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10 Unbelievable Online CSS Tools To Make Your Designing Life Easier - basdog22 http://jeez.eu/2009/09/21/10-unbelievable-online-css-tools-to-make-your-designing-life-easier/ ====== newsdog Wow - there's no excuse for bad css anymore...
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Google Wants to Make Science Fiction a Reality—That’s Limiting Their Imagination - nealabq http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/google-wants-to-make-science-fiction-a-reality-and-that-s-limiting-their-imagination/360699/ ====== noobiemcfoob I fail to see the problem with trying to address large scal...
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Super Bowl 50 telecast will hit all the angles, even 360 degrees - ashwinl http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Super-Bowl-50-telecast-will-hit-all-the-angles-6810870.php?t=4cd49fade1 ====== ashwinl "After raising $9 million in private financing rounds, Replay – led by co- founder and CEO Oren Haimovitch-Yogev ...
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Sigma.js, a JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing - Yomguithereal http://sigmajs.org/ ====== frewsxcv I started a project a couple months ago to create a 3D graph library similar to Sigma.js using ThreeJS (WebGL). You can check it out here [https://github.com/frewsxcv/graphosaurus](https://github.com/frewsx...
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Lidar Company Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor - finphil https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2020/01/07/lidar-pioneer-velodyne-debuts-100-auto-safety-sensor-as-self-driving-cars-pace-to-market-slows/#1483897e6cbc ====== Someone1234 So Lidar is getting cheaper, but the advantage of Lidar (Vs. optical) may b...
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The End of College Tuition Pricing as We Know It? - DarkContinent https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/09/01/are-we-nearing-the-end-of-college-tuition-pricing-as-we-know-it/ ====== eranation Georgia Tech's $7,000 Master of Science in Computer Science [0] (with partnership with Udacity) or the Unive...
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The javascript grid you allways wanted (MIT-licensed): SlickGrid - clyfe http://mleibman.github.com/SlickGrid/examples/example5-collapsing.html ====== clyfe GitHub main page: <https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid> Examples: <https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid/wiki/Examples>
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Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine - asicboy https://frinkiac.com ====== reaperhulk One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: [https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons- screensho...](https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screenshot- search-engine/) ~~~ ...
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Ask HN: How do you “pre-code”? - webappsecperson I&#x27;ve started writing more pseudocode before tackling problems and it&#x27;s helped a lot in sussing out the general control flow &#x2F; structure of what I intend to write, basically helping with the programming equivalent of writer&#x27;s block.<p>It got me to won...
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Show HN: BiggestPriceDrop.com - dasong http://biggestpricedrop.com Created this app because nothing like it existed. I've always wanted to be able to sort products from my favorite online stores by how much each product had dropped in price. I think we're still the only site that does this. Please let me know if th...
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Ask HN: Why are status webpages broken? - yani The first place that I go when there is an outage is the status page of the service. Unfortunately, status pages are outdated and cannot be trusted to represent the status of the service. Why? Why do companies choose to use Twitter over their own status page or at least n...
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Show HN: Webmatr – It's Like IFTTT or Zapier but for Programmers - gsvclass https://webmatr.com ====== fiatjaf Great thing, if it works I'll try it someday. I've been so pissed off by IFTTT and Zapier's huge forms complexity and slowness so many times when I just wished to call a single API command.
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Design Patterns In Ruby, Explained II - kitallis http://code.scrapcrap.org/dpr2 ====== tumult If I encountered code like this on the job, I'd feel obligated to let someone higher up know about it. I know this isn't a very constructive comment, but I don't really have much else to say :) ------ tptacek If you're pul...
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Why software projects go wrong - lrvick http://lrvick.net/blog/why_software_projects_go_wrong/ ====== marianoguerra here is a link to the post something seems to go wrong with the github pages he uses [https://github.com/lrvick/lrvick/blob/master/posts/201201102...](https://github.com/lrvick/lrvick/blob/master/pos...
