing for a Webzine (1999) - panic
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/zine.html
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pjc50
> The role of the audience is central in another context: MP3. MP3's explosive
> growth is fueled by the appeal of free stuff, of course, but at a more basic
> level it is fueled by musicians' fervent desir... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
SNAP: Stanford Network Analysis Project - indescions_2017
http://snap.stanford.edu/index.html
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Topolomancer
What I like most about this project is actually the repository of data sets.
Curated graph data sets are hard to come, and the ones at SNAP have already
been used in different publications, so there are fe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Voices of America - tintinnabula
https://newrepublic.com/article/140976/voices-america-podcasts-stories-individual-obsession
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slg
>Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion
that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally
enriching, whether it’s a history l... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Release Windows Archaism - phaet0n
http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/11/25/the-release-windows-archaism/
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qeorge
The OP is begging the question. The Release Window never had anything to do
with technology. Its has always been about money. Money is not an "analog era
relic".
Obviously the content producers ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
European Court of Justice blocks social network's anti-piracy filtering system - Tim-Boss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17060112
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yread
"The European Court appears to have ruled out the idea that operators of
social network sites and ISPs can be forced - at their own expense - to impose
blanket monitori... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Amb: A Redex Tutorial - namin
http://docs.racket-lang.org/redex/tutorial.html
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akkartik
Do we need to know _amb_ to read this tutorial? I have a vague memory of it,
having worked through that chapter in On Lisp long ago, and yet the first
screen introduces several terms without explaining them.
It says I need... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Serve² says hello. A new way to share big files (coming soon). - dutchbrit
http://blog.serve2.com/what-is-serve²/
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Daniel_Newby
That link 404s for me.
Clicky: <http://blog.serve2.com/>
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dutchbrit
That's odd - maybe due to the uppercase 2 in the URL - thanks for letting me
know!!
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} |
Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think - RachelF
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/why-luck-matters-more-than-you-might-think/476394/?single_page=true
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epalmer
> In an unexpected twist, we may even find that recognizing our luck increases
> our good fortune. Social scientists have been stud... | {
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} |
Ask HN: How do you manage business contacts? - jtfairbank
I'm meeting a ton of people for different organizations, and I'm having trouble tracking relationships and TODOs between them. This applies to customers, as well as people in the entrepreneurship community and partner companies.<p>I want a contact ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How can I revert GitHub's new Gitlab-design? - autogenerated
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amedvednikov
[https://gitly.org](https://gitly.org) is going to have similar design, even
simpler.
It's written in V, so it's very light and fast. Open source release this week.
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verdverm
I'm migrating to gitlab
| {
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} |
Preventing Stack Overflow Attacks - AndreyKarpov
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/240001832
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opendomain
Did anyone else read this title and assume that this was a way to make your
website scalable to survive a deluge of visors from SatckOverflow.Com (or
having a front page article on Hacker News) ?
This actually ta... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Homebrew core does not accept signed binaries - zabil
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/25316
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zabil
The homebrew core team did not accept our pull request for installing from a
signed binary or allow us to migrate to a custom tap.
In the interest of security and user experience, we think it's impo... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day - ttt_
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/isp-storing-25-petabytes-of-megaupload-data-costs-us-9000-a-day.ars?clicked=related_right
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johngalt
I've dealt with e-discovery sets. No one really has answers to what to do when
you have a litiga... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Android platform engineer on application architecture - EddieRingle
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FXCCYxepsDU
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Benjamin_Dobell
Unfortunately, the contents of this post are no surprise to any seasoned
Android developer. It's very clear the Android engineers haven't given a lot
of thought to ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
That awkward moment when Gmail thought I was spamming myself - nathana
http://www.brokenbitstream.com/gmail-spf-policy
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anigbrowl
Cached:
[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.brokenbitstream.com/gmail-
spf-policy)
TL;... | {
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} |
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