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Comcast failed to install Internet for 10 months then demanded $60,000 in fees - CrankyBear http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/comcast-failed-to-install-internet-for-10-months-then-demanded-60000-in-fees/?platform=hootsuite ====== roflchoppa Yeah we are in the Bay Area the "tech hub" but we still have all the iss...
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Quantum Mechanics - thewarrior http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics ====== OafTobark This is interesting. Its the first time I've seen the simple.wikipedia vs the en.wikipedia. Upon checking, they are two different written entries for this subject. I am curious if simple.wikipedia is merely a simplifie...
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Ruby Manor 4 tickets now available (one-day, zero-bullshit London Ruby conf) - lazyatom http://rubymanor.org/4/ ====== buddhamagnet Ruby Manor - love the ethic. Determined to make it this year! ~~~ lazyatom Hope you get your ticket soon - they are selling pretty quickly... ------ benlovell Because birds.
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You Can Call the Super Bowl the “Super Bowl” - coloneltcb https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/you-can-call-super-bowl-super-bowl ====== gshdg As long as you’re willing to waste your time and resources defending a lawsuit. Even if the lawsuit is winnable it’s unlikely to be worth the trouble.
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Israeli scientists develop tissue implants that won't be rejected - evo_9 https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-scientists-develop-implanted-organs-made-from-patients-own-cells/ ====== andy-fillebrown This is interesting stuff but I don't think the article describes anything groundbreaking. The cells used by the scientist...
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Facebook Users Who Hate Change Making Facebook Developers Hate Facebook Users - pakafka http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/facebook-users-who-hate-change-making-facebook-developers-hate-facebook-users ====== josefresco Some revolt... as the commenter said they should just stop using the damn site and leave the thi...
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Building your bot's brain with Node.js and spaCy - syllogism https://explosion.ai/blog/chatbot-node-js-spacy ====== orthoganol Having dabbled in an ontology + first-order logic approach to a general intelligence agent, which seems perhaps in the same ballpark as this approach, I think one of the hardest aspects is aut...
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Spacepath: a demonstration of A* pathfinding applied to Newtonian physics - matthew-piziak https://github.com/matthew-piziak/spacepath ====== matthew-piziak Direct link to 31 random prerendered demos: [http://imgur.com/a/K8XfM](http://imgur.com/a/K8XfM)
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Good to Great author Jim Collins answers questions - jamongkad http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/02/19/8400260/index.htm ====== danielha "They followed the "first who" approach to entrepreneurship: First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing ...
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India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans - flippyhead http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/world/asia/india-call-centers-fraud-americans.html?ref=technology ====== tdumitrescu For many of us it can be hard to imagine what kind of gullible dweebs go for this. The other week I was quite surpri...
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Try exercise to improve memory, thinking - happy-go-lucky https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/new-guideline-try-exercise-to-improve-memory-thinking/ ====== nicolashahn A study that says that exercise cures this or that seems to come out every week, but the fact remains remains that convincing people to do it...
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Why our startup is selling services - netmau5 http://blog.davejafari.com/why-were-selling-services ====== rmATinnovafy I wish you would have expanded a bit more. Consulting does indeed bring in some chashflow when its most needed (I do it, too (email on profile)). But what are your reasons for consulting, aside from...
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Climate change represents a near- to mid-term threat to human civilisation - crispinb http://www.climatecodered.org/2019/05/can-we-think-in-new-ways-about.html ====== maxheadroom > _A doomsday future is not inevitable! But without immediate drastic action > our prospects are poor._ So, what you're saying is: Unless w...
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Gandi.net under heavy DDoS - webmonkeyuk https://status.gandi.net/timeline/events/97 ====== cpncrunch After my server was hit with a DDoS attack a few months ago for no apparent reason, I decided to move to OVH as they are the only dedicated server provider that offers free DDoS protection as standard.
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Design of the Ford Probe IV, 1983 - zephyrfalcon http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f19/1983-ford-probe-iv-concept-75145/ ====== Zhenya Thanks for posting this. I'm a geek and a car enthusiast, hope there are more on HN like us.
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Show HN: Larry Wildman – Send free, anonymous postcards to horrible bosses - larrywildman https://www.larrywildman.com/#send ====== chrissnell This is so passive-aggressive and juvenile. If you don't like the way your company is being run, there are three acceptable options: \- Summon the courage to say something abo...
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Anyone using Lucene (or Nutch or Solr)? How's it working? - brett http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/002262.html ====== jkush We are using lucene at <http://www.todotoh.com> We're using it to index questions and answers and have plans to extend it to recommend questions and answers to a user based on their interaction...
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Best Buy and Solar City - joshuahedlund http://www.bestbuysolarcity.com/ ====== BrandonMarc They just need to outfit a house near MacGregor, TX, park a Tesla in front of it, and take a picture with SpaceX doing a rocket flight test in the background.
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17 Year Old Developer Goes Up Against 19/yo with $1.1 Million - chrisleydon http://psocha.co.uk/im-a-17-year-old-developer-and-im-up-against-a-19-year-old-his-company-and-a-1-1m-investment ====== citricsquid This is dumb. > While I’m very excited for Gumroad, as someone who was just about to launch > their startup,...
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Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (2010) - adamnemecek http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/multipage/index.html ====== pizza Also check out his guide to C programming [0] and his guide to network programming [1] [0] [http://beej.us/guide/bgc/](http://beej.us/guide/bgc/) [1] [http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/](http://beej.us/gu...
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India's DataProtection Recommendation Report: A Free and Fair Digital Economy [pdf] - yarapavan http://meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Data_Protection_Committee_Report.pdf ====== yarapavan Some background: In 2017, the Supreme Court recognised a fundamental right to privacy in Puttaswamy vs Union of India, and the C...
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What If the Government Just Prints Money? (2009) - oneshot-a4yukdk http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2009/11/what-if-government-just-prints-money.html ====== ohiovr I trust common sense and history. The existance of this article is more important than its arguments. See here for another version of this thinking. [ht...
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Lenovo Announces a $130 Windows PC in a Stick - indoindo http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/24/lenovo-announces-a-130-windows-pc-in-a-stick/ ====== ZenoArrow Is this just a rebranded Intel Compute Stick? [http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute- stick/intel-c...](http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/...
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An Englishman who saved Japan’s cherry blossoms - lcaff https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/the-englishman-who-saved-japans-cherry-blossoms/ ====== zeristor Strange how this was mentioned in a Monty Don documentary about Japanese gardens that must have been on the BBC in early February. Lovely gardens by the way. --...
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New findings about proton size could shake up physics as we know it - zain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/08/the-incredible-shrinking-proton-that-could-rattle-the-physics-world/ ====== jcdreads These paywalls around scientific journal articles were infuriating when I was a physics grad student, an...
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Ask HN: Non-obvious pros/cons of contracting vs. full time work? - mcrittenden I've been contracting full time for a company for the past four months or so. I get paid pretty well, but of course have to pay self-employment taxes and have to handle my own insurance, etc.<p>It looks like there's a good chance the comp...
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Show HN: A London Underground Tube Status Board Written in React - jsingleton https://reactube.com/ ====== jsingleton This is the output of part 1 in a tutorial series, which is here: [https://unop.uk/building-a-web-app-in-react-and-asp-net- core...](https://unop.uk/building-a-web-app-in-react-and-asp-net-core-part-1/...
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Brain Query Language – wtf is this? - aaaqqqq https://www.brainql.com ====== arkitaip I have no idea but I found removing the text and running the site in full screen mode results in one beautiful screensaver: [http://imgur.com/a/yGr1Q](http://imgur.com/a/yGr1Q) ------ aaaqqqq This, along with [https://msdn.microsof...
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A mini jquery - ck11212 https://github.com/SunShineKG/mini-jquery ====== startupflix What's the difference?
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Managers: Don't translate your stress - johndavidback https://medium.com/p/managers-dont-translate-the-stress-842b6afeb6f4 ====== throwaway2016a As a manager this has been my biggest challenge. I never telegraph my stress to my team members but used to often do it around my peers (managers on other teams). Probably ...
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Show HN: Python Package for Predicting Gender from First Names - parthmaul https://github.com/parthmaul/onomancer ====== nic-waller Storing the lookup map on disk as a JSON-encoded dictionary seems less than optimal for package size and module load time. Two plaintext files (M.txt and F.txt) would be simple and more e...
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Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps - mrud http://seclists.org/nanog/2010/Dec/1077 ====== iwwr _None of the people who contacted us realised that the "Wikileaks press release" published on wikileaks.info was not written by Wikileaks and not issued by Wikileaks - but by the person running the wikileaks.info site only - ...
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CoffeeScript-Object-Notation Parser - tantalor https://github.com/balupton/cson.npm ====== shaunxcode Fair play - but as far as "missing comma" syndrome goes CS still has its problems. e.g. consider an array of objects: [ a: 1 b: 2 , a: 3 b: 4 ] If y...
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The key to increase user acquisition this pandemic - dravishakatoch https://blog.locale.ai/how-to-improve-user-acquisition-conversion-using-location-analytics/ ====== slynn12 I have mixed feelings about posts like this...just feels like trying to capitalize on a terrible situation, although I get it could be spun as t...
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Definining the Value of Community (Review of LeanCoffee Meetup in Toronto) - maxcameron http://bigbangtechnology.com/post/defining_the_value_of_community ====== maxcameron Hi Everyone, I'm the author of this article, and I'd like to get your feedback on this article because I worked really hard on it. I also think ...
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I am not a "JavaScript Developer". - AndyKelley http://andrewkelley.me/post/not-a-js-developer.html ====== c0deporn If you're only referring to what recruiters send to you, then you're frustration is for not. While I can understand your issues with labels, this is a keyword driven era where you have to summarize you...
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Nationwide 5G to cover all 24 square miles of San Marino - urahara http://www.rcrwireless.com/20170717/5g/nationwide-5g-san-marino-tag17 ====== tgragnato Telecom Italia is well-known to manage noteworthy pilot projects. But the company often fails in making these excellences the norm. For the mobile network: \- the ...
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The Port Scan Attack Detector - pavs http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/02/07/the-port-scan-attack-detector/ PSAD is a collection of four lightweight system daemons written in Perl and in C that is designed to work with Linux firewalling code (iptables in the 2.4.x kernels, and ipchains in the 2.2.x kernels) to detect po...
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LeanLaunchLab is Bringing Lean Startup to the Enterprise - techcofounder http://pandodaily.com/2012/03/22/leanlaunchlab-is-bringing-lean-startup-tools-to-enterprise/ ====== skmurphy It's funny how none of these articles mention <http://www.leancanvas.com/> which was already released and in use when LLL was announced...
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Ask HN: I tried Deezer's subscription. Now they won't delete my credit card info - tomd3v I have been using Deezer for a few years now. And recently I decided to try their subscription. I noticed that they store my credit card details and there is no way for me to remove it.<p>I contacted them to delete it, and appare...
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“Citizen Four” a Film by Laura Poitras - atmosx https://citizenfourfilm.com/ ====== whitten It is unclear exactly what this page or film is about. It shows a clever pseudo terminal input, but I'm sad to say that I didn't really get much from it.
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How to Remove a Windows Computer Virus - scg http://valentinstanciu.com/2011/04/remove-a-windows-computer-virus/ ====== bediger Thank you for noting that it's a _Windows_ computer virus, not one of those menacing _malware_ viruses the media tells everyone, even Mac and Linux users, are going to destroy their lives. N...
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What PostHog did to get into YC - james_impliu https://posthog.com/blog/before-the-yc-application/ ====== james_impliu Hey, I'm James one of the founders of PostHog, a YC W20 company. We noticed that lots of people blog about the application process, but few blog whilst they're actually going through the program. We...
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Hello World, by Oracle - ceejayoz http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/application/examples/HelloWorldApp.java ====== th0ma5 Is the upvoting from a cynicism that the legal disclaimers are 10x the code? :D It is a compelling situation, on the other hand, I have been generally impressed that Oracle ha...
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How to Better Remember Spring and Resistance Equivalent Constant Formulas - caaaadr https://abidsikder.com/blog/y-xp.html ====== caaaadr I've been trying to improve my writing, so feedback on the clarity and style of my writing would be awesome, thank you!
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Hello JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012) - jeffreyrogers http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-simple-jits.html ====== haberman Author here -- I'm happy to see the continued interest in this article. I had a lot of fun writing it. DynASM is some great work and doesn't have a lot of documenta...
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T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart at a slashed price? - qhoxie http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/10/27/t-mobile-g1-coming-to-walmart-at-a-slashed-price/ ====== jacobscott Saving $30 is cool, but remember the majority cost of this phone (and other smartphones) is in the contract.
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Sysdig vs. DTrace vs. Strace (2014) - pmoriarty https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-vs-dtrace-vs-strace-a-technical-discussion/ ====== crb Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7568175](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7568175) ------ nailer How does it compare to SystemTap and other Linux based k...
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Can Google help me root my Android device or do I have to through the mfg? - OrgNet The brand is LG but either way, I could not find an exploit for the unpopular phone that I own &quot;100%&quot; ====== dredmorbius That's a damned good question. I'll say that I've had an (apparently non-rootable) Android device, purc...
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Teaching a Semester of D3.js - bootload http://blogger.ghostweather.com/2016/01/teaching-semester-of-d3js.html ====== SeanDav I followed the link to some slides created by the Author at: [http://ghostweather.slides.com/lynncherny/deck#/](http://ghostweather.slides.com/lynncherny/deck#/) This is not a direct criticism...
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Iguazu – Docker + Mesos at Coursera - rsumbaly https://tech.coursera.org/blog/2014/11/17/long-running-jobs-at-coursera/ ====== bryanlarsen Where's the code?
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How Fiix Got into YC via Justin Kan's Snapchat - khallil https://medium.com/@kmx411/how-to-make-20-000-on-snapchat-and-get-into-y-combinator-2513a7ee371d#.7e85v2xuz ====== minimaxir This story doesn't disprove the "this competition is silly and childish" comments that were made when Justin's Snapchat pitch competition...
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Sublime's Monokai Theme with Beautiful Colored JSON - benmarten https://github.com/colibriapps/monokaiJsonPlus ====== benmarten Direct Install via Package Control! 1) ⌘ + ⇧ + P - Install Package 2) Type: `Monokai JSON+` [https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Monokai%20JSON+](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Monokai...
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Jigsolved: Computer Vision to Solve Jigsaw Puzzles - benryon http://blog.cornelltech.io/jigsolved-computer-vision-to-solve-jigsaw-puzzles/ ====== kjeetgill That has always been one of those pet projects I keep meaning to take another crack at. Once a year or so I spend a weekend toying around with opencv in python and...
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Anatomy of a worthless business proposition - jslogan http://b2brainmaker.com/b2b-lead-generation/anatomy-of-a-worthless-business-proposition/ ====== jslogan You can have the greatest, most feature rich offering in the world, but if your target market doesn't value the problem you solve or the opportunity you enable...
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Show HN: Wallabag, a self-hostable application for saving web pages - tcit https://www.wallabag.org/ ====== tcit Hi there, As written in the title, wallabag is a self-hosted read-it-later web application (like Pocket or Instapaper, but open-source) that saves content from webpages. You can organize content and sync i...
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Building affordable housing, where has the entry-level house gone? - oftenwrong https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2016/08/building-affordable-housing-where-has.html ====== sharemywin This explains why nothing is getting built at $100sf without land it's cheaper to buy existing.
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Silicon Valley’s Diversity Problem Is Not a Myth - kevindeasis https://medium.com/inclusion-insights/silicon-valley-s-diversity-problem-is-not-a-myth-29c549bc696b#.gasun9l3w ====== comrh The article is certainly nothing if not well cited.
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What are BI / Data visualization tools that work on top of Hadoop - uditbatra Can you guys recommend any BI &#x2F; Data visualization tools that work well directly over Hadoop&#x2F;Hive? ====== mindcrime If you use a "SQL on Hadoop" engine like Impala, you can use any standard ODBC/JDBC based tool, like Tableau, BIRT,...
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Ask HN: Why is no one talking about kernel assisted IPC bus? - unmdplyr I&#x27;ve been looking at kd-bus and its later evolution bus1. Seems like both projects are stalled. Why are kernel developers not supportive of a proper messaging system through kernel itself? Or rather what is stopping them from accepting patche...
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Angry Birds movie is set to hit theaters summer 2016 - amima http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/11/angry-birds-movie-tags-despicable-me-iron-man-producers-out-in/ ====== s_husso Good for Rovio! It was only matter of time when this would happen. Considering that there isn't a day, at least here in Finland, that one doesn...
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British universities slip down 'because they are forced to focus on diversity' - dudul http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/667405/British-universities-ranking ====== nibs I am from Ontario, Canada. All our government agencies have a mandate to ensure there is representation from all gender and race backgrounds. It is a n...
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NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration - hereonbusiness http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/plutonium-238-problem/all/ ====== molecule > NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration > By 2005, according a Department of Energy report (.pdf), the U.S. government > owned 87 pounds...
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Selling a car for bitcoins. For real. - riboflavin http://www.reddit.com/r/BitMarket/comments/iugzp/wts_2006_chevy_equinox_suv_1195_btc_obo/ ====== Curt_Liu I think bitcoin will be baned sooner or later ~~~ jackpirate It's already the bane of hacker news.
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Ask HN: Anyone been to startupweekend? - Killah911 Planning on attending startupweekend in NYC tomorrow. Any words of advice from your experience would be much appreciated. ====== hannesfostie I've been to two, here's a quick rundown... Startup Weekend Brussels, #1: january 2011 About 90 attendants, 45-50 pitches....
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Ashley Madison looks like it was always a big sad scam - BadassFractal http://boingboing.net/2015/08/26/ashley-madison-looks-like-it-w.html ====== wodenokoto I thought it was weird that there were more (young, beautiful) women in my area on AM than Tinder. At first I thought it was just a prostitution ring spamming...
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MatterPort Demo of Taliesin West - dedalus https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=iWvNCvUJxvg ====== erikig For anyone else that's curious Taliesin West is the winter home and architectural school of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. I just love how his buildings lay comfortably and organically on the landscape and M...
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I'm sharing a little knowledge back to the community, your thoughts? - xtrycatchx I'm a Java/JEE practitioner and in my own little ways I'm writing a blog (though it's limited to what i knew) to share my little knowledge back to the community. DO you think this is a good approach? Well honestly one of the purpose (a...
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Tweet Visualization in World-Map Heatmap Form - uptown http://aworldoftweets.frogdesign.com/ ====== trotsky Wow, that is awesome. What is up with Rio being a third (or more) of the overall network volume? EDIT: I guess since it's the percentage of geolocated tweets the most likely answer is that the most popular Po...
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Zoom Fatigue and the New Ways to Party - fortran77 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/zoom-fatigue-and-the-new-ways-to-party ====== sidpatil [https://outline.com/Yg3FzT](https://outline.com/Yg3FzT)
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Show HN: A REPL for Java - jacktasia https://github.com/jacktasia/java-repl?take2 ====== jacktasia I am interested to get feedback on this. Obviously it's not a "real" REPL as I've outlined here: [https://github.com/jacktasia/java-repl?take2#how-is-this- dif...](https://github.com/jacktasia/java-repl?take2#how-is-th...
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Netflix was the top stock of the decade - prostoalex https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/23/netflix-was-the-top-stock-of-the-decade-delivering-over-4000percent-return.html ====== dasil003 I bought Netflix at the time of the Qwikster debacle because it was obvious the market was overreacting to what amounted to a one-time mis...
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Find Early Customers in Forums - skmurphy http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2010/12/02/find-early-customers-in-forums/ ====== skmurphy "Communities already exist..think about how one may help a community to do what they want to do." Mark Zuckerberg
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Show HN: Calculate how long your website/API can be down - jmstfv https://tryhexadecimal.com/sla-uptime-calculator ====== chrismorgan Ah, SLAs. It seems to me from having read quite a few standard sorts of ones for web systems or APIs that they’re a profitable racket, typically a total scam. Simplifying and extrapola...
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Google Chrome Comic Book - rafaelc http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html ====== moron4hire This was released when Chrome first came out.
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Google to Launch Digital Books by Early Summer - phsr http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224232417931818.html ====== ashishbharthi And also Android based tablet with dual screen technology capable of reading books with e-inc screen and doing everything else with OLED touch screen. ~~~ cma Sourc...
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Envelopes - Python email for humans - RobSpectre http://tomekwojcik.github.io/envelopes/ ====== ghc If this works as well as Python's requests library, then you are my hero. I _hate_ dealing with email in Python, because the standard library interfaces to email are horrible. I have a have a project that could use t...
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Should we hire this intern? You decide. - mdouglas88 http://www.mypunchbowl.com/blog/2009/02/09/the-intern-candidate-responds/ ====== suhail Claiming to work hard is different than actually working hard but giving someone a chance never hurts. Just make sure they are what they say they are. ------ TrevorJ I feel li...
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App for the poet, please. - krabat http://krabat.menneske.dk/kkblog/2010/10/15/app-for-the-poet-please/ ====== krabat No poets or poetry interested here?
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Physicists attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis - DimiD https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170404-quantum-physicists-attack-the-riemann-hypothesis/ ====== JadeNB This article was also discussed here near its publication, at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040885](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040885)...
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'I'm sad that I didn't have sex until I was 37' - Tomte http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43956366 ====== lonelyengineer I can relate to this, I'm a 30 year old virgin, graduated with tech-related masters degree, and still a virgin. I don't resent women, I love women and some of my best friends are women, but I can't ...
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Ask HN: How to Respond to Patent Threat? - kybernetikos A company I work with has recently been sent threats by Interface IP Holdings, who claim that their website (which is available in the US) infringes on a patent https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US7500201B2&#x2F;en<p>The patent is broadly word...
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Robonaut creepily unpacked onboard International Space Station - hoag http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/22/video-robonaut-creepily-unpacked-onboard-international-space-st ====== rbanffy Cady's hair is... impressive.
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Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019) - mmphosis https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply-20190411/ ====== dreamcompiler BTW you may have noticed that the paper multiplication method we all learned in third grade is digit-by-digit _convolution_ , which is an...
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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - tysone http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/ ====== grecy I'm an avoid back country snowboarder (split boarder) in the Canadian Rockies, and now further north into Coastal Alaska and I've spent many seasons as ski patrol, and taken numerous Avalanche training course...
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A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot - JDulin http://singularityhub.com/2011/12/09/a-drop-in-solution-for-replacing-human-labor-kawadas-nextage-robot/ ====== FD3SA This seems to be a transition stage for fine motor skill robots with advanced object recognition capabilities. A few more i...
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